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FT Postgame Reax w/Buck Showalter: Game 7 is happening! Dodgers put a lid on tense Game 6, What’s next? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Of course there is a game seven during a world
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  Speaker 1: series like this, it's been epic.
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  Speaker 2: Scotty Brown aircrats.
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  Speaker 1: Buck show Walter with us for a little buck to
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  Speaker 1: overtalk Buck, let's first recap what we saw here in
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  Speaker 1: game six? Your thoughts to the ending of this one
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  Speaker 1: as a long time former skipper, Well.
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  Speaker 3: My first thought is can Glass now pitch tomorrow? What
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  Speaker 3: do you throw three pitches for?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guess that's.
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  Speaker 3: My first thought. I think everybody's on Beck. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I understand the base from you know, you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: score on this things even though there's one out and
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  Speaker 3: you just get a bad read. But my first thought
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  Speaker 3: is how the three or four plays that Rojas made tonight?
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  Speaker 3: You know how hard that pick is that he made
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  Speaker 3: to end the game and he caught. You know, Eric
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  Speaker 3: and I were talking about before he went on the air,
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  Speaker 3: the two rockets he had hit at him that looked
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  Speaker 3: like routine plays that are so hard with people on base.
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  Speaker 3: And he may not have got in three or four
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  Speaker 3: hits and made a big contribution, but boy, what a
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  Speaker 3: contribution he made defensively. What'd you guys.
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  Speaker 4: See same same You're sitting there going is this gonna
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  Speaker 4: work out offensively. Well, what did it show you? Nope,
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  Speaker 4: it didn't. But to me, I think it's it has
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  Speaker 4: the potential to work out offensively, and you're not getting
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  Speaker 4: downgraded at all. Maybe. I mean, I can't say Miguel
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  Speaker 4: Rojas is better than Tommy Edmond at second because Tommy
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  Speaker 4: Edmond does have a gold glove at second base, but
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  Speaker 4: the potential to like make a good swing put the
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  Speaker 4: ball in play. I love this move. I loved it.
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  Speaker 4: I loved everything. Dave Roberts hit was perfect.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Eric, What's funny but is, unless you've been
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  Speaker 3: in a locker room and you understand the status that
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  Speaker 3: a guy like him carries and you need a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a calming influence in a game like this
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  Speaker 3: of win or go home, and to have his presence
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  Speaker 3: on the field, that's something you can't look at analytically.
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  Speaker 3: It's a feel thing that you know what he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: mean from a calming influence to some of those players,
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  Speaker 3: they'rether thing I saw too. They made a big deal
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  Speaker 3: about Moogie Bets dropping from third to fourth. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: the guy's hitting clean up in the World Series. It's
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  Speaker 3: not I like their batting order better because it presents
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  Speaker 3: more problems for the bullpen because of the left right
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  Speaker 3: that they lined up with as opposed to the back
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  Speaker 3: to back guys that are certain that one pitcher can
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  Speaker 3: face in a key situation. By splitting those guys up,
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  Speaker 3: it actually made it tougher for Toronto's bullpen.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, Buck, I'm looking up on my analytics status sheet here. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: there's there's no place for a guy like Miguel Row
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  Speaker 4: Like his numbers don't say he should be in there,
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  Speaker 4: So there's I don't I don't know what you're talking about. Buck. Sorry, Sorry,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't work out, does it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the biggest biggest challenge in the game nowadays
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  Speaker 3: is evaluating the impact of defense proper You know, all
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  Speaker 3: you got to do is look at some of the
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  Speaker 3: Gold Glove finalists and you go him really so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: however they're equiting it. I've always said, if you want
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  Speaker 3: a job for life in baseball, learn how to properly
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  Speaker 3: equate the good defenders. I think the Fielding Bible had
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  Speaker 3: it right for a while. They were the closest to
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  Speaker 3: being correct as I've seen in a while. That's another
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  Speaker 3: subject for another The other thing that hit me is
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  Speaker 3: how good a player Will Smith is. We didn't play
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  Speaker 3: them a whole lot, but every time we played them,
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  Speaker 3: I went, this guy can really play. First round pick
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  Speaker 3: out of Louisville. He gets a lot of key at
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  Speaker 3: bats for them. When you've got a catcher that can
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  Speaker 3: hit fourth, you're so much ahead of the other team's offense.
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  Speaker 1: But first off, I was I was laughing. I was
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  Speaker 1: laughing about what you said. Yeah, you look at some
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  Speaker 1: Gold Glove finalist situations, and lucky for us, we do
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  Speaker 1: two hours every day so we get to have fun
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: But I am so with you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get right to how a wedgie ball
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  Speaker 1: might have decided the fate of this ski.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I told before we came home. As soon
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  Speaker 3: as it was yeah, I said, the Dodgers might win
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  Speaker 3: the whole world. Service was the ball got stuck in
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  Speaker 3: the wedge. We got a multi billion dollar industry. Why
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  Speaker 3: can't we get feels where stuff goes all the way
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  Speaker 3: to the bottom and that can't happen. We probably got
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  Speaker 3: a top ball game if that ball doesn't get wedged
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  Speaker 3: in there eventually. In that any that's the line right there.
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  Speaker 1: We need to make sure the world here's that line,
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  Speaker 1: because the Dodgers go on the road to Toronto Crats
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  Speaker 1: where somehow we can't just fill the very bottom and
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  Speaker 1: there is a chance that balls can get stuck there.
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  Speaker 1: It's the bottom layer, guys. I don't know if you're
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  Speaker 1: aware of this. They didn't estimate it's a billion dollars now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I mean, it probably costs like ten grand
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  Speaker 1: to fill the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why they do that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you always hear oh craps the nukes and
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  Speaker 1: crannies of the ballpark for that though.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's not a nooks and cranny's thing. That's just
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  Speaker 4: a we didn't finish it thing. And hey, the new
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  Speaker 4: renovations they look nice, Buck. Didn't you see how many
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  Speaker 4: suites they put in in the stadium. There's so many
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  Speaker 4: more sweets. It's so much better fan experience. Wouldn't it
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  Speaker 4: have been a great fan experience if that ball hits
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  Speaker 4: hard and Barger's on third in a three to two
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  Speaker 4: game with nobody out.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's funny is that a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: places they play other sports and other events there, so
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  Speaker 3: that's stuff. That stuff comes down and they have to
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  Speaker 3: put it back up at some point, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: get back into baseball mode. I'm not sure. I know
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  Speaker 3: it used to be that way when the Argonauts played there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if there's another team playing there now,
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  Speaker 3: or if they have a concert or something in that venue,
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  Speaker 3: they have to take that stuff down a lot of
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  Speaker 3: times and put it back up. So, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: used to be such sticklers about spring training making it safe.
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  Speaker 3: And I love the fact that it's padded, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's one that I just go, wow, we we
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't have that as part of the elements. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Eric, you go into certain ballparks, why aren't
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  Speaker 3: all the hitting backgrounds uniform? Why do you go to
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  Speaker 3: Fenway Park in a left hand and with a left
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  Speaker 3: handed pitcher in a day game and you can't see?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, why aren't all our hitting backgrounds uniform? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'm done, I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: Wait wait, there's a fresh tweet from a center fielder
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  Speaker 1: who I know, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know and love.
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  Speaker 1: It came out actual seconds ago, Adam Jones tweet Uck
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  Speaker 1: Shoal Walter had us read the entire rule book when
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  Speaker 1: he got the job in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: Reason was quote. I need you to know your field
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  Speaker 2: of work and always be prepared. Nothing should surprise you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you an expert of your work or just do
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about this play and our buddy
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  Speaker 1: Adam literally tweets that, and he's probably who.
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  Speaker 2: Knows where around the world.
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  Speaker 1: So James Dean's got to get a lot of credit here, right,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you be going up to him first?
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  Speaker 2: If you're Doc Roberts, like, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we used to I used to catch a
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  Speaker 3: lot of green. But we would go over one or
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  Speaker 3: two rules every spring in the morning, like two guys
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  Speaker 3: standing on third base, who's out? Who's not out? Hey?
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  Speaker 3: To fine? What an infield flyery? What is it? Really?
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  Speaker 3: You know? Okay? What is running in a lane? Constitute
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  Speaker 3: if you're on the line or you're in the lane
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  Speaker 3: or you're not in the lane. But the more we
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  Speaker 3: went into them, the more I realize that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people, including some coaches, didn't really know the rules.
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  Speaker 3: And hey, I learned something every spring too, because one
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  Speaker 3: they changed a lot. But it's amazing to me that
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  Speaker 3: you know, this isn't really a rule, but it's just
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  Speaker 3: a you know, one thing you should have your home ballpark,
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  Speaker 3: and really all the ballparks should be uniform. There should
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  Speaker 3: be certain quality control. Your batting cages should all be
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  Speaker 3: the same. Your mounds, if you think the mounds, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they go them around and measure them. But I've always
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  Speaker 3: been paranoid about them tweaking them. Say you're throwing half
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  Speaker 3: a foot shorter in the visiting bullpen. Always, we always
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  Speaker 3: measured them. First time we go into a visiting ballpark,
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  Speaker 3: we would measure the bullpens to make sure they were
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  Speaker 3: the same distance.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Buck, what do you say to your outfielders for
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  Speaker 1: executing that perfectly? Because hey, I'm sure you know without
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  Speaker 1: naming names, some players that you've managed or some that
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  Speaker 1: you watch in today's.
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  Speaker 2: Game, who would have not done the right thing in.
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  Speaker 1: A crazy pressure situation in Toronto where it's loud as
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  Speaker 1: hell and you don't know that ballpark as well as
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  Speaker 1: your home park.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you if you go in there and dig
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  Speaker 3: that ball out Eric from the get go, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and not give them a chance to do that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: putting the hands up and then go in and get it.
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  Speaker 3: But if they can replay, I think they would have
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  Speaker 3: come back and gotten it right in today's game, they
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  Speaker 3: would have said, Okay, that's a wedge ball. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes I think you should just play it if you can,
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  Speaker 3: if you can grab it, you should play it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's part of the part of the game. But I
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  Speaker 3: think that that that's got a chance to go down
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  Speaker 3: as the wedgie ball that calls that hurt him in
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  Speaker 3: the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: I hope not Buck tell me if I'm wrong, But
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  Speaker 4: the way I understand the rule, he goes in there
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  Speaker 4: without putting his hands up. There's no replay. That is
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  Speaker 4: a that is a played live ball. Am I correct?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think they would have called it come
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  Speaker 3: back because they've got the outfield umpire that saw it.
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  Speaker 3: They were calling it fairly quickly. But I think that
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  Speaker 3: the trailer, I think it might have been the other
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  Speaker 3: outfielder and the outfielder both had their hands up and
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  Speaker 3: then they went and got it because they're a paranoid
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  Speaker 3: that they won't call it. But I think in the
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  Speaker 3: day's world replay would have come back and got that
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  Speaker 3: right in place. For runners, you know, you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to you don't have to not score the runner at third.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say he was running on that pitch. When was
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  Speaker 3: rounding second, when it you know, got over the infield,
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  Speaker 3: you know he's going to score easily. They can give
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  Speaker 3: him home.
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  Speaker 4: Play because it didn't go out of play. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: umpire's discretion on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, hey, quick call out.
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  Speaker 1: And then I want to get to pitching decision from
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  Speaker 1: game six eventually. Of course we're going to spin it
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  Speaker 1: to game seven for the end of our conversation, but
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  Speaker 1: should be covered, a nice little postgame show for you
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  Speaker 1: after a crazy Game seven finish or Game six finish.
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  Speaker 1: In Game seven, we're gonna talk about in a moment,
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  Speaker 1: but let's get to pitching decisions.
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  Speaker 2: First off.
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  Speaker 1: In Game six, Buck, do you like the way that
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  Speaker 1: Doc Roberts navigated his pitching situation. He does not have
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  Speaker 1: the easiest bullpen setup, it's no secret. And Yamamoto is
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  Speaker 1: a CG guy. We were getting used to see him
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  Speaker 1: in the night. When I didn't see him come out
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  Speaker 1: after six, I was like, wait, what seventh inning, he's
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  Speaker 1: already out? Were you okay with that, and then the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the way they won the game. I get that,
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  Speaker 1: but would you have let him eat another inning and
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  Speaker 1: get to one hundred and fifteen pitches?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm so careful about you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to tell the pilot how to lie on a plane.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many things going on behind the scenes that
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  Speaker 3: we may not know about what he may have told
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  Speaker 3: them or his interpreter whatever. So you don't know everything
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  Speaker 3: was going on there. And you know they've seen him
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  Speaker 3: a lot, and I don't know what was said between innings.
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  Speaker 3: I think Eric was that you and I were talking
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  Speaker 3: earlier day that I think his last an outing not
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  Speaker 3: too long ago in Japan, he threw one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: thirty eight pitches. I mean, normally this guy's just getting
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  Speaker 3: loose at ninety five.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's obviously they didn't run him like
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  Speaker 4: that during during the season, but I mean Dave Roberts
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  Speaker 4: even said early in the posting, He's like, this is
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  Speaker 4: what like we we were, Okay, we built him up
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  Speaker 4: to be at this spot right now. I think he's
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  Speaker 4: talking about thing he was talking about Blake Snell when
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  Speaker 4: he was talking about that and Yamamoto's come up big.
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  Speaker 4: I could not have been more surprised when he came
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  Speaker 4: out with ninety six pitches. I mean they had to
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  Speaker 4: have either seen something or they went and you know
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  Speaker 4: they were like, Okay, we pushed you last time, we
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  Speaker 4: don't want to push you again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, something could have been said between any you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, I've had the interpreter walk over to
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  Speaker 3: me and say, Singer, I had, you know, different guys.
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  Speaker 3: I've had Coagi Yohara and just said, hey, he's not
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  Speaker 3: He's done, and you have to wear that as a manager.
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  Speaker 3: But it worked out well. You know that you made
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  Speaker 3: a good point, Eric, that they are without two of
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  Speaker 3: their better left handed two relievers in this in this series,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that kind of goes unnoticed. I tell
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  Speaker 3: you what Bassett through tonight, that that paints tomorrow with
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  Speaker 3: Max in a little different different light. But if I know, Chris, Chris,
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  Speaker 3: one of my favorite pictures I've had you talking about
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  Speaker 3: a baseball player who happens to be a pitcher instead
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  Speaker 3: of a pitcher who happens to be a baseball player.
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  Speaker 2: I did you see that?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry? Sorry Scott, did you see ah Man? Who was it?
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  Speaker 4: Lefty was up for the Dodgers anyway, and Bassett was like,
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: Bassett looked over Ernie. He's like Ernie. Ernie Clement was
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  Speaker 4: in for the bunt, and he was like, Ernie, get back.
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  Speaker 4: The first pitch was a rocket to the left, foul
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  Speaker 4: ball the left field. Like, that's the kind of stuff
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  Speaker 4: to me that shows he knows what he needs to do.
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  Speaker 3: He's a baseball player. And Chris is such a good
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  Speaker 3: fielding pitcher. He's basically saying, I got that. If they
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  Speaker 3: want to bunt this pitch, you know, the too sooner
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  Speaker 3: he's got that runs across the plate so hard to
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  Speaker 3: bunt anyway. And Chris is basically saying, if they want
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  Speaker 3: to bunt in this situation, I got it. You played
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  Speaker 3: back there and defend the bat. And that's why I said,
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  Speaker 3: he's a baseball player who happens to be a pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen pitches for Bassett. Tomorrow, again, we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: to Game seven. We're just going to do a few
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  Speaker 1: more minutes on Game six and then we will load
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  Speaker 1: up on what we think is going to go down
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  Speaker 1: in Game seven.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of the.
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers finally putting up a crooked number buck. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: their offense had been a big storyline, and they put
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  Speaker 1: up three in the third and that was all they need.
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  Speaker 1: And Mookie Betts was kind of the face of the
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  Speaker 1: struggles and very vocal about it. Rips it, two strike,
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  Speaker 1: two run, single through the left side, makes it three
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, three consecutive fastballs up, gets on top of one.
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  Speaker 1: He had been in a three for twenty four slump
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  Speaker 1: in the World Series, and he comes through with the
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  Speaker 1: biggest hit of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I like how they said, and they dropped him
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  Speaker 3: to the cleanup spot, like they really dropped him way down,
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  Speaker 3: you know, boot Mookie is one of my favorite best
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  Speaker 3: right fielder I've ever seen. The way he played Fenway
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  Speaker 3: Park right field. That is such a hard right field
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  Speaker 3: to play, but he's you know, he's such an athletic guy.
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  Speaker 3: And the ability to go from right field to second
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  Speaker 3: base to shortstop and play at such a good level.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we talk about all the stuff that O'tani
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  Speaker 3: can do, you know, to be able to play right
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  Speaker 3: field at that level and play shortstop for a championship team,
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  Speaker 3: that's just amazing. I remember the first time I saw
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  Speaker 3: Mookie Betts that we were in I don't know the
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  Speaker 3: Fall League, and I remember this kid sat down and
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  Speaker 3: ate with me and I called Brian Butterfield. The Red
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Sox said, you know some guy named Mookie Bets. He goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I've heard these pretty good players. I said, you might
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  Speaker 3: want to get to know him because sitting down and
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  Speaker 3: having lunch with him, he's pretty special. And that was
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  Speaker 3: just getting to know him as a person. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: anybody that doubts the heart of a guy like Mookie,
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  Speaker 3: he's never going to give in. And I think people
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  Speaker 3: miss how good the pitching is. This time of year,
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  Speaker 3: you're facing so good hitters are going to have peerods
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  Speaker 3: where they don't look real accomplished so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Chrass, did you feel like he clicked it back in?
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  Speaker 1: We talked a lot about his swing today on afternoon FT.
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  Speaker 4: On that swing? Yeah, I mean, how did he get
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  Speaker 4: to that spot? Because they blew two fast balls by him.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I get it, he's in a slump. I get it
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: they've been getting him out. I think they went to
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: the well won too many times and MOOKI made the
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: adjustment on that pitch. I think it will show what happens.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I mean later in the game. They threw him hanging
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: slider that kind of backed up, and I know he
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: took it, and I know he kind of like flinched
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: at it, but it was he was late on it.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: He was late, and as he did it, it was
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: like a man like. I still got to see Mookie
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: get the ball out in front consistently. I want to
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: see foul balls out in front, just like he pulled
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: that heater up and in.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: You know, you know, the great hitters can turn the
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: clock up. They can. They know after taking a pitch
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: or falling off a pitch. Hey, I've got to turn
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: that dial up a little bit on that now. And
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: like Eric said, it makes you more susceptible to an
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: all speed pitch. But they pretty much showed him how
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: they're trying to get him out and have been getting
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: him out. But they know they have to turn the
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: clock up a little bit. They just have an innate
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: feel for it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Hey, about last thing on game six, then we'll talk
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: strategy for game seven. We're actually showing some Kevin Gosman
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: in here. You managed him. I covered him a good
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: amount when he was with Baltimore in his early days.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: You know, top pick for strander out of LSU, the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: whole deal. He is such a different human being in
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: every level, in every way. You know this way better
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: than I do. But that should tell it all I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: can tell from covering him from the outside. What can
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: you tell us about what you've seen from him? I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: know they lost the game, but he kept him in it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I'm so proud of Kevin. He's you know, it's funny.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: We were watching the game after trick or treating with
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: our grand sons and my wife said to me, she says, boy,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Kevin's come a long way. He is so different now,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: and not different necessarily stuff wise, but he's got just
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: such a better face and such a better presentation of
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: confidence on the mail and you know, it's it's fire,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: but it's control fire.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: You can tell he's competitive and he knows he can
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: do this, but he knows there's a fine line there.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I'm so proud of the way he's developed as a
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: pitcher and as a competitor. Not that he wasn't competitive,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: It just I remember telling him, Kevin, you know how
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: good you are and how good you can be. You know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: don't let you know. These are the best players in
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: the world. Don't let any thing out there that happens
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: take away your confidence level that you can do this.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: You can you can really do this. And he's really
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: evolved into a frontline guy, you know, having guys like
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Bassett Insures are around him, you know, he's really graduated
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: to a solid major league guy you can count on.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he's part of the splitter revolution that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: is really in full force right now in the postseason.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: It's been fun to watch and I'm with you.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, just from covering him, you see the confidence
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: factor through the roof these days, every time he walks
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: on the mound chucking the gum. It's just it's a
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: fun watch and you know he feels like, not just
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I belong here, but I'm going to dominate. And in
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the game that was as good as
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: it gets. I think we had never seen h strikeouts
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: through three innings from a starting pitcher to start a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: World Series game.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: So credit to the Dodgers.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: They got to him, they got just enough, and they
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: out pitched Toronto. But it was definitely cool. So now
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: here we go. All right, let's set the stage. You
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: got one word before, Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Just want I'm going to go back to Adam Jones
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: tweet or whatever y'all call it, is that what it
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: is a tweet? I don't yeh okay, But Adam has
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: such a curiosity. Here's a guy that was a major league,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: established veteran, but he had a curiosity about the rules,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: about ways to other ways to do things. And the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: great players have a curiosity. You know. He wasn't afraid.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: He was that guy that would raise his hand and
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: ask a question, regardless of how he was asking the
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: question that everybody else wanted to ask, but we're afraid
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: to ask. Adam was never afraid, and that's why he
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: was such a great player. Is he always had a
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: curiosity for ways to get better. And that's why I
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: had so much respect for him. So tonight's tweet doesn't
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: surprise me because Adam is a student of the game.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He's fired up looking at that. I love it, and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: he wears it on his Twitter feed in a good way.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, he'll let you know how he's feeling good
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: or bad every day. So that's good stuff. Adam's are, buddy,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: He's been on here many times. Okay, So Game seven winner,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: take all best two words in sports. Game seven live
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: on the ft YouTube channel. Afterward, we will have a
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: postgame show. Kratz will beyond, Trevor May will be on.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: It's going to be nuts. So now let's spin it forward. Okay, Buck,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: tell me everything we need to know heading into game seven,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: starting with strategy.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Like you said, you think glass Naw's going out.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they kept his pitches to a minimum
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: that he can be a big factor. I think we
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: should start with shoe Otani though. I mean, this is
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the most unique player we've seen in our generation, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: how are you going to use him in game seven?
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: They said he wasn't available for game six, but he's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: available for game seven.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Well we think he is. You know, you never you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: dealing with the players from different cultures and different backgrounds.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: You know, and Dave and them know these guys, You've
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: been with them too long, so you know what their
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: buttons are. And there's not a whole lot of surprises
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: this time year. But he I suspect he'll be ready.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see if they you know, they're
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: gonna sit down tonight after the smoke clears, and they're
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: going to talk about what they can and what's because
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: talking to players right now after the game with that
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: much juice flying around is probably not a good idea.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: It's more about presenting scenarios and then approaching the players
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: because you do need to let them know how you're
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: going to use them. But immediately after the game is
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: not a good time to talk about because they're all
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: going to have this bravado going on and then they
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: wake up tomorrow. I'll tell you. The first thing that
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: hits me, Eric is playoff shares. Going seven games a
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: little bit better? Playoff shares for everybody.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean we actually talked about that the
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: top the first four games. The first four games go
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: to the players, the last three go to the teams.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: The teams are like, so maybe whoever wins gets a
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: nicer ring. But my question to you, Buck Show, Hey,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: do you just go like this. Do you just give
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: him the ball and he says, I got your skip
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: and you let him run?
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: What if what if you go start to hand it
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: to him he goes, no, I don't think so. Maybe
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: later in the game you gotta be careful about put
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: pushing him into something he doesn't want to do. I'd
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: be surprised if that's not the case, I'd be surprised
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: that it may be glass Now with him picking him up.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: You know, who knows. You know, glass Now basically had
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: a work day today, because I know he didn't have
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: a workday at any point today. So that outing the
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: problem is they don't have a day off, but a
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: lot of guys two days before they pitch have a workday.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: So you know, I think their choices are glass Now
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: or Tani, but both of them are going to pitch
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: in that game tomorrow.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: The rule, the rule that Major League Baseball has out there,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: there's no way, in my opinion, there's no way they
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: don't start show Hey, because if they go glass Now,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: clearly they're fine with glass Now coming in out of
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: the pen, his long three pitch outing that he had tonight.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: But to me, like you start show Hay and then
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: you go everybody else. You might you might say, I
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: get three from show Hey, I get you know, three
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: outs from show Hey, whatever it is. But I just
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I don't see them trying to manipulate moving in the
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: right field after he comes in to relieve. But this
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: is this is the drama that we want show Hay
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: pitching in Game seven. We're gonna get it. I'm I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: no doubt we're gonna get it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: You know, I've got one other question to ask you.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Would you be a little concern if you were Dave
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Roberts about your so called closer tonight. I know that
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: you push the envelope on him with the second inning.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Do you feel any differently about him struggling somewhat tonight
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: about pitching at the end of the game.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: The more my issue, and I know the team doesn't
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: strike out much. My issue with it is he had
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: a full inning pitch. There was an inning plus so
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: inning plus two hitters, so he faced five, six, seven,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: seven hitters and zero.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: What do you though about thirty pitches somewhere around there.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I'm not as concerned about the pitches. I'm concerned about
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: the fact that that splitter thing was not full of
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: them because it's not a splitter. It's a fork ball.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Let's just let's just be honest. It doesn't spin enough.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: It's almost a knuckleball. It spins still little. But I'm
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: you have to go to them. Dave Roberts doesn't have
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: anything else. Dave Roberts can't get through tomorrow's game with
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: show Hey glass now Kershaw for one out, Like, where's
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: he gonna get his outs? Is my question, because that's
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: you know, that's on the manager. I'm just the player.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: You're the manager, Buck.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't know their players, but I agree.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. I think you're gonna see, let's
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: see what we can get out of Otani. Let's see
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: how far we can take it, unless there's something in
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the conversation in there that that sets it up differently.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: They know their player and they know, you know, what's
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: being said. I try to give them that respect, but
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: it looks like that on paper. I agree with you.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I think Toronto's the one that you know. You got
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Beaber there, you got Bassett will come back, and you
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: got Shureser. Don't ever underestimate, you know. I had a
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: number of people tell me before one of the games,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: and I said, do not sell shures or short you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I'd like to know what his sleep. You know those
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: things you wear on your hand that tells you how
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: much sleep you got the night before. I wonder what
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Shres is gonna look like tonight.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: It's gonna look like this.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: The thing's gonna break. What are you talking about? That
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: thing broke? If you try and put anything on him,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it will break. He probably will chuck it against the ball.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: He's so excited.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Without giving up too much information, I know Max too well.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: He's got a complete ritual the night before he pitches
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: that he does getting his sleep. He I tell you what,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: you want to catch the wrath somehow get to his
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: room and disrupt his routine of sleeping the night before
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: a game. He's got it down to the science.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure. And he's been doing it for a while.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, So in a perfect world, if the Dodgers win,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is like, cool, I get three or four
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: out of show.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Hey, I get four or five out of glass.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Now that's it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe I needed Rokie for one at the buzzer and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: on the Toronto side.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: What's the perfect world?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Max?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Then handing the ball to Bieber, then handing the ball
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to Bassett and maybe Hoffman if you need.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Yep, I agree with you. That's about the way I
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: see it. How do you see it?
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Eric, I actually might flip it. I might flip it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know that. Max. Obviously a conversation. These are
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: buck conversations that are happening throughout the playoffs and the season.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: I might go Bieber. I might go Bieber fever started
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: out and then Max.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Well, that means Bieber is going to start on short
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: rest and Max is coming off normal rest, right, yep.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Because I'm thinking I'm getting more out of Max, and
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: I'm okay, getting more out of my second guy in
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: than my first guy because my first guy runs into
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: runs into anything. Now I have a short guy behind him,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: and I have more length in Max, and Max has
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: an opportunity to get in the flow of the game.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I think you got to ask yourself who would handle
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: relieving better, because it's a whole different cat for guys
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: like Max and Bieber and Bassett who have always been
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: starters for the most part. Bassett's had some experience with
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: it now, but Max, and you know, Max, pitching's pitching
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: to Max. Whether you tell you tell me what in
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: and I'm pitching. Let's go. But there's a tough conversation
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: if you want to go tell Max that somebody else
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: is starting. Good luck good.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And John Schneider doesn't want that smoke. He's already talked
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: about it. That's why I said what I said. I said,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Ohtani to Glass. Now, I said, sureser to Bieber, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: then we talk about Bassett and of course my favorite.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I was going to save this for the end, but
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: every day Louis Ireland will figure out a way to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: get in the game and set the record for usage
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: in a postseason. I think he just tied it at fourteen,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and fifteen would set the record. What about lineup changes, though, Buck,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: what do you think of the way that the Dodgers
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: have tried to mix and match? So does Mookie stain
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the four slot? Does Miguel Rojas get another start? And
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: then after that, let me know what you saw from
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: George Springer, who I'm assuming is good to go.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, he had some big knocks for them.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Well, he had one he hit well. The other one
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I thought was a beautiful thing. That tells you all
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: you need to know about Springer. Just put the ball
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: in play, get the barrel to it, and go, wow, look
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: what happened. I hit it down to first baseline. I
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: love that. That's one of my favorite bats of the
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: whole night. You know, I don't think you're going to
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: see much change with the Dodgers with I just want
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: to say again that starting Rojas tonight. I know that
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: wasn't in the analytical sheet that you get, you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: and I just I think that the really interesting thing
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: tomorrow is to see whether he starts again tomorrow. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: think you will. What do you think, Eric?
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, I don't think they change a thing, but you can't.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: You can't have this team bouncing in the clubhouse there.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: They're gonna get to the field tomorrow at like eleven o'clock.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: If they show up in the lineup says great job
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: last night. Guys, We're gonna go back to what we
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: had because Tommy Edmonds ankle feels better at second base. Sorry, Tommy,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: we're gonna need to get you your ankle. The same
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: thing that Freddie Freeman had last year for the playoffs,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: like we need to we need you back out there,
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: and Miggy Rowe, I appreciate you well. I'm gonna ho
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: another trophy.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I'd say an interesting thing to watch for tomorrow is Springer,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: because I won't I would be surprised if he's not
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: real sore tomorrow when you've had some time off and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: he's been taking some dry swings and some DP and
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: a little bit of hitting there. But there's nothing like
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the level you game speed. I'd be surprised if he's
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: not sore tomorrow. Do I expect him to play, Yes?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: But do I expect him to be uncomfortable? Yeah? I do.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: A couple of notes from Dave Roberts here at the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: finish line, he said rolling with the same lineup, not
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: announcing the starter yet because he wants to see where
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Showhy is more comfortable.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: My only question on that one is how can he
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: pitch in the middle of the game here.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Rast, I just don't want to give it up. They
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: just don't want to give it. They don't want any
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not letting the other team know the night before
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: they go to bed because me, I'm taking my computer
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and I'm watching. I know, I know this guy, but
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I'm watching every video. I'm watching every tendency because I'm
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: not gonna be a fall asleep. So if I I mean,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: if you're the if you're the Blue Jays, to me,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I'm selling all out to the fact that show Hey's starting.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I don't see how they circumvent the rule. The only
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: question I would have, and this would be a ninety
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: nine point nine percent sure of what I just said.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: The only question I have is I questioned that ball
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: by Will Smith when Show Hay was on First Show
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Hay's speed is elite. I'm wondering if his legs are
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: not completely back because he did not score on that
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: ball down the left field line, and I thought that
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: was a sure to nothing game at that point because
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: that and they never showed him they because Show Hey
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: walks on water for the telecast, But to me, that
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: ball rattled around in left field, not for me to
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: score from First Show Hey's walking in there and he
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: did not. And I'm wondering if his leg aren't recuperating
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: because think about what he did. He took a cross
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: country flight, he pitched, he was on base in the
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: eighteen inning game nine times, and then they took another
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: cross country flight. The only reason you don't recover is
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: because inflammation is stuck somewhere where you don't want it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's his arm. I'm saying when you
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: don't run at your top speed like Show Hey, can
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: I just I wonder, I really wonder.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why. Just that's another reason why they're not
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: completely committing. Let me tell you, guys, another MVP this
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: time of the year. That's behind the scenes. I want
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: you to think through the Dodgers came to the ballpark tonight,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: you know, not thinking about it, but realizing their season
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: could be over. Okay, let's talk the traveling secretary. First
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: of all, the hotel. You've got to figure out a
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: way that hey, you know, you basically say we're staying
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: here tonight, win loser draw. That was last night, so
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: they're going back to the hotel and if they had lost,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: they would leave the next day. Now you got to
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: make sure that hotel is kept for tonight. And if
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I was them, I would spend the night there, probably
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: tomorrow night, because by the time you get done with
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: that game, when loser draw and you got families with you,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: the ability to be able to think on your feet
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: and maneuver quickly. For I mean, you've got probably one
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: hundred people traveling with them right now, maybe on two
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: different planes. And the ability to keep that and maneuver
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: around is when traveling secretaries really earn their money. And
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: that's what I'm thinking about this time of night, is
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: you're sitting there and there Dave Roberts not only is
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: making a decisions about pictures, but they're all making decisions
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: about the movement of the team. But that don't worry
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: It takes a village. The players have no idea what
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: they have to worry about. And Buck, this is not
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Garrett Cole putting Raphael Devers on first. This is how
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: many planes the Dodgers have for the World Series. They have?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Really four?
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Buck, come more for real, And we're worried about ten
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars for a padded.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Fence that doesn't let balls get wedged underneath it. No,
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: that's not that's This is how the Dodgers roll. And
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: they're not traveling secretaries anymore, Buck, they're directors of travel.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: But I gotta ask you, Buck, since you asked me
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: all the questions, I have to ask you this question.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Elimination game quick hook compared to lane where you have
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: a pitcher pitching, compared to what your eyes are seeing
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: all the above.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: You know, the quick cook is fine, but you're hooking
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: him for who I'm gonna tell you. You know, there's a
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: lot of managers would have stayed with the closer there.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: But Dave Roberts said, Okay, you know I've got to
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: sometimes you got to change a little. You know what
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: in the gideo, you just got to throw something different
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: out there. And when they got to pop up there
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: to get the first out, you know, we were all
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: you and I were we were all talking here getting
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: ready for the post game, and went, oh, that's when
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: the first thought about the pad out there came up.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: But you know, one pitch you can change the karma
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: of a game. So the quick hook is fine. Oh well,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: you know we're not going to wait along around very long.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: You know, it's pretty easy to tell if a guy's
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: got it sometimes there, if there's a fight at the
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: backrack to get in that bad end, you know he's not.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: You don't really have to have some lane there. I
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: think the lane stuff you present your options and saying, okay,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: we can quick hook this guy, but do we have
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: the people to cover the innings. But you know, you've
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: got so many guys pitching tomorrow that have had great outings,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: and you just you've got to try to figure out
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: is this that night where they're not having that outing?
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: And that's where a feel comes into it, and that's
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: where the human heartbeat comes into play, and that's why
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: both these man as are managing in game seven.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is gonna be nuts. I'm so pumped Toronto.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: You deserve this. Blue Jays fans had not seen World
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Series baseball since nineteen ninety three.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Now you get it all.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: You got a Game seven in Toronto for a chance
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to win a title. The entertainment factors through the roof
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and on the Dodgers side, fans are trying to see
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: back to back champs for the first time in about
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: a quarter century. The biggest weakness for the Dodgers. I mean,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: you could make the case between the offense lately. Okay,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: well you can win a three to one game again,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: and the relievers. It doesn't matter that much. You got
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: good starters. Game seven, it gets nuts. It's called chaos.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: For a reason. So this was good stuff. Guys.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I got a final question. Yeah, you get a ten
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: to thirty ring of your doorbell for a trick or treaters?
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Do you answer or not? In Dallas, Texas?
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, do you have full sized candy bars?
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Buck? Oh, we're down to the apple slices now.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Then you don't answer it, because that man that that
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: young man or woman is going to they're gonna put
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: toilet paper in your at ten thirty. The kids who
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: are gonna eat the apple slices. No, no, they're not
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: out anymore. We need full sized candy bars or the
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: lights have to be out bucked.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we got something else worked in a
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: little munch, says Tom of Night, Exactly.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I think there are other factors in play when trigger
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: treaters are going past the deadline, and I think the
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: deadline is.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, you guys, tell me.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not a suburbia guy, but probably what eight nine o'clock,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I got.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: A question for you. I'll give me one unsund hero
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: to more somebody that steps out and it's a Game
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: seven hero that just blindsides you. Who's your plate?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: That depends who you think is gonna win, right, because
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: that's the unsung hero is not going to be the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: guy on the losing team.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: That's true. That's true.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: So maybe with that, but then you need to have
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: an answer. SI you can swing it around or okay.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: And I'll give you and I'll give you my one
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: from each.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Team, Okay, Matthew first, Oh me first?
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Miguel Rojas, they've already set, They've already set, They've
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: already set the stage for me. The Dodgers have a
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: guy in there, who can bunt, who can stay inside
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: one hundred mile an hour fastball from Louis Varland and
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: move the runner. He's not gonna win MVP. He's not like,
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: it's not gonna happen to me. The guy that could
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: win an MVP Alejandro Kirk. And I'm not saying he's
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: coming out nowhere, but if you look at what he's
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: done recently, he is. He is. He looks a little
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: bit tired here at the end of this series, and
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: he hasn't gotten the big hits. To me, if the
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Blue Jays win, Kirk puts the ball out of the ballpark.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: So you got my guy with Rojas. You can bunt
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: with him, you can squeeze with him, you can hit
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: and run. He's gonna play stellar defense. Uh So I'm
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: going along with you with Rojas. But Toronto is a
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: tough call, you know. I just uh, I'm anxious to
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: see how Kirk's wrist is after the hit by pitch.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Nothing nothing hurts Buck, not even that.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Nothing hurt it's broken. If it's broken is But he
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I love Kirk. I just love watching him play. I
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: talked to the guy that signed him. They had gone
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: in there to look at somebody else, and they kept
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: seeing this guy and his back to ball skills and everything.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: And you know that when I first saw the guy,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: the big lingus, I remember talking in advanced meeting. I said, guys,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know about him catching whatever, but I guarantee
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: you this guy can hit. I guarantee you anybody that
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: looks like he looks can hit. And he could. You know,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: it's just when you see him. I love watching him play,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: and he can, he can throw, and the pitchers believe
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: in him. But you took my two, guys, so we're
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: in agreement.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give you two on the way out. I mean,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Clement has been a pleasure to watch. I know he
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: didn't get it done. Was he was part of the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: PopOut right, We had one of the popouts there at
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the end. But come on, I mean, the dude's hitting
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: four hundred plus in the postseason. He's been incredible. This
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: has been a coming out party for him. He's been good.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: He hasn't been talked about a lot the last couple
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: of years, and he has taken his game to another level.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: He's one of those guys where you're looking towards the
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: bottom of the line of I mean, fuck, you look
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: at that at the eight hole and you're like, damn,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: this makes sense. While we're playing this team right now,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: this makes sense. This guy is a pest. This guy
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: hits towards the top of most lineups, and we're playing
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays and we have to game plan against
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Clement and what he's done to me that stands out,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: And that's a guy that just consistently has been a pest.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: On the other side, I'll give you you here, I'll
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: get you a comment in there, and then I'll give
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you a guy on the.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Other side that's a good call, yeah, okay.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: And then on the other side, I'll take one who's
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: either going to go like, oh for four or two
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: for four with a huge stinger. Keik Hernandez. He's just
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: been there and he's a different player in the playoffs
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: for years. So if the Dodgers end up winning three
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: to two and there was a two run homer, I
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: would not be surprised if it was Key k a Hernandez.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I would say Max Munsey in that kind of case too,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: but Max is a little bit more, you know, of
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: a bigger name regular season Why Key Hernandez is the
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: definition of postseason performer.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: He's the guy who gets up in those big moments.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: It's just a different, different game for him when you
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: get to October, and he's got so much experience at
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: those times.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: So I'll say those two stand out.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Do you remember you remember the play where Monthly lost
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: the ball on the lights tonight the bouncer supposedly, you know,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: that's another thing official scores for years, always scored that
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: in era. At least they know now. But there's another thing.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: We talk about fences and openings at the bottom, and
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: there's some way we could figure out a way where
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: balls don't go in the lights, somehow figure out a
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: way that it doesn't play into the game. Okay, I'm done.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: I kind of like it. I mean from a fan perspective,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: like you got to the light we have.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: I can get the sun, the sun at it's always
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: gonna be there. But the lights, that's something we can
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: control where the ball doesn't get in the lights. I
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: used to think that we should always Okay, I'm gonna
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: give one up on myself. I was thinking in the
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: playoffs one year, if we had gave out shirts to
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: everybody behind home plate and the UH and they had
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: the they turned them over to black shirts when we
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: were in the field, and they turn them over to
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: white shirts when they were in the field. You think
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: that would be legal?
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: I think I think Majingue Baseball would not do anything
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: about it because they used to give out Bob They
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: used to give out white towels. People would come in
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: there and they'd be, you know, they they'd be waving
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: the white towels, and the hitters are like, I mean,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: the feelers are like, I remember Shane Victorino, He's.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, I can't see.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: He's like what He's like, put all of them down.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: He's like, every two strikes, he's like, you have to
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: strike him out because I'm seeing like one thousand, fifteen
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: thousand white things behind home plate. Now they now they
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: made the rule in the last CBA. They made it
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: sure it had to be your team colors. It couldn't
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: be white or any light colors.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Hey, there's a reason why they quit giving bats away,
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: you know, because I'm going to get killed up there.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: You remember they used to have bat Day. Finally they
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: figured out, you know, this, this ain't a real smart idea.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: No, it's not a good idea.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Hey, wait till you see the renderings for the new
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Vegas ballpark where it's full of white. That's going to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: be fun. When someone calls them and says, hey, that's
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: that's not going to work. We'll save it for another day.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: We'll save it for another day.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: It's like the silver seats in the stands. Who makes
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: these decisions to have this these silver seats in spring
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: training where nobody can see. We would there are places
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: where we wouldn't take guys to the ballpark, to visiting
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: ballparks because we knew somebody get killed. What's this mean?
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Challenge?
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: We just we just have to challenge it. Challenge is
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: not watching enough baseball. Hey, how about how good are they?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: How good are the home plate on parts? But how
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: many pitches tonight? Would you have asked them, uh Scott
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: to check tonight?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say probably about five.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: What Kratz said that there were a few pitches down
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: that I felt were down, and then there were a
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: few pitches that were not down that so I think
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: the bottom part portion of the zone had a little
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: bit of a rollercoaster ride to it. But most of
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the time it's playing both ways, and I'm the biggest
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: proponent of the ABS challenge system. I cannot wait. One
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: quick note too, just so people don't think we got
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: it wrong on that month's he play. Initially it was
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: called a knock and then they switched it.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: They switched it to an error.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Really, yeah, they switched it.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Official score should go up to him and say, okay,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: tell me yes or no? Is it in the lights
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: or did you just miss it? That's what I would do.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Because what do you think I was going to say, Buck?
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: These are gamers. What do you think Max is going
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: to say?
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: Max is going to tell you the truth? He will?
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: He will because it doesn't really.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: It will, but many won't, I guess, but but I'm
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: with you. It's fun. Hey, this was great. Thank you
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Hope you enjoyed it. That was a
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: fun game to break down Game seven. We'll do this
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: again on FT on the YouTube channel. Trevor Maywell join
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: us for it, so we will see everyone after Game
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: seven of the World Series winner Take All. This is
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: it the end of the season for sure, and it
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: will end in Canada with the Dodgers taking on the
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, and you can check it out on Fox One.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: They live for live. Try seven days for freak R
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Coote on the screen right now. Good night to anyone
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: watching us live. If you're watching us in the morning,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Happy Game seven day