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Fair Territory: Best Brewers, Roman Anthony's $$$, Naylor/Suárez mash · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Thursday episode of
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Speaker 1: A Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. Do not adjust your screens.
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal is finally taking a few days off to
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Speaker 1: reflect on his life choices. I am your host for
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Speaker 1: the day, Alana Rizzo, joined by Robert Murray, MLB insider
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Speaker 1: for Fan Sided. Obviously great to have Robert with us.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being here, Thank you for doing this
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Speaker 1: for us. Looking forward to a good day. Because there's
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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about, Robert, Let's get right to
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Speaker 1: it and start with the lead.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, the Roman Anthony extension here with the Boston
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Speaker 2: Red Sox sent shockwaves throughout baseball because it was not
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Speaker 2: something that anybody really anticipated. There were some conversations early
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Speaker 2: on in the off season, but as soon as the
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Speaker 2: trade deadline ended up getting done, the Boston Red Sox
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Speaker 2: were very aggressive in trying to get Roman Anthony extended.
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Speaker 2: And from what I gather from start to finish it
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Speaker 2: may have taken about forty eight hours. And by keeping
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Speaker 2: Roman Anthony in Boston long term, this was a huge
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Speaker 2: move for the Red Sox and for Roman Anthony as well.
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Speaker 2: And for the Red Sox it gets Anthony, who's one
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Speaker 2: of the top young players in Boston long term one
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million, which could end up being a
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Speaker 2: huge steal in the long run. And for Anthony, it
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Speaker 2: gets him in Boston for at least eight seasons, perhaps
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Speaker 2: nine with a club option for all sides. It's a
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Speaker 2: good move. I know there's some controversy and some people
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Speaker 2: who think it maybe wasn't like the best move for Anthony,
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Speaker 2: but you can't fault the gap for taking one hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty million.
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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely not. I also want to welcome our new
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Speaker 1: friends watching on NBC Sports in Philadelphia, the Bay Area
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Speaker 1: as well as California and Robert. You bring up a
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Speaker 1: really good point. Now. Some folks are saying, why would
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Speaker 1: Roman Anthony do this. He's just twenty one years old,
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Speaker 1: He's leaving money on the table. He is expected to
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Speaker 1: be one of the big superstars of the game. But
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Speaker 1: you know what he said, yes, and I guarantee you
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just him making this decision. I know, having
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Speaker 1: been at Fenway this week and listening to what everything
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Speaker 1: was going on with Roman Anthony. He talked about it
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Speaker 1: with his family, he talked about it with his agents
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Speaker 1: and this is a place that he made clear he
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Speaker 1: wanted to play for a long time. What do you
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Speaker 1: make of what he was saying in his press conference.
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Speaker 2: No, it's by taking this deal. It's very clear that
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Speaker 2: he wanted to be in Boston if he if he
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Speaker 2: had waited, he may have gotten three, four, maybe even
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Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars. And that's that's a projection for sure.
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Speaker 2: But it's also a good projection considering just how good
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Speaker 2: and talented he is and how highly tauted he was
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Speaker 2: coming through the miners. But figure, you're twenty one years old,
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Speaker 2: you have one hundred and thirty million dollars thrown at you,
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Speaker 2: You're in the town that you want to play in,
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Speaker 2: and I mean, that's just a situation that's too good
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Speaker 2: to pass up, if you're Anthony, or if you're any player.
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Speaker 2: We even saw Jackson Merril do it, we saw Corman
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Speaker 2: Carroll do it. There's been other players who have done it. Anthony,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't blame him at all. I know
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Speaker 2: there's some people in the background and around baseball where
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Speaker 2: questioning why he took it, But he took it for
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Speaker 2: all the right reasons, because he wanted to be in Boston,
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Speaker 2: and I can never fault the guy for that, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, So let me ask you this. Do you think
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Speaker 1: the age is a factor in this, Robert, Because he's
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Speaker 1: only twenty one years old, and when he does end
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Speaker 1: this contract, even if the club picks up the option,
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Speaker 1: he's still entering a free agent period at around thirty
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Speaker 1: years old. It's not as if he's going to be
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Speaker 1: thirty six when he's able to go to another team.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that has to play a factor into it
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Speaker 1: as well. I would imagine.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it totally does, and as it should. I mean,
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Speaker 2: from his age twenty one to the thirty seasons, he's
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Speaker 2: going to make a hundred the thirty million obviously it
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Speaker 2: bought out some free agent years, and maybe that could
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Speaker 2: cost him some money then, but he's still going to
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Speaker 2: be in a position where he can land a maybe
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Speaker 2: ten plus year contract, could end up getting three four
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Speaker 2: hundred million dollars. So by the time it's all said
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Speaker 2: and done, he could be in a position to really
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Speaker 2: maximize his value and get maybe five hundred plus million
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Speaker 2: throughout his entire career. So even though he may have
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Speaker 2: left some money on the table now, he's going to
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Speaker 2: be able to make it up in the future for sure.
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Speaker 2: So for him, for his family, they're in a very
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Speaker 2: good spot to be set for life. I mean, shoot,
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Speaker 2: is even his great great great grandkids could end up
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Speaker 2: being several life But no, it's a great deal and
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Speaker 2: it sets them up for future success in earnings as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Roman Anthony is gonna get paid and make no
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Speaker 1: mistake about that. Okay, Robert, switching our focus now to
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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers. I'm not certain entering the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five season if either one of us would have thought
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Speaker 1: that the brew Crew would be the first team to
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Speaker 1: reach seventy wins on the season. Are you buying what
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Speaker 1: they're selling?
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Speaker 2: Oh? I'm totally buying, And how could you not? With
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Speaker 2: Pat Murphy, I mean, Murphy is he is such a
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Speaker 2: common presence. He's intimidating for sure, Like if you're around him,
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Speaker 2: like you can you can sense he's like a grizzly bear,
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Speaker 2: but he's also a teddy bear at the same time,
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Speaker 2: And he cares about his guys so much and he
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Speaker 2: has them believing and that ross feels like exactly like
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Speaker 2: what Pat Murphy is. He's hard nosed, he's aggressive, and
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Speaker 2: he just he plays the game. That entire team plays
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Speaker 2: the game the right way, and we even saw throughout
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Speaker 2: this entire wind streak and throughout this entire stretch they've
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Speaker 2: been by far the best team in baseball. They're putting
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Speaker 2: up runs, they're pitching really well, they're playing great defense
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Speaker 2: as well. Throughout the stretch. Their last win streak here,
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Speaker 2: they haven't had any errors on defense, so they're just
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Speaker 2: playing really good, fundamental baseball. I think they're here to stay,
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Speaker 2: and to me, they may not have the payroll of
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers or the trade deadline of the Padres, but
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Speaker 2: there's still a really freaking good baseball team. So I'm
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Speaker 2: absolutely buying everything that's that's going on with the Brewers
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Speaker 2: right now, and I would not be surprised by the
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Speaker 2: time it's all said and done if they actually represent
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Speaker 2: the National League in the World Series.
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Speaker 1: Wow, the whole thing, HU, Why do you have so
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Speaker 1: much confidence in Milwaukee being the pennant winner in the
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Speaker 1: National League.
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Speaker 2: That you look at their pitching. Their pitching has been
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Speaker 2: their foundation throughout, I mean to shoot, the last five
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Speaker 2: ten years, and now they have offense as well. They
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Speaker 2: have Jackson Curio, Christian Yelich, Isaac Collins South Freelick is there.
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Speaker 2: They have, I mean, so many young pieces on that
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Speaker 2: team who were just emerging and playing really good, like
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Speaker 2: as I said, fundamental baseball. And their bullpen is very
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Speaker 2: good as well, even after trading Devin Williams, even after
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Speaker 2: trading Josh Hater a couple of years ago, and they
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Speaker 2: added Shelby Miller at the trade DeLine, and that was
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Speaker 2: one that actually I was able to drop about twenty
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Speaker 2: five or so minutes after the trade deadline, and they
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Speaker 2: only gave up a player to be named later cash
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Speaker 2: in the deal, and it just it felt like a
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Speaker 2: classic Brewers move. Well, actually maybe not classic Brewers move
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Speaker 2: because they added Salary and Jeordan Montgomery, but a under
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Speaker 2: the radar arm even when that wasn't the most pressing
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Speaker 2: need for him. He's going to be debuting in the
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Speaker 2: next couple of days. I think it was a great
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Speaker 2: move by Milwaukee and it strengthened what was already a
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Speaker 2: really good unit for them. So I think they have
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Speaker 2: all the ingredients, especially them on defense as well, to
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Speaker 2: just be a force in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, going back and forth with the Chicago Cubs and
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Speaker 1: then NL Central, changing our focus now to the AL
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Speaker 1: West and the Seattle Mariners. Everybody arguing perhaps that the
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Speaker 1: Mariners did the best job at the deadline, getting not
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Speaker 1: only a U HENNYO Suarez, but also getting Josh Naylor,
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Speaker 1: and Naylor seems to like playing there because he's raking.
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Speaker 1: What do you make of what Seattle did at the
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Speaker 1: deadline and are they for real in the AL West
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Speaker 1: perhaps to win that division against the Astros.
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Speaker 2: I think they're also I'm on the on the hype
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Speaker 2: train this morning, but I'm also thinking they're legit. They
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Speaker 2: added Josh Naylorano Suarez and they all they almost got
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Speaker 2: Joean Duran and there was at one point that morning
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Speaker 2: that he was traded that I thought he was going
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Speaker 2: to be in Seattle, but they ended up getting the
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Speaker 2: two sluggers, and both of them have been very good
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Speaker 2: since coming to Seattle, and Naylor has provided it with power,
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Speaker 2: but he's also doing it with stolen bases as well.
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Speaker 2: From the from the I'm spotting the lineup, so everything
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Speaker 2: that they could have hoped for so far has been
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Speaker 2: reality with both of those players. But I don't think
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Speaker 2: anybody necessarily expected Naylor to go ten for ten and
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Speaker 2: stolen basis since going to Seattle. It's a stroke of
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Speaker 2: genius by Jerry Depoto, and it's something that I've said repeatedly.
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Speaker 2: I've said it on Fall Territory a bunch that the Mariners,
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Speaker 2: they have such a talented team that it only made
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Speaker 2: sense for them to go all in at the deadline
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Speaker 2: or even in the off season because I wanted to
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Speaker 2: design Pete Alonzo. Obviously that didn't happen, but I got
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Speaker 2: to give them credit where credits due. They actually went
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Speaker 2: all in, didn't sacrifice the future as well, and their
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Speaker 2: chances of advancing into the World Series this year are
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Speaker 2: about as good as they've ever been.
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Speaker 1: Do you think they have enough offense to hold off
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Speaker 1: the likes of the New York Yankees, who I am
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Speaker 1: very well aware or struggling right now, but the New
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Speaker 1: York Yankees, the Cleveland Guardians who are still in the mix,
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Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers that are still a part of the conversation.
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Speaker 1: Do the Ems have enough?
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Speaker 2: I think they do. I just need to see him
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Speaker 2: actually do it in order to believe it, because it's
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Speaker 2: it's one thing to do it in the regular season,
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Speaker 2: but doing it in the postseason is a whole other
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Speaker 2: beast And they haven't proven that they've They've been able
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Speaker 2: to do that in recent years, but this year it
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Speaker 2: feels like it's they're set up to be different and
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Speaker 2: adding Suarez and adding Naylor provides veteran leadership, and they're
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Speaker 2: they're talking about Naylor being a being one of the
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Speaker 2: better leaders that they've seen in the clubhouse, even since
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Speaker 2: Corey Seger. There was a Mariners reporter who ended up
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Speaker 2: mentioning that yesterday. I thought it was a really astute
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Speaker 2: point by them. But to me, they're they're in very
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Speaker 2: good shape. I'm not rolling out Texas by any means,
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Speaker 2: because they got better at the deadline. They added Merrill Kelly. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: they have de Gram, But the most underrated pitcher in
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Speaker 2: baseball who is not getting enough national recognition is Nathan Yavaldi.
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Speaker 2: He has been phenomenal for them this year. He's got
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Speaker 2: an era I believe in the ones and he's just
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Speaker 2: been been remarkable for them. So the Rangers feel like
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Speaker 2: the scary team. The Yankees are still scary for sure,
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Speaker 2: but this latest stretch for them has been wondering how
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Speaker 2: far exactly they get to the postseason, if they even
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Speaker 2: make it at all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had that question. Yesterday over on Nissan on
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Speaker 1: Unobstructed Views, we were talking about how many teams in
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Speaker 1: the American League East actually make the postseason. So let
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Speaker 1: me ask you this, do you think well, I'll ask
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Speaker 1: you how many teams in the AL East make the
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Speaker 1: postseason and how many teams in the AL West make
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Speaker 1: it into the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: So it's a great question, and I'm pulling up the
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Speaker 2: standings right now, so I'll make sure I don't forget anybody.
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Speaker 2: The Blue Jays to me, I think they absolutely make
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Speaker 2: it for sure. The Red Sox to me, they're in
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Speaker 2: a position to make it as well. And the vibes
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Speaker 2: are in Boston are just very good, especially after extending
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Speaker 2: Roman Anthony. The vibes before that were good, but now
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Speaker 2: that they got Anthony in town and signed long term,
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Speaker 2: the vibes there are great. I'm going I'm gonna leave
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Speaker 2: it at that as of this point. Maybe it's an
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Speaker 2: overreaction to their latest stretch, but I don't think that
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Speaker 2: the Yankees are gonna end up making the postseason. That's
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Speaker 2: kind of my hot take for right now. So if
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Speaker 2: I'm wrong, people can clip this and expose me, which
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Speaker 2: I would deserve. That for sure. But going to the
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Speaker 2: Ale West, I have the Astros making it, I have
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Speaker 2: the Maritors making it, and I somehow have the Rangers
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Speaker 2: squeaking in even after their early season struggles. So I
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Speaker 2: think we see more teams out of the Al West
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Speaker 2: than we do the Ale East.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I do agree with you. On the Al East.
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Speaker 1: I think it's the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston
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Speaker 1: Red Sox. I don't think the Yankees make it, and
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Speaker 1: I think there's two also in the Al West, the
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Speaker 1: Astros and the M's all right. Much more to come
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Speaker 1: with Robert Murray here on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get those questions in. We're doing grilling
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Speaker 1: and Robert. Of course we're talking with Robert Murray, MLB
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Speaker 1: insider of Fan Sided. Robert, we have a couple of
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Speaker 1: questions before we get to our folks on the YouTube chat.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you what this is like. I mean,
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Speaker 1: being an MLB insider is not an easy job. It's
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Speaker 1: not for the week. So tell me a bit about
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Speaker 1: your trade deadline recovery program. How you feeling?
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Speaker 2: You know, if you would have asked me that question
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Speaker 2: about three days ago, I could barely speak. I was
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Speaker 2: I was mentally exhausted. I was in Chicago and usually
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Speaker 2: you're out doing different things, and I was in bed
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Speaker 2: by about seven o'clock, So that was. That was pretty
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Speaker 2: pathetic of me. But now I'm starting to feel a
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Speaker 2: lot better. The recovery has just been trying to stay
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Speaker 2: off my phone as much as possible because my social
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Speaker 2: battery was at about a zero. Because my days throughout
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Speaker 2: the trade deadline typically start around four am and got
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Speaker 2: done around eleven or twelve pm, so long days for sure,
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Speaker 2: but staying off my phone, trying to cuddle with my dog, Cooper,
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Speaker 2: who is showing behind me right now. I mean, you
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Speaker 2: got to give Cooper a shout on the show, but
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Speaker 2: that was He's been an absolute hero throughout this entire stretch.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Cooper, my guy. Love dogs, Love Cooper. Okay, let
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Speaker 1: me ask you this. This is a question from our
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Speaker 1: chat on YouTube. Thanks for being here, you guys always appreciate.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Rothenberg wants to know question for you and I
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Speaker 1: do you think any interim managers will stay on for
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Speaker 1: next year? If not? Who were the top manager candidates
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Speaker 1: Who's going to get rewarded?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any interim managers who end
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Speaker 2: up staying in place this year, maybe in Washington, but
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm going to try to branch out a
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Speaker 2: little bit here. The obvious one is Skip Schumacher, and
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Speaker 2: he is going to be the top candidate for so
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Speaker 2: many different teams throughout the league. And when he left
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Speaker 2: Miami he was asked about plenty like behind the scenes
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Speaker 2: with me, people were wondering where he could end up
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Speaker 2: going or what his future may end up looking like.
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Speaker 2: He's in Texas now. I don't expect it to be
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Speaker 2: a very long stay in Texas unless he ends up
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Speaker 2: replacing Bruce Bochie down the line. But he stands out
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Speaker 2: to me almost immediately. I'm going to go under the
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Speaker 2: radar candidate here, and this is going back to my
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Speaker 2: ties with the Milwaukee Brewers, but I would go with
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Speaker 2: Walker mckinvin. He's the current bench coach of the Chicago
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Speaker 2: White Socks. He is as respected of a coach or
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Speaker 2: just a baseball person as I've been around in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: And he's smart, he's analytical, former player in college. He's
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Speaker 2: somebody who I'm I'm definitely keeping an eye on for sure.
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Speaker 2: And the last one would be would be Walt Weiss.
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Speaker 2: I could see him being a candidate in Atlanta should
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Speaker 2: Brian Snicker end up retiring at the end of the
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Speaker 2: year as expected. So those are the three names that
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Speaker 2: I'm keeping an eye on both now.
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Speaker 1: In long term. Yeah. Well, Weiss has had managerial experience
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Speaker 1: obviously with the Colorado Rockies, longtime baseball man. All right,
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Speaker 1: our focus is now on the New York Yankees. We
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Speaker 1: cannot make it through a show without talking about the
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Speaker 1: pin Stripers. They are struggling. Zach Ge wants to know
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Speaker 1: from you, Robert, do the Yankees have an Aaron Boone
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Speaker 1: problem or a player problem? Devin Williams was chosen to
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Speaker 1: pitch Game one and two in Texas and handed the
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Speaker 1: win to the Rangers both games. That is zach GE's opinion.
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Speaker 1: Is it a managerial issue or is it a player issue.
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Speaker 2: It's a good question, Zach Gie, and I wonder if
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Speaker 2: it could end up actually being like an organizational issue,
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Speaker 2: because you see just the overall mistakes that they make.
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Speaker 2: They I talked before about the Brewers and just how
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Speaker 2: fundamental they are on the baseball field and just how
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Speaker 2: well they play the Yankees make so many mistakes on
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Speaker 2: the on the on the field that it just makes
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Speaker 2: you wonder what exactly that they're being taught in the
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Speaker 2: minors or or just in general. So I can see
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Speaker 2: it being an organizational issue, but I also think it's
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Speaker 2: also a managerial issue issue as well, and clearly something
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Speaker 2: is not going right in New York. I don't think
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Speaker 2: they're going to end up making a change anytime sooner,
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Speaker 2: like during the season. Year. If they make a change,
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Speaker 2: you would probably be after the season. But I don't
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Speaker 2: they They're about as patient of an organization as there
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Speaker 2: possibly is. But something has to change there, like whether
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Speaker 2: it's the way they're teaching the players, the message to
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Speaker 2: the players, or just whatever they have to do. Something
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Speaker 2: needs to change. And that absolutely stems with with Aaron
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Speaker 2: Boone because Brian Cashman's handed him very good roster.
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Speaker 1: Sticking along the lines, the topic of managers is Pat
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Speaker 1: Murphy the man to beat as far as n EL
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Speaker 1: manager of the year. If it's not Pat and his pancakes,
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Speaker 1: who is it?
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Speaker 2: I mean, how can you turn on a pancake man
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Speaker 2: for this? Absolutely it's Pat Murphy. The job that he's
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Speaker 2: done in Milwaukee is remarkable, and they they were written
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Speaker 2: off going into the year after losing William Damas, after
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Speaker 2: losing Devin Williams. It felt like how we were talking
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Speaker 2: about them in previous years after they traded away some
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Speaker 2: of their best players, and yet time and time again
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Speaker 2: they've been able to just prove people wrong. And this
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Speaker 2: year has been their finst performance. And to me, Pat
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Speaker 2: Murphy is absolutely the favorite to win Manager of the Year.
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Speaker 2: He's deserving of it going back to back, and I
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Speaker 2: mean he's got competition in Miami because what the Marlins
17:51
Speaker 2: are doing in Clayton McCollough. The job that he's done
17:53
Speaker 2: there has been tremendous, but it's got to go to
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Speaker 2: Pat Murphy. I mean, who expected this deep into the
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Speaker 2: regular season for the Brewers to have the best record
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Speaker 2: in baseball? Not me, even though I did have them
18:03
Speaker 2: winning the division at least I think. I think that's
18:06
Speaker 2: something that I that I have, but no, it's just
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Speaker 2: incredibly impressive the job that he's done.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Pat Murphy's a lot of fun to be around too,
18:15
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, he's very stern, but he also
18:17
Speaker 1: has a very fun and playful side about him as well. Obviously,
18:21
Speaker 1: the guys like playing for him. He's probably the front
18:23
Speaker 1: runner as far as that category is concerned. All right, Max,
18:26
Speaker 1: what's up. Great to have you with us. What do
18:29
Speaker 1: you think the plan is for Reese Hoskins upon return
18:31
Speaker 1: from the IL, given King Vaughan's emergence for the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great question, Max, And for the Brewers,
18:40
Speaker 2: they got to figure that out. And something that I
18:43
Speaker 2: found out during the trade deadline is is they were
18:46
Speaker 2: looking for infielders and they were looking at Ryan O'Hearn.
18:49
Speaker 2: They were looking at Ehano Suarez. They were interested in
18:53
Speaker 2: both players and tried acquiring either one. Obviously didn't get either.
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Speaker 2: So I'm wondering what exactly it could end up meaning
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Speaker 2: for Hoskins. It's future in Milwaukee this year. I mean,
19:03
Speaker 2: I don't know how you end up keeping a gully
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Speaker 2: Andrew Vaughn out of the lot. The job that he's
19:08
Speaker 2: done is just incredible. Hoskins is obviously a very talented player,
19:12
Speaker 2: but if I'm Milwaukee, you got to ride the hot
19:16
Speaker 2: hand and you got to keep Vaughn in there, and
19:18
Speaker 2: that could end up meeting a lesser role for a
19:20
Speaker 2: Galy Hoskins, or even moving them to a DH spot
19:23
Speaker 2: or something along those lines. But you have to end
19:25
Speaker 2: up keeping Vaughn in the lineup for sure.
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Speaker 1: All right, Robert, this is where you and I get
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Speaker 1: to give props, give our flowers, give praise to a person,
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Speaker 1: a person's an organization that is doing something good. Who
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Speaker 1: is your dude of the week.
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Speaker 2: I mean, how could it not be a J. Prazinski
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Speaker 2: and of being Hall of pretty good? I believe that's
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Speaker 2: what he's what he got elected to. I mean, does
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Speaker 2: it get absolutely better than that? To me, that's better
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Speaker 2: than being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Ah good,
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Speaker 2: you gotta make AJ feel pretty good on this show.
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Speaker 2: But the that along with his speech that he ended
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Speaker 2: up having, I mean, that's as good as it gets.
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Speaker 2: So major props to AJ. If you haven't had a
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Speaker 2: chance go watch a speech which I believe is on
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Speaker 2: the Fall Territory Twitter account, So props to him.
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Speaker 1: But what about you, Yeah, Aj Pierzinsky, we love you.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations on being in the Hall of pretty good. You
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Speaker 1: got you gotta love it, my dude, to the week
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Speaker 1: is an organization, it's actually both sides of the equation, Robert.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give props to Craig Breslo, the Boston
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Speaker 1: Red Sox front office team, their ownership group, and Roman
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Speaker 1: Anthony and his team for coming together on what was
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Speaker 1: a very tight lipped but very quick deal to extend
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Speaker 1: the Roman Empire for the foreseeable future at Fenway and
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Speaker 1: with the Boston Red Sox. This is a kid, obviously
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Speaker 1: that is going to likely be a superstar, right He
22:16
Speaker 1: just assigned an eight year extension. I believe one hundred
22:19
Speaker 1: and thirty million could have waited, could have forced it
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Speaker 1: into you know, arbitration, free agency, all those types of things,
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Speaker 1: but knew he wanted to be in Boston. And good
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Speaker 1: for Craig Breslo and the Red Sox for realizing that
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Speaker 1: they needed to lock up one of their young stars
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Speaker 1: and maybe atone for the sins if you will of
22:38
Speaker 1: letting the likes of the Mookie Bets type go, you know,
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Speaker 1: getting rid of devors, which I understand that whole thing,
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Speaker 1: but maybe they're turning a page with how they're handling
22:48
Speaker 1: young stars. Now, the next order of business is to
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Speaker 1: sign Alex Bregman to a long term deal. I live
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Speaker 1: in the Boston area. Vibes are high. You mentioned that
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Speaker 1: people are feeling good. Let's get Briggie locked up. Congratulations
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Speaker 1: to Roman Anthony. Those guys are my dude of the week.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Time now for our dork of the week, Robert. This
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Speaker 1: is when we're like, what are these people doing? Who's
23:20
Speaker 1: your dork of the week.
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Speaker 2: We talked about how high the vibes were in Boston,
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Speaker 2: but you also you got to look at the New
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Speaker 2: York Yankees and their struggles end up being contributing to
23:29
Speaker 2: the high vibes in Boston. So I'm going with Brian
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Speaker 2: Cashman and Aaron Boone as the dark of the weeks
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Speaker 2: or dorks of the week. Cashman acquired three different bullpen
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Speaker 2: arms at the trade deadline, and Jake Byrd, after a
23:42
Speaker 2: couple outings, was immediately demoted to triple A. The rest
23:46
Speaker 2: of the relievers David Bednar struggled right away. Camillo d'vall
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Speaker 2: has struggled. So all three of the guys that they
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Speaker 2: targeted to have this Super bowlpen have struggled almost immediately.
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Speaker 2: So I absolutely have to have them as Dork the
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Speaker 2: Week because it just it feels right. I expect them
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Speaker 2: to bounce back at some point, but the struggles right
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Speaker 2: now with the Yankees are too much to ignore. So
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Speaker 2: Cashman and Boone, I'm sorry, but you are indeed the
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Speaker 2: dorks of the Week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are struggling, but at least they're not the
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Speaker 1: Colorado Rockies. Robert, I tell you why the Rockies have
24:16
Speaker 1: a run deferential. Listen to this, and I'm this is
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Speaker 1: not a misspeak. They have a run differential of minus
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Speaker 1: three sixteen for the season. They're one hundred and fourteen games,
24:26
Speaker 1: are the fewest to reach a minus three hundred run
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Speaker 1: differential since nineteen hundred, surpassing the nineteen eleven Boston Braves
24:35
Speaker 1: Boston Rustlers. Rather with the one hundred and eighteen games.
24:38
Speaker 1: The last team to reach the mark and fewer games
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Speaker 1: was the eighteen ninety nine You weren't breaking news back then,
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Spiders. In seventy three games. The Colorado Rockies, I believe,
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Speaker 1: gave up sixty three runs over the course of their
24:53
Speaker 1: most recent series sixty three runs the Colorado Rockies. The
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Speaker 1: Monforts are my dorks of the week. Something with that
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Speaker 1: organization absolutely needs to change. It is unbelievably embarrassing. They're
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Speaker 1: not even a big league team. I do not fault
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Speaker 1: the players. This is not from a lack of effort
25:14
Speaker 1: for the players at all. I know that they want
25:16
Speaker 1: to win. It obviously wasn't Bud Black's fault because they're
25:19
Speaker 1: still not winning with their interim manager. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing,
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Speaker 1: and I'm sorry for the fans, and I'm sorry for
25:26
Speaker 1: the players. All Right, that is my dork of the week.
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Speaker 1: Much more here. If you're watching on TV, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We'll see you next time.
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Speaker 1: let's talk about Kyle Schwarber right now leading the league
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Speaker 1: in terms of the National League in home runs. This
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Speaker 1: guy's so much fun. I love this team. I love
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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber. How much fun is it to watch what
26:23
Speaker 1: he's been able to do. We know he's a banger,
26:26
Speaker 1: but he's easy to root for.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he totally is. And in my eyes, besides Shoe Otani,
26:33
Speaker 2: he's my favorite player in ball and schworbombs are absolutely electrics.
26:38
Speaker 2: He's thrived in Philadelphia, He's thrived in Boston, He's thrived
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Speaker 2: almost everywhere that he's been. I mean, he did so
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Speaker 2: in Chicago, but not to this level. And we're at
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Speaker 2: the point now where he absolutely belongs in the MVP conversation.
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Speaker 2: Do I expect him to win it? Like no, but
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Speaker 2: his name should absolutely be mentioned within like the top
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Speaker 2: five or even top three candidates for sure, And It
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Speaker 2: is setting up for what should be the one of
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Speaker 2: the most interesting free agencies of this entire offseason, and
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Speaker 2: Schwarber is going to have a huge market with I
27:09
Speaker 2: would expect Philly to be involved. Boston makes a lot
27:12
Speaker 2: of sense as well. And for a guy who was
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Speaker 2: once non tendered by the Chicago Cubs, he's probably going
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Speaker 2: to have five hundred home runs throughout his entire career.
27:21
Speaker 2: Is a very strong candidate for the Hall of Fame,
27:23
Speaker 2: especially the Hall of pretty Good. He's better than pretty good,
27:27
Speaker 2: but he is absolutely the most one of the more
27:30
Speaker 2: underrated players in ball and he should be rewarded for
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Speaker 2: this offseason.
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Speaker 1: All right, less than a minute to go in the show,
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Speaker 1: does Kyle Schwarber win the home run race in the
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Speaker 1: National League? And if so, who is it? If he's
27:42
Speaker 1: not it? And what about the American League?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it'll end up being Shorber in the
27:48
Speaker 2: National League. I'm not going to bet against Kyle Schwarber,
27:51
Speaker 2: especially leading the National League in home runs going into
27:53
Speaker 2: a free agent year, that to me is a pretty
27:56
Speaker 2: special deal. In the American League, I'm gonna I'm gonna
27:59
Speaker 2: bet on cal Rawley. I think he ends up doing it.
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Speaker 2: I know what Judge is as a Fears competitor, but
28:04
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with cal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty safe bet in the American lead. Robert,
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Speaker 1: thanks so much for pinch hitting today for me, and
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Speaker 1: thanks for letting us pick your brain a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal will be back next week. I think I'm
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Speaker 1: with you guys on Monday as well. Don't forget Foul
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