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Better WS chance: Yanks or Sox? Kimbrel to Astros, Brewers are legit, Vinnie P leads KC · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: We've got some cool stuff going on for.
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  Speaker 2: You charge them about.
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  Speaker 1: Boston, New York. Let's do it, Red Sox Yankees. What
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  Speaker 1: do you got on this? But again, I know this
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  Speaker 1: is a rivalry, cretcy. This is also let's make it
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  Speaker 1: very clear for Toronto fans who have been long suffering
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  Speaker 1: there in first place, this is a second place rivalry.
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  Speaker 1: They are within a half game of each other. They
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  Speaker 1: are fighting, They are very much in the playoff mix.
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  Speaker 1: How excited are you to kind of watch these teams?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you look at Boston and I think they're
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  Speaker 1: two totally different teams too. I think or the window
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  Speaker 1: is right now. They're an older team, a team that
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  Speaker 1: certainly has a lot of injuries. With Boston. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my mom's a huge baseball fan, and she's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anybody on the Red Sox. I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to explain to her that they built from within. Hein
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  Speaker 1: Bloom did a great job of acquiring all these top prospects.
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  Speaker 1: Who are many of them who are now up here.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Roman Anthony the latest as well. Will get
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  Speaker 1: to him a little bit more in detail later on
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  Speaker 1: in the show. But you know, you look at this series,
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  Speaker 1: how do you think that this all shakes out, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean how it shakes out. We can get into that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you think matchups are what they are
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  Speaker 2: and figure out who's gonna win and who's gonna lose.
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  Speaker 2: But I love what you said about Hein Bloom. HEINM Bloom.
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  Speaker 2: Not only did he acquire some of these prospects, but
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  Speaker 2: he helped develop He helped the system develop these guys,
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  Speaker 2: and he put people in the situation to help the
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  Speaker 2: system develop these guys. So it could be looking up
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  Speaker 2: for the Cardinals. But as far as the two teams
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  Speaker 2: in kind of they're just built differently. When even when
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox stink, because there haven't been any years
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  Speaker 2: where the Yankee stink as much as Yankee fans think
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  Speaker 2: they stink, some years they don't stink. They don't ever stink.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Sox stink. Sometimes they have some absolute stinkers
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  Speaker 2: of seasons. And now they're back up. They have one
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  Speaker 2: of the I think it's top five era, if not
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  Speaker 2: top three bullpen era in the game, which you know
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  Speaker 2: you gotta build that too, You got to build that up.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta have that to be able to have success
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. And this lineup besides Trevor Story and
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  Speaker 2: Alex Bregman are super young. They are young all across
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  Speaker 2: the board. I get it, Yoshidah's coming out there now
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  Speaker 2: and he's getting some at bats here and there. But
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  Speaker 2: this is a young team, the Yankees. While they are
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  Speaker 2: an older team, they're built to do the exact same
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  Speaker 2: thing that the Red Sox are built to do, to
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  Speaker 2: win the World Series. In the Red Sox mind, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if the Red Sox are built are gonna
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  Speaker 2: able to be able to do it. The Yankees have
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  Speaker 2: the experience and anytime this rivalry hits off, no matter
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  Speaker 2: where the Red Sox are in the standings, because the
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  Speaker 2: Yankees are almost always at the top, it is always
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  Speaker 2: a good series. So whether they're in second place or not,
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  Speaker 2: banger of a rivalry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Boston ticks Game one last night. We
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  Speaker 1: saw Roman Anthony Goyard and really interesting Alex Bregman, who
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  Speaker 1: has been around a lot of young players in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: you know, has transitioned excellently in Boston. He's got his
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  Speaker 1: own beer. I mean, the guy's just been there for
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  Speaker 1: a hot second. They already love him. He called Roman
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  Speaker 1: Anthony one of the most mature twenty one year old
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  Speaker 1: that he's ever been around. And you know, I believe
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  Speaker 1: him pratzy because I think when you're talking about markets
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  Speaker 1: like Boston and New York, you can't just have the
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  Speaker 1: physical skills. You have to be able to handle those markets.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that certain young players are not equipped
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  Speaker 1: at twenty one years old to go right into Boston
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  Speaker 1: and in New York. So I think that you have
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  Speaker 1: to have that level of maturity, and certainly Roman Anthony
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  Speaker 1: seems to have it because he's going to fail at
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  Speaker 1: some point in time. He's going to come up, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to struggle, He's going to have to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be okay in that media market, which is very
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  Speaker 1: much like a fish bowl. He's going to have to
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  Speaker 1: be strong enough mentally to handle that. So I think
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  Speaker 1: when you look at this, this idea of hey, let's
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  Speaker 1: bring up a guy like Roman Anthony, to me, Alex
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  Speaker 1: Bregman's quote makes a lot sets and have you played
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  Speaker 1: with anybody that kind of reminds you of that when
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  Speaker 1: you look at this like young, I remember Manny Machado
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  Speaker 1: coming up in a Pennant race as a twenty year
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  Speaker 1: old and they had to be certain that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be okay and not wilt under the pressure.
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  Speaker 1: They brought him up. They moved him from shortstop the
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  Speaker 1: third base. That's kind of what this reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Anybody come to mind for you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not in that same ilk of like Manny
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  Speaker 2: Machado or like Bryce Harper, type of like Superstar. But
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  Speaker 2: I remember first playing with Neil Walker. Neil Walker was
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  Speaker 2: a guy his dad had played in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 2: his uncle had played in the big leagues. He had
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  Speaker 2: that like he had been around big league clubhouses, and
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  Speaker 2: when I played with him in Triple A, he already
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  Speaker 2: had a cup of coffee. But it was something that
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  Speaker 2: he was a young guy that knew his routine and
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  Speaker 2: knew how to get himself ready for big league games
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  Speaker 2: day in and day out. We played in Triple A together,
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  Speaker 2: we played in the big leagues together, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's it's a rare thing. So when they say this
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  Speaker 2: about Roman Anthony, I know a guy, Justinholder, who used
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  Speaker 2: to coach him in high school, just talked about how
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  Speaker 2: he was mature. I would say physical maturity is something
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  Speaker 2: that comes at a different time for everybody. He's physically gifted.
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  Speaker 2: When you add in somebody that's that's mature and has
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  Speaker 2: mental maturity to add to it, that's when you start
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  Speaker 2: getting guys who are you know, could be perennial All Stars,
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  Speaker 2: could be guys that grow into their power, which he
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  Speaker 2: hasn't grown Roman Anthony, he hasn't grown into his power yet.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's twenty three or twenty seven extra base hits,
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  Speaker 2: like an ops of like eight forty so, but he
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  Speaker 2: only has five homers. So he's gonna start hitting more
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  Speaker 2: homers when he grows into his physical maturity and his
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  Speaker 2: big league swing comes through. To me, it is that
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  Speaker 2: is you're talking about like an MVP type of candidate.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about a perennial All Star type of candidate.
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  Speaker 2: And it's all because, oh, he has that extra and
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  Speaker 2: tangible which is the mental maturity to handle the ups
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  Speaker 2: and downs of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I slice open the pack. We're looking at it if
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  Speaker 3: you're watching us right now, and I pull a card
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  Speaker 3: from the nineteen fifties. Super cool. I enjoyed the experience
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  Speaker 3: looking at it. It's Jim Gilliam. It's the top set
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  Speaker 3: from the mid fifties. But I got an offer for
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  Speaker 3: more than what the slap pack costs, and I sold
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  Speaker 3: it back. Tough times for the Dodgers right now, don't
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  Speaker 3: at me, but I got twenty eight bucks instantly, so
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  Speaker 3: I can buy another one of those packs and try
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  Speaker 3: and get what I want.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely the excitement I heard Kip say before. The excitement's
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  Speaker 2: in the chase. You sold it back. Now you get
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  Speaker 2: to open another one. I enjoy when you slide it
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree, and I think you're dead on.
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  Speaker 1: I think for Boston this is going to be like
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  Speaker 1: the start of their window, right Like, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they have enough this year to go to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: They could use a middle of the order big bat.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know where they would have gotten that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, they traded away Raphaeldevers. I think that, you
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  Speaker 1: know that's gonna end up obviously hurting them a little
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  Speaker 1: bit this year. But if Craig Breslow getsie okay from
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  Speaker 1: John Henry, if they do agree to spend and supplement
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  Speaker 1: this core, I think this could be a really interesting
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  Speaker 1: winter for the Red Sox. The Yankees. In my mind,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little confused because last year we saw on
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  Speaker 1: the big stage, and people in the comments are getting
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  Speaker 1: into this too, like fundamentally they're not a good team,
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  Speaker 1: and you see that. You've seen them in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the games that they've lost this year. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I remember the Toronto series against them, where the Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 1: obviously in first place, put the ball in play all
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  Speaker 1: the time, they don't strike out. They were just kind
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  Speaker 1: of running a book on the Yankees. And when your
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  Speaker 1: struggles are on such a big platform like the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: were last year, why do you not go out and
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  Speaker 1: then fundamentally address that. And that's part of the issue
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  Speaker 1: that fans have in Aaron Boone, I think is there's
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  Speaker 1: so little that manager can control. But fundamentally, the Yankee
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  Speaker 1: should be a better team. Right We're in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: and I think when you see some of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that they don't do well, how poor they are defensive metrics,
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  Speaker 1: base running metrics. You know, they're not a team. They're
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  Speaker 1: not the Toronto Blue Jays. They don't put the ball
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  Speaker 1: in play at a high clip. These are things that
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  Speaker 1: they need to get better at. And these are also
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  Speaker 1: reasons why I don't think, of course accident of Garrett
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  Speaker 1: Cole and some of the things that they're missing this year,
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  Speaker 1: that they're not built for a deep October run in
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  Speaker 1: my mind either. I don't know how you see it,
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  Speaker 1: but to me, these are two teams that are fighting
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  Speaker 1: for a wildcard spot, but ultimately I have early exit
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  Speaker 1: for both of these teams for different reasons. I think
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  Speaker 1: you could be a lot more optimistic right now if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Boston Red Sox fan.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to first hit on something that bothers me.
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  Speaker 2: When when people watch games or play, you know, ce games,
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  Speaker 2: they always want to run back these narratives. They always
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  Speaker 2: want to run back like narratives of kind of what
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  Speaker 2: you are alluding to, in the sense of, like they
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  Speaker 2: don't play good defense, Yeah, for sure. They've they led
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  Speaker 2: major League Baseball on air since you all start break.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have twenty nine. But I would say
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  Speaker 2: they addressed those issues. They brought in Paul Goldschmidt, who
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  Speaker 2: was playing better than the platoon people, and then Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Rizzo came back, but he wasn't himself last year, so
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  Speaker 2: that's an upgrade. They moved Chisholm back to second base,
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  Speaker 2: who all of a sudden now can't turn a double
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  Speaker 2: play and he throws it into the stands, you know,
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  Speaker 2: game every other game. They upgraded a third base in
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  Speaker 2: Ryan McMahon, and so to me, those are three upgrades
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  Speaker 2: at positions that they needed. Those. The issue is you're
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  Speaker 2: having a bad year from Volpi. You're having some of
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  Speaker 2: their pitchers who don't field the ball very well, and
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  Speaker 2: you're having a guy last night and Ben Rice who
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  Speaker 2: threw the ball in the center field obviously hit a
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  Speaker 2: dang or two, hasn't caught much. So it's almost like
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  Speaker 2: they're stealing from Peter to pay Paul. It's like you
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  Speaker 2: have to figure out what the best lineup is defensively
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  Speaker 2: and offensively, and up until now, up and up until
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  Speaker 2: this season when they upgraded with McMahon, and they shifted
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  Speaker 2: Jazz over to second base. Their entire roster, their entire
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  Speaker 2: position player roster was made up of dudes who hit
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  Speaker 2: the ball really freaking hard and hit the ball out
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  Speaker 2: of the ballpark that plays in the playoffs. I think
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  Speaker 2: they have a better chance than the Red Sox because
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  Speaker 2: of that. But I agree with you. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: these teams are necessarily built for a late run unless
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  Speaker 2: they can clean those things up, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox are in better position to clean those things up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, the Yankees are in better position
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  Speaker 2: to clean clean some of that up. Do they do it?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: See disagree, Eric? What if I told you the teams
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  Speaker 1: that may contact more actually do better than the high
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  Speaker 1: power teams in the playoffs because power pitching almost always
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  Speaker 1: speaks power hitting, So teams like the Astros, who historically
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  Speaker 1: have been a contact team do well in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: So I do not think that the Yankees are built
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  Speaker 1: better than the Red Sox at all. For October. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to disagree on that, but we can. You got
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  Speaker 1: you got a counter point.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hear it, last last point, so we can move
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  Speaker 2: on no team has ever made it to the World
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  Speaker 2: Series or has won the World Series without being top
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  Speaker 2: four in home runs. So what about rate? Just talking
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  Speaker 2: about home runs? Just talking about home You gotta hit bangers,
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  Speaker 2: You gotta hit bangers. Guess who's back back again? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: who's back? I guess who's back. Craig Camberrell, Kimber, veteran reliever.
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  Speaker 2: It's Craig Camberrill signing with the Houston Astros. He'll be
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  Speaker 2: joining the big league team. He'll be joining the big
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  Speaker 2: I've been trying to find out what he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: in the last and I couldn't get any answers back
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  Speaker 2: from anybody, but I know there had to be some
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  Speaker 2: fishing and golf going on. Do you think he hits
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  Speaker 2: it here? Do you think is it the spot or
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  Speaker 2: is this a desperate Astro effort? Because I don't think
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  Speaker 2: Craig Kimbro can hit it all and the Astros have
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  Speaker 2: scored less than seven runs in their last six games
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  Speaker 2: before last night.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but to me, I think you roll the dice here,
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  Speaker 1: don't you? What's the down side? He sucks to cut
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  Speaker 1: ties like you just you're talking about a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: got more active saves than anybody in the game minus
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Janssen. He's thirty seven years old. He's been in
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  Speaker 1: big situations. Does he have a little bit of juice
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  Speaker 1: left in the arm. We're about to find out. He
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  Speaker 1: gives some bullpen depth. They do need a little depth
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  Speaker 1: in the bullpen, so I don't have a problem with this.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. They have some holes, but they're
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  Speaker 1: on a tight race with Seattle, So if Craig Kimberl
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  Speaker 1: has just a little bit left, he could help them.
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  Speaker 2: And he's kind of streaking, so they could put them
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  Speaker 2: in and find three hot weeks. Is he gonna win
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  Speaker 2: in the World Series? No, don't expect that. But if
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  Speaker 2: I'm a reliever in the minor leagues right now, and
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  Speaker 2: I have an out on August twenty fifth, which is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys, do hopefully the Astros come calling.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees are hosting Seinfeld Night tonight. Look at this line.
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  Speaker 1: They're giving away a bobblehead of George Costanza sleeping under
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  Speaker 1: his desk. Look at this quote. I love a good nap.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the only thing getting me out in bed
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. I feel that so hard with a
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  Speaker 1: three year old and an eight month old Cratzy. I
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  Speaker 1: love a good nap, and there's Cratsy already napping. I also,
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  Speaker 1: I also have to say, I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: feel about Seinfeld, but I'm not a huge Seinfeld person. However,
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  Speaker 1: I would probably wait in line for that because those
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  Speaker 1: are the kind of things that are probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be resold for like ten Well they're free, They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be resold for I don't even know what a couple
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  Speaker 1: All right, better than box scores. Let's get to the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: team that everybody is talking about lately, the Milwaukee Brewers
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: eighty wins eric nobody else is even close. Is Pat
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Murphy gonna win an L Manager of the Year again?
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: In my mind, I don't know how he doesn't, right which.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: He's gonna hate it if he does. He's gonna hate
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: it if he does. He does, he doesn't want the award,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: but they're playing.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Well, he's got to. I don't you know. I'm looking
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: at it and he really I don't know who's the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: last manager that went back to back. It feels like
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you win Manager of the Year and then two or
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: three years later you get fired. That was the case
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: with Brendon Hyde, That's been the case with Buck show Walters.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: But the case with a bunch of managers really that
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: you know, you win the award and then you know,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a couple of years later, yuh skip, Schumacher no longer managing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: But I digress. The Brewers a team full of you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: players that most casual bas small fans have not heard of.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: That are just playing out of their minds because they
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: play part of a system and these guys are all
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: They play the game right. We talked about fundamentals with
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. We talked about, you know, doing the little
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: things right. This team is just constantly putting pressure on opponents,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: going first to third, you know, running the bases efficiently,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: playing Chris Baseball. They do have the power. The power
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: is we're in the pitching staff. The power is not
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: in their lineup. And of course Brewers fans that are
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: listening say, oh god, I know we're good in the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: regular season. Are we ever going to win in the playoffs? Like?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Do you think this team is better set up than
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: previous iterations to finally advance and go on a deep ruth?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I do, But I still need to continue to see it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I don't need to continue to see him win. They
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: know how to win. I need to see how they're
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: rolling into the playoffs. Are they healthy? Do they have
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that do they have the consistent lockdown of the sixth
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: through eighth inning? Are those areas that they have guys
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: that can compete in the postseason, because right now they
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: are exactly like they have been the last seven out
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: of eight years when they have made the playoffs. They
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: have a dominant closer. Oh wait, hater's gone. Oh wait,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Devin Williams is gone. Step in next, dominant closer. They
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: have three legit first game, first three games of the
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: playoffs starting pitchers. They're a little bit deeper in this though.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: They're a little bit deeper in this category. Big Wu
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: had a little bit of a blip for him on
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the radar, but he's got a below a two and
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: a half era. Freddie p is going to start your
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: first game. The misz is a guy that's going to
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: give you electric innings. Does he have enough experience? Have
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: they figured him out? This is all stuff that we
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: have to watch September. This team has a great lead
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: and they will never become complacent because Pat Murphy will
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: not let them get complacent. I think the different everybody
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: thinks that this team was just outplayed because they were
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: bounced early in playoffs since twenty eighteen when we made
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: a run to Game seven and lost to the Dodgers.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It's not the case. There's been some crazy like to
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: say you would have the lead you had in the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: elimination game, and Devin Williams on the mound, the game's over.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: They should be in the next round. But I don't
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: think this team wants to make it to the next round.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: They want to win a World Series. And I don't
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: think there is a city besides maybe Cleveland and Seattle
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: that wants a World Series more than Milwaukee fans. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I think this team, especially when Reece Hoskins comes back,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: is going to have a lot more power depth in
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: this lineup to be able to get them over the hump.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, two managers recently have not kind
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: of recently, have one back to back. Kevin Cash raise
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: manager twenty and twenty one. He's got to be one
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: of the longest tenure managers going now, Kevin Cash and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Bobby Cox in Atlanta, and that I think was back
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: in four five. So it does happen. They don't always
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: win and get fired. It just seems like it because
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: it's a tough gig. Let's get to Let's get to
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Kansas City where Vidi Pascuantino passquatch friend of the show
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: has been red hot for Homer's four consecutive games. Look
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: at that one go. He does not swing lightly gratzy.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: He's a guy who you know is kind of like
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Brent Firro and Buxton to me of the twins, like,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: as he goes, it feels like the Royals go. Look
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: at that swing, he would say.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I would say, yes, yes, as he goes, the Royals go.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: But it's still Bobby Wits Team, Bobby Wits. Still he's
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the he's the energy, He's the red bull in the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: red Bull and vodka drink. Vinnie P. Vinnie P is
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the guy that is probably never going to get his
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: due because he just drives in a hundred runs every
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: year and people are like RBI's it wouldn't happen without
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Bobby Wood, it wouldn't happen without mikel Franco or sometimes
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Is Bells leading off for India this year, or you know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: he's always driving in Salvador Perez got to you gotta
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: be able to hit the ball to get it out
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: of Kaufman. And what Vinnie P has done, especially if
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: you look back at what he did in April, he
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: has been not only one of the more productive RBI
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: guys in the game, but his quality played appearances, seeing
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: pitches and them culminating in a successful at bat, whether
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: it's hit hard, maybe didn't get maybe it didn't get
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a hit, but he's driving runs in in different ways
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: in all of baseball. Like and you sit there and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: you go, well, who are the stars for the Royals.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Salvador Perez, Bobby Wid Junior, Michel Franco's a a all star?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Oh oh wait a minute, yeah, Vinnie Passmenttino. I think
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: he is the unsung hero of that team that is
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: only two names out of the wildcard and everybody thought
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: they should be selling at the trade deadline, and they said, nah,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: we're gonna buy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Fifteen of his twenty six overs had given the Royals
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: a lead this year. I remember even dating back to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: last year in the playoffs I where he had the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: injury and they worked sure if he was going to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: be available for the Orioles and that wildcard series, and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it made a big difference, you know. And we're talking
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to scouts at the time that we're like, hit the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: lineup is basically just Bobby Witt. If you add Vinnie
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: into the lineup, all of a sudden, you can't pitchure
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: on Bobby Wit because you know you got Viny too.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So I agree with you. It's Bobby Wit Junior's team.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: He's the huge face. But to me, Vinny is the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: guy that lengthens that lineup, that adds another dimension that
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: makes you go, oh okay, I got to work around
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: this guy too. Then I got Salpaerez. You know, I've
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: got a little bit more to worry about when he
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: is healthy. Kansas City, as you mentioned at eight and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: two home stand one of their best home stands. I mean,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: this is a team that is kind of reminiscent at
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: times of those fourteen to fifteen teams. The fifteen team
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: obviously won the World Series. That fourteen team got there,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't able to get it done. But I never thought
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: they were going to sell Cratzy. You look at this
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: front office, Juji Piccola. You look at the ownership group
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: now with John Sherman. They spent an unprecedented amount of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: money for them two winters ago. They believe their window
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: is now. They signed Bobby Wood Junior to that deal.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: They promised him they were going to win. They're going
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to continue to try to push their chips in and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: you know, why shouldn't they. This is a team that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: has kind of been built around pitching. Is not a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: team full of huge luggers as we've As we mentioned
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: obviously with past Pontino can do some damage a couple
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: other guys. But you know, they are going to win
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the Kansas City way, and I think they have as
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: much chance as anybody is getting in the say oh
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: wild card. It's really a wide open wildcard grace right now.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And you look at how that all shakes out. Obviously
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: they're not going to touch the Tigers. I don't know
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: if we want to go to those standings, but you know,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Detroit is so much better than any other team in
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the Central, but Kansas City's right in the thick of
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: things right now as it stands. I wouldn't be surprised
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: at all if they go back to the playoffs. And
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you can look at this right here, two games you
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: got Cleveland hanging around a little bit further back, it
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: is Texas. To me, you're probably looking at Cleveland, Casey, Seattle, Boston,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and New York that are fighting those five teams fighting
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: over those three spots. Seattle of course hoping to not
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: be in this mix at all because they are very
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: much still in the division race with Houston. How do
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you like Kansas City and how this all steps up.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Well, you should love Kansas City because they put the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: ball in play, and Ida said, that's that's how you
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: win GameSpy, you hate it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: On for saying this. This is a fundamental baseball thing
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that is now coming back in vogue. Let's embrace it. It's
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: not the three true outcomes anymore. Who wants to watch
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: walk strikeout, home run? It is boring baseball. Give me doubles,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: give me first, the third, give me triples. Bring it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: all Backcratsy, bring it all back.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And see I didn't see any of those doubles, triples,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: first of thirds in the highlight that we just showed
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: a Vinnie Pascentino, the whole everybody. Everybody finds a way.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Everybody finds a way to find somebody that's gonna hit
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: a Dinger and Kaufman. If you build your team around dingers,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: it ain't gonna happen. You have you'll have years where
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: guys pop up. Moose after the year he got hurt,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: he put in work forty plus dingers, Jorge Solaire forty
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: plus dingers, Salvado Perez forty plus dingers. But you can't
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: rely and live on that. You have to do exactly
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: what you said you have to put the ball in
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: play in this team not only doesn't strike out, but
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: they put together good at bats. They put together good
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: at bats up and down the lineup. And I thought
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Jonathan India was gonna be was gonna have a more
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: of a monster season than he's had. But I think
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: what he brought to this team is quality at bats.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: They were always a team that didn't strike out a lot,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: but I love how they're not chasing as much. Before
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: they just didn't strike out because they put the ball
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: in play. They would just, you know, oh, I'm not
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: going to strike out, so I'm going to you know,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: maybe reach out and touch a ball that isn't going
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to give me hard contact. Now their hard contact is elevated.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: It's not resulting in more a ton more homers, but
• 28:12
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  Speaker 1: All. Right, little Max Monsey update we've got right now.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: He looks like he's progressing a little bit crazzy. He's
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: taken swings off a tee. He's not feeling any discomfort
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: in as oblique. That's a positive sign in my mind.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: They're still going to slow play this a little bit though,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: because he's dealt with this injury before. Obliques are a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: little pasky though obviously the Dodgers contended to continue to
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: be a banged up club. They could certainly use him
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: because when he's not hurt, he's been very effective for them,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: and I think he's a guy that's definitely going to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: be able to help them when he comes back. I
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: think they anticipate him coming back at some point before
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the season is over. But again, obliques are just something
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that you know better than me. It seems like in baseball,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: you go and you test it, you got to be
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: careful because if you tweak it again, you're back at
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: square one. So it is definitely a delicate situation here,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're going to monitor how he feels
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: after those swings, which is probably even more important the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: next day than it is presently.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: When it comes to obliques, they always talk about an injury,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: is ourtp return to play? What does that process look
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: like for an oblique? It definitely looks different when you've
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: had an oblique before. Hopefully Max knows where he needs
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: to be, but it's something that you don't want to
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: reaggravate this. You need if you're the Dodgers, you need
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Max Monsey. Max Munsey if he goes zero for four
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: or if he goes two for two in a game.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: He is so valuable because he always sees so many pitches,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and I think he changes this lineup more than his
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: numbers would say.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: All right, they're adding panels. Big news. Trump candle Field
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: obviously devastated the hurricane. They're adding panels back on cratzy
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: nature is healing, Raise the Roof tweeted that out look
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: at that they're on the mend there, you know, I
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: actually don't know. I don't know if you know either.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Are they anticipating this will be ready for next spring?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Is that the goal here? Twenty six?
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: That's what I heard. That's what I heard. But my
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: the biggest news is, I mean, I don't obviously have
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: no idea. Construction always takes. You know, it's like the
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: movie I forgot the movies even called, but they're always
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: like two weeks, two weeks, two weeks later. Oh it'll
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: be two weeks anybody through construction, so it's no different
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: for them. The news is, do you see the color
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: of it? I hope they do not put some type
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: of white covering over that blue tarp. I hope it
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: stays blue because they're moving out of there soon. If
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: it stays blue, that is a game changer. You'll be
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: able to see a pop up up there without you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: risking life and limb. So I don't know. Maybe I'm
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: just hopeful of that, but we'll see.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, well, you're right, people complained about that all
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the time. That and all the catwalks right, everything is
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: white for people who haven't ever gone to a game
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: there and it's domed, and all you know, a ball
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: is foul or a ball is this that, depending on
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: where it hits on that group. So yeah, I'll stay,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: but it'll be a lot easier for guys who play
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: outfield there who complain about the turf and who complain
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: about trying to find the ball once it gets into
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the air there. So I still don't really know a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: lot of the rules. Every time I was there on
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the Oriel speed, it felt like something wacky came up,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and it only happens to traffic cana Field right where
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: we're like catwalk B beeds this, catwalk C beeds this
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and You're like.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: What who would? Who would? Who would build it? Like
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: shame on them whoever was? Never again, whenever they get
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: their new stadium, whatever city it's going to be in,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: not that company. I mean, it's like it's like playing
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: arena arena baseball.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It shouldn't happen, it is, but climate controls so selfishly
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: for the media. Is an excellent place. It's always like
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: seventy two degrees in there, and you never agry about
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a green delay. But new ownership get it done. Build
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a nicer stadium, no catwalks. I'm pretty sure that place
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: is like a million years old, cratzy. It was never
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: meant to be. It's like state of the art baseball stadium,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: right like yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's climate control, that's what that's what they're that's
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: what they're going for. I mean, Chuck E Cheese is
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: climate controlled too. They don't play baseball games there, Like,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: come on, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I only watch them, I only watch them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are looking ahead.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: We are looking ahead. Well, it's it's perfect. We were
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: just talking about it this weekend's big series with can
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Padres. You got Lake Snell, you
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: darbish lots of exciting games going on here. I know
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that's that's going to be, Like I said, playoff atmosphere
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: type of baseball as well, any games you're looking forward to,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: in particular this week at Eric before we get into
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the whole slate of what's going on here in MLB
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: as we get closer and closer to September.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Oh for sure. I mean we have Red Sox, we
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: have the Red Sox Yankees series. There's no there's no
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: to me, there's no better matchup for both of these teams,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Freed versus Brian Beyo. Like Brian Beyo's kind of started
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: to look like he's taken that next step to be
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the guy that's gonna slot in behind Garrett Crochet. A
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: little bit of a blip recently, but to me, these
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: are two teams that the rivalry is what the rivalry is,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: so it's gonna be must Ce TV. I'm surprised that
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Ken's not there doing doing that game, but he's in
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: he's in San Diego doing the doing the La La
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: and Padres game. Like, to me, these two series are
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the Marquis series for this weekend. My favorite thing about
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the Padres Dodgers game is each team's best pitchers are
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: matching up against each other. So you look at you
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: have Blake Snell, you have Glass, now you have Yamamoto.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: For the Dodgers, it doesn't really matter for the Padres
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: because all their starters have to do is get it
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: to the fifth inning. I mean, now you don't have
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: to finish the fifth inning. You get it to the
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: fifth inning. And I think Shild's gonna empty his clip
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: in that bullpen. So to me, if you look, if
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you look past the fifth inning, it's going to be
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: a long games. It's going to be Gasolina, and it's
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: going to be some elite, elite bullpen guys. And I
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: think the series shifts the Padres way because of that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I also think for the Padres, you
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: gotta win tonight. You just lost three in a row
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to the Dodgers. You gotta get them out of your head.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: You gotta go out tonight and kind of make a statement.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Not that you can't salvage the series if you don't
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: win tonight, but in my mind, especially at Pecko, especially
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: with those fans, so you want to keep them in this,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: winning tonight would be a big statement. So that's obviously
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: going to be something I'm paying attention to. I'm going
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to the game. I'm also going to have a Beaver's game.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: He's playing Miami. As we mentioned, it's going to be
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: his return to the mound. How is he going to look?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: That is really going to heavily play in because if
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: he's good, all of a sudden, the Blue Jays have
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a rotation competition. Not the worst
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: thing in the world down the stretch to have six
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: guys fighting for five jobs. Max Schurzer has pitched a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: lot more like Max Schurzer as of late. They also
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: have Kevin Gossman obviously as well at Chris Bassett, so
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: they're going to have really an odd man out, which
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: is a great situation for a team to be in.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: He's going to make his season debut against a Miami
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: team missing Kyle Stowers, who's been their best hitter, so
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: that's going to help a little bit as well. As
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Ken mentioned, you're not sure what you're going to get.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Guys coming off Tommy John often have command issues, so
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to be interesting to see how he bears how Miami
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: plays it in their first look at him as well.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: So lots of really good games but we can highlight
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: what I think are the ones I'm going to have on.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: It's hard. This is the time of year, Cratzy, where
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I've got like four boxes up a lot and I'm
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: trying to pay attention to like what this game means here,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: what this game means here, because we are getting into
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the time of year where you know series matters, wins matter.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: You're looking at a team like the Reds that you
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: know they're not playing like a big divisional opponent atch up,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: but they are playing because they're trying to stay in
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: this wildcard race. Right There are teams that every win counts. Houston,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: it's every win Seattle, like we're in this stretch here.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: There's only a couple teams really like Milwaukee and Detroit,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: where it's kind of like going to be cost season
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: here pretty soon, where they can lose a game here
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and there and it's not really going to matter. Everybody
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: else is still very much in it. The clubs are
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: in an unusual situation in my mind, Cratzy. I don't
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: know how you feel, but how do you get up
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: for it knowing you have like a five and a
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: half game lead in the wildcard standings you're not catching Milwaukee,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: but you're probably not going to fall out of the
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: wildcard race here either. There in a little bit of
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: a weird situation. I think looking at this like last
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: five weeks or so of the season, Yeah.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I mean the whole let up, the whole let up
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: or lead off thing. I don't I don't know. I
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: rarely see players actually confirming that that happened. Like, you
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: don't get complacent, like it's a big leagues like you,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: you're trying to go out there and win every day.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe managers manage games a little bit differently. You know,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: you're not burning you're not burning your bullpen up, because
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: the Cubs need to make sure their bullpen is is
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: fresh going into this, going into the playoffs. But to me,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: a big series that has one team that's completely out
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: of it, but it's playing a divisional opponent. It's the
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Braves and Mets series. The Mets are scary close to
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: getting eliminated from the wildcard position that they've had the
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: entire season, and you talk about the Reds trying to
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: catch them. The Mets need to turn it around. They hit,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: they hit lind Or hit the first inning home run yesterday,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: and you go, okay, you know, here comes the Mets offense.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Here they are. Look at the standings, they're half a
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: game up, they're half a game up on the Reds,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: and tonight they have kind of their project. McLean's going again.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: He's got an opportunity to not just solidify his spot,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: but continue to make that tryout to in a starting
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: rotation that needs so much help. They need so much help,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: and they need length. They need quality starts from their starters.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: And if he if he puts together two more of these,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: that would only be three big league starts. You sit
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: there and you go, okay, this is a guy that
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: we can use in the postseason. And the Braves when
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: you play a divisional opponent that was supposed to be
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: really good. The Braves know this team. I get it.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: They haven't been playing well. I get it. They're you know,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: they're kind of being held together by duct tape and
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: duct tape and bubblegum. But this team knows how to
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: play in division and they're going to be tough.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: All right, Kratz, we made it, We did it. We
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: got to the end. Let's see what your hat is.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Kratz's hats, what do.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: You got best team in baseball, best record in baseball
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: by far. Then their eightieth win the brew Hajas yep.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Got free burgers for everybody. I mean, they have done
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: their job this season. The only question is will they
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: do it in October? Cratzy, That's what all the Brewers
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: fans of my life want to know. Will they do
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it in October? You think they will. I'm starting to agree.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to believe that this team is a little
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: bit different than Brewers teams.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: Of the past.
• 40:49
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