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Top 10 MLB Lineups, Max Scherzer returns to Blue Jays, Yankees sign Randal Grichuk, Giancarlo's pain · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Charge about.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Max Schurzer's back, Kip.
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  Speaker 3: So here's a guy that you faced probably pretty frequently
• 0:10
  Speaker 3: in your career, and he's still trying to get the
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: job done in the big leagues. I mean, he had
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  Speaker 3: a really up and down season last year. He's been
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  Speaker 3: going through it, but then he pops up and pitches
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  Speaker 3: valuable innings in the playoffs for the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a unique contract.
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  Speaker 3: One year, three million dollars, ten million dollars in incentives.
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  Speaker 3: What happens is he gets a million bucks if he
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  Speaker 3: hits the sixty five innings pitched threshold.
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  Speaker 2: Also has no trade production.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, every ten innings after that he gets
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  Speaker 3: a million bucks, So it's incentivized for him to pitch.
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  Speaker 3: At the same time, Max is rich, Kip, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't think he's worried about that. He just wants to
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  Speaker 3: go out there on the team side to just get
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  Speaker 3: some protection because he has been through quite a bit
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  Speaker 3: injury wise, thumb issues that have plagued him for the
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  Speaker 3: previous three seasons, and I guess that is also spilled
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  Speaker 3: into causing soreness in his arm and his shoulder. He
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  Speaker 3: said that the shots in his injured thumb were making
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  Speaker 3: it difficult for him to pitch even the games and
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  Speaker 3: causing him to miss time. But then of course he
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  Speaker 3: pops up in the postseason three, seven, seven, and three
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  Speaker 3: October outings started Game seven, held the Dodgers to one
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  Speaker 3: run in four and third kept them in the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, gave him their money's worth, just in a
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  Speaker 3: unique way. So what do you think about Max joining
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  Speaker 3: the Blue Jays again and giving them depth whenever he
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  Speaker 3: is able to pitch. They are in good shape right now.
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  Speaker 3: They have like six or seven starters as it is.
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  Speaker 4: I like it a lot.
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  Speaker 5: I think, like you just hinted on, I don't think
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  Speaker 5: it's for the money. Max doesn't need the money. He's
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  Speaker 5: certainly made more than enough in his career. This is
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  Speaker 5: a guy who just can tell. I think he knows
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  Speaker 5: he has at least one more year left in his
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  Speaker 5: body and love for the game and wants to go
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  Speaker 5: out there and play. I think he from the sounds
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  Speaker 5: all things in considering Toronto and the group that they
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  Speaker 5: have there is a very fun place to play.
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  Speaker 4: I think he really liked the guys.
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  Speaker 5: And the team and it gives him with the depth
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  Speaker 5: of the starting rotation, it gives him a little bit
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  Speaker 5: time to build back into it. He doesn't have to
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  Speaker 5: be an every fit day guy and going to the
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  Speaker 5: World Series. He likes where he's at and wants to
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  Speaker 5: run it back with him. And I think your body
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  Speaker 5: can can break down, and certainly does the older you get,
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  Speaker 5: But I think the playoffs and a guy a competitor
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  Speaker 5: of the level that Max is that adrenaline. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: not surprised at all that his success comes back to
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  Speaker 5: him in the playoffs again. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 5: they're counting on one more time, is when that adrenaline hits,
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  Speaker 5: that playoff baseball hits. Here's not too many guys he'd
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  Speaker 5: like handing the ball off or you feel good about
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  Speaker 5: handing the ball off more than Max Scherzer in his career.
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  Speaker 1: He was great in the postseason last year. I mean
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  Speaker 1: everyone's like, why is he starting? And then boom, he
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  Speaker 1: goes out and delivers some great games for him and
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  Speaker 1: almost got him another World Ses. People forget who was
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  Speaker 1: on Texas in twenty three when they won. Right, he's
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  Speaker 1: got so he's got two rings, right because nineteen with
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  Speaker 1: Washington and twenty three with the Rangers. So why is
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  Speaker 1: he doing this this look. I know Max very well.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him.
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  Speaker 4: He was he Nationals with Strasburg.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was him, and it was Strasburg and Corbyn
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  Speaker 1: where the three that led that staff to that World
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  Speaker 1: Series in nineteen. So but I played golf with Max
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  Speaker 1: this offseason and he was like, I want to go
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: back to the Blue Jays. I mean, he pretty much
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  Speaker 1: said it. He said, I want to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. And why why do you want to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the Blue Jays? Just the atmosphere, the
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  Speaker 1: way they treated him and his family, everything about the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays was where he wanted to be. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: if this is my last year, I want to go
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  Speaker 1: out on a team that I like, the players I
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  Speaker 1: respect and all the things. You know, in a winning team,
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  Speaker 1: the team has a chance to win. Well, he got
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  Speaker 1: his wish. Was it the money he wanted? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he needs the money he's got. He's got like
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  Speaker 1: three hundred million in the bank with about two hundred
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  Speaker 1: to million of it deferred, right Scott, So I think
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  Speaker 1: that this is a great place for him and if
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  Speaker 1: this is his last year, Max, I tipped my cap team, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're one of my favorite dudes of all time. You're
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite people to interview, and you were
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite people to play again because of
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  Speaker 1: the intensity showed. You got me out. It was respectful.
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  Speaker 1: I got to hit off you, it was respectful. It
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  Speaker 1: was always just a fun battle. So if this is
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  Speaker 1: it and this is where the way he goes out,
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  Speaker 1: good for you, Max. I hope you're healthy and give
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  Speaker 1: him a full year. And if a full year, if
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  Speaker 1: he only means twenty starts and four of those come
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason, again, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Postseason wins are worth a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: If Max is going to give you some innings in
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  Speaker 3: the postseason and their effective innings like last year, it's
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  Speaker 3: worth something. The intensity, too, is really fun to watch
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  Speaker 3: as a fan, appreciate this. It could be the last
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  Speaker 3: year of Max. So as a fan, check out starts
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: or just games sometimes where Max is in the dugout
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  Speaker 3: and he looks lit and he's running around and he's
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  Speaker 3: fired up. And then yeah, if he gets you know what,
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  Speaker 3: if he tries to get taken out of a start
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  Speaker 3: where he's feeling it, you might have to you know,
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  Speaker 3: duck or wear a helmet. Be careful, right, it takes.
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  Speaker 5: It takes you a little bit to get used to
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  Speaker 5: it as a competitor is going going against him. It's
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  Speaker 5: like you think, first you he's screaming at you on
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  Speaker 5: the mound, which there probably are times where he is,
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  Speaker 5: but like he's kind of just talking to himself. You
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  Speaker 5: see this guy that is just circling the mound, talking loud,
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  Speaker 5: coming with it, and he's just all intense, and you're like,
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  Speaker 5: you have to kind of choose which way you want
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  Speaker 5: to react to it. Where it's like you're like, buddy,
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  Speaker 5: what are you doing to call him down? But you
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  Speaker 5: can't because if you take that route, he's already got
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  Speaker 5: you where he wants you. So you kind of have
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  Speaker 5: to meet him head on with the intensity and you
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  Speaker 5: be like, all right, let's do this then. So he
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  Speaker 5: makes a game of baseball better just the way he
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  Speaker 5: approaches it himself.
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  Speaker 4: But he is a competitor through and.
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  Speaker 5: Through and has been a bulldog on that mound for
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  Speaker 5: years and he has been a pleasure to watch.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a bunch of kids, So one of them,
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  Speaker 3: I know, is a competitor and was trying to line
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  Speaker 3: all of this up and she got her wish this
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: was cute. We're gonna throw this out there. So this
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  Speaker 3: post by m A sway back in December, is that
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  Speaker 3: maybe that is that Max's wife maybe posting on there.
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  Speaker 3: Back in December, Brooke wrote this letter. This is his
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  Speaker 3: eight year old daughter put it in an envelope and asked, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the shurs are fam to mail it to the Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 3: and now she gets her wish. Last season had an
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  Speaker 3: amazing impact on the surs Er family and they're very
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  Speaker 3: excited to be back. So she wrote, dear Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 3: I am so sorry that you didn't win the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: I hope that you win next time. I hope my
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  Speaker 3: dad is back on the team. My whole family loves
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: spending time in Toronto with our dad. We loved the aquarium,
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  Speaker 3: sand Tower, and of course the stadium. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to coming back next season. Love, Max Suzer's daughter.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You got a wish, she got it. It's always went out.
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  Speaker 3: That's a really nicely put together note too, Like appropriately,
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  Speaker 3: I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: I feel bad that you guys didn't win.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking about you and I look forward to
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  Speaker 3: hopefully seeing you again.
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  Speaker 2: And there it is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we said that's probably why he signed
• 6:49
  Speaker 5: back there. I think you hear stories how well they're
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  Speaker 5: treated and how well the group gets along with each other,
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  Speaker 5: the wives get along with each other. You hear stories
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  Speaker 5: maybe about other organizations where they just don't treat the
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  Speaker 5: families as well or something like that. So that's not nothing.
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  Speaker 5: When you start to find out some organization really takes
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  Speaker 5: care of its own and really does things the right way,
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  Speaker 5: that's definitely not nothing. When people are looking at where
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  Speaker 5: to sign.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you this, will Max pitch in April?
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  Speaker 1: I would say no.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I would say no as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I ask because it sounds like he could be eased
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: into the season and you're careful with innings and workload
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  Speaker 3: and trying to make sure that you get him to
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  Speaker 3: his best place by October. Of course, the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 3: need to make the playoffs. I mean, they were a
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  Speaker 3: very good team last year. It's a very competitive division.
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  Speaker 3: The reason I bring it up is Gosswan's in the rotation.
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  Speaker 3: Dylan Ceese was signed, Trey esavaged the rookie in there,
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  Speaker 3: Jose Burrios coming back, Cody Ponce was signed, Shane Bieber
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  Speaker 3: is eventually going to come back. They have options here,
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  Speaker 3: and if they don't suffer significant injuries over the next
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  Speaker 3: few weeks, they technically don't have a spot for Max,
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  Speaker 3: or you have I guess a six man and you
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  Speaker 3: got to get crafty.
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll figure out a way to get Max
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  Speaker 1: in there. I don't know that at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the year because he's already late to camp. I know
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: it's not that late to camp, but he's already a
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks behind. So I think they're gonna take it
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  Speaker 1: slow with Max and make sure he's ready. And then
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  Speaker 1: do you know what's funny is these things always play out.
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  Speaker 1: Remember last year we said, oh, the Dodgers have twelve
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: starting pitchers and they barely scrape through at the end,
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  Speaker 1: right every year? And then the Blue Jays had a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of starters and they throw guys in the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: and they use guys. And then Barrios was heard and
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: he didn't show up to the World Series, and there's
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: all these things, and these things all work themselves out
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: one way or another. It's crazy, Kip. It's always like
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: we have too many outfielders. And then the first week
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: in spring training something happens where an outfitlder goes down
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  Speaker 1: or gets traded or something. It always seemed to work
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  Speaker 1: its way out.
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  Speaker 4: It works its way out.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll say, if Toronto doesn't make the playoffs, it
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  Speaker 5: will not be cut be because Max Shuars are going
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  Speaker 5: to throw in April.
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  Speaker 2: For no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: And the smart teams know that you need to load up.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not easy to do a j If you
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: have say seven or eight big league starters, you still
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: have to figure out what you're doing with them at
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: the start of the year, right, I mean, if you're
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: a good team, you need at least that in terms
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: of guys that you feel really good about. I'm not
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: talking about other guys that could emerged throughout.
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  Speaker 2: The season from the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 3: But if you do have eight starters, some of them
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: might not feel comfortable going to the bullpen. Max Shurtz
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  Speaker 3: is not pitching out of the bullpen for the Blue
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: Jays during the regular season.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: No, he might know, he might think, so, he might listen.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: He might well, you just don't know. I mean, they
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: can't hold him down forever. They can't just say, you know,
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: he's in rookie ball or whatever. And stay in duneeding forever.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna have to pitch and if if there's not
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  Speaker 1: a spot available, then maybe he's the long guy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, they'll figure it out. That's almost they didn't
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  Speaker 1: sign him put him on. I mean it's a big
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  Speaker 1: league heal he signed. He didn't sign a minor league deal.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Oh no, So I mean he's gonna be on the team.
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  Speaker 1: They got to have to use him at some point.
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  Speaker 2: They're just prett yeah things.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me. One thing we know about Max from having
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: him on the show multiple times. Max's didn't go into
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  Speaker 1: those blindfolded. It's like he went into this. This was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to sign no matter what, I guarantee you.
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  Speaker 1: He said. Talks with the Blue Jays and they said, Max,
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  Speaker 1: here's your role, here's how many starts you're gonna get.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go from there.
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  Speaker 3: Time, let's look at the top ten lineups according to
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  Speaker 3: at ten. I do want to make an important note
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  Speaker 3: right off the jump here. This list came out a
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  Speaker 3: little over a week ago. It was before the Jordan
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  Speaker 3: He did already put this out when we learned about
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• 12:49
  Speaker 3: few weeks into the season. Nine Phillies eight, Cubs, Blue
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  Speaker 3: Jays at seven. He puts the Mariners at six, the
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  Speaker 3: A's at five, the Mets at four, Braves offense at three,
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  Speaker 3: Yankees at to, Dodgers ed one. Same thing like we
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  Speaker 3: said yesterday with the rotations. He's looking for star power,
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  Speaker 3: he's looking for depth. He said, he's only one person.
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  Speaker 3: Last year he put the Braves at two. They ended
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  Speaker 3: up more middle of the pack. Also didn't have a
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  Speaker 3: Kunya for the beginning of the year. Riley took a
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  Speaker 3: step back anyway, Slice and dice. I actually had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of opinions here, not as much of who should
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: be in and who should be out, but I didn't
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  Speaker 3: love the way everything was ranked.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna start with the mirrors. Don't we always
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  Speaker 1: say the mirrors can't When did they do this offseason?
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  Speaker 2: They picked up Brendan Donovan, and.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: They traded Suarez for Donovan at the end of the year, right,
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  Speaker 1: and they brought back Naylor and they lost Polanco, they
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: lost Polonko.
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  Speaker 2: I think the offense for I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean Adams, I mean I think they should be closer
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  Speaker 1: to eight or nine. I think six is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit high for me. I think there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of not saying that the Mirrors don't have a good lineup,
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  Speaker 1: but I think Julio have a better year start to finish. Possibly.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Cal is going to hit sixty again,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean I like this lineup. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: just look at the ops. Plus, I mean, Victor Roblaze
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  Speaker 1: has had had that great month and a half. He
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: got him a nice contract, and he was kind of
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Cole Young. We don't know what we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: out of JP. Crawford is a nice player. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that's that's kind of a little bit high.
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  Speaker 1: At six, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think last the Mariners offense in the regular season. Of course, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Cal had a ridiculous year, But I'm with you, maybe
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  Speaker 3: lower towards the you know, seven to ten range.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think six is a little bit high.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Uh the Orioles to me at ten is high too.
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  Speaker 1: I think really just because Okay, look at their offense
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: last year. I mean, I know they added Pete Adley
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: down Yere, Gunner down Yere, Jackson Holliday hasn't proven himself yet.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Westburg's hurt Westburg's always hurt.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: They did Calser didn't do much last year, right, I mean, Okay,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Taylor Ward great, but Pete great. But Gunner needs to
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: have a good year. Adley needs to figure it out.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Dylan Beaver's proved nothing, Blaze Alexander Kobe Mayo hasn't done anything.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Desios a lot of potential for their I think if
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: they reach more potentials. I think Orioles do belong in
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: the top ten. But you can definitely make a case,
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: like you are right now that they might not be
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: there yet.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, kif how many teams did you play on that?
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Like if man, if everything goes right, we're gonna win
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: the World Series. I mean it's like there's always there's
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: so many ifs. I don't know.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think they are. I think they could, yeah,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: go back a drop. I think, let me give you
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: a few because we're pushing teams back. Let me give
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: you a few that I think should go up.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, give me some up.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: The Blue Jays are at seven. I think they should
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: be at two. Okay, l a one cool, get it,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Roger's fine, Yeah, two Blue Jays, Blattie Prime. The big
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: thing is yes, they lost bo. I'm very high on Okamodo,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: and I think Ernie Clement has found something and is
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: going to go from more of like a slightly above
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: average bat to as someone who could be all star status.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I think what we saw in the postseason, it's not
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: going to be that all year. He's not gonna hit
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: four hundred, but I think he's going to be special.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: That lineup has the right mix of slug and contact.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: I think it's a really good lineup. Also, are we
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: talking about these power rankings for regular season or overall
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: for the year. For me, I'm factoring in how I
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: think these teams and these offenses are going to do,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: not just in the regular season, Kip, but in the playoffs.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: And for me, the Yankees are going to score more
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: runs most likely than the Blue Jays. They're a home
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: run machine right they were last year. But which lineup
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: do you like better in the playoffs? Toronto's lineup for
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: the Yankees lineup?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Toronto's I think, yeah, I have the Yankees.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: So for me, when I was trying to rewrite this
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: up for my top three, I kept the Dodgers at one,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I put the Blue Jays at two, and the Yankees
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: at three.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: I think the Cubs should be a little bit higher too.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I like the way they they had a really good
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: balance of they beat a lot of people in a
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: lot of different ways. I thought that they extend they go,
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: they go for the extra bases, they run the base
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: as well, and they steal a lot of bases, so
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I think they create a lot of runs too. Adding Bragman,
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: then adding a year of experience for PCA and some
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: of these other guys, I think they should maybe move
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: up there will be up there by.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: The end of the year as well.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I agree. That was my other team that I think
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: should jump up.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Trying to think of some other teams that aren't on
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: this list or aren't that aren't should.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Go down for me a little bit too, Yeah, Braves
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: should go down just because last year they just weren't
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: there a lot. It's been two years now since they've
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: been a great offense. I think everyone's still looking at
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: from the year they said all those records that was
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a long time ago.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Now, is there any team that's not on the list
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: that either of you two would have?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: So I started going through this, I actually think the
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: ten on here is pretty solid.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Diamond we're at Diamondbacks camp today, Kip. They've scored a
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: lot of runs the last few years.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: They lost Naylor and Gino something.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: But they brought Arnauto in and they and they.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: First place Santana and some others. But I think they
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: were their problem last year was they were very top heavy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: They're they're the top through top four hitters in their
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: lineup were kind of.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Carrying most of the bulk of that run scoring.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I think as if you got to the bottom of
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: that order, they weren't turning over the lineup to be
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: I guess in this top ten they weren't turning it
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: over enough.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: You can look at every team when you had Juri
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Gurriel over that, how long.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Is he o? For a while?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, but at some point he's coming back. I mean,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: we just showed the Maricers. The bottom two were very
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: similar to these two.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: These bottom Oh, I think this team can definitely make
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: a case.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, if Corman, Carroll, Cote, Marte, Perdomo, Gaby Marino,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Peven Smith, can Rake, Arnatto we talk to he's gonna
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: have a bounce back here. I think, I mean, you
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: throw Gurriel in there, that's a pretty damn good lineup.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Guriel might not be until late in
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: the season. They could looks pretty bad. But I'm with you.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I think they could sneak in. So what would you do?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Maybe put them in and take Baltimore out. No, yeah,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I think the Oils offense is gonna be good, though.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I do think some guys are gonna bounce back here,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: so hey, we're gonna get.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: What about the White Sox. The White Sox had the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: best offense in the American League the second half last year.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: That can't be true. Is that true?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: They look at the number, it was one of the best.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the best, but it
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: was one of the best. Wow, the numbers were crazy.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I do like kIPS call out for the Cubs Mets.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: For me, four is too high.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I think putting them, you know, more in the again,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: maybe six to eight, six to nine range. They did
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: lose Pete Nimo's pretty consistent in there. There's some question, right,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I know they added some offense. Luise Robert, what does
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: he look like? How much does it wanlay Beau Blanco bo.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: So it's good. I just I don't know is it
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: top five good? I don't know.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: So all right, that was fun, a little mixing and matching.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Do we have time to do a quick read or
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: we're going right to the conversation here?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Hold on before we go. So the Yankees game is
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: on on TV right here. Yes, they're showing a hotel
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: that is not in Tampa. Aren't they based in Tampa?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: That's the dances are that is not in Tampa. It's
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay, but it's in Saint Pete.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: So you're saying they messed up there.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just asking is that strange because they're based
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: in Tampa Tampa like Tampa proper. I think it is
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: where the Rays play and that's like kind of close
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to the race stadium. I don't know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I think they're just showing scenes from the area.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, and who knows, maybe they were talking
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: about something specifically out there, like hey, I went to
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: this great spot in Saint Pete.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: An hour away. Yeah no, I don't think Michael k
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: is driving there, just.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I like Saint Pete. Yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm told we have seconds to go and then
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: we're going to bring in our guest joining us.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Flat.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Is he good?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: We're adjusting the mic? Hold on? Hold on, all right?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Come back to us. Thank you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: So do you see what I'm saying? Though? I think
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I get it. Like if you say Tampa Rays, they're like,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's Tampa Bay Rays. Like the Pampa fans get really
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: mad about that thing. So then when they it's the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Tampa Tarpans or the Yankees team. So there's no Tarpans
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in Tampa.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: But Tampa Bay includes Saint Pete and Tampa.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I know it also includes like Sarasota. Like that's all
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: considered the Tampa Bay area, right, I don't know, That's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: what I'm just I don't know. It's just a conversation question.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: We can text one of the Yankee people and ask
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: them what's going on there.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: It's not cheap to stay there. I know that.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Oh. Frankie made a good point here.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: He said, it's like when there's a Jets or a
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Giants game and the TV networks will show the Empire
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: State Building. Are you okay with that because that's not
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: even in the same state.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Well, why aren't they the New Jersey Jets? And then
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: it's like the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles, of Orange County,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of Newport Coast.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: They just won't give us the credit. In Jersey.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, nobody wants to claim New Jersey.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I'm claiming Zach Allin.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Zach Allen's the only person I've ever met that claims
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: New Jersey.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: We covered chures earlier.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: That's a major league contract for him with the Blue Jays,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: minor league signing for the Yankees. Also around that same
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: time period that it was reported one year, two and
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: a half million bucks if he makes the major league team.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Talking about Randall, Gritchik and the Yankees were looking for
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: a right handed, power bat outfielder supposedly to play a
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: little left field against lefties. Instead of Grisham, they'd sit
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: him and move Bellinger over to center field. So this
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: one has a pretty legit chance to stick. I think
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: the minor league deal gives the Yankees the flexibility aj
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to just make sure that he looks like himself. I mean,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four, is ops
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: against left handed pitching nine to one. That was ninth
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: best in baseball. Last year that number plunged to seven
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: oh three. So you see him maybe for a few
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: weeks in camp. Yankees are analytic nerds. They go, okay,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: the bat speed.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And this and that is looking like it did, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: then if that's good, he makes the team.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Who plays center field for the Yankees. Grisham left handed,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: who plays left field for the Aches. Belly Belly left handed, Domingus.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Where's he played probably Triple A now well, but he
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: could he was a better Which side of the plate
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: was he better on?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: He was better left handed handed right?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So this gives them protection for when they face those
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: lefties he faced. Someone needs a day off, or they
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: want to give someone a break, and he can play
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: center field and he can play left field. So this
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: is a perfect signing for a team to come in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and help build their roster to be not only great
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: against right handed pitching, but also great against left handed
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: pitch well.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: And they I mean Belly and Grisham can play center,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: so you figure Grisham, Yes.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: But if you need to give someone a day off, Belly,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe Belly's banged up and you need to give
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: him a d H day.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Or if a first baseman gets hurt and then he
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: needs to play first.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a million different options. Yes, and maybe lefties
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you don't want to you don't want to use somebody.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Let's say Stanton can't play and you don't want to
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: use Ben Rice, you know you you can put him
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: at the This is a depth signing. That's a nice signing.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Agreed.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And this is a guy who many thought was
• 24:07
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• 24:10
  Speaker 3: to wait a while and still will make himself close
• 24:12
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• 24:14
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• 24:16
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  Speaker 3: looking at trends for the World Baseball Classic, which technically
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: starts middle of next week and then the first games
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: in the United States or next week on Friday. USA
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: is getting thirty five point five percent of the ticket,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Japan thirty point three percent, and the Dominican Republic fifteen
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: point three percent.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: It was cute.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I heard you guys the other day trying to learn
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: the difference between ticket and handle when I wasn't on.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: That we needed to do that day.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Was that Trisha Aorlana? I think it was Trician.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I think it was I still don't know the difference.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: You guys were like, ticket handle it okay, it's simple. Here,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: ticket bets, right, so I can place Let's say ten
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: bets were placed on the WBC winner and eight of
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: them were placed on the USA. That means eighty percent
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: of tickets were placed on USA. To me, ticket is
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: cool to just show the quantity and how many different
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: people are placing. But obviously handle is where the heavy
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: money goes. I like looking at both because handle also
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: is going to the heavy hitters and what they're doing, right,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Like there are guys that are slowing down.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I like to see both. Does that make sense?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: So now on the handle is the money spent the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: tickets or people? Now like, there could be a million
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: people that buy a five dollars ticket, correct for five million,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: but there could be ten people that could see spend
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: ten million. That's a higher handle. Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: So if it's ten million bucks that was thrown on
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: WBC winners and let's say eight million of that was
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: thrown on USA, then we're at the eighty percent. Again,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the one's looking at money ones looking at ticket quantity.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Okay, so this is ticket quantity.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: And it's mostly the USA. Yeah I know that again.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: But actually the thing to point out here is Japan
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: is getting a lot of love as well. And I
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: pointed because they want three of these things and there's
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: good value there, so if you're placing the twenty dollars ticket,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: it doesn't get you a long way on Team USA.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: When they're minus, they've been hanging around, you know, minus
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: won ten.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Actually liked the Dominicans chances. I do too, just because
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: because there's one thing that they have. I don't know
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: how the brackets match up, but I like the way
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that they're like they wouldn't. I don't think they'd have
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to see USA maybe till semifinals, or Japan maybe to
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the semi finals. So I think they can go a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: long way until they I don't know exactly how I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: got to look. I'll dig in next week when I
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: start preparing for them. Yeah, but I think Dominican because
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: they play where they play, and then they play they
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and then when they play in Miami while the US
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is still in Houston for the quarterfinals, am I right?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And then they then they come together in Miami for
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the Semis.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I don't remember who faces who in the Semis if
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: we get to that point. I got to do my
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: homework on the bracket side too, but I did do
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: this last night.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I was looking at what.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: The rotation will be for the pool stage for them
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: their first four games. Here's their rotation for the Dominican
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Christopher Sanchez, Louis Severino, Brian BeO, Sandy al Contra.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: It's a good four.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Say that again.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Christopher Sanchez, Louis Severino, Brian BeO, Sandy al Contra.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It's really good four.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not skiing school, but it's pretty darn good.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: But I think that four might just go in rotation
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: for the most part. Pitch, you know, they might give
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: them what three the three starts. I think you can
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: kind of pull off in this tournament.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Too.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: You can get too maybe two starts three because oh
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: you're right, it's over eleven ish days because they start
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: on Friday.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so so two starts from them.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: But you you wrap that back or you plan that,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, make sure you The tricky thing is it's
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: like quarterfinals. Do you throw your best starter out there?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Do you save them for semis or for finals. Some
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: of it has to do, of course, with the rest
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: of recovery days. But that's a good four. I mean,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: those guys can pitch and do or die games and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: shut you down.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: Did Japan or Dominican get hit at all with that
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: with guys not being able to play. From insurance standpoints.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I think every team got hit a little, but every
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: team technically got hit a little, and we don't know
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: all of the players, but they didn't get hit like
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Puerto Rico or or even Mexico as far as I know.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: So the Dominican team is sacked. Like those are four
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: good starters. Their lineup is sick. Their lineup can keep up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, their lineup is as good as they.
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  Speaker 4: They'll always have a nasty lineup.
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  Speaker 1: By the way. Yeah interesting. I know people are gonna
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  Speaker 1: say whatever they want to say on this, but if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the two the four pool, Yeah right,
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  Speaker 1: so US has Mexico, Italy, great brand in Brazil, they
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  Speaker 1: should win that pool, I mean obviously barring major upset.
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  Speaker 1: But then if you go to Pool A, it's Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canada, Panama, Columbia.
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  Speaker 1: They've kind of set it up for a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of an easier path for them because they wouldn't play
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the bracket to the finals. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the bracket pool see is Japan, Austaria, Korea,
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  Speaker 1: check and type A. Okay, Japan Korea probably okay, but
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  Speaker 1: then you go Venezuelan and Dominican, Israel Nicaragua like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Venezuelan and Dominican, fine.
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  Speaker 2: Those are two of the top four teams.
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  Speaker 1: But then those two teams have to play each other.
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  Speaker 1: So Japan, Korea, Venezuela and Dominican have to play each
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  Speaker 1: other in the quarterfinals. The winners and losers they play
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  Speaker 1: each other, right, and then you get to the semifinals
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  Speaker 1: where Dominican, Venezuela and Korea Japan have to two of
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  Speaker 1: those will have to play to get to the finals,
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  Speaker 1: whereas USA could be like playing like Puerto Rico with
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  Speaker 1: Outland door Corea and all those guys Canada without Freddy
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  Speaker 1: Freeman and all those guys Cuba with Alexi Rmier who's
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  Speaker 1: seventy two years old playing shortstoff for him. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just interesting when you look at now that I've
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  Speaker 1: looked at it, it's like, whoa, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: do here. In slap number one, there was this article
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  Speaker 3: put out by Randy Miller with some quotes from Carlo
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  Speaker 3: to stand that he's gonna try and play, obviously as
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: much as he can this year. But he can't open
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  Speaker 3: a bag of chips, he can't open a bottle like
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  Speaker 3: a bottle cap. He's that much pain from his elbows
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  Speaker 3: what would they call tennis elbow or whatever. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: how it's hard for Okay, take me right, no hitting skills.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to hear from one of the strongest dudes
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  Speaker 3: that he can't open sewda bottle or a bag of chips,
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  Speaker 3: and he can hit rockets.
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  Speaker 4: What's not ideal.
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  Speaker 5: It's not what you want to hear going into the seasons.
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  Speaker 5: As players, you you literally design and shape your body
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  Speaker 5: for the motions of the game. So I think the
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  Speaker 5: rest of his body is built to do the swinging motion.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's all the Yankees really need out of
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  Speaker 5: him is to be able to swing. But don't love
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  Speaker 5: hearing that quote going into a season where you're counting
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  Speaker 5: on this guy or to give you maybe four hundred,
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  Speaker 5: five hundred, four hundred bats at least. But it's just
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  Speaker 5: that can't be a good sign AJ going into the season.
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  Speaker 1: Kip. But I never heard of such a thing. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I just never heard. I never heard of such a thing.
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  Speaker 1: He can't open.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be like, yeah, I know, I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do this, or you can't open a bag
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  Speaker 1: of chip.
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  Speaker 2: But then you can go which you can.
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  Speaker 1: Go home, because then how do you get your like extension,
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  Speaker 1: Like your elbows are moving when you swing. It's like
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it's not like you just stand there and go and
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  Speaker 1: they never move like you got to get extension. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Listen, if you can do it, good for him.
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  Speaker 1: But the only thing I can say is adrenaline. Adrenaline
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  Speaker 1: kicks in and he's got those five at bats a
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  Speaker 1: game where he gets maybe five to ten swings a game,
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  Speaker 1: and for those five to ten swings, he just guts
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  Speaker 1: it out court zone. I don't know if I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: If I'm on the il too, I'm opening a lot
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  Speaker 5: of bad chips and there's a bottles, So it's it's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be a rough go for him.
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  Speaker 3: Then you might be able to do it differently too,
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  Speaker 3: like with your swing where it's like to open the
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  Speaker 3: bag of chips.
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  Speaker 4: I don't if his teeth, I don't like that. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not one of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Tools teeth or tools kipped.
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  Speaker 4: They are tools. I'm just saying I'm not one of
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  Speaker 4: those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's got the pearly whites. He's good.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably got the nice years in there too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: no knowing big g. He takes care of the smile.
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  Speaker 3: But hope he feels better. Legitimately, we're fabing ale fun
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  Speaker 3: with it, but I mean for Yankee fans, that definitely
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  Speaker 3: doesn't sound great. You'd rather have a guy that's not
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  Speaker 3: in that kind of pain. So we'll keep an eye
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  Speaker 3: on it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Fasten All engineering the spring training tour. Kip's taking over
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  Speaker 3: here for one more day. AJ will be back next
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  Speaker 3: week in Florida. Kip's got the San Francisco Giants to
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: visit tomorrow Friday, so we'll hang with some Giants. If
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  Speaker 3: you have any players that you'd like us to request,
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  Speaker 3: No promises, but we'll try then next week Cardinals, Marlins, Mets, Nats, Astros.
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  Speaker 3: All you need to know basically is we're hitting every
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: team in Florida besides the Yankees for reasons that we'll
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: get into another time. Boul Territory engineered by fast All Kip,
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  Speaker 3: good stuff. We'll see you on Friday at Giants camp.
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  Speaker 4: Bye guys