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Fair Territory: Red Sox BIG Bronx weekend, Padres smack back, Phillies lose Wheeler, MLB’s best rivalry · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to a special live edition Sunday Night edition
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Speaker 1: of Fair Territory. We are coming on in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the Yankees Red Sox game on Sunday Night Baseball.
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Speaker 1: And before we get started, I would like to congratulate
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Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies on participating this season. They participated and
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Speaker 1: now they are eliminated. Bye bye to the Rockies. Yes,
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Speaker 1: they're going to finish the season, of course, but it's
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Speaker 1: a fairly early elimination, wouldn't you say. But to the
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Speaker 1: good stuff. We've got Yankees Red Sox this weekend, we
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Speaker 1: had Dodgers Padres as well. We've got a lot to
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Speaker 1: talk about the Mets coming up against the Phillies. The
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Speaker 1: Cubs may be closing on the Brewers, could it be well,
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Speaker 1: we'll see about that. But first Yankees Red Sox. Now,
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Speaker 1: as I said, this game currently is in progress and
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Speaker 1: the Yankees are leading five to two as we do
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Speaker 1: this live on Sunday Night. Even if the Yankees win tonight,
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Speaker 1: of course they would have lost three or four in
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Speaker 1: the series. They would be two and eight against the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox on the season. It's not good. And what
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Speaker 1: we saw entering this series we thought was a resurgent
1:02
Speaker 1: Yankee team, But how resurgent was it really? When they
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Speaker 1: went seven to one against Minnesota, Saint Louis, and Tampa Bay,
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Speaker 1: three teams that sold at the trade deadline, And then
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Speaker 1: when you go and face a better club, the Boston
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, a team that has basically owned you this year,
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Speaker 1: you fall apart again. You saw the first three games
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Speaker 1: of the series not good for the Yankees, culminating with
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Speaker 1: Saturday's twelve to one embarrassment. Granted it was a game
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Speaker 1: Crochet pitched, a game the Red Sox expected to win,
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Speaker 1: but it disintegrated into something else entirely Now on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: for Sunday Night, we saw the Yankees finally bench Anthony Volpi,
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Speaker 1: and you see him there. He has struggled, both offensively
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Speaker 1: and defensively, and at one point, I don't know, a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column describing how
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Speaker 1: the Yankees kind of view Volpi as almost a teacher's pet.
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Speaker 1: They protect him, and as Chris Kirshner wrote in The
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Speaker 1: Athletic on Saturday, there's no reason to protect him anymore.
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Speaker 1: Among shortstops who are qualified for the batting title, he
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Speaker 1: ranks twenty fourth out of twenty sixth in wins above replacement.
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Speaker 1: He's only twenty four, We get it, but he's had
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Speaker 1: about eight hundred played appearances in the big leagues. If
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Speaker 1: not a goal glove defender, has extremely little value the
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Speaker 1: way he is hitting, the way he is so streaky.
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Speaker 1: So that was a positive step for the Yankees Sunday.
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Speaker 1: They had to do this move. In my opinion, We'll
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Speaker 1: see if Volpi snaps out of it, and we'll see
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Speaker 1: if Jose Caballero now maybe gives them a lift. It
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Speaker 1: all remains to be seen, and Volpi is only one player,
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Speaker 1: one part of a much larger problem. This is a
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Speaker 1: team that we have seen sloppy. We have seen them stumble.
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Speaker 1: We have seen repeatedly, not just this year, not just
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Speaker 1: in Game five of last year's World Series, but for
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Speaker 1: quite some time now. A team that lacks fundamental soundness,
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Speaker 1: a team that, frankly, as I wrote during last year's
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Speaker 1: World Series, at times, looks like it doesn't know how
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Speaker 1: to play baseball. That's a huge problem. Now things can
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Speaker 1: get better, get better when Judge gets back to the outfield.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they have an outfield then a Judge Grisham and
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Speaker 1: Bellinger much better Defensively, you get Domingez out of left,
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Speaker 1: they get better. If Max Freed is as good as
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Speaker 1: he looked in this series, he had a bounce back start,
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Speaker 1: and with Rodin and him impossibly schlitter and maybe warrened
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Speaker 1: or Heels stepping up, you've got something in the rotation
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Speaker 1: and their bullpen should stabilize. I do expect that. But
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Speaker 1: the Yankees are if they win this game on Sunday
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Speaker 1: Night two and eight against the Red Sox, three and
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Speaker 1: seven against the Blue Jays, and you wonder where this
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Speaker 1: is all going. What happens if they miss the playoffs unlikely,
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Speaker 1: but what happens more likely they could get knocked out early.
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Speaker 1: That's certainly a scenario we can envision happening. Does Aaron
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Speaker 1: Boone come back, does Brian Cashman come back? Or do
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Speaker 1: they finally turn the page? All of this seemingly is
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Speaker 1: in play now. The Red Sox obviously the flip side
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Speaker 1: of the coin here. Terrific series for them against the Yankees,
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Speaker 1: and terrific because they got a strong star from Beao,
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Speaker 1: a strong star from Crochet. Now Dustin may not so
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Speaker 1: good Sunday Night. He's been a little bit inconsistent, and
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Speaker 1: I question with the Red Sox, the one thing I
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Speaker 1: question is whether their rotation will be good enough in
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Speaker 1: the postseason. Bueller is out now, Kyle Harrison looks like
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Speaker 1: he's going to replace him on Monday Night. So you're
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Speaker 1: looking at crochet Cy young candidate, one of the best
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Speaker 1: pitchers in baseball right now, BeO an emerging star perhaps
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Speaker 1: but still young. And Giolito, who has been up and down,
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Speaker 1: and then where do you go from there? That's my
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Speaker 1: question with the Red Sox. They're getting healthier in the bullpen,
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Speaker 1: and certainly their lineup right now is really intriguing. I
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Speaker 1: kind of love their lineup with Roman Anthony of course
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Speaker 1: being what he is, and with Trevor's story, resurgent Bregman
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Speaker 1: doing what he's doing. All of that is good. It's
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Speaker 1: just with the Red Sox, my one question is the
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Speaker 1: starting pitching and the starting pitching both down the stretch
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Speaker 1: here obviously in the postseason. So that's the Yankees Red Sox.
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Speaker 1: It's wrapping up in the Bronx right now, and no
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Speaker 1: matter what happens on Sunday night, not a good outcome
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Speaker 1: for the New York Yankees. Over on the West Coast
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Speaker 1: Dodgers Padres series at Petco Park. The Padres win two
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Speaker 1: of three when the first two games of this series,
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Speaker 1: both games that they won pitched brilliantly, a great start
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Speaker 1: from Darvish on Friday Night and a great start from
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Speaker 1: Nestro Cordis Junior against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team
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Speaker 1: that haunted him in the World Series on Saturday. Padres
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Speaker 1: won both those first two games, allowing only one run.
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Speaker 1: The Dodgers offense finally woke up on Sunday, an eight
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Speaker 1: to two victory. They got some home runs from Freeman,
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Speaker 1: two from him, another from Otani. All Right, where are
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Speaker 1: we with this one? The two teams are tied for
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Speaker 1: first place in the division again, and it seems to
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Speaker 1: me that the Dodgers are not yet what the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: are going to be the bottom of their lineup for
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks now has sort of resembled what
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Speaker 1: the Padres lineup at the bottom of the Padres lineup
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Speaker 1: looked like before the trade deadline, before they acquired Ryan
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Speaker 1: O'Hearn and Ramon Loriano and really deepen themselves Freddy for
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Speaker 1: me and as well, the Dodgers right now playing without
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Speaker 1: next monthy Kei k hernandez Haisan Kim and Tommy Edman.
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Speaker 1: Those guys are in various states of rehabilitation from injuries.
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Speaker 1: Key k is expected back first, he'll be this week,
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Speaker 1: and then the others as well. Once all of that happens,
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Speaker 1: then we'll see a more representative Dodgers lineup, one that
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Speaker 1: you could expect would be a much more potent version
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Speaker 1: of what we've seen over the last couple of weeks. Frankly,
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Speaker 1: I am surprised, even now looking back in retrospect at
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Speaker 1: how easily the Dodgers handled the Padres at home last week,
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Speaker 1: and with essentially the same cast of characters. This is
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Speaker 1: a lineup you might see in a spring training game. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: it's just full of hole at the bottom or players
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Speaker 1: that you would not necessarily expect to be seeing in
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Speaker 1: a pennant race for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about Buddy Kennedy and Alex Freeland to a certain amount.
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Speaker 1: To a point, I should say, Alex Freeland had a
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Speaker 1: great series, two home runs in one of each of
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Speaker 1: the first two games. But he's a young guy, and
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Speaker 1: they've been mixing in these guys. They have to keep
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Speaker 1: playing Confordo. All of these things are happening, and it's
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Speaker 1: not ideal. Once they get their guys back, okay, something else,
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Speaker 1: we'll see a little bit of a different team, and
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Speaker 1: we'll see them get deeper in the outfield, which is
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Speaker 1: where they have a huge problem right now. In ops
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Speaker 1: in left field they are something like twenty third, or
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Speaker 1: going into Sunday they were twenty third. Michael Confordo an
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Speaker 1: awful season for him. That's been a bad signing his
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Speaker 1: days are numbered. Once those injured guys come back, he
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Speaker 1: could be a DFA candidate without any question. So once
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Speaker 1: those players come back, you figure out the outfield. You
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Speaker 1: maybe keep te Oscar Hernandez in right but hopefully get
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Speaker 1: him playing better. You don't move Mookie back out there.
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Speaker 1: In my opinion, if you watch the Dodgers play, Mookie
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Speaker 1: Betts has been brilliant at shortstop, brilliant defensively, and he
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Speaker 1: ranks pretty highly in the metrics as well. So you
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Speaker 1: figure it out with Edmund and Tao and all the
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Speaker 1: different players that are in the mix. Andy pies kiy
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Speaker 1: Ky Hernanez Kim can play the outfield as well. That
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Speaker 1: to me is the way they have to go. Now.
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Speaker 1: The Padres here is a team that playing at home
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Speaker 1: is something else entirely. They're great at home, and they
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Speaker 1: should be and I'll talk more about this in the
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Speaker 1: inside Dish. They are a team that at home has
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Speaker 1: a certain energy about them because of the crowds that
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Speaker 1: they're drawing. And we saw it this weekend. They rallied
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Speaker 1: from what happened last weekend at Dodgers Stadium. Of course,
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Speaker 1: pitching was a huge part of it, but that's a
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Speaker 1: different team at home. Now with the Padres, the question still,
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Speaker 1: even with the additions of a Horne, a Hearne, Loriano
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Speaker 1: and Fermin is the offense. This is a team that
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Speaker 1: is sort of like the Blue Jays and Brewers in
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Speaker 1: that they make a ton of contact and don't strike
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Speaker 1: out a lot, but they don't slug like the Blue
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Speaker 1: Jays and Brewers. Even the Brewers. Padres are twenty fifth
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Speaker 1: or worth twenty fifth in slugging percentage entering Sunday. The
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays were sixth and the Brewers were fourteenth. These
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Speaker 1: are all high contact, low strikeout offenses, but the Padres,
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, have not hit home runs and Fernando
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Speaker 1: Tatist Junior has been emblematic of that. He's had a
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Speaker 1: brilliant season. If you look at his strikeout rate and
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Speaker 1: walk rate, they are the best of his career. You
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Speaker 1: look at his defense, outstanding in right field, Goglove, his
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Speaker 1: base running brilliant. He just hasn't slugged the way he
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Speaker 1: normally has. And Ino Saras and Dennis Lynn wrote about
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Speaker 1: that in The Athletic last week. Why that might be happening.
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Speaker 1: He's kind of again emblematic of where they are. If
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Speaker 1: they get Tattis going again, I expect that that's going
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Speaker 1: to be a different offense. If they get him hitting
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Speaker 1: the ball more in the air than on the ground,
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Speaker 1: that would be a huge transformative thing for them. Can
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Speaker 1: it happen, Yes, it can happen. Now. They should too
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Speaker 1: get healthier. Jackson Merrill on the injured list right now.
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Speaker 1: Michael King also on the injured list. Jackson Merrill obviously
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Speaker 1: is a huge player for them. He's gonna come back.
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Speaker 1: They kind of debated putting him on the IL for
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Speaker 1: a couple of days there because they thought maybe he
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Speaker 1: could come back without going on the IL, but didn't happen.
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Speaker 1: They get Meryll. I'm sorry Michael King back, and they
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Speaker 1: get Jackson Merrill back, not Merrill King, then they'll be
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Speaker 1: in really good shape. So that's the Padres Dodgers. Exciting series,
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Speaker 1: no question at Petco. And finally, I want to touch
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Speaker 1: on the Mets and Phillies just a little bit. The
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Speaker 1: Mets have a little bit of a Yankee thing going
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Speaker 1: in that they're beating up lesser teams and we'll see
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Speaker 1: how they do against the better teams. They trail the
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Speaker 1: Phillies by seven games in the National League East seven games.
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Speaker 1: Now they have a series against the Phillies this week.
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Speaker 1: And the Phillies, yes, terrible loss of Zach Wheeler. Think
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Speaker 1: he's okay. He had the TOS surgery. He's gonna miss
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Speaker 1: obviously the rest of the season, but he'll be back
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Speaker 1: next year. But even without Wheeler, their rotation could be
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Speaker 1: pretty good. I've said this before and I'll say it again.
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Speaker 1: Nola good start on Saturday, Suarez brilliant on Sunday. They've
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Speaker 1: got the making still of a good rotation. The Mets
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Speaker 1: aren't catching them. The question really is how good the
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Speaker 1: Phillies can be. And the question also is can the
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Speaker 1: Mets hold off the Reds. Yes, the Cincinnati Reds for
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Speaker 1: that third wildcard spot. The deficit is a game and
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Speaker 1: a half. We could see the Mets next pitching prospect,
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Speaker 1: Jonah Tong pretty soon. We've seen Nolan McClain. That's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: But if we are going to believe in the Mets,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna need to see better starting pitching out of them,
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Speaker 1: beyond David Peterson, beyond McClain, and basically just a better
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Speaker 1: showing than we've seen in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Mantas likely headed for Tommy
11:58
Speaker 1: john Mania has not been the same. Senga is a
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Speaker 1: bit of a wild card. It has not worked out
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Speaker 1: the way we all thought it would when they look
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Speaker 1: so good early in the season. So that was a
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Speaker 1: quick summary of all three of those races. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: have more in the inside dish on Padres, Dodgers and
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Speaker 1: Yankees Red Sox coming up after this.
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Speaker 1: Time now for the inside dish, the part of the
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Speaker 1: program where I go inside a story I've written, maybe
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Speaker 1: a trend in the game. This week, I'm gonna do
13:35
Speaker 1: something entirely different because of what I just did in
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Speaker 1: my job. Over the last few days, I had the privilege,
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Speaker 1: and yes I mean the privilege of doing games for
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Speaker 1: Fox in both the Yankees Red Sox series and the
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Speaker 1: Padres Dodgers series. We had on the Fox Network Thursday
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Speaker 1: night the first game of the Yankees Red Sox series,
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Speaker 1: and then on FS one Saturday, we had the second
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Speaker 1: game of the Dodger Padre series. Now, this is entailed
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Speaker 1: a little bit of travel, of course, obviously, but at
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Speaker 1: the same time, I was again privileged to get a
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Speaker 1: taste of both these rivalries, and I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about which is the better one right now. Frankly, I
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Speaker 1: don't even see it as close. Give me Dodgers Padres
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Speaker 1: right now over Yankees Red Sox, and I'll give you
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Speaker 1: a whole host of reasons why. Number one being the
14:24
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Padres are better teams. And yes, the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox are coming and they've got some exciting young players.
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Speaker 1: The Yankees of course have Aaron Judge, but the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: and Padres right now are two of the elite teams
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Speaker 1: in the game. And when a rivalry is at its best,
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Speaker 1: it is when two powerhouse clubs are squaring off and
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Speaker 1: doing it in the same division, doing it in the
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Speaker 1: same geographic region, as these rivalries can both be when
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Speaker 1: they are at their peaks. Now. I talked to Xander
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Speaker 1: Bogart's about this on Friday because I thought he was
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Speaker 1: a really good guy to give his perspective on which
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Speaker 1: is the better rivalry. He was a member of the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox for ten years, he's been with the Padres
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Speaker 1: for the last few so he's got a real sense
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Speaker 1: of what these two different rivalries are. And what Xander
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Speaker 1: said was quite obviously, Hey, Red Sox Yankees, that's more historic,
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Speaker 1: there's no question about that. Goes back, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: one hundred years plus. However, Padres Dodgers in more recent times,
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Speaker 1: in Bogart's opinion and mine too, is the better rivalry
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Speaker 1: simply because there are more established stars on both sides.
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Speaker 1: Now you see it a little bit in Yankees Red
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Speaker 1: Sox of course, with Judge and Stanton on the Yankee side,
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Speaker 1: your Cole hurt right now, and the Red Sox have Gregman.
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Speaker 1: They have some emerging young players as well. Garrett Crochet
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Speaker 1: certainly is a star. But in Dodgers, Padres, what are
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Speaker 1: we seeing. We're seeing all the MVPs with the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: Otani and Freeman and Betts. We're seeing Machado and Tatis
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Speaker 1: and Bogarts and Jackson Merrill for the Padres. And that,
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Speaker 1: in Bogart's view, is what theinguish is this rivalry and
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Speaker 1: what makes him think looking back at what Red Sox
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Speaker 1: Yankees was in the two thousands, remember that Alex Rodriguez
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Speaker 1: and Derek Juter on one side, David Ortiz and Manny
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Speaker 1: Ramirez on the other. That is what makes this so
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Speaker 1: special when you have stars of that magnitude, and let's
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Speaker 1: face it, when you have as well, a little animosity
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Speaker 1: between the teams. The Dodgers and Padres met in the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two DS won by the Padres and the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four DS won by the Dodgers. They have
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Speaker 1: had some teated moments in these games, even this year.
16:36
Speaker 1: And remember that squabble between Mike Schilt and Dave Roberts.
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Speaker 1: So there's a whole lot going on with that particular rivalry.
16:43
Speaker 1: And Peco Park and Dodgers Stadium and Yankee Stadium and
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Speaker 1: Fenway Park, these are all great venues, among the best
16:51
Speaker 1: venues in the sport, certainly with Yankees, Red Sox. The
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Speaker 1: fan animosity is still there and will always be there
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Speaker 1: no matter where the teams are in the standings. Dodgers Padres,
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Speaker 1: phantom animosity is right there with them. You can look
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Speaker 1: on X, you can go to the games, you can
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Speaker 1: judge it however you want. Those two fan bases don't
17:12
Speaker 1: like each other, just like the Yankees and Red Sox
17:15
Speaker 1: fan bases don't like each other. So we have something
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Speaker 1: special on the West coast as well as we do
17:21
Speaker 1: on the East coast. And as I mentioned in the
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Speaker 1: first segment, Pecko Park is part of this. The Padres
17:27
Speaker 1: have sold out fifty eight of their sixty four home
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Speaker 1: games this year. They are on pace to top three
17:33
Speaker 1: point four million in attendance. That's going to set another
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Speaker 1: franchise record, kind of show you see the value of
17:39
Speaker 1: building a really exciting, fun team, a winning team, what
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Speaker 1: it can do to your business attention every other team
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Speaker 1: in the major leagues, So that aspect of it has
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Speaker 1: been the one huge difference in Dodgers Padres in recent years.
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Speaker 1: Peco Park is alive. It is electric when they do
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Speaker 1: all the small things in the eighth inning, and everybody's singing,
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Speaker 1: and it's one of the cooler moments, and it's a
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Speaker 1: little edgier than Sweet Caroline, Okay. And on Friday night,
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Speaker 1: after the Padres beat the Dodgers for the first win
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Speaker 1: of this series, the fans were streaming out of the park.
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Speaker 1: They were going down the rams and they were still
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Speaker 1: chanting Beat La and they were still chanting let's go Padres.
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Speaker 1: And it reminded me so much of Game three of
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Speaker 1: the two thousand and four ALCS. I'm sorry, Game four
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Speaker 1: of the two thousand and four ALCS, when the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox finally got their first victory and I'm walking down
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Speaker 1: from the press box to the clubhouse because that's how
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Speaker 1: it is at Fenway, either walk or wait for this
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Speaker 1: ninety year old elevator. And the fans, even down three
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Speaker 1: All right. Time now for Grilling Ken, the part of
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Speaker 1: the program where I answer your questions. Let's get right
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Speaker 1: to them. The first one comes from Scott Braun, none
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Speaker 1: other than the host of Foul Territory. He asks thoughts
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Speaker 1: on the Basio extension, and I felt like the Bautista
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Speaker 1: injury didn't get enough play. Orioles lost one of the
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Speaker 1: best relievers in baseball for most, if not all, of
20:39
Speaker 1: next season. Scott is right about that. The loss of
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Speaker 1: Felix Bautista for the Oriols is huge, and I believe
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Speaker 1: we had Andy Costka on Foul Territory earlier this week
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Speaker 1: and he mentioned how the Oriols are going to need
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Speaker 1: to find multiple relievers and multiple starters this offseason, and
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be easy to do. Certainly they
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Speaker 1: are willing to spend money. We've seen that. We saw
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Speaker 1: it last offseas, and we saw it with the basio extension,
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Speaker 1: though I still contend that any club, all thirty of them,
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Speaker 1: would do that extension in a heartbeat. It's club friendly,
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Speaker 1: as these things often are, so it was encouraging to
21:13
Speaker 1: see the Orioles finally get one done. Michaelias had not
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Speaker 1: given out an extension to a young player in his
21:19
Speaker 1: tenure before the Besao deal. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have difficulties with Gunner Henderson and Jackson Holliday.
21:26
Speaker 1: Both are represented by Scott Boris. Both are more inclined,
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Speaker 1: perhaps to go to free agency than other players would,
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21:36
Speaker 1: the open market. Doesn't always happen that way, but generally speaking,
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Speaker 1: that is what Boris' clients do. Adley Rushman, I'm not
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Speaker 1: so sure you want to give him an extension at
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Speaker 1: this point. You want to see more. And then you
21:48
Speaker 1: have Westburg and Kowser and some of the other guys.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps they can lock some of them up, but they're
21:53
Speaker 1: not the star caliber players. I don't think that those
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Speaker 1: others are so encouraging for the Oriols. No doubt they
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Speaker 1: still have a lot of work to do. You can
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Speaker 1: watch them now and see the position player lineup they're
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Speaker 1: putting on the field. It's encouraging. It's better Bisio. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to last behind the plane.
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Speaker 1: I'm not hearing good things from scouts on what they're
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Speaker 1: seeing from him at catcher, but at the very least
22:16
Speaker 1: first base DH slugger, you can do a lot worse.
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Speaker 1: So good news for the Ools there. We'll see how
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Speaker 1: it plays out in twenty six because this will be
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Speaker 1: a major test for general manager michae Elias and where
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Speaker 1: they are going forward. All right, next question, This one
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Speaker 1: comes from Chris, who asked, do you think Max Munsey
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Speaker 1: is going to come back in time to make an
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Speaker 1: impact on the Dodgers offense that definitely needs his presence. Chris,
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Speaker 1: great point, and yes, I do expect Munsey to come back.
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Speaker 1: He is getting closer to a rehabilitation assignment, and you're
22:47
Speaker 1: absolutely right. They need him. They especially need him against
22:51
Speaker 1: right handed pitching. Their lineup is a little thin against
22:54
Speaker 1: right handers and they kind of need him to thicken
22:57
Speaker 1: that lineup. Not kind of, they do need him to
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Speaker 1: do that. They are a top heavy team even at
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Speaker 1: their best with Freddie and Otani and Bets. Munsey gives
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Speaker 1: them more. Will Smith, who is slumping in August, he too,
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Speaker 1: is part of that equation. But I do expect Munsey back,
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Speaker 1: and I do expect him to play a big role,
23:17
Speaker 1: and that's one reason why I said in the first segment,
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Speaker 1: we're not really seeing the Dodgers as we're going to
23:23
Speaker 1: see them just yet. Their bullpen is finally hole again
23:26
Speaker 1: with Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates or reasonably Hole Kopek
23:29
Speaker 1: is coming back as well. But they need those position
23:32
Speaker 1: players back. They needed to thick in their lineup, get
23:35
Speaker 1: the outfield straightened out, and all of that. All right,
23:39
Speaker 1: next question, Let's see what this one is actually. Oh there,
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Speaker 1: it is from foul Territory. Foul Territory poses the question,
23:47
Speaker 1: and this is a good one. Are Kyle Tucker and
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Speaker 1: the Cubs back? Now, I'll give you one caveat The
23:54
Speaker 1: Cubs played the Angels over the weekend in Anaheim, and
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Speaker 1: while they had a terrific series, it's effectively a home
24:01
Speaker 1: series for them Wrigley West, the way Anaheim is playing
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Speaker 1: out Angels Stadium, whatever you want to call it. There
24:08
Speaker 1: weren't a lot of people there, and the people that
24:10
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Speaker 1: comfortable at home, and the fans are very comfortable making
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Speaker 1: themselves at home flying the w at the end of
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Speaker 1: Sunday's game, in particular, that's said we did see Kyle
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Speaker 1: Tucker come to life in this series, and the deficit
24:25
Speaker 1: in the NL Central right now is down to five games.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers have lost five of their last seven. The
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Speaker 1: tighten a little bit. The two teams are done with
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Speaker 1: each other for the season, but it could get interesting
24:42
Speaker 1: down the stretch, especially if the Brewers start to feel
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24:46
Speaker 1: They're not necessarily a team that is like that, but
24:49
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