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Orioles Sold + Witt Extension (feat. Ryan Ripken) · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by Sea Geek. This is episode 411.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host,
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  Nate Reyes and the return of our good friend, a gentleman's
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  gentleman, Ryan Ripken. Guys, how we doing?
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  Feeling good, you guys. It's been a while.
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  It's been a hot minute. Happy 2024, by the way.
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  Right now. Happy 2024.
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  It's It still doesn't feel right.
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  It still doesn't feel it's This is strange.
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  Yeah, I I feel like there's, I know there's that period where
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  you're allowed to say Happy New Year to somebody and now we're
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  in February. We're weeks past that, I know.
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  But, but I mean, I I you know what my rule is if you haven't
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  seen the person yet in a while. I know, like, we've texted, but
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  we haven't had a had a chance to talk.
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  Here's the time. Like, hey, happy 2024 guys.
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  Hey, happy 2024, I think. The bigger news that obviously,
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  is that, like, all right, it's February and then baseball is
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  happening this month. Wild.
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  It's just in the snap. Of a I don't.
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  Yeah. How are you doing post Ravens?
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  Are you doing OK? Did we?
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  Did. Is that really what you wanted
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  to open this with? I wanted to open with it.
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  I just wanted to write it. It's a temperature check, that's
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  all. This how's.
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  Raven Rye doing. Raven Rye is that was tough.
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  I or I I tell people that the Ravens have had some tough
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  playoff losses and the one was Billy Cundiff in 2011.
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  Twelve season, the Ravens went from a drop touchdown pass to
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  then a missed field goal to then, you know, being eliminated
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  all in a span of like 30 seconds.
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  But who who remembers those moments?
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  That was the most shocking. I think Sunday's was the most
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  painful. But you know what?
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  Baltimore's had a wild week. Guys, like, talk about a roller
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  coaster of emotions for Baltimore sports, yeah.
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  True. So with all the disappointing
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  end of the season with the Ravens, I think for some made-up
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  for it with with just the wild ride that has been the Baltimore
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  Orioles offseason really over a span of 48 hours.
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  I'm a fan. It's it sucks to say it out
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  loud. I'm a fan of how things have
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  what is going on. I don't even know.
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  Like there's more action in Baltimore offseason than 90% of
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  the league. I would say the vibes are higher
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  in Baltimore than even like LA, because with LA, it was the most
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  predictable thing. You you saw that coming from a
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  mile away. They've been building up to
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  these moves for the last, like, year and a half.
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  But to get the update, and I'm Ryan, you even said you're a
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  little bit blindsided, kind of caught you off guard to get the
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  update. You're like, this is what Raven
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  or this is what Orioles fans have been clamoring for for a
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  long time. And it's like it it happened, it
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  it manifested. There are so many things to
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  unpack in on that. So you know, if it's going from
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  the whole news about, you know, the Orioles being sold and I was
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  giving lessons, You know, I try on days where I'm not doing my
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  media work, I try to work and help the next generation.
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  Right. Guys, you know, people helping
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  people. And I am doing lessons for like
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  6 straight hours. And during it I have my phone
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  down and all of a sudden I get like the, the, the news.
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  OK, Rubenstein is in agreement to buy a team like, OK, you
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  know, put the phone down. Then another person comes in is
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  like, oh, hey, like big thing for for for your family.
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  I'm like what what are what are we discussing here?
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  And then I saw the other report that came out that said my dad
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  was going to be involved potentially in the new deal.
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  But so many things that unpack there.
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  But yes, blindsided was an understatement as far as what I
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  was trying to do. And then I always I need to get
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  better at answering my text messages at one point guys my or
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  currently still my phone is at 1076 messages.
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  I'm I'm still very overwhelmed with what's with what's
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  transpired. That'll never get to 0, right?
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  Never. I mean, how how many people has
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  that divvied up amongst? Is that like just, is that just
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  me and Nate just blowing you up in the group text And that's
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  like people, 9595% of the. Text.
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  Yeah, you guys might account for half of it right now. the IT
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  definitely. The people that I hadn't heard
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  from in a long time reached out. New stations reached out.
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  You name it, someone reached out.
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  So it was just I didn't have a lot of time to react because
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  again, like I just want to when I'm working or doing something,
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  I got to focus on that. I'm not a great multitasker.
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  But also I I want to spend time with the people that that are,
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  you know, making the time to come work with me.
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  So then that happens and then a couple days, you know, 48 hours
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  later finish a live show that I do here in the studio that I
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  have and I'm about to go home and what happens?
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  Corbin Burns, he's getting traded to Baltimore.
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  Holy shirts and pants. I got to go live again and talk
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  about it. So I did.
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  And. But there's so much excitement
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  around the team. Right.
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  So I think that that's that's the big part of it.
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  To your point, the Dodgers. Everyone knows the Dodgers are
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  going to spend money for the Orioles.
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  They're waiting for that first move and it happened.
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  And now the AL ES are minus the Red Sox for vibe check.
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  But like the Yankees vibes are higher and the Orioles are
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  through the roof. And I think we're going to
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  actually see that OS Yankees rivalry was kind of renewed last
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  year. But I think it's going to be in
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  full force here in 2024. Yeah, I need that.
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  I need. I need some OS Yankees Heat in
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  2024. That's a that's a fun.
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  That's a fun. Rivalry, that is a fun one.
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  It's it's low key. The whole like ghost of Babe
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  Ruth. The whole, you know what I mean?
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  Like all that stuff coming back out the house that Ruth built,
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  like all these, you know, the original home of Ruth.
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  Like all these things that come back out of it.
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  I like it. I'm here for it.
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  I I think, I think, I think, you know you see like interdivision
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  rivalries that can grow at times.
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  You know what I mean? And and I think like for us to
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  I, I baseball fans can't hold the Red Sox and Yankees at that
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  standard of what we grew up watching.
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  Like I don't I don't see that ever returning in my mind.
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  So it's cool to see like a a potential new division, inner
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  division rivalry grow a little bit and maybe be rekindled if
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  you will so. I I what I think also too is and
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  maybe this is what makes we talked about the AL East has
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  been so competitive over the years right.
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  Best division in baseball last year, no doubt it was.
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  But I think it's that each team in the AL East has been good or
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  solid. I know I made the joke about the
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  Red Sox Kyle and I'm sorry but even for the Red Sox they
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  compete. Even if it's a down year which
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  right now it's not as optimistic as you'd want to be as a Red Sox
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  fan. Just if we're going to be honest
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  about it, but each team is solid and you're seeing this
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  competitive drive like the Yanks and Rays going at it.
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  In the past, the Blue Jays and Orioles have had this new type
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  of bitterness towards each other.
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  I love it. I'm for that.
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  And you don't want your division rivals and especially the fact
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  that there's less divisional games guys.
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  Those ones. We talked about it more and it's
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  like, yeah, we only play you guys, you know, X amount of
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  times you know now than we used to.
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  We got to be ready to go. And yeah, who doesn't like a
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  little rivalry in sports? I personally, I love it.
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  You don't want to love the other team.
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  Come on now, It's not fun. Yeah, it's not fun.
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  No fun. Ryan, from your perspective,
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  this, this sale, how does this impact?
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  I mean, I already alluded to it with, you know, this is
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  something that Orioles fans have been claiming for for a long
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  time. But from your specific
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  perspective, how does this affect morale amongst the fans,
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  amongst the city, amongst even the team heading into 2024?
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  Especially what days before the the Corbin Burns move?
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  Like just a lot of good things moving in the right direction.
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  Does this? Does this sale?
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  Does the timing of this sale change morale heading into 2020?
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  Four, I I think morale was going to be high no matter what
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  because this is a, you know, extremely exciting team, right?
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  So the Orioles are their goal. Nothing for the 2024 season, if
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  you're a player or organization fan has changed.
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  You're going to, you're going to try to repeat his AL ES chance,
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  But regardless, get to the postseason, try to make a deeper
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  run. That's the goal, hasn't changed.
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  And I do want to say with this, I know people have had their
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  feelings, you know, documented with what's happened with with
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  Baltimore ownership, whatever it may be, right?
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  But I do want people to to understand and give credit.
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  Where credit's due, especially Jon Angelo's bringing in
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  Michael, is to come in and really transform this
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  organization. I know people can feel how
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  they've wanted to and again, that that's not my place and
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  that's not my opinion, but I but you're it'd be.
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  I'd be fond on deaf ears to not hear other noise.
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  You guys know exactly what's been said, but you brought
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  someone in that completely changed what the Orioles were
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  going to embody and look look like moving forward.
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  So it's been tremendous. Now, as far as what it means, if
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  this goes through, it'll be a new chapter in Baltimore.
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  There hasn't been an ownership change in three decades.
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  And what the morale part I think, which would be exciting,
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  is it's if it's a new chapter, it's a new chapter going in,
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  which could be the golden age of Baltimore baseball, something
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  that hasn't happened if you're looking back to like the 70s,
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  the 80s. I mean, guys, I've documented
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  this since 1983. The Orioles been to the playoffs
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  six times in 40 years. It feels like right now this is
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  for fans. This is something that, like it
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  could be a perfect storm of success, both at on the field
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  and organizationally, that ultimately can really help shape
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  even the city of Baltimore. Where are we at with?
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  Breaking. News that's so insane.
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  We're gonna come back to this real quick, Ryan, did you by
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  chance see the see the update? No.
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  It's one of 1700 and yeah. That was.
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  That was, yeah, that was silly me to ask.
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  Jeff Passan, shortstop, Bobby Witt Junior and the Kansas City
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  Royals are in agreement on an 11 year, $288.7 million contract
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  extension. Pay that man.
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  Pay that man. They did.
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  I love that dude. He's a stud.
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  He's really good. Are the Royals gonna, like, mess
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  around and win? Hale Central and it's hard to
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  believe. It's up for grabs, but.
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  Are the Royals gonna mess around and win the whole thing?
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  Might as well win the whole damn thing, but I'm happy about that.
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  I love that more teams are taking that chance to do that.
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  So what will? How old would Bobby be then?
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  After 11 years? He'll be 3132.
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  I'm like 33. 30. Looking it up now, he's. 23 so
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  he's 343434. Yeah, interesting.
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  But again, this is the dilemma when people are offered, when
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  they say offer extensions. Bobby Wood is taking the money
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  now and if he played well over the next three years or so, he
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  could have played into a bigger contract.
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  But 200 Shady $1,000,000 some good money, some good money.
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  Good for the Royals for forking that out, too, just because
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  that's an organization that typically wouldn't take those
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  steps. And so I love that.
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  Like, you can lock that down and create a cornerstone and start
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  to build around it, which they're trying to do.
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  Like I we talked about it last week.
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  I I like what the Royals are doing.
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  I I think Pasquantino needs more attention.
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  I think the veterans that they've added in the offseason.
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  So like, I I'm excited for what the Royals are doing.
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  I'm not going to sit here and say they're going to run away
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  with the Central or anything, but like at the very least you
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  can start selling jerseys and like having a name for the
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  franchise for the next decade. But, and I also think that,
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  like, he's got a skill set that I don't think is going to
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  diminish throughout that contract.
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  You know what I mean? The defense and the speed.
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  The pop is only going to get better.
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  He's only going to get stronger. He's going to settle into like a
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  man's body here in the next couple years and you're going to
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  see some pop really show up. So I'm a fan.
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  I'm a fan. I wanted to ask you just to put
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  a like a a a final pin on the on the sale and everything.
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  I don't know if you got more questions, Kyle, but like for
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  baseball fans outside of the Baltimore area and just outside
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  other fan bases. I know that there's these
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  conversations of a lot of these ballparks trying to build more
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  of an environment and atmosphere around the park and have
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  restaurants and like shops and like spend the day around the
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  park before a game. I heard that there are rumors a
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  few months ago that Camden was trying to do something similar
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  with the owner, like new ownership and everything.
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  Do you feel like that's still in play or like, have you heard
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  that? That's part of the rumblings.
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  You know I think I I can't you know speak on what could happen
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  with as far as that and and for everyone that's still wondering
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  this deal for the ownership has to be approved.
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  I believe it's next week at the meetings I think for everything
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  to go through now as far as when people saw the lease of the of
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  the with Camden Yards in the city of Baltimore that had been
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  going on for a long time and in the discussions you're right, it
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  was we is there going to be build more of a fan experience
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  around the area especially of Camden Yards right there and you
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  have M&T Bank Stadium home of the Ravens they share parking
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  lots right, like everything's right there.
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  So I think knowing and seeing what David Rubenstein has
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  accomplished as a businessman, I I no doubt in my mind that will
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  definitely be a conversation. Now will it happen to the
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  extent, who knows. And I will say Baltimore still
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  has some staples that are there that if these moves happen, how
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  would that affect the local businesses that have already
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  been there in that history like Pickles Pub outside of you guys
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  saw it, that place is bumping and that that atmosphere I never
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  wanted to change. So I and I think that that's
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  also what makes Baltimore that that part special.
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  So I think if you're going to end up doing something like
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  that, how do you have it be where it fits with what your
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  teams want to do? But, and the other part of it is
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  when you have another professional team involved and
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  you have the city involved and you have the governor of
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  Maryland involved, like all this is already making my head spin.
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  My head's been spinning a lot. So.
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  If anything, this is not something that's going to be an
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  immediate thing at all. It's going to be so long the
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  Ravens. The Ravens did announce actual
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  renovations, though, towards M&T Bank Stadium.
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  So yes, I think that the Orioles are going to look at all
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  different areas to make people and fans that come to the games
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  have an overall experience. That is definitely going to be,
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  in my mind, a priority. But building what other places
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  have, we're gonna have to wait and see what that's gonna look
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  like. Have you been like personally,
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  have you been to like like truest?
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  I haven't or anything like that. No.
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  That's sick. It's so it's like a mini
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  Nashville. It's like a it's just this
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  little town that's. It feels like it's a part of the
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  ballpark and like shops and, you know, like to walk into a full
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  Mizuno store and sit in a big leather glove.
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  Like there's there's a lot of cool things that I think would
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  like really. And like all three of us had
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  grown up going to Camden Yards and like just attending it
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  countless times. It's just, it sounds awesome to
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  be able to have some type of experience added in.
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  But yeah, that's all I was wondering.
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  I mean, I I don't know if we're gonna have a Mizuno glove
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  sitting down somewhere, You know, you have a do you have a
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  Photo, by the way, of that? I do.
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  I'll send it to you. It's a sick.
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  I got it. So you're gonna have to read it
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  though if I send it to you. All right.
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  I'll open it. Yeah.
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  Speak. Speaking of head spinning.
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  Sorry I had to get the Wit post out.
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  Did we adequately cover the Corbin Burns?
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  Dude, talk to me about that. What do you guys want to know?
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  I mean, does this does this satisfy the itch of a frontline
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  starter that the Orioles were hoping for?
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  Absolutely. I mean, you just got one of the
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  top ten starting pitchers in baseball.
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  I could even argue he could be a top five if he's the Corbin
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  Burns. That was the Cy Young Corbin
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  Burns. If you're going to go over his
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  last four years. His down year was last year and
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  it was a 339 ERA. The previous three years he had
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  a sub 3. ERAI think what?
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  What I love about it is when you look at this Orioles pitching
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  staff, bradish stud Grayson Rodriguez, stud John Means has
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  proven All Star stud Dean Kramer's now your 5th starter
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  and Dean is a dog. That's my guy too.
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  So right now you're looking at it and going, man, this is a
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  very deep rotation and you add a guy like Corbin Burns, and the
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  bigger thing I should take away is he's been now in the league
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  for six years or so. I think is roughly that this,
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  the one thing the Orioles pitching staff has been lacking
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  is someone that has been a starter for that long.
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  And now you have one of those guys that is a workhorse.
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  He's pitched around 200 innings over the last few seasons, and
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  now you have a chance then to lead an already talented team,
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  talented starting rotation. It's just tremendous.
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  Now, the biggest thing is health, right?
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  You need to stay healthy. And that's that is for every
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  pitch we saw with the Yankees last year, right.
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  You know Rodin's injury sending him back, he wasn't the same.
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  You know, even when he came back.
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  It's it's an uphill battle if you aren't healthy to start the
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  season. I don't.
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  And Verlander too, right? Like guys that that are going to
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  deal with injuries. It's going to take time and it's
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  harder to kind of get in a rhythm.
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  So it it's monumental. I'm not going to say it's I
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  still think the Yankees good. Let the Yankees be favored in
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  the AL East, and I do think the Yankees are going to have a
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  great year but for the Orioles. Now, if everyone stays healthy,
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  you're looking at a staff that went from one of the best in the
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  American League to now going, this is one of the best Staffs
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  in the entire in in in the entire Major League Baseball,
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  you know, National League, American League, you name it.
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  The birds are going to be buzzing.
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  Take take Corbin out of the the picture here of the of what's
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  left of that rotation. Who do you think has the most
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  surprising in a good way, 2024? In the rotation, I'm really
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  hopeful that John Means shows that he is gets back to an All
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  Star form because especially as a left-handed pitcher and what
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  he is capable of doing. I think that if he to me is kind
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  of sex actors, I'll put this in. I think Kyle Braddish and
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  Grayson Rodriguez, again, all health aside, those guys are
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  going to continue to pitch at a high level I think.
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  So you have Grayson, Kyle and Corbin who I'm counting on
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  having really good years. You add in a guy like John Means
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  and if he's healthy going man, you have four guys in my mind
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  that could be All Stars and I think Dean could even be that
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  guy too. I think that's what's so crazy.
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  But it's going to be that back end.
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  It's going to be a Means or Dean Kramer.
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  If one of those guys has a really good year it's it's this
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  is I have I don't remember this a staff like this that has been
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  this deep in a while so it it's it's exciting to say the least.
• 19:45
  But I'm going to go with John Means because means he's been
• 19:48
  through a lot having to be left off the post season roster too
• 19:51
  because of some elbow inflammation and soreness that
• 19:55
  always worries you. And the guys love him, so I'm
• 19:59
  really helpful for him And he's a great guy.
• 20:00
  So who doesn't want to see a great guy do well?
• 20:03
  Kyle, you know? Who doesn't want to see the OS
• 20:06
  have a solid, solid encore? Well, I think a lot of people
• 20:10
  that are in the American League East would not want to see that,
• 20:13
  but. I I see.
• 20:15
  I don't think the list is as long as you think it is Red Sox
• 20:19
  fans. We're just.
• 20:21
  You're just along for the ride. We're.
• 20:22
  Just along for the ride, Rays fans are the the the handful
• 20:30
  that exists. They're just happy to be here.
• 20:33
  Jays fans, I don't think, have had the fortune of taking their
• 20:37
  team seriously in a handful of years.
• 20:40
  Yeah. Ever since Vladi sent him to an
• 20:44
  early grave with his his movie comments.
• 20:46
  But I don't. I don't think the list is as
• 20:49
  long as you might think, right? I I really don't.
• 20:51
  Is court burns under control? So this is his last year I
• 20:55
  believe. Yeah, he's got one year.
• 20:57
  Left. And I think the other part of it
• 20:58
  is, and correct me if I'm wrong about who his agent is, is it
• 21:01
  Scott Boris? Is he a Boris guy?
• 21:05
  He might be. Possibly.
• 21:06
  So he's hitting the market for sure.
• 21:08
  Well, and I will I. The other part when people go
• 21:10
  wait a minute, is it a rental? What's going to happen If you
• 21:12
  trade for a guy, you're going to get the first chance to convince
• 21:15
  him to stay, and I think that's for the Baltimore Orioles, and
• 21:18
  he's in his prime. He's 29 years old and we're
• 21:20
  seeing now with elite starting pitchers, if you're able to take
• 21:24
  care of yourself and be able to continue to evolve as a pitcher
• 21:29
  as you get older, you can pitch into your late 30s and even 40s
• 21:32
  for some guys. He's in that.
• 21:34
  Guy, by the way. At 29, at 29, he's only had
• 21:39
  three full like full seasons as far as innings go, you know what
• 21:43
  I mean? Like it was 160 and then 200 and
• 21:46
  then 190 last year. So like the first three years of
• 21:49
  his career, he didn't have a lot of wear and tear going.
• 21:52
  So I think he plays down to like a younger 29.
• 21:55
  So I could see a good five or six, maybe seven-year deal for
• 21:59
  him. But I'm, I'm curious to see how
• 22:02
  well the numbers go being in, you know, Milwaukee's kind of a
• 22:08
  a little bit of a box. So it's like now that we're
• 22:10
  expanding the outfield, we got a little bit more room in left
• 22:13
  field in Baltimore. It's like I'm interested to see
• 22:16
  where his numbers go, being able to probably keep the ball in the
• 22:20
  ballpark even more so. Yeah, I mean, I think what also
• 22:25
  is going to be interesting, you're right, like Baltimore,
• 22:28
  since they put the Great Wall in a Baltimore in in left field, it
• 22:31
  really has changed the dynamic for for pitchers and hitters at
• 22:34
  Camden Yards. So a guy like Burns, a guy that
• 22:38
  that is with a young exciting team, you brought up the age it
• 22:41
  just with a young team too. You're right.
• 22:43
  So if if he is feeling good, it just seems like it could be a
• 22:46
  perfect match. And I do think the Orioles will
• 22:48
  be aggressive to try to keep him, but if it doesn't work out,
• 22:51
  then you let him walk. And you know that is what it is.
• 22:55
  But I think Corbin Burns is still going to be a guy for
• 22:58
  years to come. And I think that people in the
• 23:01
  NL Central really understood how good he was.
• 23:04
  But maybe around baseball they that's why I'd say like I say
• 23:07
  top ten. But he really is to me when he's
• 23:09
  on, he is a top five pitcher. But I don't think people view
• 23:12
  him that way because of playing in Milwaukee.
• 23:15
  But now he's going to have the chance.
• 23:16
  You were going to go against and I was going to make you feel
• 23:19
  good, Nate. But you know, DeSoto and Judge,
• 23:23
  those are two in my mind, two of the top five hitters in baseball
• 23:26
  and you, as far as what they're capable.
• 23:27
  Of doing in top 10. Yeah, so like you're going to go
• 23:32
  again. You're going against guys
• 23:34
  consistently in the American League East and and for the
• 23:37
  Orioles, they need a guy like that.
• 23:40
  And if he shoves it against some of the best players in the
• 23:42
  world, which I expect him to to be great.
• 23:45
  We're going to hear the the drum beat louder for Corbin Burns.
• 23:48
  But if it does, we thought Blake Snell was getting a big contract
• 23:52
  this offseason. Whenever it is Corbin, Burns is
• 23:54
  gonna be through the damn roof. I feel like Corbin's got to be
• 23:58
  excited at the prospect of having AI mean I we we know how
• 24:02
  the Oriole season finished last year, but I would imagine he's
• 24:05
  got to be excited about the prospect of having a realistic
• 24:09
  chance to play for a team that's destined for.
• 24:13
  The. NLCS.
• 24:15
  Primed. A capped like the Brewers.
• 24:18
  Nobody's expecting or nobody has really placed the Brewers in
• 24:22
  that World Series conversation. But the Orioles with the moves
• 24:25
  they made and and now that he's joining this team making them
• 24:27
  that much better to know that you have A and I that that has
• 24:31
  to play into contract extension talks like you were like you're
• 24:35
  alluding. To Well, you knew it was a dead
• 24:36
  end in Milwaukee. You know the arbitration, you
• 24:39
  could tell and that's it's the business side of it.
• 24:41
  But your feelings can get hurt. And obviously, he didn't like
• 24:44
  the business of the way that Milwaukee went about it, and
• 24:46
  some organizations are better at handling that than other.
• 24:49
  But for those that don't know about arbitration, it's step.
• 24:51
  It's essentially you're arguing why you're why you should get
• 24:55
  paid this much, and the team's trying to tell you why you
• 24:57
  shouldn't get paid that much like that.
• 24:59
  That's the argument. It's a weird.
• 25:01
  Stupidest system in. Yeah, like so and so like you're
• 25:04
  trying to break down and I think they even said, you know, Corbin
• 25:07
  said that the Brewers were saying, well, you know, not
• 25:10
  blaming him for the reason why they lost games, but they could
• 25:12
  have won more if he had done more.
• 25:13
  And it's like, well, yeah, that's a bold statement here.
• 25:16
  I think like, you know, and so overall the business of it,
• 25:22
  Corbin Burns could have an opportunity.
• 25:23
  And again, we just mentioned that playing the AL East, this
• 25:27
  is a great chance to showcase his skills And you are with the
• 25:30
  team now where like I said, it's a contagious energy.
• 25:34
  You heard about team people coming to Baltimore last year of
• 25:36
  saying, you know, Kyle Gibson has been around a lot of teams.
• 25:39
  He said it was a very exciting, brought his love for the game
• 25:43
  back. It's a very hungry group and
• 25:45
  they're very passionate and right now you feel like the
• 25:47
  window for the Baltimore Orioles is now open and and like we
• 25:51
  said, this is a a window. You don't think it's a one year
• 25:54
  thing. So you can definitely try to
• 25:55
  convince him. But again, money talks, and that
• 26:00
  will be another conversation that's gonna have to be had,
• 26:02
  because the Orioles do have a lot of guys that they're going
• 26:06
  to have to consider. That's, that's what I was going
• 26:08
  to say, like list of priority wise, you know what I mean?
• 26:10
  You have Gunner, you have Holiday, you have Adly, you have
• 26:13
  guys that are going to need money and it's like you know how
• 26:18
  much seniority is going to come into play now with A1 guy that's
• 26:22
  front of the rotation. And you talk about Grayson, you
• 26:25
  talk about Bradish, like you talk about guys that are going
• 26:28
  to be core guys. It's like it's hard to imagine
• 26:33
  forking over money to Corbin Burns first when you still have
• 26:36
  those guys that are obviously fan favorites and home grown.
• 26:40
  Oh yeah, well the other part of it too is you brought up Gunner
• 26:42
  and Jackson who is their agent Mr. Scott Boris.
• 26:49
  So if you think anyone and people were saying it takes two
• 26:52
  to tango here. By the way the Orioles Michael
• 26:55
  is even was asked about that in the past like how many times
• 26:57
  have you reached out to Scott Boris so like well multiple
• 27:01
  times you know a week a day you know and and he's going to get
• 27:05
  the most out of it So it it's going to be a process here.
• 27:09
  The one guy you guys heard me talk about Gunner Henderson
• 27:11
  ain't going anywhere. Like I will I will tackle Gunner
• 27:14
  from leaving Baltimore if I have to because I truly do believe
• 27:18
  when it's all said and done I've watched this this is a bold
• 27:20
  claim they've had. They have statues outside of
• 27:22
  Camden Yards. If he resigns in Baltimore he's
• 27:25
  going to be the next one to have a statue out there.
• 27:27
  That's just how high I am on Gunner Henderson.
• 27:30
  The kids different. He's special and and as good as
• 27:34
  he was last year, it's not even close to as good as he can be
• 27:37
  and that's scary. Let's let's switch gears here.
• 27:42
  As as much as I know Ryan would love to talk OS for the next,
• 27:47
  well, you you probably are for it.
• 27:49
  Once you hop off with us, you're probably going to be talking OS
• 27:53
  for the rest of the day because. We talking some other I, I, I
• 27:56
  love just talking shop in general guys.
• 27:58
  Doesn't have to be about the Orioles.
• 28:00
  Come on. You know, last year we talked
• 28:02
  about whatever, but you guys just claim that I'm the
• 28:04
  Baltimore guy. You know you are.
• 28:07
  You are Baltimore Rye. Well, I like that.
• 28:10
  And honestly, like if there ever was a time to tacos, this would
• 28:12
  be the time to. Do it now.
• 28:14
  But let's put a let's put a bow on this Bobby Witt talk.
• 28:17
  Some more details are coming in. Jeff Passan followed up his
• 28:20
  announcement tweet saying that his deal with the Royals has opt
• 28:26
  out after the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th years of his 11 year
• 28:30
  contract. He says it also includes a
• 28:32
  three-year club option that can take the total value of the deal
• 28:36
  to 14 years and 377.7 million. OK, so it popped out after the
• 28:42
  9th year. 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th years.
• 28:46
  So 303132. Oh wow.
• 28:52
  I really like that deal even more for Bobby.
• 28:55
  But it is back loaded to say hey we got we got three more years
• 29:00
  for you taking you into 3637 years old which we've seen now
• 29:05
  baseball now it's like the later free agents those guys are not
• 29:08
  getting multi year deals. It's a, you know, they're lucky
• 29:12
  to have two year deal at 34, so this is a smart deal on both
• 29:17
  sides. I like it.
• 29:18
  And I like the creativity. You saw that with Julio
• 29:20
  Rodriguez as far as the creativity for the incentives
• 29:23
  and the years and the options for Bobby Witt.
• 29:26
  And if it is 7, he'll be 3031. And in that case, we saw Manny
• 29:31
  Machado last year get another $300 million or 350, whatever it
• 29:34
  is. Manny's feeling good, by the
• 29:36
  way. That's like, what, $650 million
• 29:38
  over his last two contracts? Not bad but that's something
• 29:42
  that's going to be appealing. So Bobby would one way or
• 29:44
  another is going to be in a really good position.
• 29:47
  I I want to see teams do more of that and for the Royals you talk
• 29:51
  about having your I know they're spending more but I think we're
• 29:53
  all in agreement you you got to lock up your guys at some point.
• 29:57
  The dude just hit 30 jacks last year, you know, and the and the
• 30:00
  best is probably still yet to come for Bobby Witt.
• 30:02
  So it's. He's a walking 3030 guy.
• 30:05
  Yeah, for sure. Agreed.
• 30:08
  He just tweeted out the jiff from Wolf of Wall Street where
• 30:11
  he says I'm not leaving Little. Handshake emoji.
• 30:15
  Little. Handshake emoji and tagged the
• 30:18
  Royals and said I'm not leaving. Love that friend of the pod,
• 30:21
  Bobby Witt. There was a tweet as I'm just
• 30:24
  scrolling through the timeline here.
• 30:25
  There was a tweet from Danny Vietti, a good follow, he said.
• 30:31
  Bobby Witt Junior will be in Kansas City for the next decade.
• 30:34
  Julio Rodriguez, who we just mentioned, will be in Seattle
• 30:36
  for the next decade. Fernando Tatis Junior will be in
• 30:39
  San Diego for the next decade and Corbin Care will be in
• 30:42
  Arizona for nearly the next decade, he said.
• 30:44
  This is great for baseball. And I have to agree 100%.
• 30:48
  Yeah, I I would like. I think when we see around other
• 30:51
  professional sports where guys are jumping, stars are jumping
• 30:55
  from team, not just because of how the structure is in the NFL,
• 30:59
  some of your stars stay, but after five years, you move on
• 31:02
  the shelf. Life's different, right?
• 31:03
  NBA, It feels like people are like, Yep, I want to get traded
• 31:06
  and you go somewhere else. I love that people can get
• 31:09
  traded. To think going to other places
• 31:11
  and free agency is exciting, but man, isn't it also great to have
• 31:16
  guys have roots in the cities and players then can?
• 31:20
  That's like the loyalty of fan bases.
• 31:22
  They love seeing the loyalty from players.
• 31:25
  I think your family has has a little bit of a a connection to
• 31:30
  that a loyalty logic. So I no I mean I I definitely
• 31:34
  agree last last last episode we I was just talking about how I
• 31:37
  hate one year deals and like I understand this part of the
• 31:40
  business especially as guys get later in their career but it
• 31:43
  it's just hard and I use Justin Turner as an example.
• 31:45
  It's hard for me to get excited over a guy like Justin Turner
• 31:48
  knowing and I said it before I said it last year I said he's
• 31:51
  not going to be here after next year and sure enough he goes to
• 31:54
  Toronto which we'll touch on. But it's I I like especially
• 31:58
  when these young guys can get locked down and they're they
• 32:02
  want to stick around for the long haul and you know now that
• 32:05
  you've got teams like the Royals you've got teams like the D
• 32:07
  backs locking down the young talent it goes back to the OS
• 32:11
  There's no excuse for the Orioles to they can't say well
• 32:14
  we're one of these smaller market teams we we don't have
• 32:16
  the luxury of locking these these big stars that's the press
• 32:20
  young stars. Yeah, they they.
• 32:21
  There's no excuse for them now because you're going to tell me
• 32:24
  that the D backs are any different.
• 32:26
  You're going to tell me that the Royals are like, no, the Orioles
• 32:29
  need to go out and lock their guys down well.
• 32:31
  I think it the biggest thing for me, I I genuinely think there's
• 32:35
  going to be some type of restructure with our next
• 32:37
  agreement. I think there's going to be a
• 32:39
  divisional restructure. There's going to be teams moved
• 32:42
  around in different divisions. I think we're going to see some
• 32:44
  new stuff and a lot of these young guys, their second-half of
• 32:47
  the contract could look very different.
• 32:50
  Bobby Witt may no longer be in the AL Central with some of
• 32:53
  these, you know, Tigers and Twins and things.
• 32:55
  It's going to be different. So I'm interested to see what
• 32:59
  these guys look like in their prime when baseball potentially
• 33:02
  has an entirely different look. Yeah, baseball's made a lot of
• 33:06
  changes, obviously, you know, and and overall, even though if
• 33:11
  if people had reservations about it, it's been for popularity.
• 33:15
  It went well this year, like as far as the pitch clock and
• 33:17
  there's still things that have to be worked out, right?
• 33:19
  There's still certain components.
• 33:23
  I'm really curious about the playoff systems if the
• 33:24
  realignments there's there's so many other things that you are
• 33:29
  going to have to to see unfold. But one thing that I do think is
• 33:32
  great again it's if you're talking to brand branding
• 33:34
  players of the franchise and bringing that excitement about,
• 33:38
  I think that that's that to me, you're right.
• 33:40
  Is is so exciting. I think for baseball for so
• 33:42
  long. If you look back in the early
• 33:43
  2000s and 90s and these rivalries, you can look back at
• 33:47
  some of these legendary players playing with these teams and
• 33:50
  having these legendary battles with rivals.
• 33:52
  So that's the only thing I don't when they read I I'm with you,
• 33:55
  Nate. Something's coming.
• 33:57
  But I hope in the process it allows for just these great
• 34:00
  storylines and memories because that's another part of sports is
• 34:05
  those those storylines mean a lot and they can even the the
• 34:09
  and players love that too. You talk, we talk about the
• 34:11
  Yankees, Red Sox, they love that.
• 34:13
  The Yankees, Orioles, back in the the 90s.
• 34:15
  I remember my dad talking about it.
• 34:17
  They used to live for those moments.
• 34:19
  So I I never want baseball to lose that type of feeling
• 34:23
  because those are stuff that those are things that you
• 34:26
  sometimes can't even. It's generational.
• 34:28
  Can't quantify. Yeah.
• 34:30
  Yeah. Exactly.
• 34:33
  Let's let's transition here. Justin Turner as I mentioned
• 34:39
  signs a one year deal worth $13 million with the Toronto Blue
• 34:43
  Jays can make an additional one and a half million in bonuses.
• 34:49
  Had a had a strong year in Boston and I think that's that's
• 34:54
  a big a big yeah. I mean, I.
• 34:56
  Hate the fit? He he was sought after from by
• 35:01
  by teams that were looking to add a I'm going to say power
• 35:06
  bat. I mean he's he's definitely not
• 35:09
  top tier in that regard but he's gonna he's gonna give you some
• 35:11
  production and stays within the division.
• 35:16
  But to your point, I'm not. It's there.
• 35:19
  There have so many guys that are gonna have to rotate through DH
• 35:23
  and and he's gonna play maybe what, 4050 games at third base
• 35:27
  Max if he has a full healthy year.
• 35:30
  I mean, you're. Talking about flat, needing to
• 35:32
  float in at DH, you have George Springer needing to float in at
• 35:35
  DH. Like you have guys that you're
• 35:38
  going to have to rotate through that spot and and that infield
• 35:42
  is just suddenly looking more and more unathletic if he's
• 35:46
  playing that often. He can provide you help at third
• 35:50
  he even he he plugged in at second there for a bit in
• 35:54
  Boston. So I mean he he can at least
• 35:56
  give you that but with another year under his belt I I don't
• 35:59
  know if the willingness to plug him in at 2nd is going to be
• 36:02
  there for the Blue Jays. So it's it's going to get pretty
• 36:05
  log jam pretty quick. Well, and usually we're talking
• 36:08
  about pitchers, the longevity that they have because of what
• 36:11
  they're being asked to do. It's not the same can be said
• 36:15
  for for position players, and usually it's more DH work.
• 36:18
  If guys play into their late 30s and 40s like Justin Turner's
• 36:21
  doing, he can still swing it and they don't really care as much
• 36:25
  about the defensive component. But because of that he's
• 36:28
  probably, he's more limited than he used to be.
• 36:31
  Still very still a very good player that can contribute with
• 36:35
  the bat, there's no doubt about it.
• 36:36
  But a lot of teams like you brought up Nate want versatility
• 36:39
  and that's going to be something they're going to have to deal
• 36:41
  with like you know in Baltimore because I can just bring it up
• 36:44
  with it. The Orioles like to rotate their
• 36:46
  DH spot and JD Martinez, as I feel like, has been like the
• 36:50
  since Nelson Cruz and David Ortiz have have come and gone,
• 36:54
  JD Martinez has become that DH. Really, you don't feel bad about
• 36:57
  having that guy play every single day because of what he's
• 37:00
  capable of doing. Other guys like the Orioles were
• 37:03
  like, we didn't want to give it that spot you.
• 37:05
  Look at the Yankees having, having to having to beat like
• 37:08
  it's one hand tied on your back. Having Stanton locked in at DH,
• 37:11
  you can't rotate. And if that guy has a down year,
• 37:14
  it's like what do you do? So it's a different it's apples
• 37:18
  and oranges, just contractually just because it's a one year
• 37:22
  deal. And Justin Turner isn't that
• 37:23
  expensive, but it's still it just it pigeonholes you a little
• 37:27
  bit. Well, it shows that the Blue
• 37:28
  Jays are still in, you know, they're still in on winning
• 37:30
  right now and they do have a team like I thought last year,
• 37:33
  guys. I think the Blue Jays to me,
• 37:35
  were my my pick to win the division going into the season
• 37:38
  because of the team that they had, you know, and then it
• 37:42
  didn't pan out. And here you are again where the
• 37:44
  window is closing little by little and they're proving
• 37:48
  they're showing. Hey, he can play.
• 37:50
  We want to go get him. We're going to still take a
• 37:52
  crack at this. But I'm with you.
• 37:54
  I don't know what the long term thing is.
• 37:55
  It's the short term. Maybe it's a great year in
• 37:57
  Toronto, but long term wise, is this something that's going to
• 38:01
  help the Blue Jays? No, it's not.
• 38:03
  Justin Turner's getting close to the end of his career.
• 38:04
  It's been a great career. But Toronto?
• 38:09
  Yeah, go. Ahead do we have a Matt Chapman
• 38:10
  pick? Now that this is that ERA is
• 38:14
  done like a landing spot pick. Would would like San Francisco
• 38:21
  be an option? Yeah, weren't the Giants kind of
• 38:24
  at the top of that list, at least for the time being?
• 38:27
  I feel like San Francisco, they feel like all the the reports or
• 38:30
  or talks from San Francisco, they feel like they just missed
• 38:34
  out over and over again this offseason, right?
• 38:36
  So it feels like they got to do something. 3 offseasons, yeah.
• 38:38
  Yeah, I was going to say beyond just this year.
• 38:41
  Well, in some cases one of them might have worked out but for
• 38:44
  not getting involved with it. But they they they're trying to
• 38:47
  change their culture around too. And they got a it's a solid
• 38:49
  organization solid team. But that that to me would be the
• 38:53
  pick. If he goes that, that'd be me,
• 38:55
  that'd be my I'm. Gonna steal that too.
• 38:58
  I like that. Regarding personnel moves, I
• 39:04
  mean there's there's been some other small one year deals some
• 39:10
  some acquisitions here and there but we'll we'll maybe save those
• 39:16
  for another time. Other big news, Theo Epstein
• 39:21
  returning to Boston, there you go, there you go as it as it
• 39:25
  were he is joining, let me make sure I got this right.
• 39:30
  He's returning to the organization as a as a minority
• 39:33
  owner with Fenway Sports Group. So in effect stepping down from
• 39:39
  his role with Major League Baseball, which I think was
• 39:43
  forgotten in in this, in this news, like Red Sox fans like, Oh
• 39:47
  yeah, we got our guy back. But baseball fans as as a whole,
• 39:53
  I would think, should be like a little bit disappointed not
• 39:56
  having that guy around the MLB offices anymore.
• 39:59
  Because he clearly he's shown you that he can change whatever
• 40:03
  organization or whatever mission that he undertakes.
• 40:08
  For the for the better and the fact that he's no longer in the
• 40:11
  offices. I I feel like is a is a hit for
• 40:14
  or a hit against Major League Baseball.
• 40:17
  But I'm, as I mentioned, Red Sox fans thrilled to have Theo back.
• 40:22
  Unfortunately, I don't think it matters.
• 40:24
  I think this is just another one of their many PR moves where
• 40:29
  they're just trying to keep the fan base.
• 40:31
  Well, they're not. They're not trying to keep them
• 40:32
  happy, but they're trying to make them happy again.
• 40:36
  Because every lull in between these PR moves, it's just Red
• 40:39
  Sox fans being completely and utterly pissed off.
• 40:43
  Right. If you couldn't tell, It's just
• 40:44
  like a scab that he just keeps peeling off.
• 40:47
  Every time it starts to heal he peels it off and you see the
• 40:50
  blood coming out a little bit. Now you know some teams sign a
• 40:54
  or trade for you know, like a a massive superstar left-handed
• 40:57
  bat. Some teams trade for an ace in
• 40:59
  the rotation and some teams just bring back a glory days front
• 41:03
  office guy who. OK, let's not chalk up Theo
• 41:06
  Epstein is some like some for the good times.
• 41:11
  For the memories. Acquisition like Theo Epstein.
• 41:14
  Is Theo Epstein still? He's not going to have a 980 OPS
• 41:17
  in the middle of the lineup, I know that.
• 41:18
  Much he's not. But maybe, just maybe, he can
• 41:22
  get in the ears of those other guys and say, hey, I can't do
• 41:25
  it, I can't have a 980 OPS, but let's go out and get a guy.
• 41:28
  Maybe that can. Maybe.
• 41:30
  Let's hope not. Likely I'm not.
• 41:32
  I'm not. I'm not holding.
• 41:33
  The Mookie would have been great to keep, but you know.
• 41:37
  Yeah, imagine having that guy on your team, like that guy you
• 41:40
  would never let walk away, right?
• 41:42
  I mean. Just I I do.
• 41:44
  I do take a time when people were like, you ever take a
• 41:46
  moment to think about what the Red Sox had?
• 41:49
  I do that from time to time and I'll be like.
• 41:51
  Oh, thanks. Thanks.
• 41:52
  Ryan, I know, I know, it's more for you.
• 41:54
  But I'm sitting there like, man, I look and I keep seeing I go,
• 41:56
  man, Mookie's still a top five player overall.
• 41:59
  This is what happened. But I'm like, wait a minute,
• 42:02
  wow, They were on the Red Sox, all those guys.
• 42:05
  It's three in the morning. Ryan sits up in a cold sweat.
• 42:08
  Look. At this movie.
• 42:10
  'S gonna be in LA for a long time.
• 42:11
  Yeah, Red Sox really missed out on this guy.
• 42:14
  Yep, Yep, it's all. Good.
• 42:19
  No, it's all right, man. I'm, I'm.
• 42:21
  I hate to say it, but I the last year, year and a half, I feel
• 42:26
  like I've felt myself evolve more into just like a general
• 42:29
  baseball fan. I'm still a Red Sox fan.
• 42:31
  I'm not gonna just completely walk away from the organization,
• 42:34
  but as a result of them, just completely other baseball.
• 42:40
  Yeah, and it's been fun. And Silverline, on that note,
• 42:44
  like last year for example, it was a blast watching the OS do
• 42:46
  what they did and being able to catch a few games here and there
• 42:49
  like that was that was a good time.
• 42:51
  So I joking aside I'm not like yeah it sucks that our our big
• 42:55
  signing of the year is Theo Epstein and it's in the
• 42:59
  ownership group. It's not even like bringing him
• 43:01
  in directly into the the front office if you will.
• 43:04
  He's not like taking over his GM.
• 43:07
  So that's our that's our big news this offseason.
• 43:09
  But so tough it is what it is. I've I'm in like the what is it?
• 43:15
  The seven stages of of grief or whatever.
• 43:18
  I don't even know where I'm at. I'm somewhere.
• 43:20
  I'm somewhere in the middle. It could be a great year.
• 43:22
  It really could. And you're a good kid, Kyle.
• 43:24
  Keep your head up. Thanks.
• 43:25
  Thanks Ryan. I really needed that pick me up.
• 43:27
  I appreciate you. It wouldn't be the IT wouldn't
• 43:31
  be a three O take episode if we didn't talk about some jersey
• 43:35
  adjustments or reveals or leaks or whatever you want to call it.
• 43:39
  Let me let me send this to you guys so you have it.
• 43:42
  It's possible leak to the Philly city connect unis and from what
• 43:50
  I can recall I don't believe that any leak has ever missed
• 43:53
  like I'm pretty sure every image that we've had come out in one
• 43:58
  in one capacity or another hasn't it's ended up being that
• 44:03
  jersey So if that if that holds true we're looking at these
• 44:09
  being the the Philly city connects and if you don't if you
• 44:11
  haven't seen them yet just do a quick Google search Philly city
• 44:14
  connects we got a like a weird gradient going on how do how do
• 44:19
  we feel about this you. Know what it's?
• 44:24
  Your ass. Yeah, I I don't.
• 44:25
  I don't think. I don't know.
• 44:27
  Come on, Ryan, say. Just say it with your chest.
• 44:30
  Nate has no issue doing that. Just.
• 44:32
  This is ass how? Is this supposed to be the
• 44:35
  Phillies? Yeah, it looks like a.
• 44:40
  The team that literally has red as essentially their only color?
• 44:46
  Yeah, they got a little bit of blue, but.
• 44:49
  Well, they'll have like they do have, like the throwback has
• 44:52
  like you know the the blue, obviously, but like this to me.
• 44:55
  You're reaching careful. Did you stretch before you
• 44:58
  reached? No, I didn't.
• 45:01
  But but my my point I guess where I was going with this is
• 45:05
  but this. We'll just keep it short and
• 45:06
  sweet. Yeah, I I'm not a fan.
• 45:09
  Not a fan. These are horrendous.
• 45:12
  This is terrible. What?
• 45:16
  Who's been interviewing these candidates at Nike and who's
• 45:20
  actually giving them jobs? That's what I want to know.
• 45:22
  What? Connection is this to this city?
• 45:27
  They started out pretty like the the the the campaign.
• 45:30
  I'll say started out pretty well in terms of connecting to the
• 45:33
  city, but now we're just throwing together an alternate
• 45:36
  and shipping it out. With Brewers colors.
• 45:40
  Yeah, I honestly that was that's a great.
• 45:41
  I was trying to think about it and why didn't I that that if
• 45:44
  you told me that's the Milwaukee Brewers go like oh OK, I'm in.
• 45:47
  I'm in on that Philly out couldn't couldn't be further out
• 45:50
  the door on it to be honest. It's garbage.
• 45:53
  It's hey, but somebody's going to like it.
• 45:55
  Someone will buy it and if it makes them happy, Kyle, I'm
• 45:58
  happy, but I will not buy it. Atrocious Spring Training hats
• 46:05
  just dropped today. Ass How?
• 46:12
  How do they keep getting worse? I hate.
• 46:15
  These tell me what about this? OK, let's just rule out the ones
• 46:18
  that are garbage. Houston garbage 2A2 tone.
• 46:24
  I'm assuming I'm seeing that correctly.
• 46:26
  A 2 tone orange hat going with like the Creamsicle look
• 46:30
  garbage. Five of them are yellow, five of
• 46:34
  them are orange. What can we?
• 46:37
  Get yellow other parts of the color wheel.
• 46:40
  Yellow ones are garbage, especially the Rays.
• 46:42
  That's garbage D backs. While I don't see that as like
• 46:48
  an on something I'd wear on field, the look of it Solid
• 46:55
  Rangers big fan, Jays big fan. I like the Cubs one.
• 47:01
  The real talk here are the Nash Are we seeing a shift away from
• 47:06
  the Curly W? Slowly but surely, because that
• 47:11
  that is full on senators. Couldn't Gear could be
• 47:16
  rebranded? Who?
• 47:17
  Who knows? You know, it's.
• 47:22
  The Rockies just don't like to participate in these types of
• 47:24
  things, you know? The rock.
• 47:27
  Look at your look in the mirror, Nate.
• 47:29
  What did the Yankees do? Yankees haven't participated in
• 47:31
  any kind of creativity when it comes to the.
• 47:34
  The Rockies at least went with a purple lid.
• 47:37
  The Yankees, I I saw, I saw a comment on the post and it was
• 47:41
  the Yankees realizing that the deadline was due today, and then
• 47:43
  they just threw that out there. That's exactly what happened.
• 47:47
  Same with the Reds. Ryan, would you, would you buy
• 47:50
  an O spring training hat? All orange.
• 47:54
  Yeah, I don't know. I I maybe I'm just, I was told
• 47:58
  now that I'm not playing, don't wear hats as much because it
• 48:00
  pushes your hairline up. So I'm trying.
• 48:03
  I'm trying to wear less hats. It's not going.
• 48:06
  To I'm trying to fight that dude.
• 48:07
  I'm. Turning into this.
• 48:08
  Side I'm on this side of 30 now I'm trying to trying to do what
• 48:12
  I can to to keep. That I mean, the hat's, the
• 48:14
  hat's a good look. I love.
• 48:15
  I love wearing the hat, The orange one, if it was given to
• 48:18
  me. Absolutely, You know, But I'm
• 48:21
  gonna just try to force myself to not buy any hats or get a
• 48:25
  hat, because. It's a It's like a year and a
• 48:29
  half. We're getting up there.
• 48:31
  It took like a year and a half to finally get the three O take
• 48:33
  hat to Ryan back in October. And then it came, most seasoned
• 48:37
  while I was there. His.
• 48:38
  First appearance on the pod doesn't wear it and then informs
• 48:41
  us that he's actively seeking less hats.
• 48:46
  Well, OK. When I'm.
• 48:47
  Because I on certain things, when I'm out doing the pregame
• 48:50
  show, Yeah, I'll wear a hat. It's sunny.
• 48:51
  Things are going on. Yeah.
• 48:52
  So I'm like, on this, I'm not going to wear a hat like you
• 48:55
  guys do. And I tell people when I do the
• 48:57
  Ryan Ripken show, I'm like, hey, don't wear a hat.
• 48:59
  Show your face. You know, it's OK.
• 49:03
  But some of. Us aren't as pretty.
• 49:04
  Yeah, we're not as handsome as you around.
• 49:06
  I don't know about that. That's the reality of it.
• 49:08
  It's compliment. But did I not rock the three O
• 49:10
  Take Hat during the pregame show?
• 49:12
  You did, man. That was the show's big time.
• 49:14
  Pregame show had my glasses on like my 70s disco glasses from
• 49:18
  the wedding the night before. We were having a time, we're
• 49:21
  having a time and I was rocking the hat proudly.
• 49:23
  I was a big fan. I was.
• 49:24
  I'm glad I finally got one from you guys.
• 49:27
  Much appreciated. Finally being keyword.
• 49:31
  Finally, finally, after a year and a half, anything else we
• 49:34
  need to cover before we get into our?
• 49:35
  Biggest disappointment is the Reds not having Mustache Guy on
• 49:38
  there. What are we doing that's Mr.
• 49:40
  Mustache belongs? They've had that in the past.
• 49:42
  Yeah, like, what are we doing? That's that's the only time you
• 49:46
  don't need anything else. How about the Twins going off
• 49:49
  the radar? I can't find them.
• 49:54
  They're up top. What is that?
• 49:56
  Minnesota. Saint Paul.
• 49:57
  I mean it's different. I'm.
• 49:59
  I'm here for it as a spring training hat.
• 50:00
  The cubby is going with the bear.
• 50:02
  The Royals just, I mean, that's a clean lid.
• 50:05
  I don't care if spring Training or not, that's.
• 50:06
  The Mariners one is super clean with the black bill.
• 50:09
  That is or blue. Bill blooms blue.
• 50:12
  Yeah, either. Way that's it.
• 50:15
  Anything else we missed before we get into our Little
• 50:17
  Unbreakable Records segment that I know Ryan is just thrilled
• 50:21
  about? Thrilled Well.
• 50:25
  I mean, right. OK, hear me out.
• 50:27
  Hear me out. Yeah, I I I texted you before
• 50:31
  the episode. I said, hey, this is, this is
• 50:33
  the unbreakable record we're looking at.
• 50:35
  You hit me immediately with a single throwing up emoji.
• 50:40
  That's correct. Now put yourself in my put
• 50:43
  yourself in my shoes. Knowing that this is, many would
• 50:48
  argue, the most unbreakable record, What other time would we
• 50:53
  cover this other than the the one time a year we get you on?
• 50:58
  It seems like whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa.
• 51:00
  Whoa, no. OK, Don't, don't, don't you do
• 51:03
  that. We just talked about we're going
• 51:04
  to talk more and more. You guys have a different all
• 51:08
  seasons. That's the goal.
• 51:09
  That's a little goal for. Yeah, yeah.
• 51:11
  Yeah. That's, that's from the.
• 51:13
  Raptors That's on me. I got I got enough crap on on my
• 51:17
  own show from guys that do not need that from you pal.
• 51:19
  Let's that hurts. Let's let's rewind that.
• 51:23
  All right, I take it back. I take it back.
• 51:25
  I I I said no such thing. You're right.
• 51:27
  That's our goal for 2024 more episodes to gather more content,
• 51:30
  more meetups that that it's happening.
• 51:32
  So what? What would you like me to talk
• 51:34
  about that streak record? It's not.
• 51:39
  I'm not. I'm not like, flipping this
• 51:41
  segment to you being like, hey Ryan, teach us about the I you
• 51:45
  were on and you you just happened to share the same last
• 51:48
  name. So I thought, well, if we're
• 51:50
  gonna, if we're gonna cover it, why not just cover it when
• 51:53
  Ryan's on? Fair enough.
• 51:55
  Let's do it. I mean, would you rather talk
• 51:58
  about Hack Wilson's RBI single season record from like, the
• 52:02
  1800s? No, I wouldn't.
• 52:04
  And I think, well, the reason why I'm glad I'm on for this
• 52:05
  because I think you had a stat for something that involved with
• 52:08
  me. So, yes, well.
• 52:10
  Oh yeah. Well, I mean, we can just lead
• 52:12
  off with that. So I.
• 52:13
  Don't disrespect my boy hack either, by the way.
• 52:15
  Yeah, sorry. As many of you all know Cal
• 52:17
  Ripken streak of 2632 games. In the midst of that, our very
• 52:25
  own Ryan Ripken was born and conveniently just happened to
• 52:30
  be, on an off day. Yeah, So for the back story of
• 52:33
  that, yes, I don't remember it, but I do understand it was an
• 52:37
  off day because the Orioles are going to go play in Toronto and
• 52:41
  wouldn't have been if if I was born during the season or sorry
• 52:46
  like during a regular season game scheduled.
• 52:50
  You know, my dad would have probably missed the game and
• 52:53
  we'd could you imagine if I was the reason why the streak ended,
• 52:56
  You know, that would have been brutal.
• 52:59
  So it. Hold on, has this not like sort
• 53:03
  of jokes aside, but sort of joking?
• 53:05
  Has this not been addressed? Like, have you not heard for
• 53:09
  certain whether or not it would have been a missed game or not?
• 53:13
  I know that my dad, which I appreciate, wanted to be there
• 53:16
  for my birth. You know, he wanted to be there
• 53:18
  and of course that was going to push the really hard decisions
• 53:23
  and the if the decision was to be there for the the birth of
• 53:29
  me, that might have caused and ruffled some feathers there.
• 53:33
  So I'm glad we don't have to. We never had the answer.
• 53:35
  Yeah, you would. Have been doing from the start.
• 53:37
  I mean, I'm, I, I, you know, in some cases, you know, I was.
• 53:40
  But I'm glad, not for that reason.
• 53:42
  I'm glad that he saw me get born.
• 53:44
  You know, in this, you know, they say like, you know, take a
• 53:47
  picture, kiss some babies, take a picture with me, kiss the baby
• 53:50
  me, and then get on a flight to Toronto.
• 53:52
  That's that's that's what happened.
• 53:54
  Does that make you feel better? The more interesting thing I
• 53:57
  would like to know is that if we rewind 9 months back on the
• 54:00
  conception, do you think that happened on an off day?
• 54:03
  You know what I mean if we're really digging into the.
• 54:05
  I mean, if this is a deep dive, we need to, we need some, we
• 54:09
  need some answers here Ryan, no. But but seriously, it think
• 54:13
  about it if you would. Have been When's your birthday?
• 54:16
  July 26th, 1993. All right.
• 54:20
  Shout out 93 babies. Let's go.
• 54:23
  If you seriously, if you would have been the reason the streak
• 54:26
  ended, Ryan, and we had you on this podcast right now, there'd
• 54:29
  be eggs hitting your window. I would imagine.
• 54:31
  Probably still 20 something years later.
• 54:35
  But people forget it is actually 28 years, like 20.
• 54:39
  It'll be 29 this year, man. Guys, you just you just like to
• 54:47
  bring up some moments. But no, I'm glad.
• 54:49
  I'm glad. October 26th, that's when it
• 54:50
  happened. That's when it went down, if
• 54:53
  we're right on nine months by the way.
• 54:55
  Wild. Didn't think we'd be pulling out
• 54:58
  the the conception date on this pod, but I'm here.
• 55:01
  I just searched for you. I just wanted to be on record
• 55:04
  who who initially brought that up?
• 55:05
  That was not me. I I I hear you, I know.
• 55:09
  But thank you for for doing the math on on what year then I
• 55:13
  would have been conceived Nate. So might be not a problem I
• 55:16
  might need if. That's the reason you never join
• 55:17
  this podcast again. I'd.
• 55:19
  Again, it might be a good out record right now.
• 55:20
  Be like alright guys, let's where you see ya.
• 55:23
  I'm out. I'm out.
• 55:24
  Nate was the reason I did have a question for you, Ryan.
• 55:28
  I know I've said this already. Jokes aside, as as many baseball
• 55:33
  fans know, some may not. Ryan Minor was the guy who took
• 55:40
  the field in place of Calvin the day the streak ended.
• 55:44
  Have you had the chance to meet Ryan?
• 55:47
  Ryan. Ryan Miner was my manager in
• 55:51
  high A, so I got and unfortunately passed away.
• 55:56
  Lost a battle with cancer recently.
• 56:00
  Yeah, so he was the guy who replaced my dad on the streak or
• 56:03
  dad on the streak. And I feel bad because that's a
• 56:05
  lot of expectations or people look at him for in that light.
• 56:09
  He's also stud basketball player at Oklahoma, like stud at
• 56:12
  Oklahoma, got drafted in the NBA, drafted in MLB, like the
• 56:16
  guy is amazing. And then what?
• 56:18
  It's just kind of funny how life works sometimes, right?
• 56:20
  Then you're able to, years later.
• 56:22
  He's my manager and, you know, it's kind of surreal, but he'd
• 56:27
  always joke about it. He's like, hey, if your dad ever
• 56:29
  needs someone to talk about the streak, I'll just go sit in the
• 56:32
  corner. He can point at me like, then
• 56:33
  this guy took over. He's the he's a gentle giant and
• 56:36
  he's like 686768 kept the light and I really wish he had more of
• 56:42
  a chance to see if he could have played every day when my dad got
• 56:45
  hurt a couple years later. Yeah it's funny how that works
• 56:48
  right. You know that happens he's a
• 56:50
  part of the history and then small world years later in 2019
• 56:53
  he's my manager and high A and yeah he he he helped me get my
• 56:59
  confidence back on the field and that's something that I can
• 57:02
  never thank him enough for. But it was.
• 57:04
  It's crazy. It's crazy when you think about
• 57:06
  life in in certain ways and where people that you thought
• 57:09
  might never people, in this case, people that are
• 57:12
  intertwined for more reasons than one, love it.
• 57:16
  Well Ryan, I know you got to you got to head out.
• 57:18
  So we'll, we'll cut you loose. But I appreciate you hopping on.
• 57:21
  And again, jokes aside, I thoroughly enjoy when the three
• 57:25
  of us can get together and talk to.
• 57:26
  You guys are saying you want to do it again?
• 57:30
  I'm down. If you would have us.
• 57:32
  If you would have us. I I would love to to be able to
• 57:36
  talk ball with you again. But again, if the conception
• 57:38
  thing was the last, draw that. Might that might have been the
• 57:40
  last draw. But you know what?
• 57:41
  Why don't we? Why don't we get that in the
• 57:42
  first? Thing So.
• 57:43
  People are going to hear it here.
• 57:44
  We're going to get this back on and you're going to see more of
• 57:47
  the three of us chopping it up. That's that's the guarantee.
• 57:50
  Boom, clip it. The best Adam's apple in the
• 57:52
  game. My goodness dude.
• 57:58
  That's a good thing, guys. Look at that chin.
• 58:02
  Chin me and you can me and you can do a show.
• 58:04
  A chin. Just count on it.
• 58:06
  All right, Ryan. Jawline of superheroes.
• 58:10
  Thanks, Nate. Much love Ryan?
• 58:12
  You bet dude. See ya.
• 58:13
  Talk soon. Is Ryan leaving the show?
• 58:23
  Oh, he's. Still, oh, I didn't know he's.
• 58:26
  Still gonna finish. You guys, bye.
• 58:28
  Love you, Ryan. See you, man.
• 58:33
  Oh, that's so good. Man, what a what a finish.
• 58:35
  So good you legitimately are gonna be the reason we never get
• 58:39
  Ryan. Back on this show again, you
• 58:40
  know I don't have a filter. I mean the conception thing was
• 58:45
  I I mean that's a great, it's a great question.
• 58:48
  Great. Point.
• 58:48
  You know what I mean? Juan, I would have probably
• 58:50
  asked in private October. 26th of 1992, that is.
• 58:56
  That is, after the postseason. OK.
• 58:59
  So that's maybe one I would have asked privately or just, you
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  know, talked about privately. It's just a simple math
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  question, but. Not only did you do that, then
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  you went on to talk about his Adam's apple.
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  He's never. I think it's a compliment.
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  He's never going to want to come on the show again.
• 59:12
  I think it's a compliment. Much love to Ryan.
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  Love having Ryan on here. I think he was like he he was
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  like, visibly upset that we had to talk about the streak.
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  Yeah, I don't think he's down. I think he just spent his whole
• 59:32
  life talking about it and everybody asks him about it, so
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  I could see why. So maybe he doesn't come back
• 59:40
  because of you. He's definitely not coming back
• 59:43
  with you that. Let's don't don't try to flip
• 59:45
  this on me. I don't know.
• 59:48
  No. I'm again, I'm not gonna like
• 59:50
  talk about that on another episode.
• 59:52
  You know it's. It's understandable, yeah.
• 59:56
  It's Let's just say the work ethic of the father has
• 59:58
  definitely been passed down to the son, 'cause that guy never
• 1:00:01
  takes a day off and he never has time for anything.
• 1:00:05
  That's why he has 1100 unread text messages.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah, he texted. He texted the group chat while
• 1:00:11
  we were recording and said, hey, I got AI got like 5 minutes I
• 1:00:14
  need to go so man stays busy. Anyway, just finishing up this
• 1:00:19
  streak talk. Where was I?
• 1:00:25
  Where did I leave off here? He played in 8002.
• 1:00:30
  See the the the interesting thing about this streak is that
• 1:00:35
  I think the people that don't really look into it, they just
• 1:00:41
  hear the number of games he played and assumed he played
• 1:00:44
  every inning of every game. It's not how that works.
• 1:00:48
  The game is official after what 5?
• 1:00:55
  Is that what it is? Has it changed?
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  I feel like as far as an appearance in being listed as a
• 1:01:01
  game has changed. Because the game, because I
• 1:01:06
  remember the night he broke the streak, it was official in the
• 1:01:10
  middle of the fifth, in the 5th. I think the game becomes
• 1:01:13
  official, as in like if weather happens and the game needs to
• 1:01:18
  end that we can officially call it.
• 1:01:21
  But an appearance in being listed in Baseball Reference as
• 1:01:24
  a game, I think is just making an appearance either in the
• 1:01:29
  field or at the plate. Because when you talk about guys
• 1:01:33
  that are like defensive substitutions, you're still
• 1:01:36
  being listed as a game. If you going in the 9th as a you
• 1:01:40
  know the sub in at shortstop but don't hit, that still counts as
• 1:01:43
  a game. So any type of appearance on the
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  field counts. Played in 8243 consecutive
• 1:01:55
  innings from June of 82 to 80, September of 87.
• 1:02:02
  That's a lot of baseball. I mean, forget the streak.
• 1:02:05
  That just Indians wise. That many in and of itself,
• 1:02:08
  8243. Divided by 162?
• 1:02:22
  No, that doesn't make any sense. Divided by 9, right?
• 1:02:29
  Divide that by 162, so that's almost.
• 1:02:34
  Six straight years, Yeah. 828384858687 Yeah.
• 1:02:39
  Almost six straight years of playing every inning.
• 1:02:45
  I think what's cool and I think my favorite part of this, and
• 1:02:49
  not to get like too sentimental or anything, but like, I think
• 1:02:52
  like growing up your dad was like, like, it's just cool to be
• 1:02:58
  like blue collar. He's in a blue collar city.
• 1:03:02
  Guys that just they show up, they go to work every day.
• 1:03:04
  And that's I think what was so cool about like the whole streak
• 1:03:08
  and growing up around the streak and like your dad coaching our
• 1:03:11
  team for so many years, like and your dad showed up to work every
• 1:03:15
  day, you know what I mean? It's just like it's a cool
• 1:03:17
  inspiration for that side of it and like take the baseball out
• 1:03:21
  of it, take the competitive, take the money out of it.
• 1:03:25
  It's like just showing up and doing anything every day,
• 1:03:28
  consistently, because that's your word.
• 1:03:32
  That, to me, is more impressive than anything.
• 1:03:36
  I agree. Yeah, I mean this, this streak I
• 1:03:41
  would say, and and Cal is a player, I think.
• 1:03:45
  I won't speak for you, but for me at least, was one of the one
• 1:03:49
  of the reasons on a very short list of why I fell in love with
• 1:03:52
  baseball, why I tried to model the way I approach the game as a
• 1:03:59
  kid. And and and into high school
• 1:04:01
  into College of just showing up and like it's certainly in high
• 1:04:07
  school college it's not a job but at at points it can feel
• 1:04:10
  like it but it's it's certainly no it's certainly no
• 1:04:13
  professional baseball I'll say that.
• 1:04:16
  But at the you can still approach it in the in a similar
• 1:04:18
  fashion like you can just say like this is what I've signed up
• 1:04:22
  to do. This is what I'm what I'm here
• 1:04:24
  to do, and I'm going to do it without, without making excuses
• 1:04:28
  as to why I can't do this or that.
• 1:04:30
  You just show up and do it. A grind is a grind is a grind.
• 1:04:33
  And whatever perspective you have on it, whatever your grind
• 1:04:36
  is in in your life, it's like to show up every day.
• 1:04:40
  It's it's tough, man. Like, that's insane.
• 1:04:43
  And I don't want to hear of like, though he's a professional
• 1:04:46
  athlete, like the amount of hotel trips and and buses and
• 1:04:50
  planes and it's like traveling sucks.
• 1:04:54
  So how often do we go on vacation?
• 1:04:56
  And we're like, yeah, I'm going to take Monday off, 'cause I
• 1:04:59
  don't want to go back to work right away, so like.
• 1:05:01
  There's people that sit at computers for 8 hours a day like
• 1:05:04
  crying about the fact that they don't have a three day weekend
• 1:05:07
  or something like. Exactly.
• 1:05:09
  Yeah, he's making money. But are are you doing really any
• 1:05:14
  professional athlete? Are you doing what they're
• 1:05:15
  doing? Are you capable of doing what
• 1:05:17
  they're doing? No.
• 1:05:18
  So let's just let's quiet that noise down going back to this
• 1:05:21
  inning streak though, this inning streak thing, did you
• 1:05:26
  learn something everyday? Did you know who replaced him to
• 1:05:30
  to kind of put a cap on that inning streak in in the middle
• 1:05:34
  of the streak? Was it not Ryan Minor?
• 1:05:38
  That No. No, no.
• 1:05:40
  That was who replaced him. Like once the game streak was
• 1:05:43
  over. But I'm talking about like the
• 1:05:44
  Indian streak. 8263 year stretch, No.
• 1:05:48
  Do you know who replaced him? Who?
• 1:05:51
  Ron Washington. Really.
• 1:05:54
  Yeah. Dude, baseball's awesome.
• 1:05:56
  What the heck I mean? How crazy is that?
• 1:05:58
  Baseball's awesome. I had no idea.
• 1:06:00
  I mean, I I knew the I knew the the Brian Miner thing.
• 1:06:04
  But Ron Washington? How about that?
• 1:06:10
  I got a another little nugget here.
• 1:06:12
  Only one Hall of Famer played his entire career within the
• 1:06:15
  confines of the streak. That would be Kirby Puckett, who
• 1:06:18
  debuted in 84 and retired after the 95 season.
• 1:06:27
  That's crazy. There's so many I, I there's.
• 1:06:30
  So many streaks like this. With streaks like this, I love
• 1:06:33
  that you you see all the time. Like what was the price of milk
• 1:06:37
  on? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:38
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:06:40
  And then like 20 year or however many years later it could being
• 1:06:43
  completely different like this. Superstar was this age or this
• 1:06:48
  was the president or like, yeah. And look, we can talk all we
• 1:06:53
  want about how steroids saved baseball.
• 1:06:57
  If you don't want to, if you don't want to fall in line or or
• 1:07:02
  or be a part of the camp that says that steroids saved
• 1:07:05
  baseball, you can very easily look to this as something that
• 1:07:11
  you know kept kept baseball afloat because people were
• 1:07:15
  tuning in. And you hear especially Orioles
• 1:07:19
  fans talk about how no matter how rough their day was, you
• 1:07:22
  know, blue collar workers, white collar, were alike.
• 1:07:26
  They're they're signing off at the end of a long work day and
• 1:07:30
  they're tuning in to watch the Orioles.
• 1:07:31
  They're tuning in to watch Cal do his thing and to see if he
• 1:07:36
  could do the unthinkable. And it was break Lou Gehrig
• 1:07:39
  streak and he went on to do that and not only kept baseball
• 1:07:43
  afloat, but I think inspired, inspired an approach that still
• 1:07:52
  I think is it's lacking. But I think without Cal, the
• 1:07:57
  game of baseball looks very different.
• 1:07:59
  Yeah. Because he showed that it could
• 1:08:02
  be done and that. 100%. You know you can.
• 1:08:05
  You can work through injuries. You you don't have to look very
• 1:08:07
  far. You don't have to look past Cal
• 1:08:09
  Ripken to say it can be done. Like guys can play through
• 1:08:12
  injuries and not only do that, but they can.
• 1:08:14
  They can succeed at it. Like, sure, he had.
• 1:08:16
  He had to take his bumps and bruises, but.
• 1:08:19
  Difference between hurt and injured and all those types of
• 1:08:22
  things, Yeah, and it's. Redefining all sorts of things.
• 1:08:25
  100% and it's just speaks to like everything that like a lot
• 1:08:28
  of sports are having issues with.
• 1:08:29
  It's particularly the the NBA. You know, teams are, you know,
• 1:08:34
  fans are spending money to go to tickets and and get tickets and
• 1:08:37
  watch these games and like to not see the superstar that you
• 1:08:40
  were wearing the jersey and you're going to the game 2C not
• 1:08:44
  playing. That was not an issue.
• 1:08:48
  So yeah, it's it's, I think the most impressive.
• 1:08:56
  It's my 1A, but that's my bias. Yeah, I know the last few
• 1:09:04
  unbreakable records we've looked into, we kind of close it being
• 1:09:07
  like, is this the most unbreakable?
• 1:09:09
  And I know I say that every time, like, yeah, is this the
• 1:09:11
  most unbreakable record? But I think it.
• 1:09:14
  Goes beyond numbers, It goes beyond performance.
• 1:09:17
  Yeah, like it's just, it's like willpower at that point.
• 1:09:21
  Just being able to get up that many days in a row, that many
• 1:09:25
  years in a row, and doing the same thing even after you've
• 1:09:30
  you've been beaten up the night before with with bruises and
• 1:09:34
  cuts and scrapes and tweaks and pulls it.
• 1:09:38
  It's just like I said that approach it it's lacking, but I
• 1:09:44
  think with the way that the world is shifting, I don't
• 1:09:47
  think. Yeah.
• 1:09:49
  You're you're I mean like you said with NBA we're seeing load
• 1:09:53
  management we're seeing guys and not necessarily going above and
• 1:09:57
  beyond what what they feel they're worth is and you see
• 1:10:01
  that just in the American workplace like not to get all
• 1:10:04
  like whatever but I I I just I don't see this ever happening
• 1:10:08
  again. That is certainly a dying breed
• 1:10:10
  and I I think Cal was the last guy that's ever going to do to
• 1:10:16
  put up that kind of number. So to your what?
• 1:10:19
  As you were saying, I think that's got to be one AI think
• 1:10:22
  it's got to be everybody's 1A with his.
• 1:10:24
  As insane as Ricky's numbers are and Nolan's records are,
• 1:10:29
  nobody's touching this. Agreed.
• 1:10:31
  Nobody's touching it. Agreed.
• 1:10:37
  That'll do it. Appreciate Ryan hopping on with
• 1:10:41
  us. I think we got through
• 1:10:45
  everything. I know you got to go.
• 1:10:46
  I feel like I kept you way too long.
• 1:10:48
  So we'll. Get out of here.
• 1:10:50
  But good, good chat today. Episode 411.
• 1:10:53
  In the books. We're gonna have to get to a.
• 1:10:58
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• 1:11:01
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• 1:11:03
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• 1:11:27
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• 1:11:30
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• 1:11:32
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• 1:11:34
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