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ABS Challenges approved for ’26, Padres clinch, Key Previews: Tigers-Guards, Mets-Cubs, Pirates-Reds · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: A lot of complaints from fans yesterday just due to
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: the fact that there were barely any games last night.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I know, I'm aware they mostly left Monday open for
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: potential rain out situations to reschedule them for last night
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: because aja they had to do that last year when
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: the Mets and Braves had Oh wait, they didn't do
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  Speaker 1: that last year. Remember they could have done it earlier
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: in the week and they didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the thing. They're going to give them
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: Monday or Thursday off. Would you rather have Monday off
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: or Thursday off for most teams?
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  Speaker 1: You tell me, if you were playing, what would you want.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't matter to me, But I mean,
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: either way, you're going to complain about Monday or Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Even also, they went with Monday. That was the last
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: six games are protected.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't really split it, right, because then you'd
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: create problems if you're trying to do a rain makeup
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: where both teams are going somewhere. Right, I mean, there
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: weren't no games, there were still six teams that could
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: have been in trouble. Right, For example, if the Raves
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: needed to make up a game in Atlanta because they
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  Speaker 1: were in a Pennant Race and there was some rain
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  Speaker 1: out situation. Let's say they had to play the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: AJ wouldn't have happened. They had a game yesterday, So.
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  Speaker 2: That's applied to some chance. They took a chance and
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  Speaker 2: they worked out.
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  Speaker 1: It just kind of sucks when it's the last week
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  Speaker 1: of the season and it's so so light. I just
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  Speaker 1: wish there was a different way. That's all just a
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  Speaker 1: friendly complain.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone wanted more off days, they got more off days,
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  Speaker 2: and now they complain about the off days.
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  Speaker 1: Well, who wants more off days?
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  Speaker 3: The players, players, right.
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  Speaker 1: The fans don't want more off days. They want less
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: off days. They want games every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes they do, especially this time of year. Everybody's
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  Speaker 3: like there's no game one I want to see a
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  Speaker 3: game exactly.
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: It's last week of the season. I mean, we have
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  Speaker 1: some playoff worthy matchups that are starting tonight. Before we
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, and now let's talk ball.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: Charge about.
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: That was fun. We did actually have a really good
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: game last night AJ the Padres with a walkoff win
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  Speaker 1: in the bottom of the eleventh. Being that the other
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  Speaker 1: two games didn't matter, I mostly just watched this one
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  Speaker 1: and it was great. The Padres like to keep things
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: exciting for their fans this year, and they do so,
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  Speaker 1: even down to the buzzer of when they clinched this
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  Speaker 1: scenario against a Brewers team that was putting up a fight.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think about the Padres making it
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  Speaker 1: to the postseason for the fourth time in the past
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  Speaker 1: six years after not being that kind of team for
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  Speaker 1: a long period of time.
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  Speaker 2: Good for them. Listen, this is a team that has
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  Speaker 2: been there. They've done it. They know how they win
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  Speaker 2: in the postseason. They've made their run. They haven't gotten
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  Speaker 2: to the final hurdle. They haven't been in the World
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  Speaker 2: Series in a while, but they made some runs. They've
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  Speaker 2: beaten They beat the Dodgers not long ago. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a team that can make a run. If Pavetta pitches,
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: well you Darvis pitch as well, Dylan Seize figures it
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  Speaker 2: out in the postseason, and we all know about their
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: stack bullpen. So congratulations to the Padres and Mike Shild
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  Speaker 2: and aj Preller and everyone out there, because they do
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  Speaker 2: have some of the best fans in the game. They
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  Speaker 2: show up every game and it was an awesome scene
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  Speaker 2: last night, So good for them. Now let's see if
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: they can do some with it. Because they're more than
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: likely going to have to travel to Wrigley Field. It's
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: gonna be a little chilly there. Can they win two
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  Speaker 2: out of three against the Cubs and then go play
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  Speaker 2: possibly the Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: It's good, good playoff matchup. I mean, I think they're
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  Speaker 3: better than the Cubs. Can they score enough runs? Can
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs score enough runs? You know, last night they
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  Speaker 3: got a home run from Jose Galasias. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna be seeing a lot of homers in the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs from Jose Galasias. But they are a team that
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  Speaker 3: needs to scrap and claw. They're not going to strike
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  Speaker 3: out that much. Freddy Peralta didn't have any strikeouts. He
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: was only going like seventy five pitches. So to me,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's something that if Pavetta gives you five
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  Speaker 3: in Game one, which Mike Schiltz said most likely he's
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: lining up for Game one, I think they I think
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  Speaker 3: they end up taking the series. If they can't. If
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  Speaker 3: your starter can't get you deep enough, they're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: a tough time scoring enough runs. Just they have to
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  Speaker 3: score more runs.
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  Speaker 1: How about on the road, So aj the Padres are
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  Speaker 1: forty eight and twenty eight at home. They had their
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: sixty seventh sellout last night. It's playoff vibes every night there.
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  Speaker 1: They're thirty eight and forty three away from home. The
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  Speaker 1: Cubs are forty six and twenty nine at home, forty
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  Speaker 1: two and thirty nine on the road. These two teams
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: are likely to match up in the Wildcard round, like
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, and guess where all two or three of
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  Speaker 1: the games are going to be played.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna be in really yeah, So listen, it could
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  Speaker 2: be an advantage for the Padres. Actually, if the wind's
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  Speaker 2: blowing in and the Cubs, who are built more on power,
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: they can't hit their home runs. The Padres has done
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: with less power the entire year, so maybe it's in
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  Speaker 2: advantage for him. It's gonna be chilly more than likely
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: in Chicago, we'll see, I mean, listen. Homefield advantage means
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: almost nothing sometimes in the postseason. Sometimes it means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it doesn't. Was the twenty nineteen World Series where
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: the road team won every game, so and then you
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: could go back some years in eighty seven to ninety
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  Speaker 2: one where the Twins won all their home games in
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  Speaker 2: the postseason and one World Series. So sometimes it means some,
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: sometimes it doesn't.
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: I know this.
• 6:26
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• 6:27
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• 6:29
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• 7:38
  Speaker 1: five now four that are going to get rolled out
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: right Morey Holan's been sick this year and the least
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: talked about of the group. Estrada's in there. And then
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: of course you've got the new edition Mason Miller and
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: Robert Suarez to lock things down. Kratz. That's as good
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  Speaker 1: as it gets bullpen wise. If they're going to win games.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they might win some lower scoring games, and
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: they're capable of doing that if the starters can get
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: them through a little bit early on. It was cool
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: also that the walk off hit yesterday occurs from one
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: of their trade deadline pickups and Freddy for me and
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: I watched a good chunk of the celebration. Couple things
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: that stood out. One Manny Machado's shirtless running with different alcohol.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: He was passed around tequila. I was like, I don't
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: know if the sponsors are gonna like that. I saw
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of tequila, certain tequila.
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: Brand getting probably doesn't. Oh, he definitely doesn'tee with a
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: unique bottle. I would forget what my kind's called but.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: Class a a zool. Yeah, I don't think they're a sponsor.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: And if Manny got a call, he'd be like, cool,
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: I've given you fifteen years my career. I don't give
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: a crap. And also they were yelling for aj Preller,
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: you know, because think about it, there's so many players
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: on that team that wouldn't be there if aj Preller
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: weren't a psychopath at the trade deadline and loves to
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: make deals like that, all.
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: Right, but he made deals for guys who have who have?
• 9:03
  Speaker 3: Who have? You know, they're they're controllable. It's not like
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  Speaker 3: like everybody's gonna look at this lineup and they're gonna
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: say wow, you know, look at all the money and
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: they spend on their lineup in free agency trade deadline,
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: you're talking about being a psycho. At the trade deadline,
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: most fans are like, we gotta go get the best
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: available free agent, whoever, whoever that is, you know, whoever's
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: gonna become a free agent. Look at this list. Mason
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: Miller controllable for three years. JP Sears still has control.
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: Ryan O'Hearn is going to be a free agent. Uh
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: Leriano has been one of the best pickups of all
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: these guys, Nestor Cortez. I think it's a free agent
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: unless he has one more year for me, and I
• 9:42
  Speaker 3: think it's for four or five more years. And I'm
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: not sure about Will Wagner. Like they like teams that
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: are like, hey, we'll just get a bunch of guys.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: They got a bunch of guys, but they got a
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: bunch of good players too, and just decimated their farm
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: system to do exactly what they did last night, pop bottles.
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Loriano's a free agent the end of the year.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: No, he's got one more Oh he does, he's got
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: an option. Yeah, and I think they're gonna pick it up.
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, well then, but uh, their closer is a free
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: agent at the end.
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: Of the year.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna opt out.
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: Suarez is gonna be more likely gone. That's why they
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: went out and got Mason Miller. Dylan Seize is a
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: free agent at the end of the year. So Michael
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: King is a free agent at the end of the year.
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: So they have they have a lot of holes they
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: still have to fill. Yeah, they did a nice job
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: of the trade deadline, but they went and got Mason
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: Miller in case, he either starts or can close for
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: him next year. JP Series is an option for him
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: next year. Nestor's gone, Loreano's I don't know what they'll
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: do with him, or Hearn's probably gone. So they do
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: have some holes they have to fill. That's that's why
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: the trade Dylan was important. He went out and got controllable. Yeah,
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: they gave up a lot, but they're trying to set
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: this up for the long term. This is the best
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: run in Padre's history.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: Yeahlexwirez is a good example. His contract is unique. He
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: can opt out or take eight million dollars for twenty
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: six and eight million for twenty seven, so either option
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: for two sixteen or opts out. He's obviously opting out
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: from that. So they're well aware they're stacked with bullpen arms.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, this was five with Jason Adam, who I
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: think is still under control for maybe one or two
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: more seasons, although I don't know what his timetable is.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: But anyway, it's a special group. It was a really
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: special trade deadline, and for some teams the trade deadline
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: did not work out. I think it's safe to save
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: for the Padres, the trade deadline did work out. So
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with them. Let's talk Braves for
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: two minutes. They had a game yesterday. Osi Albees fractured
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: his left hamlet bone. That is not good. He fractured
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: that left wrist in twenty twenty four and then some
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: people think that's why he had a really really slow start.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: So now again he's going to be coming off a
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: major injury for twenty twenty six. And this is why.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, the team didn't say this even before the injury,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: but you don't talk about an option until you get
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: to the offseason. So there is a chance that the
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Braves move on. I doubt it, given how much of
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: a bargain he's been. I think there's multiple years left,
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: but that sucks. Speak of the year. It's like garbage time.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: And I mean, I think he would be back for
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: spring training.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: But it's a tough It's a month. It's a month
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  Speaker 2: I had this. It's a month like this is not
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  Speaker 2: a major injury, yep, this is I have the scar
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: I had it happen. It's a month. You're you can
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: be back in less than that, but why rush it.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: It's a month to six weeks of just you really
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: do nothing. They cut it out and then it's just
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: healing the scar and there's nothing more to it. It's
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: not a it's not a when Mark Bowman, who should
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: know better, rights that this is a major injury, it's
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: not a major injury.
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: This is a.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: Month at most, and it happened in the last week
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: of this season, so this should not affect them picking
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: up his option. That was That was not a good tweet.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: And the only thing that sucks is Albie's was going
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: to play one hundred and sixty two games. He's I
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: don't think he's ever done that in his career. I'd
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: have to look it up. I didn't look it up
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  Speaker 3: before this, but he was on pace. He had played
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: every game so far. And you know those braves, dudes,
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: they they all want to play out play there every
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: single day.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: Big stake celebration for Patrick Zelepsky and friends. He is
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: officially the owner of the race. The formal closing of
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: the sale expected to be completed later this week. The
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  Speaker 1: other owners approved it unanimously. They approved literally everything unan.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Lee and Stu Sternberg was back Bay the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Aja and his last little Harah. So here we go.
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  Speaker 2: M Hm, we'll see. Congratulations Patrick been free to text me,
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: so when we're supposed to get together was supposed to
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: be in the next couple of days. So we'll see.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: But no congratulations to Patrick. Yeah, this is a big
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: deal for Tampa. They're supposed to be keeping the team
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: in Tampa. We'll see where they find a spot to
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: do it. They're supposed to have public and private funding
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: for a new stadium. Hopefully it works out. But yeah,
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: this is great for Patrick and some other people that
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: I know, the Rick Workman who's in this group. It's uh,
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: it's it's pretty cool that they've they've got this done,
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  Speaker 2: got it out from under Sternberg. Now we'll see what
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: they can do with it.
• 13:53
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  Speaker 1: some ft breaking news. We learn that MLB officially will
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: implement a challenge system for balls and strikes in the
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six season. The league's Competition Committee voted, and
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: it is happening. Robot umpiring begins, not with every pitch.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Teams received two challenges to dispute calls by the home
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  Speaker 1: plate umpire, two per team. That puts a little heat
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: on the lineup AJ So what do you think is
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to the right number? We knew this was going to happen,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: so let's go over the details.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: We knew this was gonna happen. This is like the
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: biggest non surprise of all time. What do I think
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: will happen? I think it'll make umpires lock in for
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: nine innings if there's still challenges on the board. I
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: think sometimes when you get it laid into games and
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: the games you get out of hand, sometimes umpires open
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: up the strike zone a little bit, try to get
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: games moving. That'll be taken away. And I also think
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be fascinating to see who's allowed to challenge
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: and who's not. Most teams that I've talked to about it,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: so they don't want pitchers challenging. It's mostly catchers and hitters.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: But do you have your nine hole hitter challenging when
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: it could cost Aaron Judge or Wan so Too a
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: pitch later in the game. I don't know, it's gonna
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: be fascinating to see, but you know it's here. It's
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: not going anywhere, and we knew it was coming. So
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: welcome coming from the nine hole hitter.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: You better be right. It better be an egregious, egregious
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: mistake and not like that fifty to fifty. The reason
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: it's a fifty two percent, I think was the challenges
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: is because they're fifty to fifty pitches. Very few umpires
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: are missing regularly pitches that are this far off or
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: this far on. It's the borderline pitches, and so it's
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: a fifty to fifty pitch. I think it's great because
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: it eliminates those massively huge mistakes. Last night, Roberto Ortiz
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: was calling pitches that were let or high, and the
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: strike zone is below that. I think it's gonna be
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: interesting to see how it goes. But something AJ brought
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: up was the length of game. Umpires start to kind
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: of stretch it a little bit. Okay, I get it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: You know we got to move, We got to keep
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: the game moving a little bit. It's an eight run game.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Is it going to lengthen those games? Are we going
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: to have more offense? Because the balls now on the plate,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: we'll see.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I think that they should call it the end Hernandez
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Abs Challenge system. It's probably gonna have a sponsor or
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: something to it. But I'll always remember Angel calling out,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: why att Langford on three pitches in another planet? And
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that's not going to happen anymore. You challenge that. But
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: for me, Aja, when you have just two challenges, it
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: does put heat on you early on in the game.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You better be right, and you mentioned the stars. Let's
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: flip it. What if you are Juan Soto and you
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: take a lot of really close pitches and you're up
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: for your second AB middle of the game and you
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: say challenge, you're wrong because it was a borderline pitch
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and you were off, and then later in the game
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you don't have that to use do you think that
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: there will be some pissed off teammates? And I'm just
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: using Sodo as an example, but this could happen with
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: anyone in the league, right if there was a challenge
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: blown earlier on in a game where a player felt
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: like it was definitely his side and it wasn't, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: then they're aud of challenges at a time when they
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: really need one.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: That's why the strategy those whole thing's gonna be fascinating.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the whole thing of this is who's
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: going to challenge when? And who's going to be really
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: good at and who isn't And we'll see after a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: few months who should be and coaches and managers will
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: make adjustments and then they'll go from there. But yeah,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: that's the whole thing, is the strategy of who and
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Wayne gets a challenge because if you miss, you can
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: screw your teammates.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: And we know that front offices love to make everything
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: into an advanced stat and a number and a probability.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So Kratz, do you think there will actually be a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: strategy implemented by teams like will a front office sit
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: down with the coaching staff? Then coaching staff sit down
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: with players and say hey, this is how it's going
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to work on our team. These are the scenarios where
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: you have to look out. Of course, again, like you mentioned,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: there might be one where it's so obvious the entire
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: world except for the person behind on plate, knows it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: But in many other cases, I think players are going
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to be looking to leadership for when they are comfortable
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to make the challenge.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I mean players should have the confidence that they know
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: the strike zone, catchers, hitters, pitchers they just need to
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: stay out of this one hundred percent. Pitchers stay out
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: of it. But they have to have that confidence. But
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: you gain that confidence because the front office is like,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: go for it. I'm guaranteeing you. Just from talking to
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: the people with the rays, They're saying, hey, you know what,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: let's test the limits on this. Let's see let's let's
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: learn it, let's try to see what we can do
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: early in the season, spring training, all that stuff with this,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: because they're not afraid of making mistakes. If your front
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: office and your coaching staff comes to the players and goes, hey,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: everybody but Aaron Judge and Ben Rice, who you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Cody Bellinger, the three four five guys in our lineup.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Don't don't challenge, don't challenge anything. Then you're gonna be
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: like up there, like, well, I think it's a ball,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: but I don't want to get in trouble. So it's
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: really how I mean, it's like anything. Players, as confident
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: as you can be, you're still looking to your coaches
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: and your front office like, oh, you're pissed at me
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: because I challenge that. Well, I thought it was a ball,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: so that's why I challenged it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Jeff Passen just tweeted some big miss from last night,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and he's right, and there's people in the chat talking
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: about it too. The Padres Brewers game had plenty of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: pretty obvious misses, and Passing said they're typically around one
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: thousand missed calls a week, saying that the challenge system
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: is going to get plenty of use. We are going
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: to have games where there's like twelve fourteen challenges because
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the umpire keeps missing and the teams are on the money, right,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen all the time. We're also gonna
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: have games where maybe only five or six challenges get
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: used because teams blow them early and they're wrong. But
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be some games aj where a bad umpire
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: gets exposed and that's actually going to go viral. People
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: are gonna be like, look, they're using twelve challenges from
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: one team.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Nothing's going to happen, nothing's going to change. So I
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: don't know why it's a big deal. Yeah, it'll affect
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: the game, but it might slow it down a little bit.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: But it's like the umpires. I mean, it's not like
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the top five routed umpires get to go to the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: World Series every year. I mean, that's the way it
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be, but it hasn't happened. So I
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: don't know what it's gonna change other than maybe the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: length of the game and the challenges, and but everyone
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: already knows what the good umpires and the bad empires are,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: so I don't think it's And what's the margin of error?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, what's the margin of error from the strike zone?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: If it's this far out and the umpire calls it
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: a ball, we challenge it, right, I mean, or they
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: said at one point it was half an inch or something,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: So what's what's the Because even the things in tennis
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: that they use aren't one hundred percent accurate, So how
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: do we know this little thing they're doing is I
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: don't know. There's a lot of a lot of questions.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: There are some questions in the chat, so I'll dressed
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of them right now. One is shading MLB
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: for trying to trim down game time and then saying
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: this is going to extend it. I'm going to go
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: hard against that comment. They have done a really nice
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: job trimming down game time with the pitch clock. That's
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: dead time that pitchers taking an hour between pitches. We
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: had plenty of offenders like that back in the day,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and you'd have certain batters taking a ton of time
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: in between pitches. To me, this is different and also
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: from what I've seen, unless it's going to be something different,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: we're talking like five is seconds to get the response,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So I don't think you're going to add that much
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: time Kratz. If you get a challenge and it has
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to be instant, this is not replay where you look
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: at the manager they have like fifteen seconds they got
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to come up with it. This is instant. And if
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: it's not instant and from the player himself, nothing to
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: do with the coaches, then we move on. So let's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: say there are ten challenges in a game, and let's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just say it takes ten seconds total for the player
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to signal it and then the call going to the computer.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: That's one hundred seconds. That's not even two minutes. So
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: if you think this is contradictory to what MLB is
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: trying to do, you're damn wrong. It's going to be
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: entertaining for fans. That's a two minutes I'll sign up for.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Go to a Triple A game. There's a week left,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: there's half a week left. Go to a Triple A
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: game and watch it. I went to an Iron Pigs
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: game about two or three weeks ago, and there was
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: three challenges. Umpire was right on one, the players were
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: right on the other two, and there was also two
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: where the hitter took strike three, took one step, looked
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: in the in the dugout and the umpire and then
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: he turned around and was like no, no, no, I
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: want to challenge, and the umpire was like no, no, no,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Like it looked like he was saying, you looked into
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: the dugout and they gave you. So it's like umpire's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: discretion if you took too long, because it was kind
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: of quick. But it wasn't as quick as the other ones,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: or if someone else gave you the gave you the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: oh go ahead challenge it it was low or it
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: was you know, obviously in and out you can't see
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: from the dugout. But so I saw it where you
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: don't have They don't always get it if it's not
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: in on time.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Thoughts on that.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to be quick. It's gotta be quick
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: it it's gotta be quick. It's got to be it's
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: supposed to be quick on the TV and on the scoreboard.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's gonna effect. It's not gonna
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: make the game that much longer. It's just gonna make
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: people pay attention more. Like I said, I've talked umpires
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: about this and they just say, hey, it's gonna make
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: us walk in for nine innings. And if god forbid,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: a guy gets some big couple wrong early, they're gonna
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: make it in their head and make it a little
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: bit strange. But this is baseball in twenty twenty six.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: This is this is what we're throwing out there, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I hope it's for the positive. I think it will be.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: My question My question is, and obviously this is rules
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: stuff and we'll have it ironed out, but you have
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: it instantly on the bench. You can have it instantly.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Track man has it. That's how they're getting it. You know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: they have the Hawkeye system. All that stuff is instant.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: If you're the catcher, can you have something where bang
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: you look at it and you're looking over with your
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: hand up. Can they have a green light from the
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: dugout where it's telling you, you know where the system
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that you have in your dugout can tell you if
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: it was a ball or strike. I'm not I'm thinking
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: that's probably against the rules. But is that allowed? Like
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: or or are they going to get in trouble for
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: doing that?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Wait? Say that again. I was fighting with people online.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: If the pitch comes in and you're like, you know
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: it's that fifty to fifty ball, you know it's close,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the catcher basically like turns and he has his hand up.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: He's turning to his dugout to give the challenge. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: if it's a green light and a dugout, yes, go
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: for it. Because they have the pitch instantly. They have
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: the pitch instantly on their own system in the dugout.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Tell me.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: They don't trouble they banded it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: You can't. You don't can't. They don't have talking about one.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about on the camera. I'm talking about
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: in their own your own track man system. It populates
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: if you're watching it on the iPad. I get it.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: The iPads now don't have that. Is that using too
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: much technology?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: No, you don't have that right now?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Have that?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: They can't do that right now. They're not going to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: add that.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: The teams have it, just not in the dugout. Could
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: you have a system where would that break the rules?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't have that though.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're not doing You're not gonna be allowed
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to have that. Also, if you even see a catcher
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: go like that. This is where the umpire's job is
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: going to expanse. If you're an ump aja and you
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: see a catcher catch a ball and get a little
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: pissed and go like this, you're gonna be like, Nope,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: can't challenge it. You looked over to your dugout, right,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. You have to be
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the one to make the call. The coaches are not
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: involved with it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: They don't have track man in their dugout. They can't
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: have like they don't have instantaneous information. That was the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: whole Astros red sox iphoned, I watch Bang the trash
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: can all that stuff. That That was what they eliminated.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: A good question by uh one of our director, Jeremy
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: bind the scenes said, can a dugout whistle or do something?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but how do they know for sure?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: They don't? You're right, I mean, what's the vantage point
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in the dugout?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: But if they want to be wrong, then they've done.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Everyone blames that whoever whistle.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Don't you think the catcher has a better vantage point
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: than anyone in the dugout? Anyway? Always you would think, yeah, okay, So.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be to have the best
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: vantage points.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be fascinating. Sorry, I'm just
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: getting into it online with people that are now trying
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: to take the game back and say if they don't
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: like the pitch clock, they probably don't like instant replay.
• 28:28
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  Speaker 1: have to start with the Trade and Cleveland, right, Okay,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: because the season series is on the line too, so Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: so they need to win one more and then they
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: have the season series, which.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Means one out of three. Then they're two down with
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: three to play, so they have to Cleveland has to
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: win the series at the middlem.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: But they don't have to sweep them, but.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: They have to win this. If they win two out
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: of three, then they have they control their own destiny.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, the big one here is can Gavin Williams take
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: down Trek Schooble If not really good man, he has been,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I agree, if not. Game two features Biby and Jack Flaherty,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: which I think is kind of a toss of Byby's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: been much better again lately.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Parker America or Messi has been really good.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Messi has been good for Cleveland.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Whoever for Detroit.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Might be Kaider Montero. I think they've got the edge
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: on that third game, right, who with Messick fornbelievable? Right?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: If Gavin Williams can can land his curveball, he's going
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to give the Tigers fits because they don't hit the
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: curveball very well and his curveball is one of the
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: best in the game. And last time they faced Schoobley,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: they held him. They only scored one run, but they
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: beat it. They won the game in the long game.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: So can they hold the Tigers down? Because the Tiger's
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: offense has been struggling, So can they hold him down?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Get to a bull that can be got in the
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Tigers versus the Cleveland bullpen. The whole key is can
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: the Guardian starters keep it close until the Guardians hoping
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: gets into the game. That's kind of how it's how
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: they have to win. And if you look, was the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: seventeenth straight games where Cleveland starters had given up two
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: arned runs or less. It's pretty good. And they're home,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: and they're home, and they're giving away free tickets and
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: they want or no fees or something. There was a
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: whole big thing about how they're trying to get people
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: there for their last two home stands, and good for you, Cleveland,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: but Cleveland, show up. Come on, Cleveland, show up for
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: this team. Where they're at, where they've put you, I mean,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: come on, show up. I was there, I've been there
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: when Jacobs Field, Progressive Field has been packed. Show up
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: and make it fun again to go to Cleveland Baseball
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: because they have them, And then they have Texas coming
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: in and Texas is already out of it. So listen,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: you win this series, you got a great chance to
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: go not only do the postseason, but win the division.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: How many people make the two and a half hour
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: drive from Detroit, isn't it two and a half hours?
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Issue to to an hour?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it should be a few. Yeah. I think
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be very busy there, especially tonight, because if
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I'm in Detroit and I'm like, I'm gonna try and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: catch one game, I want to see school.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: This is a must win for the Tigers. You can't.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: You can't lose the Schoobale game. You can't lose. That's it. Look,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: if it was the third game in the series, maybe
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: it wouldn't be as much of a must win. But
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: they just sat through an entire off day thinking we
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: didn't play very well. Okay, we still have a one
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: game lead. Scooble Tonight, he might he might go all nine.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Hinch might have to drag him off the mound. To me,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: he's that kind of guy, and that's how they win
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: this game.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Cards Van Cane and the Chat said, why not Detroit
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: and Cleveland both make it and Houston misses the can't
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that's possible. But actually I was looking last night. I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: think the Astro schedule, so they're in Sacramento for three
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: a's are good. I mean, that's not a pushover Seas.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: But Houston's got their big boys pitching in that one,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and then they finished with three against the Angels. I mean,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: if you can't win four or five out of six
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of those last six, then you probably don't deserve to
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: make it anyway.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: But Cleveland has the tiebreaker over Houston.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Boston's still in play too, like we talked about.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: But Boston has the tiebreaker over Houston, I know, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I think they have it over Cleveland too. I'm not
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent sure on that.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, here here's my thing.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: The other game, O, go ahead, go ahead.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, we need a cheat sheet
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: to figure out who has the tiebreaker on who that's
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: it all. I know have it over the Mets.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, and the Diamondbacks and that X right, all right,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: So what's the other one you're looking at?
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Well, here's my thing. The Reds and the Pirates play right, yep.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Brady Singer has been outstanding, but the Reds have one
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: huge advantage in this because they're checker. Who are they
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: chasing the Mets. Basically, they start over an hour and
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: a half of form. If they can jump on the
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Pirates and score some runs and get a four or
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: five nothing eat early, and the Mets are sitting in
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: regularly going, oh my gosh, they're winning. We have to win. Like,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: the pressure shifts significantly. This is where it an advantage
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: to be on the East Coast because you can put
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: up a number and a score, especially for like Houston.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: They're in Sacramento, they're already gonna know how the Guardians
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: and Tiger before they even kick off, they're gonna be
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: looking going, oh man, Cleveland one or Detroit one. All right,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: we can win and we're good, or we don't they
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: or you know whatever.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Oh man, but that's bad. You're saying it can be bad, yeah.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Because you look up and you say, oh crap, they've
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: already won. Especially if you're the Mets, you're like, oh man,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: the Red's already one. So basically because they're tied, but
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the Mets are really one game behind because of the tiebreaker,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: they look up and say the Mets are up four
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: to nothing in the third inning, five nothing in third inning.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: We gotta win or we're two games out with five
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: to play.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: That's tough.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: That's tough, man, knowing that you have not only they
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: have the Cubs, and then who the Mets finished with
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: someone else? Pretty difficult. Oh the Marlins. We're lining up
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the rotation him.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they play an hour later. It's an hour later,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: they'll be ahead. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati start at six point
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: forty Eastern time. Pittsburgh does have a skeens game in
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: this series. For Cincinnati, they gotta score runs too. Oh
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: you know he's pitching tonight for Pittsburgh. Kratz's boy. Yea,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: oh Biado. He's got good numbers. He's pitched well, he's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: pitched well.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: He's coming back from injury. The Pirates. I'm surprised they're
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: actually starting him. He's a starter, but the Pirates would
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: like ease him back in the major league play and
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: oh wait no, that's probably Chandler.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: The Pirates are so random. They either like they'll either
• 35:38
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  Speaker 1: of the FT network. Baseball America. They threw out their
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  Speaker 1: big awards over the last twenty four hours. So yesterday
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: they announced Player of the Year Connor Griffin. This is
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: for the minor leagues in the Pirates organization. Brilliant Year,
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  Speaker 1: super Young, Bright Future. And then today they announced joonahtan
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: is the picture of the Year. Life comes at you fast. Joanatongue,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: You're the minor league pitcher of the Year and now
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: the Mets need you.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what happens. Connor Griffins got a chance to
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: make an impact with the Pirates at some point, and
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Jonah Tong is already making an impact with the Mets.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Just had Mendos to say how important he's been to them.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: So we'll see if he gets into the postseason, if
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: he gets a chance to pitch. But it's pretty cool
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: for both those young men, and congratulations.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: And we interviewed Connor Griffin right after the announcement was
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: made on Hot Sheet yesterday, so let's give some love
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to Hot Sheet and give you a little clip from it.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Outfield definitely comes more natural to me, but being a short,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I just I just I just want to make plays,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: and so when those kind of in between balls are
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: right behind me, I just I feel like I'm a
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: center fielder again. I go back and try to track
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: them down. But I think I think it is it's cool.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: It's really cool how outfield and in field kind of
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: worked together. I feel like I feel like they stuck
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: me a short most of the year just because, you know,
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: kept my my footwork sharp and if I needed to
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: go to the outfield, I could. But I think in
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: spring training they really didn't know whether I was gonna
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: play centerfield or sure s out there, just giving me
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: reps at both spots. And then when the season started,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: they said, hey, let's sick it short and we'll let
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: you play some centerfield if you want. But but I
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: spent most of the year short and I loved it.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: You like the graphics, Krats, I did.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I like that background sick A big shout out to jeriber.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Yep producer director, behind the scenes putting Hatchet together. But
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it was cool to get Knor Griffin on the show.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: And Crats, don't worry. I stepped in to ask the classic, Hey,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I did it in a unique way. But are you
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: gonna rescue Pittsburgh and make the Pirates a playoff team again?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: And are you talking to Skiings? He said, Skins is
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: keeping in touch with him, so I like that part
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: of it, right, Paul Skins is just putting his head
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: down and mowing down hitters for the first couple of
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: seasons of his career to an historic pace. But if
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: we sat down with him on on off the record
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: conversation or had dinner with him, whatever, he would probably
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: say what about his first couple of years? Knowing how
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: much of a gamer he is, What do you think
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: he would say if you were sitting down with him
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: at dinner and like, Hey, tell me how you really
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: feeling about being there right now?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: He's frustrated. He would explain why, he would explain why
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: he does the scheme stare. He punches a dude out
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: and it's maybe his fifth or sixth strikeout, and he'd
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: be like kind of looks up. He's not looking at
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: the radar gun, which is clearly over there. He just
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: kind of looks up like, damn, I am good. Why
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: can't I get players around me? So when he guys
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: has a guy like Connor Griffin, who AJ probably remembers
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: seeing him when he was a junior playing with a
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: bunch of seniors when we coached the All American Game,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Like you knew he had some something, but she also
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: knew like this dude puts a lot of work in
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: He talked about it in the interview. He put on
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: fifteen pounds and he had the season that he had.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Paul Skeins wants to bring that guy onto his boat
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: as soon as possible. Pirates, they'll try to manipulate it
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: however they want to say it. But this dude torched
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: the minor leagues. And if Paul Skeins is texting him
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: and keeping him keeping in touch. That means he knows
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: that this dude's going to be a guy that can
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: play behind him and maybe help him get a few
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: more ws.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: So AJ, I'm looking at the lineup right now for
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh this year. They have one player in the Fangraft's
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: top one hundred three hitter, Brian Reynolds, who's still below
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety nine ops plus. I mean for him,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: it's more of a down year. Nobody else is in
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the top one hundred.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: You can't have that, can't they're pitching. We all went
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: into the year sayd they're pitching was going to be
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: really Jorjo was went down. Skeins has had a great hair,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: probably the Nlsy Young Award a winner pretty easily. Bubba
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Chandler hasn't got hasn't been done anything at the big
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: league level other than come out of the bullpen. I
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: think he started one game and Oviedo's back, but the
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: rest of it has been kind of set and well fired.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: A manager trying to make different moves. But the Saint
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: it guys, the Saint the s Ain't it pirates fans.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, It's got to get better than this.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Do you think Ben Charrington is back. Nobody knows because.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know what his contract status is.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I want to say he's got a year or two
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: left on there.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Don't see I'm getting rid of.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Him because he doesn't want to pay guys. Yeah, I
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: mean most teams do that. It's rare that a GM
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: is a lame duck. But you're saying he's not gonna
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: do it. I know Ken was asked about this yesterday,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: and from what I recall I watched the show, it's
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: a little punch drunk from a long flight. But I
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: think he said something along the lines of Bob Nutting
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: being too unpredictable, that it's hard for him to pinpoint
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: what he's going to do.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: But if you do what unpredictable, you know exactly what
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Bob Nutting is gonna do, whatever the cheapest route is.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: He has not ever made a decision in since I've
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: watched The Pirates when he has been the owner that
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: has been anything less than about the money from cutting
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: guys before they get their bonuses, to making sure that
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: when a player, a historic player in the organization's contract
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: is going to be ten million dollars, he's traded before that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Two not signing any free agency. He's very dependable. He's
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: exactly who he always is. The money so Ben Sherdon
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: has an extra year. Exactly what AJ said. They're not
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: paying two guys to do one spot.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Conflicting reports on here, but at least some of the
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: articles I'm looking at, including one here on the CBS
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: saying to believed he signed through twenty six or twenty seven.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: They're not going to get rid of him.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: So he's still going to run point there. Okay, but
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: good job on Connor Griffin back to the top of
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: the conversation. Also, happy birthday to our FT teammate Trevor May.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal is joining us on tomorrow's show, So we'll
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: check in with Ken on the races and enjoy the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: gamesnight because there's playoff vibes with quite a few of them,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: even if it's only one team fighting for their playoff lives.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: The Cubs are in, but the Mets are fighting. The
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Reds are fighting to keep that top spot against the Pirates,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: team that can play spoiler who else besides we've got
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: by the way Thursday, Mike Shilt is joining us, right
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Shilt.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: You said he would, we'll see.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Okay. Ryan Gowens is on the schedule for Friday, and
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Kratsat's at the buzzer twenty five seconds.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Still not eliminated. Craig Mish put it down. Marlin's still
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: in it. They're still in it. All six games to go.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Just have to have a meteor hit the earth and
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: destroy all the other teams and then the Marlins are in.
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