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What Luis Garcia Jr. means for the Nats as the deadline looms · District Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. I'm Eric Shellhouse
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  Speaker 1: from the Bat Boys, joining me Kevin Franzen to the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Nationals and Spencer does Bound from the Athletic that's
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  Speaker 1: had a thrilling two to one series victory over the
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  Speaker 1: Orioles over the course of the weekend. Sunday was a
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  Speaker 1: finale of final score of six to four, but Luis
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  Speaker 1: Garcia Junior just on fire of late, putting the Nationals
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  Speaker 1: up by a score of five to two with his
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  Speaker 1: first home run of the day. And there's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of confusion on the second one. You knew that
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  Speaker 1: ricochet when it hit the off the wall and right field, like,
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  Speaker 1: that can't be padding, That's got to be brick. I
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  Speaker 1: think all the Nats fans knew it was a home run.
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  Speaker 1: But Louis has been on an absolute tear of lately. Guys, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: what does this mean in the bigger picture with the
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  Speaker 1: deadline approaching and looming ahead?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it means a handful of things right
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  Speaker 2: first and foremost, if the Nationals do decide to keep
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  Speaker 2: Louis around. Has started to feel like the real version
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  Speaker 2: of Luis Garcia Junior and I know Franny can speak
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  Speaker 2: to this as well. Where and again, maybe some people
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  Speaker 2: would say the chase is down, but that's not really
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  Speaker 2: where I look. I look at the back to ball
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  Speaker 2: and I look at the swing speed on that, and
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  Speaker 2: those are kind of the two things that have really
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  Speaker 2: driven him here. Beyond that, it's honing in on certain zones.
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  Speaker 2: As I put up in that tweet, it's like he's
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  Speaker 2: swinging at more pitches towards the top of the zone
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  Speaker 2: or even above the zone and laying off oh as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to trying to cover the whole zone and not
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  Speaker 2: really having a honed in approach. And yeah, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about the deadline stuff maybe once we get through
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  Speaker 2: the Louis part of this. But I just think what
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  Speaker 2: he's done feels sustainable. Where he has an eight fifty
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  Speaker 2: ops right now, I'm not banking on that for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the year, but I don't know for any
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  Speaker 2: I think it could start with an eight for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the year. I'm curious kind of what your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts are there.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So, I I've there's a lot in this. Uh
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  Speaker 3: I believe one this is real. I've been saying for
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  Speaker 3: years and getting crushed by Nats fans for saying it's
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  Speaker 3: okay to chase out the zone up top fans are
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  Speaker 3: telling me you don't chase out the jones. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you do. Actually, as a baseball player, you're a human.
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  Speaker 3: You're not a robot. Like there's one robot that we
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  Speaker 3: have in our game, and that's one right, like just
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  Speaker 3: doesn't chase And it's okay, But you gotta know where
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  Speaker 3: to chase. You gotta Like golfers, you hear them talk
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  Speaker 3: to their caddy all the time and it's like, know
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  Speaker 3: the we're the miss is, where's the same spot. So
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  Speaker 3: if you're gonna if you're gonna miss, if you're gonna chase,
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  Speaker 3: in this case, where do you want him to chase?
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  Speaker 3: It's up And we're starting to see that more and
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  Speaker 3: more out of him, the lesser contact right down downstairs,
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  Speaker 3: which is good when he does do that. I'm like yes,
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  Speaker 3: because for me, when Louis starts chasing down it's not
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  Speaker 3: a lot of good that goes down there. Now will
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  Speaker 3: he pop a homer? Sure? Sure, because he's strong and
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  Speaker 3: you can backspin of ball. He did one just what
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  Speaker 3: against the Phillies. He backspun one getting out front of
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  Speaker 3: a changeup. But this is this is sustainable just in
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  Speaker 3: so many regards because like, here's the other part in
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  Speaker 3: this month right where he has absolutely destroyed things. He's
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  Speaker 3: hitting three oh four with eleven forty three ohps. Can
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  Speaker 3: you guys guess how many plate appearances he had against
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  Speaker 3: the lefty?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd say like fifteen, I don't know, and more.
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  Speaker 1: Than talent, right, yeah, double digits.
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  Speaker 3: Seven plate appearances.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 3: And for those that are going like, well you need
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  Speaker 3: to play more, no, Like, this is the exact reason
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  Speaker 3: why this is going. Well. He doesn't hit lefties that great,
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  Speaker 3: and if they do put him in against the lefty,
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  Speaker 3: they want to have it to be the ones that
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  Speaker 3: work well. Are they the guys that work down? Are
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  Speaker 3: they the East West guys? No, you want the guys
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  Speaker 3: that are going to pop you up top if they
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  Speaker 3: can elevate their four seamer and you put those in
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  Speaker 3: those advantageous moments. Hell, yes, we're gonna pla him against it.
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  Speaker 3: But they have been so strategic on this, and this
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  Speaker 3: is to me the part where what we're seeing with
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  Speaker 3: this front office, where we're seeing this with Blake Piter
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  Speaker 3: in the lineup constructions and stuff to have the ability
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  Speaker 3: to stay disciplined, to be disciplined in this moment. When
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  Speaker 3: you have a guy that has eleven homers in a month,
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  Speaker 3: you go, oh, why can't he hit lefties? He's like
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  Speaker 3: he has proven time and time again it's not the
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  Speaker 3: best of matchups and it could get him off of
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  Speaker 3: where he's at right now. Now. A couple of different
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  Speaker 3: ones that you're gonna get against, you know, the Red
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  Speaker 3: Sox this week you got three. You got Ragers, Suarez,
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  Speaker 3: who we've seen plenty with the Phillies, Connolly, Early and
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  Speaker 3: Peyton Toley totally might be the better one matchup that
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  Speaker 3: you might get out of them. So I'm interested to
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  Speaker 3: see today in how they line it up. But for Louis,
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  Speaker 3: congrats to him because I already called player of the
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  Speaker 3: Week for him and Foster Griffin this week for both
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  Speaker 3: pitcher and hitter. If it's not, there's some bots in
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  Speaker 3: the league for sure. But yeah, it was pretty sweet
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  Speaker 3: to see and for Louis, it's good. Good to have
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  Speaker 3: him doing his thing because I texted this dispense last night.
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  Speaker 3: I said it on air, but like midgame, I looked
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  Speaker 3: at him going he's top five in all of Baseball
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  Speaker 3: qualified hitters in slugging percentage, Luis Garcia Junior's top five
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  Speaker 3: in slugging percentage and a lot of that has to
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  Speaker 3: do with not playing against lefties.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's such a big component for me when
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  Speaker 2: I because I've been trying to parse out at the
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  Speaker 2: deadline and I'm not saying that they're gonna sell all
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  Speaker 2: these pieces off. I'm not saying they're gonna buy I'm
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  Speaker 2: not making any sort of final claims like that, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to parse out, Hey, who might this team
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  Speaker 2: at the deadline. And my thing with Louis forever was like,
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  Speaker 2: I believe that he's a great player. I believe that
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  Speaker 2: the swing decisions in particular aren't great, but he can
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  Speaker 2: do enough at the plate where he can help another team.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of who wants a guy who's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a platoon bat, strong side of the platoon,
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  Speaker 2: but a platoon bat at maybe first base and likely
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  Speaker 2: a lot of DA t reps and to be traded
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  Speaker 2: or to be acquired. I should say, when you do
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  Speaker 2: have that profile, you need to do something special. And
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  Speaker 2: Louie has been on the presspe special for a while,
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  Speaker 2: hasn't ever put it together fully like we're seeing now.
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  Speaker 2: I think, as you've said, for any of this is real,
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  Speaker 2: and I think if we're talking about what could potentially
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  Speaker 2: happen at a deadline, I think all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: you see a number of more suitors line up, because
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  Speaker 2: you can't just acquire a guy who's top five and
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  Speaker 2: slug in baseball, like, well he maintained top five, probably not,
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  Speaker 2: but top twenty sure, and that's still a bat. That's
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  Speaker 2: still a bat that you might want to acquire if
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  Speaker 2: you're another team. So what he's done this month either
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  Speaker 2: will really help the Nationals for the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: season or could help an team for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the season. I think that's a really kind of compelling angle.
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  Speaker 2: Before the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Here Franny mentioned like players are you know, they're not robots,
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  Speaker 1: they're human. The one for me was the Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: home run, swinging three to oh elevate and celebrate. I
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  Speaker 1: mean a pitch that he was I mean Amazona didn't
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  Speaker 1: miss it.
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  Speaker 3: Think about like the swings before though, like he was
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  Speaker 3: chasing way off the plate. It didn't have anything he got,
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  Speaker 3: but in not in the swings before, but the a
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  Speaker 3: bats before and you look at it and you're going, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I kind of put my head down a three to
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  Speaker 3: oh real quick, and I was like thinking, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: no way, he's going to swing. And then he did.
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  Speaker 3: Uh and you love that he did. But second time
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  Speaker 3: this year that he's gone three zero Homer And if
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  Speaker 3: you think about it, this month would look a hell
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  Speaker 3: of a lot different if Louie wasn't involved in that lineup,
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  Speaker 3: because where James and CJ have truly been. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you could say, like the first part of June, James
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  Speaker 3: was hot or at least somewhat hot, but I mean
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  Speaker 3: CJ has been it's been it's been feast or famine really,
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  Speaker 3: you know for him. So they've had to have that
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  Speaker 3: second guy step up. It's just again trying to get
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  Speaker 3: that third guy going or get you know, three of
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  Speaker 3: them together where they're like scorching hot would be amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Dylan's on the on the precipice of
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  Speaker 3: that they we're about to see it. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: saw the you know, Colton Kowser Robin at Homer yesterday
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  Speaker 3: from him and then following it up next to bat
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  Speaker 3: you know, rocket right through the second basement again you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and it's it's great to see. You just want
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  Speaker 3: to see three four to go together and then you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to have to worry about a bullpen game,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just want to give a real quick
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  Speaker 1: shout out to call it Kowser because that play was
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous and and he had a great game yesterday. It's
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  Speaker 1: the only reason I'm wearing a nose T shirt right
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  Speaker 1: now at the Milk coombe Ever, I would burn that
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  Speaker 1: thing so quick. Love this T shirt. But on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: it took some extra innings ten innings specifically, but the
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  Speaker 1: Nationals won by a score four to three, and just
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  Speaker 1: another incredible effort by Foster Griffin seven innings, nine strikeouts,
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  Speaker 1: tying a season high. But it's this play in the
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  Speaker 1: tenth inning that I want to talk about. The Orioles
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  Speaker 1: trying to bring the tying run home. But CJ. Abrams
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  Speaker 1: sure to be an all star cutting down the run
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  Speaker 1: at the plate, Kevin, what'd you see on that play?
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  Speaker 1: And just break it down for the fans. That's not
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  Speaker 1: an easy play going to your backside as an infielder.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not not a great jump over at third
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  Speaker 3: base number one, number two, like, you got to be
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  Speaker 3: thinking about it. You gotta be quick on the exchange.
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  Speaker 3: Second time that we've seen that this year in extra
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  Speaker 3: innings where Nas did one in Pittsburgh. I said it
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  Speaker 3: in the moment, I was like, this remind me of Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: You know that you're on the road. You got to
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  Speaker 3: get that guy out at home. And he made that
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  Speaker 3: play coming in behind the pitcher's belt. But this is
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  Speaker 3: very similar to that. Watch the jump that he gets
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  Speaker 3: on the play and you're like, Okay, his thought process.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a fast runner over there at third base.
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  Speaker 3: He was able to get some room over there, and
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  Speaker 3: maybe that one step two steps back off the grass
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  Speaker 3: might have given him that room to do it. Cee
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  Speaker 3: J's making a few more plays. His angles are getting
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  Speaker 3: so much better over there at shortstop. Is it elite
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  Speaker 3: level yet? No, but he's working. You could see like
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  Speaker 3: the I think about so many times in recent memory
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  Speaker 3: where he goes back to his right and it's going
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  Speaker 3: towards the leftfield foul pole, it's taken it into the
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  Speaker 3: outfield grass. In that situation, it's even deeper towards the back,
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  Speaker 3: towards almost the umpire he's not doing that. He's cutting
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  Speaker 3: it off, he's getting better angles. It's just trying to
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  Speaker 3: get the exchange and the arm strength on it. He
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  Speaker 3: had one later on or earlier on to the backhand side,
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  Speaker 3: which was a phenomenal play, but it was a great
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  Speaker 3: pick by Louis. Got to think ahead. You gotta always
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  Speaker 3: be thinking ahead, and he was in that situation all
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  Speaker 3: over it. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Franny, you can speak to this much better
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  Speaker 2: than I can. But I think the hardest thing to
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  Speaker 2: teach is the athleticism, and it's the first step. And
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  Speaker 2: CJ doesn't have a problem with that. It was in
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  Speaker 2: the past being able to do it for twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: outs and to find those angles and to attack the
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  Speaker 2: ball aggressively, and that's all the stuff that he's learning
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  Speaker 2: now and he's getting taught now. And that's why when
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  Speaker 2: you are the Nationals, or you are a team thinking
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  Speaker 2: about trading for CJ down the line, or any of
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  Speaker 2: these sorts of things, you talk yourself into the fact
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  Speaker 2: that either this guy is a shortstop or he is
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  Speaker 2: capable of being a league average defender at another position.
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  Speaker 2: And it's because of the upside that comes when you
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  Speaker 2: can do those two things. Can you teach everything else?
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  Speaker 2: That's what you're right now.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. Look, I there's one thing I know is
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  Speaker 3: this year he's been so engaged, Like think about that,
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  Speaker 3: he's over four with a strikeout, popped up with the
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  Speaker 3: three to zero count and he's ahead, he's thinking like
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  Speaker 3: in that there was like one of those satisfying moments.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that Blake would probably talk about it more
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  Speaker 3: in depth as far as like that side right, like
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  Speaker 3: seeing it from you know where he's come already this year,
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  Speaker 3: but like him being engaged in that moment, it's easy.
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  Speaker 3: We've all been there where. It doesn't matter what level
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  Speaker 3: you've been at, you're over in that moment. Everyone that
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  Speaker 3: says like, oh, it's so easy to go you know,
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  Speaker 3: make that play and do this, Like it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: turn the page. It's hard to feel like you haven't
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  Speaker 3: done enough on one side of the plate, on one
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  Speaker 3: side of the plate to go out there and do it.
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  Speaker 3: That's where the level you get to when number one,
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  Speaker 3: you're a big leaguer and an everyday big leaguer. But
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  Speaker 3: that's the norm, Like that's the norm that it has
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  Speaker 3: to be. It's not like something like you celebrate going Yes, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: he does it the norm. That's normal. That has to
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  Speaker 3: be the every day like you o for four, you're
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  Speaker 3: the You're the greatest shortstop ever, and so that mentality
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  Speaker 3: has got to always switch. And I feel like we've
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  Speaker 3: seen that so often this year from CJ. Where it
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been He's had so many good games offensively, but
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  Speaker 3: when he hasn't, I haven't felt one time this year
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  Speaker 3: he's taking it out to the field. Yeah, I think that.
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  Speaker 2: Where you could argue, you could argue September of last year,
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  Speaker 2: when things weren't going right at the plate. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that was also his worst defensive month, right like it
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  Speaker 2: was ticking out in the field or you know, lack
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  Speaker 2: of instruction or whatever you might call it, but it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't lining up on both ends of the ball. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: right now I'd still argue, even with the slump, piece
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  Speaker 2: of valuable baseball player beca because of stuff like.
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  Speaker 3: That, Right, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look ahead that Nationals are up in Boston
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  Speaker 1: to open up a three game set later on today,
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  Speaker 1: We are back our next segment. I'm a little nervous
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  Speaker 5: Here.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some mock trades Kevin and uh, some from
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  Speaker 1: fans online, and I know I know how you feel
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  Speaker 1: about that, but really quickly. We did have one reply
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  Speaker 1: from the listeners online, and this one I concur with,
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  Speaker 1: should the Nationals become sellers sell off foster CJ if
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  Speaker 1: they can't resign him, But I think the mentality has
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  Speaker 1: changed within the organization. Correct me if I'm wrong, guys,
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  Speaker 1: But CJ's a guy. We got to keep it reroualt.
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  Speaker 2: I think I can handle this one. I think, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I have reported this and will continue to report it,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: that the Nationals will be open to whatever. And I
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: know that that's an maybe an unsatisfying answer for those
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: of us who like certainty, but I think it is
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the right approach to be taking right now. They are
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: not ruling out anything, and I'm not talking about CJ
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: in particular. I'm kind of talking about the roster at large,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: where I believe they will add where it is necessary,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: and they will subtract where and they will keep an
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: open mind, which is what all the best teams in
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: baseball do. So yeah, I'm not gonna offer any concrete
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: reporting here because I'm not even sold yet in some
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: of what I've heard in terms of what they're going
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: to do. And that's because I don't think they know
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: what they're gonna do yet, at least not to any
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: sort of level of certainty. But every option that you
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: put out or every guy where you say, hey, maybe
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: we'll trade you know so and so, or maybe world
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: choir so and so, like, sure, put it on the
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: table right now, because I don't think that all that
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: much is off the table.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: No. I look, I think there's a lot to this
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Number one, Paul Tiboni. I mean this is this is
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: like the maybe you weren't thinking that you were going
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: to get this opportunity at this point in time to
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: like have this ye the choice right of what you
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: were going to have to do. But the one thing
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: that he's probably gonna have to fight is, like, you
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: have a fan base that's starting to come back a
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: little bit. We're starting to see it. It was loud
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: against the against the Phillies. Now those games didn't end great, great,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: but like, if they have a great road trip here,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: they win another series, they come back home for July
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: fourth weekend, it'd be amazing, right, So you're you're having
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: to to pick and choose on this. Look, they were
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: disciplined on the CJ stuff during the off season. Paul
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: was very open with with CJ on the whole thing.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Giants wanted him, didn't give him enough, and so forth.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Guess what it's gonna take exactly what you want and
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: what you need. People and fans are gonna want to
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: say so so, but it's not as easy as that
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: because you have to get your return you have. You
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: can never settle for anything lower than the value of
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: what you should be getting. And that's the biggest thing. Like,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: if you have it set up now, you're gonna have
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: hear all the pun in saying like, oh, you have
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: one thing, you know, this prospect, this prospect internally, if
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: you get exactly what you want, go for it. But
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: if that's not the case, they're obviously getting The players
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: have put them in this position to do this, and
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: it's awesome.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, these these next three are going to be a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: little more interesting because they're all involved the Nationals being
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: buyers and we're looking to pick up some pitching. You're
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: at the deadline. But first off, I want you guys
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to grade this one by A J Stone. My friend
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: AJ he's beginning journalism at school at Missouri soon, but
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: he has the Nationals picking up Daniel Lynch and Michael
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Walker from the World's Cash Considerations.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: But on Daniel Lynch, now he's probably that guy's probably
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: a uva guy. Yeah no, just asked Nick Laughton, why
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: why he shouldn't just go in there, Curtis mead, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: every third base is probably going like Daniel Lynch, no chance, please, no, please,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: no please no. Uh. The Michael Walker one is the
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: one that's interesting to me because I think that one
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: is uh, that was somebody I've thought they could they
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: should do since they saw him, and just the reason
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: of like he would match well in that lineup, he
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: matched well with the you know, just the style of
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: of what they need and a veteran again that maybe
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: there's something that you could find there. Is it gonna
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: because I still think we're gonna get to an innings
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: part with a couple guys that we don't know about,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: you know, like Foster. I don't think Foster has been
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: crazy high in his innings, you know, so you wonder like,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: where is that limit where they're willing to go even
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: though he's on a one year deal, So that might
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: be the part with it. I don't mind the Michael
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Waka One's that's a good one. I like it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I give aj and a plus on that one.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, he did a good jobs. He's pretty well
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: equipped with h knowledge around the league and not just
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: like one hyper specific team. Mind, I'm a little more
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: nervous for because when I first proposed this straight, I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: thought there were multiple years of control around Luke Weaver.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: But Kevin we talked about Koy James and Ethan Petrie
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: a little bit on this show before. I know you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be thrilled with the Nats parting with them and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Land and Harmon. There's a lot of upside for him him,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But Luke Weaver is a guy that I thought the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Nationals should try and go and get before AJ Mentor
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: would compliment a left handed option. And the Mets are
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: a team that obviously are in a position where, hey,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: they're going to try and flip a lot, but those
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the Mets are gonna be Sellingbut what what is it
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: going to take in this market? Like how many prospects
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: for a reliever return a sizable reliever return like that?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Well, the contract's going to be one part of it, right,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: So it's not gonna be as hefty with taking on
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the money. If they take on the money, then the
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: prospect return will be a lot better the Petrie one
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: and the Harmon one. I'm out like I need. They've
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: shown some progression that I like, and especially in spots
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: that you don't have enough depth in. For Petrick you
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: could be you know, first base, outfield, do that stuff.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Harmon you cannot. For me right now, arms are the
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: biggest necessity, right, you can't be trading away arms. That's
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: just personal personal thought on that, especially starting I'm not
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I'm not right and I'm not I'm not completely sold
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: on on Luke Weaver either. He's been okay, he's been
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: he's been fine, and I also don't I also look
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: at a four or five e r A for his
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: career going into like last couple, and I'm like, I
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: know it was a starter, but man I I there's
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: certain things there that I wondered. Now, if you were
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: telling me Finny, all right, I think that's more realistic.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got one more that I want to bring
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the table. But Spencer, I want to hear your thoughts
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: on Kyle finn again.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, finniginnis thought about as well. It would make a
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: ton of sense a return Again, if you're doing that though,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: it would be really hard to part with pitching prospects
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: for that, and that's probably what the Tigers would want,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: and that that's what makes us all so difficult, is
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the Nationals really unless it's a guy that they don't
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: believe they can develop and they think the rest of
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the league is much higher on, sure, go ahead. But
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I just think there's such a dearth of pitching prospects
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and guys who specifically fit the National system right now
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: that if you are trading away prospects, it it can't
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: be from that. But again, I think the ORG is
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: going to be open to whatever, right And so I'm
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: not throwing this out there because I know they are
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: high on paralyss, but let's say in a theoretical world
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: they weren't and they were like, oh, we can get
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: a you know, a reliever with two years of control
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: back we believe can man the eighth or ninth inning
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: for the next two years. Like you have to imagine
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: they at least, you know, toy with that one, right.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I just think they're going to be really hesitant to
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: give away anyone they believe in on the pitching side.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: So that's something at least for maybe consider over the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: next month or so.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: This last one I want to parse through is an
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: interesting one. Nationals fan may feel one way or the
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: other about it because it's kind of the blockbuster I've
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: brought to the table here Nationals partying with their sixth
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: ranked prospects sever King picking up JT. Brew Baker and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Matt Gaze. It would definitely, definitely help out this pitching staff.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: We talked earlier in the show about the Giants trying
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to get C. J. Abrams over in the off season,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: but sever King is a guy that I do not
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: want to part with right now as a Nationals fan, Kevin,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on this last one? Bring it
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: back up one more time.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I am out on that one.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I can say, I think you're probably out.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm out. They don't do enough for me.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: And you have a balky knee with Matt Gage, who's
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: already been on the IL this year. Once brew Baker
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: has been you know, he's been fine, but nothing that's
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: going to be her shattering, So I it needs to
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: be a more dynamic arm. If you're gonna like someone
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: that you know that is there's a for sure, like
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: there's a for sure that we know that that Kyle
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Finnegan can close out of game. Right, there's a for
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: sure there are there for sures with Gauge and with JT. Brewbaker.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: No, if you're trading away sever King, I mean, if
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: you are trading away a top one hundred prospect who's
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: in triple A right now, the return has to be
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: earth shattering, right like doing it when nineteen years old
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: and not a sure bet, or doing it when a
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: guy's in triple A but not a premier prospect. That's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: where you start to see, Okay, maybe they're getting a
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: brew Baker back, or maybe getting a couple of you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: left handed relievers or whatever. I mean, even think about
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: forrere Right, and I think a lot of Nationals fans
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: are upset over that trade. But Forrer is a proven
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: arm and he went for who was at the time
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a top one hundred prospect and Harry Ford and arm
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: who the Nationals believe in, right, Like, that's kind of
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the foundation there for what a trade like that might
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: look like. But I mean, it's it's just it's so
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: hard to see the Nationals being on the flip side
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: of a trade like that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: And let's also remember to that point of Harry Ford
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: and Jose Ferrera. You didn't know that you had this
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: with Kber. You didn't know the turnaround was happening. You
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: didn't know any any of this. This was people that
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: are out there are so they're they're not seeing it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: They're just seeing it right there in the moment. They're
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: not seeing the where they were in that at that
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: point in time, that point in time, and that's were
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: nervous with the catching depth and they knew they had
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: a great one in Bobby Wilson coming in as a
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: catching coach, but they didn't know they had this, yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: and they didn't know. Would they have made the trade,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I still think they would have. I do, actually,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: because what's one thing that an organization continuously needs catching
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: catching depth and quality catching depth, and they have to
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: be able to develop the catching depth or else it's
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: gonna go, you know, completely awry. So adding Harry Ford
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I still think was necessary. I still don't think you
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: knew what you had with your infield defense and how
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: it was going to be and transform, right, because that's
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: a lot of what Jose Frere is just he's not
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: a strikeout guy. Balls in play and a lot of
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: balls in on the ground, and so it never like
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: it made sense one hundred percent from the beginning. It
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: had nothing to do to be like, oh what is
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: he doing. It's like if I knew that the defense
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: would be better, maybe, but we didn't know was gonna
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: get you know, exponentially better as far as the range
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and positioning and and all that stuff. So uh, right now, man,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: it's funny because you got to look at guys that
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: you know, money wise, is not gonna you know, you're
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: gonna have to question a lot of stuff, you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: as far as if you were to go get But
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: I also feel like it's the number, like the number
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: of relievers that you can get, because that that's the part.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Like I think they're like three four relievers away from
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: being a good bullpen. Right.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: This isn't like one and done fix.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: No, they're like one guy in Kyle Finnigan doesn't make
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: it a good bullpen exactly. It just doesn't. And I
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: feel bad for saying that, but it's the truth. It is.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: It is, unfortunately, But yeah, I think, like what a
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: lot of Nats fans are hungry for. As I pull
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: up the NL's standings really quickly. They're back over over
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: five hundred. You look at the wild Card, they're two
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: games out there. I think they're just hungry for swinging
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: miss in the bullpen. I feel like Clayton Beater is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the only guy down there right now that I look
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: at and I'm like, that guy has the filth right
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: really swing and miss three bats, nine pitches in one inning,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Like there's there's potential their for strikeout stuff. Only when
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: he's throwing that ninety six ninety seven that he came
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: out against the Orioles.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: That was different. That was the old Clayton that we saw,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: but he hadn't been I've been like three or four
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: outings that we've seen nineteen ny three out of them
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: for the first two batters. Yeah, and just trying to
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: feel for he let it eat and it was. It
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: was beautiful.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I even I mean I wrote about this.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: It was probably like the fifteenth paragraph down, so I
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: don't know if anyone read it, but in the FLIC,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I know I can trust for any two. But it
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: speaks exactly what you were talking about, Eric, with the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: swing and miss stuff. Right Like you look at the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: draft headline, you look at what's coming up. I would
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: be shocked if are the Nationals acquire arms that are
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: more East West soft contact type of guys that they
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: want the strikeouts. They want it in the system, they
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: want to develop it, and they want guys to already
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: have it when they come in. And so when I'm
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: thinking about the sort of pitching prospects or bullpen arms
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: or however you want to square it that that will
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: be entering this system over the next six or seven weeks,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: that feels like what it's.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Going to be.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take a quick break when we come
• 29:52
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• 31:20
  Speaker 1: against the Rockies, six innings, pitch nine k's just one
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: run aloud. But hey, Miles Michaelis was sharp two no
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: runs allowed in three and a third against a tricky
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Phillies lineup at home. So, Kevin, what are going to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: be some keys to this series as a whole as
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: an that's head into Boston.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Well, Boston's hot right now. I mean, sweeping the Yankees
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: at home, I think is a huge thing. But I
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: also think it's huge for them to believe that they're
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: going to be overlooked. They're going to go up against
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: probably one, I think one of the best rotations that
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: you're going to find in all baseball because it's all
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: different looks from the left side. It is like Rangers
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: so different than and Connolly early, and Connolly early is
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: so different than Peyton totally, and they give you, you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: it's a feast or famine from their bullpen, right Like
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get a few hits off them, but you're
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: gonna get a lot of punch. So building an early
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: lead is gonna be a key for me against them
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: because you're gonna have to hold on. They're athletic, Like
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: the offense is not a great offense, but it's getting better.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: They're starting to find their their ways, and they could
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: run the bases. They do a lot of things. They
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: put pressure on you, a little version of of kind
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: of like what the Nats can do to you. And
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: we've seen how that can cause problems, you know, And
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: so you play cleaning baseball against them, you have a chance.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: And if you want to run in, if you want
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: to take extra bases and run with your your eyes down,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get absolutely blasted by their outfield because they
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: could throw it. They're the best outfield in all of baseball,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: not only covering balls, but like just throwing. So I'm
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: interested in this. It's gonna be a good It should
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  Speaker 3: be a good one, Yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 2: Even I think that early lead piece that you talk
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: about is so important. And even beyond that, I mean
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: that was like every series at this point in the
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: season is a must win for the Red Sox. But
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: they just the bullpen just emptied the tank against the Yankees, right,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and so you might not be facing their very best
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: arms every single night in Boston, and so that's an
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: opportunity where if you're keeping it close in the late innings.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: We know this Nationals bullpen hasn't been great over the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: last few weeks. The Red Sox bullpen has a lot
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: of swing and miss, But do I trust it over
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  Speaker 2: a three game series to really handle the Nationals.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's some opportunity there if you're not facing
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: a Chapman or if you're getting like a you know,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: a Wysert in the eighth or any number of these
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: guys that have swing and miss stuff. If you can
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: stay disciplined to your approach, I think they have a
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: shot at stealing some of these games late. But again,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: we'll see how the games play out.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Did either of you guys catch the Yankees couple getting
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: proposed at the Red Sox game the other.
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  Speaker 3: Night in FO?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I did not that. That seems like blasphemy, right, I mean,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the internet is tearing them apart that that's got to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: be reserved for the Bronx. I mean, come on, in
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the opposing ballpark that I mean, I feel like Nats
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  Speaker 1: fans going to do in Philadelphia. I could never see it. Unbelievable,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe Turner, it's not even the same not comparable hardly, yeah,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: really quickly. As we sign off here, I got a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: chance to talk with Charlie Slows about some of my
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: favorite calls that he's made over the years. I want
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: to leave you all with that as we wrap up today.
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  Speaker 1: What was going through your head watching New Clogan round
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  Speaker 1: third base?
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  Speaker 5: That is my favorite call you've ever had.
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  Speaker 9: He throws home and that's all vocat Now round the
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: third Logan?
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  Speaker 6: What is he doing the throat of third?
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: He's out and the game is over. What was Nicklogan thinking?
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: What was he watching? Where was he going? I can't
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: believe it. He's out, it turns out to be a
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: double player and the game is over.
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  Speaker 10: Just disbelief that the Cleveland Indians as they were then,
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: had a meeting at the.
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  Speaker 6: Mound before that pitch.
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  Speaker 10: Kelly Shoppack was the catcher played against the Kelogan of
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: the minor leagues, and they planned that if he rounded third,
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  Speaker 10: he was gonna pump fake to first after the throat
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  Speaker 10: of the plate, and it worked and Logan went around third.
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  Speaker 6: He's thrown out. The game's over.
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  Speaker 10: It's not the first base running mistake, but not the last.
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  Speaker 1: I follow up on that, what is your favorite, if
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: you have a personal favorite call you've ever made.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you know, for the longest time, the Jason Worth
• 35:32
  Speaker 10: Hoolme run was the biggest moment in National's history.
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  Speaker 3: Three balls, two strikes. The pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Season.
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  Speaker 10: It was the closest thing to moving past the Division
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: Series until they won the wildcard game. So you know,
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  Speaker 10: the the Soto hit that brings in three runs when
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: it gets by Drank Grisham and rightfield, the kick.
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  Speaker 3: Here it comes swagging along.
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  Speaker 10: That became my new favorite call until probably the last
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: out of the World Series.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: It's it's hard to beat a World Series winner.
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  Speaker 10: In the celebration and the anticipation leading up to.
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  Speaker 6: It, you don't know what could happen.
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  Speaker 10: They had added on runs and they're up six to
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: two and the ninth inning and okay, you got to
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: go through these three outs and anything can happen. But
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: when Al Tuvey struck out on three pitches for the
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: second out and swung it pitches that were nowhere near
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: the plate and the last one was up and away
• 36:41
  Speaker 10: like over his head, in my head, it's like, OMG,
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: two outs, this is happening.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: This is actually reality. Soak it in, folks.
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we all know what happened.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Francissisto Brantly at the plate.
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  Speaker 6: The kick in here it comes.
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: Swigging a ass, swagging a mess, swinging a mess.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: In a World Series Game seven, Curly.
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  Speaker 5: Is in the box really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I had a great vantage point Episodo hit, but I
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: was in the upper deck in right field, so I
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: never saw the ball go underneath the glove, and I
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: just had the ballpark freaking out around me, and I'm like,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you couldn't see You couldn't. Yeah, you couldn't see the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: error from where I was. I was about ten or
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: fifteen rows back in the second deck there, so I
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: had no clue what was going on, but just didn't
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: see the ball come in.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: And yeah, great moment, great call.
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: I'll give you another interesting moment to the last out
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: of the World Series, which I didn't find out until
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: the next spring from Daniel Hudson.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: They told him before the inning he.
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: Was going to face the two batters, and Doolittle was
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: coming in to face Brantley, and when he striked out
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: al Tuo Bay, It's like I'm done, and Switch just
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: goes off. He looks into the dugout thinking, well, they're
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: not coming out and they go, no, you're good, and
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: he had to turn his engine back on.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: It worked.
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: Hey threw that back foot slider that struck him out
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: to win it all.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: Swinging a miss, Swinging a miss, swinging a mess.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you all so much for listening and until Wednesday's episode,
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  Speaker 1: see you later.