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Braves pick Walt Weiss as manager, Cubs let Imanaga loose, Mega G7 ratings, Ottavino next Rockies GM? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 2: But let's charge.
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  Speaker 1: Let's charge about. We had been waiting and we were
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  Speaker 1: expecting to hear the news straight from the source, which
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  Speaker 1: is the team Alexanthopolis keeps it close to the best
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  Speaker 1: running the Atlanta Braves, and his decision is Walt Weiss,
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  Speaker 1: who has been the bench coach with the Braves for
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  Speaker 1: a long time now, since twenty eighteen. As Chipper Jones
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  Speaker 1: immediately yesterday saying, boom, love this dude, Walt Weiss is
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  Speaker 1: the choice.
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  Speaker 2: AJ.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we have heavily scrutinized the manager choices
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  Speaker 1: so far, and some of them have bothered you because
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  Speaker 1: there's a lack of experience. Walt Weiss managed a bad
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  Speaker 1: Rocky team from what I recall, for four years and
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: then he's been part of a good Brave staff for
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  Speaker 1: many years.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like this?
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  Speaker 3: I love this.
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  Speaker 5: It keeps the connuity and you know, it keeps the
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  Speaker 5: connuity with the front office, with the players, and this
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  Speaker 5: is kind of what the Braves that wanted to do
• 4:04
  Speaker 5: right they signed some of their new players. They have
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  Speaker 5: all their players kind of locked up for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: Snitt was there for since twenty sixteen when I was
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  Speaker 5: last there, and Weiss has been there for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: So it just keeps the continuity of they're what they're
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  Speaker 5: telling them, how they're trying to teach him, what they're
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  Speaker 5: trying to do. It'll be a different voice, it'll be
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  Speaker 5: said a different way. But now Alex has someone that
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  Speaker 5: he trusts, that he can talk to and go too
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  Speaker 5: much like Yeah, with Snit, I think this is a
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  Speaker 5: great hire for the Braves.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. I don't know that they needed to go
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  Speaker 4: outside the box. I don't know that there was like
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  Speaker 4: a big revamping of the Braves. This team's here, like
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  Speaker 4: Weiss might not even outlast this core of cores of
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  Speaker 4: players that they have but I think he understands. Sometimes
• 4:49
  Speaker 4: as a bench coach, you see things that you're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't think this should be run a
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  Speaker 4: certain way. I think drastic. They're not going to move
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  Speaker 4: Acuoni to left field, or you know, something like crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It's just, hey, maybe we need to do a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more of this. I noticed this was happening because
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  Speaker 4: you're you're not distracted by all the outside media and
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  Speaker 4: your two meetings a day that that Snit has to
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  Speaker 4: be distracted by. And I think it's it's a great
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  Speaker 4: like AJ said, great continuity for the team.
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  Speaker 2: Walt Weiss loves it there too. AJ.
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  Speaker 1: He said during the intro press conference this morning, he
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: would have stood there as the bench coach for another
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  Speaker 1: decade if Snit kept the job. Brian Snicker is moving on,
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: calling it a career manager wise. But that's how much
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  Speaker 1: appreciation Walt Whys has for the organization.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny when you get a choice like this.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there was a ton of dissension and
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  Speaker 1: back and forth online between two very opposite sides of
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  Speaker 1: the spectrum.
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  Speaker 2: You have a group that.
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  Speaker 1: I think really follows the braves and knows that continuity
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  Speaker 1: is important for a team that's had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: success and was missing a lot this past season. Then
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: you have another group that's like, oh, how could they
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  Speaker 1: stay eternal? They should have gone outside the org. Not
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: going to necessarily name names, but there were some people
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: that surprisingly went very against this move. And I guarantee
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  Speaker 1: you number one, they don't know Walt Weise. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: they don't know how the organization works. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just talking about fans, I'm talking about writers. And number three,
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  Speaker 1: just assuming that somebody else is going to come in
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  Speaker 1: and bring their own philosophies is stupid.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Like Alexanthopolis and the Braves have a really good machine
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  Speaker 1: running right now. AJ So if you bring someone else in,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you could really.
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  Speaker 2: Disrupt a lot of success that they've had.
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  Speaker 1: Do some players maybe need a kick in the pants
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  Speaker 1: or to get more consistency that are locked up long term?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but what did their rotation look like last year?
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  Speaker 1: And they were missing ronaldccuna Junior for half the year
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't really do much in the previous offseason.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like they've got more cash to spend this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a great move. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: great decision. I think some of the teams that have
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  Speaker 1: gotten really out side of the boxer are going to
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: get burned.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I love this again. I love this move.
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  Speaker 3: I was my last team was the Brave, so.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have Alexanthopolis, but I had Snitt and I
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  Speaker 5: had and I know Walt Weiss and I've seen Walt
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  Speaker 5: Weiss in action, and i know what he means to
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  Speaker 5: the players. And normally on this show, we come in
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  Speaker 5: here and we say, ah, we know, we want to
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  Speaker 5: see guys go outside the box and we want to
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  Speaker 5: see this and we want to see that. But for
• 8:26
  Speaker 5: this one, I like this move because they because they
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  Speaker 5: have long term and they've had success with this group
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  Speaker 5: of people, and it just continues the continuity. It was
• 8:35
  Speaker 5: it was Bobby Cox, and then it was Freddy Gonzalez
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  Speaker 5: and that kind of carried on, and it was Bobby,
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  Speaker 5: then it was Bobby Cox's guy again Snitt and Walt
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  Speaker 5: Weiss has been through all of this and he's been
• 8:43
  Speaker 5: there for so long. I can't I can't get on
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  Speaker 5: him for not going outside the organization and getting too crazy.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is good for the continuity of this
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  Speaker 5: organization that needs to get back. They just won a
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  Speaker 5: World Series a few years ago with a lot of
• 8:55
  Speaker 5: the same players. So if they spend a little bit
• 8:57
  Speaker 5: of money in the right places and they get you know, Schwall,
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: bog Back, Schrider becomes what he is. You still have
• 9:02
  Speaker 5: Chris Sale. You make a couple moves in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 5: I think this team can compete with the Phillies and
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  Speaker 5: the Mets with the division title.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: I'm scrolling through to try and provide a little more proof.
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  Speaker 1: So let me just bring up an example. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: by name because that's what we do here on our show.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a writer by the name of Chris Klegg.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: He writes for Dynasty Dugout. He does Rotoballer a lot
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: of I think fantasy and also prospect talk, and he's
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: really a good follow on Twitter. I like him a lot,
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: and I've never really seen him be opinionated, but like this.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: But yesterday he quote tweets the news and says Atlanta
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: completely botched this hire, and there are plenty of people like, yeah,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: you want to explain more. Is the guy that covers
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: the game pretty closely A lot more in the minor
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: leagues and he said, you have an incredible core of
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: players locked up for the foreseeable future and should be
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: an attractive job to get a young, bright mind in
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  Speaker 1: the game, and instead you get an old failed manager.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: I was like, whoa of agism? As if?
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: As if, like Bruce Bochi didn't win a World Series
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: title a couple of seasons ago, Doc Roberts is not
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: thirty years old either, So so now we're in this
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: mode where you have to be super young and come
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: from somewhere else and bring these innovative, groundbreaking ideas to
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  Speaker 1: the sport. It just it brought a shock factor to
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: me where I was like, is this how some people
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: in the industry that evaluate talent are looking at this hire?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, because everybody wants the new shiny toy, and sometimes
• 10:36
  Speaker 5: it doesn't take the new shiny toy. Sometimes it takes
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  Speaker 5: the right guy in the right place. So yeah, this is.
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  Speaker 3: Just listen now, it is clickbait to me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, what's he gonna say, Hey, this is a
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: great hire. If I write that, then nobody's gonna click
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: on my article. So yeah, I don't think that that
• 10:52
  Speaker 5: because you see Tony Vatello get a job, because you
• 10:54
  Speaker 5: see who get a job right, Like, who else get
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: a joke in Washington for a team that's not going
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: to try to win. You're trying to win, And what
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: did Jim Boden say yesterday? If you have a team
• 11:07
  Speaker 5: that's trying to win, you bring in a veteran guy
• 11:10
  Speaker 5: to help him try to win. You don't bring in
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: the young guy. Most of the time. It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry the way you mean too. Yeah, it felt like
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: he was like it felt like he was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: there's there's like a there's like a stable of just
• 11:25
  Speaker 5: young like up and coming executive people who are gonna
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: be big league managers. Like No, the reason that those
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: young guys get hired is because teams can say, come
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: and be my puppet and then you dance, dance over here,
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  Speaker 5: you'll be our manager for three years. That's why Rachel Balkovec,
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: when we had her own said, the job now to
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: have is the general manager. The manager on some of
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  Speaker 5: these teams that are rebuilding, is not the job to have.
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  Speaker 5: People aren't clamoring for that job.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, there's people that are not going to ever turn
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: it down because there's only thirty of them, But the
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: young manager teams aren't like, oh, man, we got a
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: hurry quick so that we can swipe up this guy
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  Speaker 4: that has zero big league experience and he really knows
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  Speaker 4: his numbers. No, they're hiring them to be behind the
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: scenes guys, to be able to pull the strings of
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  Speaker 4: the young manager that wants to be the manager in
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  Speaker 4: the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: And what Weiss is clearly on the same page with
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Alex Anthropolos Or he wouldn't have that job for a
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: long period of time. Same goes with Brian Snicker. I
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: just want to point out that also despite being sixty
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: one years old, there are different variations that you can
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: look at with age Walt has been in the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like he stepped out of the game for years.
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  Speaker 1: He knows to the current game and.
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  Speaker 2: He will kick your ass. You kick the ass of
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: almost any whatever year old.
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  Speaker 5: He's like a black belt something jiu jitsu, some jiu jitsu.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what he is. But if you I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, I saw.
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  Speaker 5: I saw Walt this season out of uniform in San Diego.
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  Speaker 5: I believe, and man, he is still in good shape
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  Speaker 5: for sixty one. He said he's sixty one.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, sixty one.
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  Speaker 4: Remember I remember when you saw him a j because
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  Speaker 4: you were like, I could definitely take him.
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  Speaker 5: I remember, that's exactly you know what, That's exactly what
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  Speaker 5: I told him too. I said, you know what, you're
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: lucky your wife is here, because otherwise it'd be on.
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  Speaker 3: And he just laughed. He knew, he knew he would
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  Speaker 3: be Yeah, I went.
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: Johnny was Johnny Leroy in the Last Dragon when he's
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: like and I had this in the matrix, the stuff shooting? Yeah,
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: Last Dragon or not Last Dragon? What's it called before?
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  Speaker 3: It's before Scott's time. He didn't know that. I know
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: what's what you're talking about. He was huge, like whoa.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: He gets like the glow going and he beats the
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: guy up by the fountain, Johnny Lee Roy.
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  Speaker 1: What about David Rosser, Mark Drossa well, Mark Bowman? The
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: Braves said they may have done some due diligence, but
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: neither DeRosa or ross were ever contacted by the Braves.
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  Speaker 1: That was a fan question and a reply from Bowman.
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like Danny Lehman on the Dodgers' coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: and maybe John Gibbons were in the running. Anthopolis and
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  Speaker 1: his presser didn't reveal anything.
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  Speaker 2: Really.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: He didn't reveal who else was in the running. He
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: didn't reveal what details led to the decision. The only
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: weird thing is that whit Weiss's internal and Thopolss did
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: say a particular conversation on Saturday led to the Monday
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: decision being made. Okay, I mean they wanted to really
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: make sure that they didn't leave any stone unturned or
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: whatever the phrase is. They said something along those lines. Okay,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: still a long period of time to then go back
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: to your bench. Coach would be like, you're the guy.
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  Speaker 1: But if that's what they felt like they wanted to do, Aja,
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  Speaker 1: the league certainly likes it.
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  Speaker 2: They waited until after the World Series.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: We love it so that we could actually talk about
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  Speaker 1: it for a full segment like this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have no problem with the way they handle this.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: Why would be mad about the way they handle this? Listen,
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: every organization has the opportunity to hire whoever they want,
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  Speaker 5: whenever they want, And this is the guy they thought
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: was right personally. This is why the liberty media pays
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: alex antopless the big money. And as long as Terry
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: McGirk is involved, and you know, okay with this, and
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: then he's going to be the right hire, so listen.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that.
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  Speaker 5: And as far as the David Ross and the Mark
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: de Rosa, I mean, we've we've heard this song and
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: dance before with those two and it hasn't worked out
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  Speaker 5: there yet. So maybe after Walt Weiss, if they go
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: through another rebuild, those would be the right guys. But man,
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: have you guys ever seen anyone Mark de Rosa like
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: try to get a job more than Mark de Rosa has.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, I like Mark de Rosa, but man is
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: he I feel like he's like every year he's like,
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: I want a job, pick me, people pick me.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: When you're not in a dug euy, you got to
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: figure out how to be able to connect with everybody.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: So sometimes when guys don't get jobs, sometimes it's you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: how you connect with everybody on the roster. I think
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: that one name that you said, Danny Lahman, I think
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  Speaker 4: he's got He's got so much chops for a guy
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  Speaker 4: that hasn't been a manager yet. I think he I
• 16:04
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  Speaker 1: The White Sox are true to their word. They have
• 17:30
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  Speaker 1: deal twenty million dollars. They tried to trade him. They
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: did not think that they were getting enough. Some people
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  Speaker 1: reported on approximately a tenth ish related prospect top ten
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  Speaker 2: Top five range.
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  Speaker 1: And if we're being real, Aja, this is not the
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  Speaker 2: The problem for me is that he's.
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  Speaker 5: How do I say this nicely? They said their payroll
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  Speaker 5: was going up, Scott, and guess what, Their payroll just
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  Speaker 5: went up with one move. All it took was one
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: move and Luis Robert picking up his option. Their payroll
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: just went way up. So they weren't lying about the
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: payroll going up. They were right on. It's an interesting
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: ass move, is what I'll say. Because now do they
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: trade him after they've just done this?
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Right? Do they? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's gonna happen. I mean, do they
• 18:49
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• 18:51
  Speaker 5: You don't think they'll trade them this offseason, because that
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: was the thing that people said. They pick up his
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: option and they trade.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Him, team's gonna think he's worth twenty He didn't.
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• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Frequent baseball tweeter Danny Vietti posting some other information about
• 19:14
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• 19:19
  Speaker 1: very short. That's especially true when you have a long
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: series like this, and it felt long.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: In a good way.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So free agency begins officially on November six. That's when
• 19:28
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  Speaker 5: And That's what's going to make this offseason feel really sure,
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  Speaker 5: especially for those Dodgers guys that are going to play
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  Speaker 5: So it's going to be a quick turnaround for those boys.
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  Speaker 3: But I think I think they'll be okay.
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  Speaker 5: They'll take a World Series for a short turnaround.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Team Japan players they're playing, they don't mess around.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the American players too, But krats like Yamamoto, Tani,
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  Speaker 1: Roki Sazaki, they're going to be firing by the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of March.
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  Speaker 3: They're fine, They're fine.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Spreading rumors where will show to Amanaga go? Most of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the opt out news that we've heard over the last
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: forty eight hours is expected. Alex Bregman, even Robert Suarez,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the list goes on and on.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Pete A.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Lonzo Shoda in Minaga's situation was unique, guys. The Cubs
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: first of all, could have extended this to a five
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: year contract from when they signed him, so they would
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: have had to lock in three more seasons now for
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: fifty seven point seventy five million dollars.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: They said no.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Then he gets a player option that he can exercise
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: for fifteen point twenty five million dollars. He said no,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: he's getting more than one year fifteen on the free
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: agent market. There is still one more layer that we
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: don't know about. I don't think a decision is needed
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: for a minute. The qualifying offer. It's about twenty two
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: million dollars this year. The Cubs can throw qualifying offer
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: his way. That would be more than the player option.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: He probably again would say no. It does hurt your
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: free agency a bit. It often hurts one or two
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: free agents per year, and that's what the qualifying offer
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is for, to try and keep prices down for certain players.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: That happened to Nick Pavetta last year, and that was
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to the benefit of the Padres. So I think the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: first question AJ is do you think this was the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: right call? We don't know the medical, we don't know
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: everything else going on, But do you think now you
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: think he was worth the three years on three or
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: fifty seven?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: For me, the way he pitched. Are you finding me
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: another if Louise Robert, you're saying isn't worth twenty million,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Showedoime in August is not worth nineteen million. But the
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: way he pitched and what he's done, and the excitement
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: he brings and the marketing that he brings, Let's not
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: forget there's a big marketing component to this too, is
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: showdo so. I don't understand this why the Cubs wouldn't
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: do this. They think they're going to get him on
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: a cheaper deal, or they're bigger, better fish out there
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: they can get.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: I don't understand this at all. I thought I never
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: even thought this was a possibility. I thought this was like, Okay,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: show does there for three more years? A nope, surprise.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: The whole qualifying offer throws a wrench in it for me.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I think they want him back. I don't think they
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: won three more years of him. I think they see
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: him as somebody that will be already five years old
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: at the end of that contract, which in my opinion,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: is not that old for pitchers. And we can name
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: the pretty terrible list of pitchers that got paid eighteen
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: million for two years this offseason this past offseason, and
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: you could have him for nineteen million for three years
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: a year. I'm I just I feel like the qualifying
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: offer sets the Cubs up to be like, look, we
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: did all that we could and it's really gonna screw
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: showed to because he's probably not gonna get larger than
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: the three year deal. And when you're giving up a
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: when you're giving up a draft pick, teams are just
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: gonna They're gonna sit there and they're gonna ham and
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Hall and then he's gonna have that what is it
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: twenty one point seven. I think this year is the
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: qualifying offer. It's gonna have that hanging over his head
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: and it's gonna hurt him or the Cubs will be like, hey,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: look we offered it to him. Hey that's a lot
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: of money. It's more than you would have made before.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: But the reality is it's really undercut his value for
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: a guy that for the last two years has been
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: great for this team.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Can I bring up the other side? I love Shanna Naga.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: He is one of my favorites to watch another very
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: much worse year.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: AJ What I have a great team for him to
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: go to. He loves Chicago White Sox.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Baby wait, but his numbers weren't down a lot this year.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Got I'm just bringing up will be good for a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: few years, I know, but you know it was thirty
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: less innings. The ERA plus went from one thirty seven,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: which is fantastic, to one oh three the fifth fielding
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: independent pitching much higher. The XCRA expected ra A, home
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: run rate was up, walks up, strikeouts down a lot,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: strikeouts down from nine per nine innings, so one printing
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to seven point three, drake out to walk ratio obviously
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: going down all that, right, So the numbers did significantly
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: decline in year two. Do you think there's any concern
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that the Cubs feel as if the league figured.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Him out a little bit?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I'm just throwing this out there, because no team knows
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the pitcher more than the team that he's coming from.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Even if he has the numbers he had right last year,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: is he worth eighteen nineteen million dollars a year on
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: the free agent market compared to another guy that's going
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: to possibly get eighteen to nineteen million.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I think if okay, I think if if it works, if.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: You're the Cubs, if you're the Cubs, if you're the
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Cubs and you have a chance, and you have a
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: guy that's a known commodity, loves it in Wrigleyville, has
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: pitched well there, has been to the playoffs, has done
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: all these things. And you know him, and you're saying
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: he's not worth nineteen million dollars a year for three
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: years fifty seven you're the Cubs fifty seven million dollars.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: That's not that much.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: If it should have been an easy five numbers, If
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty five numbers, if that's all you're guaranteeing me,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: then he is not worth that contract, not at the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five numbers.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: But he's not what how can you say that?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: But this is what this is what organizations are doing this.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Organizations will sit there and they'll go He did his
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: home run. His home run rate after he came back
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: from the IL was the worst in baseball. It carried
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: into the postseason, like, we don't want this. They're convincing
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: themselves this is not a good option. And that's fine.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: You can do that. Your formula can say we don't
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: want him. Who are the Cubs going to get for
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: the same price dollar for dollar, pitcher for pitcher? Who
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: are they going to get? And that's where I think
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: teams like the Cubs, who are clearly they're a playoff team.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: They wanted to make the playoffs, they don't quite want
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: to go the rest of the way. They trade some
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: of their guys to be able to get Kyle Tucker
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: and then at the end of the season he kind
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: of kind of petered out. So we're not going to
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: go get and we don't. We had Cody Bellinger, he
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: had a great year for us and then he had
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: a down here.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: We're fine trading.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Him instead of saying, like the team that we just
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: talked to Max Muncy about, we're pushing all in. We
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: got everything we need. We have the core that we need.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: We have great pieces in Kate Horton, Justin Steele's gonna
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: come back. We're going to add another starting picture. We're
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: gonna keep showda and we're gonna add a mega piece
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: to our lineup because we are a rich franchise that
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: takes all the fans away from the White Sox and
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: we have this entire city of Chicago.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: You guys are acting as if there's nobody else on
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the free agent market there.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Are they gonna get.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, just I'm just presenting the other side, because
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: if you do truly believe that he's the free five version,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: that's the decision.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: That's the free Agentarez, Mike.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: He's gonna make less than nineteen million or more than nineteen.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Million, Rmber. It's not about that now.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: If okay, he was about it's all about that we
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: go through.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: It's all about that.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: If they go through the off season and they don't
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: pick up somebody to replace him in the rotation, I
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: think you can make a case. But if they say, hey,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: we're going to save that nineteen and we're going to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: do thirty year on King or c fromber Ranger, Suarez,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: guys like that, then I think you can make a
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: case that Cubs fans will be okay, just throwing that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Out there, that's all. It's a good debate.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: We can continue this. Maybe we should bring on someone
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that watched, you know, all of his starts and can
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: give us the perspective on the Cub side and say, hey,
• 28:33
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  Speaker 1: The mix for the Rockies open position whatever they're calling
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  Speaker 1: a GM or President Base Operations. Yes, Adam out of Vino,
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  Speaker 1: and you might be like, wait, did Adam out of
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  Speaker 1: Vino even retire? He made a few appearances last year
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  Speaker 1: for the Yankees. He didn't officially retire, but I think
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: this would certainly tilt you towards that direction. It is
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: very clear Aj that he wants to be either a
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: front office leader or a manager in the near future.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: He pitched for the Rockies for a good chunk of time,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I think twenty twelve to twenty eighteen, and he apparently
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: had conversations directly with the owner owner, not the owner's son,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the owner, Dick Monfort, and those conversations have continued.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that he's going to get the position.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: But we did learn in the last twenty four hours
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that the two candidates everyone thought were in the mix,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Amiel Sarde assistant JAM for the Diamondbacks and Matt Foreman
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: assistant JAM for the Guardians, are out. One of them
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: declined an offer, so it sounded like he had a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: shot of getting it, and the other one, I think
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: just took himself out of the mix, maybe after meeting
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: with the team. So your thought on a player jumping
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: right from the big leagues to leading a front office.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: I can't cuss on the show, but it would be
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: f Yeah, let's see how this goes, because this would be.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Up an unbelievable krats are you kidding me?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Right? From the player right?
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: Like now I control all this?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Are you kiddy me? Guessed?
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: And can we also get cameras to follow him around
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: every day? This would be the most Rockies thing of
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: all time if this actually happened, This would be unbelievably
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Rockies right now, because one they probably could get it
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: for cheap. Two they did Momford could just be like, yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Do those do those blah blah blah. I don't.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, you don't have any money, spend too bad?
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Figure it out.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: I hired you right off the field, like yes, please,
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: And we need a documentary on this. We need someone
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: foul Territory will make Michael Beer and producer Lady follow
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: at a Monavino around day to day and do a
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: show on this, because this would be must watch TV
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: for a guy that has absolutely no experience in anything
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: other than playing. So if he once gets a job,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: then Kratz can get a job too, So yes, let's go.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Am I am I looking for a job. I don't know.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: You get a job. Everyone gets getting am I getting fired?
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: You know what I want to see? I want to
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: see it. Like AJ said, it's must see TV, but
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: I want to see it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I want to see honestly, this is this is less
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: joking and more serious. I want to see if Adam
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Anavino institutes the things that he told me when he
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: came when he came over to the Yankees from the
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Rockies playing against some of the Rockies then I played
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: with them with the Yankees, and.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: He had this booklet.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: He had the iPad of everything and going through all
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: the numbers and everything, and he was just like, Rockies
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: didn't have any of this. Rockies are so behind the times.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: And DJ le Mayhew would never say a word. And
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: DJ was over on the other side of the locker room.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: He's like, yep, nothing, they had nothing. They had nothing.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: So you know what if Otto steps in to this
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: role and people listen to him because he's there, maybe he's.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: The perfect person.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Maybe he's the perfect person because he's come from other
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: organizations and they they're not afraid of.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Listening to him. I think too many people come into.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: The Rockies organization and the insular like unit of people
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: that are there, like nobody from the outside. No, how
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: do you not how do you not just fall in
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: step with Dick Montfort, Like, how do you not just
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: fall in step with everything we've done for the last
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: twenty five years? Don't change a thing. We got a
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: lot of fans and maybe they look at Auto and
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: they're like, you know what, it's a good picture, you
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: know what. We think he's smart. What does he have
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: to say? Maybe we'll listen, And maybe that's just a
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: small step in the right direction, because they need somebody
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: who knows pitching and knows how balls work at coursefield
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: because it has not worked. And maybe he's like, hey,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: you know what, this is exactly how it can be implemented.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: So maybe it will be something totally outside the box
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: like this and it would maybe work.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: But I am definitely here to see it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: This part's important.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: We remind people all the time that the team is
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: run ultimately by the owner. Will it help to have
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Ottamavino telling them on forts what they should be doing? Yes, example,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a Buster Posey ajay. Even if Buster Posey, would it
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: wasn't great at his job, which I think he'll do
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a great job. He has the ear of ownership in
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a way that is different. It's true you have to
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: be able to talk your decision makers into doing things,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and I think otta Vino would help an He's super smart.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I think he would be successful.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I like this is a little while to bring someone
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: right from an organization playing into running an organization. It
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: might be quote outside the box, but I don't think
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: it's off. There are some I think it's way more
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: crazy to bring in somebody who's barely touched the big
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: leagues as a coach and then have them be a manager.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: You know, I think the Nats situation's way more wild
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: than what this would be for the Rocky. So I'm
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: totally with you guys. You know, I think some people
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: probably look at this as like, oh, they're gonna have
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a player right off the field.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I mean the Giants essentially did that. Posey didn't spend
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that much.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Buster was around though Buster was around in the front
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: office doing stuff. That's to me the crazy part. Like
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: Chris Katz is a former player, right, he was in
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: player development and doing this and that. Right, there's there's
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: a bunch of them. Brandon Gomes is a former player,
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Craig Breslow, these guys had jobs that they kind of
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: get the lay of the land to just take a
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: player that literally pitched this year and throw them in
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: that job and say, hey, go make trades, go go
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: figure out the minor leagues and this and that. I mean,
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: it's it's way outside the box, Scott, and that's why
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: I'm here for let's try it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I sat in.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: I sat in when I worked for the Red Sox
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: and a you know, front office type of role. I
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: sat in on all these meetings, had to make zero decisions,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: just more evaluating. Dude, Auto is not ready for six
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: zoom calls a day, nine you know, group meetings with scouts,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: with all this stuff. I don't know how you can
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: be ready right away after playing, Like, go sit in
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: in on it for two years minimum minimum. You're having
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: so many freaking meetings. And then on top of that,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: he's got to be he's got to be one making
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: decisions and making changes and going in there and going like, hey,
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: you know what, I came up through the minor leagues
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: and you were my coach. But I remember how much
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: you did nothing. I'm gonna have to fire you. If
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: he's going to run the organization the correct way.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: That Rockies position might not be open in two years.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe they give him an assistant gam role and they
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: bring someone in with him, but even still then he
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to pathway if that person does well. Whatever, anyway,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: we're all over this story. There was a trade while
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: we've been on the show, and it's somebody who can
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: be quite helpful in a bullpen. The Cubs traded Andrew
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Kittridge back to the Orioles for cash considerations per both teams.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Kittridge had an option that I'm assuming the Orioles are
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: going to pick up. They initially signed him. He had
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a nine million dollar club option for twenty twenty six.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Cubs say no, they traded for him around the deadline.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Orioles say yes and get him back. You're not I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: don't think legally allowed to do one of those, trading
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: him to you, but we want him back at the
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: end of the year.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: It appears like that's what happened.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: Exactly what happened for cast considerations, whether it's give him
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: a million bucks or something and it only cost him
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: eight million whatever, Good for you, Andrew Kittridge. I hope
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: you like Baltimore because you're back for in f they
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: suck again. Guess what you're gonna get traded again. Yeah,
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: good for them. We don't hear you, Scott, Scott, we
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: don't want.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: To hear you.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: It's good for Baltimore. Baltimore needs to build back up
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: their bullpen. Felix Bautista is not going to pitch this
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: coming season. There were a lot of tryouts going on
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: in the last couple of months for them. Pitching wise,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: this is a solid veteran who's had a lot of success,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: including this past season.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Not nearly as nasty as twenty twenty four.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: He was off the charts good, but he was still
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: an above average reliever this past season for multiple ball clubs.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: He was hurt at the beginning.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, at the beginning, right, but I mean he ended
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: up going how many appearances.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I think he's still racked up like fifty something.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Started a bunch of games.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: Did didn't he start playoff games for him?
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah? He was starting closing.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: My favorite is all the gifts is like comes into
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: your comes into your picnic whiffle ball game, and you
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: know he's just standing there like this how he pitches
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: and then he rows one and they're like, this is
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: the best whiffle ball picnic player of all time.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Well he's worth nine million dollars orioles get him back.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Bet MGM tweet on Andy Pai is saving the Dodges
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: season Krats, Would you like to explain what we're looking
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: at here?
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, you'll get off the track when the train's
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: coming through. Pie is just and Max Munsey's Max Munsey's
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: evaluation or not evaluation of it. But what he said
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: key K's reaction was key K said he said he
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: was sulking on the ground because he just lost the
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: World Series because he screwed up a fly ball to
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: the left center.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: And then he's like, oh yeah, we called it. Nice job.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: So he's fine being the being the school bus on
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: the on the train tracks.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Ah.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I heard key K after that game said that he
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: was trying to do his best really maze impression.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Because they were like, what are you doing?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Because he's like, he's looking at it the over shoulder
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: action and then all of a sudden he just got
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the truck sticked by a dude way bigger than him.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was funny. That's what made it so funny.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: And then he just laid there first second, which was great.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Max's explanation was awesome. But I mean, I thought k
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: was gonna catch that ball, even though he said he
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: swears he wasn't. I thought from from what I saw,
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: it looked like I was like, oh, Kik's got that ball.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: But then all of a sudden, Pa, He's like, no,
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: I got this ball. And that's what you want centerfielders
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: to take over. Centerfielders to take over and take charge.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: That ball was carrying too.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes it was, but it was caught.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: It was caught, doesn't matter, it was caught. Great meme
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• 41:08
  Speaker 1: these three tweets in a row as we go? I
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: want to get them all in during this break here
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: world Series Game seven most watched Rogers broadcast ever, So
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: that's up in Canada. Average audience ten point nine million viewers.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: It's the most watched English language broadcast on record in
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Canada outside of the twenty ten Winter Olympics. So that's one.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Number two. This from Mike VORKANEUV. I'm probably butchering the name,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: but he's talking ratings. NBA MLB both out at Game
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: seven for their championships this year. Both dramatic average viewership
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: numbers were not close. NBA Finals sixteen point sixty one million.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: World Series averaged about twenty six million watching that Game
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: seven into us, by the way, and then Chaidavidi with
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the power of the Blue Jays reach, he said, eighteen
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: and a half million Canadian viewers four twenty five percent
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: of Canada's population watched summer all of Game seven. It
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: peaked at fourteen million in that Game seven.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: Wow, Baseball's dying. Where's the Japan numbers?
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Dead? Though?
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Basketball is thriving because the salary cap, and baseball's dying
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: because they don't have a salary cap.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I will say this to me, that has a lot
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: to do with how both leagues are being run Baseball
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: looks like the more popular sport. Yet NBA players have
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: way more followers and videos that could put out online
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: have way more views. NBA wise that part they have
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: us speed. I'm just saying that has to do with
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: something that our show is all about, right, Like MLB
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: is the most restrictive league by far in terms of
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: video rights and usage and all of that. Those are
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the things that hold it back from being even bigger
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: in world's ahead of the NBA. It's true nfls is
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: in its own categor but MLB could be a very
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: firm number two, which it was for a long period
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: of time. It was number one, then it was number two.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Now people make a case for NBA versus MLB, but
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: those are the kind of things that hold it back.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Promoting their players, right, who promote their players better?
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: NBA or MLB?
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: Do your own, do your own math. It's super easy.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: NBA commissioners all about promoting players, going on players podcasts.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: The commissioner, I.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Think i'll call him number two.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: You show that Turner's boss, Scott.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, Bartolo Cologne having fun on social media, staying active,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: staying relevant. He tweeted, such an honor to be named
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Pulls twenty twenty five Sexiest Man Alive.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Thanks for keeping my seat warm. John Krasinski.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing that John one, but he has been replaced
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: via photo shop by bart Aka.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: The original Big Sexy oh An.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: FT's Sexiest Man Alive four November fourth is Eric Kratz
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: with his vintage Yankees photo Krats, congratulations.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: I'd like to thank all the people that had all
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: of my steroid tests coming back negative.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I'd like to thank them.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: And this is an honor that I've known for minutes
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: now for minutes. So I'm going to celebrate this after
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: the show, like the Dodgers celebrated their World series.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: You just thanked the people that watched. You have to
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: be in a cup to prove your innocitizence.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Those are the people you want to show your hat.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: We got thirty seconds.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: Panic Panic in Chicago showed is gone. They know their
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: owner is not paying any money. Tucker was a one
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: year rental How to Wear the Cubs? How to Wear
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: the Cubs because AJ is loving every second of what's
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: going on.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Breaking my heart, cratch, breaking my oh Man cup fans
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: full panic mode just break crushes me deep down my hand.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Not criteria, Go do something.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox sign showed how's the time to strike
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: like snake's territory