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Acuña time, Skubal's Maddux, Ohtani’s pitching timeline, MVP PCA? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Right, like, come on, I don't think I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great, But then they called it on
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  Speaker 1: the Mets guy too, I've never seen this called once,
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  Speaker 1: forget twice.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back Ronald Acuna Junior with a bang first pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Nice meatball too from Nick Povetto, who's had a really
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  Speaker 2: good year, but in the past he's had injury prone
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  Speaker 2: issues and this was center cut first pitch. Acunya blasted
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  Speaker 2: out hit another one the next day, back in a
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  Speaker 2: big way for the Braves, who lost that series to
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  Speaker 2: the Padres. But let's look at the marathon for them.
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  Speaker 2: If Acunya is back and more of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: three version, the Braves are a World Series contender.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is one of the best players in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: This baseball is better when Ronald le'cunyo is playing, when
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  Speaker 3: he's healthy and playing. Look what he does. There's an
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  Speaker 3: awesome video that uh is going around the Internet of
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  Speaker 3: someone that's by their on deck circle that is getting
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  Speaker 3: since he's leading off the game, is getting him from
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  Speaker 3: the dug eye all the way to beyond deck circle
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  Speaker 3: to the batter's box to the first pitch home run
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  Speaker 3: of his return and It's such a cool video to watch.
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  Speaker 3: This is literally one of the most electrifying guys in
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  Speaker 3: the game, and you want to put not to bring
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  Speaker 3: it up where I'm going to kind of counter my
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  Speaker 3: own point, but you want to put to rest all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff where he commented about not running out and
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  Speaker 3: snicker and all that stuff. You want to put that
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  Speaker 3: far behind you. This is how you give you some
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  Speaker 3: other news to think about or talk about, where that
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  Speaker 3: stuff doesn't matter at all anymore. Everyone's so excited. Atlanta's
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  Speaker 3: got to be very pumped. A half him back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean they were waiting for this moment. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: they had a super slow start. They were the team
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  Speaker 2: getting picked on the most in the first few weeks
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  Speaker 2: of the season ozh to seven. They went to La
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  Speaker 2: and San Diego. I was expecting two and five, so
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  Speaker 2: they were too off that mark from I think what
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  Speaker 2: a lot of expectations would have been, maybe three and four,
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  Speaker 2: four and three. I don't think they were expecting to
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  Speaker 2: go out to the West Coast. Dodgers had already played
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  Speaker 2: to and play those teams and come out with a
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  Speaker 2: really strong start. So okay, it happened five and thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: So they didn't pick it up yet. Then finally they
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  Speaker 2: got to the five hundred marks, slipped a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: We're so early. I like to remind people, Kip. In
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, the Braves were hovering around the five
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  Speaker 2: hundred mark until mid August they won the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: We're so far away from that.
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  Speaker 3: So there's so many sections to the season, and it
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  Speaker 3: always comes down to you just want to be playing
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  Speaker 3: your best ball, be in the picture in September, play
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  Speaker 3: your best ball going into the playoffs. But the season
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  Speaker 3: is so long, and I think you realize that. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of people do realize that, but the average fan
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  Speaker 3: sometimes tends to forget that with the way they might
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  Speaker 3: overreact on certain things. A lot of teams will have
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  Speaker 3: a losing streak at some point of the season, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's three, four or five, six, seven games doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: There's sometimes or you might just go two and eight
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  Speaker 3: and ten games. It happens. But the fact that they
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  Speaker 3: did it the first seven games of the season was
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  Speaker 3: an overreaction. A panic set in. And then you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: it was on the road to two of the better teams. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: this team's gonna be there at the end. They're too good.
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  Speaker 3: Not to be, and now they're starting to get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit healthier with Akunya and Strider and all them
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  Speaker 3: back at first, So yeah, it was a little bit overreaction.
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  Speaker 3: They're gaining their feet. Listen, I don't think anybody wants
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  Speaker 3: to see them get going. I don't think they're everybody's
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  Speaker 3: kind of hoping this is a real thing. It's not.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to be back there at the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Riley Albees Harris really haven't gotten going. Olsen just
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  Speaker 2: recently on a home run Binge. Their catcher combo is
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  Speaker 2: lethal with Drake Baldmin a Rookie of the Year candidate,
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  Speaker 2: Franklin in the National League, and Sean Murphy of course,
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  Speaker 2: who's been solid for them as well, So they'll be
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  Speaker 2: in a good spot. We'll see. But h J, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk Braves here. We'll get back to you on the
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  Speaker 2: other stuff. But what do you think about Atlanta now
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  Speaker 2: getting Akunya back. I mean, that's pretty much what you
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  Speaker 2: can ask for, aside from the series win. Seeing him
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  Speaker 2: like that, with that kind of pop right off the
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  Speaker 2: bat has to be a good sign. Mid nice throw
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  Speaker 2: for an out to third at one point this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Two are we surprised though. That's my real question. Are
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  Speaker 1: we really surprised by any of this with him? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he does just have a little flare for the dramatics,
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  Speaker 1: So to see him hit a home run as first
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  Speaker 1: a bad first pitch, not a surprise. Where do I
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  Speaker 1: think they are? I think they need Strider back. I
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  Speaker 1: think they need a little bullpen help. But I think
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  Speaker 1: they got a great shot to make her deep run
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  Speaker 1: to get to the postseason. I think that they're They're alive.
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  Speaker 1: They're not dead, and that's a big thing, especially after
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  Speaker 1: starting one to seven mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the one thing I will bring up Aja
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  Speaker 2: is that when he came back last time around from
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  Speaker 2: tearing up the other knee, he was not the same
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  Speaker 2: guy for a while. They get Hi an extra three
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  Speaker 2: months essentially this time. It was nine months on the
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  Speaker 2: post recovery last time. It was twelve this time around,
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  Speaker 2: And it's him already knowing what it takes to get
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  Speaker 2: back from this and seeing what didn't work for him.
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  Speaker 2: So I would say we're not surprised. But also if
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  Speaker 2: I had seen him struggle at the gate, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been surprised either, based off coming off in major
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  Speaker 2: knee in major knee surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Now, well it's lso only a few games, So let's
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  Speaker 1: let's let's you got I let this play out, right,
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  Speaker 1: KiB Like everyone can come back for a couple games
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  Speaker 1: and be hobby like, Oh, look at what he's done.
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  Speaker 1: But let's let's see how he does thirty fifty sixty,
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  Speaker 1: you know, eighty games into it where he's at. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, he's one of the best players. He's
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  Speaker 1: one of the most talented players. He brings an energy
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  Speaker 1: like very few guys doing baseball. So let's see where
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  Speaker 1: it ends up.
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  Speaker 3: There's this game speed that's different too. You can rehab
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  Speaker 3: your way all the way you want, but you're also
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  Speaker 3: giving days off, planned days of rest and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So let's keep seeing how this body and this knee responds.
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  Speaker 3: After five, six, seven straight games in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit of a game. Obviously, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna want to talk himself into the lineup as much
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  Speaker 2: as possible. He's a guy that likes to be out there,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll see how that goes. Brian Snicker's known him
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, so you would think he'll have
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  Speaker 2: no problem being like Nope, sorry, today's the day you sit.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the medical staff says. One other part from
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  Speaker 2: this weekend, did you see the comments aj from Brian
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  Speaker 2: Snicker about the field conditions and how that could be
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  Speaker 2: leading to some issues for Austin Reiley over at Third Bay?
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that Mark Bowman tweeted about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of funny.
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  Speaker 2: Though, you want to see this all right? So they
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  Speaker 2: were at home, right, Yeah, but that's his own.
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  Speaker 1: Groundskeeper under the bus, the guy who's been there forever. Like,
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  Speaker 1: That's where it gets a little weird to me. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: why would you throw your own guy under the bus?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mark Bowman, who covers the team for MLB, did
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  Speaker 2: clarify that he was talking more about field conditions than
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  Speaker 2: grounds crew, but the tweet initially from Bowman is Snicker
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  Speaker 2: made it clear he wasn't happy with the Braves grounds crew,
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  Speaker 2: and then that was later clarified to Braves field conditions
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  Speaker 2: at home. When asked about Riley's recent areas, he said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's all on him if you want
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  Speaker 2: to know the truth. Four of the five errors Riley
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  Speaker 2: has committed going back to May eighth have occurred at
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  Speaker 2: truest park a j that's their park.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one that's a tough play. Shot football smashed. That
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  Speaker 1: one's tough, wiener, that's a tweet or right, he's got
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  Speaker 1: to come and get it or back up. I mean
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  Speaker 1: now that one he just whiffs. I mean, that's wine
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  Speaker 1: people do that. Bill Bucker did that. That one. It takes.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like he took a bad hop on him, right,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean those.
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  Speaker 3: Two of those were hit hard. Two of those were
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  Speaker 3: just shots, and it's a reaction. It's a hot corner
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  Speaker 3: for a reason. Some of the other ones, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's you got other guys playing there who aren't making
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  Speaker 3: the airs. These are plays that are expected to be
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  Speaker 3: made that he normally makes all the time. I think
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  Speaker 3: to just say it's the ground screw or the field.
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  Speaker 3: Don't love the look of it. Don't love the sound
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  Speaker 3: of it either. I don't know if and because keep
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  Speaker 3: in mind, this is your home field, your own ground screw.
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  Speaker 3: If you want something change, you have a relationship with
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  Speaker 3: the ground screw, you can go and change it. You
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  Speaker 3: can go and ask him to be like, hey, can
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  Speaker 3: we get a little flatter here, can we mow down
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  Speaker 3: the grass a little bit this way, like there's this
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  Speaker 3: is your team, this is your organization. They're there to
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  Speaker 3: help you. So I just don't like the look of
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  Speaker 3: maybe kind of throwing them under the bus or blaming
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  Speaker 3: the field. But again, some those aren't Some of those
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• 9:14
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• 9:19
  Speaker 2: It's one hundred pitches or less to pull off a
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  Speaker 2: complete game. The Greg Maddocks and Trek Scougle pulled it
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  Speaker 2: off with the highest strikeout total in a Maddox complete game.
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  Speaker 2: A shoutout for him thirteen strikeouts and aj he went
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  Speaker 2: one oh three because I round up from one oh
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  Speaker 2: two point six on his last pitch of the day
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  Speaker 2: and that was the hardest pitch he's ever thrown in
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  Speaker 2: his major league career. I mean, the dude is topping
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  Speaker 2: what he did last year. At the moment, I know,
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  Speaker 2: we still have a lot of season left to go.
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  Speaker 2: He's probably at about a third of the starts that
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  Speaker 2: he's going to make. He's on a better pace.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's He's the best pitcher going right now. Best
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  Speaker 1: part of this whole thing, besides him throwing a complete
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  Speaker 1: game shut out, was when he threw the last pitch
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  Speaker 1: the way he just stood there and took it all in. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he threw it, and he was just like, I'm the man,
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  Speaker 1: and he just let the like when he throws this
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  Speaker 1: last pitch and he just ends it and then he
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  Speaker 1: just looks around at the crowd and the crowd's chanting
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  Speaker 1: his name and going crazy the whole deal. One of
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  Speaker 1: the best things that's come out of Terrek School being
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  Speaker 1: Good is we get to see Trek Scooble's personality and
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  Speaker 1: all he does and when he talks a little trash
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: and he's having fun and doing all these things. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's just amazing what this guy has become from
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  Speaker 1: an off injured guy to the best pitcher in baseball
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  Speaker 1: right here watching he strikes it and he just stands
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  Speaker 1: there and he like takes it all in. It's just
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  Speaker 1: it's just awesome. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're getting close to a twenty mile an
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: hour difference on some of his pitches when he goes
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  Speaker 3: from one to two to it looked like almost eighty
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  Speaker 3: two on one of those sliders or curveballs that he
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  Speaker 3: was just throwing. That's he looks like he's absolutely locked
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  Speaker 3: in and honing his craft right now, and like AJ
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  Speaker 3: just pointed out, enjoying himself too. He's enjoying pushing himself
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  Speaker 3: to limits and seeing how good he can get right now.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I gotta imagine he's one of the best,
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  Speaker 3: if not the best, going right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Aja playing to your point too. I mean he
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  Speaker 2: was emotional with the crowd pumping him up. We have
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  Speaker 2: this tweet with a quote Cody Stavenhagen from Tiger Territory.
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  Speaker 2: He's following the team every day for the Athletic posted
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  Speaker 2: the quote from Schooble, who said, you get a little
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: teary eyed out there. Honestly, I just thought to myself,
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  Speaker 2: twelve year old me wouldn't believe there was an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to have a fan base support you the way it
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  Speaker 2: does and be in that moment. Tigers fans waited for
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  Speaker 2: some success. They almost didn't get it last year as
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: they made that late run and the highlight of the
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: first half of the season for Tigers fans was Tarrek Scoogle.
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  Speaker 2: Now they've got a competitive team from front to back,
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  Speaker 2: so they are really loving what they're seeing, and obviously
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: Schoogles become their guy and He's an ace. He's the
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  Speaker 2: best pitcher in baseball right now?
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: What else do you want? What else do you want?
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  Speaker 1: He's loving it, the crowd's loving it. It's becoming an
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  Speaker 1: event when he pitches in Detroit. Right It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like when Orlander used to pitch back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, JV's pitching today, Everyone's got to come
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  Speaker 1: watch him, right, That's what it's become with school It's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit's great, they're a great team. But to see the
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  Speaker 1: fans get behind this team is the best part.
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  Speaker 3: I hated those days.
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  Speaker 2: They're a little above Cleveland right now, I think they
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  Speaker 2: got a five game lead over Cleveland.
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  Speaker 3: No, but he's he's been the driving force behind a
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: little bit of this resurgence from Detroit baseball. Right now,
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: it is a fun place to play baseball when Detroit
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: is a good team. They are a great crowd, The
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  Speaker 3: stadium is beautiful. I've always enjoyed it, but there is
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  Speaker 3: no doubt about it. That's a different day when there
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  Speaker 3: aces on the mountain when it was JV or Price
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  Speaker 3: before or not a school ball they there's probably a
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  Speaker 3: roughly five to ten thousand difference when he pitches versu
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  Speaker 3: maybe some of the other games, but they show out
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  Speaker 3: in their loud winning pitches. It's a great place, yep,
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you're watching something special right now with
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  Speaker 2: Google and Tigers fans are taking advantage. Let's get to
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: the Angels. So they were riding high. They won eight
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  Speaker 2: games in a row. Now they've lost three games in
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  Speaker 2: a row. They dropped a final two and they lost
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  Speaker 2: that series to the Marlins, and then they fall yesterday
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  Speaker 2: to the Yankees five to one in favor of New York.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Then the Angels before yesterday's game decided to sign up
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: a man familiar with the area. Chris Taylor moves from
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers to the Angels. He was barely playing. He
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: was barely getting played appearances this season. He really fell
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  Speaker 2: off the map last year. The Todd Dodgers stick stuck
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  Speaker 2: with him for a while. Kip, So this looks like
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  Speaker 2: one of those last chance situations for CT three to
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  Speaker 2: see if he actually just needed a change of scenery
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  Speaker 2: and maybe a little more playing time.
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  Speaker 3: I think so. I think it was time. I think
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  Speaker 3: it was a mutual thing where it's probably better beach
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  Speaker 3: part ways. So I don't think there's any hostility. I
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  Speaker 3: know the fans still like him in the Dodgers' uniform
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, but I think it would be
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  Speaker 3: good for him to get a new environment where it's
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  Speaker 3: like it just does something for you. When you go
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  Speaker 3: somewhere else where you just it's a new faces you're
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  Speaker 3: not It takes you out of your comfort zone. So
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  Speaker 3: you're constantly like checked in, locked in, trying to prove yourself,
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  Speaker 3: trying to making sure you're doing everything right. And this
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  Speaker 3: is a guy who has tons of versatility, can play
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  Speaker 3: Baltimore positions, so he has value. So I think if
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  Speaker 3: there's ever a place that can offer him the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to move around a little bit and kind of reinvent
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  Speaker 3: himself or like on as a teammer team, this is
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: a good opportunity for him. It's a good chance, so
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: he's easy to root for it too.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember anyone joining Cleveland, for example, and suddenly
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: turning it on where they hadn't in the past, and
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: you saw a classic change of scenery case where you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this guy was good, now he's great, or this guy
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: was bad and now he's good, or he was good
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  Speaker 2: then you know fell off the map and then went
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  Speaker 2: to Cleveland and became good again. Do you remember anyone
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  Speaker 2: that you came across where you could actually like see
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  Speaker 2: the difference in how he was looking playing adjusting?
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  Speaker 3: You had guys, I mean, there's there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 3: few every year who are new faces, new names that
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  Speaker 3: come in. But I mean, just for my time, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you had Napoli in twenty sixteen. He comes out and
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  Speaker 3: almost puts out thirty home runs. You had, There was
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Mark Reynolds, Brandon Moss. You have some of these first
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: basemens who come out and start having some good power
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: years for you. And then there's pictures where I was
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: about to say, like Andrew Miller just because of the
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: run he went on, But I think he was good anywhere,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: so it didn't really I think. But he was just
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: so good with us that it's like maybe it was
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Cleveland or maybe it was just being in a new place,
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: but he was phenomenal with every pitch. So I don't
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: even know if we can count.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Him, right, I mean, he was on another level though.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about, is you moved somewhere else
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: and it's on another level, right, It's not the comp
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: to CT three here right now, who had a nice career,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: and we'll see if that continues here with the Angels.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: But also, yeah, the Angels kind of thrust themselves back
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: into the mix a little bit here, but we'll see
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: if they can turn it around. Obviously, it's a long
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: season full of streaks. Let's get to the Cubs. You're
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: out in Chicago. How much love are they giving p
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Crow Armstrong because he's a lowed player and he does
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: everything well. It's not like the Cubs just signed to
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Kyle or traded for Kyle Tucker and became this good
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: that helped a ton That was a huge move for them.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: They finally were able to pull something like that off.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: But P. Crow Armstrong is just as much of a
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: difference maker right now and might be even more of
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: an MVP candidate based off how voters go nowadays so
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: closely attributing everything to war. I mean, he's leading the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: category I think in the National League at the moment.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I'll double check it while you're talking.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Listen, there's a there's a there's a buzz around this
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Cubs team right now in this city. People are starting
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: to tune in. I don't think he got off to
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: the best start, if I remember correctly, the first couple
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: of weeks, but he has certainly settled in. And I'm
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: even just gonna go and say that he's more of
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: an player because I don't have the numbers in front
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: of me, but there was a stat of just how
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: many runs above replacement he's doing at each part of
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: the game, whether it's hitting, defense, and base running, So
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: in all three facets of this game, he is like
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: in the top five of every single category or something
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: like that. I think only one player has ever done
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty two game pace of what he's
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: on pace for right now. So obviously we'll see if
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: he keeps it up for the whole time. But they
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: are loving him right now. They are rallying behind this team.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Like I said, there's a buzz going in this city.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: But I think this guy and the way he plays
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: and the energy he brings to this lineup every day,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: it's what's not to like.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Grand Slam the other day, and he is
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: leading in both Baseball Reference and Fan Grafts war for
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: National League position players at the moment at all the
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: power speed and actually the RBIs too. I know say
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: as Zuki, I believe is leading the National League and RBIs,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: but Peter Armstrong's pretty up there. You're gonna have more
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: opportunities when you're the Cubs. You're scoring a lot of runs,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: but you still have to come through. And he's done that,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: and he wasn't necessarily looked at as a guy that's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: going to drive in one hundred, and I think he's
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: on that pace right now.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Listen, there's guys who are strictly hitting. There's guys who
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: are defensive replacements that get all their war or get
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: all their kind of stats on just one side of
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: the game. He is literally a three faceted player right
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: now and is excelling at every aspect of the game.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: It's really fun to watch when you have these complete
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: players played we talked about we talked about Earlieruna who
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: can do on defense and base running where he literally
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: helps you win ball games with every single team. Pikrow
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Armstrong has proven to be another one of those type
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: of players.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, above average, if not elite, at every tool in
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: every facet. So AJ talking Pikrow Armstrong here, thoughts on
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: what you've seen from him and how much of an
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: impact Obviously, he's made to the Cubs. They expected him
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to be good. The Cubs front office was really a name.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Remember he was the acquisition in that Hobby Bayez deal
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: that Mets got him for a couple of months that
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: didn't work out. And PCA looks like a bona fide
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: superstar right now, even if the bat flows down a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: little bit. AJ No, you're shaking now.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: No, listen, here's the thing. Right now, he's the MVP
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: of the National League. He's the MVP. I don't care
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: show hey or not. I don't care. Right now, Pikro
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Armstrong is the National League Most Valuable Player. I know
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: we're only a few months in, but he is the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: National League most value for me now, again, my opinion
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter all that much, but for me, right now,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like he is the MVP of the National
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: League with what he's done offensively defensively, the home runs
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: he's shit because he's hit a lot of bag home
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: runs too. Let's not forget not just home runs but
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: in big situations.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been clutched forty eight RBIs. He leads the
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: team with fourteen home runs. Right now, Cubs fans are
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: loving it and for Cubs fans when the team's been
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: pretty mid the last few years. It's not just that
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the team's leading in the division, it's that it's the offense.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: So it's a fun watch for Cubs fans. Wriggly right now,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: especially once it gets a little warmer too, right, I mean, Kip,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: it's been a few years.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: It has these guys. Listen, these guys are fun to watch.
• 20:11
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  Speaker 2: and on Sunday in a win over the Phillies. And
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that was the first win for the A's in I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: guess what, twelve games. That's not the eleven gamer.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: It was their first win in May.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It felt like it. So we're watching the video right now.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Kante gets ejected here Kip and he has to head
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to the clubhouse. The thing about the clubhouse is it's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: not where it is anywhere else. So he does the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: classic walk of shame in the minor leagues where he
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: goes down the left field line to get out of there.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: That goes one of two ways. You're either cooled off
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: by the time you get all the way to that corner,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: or you are built up to have some kind of
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: explosion in your office or something where it's just been
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: building and building with each step and you've just been
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: muttering stuff under your breath probably until you walk into
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: that door and then first thing you can grab that
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: you can lift is just going somewhere. But not ideal,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: not ideal to have your own tirade with the umpire
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: that have to the game on pause while you walk
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: for three hundred yards out there.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Only one of only only one of many complaints about
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the Oakland Slash Slash whatever else, whatever the hell they
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: want to call it now over there, But I mean
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it's just one of many many things. I mean, it's
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: funny that you have to watch him because I love Katsa.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I played with kat Say. I never really saw him
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: getting this angry, but to see him do this and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: then walk this far, I mean, the best is like
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: he's got his head down and he's just like it's
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like the kid right when you send him home when
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: you were a kid, and your kid had to go
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: home because his mom called him early, and he's like
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: shuffling along with his hat down, head down, and then
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it came, but the game had to wait for him.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: So I mean, so he basically got a little revenge.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He got a little revenge on the umpires because they
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: couldn't do anything until he got all the way up there.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: That's what Mark has brought up.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: A good thing our our producer here about what if
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: it was Bochi here And I'm just thinking, like, what
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: if it was Tito that that got tossed and we'd
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: have to wait. Tito would literally stand there until cart
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: got him, and it would probably take the same amount
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: of time. Not every manager is going to be as
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: fleet footed as Cat was on that one. Some guys
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: would be a rain delay.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: The bullpen cart could get him, but I think remember
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: the bullpen cart was broken at one point out there too.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's it's fixed now, but it could die down
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: at any point. We could have a problem where if
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it's broken again, a manager who needs a cart might
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: just stick around. There's nowhere for him to go.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: But that would be that would be so awesome. A
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: manager gets ejected and they can't start the game till
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: he leaves, he's like, I pulled my back goes up through.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: What if he just went sat What if he went
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: sat in the first row? Could he kick him out
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: if he if he went and sat in the front row?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Probably, but that, yeah, it just goes even closer to
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: the umpire and just go sits right behind him.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Play yeah, right behind him, play in the first row.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: It's like you stuck Blue, you did this call, you
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: missed that call.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And you'd be like, hey, MLB, sorry, you created this ballpark.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I can't get out of it. So I'm gonna sit
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: here until you figure it out and unless you want
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: to airlift me.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Katse did say postgame AJ that he was considering jogging,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: but then thought, Mark, I'll freeze the picture.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: No, I love you. I love your cots, but no,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you're not jogging that far. Dude. You're you're, you're, you're
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: getting a little up there.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Now you get your time, You get your time.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love your cots, but you know you're not jogging.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's three hundred and thirty feet. All right, Let's
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: get to this obstruction call from over the weekend and
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I'll let you explain it a j since you got
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: inside word Mets and Dodgers were playing. This was actually
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: on Friday night, that's when the series they took two
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: out of three. But what happened here a rarity.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: If you can explain this, I don't know. I don't know. Kip,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: did you ever play third base? Before we get into this.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Did you ever play third base at all? Oh? Okay,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: so the fly battle is here to hit to. Right now,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I want you all to see where Max Munsey is standing.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: He's not even in the picture. Right. He gets thrown
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: out of the play. Mark Tae gets thrown out, great
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: throw by ta Oscar. Max Munsey gets called a third
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: base for obstruction for standing in the runner's way of
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: seeing the fly ball being caught. I love you, Trip Gibson,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: but this is over umpiring, dude. I'm sorry, it's over umpiring.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: If we could have run that just a little bit longer,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you could have seen where Monthsy was standing. He was standing.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: The cut at City Field is like ten feet off
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the base. He was standing. He just he was by
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the base and he walked away. Now do I know
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: third baseman that did this on purpose? One Corey Cosky
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: used to be a basket ball player in front of
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: dude's like never saw a call. There were times where
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I had to move the third basement out of the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: way because they would just stand there like, hey, I'm
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: watching the play. Like you can see where months he is.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: He's nowhere close. He's not looking at the guy nothing,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: He's just standing there, so I don't know. I thought
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: this was a bad call. Then they did look where
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: he is. He's like five to seven feet away from him,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: not even looking. I mean, did he stand right in
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: his line? Sure? But come on right, like, come on,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think little games. I love it. I think
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: it's great. But then they called it on the Mets
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: guy too. I've never seen this called once. Forget twice.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: We were joking that on you know, they the umpire
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: was like, got a text from somebody's like, this is
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: a joke. By the way, everybody, I bet you can't
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: call two obstruction calls on the third basement in one game.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I bet you can't do that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: They they correct me if I'm wrong, but it's like
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: they almost teach that. They teach you to kind of
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: and you're right. And it used to be like I
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: used to have the third basement, whether it was Trevor
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Plue or someone where it's like they're almost looking straight
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: at you, like direct eye contact, like trying to get
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: in your way, almost so you couldn't see it. But
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: as long as they're not like touching you, it's not
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: You're fine. Months he was way far off. I'm not
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: a fan of this call at all. I think it's
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: part of the game. I think it's a smart play
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: as long as it's not a scene that you're like
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: like waving your hands trying to block the view. But
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: other than that, I thought this one was you can't
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: start calling this because that's just going to set the
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: wrong presidents. It's not that big enough of a play
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: to make it this important of a call. And that's
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: a bad call on a run.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Right, that's a run, I mean costing a run. That's
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the crazy part. And the fact that you don't see
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: this and all of a sudden AJ trip Gibson's just
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: like today's the day back to the rule book.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It's almost like somebody, somebody dared him. It was like,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you won't call two obstructions, and now once he called
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the first one, then he had to call the other
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: one on the mets. Right, So once he called the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: first one, he had to be like, okay, makeup call time,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, come on, But like it's such
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: just a random thing to see call. And I talked
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to Max on Saturday about I go, Max, what do
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you got? And he just started laughing. He's like, I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: wasn't even looking. He's like, I just was at there
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and I walked towards where the throw was not even looking.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: He's like, if you watch it, he's not even looking.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: He's looking this way and the guy is behind him.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I mean, I've tagged up. I've
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: seen guys try to get in your way all the time.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: This was just one of those calls. It was like,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna make this call and then hope
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: it sticks. And it did.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: He had it on his Bengo card today. Trip Gibson
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: had it on his Bingo card.
• 28:32
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• 28:34
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• 28:36
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• 28:39
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• 28:42
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• 28:46
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• 28:48
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  Speaker 2: There's like two or three stories out of the top
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: ten usually on show, especially with the pitching rehab. Clearly
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: people are clicking on it. So add that all up.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Where will wand Go was the most popular segment we've
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: ever had an FT history, no animation that opened it up.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: So much. There's no way that is a true story.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: The eighties sequel follow up When Will Show Throw? So
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: what's your bone to pick?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, so no, listen, I know he did throw, and
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it's not a showhy at all. It's not at all
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: but show Hey was supposed to scheduled to is throw
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: his his live VP at City Field on Saturday. Well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: because they went thirteen innings, he was tired. He didn't
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: get to do it. So I texted Dave Roberts, who
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: was absolutely awesome. I love Doc and I said, listen, Doc,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: if you need somebody to take some live abs off
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Show Hey, I'm available, and he just texted me back.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I think we're good, so listen. I'm not really mad
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: at show Hey. I'm a little more mad that Dave
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Roberts didn't want me and he asked. And then when
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I did our manager meeting, I said, Dave, you know
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I was good to go and I'm ready to go,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and he said, I don't want to hurt show Hay's feelings.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a great point, Dave. I don't want
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to hurt his feelings either. So instead they used like
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: the trainer and like the third bullpen catcher, and they
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: pulled something. They pulled the guy who dumbed milk on
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: his head Saturday night out there to get it bat.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: But I didn't get to get into bats. So it's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: not really with Showhy, It's just more with the Dodgers
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: in general.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I thought he faced rushing.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: He did face rushing. He didn't want to face righties though.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: He didn't want to face rightis, and I said, I'm
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: left handed and I haven't retired, so throw me in there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe you never know, You never know.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: What do you think your time to first would have been?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Who cares? I didn't get paid to run. I got
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: paid to get knocked.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Got a designated runner for AJ.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: That's right. They would have hitters. They would have had
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a guy that standing behind me, and if I got
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to hit, the guy would have to run. Oh God,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: that go.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Then the trainer can run, so face live hitters. Yeah,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: that's the next step. Although on the game broadcast, I
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: think it was and here we're getting a look at it.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: There were probably nine billion people from the Dodgers watching this,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: But Dave Roberts told Ken Rosenthal post All Star Break
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: he didn't say it as a definite, but that was
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the guess. So we're still pretty far away, which sucks
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: in some cases, but in other cases it's understandable because
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going to slow play this. He can't
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: go down to make rehab appearances. And the positive glass
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: half full part of this AJA is that we might
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: have about two more months of when we'll show throw. Yeah,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: two more months of this segment, probably about once a week,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: because anytime he does something people want to hear about it,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: so we're gonna hear about the.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: What I'm gonna see a forty bitch ye.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: No see. So I talked to now On did I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: talk to to date. We talked about Doc Dave Roberts.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: But we also I also listen, I got to talk
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: to Kershaw about this because he was he came in
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the dugout. So I talked to Kersh a little bit
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: about this and and he was like, I'm fascinated by
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: this because I don't know how this rehab is gonna
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: go because it's not a normal rehab, and nobody just
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: knows what he's gonna do. But he did bring up
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a good point. They have an extra player because of
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: show Hey. He's designated as a two way guy, right,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't hurt them, So he can go out
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and throw an inning or two at the start of
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: a game, and they don't have to lose a pitcher,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: right like most other teams would have to lose that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: picture because they can only have thirteen pitchers. He's like,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: we basically have fourteen pitchers because of show Hay being
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: designated as a two way guy, so it's a different thing.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: So they're not as hamstrung as other teams would be
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: if they were trying to rehab a guy like this
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers are, because they have an extra basically player,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: because show Hay has been designated a two way guy.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the o tiny role there. So twenty two pitches,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: five played appearances, touch ninety seven And this was what
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: he did in a similar realm after that first elbow surgery.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: He had that back in October of twenty eighteen. But anyway,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: we got time, and I will say, Kip, it looks
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: pretty damn good at the plate. I mean, he is
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: rehabbing to get back on the mount. But mister leadoff
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: homer as nineteen on the season, most in baseball.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's not lose sight of how much they
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: paid this guy, and the part of that was for
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: him to do both things. So there's no reason to
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: rush this. They're going to make sure they build him
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: up nice and slow to where he's ready because they
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: they're not in a rush with how good of a
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: hitter he's doing at the plate already.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: A let's slap. So first off, we got this tweet
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: from wit Meryfield shown that gnarly finger injury that he
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: had there. It is so he said, graphic pickbullout. Thanks
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: for the warning. It's known around the league. Atlanta's dirt
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: isn't great. Ground's crew is aware. Seemed to work hard
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: to try and make adjustments, at least in a little time.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Would say that he was there, Needless to say, he
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: was not a huge fan of the dirt. Can't that
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: be fixed if that's a real thing. I mean, that's
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: helpful to get insight from with their kip, But if
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: if it's a known thing and they have off seasons,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: wasn't there this year? He's talking about what last year?
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's when it would have to take place.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Though kind of maybe Snicker and Riley have a have
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: an actual gripe or something like that. But it needs
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: to be done in the off season because you're talking
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: about taking out the entire each infield, and each stadium
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: is a different type of dirt almost like there's you
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: can tell you know which ones. I know White Sox
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: had a different one, Detroit's all that, But you're talking
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: about replacing the entire infield. That's a long time that
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: you got to do it. So that's that's an outfield
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry an off season thing.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: True.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: True, it's a gross stick too, if you want to
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: go see it on his actual And by the.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Way, I mean, infielders complain a lot. I mean, listen,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: all the all the home plates and the dirt were
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the same. You know, I was playing in the dirt
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the whole my career. Never complained one time about how
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: bad the dirt was. I mean, geez, as Paul Knerko's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: old coach used to say, and Kip he used to say,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: there are no bad hops. Move your freaking feet. So
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: there you have.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: There's a couple.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I was scared of the ball, so
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I don't really care. I don't know. I tried not
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: to go on the infield at all, if at all possible.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: So there's right your feet wherek does help your your
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: hops which ones you get? But there are there's a
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: couple of land mines always waiting for some infield. Theer's
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: at certain places like no land mines around the league. Yeah,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: certainly there's I'm trying to think, I well, I don't
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: want to. There's some that just are certain areas where
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: that's like I still remember, like ten ft in front
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: of a bag at Seattle or wherever it may be.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: There's certain ones where it's like there's just some trampoline effects,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: just land mines. They wait for it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Listen, Kip, you played, you played in the You've played
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: in the Golden Age. You didn't play in like Waukee
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: County Stadium. Okay, you didn't play Tiger Stadium. Okay, you
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: didn't play in Wrigly. You could stand when the old Listen,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: when the old Cages were at Wrigley, before they redid
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the field, you could stand in the outfield and you
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: could barely see home plate because there was such a drop.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: It was so crowned. It was crowned like four foot
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: like literally you could stand in the outfield and all
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: you could see was like this much of the hitter.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: It was. It was crazy how crowned the infield was.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Like when you were running off the infield, you would drop.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: You would have to your heart rate would change because
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you dropped so far down.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: It was crazy. That's wild. And I'm saying there are
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: some lips, and there are some land mines, and there
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: are some changes that could be made. But I have
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: to follow it up, is you're playing a big league
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: stadium it's the nicest fields in the world. Basically like that,
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: it's not gonna get much better. So they're they're beautiful.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: So all right, let me give you one more here
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: and slap Daniel Bard trying to make a comeback. He's
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: already done that, trying to do it again, thrown in
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: front of some scouts. I mean, with the way pitching
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: injuries work these days, you've got a shot. You know, bart.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Toronto hasn't signed him, Colorado hasn't signed him already. I
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: mean I figured they would have already signed him.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think he wants to go back there, just
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: why they were great to him.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: They brought him back and they signed him to like
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: multiple contracts.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: They did, they did, but eventually course fields and maybe
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: some age got to him right at the finish line there.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: So he's forty, he's trying to keep kicking. I mean,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: there's Daniel Bard and David Robertson.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: There's always some part of you that's like there's different
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: levels of a comeback for where you watch it from
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: as a third party perspective, where it's like you're rooting
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: for them. It's either let it go or rooting for him.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: He's been he's so far, he's forty nowt like it's
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: it's past the let it go. You're just rooting for him.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: If he's obviously been committed, he's been trying. Everybody knows
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: his past stories and so he's done it once, so
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: who who has anybody to say that he can't do
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: it again?
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I agreed that's true. And also I mentioned David Roverson.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: He actually should be pitching in the Biggs right now.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: He just hasn't signed, So we'll see if that. If
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: that happens, I'll try to get to one or two
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: questions here to get caught up. By the way, we
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: talked to Chris Catillo AJ, but we really didn't go
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: over it ourselves too much. What do you think about
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox losing Bregman? Here comes Meyer, maybe Roman
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Anthony soon. How do you feel about this team because
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: they're underperforming compared to projection models? And I would say
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: most of the industry.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, including me who picked him to win the AL.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: They gotta win with crochet pitch as they lost yesterday
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: right when he pitched, that was a big one. Chario
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: took him deep leading off the game for the brew crew. Honestly,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like it's like every day. It's
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: kind of what Chris said, I and I Alex cor
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: a lot, and I love this team. And I love
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Craig Breslow. I played with him in the Red Sox
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: with the Red Sox. But there's just so much drama.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: It's just every day there is some new drama. And
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: that's why I asked the question of Chris that I did,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: is if they have Campbell there, they have Meyer there,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and then they bring up Anthony, are they counting on
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: this team being really good with three rookies in the lineup.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean they need Crochet's been good,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Bueller's been okay, but the rest of the starting rotation
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: has been and the bullpen's been and I mean there's
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: just drama, it seems like every single day with this team.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they need, you know, more of the young pups
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: to really step up here. We'll see what Meyer looks like.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: But I'm with you, man, I mean, nothing gets past
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: anyone up in Boston right now. But kipn fairness, communication
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: lines have been weird, you know, I don't know, nobody
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: can totally point their finger on what's going on. There,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: but no matter what you think Dever should be doing,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: the way that they've communicated with him is insane. And
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: then it seems like Cora and Breslow or some type
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: of manager slash and then versus front office situation occurs
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: and it's a debate, which is fine and healthy, but
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: it seems to spill into the media. So you've got
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: a lot going on there. I know we only have
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds, but it's just a lot going on.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Like AJ said, you can have three rookies up there
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: and be in a playoff race, but to be counting
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: on them is a different thing. You're asking a lot
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: of three guys who have never been there before and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: trying to make it on their own too, So that's
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: a whole different ballgame for them.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. All right, We will see everyone tomorrow. Hopefully
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: we'll be back up and running with normal cams and
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: all that. AJ and me are down here in Florida. Kid,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Great to see you man.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Likewise, boys, missed you.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, you too.