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MVP PCA, Red Sox radio PxP SLAMS Jazz, Ketel Marte apology day, Curaçao wins Little League World Series · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, well, well. The New York native returned to his
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  Speaker 1: roots this weekend. Is it just like how you remembered it?
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  Speaker 2: Totally how I remembered it. Same. It was the same.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: New York is always the same. New York is... Actually,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say this about New York this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: The weather was unbelievable. It was so nice this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: When I got in on Friday afternoon, Friday late evening.
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  Speaker 3: Or I guess late afternoon, like 7.30pm, The weather, it
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  Speaker 3: was like 70 degrees and a little bit of a
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  Speaker 3: nip in the air.
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  Speaker 2: It was nice.
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  Speaker 3: And then even Saturday for the game, it was not hot.
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  Speaker 3: I went on a long walk through the city. The
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  Speaker 3: weather was muy bueno.
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  Speaker 1: Were you parched?
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  Speaker 4: Thirsty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so thirsty. Gosh, man, I drank so much. Especially
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  Speaker 3: during the game, man, we drank so much. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that one water that I had and the one water
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: Wainwright had, Man, it really did a lot of damage
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  Speaker 3: to the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: You got to give context here because you guys were
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  Speaker 1: shouted out the next day.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I heard.
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  Speaker 2: I heard all about it.
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  Speaker 3: I got multiple texts from people saying that Michael K.
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  Speaker 3: was complaining that we ate and drank all of the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the chicken wing ice cream, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: was delicious, okay? Because it looked just like a chicken wing,
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  Speaker 3: but it was ice cream with a little chocolate-covered pretzel
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  Speaker 3: stick as the bone in the middle. And let me
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  Speaker 3: just say that that was absolutely amazing. Was it fried? No,
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  Speaker 3: it had like cornflakes on the outside. So it was
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  Speaker 3: like a cornflake batter looking thing that looked like a
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  Speaker 3: chicken wing. Everyone's like, why are you eating chicken wings
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  Speaker 3: on the air? I try to tell people. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: chicken wings. It was ice cream in the middle. And
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  Speaker 3: it had like a little chocolate-covered pretzel rod in the
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  Speaker 3: middle for the bone. That was supposed to be the bone.
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  Speaker 3: And they were, hey, Yankees, you crushed that one, by
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  Speaker 3: the way. That was for the MLB Eats thing they're
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  Speaker 3: doing on Fox where they're doing Every team gives an item,
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  Speaker 3: and the winner gets– I don't know what the winner gets,
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  Speaker 3: but it's 32 teams, and they all pick an item
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  Speaker 3: they want to give out, and this.
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  Speaker 2: Is the one for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: Delicious.
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  Speaker 1: So you didn't empty their fridge?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, it's 30 teams. Sorry, not 32.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But, no.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, unless someone emptied the fridge, because let's not
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  Speaker 3: forget there was a doubleheader, so the first game we
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  Speaker 3: weren't even allowed anywhere. Okay, so we went and sat
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  Speaker 3: in the press box, right? Me and Kenny Albert, Ken Rosenthal, Wayno,
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  Speaker 3: we all sat in the press box.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't eat anything.
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  Speaker 3: Between games, we ran down, did our manager's meetings. And
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  Speaker 3: then we came back up and I ate in the
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  Speaker 3: press dining, which was really good, by the way. Paid
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  Speaker 3: my $ 15 and ate in the press dining. I got
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  Speaker 3: a Coke or a Pepsi in the press dining. And
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  Speaker 3: the only thing I had the whole game was I
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  Speaker 3: had a black coffee, which I always have, and I
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  Speaker 3: had a bottle of water.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, we didn't have anything. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where all the complaining came from.
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  Speaker 3: But Michael K., I'll reimburse you a bottle of water.
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  Speaker 3: If it hurt your heart this badly and it meant
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  Speaker 3: this much to you, I'm pretty sure Michael K. doesn't
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  Speaker 3: pay for the stuff in that fridge.
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  Speaker 2: It's Voss. It's Voss. No, it was not. It was
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  Speaker 2: not Voss. It was a much lower-rent company than Voss.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there was somebody else in the crew that swiped
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  Speaker 1: a number of drinks after you guys left.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I don't know. You're not the only ones.
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  Speaker 1: With access to that fridge. I don't know. This is
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  Speaker 1: beyond stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was Will Fleming.
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  Speaker 3: He was mad after they lost on Saturday night. He
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  Speaker 3: came in and took all the drinks. He was like,
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  Speaker 3: watch this. I'm going to put them in the Red
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  Speaker 3: Sox booth, the Red Sox radio booth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But I know this. We didn't drink.
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  Speaker 3: We definitely didn't eat anything out there because I was
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  Speaker 3: stuffed from the press dining where I had a hamburger,
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  Speaker 3: a salad.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I had all kinds of crazy stuff. They
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  Speaker 2: had a pie. They had a pie, which wasn't very good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I had all kinds of good food up there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm envisioning. Anchorman. I'm envisioning way no need to kill
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  Speaker 2: somebody with a trident and laying low for a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Like Fox, Fox broadcast team versus Michael K and the
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  Speaker 2: Yes Network team. Battle over the waters. The Kirkland brand waters.
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  Speaker 2: Generic brand. We're saving money because we're over the luxury
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  Speaker 2: tax waters.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there is a Trident available. It's not being used
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle much lately.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, sorry. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It was in my face.
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  Speaker 2: Before we go, I'm sorry, Michael.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry again about my water. Next time I'm in
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  Speaker 3: New York, I will reimburse you so that you are
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  Speaker 3: not angry at me.
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  Speaker 2: You got to take him out for water. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just bring a whole case in. The whole case, put
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  Speaker 2: it all around the fridge so they can't open it,
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  Speaker 2: but there's tons of waters. That would be, it would
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  Speaker 2: cost you like $ 11.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got to take them out for a tap water
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  Speaker 1: post game. Hey, let me get you a tap water
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  Speaker 1: post game. I know a good spot across the street.
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  Speaker 1: It's that good Bronx tap right there. All right, let's
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: talk ball. Is the NL MVP race officially over after
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  Speaker 1: this weekend? AJ PCA MVP with his weekend. Plus actually
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: the Otani news really adds to it with, him looking
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  Speaker 1: like he's not going to pitch much, if at all,
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's been over for a little while now, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as Otani quit pitching, I felt like this
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  Speaker 3: was over the way PCA's playing. Then he has the
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  Speaker 3: weekend that he has, the three-homer game, the best bat flip,
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  Speaker 3: one of the best bat flips I've ever seen. With
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  Speaker 3: his defense, with his stolen bases, the team's in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: there's not really anything you can say that he hasn't
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  Speaker 3: done for the Cubs this year.
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  Speaker 2: So, Yes, I think it's over.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's won it, unless something absolutely crazy happens
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  Speaker 3: down here, the wire. But I don't know how he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't win this. He's got more homers, more RBIs, more runs.
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  Speaker 3: His F4 is killing Shohei. I don't know how he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't win this, and it shouldn't be even close, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, obviously I think of... The time that
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  Speaker 2: Yelly should have won back-to-back, it's an injury. It's a
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  Speaker 2: catastrophic injury. That's the only thing that keeps Pete Crowe
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  Speaker 2: out of this. I think it wasn't solidified until this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Two major things happened. A chasm opened up in between
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  Speaker 2: Shohei and Pete Crowe. The fact that he had the
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  Speaker 2: three-homer game. The fact that his team needs him. And
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  Speaker 2: he's playing up to MVP standards during this time. After
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  Speaker 2: he showed a little waver, he didn't have the best
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  Speaker 2: road trip. And then wham, he goes home and does this.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, against division rival and Shohei not pitching,
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  Speaker 2: opened that gap even farther. I mean, you watched on BetMGM,
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  Speaker 2: the numbers just change. I think it's like minus 1,111.
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  Speaker 4: 1,600.
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  Speaker 2: Now 1,600. This weekend, after a three-home run game, it
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  Speaker 2: was 1,100, and Shohei was at plus 650. He's widening
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  Speaker 2: that gap, and this weekend was the weekend that Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Sandberg told me won him his MVP. He had a big,
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  Speaker 2: huge game where he hit a game-tying homer, another game-tying homer,
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  Speaker 2: then the go-ahead walk-off. on the game of the week.
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  Speaker 2: It was on TV. Well, Pete Crowe did it this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and I think this solidified it for him.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see he did it for Sammy Sosa? AJ,
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  Speaker 1: did you see that line from PCA?
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  Speaker 2: I saw his quote where Sammy said, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: hit three homers today, and then we went out and
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  Speaker 2: did it. That was pretty cool, actually.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of times people say hit a
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  Speaker 3: homer and you don't do it, but he actually did it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's pretty awesome that he did it. And then
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  Speaker 3: Pete remembered it. It was the 150th anniversary of their
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  Speaker 3: 150th year all time team that they were celebrating. So
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  Speaker 3: Sammy Sosa was welcome back at a huge ovation and.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty awesome. He said this and then Pete
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  Speaker 2: went out and did it.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those moments that wins you like Cratchit
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  Speaker 3: said and wins you the MVP because people remember these things.
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  Speaker 3: And then on Sunday night, last night, I know the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs didn't win, but he hit the lead off Homer
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  Speaker 3: and they got to talk about him and do all
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  Speaker 3: the things. So I think it's his to lose again.
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  Speaker 3: He'd have to go into a terrible slump and Shohei
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  Speaker 3: would have to get white hot.
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  Speaker 1: He's an exceptional defender. I mean, he is so good
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  Speaker 1: on center field that helped the case too. He's a
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  Speaker 1: good base runner. And then offensively, there are many changes
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  Speaker 1: and I would say evolutions that we've seen from him
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  Speaker 1: at the plate to that standout that continue to stand out, AJ.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he did just about nothing last year against
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  Speaker 1: left-handed pitching. Now he is a force against lefty pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he hits righties too, but he's hitting left-handed pitching, right?
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  Speaker 1: Gets the hands in quick. And then also he's sending
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  Speaker 1: the ball to all fields. He's spitting at pitches. He's
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  Speaker 1: always going to be aggressive. We've gone over this before.
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  Speaker 1: There is an Alex Bregman factor. It's not just Bregman.
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  Speaker 1: You can learn on your own, too. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt to have a guy who's been as good as
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  Speaker 1: you can be in the league for 10-plus years at
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  Speaker 1: spitting at pitches and pitch selection and maximizing your strengths
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  Speaker 1: sitting next to you every day.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's the biggest thing that he's done. He's learned
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  Speaker 3: to take pitches. And he's learned to make pitchers come
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  Speaker 3: in the zone. He's taken more walks. He's hitting lefties.
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  Speaker 3: He moved up on the plate. They said like this much,
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  Speaker 3: like four or five inches, which they didn't really realize
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  Speaker 3: would make this big of a difference. But it's just
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: kind of had him ready for every pitch. I think
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  Speaker 3: that was the Barry Bonds story. Barry Bonds said, I'm
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  Speaker 3: on top of the plate and I'm always ready for
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  Speaker 3: a heater in. And it looks like Pete Carl Armstrong
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  Speaker 3: was always ready for a heater in. He's just laying
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  Speaker 3: off other pitches. The adjustments he's made mentally and physically,
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  Speaker 3: I can't put a number on them how big they've been,
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  Speaker 3: but it has been one of the greatest turnarounds, especially
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  Speaker 3: as far as chasing and not chasing I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do this.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes for seed geek, finding seats for you
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  Speaker 1: on games that you want to see this week, depending
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  Speaker 1: on where you are in the country. It's the best
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  Speaker 1: spot to find the tickets. And for example, I'll throw
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them out there. We, we already addressed
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  Speaker 1: Brewers cups. That's going to be great. That's all week.
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  Speaker 1: That starts with Kyle Harrison and with Clay Holmes and,
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to spend a ton of time on
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners today, but they've lost four in a row.
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  Speaker 1: They were dusted over the weekend. It's Brian Wu against
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Sonny Gray. So now they continue their series or their
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: season against Boston. And that's in Boston, AJ. Eventually they'll
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  Speaker 1: have an easy schedule, but they not, they might not
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  Speaker 1: be in it by then. There's a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: angels and A's and all that, but they could be six,
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  Speaker 1: seven games out by then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Agreed.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Don't forget White Sox Astros is this week too, which is,
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  Speaker 3: It affects the playoffs a lot for both teams. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's some good games. There's some good series, especially going
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: into September, starting tomorrow into September. But Philly's Diamondbacks is
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  Speaker 3: another one. There's a lot of good series that have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of playoff implications, and.
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  Speaker 2: It's just going to be fun. Pick one.
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  Speaker 4: Pick one. Pick one.
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  Speaker 2: Go to SeatGeek, buy a ticket, and go watch it
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  Speaker 2: live and in person and cheer for your favorite team
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  Speaker 2: or your favorite player. It's easy. Jays and Guardians. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: know we needed this wild card chase coming down in September.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know it was going to be the Jays
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  Speaker 2: and Guardians. I thought the Jays would be well ahead.
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  Speaker 2: The Guardians will be well ahead in their division. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be a good series. I think it's Gavin Williams versus
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  Speaker 2: Eric Eddy, you said?
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  Speaker 1: On Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Need that.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Need that.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins look like they're, you know, falling with the
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  Speaker 1: Buxton injury and Troy Melton's going to pitch in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Never somebody that you want to face when
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to put must-win games together.
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  Speaker 3: Were the Twins really in it? Were the Twins really
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  Speaker 3: in it, though? I mean, they said they were going
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  Speaker 3: for it, but they were kind of– wasn't it kind
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  Speaker 3: of like a we're going for it?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, just put a question mark in there. AJ will
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  Speaker 2: read whatever the teleprompter says.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I will eat all your food and drink all your water.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly. Freddie Peralta pitching Tuesday against the Mets in
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: In New York or in Tampa?
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  Speaker 1: No, in Tampa Bay. And RIP to that park in
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  Speaker 1: the next few years, AJ. We'll maybe have time for
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  Speaker 1: that at some point.
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  Speaker 2: We covered it a lot on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: We covered it on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: But, I mean, we can cover it again at some point. But, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the best games of the week. And you should grab
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• 12:31
  Speaker 1: those games because there's playoff vibes in some of these ballparks.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: It is the official ticket marketplace of Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to understand and appreciate it. He
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: went from 29 walks last year to 71 this season.
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  Speaker 2: I think he had more than 29 walks in an
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  Speaker 2: entire month this year. What he's done, guys don't do.
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  Speaker 2: You slowly learn your play discipline. You slowly get away
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  Speaker 2: from swinging at everything and striking out a ton. He's
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  Speaker 2: still striking out, but Who cares? When you have the
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  Speaker 2: production that he has right now, it has been his August,
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  Speaker 2: it has been his year, and he showed it this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why you try and lock up elite
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  Speaker 1: talent to a long-term contract. He'll have another bite at
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  Speaker 1: the apple, but when he signed that extension, it feels
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  Speaker 1: like long ago. It was at the end of spring training.
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  Speaker 1: Six years, $ 115 million. It can max out at $ 133 million.
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  Speaker 1: And that deal does not start until 2027. It includes
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  Speaker 1: a club option. So he can hit free agency entering
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  Speaker 1: his age 31 season. AJ, you're going to get great
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  Speaker 1: value out of him. Yeah, it's huge. Great value out
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  Speaker 1: of him. And the numbers feel and sound big to
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: anybody in real life, but in baseball terms, Pete Crowe
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong is one of the best bargains in baseball for
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  Speaker 1: what he's putting together for them. And he's not in
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  Speaker 1: his free agent year. So it's not like you cash
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  Speaker 1: out on an open market anyway, but his arbitration years
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  Speaker 1: are going to pop a lot more than what he
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  Speaker 1: locked in.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 3: This is why they, this is why teams sign these deals.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, for every one of these contracts where people say, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: look how good they did. The team did by signing
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  Speaker 3: this guy. There's also the contracts that they sign where
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  Speaker 3: the guy doesn't really turn out. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 3: long list of guys where they haven't earned the money
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  Speaker 3: that they signed to. So this was a good one
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  Speaker 3: by the Cubs. And I remember last year he held
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  Speaker 3: out a little bit and he got a bunch more money.
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  Speaker 3: Just think if he would have held out one more year,
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: he might not have had a long-term deal. So, listen,
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  Speaker 3: PCA is happy in Chicago. He loves Chicago. He is
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  Speaker 3: all in on everything in Chicago. Even in the winter,
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  Speaker 3: he's around. He goes to Bears games. He goes to
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Bulls game. I think he goes to Blackhawks games.
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  Speaker 2: I think that PCA is– becoming one of the faces
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  Speaker 2: of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: As far as like Shohei, yes. Bryce, probably yes. There's
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  Speaker 3: four or five guys that you look at in baseball
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  Speaker 3: and say, I know who they are. Trout was that
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  Speaker 3: guy for a long time, right? So I think PCA
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  Speaker 3: is slowly starting to get to that point because you
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: know what the best part about PCA is? People love
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  Speaker 3: to watch him because he's fun, he's laughing, he's having
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  Speaker 3: a good time. And that means something.
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  Speaker 2: There's always something going on. He's stealing bases. When he's
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: on defense, he runs balls down. He's got a cannon
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: of an arm. He's a five-tool player. But I would
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: love it if somebody with all these analytics would be
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: able to figure this out. You'll never be able to
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: figure it out. But how much better a player can
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: feel play when they get extended like this. He gets
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: an extension, and the fact that he doesn't have to
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: worry about his future, worry about I got to put
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: up numbers to do this. He just has to go
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: out and play. There is a value there that will
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: never be equated, but there is a huge value and
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: a weight off of some people's chest. I'm not saying everybody,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: and people will get at me. They'll be like, oh, well,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: he grew up rich. Nobody knows what other people are feeling,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: but I know that that feeling of security can help
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of players play better.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And for the Cubs, credit to them to go after
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Clay Holmes, Kevin Gossman, those types to try and supplement
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: what is a lineup that features the MVP of the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: National League right now. You've got to capitalize off a
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: prime season like this. Now, Cubs fans are going to say,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: hold up. Have you seen our pitching in general lately?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Managa beat up yesterday. They've had some bullpen problems.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: But at least they tried. They brought into what I
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: think are valuable arms that will help this team thrive.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: in October. They still got to figure some things out pitching-wise.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Clay Holmes pitching today against the Brewers.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Clay Holmes pitching today in a huge series. They play
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: seven of their next ten against the Brewers, so that's
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: going to obviously decide that division, whether it's a race
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: or not down the stretch. But you notice who they
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: lined up to pitch in that series. Imanaga was not
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: lined up to pitch in that series. Clay Holmes, right,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: is pitching the game one. I think tomorrow they is...
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Who's tomorrow?
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Isn't Assad tomorrow or is No, tomorrow's Matthew Boyd, and
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: then I think Gossman's Wednesday.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Peterson Wednesday.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, Peterson, another new face, right? A guy who's been
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: really good for them. And then Gossman's Thursday.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Thursday.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Thursday is Gossman.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: That's the Fox game, Thursday.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: They missed Shota. They made your Shota pitch on Sunday,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: and then so they have all these new guys, Gossman, Holmes,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: and Peterson. pitching in one of their biggest series of
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the year, obviously. I mean, I know they're a few
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: games back. How many games are they back? They're back eight.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: So even if they win all seven, they're still behind them.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: But this is a chance for them to solidify the
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: four spot in the National League as far as wild
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: cards go.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: And it puts a little pressure. If they can win
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: these series, it puts a little bit of pressure on
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the Brewers.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Jack Summers is here. You can hear him on Snakes
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Territory multiple times per week. And also he covers the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: team if you want to. Read the written version on SI.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: He covers the Diamondbacks. Jack, good to talk to you.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Today is a big day. It is Quetel Marte apology day.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: So tell us what to expect here.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Well, it's a bit of a mystery whether or not
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: we'll get to speak to him, but the game plan
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: is for Quetel Marte to address his teammates, issue some
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: sort of apology, and hopefully that apology will hit the
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: mark when it comes to sincerity and properly addressing questions
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: the situation, not only what happened, but what's going to
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: happen going forward. I think that's what his teammates are
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: most concerned about, is can they trust him going forward?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: And so he has to reassure them if he's going
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: to continue to have their support, as well as, of course,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: not do this again.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Jack, you guys, you don't think the media is going
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: to get to talk to him? They're just going to
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: keep the media away from him?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's... Doesn't he need to speak with the
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: media and explain something?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Not just, I get that it's just his teammates, but
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: doesn't he need a little bit to kind of take
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: responsibility and stand there? And before we get into this
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: whole craziness, because this whole story now is just crazy.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Right. I mean, I presume he will, but we haven't
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: received like official notice, like tell Marte will be made available.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: So I'm not taking anything for granted. I'm just going
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: to show up there with my phone and my camera and,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: you know, be ready to record and ask questions and
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: dig into it as much as we're allowed to with him.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: But it's not a hundred percent certain that we'll get
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: that opportunity. Hopefully we will.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: When this started, everyone's like, oh no, this is a distraction.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: This is a distraction. Now we're about, I don't know,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: 10 days, two weeks into it. Has it been a
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: distraction for this team?
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I think the players on the field, the first day
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: or two for sure it was. I mean, they didn't
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: even admit it as much. But I believe that once
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: they got past that, they won that series finale and
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: with Boston, and then they just went on about their
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: business and playing as hard as they can. That's what
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: they do. So I don't think they like being asked
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: about it, but there's really not much choice. I just
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: think between the white lines, it hasn't impacted them. I
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: don't think they're thinking about Quetel Marte when they're fielding
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: a ground or a shortstop or running down a fly
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: ball in the outfield or standing in the batter's box. Now,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: they're going to be annoyed today. I mean, it's not
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: going to be a fun day for them with all
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: the hubbub and everything going on around it. So could
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: it be a distraction today in the first game of
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: this critical series? Hard to say. We all love a
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: redemption arc. Hopefully he goes out and has a really
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: good game and helps them win a game for his
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: sake and for his teammates' sake.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Has there been any physical ramifications from it in the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: sense of like, look, when you lose a guy from
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the lineup, yes, nobody can replace what he should give
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: you when he's hot. Nolan Arenado playing too much where
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: you're like, okay, you know, Perdomo would have gotten this
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: day off. Have you seen a physical, you know, ramification
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: from him not being there in this situation?
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Unknown caller. Sorry about that.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: That's okay. We don't know who the caller is and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: that's fine. You, you need, you want to answer it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I want you to answer it so that we know
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: who the caller is, but we'll never find out.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Um, so yeah, In this case, I do believe that
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: there have been ramifications. I think that Nolan has played
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: a little bit more than he should have been. He's
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: just dealing with multiple things. He had that core injury.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: A little difficult to explain what it was, but it
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: wasn't an oblique, but, you know, it was something intercostal, whatever.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: And then he suffered a sprained thumb in batting practice. And,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: you know, you just watch him running and moving. And,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, the guy is definitely not 100%. At the
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: same time, you know, Perdomo's, I think his knee is
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: bothering him a little bit. And then Ildemar Vargas, I mean,
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: you know, he's been a nice story for them as
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: far as filling in as a utility player, but he
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: gets exposed when he plays every day. And, you know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: he's been in a pretty bad batting slump for the
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: better part of two weeks and hasn't hit much. So,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're missing him on the field, both physically
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: and production-wise. There's no doubt about that. You know, I
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: think they're six in their last 12 games. easily could
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: have been a game or two better had they had
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Marte in there playing like he should have been.
• 22:31
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  Speaker 2: Check. Do we know the truth behind this?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Because there's all these different reports about the team knew
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: he wasn't going to come to the game and he
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: asked for an MRI and he didn't get it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And that's why they put him on. Can you just
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: give me what we know is true in this story?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Because like I said earlier, it's gotten kind of just,
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of rumors from people flying this and
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: this and this.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: What do we know that's true?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: So piecing together the timeline has been a little bit
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: difficult because there have been contradictory reports, but It's important
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: to note we haven't heard anything from Cattell, right? So
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: we don't have anything from his side of the story.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: I do know that a couple hours before the game,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Tori Lavello had indicated to the media that he was
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: reaching out to Cattell to find out if he could
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: actually play at second base instead of DH because they
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: were hesitant to put Nolan back out there or didn't
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: know if he could play. But at that point in time,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: they didn't tell the media that he wasn't there. You know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: and then so exactly what transpired, according to the team,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: and according to Tori Lavella, he reached out multiple times
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: and was getting very little back, as he explained it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Derek Hall was on the local radio station, team president
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Derek Hall, and he said that he stayed behind at
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: the hotel Monday evening, and they knew that Cattell was
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: in his room at that point, and he tried to
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: reach out to him several times but wasn't able to
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: connect with him directly. They were apparently only communicating through
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: the agent, but that communication was sparse and not very helpful.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Once the game was over, Torrey indicated he wasn't quite
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: sure where Cattell was, his point being he didn't know
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: if he was still in the hotel or if he
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: had left. So once the game was over, I don't know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: and nobody's made it really clear. I have a personal
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: belief that he left either that night or early the
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: next morning. He didn't fly back to Arizona immediately. until
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Thursday to go get his MRI. So my question is
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: partially going to be, when did you leave Boston and
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: where did you go before you went back to Arizona
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: to get your MRI and to meet with Mike Hazen
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: and Tori Lovello on the subsequent Thursday? So that's a
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: question I have. I don't know if anybody else is
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: going to ask that before I get my chance.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: If you're able to ask that question, there's going to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: be another layer that we're going to peel back, and
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: that's so exciting for me. I thought that was it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: So anyway, Jack, I appreciate that. I don't think season
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: series necessarily dictate whether or not it's going to be
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: a playoff matchup or not, but the Diamondbacks are going
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: to look across the field at a playoff team in
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the Phillies. They've had their ups and downs. They're not
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: a perfect team at all. How do they stack up
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: against this team when you look at it and the Diamondbacks–
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: want to be a playoff team, but how do they
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: stack up against a playoff team like the Phillies this series?
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting to note, if you look at the
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: full season body of work, they've scored per game virtually
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the exact same number of runs. Phillies 4.54, D-backs 4.53. However,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: in August, the Phillies have been on fire. They scored
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: like well over five runs per game for the month
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: of August. Obviously, they've been hot in the lineup and
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: they've got two big studs that are carrying them. But really,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: where the rubber meets the road is in the pitching
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: staff and in the starting pitching. The D-backs are going
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: to miss Zach Wheeler, of course. He just pitched yesterday.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: But they still, you know, got to face a hot
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Aaron Nola. He hasn't had a good season, but he's
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: been very good his last six starts. And Jesus Lozardo
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: is a stud. And even Andrew Painter, you know, he's
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: pitched 13 innings over his last two starts. On the
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: flip side, D-backs are rolling out Brandon Fott and Eduardo–
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Rodriguez for the first two games, and they've been pitching
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: really well for the Diamondbacks, you know, especially Eduardo. He's
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: 14-4 with a 2-5 ERA. Peripherals be darned. Stack Geeks,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: we look at the underlying stuff a lot, but, you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: he's been beating them all year just being a professional pitcher. So,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: you know, it's an interesting matchup. I mean, the Phillies
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: roster-wise appear to be the stronger team, and they certainly
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: You know, they're up on them by three and a half,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: four games, and they also have much better playoff odds
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: if you look at all that. So the D-backs are
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: up against it, but they're at home, and it's a
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: short series. So, you know, if they can take two
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: of three here and put a little bit of a
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: dent in the distance between them and the Phillies, then
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: they can continue pressing not only to just try to
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: make the postseason, but maybe even run down, you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: a second spot in the wild card. Long shot, no doubt, but,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: you know, this is September baseball. these leads are not
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: all that big. We've seen a lot of crazy things before.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: For sure. Corbin Burns, would he be a help in
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: that rotation? If he makes it back, what's the expectation?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Is it waiting until he gets back to be 100%
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Corbin Burns, or could it be an opener, a three
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: inning type of person down the stretch?
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: So the expectation is that Corbin Burns is going to
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: rejoin the team later this week against the Houston Astros.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: In his most recent rehab outing, he went, um, Two
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: innings and 17 pitches. He was very efficient. He was
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: getting the Giants AAA team to hit into a lot
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: of ground balls against his cutter, which was averaging 92
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: miles an hour, about two miles an hour below his
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: season average from last year. I'm sure he went down
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: to the bullpen and threw another 20 pitches or so.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: The target was to get him to 40 pitches, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: he was just too efficient. But as you know, I mean,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: he only had two up-downs. So clearly they're going to
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: limit him to three up-downs, hope that he can get
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: through three innings in his first outing. I have questions
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: about this. I spoke about this quite bluntly on the
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: most recent Snakes Territory. And I think it's a huge risk.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: I think it's a bit of a panic move. I
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: think maybe the player himself is pushing so hard and
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the team is acquiescing. But at the same time, they're struggling.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, they've run out some rookies that have only
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: been able to give them like four plus innings, you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: can't quite easily finish the fifth inning, giving up two,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: three runs. But for me, the difference between that level
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: of production that they're getting from those rookies and what
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Burns is likely to give them in this first outing
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: is absolutely not worth the risk to a guy that
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: they owe $ 140 million to. He's making $ 35 million a
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: year for the next four years after this. He's coming
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: off a Tommy John surgery and already had a setback
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: in his shoulder. And I just think that the risk
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: is off the charts, personally. I think this is crazy.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: I think that he needs to be built up properly
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: before he goes into a major league game and pitches
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: with that level of adrenaline. You guys know, I mean,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: it's not the same. Pitching a rehab outing, you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: for the Reno Aces is not the same as going
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: into Houston and fighting for your playoff lives.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Well, Jack, you're right. You're 100% right. Where's Zach Allen?
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Where's Zach Allen at on his rehab?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Is he close?
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: So he went an inning and two-thirds on Sunday. He
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: faced eight batters, retired five of them. His stuff didn't
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: look great. You know, if you look at all the
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: stack cast stuff, I mean, his velocity, his induced vertical break,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: all of that, you know, fun stuff that we geeks
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: geek out on. It just doesn't look like anything's really
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: any different. and he certainly wasn't efficient. He used 46
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: pitches against those eight batters. So, you know, he still
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: has work to do. I don't think he's eligible to
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: come off the 60-day IL until September 7th, so I'm
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: sure he's going to have at least one more rehab outing.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: We'll see where that goes. I mean, I don't expect,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: I honestly don't expect Zach Gallin to come Riding in
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: with the white hat and save this rotation and, you know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: be able to come out of the gate and give
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: them a couple of strong starts before the season ends
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: and be part of a postseason rotation. I'm just not
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: there with him.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, it looks like it, Jack. It's going to
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: come down to the last series, right? Don't the Diamondbacks
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: play the Padres the last series of the year?
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, they do.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: It'd be kind of important, kind of an important series.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Has Merrill Kelly fixed his tipping yet? Did they fix
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: that problem?
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: No.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Well, he looked pretty good his last outing, so hopefully that's,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: you know, been resolved. I think that, you know, this
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: isn't the first time this year that the tipping issues
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: have come up. I mean, I think I personally have
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: always believed that Zach Gallin was tipping. Not tipping. God,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: I hate to use that word tipping because I get
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: in trouble every time I say it. But, you know, somehow,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: some way the hitters know what's coming, whether it's the
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: way he's tunneling, where his release angle is and all
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: of that. even if it's not straight up, you know,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: how he's holding the ball in his glove and whether
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: his glove flares and all that, you know, hitters knew
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: what was coming. And the similar things seem to have
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: been happening to Brandon Fott. And now it happened to
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Merrill Kelly. In Merrill Kelly's case, it was a little
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: bit more overt. We had the third base coach for
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: the Cubs basically signaling to the runner on second base.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: And that created a whole kerfuffle, of course. But, you know,
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know why this keeps happening. The Diamondbacks have
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: to dig back in. They got a person that's responsible
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: for reviewing all this video. And the coaches, of course,
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: they're responsible for this too and trying to help the
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: pitcher spot this. And it's happened several times this year, clearly.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Well, wait, I didn't realize. So it's the end of
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the season, the last, what, three games for Padres Diamondbacks,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: what AJ was saying earlier there?
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Same as last year. I mean, D-backs needed
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: to go into San Diego and sweep them last year
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: to get in the playoffs, and of course they weren't
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: able to do that. And, you know, D-backs are half
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: game up. Their composite playoff odds are almost exactly the same.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a coin flip. It's really down to
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: those two teams for that third spot, unless, you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: one of them gets extremely hot and the Phillies falter.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: You know, if one of those teams just goes, you know,
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: lightning on fire, And Phillies stumbled. It's possible that one
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: of them could get the number two spot and Philly
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: drops down. But it's almost 90% sure that this is
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: going down on the final weekend of the season. So
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: it's going to be exciting. Season series is tied, by
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: the way, 5-5.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Why are you saying the Phillies? What about the Cubs?
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: The Phillies and the Cubs have the same record, don't they?
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: I thought the Cubs, maybe they fell back today. I'm sorry.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: You're right. Oh. I would say that the Cubs probably
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: a little bit stronger, but, you know, you could count
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: them in that as well, for sure.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Hey, don't be selling the Cubs short. They're capable of anything.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. Ten-game winning streak, ten-game losing streak.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Jack's a big run differential guy. That's why he likes
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the Cubs better than the Phillies. Big run differential guy.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Don't get me started. Don't get me too excited on
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: a Monday.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Jack, thank you. Appreciate you. Oh, buddy, Bob will skewer
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: me for that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Hey, same. Trust me. Not a run differential guy. Everyone
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: check out Snake's territory. They're going to be all over
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: this Quetel Marte story all week long. Yeah, it's been
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: going on for weeks. It's going to continue this week
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: when he returns, when we hear what teammates said about
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: his apology, when he talks to the media at some point.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: A lot still to cover here.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Jack. Thank you. Great to see you guys. Thank you.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, did you guys see this? Warren Schaefer, the Rockies manager,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: is benching Cole Keurig for a couple games. after he
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: flipped off fans in Atlanta on Saturday. And then the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: quote from Craig, the rookie, who's been exciting. Braves fans
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: are pretty passionate themselves. Kudos to them. But that gesture
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: can't happen. Two games? I would have said one. AJ,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: what would you have done for punishment?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Somebody that may or may not have done this before
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: and didn't get suspended, I feel like you have a
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: talk to the guy and say don't ever do that again.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I just don't– I
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, his was so blatant, though. He didn't even
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: try to hide it. But then I want to know
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: what they said to him because, you know, there's things that–
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: certain things that are said that can just make you
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: snap on a– I don't know.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's what they felt was fair, so
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: that's what they're doing.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Fine.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: And because it was so public, they had to do it.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, he lost. He snapped. It was in the moment.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: He blacked out. What do you want me to say?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Two games is perfect. Way to go, Rockies. I mean,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I think they want to set a standard. I think
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: they want to set a standard of like, hey, we're
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: not going to do that. We're not going to be
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: that type of organization players. So they did it. It's
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: always intriguing to me when somebody flips off somebody because
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: everybody does it differently. Like, do people go with the
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: like half middle finger? Do they go with like a massive,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: huge middle finger? Do they hide it? He didn't hide it.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: So it's always interesting. Everybody has their own like character
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: to flipping somebody off.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And he did pinch hit, right? And then he stayed
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: in the game. So that's something.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: So they suspended him from starting.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a suspension from starting versus a suspension from game.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know. How many times did you do it, AJ?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: How many times would you say you did it? Once
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: only or once that you got caught? You did it
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: once and you got caught one time? Not a chance.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: No.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: No speaking English.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: It looks like a kid when you ask him how
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: many cookies he took from the cookie jar.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: It happened one time. I've told this story on here before. No,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I know. It was Heroes of the Giants.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I got called into the office by Brian Sabian, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I tried to be all discreet about it because some
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: guy was wearing me out, and I had hit him
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: to a double play, and I was running off the field,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: and I went kind of itchy-scratchy on my face. And
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: the camera caught it, and I got called into the
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: office the next day, and he's like, did you realize
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: you did this? I was like, I didn't do that. Well,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: here's the video proof. I was like, okay, maybe I
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: did it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: It.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: FT Breaking News. The Baltimore Orioles are in this wild
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: card race, and they are claiming Luis Robert Jr. off
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: of waivers from the Mets. Chelsea Jane's first reporting the news.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: The Orioles add Robert Jr. for the stretch run here.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: It has been a disappointing season for Baltimore, but they
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: are showing fans they're still in this thing. They had
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a big sweep over the weekend. They take down the A's.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: They stay in a good spot, a good enough spot
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to compete for that wild card that everyone in the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: American League that's been mediocre has a shot at. AJ,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: you watched a lot of Luis Robert over the years.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Then he signs or gets traded to the Mets. Disappointing
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: season besides, what, maybe the last two weeks of Mets
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: are going to end up saving a lot of money
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: by the way, because they're above way above all the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: luxury tax numbers. So they're saving about $ 5 million to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: get rid of Luis Robert for one month and give
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: him to the Orioles. So there is a party in
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Queens this afternoon, but do you think legitimately that he
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: could be a big help to the Orioles to get
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: them into the playoffs?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: How are the crowds in Baltimore? That's my first question.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: How are the crowds?
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: It's a great question.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Because we know he can only play in front of
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: a certain number. He's did he, when they claimed him, did,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Mike Elias call him and Luis Roberts say, listen, Mike,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: the crowds need to be between this number and this
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: number in order for me to perform. If they're too big,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I can't do it. If they're too small, I can't
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: do it. So that would have been my first question.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: And then second of all, does this mean Luis Roberts
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: is going to be a free agent or will the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Orioles pick up the next $ 20 million option that he has?
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: That's the real question is, I mean, and the fact
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: that the Orioles are still in this just goes to
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: show you how bad the American League is.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say. Like, honestly, everybody's
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: going to say, well, what if he hits a big homer? Yeah, obviously. Yeah.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would have been a help to a
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: team if I hit a big homer. Like, is this
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: a need that are they just like, man, I hope
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: this kind of works out because it's a lot of
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: money for what I thought was a cash strapped Orioles team.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: They're not. I mean, Who said they're cash-strapped? No, I'm
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: going to defend them on that part. Have they made
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: wrong moves?
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: But they've spent money.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: They're not willing to spend money on starting pitching? They're
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: not willing to keep closing burns around?
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: They've spent way more money. They've spent way more money
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: than they used to. I wouldn't say they're cash-strapped. Now,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: have they made some misses? They've made some misses in
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: terms of some signings. I would put it more that way.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, they acquired Boz and Brad, and they extended Bradish.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: They've extended Boz. I don't think, I think we have
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: to take them out of the, this organization is dirt
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: cheap category.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Just, just to defend them for a second here. I don't,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think that part's fair. Now they make some
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: wrong decisions.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Do they also, should they have been selling and not
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: buying at the trade deadline? Probably not, especially now when
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: you look and there's still just one game out of
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: a spot.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: So they're like, just kidding. Let's buy now. Dump deadline.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Go get Luis Robert jr.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: It's just, there's always, it's always going to be that
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: conversation with a guy like Luis Robert jr. wow, what potential?
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Could this team help him tap into it? And honestly,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: when you go through the type of career that he's had,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: I think it's up to Luis Robert. If he wants
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: to be able to tap into it, whatever it is,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I don't think you just have an aberration and you
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: play out of your mind in the season where he
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: was an all-star, when he went to Seattle for the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: all-star game. I think you're playing below your potential when
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: you don't play to that. Nobody plays better than they
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: are And I think, look, Luis Robert is a guy
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: that you could see hitting 10 homers in the month
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: of September and then convincing the Orioles to pick up
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: his probably $ 20 million option again. Like, he has that
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: flash and that skill. Do I think it'll happen? Most
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: likely not. But it could help the Orioles, and they
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: could make the playoffs.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It could help them on defense. And also, yeah, if
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: you make the playoffs, that ends up making you money.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: So here's my thing. AJ, have we been big believers
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: in the player being worth $ 20 million for a full season?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. If you have an opportunity as Baltimore to
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: upgrade your team on offense and on defense and money
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: is not a factor. Sure. I'll take a flyer on
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: one month of Luis Robert. Do I want a full
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: season of Luis Robert at $ 20 million? Absolutely not. But
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I give them credit, right? We often tell teams, Hey,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: why aren't you caring more? Baltimore is one of them.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: They sold players at the deadline. So ultimately, Even if
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: we're not in love with the player, is he better
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: than the end of their roster?
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: They're trying.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're trying. Maybe they should have tried, like
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: you said a little bit earlier. I mean, it also
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: helps that Kobe Mayo started to hit. Beavers have started
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: to hit. Some of their other guys have started to
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: hit a little bit. So that's also helped them. And again,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: the American League stinks.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: It stinks.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. The American League stinks.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Look at them though.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Baltimore.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: We're looking at the standings right now. Guardians have the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: third wild card. I'm just reading.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, the blue Jays and the Orioles are like
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: hot and heavy in this. Neither one of those teams
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: a month ago, two months ago, we're like, man, these
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: are both teams that make, can make a run deep
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: in the post season. They both have a legitimate chance
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: to get into the post season. It's crazy that 69
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: and 68 right now is the guardians and they're, have
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: one game lead over the Baltimore Orioles to get into
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: the postseason.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. I mean, the Red Sox and Yankees are
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: locked in.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: The Orioles did something right this past offseason. They signed
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo. He has been their best player. He has
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: been incredible. He's one of the best players in the
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: league now. When you look at the offensive stats this year,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's been like that for many years. But
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the run that he's had to keep them in this thing,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: they would not even be close to a wild card
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: spot if they didn't have Pete Alonzo. So they're trying
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: to take advantage of that. Gunnar Henderson is hot lately.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe he finds it for the final month of the season, right?
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: And you get at least a sliver of what you
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: used to get from him. He's still a very young player,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: and he battled some injuries earlier on in the season.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Christian Encarnacion-Strand does not get talked about a lot, but
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: he's been really good for them lately too. So suddenly
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: their offense is starting to click a little bit. Like
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, Mayo, Beavers. I'm looking up and down at
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the lineup, AJ, and compared to most of the American League,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this lineup can bang. Yeah.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, Pete, Pete right now is the formula is
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: saying right now that Pete is raking and Pete would
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: have looked really good as a Met, but Pete is
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: now an Oriole in raking.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: They figured something out and they're playing much, much better.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: It's fun team to watch right now because they're scoring
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: so many runs and their pitching has been decent. I
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: think this is the team we thought of the Orioles
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: last year. And then this year, and they're kind of,
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Getting it now, but is it too little too late?
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: We'll find out.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this, if Elyse Robert comes over
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: and does some and you have the rest of this
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: lineup going and you get Braddish going and Shane Boz
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: going and Trevor Rodgers is the good Trevor Rodgers, this
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: would not be a fun team to face in the postseason.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: This is a prime case, them claiming him. The fact
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: that Eugenio Suarez, a guy that stayed healthy, was not claimed.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I think they're making the same I have to look
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: it up as I'm talking here, but I think they
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: both had... Robert's.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Probably making more. 15 versus 20?
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: 15 versus 20, but still you're looking in that $ 3- 4
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: million range for the last month, and he's been out
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: on the field the whole time. The upside, the fact
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: that he can play defensive, he's healthy, and can hit
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: you a dinger, should be able to steal your bases.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: For some reason, he's not running this year. Maybe that's
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: a mets theme who knows maybe he goes away from
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: the mets and has a great september and helps carry this.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Team yeah and we've seen it he can't keep himself
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: on the field or stay consistent and for the mets
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: of course they were going to place him on waivers
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: or they should have i mean you have ewing you
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: have bench so to just return this weekend see you
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: right and you're not a playoff team so it's certainly
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: not a team you have to worry about saving money
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't hurt for them it's still five million
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: bucks that they save that they can spend somewhere else.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what Baltimore does, but give them credit.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: This is the only option you have at this point.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: You get to the end of August. There used to
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: be trades. I used to love them, but they took
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: that away from us because apparently everyone else knows more
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: than we do about how transactions work and what people
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: care about. But AJ, the dump deadline is a real thing.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: It pops up every year, sometimes with multiple players and
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: sometimes one or two here. So John Schreiber also was
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: picked up the Royals reliever by the Yankees. So this
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: gives you the chance where just for anyone that didn't
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: know this to cap off the conversation, player gets put
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: on waivers like this. They go in reverse order of standings.
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: And then a team says, sure, I'm interested. I'll take them.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: And if you are, you claim him, you take on
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the rest of his money.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: There's no trade. It's just a money dump. Hence the name.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Dump deadline. And Scott Coleman from our Braves Hammer Territory
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: show thought that the Braves should have picked him up
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: to give them some outfield depth and also to finally
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: spend some of the money they saved on jerks and pro-far.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Guess what? He didn't make it to the Braves.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: No, he didn't.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: The most fascinating part is whether he does well or
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: not is do the O's pick up his option for
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: next year.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: That, to me, is going to be the most fascinating
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: part of this. You don't think?
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: They better not. That's a different story.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: How much are they paying Tyler O'Neal? I'm all for
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: picking him up. How much are they paying Tyler O'Neal?
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Probably close to 20 a year, right, from what I remember.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: On that contract?
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: It's 18. If he has a good month in Baltimore,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: they don't pick.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Up his option.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think they should. I think there's a very
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: different evaluation process. Do I think they will or should?
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say no on both. I think we've
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: finally reached a point where teams are like, hey, a
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: burst of Luis Robert for a month, When I'm in
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the playoff race, sure. A full season of him staying
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: on the field. Did you guys see that report earlier
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: in the season for the Mets and how much gymnastics
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: they were trying to do to keep him on the field?
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: They were like, one, two, skip a few. On Tuesdays
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: at 3 p.m., he can't play, but on Wednesdays at 4,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: he can't. There were so many rules, and he still
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: was out for most of the season. No thank you
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: from me. If I'm Baltimore, I would say the same thing.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the month. Maybe he has a great finish,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: and he's worth less than that, but.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe they can find someone to trade for him like
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: the White Sox did. Like the Mets.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: It's crazy that you're even saying this. It's crazy that
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: you're even saying this, but you're not wrong. That's the
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: whole crux of this situation. This shouldn't be brought up
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: that very talented, can't stay healthy. All right. You know what?
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: He's going to become a free agent next year. And
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: that's that. But AJ bringing it up, he's not wrong.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: He's not like teams can fall in love with this
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: and be like, there's no such thing as a one
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: bad one year deal.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: This is true.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: And there's more deals. Actually, we'll get to over the
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: break here. We got to step aside for a moment.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: We'll swing back and we'll talk about the Red Sox
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: and Yankees, but also in the division, the Orioles still
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: alive here. With this pickup, Birdland Territory covering it. They
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: had a good episode wrapping up the series that they
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: swept over the weekend. And I'm sure there will be
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: another one, a big Birdland episode in the next 24
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: hours to cover all of this. From A to Z,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: check out the show. All right, so a couple things
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: on the Braves while we were just talking about them.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: So they lost Spencer Schwellenbach for the rest of the
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: season and maybe more. He's going to have surgery to
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: repair the same elbow fractured. suffered last year. Tommy John
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: surgery for Hurston Waldrop. And the Braves are not sure
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: about Spencer Strider if his season's done, but it probably is.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Here's Scott Coleman again from the Hammer Territory show that
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: we love on the FT Network. He goes, my God.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of quoting from the story that Mark Bowman
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: wrote about Schwellenbach. It says in the story, Schwellenbach's bid
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: to pitch at some point this year officially ended earlier
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: this week when he was barely able to feel his
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: arm near the end of a bullpen session at the
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Brave Spring Training Complex in Florida. And at one point,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: there was a later tweet from Bowman AJ about how
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Schwellenbach hopes to return. I mean, it sounds bad and
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: it sucks for a super young pitcher who had a
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: lot of success right from the jump, but then has
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: missed a ton of time since.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think the Braves are counting on these guys.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: I don't think Waldrop or Schoenbach, they were counting on.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: They were hoping. They were hopeful.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Chris Sale has been ridiculously good, obviously. Bryce Elder is better,
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: I think. I think sometimes Bryce Elder gets a lot
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: of crap, and he's been up and down, yes.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: But I know this.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: The Braves absolutely love that dude in the clubhouse. They
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: love what he stands for. You know, Smith-Schwarber's back.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have been nice to get these two
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: guys back, but they're not. And I don't think.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: One thing Walt Weiss has done a good job of,
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: and the Braves in total, have seen, well, if we
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: get these guys back, great, but if we don't, we're
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: okay with what we have. And I don't think they're
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: counting on Strider either. I mean, Strider's kind of trending
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: towards being one of those guys that's been hurt a lot,
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: and that sucks. But he was so electric when he
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: came up. He got hurt. He came back. He couldn't
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: throw the ball by anybody, and then he got hurt again.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: So they're not counting on these guys. They were hopeful
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: they'd come back, but it sucks if you're a Braves
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: fan because it would have been nice, but The Braves
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: are doing just fine. As long as the pitching staff
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: is led by Chris Sale, you're going to be all right.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Absolute ace of aces. Hall of Famer. Schwellenbach's injury, man.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I've never– couldn't even feel his arm.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever heard of that. That is–
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: that's concerning for me. Not just for this season, clearly,
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: he can't pitch, but for his career. Like, that is–
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: that's something I don't– I've never really heard of. So,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: hopefully they can figure out what's going on.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, another transaction in the last five minutes. The Chicago
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: White Sox have traded for Tommy Pham from the Phillies.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: You're going to get some moves in here in the
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: next 12 to 24 hours because then Pham will join
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: the team when rosters expand September 1. And this is what? Mets, O's, Phillies,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: now White Sox for him this year.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Tommy Pham, another Iron Pig.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Well, Sedan Raffaella made an outstanding catch for the Red Sox.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I can say that, but yes, AJ, correct me, because
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: officially it is not a catch, and it ends up
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: costing the Red Sox runs, and then they got blown out.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: But still, you never know how the game's going to result.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: What?
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with all that? It doesn't matter or it does?
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: I was letting you finish.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: I feel like as I'm talking, you're giving me the
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: no and then the maybe, kind of reacting to each
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: way that I describe the play. Let's get his reaction
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: first because most people were pretty pissed off, right, about
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: what happened here and why it goes to replay and
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: then replay still says it's not a catch. Maybe there's
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: something that we were all missing. Zidane Raffaele himself spoke postgame.
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: I didn't have to even watch it. I know I
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: made the catch. I know when a ball drop and
• 52:59
  Speaker 7: a ball don't drop. And I know I made the catch.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: How frustrating that kind of turned the game, the fact
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: that that was not called correctly on the field and
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: they couldn't overturn it.
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like you said, they couldn't overturn it out of
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: our control. But I was really mad at the moment,
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: in the moment. I really wanted to have my pitcher there,
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: and I feel that changed the whole game right there.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: How unusual is it for you to be that mad
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: about a call?
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, you guys haven't seen me play in a
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: couple years. I don't really argue that much with anybody.
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: I play my game hard and go home, enjoy my family.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: That's what I do.
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: And when I feel something is not right, I'm going
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: to be there for my teammate. He was throwing an
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: unbelievable game, and that's what got me most upset.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: All right, so talk me through it, AJ.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: It wasn't a catch, no. Because the replay said it wasn't.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: And they always get it right.
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Right? No, it was a catch.
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: Wait, so what happened? What the heck happened?
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It was a catch. It looked like
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: a catch. They said he trapped it. I don't know.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: This is one of those funky rules. The only thing
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: I will disagree with what you said, Scott, was, I mean,
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know how it hits. Clearly hits his glove
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: first before it hits the ground.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know how he didn't break his wrist. Right there.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: But it's stubborn leaves his glove. So that's why I
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: don't know. It looks like a catch. It felt like
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: a catch. Uh, the only thing I'll disagree with you
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: on Scott is you never know. I hate when people say, well,
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: if this would have happened, if this would have happened,
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: then we would have won the game.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: How do we know?
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: We don't know that. So you can never go back
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: and say, Oh, well, if that catches rule to catch,
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: then they don't score the 12 runs in the last inning,
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: the eighth inning, whatever it was.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: So that's the only thing I'll disagree with. Uh, Was
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: it a catch? I thought it was a catch, but
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: it didn't become a catch. So you've got to regroup
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: and just get through it. They didn't do that. The
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Yankees came out and smashed them in the late inning.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. Replay is not always right. Let's
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: just say that. Call stands. It wasn't confirmed. Call stands.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Not a catch. How they called it not a catch in-game,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: I have no idea because in-game– You can't see. You're
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: just assuming it's not a catch. If you were the,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I assume that's the first base umpire that has that call,
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: not the second base umpire. Because he, I mean, it
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: rolled up behind him. And then I could see on replay,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: I could definitely see on replay why they would have said,
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Because right at the end when they
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: super slow mow it, the glove like turns down and
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: you see the ball is at the bottom of his glove.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I thought he caught it. but I can see how
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't overturn it.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't as glaring to you as it was
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: to most.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: He definitely got his glove under it to catch it.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: But when it turned, when it turned like this, you could,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: you could argue. Like you will see, obviously here, no
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: chance you can sit there and say, unless you think
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: like either way, like I'm just going to be like, yeah,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: you know what? He caught it. Like, unless you think
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: he is picking it off the ground. Here you can't tell,
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: but in this next slow motion, as the glove goes down,
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: remembering right here. To me, they could say, in football,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: we see it all the time. Did the point of
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: the football hit the ground? Like, I don't think it's
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: cut and dry. It can hit the ground in football
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: as long as you have control over it and it's
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: still a catch. They've changed that rule because the other
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: rule was stupid. I agree. I agree.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: I thought it was a catch, but I just will
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: say this.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: I didn't think you can never say, Oh, that changed
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: the game. That changed the game.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: Cause there's so many variables in baseball and other sports. Oh, well,
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: you know, if, if so-and-so would have hit a half
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: court three point buzzer beater at halftime, then, you know,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: the Knicks wouldn't have won the NBA championship.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: We don't know that.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: We can never say that unless you're Dr. Strange and
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: you can go through time and, The multiverse? I don't
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: know who else would know the answer to that. Or
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: unless it's really defining. If it's really defining. If it's
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: a ball that's caught. If it ends the game.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Right, exactly. But that's the only way. Who says Ranger,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: if he gets that out there, doesn't go complete game?
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Stop with that. You don't know. You have to go
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: and play the next play. And they got mollywhopped the
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: rest of the game.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think anybody's going, hey, the Red Sox
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: won that game if they don't mess that up. I
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: think they're just saying you don't know how the game
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: is going to play out after that. I get what
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: you're saying. Like, you can't use that as the only
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: excuse for why you got crushed. It wasn't even a
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: close result. But I think you should be pissed off.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: That's the point, right? You would be pissed off. That's
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the point, AJ. If you're on the Red Sox at
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: that moment and they ask you postgame about it, you'd
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, what's the point of replay?
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Agreed.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, there was plenty of replays I was a
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: part of that I didn't understand. And after the game,
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: they ask you, you're like, ah, you know, that's why
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: we're supposed to have it. But it doesn't always get
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: it right. And that's the I think that's the frustrating
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: part for a lot of people.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Is it frustrating if someone is swiping bags when the
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: team is up six and you're behind the plate? Do
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: you care about that stuff?
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: Because.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Red Sox broadcaster Will Fleming from WEEI cared. The play-by-play
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: guy there. We'll get into his comments. We'll run them
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: in a second. But A.J. Jazz Chisholm doing his thing.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Does that bother you at all?
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: In today's game, nothing is off limits. There are no
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: unwritten rules.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: We've talked about this many times on this show. It
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: used to be if you were up six runs in
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: the eighth inning and they weren't really holding you on
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: and you did this, somebody was going to get drilled,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: whether it was you or the hitter hitting or whoever,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: somebody was going to get hit. But we've gotten to
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: the point as a sport where we've taken away all
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: of that. So you can kind of do whatever you want.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: And Jazz just playing the game. And, you know, do
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: I think that Will Fleming should have said what he
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: said about him? No, because I think that you should
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: never get personal as an announcer. And that's one of
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: the hardest things. And Will Fleming apologized and said he
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: was a fan. And I understand that. But one of
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: the first things you're taught as an announcer, you should
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: never give anything personal. Just talk about what's happening on
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: the field, no matter how big of a fan you are.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: And listen, Jazz did this.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: Sure. Was he padding his stats? Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, nobody cares because bat flips
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: and all this stuff is now fine.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: You can't care about one little thing if you don't
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: care about everything.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Well, let's get the line from him during the game.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Here's the sound from Will Fleming during the Red Sox
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: broadcast calling for retaliation.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Look, you're up six.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: It's the eighth.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 8: The team is electing not to hold you on. That's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: the white flag, right? And normally in that situation, you
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: don't run.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: You don't run.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: Wouldn't you sort of like to see moran drill wells
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: right here infield's coming in.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: It's just that's selfish play right that's just padding your
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 8: stats well he's a bush but guess what i mean.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: It's not even a steal here's the pitch and it's
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: swung on a miss i think that's indifference don't you yeah.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 8: It's just you know that one of the unwritten rules
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 8: like if we're holding you on sure if you get
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: a jump go but if i'm gonna play behind you
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: at first base that's us just saying you just play
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 8: the game right and and Normally you don't see guys
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: steal in that situation up six late in the game.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: Well, that's who Jazz is. I don't know what else
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: you need to hear. The 3-2 is drilled into right field.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: It is way back in.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: It is gone.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: And Marant should fight Chisholm. He's walking towards the third
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: base line, staring at him there. Chisholm trots home. It's
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: a two-run homer, and it's 9-1.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Well, and then we have the apology from Will Fleming. Yeah,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: he was going for it. And he was receiving threats
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: over the last, whatever, 24 hours. He said, since I've
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: been receiving nonstop calls and threats, I felt like it
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: was important to hop back on here and say, my
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: comments during yesterday's broadcast crossed the line. I'm emotional and
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: a fan at heart. And that bled into the broadcast. Kratz,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on if you heard this on the radio?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: From any perspective, player perspective, organization, fan, right? Fan not
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: of the Red Sox.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: I mean... the he should fight him part, like, I
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: didn't hear that part until just now. I think the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: emotions were definitely shining through there, and I was trying
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: to look up to see if he got two stolen
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: bases for that yesterday. I didn't get it looked up,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: so if somebody can look that up, I think it
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: could be defensive indifference. I've also heard of the whole,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: you know what, you're going to play behind the runner
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: and I got a lefty up, you're taking a hit
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: away from my teammate, so I'm going to steal second
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: to get him an RBI. I've heard all sides of it.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: My biggest thing is exactly what AJ said. You stand
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: for something as a team. If you feel like he's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: disrespected you, then you have to take care of that,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: or he's broken the rules, then you have to take
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: care of that. I think for the radio guys, maybe
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: it's a little too much, but you can tell that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: that Red Sox, Yankees... Rivalry is still alive in the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: radio booth. I mean, calling him a Bush League player,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: saying he should fight him, like, it towed the line,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: but good for Will for coming out and actually crossed
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: the line. Good for him for him coming out and
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: apologizing that he got too emotional. So, you know what? Everything's,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think Jazz is giving him any interviews and
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're looking for any interviews from Jazz.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: He's a free agent after this year. Maybe he'll sign
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: with the Red Sox. They can talk about him all
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: the time at that point. So he's at 40 stolen bases.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: He's got two on that one.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: He knows the number. He knows the number. He knows
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: he said he wanted to go 50-50, and 50's in reach.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: And if those are two bags for him, I don't
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: know if he got one earlier in the year, and
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: so just second was a bag. But you know what?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Everybody's played with guys who go after their numbers.
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  Speaker 4: He's a free agent here.
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  Speaker 6: 50-50.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: 50 hits and 50 stolen bases.
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  Speaker 4: Not always.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: 50-50 is not happening, but he knows how much he
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: needs to get to his milestone goal.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: By the way, the Rays used to be the king
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: of this, stealing third, up huge. I remember when I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: was with the Red Sox and we had the benches
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: clear because I don't know, I forget who it was.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: Someone stole third and our bench was like, they were
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: up big and our bench was like, oh, that's the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: only way you can steal third.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: I forget. And then, you know, the.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: Benches cleared because It was just handled differently then. People
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: would say something. Now it's just become, again, I'll say
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: it again.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: You do whatever you want.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: Nobody can say anything because we let the kids play.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: You can't have emotions and say, hey, we're going to
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: judge this, but we're not going to judge the 100
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: other things people have done. So that's why I don't
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: think it was as big of a deal as Will
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: Fleming made it out to be. He was mad they
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: had lost three or four in the series. They were
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: getting crushed, and he just– He's a better broadcaster than this,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: I feel like, and he apologized, so good for you, Will,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: for apologizing, and now we can move on.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the threats, I mean, sure, should he have gone
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: as far as the fighting?
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: I think he knows that now that he listened back
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: to it. He knows, yeah.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: You call in a lot of games, hours of baseball,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: people make mistakes. Is it the worst thing that's ever
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: been said?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: Let's relax, but... Yes, I think lesson learned on all
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: parties here. And the last thing I'll say on this
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: is sometimes there's a fine line when you're a team
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: broadcaster on which way you want to spin. Some team broadcasters,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: for the most part, will just deliver the goods and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: some get pretty opinionated and fan oriented. I mean, AJ,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: you lived that for a long time. Hawk Harrelson was
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the definition of that when you were playing. Hawk was
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: living and dying with every moment. It felt like you
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: were watching the game with a fan sitting next to you.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: And that was the Hawk Harrelson experience. If you listen
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: to a Mets game and they're a well-respected broadcast, they
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: do a great job. It's much different. It has almost
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: at times a national feel to it in the way
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: that they will criticize their own team and just tell
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: it like it is from a different perspective. I like
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: both perspectives, but I'm just pointing that out. That is
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: part of the equation here, right? Will became a fan
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: during that moment.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: And listen, every fan will tell you they want their
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: home broadcast. And I'm a big– and I believe this.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: You've got to be a homer to some extent if
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: you're the home broadcaster because you're with these guys every day.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: And you're told you're hired by the team. The team
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: hires you.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: And they will never admit this, but the team doesn't
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: tell them what to say, but the team gives them
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: ideas what to say.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: Meaning we need you to push a certain thing and
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: make A or B sound good when– It might not
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: be that good because people are starting to clamor about it.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: So I think being a fan of your team that
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: you work for is a good thing. It's not a
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: bad thing. But you just can't let it bleed into
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: where you're taking, I don't want to say a shot
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: at another guy, but you can't use it to where
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: you get a little personal with a guy on another
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: team or even your own team.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: I just showed my kids. People who don't know who
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Hulk Harrelson is, just go find any highlight. I showed
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: my kids the fight we had with the Royals between...
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: It started with Jordano Ventura and Eaton. And at the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: end of it, I mean, Hulk Harrelson was like, you're
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: going to get his butt whooped. And it was... My
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: kids were like... was that the guy that says put
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: on the board? Yes. And I was like, yes, it is. Yes.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: That is, that was Hawk. But I mean, you, you
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: feel that emotion again, goes a little too far in
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: All right. Good talk before the television crowd comes back.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Did you guys see this little fun that the giants
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: had and what they're experiencing? Ron Wotus, who's been in
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: the game for a long time. Um, was booted when
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: he gave the lineup card. Alan Porter was like, I
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: don't want to hear it, even though Porter had a
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: rough game the day before. This actually seems more deep-rooted, AJ,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: in the fact that the Giants feel as if Tony
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Vitello is getting a quick hook from umpires, and I
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: actually think they have a point here.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: Ron Modis 100% took the lineup card out to get ejected.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: He had been there a long time. He has been
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: the third base coach, the bench coach, since I was
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: there in 2004. He's been a coach for the Giants.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: You know what he did? He said, Tony, I got
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: this today. I'm going to take care of this. And
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: he went out there and took care of business. I
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: got nothing but respect for Wotus fellow Polak, by the way,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: might be the bench coach one day of team Poland
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: with me. But yeah, he went out there a hundred
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: percent and just said, look, Tony, you were, I didn't
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: feel like what happened yesterday was fair to you. You
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: can't go out there and get ejected today. I'm going
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: to handle this for you. And that's what being a
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: good teammate and being a coach and respecting the guy
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: who's in charge. That's what it's all about now. The
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: best part is the guy standing there with his hands
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: in his pocket listening to this. Like, I'm just here
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: for the picture, guys. I'm just here for the picture.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Honorary fan. I think the lineup card exchange got his
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: money's worth, Kratz.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Alan Porter is giving it to him. The guy's back
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: there in his Willie Mays jersey, hands in his pocket.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Even the Marlins fan– Coach that's out there with the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: lineup card. I think it was the Marlins. Like, he's
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: standing there like, I kind of want to hear this.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: You know what? He got after it. And good if
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: he's sticking up for his manager. You know what? Maybe
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: they feel he's being disrespected. They have a choice. You
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: can also disrespect him or, okay, it was the Diamondbacks.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: Or you can feel like you got to stick up
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: for him. So good for Wotus.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: There were some pretty bad misses over the weekend, but AJ,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: it's fair to say that the misses can be corrected
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: these days. If an ump has a terrible game, then
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: you tap your head.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: An ump can't have a terrible game. If you think
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: he keeps missing, keep tapping your helmet because you just
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: get another. I was at the Yankee game on Saturday,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: the first game, and I was there for about the
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: last four innings, and those four innings, I saw about
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: eight of these, and they just kept doing it, and
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: they kept doing it, and they kept doing it, and
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: they kept doing it because they were right, and the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: umpire kept turning around and and saying, oh, another challenge
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: by the catcher, another challenge.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: By the hitter.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, they're overturned. Okay, they get another challenge. It's real simple.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: That's why they invented the old head tap.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: It's working.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: winning the Little League World Series title for the second
• 1:10:51
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• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Classic what Team Netherlands looks like because it features usually
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: a very powerful small island, and that is Curacao.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Curacao, Jerks and Profar. I mean, there's a long list.
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  Speaker 3: Jerks and Profar. Andrelton Simmons, Andrew Jones. There's a whole
• 1:11:15
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  Speaker 2: Kenley Jansen, right? He's Curacao. He's from Curacao, isn't he?
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Scope.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a whole list of guys that are from
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: Curacao that have had nice big league careers. And Curacao
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: has been a power ever since they've gotten into Little
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations to Curacao. Curacao is a really cool place
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: if you've never been Super happy people. But, yeah, congratulations
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  Speaker 3: to them. Congratulations to the team from Nevada that came
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: up short. I know I just– the one thing about
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: Little League baseball, win or lose, someone's going to be crying,
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  Speaker 3: and you feel so good for the team they want,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: and you feel so bad for the team that loses.
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  Speaker 2: That's so true. That's so true. So the timeline for
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: me for Kira Sal, congratulations. 2005, my hitting coach was
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: Bam Bam Mullins. Maybe one of the godfathers of– Literally,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: of the island of Curacao baseball. He still runs camps
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: down there that he invites me to almost every year.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: And he said, that was 2005. They won it in 2004.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: And he said, honestly, the next class might even be
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: a little bit better after them with Xander Bogarts and
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Ozzy Albies. So on that team, they had three big
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: leaguers that won it. So then you look ahead, and
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: now those guys are 33-34. And they've had big league
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: careers that all these little leaguers have looked up to.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: So for a small island that has incredible little league success,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: it's grown the game so much. And this is why
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: I think little leagues to the next level, to minor
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: league baseball, the more we can have things like this,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: teams like this, tournaments like this, it grows the game
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: in that area, and that area just happens to be
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: a tiny little island near Venezuela.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a baseball-crazed island. They love it there. And yeah,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: the quotes from the Curacao coaching staff about how you
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: saw many young American fans buying Curacao gear and then
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: getting it signed by the Curacao players was a really
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: cool sign of not only the popularity of the team,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: but also the respect level for what they were doing.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: So I love that part.
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  Speaker 4: Very cool.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's what Little League Baseball is all about.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: It's people from all over the world coming together to
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: play the game of baseball and have fun at it. Again,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: one team's upset they lost, but at the end of
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: the day, they look back, they're 12 years old, the
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: Nevada team is still the American champions. They can still
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: go back to Las Vegas or wherever they're from in Nevada,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: hold their heads up high and say, hey, we finished second.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: In the world.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. Pretty cool for Little League group of kids.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: It's not like a travel team where they're all recruited
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: to go play. This is usually a team from a
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: certain area that comes together and they have a special run.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty amazing. I think it's cool, too, that especially
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: in a day and age. Now, this is on ESPN.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: This is a major, huge tournament. They're getting a lot
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: of popularity. Tons of people show up. I think it's
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: cool that Japan cares enough that they're winning the third place.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: They're winning third place. They're juiced about it. Think about
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: how many times now in college football, in different sports, well,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: if we're not going to win the whole thing. Even
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: the Cubs, they said it. Well, you know, if we
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: don't have a bye, we're not going to make any
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: big trades. Like, it's really not that worth it. Japan
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: was super juiced about this. So, like, they just need
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: to continue this, continue to grow it even more because
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: it's the purest form of our sport.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: I'll give you the most recent example. Would the Blue
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Jays have loved to win the World Series?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: from Bob Nightingale this weekend included him saying, AJ Hinch
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  Speaker 1: is still beloved in the Astros organization, has a strong
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: relationship with Jim Crane, but no interest in filling their
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: GM vacancy. Remember, Hinch used to work in a front office.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: Why are you guys looking at me weird? He used
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: to work in a front office back in the day
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: with the Diamondbacks.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: He's a smart guy. He can work in a front office.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at you weird because Jim Crane didn't get
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: in trouble at all for the scheme, for the trash
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: can scam.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he did.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, he got fined. AJ had to lose his job.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: You think he wants to go back to that organization?
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's ever a... I don't think there's
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: ever a reunion back there.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: And the Astros, according to Bob, are expected to hire
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: a GM with a strong analytics background. That would be
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: the first time any team has done that, probably. Former
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Astros GM James Click, VP of Baseball Strategy with the
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays since 2023, has emerged as a serious candidate for,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: not the Astros, because he was there, won a World Series,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: and that wasn't good enough, but for the A's GM opening.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: Can he pitch?
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: He can pitch to free agents that things will be different.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe he goes in there and has enough juice based
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: on his track record to tell John Fisher that he
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: needs to invest in his baseball operations department. There's no
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: one there. Not no one there. There are not enough
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: people there compared to most of the rest of the league.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: The team that was... front focused on their front office
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: is now drastically behind. And that is a fact. So
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: maybe James click helps to build it.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: Back up and make another movie. Maybe they can make
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: another terrible movie about them. How they do not as
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: much money.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Money ball too. We don't have as much money ball too.
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  Speaker 3: And first movie sucked. This one's going to suck more.
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  Speaker 2: You can't even say it sucked. You didn't watch it.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched it. I lived it. I did watch it.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched it numerous times. Everyone's like, that's my favorite
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: baseball movie. I'm like, why? Because I'm in it? I
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: thought this whole time you said you would never watch it.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Or did you say you would never read the book?
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: I've never watched Sandlot.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're confusing your famous movies. But Moneyball.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Moneyball's not that great of a movie, but.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: Moneyball. We had Mulder, Zito, and Hudson.
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  Speaker 5: The end.
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  Speaker 2: And Tejada. And Chavez.
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  Speaker 4: They weren't mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't count.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: Let's run through a lot to get to in the
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: next few minutes here with slap. Let's start with the
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: Cardinals placing JJ Weatherholtz on the injured list. Right wrist tendonitis.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: This affects the rookie of the year race too. Is
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: Sal Stewart the rookie of the year?
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: 30 hundo.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: What the war says. 30 hundo.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 4: Rookie.
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  Speaker 2: That's tough to look past. I don't care about war
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: in that case. 30 and 100.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 4: Yes. Okay, good.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Twins placing Byron Buxton on the aisle. It's that same
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: right hip impingement that's burning him. Walker Jenkins got called
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: up this weekend, which is awesome. But this is a tough...
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: little stretch for Buxton after a hot start.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: By the way, let me go back to, can we
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: go back to the national league rookie of the year?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, I understand that JJ Weatherholtz because everyone looks
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: at war. His war is so much better than Sal Stewart,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: but if you're a rookie and you have 30 and
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: you're going to lead the league in RBIs, you should,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: it shouldn't even be a, like there shouldn't even.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: Be a doubt about this. I'm sorry.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: I was with Adam Wainwright this weekend and even he
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: was like 30 and a hundred is hard to overlook.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: And he's a Cardinal Homer, like nobody's business. If you have,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: He might end up with 40 and 120, and we're
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: going to say, because J.J. Weatherholt plays a great defense,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: he's better, and I think he's hitting in the 240s. Sorry,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: this should not even be close.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: It's okay to say that J.J. Weatherholt's had a great year. Like,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: it's totally fine. If he goes 35, let's just say
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: he has a down month, and he goes 35 and 115.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: As a rookie, come on. Sorry, it's... I think it's
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: Sal Stewart's.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: All right, two more things. One, Michael Kay, who had
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: to do this show today without a water. If you
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: want to know about the joke, you can watch the
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: top of the show.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: I can't believe he made it through without anything to drink.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: Apart from Michael Kay was able to report that the
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: Yankees told Jazz Chisholm to steal water. those bases that
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: we were referring to when they were up six runs
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: because they did not want to have to use David
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: Bednar in the ninth inning. I don't know if I
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: need to go through the whole quote, but he said,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: jazz walks to start the eighth as he's running to
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: first to Boone shuts jazz down, says he's not allowed
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: to steal. Then sees the Red Sox infield playing behind jazz.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: So he tells the Red Sox dugout. No, you can't
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: have it both ways. You either hold them on and
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: we won't run. Or if you're not going to hold
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: them on, we're going to run.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: Good with that. Yeah.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: It's like somebody said that. It's like somebody said that
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: a few minutes ago on the show. Hmm.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Good with that, AJ?
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: It's his explanation.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. That's, that's sure. Like I said, there
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: are no rules anymore. You do whatever you want kids.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: Like there literally are no rules in baseball anymore.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: There's no unwritten rules.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 3: There's no written rules except for just don't touch any
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: player at second base or home plate.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: That's it. Other than that, you can kind of do
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: whatever you want.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: No contact. Even if you're mad at someone, you can
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: yell at them, but you better make sure somebody's holding
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: you back. No contact.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: True. Bark. We're going to call it barking. Just barking.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Let's finish with this on the topic of no rules.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: If you really want no rules, look at uniforms in
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues these days. That's Abner Uribe. They're like, hey, Abner,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: you're on your rehab assignment. Here's your uniform tonight.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: Hey, they went over, they went overboard on that. They
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: had the pants too. Like normally you just get a
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: Bobo minor league top that they like auction off post game.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: It's the Santa in July or Christmas in July top.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: You get the steak and eggs. They got pants too.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: Good for you Abner Uribe for wearing those and not
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: cutting them up.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: AJ on your rehab assignment, if you were given that
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: uniform for the brats, would you have been happy?
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, why not? What is it, A-ball? Let's rock that thing.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: And you know what? Rock that thing strong, too. Why not?
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: I wanted to buy my tuxedo jersey the one time
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: we wore them, but they said no players are allowed
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: to participate in the raffle. It wasn't a fundraiser. It
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: was a fundraiser for the raffle, so you could only
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: win it through the raffle. The tuxedo jersey? That, John,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: was so nice. You look like a penguin.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: Now we know what to get you for your birthday.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: Tuxedo shirt.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah uh dodgers territory is live already if you want
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: to hear more about otani to pitch or not pitch
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: or bullpen or not bullpen and all that fun we're
• 1:23:09
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• 1:23:11
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