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Padres winter report w/Kevin Acee: Overblown Tatís trade rumors, Darvish’s future, Luis Arráez’s market · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Here comes Kevin Acey from the San Diego Union Tribune,
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  Speaker 1: back on ft big part of the offseason and breaking
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  Speaker 1: news out there in San Diego, the Darvish story. Mike Schildt,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to all of that, Kevin. Great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: I actually want to start with the topic that came
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  Speaker 1: up in our conversation with Ken Rosenthal yesterday. Does everyone
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  Speaker 1: hate Luisa Rise around baseball? Not the person he's very
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  Speaker 1: fun loving, but his game. We haven't heard a peep
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  Speaker 1: about him. He's one of my favorite players. I know
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  Speaker 1: his flaws, but he also has a significant strength. Your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on him and what you see happening.
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  Speaker 2: Here, well, since you opened the door, I'll say, one
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  Speaker 2: of the most joyous people that.
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  Speaker 3: I've ever covered.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think he'll be back for the Padres
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  Speaker 2: though clearly Luis is going to have to decide what
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  Speaker 2: kind of contract he wants, and so I guess maybe
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  Speaker 2: the Patres could be an option at a certain price.
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  Speaker 2: But I will miss him. He brings incredible value to
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  Speaker 2: a team when he is Luise A Rise. Last year,
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  Speaker 2: he was not Luisa Rise. That's just a fact, and
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  Speaker 2: they kept him in the number two hole.
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  Speaker 3: And it hurt them.
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  Speaker 2: Now the year before, they probably don't make the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: without Luise a Rise.
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  Speaker 3: So the guy definitely has value.
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  Speaker 2: But clearly what MLB thinks about him is probably is reflected,
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  Speaker 2: not only in the fact that you know he did
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  Speaker 2: win those three batting titles with three different teams, and
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  Speaker 2: then this offseason certainly somewhat predictable, but slower probably than
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  Speaker 2: anyone did imagine that it would be for a guy
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  Speaker 2: who has accomplished what he has.
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  Speaker 4: What he does is incredible and it's not appreciated in
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  Speaker 4: the game. But you watched him. He played one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty four games last year, what did you see
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  Speaker 4: his deficiency? As obviously we know about the power, but
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  Speaker 4: how like he came up in spots and he didn't
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  Speaker 4: win a batting title, and I guess you don't have power.
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  Speaker 4: People think you have to win a batting title. But
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  Speaker 4: he hit two ninety two, So I'm pretty sure that's
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  Speaker 4: okay that last I checked. But when you watched him
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  Speaker 4: come up to the plate in the situation around all
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  Speaker 4: the other guys that they had in that lineup, what
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  Speaker 4: did you see other teams do like, ah, we got
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  Speaker 4: this guy, this is an out and he might get
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  Speaker 4: it hit, but this is fine.
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  Speaker 2: I think that they they had and I hate to
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  Speaker 2: break it down like this. I mean, I wrote like
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  Speaker 2: ten different stories on what's wrong with Louisa Rise or
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  Speaker 2: what's right with Louisa Rise, and I think I came
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  Speaker 2: to the conclusion the guy didn't have the same kind
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  Speaker 2: of good fortune. I didn't use the word luck on
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  Speaker 2: purpose because I don't want to make it sound like
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  Speaker 2: he was just this lucky player.
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  Speaker 3: Clearly he wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: He has an amazing skill, but they maybe they played
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  Speaker 2: him better though I didn't notice that in particular in
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  Speaker 2: terms of but they were where the ball was for
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  Speaker 2: Luisa Rise. Now the guys and I forget what it was.
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  Speaker 2: But his on base percentage was extremely disappointing, and so
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  Speaker 2: the batting average was whatever, that would be twenty points
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  Speaker 2: lower than his career or than the previous couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: The on base percentage was probably twenty thirty points lower
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  Speaker 2: than it was.
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  Speaker 3: So he's not when he's not hitting, he.
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  Speaker 2: Is not providing the value that you need, especially near
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  Speaker 2: the top of the order. But honestly, you don't track
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  Speaker 2: Luise Rise by that speed. You don't track him by
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  Speaker 2: play discipline, you don't track him by exit velocity.
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  Speaker 3: So he's just this sort of unicorn.
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  Speaker 2: And when he had a bad year and Mike Schuldt
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  Speaker 2: continued to have that faith in him, one of the
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  Speaker 2: strengths of Mike Shilt as a manager, and that that
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  Speaker 2: faith ultimately.
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  Speaker 3: Was not justified.
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  Speaker 5: Kevin News on you, Darvish. Is he retiring? Is he
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  Speaker 5: not retiring? Or the Padres buying him out? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I played with you, Darvis in twenty thirteen, and I
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  Speaker 5: know he's been great in San Diego, not only on
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  Speaker 5: the Mount when he's been on the mound, but also
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  Speaker 5: in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 6: Is he retiring?
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  Speaker 5: And then I read something where oh, he might take
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  Speaker 5: the year off and accept a bio maybe then come
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  Speaker 5: back in twenty seven and renegotiate what the heck is
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  Speaker 5: happening with you, Darvish.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I want to be upfront and say that I
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  Speaker 2: should not have used the word retired in my original story.
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  Speaker 2: I knew better you Darvish is not ready to say
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  Speaker 2: that that he's retired. You know, there's a difference between
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  Speaker 2: other people saying, you know, yeah, you's retiring and a
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  Speaker 2: guy officially retiring. And so I aired in being definitive
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  Speaker 2: about that, which I quickly corrected the rest of the story,
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  Speaker 2: and I was to some extent purposely vague. But I said,
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  Speaker 2: you Darvish is walking away from his contract, and that
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  Speaker 2: will prove to be true. That is true, what form
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  Speaker 2: that comes in, And that's where I was purposely vague.
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  Speaker 2: No one either can or will tell me. And it
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  Speaker 2: does seem that there still have to be some decisions
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  Speaker 2: made on what that looks like. The unions involved, Joel
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  Speaker 2: Wolf and Wasserman his agency are involved, but Potters are involved.
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  Speaker 2: You Darbish obviously as the guy who gets to make
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  Speaker 2: the decision. But what is clear is that you Darvish,
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  Speaker 2: who by the way, gave back or you know, didn't
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  Speaker 2: get paid I think four million dollars in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four when he voluntarily went on the restricted list because
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  Speaker 2: he did not think it was right that he was
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  Speaker 2: taking money when he was attending to a personal matter.
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  Speaker 2: He does not believe that this money, this forty three
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  Speaker 2: forty six million bad with numbers today it's still the
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  Speaker 2: off season, thankfully, But this forty something million that he
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  Speaker 2: is due over the next three years, which is one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent his right to collect and plenty of guys
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  Speaker 2: have done it, and plenty of guys will do it,
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  Speaker 2: but you does not think that he, if he doesn't play,
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  Speaker 2: should collect that that money. And so you, darbish, will
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  Speaker 2: be giving back or forfeiting or avoiding his contract. Now
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  Speaker 2: what that means, buy out restructure of some sort, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. But the fact is that you, Darvish, is
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  Speaker 2: going to walk away from this contract.
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  Speaker 4: When you said you're purposely being vague, can you explain
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  Speaker 4: that a little bit more? Is that the whole premise
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  Speaker 4: of purposely being vague?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for that. Yes, it was because we don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly don't know, but the people I'm talking to
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  Speaker 2: claim to not know exactly what this is going to
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  Speaker 2: look like.
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  Speaker 3: And look, I didn't want to work on Saturday. I
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  Speaker 3: was playing pickleball. This is something I'd been.
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  Speaker 2: Following for a couple months, as you sort of went
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  Speaker 2: back and forth and gathered his information, talked with his people,
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  Speaker 2: talked with the padres, and suddenly it came that on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning, it was Okay, this thing that you know
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  Speaker 2: we've been talking about, it's going to happen. And but
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  Speaker 2: all that we really know is you, Darvish, is walking away,
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  Speaker 2: the potters will realize the savings, which is something by
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  Speaker 2: the way that they've been budgeting for.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like that's you.
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  Speaker 2: Darvish has let them know this is what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever moves the pottery's ULTI make before spring training,
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  Speaker 2: probably during spring training, be that bolster their rotation sign
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  Speaker 2: that first basement designated hitter that will partially come from you,
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  Speaker 4: All right, well you kind of answered it, but can
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  Speaker 4: you give us a little bit of the background of like,
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  Speaker 4: when you have a conversation, you had it directly with you.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, I have talked with you a few times about this.
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  Speaker 2: I did not talk to you on on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: How how is he communicating his next steps in the
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  Speaker 4: sense of like, is it oh man, like, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: just done? Or is it I'm done, Like I don't have.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have what it takes to rehab this like
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  Speaker 4: and I'm totally content with it because we rarely get
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  Speaker 4: to see inside a player's thought process as the final
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  Speaker 4: days of his career are coming.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think i'd be speaking out a turn to
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  Speaker 2: say that that you is not like at peace with
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  Speaker 2: being done because of clearly his social media posts and
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  Speaker 2: the wake of my story and what he has said,
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  Speaker 2: which is that he is I believe. In a Japanese
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  Speaker 2: session with fans, he said that he was going to
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  Speaker 2: forfeit at least twenty twenty six, but he in his
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  Speaker 2: ex post he said that he's leaning.
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  Speaker 3: Toward avoiding the contract.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the semantics of that is, it's clear that you
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  Speaker 2: and I've been told.
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  Speaker 3: Look, i'll phrase this, this was on the record. You
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  Speaker 3: and I talked that.
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  Speaker 2: You said he can't think about playing baseball right now.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to get his body right, not just the elbow,
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  Speaker 2: but his body's thirty nine. He has been doing this
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  Speaker 2: a long time. He's compensated for some things with the
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  Speaker 2: elbow on. He needs to get his body right. He
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  Speaker 2: has seven children. His son's about to start playing at UCSD.
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  Speaker 2: He needs time with the family. He can't think about
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  Speaker 2: playing baseball right now. But he's not willing to say
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  Speaker 2: that it's over because he knows himself and this is
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  Speaker 2: what he's been doing for his whole life, uh, virtually,
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  Speaker 2: and that he knows that at some point that eight
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  Speaker 2: will come back to play, and so if his body
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  Speaker 2: is able, he may want to play. And I've had
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  Speaker 2: some people and look, there's a small circle of people
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  Speaker 2: that really know what you's thinking. And I've had some
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  Speaker 2: of those people talk about all sorts of possibilities including
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  Speaker 2: you darbish, you know, uh coming back to MLB on
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  Speaker 2: a on a minor league deal in spring training in
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  Speaker 2: some future years, and that no one really does think
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  Speaker 2: that that you. Darvish has said to himself, all right,
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  Speaker 2: that's it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm done. I think you has actually made that clear.
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  Speaker 6: Can they get the money back? I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if he says I avoid can I mean
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  Speaker 5: when they want the Padres wanted him to do this
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  Speaker 5: sooner than later, because I'm not exactly the number he's making,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm assuming it's around twenty ish million, if not
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  Speaker 5: more than the.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so then they can say, hey, we can use
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  Speaker 6: that towards.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, that's something that they have have sort
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  Speaker 2: of unofficially budgeted for twenty twenty six and beyond. Is
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  Speaker 2: this money. This has been an ongoing thing where you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a big decision for you. So it's not like
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  Speaker 2: you know, he has I don't know if I want
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  Speaker 2: to say, gone back and forth or whatever, but he
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  Speaker 2: has not been definitive to them and tell recently that
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  Speaker 2: this is definitely going to be the case that they
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  Speaker 2: are going to get money back.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, then didn't ask this question, what did the
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: Padres need with the money?
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  Speaker 6: What do they need?
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  Speaker 5: Is this team enough with Musgrove coming back and Mason
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  Speaker 5: Miller at the back end and some of the other things.
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  Speaker 5: Is this team good enough to compete with or without
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  Speaker 5: the money from you, Darvish?
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  Speaker 2: I think that they could be a playoff team, but
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  Speaker 2: what is that even saying anymore? Right, Like, they're a
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  Speaker 2: contending team. Six teams make the playoffs in the National League.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that with Joe coming back, with Nick Pavetta,
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  Speaker 2: with Michael King coming back, Randy Vasquez is a guy
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  Speaker 2: that you're gonna end up talking about at some point
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  Speaker 2: this year because like he's a really good three or
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  Speaker 2: four starter he is.
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  Speaker 3: Now that leaves, they got.
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  Speaker 2: Depth problems, both starting pitching and position player. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like I probably have as big a reservations about this
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  Speaker 2: team in terms of their depth, and they you could
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  Speaker 2: argue that they've had depth issues every year. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could argue that everyone but the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: has depth issues. But like, I wonder, where is this
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  Speaker 2: going to come from? And you have two guys that
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  Speaker 2: are facing legacy years and Fernando Tatis Junior and Manny Machado.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're two of the best players to ever
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  Speaker 2: play this game, but like they need to step up
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  Speaker 2: and have the kind of years that they're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: have that they're being paid to have.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of questions about this team. Who is
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  Speaker 3: behind them.
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  Speaker 2: And who's behind you know, Xander Bogart, Jake Cronaworth, Gavin Sheets. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you need another first basement and you need a designated hitter.
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  Speaker 3: Are those the same guy?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, then you need another extra outfielder so they
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  Speaker 2: have a power deficiency unless obviously Fernando and Manny have
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  Speaker 2: those types of years that I've talked about, and they
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  Speaker 2: do not have a first basement right now because you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to as good as he was and what
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  Speaker 2: he proved. You're not running Gavin Sheets out there every
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  Speaker 2: day to play first base.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Every I feel like every off season or
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  Speaker 4: even part way through the year, you hears some rumor
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  Speaker 4: and I think it's started by other teams, But can
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  Speaker 4: you confirm that there's zero or one chance they would
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  Speaker 4: have shopped Fernando Tatis.
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  Speaker 3: Zero for now?
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  Speaker 2: You notice that that's been basically the caveat is for now,
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  Speaker 2: Like first off the team is for sale. Whether that
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  Speaker 2: comes happens or not, it depends on who you ask
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  Speaker 2: right now. But let's assume it's for sale, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: we can't say what's gonna happen in the future. But
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  Speaker 2: the fact is they they have boxed themselves to a
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  Speaker 2: certain extent.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Whenever I say that I got to give the
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  Speaker 3: asterisk of aj.
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  Speaker 2: Preller, he finds a way to build this team and
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  Speaker 2: fit it within whatever budget you've given. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: is that they're going to be paying Xander Bogarts and
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  Speaker 2: Manny Machado some big money in the future, and those
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  Speaker 2: guys are probably unmovable for Nano.
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  Speaker 3: Tatis Junior is very movable. If there's a.
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  Speaker 2: Piece in the future where this team has to and
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  Speaker 2: this is a gigantic if. All right, it's like capital
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  Speaker 2: if italicize bold, if.
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  Speaker 3: They have to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Fernando Tatis Junior is the guy that goes and yes
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  Speaker 2: he has no trade. Those are those those can be
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  Speaker 2: worked out, should be noted, but those can be worked out,
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  Speaker 2: zero zero chance. Believe me, I have embarrassed myself how
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  Speaker 2: many times I've asked people in the organization because this
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  Speaker 2: rumor comes up so often and you just can't rule
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  Speaker 2: anything out. So even though I knew it was zero,
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  Speaker 2: like I've asked until we're less than zero like that,
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  Speaker 2: he was not going to be traded this offseason.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't That doesn't mean after opening days, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: How about this, I'll give you. I'll give you trade deadline.
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  Speaker 3: I doubt it.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, I hate doing this because in today's day and age,
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  Speaker 2: you know how these things take off.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying it will happen. I do not think
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  Speaker 3: it will happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think that what they have built in San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: with the fans like that's a precious thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that when.
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  Speaker 2: You're building a team, you've got to make it the
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  Speaker 2: best team you can, regardless of what the fans are
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  Speaker 2: gonna think. Fernando Tautist Junior is like the guy in
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  Speaker 2: San Diego. Yes, Manny Machado, people love him, Att Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: Merrill working his way up there, Joe Musco, But Fernando
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  Speaker 2: Tatis Junior is the guy there.
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  Speaker 3: Would what the.
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  Speaker 2: Padres have built in this small market, with the fans,
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  Speaker 2: with the sellouts, with the passion that is unprecedented in
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  Speaker 2: this town for the Padres, that is all at risk
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  Speaker 2: if they get rid of Fernando Tatis Junior.
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  Speaker 3: I do not believe Fernando Tatis Junior will be moved.
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  Speaker 2: I am in the business of it doesn't really matter
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  Speaker 2: what I believe.
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  Speaker 3: The facts are. He could be moved at some time.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, just so you know how media works in social media, Kevin,
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  Speaker 5: Now we're gonna clip this, and we're gonna clip it,
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  Speaker 5: and then the headline that's gonna say Kevin Acey says
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  Speaker 5: Fernando Tatis will be moved at trade deadline. Now we're
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  Speaker 5: not gonna be year. We're not gonna put what year.
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  Speaker 5: It could be twenty thirty, but you said it. So congratulations.
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  Speaker 5: You're the first guy to say the Padres. Now everyone
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  Speaker 5: in San Diego hate you. But now, so that's why
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  Speaker 5: I spoke the way I did.
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  Speaker 3: I was all over the place, and I was doing.
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  Speaker 6: But purpose the while knowing that all.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: That many people would see is the headline.
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: So you're purposely vague, right, isn't that your word? Purposely vague?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I love that strategy.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: That's small part. It's smart.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: Now, two guys that the San Diego people love, maybe
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: more than Fernando Tatis is dog Don Orcillo in Mud Grant, okay,
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: and they have a bubblehead coming out of them. Two
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: in Don's miniyacht, as he calls it. Can someone explain
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: to me where they got the picture of Don Orsilo
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: because that does not look like Don Riscilo. I am sorry,
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: that is way too young for Don. I text him
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: the same thing. I said, I need one of these.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: But who did they get to stand in for your model?
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Can we talk to the patres and find out who
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: modeled for Donalrisilo?
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah? And I'm looking close like both Don and Mud
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: have you know, trimmed up.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: They really have. They're taking care of themselves.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, but that's pretty spelt there for for Donna as
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: well for being honest.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Right, I mean, come on, just I'm looking at it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: And by the way, that miniacht has a weight limit.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: That's why Donal'll never take me in it. And if
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: he puts him in Mud in it, it might sink
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: still because I think the weight limit is like two
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty pounds, so they maybe should have made
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: the boat a little bigger.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I'm saying I did.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I was unclear that Mud had ever been on there
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: because of that particular thing. But I'm telling you I
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: saw Mud on Sunday. Mud looks great. Uh so, yeah,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: far better than Dawn. I mean, I can't believe that
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: they let him get away with that.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: That bubble head.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: I love it. I love it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: It's amazing, it's amazing, It's gonna be awesome. They're the best,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: They're one of the best. I'm not gonna say they're
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: the best duo that happens in Major League Baseball, but
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: they are definitely at the top. They have fun, they laugh,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: and I've done many games with Don Ricillo. I only
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: have one complaint. Scott knows my complaint. Padres broadcast booth
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: and Crats is gonna be like, what are you talking about?
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Is the only one in MLB where it's backwards. So
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: in every broadcast booth, the play by play guy sits
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: to my left, okay, And in San Diego, for some reason,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: the play by play guy sits to your right. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: now I'm like Zoolander. I'm not a very good Ambi turner,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: so I can't go right right. So I'm always like, oh,
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: and there's a wall there, so I don't know why
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: they did it that way, But it's the only one
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: that I know of an MLB words backwards.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I'll look into it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Okay, thank you. Next column, Why is the San Diego
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Broadcast booth backwards?
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Is that just for TV? Yeah?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Because radio? When I did radio, play by play guy
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: was always to my right. But I guess that doesn't matter.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: You just set up wherever you want.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know. It's weird just San Diego, Scott.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I think you've done games there, and I think it's
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: because the stat guy, the way they built the booth
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: has to be on the right, otherwise he's reaching over
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: you with his cards for the play by play guy.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: But it's just strange. I don't know.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Actually I haven't. I've done sideline there, I have not
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: done play by power there. I didn't do any games there,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: so I don't even remember if I went up to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the booth. Probably not, but that's good to know. That
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: would have made me super confused.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's Arcillo's good side. Maybe he's the one who
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: started this.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: That's a good point. I didn't know that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Well, Kevin, always a pleasure catching up with you. We
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: love your info. Really great cracking into some news this offseason.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Love reading it, so thanks for joining us. Appreciate the time.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: We'll catch it soon.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you, guys. Take care,