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Fair Territory: World Series Aftermath, Brewers Parade, Manager Openings, Free Agents, And More · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, everyone, to the post-World Series edition of Fair Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I am Ken Rosenthal, here with my friend Alana Rizzo,
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  Speaker 1: and we're ready to talk about all things World Series,
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  Speaker 1: and as well, all things entering the off-season.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh!
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  Speaker 1: Ooh! How you doing? I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: Good to be with you. It is spooky. What's really
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  Speaker 3: spooky is no more baseball, at least Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 3: for the foreseeable future. We'll see what happens in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the lockout and the deadline and all of that.
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  Speaker 3: But Ken, let's talk about something that is awesome in
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  Speaker 3: our sport. And it is the scene right now in
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  Speaker 3: the greater Milwaukee area, the parade, the fans. And this
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  Speaker 3: is just one of the reasons, Ken, why we found
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  Speaker 3: out exactly why this team has become so endearing.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Alana. And The fan support they've received, not just
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, but at Tropicana Field was something that I
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  Speaker 1: don't recall ever experiencing in a championship event in any sport,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the road fans come in those kinds of numbers.
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  Speaker 1: And then to see today the parade and just the
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  Speaker 1: joy in Milwaukee. Remember, they had not been to a
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  Speaker 1: World Series in 44 years. The Milwaukee Brewers had never
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  Speaker 1: won a World Series. And there's just an outpouring for
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  Speaker 1: this team and Obviously, it's a lot of civic pride
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, but around the country, it seems to me,
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  Speaker 1: and this is just an opinion and maybe it's not
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  Speaker 1: entirely accurate, but people enjoyed watching the Brewers play baseball.
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  Speaker 1: They had that old school throwback style. They played the
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  Speaker 1: game in a way that we would call fondly from,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, the 80s and even before that. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily hit a lot of home runs, but they did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of little things correctly. Not everything, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them. And defense, base running, all of these
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  Speaker 1: elements that the Brewers incorporated and emphasized under manager Pat Murphy, well,
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  Speaker 1: they were a joy to watch. And they've got a
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  Speaker 1: cast of characters that was kind of a joy to follow.
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  Speaker 4: The Miz and William Contreras, Yelich and all that he
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  Speaker 4: has meant to the team, Woodruff, what he has meant
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  Speaker 4: to the team, Bryce Turan, Churio, what he did in
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  Speaker 4: the World Series, on and on and on, Cooper Pratt.
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  Speaker 1: So, Obviously, any time a team wins a championship, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be beloved for many reasons. But this team
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  Speaker 1: really seemed to capture the imagination of baseball fans. Again,
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  Speaker 1: not just in Milwaukee, but around the country.
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  Speaker 3: Ken, it was so great to talk to Christian Yelich
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  Speaker 3: before the World Series. He said, we are honestly all
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  Speaker 3: best friends in that locker room, in that clubhouse, in
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  Speaker 3: the dugout. We truly enjoy playing for each other and
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  Speaker 3: for one another. And the fact that they did this
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  Speaker 3: after 44 years, the last time they went to the
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  Speaker 3: World Series, as you mentioned, they won it in 57
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  Speaker 3: as the Milwaukee Braves. but never as the Milwaukee Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: And to see the camaraderie, and I tell you what,
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  Speaker 3: whether social media is anything of an indicator, I had
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  Speaker 3: posted a couple of days ago on threads about, I've
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  Speaker 3: had the privilege of covering this great game for two
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  Speaker 3: plus decades. And if you're not a Milwaukee Brewers fan base,
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  Speaker 3: or you're not in the race fan base, are you
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  Speaker 3: interested in this World Series? If so, why and where
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  Speaker 3: are you watching from? And Ken, the engagement on that
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  Speaker 3: post was so unbelievably interesting because it was more response
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  Speaker 3: than I had ever gotten before. And people were beloved
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  Speaker 3: in terms of they just loved the World Series. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: said the old style of baseball, bringing me back to
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  Speaker 3: the way that it used to be played the right way,
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  Speaker 3: those types of things. It was just really neat to
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  Speaker 3: see not only just this country, but the world kind
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  Speaker 3: of contributing to the. To the responses, there are only
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  Speaker 3: four home runs in the World Series, which is crazy, right?
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  Speaker 3: And you think that's the way that the game is going.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm surprised, and I want to know your opinion, too.
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  Speaker 3: The ratings were not particularly bad. We weren't sure what
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  Speaker 3: we were going to get. It was actually very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're right, Alana. And certainly working for Fox, I
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  Speaker 1: am sure there was concern among our executives about what
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  Speaker 1: the ratings might be. But you're right. They were not bad.
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  Speaker 1: They were not at L.A.-Toronto level from last year, but
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  Speaker 1: we didn't get seven games. And the Dodgers, the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: star-driven and all that. But you see the numbers right
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  Speaker 1: there from Richard Dyche. Those are, I would say, presentable,
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  Speaker 1: respectable numbers. Now, game three was a blowout, so of
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  Speaker 1: course that was going to be the low one. But
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  Speaker 1: people did enjoy watching these teams play. And it raises
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  Speaker 1: the question, honestly, if you're talking about an entertainment product,
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  Speaker 1: which of course any sports league is, should more teams
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  Speaker 1: adopt this style? Should we get away from three true
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  Speaker 1: outcomes baseball and launch angle baseball and maybe get back
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  Speaker 1: to some of this strictly from an entertainment standpoint? Now,
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  Speaker 1: the answer to that is yes, but teams are going
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  Speaker 1: to do what they feel is best to win. And
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers pivoted in an offensive sense because in this
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  Speaker 1: era of high velocity and spin, they felt they had
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  Speaker 1: to not hit home runs the way other teams did
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  Speaker 1: because they couldn't afford players who did that. They had
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  Speaker 1: to win offensively in other ways. That's a simplified version
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  Speaker 1: of what they've done. But they zigged when others zagged.
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  Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting to see if other teams follow
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  Speaker 1: suit now. And it's not just the Brewers. The Rays
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  Speaker 1: really were the same kind of offense and same kind
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  Speaker 1: of construction, same kind of team. So, yeah, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: interesting going forward should we have a next season, whenever
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  Speaker 1: baseball resumes. to see just the effect of this long-term
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  Speaker 1: if teams do try to go back to more of
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  Speaker 1: this style. Obviously, home runs win. We all know that.
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  Speaker 1: You hit more home runs than the other team, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be in a really good spot. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not so easy to hit home runs in this era,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe then, in that sense, you change it up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Ken, it's funny that you said they zigged when they
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  Speaker 3: thought they should have zagged or vice versa. It's almost
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  Speaker 3: like we kind of all did that, too, because we've
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  Speaker 3: all been kind of critical of the Brewers. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you've written about it at length and you kind of
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  Speaker 3: finally gave up your words, not mine. What do you
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  Speaker 3: mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right. I'm going to go back, Alana, to
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  Speaker 1: the spring of 2025. And I had written at various
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  Speaker 1: points before that about their trades of Josh Hader and
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  Speaker 1: other things that they have done. And I was critical
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  Speaker 1: of some of the things they did. And I was
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  Speaker 1: critical of the owner, Mark Atanasio, for not spending. And
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  Speaker 1: in the spring of 25, I wrote something along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: You can see it right there. The Brewers, led by
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  Speaker 1: owner Mark Atanasio, clamped down on spending and keep winning,
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  Speaker 1: but for how long? And once again, I was asking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: they've just made another trade of another veteran. Is this
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  Speaker 1: going to be the end? Kept asking that for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of years. And every year I was proven wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So that July... The deadline's approaching. This is last year.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers are hot. They're a really good team, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best teams in the National League. And I wrote
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  Speaker 1: saying that they should trade for Eugenio Suarez, who at
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  Speaker 1: the time was in the middle of that great season. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: he went to Seattle. So I eventually, in this column
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  Speaker 1: that I wrote, it was kind of a notes column,
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  Speaker 1: led off with basically a mea culpa. saying that Atanasio
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  Speaker 1: obviously could be cackling right now at what he's seeing
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  Speaker 1: because everything I've written has been proven to be wrong
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  Speaker 1: regarding his team. Let's see if we have that. We
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  Speaker 1: can show it right here. Maybe we don't have the
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  Speaker 1: board that I was thinking of. But anyway, I essentially
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  Speaker 1: wrote in spring, hey man, this is going to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with them. They eventually did sign Jose Quintana and
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  Speaker 1: he helped in that year. But then in July, when
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  Speaker 1: I wrote they should get Suarez, I essentially said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: why should Marc Atanasio listen to me? He obviously knows
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing. And the point of my column after
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, after the triumph was, hey, they have
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  Speaker 1: done it their way. And their title, more than anything,
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  Speaker 1: is a fitting outcome for a franchise that marches to
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  Speaker 1: its own beat, effectively daring the rest of the industry
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  Speaker 1: to match its verve and savvy. And the Brewers have,
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  Speaker 1: in every sense of the way, done it in their
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  Speaker 1: particular style. That's going to the ownership and the way
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  Speaker 1: they've approached things, keeping the budgets relatively small. That speaks
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  Speaker 1: to the front office in the efforts and the success
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  Speaker 1: that they've had internationally in the draft, in trades. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, it speaks to their style of play, which
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  Speaker 1: was different. It was a way they adopted because they
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  Speaker 1: felt it was the way they could best succeed. So
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  Speaker 1: hats off to them. Because it's not just a triumph
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  Speaker 1: of skill and heart and all of those things. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a triumph of ingenuity and resourcefulness and all
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  Speaker 1: of those qualities that they have shown in every aspect
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  Speaker 1: of their operation. And I greatly admire them for it.
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  Speaker 1: And I've already written my mea culpa, but I'll say
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  Speaker 1: it once more. I was wrong. And they were right
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  Speaker 1: for sticking to their philosophy, sticking to their beliefs, and
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  Speaker 1: doing what they felt were the right things to do.
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  Speaker 3: And Ken, sometimes we questioned, really, you're going to let
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  Speaker 3: Craig Council go just down the road to the bigger market,
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  Speaker 3: the Chicago Cubs? Obviously, I do not blame Craig Council
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  Speaker 3: getting that deal, $ 8 million a year. Anybody is going
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  Speaker 3: to take that. But then David Stearns goes to the
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  Speaker 3: big market, right? Has all kinds of money with the
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  Speaker 3: New York Mets. So Council's gone. Stearns is gone. And
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  Speaker 3: then they win. What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it speaks to their infrastructure and it speaks to
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  Speaker 1: the people who remain, of course, Matt Armisen. and his
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  Speaker 1: staff in the front office. And it speaks to Pat
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  Speaker 1: Murphy and what he accomplished as manager. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that anyone expected he would be this successful a manager.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I'll tell you a story. At the GM
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  Speaker 1: meetings in, let's see, 23 or 24, whenever Murphy got hired,
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  Speaker 1: he was interviewing there. And I was speaking with the
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  Speaker 1: writer from The Athletic and I said, hey, Murph's interviewing
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  Speaker 1: for that Brewers job. I wonder if he'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: And the writer said, there's no chance he gets that job.
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  Speaker 1: No chance. Well, he got the job. Back-to-back manager of
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  Speaker 1: the years. And now it's won a World Series. Could
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  Speaker 1: win his third manager of the year, though I suspect
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  Speaker 1: Walt Weiswold because it's going to be voter fatigue and
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  Speaker 1: people are going to vote for Pat Murphy again. But
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  Speaker 1: he's very deserving of that award. So they had great
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  Speaker 1: people in place. They had structures in place, and they
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  Speaker 1: were able to carry on without Stearns and without counsel.
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  Speaker 1: What is equally impressive to me is Corbin Burns, Freddie Peralta,
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  Speaker 1: Devin Williams, Josh Hader, all these pieces they kept taking off.
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  Speaker 1: Willie Adamas left as a free agent, and yet they endured.
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  Speaker 1: They got even better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Freddy Peralta on the other side. I felt badly
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  Speaker 3: for him as he watched his former club that he
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  Speaker 3: was traded away from take home the crown. Well, cheers
• 11:15
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  Speaker 3: It is time for the Inside Dish presented by Fox One.
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  Speaker 3: A bit of an off-season primer for us. Ken Rosenthal,
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  Speaker 3: yesterday I was like, oh my goodness, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Nate Eaton on the move already. The Boston Red Sox
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  Speaker 3: making the first move of the off-season. Obviously that is
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  Speaker 3: not a splash, but let's talk about the coaching jobs
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  Speaker 3: available first. And it seems like one division in particular
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  Speaker 3: has a lot of openings.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, there are three managers still to be hired. Mariners, Astros,
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  Speaker 1: and Angels. And I would expect the Mariners will be first.
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  Speaker 1: But the Astros, they're going to pick their GM and
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  Speaker 1: then they're going to obviously pick their manager after that.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Angels are in the same position. They
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  Speaker 1: need to pick a new head of baseball operations like
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  Speaker 1: the Astros and then find a manager. So you can
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  Speaker 1: see there the tweet from John Becker. He's mentioning all
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  Speaker 1: the different coaching positions that are open as well. But
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  Speaker 1: it starts with the head of baseball operations in certain
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  Speaker 1: cases and then goes down to the managers and the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staffs.
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  Speaker 3: Should we expect a flurry of activity, Ken, between now
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  Speaker 3: and midnight on December 2nd or December 1st? I believe
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  Speaker 3: it's December 1st, right, when the lockout actually begins?
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  Speaker 1: This is a great question, Alana. And Dan Shaughnessy of
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Globe had an interesting point about the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox in particular this morning. But it applies to all teams.
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  Speaker 1: And what Dan was saying is that he's betting that
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox will sit on the sidelines in November
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the lockout to begin tomorrow. They explain to
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  Speaker 1: their fans that their hands are tied because of the
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  Speaker 1: work stoppage. It's perfect cover for doing nothing to add
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  Speaker 1: to the payroll. A number of other teams might take
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  Speaker 1: the same approach. They can easily say, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: what economic system will be in place in the next CBA.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what we're dealing with, what the landscape
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  Speaker 1: will look like. We're just going to wait. That's one
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  Speaker 1: way to look at this. And yet the other way
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  Speaker 1: is the economic landscape, let's say it includes a cap,
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  Speaker 1: which is the extreme end of what the owners want
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  Speaker 1: and might get. Well, it's not going to take effect
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  Speaker 1: right away. So if you're a team trying to improve,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to want to get players. And we saw
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  Speaker 1: before the last lockout, there was a flurry of activity. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there was no threat of a salary cap then. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a different environment. But I
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  Speaker 1: do expect that we're going to have a busy November
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  Speaker 1: as teams try to get players in place. There will
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  Speaker 1: be teams saying and using the excuse, we're not so
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  Speaker 1: sure how everything is going to look. But I expect
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  Speaker 1: there will be other teams, probably a bigger number of
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  Speaker 1: teams that are actively looking to improve.
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  Speaker 3: There's a couple of guys, Ken, four, in fact, that
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  Speaker 3: have already chosen to stay in in terms of opting
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  Speaker 3: into their current contracts. I'll list the names for you.
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  Speaker 3: Beau Bichette, Tatsuya Amai, Corbin Burns, and Ryan Helsley. No
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  Speaker 3: big surprise on any of those?
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  Speaker 1: Not at all. In Bichette's case, he's not coming off
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  Speaker 1: a great year. Amai is not coming off a great year.
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  Speaker 1: Bichette had a good second half and Obviously, he's a
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  Speaker 1: really good player, but he's got a great contract. So
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  Speaker 1: he's not opting out of that so quickly. Burns and Helsley,
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  Speaker 1: injury-marred seasons, and they didn't produce the kinds of platforms
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  Speaker 1: that they would like going back into the open market.
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  Speaker 1: So no surprises on any of those.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So looking at the key free agents, the one that's
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  Speaker 3: at the top of everybody's mind is obviously Tarek Skubal.
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  Speaker 3: Besides Tarek Skubal, who should we be paying attention to?
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  Speaker 3: Second part of the question, Ken, Freddy Peralta. Did he restore...
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  Speaker 3: his pre-Mets value going into his age 31 season?
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  Speaker 1: Alana, I think he's the most interesting one outside of
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  Speaker 1: Scooble because certainly in Tampa Bay, he made a number
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  Speaker 1: of adjustments and suddenly was not just fastball Freddie again,
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  Speaker 1: but the best version of fastball Freddie, throwing harder than
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  Speaker 1: he ever had before, incorporating his changeup to a greater
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  Speaker 1: extent than he had, just looked like the best version
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  Speaker 1: of himself He's entering his age 31 season. He's in
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  Speaker 1: a really good spot. Now teams are going to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was just Tampa Bay that fixed them, but
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  Speaker 1: all teams think they're smarter than the other ones. They
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  Speaker 1: all think, yeah, we can do it with Freddie too.
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  Speaker 1: So I would expect he does well. I would expect
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  Speaker 1: Michael King entering his age 32 season does well. He's
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  Speaker 1: had a little bit more of an injury history, but
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  Speaker 1: he's still one of the top pitchers. Adrian Morejon, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the top reliever available. Randy Rosarena, maybe the top hitter available.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if all of them go before December 1st,
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  Speaker 1: but I would not be surprised, again, to see a flurry.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember last time, again, referring back to 22,
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  Speaker 1: Corey Seager and Marcus Simeon signed $ 500 million worth of
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  Speaker 1: contracts with the Texas Rangers on the eve of the lockout.
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  Speaker 1: Max Scherzer signed a big deal on the eve of
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  Speaker 1: the lockout. There's going to be a number of things
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  Speaker 1: that happen along those lines, I would think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, say a Suzuki Jazz Chisholm Jr. on a one-year deal.
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  Speaker 3: Teruaki Soto, Hanshin Tigers reportedly approving his post. He won
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: NPB's triple crown. That's another name to keep our eyes
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  Speaker 3: on as well. The info there. College football and NFL
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  Speaker 3: All right, it is time now for our Grill and
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Ken segment, where you have an opportunity to ask Ken
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Rosenthal what is on your mind in the world of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Armand is amazing, our resident Met fan. Grill and Ken, Ken,
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  Speaker 3: with the lack of Rays fans showing up at the
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  Speaker 3: Trop during playoffs and the World Series, is there a
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  Speaker 3: cause of concern that will happen when the Rays' new
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  Speaker 3: stadium opens? Interesting question.
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  Speaker 1: It's an interesting question, and I would say the answer
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  Speaker 1: is no. I would say when the new stadium opens,
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  Speaker 1: it will be in Tampa and not St. Petersburg. And
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  Speaker 1: Tampa is more accessible to fans in a larger number
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  Speaker 1: of regions in that area of Florida than the Trop is.
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  Speaker 1: The Trop is just a difficult place to get to
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  Speaker 1: for people from Tampa and Orlando, which is further east.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be part of it that helps.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that the Trop itself is the problem
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  Speaker 1: because it's what it is. It's a dome stadium. It's
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  Speaker 1: not great, but it looked a lot better this year
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  Speaker 1: after the redoing of the roof. It's really the location.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, That was disturbing, I would say, from the Rays'
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  Speaker 1: perspective to see what happened there. That last game in particular,
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  Speaker 1: it was just like a home game for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, the new ballpark should help
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Milwaukee South, if you will. Jim Jim Huerta, another question
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  Speaker 3: for you, Ken. I think there should be some conversation
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  Speaker 3: about Craig Council. I don't believe they win if he stays.
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  Speaker 3: There's something so endearing about Pat Murphy. It felt like
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: he was a missing piece.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree that Murphy has.
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  Speaker 1: Been transformative for that team. They were really good under council.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not forget, they went to an NLCS under council
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  Speaker 1: and they did some really good things. But Murphy has
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: set and established a standard that the players have to meet.
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  Speaker 1: And he's also had two guys that I described as
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: his sergeants of arms, Christian Jelic and Brendan Woodruff, who
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: basically carry his message forward to the players. They named
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Jelic the captain in part because he does that. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we have seen what happens when Milwaukee Brewers players do
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: not do what Pat Murphy wants. They get chastised. They
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: get benched. They get criticized in other ways. So Murphy
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  Speaker 1: has this bar that he keeps at a very high level.
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  Speaker 1: And it's that whole win tonight thing. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to do what we can. To win tonight in every
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  Speaker 1: detail must be attended to. And certainly that has worked
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  Speaker 1: well with this team. As I wrote in my World
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  Speaker 1: Series wrap-up column, would it work in other cities, with
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  Speaker 1: other veteran teams, in other markets? I don't know. But
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  Speaker 1: it works in Milwaukee, and it's been great for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Pat Murphy's incredible. Cooper Pratt gets called up in
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: the middle of the season. He doesn't run a ball out.
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  Speaker 3: He gets benched, and then he ends up having an
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: unbelievable World Series. Pat Murphy is a great leader of men.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thanks for the questions. We appreciate it. We're
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: going to be right back with our Dude of the Week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the dude, so that's what you call me.
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  Speaker 3: Ken, this is a great segue. Who's your Dude of
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  Speaker 3: the Week?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It happens to be Pat Murphy. Honestly, we could have
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: chosen any number of brewers. The Miz, who had a
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: 1.89 ERA in his four postseason starts and was brilliant
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  Speaker 1: in the clincher. Cooper Pratt, what a series he had.
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  Speaker 1: What a postseason he had. William Contreras, the season MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Chirio, a star in the making, if not a
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  Speaker 1: star already. But Murphy is the glue that brought this
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  Speaker 1: all together. And he's a baseball lifer. He's a guy
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  Speaker 1: who was a college coach. Tom Fiduci detailed his journey
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  Speaker 1: on our broadcast. in game five so brilliantly and just
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  Speaker 1: how far Murphy came to get to this moment. His
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  Speaker 1: leadership was the single biggest reason, in my opinion, why
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers attained what they did.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. I'm kind of with you on this.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about Pat Murphy. I'm giving my dudes of
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: the week and dudettes of the week to the Brewers fans.
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  Speaker 3: I understand it was very expensive because of the secondary
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: market to get into American family field. But the way
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: that they showed up in Tampa Bay, my goodness, it
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: was so unbelievably impressive to see all of the fans
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  Speaker 3: in Tampa Bay. And not only that, selling out the
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: watch parties at American Family Field when the team was
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  Speaker 3: on the road, 31,000 tickets sold in a matter of
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  Speaker 3: moments at just 15 bucks a pop. I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: This was a team, a fan base that was absolutely rabid.
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  Speaker 3: living and dying on every single pitch. They showed up.
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  Speaker 3: They showed out. The parade route today was incredible. Good
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  Speaker 3: on them. Congratulations, Milwaukee. You deserve this wholeheartedly. And all
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  Speaker 3: of the Miller-like hands at the Bob Uecker statue, you
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  Speaker 3: know Uecker's excited about what this team has accomplished. All right,
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  Speaker 3: coming back with our Dork of the Week. And who
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  Speaker 3: do you have for your Dork of the Week?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Alana, I'm going to keep it tight, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into much of an explanation,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just going to say this. My Dorks of
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the Week are all the people who said a small
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: market team could not win the World Series. That's one
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  Speaker 1: group of people. And all the people who said a
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: team that doesn't hit home runs can't win in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers defied all of these people who were questioning that,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and Again, as we enter the labor situation when we're
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: all going to have a lot more to say, I'll
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  Speaker 1: just leave it at that.
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  Speaker 3: Very good. A man of few words, but saying a
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  Speaker 3: lot with those few. Mine are the Rays fans because
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: of the same reason I gave the dudes to the
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  Speaker 3: Brewers fans. The Rays fans, you should not let an
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: opposition fan base go and take over your home park.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I understand maybe not traveling to Milwaukee. That I can
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: understand completely. But letting more than half of Tropicana Field
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: be the Brewers fans, that's very disappointing. And not only that,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: the stuff that I saw on social media that, well,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: at least, you know, you may have won the World Series,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: but at least we don't live in Milwaukee. Milwaukee is
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: a fantastic city with a fantastic people with an unbelievable atmosphere.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: And it's a very underrated city and a kind place
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  Speaker 3: to be. So raise fans. Dorks of the week for me.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: All right, guys, that's going to be it for us.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Foul territory is next. Todd Frazier, Eric Kratz, and Scott Braun.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Ken Rosenthal is going to be on foul as well.
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  Speaker 3: Sahadev Sharma and Corey Knievel. I'm sure he's excited if
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: he's not at the parade right now. Ken is back
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  Speaker 3: on Monday at 10 a.m. Eastern. Have a great weekend, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Bye.
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