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Guardians late push, Greene and Fried DEALT, AL West weekend showdown · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: lot to get to on this two hour program. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get to it. Let's charge the mound.
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  Speaker 2: Let's charge about.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So Cleveland is making a playoff push, Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: We have been discussing this all week long, as I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you have two on all of your relative podcasts
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  Speaker 1: as well. But Cleveland's making a push for it. The
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  Speaker 1: American League is still a nightmare the National League. The
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  Speaker 1: Mets are still holding on by you know, chinny chin
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  Speaker 1: chin there. What do you make of this Guardian's push?
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  Speaker 1: Are they getting in your opinion.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it's it's gonna be tough, and they still got
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  Speaker 5: to go take take care of Detroit again, which they
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  Speaker 5: just did. But it's always fun to see a super
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  Speaker 5: hot team right at the end of the year. I
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  Speaker 5: feel like a team that sneaks in usually puts on
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  Speaker 5: a pretty good show in October.
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  Speaker 3: And we want all the hottest.
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  Speaker 5: Teams playing each other at the end anyway, So if
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  Speaker 5: it did happen, wouldn't hate it. Still think things are
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  Speaker 5: going against them a little bit with having to chase
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  Speaker 5: two good teams that are gonna be out there, having
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  Speaker 5: to battle it out as well in Boston and the Mariners,
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  Speaker 5: and also when it comes to the Mariners, n astros like,
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  Speaker 5: it's not like if you jump one, the other one's
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  Speaker 5: not gonna be in your way. So a lot needs
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  Speaker 5: to happen, But you know, it's it's about finishing strong.
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  Speaker 5: So the worst case scenario for the Guardians and Guardians fans,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, finishing on, getting getting on, getting on, finishing
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  Speaker 5: the year on the right foot is one thing in
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  Speaker 5: hang your hat on but if you can sneak in gosh, gosh,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's just a fun it's a fun story.
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  Speaker 5: You want to you want to see things like that happen.
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  Speaker 5: But I think they're still still needs so a few
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  Speaker 5: more things to happen for I'm truly believing that it will.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't control their own destiny.
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  Speaker 4: E case.
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  Speaker 1: Should we be making more of a deal about the
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  Speaker 1: Guardians making a last minute push or the Tigers really scuffling?
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  Speaker 1: We know the Tigers are getting in whatever, But should
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  Speaker 1: a bigger deal be made about the Tigers scuffling right now?
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  Speaker 1: Or do we care?
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  Speaker 2: Man? I mean, I guess at what point do we
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  Speaker 2: care about the Tigers scuffling? We kind of talked about
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  Speaker 2: it the other day about how their team is not
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  Speaker 2: built on nine dudes in the lineup that play one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five games. Their team is built on
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  Speaker 2: thirteen guys in the lineup playing one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: five games. Kerry Carpenter, who, in my opinion, should be
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  Speaker 2: getting six hundred at bats a year. He doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: that many because he you know, they try to platoon
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  Speaker 2: and advantage him as much as they can. But when
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  Speaker 2: that's happening. You go through stretches where it's not going well.
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  Speaker 2: So am I not concerned at all? No, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: little concerned about the Tigers the way they're not winning games,
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  Speaker 2: because they figure out how to win games. But I
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  Speaker 2: am super enthused about the fact that Trek Scougle went
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  Speaker 2: out last night and absolutely shoved because when your ace
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  Speaker 2: comes off the mound like this, you are supreme worried
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  Speaker 2: because you've kind of been coasting to this point in
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  Speaker 2: the season. So no, I'm not concerned yet for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: They still have to close out these Guardians who are winning.
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  Speaker 2: We keep finding a team every like three days. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: oh wait, this team wins seven in a row. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: nine in a row. Mets lose eight in a row.
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  Speaker 2: It's the ebbs and flows of the season. It's just
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  Speaker 2: more magnified because we ain't got many games left. Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: What if the Guardians didn't trade away Shane Bieber, What
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  Speaker 1: if the Guardians didn't have a couple of guys under
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  Speaker 1: investigation because of gambling issues. This is just the thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, if you miss I'd rather be blown out
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  Speaker 1: and be like the Athletics or the Rockies. At this
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  Speaker 1: point that have no shot of getting into the postseason
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  Speaker 1: than miss the postseason by one game. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about it?
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  Speaker 3: It's weird. That's a two sided coin, right, Like you
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  Speaker 3: can be.
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  Speaker 5: Excited that the guys stepped up into those spots that
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  Speaker 5: were vacated and got even better or did the job
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  Speaker 5: well and maybe established themselves for the future moving forward,
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  Speaker 5: or you can you know, think high sight is twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 5: I think that the Guardians historically have always thought of
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  Speaker 5: it the first way. But it's definitely tough to think
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  Speaker 5: about what happened, specially with the Gambley stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 5: their pitching has been good, the starting pitching has been good,
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  Speaker 5: and they scored enough runs to win any one game
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  Speaker 5: so far. Like, it's hard to say if it wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: be the same situation because wins are wins whether or
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  Speaker 5: not who's in there playing or not.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just what they always do.
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  Speaker 5: They just always find value from these guys that maybe
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  Speaker 5: we don't know or are young, and they're just proving that. Again,
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  Speaker 5: it's definitely a cultural thing there that you can go
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  Speaker 5: and you can make noise at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 5: and that's why they're always in this position of this time.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Tanner, Biby and Gavin Williams anchoring the Cleveland rotation
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  Speaker 1: obviously should have, could have, would have. But if they
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  Speaker 1: were to get in, let's say, and I understand completely
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  Speaker 1: that that is a big if. We're talking a lot
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  Speaker 1: this week about how all thirty teams have holes, right,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of who gets into the postseason, you can poke
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  Speaker 1: holes at all. What are the Guardians?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know Tanner, Biby and Gavin Williams are not
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  Speaker 2: hitting for them, so there's a big hole. Like their
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  Speaker 2: lineup just isn't It's like an every other year lineup.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Bruce Bochie lineup, like they show up every
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  Speaker 2: other year and they do awesome. Where did all that
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  Speaker 2: power go? Where did the guys you know, the extra power?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you have an envy perennial top five MVP finisher
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  Speaker 2: in Jose Ramirez in that lineup, Like what he can
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  Speaker 2: do from both sides of the plate just changes the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Why he doesn't walk more is clueless to me, because
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  Speaker 2: he chases and his arms are like a foot long.
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  Speaker 2: Teams just are afraid to walk him, and he's afraid
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  Speaker 2: to walk himself. So outside of Jose Ramirez and great
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  Speaker 2: at bats from Steven Kwan, you're really not getting a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fear in other teams pitchers, scouting reports, it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: throw strikes. These guys will put the ball in play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's about it. You take Josh Naylor out
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  Speaker 2: of the lineup, and look what you have this year.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's I think it's too little in
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  Speaker 2: that lineup. And Cleveland fans need to look back. And
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  Speaker 2: I know they've been clamoring for their ownership to spend
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  Speaker 2: and they'll never spend. But the one time that they
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  Speaker 2: went to the World Series and they lost to the Cubs,
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  Speaker 2: they had gone out and got a major piece in
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  Speaker 2: Edwin and Carnassium. They had gone out and they had
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  Speaker 2: a great core, which this organization always builds and brings
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  Speaker 2: to the big leagues and gives them confidence. They always
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  Speaker 2: have good starting pitching because their formula is ridiculous about
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  Speaker 2: what they think and started pitching. And now recently they've
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  Speaker 2: had bullpens like they've built bullpens and that's epic. But
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  Speaker 2: you got to spend for that extra bat that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be right behind Jose Ramirez and giving him protection
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  Speaker 2: and fear for the other team. My question is for
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  Speaker 2: you played against the Guardians, you were in, you came
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  Speaker 2: up through that organization. What did you guys think in
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota when you were like, oh, yeah, you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to play the Guardians, where you're like, eh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: catch them when they're hot, they might be tough. If not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, never never too fearful of them is how
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  Speaker 2: I felt. But I was never in that division consistently
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  Speaker 2: except for when else in KC.
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  Speaker 5: For Lou yeah, and I think you nail a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: It was more pesky or like this is a team
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  Speaker 5: of grinders, like they're going to grind you out, it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be an exhausting game. But as a pitcher,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I saw it in a lens like there's
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  Speaker 5: two or three guys that you really got to worry about,
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  Speaker 5: and then everyone else you're trying to work around and
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  Speaker 5: then just hope you don't line up against Cy Young
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  Speaker 5: Bieber or Cy Young Corey Klueber. That was basically like,
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  Speaker 5: let's just hope those guys we don't get them every
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  Speaker 5: single series, which we tended to do. So it was
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  Speaker 5: always like we're confident in our ability to keep them
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  Speaker 5: three runs two runs, but are we going to score zero?
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  Speaker 5: That was usually the issue. So as a pitcher, it
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  Speaker 5: was a it was a matchup that we weren't fear
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  Speaker 5: wasn't a big thing, but it was like, there's not
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  Speaker 5: a lot of room for air here. They're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: to screen heads against you because and the park also
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  Speaker 5: was tough to hit homers in as well, So like
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  Speaker 5: it was just one of those things.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a good place to pitch.
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  Speaker 1: I am back, gentlemen, I am back. Let me ask
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  Speaker 1: you this, more surprised, Trevor if the Guardians got in
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  Speaker 1: superseding the Red Sox, or would you be more surprised
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  Speaker 1: if the Diamondbacks got in over the New York Mets.
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  Speaker 5: I would say I would say more surprised if the
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  Speaker 5: Guardians got in, simply because the teams that they're chasing,
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  Speaker 5: like the Mariners of one to ten or eleven of
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  Speaker 5: their last twelve, like the teams are chasing are hot.
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  Speaker 3: Also, Mets not hot.
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  Speaker 5: So and then the Diamondbacks they have maintained one of
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  Speaker 5: the most potent offenses in the major leagues, even with
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  Speaker 5: trading a bunch of guys at the deadline, and they're
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  Speaker 5: one of those teams you can't sleep on them because
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna score a ton of runs. So for them
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  Speaker 5: to get hot right now, it doesn't surprise me as much.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, the Mets, it's hard to deny at
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  Speaker 5: this point. And I am a guy who's always like
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  Speaker 5: ursues you know, aren't real, but like it's it's been.
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  Speaker 3: That's a slide of all slides.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, at this point you can't be surp
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  Speaker 5: that did happen, though the last series did look much
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  Speaker 5: better against a good Padres team, so we'll see. But
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  Speaker 5: the Diebacks making a push not even remotely surprising to me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, I tell you what. The Mets have
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  Speaker 1: nobody to blame, you guys, but themselves. But aj Pieredinski,
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  Speaker 1: who's not here today, still maintains they will absolutely get
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  Speaker 1: that third wild card spot. Magic numbers always make me
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  Speaker 1: cringe because it makes me do math, But Bob Knightangale
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  Speaker 1: does the work for me.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: The Milwaukee Brewers magic number to win the NL Central
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  Speaker 1: is four. The Brewers magic number to clinch home field
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  Speaker 1: advantage throughout the National League postseason is six. So we
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  Speaker 1: are getting close. Trevor we haven't talked, at least you
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  Speaker 1: and I have not talked about it. What has impressed
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  Speaker 1: you the most about what Milwaukee's been able to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 5: They just always seem to be able to do this
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  Speaker 5: and be right there at the end or win the division.
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  Speaker 3: I think that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean a lot's been said about how you fundamentally
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  Speaker 5: sound they are, how willing they are to bunt and run,
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  Speaker 5: take the extra base, and all of that is true.
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  Speaker 5: That's a testament to Pat Murphy and his crew. But
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  Speaker 5: I also think that it's a really cohesive group that
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  Speaker 5: a good clubhouse to be in by all accounts, and
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  Speaker 5: they've gotten them. They're basically optimizing all of their players.
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  Speaker 5: They're able to put anyone in any situation. It's built
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  Speaker 5: very similarly to like the Guardians teams of the past as.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and maybe even a little bit better.
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  Speaker 5: But like they put these these teams together and then
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  Speaker 5: they develop pitching at a level that I think might
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  Speaker 5: be the best out there. We got Freddy Peralta now
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  Speaker 5: has turned into bona fide as. Even though Woodrift's stuff
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  Speaker 5: isn't the hundred that he used to throw, He's completely
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  Speaker 5: revamped himself as a pitcher and is just as effective.
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  Speaker 5: Like they have the guys with experience, They got the
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  Speaker 5: guys that they need to take those first three games
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  Speaker 5: in the series, and then their lineup is pesky and
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  Speaker 5: hard to strike out. Hard to strike out is so
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  Speaker 5: valuable these days because of the nature of dominant pitching.
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  Speaker 5: I always bring these guys up as an example, but
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  Speaker 5: it is mymore. You're in the major leagues facing the
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  Speaker 5: twenty fifteen Kansas City Royals, who led the league or
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  Speaker 5: was the least amount of strikers in the league by
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  Speaker 5: like ten percent less than anybody else. It was one
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  Speaker 5: of the most annoying teams to face, and they did
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  Speaker 5: not hit that many home runs. But you just knew
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  Speaker 5: that there was going to be a pitcher out there
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  Speaker 5: exhausted after throwing one hundred pitches in five innings. Even
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  Speaker 5: if he throws a zero, it's it is it's a
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  Speaker 5: different type of tire. And they are that team, and
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  Speaker 5: they have the electric pitching to absolutely demoralize another team.
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  Speaker 5: Those two things together is just a recipe for having
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  Speaker 5: the record that they.
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  Speaker 1: Have Milwaukee Brewers four games, that's the magic number, and guys,
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays can actually clinch a postseason birth tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We know Milwaukee's already in, but the Blue Jays can
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  Speaker 1: clinch tonight with a win at Kansas City and losses
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  Speaker 1: by any two of the following three teams. The Tigers
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  Speaker 1: versus the Braves, the Red Sox they're at Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 1: and the Guardians, those pesky Guardians, they are at Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love this for Hunter Green because obviously he's
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  Speaker 1: a kid that can shove. He has a huge future
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  Speaker 1: in this game. But he just you know, guys don't
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  Speaker 1: get to go the distance very much anymore.
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  Speaker 2: E K.
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  Speaker 3: He did it.
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  Speaker 1: He took a no hit bit into the seventh of
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's game. He ends up going nine innings, allowing just
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  Speaker 1: one hit, nine punch outs, and has a two seven
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  Speaker 1: to four e er eight. The Red's probably not getting
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  Speaker 1: into the postseason, but Hunter Green, there's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: like about him.
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  Speaker 2: What Age' is not on, we can say the Reds
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  Speaker 2: are again. Then Craig miss even said the Marlins have
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  Speaker 2: a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 2: I like Creig that Hunter Green has been this guy.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking it up while you were talking. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: needs a guess how old Hunter Green is twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight four, he's twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you guys would have gone the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Green is Hunter Green. You've heard about him. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying he's the Bryce Harper of pitchers, but you
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  Speaker 2: heard about him when he was drafted throwing a hundred.
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  Speaker 2: He is now in the last two years become the
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  Speaker 2: pitcher that I think everybody thinks when you see a
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  Speaker 2: guy that comes out of the draft and he throws
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  Speaker 2: a hundred. He's a physical specimen. You talk to him,
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  Speaker 2: he's very smart, he's articulate, he's you know, he's just
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  Speaker 2: great out there in the community all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, this guy is almost like a he can't miss.
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  Speaker 2: In the last two seasons he's been can't miss. He
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  Speaker 2: had a two seven to five last year, first All
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  Speaker 2: Star Game and he had two seven to four.
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  Speaker 4: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: This is a he's becoming an ace. He's not an
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  Speaker 2: ace yet, but he's becoming an ace. And it's because
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  Speaker 2: he's able to locate his fastball. And the fastball is
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  Speaker 2: still one hundred and one. Last night it was one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and one in the ninth inning. Like this is
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  Speaker 2: something that you see. To me, I see a lot
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  Speaker 2: of dj Johnson Derek Johnson, the pitching coach for the Reds,
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  Speaker 2: really putting his fingerprint on him, not just saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: great job, you throw a ball really hard, Go throw
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  Speaker 2: it towards the plate and see what happens. He's been
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  Speaker 2: able to refine his mechanics and be able to locate
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  Speaker 2: these pitches. Now, to me, he's a guy that's built
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  Speaker 2: to go nine innings. It's only his second career shut out,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: but it's also his second career complete game. So to me,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I think he's a guy that moving forward, can do this,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: and if the Reds are going to ever do anything
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: this year or next year, I think he has to
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: be the guy.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: When guys take the wheel and see that it's on
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: them to become that game one ace. I just love
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: it that we've seen the same thing happen for the
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: last couple of years with Terry Scooble just say I'm
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: the guy. I'm the guy I figured something out, and
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: give me the ball game one and let's do this thing.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Er Green is becoming that for the Reds, which is
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: making me even more impatient to see them in a
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: playoff series. And don't forget he started the year maybe
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: the hottest starting pitcher in the whole, you know, major
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: leagues including Zach Wheeler and Paul Skins. He would have
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: been in that conversation had he not had to miss
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: some time there in the middle. So you know, I've
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: been big on him since he came up. The velocity's
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: always been there, and I think you hit it right
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: on the nail head. It's the command, it's the edges.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: One question mark about him was like, how is the
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: guy with this stuff get hit as hard as he does.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: That's some that seemingly isn't an issue when he's putting
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: it where he wants to put it. So you you
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: had command to one hundred miles an hour. There's just
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: nothing anyone can do. And you just saw him just
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: absolutely let it all out, put it all on the
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: line there in the ninth inning, really just wanting to
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: finish that game like he wanted it. You could see
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: by his reaction when he did pull it off. It
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: was something he decided he was going to do. And
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: once you can pull that off, it's it's a confidence sure,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: you know, indefinitely into the future. And so I think
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: we just saw before this probably, but we've seen a
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: number one. The Reds have their number one going in
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: the future. Now it's just building around him jevity.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: And the only reason I ask you, guys that is
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: because he throws two hundred miles an hour. And I
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: realize that everybody does that now, But oftentimes when you
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: have that kind of velo and everyone's throwing as hard
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: as they can, as many times as they can, it
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: ends up being uh time of John surgery or some
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: sort of surgery. So he's your ace, you see that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And I know some folks will say, teams don't care.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: We'll let you ride it out and blow your arm out.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: It's not our problem. But do you look at him
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: as a as a long term sign like I guess
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: if you were the president of Baseball ops er moreover,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: if you're the owner of the Reds, how long do
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you sign him to when he comes up for free
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: agency or availability to sign him to a long term deal.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: They don't need to. They don't need to. They got
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: him early. They already got him early. I think he's
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: on a five six years, fifty three million, and they
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: got an option all the way to twenty nine, all
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the way to twenty twenty nine.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: So him for steal, then.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be a red for a while. But I
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: think it's smart on both ends, just because of all
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the things you just said. Teams don't care, Yes they care.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: That sounds insensitive, but they don't care if you blow out.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: They want the best out of you out there. And
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: that's why I think I see with him when guys
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: take Trevor May said earlier about Freddy p when guys
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: take the next step after Freddy PE's outing the other day,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I had said it on the show here about how
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I see him dialing it up in big situations. I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: saw Hunter Green do that last night. He dialed it up.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: That was a one run game. He wasn't playing, he
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: wasn't going complete game, shutout six nothing. He's, in my
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: opinion's probably gonna be stored tomorrow or today because it's
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: right after his game. But he's he's got like he
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: dials it up when he needs to, not just all right,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: first pitch, see if you.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Can hit it, yeah, strike one. Neat.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: It just seems like he's starting to cruise through games
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and then when he gets in a little bit of trouble,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: uh huh. You haven't seen this out of me and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I still have this in the tank and a ninth inning,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: so that is when guys take the next level.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: It was so cool to see him go the distance.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Anytime you can see a guy throw a complete game
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in today's day and age, it's pretty neat. Didn't throw
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a complete game, but man, he had the swing and miss.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Max Free to the New York Yankees
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: obviously went seven innings, Trevor thirteen punchies, allowing only three hits,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: has a two nine to two ere We knew how
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: good this guy was when he was with Atlanta, but
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: he is everything that the Yankees could have hoped for.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: What'd you take out of his outing?
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: He's just classic Max Reed. The guy throws every pitch
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: that exists, and he's a guy who they need to
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: be hot, and be hot right now with him and
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Rodon and he'l like they need their three guys to
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: go one, two, three in the playoffs, assuming that it's
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: a wild card. Berth you gotta be ready to go
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: right away, So great timing for that, but absolutely filthy
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: throwing high nineties. Again, he is weird. I've heard a
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: lot of hitters talk about this and in terms of
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: like how the ball.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Comes out of his hands.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Sometimes it's like it's been in like a like a
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: two seamer and it's a four seam, and sometimes it's
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: like a cutter, and he doesn't even really throw one
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: of those really, so it's like he's just dip dive
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: and dodging him up there and always has been. And
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: then you add the type of stuff the velo behind that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Him striking out thirteen guys in surprised me one bit.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: I believe that's his eighteenth win. So you can't always
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: say this. I think it's important. I think we focus
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: on the negative a little bit too much sometimes. But
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: you got your money's worth from signing Max Freed this offseason.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: I'd say that one has worked out so far.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I like the dodgeball reference, dip dive, duck dodge. The
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Yankees closed within three games of the Blue Jays of
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the course, who lost earlier in the day to the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: raise we're talking about yesterday. New York's edge over Houston
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Seattle remained at two games from the top ale wild
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: card spot. Two weeks ago, I said the Yankees weren't
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: making the postseason, and now there are three games ahead
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: in the wild Card shows you what I know. But
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: let's talk about Max Reed a little bit more. We
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: talked so much, you guys, deservedly so, of what Aaron
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Judge does. Eric Kratz, who is your MVP in the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: American League, You've been very strict about that. We talked
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: so much about what he means to the team. But
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: what is Max Fried meant, especially in the absence of
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Garrett Cole. Louise Heil took a bit to get back.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: You know, Carlos Rodonna has been good this year for
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, but Max Freed, what he's done, I think
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: means more considering they don't have Garrett Cole.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you go out to sign, when you
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: got to sign a guy like Max Freed, you're like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: WHOA Can you imagine Game one Garrett Cole, Max Free,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Game two, Carlos Rodin, Game three, Louis Heel Game four
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: like that. They had dreams of this. Cole goes down.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Rodnna has stepped up immensely for this team. I think
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: he does better when he's not in a when he's
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: in a spotlight, like when it's like his turn to go,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: He's he's taking the next step for me. Heel's been down.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: They've had guys like Slitler and Will Warren step up
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: for him. So it's not what they thought the Yankees
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: rotation was gonna look like. So that's how important the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Max Freed signing was. So many teams signed pitchers and
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the pitchers didn't work out this year, but they didn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: go for the Max Freed, the Corbin Burns, the trade
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: for Garrett Crochet. They went for like, we'll just get
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: a one year deal. I will give this guy a
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: two year deal. But we see a lot of upside.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Yankee said, screw it. Who's the best pitcher available. He
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: wants a bigger contract than David Price Scott, we'll give
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: it to him. They broke that record for left handers.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Bang. Now they're getting paying the dividends.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna go back to two thousand and nine,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the last time the Yankees won the World Series. What
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Max Freed is doing. Don't compare the numbers, Just compare
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: how important it is and the fact that it's the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: first year that they signed this guy. The Yankees won
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the World Series the first year they signed C. C. Sabathia.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: He was the best available in the market. The Yankees
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: are in line to make the playoffs on not according
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to Alana Rizzo two weeks ago. But they signed Max
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Free the best available pitcher, and he is having that
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: type of year that CC had where the numbers aren't
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: like WHOA like a one era. He's out there every
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: single day. Now he's leading the league and wins, which matters.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yankees, by the way, only have a two game lead
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: over Houston in Seattle right now. I apologize that was
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: my mistake earlier I said three, but it's only a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: two game lead. Trevor May, did the New York Yankees
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: have enough to get to the World Series and moreover
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: win it?
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I mean they've always they've been a deep team. They have,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: you know, they're there's a couple question marks in the bullpen,
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: but some guys have stepped up.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: At least the bridge side of.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Things has been pretty strong with Fernando Cruz and I
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: know Lighter Junior struggled a little bit there in the middle,
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: but he has been better as of late. So they
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: have enough depth, They have enough guys that can step up,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: and it's one of those lineups like you know, a
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Cody Belager, you know, he's been I think under the
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: radar very good this year. They have guys who can
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: take over games and they're always gonna have the threat
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: of the home run, and that is just something that
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: if it's timed right, can be just devastating in a
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: playoff situation. We saw it happened last year there there
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: for the most part, most of the players are back
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: and guys who experienced it and and have that experience
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: under the belt. So yeah, it's one of those things
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: like if the Yankees make the playoffs, they're just there
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: is a path for because they probably have a handful
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: of the best players in the league. They always do
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: and that that remains true. So it's all about getting
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: hot at the right time. Though I think things of
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: you know, even out since that nine and that's why
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: it's been tough for them. But they still make the
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: playoffs every year. So yes, I'll never count the Yankees
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: out call that just a little bit of PTSD for
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: my entire life. But they're always in it and they're
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: always they always have a chance.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Spoken like a guy who has pitched the majority of
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: his career in the American League, any concern about the
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yankee bullpen Trevor May Eric Kratz. If you take a
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: look at the numbers recently, they're twenty ninth as far
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: as their ere ranking since August first, being the worst
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: in the majors, teetering between basically north of five and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a half.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I think maybe they picked up some dudes that got
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: worn out by their other teams. I mean, because their
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: starting rotation is giving them some length and their bullpen
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: is there's a lot of new guys with Bednar stepping
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: up that is huge. I think Luke Weaver may have
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: come back from the il to soon that was during
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: this August first stint, and they have nine games to
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: figure out who is going to be the hottest going
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: into into the playoffs for them, because that's who they're
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: gonna ride. There's no going to well, you know, let's
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: let's find a soft landing spot. Every time I turn
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: on the Yes Network, that's what I hear. Oh yeah,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Aaron Boone's looking for a soft landing spot here for
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Devin Williams, for Kabilo Duval for.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Who else.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Like it's basically lighter Junior and Bednar and Fernando Cruz.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: If he's throwing strikes, you can't find a soft landing
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: spot in the playoffs. You need, in my opinion, if
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: you want to win it all, you need four or
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: five guys that you can count on. If you want
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: to hope, you have three guys, and right now I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: think they're right in that three guy. I hope they
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: all do well and we get seven from Max Freed.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: A win on Friday, guys, puts the Bombers twenty games
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: over five hundred for the first time this season. So
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: it's not like they're not winning games, but they definitely
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: need to play more fundamentally sound baseball. Obviously pitch defense,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: you guys know it better than anybody else having been
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: in this league. As long as you have really quick Trevor,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: because before we get to break, we've had this conversation
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a lot. It's been the top of the top of DuJour,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: if you will, who's your AL MVP, Judge Brawley.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: It's the boring answer.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: It's very likely, Judge, I think things needed to happen
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: or still I mean it's still possible. I think if
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: there's in this last week major heroics from cal Rawley
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: that in a Mariner sweep of the Houston Astros to
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: give him. The debate like if something like that happens,
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: or he somehow gets the sixty homers or even crazier,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: you know, he's hit multi homers and ten games is
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: here if he just rattled three more off and got
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: to close to Judge's record, I think that story might
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: push him forward. But just the offensive differences are just
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: he's just eighty points ahead of him in batting average.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: I understand the batting average isn't our end. I'll be
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: all a statistic, but like almost one hundred points, that's
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: just too much in my opinion.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: But you know who, you never know. There's something called
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: voter fatigue.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Sometimes you just want to see a different option if
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: it's really close. This has happened a lot in the
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: history of baseball, so but I think just in terms
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: of just general straight up most valuable player, I.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Mean, it's just really hard to say.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: It's not an inn Judge every single year, So it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: probably he's probably the front runner if we're going objectively
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: on statistics.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: But that's not how humans work, so we'll see.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I think I don't think there's a wrong answer. I mean, everybody,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: of course, who wants the other guys going to say
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that they made the wrong decision, But I completely understand
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: where you're coming from. Don't look now, guys, but the Dodgers'
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: pitching staff looks pretty.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Deep, pretty pretty.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Good, Bob Nightingale. The Dodger starting rotation continues to thrive,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: giving up only one hit the entire game, Winning two
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: to one over the Giants. They boost their lead to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: three games over the pottery is the pottery is lost yesterday.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: So the magic number for Los Angeles guys is six.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Trevor May, I'll ask you, uh, do the Dodgers have
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the best starting rotation right now? Season ends today, Game
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: one starts tomorrow. Who has a better rotation?
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to talk about the big three? Uh
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: in Snell last now and Yamamoto. That is not one
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: that you want to run into. I would say, yeah,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: I'll give them a yes. I think that three those
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: three guys dialed in which Bill accounts they are. That's
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: that's not someone that's a buzzsaw. That's a potential bud saw.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: You got to get to you know, you want to
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: get through one guy usually and then try to work
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: your work your way feel better about facing that second
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: third guy, That's not the case here. So I would
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: say position wise for a playoff series, they're just as good,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: probably the best.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Eric. I think it's fair to say that they are
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: in the National League. But is Seattle's rotation better than
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers?
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you take Seattle's pitchers best years, Yeah, Brent,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I mean right now, no, No, they are literally what
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: the tweet said, unhittable. Now, how is this going to
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: continue to translate when Will Smith comes back and is
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: the main catcher. Because I give a lot of credit
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Ben Roarved, who will be on the show next week,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: has come in here and absolutely put the golden fingers down.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I guess they don't put fingers down anymore. He's hitting
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: the golden buttons. This starting rotation has not gotten hit
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not I don't even care about strikeouts. Yamamoto I
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: think was getting squeezed, you know, his last doubting So
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: I sit there and I go, you know, he's still
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: able to do this when the strike zone last night
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: was like this big like these guys are getting outs
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: in the zone and they're getting him to chase late.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: It's they are hitting on all cylinders. I don't think
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: there's a starting rotation that's close right now.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Benny Rose coming on the show next week. You guys
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: got Ben Rourtvett. He's a Dodger legend, playing out of
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: his mind right now.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: All of his muscles, all of his muscles.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: That's what he said.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: That's what he said. You thought the other day, guys,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: when Brett Snell Blake Snell rather did not want to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: get taken out of the game. Rtt Bollinger reporting that.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: You say Kakuchi was frustrated that he was taken out
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of the game in the sixth All year have been
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: grinding for the team, right So in that spot, I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: wanted to be trusted a little bit more, and I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: felt like I wasn't trusted in that moment. Of course,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: he said this through his interpreter, Yusuke Oshima. You want this, though,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: don't you, Eric. You want a guy that doesn't want
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to be taken out of the game. Give me the ball,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Let me stay in the game, Let me get out
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: of my own traffic if I caused it, let me
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: fix my own mess.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe he's been watching his bullpen give it
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: up like they did last night. When his fellow starters
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: get out there, I think a guy he's thirty four now,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I think he definitely deserves the chance to get himself
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: out of his own mess, especially in a game where
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: they're out of it like the Angels. The Angels are
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: out of it. They were in this game, they're out
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: of it for the season.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I think there's something to be said, but I also
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: know that the Angels just haven't figured out how to
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: win games. And you have to be able to trust
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: that the guy you're bringing in is going to get
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the job done. He didn't last night. So I applaug
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Kakuchi for saying what he said. I agree.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, you want a guy that wants to take
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the ball, Trevor. Is there a situation there where you
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: sometimes you have to save a guy from himself.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, this wasn't one of those situations. I'm fairly
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: certain Yusee Kaguchi is the highest paid guy in their
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: rotation as well. He's yeah, he's he's been around.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: If anyone deserves to be given a little bit more
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: leashed there, it's him. And I understand it's frustrating because
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: he does look around. He sees like, you know, I
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: don't have confidence that this game is going to be
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: locked down the way that I would prefer to be.
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: But you know, even beyond that, we're out of it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: We're out of it again, and uh, we need to
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: stop acting as if we got to.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Like we're playing the game.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: By the by the numbers every moment here right now,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: because it just doesn't matter. I can you know, I
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: me being able to get through this is uh entirely plausible.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: And even if you don't, you're not confident from a
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: number standpoint that I can do it?
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Does it really matter now?
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: So it's what I'm always for guys trying to go
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: get that extra because you were able to do it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: That could mean pay dividends long term in a confidence way,
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: especially young guys. I want young guys the opportunity to
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: get out of owning innings more often. So I'm definitely
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: in that camp as well. I just think it's in
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: terms of development or just building confidence and feeling good
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: about how you're ending the year.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: It's just goes long way.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Just getting that one extra hout or getting out of
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: a tough situation when you're tired. It's really important for
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: pitchrisfield do that.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Two completely different scenarios. Milwaukee Brewers, of course, have already
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: clinched their division. They're trying to figure out seating as
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: far as that is concerned, And of course the Los
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Angeles Angels have been eliminated once again, have not made
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the postseason. Guys since twenty eleven. Let's talk a bit
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: about the Mets beating the pod Sorry, sorry, twenty fourteen,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: eleven years. That's what it was, eleven years, not twenty eleven.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: My bad. The Mets beat the Padres. Rookie Jonahtong went
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: five innings with one run. He had eight punch outs yesterday. Again,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of teams at this point in the season
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: look into the young arms eric to either get them
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: into the Promised Land or continue to get further into
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the promised land. What do you like about Tong?
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, just the fact that he is not afraid
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: to throw the ball in the strike zone. He was
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: facing a lineup that on paper looks pretty scary right now.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're taking their big league wood up
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to the plate, but it's definitely a team that is
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: a scary looking lineup for a young pitcher, and he
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: attacked the zone yesterday. Obviously everyone's gonna say, oh, is
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: it Tim Lincicom. It's unbelievable. Tim tong You know, I've seen,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: you know, the Mets fans had had tongs out. They
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: brought tongs to the game every strikeout. So it was
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: creative the Mets fans. They need gimmicks, you know, to
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: keep themselves in this season. But I just can't believe
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: how many rookies we've seen step up in big situations,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: in situations where teams normally a rookie comes up at
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: this time of year for a playoff contending team, and
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: you say, man, we really need this guy to step
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: into our fifth spot, our fourth spot. Nolan McLain has
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: pitched in Game one for the Mets. If they make
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, Jonah Tongue, he's gonna have to put together
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: another start. I think I think sprot in him didn't
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: do what McClain did. But what McClain did was epic.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, you Savage Trey, you Savage up North in
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the six they don't even need a starting pitcher, and
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: he stepped up and showed, man, you gotta get some
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: innings out of this guy in the playoffs, like it
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: is a rare thing. And I always bring up Brandon
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Finnigan in twenty fourteen because when you're rookie, you are
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: going through everything that rookies go through normally, where you're
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: like which side is our clubhouse? On? How much do
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I pay clubhouse dues? Do I have to carry the
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: beer onto the plane? Like what do I have to do?
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: And then they're going out there and just absolutely dealing.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: And I loved to see what Brandon Finnigan did, so
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I if I'm run an organization, I'm doing this. If
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: you look at a guy and he has stuff like
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: tongue has, I'm throwing them out there.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're looking at these guys to trev and you're
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: looking at them. Back in the day when September callups
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: happened and you can bring you could bring up nine
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two people, and the clubhouse was like
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: everyone's smashed together. Sometimes you just needed guys to come
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: up and give your starters a blow. Sometimes you just
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: needed an extra arm. You needed to give your bullpen
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: guy arrest or whatever it was. Now, if they're being
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: called up, they're expected to get into the game and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: they're expected to produce. And they're looking at these young guys,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the Peyton Tollies of the world, the Earlies of the world,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the Tongs, the you know, the Y Savage in Toronto
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: who's probably going to come out of the bullpen for
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays in the postseason. Does that surprise you
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: that they're looking at these guys as being key productive
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: members of what they're trying to accomplish. It almost seems
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: like that particular script has shifted where you're not just
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a body anymore. You're not just a warm bodied individual.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: You're expected to produce.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's a product of the rosters going
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: from forty possibly to twenty eight. If you have a
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: spot on this team, we're gonna need you to play.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: You have to play, and you have to play regularly.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: And that's why it's usually a starting pitcher, six man rotation.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: And I think that the league is getting younger and
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: younger and younger, so we're seeing rookies kind of become
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: bigger roles earlier when they come up. But rookies, rookies
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: coming up and being successful has a long history of
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: playing a huge role in a September playoff push or
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: even a good run into the playoffs. Corey Seeger came
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: on and you went crazy and then became a big
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: reason for the Dodgers' success that year. We had Evan
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Carter as soon as early as twenty twenty three coming
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: up in September. I was their for his debut and
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: then he became a huge part of that team on
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: their run. Like this is something that always happens, and
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: if you get young guys who are able to do
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: it immediately, Like what is the Met's biggest issue?
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Starting pitching?
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Like they lost everybody, lost everybody to start the year,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: and they lost everybody again halfway through the year.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: So they needed guys to come step up.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: They've had They've had McLean who is going to start
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: Game one?
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: He better?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: And then you got Tom and David Peterson. This depth
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: is huge and for them to they come in and
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: they know that, like they know that they're gonna have
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: to throw meaningful innings in order to pull this thing off.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: And knowing that right away instead of being like I
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: don't know if I'm gonna be called on to do
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: this because there's fifty guys here, that's a big difference.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: It's easier to make that jump when it's kind of
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: like you look around, you're like, oh, it's me like that.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: Sometimes you got to be thrown into the fire. And
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: and that's when you see guys step up or not
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: and start their careers out well. And it's nice to
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: see so many young guys really stepping up.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: It really is. We seized it off the top of
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: this segment, so we got to get to it. But
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: brandon Nimo had some funny comments. Abby Misstroco tweeted, brandon
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Neimo said, you miss all of the shots you don't
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: take when talking about his home run. When asked if
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: he was quoting Wayne Gretzky or Michael Scott of the Office,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: he said he was quoting brandon Nimo. He did a
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: little bit of a Ricky Henderson there, talking about the
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: third person, right, he said, brandon Nimo had that quote.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: So interesting stuff from the Mets again, we'll see hanging
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: on for dear life and that final spot in the
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: National League. While the card Well Mariners win guys back
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: tied for first in the AL West. This whole AO
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: West situation is so unbelievable. Seattle's now tied atop the
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Ale West with Houston eighty four and sixty nine. The
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: two clubs open a crucial three game set beginning to
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: day at dyk In Park that will not only determine
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the playoff tie breaker, but could decide the division title
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: as well. E K, which way does this go?
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: One team is going to win the first game and
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: then the next two games. Another team is going to
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: win the next two games. That's how it's going to go.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: This is going must see this, really I see. I
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: see the Mariners taking this series.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Why. I have no idea.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Everything about the last eight years of baseball should tell
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: me Nope, the Astros are going to do it. But
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: in my mind, I'm going the Mariners taking this series.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: I just feel like their pitching is gonna line up
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: to be able to attack these guys. I feel like
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: cal Rawley would love to play in a tiny park
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: like Daikan, and I think they're gonna be putting East
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Sooc parades in the lineup here at some point this weekend,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: and he's not gonna be able to run at all,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: and he's not gonna be I just I just feel
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: like things are lining up for the Mariners to do it.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: So history will tell you.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I'm wrong, Trevor.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: He was talking about Estoc Parades not being able to run.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Jordon Alvarez probably not gonna be back until the postseason.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: But that's a guy you don't need him to run
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: because he can hit home runs. Are they bringing back
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: ESOC too quickly? I mean, I guess they don't have
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: a choice, or do they? Oh, mic Is, do they
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: have a choice? Derek? Do they have a choice?
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: No, they don't have a choice. They need that offense.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: But again, guys just keep stepping up if it means
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: bring I guess there's no direct correlations between Estop Paradis
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: and that cole. But like, they just find guys. They
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: find guys to step in. They put them in situations
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: that have success, and dudes step up and do it
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: like that's just what the Astros do. Estot Paradis is
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: a better hitter than anything they have on the bench,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: So yes, you need them in there, but they haven't
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: needed him since he's been gone. They haven't needed your
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Don since he's been gone. It's just it's a crazy
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: anomaly that doesn't make baseball sense.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Because all they do is win, win, win, No matter what.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: That's a song. Do you go like this? Can I
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: get a All I do is win win win?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no matter what, no matter what.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: You got it there say that. Guys. I don't know
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: what you think about this, but to me, this stinks.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Apple TV gets the game tonight for Kershaw's last regular
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: season start of his career, and they're not simulcasting it
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: on Sports net LA. That bums me out.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Big fail. I know they didn't plan this, I get it.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: No, they didn't. They didn't to be sure.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Big fail.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess this is why Apple pays this
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: kind of cash, you know, I guess their Their answer
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: to that is okay, well just sign up for Apple TV,
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: sign up for our description. You know. It's like it's
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: like when they got the Amazon games for football last year.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Amazon had just a massive increase in subscriptions.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: But it sucks and why they do it, but it's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: just it's unfortunate. It's like I remember when I first
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: started working for Sports net LA and it wasn't widely
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: distributed and most folks missed out on Vin Scully's last
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: year televising and broadcasting. So this is just a bummer.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: You know, I get it. It's not Apple's fault. It's
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: not Sports and LA's fault. It's just the i'ming issue.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: But this stinks. Blake Harris, you know, obviously tweeting that
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the big chunk of fans are not going to be
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: able to watch the game. I mean, that's a bummer, right,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, Trevor, I know you respect Clayton Krusha obviously,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: I think we all do, but to not be able
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: to see his last start at home in a regular
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: season hopefully he gets, you know, some postseason innings, but
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: you'd want to be able to see every pitch that
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Clayton throws tonight.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, It's stinks. It's just it's it's unfortunate, and I
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: mean maybe I don't know how you avoid this other
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: than like Clayton announces it a month ago, Like I
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: really don't. I really don't know how you could, how
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: you can do it. Don't really blame anyone for drop
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: the ball on it. It just it's unfortunate. But it
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: does look like he's going to have an opportunity to
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: throw in the postseason again, and hopefully that is a
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: home game. But we would I think we would all
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: rather not have to cross our fingers if that happens, so.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: No question about that. Clayton, in true Clayton fashion, didn't
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: want to announce it early, I believe because he doesn't
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: want the pomp and circumstance and twenty seven, you know,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: twenty nine other teams given them all the stuff, so
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: that's why he announced it today. A j Ellis knows
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw better than anybody. We're going to talk to
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: him next. What's up, Eric? He looks like you have
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: something to say now.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: I was just gonna say you got the Legacy pick
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: for the All Star Game though? Didn't he He did?
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: He did, Max, Max, Scherzer and Verlander didn't. Do you
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: think they turned it down?
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I don't want to put words in their mouth, but
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: we'd have to ask ask Ken. That's a good question.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Chandler Rome, who does a great job on the Crush
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: City Territory podcast here on the Foul Territory Network, had
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: this to say. The Astros plan to activate Estoch Parades
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: off the injured list prior to Tonight's game against the Maritors'
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: sources tell the athletic Parades has been out since July
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: nineteenth after suffering a severe right hamstring string. First on
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: it was Brian McTaggart, who works for MLB dot Com
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: covering the Strows.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Eric.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: We've talked about it. Man Calf's hamstrings obliques, they're tricky.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: I hope this isn't too soon.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's so close to the end. You just.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: You're just gonna get what you get from him. He's
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: not gonna have the fatigue factor, I don't think. But
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: you also just you don't have top high end speed.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: You never had it. But you're going to see a
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: lot of gian Carlos Stanton type of runs. And is
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: he going to be able to go in a You're
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: gonna play some close games with the Mariners this series.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Is he gonna get a base hit or walk? Because
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: he does a great job of handling the zone so well.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Is he gonna walk and then a base hit? Is
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: he gonna be able to go first to third? That's
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: probably why they're activating him, because he says he can.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Is it at a job? Can he score from second?
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: We'll see, Trevor.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: They have to do it right, I mean they've got
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: to get into I mean they're gonna get in, I
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: would think, unless the Guardians make them like whatever. I mean,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the Guardians do control their own destiny, but uh, it's
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: a matter of getting in or winning the division. I mean,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I guess they go for broke here.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's it's an all hands on deck situation.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: I think every single year there's guys with a legal,
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: little nagging injury going on or something where they're trying
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: to come back real quick. I remember back in twenty
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: twenty two, we had Starling Marte with his hands just
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: come in, no no rehab for the last week of
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: the season, just come in and he had no problems
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: with it. So that might be an issue or that
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: might that might be what happens, but they just need
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: him to swing it. That really at the end of
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: the day, they just really need him to swing it.
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: And I am a little bit I comes to this stuff.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: Sometimes they'll get a little tricky, especially with hamstrings.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: And when it.
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: Happened, it was really really bad. No one seemed very
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: optimistic about it. So I'm hoping that this wasn't a
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: situation where he feels pressure to do it to kind
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: of like push him through the end and and you know,
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: getting ten more days maybe make him ready for the playoffs.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: And that's what the problem is.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: I hope that's not the case, but if not, you know,
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: I think anyone in that lineup, say, will take all
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: the helping get so I guess we'll have to see
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: kind of what level he's at.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: We're slapping hands, Trevor and Eric. Any final thoughts on
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: the day before we head into the weekend. Trevor, you
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: go first, A.
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: Lot of big series happening right here at the end
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: of the end of the season. I will be watching
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: the Mariners take on the Astros. But you got a
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: lot of options, so enjoy it. Enjoy it because baseball
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: will not be here forever. The end is coming. So wow,
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: go go watch these get.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: The end of the season.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Are we talking? I thought we were talking like work
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: stoppage or something. I'm like, geez, that really dark.
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, that's at least twelve months away from
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: me saying that.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Don't forget guys. You can catch may Days on Wednesdays
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: at three pm Eastern right after failed Territory. Eric kra
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: any final thoughts, what are you watching this weekend? Seattle
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: and Houston? I'm sure is on everybody's mind.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: There's no there's no way anybody should be watching anything else.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: I get it, there's other games, but that is the series,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: and I hope the first one is an absolute banger,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: one run game. Houston comes back, blows in the ninth,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: cal Riley hits two dangers.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: That's what I need. That's what I need to see
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: this weekend.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: That would be great to see before we let you go.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: What's Kratz hats? What do you got tonight?
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: My most versatile hat, Washington Nationals. It can also be this.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: It can also be the Twins if you want it
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: to be. If you can wear your hat upside down.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Kinda looks like the Marlins a little bit, a little
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: bit of.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Oh oh wait, oh oh, that's the last one.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: It's the Marlins.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: It is versatile. That is a versatile versatility for everybody
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: here on foul Territory. Trevor May, Eric Kratz, Jeremy Meyer,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Claudia Olsen, yab Mark, all of us. I'm Alana Rizzo.
• 51:01
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