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Braves-Phils clashing, Ohtani dilemma, Will enemies rig Miz mounds? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Look who's back. Fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 2: Me or him. Look who's back. Back again.
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  Speaker 1: What goes next? Thank you. Are we going to get
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  Speaker 1: Kiss the Flag copyright if we go too deep into
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  Speaker 1: that song?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: As long as we don't do any Adele songs, then
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  Speaker 3: we won't get copyrighted because pretty much I sound exactly
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  Speaker 3: like Adele when I sing her songs.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Right, so no Adele and no Frank Sinatra, or
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  Speaker 1: we will be flagged for copyright with Kratz and with
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  Speaker 1: Todd Father. Todd, good to see you. How was Little League?
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  Speaker 2: It was good, man. It was good.
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  Speaker 4: Another fun year, another good series between a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: states and countries, and it's always a fun time, man.
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  Speaker 2: It always is.
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  Speaker 4: Curacao came out on top. They were the best team.
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  Speaker 4: They had the best pitching. They were dynamite, dominant, excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, another fun year and another record-breaking year for
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  Speaker 4: some guys too. And Little League, there was a lot
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  Speaker 4: of records broken this year.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Was there one moment, one exchange, one stat, one player?
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  Speaker 1: Give me something.
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  Speaker 4: I will give you a kid named from Ohio, Hamilton, Ohio,
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  Speaker 4: who's been there six times now. that little league, a
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  Speaker 4: kid named Boone Treadway. He actually broke two records of mine.
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  Speaker 4: One was the most walks in the little league world series.
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  Speaker 4: I had eight or eight. He broke it with 11
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  Speaker 4: and he broke our team record. Their, their team broke
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  Speaker 4: our team record.
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  Speaker 2: And walks too. So they, they lead.
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  Speaker 4: Williams for, I don't think that'll ever be broken. 11
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  Speaker 4: walks in, I mean, what'd he play? Six, seven, eight games,
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  Speaker 4: something like that. So he was, uh, leadoff hitter, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he only got one hit too.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Boone Treadwell? What a big league name.
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  Speaker 2: Treadway. Treadway, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Treadway? That's a big league name. Is it different? Was
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  Speaker 3: it different for you this year, Todd? Because you were
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  Speaker 3: coaching your son's team trying to get to this spot?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. Definitely was.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, now you kind of see all the kids,
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  Speaker 4: you kind of compare them a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: When my son had been out playing against these kids,
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  Speaker 4: most definitely would have. But You know, you got to
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  Speaker 4: have the team. You got to have the town. You
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  Speaker 4: got to have the right pieces to play the part.
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  Speaker 4: And we just, you know, we weren't as deserving to go.
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  Speaker 4: We lost to the same team twice in the sectionals.
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  Speaker 4: We won the districts. But, you know, Bayonne from New
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  Speaker 4: Jersey put on a really good show. And it was
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  Speaker 4: fun to have a Jersey team in there. It's been
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  Speaker 4: a while, but it was fun times broadcasting them.
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  Speaker 2: Not trying to be as biased, but, you know, pretty
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  Speaker 2: cool to see them do what they did.
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  Speaker 1: Blake Treadway. That sounds like a front office darling, too,
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  Speaker 1: with the plate discipline already. Front offices are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at all the walks. Oh, the on-base percentage. The
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  Speaker 1: OPS possibilities. But good for you, Blake.
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  Speaker 2: Good series.
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  Speaker 1: Way to break some records of Todd Fathers. We love that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's charge. The battle for the National League
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  Speaker 1: East is on. Kratz, did you think the Phillies were
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  Speaker 1: going to be in this place? They have seven still
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  Speaker 1: to play against Atlanta. That series is getting going, and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be intense. Well, you're kind of shaking
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  Speaker 1: your head. You did think they were going to be
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  Speaker 1: in this spot? I mean, did you think they were
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  Speaker 1: going to be in this spot a month ago when
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  Speaker 1: they were barely hanging on to a wild card position
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  Speaker 1: at all?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this spot. What is this spot? Like, to me,
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  Speaker 3: I think we need to set our grounds of like,
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  Speaker 3: what is four games back with seven to play against
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  Speaker 3: the same team? Is it real? Like, are they really close?
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  Speaker 3: I guess, you know, to play the hype train, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but I just think it's so hard to beat the
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  Speaker 3: top teams to make up four games when you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about the top teams. When you're talking about like, the
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  Speaker 3: Cardinals catching the Marlins or something like that. Yeah. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think there's that next tier. So are they this close?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, did I think these two teams would be
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  Speaker 3: the best two teams in national league East?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: When they had a 10 game lead, when the Braves
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  Speaker 3: had a 10 or 11 game lead earlier in the season,
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  Speaker 3: did I think the Phillies were going to catch them? No,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the Phillies have actually caught them. I
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  Speaker 3: think they've just made it closer and, you know, water
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  Speaker 3: levels out.
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  Speaker 2: I would have to agree with him.
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  Speaker 4: And, Ultimately, look how many games are left, 22 games,
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  Speaker 4: four games. It seems like you can get there, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying they can't, but the ebbs and flows.
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  Speaker 4: They got close one time, kind of fizzled off a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. Everything really has to go right for this
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  Speaker 4: to happen. I think, honestly, the biggest thing is when
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  Speaker 4: they play against each other, they have to find a
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  Speaker 4: way not only to win that series but win it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, three to one, not, it can't, it can't be,
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  Speaker 4: or a two to one or three to one, whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is. And their last final games they have, they
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  Speaker 4: need to game two games just to be like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: so now we need help. And that's the worst part
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  Speaker 4: about the whole thing. When, when you need other teams
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  Speaker 4: to help you out and you look back on the
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  Speaker 4: end of the year and be like, man, there was
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  Speaker 4: four to six games where we probably should have won
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  Speaker 4: those games. If it wasn't for this happening or that happening.
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  Speaker 4: And there's, there's always a handful where you can look
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  Speaker 4: back and say, well, Darn, we're up four in the
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  Speaker 4: ninth inning.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? Or, you know, just to give an example.
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  Speaker 1: Braves have won five of six in the series so
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  Speaker 1: far this season. It starts on Friday, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: And the pitching is lined up really nicely. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be fun. The matchups are good. Sale against Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: to kick off the series on Friday. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to put your big boys out there. So, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're just saying. Is there a chance that the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: continue this? They were just 21-7 in August.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Best record in the month of August. How far can
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  Speaker 1: you carry momentum like that? We'll see. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is the series, right, Kratz? They take three out of four.
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  Speaker 1: We start to talk about the possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: Call me.
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  Speaker 3: Call me Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but all Monday they play again. It's a wraparound.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a four-game wraparound, John.
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  Speaker 2: Their schedule. I mean, you see Atlanta's.
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  Speaker 4: Finishing schedule who they play i mean they're no slouches
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  Speaker 4: so this i mean yeah i agreed but oh man
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  Speaker 4: philly's got washington they got the mets in there um
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  Speaker 4: oh man every team they're playing you know it it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be very interesting it's gonna be very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to read it. Keep it up there
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  Speaker 1: just so I can tell the podcast crowd because we're
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  Speaker 1: at the point where you can go through a schedule.
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  Speaker 1: It takes 20 seconds. That's how many games are left.
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  Speaker 1: So after this Phillies-Braves series, the Braves are home against
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  Speaker 1: the Rays, and then they welcome in the Phillies. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that will end the season series with Philly at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Then they hit the road to the Cubs and the Astros,
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  Speaker 1: and then they're back home for three against the Reds,
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  Speaker 1: and then they hit the road for three against the Marlins.
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  Speaker 1: Marlins are usually pesky at the end of a season, too.
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  Speaker 1: They're into that. And then for the Phillies, we can
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  Speaker 1: show you what they have going on, too, to compare
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  Speaker 1: and contrast after they play Atlanta. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: similarities here. I mean, they're home hosting Houston. Then they've
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  Speaker 1: got that Atlanta series again, right? So we talked about that,
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  Speaker 1: sandwiching the Houston series with the Phillies and the Braves.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Phillies are in D.C. Then they're in Queens
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  Speaker 1: against the Mets. And they finish all home. Against good teams,
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  Speaker 1: but teams that could be prepping for the playoffs. That's
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee and Tampa Bay. Now, when I say prepping for
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, yes, maybe your foot is a drop off
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  Speaker 1: the pedal. But if you're Milwaukee and Tampa Bay, those
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  Speaker 1: are the last competitive games that you're going to play
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  Speaker 1: for a bit. Those are two teams in the buy.
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  Speaker 1: So just throwing all of that out there. When you
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  Speaker 1: look at it, do you feel like there's much of
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  Speaker 1: an edge for one side or the other? Technically, by
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  Speaker 1: strength of schedule, the Braves have it. a little bit tougher.
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  Speaker 1: It's a top five toughest schedule down the stretch than Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Philly has the Nats and the Mets in there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Mets are playing better lately. The Nats
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  Speaker 1: are not. So there's an opportunity here. That's all.
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  Speaker 3: There's an opportunity, but it happens exactly like Todd said,
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  Speaker 3: this series. I'm not saying it has to be must-win
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  Speaker 3: game one, but you can't say– yeah, we got four
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  Speaker 3: games set. You know, if we could, if we could
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  Speaker 3: split this, you know, no, that that's why the Braves
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  Speaker 3: four game lead is such a massive lead. It's such a,
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  Speaker 3: it's so tough to take three or four from a
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  Speaker 3: first place team that has beaten you five of six
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  Speaker 3: times this year. I think it's so tough even with,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the four starters, the edge for the Braves,
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  Speaker 3: for the Phillies is definitely with the starting rotation, nothing
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  Speaker 3: against Tyler Malley, what he's done. Martin Perez has had really,
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  Speaker 3: really good starts. Bryce Elder has had his moments. And
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  Speaker 3: Chris Sales, probably the runner-up Cy Young Award winner in
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  Speaker 3: the National League. But to go Christopher Sanchez, Zach Wheeler,
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Nola, and Jesus Lizardo, you're honestly, right now, in
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  Speaker 3: their last five to seven starts, depending on who I
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  Speaker 3: selectively choose, Christopher Sanchez and Zach Wheeler are the two
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  Speaker 3: worst pitchers of those four recently. Lizardo's been lights.
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  Speaker 1: Out.
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  Speaker 3: Nola has, his last five starts have been like vintage Nola.
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  Speaker 3: So you have to come out and beat this team.
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  Speaker 3: The tough part for the Phillies is, even if you
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  Speaker 3: get to those starters, that bullpen is suffocating.
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  Speaker 2: Agreed.
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  Speaker 4: And there's seven games. These two teams got to play
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  Speaker 4: seven games. Philly, in order to be into this, they
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  Speaker 4: have to go five and two in those games.
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  Speaker 3: I have to be.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know if they can. It's going to
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  Speaker 4: be very critical. Four and three, you gain one game.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I would say a five and two to make it, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go. Like, this is going to be awesome
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  Speaker 4: to watch. So, and yes, four games in a row
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  Speaker 4: starts now. So put your best foot forward.
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  Speaker 2: Buckle up. This is where baseball becomes really fun.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is also like what is each team
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  Speaker 3: focusing on. The Braves are a game back, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Either a game or a game and a half back
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  Speaker 3: of the Dodgers. This is a team that plays every
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  Speaker 3: single one of their starting position players every game that
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  Speaker 3: they're healthy. I mean, Blake, Drake Baldwin played hasn't played
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  Speaker 3: every game this year because he was hurt. But when
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  Speaker 3: he's been healthy, he's out there DH and catching, whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is. Like these guys play every single day. I
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  Speaker 3: think they're focused on catching the Dodgers. And sometimes when
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  Speaker 3: you focus on something that's out of your control, something
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  Speaker 3: that's not what's right in front of you, then you
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  Speaker 3: miss out on that. So if the Braves say, we
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  Speaker 3: got to catch the Dodgers, we're catching them, what are
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers doing? All of a sudden, the Phillies are
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  Speaker 3: going to be like, swoop in there and take a
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  Speaker 3: few phone. So you got to keep your focus on
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  Speaker 3: the right things at this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: So after sale against Sanchez, Martin Perez faces Zach Wheeler.
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  Speaker 1: Prez actually has the edge in ERA. I know there's
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  Speaker 1: plenty of other stats to dissect. Sale has the edge
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  Speaker 1: in ERA over Sanchez, but Perez on Saturday, 305 ERA.
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  Speaker 1: Wheeler had that hiccup for a bit and then the
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  Speaker 1: bounce back, but he's at a 3-3-1 on the season.
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  Speaker 1: Then it's Tyler Molle who's been much better with Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: than he was before. going up against Nola. That should
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  Speaker 1: actually be an advantage Braves pitching matchup. And then on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Elder faces Lizardo, and that should be advantage Phillies. Lizardo
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  Speaker 1: has been ridiculous. We're going to talk more about the Phillies, too.
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  Speaker 1: We have Tom McCarthy joining us on the show soon.
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  Speaker 1: So that's your series. It's going to be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Buckle up.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Kratz lives in Pennsylvania, so he gets last word.
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  Speaker 3: All I got to say is the Phillies' new approach
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  Speaker 3: of not striking out as much will be very interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see how they face this entire Braves pitching staff,
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  Speaker 3: bullpen and starters. Yeah.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, nice shirt. Bryce Harper animated shirt.
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  Speaker 2: Very good.
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  Speaker 1: The Phillies acquired Louisa rise. He hasn't been great with them,
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  Speaker 1: but they also just acquired his aura and they're making
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  Speaker 1: more contact striking out less. Bryce Harper's on fire too,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: by the way. Oh, they're pretty. We got new Animated shirts.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: You're looking at some of them. Tristan Peters, who comes
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  Speaker 1: from Banana Ball, hence the banana on there. Pete Alonzo
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  Speaker 1: and the crab from Baltimore. This is a personal favorite.
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  Speaker 1: The Magician. I love the nickname for Esmeralda Valdez. So,
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  Speaker 1: new animated shirts. FoulTerritoryShop.com. There's a Jackson Merrill one. Kratz
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  Speaker 1: is wearing the OG Bryce Harper animated shirt. I've got
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Orozco Pollo.
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  Speaker 2: Ben Rice.
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  Speaker 5: Boom.
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  Speaker 2: There it is.
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  Speaker 3: And chicken. With chicken.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Just Bryce Harper just giving him this one with the
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  Speaker 3: perma beard too. Permanent beard. I want to see players
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  Speaker 3: make their own shirts too. I think that would be
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  Speaker 3: a cool line where they're like, I want a little
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  Speaker 3: input on this. I think this is legit. I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I like that Arose one.
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  Speaker 1: Kratz, you have a little piece of paper anywhere around
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  Speaker 1: the house? You just write it down and then drop
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  Speaker 1: it into the suggestion box.
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  Speaker 3: Into the comment box. because there's definitely some artistic players
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  Speaker 3: that could definitely create their own.
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  Speaker 1: Like thoughts draw it no but think of hey something
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  Speaker 1: that i connect with yes and then we can make
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  Speaker 1: that happen i like the idea while we're on the
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  Speaker 1: topic of players todd father stat name pronunciation whatever kind
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  Speaker 1: of change from the top of the show on a
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  Speaker 1: future major league player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I said Blake Treadway. It was Boone. His name
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  Speaker 2: is Boone Treadway. Even better name. Wow. The name that
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  Speaker 2: you will want to remember. Boone Treadway.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you said Boone. I thought you said Boone.
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  Speaker 1: He might have said it once, and then it might
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  Speaker 1: have transitioned to Blake. And in fairness, Todd, there's a
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  Speaker 1: Blake Frazier.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. And then you kept saying Blake, so we
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  Speaker 2: stuck with Blake.
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  Speaker 1: Once I heard Blake, I just ran with it.
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  Speaker 2: All good. Boone.
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  Speaker 3: Big league name.
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  Speaker 2: Not only a good ball player, even a good person, too.
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  Speaker 3: Were you a good person when you were in the
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  Speaker 3: Little League, Todd? When you gave the interviews, were you like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I just like to play and my team is fun
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  Speaker 3: and does anyone have any jolly ranchers?
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  Speaker 2: No, I was jolly, man.
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  Speaker 4: I would answer with full sentences and they might not
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  Speaker 4: have been the longest like I do now, but they
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  Speaker 4: were fine.
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  Speaker 2: But you liked it.
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  Speaker 1: You liked the limelight. You had fun with it.
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  Speaker 2: Loved it. Loved it. It was good times there at
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  Speaker 2: Tom's River.
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  Speaker 1: Hot corner time. The Miz actually gave up a career-high
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  Speaker 1: five earned runs. His team still won. But the slippery
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: mound issues continue for the Miz, right? He finishes in
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  Speaker 1: a different spot from everyone else. So let's get his
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: thoughts post-game on what he thought happened. And for us
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  Speaker 1: to dissect... Could this be a problem in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: where everyone will start talking about it and it's mound gate?
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  Speaker 1: Here's Miz.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I mean, didn't feel wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't feel great.
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  Speaker 5: You know, obviously the felt soggy the whole time, you know,
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  Speaker 5: weather played a factor in that. So lost grip, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, had to make it work.
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  Speaker 4: Can you explain the challenge of that when the mound
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  Speaker 4: gets soft, when it's wet and that leg starts to slip,
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  Speaker 4: how difficult it is to feel comfortable?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you start second-guessing everything. You start trying
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  Speaker 5: to make pitches too big. You know, it's trying to
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  Speaker 5: make things too spot on. So, you know, start leaking
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  Speaker 5: places and, you know, you got to calm yourself down
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  Speaker 5: and figure out a way to get through it.
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  Speaker 6: Miz, this seems like something that has come up now,
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  Speaker 6: your last couple road starts. And we saw you throw
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: a bullpen on the actual mound at Monday. Is there
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: anything else you're able to do on these road starts?
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot we can do. You know,
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: there's stuff that I can't tell you guys and I
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: really don't want to, that fact. But no, I mean,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: our guys over here are trying their best and trying
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: to make everything come out the best, back in better.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: So it's fun.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Well, they're having fun in Milwaukee. That's a loud clubhouse.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Usually it's kind of quiet when the media is in there.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: And it sounded like someone was having a doozy of
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a conversation about something in life. But I digress. Kratz,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: if you're the Miz's catcher, what do you have for
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: me here?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, if I'm the Miz's catcher, I'm trying to
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: pump this guy up. I'm trying to make him feel
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: as good as he can every day, no matter where
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: he's at. But the reality is, I don't think, like,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the more this comes to light, the more that this
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: is like a thing. We talked about it the other day. Like,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: when he goes into wherever they're going to go into,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: do you think Major League Baseball is going to go
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: to the Dodger stadium grounds crew and go, Hey, you
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: guys need to add one more foot of clay in
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: the landing area. They're like, what, why would we have
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: to change our field to, you know, help or enable
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: another pitcher? So I think this is something that for him,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: for hooky, his pitching coach, they have to figure out
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: what it takes sometimes to, you know, the conditions make
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: you make adjustments and he's going to have to do
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: that because unless he's pitching in Milwaukee, clearly he's slipping
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: wherever he's going.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Well, have they like talked about maybe changing his socks,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: maybe putting on new cleats? Like you can, your feet
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: can be absolutely drenched just from warming up. Like people
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: get sweaty feet and it can leak into your cleats
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: and all of anything else.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, is there, anything else they've thought of because
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: this it's just, it's weird. It's a weird situation. I'm
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: not saying it's not the dirt. I'm not saying they
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: can't fix.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It either, but maybe it's the cleat. I don't know.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Maybe where he's landing all of a sudden, the cleats
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: not there. I mean, people are like, Oh, you're crazy.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: This and that, but there's been crazier things. So have
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: they had conversations about that? And also, you know, If
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: it doesn't get fixed, they've got to find a way.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: And if he's the only one, then we've got a
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: big problem. I don't know what's going on.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, he clearly is the best pitcher in the
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: National League this year. He's going to win the Cy
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Young unless something crazy happens. And to me, I think
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: if you're a freak among freaks, like Major League Baseball
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: is the best players in the world. And he's the
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: best pitcher right now. And he's doing something that's out
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: of the boundaries of what– you know, we're used to
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: as far as a pitcher. Like if you if you
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: were somebody that really steps way cross body and the
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: other pitcher creates a hole that is like right where
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: your foot's going to be kind of landing but you're
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: you know it kind of rolls your ankle you would
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: make the adjustment so he has to make the adjustment
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: somehow I doubt it's his sweaty socks but But what
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: you said before, Todd, I could 100% get behind. When
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: you're playing like the Premier League, if the field isn't
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: soaking wet, they wear different types of cleats. If it's
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: soaking wet because they wet the field in soccer like excessively,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: they put in huge long studs to be able to
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: get better grip and they like playing on a wet field.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's a different cleat, like you said, that– he
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: could start using because when he's slipping like that, it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: clearly not just physically making his pitches not be able
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: to be executed as perfectly as he feels like he can,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: but it's also what he said mentally. You're like, I'm
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: kind of second-guessing. Am I going to slip? Do I
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: know where this is going to be? So, yeah, I'm
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: sure they're trying a bunch of different stuff.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Well, they have a month to figure it out. That's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the important part for Milwaukee. They're not playing for nothing, right?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: But the division's over.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Done. Seeding matters. You need to maintain what you've got. Ideally,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you'd like to have the number one seed. But you
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: need to figure out what's going on here. Because if
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: what we saw yesterday happens in October, it could be
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the difference of the Brewers advancing in a playoff round.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is their guy.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: And it can't be the excuse. It can't be the excuse.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: It would be like a team going into the first
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: round of the playoffs and saying, we steal more bases
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: than any other team. It is the most elite stolen
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: base team of all time. You know what the team
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: that you're playing is going to do? They're going to
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: have that track so wet. It is going to be
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: so wet running the bases that it's going to slow
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: you down. Whoa, man, it was so wet. How are
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: we supposed to? How are we supposed to steal bases? Like, oh,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I'm slipping on every pitch. How am I supposed to
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: pitch my best? And look, he's slipping at a lot
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: of these places and he's still going to win the
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Cy Young. So he is a freak. It's not that
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: he's not good enough to get through it. It's when
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: you're in the playoffs, you can't allow, you can't give
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: any advantage to the other team to diminish your superpowers.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: And right now, I think the Milwaukee Brewers, even though
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: they score more runs than anybody in the league, win
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: or lose on Jacob Mizorowski's back.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I have a tactical question for you guys. And this
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: is going to sound a little bit dirty, but I
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: just want to throw it out there. How much does
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the grounds crew impact all of this? You can obviously
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: call for the grounds crew to help you out, but
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you know how some grounds crews will set up the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: infield a certain way for a team that likes to
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: bunt or a team that wants a hotter infield and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: hotter as in the ground balls will fly. Does any
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of this apply to a mound when we get to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the playoffs? Is there a conversation that says, Hey, you
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: can't rig anything, but they're like, Hey, let's make the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: mound this way. Cause we got the maze coming and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: he slipped.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Todd, what was your first year?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: The only thing I agree with is in front of
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: home plate, they went in that thing like nobody's business
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: on a sinker ball or something like that. Other than that,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: they're not going to tiptoe with the mound. I think
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: that's Bush League in my opinion.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Because they're trying to get another advantage and all of
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: a sudden somebody slips and actually hurts themselves.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think that would be very smart.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying– they're not tinkering with it. They're
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: not doing anything that's like– they're just not doing the extra.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: From what I've heard, the grounds crew in Milwaukee adds
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: extra clay. When I say extra clay, they just take
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: it out farther so that he has a solid place
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: to land. Now when he's going into other places, you
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: see the grounds crew come out. I think it's been–
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: the one game it was two or three times the
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: grounds crew came out in– I want to say Oakland,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: but it may have been Anaheim. Don't quote me on that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: They're extending the clay because the part where he's landing
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: is either too wet or it's not that tacky clay.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: So why would– if he goes in to play the Braves,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: why would the Braves take a call from Major League
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Baseball and be like, hey, Major League Baseball says we're
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: supposed to extend how far we put our clay out there? Like–
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: To me, I think it definitely is a gamesmanship. I
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: don't know if it's Bush League or not. They're not
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: shortening it because they're like, well, the Miz is coming in,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: so we're going to shorten the clay area. I just
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: don't think they're extending it out. Like, for instance, Derek
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Jeter's last year, when we went in to play the Yankees,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: the grass in the infield– Because Jeter's range was not
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: like it was before. The grass in the infield was
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: like playing on Notre Dame's football field. It was like
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: this long. And they were like, well, it's because of
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: all the wear and tear. And you would hit a
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: ground ball in there and you couldn't get a ground
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: ball through the infield because it was so thick. So
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I think teams would do it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: You're saying they were trying to counter Derek Jeter's lack
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of range at that point?
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yep.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Yes. And so you're making the field conducive to exactly
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: what you said. Sinker baller. Brandon Webb would come in
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: with his massive sinker baller. It was like a puddle
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: in front. Your first hit, you would bang, hit it
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: right into the dirt. It would go nowhere.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Where.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I remember teams on the Astro turf, Minnesota Twins, Christian Guzman,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: he would just go, boom, and the ball would bounce
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: over the third baseman's head off the turf. I think
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: it is fully within the realm, and you're asking, does
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: it happen? I saw pitching coaches tip groundskeepers very well
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: to manipulate what the field looks like for certain guys' starts.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Wow, I've never heard of that. That's interesting to me.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: God bless.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: And you're like, Todd's like, wait, what could I have done?
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Could I have asked them to mow third base a
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: little bit longer? Like leave it go a little bit longer?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Slow the ball down a little bit for you? Get
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: that DRS up a little bit?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I always used to mess with the guys when they
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: come in between every three innings. Like, yo, man, you
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: missed a spot here. It'd be like that big.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: We would have a few left.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: You had the opposite. They were screwing you because... No,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: they weren't.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I just didn't. I was not good at third. I
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: was okay.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: All right, let's roll through all of the already fun
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that we have here. First of all, there was a
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: tweet that went viral of somebody who bought tickets for
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Dodgers Angels in 2025, and then they were saying they
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: won't buy any more Angels tickets as long as Artie
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Moreno's owner. So one of the ticket reps goes right
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: after the sale with an email to this person and says, hello,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Artie has officially sold the team. Please let me know
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: if you'd be interested in attending games in the future.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: They're working off commission, Kratz. That's brilliant.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: That's brilliant. My guy's on the hustle. He is hustling
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: to get some extra sales, but... Good for that person.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Whoever sent the email, good for them. They're like, you
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: know what? Hey, you said this. Now the person's like,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: maybe I will come to a game.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I wish the title was Ding Dong, the witch is gone.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Come back to the ballpark.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Go for it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: If you're going to go for it, go for it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Get his attention.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Next up, Danny Vietti pointing out the contracts given out,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the largest ones during Marino's tenure, right? It's not like
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he never spent, but 426.5 over 12 years for Trout. Rendon,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: 7245 was a buyout. Pujols, 10240, DFA'd. Josh Hamilton, 5125 traded.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: 5106 for Upton, released. And then some others below $ 100
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: million that did not work out too well. Torrey Hunter
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: was fine. And Weaver had his moment. CJ Wilson got hurt.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: That was a while back. Lastly, Joe Pompliano, who we'll
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: probably talk to a lot this offseason. He's a biz dude,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: biz reporter. Posting about what the Angel Stadium lease looks like.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Zero dollars in rent paid annually. $ 415, 000 in net revenue
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: sharing over 30 years. No right to inspect the stadium
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: for upkeep and multiple extension options at no additional cost.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Talk about the worst deal of all time. And remember,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Artie Moreno got in trouble for trying to bribe some
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: past mayor who got in trouble. I mean, the way
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: that deal looks means to me that someone else was
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: bribed a long time ago. What is in it for
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the city? You own the thing and you don't make
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a dime off of it? I don't get it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: It's crazy. 30 years, $ 415, 000. Just so people know, that's
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: a great deal for Angels ownership. The city of Anaheim
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: is like, dang it, we're cooked. And I think that
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: area is an awesome area. So $ 415, 000 in 30 years
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: is what they've made.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: That is wild.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: That's wild.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: That's insane.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you rent it, you don't own it. Yeah,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you pay some rent, millions of dollars. $ 415, 000 for 30 years. Hey,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: newsy stuff. Ken said, next homestand, we might get Aaron
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Judge back. That was on Fair Territory today, and then
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Ken will be on the show on Friday. That's very soon.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: That actually gives you a good chunk of time to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: get right.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Love that.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Swings in.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Love that. Fingers crossed. Oh, we got video.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got video.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: This is great for me.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Look at what they're doing.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Look at all the– we got cameras. We got track man.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: We got two rehabbing Yankees. We got– They're in the
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: mountains right there.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: They found a spot in the mountains.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, wait, wait. For people who don't know because they
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: don't watch games because the team's been irrelevant, oh, that
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: was Anaheim. What a beautiful backdrop, by the way.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: That looks like a movie shoot.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: It looked like Judd was snoring in a movie.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I thought it was in one of the.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Spring training games. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Spring training backfield.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Aaron, we're doing a commercial. Actually, just kidding. We're just
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: tracking our pitchers.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: He's going to need those at-bats. He's going to need
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: those at-bats. You can do track man all you want,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: but I bet he's standing in on other people's bullpens too.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Just get that timing. I know I needed that timing.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Very few hitters. I'm still looking for that timing, but
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: you need it. You need it.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Still here for a few.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Stay awake.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Give me three minutes. Dodgers territory live in three minutes.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And actually, you know what they're going to talk about.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: What's up with Otani? So is he going to pitch?
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And now he doesn't look right at the plate. They're
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: definitely going to give him a little blow, a little break.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Is it going to be a couple days? Is it
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: going to be an IELTS stint? Anything can happen. I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: think there's a lot on the table here. Because we've
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: gotten past the point of, hey, how much of a
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: factor can he be on the mound in the postseason?
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: And they still do think he can do that. But
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, this is from Fabi Nardia from The Athletic yesterday.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Doc said he noticed Otani looking off physically, called it
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg with what he's seen out
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: of him lately. Said he expects to talk to him tomorrow,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: which is today, about how he's feeling and downplayed the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: idea of an ILL stint with Shohei. Well, that's also
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Kratz because he's going to downplay it. Otani's going to
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: be like, nah, Trick, I'm not doing that. And Andrew
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Friedman said Tuesday he believes Otani is going to pitch
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: again this season, but no update on when his next
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: bullpen session will be. And Friedman said, we will get
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: him in a game at some point.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: When?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly yet. And it's not September 20th.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's September 3rd.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I see him. I see him. Let's get the guy ready.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: to throw an inning as an opener for the playoffs. Like,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: that's it. That's the only way it works. There's no
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: way they stretch him back out to be a full-blown starter,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: but maybe he can come back. But, I mean, Dave
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Roberts is the guy. He's got to look at his body,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: his mannerisms, the way he's walking around, the way he's moving.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: He's got to be the one to say, we've got
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: to sit you down. I don't think Otani wants to
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: sit down. He wants to be out there.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: He needs the offseason quicker than a lot of people.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Mm-mm.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I don't want him to, but I'm saying he needs it.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Everybody's gassed right now. A dude that does everything has
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: to be gassed.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: I got kids that are dying to play fall baseball,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: and I told them, no, stop. Go play a different sport, please.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Not big on playing hundreds of games for kids, too, either. Sorry,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Shohei and 12- and 13-year-olds are the same.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: They don't get it. You need time off.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Todd Frazier, Dave Roberts. Same, same. But really, it is
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: like you're trying to help them and coach them. Dave Roberts,
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  Speaker 3: this is where he makes his money. Sorry, Shohei. If
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  Speaker 3: I think you need to sit down, we're going to
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: have this conversation. He's got to be the eyes there.
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  Speaker 3: Good for him.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: If only there was a show to keep talking about this.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Or you don't care, and that's okay. You can hate watch.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Or there are 25 total team shows within the FT network.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: that you can check out which team is yours. Maybe
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: one of yours is a team that's missing and we're
• 34:31
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• 34:38
  Speaker 1: this same crew back on Friday, no show Monday. So
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: it would be our last show for a few days.
• 34:44
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• 34:52
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• 34:54
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• 34:57
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• 35:01
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• 35:05
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• 35:08
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