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Boston Red Sox team preview with Jonathan Papelbon · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: We pressed.
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Speaker 2: I mean I pressed. We've all pressed in certain times,
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Speaker 2: and I think that the pressing from what he showed
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Speaker 2: in the playoffs is going to just continue.
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Speaker 3: This one's a special for Red Sox fans out there
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Speaker 3: while we have a moment. Full Throttle was the theme
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Speaker 3: last offseason for Boston that played out really well for
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Speaker 3: them for a very mid season so country music starred
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Speaker 3: Jason Aldean, Did I say it right? I look at
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Speaker 3: me as a full Throttle tour in twenty twenty five
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Speaker 3: and it makes a stop at Fenway Park May thirtieth, Trevor.
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Speaker 3: I don't think he actually came up with this because
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Speaker 3: of one stop on the tour, but it should help
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Speaker 3: sell tickets in Boston because they finally will get the
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Speaker 3: full throttle that they were promised.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's a star. They're going to get the
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Speaker 4: tickets sold. I mean it's Fenway. They sell tickets for
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Speaker 4: that place pretty easily. I guess rain or shine or
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Speaker 4: good or bad, so they're not having problems getting people
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Speaker 4: into that stadium. But yeah, that is a little bit
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Speaker 4: odd that it's happening right at that time. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: I doubt I doubt it has anything to do with
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Speaker 4: the slogan. Players don't even remember what the slogan was
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Speaker 4: the next year, so I doubt Jason Aldine did we remember?
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Speaker 1: But are you do? You work for the Red Sox,
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Speaker 1: you know that they get people in the seats no
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Speaker 1: matter what, no matter what moves they make, no matter
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Speaker 1: what stars they get rid of, people still keep coming
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Speaker 1: to concerts. They still keep coming. So that's that's why
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Speaker 1: they don't want to go out and spend and get
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Speaker 1: them big boys.
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Speaker 4: Man, they they got the Monster. It's super cool. Everyone
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Speaker 4: wants to see the Monster, so all everyone wants to
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Speaker 4: be there for that. I mean, I played for the
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Speaker 4: Twins forever and it was always sold out when we
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Speaker 4: went there, and you know, like you know who's going
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Speaker 4: to the to the Tuesday game with the Red Sox
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Speaker 4: taking on the Minnesota Twins, and it was always packed.
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Speaker 4: So I'm going off of that. But but you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm not there every day. I never played for him.
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Speaker 4: Sadly is formally in the Twins this year. Centerfielder Chris Parmley.
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Speaker 1: Yes, centerfielder, that's what you're looking. That's what you want
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Speaker 1: to turn around and look at the center field when
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Speaker 1: you're pitching. What did you ask Scott, No, I was
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Speaker 1: just saying this this year did change.
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Speaker 3: The tendant started to take.
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Speaker 1: A starting to notice. But I'm saying ownership is like
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Speaker 1: it'll be fat.
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Speaker 3: Well compared to last year, compared to last year, but
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Speaker 3: our expectations have been lowered, which sucks. See what happens. Yes,
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Speaker 3: all right, we got Pap. Look at the company man,
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Speaker 3: How you doing, How you doing? Good to see you, Pap.
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Speaker 3: It's been a minute. You got a good crew here.
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Speaker 3: Today we're gonna be like serious and dive into these
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Speaker 3: Red Sox storylines. We're gonna all take turns and ask
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Speaker 3: our questions, right because fans want these previews that we're doing.
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Speaker 3: But before that, I mean, we gotta get to the
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Speaker 3: headliner and not bury the news. You think Aaron Judge
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Speaker 3: is gonna still have it in his head that he
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Speaker 3: had a rough postseason. I see your little quote tweet
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Speaker 3: that you did saying zero chance Judge is gonna take
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Speaker 3: his twenty four playoff struggles into twenty five with a
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Speaker 3: two ten average and three homers in the first month.
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Speaker 2: Book it.
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Speaker 3: And that was in response to yesterday Derek Lewandowski Kinstrict
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Speaker 3: Territory host Go check it out. Talking about Judge being
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Speaker 3: just fine and clearing his head your thoughts.
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Speaker 1: Pap.
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Speaker 2: Look, I mean, I love Derek. I think he's a
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Speaker 2: good guy. But you know, like here's the thing. At
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Speaker 2: the end of the day, all baseball players are mental, man,
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Speaker 2: they all are. We just we're just built that way, and.
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Speaker 1: We pressed.
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Speaker 2: I mean I've pressed, We've all pressed in certain times.
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Speaker 2: And I think that the pressing from what he showed
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Speaker 2: in the playoffs is gonna just continue. I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: could he go out and just you know, hit fifteen
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Speaker 2: and three twenty and you know slog eight hundred, Yes,
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Speaker 2: he could do that, But I just don't think the
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Speaker 2: possibility is there. I think he's gonna be going up
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Speaker 2: against much better pitching staffs in the Al East this year,
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Speaker 2: and I just, I honestly, I think the struggles continue.
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Speaker 2: I think he's gonna have to find find something else
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Speaker 2: that propels him. I know he's a regular season player,
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Speaker 2: but the first month to me is gonna be very interesting,
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Speaker 2: and I just I just don't see it happening.
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Speaker 1: Hey, and I want everybody to know papal Ban keeps
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Speaker 1: it real. Last year he put a million dollars down
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Speaker 1: on Twitter. He said it that junkie ball game, junk
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Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton was gonna hit under the twenty nine home
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Speaker 1: runs and he ended up twenty seven. So while he's
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Speaker 1: wearing a Nessen shirt, he's not just trolling. This guy
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Speaker 1: knows baseball. He watches the Al East just like he
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Speaker 1: watches that haircut man. You look you look sharp today, Pat,
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Speaker 1: you really thank you?
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Speaker 2: Just got this done from my ft uh my parents today. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, we love our friends, then I love that.
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Speaker 5: I want to ask you about the al least a
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Speaker 5: little bit too. Talking about Cratsy bringing it up Toronto
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Speaker 5: just got scherzer. I thought they did a really good
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Speaker 5: job of getting a couple guys in Alonso. I think
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Speaker 5: is on the radar, yes or no, we don't know.
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Speaker 5: Where would you rank this Al East? So for me,
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Speaker 5: I talked about it. I got a couple looks over here.
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Speaker 5: I got Toronto as the third best team going in
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Speaker 5: this season. Right now, I would love to hear what
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Speaker 5: you think about the Al East and where Boston and
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Speaker 5: the Yankees kind of you know, set up here and
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Speaker 5: with the other three teams behind them.
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Speaker 3: I'll just add a caveat save your Red Sox stuff though,
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Speaker 3: because we'll do storylines, but rest of Ale East and
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Speaker 3: then we'll dive into Boston.
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Speaker 1: Sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, as you well know the Al East throughout
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Speaker 2: the season, they tend to beat up on each other
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Speaker 2: a lot. So when you play other divisions and when
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Speaker 2: you play on the road, those those are very key.
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Speaker 2: So last year the Red Sox didn't do that well
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Speaker 2: at all, and I think that was one of their
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Speaker 2: biggest struggles, was not beating up the teams they were
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Speaker 2: supposed to beat up. But the Max Surge signing for
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Speaker 2: me phenomenal played with Shirs is a true leader. And
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Speaker 2: I don't care how old this guy is, he's gonna
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Speaker 2: go out there, he's gonna compete and if he's healthy,
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Speaker 2: he's gonna give the Toronto Blue Jays ten plus wins
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Speaker 2: this year. You can go ahead and book that too.
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Speaker 2: So to me, it's a matter of getting somebody in
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Speaker 2: to come and bolster that picture rotation, and Max Shurzer
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Speaker 2: is the perfect guy to do that. I think that
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Speaker 2: was a great sign by the Toronto Blue Jays. But
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Speaker 2: you're also gonna be looking at, you know, the Yankees,
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Speaker 2: who have also bolstered up their starting rotation. So to me,
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Speaker 2: it's this year in the American League East is gonna
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Speaker 2: be all about pitching. We're in the past two three
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Speaker 2: years it's been nothing about hitting, Judge hitting sixty, Stanton
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Speaker 2: hitting his, Devor's hitting his and Laddie getting his. So
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Speaker 2: to me, this year is gonna be all about pitching.
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Speaker 2: So I think the Red Sox realized that.
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Speaker 3: It's a good call and that's perfect way to start
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Speaker 3: up storylines. There's more arm talent in the division, so
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Speaker 3: let's hit the Red Sox twenty five storylines. Quick guide
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Speaker 3: on what we're going to talk about here. It's been
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Speaker 3: a minute a few years since the Red Sox made
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Speaker 3: the playoffs? Is this the year they crack it again?
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Speaker 3: What about the ETA for their top three prospects, Meyer,
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Speaker 3: Campbell and Anthony used to be four, but Teal got
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Speaker 3: traded away for Crochet. And with that we'll talk about
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Speaker 3: Crochet and Walker Bueller, along with Lucas Gilito returning some
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Speaker 3: time in twenty twenty five. And then closing time, what
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Speaker 3: are we thinking for the ninth inning? Kenley Jansen is gone,
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Speaker 3: Leam Hendricks, Robs Chapman, someone else, maybe some late move.
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Speaker 3: We'll see, all right, Pap, Let's start at the top
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Speaker 3: three years since the Red Sox made the postseason, is
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Speaker 3: this the year that they get back? And if yes, why,
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Speaker 3: if no, why.
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Speaker 2: Well yes, just strictly because of what they've been able
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Speaker 2: to do this offseason. Okay, they had to give the
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Speaker 2: fans meaning and give the fans something to come to
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Speaker 2: the parking cheer for, because the last three years have
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Speaker 2: been miserable. But to me, if they don't make the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: do you know what's gonna hit the fan and and
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Speaker 2: there's it's gonna be turmoil in Boston. There's no question
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Speaker 2: about it. But I do think they will make the
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Speaker 2: playoffs this year. Do I think they will win the division?
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Speaker 2: I'm not so sold on that yet. Give me a
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Speaker 2: month or two and then I could probably answer that better.
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Speaker 2: But to me, you're gonna you're gonna have possibly Now
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Speaker 2: now I'm going on a limit saying this a six
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Speaker 2: man rotation in Boston this year. So to me, not
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Speaker 2: only does that help bolster your bullpen, but it also
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Speaker 2: allows your starters like Tanner Howe, who's a young guy,
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Speaker 2: Crochet who's a young guy, to possibly pitch one hundred
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Speaker 2: and sixty innings. But those one hundred and sixty innings
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Speaker 2: are all A plus innings. You know, you're not getting
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Speaker 2: a beat up Crochet every day or a beat up
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Speaker 2: Hal who is second full year. So to me, that's very,
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Speaker 2: very key for them this year is to keep that
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Speaker 2: pitching staff and that pitching rotation healthy and if they do,
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Speaker 2: they will make the playoffs. And uh, you know you're
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Speaker 2: gonna have a little bit of mix up in the
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Speaker 2: lineup as well, and and we'll talk about that later,
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Speaker 2: but to me, you're gonna have opening Day, You're gonna
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Speaker 2: have a six man rotation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you said that because you're wearing your company man shirt.
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Speaker 1: I got I get what you I get where you're at.
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Speaker 1: I get where you're at. Don't don't you don't even
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Speaker 1: have to respond to it, because I want to know
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Speaker 1: what you think the ETA on the Big Three are
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Speaker 1: with Campbell and Meyer and I'm romani Anthony, what do
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Speaker 1: you think that et A is? Because I think that's
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Speaker 1: maybe what you're talking about with the lineup.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so, uh, Christian Campbe's gonna break camp and
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Speaker 2: start the second base this year. That's that's my first big,
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Speaker 2: my my first big of the Big Three, that's my
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Speaker 2: first one coming out. I believe opening day roster he
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Speaker 2: will be starting at second base. I think you're gonna
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Speaker 2: have Duranton left field. You can have Story at shortstop,
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Speaker 2: Devon's Batten third at third base, Coasses fourth or Brave
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Speaker 2: and right field. Yoshida is gonna d h But my
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Speaker 2: senses say that by the time the season is over, Yo,
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Speaker 2: Shea won't even be with the Red Sox, won't catching
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Speaker 2: Campbell playing second baton eighth and my m VP candidate
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Speaker 2: Fayella playing center field.
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Speaker 5: That's incredible. Good for you that. Now let's go. Let's
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Speaker 5: get back to the pitching here. I mean they boosted
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Speaker 5: it with with Crochets. We talked about Bull Buehler and
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Speaker 5: now we got Giolito coming back here. Is this enough?
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Speaker 1: I mean?
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Speaker 2: Or is that?
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Speaker 5: Is this gonna be the staff of old now getting
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Speaker 5: after it for the Boston Red Sox.
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Speaker 2: Well phrase, you know, I think that it's enough. But
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Speaker 2: here's the thing is, you're gonna Walker Buehler is gonna
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Speaker 2: have to come into Finway and prove that he can
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Speaker 2: pitch there and pitch to right field and be able
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Speaker 2: to command his fastball down in the way to right
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Speaker 2: handed hitters and be able to throw inside the left
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Speaker 2: handed hitters. But Geolito for me, is the biggest key
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Speaker 2: in this entire equation. If Geolito could come back to
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Speaker 2: the form he was when he was with the White Sox,
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Speaker 2: I believe this pitching rotation has a chance to be
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Speaker 2: the one of the best ones in the Al East,
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Speaker 2: if not the big leagues.
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Speaker 3: Dang wow, we love to hear it, Trevor. You know
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Speaker 3: a thing or two you want to comment on that
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Speaker 3: before you get to your question.
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Speaker 4: I agree with that, fol I agree with that fully.
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Speaker 4: With the with the starting pitching, I think they got
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Speaker 4: all that tons of high ceilings. It's just guys with injuries, right,
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Speaker 4: and the bullpen's the same way. So we have no
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Speaker 4: Kenley Jensen, Raldas Chatman, a new acquisition, We've got Hendricks
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Speaker 4: coming back and being healthy hopefully, a lot of dudes
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Speaker 4: with high ceilings. Who's gonna close for this game, who's
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Speaker 4: gonna or for this team? Who's gonna throw the back
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Speaker 4: into the bullpen? And if it's not one of those
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Speaker 4: two guys, is there a young buck in that bullpen?
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Speaker 4: We're not thinking about that. You think you know you're
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Speaker 4: the you're the you're the expert on closing. You think
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Speaker 4: there's a young guy who could do it.
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Speaker 2: So that's a great point, Treil. But you know, for
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Speaker 2: me right now, opening day closer is gonna be Erouls.
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Speaker 2: You paid him to be your closer. He's gonna be
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Speaker 2: your closer. Liam's gonna set up him. And then you
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Speaker 2: also you've got My biggest sleeper is a guy named
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Speaker 2: Zach Kelly. He's got to wipe out slider throws ninety
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Speaker 2: seven to ninety eight, but he can't command the baseball.
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Speaker 2: I talked to him a thousand times when I go
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Speaker 2: up there about how to command the baseball and not
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Speaker 2: necessarily throw your two seams so much to where it
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Speaker 2: runs out of the zone. But anyway, and then you
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Speaker 2: got just slatin. So for me, the best part about
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Speaker 2: it is when you go into a season and you
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Speaker 2: have two guys in your bullpen that have closed before.
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Speaker 2: When one gets in a slump, you just insert the
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Speaker 2: other guy and you give the other guy to get
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Speaker 2: a chance to get out of his slump. And so
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Speaker 2: to me, I think there's reinforcements in his bullpen. Is
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Speaker 2: it gonna be a great bullpen? No, it's not gonna
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Speaker 2: be a great bullpen, but it's gonna be good enough
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Speaker 2: to help the six man staff and the six man
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Speaker 2: rotation that I was telling you about earlier. Now, if
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Speaker 2: the rest socks are in it by say trade deadline,
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Speaker 2: my opinion, they're gonna have to go out and get
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Speaker 2: one or two more guys to bolter the bullpen because
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Speaker 2: you know as well as I do, come playoff time,
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Speaker 2: everybody needs bullpen help. So as of right now, that's
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Speaker 2: the way I see it.
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Speaker 1: How do you sit there and you said, Okay, Chapman's paid,
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Speaker 1: Liam's a closer. How do you address that if you're
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Speaker 1: Alex Korra, who I know has the hitters, I mean
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Speaker 1: as the players. You know, he's a players manager. He's
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Speaker 1: good communication, But how do you address that, like, hey, Liam, sorry, dog,
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Speaker 1: you're not closing well.
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Speaker 2: Alex Corp, in my opinion, as a teammate when I
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Speaker 2: played with him in Boston and now as a coach,
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Speaker 2: has an uncanny ability to be able to communicate not
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Speaker 2: only to teammates but his players as well. So they're
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Speaker 2: going to go into this season and they're gonna have
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Speaker 2: set identified roles. And to me, when you go into
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Speaker 2: a season and everybody on your team, especially in your bullpen,
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Speaker 2: has set identified roles. It makes it easier to go
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Speaker 2: out there to prepare for your role. It makes it
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Speaker 2: easier to go out there and be successful. So there's
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Speaker 2: no chance Alex Corp Is not going to have every
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Speaker 2: single player in that bullpen or on that staff or
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Speaker 2: in the lineup knowing exactly what they do. Man, I'm
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Speaker 2: telling you, this guy thinks like three days ahead of time,
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Speaker 2: like you could go on a flight to Seattle and buy,
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Speaker 2: you know, the third game. He's already got prepared. Who's
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Speaker 2: going to play the third game of that series? So
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Speaker 2: to me, communication is gonna be key. But you know,
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Speaker 2: as you will know, Krat some guys may like it,
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Speaker 2: some guys may not. If you don't you know where
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Speaker 2: to go. So to me, if you want to be
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Speaker 2: a part of a winning equation and a winning team,
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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to be able to accept your role
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Speaker 2: and go out there and produce. So I don't I
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Speaker 2: don't think Hendrix is. You know what I know of him,
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Speaker 2: and the many times have I spoken to him, he's
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Speaker 2: ready to come back and play, and he's ready to
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Speaker 2: come back and be a big part of something. And
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Speaker 2: if he's not the closer. I don't think he's gonna
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Speaker 2: be one of these guys that are gonna pout and say,
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Speaker 2: oh damn, I should be closing, you know. I think
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Speaker 2: he's gonna come step right in, And who knows, if
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Speaker 2: he comes in and starts on fire, he may take
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Speaker 2: that job, and if Chapman isn't. But that's the beauty
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Speaker 2: of having two closers in your bullpen.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I want to relate it to a current situation
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Speaker 3: we just learned more about, and now it's not current
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Speaker 3: since they traded him away. What was your take on
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Speaker 3: Ryan Presley having a fractured relationship with the Astros organization.
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Speaker 3: It sounded like including their GM and manager when they
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Speaker 3: acquired Josh Hater. Obviously, this is a different case. Presley
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Speaker 3: was somewhat of even you could call him close to
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Speaker 3: legend status, and the way that he was dominating the
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Speaker 3: playoffs for them helped them win World Series. But then
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Speaker 3: Haters the shiny new toy in the market. They probably
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Speaker 3: told him he could close. So I mean, you can
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Speaker 3: relate it to what we're talking about now, But what
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Speaker 3: do you think because we talked about this yesterday and
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Speaker 3: I was like, how do the astros not do what
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Speaker 3: they do, Like, what are they supposed to tell him, like, hey,
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Speaker 3: we're not going to pick him up, and we're just
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Speaker 3: gonna have one less elite arm on the club.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and I've been through that situation. I've
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Speaker 2: had my job taken, and I've taken jobs of closers.
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Speaker 2: I've had everyone from Bobby Jinks to your new Hall
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Speaker 2: of Famer Billy Wagner come and pitch with me in
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Speaker 2: the bullpen, and I think it all. Look, we all
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Speaker 2: have egos, we all want to be the best, and
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Speaker 2: you're dealing with some of the best, So to me,
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Speaker 2: you gotta be able to put that ego aside. And
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be the same type of situation with Hendrickson
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Speaker 2: and Chapman. So you know, that's a tough situation for
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Speaker 2: him because he has done done so much for the
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Speaker 2: organization and then it kind of seems like we're just
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Speaker 2: gonna throw you to the wolves now. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I think that's a part of him where he's got
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Speaker 2: to sit there and say, hey, you know what, I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna prove you wrong.
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Speaker 4: I like it.
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Speaker 1: Uh, I didn't even know yees, sorry, I got one more.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that you played with Billy. Anything you
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Speaker 1: got on the dude's a Hall of Famer? What do
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Speaker 1: you got them? Because that was his second to last season,
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Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong.
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Speaker 3: La last time, last oh seconds, the big, big chance
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Speaker 3: to make the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, what do you what do you what
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Speaker 1: do you got? What do you got them? Billy Wagner.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we've had anybody else talking about about
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Speaker 1: him yet.
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Speaker 2: So Wagon's was great. So I've had everyone from you know,
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Speaker 2: Bobby James to Eric Ganye to Billy Wagner all pitched
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Speaker 2: before me and set me up. And then I've set
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Speaker 2: up uh Melanson and other guys as my career ended.
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Speaker 2: But the one thing that I loved about Billy is
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Speaker 2: before we signed Billy, Billy called me and I, you know,
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Speaker 2: I didn't recognize the number, so I didn't answer it.
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Speaker 2: Then I get a text it says, hey, Pat, it
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Speaker 2: is Billy. If you don't answer my phone call, I'm coming.
18:38
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come whoop your butt. So of course, I,
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Speaker 2: you know, I answered the phone call. The next time
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Speaker 2: he calls and he says to me, he says, Pat, listen,
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Speaker 2: this is the deal. I came here to win a championship,
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Speaker 2: and whatever I have to do to help us win,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. I'm not here to take a job.
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Speaker 2: I'm here to pitch. When I pitched, and I said
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Speaker 2: the same thing back to him and Eric Ganne. And
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Speaker 2: you know, Eric Gannie got killed when he got came
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Speaker 2: to Boston and I had to really kind of tell
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Speaker 2: the fans to chill out on him. In fact, one
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Speaker 2: day he had a beer full of beer thrown at
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Speaker 2: him by a fan. But anyway, at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, Billy Wagner, to me, taught me so much
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Speaker 2: about who you are as a player and man. Like
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Speaker 2: his work ethic. Wow, it was incredible, you know, even
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Speaker 2: at his age. And so I love playing with Billy.
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Speaker 3: That's cool. Well, yeah, I've been a big fan for years.
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Speaker 3: A lot of us were getting him in the hall,
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Speaker 3: so I forgot.
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Speaker 1: Cool that he got. He was a Red Sox little
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Speaker 1: in paper. You are, you're you're just connecting, you're connecting errors.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevin Bacon, what do you call that? Six degrees?
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Speaker 2: And what is it called?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, six degrees that's the temperature that Scott eaton stakes.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'll take that as a compliment Pap, good talking
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Speaker 3: you man. Thanks for the time. We'll see you soon,
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Speaker 3: all right.
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Speaker 2: All right, fair, you'll be good. We'll see you the season.
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