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Tim Kurkjian Unfiltered: Season predictions and Opening Day memories + 1B/3B Coaches fear new rule · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Yes, is this a great game or what? Host Tim Kirkton.
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  Speaker 1: We've got half of the duo joining us right now
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  Speaker 1: on FT as we get ready for the start of
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  Speaker 1: the season. Tim, and it is great to have you
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  Speaker 1: on here. We have a lot to get too. But first,
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  Speaker 1: I think most importantly, we haven't had you on officially
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  Speaker 1: since Is this a Great Game or What? Joined the
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  Speaker 1: FT network. So welcome to the family. We love having
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  Speaker 1: you on for guest spots, and now we are going
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  Speaker 1: to see a lot more of you and your son Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and my son Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: The other half is standing right here just in case
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  Speaker 3: anything goes wrong with the technology. I drove up here
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  Speaker 3: this morning from Maryland. Took three and a half hours.
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  Speaker 3: I left my house at three forty five am so
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  Speaker 3: I could get here in time to make sure nothing
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  Speaker 3: went wrong with the first big taping of the year,
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  Speaker 3: with opening day the real opening day on Thursday. This
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  Speaker 3: is how I lived my life. I drive all the
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  Speaker 3: world just so I can sit next to a magician
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  Speaker 3: like Jeff in case the technology goes wrong, because I
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  Speaker 3: have zero faith that I'll be able to figure this.
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  Speaker 1: Out, and you get to do it with your son.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty cool, right. Hey, the driving is
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  Speaker 1: worth it when you get to go hang with family
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  Speaker 1: and you call it.
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  Speaker 2: Work, no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: And he rebuilt the entire studio in here. It looks
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  Speaker 3: absolutely great. My son is so talented at this boor
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  Speaker 3: pop up is so bad at everything, and Jeffrey's so
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  Speaker 3: good at all the things I'm bad at, which is
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  Speaker 3: almost everything.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to get into the opening day episode
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  Speaker 1: special that you guys have prepared, but first let's just
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  Speaker 1: get over all thoughts on storylines and what you're excited
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  Speaker 1: about heading into not just tonight, but the entire league
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  Speaker 1: firing up officially.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the ABS system is going to be really interesting,
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  Speaker 3: and I talked to a bunch of players and managers
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  Speaker 3: this spring about it.
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  Speaker 2: One manager told.
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  Speaker 3: Me, I think it's going to be okay, but he
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  Speaker 3: worried that the strategy for when you challenge is sometimes
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  Speaker 3: going to be more important than the actual playing of
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 2: That worried me a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And another manager told me that the whole system is
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  Speaker 3: really going to help the short guys in the league,
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  Speaker 3: which means if I had made a comeback, I would hit.
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  Speaker 2: Three forty this year.
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  Speaker 3: He had a guy on his team who listed himself
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  Speaker 3: as five to eleven instead of six feet tall, thinking
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  Speaker 3: it might help him in the ABS system. Yet another
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  Speaker 3: manager told me, no, they measure guys all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to get away with fake in your
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  Speaker 3: height or anything else. I think this is a work
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  Speaker 3: in progress. I can't wait to see how it goes.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I'm really excited about it. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: hoping that it works really well.
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  Speaker 4: Tim. Is that what we've seen so many guys shrink
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  Speaker 4: this spring? I mean Alex Bregnant went from six foot
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  Speaker 4: to five ten. I mean there's some guys that have
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  Speaker 4: gone lost like two and three inches. Is this like
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  Speaker 4: back in the day when the guys were gaining three
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  Speaker 4: years of their age once they started checking birth certificates.
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  Speaker 4: Now we're getting shorter because they're actually measuring you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I shrink every spring, by the way, AJ, But yes,
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  Speaker 3: guys as always you Eric, all you ball players are
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  Speaker 3: the same. You're always looking for an edge no matter what.
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  Speaker 3: So it should be really interesting to watch. And I also,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, it's switching subjects. I saw the Mariners
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  Speaker 3: this spring, and I know this is this is kind
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  Speaker 3: of common to go this way, but they're starting pitching
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  Speaker 3: is great, and I think they've updated their lineup. I
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  Speaker 3: think that they might be the team to beat in
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  Speaker 3: the American League this year. And of course I saw
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers and fellas last six years, they won three
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  Speaker 3: championships and played to a six thirty winning percentage.
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  Speaker 2: And the last team to do.
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  Speaker 3: That six year span three championships six thirty the fifty
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  Speaker 3: eight fifty three through fifty eight New York Yankees. That's
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  Speaker 3: how dominant the Dodgers are. And I think this is
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  Speaker 3: the best Dodger team that I've seen this decade. The
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  Speaker 3: rotation is ridiculously deep, the bullpen is way better, and
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  Speaker 3: they've had the best you know, everyday right field or
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  Speaker 3: all the free agent market. I'm not sure there's a
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  Speaker 3: weakness on this team right now. That's what Those are
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  Speaker 3: two things that I'm intrigued by. Are the Mariners this good?
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  Speaker 3: And how good are the Dodgers?
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  Speaker 4: All right? Well, then let's keep going down your list.
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  Speaker 4: Who's going to be pushing who's going to be pushing
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  Speaker 4: those two teams to try to beat them by the
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  Speaker 4: end of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw the Blue Jays eric all through the
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  Speaker 3: postseason last year. They put it in play, they catch
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  Speaker 3: the ball, they are young, they're athletic, they push the action,
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  Speaker 3: they run the bases. So I really like the Blue
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  Speaker 3: Jays still, and I think they've upgraded their starting rotation
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan ceased, so.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're right there with the Mariners. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the Tigers with that starting rotation is very dangerous. I
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  Speaker 3: saw the Red Sox. They're better than they were last year,
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  Speaker 3: and they made the playoffs last year. I think the
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  Speaker 3: Yankees are better than they were last year, especially with
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  Speaker 3: Garrett Cole maybe being back end of March, Carlos Rodan
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  Speaker 3: end of April.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're going to have a.
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  Speaker 3: Really interesting American League. I think, again, the Mariners are
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  Speaker 3: the best team, but they are about five other teams
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  Speaker 3: that could be the best team in the American League
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  Speaker 3: once we get to October.
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  Speaker 4: Is the American League still inferior? I get it, the
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers are in the National League, but last year it
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  Speaker 4: looked like the American League was still inferior to the
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  Speaker 4: National League, even though the Blue Jays were this close
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  Speaker 4: to winning the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the National League is catching up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 4: More.
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  Speaker 3: I still think the Phillies have a really good team.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the window has closed Christopher Sanchez and
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  Speaker 3: the rest of that rotation. Andrew Painter has got a
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  Speaker 3: chance to be pretty darn good as the fifth starter.
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  Speaker 3: Zach Wheeler has some encouraging signs that he'll be back.
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  Speaker 3: We never underestimate the Brewers. The Cubs are better than
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  Speaker 3: they were last year. I think it's a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: National League. I think it's a slightly stronger league than
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  Speaker 3: the American League, but the Dodgers make it that way
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  Speaker 3: more than any team.
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  Speaker 4: Tim Are you a proponent like me that the games
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  Speaker 4: should be one game on opening Day? Meaning I get
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  Speaker 4: why we have the tennight as the Giants and the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees on Netflix, and then tomorrow is more of the
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  Speaker 4: standard opening Day on other channels, and then Friday we
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  Speaker 4: have another to other teams that open. But wasn't it
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  Speaker 4: kind of cool and when Cincinnati was always the first
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  Speaker 4: game right and then? And listen, I get why, and
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  Speaker 4: I get the money side of it, but it was
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  Speaker 4: cool right when it was always Cincinnati and that was
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  Speaker 4: a tradition for like one hundred years, and now we
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  Speaker 4: have games all over the place. Do you kind of
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  Speaker 4: wish we'd just go back to the one game and
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  Speaker 4: go from there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Aj, I'm almost seventy years old. I'm a little
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  Speaker 3: bit hesitant to change on things.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, I thought it was.
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  Speaker 3: Really cool that the baseball season always kicked off.
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  Speaker 2: With the parade in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 3: Every first pitch that was thrown for years and years
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  Speaker 3: and years was thrown in Cincinnati. They still have the
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  Speaker 3: parade there. And look, I understand this is all about money,
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  Speaker 3: this is about networks, this is about growing the game.
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  Speaker 3: I get it, but I think it's really I think
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  Speaker 3: it's always right that all the teams play the first
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  Speaker 3: day it starts in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look at the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to the blue Jays opener Friday
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  Speaker 3: night and then I'll do their game on the radio
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday. But so the season really opens on Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: and the defending World champion American League champion Blue Jays
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  Speaker 3: don't play until Friday. That's just kind of odd to me.
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  Speaker 3: But there are a lot of odd things. I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to go along with it. But if I had my way,
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  Speaker 3: all the teams would play on the same first opening
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  Speaker 3: day and it would all start with a parade in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so what's your opening day routine? We talked
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  Speaker 4: about oh, spring training routine. I think Jim Bowden would
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  Speaker 4: buy sunscreen and sunglasses. Ruben Tomorrow is gonna wear his
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  Speaker 4: blue suit with his Billies pledge pin, What is your
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  Speaker 4: opening day routine?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I get up really early, as I often do.
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  Speaker 3: I drink a couple of diet mountain dews, not recommended
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  Speaker 3: for most people, but I don't drink coffee. And I
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  Speaker 3: just can't wait for the box scores of that first
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  Speaker 3: game to come out because there's no telling what might
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  Speaker 3: happen on opening Day. So my first full full opening
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  Speaker 3: day when I was a beat writer, the primary beat
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  Speaker 3: writer for a team. I was covering the Rangers in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty two and they opened in Cleveland and George Wright,
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  Speaker 3: their rookie center fielder, went three for five on opening day.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm the beat guy.
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  Speaker 3: I go talk to George after the game because they won.
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  Speaker 3: I said, George, you have.
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  Speaker 2: A good time today. He goes, yeah, I've never been
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  Speaker 2: to a major league game before.
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  Speaker 3: So the first major league game he ever attended, he
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  Speaker 3: got three hits. I mean, these are the crazy kind
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  Speaker 3: of things that can happen on opening Day. I covered
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  Speaker 3: opening Day at the Astrodome in nineteen ninety and Glenn
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  Speaker 3: Davis got hit by a pitch three times on opening Day.
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  Speaker 3: That was the first and only time that has ever happened.
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  Speaker 3: He told me after the game. He says, it's never
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  Speaker 3: a good idea to have bruises on three parts of
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  Speaker 3: your body on opening Day. That's what happened to him.
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  Speaker 3: And in twenty twenty two, this is how pathetic I
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  Speaker 3: am in my life. I was doing a game between
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  Speaker 3: the Reds and the Braves. I was the clubhouse, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the dugout reporter, and I realized that Joey Votto had
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  Speaker 3: never popped out to the picture in his career. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he never hit infield pop ups anyway, but had never popped.
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  Speaker 2: Out to the picture ever.
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  Speaker 3: And I flew to Atlanta thinking, this would be the
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  Speaker 3: greatest thing ever if Joey Vado did this in a
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  Speaker 3: game that I'm covering on opening Day.
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  Speaker 2: And in the fifth inning he fouled out.
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  Speaker 3: He hit a foul ball in the foul territory, and
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  Speaker 3: Max Fred great fielding Picture went and caught it for
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  Speaker 3: the first p one in the history of Joey Vado's career.
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  Speaker 3: These are the stupid things that I pay attention to.
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  Speaker 2: On opening Day. But that's what makes it so special.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy weird, quirky things happen on opening Day all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's why people listen to you, because they
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  Speaker 4: want to hear the crazy, weird things. But they also
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  Speaker 4: want to hear your predictions because you've had You've been
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  Speaker 4: alive for seventy opening days, and I don't think you've
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  Speaker 4: gotten one prediction for the season right so far. So
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  Speaker 4: that's why they want to hear it. Give me your
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  Speaker 4: division winners in the National League.
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  Speaker 3: All right. In the National League, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: with the Phillies and the Cubs and the Dodgers. In
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  Speaker 3: the American League, I'm going to go with the Blue
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  Speaker 3: Jays and the Tigers and the Mariners. Those are my
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  Speaker 3: division winners. And you're right, Eric, if I'm six for six,
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  Speaker 3: that'll probably be a first. And I'm never apologizing for
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  Speaker 3: getting a prediction wrong.
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  Speaker 2: This is baseball. It's way too good to be able
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  Speaker 2: to be predicted.
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  Speaker 4: Is this the easiest prediction year of all time? Ten?
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  Speaker 4: For you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Dodgers are pretty easy. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Every year people ask me like, who's the presumptive favorite,
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  Speaker 3: who's the prohibitive favorite, and every year, they're like five options.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's only one option. That's how good the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers are.
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  Speaker 3: But like you said, the American League is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a fistfight from five or six different teams. So
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  Speaker 3: I think it's far less predictable in the American League.
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  Speaker 3: But fellas you know this, the beauty of baseball is
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  Speaker 3: we never know who's gonna win ever. I mean when
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  Speaker 3: when Jordan's Bulls were great, you kind of knew they
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  Speaker 3: were going to win, and you kind of knew how
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  Speaker 3: the game was going to be played because Michael touched
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  Speaker 3: it on every possession. He dominated every game. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: work that way in baseball. Showhy can only pitch once
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  Speaker 3: a week and the only bats four times in games,
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  Speaker 3: So that changes everything, and to me, that's why baseball
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  Speaker 3: is always the best game ever.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Tim, quick question on a specific player that I'm
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  Speaker 1: curious to see and I want to see what his
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  Speaker 1: path looks like. Roki Sasaki had a ton of fanfare
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  Speaker 1: coming over to the major leagues and then last year
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  Speaker 1: obviously didn't go the way he wanted to until he
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  Speaker 1: magically rescues the team as a closer for part of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now fast forward to spring training and he
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  Speaker 1: can't find the zone, and hitters also look like they
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  Speaker 1: have a very distinct plan against him, and he looked
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  Speaker 1: awful in his last start. They're still giving him an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: So how curious are you to see how this goes
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  Speaker 1: not just on the field, but also with a team
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  Speaker 1: that clearly recruited a player and promised him playing time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, any team would do that, right if you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to recruit a player and it's not just about money,
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  Speaker 1: you have to say, hey, we're going to give you
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  Speaker 1: every pathway to succeed with development but also with playing time.
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  Speaker 1: But it happens to be a team that's a World
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  Speaker 1: Series contender, right.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Scott, the beauty of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: The light goes on, the light goes off for guys
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  Speaker 3: with absolutely no explanation. Roki Sazaki was pretty bad last year,
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  Speaker 3: and then he pitched one uninning and relief. We saw
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  Speaker 3: that great split, and he was basically great for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the postseason. How does anyone explain how one
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  Speaker 3: inning and relief can turn a guy?
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  Speaker 2: But it did. So That's why I'm not too.
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  Speaker 3: Worried about Roki Sazaki this spring because We've seen him
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  Speaker 3: terrible and we've seen him really good. But the light
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  Speaker 3: goes on and offer him easier than most guys. I
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  Speaker 3: fully expect him to be a quality pitcher, either as
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  Speaker 3: a starter or reliever as this season goes along, but
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  Speaker 3: he is off to a ragged start. Look great, NBA
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  Speaker 3: jump shooters don't shoot fifteen percent for the floor one
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  Speaker 3: season and then forty eight percent for the three the
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  Speaker 3: next season. It never happens like that, but in baseball
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  Speaker 3: it does all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Which again makes it such a beautiful sport.
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  Speaker 4: I need your award winners. Obviously shows the MVP. So
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  Speaker 4: there's there's that, but there's also MVP, and I need
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  Speaker 4: to say Young's and if you have a Rookie of
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  Speaker 4: the Year, everybody will be watching.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, well I'll be wrong, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go Chalk because I'm just going Judge
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  Speaker 3: and O'tani. They're the two best players in baseball. They're
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  Speaker 3: ridiculously good. I'm gonna go with Chalk on the on
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  Speaker 3: the starting pitchers, you know, Paul Skins is the best
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  Speaker 3: picture in the National League. Trek Scooble is the best
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  Speaker 3: picture in the American League. I'm gonna go with Nolan
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  Speaker 3: McClain as the rookie of the Year in the National League.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna go with Kevin McGonagall as the rookie
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  Speaker 3: of the Year in the American League, just because he
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  Speaker 3: made the Tigers that gave him number seven. I saw
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  Speaker 3: him in spring training. There's something about that kid that
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  Speaker 3: is so impressive.
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  Speaker 2: So those are my picks.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll be wrong on those also, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna apologize for that either, because I repeat, baseball
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  Speaker 3: is too good to know what's gonna happen six months
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  Speaker 3: from now, when we don't know what's gonna happen six
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  Speaker 3: minutes from now.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's finish with this, give us a preview and
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  Speaker 1: just more on is this a great game or what?
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  Speaker 1: You have a special game changer Opening Day episode looming.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So we're gonna look mostly at opening Day. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna do a team tim which I do for every episode.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna take each position, catcher through pitcher and
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  Speaker 3: pick the greatest performance on opening Day nineteen forty.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Bob Feller pitched.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which Jeffrey decorated completely, including he's got a bottle
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  Speaker 3: of wine back here that he says he's gonna it's
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• 19:00
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Hey, we have good quotes from a story put out
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: in The Athletic by Evandralik and Ken Rosenthal. MLB based
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: coaches say the new rule to curb pitch tipping has
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: put them in harm's way. Aaron Boone said that exactly
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: in the quote in the story. They are in harm's way.
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  Speaker 1: Bottom line. And by the way, we miss you. Aaron.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Come back on the show soon if you can. Here's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: one from Quintin Barry. He said he's the cub third
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: base coach. He said, every third base coach, we've all
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: been talking about how you're constantly in danger. They have
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to stay in their coach's box now and they can't
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: move away. For example, Sandy Alomar, who's the Cleveland first
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: base coach, said, it's a dangerous situation. Imagine Jose Ramirez,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: HiT's up all one hundred and fifteen miles an hour,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: pull side. You don't have time to react. And I'll
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: go back to Barry here.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: He said.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: You never get a chance to get out of there.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: You can't get out of harms way ever. And I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: get what they're trying to do, but you're not going
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to stop anything by putting people in a box. He
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: essentially said, base coaches are still going to be watching
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: pictures and looking for tips even if you tell them
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: they can't take three steps to their left or right.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So what do you think about this? And is there
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a solution to this?
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Let them go where they want. I mean, just don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, just make sure if you're the pitcher, that
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: you have your own guys watch you in spring training
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: and stuff to watch you if you're tipping or not.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, I never understood the base coach box thing anyways,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: because I wouldn't want to be standing there, and God
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: forbid we have a situation like we did a few
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: years ago where a guy got hit and died because
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: he was close. And now that's why they have to
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: wear the helmet, a little teeny tiny helmet that doesn't
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: really cover their whole head anyways. So I think that, yeah,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I don't get it. It's just the rule to make
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: a rule to try to stop something. But I fully
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: expect unless some team really complains that the third base
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: coaches and the first base coaches are going to move around,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: it'll be a year.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: It'll be you think, what a year of what the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: umpires smoked?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, It'll be a year where the
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: umpires are like, no, you got to be in the box.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: You got to be in the box. And then there's
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: gonna be you know, there's gonna be a few that
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: allow it to happen. But hey, don't don't get out
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: of control. Every step helps to me. I'm not worried
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: about the third base coaches as much, sorry Quinton Berry.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: But they can move. They can move farther into foul territory,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: they can move closer to you know, out of because
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: it's not just it's not a complete box, it's an
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: open box. Farther into foul territory. You just can't get
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: closer or farther back behind third, and those guys then
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: can move up as the runners coming to third to
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: be able to wave them in. First base coaches, you
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: got to be close because you're relaying the times to
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: the guy at first. You're doing, you're doing a lot
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: of stuff. Good first base coaches are always in there
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: with the with the runner, and if they get out
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: of there, if they have to be farther away, like
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: closer to the dugout so that they're out of harm's way,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: they're just they're not able to do their job very well.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: What about right now? Right now guys can't move. They're
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: going to be strict about it. It just got enforced, reinforced.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Do you think that it's a serious problem? Like when yes,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I just hope no one gets hurt, that's all. I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: just hope no one gets hurt.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: That's it. I just hope nobody gets hit and gets hurt.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: And God forbid, was I think his name was Mike Coolbaugh,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: the guy who unfortunately passed away from getting hit by
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: in a line drive. I hope nothing like that happens.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Because we talk about safety all the time on Major
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: League Baseball. But then we're doing things that people are
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: saying isn't safe. Then we move the coaches boxes. They
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: have to be farther down the line when the pitch
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: is made because some of the third basement get really close.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Third base coaches get really close and there's a guy
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: on second and they and they, you know, are worried
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: about the runner and stuff like that, or there's a
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: runner on third. So I mean, I don't know. I
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: just think this is this is silly, silly talk.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: But what do I know if you were a commissioner
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: for a day and you have a number of people
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: within the league complaining about where bass coaches are staying,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: tell their pitchers not to tip.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Huh case closed salt solf scout. It's it's a it's
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: a very it's a easy it's an easy solution. I
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: think it was Miles Michaelis who was saying, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: they're they were getting it from Okay, they're getting it
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: from over here, put it down, put it in whatever
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: it is, like, maybe get it here and then as
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: you're coming, as you're throwing the pitch, change it. Like
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know, I just I have a hard time
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: with a rule that you're moving somebody into harm's way,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Like they would never put a player into harm's way,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: but they're willing to put the most underpaid coaches on
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: every staff into harm's way. I just I have a
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: hard I have a hard time with it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I have a thought. We're going to talk to Rob
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Freeman soon pitching Ninja, and within that conversation will go
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: over how pitching has advanced more than hitting based on
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the tools that are available. Is it the worst thing
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: in the world if you catch a tip every once
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: in a while and a pitcher gets lit up and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the hitter gets an advantage. I mean, I know you
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: guys are hters, so you're probably gonna agree with this,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: but you also were catchers, so you're looking out for
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: your pitcher. But it's not like everybody tips.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: No, I mean some people think everybody tips. What they don't. No, listen,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: if you're tipping, then you're tipping. And if people figure
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: it out, are smart enough figure it out, then good
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: for them. Then change it. But you also should be
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: self scouting and have If they're running an AI program
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: and you're doing something, you should be running a program
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: similar to figure it out. And now with MLB doing
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: all the same technology for all the teams, they all
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: should have the same programs. They also be able to
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: look at each other and say, hey, we shouldn't do
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: this anymore. So Ryan Dempster, where he did his glove
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: thing every time he threw a pitch. I mean, there
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: are ways to avoid. This is not the coaches, okay.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: So just to be clear, it sounds like a j said, yes, Kratz,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: if you were a commissioner and let's say you come
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: in today, you start today, and they just enforced that rule,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you would get rid of the rule with the base
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: coaches and be like, yeah, I hear you. This is
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: too dangerous. We're overthinking this. You can go back to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: roaming around outside of the coach's box.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Or or I'm okay with saying, hey, you know what,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: let's let's keep it. Let's let's keep you in that box,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: or a little closer, like to see an actual tip
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: from a pitcher. It's here, it's there, whatever it is.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: You got to get a little bit far farther down there.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: So it's okay if you're like, you don't have to
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: quite you in the box. We want you to be safe,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: but tell the umpires, hey, you know what, just just
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: peek at it a little bit. You're not you're not
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: looking at a whole lot at that time. Keep them
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: closer to the box, just so they're not confined to
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: a box. I don't want anybody getting hurt, and I
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: feel like that's what's going to happen.