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Cavalli shoves & Perales promoted as Nats youth movement continues · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. I'm Eric Shellhouse
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  Speaker 1: from Bat Boys Baseball and joining me today, Kevin Franzen
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  Speaker 1: from the Washington Nationals. The Nationals have split their first
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  Speaker 1: two games against the Colorado Rockies. They dropped last night
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  Speaker 1: 3-1 after blowing out the Rockies in a very bizarre
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  Speaker 1: game on Monday night, 13-3. But Dalen Lyle seems to
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  Speaker 1: have perhaps gotten going. He had the titanic second deck
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  Speaker 1: blast in the blowout. On Monday night, this made it
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  Speaker 1: a 13-3 game in the bottom eighth and then picked
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  Speaker 1: up right where he left off the next day. There
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  Speaker 1: was no doubt about this one either off of the bat.
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  Speaker 1: Made it a 2-1 game in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: fourth last night. Salen spoke to reporters after the game
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, and whether or not he wants to admit it,
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  Speaker 1: this is the same time that he got into a
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  Speaker 1: groove last year, Kevin. How much does that play into
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of a player, I guess, knowing that you've
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  Speaker 1: done it once before? You've gotten hot at this time,
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  Speaker 1: and even if the team is not clicking on all cylinders,
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  Speaker 1: Dalen can finish this season strong.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a lot that could go into it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it plays.
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  Speaker 2: A part of it, but I also think, like, just
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  Speaker 2: there's some, you know, he needs to finish off strong,
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  Speaker 2: just in general. More than is to just answer the
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  Speaker 2: questions about, you know, this year, next year, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: He's had a phenomenal year.
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  Speaker 2: It's been up and down a little bit on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive side, but, like, you know, but I think more
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  Speaker 2: than anything, he's gotten every opportunity. He's got the most
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  Speaker 2: play appearances on team, right? Like he's, he's finding ways
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  Speaker 2: to be in the game all the time. It's lefties
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  Speaker 2: and everything, even with the struggles against him, they believe
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  Speaker 2: in him.
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  Speaker 3: He can rake.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and I think, you know, at some time, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you just need to find the answers to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the struggle may be or have been for the year. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, right now I think, uh, He started to
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  Speaker 2: feel that confidence, but that confidence can't waver in the
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  Speaker 2: last five weeks.
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  Speaker 3: This has got to be something that he's got to
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  Speaker 3: take off with.
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  Speaker 1: Another big reason that they got the win on Monday
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  Speaker 1: night was another incredible outing from Cade Cavalli. He has
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  Speaker 1: been on an absolute roll lately. Now nine consecutive quality starts. Franny,
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  Speaker 1: this has really kicked into another gear where it's not
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  Speaker 1: just been a really good season, but now he's stepping
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  Speaker 1: in the tears of the likes of... Really honing into,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not S-tier ace level, but A-tier. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is impressive, especially the innings he's given us. The ace
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  Speaker 1: thing is, like, that plays out over time. We are
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  Speaker 1: so quick to say ace. He's a one right now
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  Speaker 1: on this team.
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  Speaker 3: Can he be an ace? Hell yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But that takes time. You just don't throw those out.
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing someone that is becoming the leader of the team.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of the unfortunate DFA's of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Miles Michaelis and Zach Littell and Trevor Williams. I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it has to be because they're comfortable
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  Speaker 2: with where the leadership is and what they've shown and
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  Speaker 2: provided for those guys with Kate and Jake, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, two examples of that on the
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  Speaker 2: pitching side. He it's the coolest thing is he's the
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  Speaker 2: same guy, no matter who, Good, bad, indifferent on everything with.
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  Speaker 3: His outings and with the dominance that he's had, same guy.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like as a teammate, as someone that's
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  Speaker 2: played this game for quite a long time, been around
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  Speaker 2: it a long time, that the ones that go through
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  Speaker 2: those moments of ups and downs, it's hard to jump
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  Speaker 2: on board with.
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  Speaker 3: As the true leader.
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  Speaker 2: But guys that are consistent every day and whether it's
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  Speaker 2: good or bad, he's their leader.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He displayed some of the leadership on Monday night in
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  Speaker 1: a way that I think is unique. Apparently, he rallied
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  Speaker 1: some teammates together after about the third or fourth inning.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Nationals were not clicking out of the
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  Speaker 1: gates to start that game and kind of got the
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  Speaker 1: troops together and said, hey, we got to get the
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  Speaker 1: energy up in here. Franny, what did you sort of,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we've spoken about it.
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  Speaker 3: He is a leader.
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  Speaker 1: It's not sort of the move that surprises you, but
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  Speaker 1: for it to come from a pitcher when the offense
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  Speaker 1: has been a bit lackluster of lately and then it
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  Speaker 1: just kind of flows from there. Uh, it's a happy
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  Speaker 1: coincidence on that stuff. But like for, for me, it's
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  Speaker 1: reading the room and what Cade was able to do.
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  Speaker 2: Usually he's a guy that goes down into the, down
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  Speaker 2: the tunnel and, and hangs out down there and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't hang out. He just rests down there, gets all
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  Speaker 2: locked in, reads his book, you know, is his binder
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  Speaker 2: and gets things going after that. Um, but for him
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  Speaker 2: to read the room and understand that, like they need energy.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the other thing for a lot of these guys,
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  Speaker 2: they got to understand too. Like, It's the big leagues,
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  Speaker 2: and you're youthful. And when you have as young of
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  Speaker 2: a team as there is in the league, there's no
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  Speaker 2: time for it to be down. There's no time for
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  Speaker 2: being tired. Yeah, is it long?
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 2: But you've got to find ways to trick yourself. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to have a veteran guy come in there
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  Speaker 2: and yell, like, we need some energy in here. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, it happened, and they responded.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get some more of that offense rolling
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  Speaker 1: later today. Let's jump into the Trevor Williams conversation really quickly. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: you brought it up. The nationals DFA him in order
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  Speaker 1: to activate Mount Waldron, who is the starting pitcher later today.
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  Speaker 1: But Spencer noted that the nationals kept miles Michaelis and
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Williams on the roster until they reached 10 years
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  Speaker 1: of service time. It's a classy move, but I have
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  Speaker 1: to admit it surprised me a little bit. The way
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  Speaker 1: that he had been pitching since coming off of the
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  Speaker 1: injured list, um, But I guess the youth movement is
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  Speaker 1: really in full swing.
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  Speaker 3: Here in D.C. as the average roster age continues to
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  Speaker 3: trickle down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unfortunate. I'll just speak. I'm not speaking on
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  Speaker 2: the move. I'll speak on just based on moves made.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have any say in anything.
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  Speaker 2: But Trevor's as quality of a human as anyone's going
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  Speaker 2: to find. Someone that understands that the game is the
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  Speaker 2: game and everything else goes around it. You've got to prep.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to do everything. You've got to have fun.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to enjoy what you do. That guy enjoys
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  Speaker 2: what he does. And he pitched great, too, this year
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  Speaker 2: coming off the I.L. So hopefully early enough in the
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  Speaker 2: part of it, hopefully before September 1st, he can get
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  Speaker 2: into an organization prior to the playoff part, be in
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  Speaker 2: an organization that can go there and maybe contribute to someone.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: At least, you know, hopefully get something figured out here
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  Speaker 1: in the next week and can find himself contributing down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch to the team that's looking for October baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Spencer also noted the average age is just dropping down
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  Speaker 1: in the Nationals. Oldest player is now who is we
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  Speaker 1: have one 30 year old player left, I believe, after
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  Speaker 1: Jake Bird. But man, this is the youth movement is
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  Speaker 1: just coming and it's not going anywhere. So get used
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  Speaker 1: So the big news out of Washington this morning, the
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  Speaker 1: Nationals are promoting Luis Perales to the MLB for his debut. Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to add some heat down in the bullpen,
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  Speaker 1: but the Nationals are expected to continue using him as
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  Speaker 1: a reliever. As he has been at AAA, although he
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  Speaker 1: certainly has the starting resume. What do you make of
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  Speaker 1: the decision to kind of work him, I guess, as
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  Speaker 1: a reliever here, even though long-term the goal may be
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  Speaker 1: to have him in the rotation?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's huge. Number one, you've tried to
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  Speaker 2: limit his innings a little bit this year, too, coming
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  Speaker 2: off the limited time he had last year due to
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  Speaker 2: Tommy John.
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  Speaker 3: And then you see what he's.
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  Speaker 2: Coming off the last three outings, six innings, two hits,
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  Speaker 2: two walks. And then the important part, 12 punch-outs.
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  Speaker 3: Swing and miss.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what you're, you're chasing in the big leagues
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  Speaker 2: in the, in the pen is there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: swing and miss. We're starting to see some swing and
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  Speaker 2: miss from Jake bird consistently there.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's huge getting paralysis.
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  Speaker 2: In here and, and, and elevating his, his game to
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  Speaker 2: another level, I think would be huge in his development. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's, it's, it's big, but I also think it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's awesome to see that, you know, they've adjusted into
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  Speaker 2: and had a plan for him this entire time. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: He threw 81 pitches on the 6th of August, threw
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  Speaker 2: 50 the next time out on the 11th, and then
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  Speaker 2: it's been 38, 31, 27.
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  Speaker 3: It's just been, hey.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna back off the workload as far as like
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  Speaker 2: your innings limits coming up near near that spot um
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  Speaker 2: and so why don't we just put you in the
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  Speaker 2: pen let's rip for you know two innings and see
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  Speaker 2: how it goes and it's looked pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah i just uh it's it's a lot to dream
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  Speaker 1: on that velocity in a starting rotation i just would
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  Speaker 1: pay me to see that move become permanent. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: if that's a sub one ERA down in the bullpen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be complaining about that either.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been 95 to 100 since he's been
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  Speaker 2: in the pen.
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  Speaker 3: Consistent. Take it. I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Another move that Spencer noted the other day was the
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  Speaker 1: progression of Isaac Lyon. Really an underrated part of that
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  Speaker 1: Jose Ferrer-Harry Ford swap in the offseason. He started the
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  Speaker 1: season at single A as a reliever and is now
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  Speaker 1: at triple A as a starter. Kevin, you're a former
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  Speaker 1: ball player.
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  Speaker 3: What does that say?
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  Speaker 1: I guess just that you're making the climb not just
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  Speaker 1: out of the bullpen, but into the rotation from the
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  Speaker 1: lowest level to right on the footsteps of the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's putting your head down and get
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  Speaker 3: it going.
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  Speaker 2: And what he's done has been fantastic coming into a
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  Speaker 2: new organization and just kind of letting it breathe. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you see someone that has been allowed to grow as
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  Speaker 2: a starter throughout this year. look, last three outies have
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  Speaker 2: come as an opener too, or not as an opener,
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  Speaker 2: as a, as a bulk guy before he got moved up.
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  Speaker 2: So 21st of August gave a couple of homers, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was against Akron for any six hits
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, he's been just ridiculous. Six to
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  Speaker 2: four 71 hits and 73 innings.
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  Speaker 3: That's just been at Harrisburg, right? For the season.
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  Speaker 2: It's 102 innings, 90 hits, 92 strikeouts. It says I
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  Speaker 2: can adjust. I could, I could, take on any of
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  Speaker 2: the challenges that they've given me. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a huge part of this.
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  Speaker 3: Big stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to hopefully see him in the big leagues in
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  Speaker 1: the near future or going forward. Spencer held a live
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  Speaker 1: Q & A last night during the game. And while
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  Speaker 1: we don't have him with us here today, he was
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  Speaker 1: asking for your all's thoughts. And I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: take a moment to do the same thing. What would
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  Speaker 1: you want to see in the offseason from the Nationals
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  Speaker 1: ownership that signifies to you they're going in the right direction?
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  Speaker 1: And I did want to pull this one comment from
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  Speaker 1: a viewer, or not a viewer, a commenter, Noah, in
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  Speaker 1: his story. For the love of God, can we get
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  Speaker 1: some rebrand or refresh on the uniforms? Spencer did not
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  Speaker 1: get around to answering that one, but Kevin, this is
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  Speaker 1: one that I also feel quite strongly on. I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to see them get back to those curly W's like
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  Speaker 1: you would be wearing back in the day. I know
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  Speaker 1: maybe you can't attest too much on this subject, but
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  Speaker 1: it seems like there could be a little more flavor
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  Speaker 1: to the Nationals uniforms, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: There could be. Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I love the cream look that they had with the
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  Speaker 2: Monument Stone with the original City Connects that they had.
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  Speaker 2: I think they could do something with that. Look, if
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  Speaker 2: the Curly W is there or not, I don't really
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  Speaker 2: have a big say in that one.
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  Speaker 3: I like the Block W.
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  Speaker 1: I like the block W too, but I think there
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  Speaker 1: needs to at least be a W involved. And they
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  Speaker 1: used to have the DC logo when they first moved
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  Speaker 1: to DC.
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  Speaker 2: I think the DC, I think the DC logo is
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  Speaker 2: going to be coming back more and more. I just
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  Speaker 2: get that feeling based on reading the tea leaves of,
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  Speaker 2: of city connects that we've seen over the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of years too.
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  Speaker 1: I get that sense as well. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: they need a new city connect 3.0 already, but.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's coming in a couple of years. We know
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  Speaker 3: it is. It's, it's not good. It's, it's, it's inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Let's pop over to the probable pitchers for later
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  Speaker 1: on today. As I mentioned, Matt Waldron will be making
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  Speaker 1: his Nationals debut, and Tanner Gordon will get the rock
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  Speaker 1: for the Rockies. Tomorrow, Jake Irvin, Gabriel Hughes, your expected
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  Speaker 1: starting pitchers. Waldron's not using the knuckleball quite as much
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  Speaker 1: as he used to for any, but it's still his
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  Speaker 1: number one pitch. Did you ever have to go up
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  Speaker 1: against the knuckleball, and how is the preparation different when
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  Speaker 1: guys are usually throwing heat and junk trying to get
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  Speaker 1: by you, and then they're relying on that?
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  Speaker 3: I've faced a few guys, uh, all right, Dickie obviously.
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  Speaker 2: And, and, uh, Charlie zinc, a couple of the guys
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  Speaker 2: that are involved, uh, see it high, let it fly.
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  Speaker 2: And Waldron is more like already Dickie's where it's firm. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so it's a little different, but again, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I had to, I had to look up his, uh,
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  Speaker 2: pitch rates on or pitch types that he was using
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of times. Um, It's dropped down a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but it's something that you're going to see still.
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  Speaker 3: People are going to be like, oh, he's not throwing.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, he's still going to throw it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm interested to see, based on the catchers, what they're
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  Speaker 2: able to do, how they're able to react to it.
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  Speaker 2: I think a little bit of that is going from
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  Speaker 2: organization to organization. You don't throw it as much when
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a catcher that's never seen one before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good point.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have any insight on whether or not the
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  Speaker 1: guys are carrying new mitts or the bigger gloves? I
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  Speaker 1: remember Josh Toll used to have the whole separate RA
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  Speaker 1: Zicky catcher's mitt in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Right, it was like a softball catcher's glove. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Key or Harry might have to look into one
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  Speaker 1: of those as the season moves along.
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  Speaker 3: But I got my calendar set.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but most of the guys use the normal mitt
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  Speaker 2: with him. kyle gachioka did with him um because he
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  Speaker 2: threw he's he still throws hard you know kind of
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  Speaker 2: hard for any knuckleballer right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah well i'm excited me and my boys in the
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  Speaker 1: group chat are excited we're like man knuckleballers are just
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch so we'll be tuning it out one
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  Speaker 1: later today talk a little more rockies and wrap the
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  Speaker 1: show up when we come back from another break.
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  Speaker 1: So the nationals get two more against the Rockies to
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  Speaker 1: see if they can force a split or even a
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: series win here. And then four over the course of
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the weekend into Monday against the Marlins, but they are
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: now 10 games under 500. They sit at 62 and 72.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Baseball is just such a funny game. Kevin, they score
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: 13 runs on 13 hits on Monday night, and then
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: just one run on five hits on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: No, I've been playing before. I'm curious.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Do you think the coaching staff, do you, draw towards
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Monday when you're at the ballpark today at all or
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: are you just you're flushing and saying we got to
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: focus on today at this point.
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  Speaker 2: There's uh this is an high school and college ball
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: where you you could do that you have to just
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: be where your feet are calendar changes you know the
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: the date changes and you just continue to move on
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: stay with your routines uh continue the same prep um
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I think a little bit less chase today and and
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you'll be just fine.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah I think he's staying true to the zone part
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: of it the other day. But, you know, the bats
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: have just kind of got to find a way to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: keep moving, I guess, is one unit, which we saw
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: in the first half. And as we mentioned on the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: show many times before, a lot of pieces have been
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: removed from this offense. It's not going to be the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: same machine that it was in the first half of
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the season, but they can still work as one cohesive unit.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And I think that's when they find the most success.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it's a it's a huge factor.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: And this is like, look, just control your control. Have
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: good A.B.s. Don't chase out of the zone. You try
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: to square up balls and, you know, don't try to
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: be someone you're not. And I think that's a huge
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: factor in this. If you do that, you're going to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: you're going to have some success in this game.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Well, one final time, I'll remind you all to subscribe
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• 18:44
  Speaker 1: else you want to toss in as we wrap up today?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: No, just win a series.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Go out, win a night, and then take one on
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Thursday and win a series against the Rockies.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That's all it is. One day at a time. Get
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a win today. Try and get another tomorrow. And we
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: will go from there. See you all in the next episode.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Take care of yourselves, everyone.