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Cotillo’s GM Meetings Red Sox report + Baseball’s biggest partiers · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right, we're back here on foul Territory and we've
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  Speaker 1: got Chris Cattilla, Red Sox beat, writer from masslive dot com,
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  Speaker 1: co host of the Family Rundown podcast, and an instructor
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  Speaker 1: at Boston College. Beautiful campus, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Not qualified for it, but it is a beautiful campus. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well was that.
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  Speaker 3: Not qualified for the professing all the time, but it
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  Speaker 3: is a nice campus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love Boston and listen to your podcast all
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  Speaker 1: the time. You are joining us from Vegas. You're at
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  Speaker 1: the GN meetings. What's the latest going on there? What
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  Speaker 1: are you hearing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's been kind of slow, I think,
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  Speaker 3: as it always is this time of year. People think
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  Speaker 3: that this is going to be an action packed week
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  Speaker 3: like the Winter Meetings are, and it really never is.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of guys here to golf at Shadow Creek.
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  Speaker 3: The awards are tonight, so it's a lot of like
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  Speaker 3: hanging out in the lobby and talking. But it's not
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  Speaker 3: a lot of news, as it never is in November.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it sets the groundwork for the Winter
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  Speaker 3: Meetings in a month and the moves that will happen
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  Speaker 3: between now and then.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, first of all, by the way, you're not qualified
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  Speaker 4: for Boston College. It's above your payger. But what about
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  Speaker 4: Craig Broslow. Craig Groslow went to where'd you go? Yell?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, nailed next team, and he said the Red
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  Speaker 5: Sox are going to be in a starting pitcher, but
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  Speaker 5: they're not going to spend a lot of money, and
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  Speaker 5: they're not going to be in the bullpen, and they
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  Speaker 5: don't want to trade, but they might trade.
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  Speaker 4: What the heck is he really saying? Can you explain
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  Speaker 4: it to me?
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  Speaker 6: Because we've talked about this now He's like, we want
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  Speaker 6: to talk to our top one two starter. We don't
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  Speaker 6: want to play pay the heavy price, but we're willing
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  Speaker 6: to trade, but we're not Can you explain this because
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  Speaker 6: I'm kind of confused about what he said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as he always tends to say, they are open
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  Speaker 3: to all opportunities to improve the team and they're going
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  Speaker 3: to take nothing off the table, which is earth shattering
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  Speaker 3: stuff whenever he does say it. But I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: think they're going to be in on all the top
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  Speaker 3: trade candidates for starting pitchers, and I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to be like they were last year, in on all
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  Speaker 3: the free agents and see you know who the fit is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a year ago they were in on Freed
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  Speaker 3: and only after he signed with the Yankees did they
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  Speaker 3: really hone in on Crochet and get that done. They
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  Speaker 3: obviously need a bat too, between either Schwarber or Alonso
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  Speaker 3: or somebody from the trade market, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 3: So I think they, you know, have the money to
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  Speaker 3: sign one free agent. You know, Alex Bregman's Bunny is
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  Speaker 3: off the books, obviously, Devers is, Crochet is getting a
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  Speaker 3: massive raise on the CBT. Roman Anthony is getting a
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  Speaker 3: massive raise and the CBT. But there's still money to spend,
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  Speaker 3: and they still do have, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good young players to get a trade done. So I
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  Speaker 3: think they're gonna get one big name in the lineup,
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  Speaker 3: one big name in the starting rotation. And you think
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  Speaker 3: about just the way resources work, probably makes sense that
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  Speaker 3: they do one of those guys via trade in one
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  Speaker 3: via free agency. I think, you know, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: exceed the CBT again. If they don't, it's an insult
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  Speaker 3: to fans after you know, kind of the young core
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  Speaker 3: came up and took a big step last year, and
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  Speaker 3: a trade's going to be painful, like it was with Crochet,
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  Speaker 3: but we saw, you know, guy who finished second in
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  Speaker 3: Cy Young was an ace capital a ace all year.
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  Speaker 3: They know it's worth it. They did it a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: and I think they'll be looking to do that again,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's Joe Ryan or somebody else like that.
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  Speaker 7: If we were looking at the Red Sox at this
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  Speaker 7: time last year. Has there been a seismic shift in
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  Speaker 7: how they're moving this organization? I mean, they got like
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  Speaker 7: you said, they got rid of Devers. They actually spent
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  Speaker 7: some money. Now it was a one year deal on Bregman.
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  Speaker 7: They could have been on the hook for two more
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  Speaker 7: if he had really flopped. But is there a seismic
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  Speaker 7: shift or is it really just kind of a slow
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  Speaker 7: bleed into this new regime.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I think they you know, they spent money
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  Speaker 3: by extending Crochet and extending Anthony.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those deals are probably going to be discounts
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  Speaker 2: by the end of them.
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  Speaker 3: I think with Anthony it might already be eight for
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  Speaker 3: one point thirty for a guy who is gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 3: potentially be a perennial All Star.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, they are a flawed team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you saw that in the playoffs where they
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  Speaker 3: had Crochet in Game one, but they were so depleted
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  Speaker 3: at that point that BeO didn't get past the second
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  Speaker 3: or the third inning in Game two, and then Gilito
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  Speaker 3: was hurt and they had to go to a guy
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  Speaker 3: making his fifth major league start. So they want another
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  Speaker 3: horse to be able to pitch game two of a
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  Speaker 3: playoff game. They also struck out too much and didn't
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  Speaker 3: hit enough home runs, especially you know, against good opponents
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  Speaker 3: last year, and I think they need that thumper. Schwarber
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  Speaker 3: and Alonso are clear fits, but everybody could use those guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, they have just by being
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  Speaker 3: around seeing John Henry be there more in person. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: still not talking to us because who would, but he
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  Speaker 3: was around the ballpark and he was a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more involved. He was a little bit more you know there,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously he showed it, you know, with a big
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  Speaker 3: payroll jump. The Devors thing to me, they didn't add
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  Speaker 3: Bregman and add Crochet's you know, future money and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: knowing that they were going to deal break Devers. It
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  Speaker 3: just it became an untenable situation. And it happened to
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  Speaker 3: be with a guy who was getting paid, you know,
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  Speaker 3: thirty million a year. Over ten, So they do have
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  Speaker 3: that money to spend, or at least part of it,
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  Speaker 3: and I think they owe it to the fans to
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  Speaker 3: do so, and I think they will. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think they're going to be with the Dodgers and
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  Speaker 3: Mets in terms of payroll, but I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to be you know, past you know, potentially the second
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  Speaker 3: CBT is what I hope they do because I think, again,
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  Speaker 3: the team played well enough to deserve it last year,
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  Speaker 3: and the fan base does after you know, the years
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  Speaker 3: of the full throttle promises and things like that. They
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  Speaker 3: did have a big offseason last year. It was spread out.
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  Speaker 3: Crochet was in December, Gregman was in February. But still
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  Speaker 3: they did a lot and I think they'll do the same.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Breslo's also setting high expectations. He's not
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  Speaker 3: saying we'll see how it goes. He's saying, we need
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  Speaker 3: a thumper and we need a one B in the rotation,
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  Speaker 3: like that's what we're going to aim for. And I
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  Speaker 3: think if he doesn't deliver on that, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: knows the consequences, at least public perception wise.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, you mentioned Joe Ryan. I was there the day
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  Speaker 1: after the trade deadline, did a game Friday Night Baseball
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  Speaker 1: and spoke to Craig Breslo, and he said that they
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  Speaker 1: had an agreement with the Twins. They were down to
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  Speaker 1: the wire. They thought they were going to get, you know,
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  Speaker 1: potentially him. They're looking for a front line starter. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that those talks could pick up or who
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  Speaker 1: do you think that they're targeting in terms of frontline starter?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he is the obvious guy.
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  Speaker 3: I think the kind of interesting part of that deadline
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  Speaker 3: day for the Red Sox and Twins was that the
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  Speaker 3: Red Sox thought they were on the one yard line
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  Speaker 3: on the Joe Ryan trade. The Twins didn't think that
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  Speaker 3: at all. The Twins. I had somebody with the Twins
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  Speaker 3: tell me twenty minutes before the deadline they're not even
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  Speaker 3: close with what they're offering. And so I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if there's like bad blood between the front offices that
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  Speaker 3: leaks into the.
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  Speaker 6: Hold on Chris time out, Chris, Chris time out, hold
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  Speaker 6: on kick show show my screen, Hold up, you guys
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  Speaker 6: know this guy him?
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  Speaker 4: Do you guys know who he is?
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: That's it, Sorry, Chris dot continue with the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't play for the Red Sox because you see
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  Speaker 4: he wears his hat back and that's cool.
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  Speaker 6: We know why, we know why because of you.
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  Speaker 2: I know. That's a.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Sorry, Chris. Continue.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if there's if there's people you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be upstaged in the middle of a hit for, I
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  Speaker 3: think that's right at the top of the list, right.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, I would have agreed to that too. I would
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  Speaker 7: have agreed to that.
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  Speaker 2: I would. Sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe if maybe, if Michael Jordan comes in, Chris will
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  Speaker 7: do the same thing, all right.
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  Speaker 4: That would be I don't even know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: But the best part of that was I don't either.
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  Speaker 2: Now did Goes did.
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  Speaker 4: The Red Sox sign? Somebody? Do I need to know something?
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, No, I just wanted to show you on camera,
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  Speaker 4: so thank you. Always continue now.
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  Speaker 6: I don't even know what you're doing, but thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 4: After this a j no comment, no comment.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just saying, I just I didn't want to name drop,
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  Speaker 6: but I just face dropped out.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean if I if I were you, guys, I
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  Speaker 3: would have kicked me off the call as soon as
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  Speaker 3: he popped in.
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  Speaker 7: Never never, we need to hear why the Red Sox
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  Speaker 7: are gonna get Joe Ryan and how they didn't get
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  Speaker 7: the job done. But Ken Griffy Jr. It's the only
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  Speaker 7: reason I wear my hat backwards. But anyway, don't worry about.
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  Speaker 2: It, Chris, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So for Griffy and the rest of the audience, they
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  Speaker 3: did not The Twins did not think that they were
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  Speaker 3: close to trading Joe Ryan and the Red Sox. The
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  Speaker 3: Red Sox thought they were closer than they were, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and that I think could you know, they obviously talk names,
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  Speaker 3: and they all obviously had people that they liked in
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  Speaker 3: those trade talks. The Twins had a couple of guys,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the Red Sox had a couple of
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  Speaker 3: pictures emerged late in the season totally and early. I
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  Speaker 3: think one of them would have to probably be in
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  Speaker 3: that package. But you look around the league, there's more
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  Speaker 3: guys available than there were then, and from you know,
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  Speaker 3: Peralta and Milwaukee, potentially Green and Gore and Washington with
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  Speaker 3: a guy in Paul Tabone who is just in Boston
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  Speaker 3: for the last ten years. So between those guys and
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  Speaker 3: the guys on the free agent market, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of options for the Red Sox. I think you know,
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  Speaker 3: what they're aiming for is somebody who is better than
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  Speaker 3: Brian Bayo.
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  Speaker 2: Slide Bayo to be your number three, figure.
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  Speaker 3: Out the four and five from a bunch of internal candidates,
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  Speaker 3: and then have the number two, you know, be a
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  Speaker 3: big name, whether that be Joe, Ryan or any of
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  Speaker 3: the other ten guys you could get this time of year.
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  Speaker 7: What about their defense? What about their defense? It kind
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  Speaker 7: of got overshadowed because they made the playoffs because they
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  Speaker 7: had Scuball who I mean, Scooba Crochet, because they had
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  Speaker 7: somebody that's like, ah, well, you know what, Crochet is
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  Speaker 7: going to do great, so his defense must be good.
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  Speaker 7: But really nobody needs to make any plays when he's
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  Speaker 7: out there. He just punches everybody out and goes eight innings.
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  Speaker 7: What about the defense? Are they going to be able
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  Speaker 7: to upgrade just from their internal op.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's a reason not to sign Alonso,
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  Speaker 3: especially if he's intent on playing first. And Obora said
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  Speaker 3: he was okay with Dhing, but you know he's the
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  Speaker 3: guy that obviously the numbers are not good at first.
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  Speaker 3: You put him over there and your infield defense gets worse.
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  Speaker 3: Ennyo Suarez at third, that's kind of the same thing, right,
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  Speaker 3: so Bregman at third would be a stabilizing force. Again,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's interesting to me because the defense, you know,
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  Speaker 3: leads the league of errors and it's not good and
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  Speaker 3: it's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: It costs him games.
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  Speaker 3: But you have two goal glovers in the outfield and
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  Speaker 3: Rafaela and Abreu, you have Bregman and Story on the
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  Speaker 3: left side, so like, you know what big changes you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously Bregman's a free agent at this point, Story's back,
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  Speaker 3: Like where do you make those changes? To me, I
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  Speaker 3: would think about moving Story to second and getting a
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  Speaker 3: pretty good shortstop, defensive shortstop wherever you can find that.
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  Speaker 3: Breslo kind of ruled that out the other day, and
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  Speaker 3: improvement at first base over kind of what they've run
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  Speaker 3: out the last couple of years. Alonzo's not that so
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like it's on paper, it's a good
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  Speaker 3: thing to improve the defense, but how do you do
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  Speaker 3: it with the pieces you already have? And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's an uphill battle, especially because you know some of
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  Speaker 3: the lineup fits for them are not good defenders.
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  Speaker 1: You said, ruled out moving story to second. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: pretty definitive. That story is staying it short. But Alex Bregman,
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  Speaker 1: you keep saying Bregman. Bregman is a free agent. He
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  Speaker 1: opted out.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on there? Do you know something we don't know?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: I actually I you know, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think Red Sox fans think that it's a lock
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  Speaker 3: that he comes back and a guarantee. I think that
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: it's you know, very much up in the air. Obviously,
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: he's a guy that enjoyed having for a year. But
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: I think some team is going to get in the
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  Speaker 3: silly territory to put themselves over the edge, like a Seattle,
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: you know, or a Detroit or something like that, and
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: gives him, you know, a six year deal or you know,
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: maybe I don't know, extensive to a seven year deal
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: to secure the player without the qualifying offer attached. And
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: I think the Red Sox are going to be disciplined
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  Speaker 3: with that. I don't think it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: blank check as much as they loved him, and I
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: think they could get out bid and that would really,
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: you know, throw the off season for a loop, because
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  Speaker 3: I think he is, you know, one of the top priorities.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I was just saying, you know, like there is uh
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  Speaker 3: even with him and story on the left side of
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  Speaker 3: the infield, two veterans stabilizing forces the defense was still
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  Speaker 3: bad as a whole. So to me, the question is like,
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  Speaker 3: how do you improve that over? You know, having a
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  Speaker 3: guy like Bregman who a year ago had won the
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  Speaker 3: Gold Glove and a guy like Story who is thought
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  Speaker 3: of as a good defender who kind of is in
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  Speaker 3: decline with that. So it's an easier, easier thing, Like
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  Speaker 3: I said, to say, let's make the defense better.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you do it? That's a tough question.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Chris, I want to know this.
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  Speaker 6: You keep talking Aboutman, here's my thing, Alex Horror, who.
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  Speaker 4: Will be on the show next week, Sam, just tease
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  Speaker 4: for all.
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  Speaker 2: The audience, Who's who's going to interrupt him? Lebron More?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm a I'm an.
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  Speaker 2: M MJ's a tar Hill, So that's all the matter.
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  Speaker 6: I'm an MJ Goo Okay, not Lebron MJ's ago. But
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  Speaker 6: I'll just say this, Ox Bar will be on next week.
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  Speaker 6: And every time I talk to Alex for Right into Power,
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  Speaker 6: Right hand of Power, Rakman's great Peter Alonzo?
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  Speaker 4: Can we talk Pete Alonzo? How good would he look
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: going up there.
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  Speaker 6: Mashing forty homers, driving in one hundred, playing one hundred
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  Speaker 6: and sixty two games every year for the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that works in the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing with first base if he if they
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: look at him that way. Obviously the range and the
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: numbers that you know, boris kind of dismissed yesterday but
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  Speaker 3: are real should give them concern. And also, like you
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: have Tristan Kassas, who I don't think he at this
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  Speaker 3: point has proven that he's going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: hold that starting job, but he still has a lot
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: of upside and the organization appreciates it. Acknowledges that any
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: of Yoshida still under contract and you have too many
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: outfielders in spots and you need to probably DH one
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  Speaker 3: of those guys. So to me, it's like there's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a hard decision somewhere, and I think they're going
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  Speaker 3: to try to find that perfect world where they need
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  Speaker 3: a power hitting first baseman who's also great defensively. If
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: you could find that guy and plug him in, that's perfect. Obviously,
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to be able to, So
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: you know, is it you trade Yoshida and you know,
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: pick up a lot of that salary and sign Alonzo
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: ver swore to be the d H and have Alonso
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: play the first well Costas works his way back. There's
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: a lot of different iterations of how that could go.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: You know, obviously they need more power, power wins, playoff games.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: You know, you look at who led them in home
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: runs last year. Devers was like fifth or sixth on
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: the team or maybe like fourth, and he didn't play
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: for them after June fifteenth. So that's a little striking.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: You know, the guy's like a bray you can hit
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: it out story, but those guys are streaky, as we know.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: So I do think they need that, you know, consistent
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: power bat that you know made Red Sox teams so
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: great in the past, especially with where they play.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: Give me forty homers over over defense. Just Chris, by
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: the way, I don't know if you know where.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: I am, but can you see what that is? You
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: know what that is?
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Chris, I do not know.
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: Okay, you're not a Tariot fan, then that's a Michael
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: Jordan's golf course.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, Yeah, I saw twenty three and I was like,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: well that probably makes sense. We didn't overlap there, believe
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: it or not.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: So really yeah, no way, No, I don't know.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Why there's not more Kyle Schreber back to the Red Sox.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Talk left handed, Heidi left handed, they need right handed.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: He hits lefties as good as he hits righties, though,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: which I think makes a possibility.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I am Teams four were over Alonso, and.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I think everyone is another but they another guy Kral
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: loves from when he was here in twenty twenty one
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: and he was, you know, amazing for them down the
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: stretch and the playoffs, a great leader, cultural fit.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, with that, there's there's more doubt
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: that the.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Phillies let him walk compared to you know, the Mets
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: not resigning Alonso. I think you know, you talk people
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: here and they're like Dave Dombrowski doesn't let guys get away,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: and the Red Sox are hoping and hoping their old
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: friend does let this guy get away to you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: they I think Swber would be great. He was in
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: that twenty twenty one stretch and you know, but both
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: of them, I think, you know, pros and cons for sure.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think the Phillies let him get away either.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's one of the guys that's the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: heartbeat of that Team Chris, thank you so much for
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: joining us from Las Vegas, of all places. I'm sorry
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: we're so rudely interrupted by Ken Graffy Junior won't happen.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: It's all good.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: If it's anybody who's gonna do it, better be him.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: Listen. I tried to party with Poppy one time and
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: almost die. Yeah you had a uh you have somebody
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: in another sports.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Which I was cool.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was cool to be Poppy.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, hell yeah, oh yeah, I'm cool with
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: a Poppy. Yeah that's a real love too. Man Reap
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: forciate Yo. We'd be on the city a little bit.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: He called me one night.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: He was like, yo, take what yo?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I mean what Poppy?
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: I just hung up. I couldn't even I deserved.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I'm here and it was Poppy. I said, huh hey,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I don't over go side.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: No no no, no, no, no no way.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: I tried to party with Poppy one time. It almost died.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: Like fu kicks, he kicks it. And if you yeah, yeah,
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: you got something to do, don't don't fuck with Poppy.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Energy for days. Big Poppy. He he has some stories
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to tell, and as you can see, people have stories
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: to tell.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: With him.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I want to hear from you guys, all right, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you're playing days in your gallivanting at golf course, days
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: with Justin Berlander and Michael Jordan, just waltzing by a
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: j who's the biggest partier, or a story that you
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: can share with us about going out in the big leagues.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: I have too, I have to real quick. First of all, David.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: I played with David and Saball so David forever again.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: I once saw him crashed through a table because he
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: might have had remember the Old Century Club where he
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: tried to take a shot of beer for a man
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: it for one hundred straight minutes. He tried that one
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: time and he crashed through a coffee table. And ate
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: ball is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: David denies it, but I was there along.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: With multiple people. It was hilarious because he tried.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: He stood up, he like, I'm fine, I'm fine through
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: the coffee table. And the second one was Jake Phebe.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: If you've ever been out with Jake Phebe Height, you
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: know Jake Crouchy, you know Jake. It always ended up
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: till four or five in the morning, usually with him
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: playing at guitar. Clothing was optional for him at that point,
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: so it was always something with that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: I played with a guy I won't say his name.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: He has since changed his ways kind of, but he said.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: We went to New York City and he said, this
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: is the city that never sleeps. I'm the man that's
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: gonna beat the city that never sleeps. He went Friday night,
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: no sleep, came to the ballpark, pitched in the game.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: Saturday Saturday, No Sleep came to the ballpark and gave
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: up four runs on a Sunday and passed out on
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: the table. He said, the city beat me.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I think it's New York City infinity. Everyone else that's
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: tried that zero there's just no he tried to beat it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: Oh, I think is uh like I said, oh my,
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: he loves big markets. And we go through a list
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: of the places that he may want to play, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: believe me, he is. He is someone who really wants
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: to be on a winning team and compete at the
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: highest level.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Dodgers, like every other Japanese player that comes over, wants.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: To Like every player, every player wants to play on
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: a winning team.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Was he talking about am I?
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: Am I?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Am I going to the Dodgers. Am I am.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: I am I damn joke, we're in commercial No shit,
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: I want to play.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Nobody wants to plan a bad team like scheme said.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I don't want to plan a bad team. Nobody wants
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: to have been a bad team that sucks, hurt you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Nobody put.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: Bad teams a good game just sucks the other the
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: other go ahead.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: We talked about how the Dodgers have cornered the market
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: on pitchers and players in general coming over from Japan, Like,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: what is MLB gonna do to solve that? They can
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just go over and sign every good player.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Nothing. Why did they have to do anything? They created
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: this environment for the last ten years. They started setting
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: it up ten years ago, probably even before that, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: then they started winning the division ten years ago. Like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: maybe the other team should put in a little effort,
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: put in a little effort to be able to do
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: the things. Maybe the Yankees shouldn't have taken a step
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: back in the Japanese market, I mean they had, they
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: were the destination. Massa here Tanaka told me, I will
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: never play for another team in the Big Leies, but
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: the New York Yankees because of what they meant to
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: me growing up and to my country. You know who's
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: taken over that, the Dodgers, And there's going to be
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: a cavalcade of young kids that want to be Dodgers
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: from now on, and other teams have to step up. No,
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: Major League Baseball shouldn't do anything. Well, everybody needs to
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: get a Japanese superstar. No, everyone else needs to figure
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: it out on their own.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: All right, We've got a quote from Jackie Redman, who
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, used to be a roommate of mine.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Absolutely love Jackie. She's phenomenal, she says.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Love.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: This from the New York Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan. Today,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: we're in the business of the relentless pursuit of small improvements.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Those words were said to Sullivan seven years or years
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: ago by Heim Bloom, the current president of baseball operations
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: for the Cardinals formerly with the Red Sox. Sullivan said
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the words have always stuck with him and the mentality
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: he wants the Rangers to adopt. To me, that's sports
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: in a nutshell. It's a daily endeavor.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: We're not trying to climb the mountain today, We're trying
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to take a step. We know what the ultimate goal
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: is but the daily endeavor, the pursuit of small improvements,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that's how you get there. So don't get ahead of yourself.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Stay in the moment. What do you guys think of that?
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: I love it, but I mean I was there when
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: Heim was running the Red Sox. I worked for the
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Red Sox for like three minutes, and I saw it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: I saw the small, little increments that ended up creating
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: what they have now. And I think in the game,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: not just in pro ball, but even in the amateur ranks,
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: like everybody wants these massive improvements. I want to increase
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: my exit velocity by five miles per hour and instead
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: of how can I get one percent better every day?
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: And I saw him implement that with the Red Sox,
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: and now we're seeing it come to fruition bad. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: was there in twenty one or twenty two, I forget
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: which year it was. Even now and now here in
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty five, they have a ton of young guys
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: coming up impacting the big league team, all because of
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: those small steps