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Fair Territory: Orioles & Giants slipping, Bloom rebuilding Cards, Remembering the great John Sterling · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. We begin
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Speaker 1: this show on a solemn note. News this morning, John Sterling,
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Speaker 1: the legendary Yankees radio play by play man, passed away
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Speaker 1: this morning, age eighty seven. John Sterling. If you didn't
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Speaker 1: know who he was, and you probably did, just play
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Speaker 1: his signature calls. He was the Yankees radio voice for
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Speaker 1: thirty six years. He called at one point five thousand
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Speaker 1: and sixty consecutive games, not including two hundred and eleven
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Speaker 1: postseason games, and to put that in perspective, that's twice
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Speaker 1: as long, or nearly twice as long as Cal Ripkens
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Speaker 1: consecutive game streak. He was an absolute legend. He was
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Speaker 1: known for his home run calls, which bordered on ridiculous
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Speaker 1: at times. But there was one of a kind, and
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Speaker 1: John was one of a kind. And my earliest memories
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Speaker 1: of him were growing up on Long Island as an
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Speaker 1: Islanders and Nets fan. He was the announcer on radio
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Speaker 1: and for both those teams, Radio for sure, and his
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Speaker 1: signature call for an Islander goal was simply Islander goal,
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Speaker 1: Island the goal, I can't do it in his voice,
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Speaker 1: and my dad was a Ranger fan. He hated the Islanders,
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Speaker 1: and he would say, who is that guy? He's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: Well, that guy was on the air for five decades.
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Speaker 2: That guy crafted a signature career. John Sterling rest in peace.
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Speaker 1: Now, the baseball world, we've got a ton to talk about,
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Speaker 1: literally a ton. Pirates sweep the Reds after getting swept
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Speaker 1: by the Cardinals, the Rays sweep the Giants. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to the Giants, but I want to start off with
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Speaker 1: another team in the AL East, one that has been well,
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Speaker 1: has lost three of its first four games to the
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Speaker 1: New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium, A team that many
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Speaker 1: of us thought was positioned to take a step forward,
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Speaker 1: and they have not, at least to this point. That
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Speaker 1: team is the Baltimore Orioles. And the Baltimore Orioles they're
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Speaker 1: fifteen to nineteen right now. Now, they're already eight games
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Speaker 1: behind the Yankees, eight games in the AL East.
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Speaker 2: After spending all.
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Speaker 1: The money that they did in the offseason in their offense,
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Speaker 1: while it's missing the second baseman Holiday and the third
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Speaker 1: baseman Jordan Westberg, offense is twelfth in the league in
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Speaker 1: runs per game, and that's with Alonso not doing all
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Speaker 1: that much just yet.
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Speaker 2: He's heating up now.
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Speaker 1: Their offense has been okay, maybe not as good as
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Speaker 1: we thought, but good enough.
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Speaker 2: Again, with this team, it's the rotation.
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Speaker 1: It was the rotation that was the demise of the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Oriols, and it's the rotation that is a.
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Speaker 2: Problem right now.
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Speaker 1: If you remember, the Orioles did not sign Dylan Ceas
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Speaker 1: or from ber Valdez, so the two perhaps top starting
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Speaker 1: pitching free agents. Instead, they brought in Zach Efflin, who
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Speaker 1: immediately underwent Tommy John surgery out for the season, Chris Bassett,
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Speaker 1: another free agent, and they traded for Shane Boz. They thought,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't think it was an unreasonable thought by
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Speaker 1: but it was a little bit of a gamble for sure.
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Speaker 1: That with Trevor Rodgers coming off a great season and
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Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish first full season coming off Tommy John surgery,
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Speaker 1: they thought they'd be okay.
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Speaker 2: They're not okay.
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Speaker 1: Rogers started off great, struggled, Bradish struggled really the whole season,
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Speaker 1: and they're kind of a mess right now. So the
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Speaker 1: Orioles a team that we all thought would be maybe
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Speaker 1: a contending club and still might be to this point,
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Speaker 1: and this Yankee series has shown it. They are outclassed.
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Speaker 2: They are not in their league.
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Speaker 1: Yankees' news over the weekend as well, Anthony Volpi, this
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Speaker 1: was to me an obvious move gets optioned to Triple
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Speaker 1: A rather than reinstated to the major league club.
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Speaker 2: Jose Caballero has simply played too well. The Yankees have
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Speaker 2: simply played too well.
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Speaker 1: They'll need Vulpi, I would imagine at some point, but
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Speaker 1: not just yet. Another team I want to talk about,
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Speaker 1: and this was a team that was swept over the
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Speaker 1: weekend by an Als East club, the Tampa Bay Rays,
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Speaker 1: who are in the middle of a great run sixteen
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Speaker 1: of twenty one. That team is the San Francisco Giants,
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Speaker 1: and this team is a mess right now, an absolute mess.
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Speaker 1: The Giants are coming off an zero to six trip
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Speaker 1: to Philadelphia and Tampa Bay. As we mentioned, they were
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Speaker 1: outscored twenty six to nine on that trip. They were
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Speaker 1: shut out three times, they were walked off three times.
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Speaker 1: They are a team that has right now a walk
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Speaker 1: rate of five point six percent, lowest in.
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Speaker 2: The majors historically low. In fact, they are a team
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Speaker 2: also not only do they not walk, they don't hit
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Speaker 2: home runs. They don't really do much of anything. They're
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Speaker 2: last in the majors with nineteen homers. Keep in mind
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Speaker 2: Judge and Murakami have thirteen each. And this is a
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Speaker 2: team that is calling up two prospects for tonight's game,
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Speaker 2: Jeseus Rodriguez and more importantly, Bryce Eldridge, a first base prospect,
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Speaker 2: one of the better prospects in the game, a power guy.
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Speaker 2: And yet even that is.
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Speaker 1: Problematic because this will take Casey Schmidt out of seemingly
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Speaker 1: a full time role.
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Speaker 2: Casey Schmid has been a guy enjoying so far a
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Speaker 2: breakout season, and yet now with Eldridge, a first base
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Speaker 2: DH type coming up, there's not an obvious spot for
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Speaker 2: him in that infield, an infield that includes the struggling
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Speaker 2: Raphael Devers the struggling William Damas. Those are the two
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Speaker 2: guys with the most expensive contracts in San Francisco Giants' history.
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Speaker 2: Matt Chapman, also the big contract, hasn't been much better.
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Speaker 2: Their bullpen has been a little bit disappointing. At the
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Speaker 2: back end, I would say, the closer role, and this
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Speaker 2: is a team that with the new manager Tony Vytello,
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Speaker 2: has been an extreme disappointment to this point of the season.
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Speaker 2: So you can see with Susan Slester tweets right there,
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Speaker 2: there's a quote, we literally have nothing to show for
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Speaker 2: this road trip. You end the day searching for any positives.
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Speaker 1: So the next quote there or next tweet refers to
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Speaker 1: a possible shakeup. Well, that's the shap that they announced
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Speaker 1: last night. Bryce Eldridge coming to the majors, Hiss Rodriguez
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Speaker 1: more of a utility guy coming to the majors as well.
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Speaker 1: I don't see a way out for this club unless
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Speaker 1: Devers starts going nuts and he looks like the guy
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Speaker 1: he looked like at times with the Red Sox when
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Speaker 1: he was overmatched by fastballs. He needs to get going,
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Speaker 1: Adamis needs to get going. And they're bringing up Bryce
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Speaker 1: Eldridge at a time when you do not want to
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Speaker 1: bring up a prospect, at a time when he almost
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Speaker 1: has to play something of.
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Speaker 2: A savior's role.
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Speaker 1: So those are the giants not good by any stretch
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Speaker 1: of the imagination. And the other thing I want to
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Speaker 1: go into before we move on to the next segment
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Speaker 1: of our show, some big injuries this weekend. Ronald Acuna
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Speaker 1: Junior of the Atlanta Braves twenty three game on bass
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Speaker 1: Streak out now on the injured list with what they're
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Speaker 1: calling a Grade one left hamstring strain. That is the
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Speaker 1: mildest they expect. He won't be out long. They always
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Speaker 1: expect that.
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Speaker 2: Let's see how long Ronald Cuny Junior is out, Hopefully
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Speaker 2: not too many games missed. Joe Ryan Minnesota Twins. Now,
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Speaker 2: this seems another mess. But the Twins. The one thing
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Speaker 2: they had going for them, at least in the early
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Speaker 2: part of the season, even without Pablo Lopez, who was
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Speaker 2: out for the year, was a rotation that looked decent.
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Speaker 2: Joe Ryan now has the elbow issue. Mick Abel is
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Speaker 2: a guy that was pretty good early on. He's out
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Speaker 2: with elbow inflammation. They don't think that's a big deal either. Again,
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Speaker 2: teams never say it's a big deal until it's a
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Speaker 2: big deal. But something of a concern there. The Red Sox,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get to them. They've already got Garrett Crochet
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Speaker 2: and Sonny Graham the injured list. Ranger Suarez yesterday lost
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Speaker 2: only four innings before leaving with right hamstring tightness. This too,
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Speaker 2: sounds like it's not going to be a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Ranger Suarez has dealt with this before and it has
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Speaker 1: not kept him out too long, so I would say
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Speaker 1: this one is not alarming. But the last one I'm
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Speaker 1: going to mention is at least concerning, and that's for
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners Cal Raleigh.
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Speaker 2: Now cal Raley has missed the last two games.
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Speaker 1: We've been out of the line of two straight days
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Speaker 1: with right side discomfort. He went for an MRI. They
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Speaker 1: are awaiting the results. The Mariners so far have been
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Speaker 1: at disappointment. Let's face it. They're below five hundred, I believe,
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Speaker 1: and this is kind of what they do every year.
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Speaker 1: They're not good until they're good. But without Raleigh that
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Speaker 1: would be obviously a significant blow. So the initial diagnosis,
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Speaker 1: as Ryan Devish said, there was general sorens but they
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Speaker 1: later explained that it's been right side discomfort. Sounds like
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Speaker 1: an oblique type thing, which for a switch hitting catcher
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Speaker 1: would obviously be a problem, but we wait to see
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Speaker 1: exactly how serious that is.
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Speaker 2: So again, a lot to go through there. But the
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Speaker 2: big news of the day so far the.
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Speaker 1: Passing of John Sterling, and again we all will miss
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Speaker 1: him so much. He hasn't really been a part of
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Speaker 1: the Yankees broadcast of Lady of course was eighty seven.
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Speaker 2: He was ill. But for people of a certain age
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Speaker 2: and for Yankee fans everywhere, John Sterling was a monumental.
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Speaker 1: Figure in club history. So John again, rip, We love
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Speaker 1: Now for the inside ditch, the part of the show
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Speaker 1: where I talk about a story I've written, a trend
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Speaker 1: in the game, or perhaps as I will talk about today,
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Speaker 1: a figure in.
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Speaker 2: The game who was down and now he.
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Speaker 1: Is reviving his career in a big way in Saint Louis,
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about Heim Bloom, formerly of the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox where he was the chief baseball officer, now the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals president of Baseball Operations, and the Red Sox, well,
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Speaker 1: they're in their usual turmoil since the change in managers.
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Speaker 1: There three and four change in managers and hitting coaches.
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Speaker 1: They're averaging two point six runs per game. They've lost
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Speaker 1: four of their last five with these new hitting coaches
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Speaker 1: and manager, and in those five games they scored only
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Speaker 1: eight runs. Wilson Contrera's had some quotes yesterday about how
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Speaker 1: the young players aren't maybe doing what they should, how
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Speaker 1: the team is.
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Speaker 2: Looser with al Alex Cora et cetera, et cetera. It's
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Speaker 2: Red Sox Drama one oh one. Not long ago. Hein
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Speaker 2: Bloom was a central figure in Red Sox drama and
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Speaker 2: a figure who a lot of fans had big problems
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Speaker 2: with and ultimately ownership had problems with as well. They
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Speaker 2: fired him.
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Speaker 1: They fired him after less than four years on the job.
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Speaker 1: He is now with Saint Louis. Saint Louis a rebuilding team.
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Speaker 1: Is twenty and fourteen. They're tied for second in the
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Speaker 1: NL Central, two games behind the Cubs. This after trading
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Speaker 1: Wilson Contreras, Noan Arnado, Sonny Gray, and Brendan Donovan. This
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Speaker 1: is a team that finally is building again around young talent.
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Speaker 1: They've got a clear mandate, a clear direction, and heim
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Speaker 1: Bloom is the architect of what they are going forward.
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Speaker 1: So let's look back a little bit on his Boston days,
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Speaker 1: because he didn't always have a clear direction and mandate
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Speaker 1: at times there and ultimately what they were asking him
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Speaker 1: to do was to restock the farm system, reset the
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Speaker 1: luxury tax penalties.
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Speaker 2: Do all of that.
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Speaker 1: And then after the twenty twenty one season, which was
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Speaker 1: a surprise, Red Sox go to the Alcs, suddenly it.
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Speaker 2: Was whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Speaker 1: We've got a win now. And it's hard to do
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Speaker 1: both things at once.
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Speaker 2: Teams do it.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers obviously develop and win at the same time,
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Speaker 1: but it's a difficult thing. And yes, Hein Bloom had
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Speaker 1: his missteps as the Red Sox head of baseball operations.
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Speaker 1: People will talk about the Mookie Bets trade forever. That
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Speaker 1: was an ownership driven trade. He did his best there.
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Speaker 2: There was not much he could do.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, the Yashida signing looking back, not great. Trevor's story
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Speaker 1: signing not great. Some other things had happened as well
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Speaker 1: that you can question, from bringing back Jackie braw to
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Speaker 1: extending Matt Barnes, signing Corey Kolub.
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Speaker 2: But we can go on and on.
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Speaker 1: A lot of moves didn't work out. But looking back,
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Speaker 1: a lot did work out for Heiin Bloom in Boston
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Speaker 1: and it's working out in Saint Louis as well. What
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Speaker 1: worked out the drafts and going back, yes, they had
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Speaker 1: Marcella Meyer, he was a number four pick overall, and
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Speaker 1: Kyle Teel one of the figures who went for Garrett Crochet.
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Speaker 1: He was a top fifteen pick overall. You could say
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Speaker 1: it's easy to hit on those guys, though no team
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Speaker 1: always does. But they also had some successes in the
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Speaker 1: later rounds. Roman Anthony was a second round pick. Christian
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Speaker 1: Campbell his career is not yet over. He was a
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Speaker 1: fourth round pick. Conner Lee Early, a guy who is
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Speaker 1: going to be a fixture in the rotation a fifth rounder.
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Speaker 1: The system went from a bottom ten system to a
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Speaker 1: topsen ten system, and heim Bloom also traded for William
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Speaker 1: Orbreu in what at the time was kind of a
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Speaker 1: controversial deal. They were shipping out Ramon vass Case and
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry Christian Vasquez, and it just wasn't at the
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Speaker 1: time seemingly something that seemed like a great move. Christian
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Speaker 1: Vasquez popular in the clubhouse. The team was kind of
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Speaker 1: out of it, but not totally out of it. And
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Speaker 1: again that move worked out better than it looked at
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Speaker 1: the time. So in retrospect, heim Bloom did what he
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Speaker 1: was asked in rebuilding that farm system and putting the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox on a path to where they should be
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Speaker 1: in good position today to go forward and have a
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Speaker 1: strong young nucleus. It still might turn out that way
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Speaker 1: now what happened there. Alex korra heim Bloom power struggle,
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Speaker 1: Alex Cora wins, ownership backs him, heim Bloom's out, Craig Wrestlow's.
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Speaker 2: In, and here we go again.
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Speaker 1: And now people look back at heim Bloom and say,
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Speaker 1: what's so bad was it? And again positives and negatives
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Speaker 1: as there isn't any general manager or head of base
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Speaker 1: operations tenure. But look at what is going on now
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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, with again a clear mandate. This team
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Speaker 1: is going back to its roots, trying to build through
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Speaker 1: young players, and they've assembled some young players, They've had
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Speaker 1: some that heim Blum inherited from the previous John Mazzelac regime,
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Speaker 1: and suddenly some good things are happening. We've seen the
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Speaker 1: Jordan Walker emergence. We've seen JJ Weatherholt top ten pick
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Speaker 1: who has been an absolute star for the Cardinals, and
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Speaker 1: we're seeing them play a brand of baseball that, while
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Speaker 1: not yet attracting fans back to the ballpark.
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Speaker 2: The Cardinals fans are pretty mad at ownership for the
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Speaker 2: last couple of years, and understandably so.
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Speaker 1: But in time, I expect that Cardinal baseball is going
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Speaker 1: to be back, and back in a big way. Now
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Speaker 1: you might ask, okay, what happens here if the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: are in position into deadline, to you maybe contend, do
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Speaker 1: they go forward? Do they make the same mistake the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox did under Bloom and sort of abandon the
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Speaker 1: plan or at least shift the plan. I would expect
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Speaker 1: if they're in it, they're going to be reactive to that,
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Speaker 1: and they'll make moves, modest moves perhaps, but they're not
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Speaker 1: going to disrupt what they've done.
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Speaker 2: If there's one lesson Bloom learned, it's to stay the course.
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Speaker 2: He's going to stay the course.
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Speaker 1: They're going to commit and stay committed to their young talent.
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Speaker 1: It's simply a case of knowing who you are as
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Speaker 1: an organization, knowing where you are, and knowing how you
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Speaker 1: want to go forward. Now, do I expect the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: to stay at it? Not really, And the reason for
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Speaker 1: that is their pitching staff, which while so far, okay.
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Speaker 2: They've done some good things. They've got a back of
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Speaker 2: the bullpen that is at least formidable, and they've gotten
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Speaker 2: good work out of their starters. But this is a
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Speaker 2: team that is.
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Speaker 1: Last in the majors in strikeout rate. They don't miss bats,
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Speaker 1: and that's how the is play today. So ultimately, do
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Speaker 1: I believe that catches up with him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. But at the same time, again, what
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Speaker 2: they're doing and the way they're playing, they're an extremely
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Speaker 2: talented defensive club, up in the top defensive metrics in
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Speaker 2: both outs above average and defensive run saved, so that
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Speaker 2: compensates a little bit for the lack of swing and miss.
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Speaker 2: You watch them in the Fox game on Saturday, there
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Speaker 2: were four double plays turned behind Michael McGreevy, some of
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Speaker 2: them quite brilliant. They've got Walker who looks like a star,
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Speaker 2: Weatherholt who looks like a star. Ryan Church pretty good
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Speaker 2: player in left field. Some really good.
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Speaker 1: Things are happening there. Ivon Herrera behind the plate another one.
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Speaker 1: So again I don't expect it to happen right away,
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Speaker 1: but what they're doing right now is far more than
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Speaker 1: their fans expected, and it gives their fans hope now
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Speaker 1: that okay, we're gonna be okay in the future and
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. And the reason Cardinals fans
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Speaker 1: are so disaffected right now is because they didn't pick
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Speaker 1: a direction. They were kind of trying to do what
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox were doing, contend while developing and again
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Speaker 1: it's not impossible, it's just difficult to do. Obviously, Cleveland
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Speaker 1: does it, Tampa Bay does it, Milwaukee does it to
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Speaker 1: an extent, but those are lower pay roll teams. They
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Speaker 1: kind of have to go about it that way. Saint
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Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals Boston Red Sox a little bit different. Red
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Speaker 1: Sox of course above the Cardinals, at least in terms
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Speaker 1: of what they have resource wise. But hein Bloom right
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Speaker 1: now looking like a better head of baseball operations than
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Speaker 1: he did toward the end in Boston. And again it's
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Speaker 1: yet another lesson on the Red Sox dysfunction and where
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox have gone wrong multiple times over the years.
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Speaker 1: So keep your eye on the Cardinals as we go forward. Again,
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Speaker 1: I'm not expecting them to be a playoff team, but
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Speaker 1: they've been an entertaining team. They've been a competitive team,
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Speaker 1: and Underheim Bloom, I expect this only to continue and
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Speaker 1: only to get better.
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Speaker 2: All right, here we go with Grill and Ken. Summer
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Speaker 2: is nearly upon us and the grills will be out.
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Speaker 2: Let's get to your questions.
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Speaker 1: First question from Chris Meeks fifty two seventy two. Are
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Speaker 1: we going to show some love to the rays today?
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Speaker 2: He's asking that of Scottie Braun Scott Braun, our host
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Speaker 2: of Foul Territory.
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Speaker 1: But I'll answer the question too, and yes, we are
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Speaker 1: going to show some love to the race.
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Speaker 2: I showed a little bit at the top of the show,
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Speaker 2: as I mentioned sixteen and five. Since their five and
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Speaker 2: seven start. The Rays are doing what the Rays seemingly
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Speaker 2: always do. And what I like about them is they
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Speaker 2: have an offensive trio that is really good. It's Yandy Diaz,
20:55
Speaker 2: It's Jonathan Miranda, and of course it's Junior Caminero. They
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Speaker 2: also have, as usual, strong pitching. They're moving Griffin Jacks
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Speaker 2: to the rotation now, which is an interesting move. Shane
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Speaker 2: McClanahan looks like he's back. Drew Rasmussen always good, and
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Speaker 2: even without Pepio who's out for the year, they are
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Speaker 2: in a good position. Now.
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Speaker 1: Are they going to threaten the Yankees and become a
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Speaker 1: real legitimate contender for the Ali's title.
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Speaker 2: I'm not so sure about that.
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Speaker 1: I asked someone yesterday about the Rays and he said,
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Speaker 1: look at their hard hit percentage.
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Speaker 2: It's the lowest in the majors.
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Speaker 1: Regression is coming. Okay, that might be true, and certainly
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Speaker 1: the Rays caught a downcast Giants team this weekend. At
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Speaker 1: the same time, this is what they do, this is
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Speaker 1: who they are, and we see it nearly every year.
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Speaker 1: So I like what the Rays are doing. I'm a
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Speaker 1: big Chandler Simpson fan at the top of the order,
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Speaker 1: and let's see how it goes the rest of the way.
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Speaker 2: All right, time now for the next question, let's get
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Speaker 2: to it.
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Speaker 1: This one is from Hamilton on the Babe Porter. He says,
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Speaker 1: I would love to know if Ken thinks Keith Law
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Speaker 1: is onto something. Should the Angels trade Trout and should
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Speaker 1: the Phillies.
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Speaker 2: Go after him?
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Speaker 1: Okay, Mike Trout is enjoying so far resurgence season. Mike Trout,
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Speaker 1: and we've talked about this before, has never shown any
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Speaker 1: inclination to want to leave Anaheim. Now, maybe as it
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Speaker 1: gets later in his career, his mood is feeling might change.
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Speaker 1: But the Angels aren't going anywhere. We kind of know that.
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Speaker 1: We've seen their act over the last two weeks or so,
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Speaker 1: and Mike Trout, if he wants to contend, probably needs
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Speaker 1: to get out of there.
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Speaker 2: Right. We've said this for years.
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Speaker 1: Phillies outfield is short, and yeah, Mike Trout be a
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Speaker 1: great addition, but there are so many obstacles in the
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Speaker 1: way here. One would be Trout's own desire to win
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Speaker 1: and win in Anaheim and not anywhere else. Two, you'd
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Speaker 1: have to work out the finances. And if you're the Phillies,
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Speaker 1: that's another big contract to take on when they've got
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Speaker 1: a number of big contracts of aging, perhaps injury prone
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Speaker 1: players on the books.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that that is necessarily the way they
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Speaker 2: want to go now.
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Speaker 1: There are always ways to work these things out, but
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Speaker 1: as of now, I would say this is a long shot.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the next one.
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Speaker 1: This question comes from armand is amazing a great questioner
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Speaker 1: always Ken. Which team do you believe is the best
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Speaker 1: chance to get out of the basement, the Mets or
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Speaker 1: the Giants?
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Speaker 2: Wow, I would say the Mets, but I'm not confident
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Speaker 2: in either team getting out of the basement. I believe
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Speaker 2: the Mets will get out of the basement. The Nationals ultimately,
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Speaker 2: I don't know that they can keep this up. But
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Speaker 2: the Mets are leaking in virtually every part of their
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Speaker 2: team offense, defense, rotation, bullpen. There's not a singular place
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Speaker 2: where you can say, well, they're good Man Eventually they'll
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Speaker 2: get lind Door back. That will help.
23:57
Speaker 1: Polanco should come back, Roberts should come back, and maybe
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Speaker 1: at that point they score runs the.
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Speaker 2: Way they expected to score runs. Not everyone expected to
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Speaker 2: score like that, but people did think that their offense
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Speaker 2: would be good. The rotation behind Holmes and Peralta and
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Speaker 2: McLain is still a problem. Their bullpen at.
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Speaker 1: The back end, Weaver and Williams, it's been disappointing. I
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Speaker 1: don't see a great way out, but it's a long season.
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Speaker 1: The Giants, they've got a hit.
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Speaker 2: And so far no good for the Giants.
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Speaker 1: Devers and a Damis we mentioned them in the first segment.
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Speaker 1: Maybe Bryce Eldridge gives them a boost. But again, you're
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Speaker 1: asking a young player to do a lot at a
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Speaker 1: time of difficulty for the team. Generally not a great formula.
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Speaker 1: So if you're asking me which team do I expect
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Speaker 1: to climb out of the cellar, the Mets or Giants,
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Speaker 1: I generally prefer the answer to be in this case,
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Speaker 1: none of the above.
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Speaker 2: All right, I want to thank everyone for watching and listening.
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Speaker 2: Foul Territory coming up at one o'clock. There'll be a J.
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Speaker 1: Persinski Eric in Scott Broun hosting Marlins Pitcher, Tyler Phillips,
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Speaker 1: the San Francisco Chronicles, Susan Slusser, and the Boston Globes
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Speaker 1: Tim Healy stopping by.
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Speaker 2: It should be an interesting show. We will be back
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Speaker 2: Thursday and we'll see you then.
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