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MLB is SO back! Season predictions, PCA contract details · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: you're the first person to point it out, you are not.
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  Speaker 1: And we have details on the PCA deal from yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So now let's get final thoughts on that with charge.
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  Speaker 1: All right, AJ, Now that you see the money, six years,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen million dollars, there is a really
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  Speaker 1: key component in here that I think you're going to like. Now.
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  Speaker 1: It can mac at one thirty three mil. Cool, the
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  Speaker 1: deal starts next year. It is missing a key component
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  Speaker 1: to almost all of these deals, a club option. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna hit his free agent season or his free agency
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  Speaker 1: before his age thirty one season. Jeff Passen wrote on
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  Speaker 1: here the lack of a club option in a deal
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  Speaker 1: like this is rare. It's by far the biggest guarantee
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  Speaker 1: for a player with five years of club control remaining
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't include an option. He said the Cubs were
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  Speaker 1: still fine with it. They get a high floor player
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  Speaker 1: with a superstar ceiling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and no, and no opt outs, right or not
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  Speaker 3: that he would opt out because he's arbitration, but no
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  Speaker 3: opt outs either. So I again yesterday when I didn't
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  Speaker 3: understand the part where people were saying this was unusual
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  Speaker 3: and all the stuff. Why because he was a six
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  Speaker 3: to win player, whether of his offense is, he's always
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  Speaker 3: going to have the defense. There was a guy named
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  Speaker 3: Jason Hayward that signed a long term deal with the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs that people said was just for his defense. So
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  Speaker 3: obviously the Cubs value that. And then you get a
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  Speaker 3: guy who loves and who lives, lives and loves Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: is big in Chicago, knows what Chicago's all about, can
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  Speaker 3: play there, has played on the biggest stage. And you
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  Speaker 3: get him for six years one what was it fifteen? Fine,
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  Speaker 3: you cover, You eat up four years of his arbitration,
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  Speaker 3: You eat up two years of his free agency. I
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  Speaker 3: don't see a downside of this. The Cubs said, yes,
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  Speaker 3: we like this player. The PI ker Armstrong said, I
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  Speaker 3: like this city and this organization. They both agreed to
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  Speaker 3: a number and went ahead with it. Could he have
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  Speaker 3: gotten more? Possibly, I don't know, but also, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: maybe he again, maybe he didn't want more, maybe he's
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  Speaker 3: happy with possibly one hundred and thirty whatever seven million.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't I didn't understand that yesterday when if
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  Speaker 3: the team and the player match up and they both
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  Speaker 3: in the player team says man, we really like this player,
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  Speaker 3: and the player says, I really like this team, and
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  Speaker 3: they can get a deal done.
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  Speaker 2: Gippie.
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  Speaker 4: I think part of the unusual part was like he's
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  Speaker 4: you know, are they paying for the defense this early
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  Speaker 4: or are they paying for his first half offense. That's
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  Speaker 4: what I think Ken was talking about when he was
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  Speaker 4: talking about unusual. But this is this is a no
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  Speaker 4: brainer for both sides because of the fact that Pete
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  Speaker 4: Crow probably could.
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  Speaker 2: Have gotten a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know what his original last year when they
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  Speaker 4: came to him with an extension was. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: higher based on the numbers that I heard before, it's higher.
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  Speaker 4: But he's also not getting rid of anything that he
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't have gotten rid of anyway, in the sense of
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  Speaker 4: any extra years. He gives away two free agent years,
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  Speaker 4: and on the cub side, he's still on the good
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  Speaker 4: side of thirty like thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 4: The Cubs are like, okay, if your game is going
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  Speaker 4: to be if the value is going to be predicated
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  Speaker 4: on speed defense, because we don't know what we're getting
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  Speaker 4: with the offense, with all the chase and out of
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  Speaker 4: zone contact that he's making. To me, the Cubs are like, great,
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  Speaker 4: you can go to free agency somewhere else and see
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  Speaker 4: how you age out somewhere else, because to me, the
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  Speaker 4: dude hit thirty. If you're paying, if you're paying less
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  Speaker 4: than twenty million dollars a year for a guy that
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  Speaker 4: hit thirty homers and played the best, if not top
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  Speaker 4: two or three best defensive center fielders in the game, like,
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  Speaker 4: this is a win, This is a win win for everybody. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: could be a superstar if we see the first half
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  Speaker 1: version of him from last year over a longer period
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  Speaker 1: of time. But the floor is really high, like I
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned, and there is a chance aj that he
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  Speaker 1: gets determined in the legs guy category. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever heard that term. It's like the Michael
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  Speaker 1: Bourns of the world, where the guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's not even, that's that's you can't even, that's not
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  Speaker 3: even Pek Armstrong went thirty thirty last year. Michael Bourne
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  Speaker 3: never came close to any thirty home runs. I understand
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  Speaker 3: that's not even a comparison.
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  Speaker 2: Size, or that.
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  Speaker 1: There are a number of players that were so good
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  Speaker 1: with their legs, running, playing defense that you want to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of that player during the prime years of
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  Speaker 1: his career. I'm not saying Pete' that. My point is
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  Speaker 1: that for the Cubs, aj if that ended up being
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  Speaker 1: the case, and the second half bat of Pete Kurr
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong's sub average bat ended up playing out over the
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  Speaker 1: course of this contract, the Cubs are still in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: The thing with a quote legs guys, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: them getting into their thirties. On average, those guys tend
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  Speaker 1: to fall off. I'm not saying he's that. My point
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  Speaker 1: is the Cubs have in my mind, the Cubs have
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  Speaker 1: almost no risk here.
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  Speaker 3: Agreed. That's why I don't understand why people so were
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  Speaker 3: people questioning the Cubs signing this or PCA signing this
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  Speaker 3: because PCA you say, could he have gotten more? He
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  Speaker 3: could have, But I mean it's still pretty good at
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  Speaker 3: twenty what is he twenty four, twenty five? He's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be twenty five and he's gonna get one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty million I mean one hundred and fifteen million guaranteed
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  Speaker 3: in the bank. That's nice, and he knows where he's
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna be. I don't know if there's no trade.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't get all that, but fine, he's a good
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  Speaker 3: idea what he's gonna make. And for the Cubs, if
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  Speaker 3: they like the player, let the Cubs. We criticized the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs all the time for not spending, they go out
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  Speaker 3: sign and now we're saying, man, why'd they sign this
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  Speaker 3: guy if he's a leg No, Like, they like the player,
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  Speaker 3: let him go sign. Good for the Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you who doesn't like it, trolls. And also,
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  Speaker 1: any agent's always gonna throw in their two cents, not
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  Speaker 1: publicly but behind the scenes, like, oh, he could have
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  Speaker 1: gotten more if he waited it out. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have fans that are gonna pick through any player, especially
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  Speaker 1: if they're not a fan of the Cubs. That's the
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  Speaker 1: common I brought up yesterday to you where someone's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is just Michael Harris, and like, uh, even
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  Speaker 1: if he is michaelass, it's still worth it. The deal's
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  Speaker 1: still worth it. So yeah, we're pointing out here on
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  Speaker 1: this show it's a win win for everyone, and for him,
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  Speaker 1: he clearly made the right decision to wait one year.
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  Speaker 1: How tempting would it have been for you? If you're
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  Speaker 1: him and you're going through your value with your agency,
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  Speaker 1: but you hadn't taken off yet at the plate, and
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  Speaker 1: you're only one season into your career and the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: pushed sixty six million dollars your way a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: how difficult would it have been to say no and
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  Speaker 1: say I think the bat is going to prove a
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  Speaker 1: lot more here. My team is already clearly aware of
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  Speaker 1: what I can do defensively, and on the basis.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, he had nothing to lose last year.
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  Speaker 3: He's getting ready to go to arbitration, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: it's a different situation. Teams always try to lock up
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  Speaker 3: guys before they I mean they tried to luck up
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  Speaker 3: Connor Griffin before he got any days, because people who
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  Speaker 3: don't have days in the big leagues say, man, if
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  Speaker 3: a hundred million sounds pretty good, I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: it's going to go in the major leagues. Well, PCA
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  Speaker 3: is what almost over two years now, or almost two
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  Speaker 3: years of service time, so he's been a proven commodity
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  Speaker 3: and he knows, and he bet on himself and then
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  Speaker 3: you know what else he did. He went to WBC
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  Speaker 3: and he showed out again in some huge games. And
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  Speaker 3: don't say that, I know this was probably already in
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  Speaker 3: the works, but that definitely affected where he stood. And
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  Speaker 3: then they got to a number here that he likes,
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  Speaker 3: so I mean, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, this is great,
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  Speaker 3: This is great for both sides.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. And let me again clarify because AJ
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan in the chat seemed to not totally understand
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  Speaker 1: what I was saying. Ryan said, what the hell are
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  Speaker 1: you saying? Hit thirty homers and fell off. He's a
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  Speaker 1: similar or better version of Buxton because he's left handed
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  Speaker 1: and he's more right handed pitching. Again, my point was,
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  Speaker 1: if you saw what you saw in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: over the course of a long period of time, he
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  Speaker 1: is still worth it. Does that make sense? Is that better?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, here's the here's.
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  Speaker 4: My comp is Grady size More without walks Greaty size
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  Speaker 4: More was on the path to I'm sure AJ played
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  Speaker 4: against him all the time. People looked at him and go, WHOA,
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  Speaker 4: this guy is gonna be elite for years, and maybe
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  Speaker 4: the way he played, maybe the fact that he was
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  Speaker 4: running in defenses. Everybody has theories, but Grady Sizemore was
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  Speaker 4: an MVP candidate for four straight years Gold Glover, Silver Slugger,
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  Speaker 4: and then by twenty six years old, it started to
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  Speaker 4: kind of go downhill in the sense that he wasn't
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  Speaker 4: able to stay on the field as much. But you're
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  Speaker 4: talking a thirty home run guy, hundred stakes you know,
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  Speaker 4: less than one hundred and fifty strikeouts type of guy,
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  Speaker 4: and like, to me, I think that's where the Cubs
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  Speaker 4: have some risk. This is where Pete kraw Armstrong doesn't
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  Speaker 4: know how he's gonna age, but every player thinks they're
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  Speaker 4: going to age, and he's locked it.
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  Speaker 1: In easy and they got it done before the season starts.
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  Speaker 1: Now he can just go and play.
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  Speaker 3: He was gonna do that.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways.
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  Speaker 3: Have you met this guy? I mean, this guy's great.
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  Speaker 2: This guy's great.
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  Speaker 3: You were with him, this guy's great. I think this
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  Speaker 3: guy's great. I've said it. I've said it all along.
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  Speaker 3: And I also you know what else I like about him?
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  Speaker 3: I text him last night or yesterday, congratulator.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, text me.
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  Speaker 3: Back, cool dude, like you didn't have to do that,
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  Speaker 3: but he did. And so that's nice, Like that's that's cool, like,
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  Speaker 3: hey man, congratulations and he texts me right back. It's
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  Speaker 3: pretty awesome. This guy, this guy gets it. And say
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  Speaker 3: what you want about you know, whether you like coming off,
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  Speaker 3: but this guy gets it. He does. He's done a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things right and he plays the right way.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, there's no no comparing anybody to show Hey. But
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  Speaker 4: the Dodgers signed show Hey, and they make the money
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  Speaker 4: back to me exactly what AJ just said. He's affeable,
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  Speaker 4: he's he's connectable. He like he's in this city. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not saying they're making all one hundred and fifteen million
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  Speaker 4: dollars back based on advertising, but there's something to be
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  Speaker 4: said about an organization who hasn't necessarily had that face
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  Speaker 4: since they won the World Series or since the whole
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  Speaker 4: Rizzo Brizzo crew left. To me, he's he's that guy.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a final acial gain in that sense for
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  Speaker 4: the Cubs too, if they want to continue to be
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  Speaker 4: tight with their money.
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  Speaker 1: He will do all the interviews. He's entertaining. His family's
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  Speaker 1: in entertainment, right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he gets it, he gets it, he does, he
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  Speaker 3: gets it. He dresses the way he wants, he has
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  Speaker 3: his own thing, he lives his own life. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Is what is this what we want from people? Is
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  Speaker 3: this not what we want from people? We ask this
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  Speaker 3: whole time, do we not want this? Everyone complains that, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this guy doesn't do this. This guy, this guy does
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  Speaker 3: a lot of stuff. He puts himself out there, and
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  Speaker 3: now people, oh, is it too much? No, this is
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  Speaker 3: what we want.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear Ken on the WBC when he said,
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  Speaker 1: it's amazing how people went from Oh, you're showing people up.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do anything right. This is some of what
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  Speaker 1: you dealt with AJ when you were playing right. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do anything. You just have to be a
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  Speaker 1: completely straight lined, vanilla ice cream player. And now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the WBC goes down. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: not too demonstrative and crazy on the field, you don't
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  Speaker 1: care enough the narrative.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about it. If they don't care enough,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's the point, is it is wrong. Ken was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are we talking about?
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  Speaker 3: I don't listen m Ken, So I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: he said. But one of the things I don't understand
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  Speaker 3: is just because the WBC. It's a different thing. It's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a what six game, seven game at most tournament,
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  Speaker 3: and people can put all their energy into those seven games,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's different. The fans are different, The
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  Speaker 3: whole thing is different than what what a one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and sixty two games is. Now. People play like this
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  Speaker 3: and they try to play like this, but nobody can
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  Speaker 3: can have the energy of a six or seven game
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  Speaker 3: tournament as the same as you can for one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and sixty two games. It's impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in conclusion, good for the game, good for everyone,
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  Speaker 1: and PCA is right where he wanted to be. You
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  Speaker 1: grow up a Cubs fan in LA already got all
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  Speaker 1: of LA against him in a fun way. Dodgers Cubs
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  Speaker 1: is going to be freaking great theater for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So congrats to him. Hey, we received more details on
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  Speaker 1: the new contract for Christopher Sanchez, twenty million in deferred
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  Speaker 1: money that runs from twenty thirty five to twenty forty four. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies can do deferrals can do this?
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  Speaker 2: What disgusting? O that?
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  Speaker 1: What's disgusting?
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  Speaker 2: Just cheaters.
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  Speaker 4: It's just not even fair salary cap we need it.
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  Speaker 4: Salary crap salary crap, that's.
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  Speaker 2: What it is.
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  Speaker 4: Deferred money illegal against the rules sarcasm inserted.
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  Speaker 1: And know that other teams can do deferrals. How many
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  Speaker 1: teams you think are doing deferrals at this point? Not
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  Speaker 1: the league, if not more, If no more.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the Mets are still paying on Bobby Venia
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  Speaker 3: from forty years ago, So I mean the deferrals are
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  Speaker 3: always gonna think. The Marlins didn't sign anybody, so there's
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  Speaker 3: no way they have any deferrals fair unless they still
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  Speaker 3: have money. Don't they owe something on the Stanton Didn't
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  Speaker 3: they owe something on the stand?
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  Speaker 2: Right? Good point?
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  Speaker 1: That is true.
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  Speaker 3: Yell I don't know about yell at or you know,
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  Speaker 3: I probably not Rio Muto, but I mean they're still
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  Speaker 3: paying something on the Stanton contract, I would think. But
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  Speaker 3: most teams have some sort of deferral. I mean, Orioles,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Chris Davis, Dodgers obviously have a bunch. I'm sure the
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Angels are playing paying somebody along the way. I mean,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: there's every team does this. It's just the way it is,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: and the players are But one thing we did see
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: PC adn't getting deferrals.
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• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Opening Day. Any other starters you're excited to see, Like,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: for example, I know this is kind of a basic answer,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: but you have Tigers taking on the Padres in San Diego.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: You know that'll be sold out because they always set
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• 17:12
  Speaker 1: They put on a party in a show. But it's
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• 17:17
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• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Is I would say one of the more decorated pitchers
• 17:22
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• 17:30
  Speaker 3: From like an a standpoint, any Opening Day is great
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: for me. Yeah, I mean forget the pitching match. Just
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Opening Day, if you you know, just go to Opening Day.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: It's awesome baseball starting for real, and it's Opening Day,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: and usually it's your best two p unless there's some hurt, obviously,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: but go to Opening Day because the festivities. They have
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: the bunting. Anytime you see the bunting, that means it's
• 17:48
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  Speaker 2: Mean tonight's game.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: I know it's not technically Opening Day, but tonight's game
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Logan Web versus Max Freed. Max Freed has to step
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: up for about a month and a half, just like
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: you did last year and kind of took over that
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: number one role without Garrett Cole out. So I think
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: it's going to be in San fran like Sneak, not
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: even sneaky it's just it's one of the coolest places
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: to see a game too. So if you're talking about
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: finding a good seat, one of the better stadiums to
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: watch a game in.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yep, I think Seattle is going to be crazy too.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, they've got a night game. Do you like
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: opening day day games or night games?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Whatever, it depends on where you're playing. If you're playing
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: in summer, cold Detroit always did it right and they
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: did day games for the first so that was nice.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: But I mean, if you're in Seattle, you have a roof.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: I know it's not completely covered in, but if you
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: have a roof, you can play a night game. But
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I was like a fan if you're outside in cold
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: weather day games.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Hey, we're back. Did you guys see how Brandon sprot
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: found out he made the big league roster?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Hopefully hopefully it's it's it's good because it was Murph
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: in charge of it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: It was so murfh. Go ahead, Kratz. You played for
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the Brewers and you know Murph, Well, so how did
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it go down?
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, hey, Sprote, you made the team, didn't he said, like,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: don't screw it up now? I'm forgetting exactly what he said, but.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But he just like yelled it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he just yelled at it, like bro, you made.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: It, like somebody else just got fired. And Murph was
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: coming out and going, hey, Sprot, you made the team.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I wonder if I wonder if Sprot was wondering if
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: you made the team or not.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: The exact quote is, hey, Sprote, you're on the team.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Deal with it, deal with it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Hard to come up with creative ways to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: introduce a player or to break the news to a player.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Murph has cracked the code.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, Murph was just being himself. Yeah, so he just
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: he was himself. That's what you want. You want people
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: to be themselves.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, we have the sounds, let's play it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Told Sprote yesterday it was on the team. H he
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: didn't know. He was telling people that he didn't know.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I heard it through the grape vine. So if he
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: didn't know this whole story, I heard it through the grapevine.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: That sprout said it like.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't, I don't know where I'm going.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: That's what I saw him. So I saw him in
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: the hallway like I was from here to the videographers
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: away and say he's broke, you're on the team, deal
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: with it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's pretty funny.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: That was my first, uh, first time I ever let
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: anybody know across the room or you know, down the
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: hall and just told him to deal with it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Having fun with this.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Himself.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's genuine. He's having a good time, just.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Like Dusty Slay says. Just like Dusty Slay says, we're having.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: A good time. We're having a good time. Look it
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: up if you don't know.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: But he's one of a kind. Nobody else is doing
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it like he's doing it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: No, just hees himself, yes, being himself, which is why
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: people like him.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: The back to back champ that he hates to hear
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the back to back.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: When he was when he was a bench coach in
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: spring training. One time there's three minor leaguers sitting at
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the end. Called one of the minor leaguers over and
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: the kid was like, thinking he's.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Going in the game.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: He goes, hey, he goes, counsel doesn't think you're good
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: enough to go in the game, So go tell the
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: other two guys they're going in and the kids sat
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: and didn't play the rest of the game. It was
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: one of the roast crude, rude, funny things that I've
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: seen that I saw Murph do in the spring training game.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Season predictions are presented by Game Changer. Learn more about
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• 22:04
  Speaker 1: That's what we're doing here for this segment. I want
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: to know who's winning each division, the wildcard teams, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: eventually lead us into what the World Series matchup is
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: going to look like.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, I've kind of like Tim Perchman. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: went pretty chalk Yankees, Tigers, Mariners in the AL. I
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: think those you know, Yankees Toronto they tied last year.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I think Eric Cole coming back. I think they are
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: just they're gonna figure it out this year.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know why.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I don't have a reason for Judge, you know, as
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Judge's judge. I think they're just they're gonna they're gonna
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: win that division. They tied the Blue Jays last year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: That's it. My wildcards Toronto, Boston and Rangers just a
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: surprise because I wanted to mix it up. I could
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: have gone somewhere else, but Toronto and Boston. I think
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: they're they're really good. I think the Rangers with Gore
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: de Grom ofald at the top of their lineup, and
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I love Skip Schumacher, so I think that's their wildcard.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: The top seed in the ALS the Mariners because they
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: play in a lesser division than the other teams, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I think they'll win the most games and get there.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: So that's my American League, and then the n is
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: the Phillies, Cubs, Dodgers. Seems pretty self explanatory. I think
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: everyone kind of is picking those three teams, the wild cards,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: the Mets, the Brewers, and my surprise team again is
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Why not.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Tory Leavello does a great job. Jack Allen's gonna have
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: a big year. I think Merril Kelly coming back. I
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: just think that their prime Corporn Carroll get off to
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: a better start. I just think they're there. Uh And
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be better than the Padres and
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the Giants, and I think the Braves are too banged up,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: and so I think that's where we're at. And then
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the Analtop Speed does the Dodgers for the World Series.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I have the top seeds making it. I have Mariners, Dodgers,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: and I have the Dodgers winning because they're gonna be
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: number one of my power rankings until someone beats me.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: M right. So before we dive into Eric's list, were
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: there any teams that you struggled with in terms of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: making the playoffs or not? I know you just mentioned
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that PoTA.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I mean you could you could throw the Houston. You
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: could throw Houston in there in the American League. I
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: think you can throw the Guardians in the American League, Orioles.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Orioles are another one, but their division is so tough
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: with the Yankees, Blue Jays and Red Sox. They're gonna
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: beat each other up to a point where if their
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: pitching goes a little bit sideways, they're in trouble.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: And then and then actually you could think Padres, you
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: could go Red to me last year, you could go Braves.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I just think that the Diamondbacks are going to survive
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: that they're not afraid of the Dodgers. So yeah, was
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: there some options. Absolutely, But you know we'll.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: See, Okay, crats lay it all out them make people mad.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: I definitely will make people mad because I have in
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: the American League. I'm going with the Yankees, Tigers, Mariners.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I feel like those are the three easy division winners.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Now this is.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Where I'm gonna make people mad. I got the wild
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: card being the blue Jays number one seed. I got
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: the Royals making it, and I got the Rangers making
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: it because I also like Skip Schumacher and I think
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: just there's some guys on that team I think are
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: going to take a next step or continue like a
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Nemo coming over from the Mets. I think Josh Smith
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: is going to continue to have a great, a great
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: career that I don't think people a lot of people
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: know about them. I think that offense will turn around.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: So I have those three leaving out some good American
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: League teams the top seed. I think the Tigers are
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: gonna get it done to be the top seed. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: think they did in the first half and they collapsed.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna learn from that collapse if they
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: can continue to score runs throughout the entire year, because
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna pitch this year. The National League.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I got the Phillies, Cubs, Dodgers. Seems like that's pretty
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: standard for everybody right now, and don't see anybody beating
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: those teams in a division. But I have the Reds
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: making the playoffs, I have the Mets making the playoffs,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: and I have the Padres making the playoffs.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I think the.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Lack of pitching for the Padres will will keep them
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: from really pushing to win a division. And they also
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: play the Dodgers. I just think it's really tough. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: think the Braves miss out because of the fact that
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: their starting rotation is very much in flux. They're gonna
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: have to have a lot of guys step up even
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: if they do score a lot of runs in have
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: a good bullpen. I think the Dodgers will have the
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: best record, and I think this is the year that
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: the Phillies pushed through to the World Series and beat
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: the Dodgers. And I think this is the year the
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Tigers pushed through and it is going to be an
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: epic matchup in the World Series because the Tigers have
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: two bona fide starting pitchers, I mean two bona fide
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: number one aces type of pitchers, and the Phillies are
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: going to have three by the.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: End of the season. And that's why I think the
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Phillies end up winning the World Series this year.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, you gotta throw something in there. Kratz picked
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the Phillies to win the World Series.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's fine. We all have our we all
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: can pick that we pick, and we understand why Crouts
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: picked the Phillies.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: The Tigers are more of a surprise to me after
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: the way they struggled with contact in the postseason last year.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: And you know, Fromber and Terrik are great, but you
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: got to score runs at some point. Unless they figure
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: that part out. Mcgonaga will help. But I mean, I
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: get the Phillies pick, and it's smart if you if Sanchez, Zzarto,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Wheeler and Nola are all healthy, it's pretty good. And
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: then you have Deron and well Al Rodal the pitch
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: in the postseason this year, yep, well throwing Keller. That's
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: a pretty good back end of a bullpen mm hm.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And even position player wise for the Phillies, Justin Crawford
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: could have a big year for them. Aiden Miller at
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: some point should come up for the ball club this year,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: right Kratz.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you could.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: But I think I think that the path for the
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Phillies to win is they have to do exactly what
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: they did last year. They have to get the they
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: have to get the days off, you know. I think
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: that number one seed would be huge for them. The
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: buye in the first round would be huge. But I
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: think they they essentially lost the Dodgers series because of
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: the bullpen. I think they upgrade while they are running
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: back the same lineup and everybody's like, I don't know
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: how it's gonna I don't know how it's going to age.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: But I think this year it's still gonna be fine.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I think that bullpen is better than it was last year,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: and I think that's say that was you know, that
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: was what kept them from getting past the Dodgers, because
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: they were winning every game going into when it became
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: a bullpen game, and then they ended up losing.
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  Speaker 1: Box one Streaming. Now, let's go through some teams that
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Eric did not think will make the playoffs. I think
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we should start with the team that is near to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: his heart, the Milwaukee Brewers not a playoff team this year.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Was that the most difficult one for you? I'll name
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a few others just for the fans that were looking
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: quickly at the board. Red Sox, Brioles, Astros, Diamondbacks, Giants, Braves.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Those were some of the other notable teams that I
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: think I all have on missing out on your board.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: No, the Brewers weren't. The Red Sox were probably my
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: toughest one. I chose the Royals over the Red Sox
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: because I think the Royals are going to take the
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: next step. I think we'll get it to our awards tomorrow.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I think Bobby Witt playing for Team USA just another
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: year in the Big leagues is the MVP, and I
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: think that type of thing leads to just kind of
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: everybody having better years. And so for me, the hardest
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: one was the Red Sox, just because I think their
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: pitching is going to be really good. I think their
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: offense is still going to be good. I just am
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: afraid of them being it's a little bit short in
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: the division, and I think the Brewers leaving the Brewers out.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: I'm just not sure where they're gonna get there. I'm
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: just not sure where they're going to get all the
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: innings for the rest of the year. And it's the
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: same question every single year, and you make all your like,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: let's say they have all average pitchers, which I think
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Big WU can be above average. I think their bullpen
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: shows every year and a year out. They're always elite.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: But it makes their defense, makes their pitching so much better.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: I just think they lost too many key pieces from
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: last year for them to be able to make the
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: playoffs this year in a better division than what they
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: played in last year.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: The Brewers strongly disagree with you and feel like they
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: keep replenishing.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: They can.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: They totally do, They totally do. You can never pick
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: against them, and I'm doing it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: So there it is exactly at some point it could crack,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and maybe it could be this year. All right. This segment,
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  Speaker 4: locked into foul territory. Probably gives us the most guests
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: of any team. He's the PR guy for the Brewers,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: and now he's super locked in because Game Changer. It's
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: enabled him to stay at his job, which is being
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: the big league PR guy at the field, and also
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: watch his kid play baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I do it.
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  Speaker 4: I just I just ran the Game Changer last night
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: for our high school team, and like, to me, it's seamless.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: You get a you get a camera, you get that
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: John put on the fence. People that like our games
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: are three or four o'clock in the afternoon. People that
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: send their kids to school, probably have jobs and can't
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: make it, so it enables them to be able to
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: live stream it is. It is the best app for
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: anybody that needs to be able to want to support
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: your kids, support your grandkids, whatever it is, and it's
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: so easy to use.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Did you guys hear about the left field streak coming
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: to a close for the Giants? Isn't it crazy how
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: long that was?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Well, there's another there's a right field one somewhere. I thought, yeah, Cleveland,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Cleveland has a right field one right fifteen years or
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: something that's.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen years. The Giants six plaid a different So
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: the Giants had a different opening day starter at left
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: field for nineteen years and it's over. Elliott Ramos breaks
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: that up since he was the opening day guy in
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: left field, not for two years in a row. So
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: now it's up to the longest streak. That was the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: longest streak since nineteen hundred that they had, and Sarah
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Lang's doing great research on that different player, no repeats
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: either at that particular position, and now it's up to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Cleveland with fifteen and then they were running through the list.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: It started with Barry Bonds in two thousand and seven
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  Speaker 1: and ends with ramos here. I mean, you've got all
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: kinds of names from Dave Roberts, Mark De Rosa, Pat Burrell,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Aubrey Hoff. I'm just bouncing around, Mike Morris, Noriaki, Hunter
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Pence Connor, Joe, Alex Dickerson, Blake Sable, Jock Peterson. I mean,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it is just a cavalcade of names that you know,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: but they just couldn't do it two years in a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: row until now. It's a cool stat cool nugget.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I like that. That's what Opening Day is.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Everybody feels one hundred percent today, just remember that Tomorrow
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: not quite as much.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: A reminder to everyone. This is big news. Tomorrow is
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Opening Day, one pm Eastern Time, live on the West Coast.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: It's ten am. The show is back to normalcy. We
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: actually received a good amount of questions over the past
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours, like, hey, spring Training's basically done. What's
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the deal. The deal is the games begin and the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: one o'clock Spring training games are over, and we go
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: back to one pm Eastern Time, so the show will
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: be live one to three for the rest of the year.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: We do this for spring training. I always explain it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It worked out great awesome spring training tour. But now
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: we're back to one o'clock live every weekday, so mark
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: your calendars. And for those of you that weren't up
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: early enough on the West Coast or weren't at work
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: early enough to listen and all of that, you will
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: be back in the live window. So we're excited for
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: that too. During slappands, I'll go over guests for the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: big opening day show, we'll do some more predictions for
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: tomorrow's show, and we'll start mixing in some questions too.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: It's been busy, so I've been in the chat as
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: much as I wanted to over the past couple of days.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: But I will be back, and we have many new
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: shows that we'll talk about. I mean, we've been introducing them,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: but for example, talking to Tim Kirkchin about the show
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: that he's been running and it's now part of the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: FT Network. A new Blue Jays show that launched about
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: a month ago that we'll get into a little bit
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: more with KP. So there's a lot of that. But again, Kratz,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: what time tomorrow, don't don't show.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Up eleven, don't show up at eleven, don't show up
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: at eight, show up at one o'clock Eastern time. One o'clock.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: That's when you show up. The boys will be back.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Have your TV on here, have us on right there.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: You can watch Paul Schemes dominate and you can watch
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: aj wear his hat backwards.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Also, by the way, there's only one one o'clock game.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: The rest of them are later. I mean it's Schemes
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and Freddy at one fifteen technically, so we'll be on
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: for you and you can we'll watch while we're chatting,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: not going to do play by play. And then there's
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: a couple two o'clock games Shane Smith and Jacob Misowski
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: White Sox Brewers and the Gnats take on the Cubs,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and then the rest occur after our show, so most
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: of the games are a little later in the day,