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October without Judge? Bregman out too? Red Sox sign Mgr Chad Tracy long-term & pick up Breslow options · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's one of those busy news days. A lot happening.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Kratz. Pierzynski. Tracy.
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  Speaker 2: Chad Tracy getting the extension he deserves, right? Rip that
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  Speaker 2: interim tag off. AJ, the Red Sox manager, took over
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  Speaker 2: when Boston was 12-17. And their record since then, I
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  Speaker 2: will get for you momentarily.
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  Speaker 1: But it is very good since he took over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is very good. It is very good. It's
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  Speaker 3: very good. He's been really good. I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 3: about 15 games over, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, even more. 74 and 55.
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  Speaker 3: Almost 20 games over. That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's an extension, though, so he'll be linked up with
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  Speaker 2: Craig Breslow. They also picked up Craig Breslow's options. So
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  Speaker 2: here's the deal. They get, what is it, two years
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  Speaker 2: of Chad Tracy?
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  Speaker 3: After this year.
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  Speaker 1: After this year. Yeah, this is all coming in right
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  Speaker 1: before the show started.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't he want a Kurt Suzuki kind of contract?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone wants one, right? A one-year contract for Kurt Suzuki?
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  Speaker 2: Don't get me started.
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  Speaker 1: We could do another hour on that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a three-year contract for Chad Tracy through 2029, so no,
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  Speaker 2: it starts next year. He gets 27, 28, 29, which
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  Speaker 2: is more of your standard contract for a manager, right? Like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if you sign someone You usually give them at least
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  Speaker 2: a three-year window. There's very few two-year contracts. Maybe sometimes
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  Speaker 2: if it's a manager who's thinking about retiring soon, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is. So he gets three years after this year,
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  Speaker 2: which was his interim year. And then there's a club
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  Speaker 2: option for 2030. The Red Sox also exercised the 2029
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  Speaker 2: and 2030 options on Craig Breslau's contract.
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  Speaker 1: So that will link them all together.
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  Speaker 3: So he got exactly what he wanted when he got
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  Speaker 3: rid of Alex Cora. He got control.
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  Speaker 6: He hired his manager and he got an extension. So
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  Speaker 6: It worked out great for Breslow and Chad Tracy and
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  Speaker 6: Alex Cora too, because he's still getting paid like $ 7
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  Speaker 6: million to do nothing and travel around the world.
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  Speaker 3: So actually it worked out for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: And then he'll probably sign for next year if he
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  Speaker 2: wants it with the Phillies or the Mets.
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  Speaker 3: Or Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: Or Mariners. So everything's working out for everyone, right?
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  Speaker 2: If you're Boston, you'll happily take that where it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: working at the end there for Alex Cora at the
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  Speaker 2: end of his contract or towards the end, I guess
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  Speaker 2: he still had a year in almost two years left
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  Speaker 2: on it.
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  Speaker 1: And Chad Tracy has led this team on an awesome run.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal did his mea culpa on fair territory today
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  Speaker 2: to give credit to really Craig Breslow. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't doubting necessarily Chad Tracy, but really to Craig Breslow,
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  Speaker 2: who was getting a lot of heat.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations to Boston. They're going to be in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And actually our lead story has to do with.
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  Speaker 1: Boston's opponent here. And it is a big one. Let's charge. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: charging the mound presented by Fox One.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is likely to miss the wildcard round for
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  Speaker 2: the New York Yankees. That is really not good news.
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  Speaker 2: So what you're going to have here is a raised
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  Speaker 2: team that gets a bye in the AL East, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why the division is so important, AJ. The Yankees
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  Speaker 2: play the Red Sox in the Bronx in the wildcard round,
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  Speaker 2: best out of three, and what we learned is is
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  Speaker 2: that they are planning on Judge not being a part
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  Speaker 2: of that. This, according to Aaron Boone, he had a
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  Speaker 2: PPP injection in his right calf during the off day.
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  Speaker 2: Do they mean PRP? It says PPP, Brian Hoke.
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  Speaker 1: PRP, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's my guess. Maybe it is a PPP. They have
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  Speaker 3: a new one. Like the microsurgery scuba head.
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  Speaker 1: What was it called? Micro... There is a PPP. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So he had a PPP and that's why we're not doctors.
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  Speaker 2: If you want more on that stuff, that's injury territory.
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  Speaker 2: That's a Will Carroll show. But anyway, AJ, this soleus strain,
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  Speaker 2: I did learn a little bit about this the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Typical timetable is really two to three weeks, more than
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  Speaker 2: the three to six week timetable. So it's apparently the
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  Speaker 2: one that you don't want to hurt within the calf.
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  Speaker 2: Not that you want the calf at all, but this
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  Speaker 2: is the bad spot where it affects you when you're standing,
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  Speaker 2: when you're running, when you're walking in a pretty negative way.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what they're dealing with right now. And they're
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  Speaker 2: up against a clock that I think might even be
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  Speaker 2: a problem if they advance the division series.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tight. It's tight.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if you look three weeks from now, they're
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  Speaker 6: into the division series. You go four weeks, you're into
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  Speaker 6: the LCS if they get there. So it's a problem
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  Speaker 6: with what they're doing and where they run into. And
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  Speaker 6: it sucks for Jaron Judge. It sucks for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 6: But Buck Showalter said it yesterday. This is one of
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  Speaker 6: those things where you got to get back on your feet,
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  Speaker 6: and we've beaten this to death, that he should have
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  Speaker 6: maybe gone on a rehab.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. He chose not to. Could this have
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  Speaker 3: happened on a rehab? Sure, 100%. But I know this.
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  Speaker 3: When you start dealing with calves, and Krauts, I think,
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  Speaker 3: will agree with me on this, and hamstrings, they linger
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  Speaker 3: and linger and linger and linger, and they never go away,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like, until you actually just stop for a
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  Speaker 3: long time. And then once you think they're okay, you
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  Speaker 3: have to take another week because then you'll be okay
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  Speaker 3: because every– I mean, I can't tell you how many
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  Speaker 3: times I've seen guys with calves and hamstrings. They go,
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  Speaker 3: they get better, they go on rehab for a couple games,
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  Speaker 3: they come back to the big leagues, and you know
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  Speaker 3: what happens?
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  Speaker 6: They pull it again or they re-injure it. Or they
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  Speaker 6: do the other one, which is even crazier to me.
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  Speaker 6: So it's a funky injury that's hard to come back from.
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  Speaker 6: Let's just hope Aaron Judge gets healthy and is able
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  Speaker 6: to come back if the Yankees are around long enough.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like hamstrings guys understand they have a different protocol,
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  Speaker 5: but you're right, calves, obliques– it's like it just lingers.
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  Speaker 5: Because how do you test it without testing it, without
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  Speaker 5: pushing it? It puts a lot of strain on it.
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  Speaker 5: And a PPP is a platelet poor.
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  Speaker 3: I forget it.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, instead of platelet rich, it's PRP, it's PP, it's
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  Speaker 5: platelet poor. Anyway, it doesn't really matter. All that matters,
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  Speaker 5: this so negatively affects this Yankees team.
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  Speaker 3: Did they win without it? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you can pull the stats up, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the Yankees offense with Judge, the record's 41-25.
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  Speaker 3: Yankees offense without Judge, 48-41. You know what?
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  Speaker 5: In the American League, that's elite. But it's not as good.
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  Speaker 5: The part that's crazy is the runs per game. Almost
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  Speaker 5: a run per game less with Judge out of the lineup.
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  Speaker 5: It just affects this team more than I think Yankees
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  Speaker 5: fans will let on. But I think the team has
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  Speaker 5: to figure it out. They have to get more from Ramos.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not even sure what Jazz's prognosis is, but you're
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  Speaker 5: up against it. Even if Judge does come back, let's
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  Speaker 5: say for the ALDS, it's the same issue. He hasn't
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  Speaker 5: played on it. He hasn't pushed it. So whenever he
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  Speaker 5: comes back, if he can come back, how limited is
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  Speaker 5: he going to be?
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  Speaker 2: He's had his moments in the postseason, too, where he's
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  Speaker 2: really choked and for lack of a better term.
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  Speaker 1: Now, last year, though, he was good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's done– he's had some moments, too, where
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  Speaker 3: he's done really good things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, last year he was better. You didn't let me
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  Speaker 1: finish my sentence. I said he's had his moments where
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  Speaker 1: he's choked.
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  Speaker 7: I stand by that.
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  Speaker 3: I want to cut you off because you said he choked. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't stand by choking. I agree.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 2: You think before last year's postseason there weren't some moments
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  Speaker 2: where you're like, what the heck is going on here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but not choke.
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  Speaker 5: There's plenty of guys– There's plenty of guys that do bad.
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  Speaker 5: In 2018, I'll always bring it up. Look at Cody
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  Speaker 5: Bellinger's stats for, he won the NLCS MVP. Look what
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  Speaker 5: his stats were for the NLCS. Choked or just everybody
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  Speaker 5: had a really high expectation for Judge. You can't hit
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  Speaker 5: 62 home runs and go into the postseason and everyone
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  Speaker 5: would be like, yeah, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: He did okay.
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  Speaker 5: It's either going to be, yes, he did bad.
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  Speaker 3: I get that.
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  Speaker 5: He did not do good. But choked is like, ah,
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  Speaker 5: it makes my skin crawl a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Anyway, the point was last year he was good
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason. Gotcha. Last year he was good in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. That was the only point there.
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  Speaker 2: And with the Yankees not having the slug when he's out,
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  Speaker 2: I actually think I'd have to look back, but remember
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  Speaker 2: a lot of knocks. I mean, I know he had
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  Speaker 2: the big homer, but he had a lot of knocks.
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  Speaker 2: Like the batting average I think was good last year too.
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  Speaker 2: That's been a problem sometimes. You're like, the Yankees just
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  Speaker 2: need to get a little traffic going here. So add
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  Speaker 2: all of that up right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big problem.
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  Speaker 2: It's a top hitter in the sport missing for a
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  Speaker 2: team that's very reliant on him. We'll see if they
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  Speaker 2: can pitch their way through the postseason in the American League.
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  Speaker 1: What we'll do is.
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  Speaker 6: We'll– Scott, we had Carlos Rodon on yesterday. He's their
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  Speaker 6: fourth guy. I mean, they have pitching. They have the
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  Speaker 6: pitching to get through it. I mean, their bullpen's a
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  Speaker 6: little banged up right now, but they have the starting
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  Speaker 6: pitching to get through it.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: They'll have to win.
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  Speaker 2: Like they did last year in the wildcard round, Kratz, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like the games were pretty low scoring. They held the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox in those three games to four runs.
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  Speaker 5: Even the one that the Red Sox won, Garrett Crochet dealt.
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  Speaker 5: So it's, yeah, it's very low scoring.
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  Speaker 1: 3-1 was that game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, so you're going to have, it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be low scoring. AJ always says it. You
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  Speaker 5: hit homers, which the Yankees do. And good starting pitching.
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  Speaker 5: That's what wins the postseason. The anomaly was the 24
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: Dodgers where it was the bullpen. That helped them win it.
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  Speaker 5: But good starting pitching play. So the Yankees, they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 5: But nobody's going to sit here and argue that he
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  Speaker 5: was 13 for 27 last year in the postseason. Who's
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  Speaker 5: going to step up and replace that? I don't care
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  Speaker 5: if somebody does step up and replace it. Then you
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  Speaker 5: would also have Judge in the lineup to add whatever
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  Speaker 5: he was going to add. So it's just a tough
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  Speaker 5: blow for a team that clearly needs him in the
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  Speaker 5: lineup but can still slug, which plays in the postseason.
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  Speaker 6: There is no replacing it. You can't replace it because
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  Speaker 6: not only– His numbers.
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  Speaker 3: It's his presence. You can't replace it. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care who you put in there because, like
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  Speaker 6: Kratz said, this is why war is so ridiculous because, oh,
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  Speaker 6: war ends above replacement.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you replacing him with? And you can't replace
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: a person in the lineup.
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  Speaker 6: You can't replace PCA in the lineup because it's not
• 10:38
  Speaker 6: only when PCA comes up to bat, as a catcher,
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: you start looking over your shoulder like, all right, we're
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: at the seven or the eighth hitter. How do we
• 10:45
  Speaker 6: get guys out before PCA or Aaron Judge or whoever
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  Speaker 6: it is comes up to hit so we can minimize
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  Speaker 6: the damage they have the impact to do?
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: It's not just that one thing.
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  Speaker 6: It's how they affect the lineup overall and how they
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  Speaker 6: affect other people.
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  Speaker 3: In that lineup.
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: Well, let's keep this going. Adam Adabino is going to
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  Speaker 2: join us on the other side. So a quick shout
• 11:06
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• 11:09
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• 11:13
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• 11:18
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• 11:26
  Speaker 2: we are in the final stretch, literally the final week
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  Speaker 2: of the regular season, which feels weird to say. And
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: let's see where we want to grab a ticket. AJ,
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  Speaker 2: now you can narrow this down a little bit. Like
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  Speaker 2: there are some quotes garbage games, and then there are
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  Speaker 2: games that mean everything for the AL Central, for the
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  Speaker 2: AL West, and for seeding on the National League wildcard side.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to Boston.
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  Speaker 6: I'm wearing my Red Sox gear, my Red Sox uniform,
• 11:48
  Speaker 6: and my Red Sox hat, and everything else when I
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: played for the Red Sox. So they can beat Cleveland,
• 11:53
  Speaker 6: and the White Sox, which they're going to do, will
• 11:56
  Speaker 6: win the AL Central and get the bye. So if
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  Speaker 6: I had anything, I'd go to Boston. You'd see me
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: sitting there with my pom-poms. I'd cheer, cheer, cheer, nothing.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing against Steven Vogt and the Guardians, but we all
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  Speaker 6: know I'm a White Sox fan, and I'll I think
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  Speaker 6: they're going to win the division.
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  Speaker 3: So let's go Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Sox in general for you this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a Sox fan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Kratz, so Philly's trying to figure out their seating, right,
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  Speaker 2: on the National League wildcard side. Here comes the Brewers
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  Speaker 2: if you want to grab a ticket for that one.
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  Speaker 2: The Brewers don't seem to be– I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say taking their foot off the pedal because
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: they did ease Jacob Mizorowski in his last start, but
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  Speaker 2: I think they're going to give him a longer leash
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  Speaker 2: again in his final start before his– division series start
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: that we'll see eventually from him after the bye but
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: not a fun team to face if you're Philly right now.
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  Speaker 5: Or maybe a little bit of a measuring stick they're
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  Speaker 5: not intimidated by the team but you look at it
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  Speaker 5: and you go this is a team that knows how
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  Speaker 5: to win games we have to figure out how to
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: win games in the next three weeks if we want
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  Speaker 5: to accomplish what we what we want to do and
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: you know what they kind of for for a month
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: there they went with the whole like You know, we're
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: going to put the ball in play and make good
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  Speaker 5: swing decisions. You're going to watch that the whole night
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  Speaker 5: against the Brewers. So, to me, I'm going to the
• 13:10
  Speaker 5: game tomorrow night. So, go and seat geek and you
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  Speaker 5: can get a seat right next to me.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you'd have to tell us where you're sitting. What's up, AJ? True.
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  Speaker 3: Here's an interesting one for you. You know what else
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  Speaker 3: is an interesting series? The Angels. Who do the Angels play?
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure who the Angels play, but I think. Athletics?
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: They play the A's.
• 13:28
  Speaker 6: The Angels have never lost 100 games in a season.
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  Speaker 6: They're the only team that has never done it. They
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: have 96 losses. Can they get to 100? That is
• 13:37
  Speaker 6: a big question. They have to go 3-3 the last
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  Speaker 6: six games.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually a fun stat.
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  Speaker 2: I would not have expected the Angels to be the
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: only team without a 100-loss season. Angels fans, you should
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: be giving your hard-earned money and going to those games
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: on Seagate because you have a new owner, so you
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: should be all pumped. The season is a win just
• 13:57
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• 14:11
  Speaker 2: This tweet from Solely Reds, and this was confirmed, the
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: Reds have five of the worst nine hitters in all
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: of baseball, minimum 150 plate appearances. Nick Kroll traded for
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: four of those players. I mean, one of them is
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Key Brian Hayes that they traded for last year, and
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: we were like, what is that?
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  Speaker 1: And it's not. Working. That's a bad number, though. Half
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: the worst hitters out of nine, just about, are on
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  Speaker 1: the Reds. That's not good.
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  Speaker 3: That usually means you're not scoring a lot of runs.
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  Speaker 1: In Cincinnati.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: In Cincinnati. The Humidor is killing them. But that's what
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Steve Trent said early in the year. He goes, yeah,
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: you know, if it's not Sal Stewart or Eli De
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: La Cruz, we're just not scoring. But, I mean, four
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  Speaker 5: out of five of those guys... Traded for? That's a coin?
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  Speaker 5: You're just hoping that some... Why are those guys not improving?
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: Or why is that trade... You're not even talking about money.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: You're talking about trades. That has nothing to do with
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: the money that was spent.
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  Speaker 3: Who are the hitters? Can you tell me who the
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: hitters are, Scott?
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I don't have all the names.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, well then never mind.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: It's not in the rundown. I don't have everything memorized.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Is it like Noel V.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Marte?
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Is it like Marte is one of them? Noel V. Marte? No,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: he was. I mean, 150 at-bats is not.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, Noel V. Marte.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: 150 plate appearances is not a lot. He was a trade.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I know, I know.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Noel V.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Marte has had an awful, awful year when he's been
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: up in the bigs.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, true. Tyler Stevenson? But he was in trade four
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: years draft.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: No, Tyler Stevenson's been good at.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: The plate this year. Yeah, he hasn't been bad.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: We can get someone to look this up for us
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: at some point.
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: J.J.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Blue Bay.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: McLean's one of them. McLean's one of them for sure.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: I think probably Friedel might be one of them.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just guessing off the top of
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: my head here. Stewart?
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Their outfield was historically bad. At one point, it was
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: the worst-hitting outfield in the history of the first half
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: of baseball.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: See, this to me, though, is the manipulation of numbers, right?
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: Because usually if they're doing bad, like Noel V. Marte
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: was doing bad for 150th, They sent him a triple-A
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: because they're like, yeah, you ain't getting it done, dude.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: You ain't here anymore. So you can manipulate that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: I can say, man, this team has the worst guys
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: with three or less plate appearances in the league.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Look at them go. Look how bad they are.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: All right, updates from Orioles president of baseball operations, Mike Elias.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: This was from the weekend. Craig Albernaz is back. That
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: makes sense.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Elias assumes that he'll be back, and then he wants
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: to add from the outside in the front office. Actually,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: during the show, they added someone. Uh, I got to
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: look up who it exactly is. Someone more scoutish, which
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: makes sense to me. By the time you guys talk,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I can probably give you more info on it, but
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: also maybe more interesting than this. AJ, have you ever
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: kind of felt like you're losing your voice, but you're
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: able to talk it out and then get rid of it?
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: It's called having a frog in your throat. You got
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: to get the little frog. You got to have drip
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: it out.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: You know, a little frog, a little frog in the throat. Scott,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: it's okay.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Or you swallow the frog and eat it whole.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: Those are things that I don't know about, Scott, so
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: I'm going to have to take your word for it.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: I did see David Blaine. David Blaine once swallowed, vomited
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: up a live frog in person. So I don't know
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: how he did it, but we're way off topic here.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: But anyways, David Blaine, I once saw him vomit a
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: frog into a glass. I don't know how he did it,
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: but it came out.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: It's weird.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: But the weirdest part about this, speaking of weird things,
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Mike Elias saying, I don't know if I'm going to
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: be back. I don't know if I'm going to be back.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: You have all these other answers, but you don't know
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: if you're going to be back.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Pretty sure you're going to be back, Mike.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Is that good?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, maybe he's the po-bo. Maybe he gets a
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: GM in there that maybe can make more GM decisions. And,
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: you know, the Orioles can keep the structure that they
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: have if ownership feels like the structure's fine. But clearly,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: I think it's time for somebody to be able to
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: infuse some outside influence. So hopefully this outside influence this
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: outside front office help gives them the opportunity to be like, okay,
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: now's the time to do this instead of continuing down
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: the road that you've continued down.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And it was a regional scout, Ty Haloub. He was
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: with the Mariners, going to be a senior analyst in
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the scouting department. And apparently the dude that signed George Kirby,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: among other big prospects for the Mariners that turned into
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: big leaguers.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: So he'll help them. on that side of things.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Do you think the scout that signed somebody is really
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: the scout that found them?
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Like, come on. I have such a hard time with that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I have such a hard time with that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Yes. They would never be discovered otherwise. Have you seen
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the movies?
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: There are some of those guys, actually. There are some
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: guys like that, honestly. But they don't get the credit
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: for it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: True. I don't feel like those are the dudes that
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: find the guys. They're the grinders. They are down in
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: the bushes doing stuff.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: George Kirby was found, okay? He was going to be
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: found regardless.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: The guy for the Giants that hit last night, he
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: was found for real.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Right, right.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Agreed.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, this is a huge story for Cubs fans and
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the National League playoff race. Patrick Mooney joining us right now.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: He covers the Cubs every day for The Athletic, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: you can listen to him on Northside Territory. Best in
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: the biz covering the Cubs here.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Love the show. Okay, Patrick.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I think this story is getting a drop overshadowed because
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the Iron Judge news comes out pretty soon after it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: How much time could Alex Bregman miss, and how much
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: of an impact could that make on the Cubs' playoff chances? Obviously,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: they're in the playoffs, but I'm saying their chances of
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: advancing as far as they want.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: Scott, that's still to be determined.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: I think the two main questions right now are, can
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Bregman eventually play through these facial fractures? And then if
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: he does so, how much long-term risk would he be
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: taking on? As in, what if something else happened? How
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: much could that worsen his current condition.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: And I think.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Bregman has also just been overshadowed by Pete Crow Armstrong.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: If Pete wasn't having maybe the best individual season for
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: a franchise that started in 1876, I think we'd be
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: talking about Bregman a lot more. He's been one of
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: the best players in the game since the All-Star break.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: And obviously, if he's out, that considerably lowers the team's
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: world series ceiling. They have good young infielders behind him
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: and Pedro Ramirez and Matt Shaw, but there's no way
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: you can just replace a two-time world series champion. You know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: someone who has close to an 800 career post-season OPS. Uh,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: those guys just aren't, you know, out there in late September.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Patrick, uh, You know, people, you know, my wife asked me,
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: was he in the on-deck circle? Has he always stood
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: this close? Because, I mean, he was close. He was
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: almost directly behind the hitter. I mean, I've never seen
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: anybody stand that close. I've seen guys move, but usually
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: it's when the hitter is on their same side, never
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: with the opposite hitter, which leads to, because it's impossible
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: for a guy to hit a ball through them, right?
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: And this was a check swing foul ball that almost went,
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: was it Bush that was hitting? Who was hitting?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. That was Bush, right?
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: And he hit the foul ball that, I mean, kind
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: of went like diagonal off his shoulder that hit Bregman.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, Bregman was like 20 feet, 30 feet from
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: home plate.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, I've never seen a hitter. Is this where
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Bregman usually stands?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to ask you guys that because
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: I can't remember seeing a major league hitter actually stand
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: on the on-deck circle. I mean, I guess I don't
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: look for it every single pitch, but it does feel
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: like guys drift and– This question came up during Craig
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Council's Sunday postgame media.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Briefing, and he did not appreciate that question. He called
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: that terrible, sort.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Of implying that Bregman was at fault for this really
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: freak accident. I think Council is largely patient and empathetic
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: while kind of answering these questions, but it's not unreasonable,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I guess, to wonder, but I don't know, what are
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: the odds of something like this happening? As Council said,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: where is he supposed to stand? We'll kind of hear
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: more today when we get out to Wrigley Field. But
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: I think part of the reason Council was short in
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: that answer is you could just tell how much the
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Cubs felt this. You saw Michael Bush's reaction in the moment,
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: just dropping the bat and crouching to the ground. The
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Cubs won a game. and moved even closer to clinching
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: a playoff spot. And they were not in a celebratory mood.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Like that locker room was, was very quiet.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Well, two things. No guys don't stand in the on
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: deck circle. All the, all the paraphernalia gets put in
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: the on deck circle. So I think you would find
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: less people standing in the on deck circle than it actually,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: you know?
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: So that's, that's not going to happen. And the best
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: place to be would be behind the hitter, But for
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: some reason, we don't usually do that. So whatever it is,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: just walk across the other side. All that to say,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: his injury. Are the facial fractures the biggest concern? Because
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: the reason I ask, we had a guy this year
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: get hit. And they told us that, yes, it will
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: swell up. But the things they talk about are the
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: retina in the back because of the swelling having– slight detachment.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Is there any other issues that they're fearful of lingering?
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Or as we see the swelling go down, will we
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: start to see Bregman possibly out on the field?
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: The preliminary indications are that Bregman's vision long-term should remain
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: in good shape. He traveled by car back from Cincinnati
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: to Chicago in rather than get on the team flight
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Sunday night in his condition. So there are, there's obviously
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: a lot going on here. You know, as of yesterday's
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: off day, you know, the Cubs felt like it was
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: too soon to make any sort of snap judgments just
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: because the swelling was so bad, like that has to
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: go down first. Obviously, Eric, the long-term concerns you're wondering
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: about are valid. You know, I don't think those like
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: immediately go away, but the initial round of testing was
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: relatively positive, uh, in that regard.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: And I think both sides are, we're still.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Kind of gathering opinions and trying to get a sense
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: of like, what is possible and what's simply not feasible
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: at this stage.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Patrick, um, will this lead to a rule change? like
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: the Buster Posey rule, the Chase Utley rule, where guys
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: got hurt, where they make it, you know, maybe they
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: put like a little thing where you stand on deck
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: and it has a cage around you and, you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: now stepping out of the cage, Alex Bregman, right? And
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: the crowd gets to go crazy, right? Something like that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Or will they try to keep it? Will they just
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: try to enforce guys being on the batting circle a
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: little bit more? Because we obviously had the famous incident
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: where Adrian Beltre pulled the the batter circle around. So,
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, will they make a rule change for that?
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: And also when you, after that, well, Alex Bregman, when
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: he does come back, will he get one of those
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: super cool things that John Carlos Stanton got that time,
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: you know, where he had the G, he could get
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: like an AB into it, you know, to, to protect
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: himself when he does come back.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Because I, I always also.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Think that they should make C flaps mandatory for every hitter,
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: but that we don't have enough time to go through
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: all that stuff.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I think both ideas will be worth presenting in, uh,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: the labor talks, right? I mean, I don't, we'll see
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: how that's a whole nother, you know, not another show,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: another series. But I think with Bregman, the thing you're
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: going to kind of be hearing about this week is
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: obviously he wants to play. Like this is someone who
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: is known as a baseball gym rat. He's going to
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: exhaust every possibility to see, what he can and cannot
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: do on a baseball field. We're one week out from
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: game one of a National League wildcard series. Cubs magic
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: number is one. Still have no idea where they're going
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: to play. Seeding is still... Up in the air, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have checked the forecast
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: for Boston this weekend. It does not look good. So
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: for the Cubs, this is really unfortunate. This is the
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: second consecutive year something like this has happened. If you remember,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Cade Horton, an awesome young pitcher, went on the aisle
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: with a rib fracture right around the same time last year,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: and he was– his season– ended at that point. They
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: hoped he could return for an NLCS. Obviously that didn't happen,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: but one of their big young arms missing for the
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: first two rounds of the playoffs. And now they have
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: their guy who's, you know, there's the second best hitter
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: on their team, you know, behind a likely MVP, a
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: gold glove caliber defender at third base. And he's also,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: as you guys know, one of the great connectors in
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: their clubhouse. You know, you guys saw those videos of
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: them at Churchill Downs on the Thursday off day.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: Someone who's obsessed.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: With the details of the game, who's brought a lot
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: to their game day preparation. And now they have to
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: consider the possibility of moving on without him.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: And he's a winner in the biggest stage. I want
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: to talk about what you said about the weather. Because
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: people who don't know... What does it look like their
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: options would be? I know we're getting way ahead of
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: ourselves and I know the front could push it out
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: and push it farther out to sea. But what we're
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: looking at is essentially a hurricane spinning outside of Boston
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: for a three game series where. Major League Baseball got
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: rid of enough off days to get the rest of
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: the season in. If there is that case and the
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: Cubs have to go across the country to play the
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Padres because the Padres get the number one wild card seed,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: it's suboptimal, correct?
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: Yes, exactly.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: That would be– A.J.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Would know this term. That would be a cubby occurrence.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: That is what Lou Piniella sort of terms just the
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: weird things that happened around this franchise. Eric, you know
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Craig Council very well. He would probably give you a look.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: We'll deal with that when it comes. That has very
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: much been their MO this year and their in position
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: to clinch tonight with a win over the Marlins. And
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: it has really been from the start of the season
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: until this weekend here in late September of just one
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: thing after another.
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: We mentioned Cade Horton earlier. He got injured.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Justin Steele has not come back to this point. Their
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: entire preseason bullpen depth chart has been ripped up. They
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: overcame Dansby Swanson's oblique injury. And look, every team goes
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: through this, no doubt, but they've shown a lot of
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: resiliency to get to this point and they're going to
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: need a whole lot more if they want to survive
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: four playoff rounds after the Brewers ran away with this
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: division again.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Patrick, you know what you sound like?
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: What?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Typical Cub fan.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Boo-hoo, we had guys hurt and we had a black
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: cat run across our on-deck circle and we had a
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: squirrel in our in our beer snake out in the boo-hoo.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: You sound like a typical Cub fan, Patrick. I'd expect
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: nothing else.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: AJ, I don't care if the Cubs win or lose.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: That's a lie, Patrick.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: You just proved it. You just proved that was wrong.
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: Was there a question in there?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: No, there was not. All right, okay.
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: It was just facts.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: It was just me spitting facts.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: I gave you that Cubby occurrence, and this is how
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: I'm repaid.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: He just can't. He can't.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: He kind of, like, dangled it in front of him,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: and then he's got to grab it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: That's true. He did. He did.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: We got to go, but he's just mad. We established
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: earlier in the show that the south side is a
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: small market and the north side is a large market
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: because Ida Montevino said Chicago is a big market. There
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: was no pressure to play on the south side. There
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: is pressure to play on the north side. So he's
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: just mad. It's not you, Patrick. It's AJ, okay?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: So it's two cities. Is that what you're telling me?
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: It's always AJ.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: That's what Jerry said, not me. Jerry said that. Jerry.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: North Chicago, South Chicago.
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Got it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: John Greenberg had an excellent article in The Athletic today
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: about the north and.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: South side of Chicago. Just check that one out. It's
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: worth your time.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Not only that, but we might have to get him on.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I thought John Greenberg just tweeted all the time. He does.
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: He does tweet a lot.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Might get an invite out to John who's been on
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: North side territory. That's how we swing it all back. Patrick,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: thanks for joining us, dude. And everyone check out North
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: side territory. Appreciate you, man.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Talk soon.
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: Thanks guys.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: As a high Dave Sharma, Patrick Mooney and John Lester.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: That's a trio North side territory QR code right side.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: If you don't have it already podcast, YouTube, the whole deal,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: go check it out. Hey, AJ, don't tell me I
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: never look at the comments. I actually look at them
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: way too often. YouTube mostly.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: First of all.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Hold up, hold up.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: Kratz, we didn't say that he doesn't. We said all
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: he does is look at the comments yesterday. He's in
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: the chat. He wasn't here, but he was in the chat.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: So clearly Scott wasn't listening. He was in the chat
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: paying attention to the chat.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Hold up, hold up.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Of course, you know I was being sarcastic, right? I
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: live in the comments. I live in the chat.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I live and die in the comments. This was actually
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: a compliment for you. AJ. So there was two, right? Yesterday, Armand,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: appreciate you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: He bought the psychopath shirt that we created for AJ
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Ewing and Carson Benj on FoulTerritoryShop.com. More pressure on Ben
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Arrozco Empoyo. There's my shirt, Junior Caminero shirt for Eric Kratz.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: But the point of this was to also respond to,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: there it is, nice Kratz, a comment yesterday from Paul
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Kim in one of our YouTube videos. He just said, Hey, AJ,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: we have the same exact birthday, same as the poker player,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Barry Greenstein, Sandy Koufax, Tiger, LeBron.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: All of those are the same day. Is that true, AJ?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Or is he messing with us?
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: Let me tell you something about the great ones, Scott.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: A lot of us were born, the second best people
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: at positions were born. The second best basketball player, LeBron.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: The second best golfer, as far as majors goes, Tiger.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Second best Left-handed hitting catcher. I'm sure there's something I
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: can figure out why I'm second best at something. Sandy
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: Koufax is second best left-handed pitcher at something.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: We're great at being the second best, but we're all
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: on the same day.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Big question, though, and great comment from Paul. He wants
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: to know, do you know what time you were born?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: He wanted to know if he was technically born before you.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: I think it was like one in the afternoon. The
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: only person I know, the only person who's, I actually
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: know the time is my daughter because she was born
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: on nine five, nine Oh five. And she was born
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: at nine Oh five PM. So I actually know that one.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: Other than that, I think I was born at like
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: one in the afternoon. My mom told me, but AJ
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: didn't know how to read a clock at that age.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Sorry. Yeah. Sorry.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Paul, Paul in the comments that I really hope you
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: read comments. Probably don't. But were you born in the afternoon?
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Just want to see who's technically older.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: So there you go, Paul. You can make the decision,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: make the call if you beat him to the punch.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I knew mine.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Paul sounds older.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe by a few minutes. Right. More mature by
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: a few minutes, I would say.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: You're a boomer, Scott. You're a boomer. Of course you
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: knew yours.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: A boomer?
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think I am.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I think I'm a millennial.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: 808. 808.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I was due 88.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: That's how we know you're a boomer. You don't think
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: you're a boomer.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: What the boomer?
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, we have a few minutes for slap hands, so
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: let's get through a lot here. First off, Dirt from
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: the Dugout, new episode running right after the show today
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: featuring Yankees manager Aaron Boone. Go check that out. Dirt
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: from the dugout on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Great show with Justin and Ravi. And we'll get some
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: word from Booney on life managing the Yankees for a
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: minute now.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: It's been a while. Speaking of the Yanks.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I saw that right on was great with the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: explanation of Aaron Boone celebration. Both of you have it
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: down to a T speaking of that. So the raise
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: unveiled some road uniforms to celebrate the passion of raise
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: fans and also What is it, a modernized 1998 logo
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: with some Rays Navy on there?
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: AJ, this looked like it was– And to sell some
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: more unis.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Coming into the playoffs.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: It's what?
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: And to sell some more unis to come into the
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: playoffs here too.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Strike while the iron's hot.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: They roll at some point. Yeah, so there it is.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: What do we think? I like it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I love them.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: I'm a big Devil Ray fan, even though they're not
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: called the Devil Rays anymore. I'm a big Devil Rays fan.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: It feels like more you.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: The hat is cool. I know we don't have any
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: close-ups of the logo. It has the ray coming off
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: of the bottom of the B.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: It's pretty. But that's why I remember Tampa Bay.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: Here's the problem. They have an actual devil ray, and
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: they have rays in the park. They don't have any
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: sunshine in the park. That's why the rays never fit.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: They should have just stuck with the devil rays. They
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: just should have called them the sting rays. Could have
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: called them the stinger. They got rid of the devil,
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: and the first year, they went right to the playoffs.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Went to the World Series.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: World Series.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, true.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: They didn't win, as AJ said.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: They did the Rayway all the way until they got
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: to the World Series, and then the Phillies did the Rayway.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: True. Oh, wait. Look it up, kids.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, here's some history.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: River Ryan and DJ Herz had not pitched since 2024.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Both of them pitching, coming back in the same game
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: yesterday with the Tigers and the Nationals, a game that
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything, obviously, for The season and playoff implications
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: and all that, but meant a lot.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: To these two.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: 28-year-old River Ryan, who was a big part of the
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Tarek Skubal deal.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: They let him go three innings. He looked sharp.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: And then DJ Herr is also returning for the first
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: time in a couple years. So welcome back to those two.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Always crazy when it's been years like that, guys.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: I know they were working their way back. I'm not
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: saying someone said that, but.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I think it was Kratz. That he was going to
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: give up a bunch of runs?
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: Yes, you said on your lock when we did locks.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: I said, oh, it's over eight and a half. I'm
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: taking the Tigers at Nationals. And you go, oh, River
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: Ryan's pitching. He ain't pitched in a while. He's probably
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: going to give up some runs.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I remember saying River Ryan. I thought the bullpen was
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: going to give it up. Little did I know. Little
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: did you know the starters did it all.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: What was it, 9-2, right? Easy hit.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was 9-0 in like the third inning
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: for the Tigers. So, I mean, that was an easy one.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Good job, Kratz. And here's a little nugget on another
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: team that stinks. What are you laughing at?
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: It's like making a pull shot just in the wrong pocket.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Slop. You made slop. You got slop.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: It lands. So if it lands in the pocket, it
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: lands in the pocket.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you need that.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: You go, see, that's what I meant. That's why I
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: analyzed the game that way. So did you see this
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: note on the Giants approaching some history here? So this
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: was yesterday from Alex Pavlovich, who covers the team for NBC.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: With Bo Davidson and Marcelo Meyer getting out there tonight,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: the Giants become the.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Fourth team in history to use the word Giants.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: At least 70 players in one season. They're one away
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: from tying the 2025 Braves for that record.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: Well, as good as River Ryan did yesterday in his
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Detroit debut, Marcelo Meyer doesn't want to remember his Giants
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: debut yesterday. Mm-mm.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: There's a good river, Ryan.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Bo Davidson looks, I mean, that's a good story, right?
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: That's a great story. And, dude, I like his swing.
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: His first at bat was a pimp at bat, dude.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Just fouling balls on him and got a knock. And
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: his brother in the stands was like, yeah.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Boy, he's here. He's here.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: The man is here. Yeah.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: It was like a wrestling promo. It was awesome.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: That was cool. Yeah. There's a Marcel Meyer story that's, yeah,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: 70s a lot.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: And the Marcel, sorry to cut you off, that Marcel
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: Meyer story is really good. I hope we can chat
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: about it because I saw some comments from some Boston
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: writers about it, and it was just like, interesting read.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was not happy at times there, and we'll
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: talk about it maybe tomorrow.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: We're staying on YouTube, so stick around for a few.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Or his dad. Or his dad wasn't that happy.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Enrique. Enrique. We're here. By the way, on Thursday, we
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: have Martin Perez.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: I'm interested to know. You have my attention.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: No, we're not doing it yet, though. You've got to
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: read the story.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: I just read enough of it and what you guys
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: just said. We'll get into it. Hopefully tomorrow, because if
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: you just said what I think you said, your dad's mad?
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: What is this? The Fortmite and Mennonites, whatever they're called.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: What is it called? The Doc Mennonites? The horse and buggies.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the Doc Mennonite horse and buggies? Like, What are
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: we talking about? Like the dad can complete.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: All right. Anyways, I don't want to get into it.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Cause I don't want, I want you to get into it.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I just want to have like 10 minutes for it.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: That's my only request and I want to get into it.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: So tomorrow, boom, book it. We're doing it. We have
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: the article ready to go. It came out right around,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: or at least we saw it right around when the
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: show started. So that's sometimes why we save things. But
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: while we have two minutes to spare here, Ken Rosenthal
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: joining us tomorrow, Martine Perez from the Braves. She had
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: a really solid year for Atlanta is going to join us.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: on thursday and then baseball america's hot sheet is coming
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: up next on the ba youtube channel can we show
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: the minor league players of the year graphic and well
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: first off the qr code to go over to their
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: page or you just type in baseball america in the
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: youtube channel or podcast platforms and then they announce their
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: minor league players of the year per team so many
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: names that you're well aware of on here guys jose
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: the paula kate anderson for the mariners ethan salas for
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: The Padres, Franklin Arias, who was supposed to be really
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: good for the Red Sox.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: He had a great year. Could be a big part
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: of the future there. George Lombard Jr. for the Yankees.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Good story for Zach Veen, who was a big deal
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: years back and was able to kind of figure it
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: out and get himself, I think, what, lost a lot
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: of weight and got himself back on track. Eli Willits,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: former first overall pick. Anyone else on there that you
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: guys want to shout out?
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Wasn't Veen the guy who did the huge bat flip
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: in spring training? Then the next spring training.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: He put on like 40 or 45 pounds, and then
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: he lost the weight again. Obviously, it's all stuff that
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: was so cool they did that, but Andrew Fisher is
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: the one on that list that J.J. Cooper is probably
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: going to talk about. Still not a top-end prospect. Look
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: at his numbers. I don't care what you think about
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: the minor leagues.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I don't care.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: He didn't play in El Paso, and he didn't play
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: in Reno.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: You need to look at his numbers. They are redonkulous.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: And he's still doing it in the postseason. I don't
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: know where they're at.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I checked like two days ago and he was hitting
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: dingers in the postseason. I mean, he's just, he's a monster.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Three already in the postseason.
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Kratzat's on the way out.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: Speaking of, the Milwaukee A's have a chance to win
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: 100 games for the first time in their franchise ever.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: They already broke the record, but if they get to 100,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: that would be sick.
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: And controlling home field.
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: Murph would still tell you they suck if they get
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: to 100. He'd be like, ah, we're just very good.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: AJ, you know what he's going to say? Nobody knows us.
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: Nobody knows about us. Yeah, we don't even know ourselves.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: It'd be like Zoolander. We don't even know ourselves. Nobody
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: makes me bleed my own blood. That wasn't Zoolander.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: That was Dodgeball. Dodgeball, sorry. Same character.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Another classic.
• 44:07
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