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AL Wild Card Series Previews: Red Sox-Yankees, White Sox-Astros · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Garfine is here. You can hear him all year
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  Speaker 1: long on CHSN, on the White Sox TV network. Good
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  Speaker 1: to see you, Chuck. Yeah, let's preview this thing. White
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  Speaker 1: Sox and Astros. I know the White Sox would have
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  Speaker 1: preferred to win the division, but they made the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And if you tell the White Sox before the season
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  Speaker 1: they made the playoffs, jumping up and down would not
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  Speaker 1: even begin to describe it. So take me through what's
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  Speaker 1: about to happen here.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to know.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, it's great to be with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I knew what's going to happen. I do
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  Speaker 3: not know. I don't like that the White Sox went
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  Speaker 3: 2-5 against the Astros during the regular season, but the
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  Speaker 3: Astros had to eke their way in 81-81. The White
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  Speaker 3: Sox are playing better baseball than they were at the
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  Speaker 3: start of the month. They were struggling playing their worst
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  Speaker 3: baseball while the Guardians were playing the best baseball of
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  Speaker 3: anyone over the last 23-11 to finish the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be interesting to see what happens with
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  Speaker 3: this team. You've got an Astros team that totally underachieved,
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  Speaker 3: although they also had a lot of injuries, too. And
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  Speaker 3: you have a White Sox team that totally overachieved. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what's going to happen here, but I could
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  Speaker 3: see one of two things happening. The White Sox... Just
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  Speaker 3: shocking everyone like they've shocked everyone during the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: And winning this series, with the Astros being the Astros
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  Speaker 3: team that's been to the playoffs so many times before,
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  Speaker 3: they've got the experience and they've got an MVP in
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Alvarez. I will say the White Sox did a
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  Speaker 3: great job against him. He only had one RBI in
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  Speaker 3: seven games against the White Sox this season. If they
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  Speaker 3: do that, that should be a recipe for success. However,
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  Speaker 3: the White Sox went 2-5 against the Astros, despite what
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  Speaker 3: they did against Alvarez during the regular season.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck, I just want to know who starts. Is Sean
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  Speaker 4: Burke going to start game one? Who's starting game one
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  Speaker 4: for the White Sox? Are they going opener every game
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  Speaker 4: like they love to do in the regular season?
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  Speaker 3: So they did not use an opener against them in
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  Speaker 3: the seven games where they faced the Astros in the
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  Speaker 3: regular season. We do not know yet. I think they're
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  Speaker 3: going to go with Fetty in game one. With the option,
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  Speaker 3: this is me talking here, they could put Newcomb in
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  Speaker 3: there as an opener in Game 1, and then Burke
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  Speaker 3: would be Game 2. That is what I think they
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  Speaker 3: might be doing. Fetty is in line to pitch for
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  Speaker 3: Game 1. He's been their most consistent starter over the
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  Speaker 3: last three months. He's, like, slid way under the radar.
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  Speaker 3: People aren't even talking about him. And I actually interviewed
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  Speaker 3: him about a week and a half ago, and he
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  Speaker 3: said that he's been pitching— for his career since June.
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  Speaker 3: He had a five-year race. All the young starters who
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  Speaker 3: were in the minor league system were even being called
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  Speaker 3: up like Noah Schultz. And he said, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: My career is on the line here. And he's had
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  Speaker 3: about a 2.8 ERA since June. So I think he's
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  Speaker 3: got experience. He's never pitched in the playoffs before, but
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  Speaker 3: he's a veteran on this team, a veteran leader. And
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  Speaker 3: I could see him getting a start in game one,
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  Speaker 3: or if not a start, there's an opener and then
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  Speaker 3: it's him.
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  Speaker 5: If it's Sean Newcomb in game one or if they
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  Speaker 5: go opener any of these games, do they still pitch
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  Speaker 5: around Jordan? I get it. They had success. But the
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  Speaker 5: reality is if you lose this series and you lose
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  Speaker 5: this series of Jordan Alvarez, it's a colossal failure of
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  Speaker 5: approach to a team. So if you're going with an opener,
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  Speaker 5: you're essentially saying we're going after Jordan. Am I correct?
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  Speaker 3: Think about that. It would depend on if there's anybody
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  Speaker 3: on base or not, right? It's how do you pitch
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  Speaker 3: to them? By the way, I looked this up. This
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  Speaker 3: stat shocked me. Jordan Alvarez in 2026 with two outs
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  Speaker 3: and runners in scoring position batted 441 with a 694
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  Speaker 3: on base percentage. What do you guys think about that?
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  Speaker 3: I've never even heard of that. How do you even
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  Speaker 3: do that?
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  Speaker 5: But he's on base when he's at the plate. He's
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  Speaker 5: on base when he's at the plate. So all I'm
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  Speaker 5: saying is, as today is Monday, you're scouring through the
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  Speaker 5: scouting reports. You're building how your team is going to
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  Speaker 5: approach him. He is the guy that they've circled three
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  Speaker 5: times and said he's not going to beat us. Do
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  Speaker 5: you feel like this coaching staff has enough? playoff chops
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  Speaker 5: to understand that or do you feel like because the
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  Speaker 5: players there's so many years where players the Astros back
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  Speaker 5: in 2015 where they beat the Yankees as a young
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  Speaker 5: team uh the Royals in 14 where they came out
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  Speaker 5: of essentially nowhere and beat everybody like the young teams
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  Speaker 5: can play regardless of their regardless of their experience but
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  Speaker 5: the manager or not manager but the whole staff do
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  Speaker 5: they have enough experience to understand how to win in the.
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  Speaker 3: Playoffs Glad you asked me that question. I've got a
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  Speaker 3: perfect answer for you. If not perfect, it's a good answer,
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  Speaker 3: I think. So in 2023, there was a team. There
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  Speaker 3: was a wildcard team that had to go on the
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  Speaker 3: road and win a series. And they had to go
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  Speaker 3: to Tampa, and they won both games. And then they
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  Speaker 3: went and they played the Orioles. And they beat them.
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  Speaker 3: They swept them. And they ended up going all the
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  Speaker 3: way to the World Series, and they won the whole
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  Speaker 3: darn thing. It was the Texas Rangers. Who was the
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  Speaker 3: bench coach?
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  Speaker 5: Will Venable.
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  Speaker 2: Will Venable. He knows. Who was the manager, though? He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the manager. It was Bruce Bochy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was Bruce Bochy, but, I mean, he was there.
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  Speaker 3: He experienced that entire ride. It wasn't like he was
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  Speaker 3: just sitting back and saying, Boch, you do your job.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to sit here and watch.
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  Speaker 2: He knows.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got experience. Walker McKinvin is the bench coach.
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  Speaker 3: He came from the Brewers. He's been around some playoff situations. And,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the reason why also I would consider having
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  Speaker 3: Sean Newcomb as an opener if you're going to do it,
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  Speaker 3: He's pitched in the playoffs before, so you'd have somebody
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  Speaker 3: who knows what it's like to be in game one,
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  Speaker 3: inning one of a playoff situation. So I would think
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  Speaker 3: that might be a possibility for them. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what they're going to do yet. They're going to be
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  Speaker 3: talking in a few hours and we'll have the answer
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  Speaker 3: as to what they're going to do for game one.
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe they'll say, well, we're good. They may not
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  Speaker 3: announce there's an opener until tomorrow. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you can do that or not. The White Sox have
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  Speaker 3: been doing this. This might be a major league record,
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  Speaker 3: most times using an opener in a regular season. Do
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  Speaker 3: you do it in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But they actually had a winning record when doing it.
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  Speaker 3: When it works, you don't even think about it. When
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't work, it looks terrible. So I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck, let's switch gears here offensively. Do they strike out
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  Speaker 4: too much? Do they strike out too much? Because that's
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  Speaker 4: been a big thing in the postseason for kind of
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  Speaker 4: the last 10, 15 years is the team that strikes
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  Speaker 4: out the least usually wins the series. Do the White
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  Speaker 4: Sox strike out too much to not only beat the Astros,
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  Speaker 4: but to possibly make a deep run in the postseason?
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  Speaker 3: I think you can make an argument that there are
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  Speaker 3: two guys on the team who strike out too much.
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  Speaker 3: It's Murakami and Colson Montgomery. I think the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the team doesn't strike out too much. But if you
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  Speaker 3: throw in the numbers for the whole season, then the
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  Speaker 3: whole team looks like it strikes out too much because
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  Speaker 3: Murakami and Colson are weighing down that stat. Colson Montgomery
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  Speaker 3: struck out more than anybody in the history of baseball,
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  Speaker 3: though he broke the record. And if Murakami wasn't hurt
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  Speaker 3: for six weeks, he would have been striking out even
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  Speaker 3: more than Colson did. So I think that is really
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  Speaker 3: The issue here is that they are striking out too much,
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  Speaker 3: and if they can limit their strikeouts just a bit
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  Speaker 3: in a wild-card series, it's two or three games, maybe
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  Speaker 3: that's even a difference in this series if they're making
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  Speaker 3: more contact. And Murakami, who's had two very different series
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  Speaker 3: against the Astros, he had two home runs in one game.
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  Speaker 3: The White Sox blew out the Astros in the game.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was 12-3 in July. But then when
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  Speaker 3: the White Sox were playing some of their worst baseball
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  Speaker 3: of the year, they went to Houston. In a four-game series,
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  Speaker 3: they lost three of four, and Sean Burks started that
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  Speaker 3: one game. He was great. He had 10 strikeouts. But
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  Speaker 3: to fully answer that question, yes, they do strike out
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  Speaker 3: a lot, but it's those two. When I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 3: this series, I'm looking at those two guys as X
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  Speaker 3: factors and their strikeouts.
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  Speaker 5: Are you fearful or do you see anything different when
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  Speaker 5: they go on the road as a team? Of all
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  Speaker 5: the playoff teams that are in right now, They have
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  Speaker 5: the worst road record. Are you fearful that they play differently?
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question. And what's happened with this White
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  Speaker 3: Sox team this year was in the first two months
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  Speaker 3: of the year, they were not winning on the road
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  Speaker 3: at all. And there was a problem last year with that, too,
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  Speaker 3: and clearly two years ago. And we were saying on
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  Speaker 3: the show, as I was again myself, if they can
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  Speaker 3: learn how to win on the road, I actually said
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  Speaker 3: they're going to win the division. That's how confident I
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  Speaker 3: was with this team, how well they were playing at home.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't winning series on the road. And then what
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  Speaker 3: happened was they started winning series on the road. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was around June. So they can do it.
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  Speaker 3: They are now, as a team, can win on the road.
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  Speaker 3: But if you just look at the road record for
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  Speaker 3: the season, it's not going to look good because of
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  Speaker 3: how poorly they were playing on the road in the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the year. So they can do it.
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  Speaker 2: Will they? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what? I did talk to Will about
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  Speaker 3: this actually yesterday. that he kind of likes the idea
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  Speaker 3: of being on the road. He would prefer to be
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  Speaker 3: at home, but this team is going to have so
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  Speaker 3: much energy.
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  Speaker 2: Playing.
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  Speaker 3: They already bring enough energy as it is that they're
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  Speaker 3: going to like to go into this hostile environment and
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  Speaker 3: feel good about proving guys like the fans wrong. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's going to be some juice for them being
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  Speaker 3: on the road in that environment. It's not going to
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  Speaker 3: get the best of them. And they've been playing in
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  Speaker 3: some like playoff atmosphere situations in doing quite well, like
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  Speaker 3: against the Cubs. You know how AJ knows how the
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  Speaker 3: White Sox Cubs series can be granted it's not a
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  Speaker 3: playoff series but I think there's enough that's happened in
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  Speaker 3: the regular season that they can go in there and
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  Speaker 3: win a series Chuck what was I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Get to see it because I was I was not
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  Speaker 4: home this weekend but when you saw that the White
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  Speaker 4: Sox clinched a playoff berth what was you and Ozzie's
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  Speaker 4: postgame show like was it what did you guys get crazy.
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  Speaker 3: No, they got crazy. The players got crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they deserve to get crazy. The players deserve to
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  Speaker 2: get crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like a fraternity house at 3 in
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  Speaker 3: the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Duh, Chuck. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you and Ozzie didn't do anything? Did you and
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  Speaker 4: Ozzie do anything special in the postgame? Because I didn't
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  Speaker 4: get to see it. Now this is a legitimate question.
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  Speaker 3: We did not do anything crazy, I don't think, because
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  Speaker 3: we were more like traffic cops. We kind of stayed
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  Speaker 3: in our lane because the story was there in that clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: This is a team that had lost over 300 games
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  Speaker 3: over the last three years, and we wanted to watch
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  Speaker 3: them celebrate. So we didn't really say too much. It
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  Speaker 3: was more about watching what they were doing, and Brooke
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  Speaker 3: Fletcher and Connor McKnight were our reporters in there. So
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  Speaker 3: that was not one of those shows where we were like,
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  Speaker 3: let's tune in to watch what Ozzie and Chuck are
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  Speaker 3: going to do and say. There have been a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those. But this was one where the story was
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  Speaker 3: what was going on in Kansas City with the players
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  Speaker 3: of Murakami, the things that he was saying. There was
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  Speaker 3: a conga line going on. And I'll say this. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't see every single postgame celebration for all the teams
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  Speaker 3: that clinched. None of them could have topped what was
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  Speaker 3: going on with the White Sox and what was happening
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  Speaker 3: in that clubhouse. It was absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 2: So much fun.
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  Speaker 3: That team. What they went through to get to where
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  Speaker 3: they are and make the playoffs, it was so entertaining.
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  Speaker 3: But what was interesting was when they won the game
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  Speaker 3: in Kansas City, I was watching to see their reaction.
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  Speaker 5: And it.
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  Speaker 3: Was not as crazy as I thought it was going
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  Speaker 3: to be. It was almost like, yeah, we expected to
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  Speaker 3: make the playoffs. We're not going to act like we
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  Speaker 3: just won the World Series. They were kind of like
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  Speaker 3: reserved in their celebration of in the clubhouse when the
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  Speaker 3: beer was out there in the champagne, they were going crazy,
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  Speaker 3: but I think they're in their minds. They have bigger
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  Speaker 3: goals than just making the playoffs. And we'll see if
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  Speaker 3: they can actually win a series and go further than
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  Speaker 3: even now people are expecting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Chuck, you are glowing.
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  Speaker 1: You have also been through a lot of pre and post.
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  Speaker 1: You are glowing right now, my friend.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You have been through a lot of pre and post
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  Speaker 1: with losses and I know travel.
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  Speaker 3: No, we haven't talked about if they win this series,
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  Speaker 3: if they go onto the ALDS, will we travel? But
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  Speaker 3: we're staying put for now, and we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: But what's that?
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  Speaker 5: If they win this series, Chuck, you're going to get fired.
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  Speaker 5: Talking negative like that when they win this series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but then there's the jinx component.
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  Speaker 2: If there's anything negative about the White Sox, Chuck, you'll
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  Speaker 2: get fired. Oh, stop it.
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  Speaker 3: AJ, have you watched our post-game show? You have watched
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  Speaker 3: our post-game show.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. I'm just speaking from experience, Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: AJ, it's not what you say. It's how you say it.
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  Speaker 2: Or just be Aussie and you can just say anything
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  Speaker 2: you want. Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But by the way, I got something here. Because this
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  Speaker 3: is not my office, believe it or not. I'm actually
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: at work. And this happens to be here. Look at
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  Speaker 3: this little bobblehead. AJ Pruszynski bobblehead. I'd never seen one before.
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  Speaker 3: When was this, AJ?
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  Speaker 1: That's the best one.
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  Speaker 3: When you dyed your hair.
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  Speaker 5: The only bobblehead that shakes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great one. That might be here.
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  Speaker 5: All others shake, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck, you're an idiot. Chuck, you're an idiot. Chuck, you're
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  Speaker 2: an idiot. Which I am. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Ozzy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Chuck, we'll look for the coverage on TV. We'll
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: look for the pod coverage, everything Chuck's bringing. Also, follow
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  Speaker 1: him on socials. Follow what Ozzy's doing. Good talk. And
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  Speaker 1: you can say goodbye to the bully above you.
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  Speaker 3: AJ, I'm not going to say goodbye to you because
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  Speaker 3: we're going to see each other again this postseason because
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  Speaker 3: this is going to go forever.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what you want me to hear? Absolutely, Chuck.
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  Speaker 2: You know why?
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  Speaker 4: Because then I might get invited up there to throw
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: out a first pitch or catch a first pitch or something.
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  Speaker 2: Heck, I might even have to call the Pope. To
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  Speaker 2: come in town just to get them there.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you saw the Pope.
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  Speaker 2: My goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Gave him a nice little gift, too. So the Pope
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  Speaker 3: is behind us. And we've got the Pope and we've
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  Speaker 3: got Mike Vassell's magic wand. Do not look past what
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  Speaker 3: the White Sox can do this postseason.
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  Speaker 2: All we need is the King.
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  Speaker 5: Eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: Eliminated.
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  Speaker 5: Expellius.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Great being with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun.
• 14:51
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• 14:53
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• 14:56
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• 15:09
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• 15:12
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's charge. And we're going to have more
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: time to talk about this series, doing this on a
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  Speaker 1: Monday right now, Red Sox and Yankees, a little preview.
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  Speaker 1: These are two really good teams, AJ. You can make
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  Speaker 1: the case that either of them could take down the
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  Speaker 1: Rays in the next round and then ultimately make it
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  Speaker 1: to the World Series, right? I mean, any team on
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  Speaker 1: this side of the bracket is going to be favored
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  Speaker 1: over whatever comes out of the other portion of the
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  Speaker 1: bracket in the American League. So we can start there
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  Speaker 1: with what you think of these teams individually. The other
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  Speaker 1: part for me is did you think the Schlittler part
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  Speaker 1: was weird at all? Why were they being coy about
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  Speaker 1: Cam Schlittler? Why wouldn't you start him in game one?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe to keep the internet trolls off of him a
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  Speaker 4: little bit because all the stuff he loves to follow
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  Speaker 4: on social media.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't make any sense. Everyone knew Schlittler was starting,
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  Speaker 4: so let's just say it and move on.
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  Speaker 2: But it's the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: They do things differently up there in the Bronx, so
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what they were doing. But this is
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  Speaker 4: going to be a great matchup from the pitching matchup
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  Speaker 4: to offensively. If Wilson Contreras doesn't play and Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 4: doesn't play, that changes some things. Whose bullpen is going
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  Speaker 4: to hold up for these three games longer? The Yankees'
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  Speaker 4: bullpen has kind of been getting banged up a little bit. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, can they hold up long enough to get
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  Speaker 4: through these three games? You mentioned the starting pitching, you know,
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  Speaker 4: who's going to be able to ride their starting pitcher
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  Speaker 4: longer to save bullets for their bullpen? That's going to
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  Speaker 4: be key. You know, Chad Tracy, is he going to
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  Speaker 4: go by the script? You know, Aaron Boone has more
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  Speaker 4: experience in these situations. He's going to let his guys
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  Speaker 4: ride a little bit longer. What do you do with
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  Speaker 4: Carlos Rodon? You know, he's going to be, what do
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  Speaker 4: you do with Will Warren? Are they going to be
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  Speaker 4: bullpen pieces? This whole thing is fascinating to me, but
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  Speaker 4: I know this on paper, the starting pitching matchups, plus
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's, it's going to be a fun, fun
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  Speaker 2: three days and in the Bronx. Yeah, a hundred percent.
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  Speaker 5: I think the, I think the matchup, while it is
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  Speaker 5: going to come down to pitching, it's going to come
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  Speaker 5: down to who, Who ends up getting the big hit
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  Speaker 5: for either team? Are the Yankees circling Roman Anthony? Are
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  Speaker 5: they circling, obviously, if Wilson Contreras is in the lineup,
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  Speaker 5: are they circling him? Are the Red Sox without Judge?
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  Speaker 5: Who are they most afraid of? I think it depends
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  Speaker 5: on who's pitching. They're going left, right, left as far
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  Speaker 5: as starters. Thinking Sonny Gray would have been their opening
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  Speaker 5: day starter or their first game starter. Peyton Tolley's done amazing,
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  Speaker 5: but does that left-handed matchup bode well for them matching
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  Speaker 5: up against all the Yankees lefties? And I think ultimately
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be decided by each team's six through
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  Speaker 5: eight hitter. The Spencer Jones of the lineups. The Chad
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  Speaker 5: Durbin's of the lineups. Caleb.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Chad Durbin was a relief pitcher. But it's going to be,
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  Speaker 5: you know, how is Sedan Rafaela going to come up
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  Speaker 5: in big situations? Or is he going to just swing
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  Speaker 5: so many balls out of the zone? To me, yes,
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  Speaker 5: the pitching is big. But which team or which batter
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  Speaker 5: is each team willing to attack in the lineup? And
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  Speaker 5: is that guy going to be able to step up
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  Speaker 5: to be the guy?
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  Speaker 1: Also, is the Red Sox offense okay? It hasn't looked
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  Speaker 1: good for the past month. Is it going to be okay?
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  Speaker 1: Is Wilson Contreras okay? He's missed a lot of time.
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  Speaker 2: It's Aaron Judge. Is Aaron Judge okay? We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He took swings. I took swings today. I think I
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  Speaker 2: should be in the line of Booney. Call me. I'll play.
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Gasper.
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  Speaker 5: Mickey Gasper.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's a loss.
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  Speaker 3: That is.
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  Speaker 4: I never thought you'd say that. I never thought you'd
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  Speaker 4: say that at the beginning of the year. Mickey Gasper.
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  Speaker 4: Babe Gasper.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: And I know. I'm picking through parts here, but there
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  Speaker 1: are some guys missing in action that are going to
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  Speaker 1: severely impact what we're looking at here the pitching should
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  Speaker 1: be superb on both sides but what is the offense
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  Speaker 1: going to look like for both sides like you're saying
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  Speaker 1: yeah bottom of the lineup, all that. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's some pieces that are either unknowns or missing.
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  Speaker 5: But Scott, that's okay. That's what you do during this
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  Speaker 5: time of year. You pick through little things because little things,
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  Speaker 5: you're always, if your lineup has gaping holes in it,
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  Speaker 5: you're always close to that part of the lineup in
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  Speaker 5: a playoff game. You're always okay with making Roman Anthony
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  Speaker 5: chase something because whoever's batting second isn't giving them good at-bats.
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  Speaker 5: How's Trevor Story swinging it when he's out there? Is
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Cedon Rafael going to come up huge in one of
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  Speaker 5: his hot stretches? It's okay to pick and choose little
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  Speaker 5: things because this is the difference. This is why it's
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  Speaker 5: tough to win in the playoffs or tough to gauge
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs because teams that don't have a lot of depth,
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  Speaker 5: don't put a lot of good at-bats together, one through nine,
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  Speaker 5: one through eight, They get eaten apart by the best pitchers.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to see any crappy pitchers in the
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  Speaker 5: playoffs unless it's like a nine to one game.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, also, I agree that pitching is going to be
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  Speaker 1: so good. Back to that. I mean, Cam Schlittler is
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  Speaker 1: at this point runaway Cy Young winner. I know it
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  Speaker 1: stayed tight with him and cease at some points during
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  Speaker 1: the year, but the finish sealed it very easily. in
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  Speaker 1: most people's minds. For Cam, did you guys see the
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  Speaker 1: tweet that further explained the quote AJ was alluding to
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the segment? This is what AJ's
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  Speaker 1: talking about for people that were unaware, Cam Schlittler.
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  Speaker 2: And I.
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  Speaker 1: Would say it could be a borderline obsession with what
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  Speaker 1: people are saying about him. And I'm not saying it
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  Speaker 1: in a way to nitpick. I'm actually saying in a
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  Speaker 1: way to fuel. He has found his bulletin board material, AJ, right?
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  Speaker 1: He always finds it. Yeah, Brendan Cootie from The Athletic said,
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  Speaker 1: Schlittler knows the hate on social media from Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: fans will ramp back up as the wild card game
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  Speaker 1: one nears. Quote, they use me for clicks, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I've done a good job of handling that
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  Speaker 1: so far. That's Schlittler.
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  Speaker 2: Who uses you for clicks?
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  Speaker 5: People online.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but who?
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  Speaker 1: People online, they don't get paid for clicks. Is he
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  Speaker 1: talking about the media?
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  Speaker 4: That's why I was confused by this quote. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: who uses you for clicks? Red Sox fans, they don't
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  Speaker 4: get paid for clicks. That's why I didn't really understand
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  Speaker 4: this quote. I mean, what they use them for is
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: the Red Sox fans just know it gets under his
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  Speaker 4: skin a little bit. I mean, if it didn't get
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: under his skin, he would just ignore it, right? Like
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: people say, oh, I got you online.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care, dude. I laugh at it. It's stupid, right?
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  Speaker 2: It makes me laugh all the time. But when you
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  Speaker 2: actually acknowledge it, then people are like, oh, I got him.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm going to go more. If you just ignore it,
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  Speaker 2: then people just go away.
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  Speaker 1: He loves it.
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  Speaker 2: He loves it.
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  Speaker 5: I saw plenty of young players before a game starting
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  Speaker 5: pitchers like this on their phone before a game. So
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  Speaker 5: if you think you're getting under his skin and you've
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  Speaker 5: been getting under his skin all year as a Twitter troll, Instagram,
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  Speaker 5: whatever it is that he's scrolling on, well, it hasn't worked.
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  Speaker 5: So if that's the case, which that's what Cam said,
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  Speaker 5: he's like, I feel like they kind of would have
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  Speaker 5: stopped because, you know what, I kind of got them
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  Speaker 5: last time. So that's just going to fuel them even more.
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  Speaker 5: And maybe he uses that as fuel. You know, I
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  Speaker 5: think everybody uses fuel differently or haters differently or quotes differently.
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  Speaker 5: But he's going to be a tough component, tough opponent
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  Speaker 5: for the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: I know someone who uses the Yankees organization as fuel
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  Speaker 1: and also missed a little bit of time recently and
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  Speaker 1: then came back.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're all just Chapman. I mean, he does not like
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees period. He's got a thing in his head.
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  Speaker 1: He's talked about it before. I think there was a
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  Speaker 1: time when he kind of took a line back, but
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  Speaker 1: even earlier this year, AJ, didn't he ask the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: to apologize? And the Yankee said, no.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what was that all about? He pitched there for
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  Speaker 4: a long time, too, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 4: now he hates him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what it was.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was the whole he was in Tampa. They
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  Speaker 5: told him he had to make it up for a workout.
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  Speaker 5: He said, I'm not making it up. They said, all right,
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  Speaker 5: you're not going to be on the roster. There's a
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  Speaker 5: chance he wasn't going to be on the roster. But
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  Speaker 5: all this was kind of– that was the beginning of
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  Speaker 5: the year, the apology. And then it kind of fueled
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  Speaker 5: up when the Red Sox– people don't remember this. The
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Red Sox were kind of stinking. And then the Red
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Sox obviously turned it around. But at that stinking time,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: they were like, is it possible? Would the Yankees trade
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: back for a Roldis Chapman? And that was quickly squashed.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, so he was he he felt like he
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  Speaker 5: needed an apology. And the Yankees felt like he didn't
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: because he never he didn't show up. Like we talk
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: about Cattell Marte. We're talking about the playoffs now, not
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  Speaker 5: a regular season game.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yep. I love that juice. I love all of it. So.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: because i think for a little bit of time i
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: mean there was really good genuine hate and yankees red
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  Speaker 1: sox was at its core and it was peaking and
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  Speaker 1: then there was a time where you know one i
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  Speaker 1: mean one team's good one's not right or one team's
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  Speaker 1: a real threat one's not red sox had some pretty
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: down times then they'd mix in obviously some very high
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: times like world series titles while the yankees haven't won
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  Speaker 1: since in a long time now we're getting close to
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  Speaker 1: 20 years um now to me aj you have two
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  Speaker 1: teams capable of making it to the world series. So they're,
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  Speaker 1: they're not peaking really good. And there are multiple storylines
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: on both sides where they are pretty pissed at the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: other side, whether it's the fan base or the organization
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  Speaker 1: that to me gives you a concoction for a real Yankees,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Red Sox rivalry.
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  Speaker 2: True. True.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: And yeah, the Red Sox kind of have almost, I
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: don't want to say switch places with the Yankees fans,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: but they've won so much.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: They've won more than the Yankees.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: And now it's like the, the, the Red Sox fans like, ha,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: We're the best organization, and the Yankees are like, well,
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  Speaker 4: we still have way more in our history.
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  Speaker 2: So it'll never go away.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I think it's great for the game when two
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: teams don't like each other like this, two fan bases.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Great rivalries make for great television and great drama. So
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  Speaker 4: I hope this is an outstanding series.
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  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: I hope this is an amazing series. I hope it
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: goes three games. I hope we get to see the good,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: the bad, and the ugly, and both teams just have fun.
• 26:10
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