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Padres sign platoon LF duo, Kiké Hernández to LA, Doc extension talks, TA v. Moncada, Neutral site WS? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I mean, Monconnor didn't play the whole three last three
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  Speaker 1: quarters of the year. Last year, at least Jim Anderson played.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he got released, but I don't know. To me,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, man, Mnconnor's got a hell of an agent,
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  Speaker 1: whoever his agent is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we might as well just break the conversation
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  Speaker 2: free show onto the show. Yeah, I'm a neutral site
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  Speaker 2: World Series guy. Caveat neutral site World Series guy. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Doug, neutral site World Series guy. When you
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  Speaker 2: have a game one. In game two, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to step aside.
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  Speaker 1: But your thoughts, I mean that dog hates what you're
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  Speaker 1: saying right now as just rats.
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  Speaker 3: I just I don't know. I don't know what AJ
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  Speaker 3: said to bring everybody into it. Like AJ's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: have you ever been to a Super Bowl? I've never
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  Speaker 3: been to a Super Bowl, So like I get it that,
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  Speaker 3: like there's a lot of stuff going on. I just
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  Speaker 3: that's the one thing As an Eagles fan fan, clearly,
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  Speaker 3: I love seeing fans celebrate. I love seeing home team
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  Speaker 3: fans celebrate a home run. Having a neutral site baseball game,
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  Speaker 3: it's like everyone's just kind of watching it. It just
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  Speaker 3: doesn't feel the same to me.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, listen, let me explain something to you. The
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  Speaker 1: best part about going to Super Bowl I've been too
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  Speaker 1: a few of them is the parties. It's not the game,
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  Speaker 1: like the game was like, eh, especially if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a root and interest in it. But I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: think about this. Back in the day, there used to
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  Speaker 1: be a Playboy party, a Maxim party, all ESPN was
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  Speaker 1: a huge party. Right now now they've now it's more
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  Speaker 1: agency parties and Nike does some and Adidas does stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and but I mean, back in the day, if you
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  Speaker 1: were like, oh, I got into the Playboy party, I
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  Speaker 1: got into the Maxim party, I got into the ESPN
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  Speaker 1: with the NFL party, it was like, oh, you're a
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  Speaker 1: you're something. It was it was a sight to be seen,
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  Speaker 1: just to walk into these places. And it still is
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  Speaker 1: in certain places, but now it's more run by agents
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  Speaker 1: in agencies, and you know, Fox has one, and ESPN
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure has one and this and that. But listen
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  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowls are more of a site and
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  Speaker 1: people are like, why can't they do this in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, Why can't they do a halftime show? Well, one,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know where the World Series is going to
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  Speaker 1: be every year. They don't know until the Elsies are over,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't play in years and years in advance.
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  Speaker 1: And two, how are you going to put a stage
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a baseball field. I thought ice
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  Speaker 1: Cube killed it this year when he did good David
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  Speaker 1: fad Joe he killed the Yankees chances this year when
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  Speaker 1: he did his thing.
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  Speaker 3: Fad Joe's still getting strings. Nobody builds hotels for the
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  Speaker 3: World Series too. Playing in Indianapolis, Indy knew they were
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  Speaker 3: getting the Super Bowl. I don't know how many years
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  Speaker 3: out they started building the W that's in that's in.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously there's w's other places, but the W that's in
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  Speaker 3: like left center field of Indy and you just saw
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  Speaker 3: it the whole season just getting built.
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  Speaker 1: Just boot boot boot boom.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, why why is the city with so
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  Speaker 3: many hotels need more hotels? They said to host the
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl they needed to upgrade, they needed more hotels.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't see that happening for the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I've stayed in that hotel before. It's great,
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  Speaker 1: it's about And by the way, whoever just put the yeah,
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  Speaker 1: whoever just put the poll out? I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: does our polls. That's the worst pole I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do neutral site Game six and seven, Game five,
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  Speaker 1: Games one and two.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever, Games one and two.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're, you're, you're like got out, You're out.
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  Speaker 2: You guys hear what I said? Though, okay, and sorry
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  Speaker 2: I had to disappear. There was the major major guard
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  Speaker 2: Dogs causing massive issues and Brooklyn. But games one and
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  Speaker 2: or two neutral site World Series absolute rager parties. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: can congregate. It's a celebration of our sport, and then
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  Speaker 2: we can star game.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's what they do with the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't get I know, but we need both. It's
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  Speaker 1: because at the at the super Bowl, you get players
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  Speaker 1: that are playing current players, you get former players, you
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  Speaker 1: get people from other sports. Heck, they showed Rob Manford
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  Speaker 1: on TV last night sitting there at the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get Roger Goodell at the World Series. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think, at least I haven't seen them. Right, So
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game is supposed to be that for
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  Speaker 1: the baseball, but we just don't do it big enough.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they did the thing this year which was
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  Speaker 1: or was it? It was last year. This year when
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  Speaker 1: we're in Texas. Jeez, it's been this year, this year,
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  Speaker 1: this year. Right, they had what's his name, little John
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  Speaker 1: in the Cowboys stadium what right? Yeah, right, with the
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  Speaker 1: scoreboard down and he was like DJ and I mean
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  Speaker 1: that was cool, but you know it was in it
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  Speaker 1: only the players. It's not it's not public, open and
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  Speaker 1: this and that. So, I mean they they're trying in
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  Speaker 1: baseball to get it there. It's just never going to
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  Speaker 1: be the Super Bowl because they have two weeks to
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  Speaker 1: build it. They have years to build it up and
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  Speaker 1: it's one game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can do this for one game for MLB.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to get current players to go to
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game if they're not in the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game, You're just not He want the four days off,
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  Speaker 1: is right?
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  Speaker 2: Any current players would go to the World Series, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about the All Star Game. Would go to
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  Speaker 2: the World Series for this? Yes, they would. If they
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  Speaker 2: got paid. They would go. If they got paid. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about a few guys that wouldn't go. But certain
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  Speaker 2: brands that they had big events during the World Series
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  Speaker 2: and it became a hole to do, would get their
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  Speaker 2: player ambassadors to go trust me. You want to get
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  Speaker 2: a player ad in a big an excuse, you call
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  Speaker 2: them with a little bit of money. We all know
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  Speaker 2: that's true. Even the biggest boys get a phone call.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you can't come. Hold on, I got a little
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  Speaker 2: ach coming your way. What do you think now?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? Actually that event I had don't need
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  Speaker 2: to go to it anymore. I'm coming to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think and you would know.
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  Speaker 3: So like this year, I would say the team that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna have the All Star Game the next year, So
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  Speaker 3: like this year, twenty twenty five, I mean twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: the Braves would have hosted the very first game. They
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  Speaker 3: would have hosted a neutral site first game of the
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  Speaker 3: World Series, and then this year they host the All
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  Speaker 3: Star game. Whoever's hosting an All Star game twenty six will
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  Speaker 3: host Game one of the World Series in twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Scottie, you brought me a little bit closer to your
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  Speaker 1: side of it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. You know who's the biggest proponent of this?
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  Speaker 2: The biggest because we'll have him on the show once
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  Speaker 2: he gets his last client signed. Who's the biggest proponent
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  Speaker 2: of neutral site World Series? Scott the Scott Boris. I
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  Speaker 2: disagree with him on the whole thing. I said, just
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  Speaker 2: a game or two, that's my middle ground. He might
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  Speaker 2: be on that side.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, you're gonna cost a team two home games,
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  Speaker 4: so you can't. You can't do it like that, or
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  Speaker 4: you'd have to you can't have I'm just saying owners
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  Speaker 4: all the time, all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But then it could be to the home team. It
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  Speaker 1: could be three and three, three and three, and then
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  Speaker 1: it's even. And that way American League gets the same
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  Speaker 1: amount as the National League. How do you how do
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  Speaker 1: you choose who gets home field advantage? Because for making
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  Speaker 1: thank you for making my argument for me. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and as if the news I couldn't make more
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  Speaker 2: money than teams, no chance they can split that. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they would make.
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  Speaker 3: Plant make as much. The teams won't make as much.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with that, because then major League Baseball's taken
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  Speaker 3: all of it. We went off and yeah, but the
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  Speaker 3: teams are definitely making that sit that cash. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it'd have to be a whole new structure of how
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  Speaker 3: that money is divvied out, because players get some, teams
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  Speaker 3: get some, and it's all based on how many games
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  Speaker 3: are played that they get that divvied out.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna have a whole new structure in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years. Anyway, in terms of how they share money, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we are, even if there's no salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: No, we are. But it ain't gonna happen. You know
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  Speaker 1: what you're giving. You know what you're doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: You're giving the owners. It's something they're gonna throw out
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  Speaker 1: in the bargaining table and the players are gonna shoot
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  Speaker 1: it down, and the owners are gonna say, see, we
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  Speaker 1: told you. You know, we tried to get a neutral
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  Speaker 1: side World Series. The players didn't want to hear it
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  Speaker 1: played Copron.
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• 9:00
  Speaker 2: Have a bot that says the Dodgers signed a player,
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: so I don't have to keep doing it. Key k
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  Speaker 2: Hernandez is back with the Dodgers and next up at
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  Speaker 2: some point, according to Agading Gonzalez and others that cover
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  Speaker 2: the team. Clayton Kershaw will also sign with this team.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of forty man roster shuffling going on
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  Speaker 2: right now, but Keyk's back and the depth just keeps
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  Speaker 2: on growing. You know. I think about key K and
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  Speaker 2: such a perfect fit here aj on a team that
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  Speaker 2: just loves the spark he provides in the versatility that
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  Speaker 2: he's got. He's also had some clutch moments in his career.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also thinking about someone like Chris Taylor who might
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: get squeezed out of the equation at this point. Could
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: he get cut into spring training?
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  Speaker 1: Naki Roass Remember when we talked about Naki Rojas giving
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: up his number to mister Suzaki and I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you might not. I mean there's some there's some people
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  Speaker 1: that might be moved from this Dodger team. But I'd
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: hate to say that I told you so. But when
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  Speaker 1: they signed all the other guys, who did I say
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  Speaker 1: they had to bring back key K? I was like,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: when is key K coming back? And he goes like, oh,
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: there's no spot. The Dodgers will always find a spot
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  Speaker 1: for k Hernan. He could have signed in the Chinese
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: Taipei National Baseball League whatever that thing's called over there.
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  Speaker 1: And in July he would have been a Dodger for
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  Speaker 1: the playoff ront because they just love him in LA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no I mean, there's no. Chris Taylor's one
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  Speaker 3: that I thought of. He kind of bounced back a
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  Speaker 3: little bit based on his horrible start that he was
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: dealing with something and bounce back you thought, maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 3: is he gonna make it through this season?
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: It's crazy to say key K Hernandez is going to
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: have a tough time finding three hundred at bats, But
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: you know what, it all comes out in the wash
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  Speaker 3: like these dudes like they're just getting it's crazy to
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  Speaker 3: say they're getting ready for the postseason throughout the year
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  Speaker 3: in the sense of like, well, we're just gonna play
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  Speaker 3: these games out. Get some guys some red key K
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: doesn't have to play shortstop. They have they have plenty
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  Speaker 3: of backups. So maybe it's not Chris Taylor. Maybe it's
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: miggi Row. I just have a tough time seeing the
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers get rid of a true big league shortstop in
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  Speaker 3: meggi Row when you have Mookie still still learning the position.
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  Speaker 2: PI has has options, but I want pies.
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  Speaker 1: Over. Who's gonna Where's he gonna play?
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  Speaker 2: Taylor. Taylor, he's gonna play fifth outfielder. No, you don't
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  Speaker 2: want him on the bench, dude. They mix they mix
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  Speaker 2: everyone in so well, that's what Roberts does. Well. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not too concerned about the playing time. Guys get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I want him on the big league roster. That's me.
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  Speaker 2: You want him to just get regular A b's and
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  Speaker 2: just just spoil in the minor leagues forever. He's ready.
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  Speaker 2: Brought him up. You hat him playing in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: and now you're gonna say, hey, everything you did was great,
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: you hit four hundred in spring training. We're sending you
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  Speaker 2: down because of Chris Taylor, and we signed Key Key
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  Speaker 2: Hernandez and they go over the rest of the depth.
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  Speaker 2: That's a tough sell to a guy that deserves to
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  Speaker 2: be on the big league roster. I know it's different
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  Speaker 2: when you're certain teams that have more depth, but that's
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  Speaker 2: a tough sell. He deserves to be up on the
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  Speaker 2: big league team and they're better with him. It's not
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  Speaker 2: close at this point. Krats are aj I mean, Pies
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  Speaker 2: versus Taylor. Who do you want with your life on
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  Speaker 2: the line, Freddy Freeman, Okay, pi Hes versus Taylor. Who
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  Speaker 2: do you want with your life on the line in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 3: Kyts, it's not clos I'll answer. I'll answer the question obviously.
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  Speaker 3: It's pa Hees. Pi Has's versatility is not necessarily there.
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  Speaker 3: It can be Piz there. The reason I don't want
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  Speaker 3: him in the minor league, the reason I don't want
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  Speaker 3: him in the minor leagues for depth, is the fact
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  Speaker 3: that he's already twenty four years old. Like he's not
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  Speaker 3: coming over from Q but he's not like he's like
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  Speaker 3: he's still needs time to develop. To me, I think
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  Speaker 3: he's ready to go. I just need him, need him
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  Speaker 3: to play, Like, this is a guy that needs to play,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't. I don't see a spot for him
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  Speaker 3: right now. Tommy Edmond is gonna get all the burn
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  Speaker 3: and center and I get it. People are saying Tommy
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  Speaker 3: will play other positions too, But Tommy's the best when
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  Speaker 3: he's out there every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he doesn't have to play center field every day.
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  Speaker 1: He's not playing left.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, my roster includes Paes on opening.
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  Speaker 1: Day, but right who's their ray fielder? Right now?
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  Speaker 2: They have Confordo and Tao in the corners.
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  Speaker 1: YEP, Okay, Now who's their center fielder, Tommy Edmund. So
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  Speaker 1: you want pa he sitting on the bench and playing
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while against lefties only, or do
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  Speaker 1: you want or when Colforido faced the left because the
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  Speaker 1: Canforido's gonna want to play every day. I mean, Chris
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  Speaker 1: Tayler's making like nineteen million this year. He ain't going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. PA's has options. It sucks just a I mean,
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  Speaker 1: then you have I mean their infield's pretty set if
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  Speaker 1: you look at it. So then you have mon Yes
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  Speaker 1: every day, and then you have Miggy Row and Kik
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  Speaker 1: that got to get in there somehow. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see Dave Roberts handles on this especially.
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  Speaker 2: They are deal. I mean, guys get hurt, so they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to load it up where it's like, oh cool,
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  Speaker 2: someone got hurt. We have pie Hees lurking to play
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  Speaker 2: an outfield spot. Right, Let's say a corner outfielder goes down.
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  Speaker 2: They'd be like, cool, this is a nice little backup
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  Speaker 2: plan to keep the train rolling. We'll see all right,
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: let's get to the padres not one, but two signings.
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  Speaker 2: They actually could use a Pies but instead they go
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  Speaker 2: with a Hayward and a Connor Joe. What do we
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: think about the left field platoon situation that we'll have
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: in place of Jerks and Profar from a year ago.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Profar's contract a year ago was a one million base
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  Speaker 2: one and a half million in incentives. It's very similar
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  Speaker 2: according to Bob Nightingale. For Connor Joe, he actually has
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: a three point fifty on base percentage against left handed
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  Speaker 2: pitching in his career. But I mean, let's be real, aj,
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  Speaker 2: they went from Profar to the platoon of Hayward and
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  Speaker 2: Connor Joe. This is a downgrade.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, especially if you're kind of about the
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  Speaker 1: profile from last year. Now, Hayward and Connor Joe are
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  Speaker 1: nice players, but if you're talking about the Profar from
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  Speaker 1: two years ago might be better.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Last year profile was off the charts good. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's a nice signing. I mean, obviously,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: if the Dodgers had won them, they wouldn't have got
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: rid of Hayward last year. They would have brought him
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: back this year. So, I mean, Connor Joe's where he
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: was in Pittsburgh last year, right, He had a nice
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: little year did okay again, especially against lefties. But I mean,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: this doesn't make them World Series contenders. For me, it's an.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Upgrade on defense, and you're hoping that Connor Joe takes
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Connor Joe's like first two months of every season months
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: and a half of every season.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: What happens after that, I don't know. I don't know
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: if it's like an overexposure, if it's been injury things.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I played with him when he first got called up,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: made the team. He was in nineteen when he made
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: the team with the Giants. Oh my gosh, he was
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: smashing in spring training.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Came in.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: He just like his eye. He's got a really good eye,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: So I think there's potential there. It's definitely gonna be
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: an upgrade, but it's upgrade to your defense and left like,
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: it's not like you're upgrading a major position.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: And that's what they're gonna have to do. You know,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: they gotta play the cheap angle here because they don't
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: really have spending room. So I don't hate it. I'm
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: just saying it's not profar. But yeah, I like the
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Connor Joe side. I mean, eventually Jason Hayward's gonna hit
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: a wall. I mean, he's hit walls in the past,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: but I'm saying eventually he might hit a point where
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: it's all right, this is not a starting outfielder for
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: a first division team which already kind of.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Just kind of already hit that, didn't he I mean,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: he wasn't saying. I mean, the Dogs got rid of
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: him last year. Listen. I love Jason Haywark. He's a
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: He's an unbelievably great guylieve a great guy, huge dude,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: great guy, nicest, can be love the guy to death.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: But the Dodgers were like, yeah, you're not helping us.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: We need to find someone else, right, And then he
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: already go after he went.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: To Houston, so he's gonna start. He went to Houston,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: He's gonna start every day.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Against Can you trust him to hit? I mean, listen,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: he's a nice he's still got a nice defensive outfielder
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: thing going on. But I don't know, I don't know,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: it's it's to me, it's just a man, Okay, nice
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: try Padres. We need to spend money and really go
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: for someone big, and they can't do that this year.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Sadly, I like that they signed him because he's a
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: good dude, and I think it's a good signing in
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: that sense. It's one of those things that I had
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: a point and I completely forgot it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: But good fellas get contracts.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Good good guy, good guy. I just think he's a
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: good thing. Yeah, it's a it's a.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I know it is. I want to sign all jerks
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: on my team. We only talk, we only give the
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: money to the good fellows. I want to give money
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: all to the jerks.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: It's ironic that we were talking about this because we're
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: talking about Chris Taylor just just five minutes ago, and
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Jason Hayward technically got fired in place of Chris Taylor
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: last year. I know they're not the same player. I
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: know Chris Taylor offers you that right handed bat and
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: the versatility that Jason Hayward doesn't. But they could have
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: gotten rid of CT three or whatever his nickname is.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: But they got rid of Hayward at this at the
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: same time.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one's getting paid a little bit more, a little
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: bit more. They can swallow it. He's got one year left.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying spring training watches on. If he looks
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: like he did last year, they will cut him. That's
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: what I feel. That's why I'm saying Key k helps
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: to make that push. It's the Dodgers, it's winner go
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: home this year. This team's all Taylor's done it before.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Chris Taylor has remade and offseason like there's a dude
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: that can redo it and figure out what was going wrong.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: He can make a complete one to eighty shift.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a good question for Andrew Friedman on Dodgers
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Territory Today. Yes, the president of Baseball Operations for the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Dodgers is going to join to this show. This is
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: what the promo looks like. So you can watch it
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: later after our show if you're online, and you can
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: catch it later on too via potform. But Andrew Friedman
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: joining Alana and Clint Live on DT. What we're talking
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: about the Rockies right now? What Brenton Doyle could have
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: a little contract extension by spring training. So Patrick Saunders
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: has been covering the team for a while and he
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: says that there have been internal discussions about a contract
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: extension with the Gold Glover. Back to back gold Gloves.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: The bat production improved a ton this past season. He
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: chopped down the strikeout right. I think it was twenty
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: three percent this past season after a thirty five number,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: which is large for someone like him. Put up, let's
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: see twenty three home runs, a little bit above average
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: ops plus. They're adding it up and saying, Okay, this
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: is a guy who's not young. I got to look
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: up the age and it's not going to be a
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: free agent for a while.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: How old twenty six? Almost twenty seven?
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, so by the time he's a free agent, he's
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: going to be into his thirties. So they're like, can
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: we figure out some type of contract extension? What are
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: our thoughts on this one? Because I actually I've heard
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: some say cool, good idea, but also you could just
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: play the system out for a while with a speed
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: guy with a legs guy. No, you'd rather get an
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: extension locked in. They've got team control for years.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I know. But I like doing this for him and
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: for the Rockies. It's a nice step for their fans
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: because the fans don't really get much to cheer about.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So I think it's great. But can we put up
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: that Can we put up that board again? We showed
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: can we at that board? Whatever the rumor board was,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: because I just got to read what it says angels
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: bent bench Anthony Rendon in favor of Yoan Moncata. That's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a real headline. Whatever, That is a real headline that
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Dan Perry wrote. That was what he went with, bulk
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: up and outfield angels bench rendon in favor of Joan Moncata.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Both guys can't stay on the field. I guess because
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Moncada is a switch hitter. I mean, come on, are
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: we serious? That's the headline we went with. Come on, guys.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Dan Perry was very angry that you called him Dan.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: What is it, Dane Perry, Dan, I'm guessing it's d
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: A y N. Gotta be a Dane. Hey a Jay,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: you missed it. You missed Moncata news on Friday, and I, well, I.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Saw your text. I saw your text that you and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: your text were like, I still can't believe I'm reading
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this the way I'm reading it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I found out something worse this weekend about the situation,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: okay with Mancata. This is perfect for spreading rumors. One year,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: five million dollars major league contract. Now, I'm like, how
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: many other one year, three four million dollar deals did
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: he get? So? According to a friend who's pretty in
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: the know, how many major league offers did Yon Mancata
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: get besides the Angels offer zero zero.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: There's no way. Remember we Joe sam Blom sam Blum
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: about White Sox West. Well, now they have Anderson, they
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: got Moncata, they have a bunch of ex White Sox guys.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: So I mean they are becoming the White Sox West.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I'm okay with the content. I'm okay with the invitation.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just not okay with the contract. That was my problem.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's not even played a season's worth in
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the last like two years before that wasn't good. It's
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: been a long time since he was good. So I
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: just think that it's the perfect case nowadays of a
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: player who does need to prove himself where you're gonna
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: have plenty of other plays that can't find themselves a
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: major league deal. I mean, you want to get krats
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: pissed off on a Monday. Jon Moncatta got one year,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: five million dollars. Brandon Belt couldn't find a contract last year.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Brandon Belt had like a one thirty oh ps plus
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the year before, couldn't find a contract, played the full
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: season with Toronto basically as retired.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Now, what about the guy we have coming in today
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: on the show. He ain't got a contract yet.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: True, he's been he was a quality.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Pitcher last year. I don't think Kyle Gibson. Has Kyle
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Gibson signed yet? Maybe I missed it home, but I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: don't think he's signed yet. There's some guys that haven't
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: signed yet. Alex Fragman hasn't signed yet. I mean, that's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: one different to me because he's a different tax bracket.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: But still, I mean there's some Tim Anderson he signed
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a minor league deal to go to camp. I mean,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Moncotta didn't play the whole three last three quarters of
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the year last year. At least Tim Anderson play and
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: then he got released. But I don't know. To me,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: it's like man Mnconta's got a hell of an agent,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: whoever his agent is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what I texted to start finding out the information.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Who do you think has a better season? War right?
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Because that includes how many games you play, Tim Anderson
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: or you're on Mancata this year. The fact that you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: guys are hesitating means one player should not have gotten
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: a one year, five million dollar contract. Sorry you want
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: to say where a player? We love players on this show. Whatever. Sure,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I think we just reason with what makes sense, and
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: in this case, I'm going against this time, I'm with
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: you too. I think Ta has a better year than
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: you on Mancata. I feel pretty good on that one.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Moncatta might be good for two weeks.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he j We'll see how it plays out. I'm
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: not answering that question because I don't want Ozzie mad
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: at me if I answered t A because he loves Mankata.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't know that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Clearly, Marry man Asian also loves Munkata.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: That's right, It's this is the kind of case. I'm
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: going to be very curious to see that one year
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: five million bucks. Anyway. Uh, we'll get to one more segment.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: We'll see if we can cover contract extension talks, other
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: extension candidates, and the Dave Roberts conversations that I think
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: are going on right now as well. He's a lame
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: duck status at least at the moment. All right, here
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: we are, We're back. Do you know who bet MGM
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: has right now as third place, or at least when
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I last checked in the National League East.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Mets see the Mets.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I looked and I was like, geez, everyone's
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: got to relax a little bit about kratz Is call out.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: So I tried to do a little bit. I wasn't
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I agreed with you, and I said I could say
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the same thing.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Twitter.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: It's it's it's Twitter and absolutely losing their mind saying
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: that FT is an anti Mets show. Your classics right,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it's an anti Mets show. It's an anti Brave show,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: it's an anti Philly show.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: So I love the Brave.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm kidding. I'm just saying, like we can
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: name every franchise and if you say one take that
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: bothers someone. They get soft. Not everyone. Most fans are
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: great okay, and I love you YouTube, but Twitter gets
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: really soft and like really defensive. So I tried to
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: dig into this a little bit more Crats. That's why
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I'm bringing it up for the two minutes here. And
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I texted some of my family and friends and I'm like,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: watch this clip of Crats. What bothers you? And they
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: were like the saying the third place thing doesn't bother me,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: although they felt like it was a little smug. I'm like, well,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: that's a fun Crat style. They said what bothered them
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: was the what it's part of it. They said, there
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: are what ifs for every organization, so they felt like
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: that part was unfair.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Fair, I'm a very last night was the way the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Eagles beat the ass of the Chiefs. That was unfair.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: So you can find smug as you want today because
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that was an ass woman.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they they beat a really good team, so they're
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: a really good team.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, but I.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Didn't know about Twitter though, there's like communities. So I
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: was getting roasted by the Mets community and I was
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: gonna be like, I wanted to respond because everybody realized
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: that I was a pathetic slob, a negative war player,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: and so I was like, I wanted to respond, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: it said I have to be invited to the community
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: to respond, so I wasn't able to respond to them.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: So for all you Mets community people, sorry, I was listening.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I heard what you said, and I'm taking it to heart.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: More weeds. Let's keep the extension talks going. What about
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Dave Roberts. Obviously he's going to get an extension at
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: some point, but it's funny that the two managers that
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: led their teams to a World Series appearance this past season.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Both have contracts that expire after twenty twenty five. So
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: it's not just when this is going to happen, because
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll happen soon. But how it will happen,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I think is the question. Because Roberts did have some
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: quotes that made it sound like you've got to get
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: on the same page with value, almost like they've had combos.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: So he said this on an ESPN pot He goes,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: hopefully everything takes care of itself, but it's about value,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and I love this organization, but yeah, you want to
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: feel your value absolutely. By the way, we have Andrew
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Friedman coming up on Dodgers Territory after our show if
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: you're watching online. But here's my thing, Aja, Craig Council
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: ruined everything for owners, even the rich owners. They've been
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: trying to bring managers salaries down for years. They've done
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: it brilliantly. One manager just blew the whole thing up.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: How can you tell me that Craig Council is worth
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: more per season than Dave Roberts. How you can't. And
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: he makes eight million dollars a year.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So the argument was, the argument was, well, Dave Roberts.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: It only the Astisk World series. Well, now he's got
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a real one. Maybe not the other one's the real one,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean they got it rest who was it?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Whoever was whoever we had on the one time? They're like,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: well I got a real ring from that one, so
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: apparently it didn't count, like I think it was Max
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: it said at Max Munsey, right, But that was always
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the argument was, oh, Dave Roberts have never done it
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: for a whole year and then one well guess what,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you can't have that anymore. Craig Counsel. He's never done it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: He's never done it, fake won or real one, whatever
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: you want to call it. So I don't know. I mean,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: for a while, the trend was to hire manager's chief.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Joe Madden was the only guy that was getting paid
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. The rest of these guys were
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: not getting paid as much as they had in the past.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Craig Council remember when he took that job, he said,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I want to get managers back into the managerial area
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: because you look at like college football coaches, college basketball coaches. Hell,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the Bears just hired a coach for like thirteen million
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: dollars a year. Baseball, the highest pig guy is eight
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and they do one hundred and sixty two games plus
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: spring training. I mean in football, coach does seventeen weeks.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy, but but I think
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that somewhere along the line we got to start getting
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it to where it's, you know, a little bit more
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: of a fairly paid system, not only for managers. Kras,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I think you agree with me. Coaches are very underpaid
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball for what they do, the amount
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: of time they put in and the work that they do.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I think the coaches need to be paid more too.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: And owners say, well, we give them full benefits, we
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: give them licensing. I'm like, that's not an argument. The
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: licensing is not the owners to give the owners like
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: we like players give the player give the coaches licensing,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Like that's part. That's like a player's union type of thing.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Coaches should be paid way more. They are there so long.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: But anyway, now, who made it more? Counsel? Who made
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Dave Roberts contract more? Counsel or Otani? Because isn't the
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: stipulation that if.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts or Andrew Freeman. Leave, it's just Andrew Freeman.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: No, it's it's options. See, it's Andrew Freeman and this
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: ownership group. Those are the two lockets. Otani can opt
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: out if there's a different owner or a different front
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: office leader. Roberts is not tied to that. But he's
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: still going to get an extension. But how can you
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: justify paying him less than Craig Council. You're gonna say,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: that's hole trust. That's an outline.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: If I'm Dave Roberts, I'm calling Otani right now and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: be like, bro, why didn't you put me in that contract?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: We wasn't I in that contract. So he's gonna be like,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you at the time. I knew Freeman,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and I knew and I knew the Goodenheimer's.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: So Andy Reid makes twenty million dollars a year, he's
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the chief said coach. Cool. Get it. NFL does not
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: make double the revenue in a season than MLB. They
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: are definitely king. They definitely probably should make more because
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: they're leading the top league. I get it. There's a
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: difference in games, and there's probably a difference in importance
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: of coach versus GM NFL versus MLB right now. But still,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: regardless of all of that, isn't the easy number for
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Dave ten ten a year based on Craig and being
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: a notch above him and then putting that together over
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: X amount of years, maybe it's at least five. You
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: think it's more than ten crats that he's going for.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: What did Socia get? What did Socia's ten year contract
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: come out? Do you guys remember remember when he got.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: That and it was five a year. That was years ago, that.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Was forever again.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: But I'm saying to me, I think he should be
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: in the He should be in like the seventh like
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: he's taking this team to the playoffs consistently, the World Series,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: the NLCS consistently. I think it should be more. I look,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking more. If you're only going five years, it
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: should be eleven or twelve a year. He's that much
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: better than the rest of them. And the front office
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: is gonna say, eh, we can, we can. Everybody wants
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: to be a Dodger. We can get somebody for four
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: a year. We can go get we can go get
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: David Ross for four a year. And I disagree with it.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I agree that's the problem. They're not valued. They're not valued.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Managers are not valued or coaches valued the way they
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: should be because the front offices that didn't play, didn't
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: strap it up, didn't sit in the office every day,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: didn't sit in the clubhouse every day and listen to
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: their manager. Whether good or bad. You had good ones,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you had bad ones, right, but there was always a
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: respect factor most of the time there. Right. But if
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you're not in there every day, you're not flying with
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the guy, you're not in the dugout, you're not grinding
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: through one hundred and sixty two games of them, you
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: don't understand the value of that guy leading the team,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and they're not valued. They weren't valued because of what
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: craft is said. We can go get somebody for cheaper
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: because there's only thirty of these. That's the problem. The
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: good ones should be paid like good ones. Now you
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: have to work your way up to it. But if
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you're Dave Roberts, you've been in the playoffs every damn
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: year since you've been managing, guess what you should be
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: paid like that, because guess what, you have something to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: do with it. I don't care what your payroll is
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: because you got to balance. He goes like Joe Torrey said,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: he had to balance all those egos on those Yankee
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: teams for all those years. What do you think Dave
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Roberts has to do? He has to balance all those
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: egos every year to make everyone happy. Because we talk
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: about it, Key k Miggey Rowe, Chris Taylor, all these guys. Right,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: where are they gonna play? Poe Soo they gonna play
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: when they gonna play? Guess who's putting charge of sending
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: in front of them every day? The manager, not the GM.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Yep boom five years, twelve mil per year. Two of
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: that per year is deferred. Do we have a deal
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: to everyone else? Does you gotta you gotta carry your weight?
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Else?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Does the deferrals on our team? Come on?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Dave doesn't doesn't go doesn't go on the salary cap,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: nothing like that, or I'm sorry, the CBT doesn't go
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: on the c.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the soft cap. We show the Bob Buker patch.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I feel like we need that on a Monday right
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: when baseball gets to take over the national sports media landscape,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: well to an extent. A lot of the quote big
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: TV shows don't cover baseball, but we do. The Braves
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: are unveiling this uniform patch. They're gonna wear it throughout
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Sorry, Brewers, Brewers, Braves, Brewers, there's
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: a connection there. Look back google it history delate Bob
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Youuker has plaid on this because he wore those coloral
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: sports coats on the tonight show. Really nice touch here.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I really like the patch.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Somebody said, somebody said, shouldn't every team wear the patch?
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with that.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I read that on Twitter. I said, I don't agree
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: with that. The Yes, he was a national comedian kind
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: of thing, commercial personality, but no, this is this is
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: very specific to Milwaukee. Not to demean what he did,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: because anybody that came across Yuke was positively affected. But
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: this is a Milwaukee thing and many they did that thing.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: They did it right, and I think Murf kind of
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Murph kind of hinted at it, saying that it was
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: gonna be something really cool that they had that they
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: had planned.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: That he heard they had planned.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: You know what I think they should have put on
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: there his Jordans. They should have just put his Jordans
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: that he were every day of the on the patch,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: because he wore like these blue and yellow, like one
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: of a kind. Jordan's every day and I loved you.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: They should have had a picture of his face like
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: holding up the Jordans, or they should have done him
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: in the speedo like we showed a time. That's the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: picture they should have had on there. They should have
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: had just you know what, because when you're hitting and
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you have it on your front arm right here instead
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: of Avoca Club right here, it would just be Yuk
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and Espeedo. Every picture'd be like, what do they have
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: on their arm? Like, there's no way that's Uk and Espeedo?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: What is that? Did you see that? They?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: For this year season ticket holders are all getting those
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Yuke Jordans.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: What really shoes?
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: See? Yes, I think I think I saved it on
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Twitter They're getting those yellow and I'm Texas.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I'm texting Basala right now and be like I need
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: twelve and a.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Half twelve Please make sure for me.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Because if I send this text and it's not true,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be mad at.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Maybe I got Maybe I got trolled on Twitter. But
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: it was a pretty sick because they were talking about it.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Anybody was like a forty forty plus game or thirty
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: five plus game package or more.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: It was like it was like a gift to start
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the year.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: We've got bet MGM futures for you. The Jackson three,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: which Jackson will hit the most home runs. This is
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: something you can find in the bed MGM at Churio
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Merrill holiday. I mean, Jackson is the obvious leader in
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse here, right, guys.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Jackson good, good call, Yes, one of the Jackson the.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: What do we think are we going chalk and just
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: taking cheerio because it it's not like it's not a
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: crazy number, like I thought that could have been one
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: minus one fifty. I thought they were going to really
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: tempt me to go lower down the list. But what
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: do you guys think.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I'll think I'm a homer. I'll take cheerio, especially what
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: he did first month and a half, for two months
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: and then for the rest of the season. Oh man,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Like you're talking about contact, you're talking about his walk
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: rate going up, contact rate going up, chase rate going down.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: They're all they're all just you know, just legally able
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: to drink this year. But so they're all going to
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: have some type of improvement. But he's playing every day
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: in that improvement. Jackson Merrill was just super clutch. He
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: was clutching out there every day. I think it's cheerio.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I need to see more on a holiday. I need
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: to see more on Jackson Holiday. You know, he came up,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: got sent down and listen. I mean he's young when
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: he got up, but I think he needs to show
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: us more. Jackson Trio the second half was unbelievable and
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill was super clutch. But the difference is the ballpark.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: The ballpark that Jackson Turio Way that plays in, and
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the division that he plays in will help him. And
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I think that's why it's pretty easy for Jackson suer nothing.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: You aren't going to be great, But I just think
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the ballpark he's going to play every day. And again,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I need Jackson Holiday to show me more than what
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: he showed lesser. I mean, he was twenty years old,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: he got called up into a penny race. It's tough.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I get it, but I need to see him start
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: taking the next steps.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. That's a that's a tough sell.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's got to get pushed more
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: to like the plus seven to fifty plus eight hundred
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: to really draw people in.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Would we be surprised? Would we be surprised if any
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: of these three would win it?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Though I wouldn't be surprised. Well, I would be surprised
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: if Holidays it, because it would mean that the other
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: two probably got hurt.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean, beats the other ones out.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I would be surprised.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: There's your bonus code foul foul up to fifteen hundred
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: bucks back in bonus bets if you don't win your
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: first bet. Gambling problem more concern, call it one eight
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: hundred ambler. Be right back. All right, Let's try and
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: rip through some questions here during the break, Carl, how
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: much of their future did the Rockies mortgage with that
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: crazy Chris Bryant contract? Well, Carl, it certainly didn't help.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Morgan. Is that much everybody? Did it even matter? Does
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: it even matter?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: They're not They're not trying, they're not trying to. It
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: was like like if that if was that what they
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: were waiting for. I mean, it's a good question, but oh,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: if Chris Bryant had been an MVP, the Rockies would
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: be awesome. No, they just would have needed to give
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: up more runs from their bullpen during the year. Like
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: they would have just lost, they would have won five
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: more games. If Chris Bryant's a perennial All Star, he's
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: that MVP dude that he was as you know, a
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: cub when they signed him. No, it wouldn't have changed.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: They haven't made any other moves and that didn't hamstring them.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: They print cash out there.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: It's a great call because he could be a ten
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: win player and the Rockies still suck and they're in
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: last place, and a ten win player is a superstar
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: MVP type of player. Okay, Jaymen, who is in the chat, said,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: why don't you guys get as mad at Rocky's ownership
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: and they're disrespecting the fans more than John Fisher. I
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: don't know that they have a real fan base who
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: shows up on any given night. They couldn't care less. No, No,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: I feel like we send plenty of shade towards the Rockies,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to stop short of saying that the
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: mon Forts are as bad as Sean Fisher. John Fisher
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: moved to the team out of the location and makes
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: everyone look bad, and he's playing at a minor league park.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I feel like there's a level of douche faggery that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Fisher excels at above almost anyone.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I would go less on ownership with the Rockies and
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: more on the front office, never changing any of the dudes.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: They it's all just the same group. Think year after year.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: The difference is, oh, Aerkrats is coming back, Let's change
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: his title and it'll look like we change some people.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: It's all the same people.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: That's a really great call. That's when you feel like
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: you're not trying.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Plus, they own all the stuff around the ballpark, so
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: they just print cash.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: But you could still print cash if you switch the
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: front office up just a little bit, show a drop
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: less loyalty.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: They just don't do it. I don't even I don't
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: even know who the Rockies GM is. This is how
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: many moves they don't make. I don't who is it?
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I mean I can name pretty much every other GM
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: except for maybe the A's and the Marlins. Actually the
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Marlins is Bendix, so I can't. But other than that,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough because they never do anything.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the owners, I think actually are too nice with
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: their employees, Like guys, come on.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: Who's gonna win the Super Bowl. Kansas City chief Chiefs tough,
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: tough to go against Mahomes.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll go. Chiefs.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Can't bet against Patty Mahomes, So I'm going Chiefs.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I'm going Giant Media Mahomes. I'm a Cowboys fan, so
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: I can't root for the Eagles. I gotta say the Chiefs,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Sadly, Chiefs are gonna win.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: The refs are gonna make it happen. Chiefs are gonna win.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Zach Allen's like, yeah, Eric Krats really doing some work
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: by getting here for the show, traveling back from New
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Orleans on his private jet at four am after partying
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: all night celebrating the Eagles victory. And if you're listening
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: on the pod right now, Kratz is maybe photoshops, but
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I heard it's true at the parade or not at
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: the parade, at the celebration field.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's the picture of me holding the NFC trophy,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: not the super Bowl trophy.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: That is so well show to not know and to
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: post you with the NFC trophy.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: My super Bowl trophy. I had my Super Bowl trophy
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: and Taylor Swift because she was an Eagles fan until
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: she started dating Travis. It was me, Taylor and my family,
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: like we were just like just moving it up and
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: she was.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Taylor was like it was a great win. I knew it.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Travis is washed up. You know what. I'm happy. You
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: know what, you guys could have come to Orlando. Jalen
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Hurts He's going to disney World and guess what, Jalen
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Hurts is here today. You guys could come in.
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: You know, maybe he'll be the maybe he'll buy the
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: rais Jalen Hurts with all this extra riches and he
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: can move them to Orlando.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Owing the Disney World baby exactly.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, that was fun though. All right, well
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: anyway answer question. No, he is disney World. It's Disney World.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: That's kuts is trying to troll me, but it doesn't work.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Well krats, congratulations.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: We didn't admitute though. The first play of the game, now,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the first play was like the fourth play of the game,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: a J. Brown, they call the penalty, you were like, here,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: we admit. Every Eagles fan was like because I even said,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: I'm like here we go again with the referees call
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: him bs penalties against the Eagles, like it was like
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the first play of the game. It was official for
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Fox and Tom Brady were both Bake Perr and Tom
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Brady were like, that's not really a penalty.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: It was definitely talked about in the house. We had
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: like fifty to sixty people in our house watching it
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: and everybody. I was like, don't start that. They're gonna
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: They're going to overcome the rest. I though the rest
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: did a great job. There was no there there was
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: no controversial. The Eagles that actually had a controversial play
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: that that game of first down. It was a hit
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: up high on a ball of the Dallas Goddard that
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: was was super high, but.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: And they missed the roughness on Mahomes got smacked in
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: the face. I think they didn't have to do any
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: of that because the game was over, so they're like,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: all right, let's let's leave it alone. Don't hit the
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Buffalo wild win all right, Krats hats, and then I'll
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: get a few questions for the YouTube crowd before you
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: get Andrew Friedman running the Dodgers' front off base on
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Dodgers territory.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Yep, this maybe started a little partnership here. Obviously, you
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: see the logo new Era. Never have I ever gotten
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: a white Sox hat. I know it's probably a little
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: bit jealousy because AJ doesn't have the brand new Spring
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Training twenty twenty five patch. Right there, ooh white socks,
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: the white Sox jealous?
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Tell me how glous you are. It's a good looking
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: hat right there.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Waiting, wait till you see this spring Training I got
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: all thirty spring training hats. I will be displaying them
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: over the next thirty days. Thank you, AJ, appreciate you.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: You'll be seeing and there is some firee you actually,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: thank you New Era. If we're going to be honest,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: New Era hooked us up. Thank you. Thank you for.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Not having us have to see you know, the Columbus
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: or the pig iron Pig.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: And and producer lady is so happy that she does
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: not have to see another iron Pig hat for at
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: least thirty days.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: So there's that.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, then we need a refill. Okay, A couple questions
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: here real quick. Let's get Ryan who means more to
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: their team going into twenty five for their offense to
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: be successful as possible? Harper or a Kunya got each
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: of you answer quick?
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Harper, I mean, I would say Harper because the Braves
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: still did it last year without Acunya.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: True, I'll do one more mantis. Did you guys hear
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: the Padres have been nice enough to make Bogarts and
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: cronin Worth available. They're so thoughtful for doing so. You
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: know what I actually read on a rumor from the
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: weekend is the top name available now that they're floating
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Robert Suarez. That would be another devastating blow to the bullpen. Yeah,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: he's making ten million dollars this year. I guess they're
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: not getting what they want per seas they've moved onto
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: the bullpen like ah, I'm not taking shots. I'm pissed.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, damn, they had something good here and
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: we're just like little is their cuts.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Got to step into that closer role, I know.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: But man lose Scott los Suarez if that happens, which
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: is a perfect lead into Dodger's territory. Andrew Friedman, president
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: of Baseball Operations, is going to join Alana in Clinton
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: and we'll see everyone on FT tomorrow. Thanks for all
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: the new graphics behind the scenes, working hard to putting
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: this together. Fireworks are.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Dodgers will take them.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: The fireworks do