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TORPEDO BATS, Dodgers/Padres heaters, Walkoff Marlins, D’Backs/Cubs · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Wow, what a first weekend. Can we just run that
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Speaker 1: weekend back in different forms for the rest of the season.
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Speaker 1: It's Braun, It's Kratz, Cam MABN with us today. Good
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Speaker 1: to see you, Cam and actually Cam. Before we dive
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Speaker 1: into everything, I do want to announce this and we'll
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Speaker 1: get more details tomorrow. You're gonna be hanging out with
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Speaker 1: us on Wednesday night. This is our first ever playback
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Speaker 1: watch party. Yes, Kratz, get jealous, you're not invited to
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Speaker 1: this when I know you have an invitation rejection problem.
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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna invite you to one very soon. I promise.
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Speaker 1: It's on playback. It's at seven o'clock Eastern time. We've
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Speaker 1: done watch parties before. This is Yankees Diamondbacks. We'll be
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Speaker 1: with you for the entire game. Our Pinstripe Territory leader
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Speaker 1: Derek Lewandowski Jesse Friedman, who covers the Diamondbacks. We're going
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Speaker 1: to get both sides of the equation, plus Cam, plus
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Speaker 1: me playing a little point guard, and we'll guide you
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Speaker 1: through the game like an alt cast and you can
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Speaker 1: watch the game with us along the way. So won't
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Speaker 1: be one of those watch parties where we're like, hey, pause.
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Speaker 1: Is everybody at the same point. Everybody's going to be
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Speaker 1: looking at the same thing at the same time. I
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Speaker 1: think you need an MLB dot tv account and then
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Speaker 1: otherwise you should be good to go. So looking forward
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Speaker 1: to that camp and we can actually kind of call
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Speaker 1: a game together, but in our style.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it. I was excited
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Speaker 2: as as soon as I heard about it. I think
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Speaker 2: this is going to give a really good perspective from
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Speaker 2: ex players point of view, guys that cover their favorite
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Speaker 2: teams point of view, and I think this is going
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Speaker 2: to be the first of many to come. So I'm
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Speaker 2: super pumped to be doing it. I'm gonna miss my
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Speaker 2: boy Cratzy Cratzy, I know he'd be great at this
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Speaker 2: as well. But we're gonna knock it out. I can't wait.
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Speaker 1: Kratz is gonna get his moment. He's gonna get his
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Speaker 1: moment to shine. So we'll get to it. Krats, you
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Speaker 1: can talk about this little four box of photos that
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Speaker 1: helped to describe the weekend before we charge the mound.
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Speaker 1: You want to run us through this.
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Speaker 3: I mean, poor lighter got hit in the hitten, the thigh.
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Speaker 3: Let's put it this way. And I wanted to see
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Speaker 3: what happened to the the rest of that rap that
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Speaker 3: Wilson just chewed off of there, And that was a
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Speaker 3: male male patterned tarpness right there, little thinning of tarp
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Speaker 3: by the White Sox. And I wish I had this
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Speaker 3: bat when I played, because clearly it is.
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Speaker 1: Duh, dude, are you kidding me? That was it? If
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Speaker 1: you just got to the sweet spot every time, you
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Speaker 1: would have hit dingers every time, and you were always
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Speaker 1: like two inches off the sweet spot. So now we
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Speaker 1: have the torpedoes. Let's dive into that right now, let's charge.
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Speaker 4: Talking about.
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Speaker 1: This is what this show is made for. But also,
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Speaker 1: torpedo bats are getting ordered in masses this week. Suddenly
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Speaker 1: every bat company is like, everybody.
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Speaker 2: Come in.
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Speaker 5: I know it's the week, and everybody come in. We
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Speaker 5: need to make twenty million torpedo bats for every baseball
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Speaker 5: player on the planet so they can all hitdingers every
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Speaker 5: time they step up and make any type of contact.
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Speaker 1: But Cam, talk us through what you saw this weekend,
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Speaker 1: which obviously just caught storm in Major League Baseball. On Saturday,
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Speaker 1: the Yanks put together a nine homer performance. They scored
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Speaker 1: twenty runs against the Brewers. They swept them this weekend,
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Speaker 1: so great weekend for them. Judge doesn't use this, but
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Speaker 1: as soon as the torpedo bat was revealed and promoted
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Speaker 1: to a worldwide audience via the Yankees broadcast, everyone went
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Speaker 1: nuts in different directions. So what did you think?
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Speaker 2: Well, first off, what I thought as a baseball fan
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Speaker 2: watching the game is, I know there are a ton
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Speaker 2: of home runs hit, but I couldn't help. But you know,
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Speaker 2: come to the point of, hey, how many of these
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Speaker 2: fifteen home runs where the pitches middle middle And I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna tell you, out of fifteen of those homers, thirteen
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Speaker 2: of them were.
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Speaker 4: Really well executed pitches.
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Speaker 2: Ban Rice hit a slide down and end got his
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Speaker 2: hands in, great great swing. Tip your hat, Anthony BOPI
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Speaker 2: got to a pitch up and end inside corner, pulled
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Speaker 2: his hands in, got to it. Other than that, I
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Speaker 2: saw a lot of eighty nine to ninety three. We're
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Speaker 2: talking about in the league where guys are locked in,
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Speaker 2: are you know, taking extra swings and reps to make
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Speaker 2: sure they can hit the fastball?
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Speaker 4: And what they got during that Brewer series, what's.
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Speaker 2: A bunch of VP. We're talking about the New York
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Speaker 2: Yankees who you know. You look at this lineup and cratzy.
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Speaker 2: I hope he'll agree. And I said it before. Gold
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Speaker 2: Schmidt will be reinvigorated. I think the best version of
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Speaker 2: Jazz Chisholm will be in New York. You have guys
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Speaker 2: like Aaron Judge, Anthony Bopie another year in of experience.
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Speaker 2: They take advantage of mistakes. So before we get to
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Speaker 2: the torpedo bats, let's talk about the Brewers and the
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Speaker 2: mistakes that they made. I'm questioning that pitching staff right now.
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Speaker 2: Nothing overpowering other than Freddy Peralta in that rotation. The
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Speaker 2: bullpen didn impress me at all. How about giving Yankee's
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Speaker 2: credit for taking advantage of a lot of Brewers' mistakes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, and I'll go right to the
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Speaker 3: torpedo bat. Believe me, you can look up at my stats.
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Speaker 3: I could have used a boat or and I probably
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Speaker 3: still wouldn't have gotten Nothing illegal was done. A lot
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Speaker 3: of the videos by prominent people, it's satire. Okay, fans, relax,
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Speaker 3: These bats have been out there for a while. It
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Speaker 3: is hard to hit a big league baseball. It is
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Speaker 3: hard to do it against nester throwing eighty nine cutters
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Speaker 3: up and in, but he only had ninety one on
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Speaker 3: the speedball, which wasn't getting anybody by anybody, and so
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Speaker 3: they didn't have to really speed up or it wasn't
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Speaker 3: that much of a difference, and they brought guys in
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Speaker 3: that most likely aren't in games because they were blowouts.
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Speaker 3: So it compounded. Credit to the Yankees. Credit to the
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Speaker 3: Yankees for taking care of business against a pitching staff that,
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Speaker 3: you know what or minus a lot of velocity. Freddy Peralta,
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Speaker 3: I think struck out seven or eight the first day,
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Speaker 3: gave up a few runs. But you sit there and
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Speaker 3: you go, this, this lineup is good. If they're going
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Speaker 3: to be great, it's not going to be because of
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Speaker 3: torpedo bats. It's going to be because they take their walks,
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Speaker 3: they pass it to the next guy, and they minimize
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Speaker 3: their strikeouts.
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Speaker 1: Give the people what they want. Let's bring that Jazz
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Speaker 1: tweet up since that's the most recent one that we've gotten,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's getting all kinds of love from
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Speaker 1: anti Yankee people on socials, he said, Okay, explanation, the
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Speaker 1: barrel is bigger and within MLB regulation. For the idiots
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Speaker 1: that say it's moved to the label you're an idiot.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's trying to get jammed. You just move the wood
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Speaker 1: from the parts you don't use to the parts you do.
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Speaker 1: You're welcome. No more stress for y'all, caam. We also
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Speaker 1: learned about a number of other players that are using
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Speaker 1: bats like this. So even though that mit crazy dude
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Speaker 1: who came up with it for the Yanks looks like
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Speaker 1: a gy, Ryan Jeffers for the Twins was using it
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Speaker 1: this weekend. Junior Camonaro Yondi Diaz, you don't have a
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Speaker 1: torpedo bat.
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Speaker 2: Nick Nico Horner was using one yesterday's game. Junior Camario
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Speaker 2: was using it last year. Like Cracy said, these bats
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Speaker 2: have been around. But the point, I just want to
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Speaker 2: make a point. When I came up, all my idols
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Speaker 2: use this CE two seventy one. The sweet spot on
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Speaker 2: the C two seventy one is about from here to here,
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Speaker 2: very small, very little room for era. I realized very
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Speaker 2: shortly I wasn't good enough to use that bat. So
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Speaker 2: one time I was very fortunate enough to come across
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Speaker 2: a guy named Nelly Cruz, one of the better power
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Speaker 2: hitters that we've seen our game.
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Speaker 4: He used this bat. This is a n C twenty three.
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Speaker 2: Look how much Look how much barrel is on this bat.
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Speaker 2: It goes from here to here, So.
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Speaker 4: I know that you using a torpedo bat. This gave
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Speaker 4: me more room for era.
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Speaker 2: So guys have been trying to find the right bat
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Speaker 2: for years that will allow them to have more roo
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Speaker 2: for error.
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Speaker 4: Like Jazz stated, it's simple.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 4: They talked about Anthony Voupe.
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Speaker 2: But he's a guy that naturally hits the ball down
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Speaker 2: the label a little bit, okay, so let's move that
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Speaker 2: sweet spot.
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Speaker 4: The game continues to adjust. They do it in golf
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Speaker 4: with their pitching wedges, with their wedges, with their irons.
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Speaker 2: Right, trying to minimize their maximized spin, trying to cut
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Speaker 2: out slices and fades. This is a part of the game.
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Speaker 2: It's within the room. Pratsy said, it's all legal. So
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Speaker 2: just because it's the Yankees there, there's gonna be a
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Speaker 2: bigger fuss about it. But how about you know, guys
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Speaker 2: on the mound do a better job of executing and hey,
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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, the next series coming
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Speaker 2: up is a big one, the Arizona Diamondbacks. They get
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Speaker 2: to see the Yankees the Big Three to see just
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Speaker 2: how much those torpo those torpedo bats really help the
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Speaker 2: Yankees out.
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Speaker 4: Still still live, Cratzy.
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Speaker 1: Still knocks, still knocks. Wait can I show Trevor McGill's line,
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Speaker 1: because you're getting this via quote right from the New
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Speaker 1: York Post. We put it up on our socials as well.
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Speaker 1: He said when he was asked about the Bats, it's
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Speaker 1: the Yankees, so they'll let it slide. I didn't get
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Speaker 1: to see any video of this, But do you think
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Speaker 1: he was kidding or is he actually you know, a
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Speaker 1: little ticked because he's playing for a small market team
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Speaker 1: thinking that the Yankees get the advantages first, I mean,
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Speaker 1: what do you guys take from this one?
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Speaker 3: Go ahead? Uh?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know what I do know Trevor, and he's
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Speaker 2: the type of guy, good dude. I don't think he
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Speaker 2: was being serious about this very very much. I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, I think all the guys know, all the
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Speaker 2: bats have checked. All the bats go through a process
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Speaker 2: to get approved by MLB to make sure they're you know,
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Speaker 2: they come come up as regulation. I don't think Trevor
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Speaker 2: was too serious. I think he might have just been,
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Speaker 2: you know, making fun of the situation.
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Speaker 3: model that I Swung from two thousand and six till
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty was an I thirteen. The original I thirteen
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Speaker 3: was Pete Incavillia. Pete Incavillia went straight from college, hitting
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Speaker 3: like forty nine dangers, right to the big leagues. So
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Speaker 3: he said, make me a bat that's exactly like my
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Speaker 3: Oma Hall Classic one whatever. The bat that he used was.
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Speaker 3: So the person who made the billets, the person who
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Speaker 3: took the billets and spun the wooden bats, just made
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Speaker 3: Trevor McGill, you know, if he's being for real. It
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Speaker 3: was probably said in the heat of the moment because
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Speaker 3: he's since retracted it. But I do like some sarcasm,
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Speaker 3: so I choose to believe this was sarcastic.
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Speaker 1: We've had him on the show. We can try and
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Speaker 1: get him back on to talk about this at some
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Speaker 1: point soon. The Yankees also started off Saturday with back
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Speaker 1: to back to back homers. They were like, yeah, sure,
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Speaker 1: let's try Goldsmid at the top, then belly. Then obviously
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Speaker 1: Judge had a ridiculous weekend and we'll talk more about
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Speaker 1: him later on. The offense was clearly humming. Is Vulpi
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Speaker 1: the poster child for something like this cam because you know,
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Speaker 1: when you read some of the stories, they were talking
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Speaker 1: about how he was consistently not hitting the ball on
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Speaker 1: the sweet spot, right, So they said, hey, let's redistribute
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Speaker 1: the weight to make a bat that fits what his
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Speaker 1: strength is. So is it that simple with someone like him?
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Speaker 1: Judge obviously was like, yeah, have you seen what I've
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Speaker 1: done in the past few years. I'm not switching.
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Speaker 4: That was the best quote.
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Speaker 2: That was the best quote actually, But no, but that's
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Speaker 2: your point, that's your point about Evopee. You know, as
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Speaker 2: I thought about this, I just thought it was genius, right,
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Speaker 2: I thought it was genius When you talk about analytics,
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Speaker 2: and this is where people really get caught up on it,
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Speaker 2: and this is where analytics becomes important. Right, instead of
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Speaker 2: just giving you informations, giving players the right information to
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Speaker 2: maximize their chances to have success. So when you talk
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Speaker 2: about Vopie or somebody understanding, hey man, you get a
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Speaker 2: lot of balls down the barrow, let's just redistribute that
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Speaker 2: weight right there and don't change your thing. Keep doing
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Speaker 2: what you're doing because that's just been your tendency. So uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, I think it's genius. I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: the analytic department should get a lot of credit. And
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Speaker 2: and uh the gentleman who is now with the Marlins
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Speaker 2: who came who I guess came up with the idea
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Speaker 2: for Anthony Vopie. Uh, but I think it's just you know,
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Speaker 2: playing chestnut checkers, staying ahead of the curve. When you
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Speaker 2: talk about all of the information and all of the
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Speaker 2: science behind the game. I think that's just a great
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Speaker 2: job by the Yankees of hiring people to stay ahead
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Speaker 2: of the curve.
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Speaker 3: There's somebody that you the name is. He didn't have
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Speaker 3: a tremendous career, but he was a big leaguer for
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Speaker 3: four years. Toughy Goosowitch came to spring training in two
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Speaker 3: thousand and twelve and he had this brand new bat
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Speaker 3: that he went to somebody who was like who measured
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Speaker 3: his hands measured his swing speed and everything. It was
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Speaker 3: like an r R one sixty one handle, which is
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Speaker 3: super super thick, and a C two seventy one head.
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Speaker 3: It was like the two things that I hated about
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Speaker 3: bats more than anything in the world. Like it was
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Speaker 3: like the worst bat ever. And I was like, bro,
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Speaker 3: this thing is brutal. First at bat in spring training
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Speaker 3: opposite field. Dinger didn't hit a dinger opposite field the
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Speaker 3: entire season the year before in the minor leagues, and
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Speaker 3: he went up. You think dudes weren't in there at
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Speaker 3: least trying to swing that table leg that he was
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Speaker 3: bringing up there as a bat. Like, guys are gonna
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Speaker 3: try it. Guys are definitely gonna try it if it
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Speaker 3: helps Volpi awesome. Is it gonna make him a thirty
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Speaker 3: home run guy?
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Speaker 1: Pump the brakes?
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Speaker 4: That's the thing. Yeah. People still forgets.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can they think people yet one and it's
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Speaker 1: automatically lead to more sweet spot contact for some guys. Yes,
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Speaker 1: but you guys are mentioning everybody is a different hitter
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Speaker 1: and we don't get into the intricacies like this so often.
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Speaker 1: But that's what we need to do here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know what I can't wait till we
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Speaker 4: get back on here in a month from now.
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Speaker 2: When guys are in slumps and they're like, oh, what
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Speaker 2: happened with a torpedo mat, I'm.
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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, because you still have to play the game
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Speaker 4: at some point.
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Speaker 2: Pictures we're still in early We're still in late March,
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Speaker 2: about to be in early April. Guys are still working
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Speaker 2: the kinks out. Pictures are start gonna start executing even more.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna see, you know, things start even itself out.
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Speaker 2: I do believe that. So just it's early. The Brewers
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Speaker 2: made a lot of mistakes.
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Speaker 4: At some point in his game.
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Speaker 2: You had to tip your cap and go, hey, Yankees,
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Speaker 2: way to go taking advantage of the mistakes.
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Speaker 4: Aaron Boom, way.
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Speaker 2: To go putting ghost from at the top because he's
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Speaker 2: been a Brewer killer his entire career. Hey managing execution
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Speaker 2: and all went into part of it. I don't think
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Speaker 2: the torpedo Bats had a lot.
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Speaker 4: To do with it.
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Speaker 1: Thirty six to fourteen, they outscored the Brewers. So Dave Simms,
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Speaker 1: our buddy, was on the call for his first series
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Speaker 1: as the voice of Yankees Radio, and his colleague who
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Speaker 1: he sits next to, all year now. Susan Waldman, who
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Speaker 1: is hilarious, was like, are you okay? Are you used
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Speaker 1: to doing this? This is more in one game than
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Speaker 1: the Mariners scored in a month last season. Obviously with
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Speaker 1: some sarcasm, but not too much. She said, here's the tweet.
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Speaker 1: This was after the seventh homer, and eventually they scored
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Speaker 1: twenty and hit nine, but they were at thirteen runs
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Speaker 1: at the moment. She goes, You're not going to know
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Speaker 1: what to do with this. Your old team didn't or
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Speaker 1: thirteen runs in a month. Just a perfect line. That's
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Speaker 1: why she's incredible, so freaking good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, she's the best.
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Speaker 3: She's a leasing Mariners catching strays just in the middle
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Speaker 3: of a Yankees Brewers game, and it didn't didn't expect
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Speaker 3: that coming.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Susan's she's always been up to date with the time.
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Speaker 4: She continues to impress me. Trolling at its finest.
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Speaker 1: Let's go, yes, exactly all right. So coming up next,
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Speaker 1: we'll probably ask a torpedo question to Scott Coleman, our
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Speaker 1: Hammer Territory host one of four, because the Braves could
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Speaker 1: use a few torpedoes. We'll talk to him about them
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Speaker 1: losing four in a row, but You can also get
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Speaker 1: much more on this story with our guy Derek Lewandowski,
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Speaker 1: who of course was talking torpedo bats all weekend long,
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Speaker 1: so check out what he put together this weekend, and
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Speaker 1: also his voicemail show is up there as well, So
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Speaker 1: Pinstripe Territory wherever you get your pods or your shows.
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Speaker 1: The beginning of the year is for Hope. I watched
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Speaker 1: more Marlins Pirates than I would if it was September
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Speaker 1: and they walk off Magic. I gotta say they were
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Speaker 1: entertaining games, But did this say more about the Marlins
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Speaker 1: camp or the Pirates, Because the Pirates to me, need
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Speaker 1: to get off to good starts to put them in
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Speaker 1: a good position they usually do. This is not what
18:19
Speaker 1: you want. This is a team where you at least
18:21
Speaker 1: have to win a series. And also, David Bannar in
18:23
Speaker 1: the ninth inning does not look like he's going to
18:25
Speaker 1: last long with that stuff.
18:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely worried about David Bannor. But I'm
18:31
Speaker 2: laughing because I too was watching way more Pirates than Marlins.
18:34
Speaker 2: And I don't know why because I had all the
18:36
Speaker 2: games going, but I kept going back to that series
18:39
Speaker 2: because I was just curious one. I didn't know anybody
18:42
Speaker 2: on the Marlins roster and stuff, for example, in which
18:44
Speaker 2: that's it Derek Hill, my ex teammate.
18:47
Speaker 4: I literally knew nobody.
18:48
Speaker 2: Else, so I was just curious to see, Hey, who
18:50
Speaker 2: are these new faces and what do they have?
18:53
Speaker 4: They have some athletes.
18:54
Speaker 2: They are in an athletic bunch, which I do like.
18:57
Speaker 2: But when I look at the Pirates, I'm just so
18:59
Speaker 2: dis pointing at what they.
19:00
Speaker 4: Could have done.
19:01
Speaker 2: Right when you look at O'Neil Cruz, Paul Skeens, you know,
19:05
Speaker 2: bringing in fam but cutching.
19:08
Speaker 4: Rentals, it's like they could have did more.
19:11
Speaker 2: So it's just as I watched him, I just couldn't
19:13
Speaker 2: help him just be disappointed. I know what the Marlins
19:16
Speaker 2: are gonna do when you talk about roster construction, I
19:18
Speaker 2: know how they're gonna cut corners, but you watch when
19:21
Speaker 2: you talk about what could be the Pittsburgh Pirates in
19:25
Speaker 2: that division in the central I just really feel like
19:28
Speaker 2: they dropped the ball this season. And that's why you
19:31
Speaker 2: have guys like Paul Skeens using his voice because he's
19:35
Speaker 2: a guy that should because if Pirates fans are watching that,
19:38
Speaker 2: they should be worried and they should be, you know,
19:40
Speaker 2: really questioning do they want to spend money to go
19:42
Speaker 2: see what's out there other than when Paul Skeene takes
19:44
Speaker 2: the bump.
19:46
Speaker 3: Oh man, if only they had added an offensive bat
19:49
Speaker 3: that could have added one or two runs this series,
19:53
Speaker 3: they could have swept the series. They could have put
19:55
Speaker 3: the Marlins exactly where they need to be. Paul Skeins
19:58
Speaker 3: put them in a spot. What if they shortened the
20:02
Speaker 3: game at the end of the game with one extra
20:04
Speaker 3: bullpen piece, like they went out and got Spencer Horowitz
20:08
Speaker 3: whose wrist is still not healed up yet. He's a
20:12
Speaker 3: good complimentary piece, not the piece. And to me, the
20:17
Speaker 3: Marlins they're playing for Clayton McCullough. It's the will venable
20:21
Speaker 3: Clayton McCullough. Which team loves their manager? Because both teams
20:27
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20:29
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20:34
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21:42
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. They get their World Series rings. Mookie Betts
21:45
Speaker 1: was out for the first two games in Tokyo. He
21:47
Speaker 1: lost close to twenty five pounds. No big deal. He's
21:50
Speaker 1: got pop two home runs in what the second game
21:53
Speaker 1: of the season, domestically for this team. Just a crazy
21:57
Speaker 1: weekend for them. Cam in my mind, taking on a
21:59
Speaker 1: good Tiger team, and nothing changed for me with Detroit.
22:03
Speaker 1: I heard some people around baseball like, oh, it's the
22:06
Speaker 1: Tigers offense is going to be good enough. I'm like,
22:08
Speaker 1: they're taking on the Dodgers' pitching staff. Okay, and Rokie
22:11
Speaker 1: we covered with Jim Jim Bowden, so if you want
22:13
Speaker 1: to check out our comments on that, then you can
22:15
Speaker 1: go there. But what was your take on Mooki and
22:18
Speaker 1: those flashy rings.
22:20
Speaker 2: Well, the rings were sick. I think they're just trying
22:22
Speaker 2: to figure out more designs. The years continue to accumulate
22:26
Speaker 2: and they're going to run out of cool designs. But Mooki,
22:28
Speaker 2: it was just so impressive. When you talk about a
22:30
Speaker 2: guy who was, you know, at his maxweight one eighty,
22:34
Speaker 2: at his max weight, soaking wet, and then you talk
22:36
Speaker 2: about him losing twenty pounds. Listen, he clearly has the
22:39
Speaker 2: weight distributed to his barrel in the right spot because
22:42
Speaker 2: it did not affect any of his pop. Him back
22:44
Speaker 2: in that lineup, they roll, they go the Dodgers continue
22:47
Speaker 2: to be fun to watch. But I purposely wore my
22:50
Speaker 2: Tigers year because I still believe if you watch that series,
22:53
Speaker 2: they have a quality team, good.
22:55
Speaker 4: Pitching, and they fight. I think they're gonna have a
22:57
Speaker 4: fun year when it all is said and done.
23:00
Speaker 3: Yeah to to homer, Scott. One was a game tie
23:03
Speaker 3: or a go ahead homer, and then one was a
23:05
Speaker 3: game winning homer. Like I mean, the only the Dodgers.
23:10
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are a wagon, as Scott Coleman said earlier
23:13
Speaker 3: earlier in the show, they are a wagon and they're
23:17
Speaker 3: they're that way because they can pitch, they can hit.
23:21
Speaker 3: But for the Tigers, man, you gotta feel good. You
23:24
Speaker 3: went in there against a good pitching staff and you
23:27
Speaker 3: battled them. You had the lead, you didn't hold it.
23:30
Speaker 3: What was their strength going down to the end of
23:32
Speaker 3: the season last year? Their bullpen, their bullpen came out
23:36
Speaker 3: and created chaos, pitching chaos. It's okay if they gave
23:40
Speaker 3: it up right now, it doesn't mean that they're all
23:42
Speaker 3: just one hit wonders. You should be positive. You should
23:44
Speaker 3: be really positive because they didn't add that extra offensive
23:48
Speaker 3: piece in Bregman in you know, Pete Alans are not
23:51
Speaker 3: saying that they were gonna but just the guys that
23:53
Speaker 3: were out there, and they still came in two Dodgers
23:56
Speaker 3: Stadium and still hit the ball very well, had great
24:00
Speaker 3: at bats. So that's a positive for me.
24:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, very competitive series. And obviously it wasn't just the
24:06
Speaker 1: Dodgers coming off the Tokyo Series high, the World Series high.
24:10
Speaker 1: I mean the place was packed because they're celebrating Bob
24:13
Speaker 1: Knightingale gave us some more details on the bling, more
24:17
Speaker 1: than two hundred diamonds on each ring. It not only
24:20
Speaker 1: features the postseason results against the Padres, the Mets, and
24:23
Speaker 1: the Yankees, but it has a row of five diamonds
24:26
Speaker 1: on the interior representing the five run deficit the Dodgers
24:30
Speaker 1: overcame in the fifth inning Game five over the Yankees
24:33
Speaker 1: to win the World Series. As if Yankee fans didn't
24:36
Speaker 1: hear it enough all off season long from buzzed players
24:40
Speaker 1: talking about how the Yankees can't play defense, cam they
24:43
Speaker 1: now have it etched in their rings forever.
24:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, And I blame this on social media.
24:48
Speaker 2: I think with the back and forth that happened after
24:51
Speaker 2: that World Series. Yeah, I think now too, social media
24:54
Speaker 2: even the organization's social media's they'd get into it right
24:57
Speaker 2: and then it's.
24:57
Speaker 4: Like, you know what, how can we really rub this in?
25:00
Speaker 2: And even more, let's add those five diamonds for that
25:03
Speaker 2: five run deficit so they can really have something to
25:05
Speaker 2: talk about and complain about.
25:06
Speaker 4: I love the pettiness. It seems petty to me, and
25:09
Speaker 4: I love every moment of it.
25:12
Speaker 3: I think these rings, the stories behind rings. Obviously a
25:15
Speaker 3: ring is ridiculous. They're gaudy. You know, it looks like
25:18
Speaker 3: this on their finger. You can barely wear it when
25:21
Speaker 3: you go out anywhere. I love the stories behind it.
25:25
Speaker 3: Why do they have that many ring diamonds they have?
25:29
Speaker 2: You know?
25:29
Speaker 3: I think the Phillies one had you know on it.
25:32
Speaker 3: They had the song that they were always dancing on
25:36
Speaker 3: my own. They had that inscribed on the inside or
25:40
Speaker 3: the side. Like there's things that create the championship, that
25:45
Speaker 3: create the team to get to that point, and it's
25:49
Speaker 3: celebrated forever and commemorated forever in those rings.
25:52
Speaker 4: I love it.
25:52
Speaker 3: I love seeing every explanation because they don't just go
25:56
Speaker 3: you know, we're gonna.
25:57
Speaker 4: Go gold because I think gold looks good.
26:00
Speaker 3: I love the explanations of it.
26:02
Speaker 4: Hey.
26:02
Speaker 1: On the topic of money, this one snuck by because
26:06
Speaker 1: it was the opening week of the season and it
26:08
Speaker 1: was Friday news. Brandon Fought signed an extension with the
26:11
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks five years, forty five million bucks, and then there's
26:15
Speaker 1: an option year that could be added on for twenty
26:18
Speaker 1: one million dollars. So you eat up a little bit
26:20
Speaker 1: of time here so that the arbitration doesn't get expensive,
26:23
Speaker 1: and also get into free agency here with team control limited,
26:27
Speaker 1: no trade clauses in there from twenty thirty to twenty
26:30
Speaker 1: thirty two. That last mutual option at the end is
26:32
Speaker 1: really to help the buyout, right if they end up
26:36
Speaker 1: not getting to a point where he's still with the
26:38
Speaker 1: team and you can buy him out. Nobody ever actually
26:41
Speaker 1: agrees to mutual options. But anyway, Kratz thoughts on Brandon
26:45
Speaker 1: Fought getting locked into this rotation long term. And you know,
26:49
Speaker 1: we can spend a minute here on the Diamondbacks and
26:51
Speaker 1: Cubs putting together a fun series. I mean, they split it.
26:54
Speaker 1: It's good. Both teams said they're pros and cons.
26:56
Speaker 3: Would you think, I mean, this Diamondbacks team is fun
27:00
Speaker 3: just to watch, but to me, it looks like they're
27:03
Speaker 3: fun to be on it looks like they have the
27:05
Speaker 3: energy at the Latin end of the bench and it
27:08
Speaker 3: spills over to the American end of the bench, and
27:12
Speaker 3: rate in between are all the pitchers. All the pitchers
27:14
Speaker 3: are out on If you watch any of their games,
27:16
Speaker 3: a lot of their pictures are top step into the game,
27:19
Speaker 3: really excited about being there.
27:21
Speaker 2: I get it.
27:21
Speaker 3: Zach Gollan probably isn't going to be around, but they
27:25
Speaker 3: just got the best available starting pitcher on the free
27:28
Speaker 3: agent market this offseason. They have MVP candidates and ka
27:32
Speaker 3: Tell Marte and Corbyn Carroll and you have purple hair
27:38
Speaker 3: from Guriel. You sit there and you go, this team
27:41
Speaker 3: wants to win, This team wants to play for each
27:45
Speaker 3: other and the cities behind them. Why would I not
27:48
Speaker 3: sign an extension that's going to guarantee me essentially fifty
27:52
Speaker 3: million dollars with the one year of club option after that,
27:58
Speaker 3: and then I'm thirty two years old. That to me,
28:01
Speaker 3: that is where Brandon Fott did the right thing. And also,
28:05
Speaker 3: two off seasons ago, not our two postseasons ago, they
28:09
Speaker 3: were wondering if this guy was gonna even go three
28:12
Speaker 3: innings for him. Ever since that Philly series, he has
28:15
Speaker 3: just elevated himself and continued to learn and continue to improve.
28:20
Speaker 3: Like it hasn't been that long ago that they were like,
28:23
Speaker 3: I don't know, we could send him down. They sent
28:25
Speaker 3: him down for like a ten or fifteen game stretch
28:27
Speaker 3: during that season and like to get forty five million
28:32
Speaker 3: after a year and a half ago that was happening.
28:35
Speaker 3: Hats off to him for signing this.
28:37
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, Cam, last thing here. I just want to
28:41
Speaker 1: show you why we'll have the challenge system next year.
28:45
Speaker 1: If we can just flash that of a critical moment
28:51
Speaker 1: in the game that gave count leverage to the Cubs.
28:55
Speaker 1: Perdomo was at the plate. This was the one to
28:58
Speaker 1: zero pitch, right one, and he popped out next pitch, and.
29:04
Speaker 2: He was and he was pissed off watching him. I
29:07
Speaker 2: watched that at that too, just so happened. I was
29:10
Speaker 2: going back and forth and I caught it and watching him,
29:13
Speaker 2: he was so disgusted running off the field. Now, I've
29:15
Speaker 2: been in those moments, and I know Cratzy. You know,
29:17
Speaker 2: he's behind the plate, so he's he's always very cordial
29:20
Speaker 2: with the guys that are calling the games. But those moments, man,
29:24
Speaker 2: you know, even this early in the season, they mean
29:26
Speaker 2: so much, right and they and it's so big even
29:29
Speaker 2: from a momentum, a selfish momentum, standpoint right, you want
29:33
Speaker 2: to have the opportunity to you know, pick your team
29:36
Speaker 2: up to come through. So to see that happen. I'm
29:38
Speaker 2: with you, Scott. I was at home, Scott Scotty going
29:41
Speaker 2: like this. I was tapping my own head, like what
29:44
Speaker 2: are we doing? We need a challenge there. But you know,
29:46
Speaker 2: I know a lot of managers like Aaron Boone.
29:48
Speaker 4: Some guys didn't feel it. Tito didn't like it.
29:50
Speaker 2: But I just think too many important moments happened where
29:54
Speaker 2: we have to be able to get it right and
29:55
Speaker 2: that's egregious.
29:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was doing this. It was texting my friends.
30:00
Speaker 1: I was like, this is bs. I can't wait for
30:02
Speaker 1: challenge just the next year.
30:03
Speaker 4: Oh true.
30:04
Speaker 1: I was at home like, you're right, that is the
30:06
Speaker 1: right motion and it's coming. Someone's gonna get tossed for that,
30:09
Speaker 1: but anyway, it was good series. Danzey Swanson also, if
30:12
Speaker 1: you missed it, made a sick play to end that
30:14
Speaker 1: game as he caught pinch runner Garrett Sampson with a
30:16
Speaker 1: little deck got him back at thirty. He didn't have
30:18
Speaker 1: a play anywhere else, So it was really fun. I
30:20
Speaker 1: watched a good chunk of that series.
30:22
Speaker 2: Shout out Ron Thompson too, Pinch Pitcher gotten that bat.
30:28
Speaker 4: It was in college. Ron Nelson, Ron Nelson.
30:31
Speaker 2: Last time he hit was in what I think twenty
30:33
Speaker 2: eighteen as a short stop in college. So hey, he
30:36
Speaker 2: was ready for the boys too. So shout out shout
30:38
Speaker 2: out to Ryan Nelson on coming up with a big knock.
30:41
Speaker 1: And last shout out aohenney O Sparez his NL Player
30:44
Speaker 1: of the week. It was just named four homers in
30:46
Speaker 1: his first three games. Big boy strength from Gino. He's
30:49
Speaker 1: gonna have a big year. Injuries do suck. We'll start
30:55
Speaker 1: with Max schurz Er right thumb inflammation. I mean, he
30:58
Speaker 1: used the word I think danger when he was talking
31:01
Speaker 1: about how he was dealing with this, and he hits
31:05
Speaker 1: the shelf, So we'll go there first. Krats. Now, I
31:08
Speaker 1: don't know a lot about the right thumb, and now
31:12
Speaker 1: that affects everything. Obviously you need that to pitch. But
31:14
Speaker 1: in terms of the recovery timetable, what I do know
31:19
Speaker 1: is that Max Scherzer has gone through a ton of
31:22
Speaker 1: injury issues over the last several years. This is just
31:26
Speaker 1: not what you want to see at the start of
31:28
Speaker 1: the season.
31:30
Speaker 3: Right here, right here's your right thumb on a fastball.
31:34
Speaker 3: Now you move it around a little bit, you get
31:35
Speaker 3: a little different movement how that ball comes out. Now
31:38
Speaker 3: you move your curveball, maybe you tuck it in a
31:41
Speaker 3: little bit. Maybe some guy's going to really grip it
31:44
Speaker 3: a lot harder if he throws that change up farther in.
31:48
Speaker 3: Your thumb is like a rudder in a boat. If
31:50
Speaker 3: your thumb is hurting, you don't know the direction of
31:53
Speaker 3: where it's going.
31:54
Speaker 4: And Max.
31:55
Speaker 3: Max's explanation is reasoning for saying it was dangerous because
32:00
Speaker 3: now if you're not able to manipulate the ball where
32:03
Speaker 3: you want to just with your fingers and your hand,
32:07
Speaker 3: this start to take This starts to take over. That
32:10
Speaker 3: starts to take over. And that's what he was talking
32:12
Speaker 3: about dangerous. I want to trust him. I want to
32:16
Speaker 3: trust every veteran that they know what they need to
32:20
Speaker 3: do to get their body right. I also want to say,
32:23
Speaker 3: probably wasn't going to make thirty two starts this year.
32:26
Speaker 3: This is much better. And the training staff in Toronto
32:29
Speaker 3: vun Chung Jose Ministral epic awesome dudes. They have all
32:35
Speaker 3: the state of the art recovery stuff. If it's possible
32:39
Speaker 3: to get him back quick, that's the place to do it.
32:42
Speaker 1: Okay, you know the difference, Cam is this isn't a
32:46
Speaker 1: team that's going to be in cruise control. There aren't
32:48
Speaker 1: many that can do this. But the Blue Jays need
32:52
Speaker 1: starts from him now. They need to stay in the
32:56
Speaker 1: race all year long. They're not going to run away
32:58
Speaker 1: with anything, forget it vision, even a playoff spot. They
33:01
Speaker 1: were not a good team last year. They have a
33:02
Speaker 1: chance to be a better team this year. They split
33:04
Speaker 1: a series against a pretty good Orioles team, so off
33:06
Speaker 1: to a nice start. I loved Jeff Hoffman shoving it
33:09
Speaker 1: to the Orioles on the last game of the series
33:11
Speaker 1: lit one two three when he was on our show
33:13
Speaker 1: a month ago, say he likes the smoke where the
33:15
Speaker 1: Orioles rejected him because of medical concern So that's all cool, right,
33:19
Speaker 1: there's some vibes to this team, Anthony Santander going from
33:22
Speaker 1: the Oriols to the Blue Jays. But do you feel
33:25
Speaker 1: like they need things to go right at the margins
33:28
Speaker 1: and that includes getting I don't know, twenty starts out
33:31
Speaker 1: of Max Scherzer.
33:34
Speaker 2: You know, when they made his deal, I was kind
33:37
Speaker 2: of sharing the thought, the same thought with Cratzy. I
33:39
Speaker 2: didn't think this was a deal to personally put them
33:43
Speaker 2: over the top, right. I thought this was a great
33:45
Speaker 2: move to get maybe twenty starts. I don't think they
33:49
Speaker 2: were necessarily banking on it. At the end of the day,
33:51
Speaker 2: Father Time is undefeated, and I.
33:53
Speaker 4: Know this is a thumb issue. Is not an Elboys shoulder.
33:55
Speaker 2: But I think more so than even just putting on
33:58
Speaker 2: the onus on Max listen, Jose Burrios has to pitch better.
34:03
Speaker 4: He did not pitch good. My brother, George Springer, you know,
34:09
Speaker 4: has to kind of, you know, find some of that old.
34:12
Speaker 2: Astros George Springer. You know, they need that offensive guy.
34:16
Speaker 2: You know, he showed that he still can go get
34:17
Speaker 2: in the outfield. The athleticism is still there, but offensively
34:20
Speaker 2: they need him to be back. They need Boba Schette
34:23
Speaker 2: to be back. I think the pitching, I think they
34:25
Speaker 2: have enough in the pitching department, but I think it's
34:28
Speaker 2: gotta line up right.
34:29
Speaker 4: They've got to do things that they hadn't done in
34:31
Speaker 4: the past.
34:31
Speaker 2: Hit with the runners in scoring position, you know, to
34:34
Speaker 2: our RBIs they did not excel in these areas. So
34:37
Speaker 2: for me, even more so than the pitching Scottie, I
34:40
Speaker 2: think they need to get some of that offense back
34:43
Speaker 2: to really give the pitching staff some confidence where they
34:46
Speaker 2: don't have to go out and be so perfect. So
34:48
Speaker 2: I do think this is a good star splitting that
34:50
Speaker 2: series with the Orioles. I think that's a great place
34:52
Speaker 2: to start up. But I think there's some other guys
34:55
Speaker 2: that I think they need to worry about instead of
34:56
Speaker 2: a you know, forty year old Max Shorer Suresier.
35:00
Speaker 1: Okay, and then on the oriol side, they just lost
35:02
Speaker 1: Colton Kowser for potentially a couple months. Again, the thumb
35:06
Speaker 1: is the problem in the case here fractured is left thumb,
35:09
Speaker 1: so he's placed on the il. Dylan Carlson is in
35:12
Speaker 1: the miners. Now he gets called up krats. That's a
35:15
Speaker 1: tough blow for Baltimore. They've got depth. I'm not super
35:18
Speaker 1: concerned about their lineup, but it still sucks to lose
35:22
Speaker 1: a guy who's an above average hitter with a ton
35:24
Speaker 1: of potential.
35:26
Speaker 3: I mean, look at Michael Lias now, he's saying, see,
35:28
Speaker 3: we have so much depth. We needed all of those outfielders.
35:32
Speaker 3: We needed to go get Ramon Leriano. We didn't need
35:35
Speaker 3: to go get a frontline starter. Hey, you know what's
35:38
Speaker 3: being tested, Colton Cowser.
35:41
Speaker 4: It just sucks.
35:42
Speaker 3: It sucks because you put yourself, especially this early, a
35:45
Speaker 3: fractured thumb. You put yourself in a situation all off season. Ah,
35:50
Speaker 3: you know my flexibility and my strength and that flexibility,
35:54
Speaker 3: everything's hitting on all cylinders and you're like, okay, that
35:58
Speaker 3: first series on the turf, I'm gonna make sure everything's hydrated,
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Speaker 3: everything's going well. And then you fracture your thumb. Ain't
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Speaker 3: nothing you can do about. You lift every weight in
36:06
Speaker 3: the world, you can go to every yoga studio in
36:09
Speaker 3: the world, and fracturing your thumb ain't gonna have nothing
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Speaker 3: to do with it. But hopefully Dylan Carlson's ready. He
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Speaker 3: might have gotten like one at bat, two at bats
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Speaker 3: down in Norfolk.
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Speaker 4: No, he's ready.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's looking at chops. You know, you know,
36:26
Speaker 2: I got no cratzy in our head. We're all ready
36:29
Speaker 2: to get out of Triple A. So I think I
36:31
Speaker 2: think it's what you said, ain't done a good job
36:33
Speaker 2: of having prospects now dealing cross.
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Speaker 4: Is going to get his opportunity right. We're gonna continue
36:37
Speaker 4: to see if this was.
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Speaker 2: The route to go right, stack to keep the prospects around,
36:41
Speaker 2: give them opportunity, because moments like this happened, guys get
36:45
Speaker 2: banged up.
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Speaker 4: That's why you always hear every single year.
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Speaker 2: It takes the whole entire forty man roster and at
36:51
Speaker 2: times from front office moves as well.
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Speaker 4: So it's a long year.
36:55
Speaker 2: Like you said, I hate to see this because Cowser
36:58
Speaker 2: was really starting to look like he was figuring it
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Speaker 2: out right. He was really looking like that guy that's
37:03
Speaker 2: going to give you a party at bat. Pretty good defender.
37:07
Speaker 2: I really like where he's I love his size, I
37:09
Speaker 2: love everything that he brought.
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Speaker 4: So it is a blow. But again, this is why
37:13
Speaker 4: they stacked their organization with a bunch of prospects.
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Speaker 2: They didn't get rid of them, to give them opportunity,
37:18
Speaker 2: just to continue to save money and see what these
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Speaker 2: young guys have and also to possibly showcase him right
37:24
Speaker 2: because we still don't know. This is also a showcase
37:26
Speaker 2: moment for Dylan Carlson m M.
37:28
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't work out for him, Kobe Mayo.
37:30
Speaker 1: Right now, Kratz is like yo I can play in
37:33
Speaker 1: the outfield. I mean, if he goes and tears it
37:36
Speaker 1: up in the minors for a couple of weeks, he'll
37:38
Speaker 1: get his opportunity again. When you've got an injury like
37:41
Speaker 1: this and this isn't the day to day like we mentioned,
37:42
Speaker 1: I mean, this could be a couple months for Kawser. Okay,
37:45
Speaker 1: next up. This one sucks because this player has really
37:48
Speaker 1: had trouble staying on the field. Josh Young hits the
37:52
Speaker 1: shelf for the Rangers and they had to make a
37:54
Speaker 1: move too because Josh Smith got banged up. That's that's
37:57
Speaker 1: next in line to fill his spot. Next spasms for
38:01
Speaker 1: Josh Young. It's expected to be the minimum time. This
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Speaker 1: from our friend Gared Sandler does a great job with
38:06
Speaker 1: all the Rangers coverage, but cam Josh Young has not
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Speaker 1: been able to stay healthy, which is a shame. Texas
38:11
Speaker 1: obviously missed him last year among other players. But he
38:14
Speaker 1: was really really good a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he came on the scene. You know, I think
38:20
Speaker 2: he was a little older as a rookie, but he
38:22
Speaker 2: showed that he was experiencing. We watched him in the
38:24
Speaker 2: playoffs come up clutch. So to see this blow to
38:27
Speaker 2: see the history of injury that the Rangers have had.
38:30
Speaker 2: This is a team that you just want to see
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Speaker 2: healthy because when they're healthy, they can compete. They can
38:35
Speaker 2: do everything on the field. And not to mention, not
38:37
Speaker 2: only was he, you know, outstanding offensively, he was one
38:40
Speaker 2: of the better gloves at third base.
38:42
Speaker 4: He I mean that left side of that defense was
38:44
Speaker 4: locked up.
38:44
Speaker 2: When we talk about Seeger and Young Jong at third base,
38:48
Speaker 2: I mean that also is an area where they hurt
38:51
Speaker 2: when they lose his defense.
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Speaker 4: So I hate to hear this for this guy.
38:55
Speaker 2: And you just hope at some point he can get
38:57
Speaker 2: things to go his way because next spasms, anything, neck, back,
39:00
Speaker 2: you just you always worry about.
39:05
Speaker 3: Like you said on Friday, hurt my neck in my back.
39:07
Speaker 3: Now I'm going on the Now I'm going to ten day.
39:10
Speaker 3: I l I don't know, man, I ain't never hurt
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Speaker 3: my net. That would suck. I don't know what that
39:15
Speaker 3: feels like. But yeah, listen, this team's offense is stacked
39:21
Speaker 3: when you have Josh Smith being able to fill in
39:24
Speaker 3: get it. He's hurt like this is why this team
39:28
Speaker 3: I think is one of the consensus picks, maybe the
39:30
Speaker 3: only consensus pick to win a division on FT here,
39:34
Speaker 3: I think everybody had the Rangers because I think just
39:37
Speaker 3: what the offense can do, and obviously Bruce Bochi can
39:40
Speaker 3: just wins, that's what he does every other year.
39:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, this division's gonna be pretty good, you know. I
39:46
Speaker 1: mean the Angels bounce back, they took a couple of
39:50
Speaker 1: games from the White Sox. Will they improve by several
39:53
Speaker 1: games most likely? Right, which hurts the top and how
39:57
Speaker 1: you can pad your stats. Then let's go to the
40:00
Speaker 1: They should be better. They split a series this weekend
40:03
Speaker 1: with the Mariners and that's in Seattle. They should be better.
40:06
Speaker 1: Cam The Mariners probably will be about the same because
40:09
Speaker 1: they always plan to be about fifty four percent with
40:11
Speaker 1: their win percentage, so they should be very solid and competitive.
40:14
Speaker 1: And then Houston is definitely still gonna be good too.
40:17
Speaker 1: So I do think, yes, the Rangers are gonna win
40:19
Speaker 1: the division. But this is a pretty good division from
40:22
Speaker 1: one through four, probably now with a chance to make
40:25
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and probably one through three with a chance
40:28
Speaker 1: to make the division to win the division.
40:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like watching this division because you have everything
40:34
Speaker 3: from the A's as a startup, like you don't know
40:37
Speaker 3: what you're gonna get you have. The Astros is like
40:39
Speaker 3: the Dynasty team, kind of on the way out, But
40:42
Speaker 3: are they still gonna be good Mariners? Elite pitching. The
40:46
Speaker 3: Rangers offense is just besides last year they couldn't hit
40:51
Speaker 3: a heater. I think a Doli's garcia is gonna be ridiculous.
40:53
Speaker 3: So this offense is awesome to watch. And the Angels,
40:57
Speaker 3: I mean, they have Mike Trout, so I'm like, I
41:00
Speaker 3: love the fact that these games are shorter so I
41:02
Speaker 3: can stay up and not not go to bed at
41:04
Speaker 3: one in the morning and watch all these West Coast games.
41:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to add on to that too. One
41:11
Speaker 4: sneaky move and.
41:12
Speaker 2: They talk about this division being extremely competitive, one move
41:16
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed. And I think this team, and there's
41:18
Speaker 2: still a couple pieces of way, may be one more
41:21
Speaker 2: position player. But I'm gonna tell you one thing that's
41:24
Speaker 2: gonna go unnoticed and there's no stat for it. The
41:27
Speaker 2: intensity that Luis Severino brings to the Oakland A's. I
41:30
Speaker 2: think Mark Kottsee, for one, is going to love it.
41:33
Speaker 2: I love the moves that they made to.
41:35
Speaker 4: Lock up Rooker and lock up b Low.
41:38
Speaker 2: I really think that the A's was missing a little
41:42
Speaker 2: bit of that intensity, Like it was fun to watch
41:44
Speaker 2: Luis Severino out there fired up and watch those guys
41:48
Speaker 2: kind of rally behind them. So when you talk about
41:50
Speaker 2: that team as well, I think they're gonna be more
41:53
Speaker 2: fun to watch and people actually realize they were fun
41:54
Speaker 2: to watch last year.
41:55
Speaker 4: If you watch A's baseball.
41:56
Speaker 2: Because extremely competitive, fall hard to the end. But I
42:00
Speaker 2: love what Luis san Reno has brought to that team.
42:02
Speaker 2: It's a fire where you almost wish you could be
42:04
Speaker 2: on the field every day.
42:06
Speaker 1: Let's slap cratsats you're up first.
42:11
Speaker 3: I mean you have to at least wear it once.
42:13
Speaker 3: The Big A the Braves hopefully they're hopefully they're going
42:18
Speaker 3: to continue their ways and get blown out by the
42:21
Speaker 3: Dodgers tonight.
42:24
Speaker 1: The Big A is the Angels.
42:27
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but now it's the Big A. That's that's
42:30
Speaker 3: at the Big A.
42:32
Speaker 1: That's right. The Big as the Braves when they're in
42:34
Speaker 1: the battery. But they're not there for a few more games,
42:37
Speaker 1: So good luck.
42:38
Speaker 3: To wait to get home.
42:40
Speaker 4: Question of the day, how will they feel to return
42:42
Speaker 4: home one in six? Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that would be positive, that would be positive.
42:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
42:52
Speaker 1: Next question is going to be Braves fans mad about
42:55
Speaker 1: how the schedule makers gave them the Padres and Dodgers
42:57
Speaker 1: on the road to start the year. But come on,
43:00
Speaker 1: they'll be okay, they'll be okay. Deep breaths. Anyway, later
43:03
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43:07
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43:47
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43:50
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43:52
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