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Ump Show Virality + Braves checkup: Acuña soon? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I think that the answers have to be Austin Riley
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  Speaker 1: and Matt Olson and Marcelo Zuna and Ozzie Alby's and
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  Speaker 1: Michael Harris. It's a multiple choice question, but maybe there
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  Speaker 1: aren't any wrong answers.
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  Speaker 2: Graham McCauley joining us right now to do a little
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  Speaker 2: Braves talk. You can hear him on ninety two nine
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  Speaker 2: the game down in atl also host of from the
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  Speaker 2: Diamond talking Braves all the time.
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  Speaker 3: So great, great to have you back on.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of the weekend for the Braves,
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  Speaker 2: which felt long, especially.
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  Speaker 3: With the delay on what was that Saturday night?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like four hours and fifteen minutes worth
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  Speaker 1: of weather related delays. I don't think anybody signed up
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  Speaker 1: for that. But by the time we got to Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I think the Braves just needed a win in whatever
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  Speaker 1: form that it would take, and that I feel like
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  Speaker 1: had kind of erased a little bit of the goodwill
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  Speaker 1: that they've been building up with four consecutive series wins
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  Speaker 1: and really three better weeks of baseball after their zero
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  Speaker 1: and seven start, But they were able to salvage that finale.
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  Speaker 1: They do have four game games against the Reds, which
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  Speaker 1: will be a tough team rolling in, so they're going
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  Speaker 1: to try to rebuild that momentum and just keep grinding
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  Speaker 1: it out. I think until they can get ron Lacuney
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  Speaker 1: Junior Spencer Strider back and maybe finally get a gauge
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  Speaker 1: on what exactly this team can be this year.
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  Speaker 4: What if when Ronald lcunyr Junior comes back, it's not
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  Speaker 4: the shot in the arm that they're looking for. Isn't
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  Speaker 4: are the answers in this lineup currently? If we're just
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  Speaker 4: going to talk about the lineup because of the pitching staff,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, I don't know. I feel like the
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  Speaker 4: Braves watching from Afar. They always just bring somebody up,
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  Speaker 4: whether he's going to be a historic pitcher for the
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  Speaker 4: rest of his career or not. You only get one
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  Speaker 4: of those per year, and they have that in Spencer Schwellbach.
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  Speaker 4: But you sit there and you go the current guys
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  Speaker 4: in the lineup. Can't expect Ronald l'cooney Jr. To come
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  Speaker 4: and hit thirty and steal thirty? No, I think that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: And I talked about this on my show on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: about you got to temper expectations at least a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: because we have seen this show before where Ronald does
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  Speaker 1: come back from a year long ruling rehab process, he
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  Speaker 1: pushed himself a lot harder, i'd say, last time, to
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  Speaker 1: get back as soon as possible, Whereas I think the
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  Speaker 1: team and Ronald are trying to learn a little bit
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  Speaker 1: from that and bring him back on a timetable that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily put the weight to the world on him.
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  Speaker 1: He's not walking through the door to save the season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a fair expectation from him, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how good he is. But I do feel like
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  Speaker 1: at this point you have to temper your expectations because
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  Speaker 1: this is the second knee injury. You know that the
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  Speaker 1: last one, he didn't come back as a super nova.
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  Speaker 1: It took a year for him to get back to
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  Speaker 1: that status. But he's only going to make the club
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  Speaker 1: better in my eyes, in whatever way that can be,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's the emotional lift, the on field lift, just
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the overall energy that comes with adding
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  Speaker 1: one of the best players in baseball back to your team.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, Eric, I think that the answers have
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  Speaker 1: to be Austin Riley and Matt Olson and Marcello Zuna
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  Speaker 1: and Ozzie Alby's of Michael Harris. It's a multiple choice question,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe there aren't any wrong answers. But they've got
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  Speaker 1: to get all these guys going in conjunction. That's really
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  Speaker 1: been the hard part since I would say about a
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  Speaker 1: calendar year ago. They started out really well three four
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  Speaker 1: weeks into the season last year and then it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of ground to a hunt. Offensively, they've got some
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  Speaker 1: pitching questions which we can get into, but if they're
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  Speaker 1: scoring runs the way that they're capable of, I think
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  Speaker 1: it'll answer a lot of the questions for the team
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  Speaker 1: as a whole.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe in like, oh, he was playing way
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  Speaker 4: better than over expectations, like you only play up to
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  Speaker 4: your best level. And twenty twenty three is what the
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  Speaker 4: Atlanta fans and even probably players are going to look
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  Speaker 4: at and say, this is our lineup, this is what
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  Speaker 4: we should do. We should have seven starting players in
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  Speaker 4: the All Star Game. Is that an aberration? Is that
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  Speaker 4: an aberration because besides Ozzy Albis who was hurt part
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  Speaker 4: of that year, they were healthy and playing every single day.
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  Speaker 4: Is that just is that too much of an expectation
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  Speaker 4: or have they just completely fallen short of that, and
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  Speaker 4: that is what the expectation should be in Atlanta for
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  Speaker 4: those core five guys.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's an easy answer to that question. Aberration,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not outlier, Perhaps is fair. I mean, they're the
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  Speaker 1: only team that has a collective slugged five hundred for
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  Speaker 1: a season, which is still a crazy stat to wrap
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  Speaker 1: your head around. But the pieces are all there. These
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  Speaker 1: guys are in the primes of their career. Yes, they've
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  Speaker 1: dealt with some injuries. Ozzie, of course, Ronald last year
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  Speaker 1: was just an insane, just domino effect of everybody seemed
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  Speaker 1: to spend a month or two or more on the
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  Speaker 1: injured list. But you look at Austin Reiley, you have
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  Speaker 1: expectations of him of thirty and one hundred. You look
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  Speaker 1: at Matt Olsen the same expectations. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to pile it on to Ozzie based on
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  Speaker 1: what we've seen the last couple of years or Ronald
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  Speaker 1: coming off of injury, that's fair. Michael Harris, though, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like has been kind of a mercurial player. He'll
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  Speaker 1: go through some real doldrums and then he'll break out
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  Speaker 1: and be one of the best hitters on the team
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  Speaker 1: for half a year, so they've just kind of put
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  Speaker 1: all that together with the Sean Murphys. Alex Erdugo has
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  Speaker 1: a role to play here now with Jerks and Profar
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  Speaker 1: not coming back for at least a couple of three
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  Speaker 1: more months. That's It's I don't know that there's any
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  Speaker 1: easy answers for the Braves, but you do you like
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  Speaker 1: when you look at these guys that there is another level.
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  Speaker 1: What that level is though, I don't know if it'll
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  Speaker 1: ever be twenty twenty three again, but it should be
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  Speaker 1: better than we've seen over the last thirteen or so months.
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  Speaker 5: What about the pitching, well, Chris Sale hasn't gone off
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  Speaker 5: to a great star, Schwellenbach has has been okay, was good,
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  Speaker 5: He's kind of got beat up. Bryce Older has been
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  Speaker 5: really good for him. The bullpen's been kind of back
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  Speaker 5: and forth. Where's the pitching? Hell? Do we still believe
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  Speaker 5: that the Braves are going to have great pitching by
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  Speaker 5: the end of this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a very interesting question, Aja, because you look at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the subtractions from this club. We see what
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  Speaker 1: Max Freed is doing in New York and even if
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  Speaker 1: him coming back was not something that was in the cards.
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  Speaker 1: What we're going to be the pieces that were going
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  Speaker 1: to be in place in order to cover that loss.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the answer to that obviously would be
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Strider, who unfortunately came back for all the five
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  Speaker 1: innings and landed right back on the injured list. Schwellenbach,
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  Speaker 1: I think will figure it out. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: maybe the first big league adversity that he's faced because
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  Speaker 1: he is a stripe thrower, he does have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pitches. Maybe there are some things for him to
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  Speaker 1: work on to get better. Chris Sale has been kind
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  Speaker 1: of an interesting case this year. He's kind of throttled
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  Speaker 1: the velocity up and down. The Slider's still getting swings
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  Speaker 1: and misses, but his off speed and his fastball have
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  Speaker 1: not really been there for him, especially the way that
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  Speaker 1: they were last year. And then I think you got
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  Speaker 1: questions at the back of the rotation. Can Bryce Elder
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  Speaker 1: help right now? Certainly is he the answer? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I can buy into that based on his
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  Speaker 1: last thirty big league starts. Grant Holmes has been a
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  Speaker 1: great story. I think he's doing the best he can,
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  Speaker 1: but there's still an obvious void in the rotation with
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  Speaker 1: no Raynaldo Lopez and two obvious voids in the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: because you lost aj Minter who then got hurt for
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  Speaker 1: the Mets obviously, so maybe that cancels itself out. But
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  Speaker 1: Jo Jimenez is also out for the year, and Ry
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  Speaker 1: sol Leglesias has looked very human this year. So I
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  Speaker 1: think there are a lot of pitching questions. It should improve.
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  Speaker 1: They should be looking at the deadline or whenever they
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  Speaker 1: can add to this mix if they want to, really,
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  Speaker 1: I think amp up their chances of contending in this
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  Speaker 1: division and pushing into the postseason. But there are more
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  Speaker 1: questions on this pitching staff, I feel like than anytime
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  Speaker 1: I can think of recently in the last six seven
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  Speaker 1: years of their postseason runs.
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  Speaker 4: A month ago, we were still in spring training. A
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  Speaker 4: month before that, it was still the off season. Did
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  Speaker 4: Alexanthopolis do enough to not put their pitching staff in
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  Speaker 4: this situation during the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that they got anything close to done
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  Speaker 1: that they wanted to in the off season. I think
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  Speaker 1: that the Jeff Hoffman thing would have helped. I think
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  Speaker 1: that obviously Tanner Scott can make the club a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better. You can't stop any of these pitchers or
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  Speaker 1: players that you sign and you acquire from maybe getting
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  Speaker 1: hurt on their own once they come over. But if
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  Speaker 1: you looked at the finished product of the off season
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  Speaker 1: shopping and check that cart, and then got to spring
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  Speaker 1: training and looked around to see if you had all
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  Speaker 1: the pieces, I'm not sure that the Braves did or
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  Speaker 1: do right now, and they're having to kind of make do,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the rotation with the injury to Ronaldo Lopez.
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  Speaker 1: The strider thing clearly has been an ongoing problem. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's back in the next week or two. We'll see,
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  Speaker 1: But no, to make a long story very short, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they got done what they wanted to this year,
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  Speaker 1: and losing some key pitchers is tough to overcome because
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  Speaker 1: the internal options are not there the way that they
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  Speaker 1: were four or five, six years ago when they were
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  Speaker 1: really pumping out some of those top pitching prospects, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe longer than that ago, if we really think about it,
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  Speaker 1: with the Freeds and the Kyle Wrights and the Michael
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  Speaker 1: Sorokas and whatnot, Ian Anderson for that matter, they just
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  Speaker 1: don't have that, feel like, that kind of clear answer
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  Speaker 1: in the minor leagues to help him out right now?
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  Speaker 4: Was this an ownership kind of hamstringing him a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: Or was this in Alex Anthopolis Ah not finding value
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  Speaker 4: anywhere because the previous offseason they found value in a
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  Speaker 4: trade for sale, they found value in Renaldo Lopez who
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  Speaker 4: had two cy young seasons for both of those guys,
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  Speaker 4: Or is this did ownership kind of hamstring him a
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  Speaker 4: little bit this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that debt was a factor for sure,
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  Speaker 1: and Alex when we talked to him in his postseason
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  Speaker 1: availability right after they get bounced in the wild card, said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, payroll's gone up every year, we expected to
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: go up this year. Sounded like they had some player
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: options that they were interested in exercising. And then we
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  Speaker 1: started to see or maybe not traded Hore Solai. Okay,
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: maybe he didn't fit. You declined Travis Darnault's option, you
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: don't resign obviously free to mentor reach free agency. That's
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  Speaker 1: a different equation. Then the Tanner Scott thing doesn't work,
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  Speaker 1: he signs with the Dodgers. The Jeff Hoffman thing gets
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  Speaker 1: put to the side because of medical issues, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like they had a little bit of money to
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  Speaker 1: spend at the end, and that's why they did the
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: profile signing. Because they wanted to do something, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure that they even came close to getting it accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think it's just Alexanthopolis decided that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a good team. It could be great, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to spend. I don't really feel like
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like the Alexanthopolis that we've heard from over
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  Speaker 1: the years. He's always looking for value, but at some point,
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd like to have some financial punching power.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know that the Braves have necessarily displayed
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  Speaker 1: that outside of locking down their core to multi year
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  Speaker 1: deals to create a sustainable winner, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: there are some missing pieces, missing parts, and ownership could
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  Speaker 1: certainly help out if they were able to green light
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more spending and punching power financially speaking
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  Speaker 1: for ententopolising company.
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  Speaker 2: And Alex has done a really nice job of getting
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  Speaker 2: creative around the trade deadline, always trying to make transactions
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  Speaker 2: during this season. It is difficult though, with the way
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  Speaker 2: that the farm system is set up for Atlanta right
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  Speaker 2: it's not a loaded farm system for them, So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what happens. Grant We're gonna step aside here, but
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. I'm sure we'll talk down the road too always.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Snee right, we've got a loaded Ump Show segment. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna start with Bill Miller going viral on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: Foul Territory actually picked it up and picked up millions
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  Speaker 2: of views on Twitter x whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 2: so we can actually show you the little clip the.
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  Speaker 1: Call the fields overturned, the runners out Minnesota retains.
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  Speaker 4: I saw that too, gone.
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  Speaker 2: Aj I shed a tear when I saw us post
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  Speaker 2: this because I want umps to care.
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  Speaker 3: You are a human being. He got it wrong. That
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  Speaker 3: was awesome. We caught a hot mic moment. Did you
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  Speaker 3: like it?
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was great. I thought it was honest,
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  Speaker 5: and he's mad at himself for missing it. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: do I wish you would have used the curse words? No,
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  Speaker 5: but as someone that's been called on a hot mic
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  Speaker 5: using a curseword before, you make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes,
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  Speaker 5: So build good on you for doing this and for
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  Speaker 5: me just you know, just make sure you turn your
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  Speaker 5: mic off next time. But it was pure comedy and
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  Speaker 5: it was also pure awesomeness. Because we got to see
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  Speaker 5: how you really felt. And like you said, he was
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  Speaker 5: right there and he missed the call. And it's good
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  Speaker 5: to know that these guys are human and they actually
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  Speaker 5: do care when they make mistakes.
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  Speaker 4: That they actually do care is cool and I like
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  Speaker 4: that part of it. Look, everybody makes mistakes. He didn't
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  Speaker 4: want to make mistakes. And so for anybody who thinks, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you're blowing the game, well are you being paid? Save
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  Speaker 4: that these dudes are professionals. There's a reason at the
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  Speaker 4: level that they are. And he was definitely pissed in himself.
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  Speaker 2: This is why access is important. So the more of
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  Speaker 2: this that we can get, the better. Again, Yeah, are
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  Speaker 2: we going to have you know, many umps leaving their
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  Speaker 2: mics on like that? No, but umps miked up where
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  Speaker 2: we can play it later on, you know, just more
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  Speaker 2: miked up players during a game. I like where it's
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  Speaker 2: miked up and then it gets packaged and then it
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  Speaker 2: gets played out, you know, later on in the broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff like that to me is super cool. I'm all
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 2: People just want to hear what's happening on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Umpires included. So quickly before we move on to I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you guys both know Bill right, Aja, he's been around
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  Speaker 2: for a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hm. He's fun, he's he's all right. He has
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  Speaker 5: his good days and as bad days. He can get
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  Speaker 5: grumpy at times, but I never really had a problem
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  Speaker 5: with him. What's his name, Brett Lowry had a problem
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  Speaker 5: with him and he hit him with his helmet. Remember
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  Speaker 5: that through his helmet. It bounced off of him and
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  Speaker 5: Bill Miller went down like a you know something we
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  Speaker 5: can't say on TV.
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  Speaker 4: He is. He's quiet, and I think sometimes his quietness
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  Speaker 4: is seen as super grumpiness, but he's during the game.
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  Speaker 4: He's not a big chatty guy. But I never had
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  Speaker 4: any problem with Bill. He always had a really you
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  Speaker 4: could tell he always wanted to do well tighter zone.
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  Speaker 2: Some people do have trouble focusing on multiple things at once.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't a knock on him. He might just be
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  Speaker 2: one of those dialed in kind of guys, or maybe
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  Speaker 2: he's just not super talkative or social. But we did
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  Speaker 2: get just a money quote from him, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it actually makes umpires look really good when you hear
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  Speaker 2: something like this. Again, Yeah, the cursing, Sure, do you
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  Speaker 2: want to catch that for the whole audience? You got
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  Speaker 2: the kids there, I get it. But the fact that
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at our replies, I think
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  Speaker 2: there's hundreds of replies on the post and people saying respect.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is what I want out of a
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  Speaker 2: big league umpire. The accountability that stands out.
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  Speaker 4: In Boston though. Two of the words that he said
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  Speaker 4: really aren't even curse words, like they had to bleep
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: out yet. But in Boston the F word is just
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: that's that's actually on the chalkboard in most schools.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kindergartner first grade? Is is it in the curriculum?
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: When do they start first grade?
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: Because they learn it in cursive first they learned how
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: to do the F in cursive.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, beautiful.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's move to someone who's using that word somewhat
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: frequently when it comes to getting into it with an umpire,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Max Scherzer, who's on the sixty day IL so he's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: chilling right now, but he is very animated when games
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: are going on, and C. B. Buckner was off the
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: mark quite a bit. In the first four innings. He
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: missed eleven calls, nine of them went against the Blue Jays,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: So CB got trolled by Max for those listening on
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: the pod later on, he basically would flip a coin
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: aj a fake coin, and then be like, oh, heads, okay,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: strike No.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: We used to do this all the time. We used
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: to yell at umpires all the time, flip a coin.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: It's just funny to see Max do it. Actually in
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: the dugout, there was plenty of times where I would
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: do this. I would do this to my bench. They'd
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: be like where was that? And I'd literally go like
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: this and nobody knew what I was doing and they
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: would You'd come in and they'd be like, oh, he's
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: flipping a coin back there, and you're like, yep, it's
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: gonna be one of those days. Boys. You never know.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: But yeah, there was many times where you just just
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: nobody knew what you were doing it. They just happened
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: to catch Max when he did it, and then he
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: was like well. There was many times where I would
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: just look at the bench and go like this, yeah, check, yeah, just.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Just watch watch when you see a catcher do something
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: that's kind of out of ordinary, like why is he
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: touching his mass? Like that's the old you know, you
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: get one of these here and then you hear the
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: you hear the manager go, come on, see me, let's go.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Because you can't tell in and out all the time.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: But if you like just like adjust your mask, then
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: the bench knows that was a ball and you don't
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: have to be the one that argues.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: All right, now we're going to highlight some exceptional umpires
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: from the weekend. Chris GUCCIONI stands out this was an
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: athletic play and an emphatic call.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: AJ.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Since you're a game broadcaster here consistently, would you like
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: to give us the play by play of how perfectly
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: executed this was?
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean it was a nice hop. First of all,
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: let's get over the Let's get over the hop right here.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Good bunt makes a play, jumps and still gets the
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: perfect execution of the out call. Some of some empires
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: are athletes. Joe West might have blown his knee out
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: doing that because he might not have been able to
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: get high enough. You know, Joe, I love you. You
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: know I love you Joe, But I don't think you're
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: jumping over him. Remember the play where Joe West got
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: taken out a home plate. So GOOC, good on you.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: You're good at once. You know you're a good guy,
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: guc And that was a perfect Wendel stat umpire school
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: out call, and.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Ryan McMahon went freaking for his legs.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I was dicey umps are going down and maybe breaking
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: an ankle and getting the rest of the year off.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Not Chris.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: They got rid of that play that McMahon just had.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: When they got the buster Posey rule, they might need
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: a Guccioni rule. Did you see GUCCIONI catch to pop
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: up yesterday too? That was epic.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't need to check it out, Okay, behind the.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Dish, you have to. You have to go check it out.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, you need to text me the clip next
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: time if you're a.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Good up just saying it was. It was popped up.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: It was a fout off the catcher's mint mask and
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: he went running over and caught it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I need to see it lastly, Krats, you
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: can do the I checked for us on this one.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: What was the score for our perfect game?
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Oh? It was? I mean it wasn't white perfect, but
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: it was kind of perfect close. Yeah, I mean ed winning.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I mean you're ed winning on this play.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Edwar wasn't a perfect.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm not one hundred percent sure.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: But Psychondres, Colorado's isn't a perfect game as much as
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: it should be, but that's ninety nine percent. I don't
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: understand how that we could call that a perfect game.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: We can't call that a perfect game. There's two miss calls.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: You're right, I take that back.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: See I'm accountable, unlike MLB saying that you know they
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: told everybody about the zone evaluation thing and then just
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: saying no, we did, we did, we did. I'm actually
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: going to take the l This is how it works. Okay,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: maybe someone's well.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: I'll actually take that game though from the umpire like
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: that's a great called game. There's no complaints. He missed too,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: and you're like they were borderline. But still, I mean
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: for us to call it a perfect game, that's kind of.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know. He's not, he's not, he's not. Mark
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Ribbinger is still starting the first game of the World series.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: He's our ace. Edwing. Edwing is definitely a add in
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: game two or game three somewhere in there because of
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: this outing so great job, Edwig.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: It was a complete game, shutout AJ with like one
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: hit a lab something like that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: It was an elite performance.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Not perfreat it was a great It was a great
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: game for him. He deserves credit for when when you
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: see this good of a game call, we deserve to
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: call it out.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Let's just not call it perfect, fair,