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Brian Snitker steps down in ATL, Albert Pujols next Angels manager? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: My corner time.
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  Speaker 2: We were wondering if Brian Snicker was going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to manage the Atlanta Braves, and that will not be
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  Speaker 2: the case. This is it for him, So the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five season is his last as a manager in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: He'll stay with the team in an advisory role. Thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this and how this goes down behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think this was ultimately Smith's decision. I
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  Speaker 3: know I had talked to him about this when I
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  Speaker 3: saw him, and I was there when he managed his
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  Speaker 3: first game and won his first game. I was on
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  Speaker 3: the team at twenty sixteen. He's seventy ish years old
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  Speaker 3: and sort of this was his forty ninth year with
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  Speaker 3: the Braves organization. Next year would be the fiftieth. I
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  Speaker 3: know he didn't just want to completely get out of it,
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  Speaker 3: but he also said, I don't know that I want
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  Speaker 3: to go through one hundred and sixty two games as
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  Speaker 3: a manager. So I think that's what led to this
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  Speaker 3: decision from Snitt. Ultimately with Snit's but hey, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: God bless you, Snit. I hope you get you know,
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  Speaker 3: you get that fiftieth year with Atlanta. I know you're
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  Speaker 3: going to go into an advisory role, just you know,
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  Speaker 3: do what you do man at some point. Listen, here's
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  Speaker 3: the thing about Snith. He has brand kids he loves
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  Speaker 3: spending time with and he gets an opportunity now to
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  Speaker 3: go and spend time with him. So God bless you, Snith.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy the rest of your life. Man. And you've had
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  Speaker 3: a great run. You won a world series. Something only
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  Speaker 3: two managers in the history of Atlanta in any sport
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  Speaker 3: can say. You and Bobby Cox are the only two
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  Speaker 3: guys to ever win a professional sports championship in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 4: And he's seen in this organization for forty nine years.
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  Speaker 4: That's such an impressive number. But let's say only for
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  Speaker 4: hypothetical that AA Alexanthopolis goes to him and says, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you want to manage again this year? And Snith says,
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  Speaker 4: do you want me to manage again this year? If
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  Speaker 4: I'm Alexanthopolis, I say, our our winning window is right now.
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  Speaker 4: If you're not full one hundred in cause I'm maybe,
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking I might manage, I might not, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 4: in Okay, then what are you going to change from
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  Speaker 4: this year? Would be the next question that alex Anthopolis,
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  Speaker 4: because something has to change. You can't just always say
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  Speaker 4: all right, you know the injuries, Yes, the injuries are
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  Speaker 4: a thing, but other teams have injuries, some not as
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  Speaker 4: big as the Braves. How are you going to make
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  Speaker 4: a change, Because to me, I think there does need
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  Speaker 4: to be some type of change because it's not gonna
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  Speaker 4: happen with personnel on the field. The team he has
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  Speaker 4: is the team that I think they're gonna give him
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  Speaker 4: adding a piece here or there.
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  Speaker 1: But what are you saying you wanted him to keep
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  Speaker 1: going or what?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm saying that that's the conversation. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: alex Anthopolis was just saying, hey, do you want to
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  Speaker 4: manage next year? No, I'd rather not. Okay, we'll move
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  Speaker 4: on to me. If he says yes I want to
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  Speaker 4: manage next year, Alesanthopolis isn't firing him. But if you're
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  Speaker 4: a good GM, which I know Alex Anthopolis is. He's
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  Speaker 4: built this team, he's given these extensions good or bad,
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  Speaker 4: they've put a good product out there. You need to
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  Speaker 4: have an answer of what are you changing? How is
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  Speaker 4: it going to be different? Because you play the same
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  Speaker 4: eight guys every single day for the entire season, which
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  Speaker 4: I think is a bonus. You've played this whole time
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  Speaker 4: without a shortstop that's comparable to the other players around
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  Speaker 4: the field. But you have to have something that he's
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  Speaker 4: going to change. You can't just say we're just gonna
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  Speaker 4: go out there and see you'll throw the balls out
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  Speaker 4: there and see what the boys do. No, Like, I
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  Speaker 4: think he needs to have a plan, Like, how are
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  Speaker 4: we gonna do something different?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I have a plan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to sign a shortstop and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: cross my fingers that not all five starters are missing
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  Speaker 2: a good.
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  Speaker 1: Junk of the year. That's step one. Brave's finished strong.
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  Speaker 2: Does anybody think the Braves are in a bad spot
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  Speaker 2: for next year?
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  Speaker 3: No? Well, any Austin Riley back he missed a chunk
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  Speaker 3: of the year?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And what do they do with all these They're gonna
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  Speaker 3: make that decision?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, He's gonna come back.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just yes, is Baldwin or Murphy or Catcher both?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you trade all the answers? You try and
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  Speaker 3: trade Murphy?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe? But I think that that had a nice year.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Harris needs to be second half. Michael Harris right.
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  Speaker 3: Acunya needs to stay healthy because once he came back,
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  Speaker 3: he was pretty good, and then you got to figure
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  Speaker 3: out the bullpen. Iglesias is a free agent. You're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to make some bullpens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's not on Snit. That's on Alex. I know.
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  Speaker 3: But Snitt maybe just didn't want to do it. Like
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  Speaker 3: I said, Sti's been doing this for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: No, I understand that. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 3: He probably just didn't say, hey, you can manage again,
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  Speaker 3: or you can just you can work once a month
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  Speaker 3: and make a travel to the minor leagues and come
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  Speaker 3: around and this and that. It's just like that don't
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  Speaker 3: sound so bad.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm also pointing out probably some of the minority online,
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  Speaker 2: but some people were like, oh, Schnitt, he's got to
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  Speaker 2: be gone, like this is the problem, Like shut up,
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  Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with Snit this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he should get the ultimate respect. They'll
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  Speaker 2: obviously honor him at the ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Cool if you would figure this out, like with a
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  Speaker 2: week or two to go, because the team wasn't in it,
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  Speaker 2: and then you get to get in uniform and get
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  Speaker 2: the thanks. I know, he didn't know, but like go
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  Speaker 2: to dinner with Alex and like sit down.
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  Speaker 3: And think about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's gonna get honored. It's fine, right, I
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  Speaker 2: love snit. I thought he did a great job. He's
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  Speaker 2: super emotional. They all show up at the press conference today.
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  Speaker 1: Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: He says he feels like he left the team in
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  Speaker 2: a better spot than when he entered.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: And you brought them a World Series title, and you
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  Speaker 2: brought them consistent winning.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't ask for much more.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wins back to back or even a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: titles together in a while now, right, So what he
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  Speaker 2: did is about as much as you can wish for
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  Speaker 2: if you're a baseball fan.
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  Speaker 4: If you look at if you look at their five
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  Speaker 4: starters that were supposed to start games for them this year,
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  Speaker 4: it's ridiculous the fact that Spencer Strider, I think had
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  Speaker 4: the most starts and he didn't come back from the
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  Speaker 4: injury very well, Like he just didn't. He didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a life on his fastball. Not everybody comes back from
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  Speaker 4: Tommy John the first year and is exactly who they
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  Speaker 4: were before. Not everybody, But it's crazy Schwellenbach was down.
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  Speaker 4: Did they get a single start out of Ronaldo Lopez
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  Speaker 4: who was an All Star last year like you are early. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember when he went down, but it's crazy,
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  Speaker 4: like you build a team and then you were trying
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  Speaker 4: to The Braves do better than I think any organization
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  Speaker 4: calling guys up that step in and are huge contributors
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  Speaker 4: to the starting rotation. Huge swelling Box just did it
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  Speaker 4: just the other year. Smith schalv just did it the
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  Speaker 4: other year. But when you have to do it for
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  Speaker 4: all five guys, that's almost impossible. Even even the Dodgers
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  Speaker 4: struggled with that and they had ten starters to the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hirst and Walson, you mentioned he had a really
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  Speaker 2: nice find himself moment and here another with the team.
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  Speaker 3: My X factor just drove into for Detroit by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, congratulations to Snit. Let's move on because there
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  Speaker 2: are a number of other manager in front office changes
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  Speaker 2: going on. Let's hit one that won't take up too
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  Speaker 2: much time. But Bill Schmidt has been running point for
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  Speaker 2: the Rockies for a minute. He's the GM and he
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  Speaker 2: decided that he's going to step down. You never know
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  Speaker 2: how the conversations go behind the scenes, but he said
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  Speaker 2: he felt like the team needed to go in a
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  Speaker 2: different direction. I don't doubt that based on how the
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  Speaker 2: Rockies performed this year in the past few years.
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  Speaker 1: Been there for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he was in a secondary role, yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: now he's leading the pack. But they need something else.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Rockies are going to do an external search.
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  Speaker 2: And if there's one team that needs to think outside
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  Speaker 2: the box more than anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Else, it's Colorado. It's such a unique environment.
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  Speaker 2: It's so difficult, crazy, crazy, and nobody's gonna care. Rockies
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  Speaker 2: fans are all for whatever you want to do. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, they're going to show up second ball.
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  Speaker 3: You're good for anything.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, try it, try it out. I think we're
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  Speaker 2: in a place now where here I'm gonna mention this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember the exact details, but Dano Dowd I
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  Speaker 2: think later in his tenure was trying some piggybacking and
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  Speaker 2: some other things. And I think if you had done
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  Speaker 2: that now, people would be like, yep, let's try that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. It was a little early because people
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  Speaker 2: were like a little more get off my lawn.
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  Speaker 3: Still, but I did talk to some people there in
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  Speaker 3: Colorado the organization a little bit. And the thing about
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  Speaker 3: Dano Dowd is like, you got to get syncer balls,
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  Speaker 3: You got to get syncer ballers, And these people are saying, actually, no,
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  Speaker 3: you need to get fly ball pitchers, and we contact
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  Speaker 3: guys that throw the four seamer up and get pop
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  Speaker 3: ups and get strikeouts, because that way it limits the
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  Speaker 3: balls and play. If sncer ballers can't make the ball sink,
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  Speaker 3: guess where sinks over the.
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  Speaker 1: Fence, right? And you need three center fielders, and you.
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  Speaker 3: Need three athletic as sell guys. You need dudes can
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  Speaker 3: mash when when have the Rocky's been good when the.
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  Speaker 1: I want infield mash outfield.
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  Speaker 3: Tracks, and I need guys that can get punch outs.
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  Speaker 3: So you need high v low high guys up in
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  Speaker 3: the zone.
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  Speaker 1: And all of what we're saying is not easy to assembly.
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  Speaker 3: No I know, but I'm just saying you got to
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  Speaker 3: try something different. They're trying these sinkerballers and as soon
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  Speaker 3: as they make one mistake they get whack. They don't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of high V. Low guys.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's they do have a lot of high
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  Speaker 4: vie low guys, But I think the pitching only just
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  Speaker 4: hit on one specific thing. No, no, no, no. Out of
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  Speaker 4: the pen. They've they've thrown a bunch of guys. They
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  Speaker 4: don't throw strikes. They're not developing them in the minor
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  Speaker 4: leagues to be able to throw strikes. They're rushing them
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  Speaker 4: to the big leagues because they throw ninety seven to
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  Speaker 4: one hundred, and then the big leagues guys are just
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  Speaker 4: like no ball ball. My argument to that Aja would
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  Speaker 4: be no place in the big leagues has as poor
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  Speaker 4: of or has a larger variance of induced vertical break
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  Speaker 4: than in Colorado. So guys that have seventeen inches of
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  Speaker 4: induced vertical break, which is just medium across the board,
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  Speaker 4: it's like one and a half inches less in Colorado.
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  Speaker 4: So they're not getting that induced break. But guys have
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  Speaker 4: had great seasons there, Like it's not what do those
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  Speaker 4: guys do? And then mimic that. Jorge Dela Rosa had
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  Speaker 4: a great career there. Kyle Freeland. I think he was
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  Speaker 4: like almost an eight war player his second year. I
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  Speaker 4: think like seventeen or eighteen, what do they do? Mimic that.
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  Speaker 1: Obaldo.
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  Speaker 3: Also, if you was a high fastball split guy.
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  Speaker 2: If you get somebody sick, then but also somebody you're
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  Speaker 2: saying the induced vertical break goes down, Well, then get
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  Speaker 2: somebody who is like top ten percent, and then it's
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  Speaker 2: not going to be as much of a factor.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're still gonna you're not gonna get the
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  Speaker 4: like if you get if you get Josh Hayter, if
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  Speaker 4: you get Jonah Thong, two dudes. You know, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: thinking about like unique guys with like induced vertical break,
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna go down. So maybe there's something in that formula.
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: If you're all about the analytics, that's going to give
• 11:05
  Speaker 4: you those answers like or Hey, Dalil Rossa. The only
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  Speaker 4: reason I would keep bring him up is because he
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  Speaker 4: grew up in Mexico City. He pitched at higher elevation.
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  Speaker 4: There's something to do with that, and they need to
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  Speaker 4: just hammer that. They need to hammer it and say,
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  Speaker 4: now the rest of the league's doing this, We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: do this. If it doesn't work, where are they They're
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  Speaker 4: the same place they are now with forty four wins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Kyle Frieland did that for the record. He
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  Speaker 1: grew up in Denver.
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  Speaker 2: He's an average His numbers park factor in I've been
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  Speaker 2: an average starter, which is fine. He's a three four
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  Speaker 2: starter for them. In that scenario, his AAR looks bad,
• 11:43
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  Speaker 2: We said after we found out that Ron Washington was
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  Speaker 2: out as manager for the Angels that they need a
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  Speaker 2: big name voice who will tell ARTI Marino, No, you
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  Speaker 2: don't know ball.
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  Speaker 1: I know ball. Well. I think they might have found someone.
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  Speaker 2: His name's Albert Poohols, and according to Ken Rosenthal and
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  Speaker 2: some others with the Athletic, he seems to be.
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  Speaker 1: The front runner.
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  Speaker 2: In that article, they say one source told them it
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  Speaker 2: might even be up to Albert at this point. Also,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like perimination. The GM has nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with this. This is already saying I want Albert, and
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  Speaker 2: Albert has the call if he wants to do it.
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  Speaker 2: He's also the manager for Team Dominican Republican the WBC.
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  Speaker 1: You probably can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that, So he has that decision because
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  Speaker 2: that is a big legacy thing to be able to do.
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  Speaker 1: If you're Albert, he might want.
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  Speaker 3: To do that after he gets after he's done with
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  Speaker 3: the Angels, he can always.
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  Speaker 2: Go back to the Dominican exactly, and the Angel's job
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  Speaker 2: might not be available for you in a year. So
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  Speaker 2: what do we think about Albert Pooholts potentially managing the Angels.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens. I don't know. Does he change
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  Speaker 3: that much? I don't know. I never played with Albert.
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  Speaker 3: I was around Albert a little bit. He's a Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame hitter, he's a player, and I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Ron Washington had a lot of experience. Didn't help.
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  Speaker 1: They had a bad divorce.
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  Speaker 2: By the way that people are overlooking and now you
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  Speaker 2: know they're saying already loves Albert, so clearly they cleaned it.
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  Speaker 3: Have to pay him. Can they just say this is
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  Speaker 3: your clause, you're after career.
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  Speaker 1: They can just not pay him Albert like.
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  Speaker 3: You like Albert, you're the manager. Oh yeah, this is
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  Speaker 3: your million dollars you get here.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna make them give him more Albert like yes,
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  Speaker 2: but he is already being paid a million bucks per
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  Speaker 2: year over a ten year span after he retires as
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  Speaker 2: part of his personal services agreement.
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  Speaker 1: But Kratz, remember.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, they cut him and I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at this article from Ken back then, no pomping circumstance,
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  Speaker 2: and it was kind of ugly, and he didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be on the bench and it was a painful thing.
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  Speaker 2: Ken said to even write about it because of the
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  Speaker 2: legacy of Albert Poohol's But he was not performing for
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  Speaker 2: them for a while and was able to have a
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  Speaker 2: nice finish to his career. But hey, they've clearly patched
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  Speaker 2: things up, and now they're trying to see if he
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  Speaker 2: can rescue the Angels.
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  Speaker 4: Good thing they patched it up. I love to hear that,
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  Speaker 4: because he signed a massive contract with them and he
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  Speaker 4: could have been part of their history. My thing is
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  Speaker 4: go back to history. How many superstars, superstars, Hall of
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  Speaker 4: famers become good managers. I don't know, But maybe he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be the one that will be one of
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  Speaker 4: the first.
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  Speaker 2: He was certainly optimistic as he was in spring training
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  Speaker 2: with the team, what six months ago, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: lost ninety nine games in twenty twenty four. And then
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  Speaker 2: digging up some quotes here, he said, the organization has
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  Speaker 2: done a great job to put a great product on
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  Speaker 2: the field, not just in the big leagues, but minor leagues,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully they win. And then he was asked to
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  Speaker 2: exactly if he felt like the Angels were putting a
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  Speaker 2: winning product on the field. He said, they put out
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  Speaker 2: a winning product every year. The problem is injuries.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is the record doesn't state that. The problem
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  Speaker 3: is the record doesn't state that they put winning product
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  Speaker 3: out on the field every year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, hey, that's it's because every team has injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the Houston Astros and injuries they had this year,
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  Speaker 3: they still were a winning team.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: There's plenty of teams that all The Angels are not
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: leading the.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Pack and injuries exactly that point.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're leading the pack in bad decisions or among
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: the leaders in bad decisions. But to me that was
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: like an overly drink the kool age kind of.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: I worked for the team and I like my million
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: dollars a year. Quote.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to have to be more real as
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: a manager though.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: But he hasn't hidden the fact he wants to be
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: a manager.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: He definitely wants to come out.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: And said I want to be a manager. We all
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: thought it would be maybe the Cardinals. Yes, but the
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Cardinals are keeping so that closed this. So there, maybe
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: he goes manages the Dominican for a year and then
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: goes try and get the Cardinals. If all he's not
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: there anymore?
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Is this a good fit for Albert?
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Dude, there's thirty of them. You want to be a manager,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: someone offers you, you take it right, Cratzy. There's thirty
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: of them.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: If you want it bad enough, And there's other people
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: who are pining for a managerial job. To me, I
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: don't think that creates a situation to have success. If
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, I have to I want to be
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: a manager so bad, I'm gonna go call this guy
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: and make sure he puts my name out there. Oh man,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: tell everybody I want to be a manager. A manager
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: is a selfless job. It is not a promote yourself
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: type of thing. If you want to be a manager,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: sometimes you got to take some that may not be
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: a great fit. You gotta do what you know. You
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: gotta get in line. You gotta get in line. You
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: can't get the first biggest job. He can't be like
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: man Albert can't sit there and go man, I hope
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Aaron Boone gets fired so I can be the Yankees manager. No,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: he's got to take a job. I wouldn't think the
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Angels should be a job like this, but they really
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: have become that in the last few years, where you
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: go in you get your feet wet. They've tried managers
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: who've had past success and that didn't go well. So
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: now they're going for the big name guy who's trying
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: to get his feet wet as a manager. I just
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I'm leery of it. But I'm definitely here to watch it,
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: that's for sure.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be entertaining.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Boone didn't have experience. He went right from the TV
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: booth right to manage the Yankees.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Yea, you guys have done this.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Alex Horror wasn't a manager, He's a manage in the
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Red Sox.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it couldn't work. I'm just saying they're
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: managing the Red Sox and the Yankees. This is the Angels.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: This is difficult. It is it's difficult.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: They've had a.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Yourial job has its own difficulty, depending on where you
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: are and what you're doing.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: This will be their sixth manager in the last nine seasons.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: It's become a graveyard. Nobody's gotten even to two and
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a half seasons of managing this team.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: That you need to give somebody five years. Maybe Albert
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Poohols is the guy they had. Arty Morino trusts enough
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: and says, I'll give you the five years. Albert figured out.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I would say five years, and you have to I don't.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: It's not even about the money and the job security.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I get to manage this team for five years no
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: matter what, or you give up the team. But there's
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: no assurances. He could sign a five year deal and
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: he can still chop him after two or three years.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I mean he did it to Austmis Madden, Nevin wash
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Montgomery temporarily. It's a graveyard. I'm just saying it's a
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: really challenging position. I mean, look at it right now.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: They have a lame duck general manager who's probably still
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: going to GM the team for another year, who doesn't
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: get to basically have a say in this, and then
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: the owner's doing it. That alone should tell you how screwed.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I also remember when they signed pool Holes that wasn't
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: a general manager? Wasn't that wasn't that also already? And
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: then when they went and got Rendon, wasn't that also
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: already because they missed Garrett cole Yes, And he said,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: oh no, I'm going to get somebody, so I'm just
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: gonna give him throw money at Rendome.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He said, who else you got to?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, as this isn't the first time that
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Already has done something like this, so I don't know
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: why we're surprised Jerry Reinestorff did this. When he hired
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Tony LaRussa, the whole organization thought they had a j
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: hinch and Jerry's like, not so fast, my friends, I've
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: got my hire, my buddy.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: It's called my team, my money, my team.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: My team.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what I want.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I just feel for Angels fans, that's all. I've had
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: an up and down relationship with them, but I feel
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: for them, and I hope that Albert's the guy.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Angels used to be. I mean, I lost the Angels
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: in two thousand and two in the playoffs. I used
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to be an unbelieva organization. Haven't been to the playoffs?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: How long since twelve? Trout's what first or second year?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Twenty fourteen? They haven't won a playoff? Games is twenty twelve?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: What was the Royal Sweepcrats? You're the Royals xteen fourteen fourteen? Okay, yeah,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: now Trats passes prime.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: We know that.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: So this is the problem with baseball is you have
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: a legendary player who doesn't get to shine in October.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: And that's how our sport stands out, and that's how
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: any sports stands out. You would never have Lebron not
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: playing in the playoffs for in his entire career.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: It would be really played in the playoffs. Yeah, for
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: five minutes, that's all.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: So Anyway, in summary, it sounds like Pooholes is going
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: to get the job. It's going to be really fun
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: to follow.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna be awesome.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: But if I had to make a decision right now,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I think it's not going to work out. Well, sorry,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: that's what we that's our job on this show. Sometimes
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: you're right, sometimes you're wrong. I think it's this is
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: it works out for him, Yeah, superstars.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Superstars need to be able to connect with every single player.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: You need to connect with the Latin player, the American player,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: the pitcher, the relievers, the guys who you have to
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: send down three times a year, and the superstars. And
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: if Albert can do that, he becomes a good manager.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: If he has no idea what it's like to be
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: sent down, because in his Hall of Fame career he
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: never was sent down, he never went through the same
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: struggles that majority of his team is going to str with,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: then it's gonna be hard for him to connect. So
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: the guys he has around him are gonna be as
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: far as other coaches are gonna be huge too. So
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: his success will really dictate based on how he can
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: connect with the players that he has.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: On his roster.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I just think it's weird now to put Perry in
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: this spot where he's a lame dup.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's messy.