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Ohtani is undefeated, Mexico’s plan v. Team USA, Skubal’s choice · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Happy Monday People, Action, Action, Well, Baseball Classic. We're about
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  Speaker 1: to get into AJ's back and then he's got more
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  Speaker 1: coming up. KP at Braves Camp, a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: interviews coming up to We're looking forward to hearing from
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  Speaker 1: guys like Matt Olsen, Michael Harris, weal Weiss, KP. Do
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  Speaker 1: you get the fields when you're back at camp?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially this place. I love coming here. There's something
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  Speaker 2: special about putting the Brave uniform on. But I just
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  Speaker 2: really really enjoyed my time here. There were so many
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  Speaker 2: great friends that I made when I was here, so
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  Speaker 2: this was like a perfect place for me to come
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  Speaker 2: back and see some of the guys when I watch
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  Speaker 2: them go out on the field. Though I definitely don't
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  Speaker 2: get the fields. I enjoy sitting in here and the
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  Speaker 2: air conditioning. The body I know wouldn't hold up for
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  Speaker 2: a spring training get alone an entire season.
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  Speaker 3: But it's good to come back and see some old friends.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's nice to just talk shit here.
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  Speaker 1: Everything looks easier in this seat, even though you've experience
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  Speaker 1: it's the grind. Do you look good in the sweatshirt
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  Speaker 1: that's your new uniform, the ft sweatcher.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm happy to be playing for this team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we love having you, all right, So we're looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the day. But let's start with World Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Classic ashon because there's been a lot of it. Last
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  Speaker 1: time we were on, we really only had the pool
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  Speaker 1: in Japan going and then there have been a billion
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  Speaker 1: games since then. So we're gonna start with Team USA here,
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  Speaker 1: let's charge. Let's charge, and it's presented by Fox one.
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  Speaker 1: That's the app where you can find all of the
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  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic games.
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  Speaker 4: More info on that coming up. All right, AJ just
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  Speaker 4: called the.
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  Speaker 1: First two games for Team USA blowout wins, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to spin it forward first, then tell me your experience,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to get your thoughts on, like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: now you saw it in my mind. They're warm ups.
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  Speaker 1: Are they gonna crush Mexico or are they gonna lose
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  Speaker 1: like last time?
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  Speaker 5: I think they'll be fine. I think KP knows us
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  Speaker 5: too as a player, especially early in camp, like they
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  Speaker 5: got too warm, Like I mean, whoever made this schedule?
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  Speaker 5: They they gave them the two warm up games kind
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  Speaker 5: of first tipped your cap, then gave them an off day,
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  Speaker 5: then set up their two supposedly hardest games in pool,
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  Speaker 5: which is Mexico and Italy. Here's what I saw. Their
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  Speaker 5: lineup is disgusting. I mean, let's get here. I mean
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  Speaker 5: they had cal Rawlely hitting six. They had Byron Buckson
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  Speaker 5: hitting eight, Bryce Sraang hitting ninth one game the first game,
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  Speaker 5: and in the next game they kind of made some adjustments.
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  Speaker 5: Pa hitting eight. I mean it's it's like, come on, guy,
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  Speaker 5: Will Smith. I mean it was like, come on, like
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  Speaker 5: this is this isn't fair. The only thing I worry
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  Speaker 5: about with this team is not the names of the pitchers.
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  Speaker 5: It's the work of the pitchers, right, because they're still
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  Speaker 5: being built up. And the one thing Mark de Rosas said,
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  Speaker 5: and I agree with this, is all his guys are
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  Speaker 5: on affiliated teams, obviously in Big League teams, and ninety
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  Speaker 5: nine percent of those guys have been All Stars. Are
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  Speaker 5: really good. They're held more restrictions than the other teams.
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  Speaker 5: So let's say they face a I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: the restrictions are for let's say a japan right, but
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  Speaker 5: they get the Japanese, the NPB guys and that whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: They're not on the same restrictions. Like Mark Russa said,
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  Speaker 5: certain guys can only pitch once and they need two
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  Speaker 5: days off. Nobody can go back to back. If I
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  Speaker 5: get somebody up, I have to bring them in. If
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  Speaker 5: this guy has to pitch every other day, this guy
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  Speaker 5: can only throw fifty pitches, this guy can throw sixty pitches. Right,
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  Speaker 5: So it doesn't matter what the rules of the WBC.
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  Speaker 5: They have to play by the rules of the MLB
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  Speaker 5: teams and other teams don't have to do that. Like
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  Speaker 5: I'll use Mexico as an example. They got some guys
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  Speaker 5: that don't play in the big leagues pitchers wise, they
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  Speaker 5: pitch in the Mexican League, they can pitch. They can
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  Speaker 5: pitch the WBC limits, right, So say the limit is
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  Speaker 5: ninety five or whatever in the Big league teams, like
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  Speaker 5: we only want them throwing seventy. There is no limit
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  Speaker 5: to that number. And so that's the only thing I
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  Speaker 5: worry about is and that's why Kershaw's on this team
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  Speaker 5: because he's the one guy that's not affiliated, so he
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  Speaker 5: can kind of do whatever he wants. Is they get
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  Speaker 5: caught somewhere when it gets to the quarterfinals Semis, because
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  Speaker 5: it's like boom, boom, boom, it's really fast in a
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  Speaker 5: row that they get caught with their pitching up lining up,
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  Speaker 5: I know they're going to bring in some reinforcements. They're
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  Speaker 5: going to bring in some new guys. Well scooball pitching in.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it lines up for him where he could
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  Speaker 5: pitch the final and he'd have another start, so he'd
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  Speaker 5: be another built inning built up. Will he do it?
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  Speaker 5: It'd be awesome if they make it. He does it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. That's the only thing I worry about
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  Speaker 5: that Their lineup is ridiculous. I mean, come on, Kae, like,
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  Speaker 5: can you imagine being a guy from Great Britain. I
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  Speaker 5: mean they brought in advance. The two guys who had
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  Speaker 5: a lot of success honestly against the US team are
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  Speaker 5: the guys who were throwing under hitting speed. As soon
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  Speaker 5: as they bring in a guy like ninety three to
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  Speaker 5: ninety nine, they whack, quack quack. It's the guy. It's
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  Speaker 5: the forty year old guys that are throwing eighty two
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  Speaker 5: that they can't hit because they've never seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think there's an ego thing too,
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  Speaker 2: and rightfully so, because these are some of the best
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  Speaker 2: players in our game. But does Mark Durosa as the
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  Speaker 2: manager have the freedom to actually ride the hot bat
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  Speaker 2: or the hot pitcher when it comes time to single elimination. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: right now, it kind of almost feels like it's like
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  Speaker 2: the Fall League. You have your priority guys and then
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  Speaker 2: you have your secondary guys, and I think guys probably
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  Speaker 2: know going into it which one you are.
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  Speaker 3: But when it comes time to trying to win.
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  Speaker 2: A gold medal and you get out of this pool play,
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  Speaker 2: does he have the freedom to put the guys he
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  Speaker 2: feels like is the best option to win a game?
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  Speaker 3: And that's the challenge the US always has to face.
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  Speaker 3: And the same goes for like the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: If it's hard to justify as a Major league where
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  Speaker 2: as a manager of Team USA, you have a right
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  Speaker 2: handed bullpen guy in there and you have a lefty
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  Speaker 2: coming up, but this is a team's best reliever. Does
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  Speaker 2: he have the freedom to go out there and match
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  Speaker 2: up left on left or right on right.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when it's time to win a game.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to Mexico, they went, I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was eleven to five last time.
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  Speaker 5: Again US end it up and they remember they were
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  Speaker 5: beating Japan until the ninth inning and they lost in
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  Speaker 5: like the semi finals. It would have been US Mexico
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  Speaker 5: in the finals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know who had the go ahead hit in
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  Speaker 1: that one against Mexico. It's your new boy.
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  Speaker 5: COMI see, I thought he had to hit against the
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  Speaker 5: USA too, didn't he in the left center field gap?
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  Speaker 5: Or is that Mexico?
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  Speaker 4: No? I think he might have had both.
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  Speaker 5: Just study you watched the broadcast. There was white Sox
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  Speaker 5: legend all over that field. But here's the thing with
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  Speaker 5: kp to what you said. I mean, we got long
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  Speaker 5: times with Mark Russa. We got talked to him for
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  Speaker 5: a long time. And the biggest thing he has is
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  Speaker 5: he's talked to these guys like he didn't want to
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  Speaker 5: call a guy and say you're not gonna like Bobby
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  Speaker 5: Whitt last time. He's like, you're not going to get
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  Speaker 5: to play, but you'll be on the team.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: Kershaw was fine with beause Kirshaw doesn't care. But the
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  Speaker 5: rest of this guys. The biggest thing he kept saying
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  Speaker 5: is I got to honor these guys. I gotta honor
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  Speaker 5: him and I gotta get him at bat.
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  Speaker 4: This time he has this time he's.
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  Speaker 5: Saying, I gotta honor him. He's like, we picked this
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  Speaker 5: team so that we could have interchangeable like gold Schmith, right,
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  Speaker 5: he's probably the one guy that he's like, Okay, listen, Paul,
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  Speaker 5: you're a little bit older. But he's also only a
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  Speaker 5: first baseman. You might come in and get it, but
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  Speaker 5: he hasn't gotten a back yet. He's the one guy
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  Speaker 5: who hasn't gotten to start. He came in this thing
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  Speaker 5: the second game to get Price off his feet, right.
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  Speaker 1: But now all the games are going to be tough too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I'm saying, might get to that's
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  Speaker 1: the whole tournament.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly, That's the whole thing. So he said, he kept
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  Speaker 5: saying that I got to honor these guys that got it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, because if you look who who do you
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  Speaker 5: take out? And who doesn't deserve to play? Who gets
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  Speaker 5: platooned like nobody, like he said, but he said, he said,
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  Speaker 5: when the games get tougher, especially when they get to
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  Speaker 5: Miami with the bigger outfield, he's like PCA in the
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  Speaker 5: end of the game we're winning, is in. He's like,
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  Speaker 5: he's coming in wherever we put him left field. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they have Roman Anthony and left field. But he's like
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  Speaker 5: maybe he's like PCA was taking fly balls and left
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  Speaker 5: and right so he could get used to it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what I just thought of?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So let's say it's late in the game and
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  Speaker 1: they're playing a team that actually does have a good
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  Speaker 1: lefty out of the bullpen, and Harper's up, Like, are
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  Speaker 1: you going to bitch Harper for Goldie just because Goldie
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  Speaker 1: hits left as well? Like, that's what I'm saying, You're
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  Speaker 1: really gonna go call Harper.
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  Speaker 5: Out right, that's what Goldie knows though he knows right,
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  Speaker 5: So Goldie's okay with that heart. I mean, this team
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  Speaker 5: is ridiculous offensively, and if it was let's say it
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  Speaker 5: with this was the middle of July, right right, KP
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  Speaker 5: and you had schemes fully built schoobl Philly built Logan
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  Speaker 5: Webb was disgusting the other night. After the leadoff homer,
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  Speaker 5: so was Scooba after the leadoff homer. It's almost like
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  Speaker 5: they were like, we're in spring training mode. Here's a heater,
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  Speaker 5: Randy Ramirez, this kid hit the homer, and the kid
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  Speaker 5: for Drey Britain hit the homer the first pitch that game.
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  Speaker 5: He's the only guy who got to hit. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 5: So then after that they're like, oh, that's right, this
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  Speaker 5: isn't spring training discounts and they were just like carve carve, carve,
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  Speaker 5: carf car game over it was. It was crazy, like
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  Speaker 5: the amount how they stepped up their game once they
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  Speaker 5: gave up that home run.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the thing for Mexico just to focus on this
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  Speaker 1: game for a moment is last time around, they had
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Sanderbal in their rotation, they had Julio Urias, remember
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  Speaker 1: that name. I mean, he's probably gone forever game, but
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  Speaker 1: he was really good. And then this time around there
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  Speaker 1: were some names that could have been part of a
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  Speaker 1: rotation that could have messed around. Taj Bradley, that's big
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  Speaker 1: time stuff. I mean, I know he's had inconsistency, but
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  Speaker 1: he dropped out late or Keatie dropped out late. That's
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  Speaker 1: a big league pitcher. Cody ponceays really good stuff. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen him the the big since he's come back
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  Speaker 1: here to pitch for the Blue Jays, but he withdrew.
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  Speaker 1: So they just are missing a lot of their pitching talent.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't keep going into the well if you're Mexico, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's go deeper down and find someone else. So that's
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  Speaker 1: probably going to be the separator here, and why I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the US is going to have a problem
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  Speaker 1: this time around, because Mexico, I think, has beat him
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  Speaker 1: three times in a row.
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  Speaker 5: I want to say it is.
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  Speaker 4: Their offense is their offense is good. They've got guys.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, is going to be electric Mexico
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  Speaker 5: fans in my mind, Houston. It was. First of all,
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  Speaker 5: let me say this, the first game Brazil was kind
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  Speaker 5: of like an atmosphere.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The next game against Great Britain, the second game we
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  Speaker 5: did Saturday night was unbelievable. There was everyone was dressed
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  Speaker 5: up in their USA stuff and then the Brits were
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  Speaker 5: dressed up and they're like the guy with the I
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  Speaker 5: showed the guy with the lion and he had the
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  Speaker 5: British like flag painted on his face, but he was
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  Speaker 5: like the lion and he had like a Briton flat.
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  Speaker 5: It was humble. It was super cool. Statues of Liberty people.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone was dressed up like former present. The guy had
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  Speaker 5: the shirt on that said Britain blue. A thirteen colony
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  Speaker 5: lead was great. I mean, there was so many funny
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  Speaker 5: things that were going and and I tweeted this out, KP,
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  Speaker 5: have you ever been to a Blackhawks game? No, I haven't, okay,
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  Speaker 5: So when they do the anthem at the Blackhawks game,
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  Speaker 5: everyone stands and sings it at the top of their voice.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's one of the coolest things as a fan
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  Speaker 5: to experience. They did they actually sang the national anthem
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  Speaker 5: as the fans when whoever African who was sanging it,
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  Speaker 5: but whoever sang it sang it, and the whole crowd
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  Speaker 5: and we have you know, you know, when you do
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  Speaker 5: a game, you stop, right. So they did God Save
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  Speaker 5: the Queen first, and it was just instrumental, and it
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  Speaker 5: was like and it was over, like in like it
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  Speaker 5: seemed like twenty seconds. It was over, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: the little they got, the little cheer, and then they
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  Speaker 5: did the Star Spangled banner and the whole crowd saying it,
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  Speaker 5: and it was like, whoa, people are actually really into this.
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  Speaker 5: Although I will say I have to admit this, and
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  Speaker 5: I as an American, I hate to say this, God Save
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  Speaker 5: the Queen is kind of a better anthem than ours,
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  Speaker 5: just because.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people love the Canadian.
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  Speaker 5: And the Canadian anthem also is better. Can't switch it,
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  Speaker 5: I know, I know, I just wayno. And I had
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  Speaker 5: a big fight about this before the game. He says, what, dude,
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  Speaker 5: you're American. I'm like, I get that, but and I
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  Speaker 5: love love the Star Spangled Banner. But just if you
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  Speaker 5: actually listen to the words of like, oh Canada, even
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  Speaker 5: though it's Canada and it's and it's England and God
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  Speaker 5: Save the Queen, the words are like you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: like I would feel better America the beautiful maybe was
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  Speaker 5: the national anthem because it kind of hits a little
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  Speaker 5: because a lot of people don't know what Francis scott
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  Speaker 5: Key was saying when he wrote the Star Spangled.
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  Speaker 4: Banner lingo has changed exactly.
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  Speaker 5: That's kind of the thing. But listen, I love the starspanking,
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  Speaker 5: So nobody please say, oh, he hates America. No, but
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying the words are maybe more still hip today
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  Speaker 5: than Star Spangled ban That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, last layer here, you touched on it. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to go deeper on this, and we can start
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  Speaker 1: with KP. What are your thoughts on what Schoogle is
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  Speaker 1: going through?
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  Speaker 4: Gap? I had a feeling this was going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: He shows up, He's got Fomo right, He's fear of
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  Speaker 1: missing out for the rest of the tournament.
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  Speaker 4: He is having a blast.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a cool environment there, and there's speakers.
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  Speaker 4: You start to talk to the guys too. I think
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  Speaker 4: this quote stood out.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that make real sacrifices for me to
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: go out and play a kid's game. That was a
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Schooble quote. Right, He's got a lot on his plate.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Free agent year. He could be the highest paid starting
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: pitcher ever, four hundred million dollar guy maybe whatever it is.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Tiger's invested in fran Brabaldez and this could be their
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: last big shot and he's probably gonna leave after that.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: There's also a scheduling issue, which I can get into
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: in a moment. Ken Rosenthald documented it really well, where
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: if he pitches in the title game, it puts in
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: kind of a weird spot where he'd probably have to
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: go eight days without a real start in spring training. Anyway,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: thoughts first on what he's going through and what would
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: you do if you're him?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Oh Man, I wish I was in his position, But
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I think it also speaks to where he has come
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: from in his own individual journey to getting to the
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: big leagues. You know a lot of these players were
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: fortunate enough, maybe at a young age, to wear the
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: USA uniform, you know, coming up and playing in the
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Pan Am Games or Junior qualifiers, Trek Scouble probably never
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: thought he would be in this position to pitch for
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Team USA, and he's arguably the best pitcher in our sport,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: and it's it's probably really hard to imagine what those
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: feelings are going to be like when you put the
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: USA across your chest, when you get into that clubhouse,
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: you're surrounded by the best American players in the game,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: and then you go out and experience the WBC and
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: I've been locked in as a fan, and I'm very
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: envious that I, you know, never got a chance to
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: go to that tournament and play in it.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: But he's in a really.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Tough situation because it just shows how much of a
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: competitor he is, and you think about all the things
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: he has to look forward to starting another opening day,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: potentially being the highest paid player pitcher, you know, in
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: our sport a year from now. Those emotions and those
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: feelings are real when he stepped on that mound, and
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: he's in a really tough situation. I know the Tigers
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: are in a tough situation, but when you hear him
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: talking about it, and I'm sure, there's a lot of
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: things that happened behind closed doors that maybe we don't
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: know as fans. Maybe they are bringing in former military
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: or current military members, and they kind of talk about
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: what it means for these guys to represent them, you know,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: and going out and trying to win a gold medal,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: and it's really hard to fight those feelings. But if
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I'm him, I think you've got to know yourself better
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: than anyone else at this point, and if he feels
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: like it's the right decision not just to represent his country,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: but the right decision for himself to go out and
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: pitch in this competitive environment, at this point in time,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: he knows how it's on fels, he knows how his
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: body feels, he knows how to prepare himself for the
• 17:03
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• 17:07
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• 17:09
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  Speaker 1: The Tigers don't want him to do it. I don't
• 18:15
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• 18:20
  Speaker 5: But so I think I don't think Scott Morris is
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know this but I can't imagine
• 18:23
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• 18:26
  Speaker 4: There's no web. Do you know? Can I go over
• 18:28
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• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah you know they well they we uh Derossa explained
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: it to us. Okay, So then so he said, if
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: you look at when he pitched, the next one will
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: be he pitched on the seventh, okay, which yeah, today's
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: the ninth, right, so we pitched Saturday, the seventh. His
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: next he could pitch the twelfth, which.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Is his normal rest in spring.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: In spring training, and then he could come back for
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: the seventeenth, which would be the finals. The problem is
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: then that puts him online for nine days until opening.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Day, right, That's what I was saying, eight days, nine days,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: whatever it is.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: And then but then Wayne and then Wayno explained it perfectly.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: He's like he could still do it. He just go
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: and throw like a light one in between. But do
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: the Tigers want him to do that?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: That?
• 19:05
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• 19:08
  Speaker 5: the Tigers want him to do that? And listen, he
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: first and foremost when he took the mound and everyone's
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: standing USA, he walked out like we walked out to
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: the bullpen. Everyone was cheering for him, and he got
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: a USA chant and then he stood on the mound
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: and everyone's standing the USA. That hits you no matter
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: what you say, no matter what you say, this means
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: that hits you differently. So then I think you see
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: his quotes changed. Before the game is like one and done,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: and then after the game he's like, well, I don't know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: like that was really cool. I'd kind of maybe I
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: want to do that again.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: And then anyways, AJ, you would know better than me.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: But I mean, how difficult is that for a starting pitcher,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: especially early in the year. I mean once you almost
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: feel like the couple extra days would kind of benefit
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: him going in opening day. I know pictures are a
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: creature of habit, but this scenario maybe not on nine days,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: but there are times throughout the year where there's an
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: off day thrown in there, there's a raino.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Guys get pushed all the time.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, it feels like if there was ever a
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: time for him to have the extended period of rest,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: to be able to go into a controlled environment in
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: spring training on a backfield against maybe his own hitters
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and you know, throw a three inning sim game. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: feel like it's the perfect kind of scenario for him
• 20:19
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• 20:21
  Speaker 5: I agree, And that's exactly what Adam wayn Wright said
• 20:23
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• 20:25
  Speaker 5: this is he said, a lot of times, as you
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: know this two kp the starters, the big starters, the
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: last start of spring is only like a couple innings,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: and a lot of times they do it on the
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: backfield and they say, hey, you're gonna throw fifty pitches,
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: three up downs, You're gonna go out fifteen no matter
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: how how those fifteen go sit boom, come back out,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: or you're fifteen, sit, come back out, or you're fifteen.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: They don't just go out there and throw a hundred pit. Now,
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: some guys do the usually the younger guys, but not
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: the veteran guys. They already know their body and they're
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: ready to go. So could he do it one hundred percent? Now?
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Will the Tigers let him do it? That's the bigger question.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Look at the workload too.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, he went about two hundred and sixteen I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: think with the number innings last year, if you include
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, is the guy who.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: In the year before too.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Also pitched it's on the year before and in the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: past has had injuries. He's had his Tommy John already, right, Like,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: he's gone through a lot to get to this point.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like schemes is a little different. You're like,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is perfection. This dude was shining by
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the time he got to LSU, and then he's had
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: no blips in the majors schools in his free agent year.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: If something goes wrong in the beginning of the year,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: everyone's going to play to this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: It's just how it works.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: That's why I don't think he's going to do it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: As much as it would be awesome if he did,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: I don't think he's going to do it. I think
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: he'll go back because he was still in Houston last
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know if he's finally back in Lakeland. But
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: as soon as he gets back to Lakeland, the travel
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: guy for USA and the travel guy for the Tigers
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: is going to say you know what, he's going to say, Ah, sorry,
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: we can't get you a flight to Miami. And no,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: there's no rental cars and there's no gas in the
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: state of Florida that you can drive they're out of
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: private jets, they're out of everything. Wow, you're just stuck
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: in Lakeland. If you need a ride, call me, I'll
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: drive you down.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Is it public knowledge? Is it public knowledge?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Or do you guys know who those like reserve pictures
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: are that would potentially take his place.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Joe Ryan is one uh and he and he.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Had the back thing.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: So it's mostly bullpen guys, but Joe.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Ryan is the main starter. Matt Strom there's another pretty
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: big name. And Dort listen, I'll give duros A credit.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Mand Arboro is on the team now though he's not
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: a reserve. He was there, he was in Houston, Yarborough.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he is on the team.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: I'll say this. I know we got a break here
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: in a second, but Derossa listen, like love hate whatever
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: it is with Durosa, I'll say this. He's really thought
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: about this since the last one they lost in twenty three,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: and he's like, we want split neutral guys that can
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: get righty's and lefties out. We want guys who maybe
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: he can go more than one inning, although we don't
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: want to have to use them more than one inning.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: He's like, we want guys like Ernie Clement. The reason
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Ernie Clement's on this team is because he can play
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: any position, so it frees up some other stuff. I mean,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: he's really thought about this. He's like, we talked about
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: moving Bragman a second so we could play Gunner at third,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: but then we have Bryce Raang who's a stud. So
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: he's listen, he's thought about I mean, they've this wasn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: like just throw together a roster. I mean, he's really
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: dug into this, and he only wanted people that wanted
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: to be there. He didn't want to have to call
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: him bag anybody. Everyone that's on this team kind of
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: wanted to almost ask to be on the team. So
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: they've thought about this a lot. It's not just thrown together.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Now, the US lost last time and it's like why,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I mean the US is only one once, right, yeah,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: in the tournament's history, and they're like, why why is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the US not more competitive than this? And they're trying
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: to change that. So the drama continues this evening. To me,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: this is where we've gotten through the warm up phase
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: for Team USA. So let's show the schedule, USA going
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: up against Mexico, then No Evidaly, and then we'll go
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: from there to show you what's happening. But there are
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: other games going on this evening too. We're gonna talk
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: more about the WBC in general. Later on we'll talk
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: about Otanian Company Advancing and the other pools.
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• 24:34
  Speaker 1: talked Team USA and now let's get into everything else,
• 24:37
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• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Japan is the first team that knew that they were
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: going to advance and head over to the States and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: playing the quarters. Korea also now advancing. That was the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: fresh one where it was actually really.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: The run differential. They had to win by five runs
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: and they did win by five runs. Australia just needed
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: to score a run like in the bottom of the ninth.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Thing is crazy. That's crazy.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: It is crazy, but it's awesome.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: But I can't wait. I'm excited. I told you on
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: Fox You've got it. Saturday. I get Japan for the
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: quarterfinals no matter what. So that place is going to
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: be crazy. Whoever they I mean, it lines up Dominican
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: or Venezuela more than likely, So it's going to be awesome.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: There's Yoshida who's had a big series or a big tournament.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Cool picture so far, it is a very cool picture.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Japan won it last time around. I mean that
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: lineup is really good. They actually had a tough test.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: They only beat Australia by a run.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Yeahs hung around with them for a minute. But I
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: feel like they're going to be able to win.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: It's I used this analogy the other day for some
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: of these teams and KP tell me what you think.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: It's like a college football team. It's a top ten
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: team named whatever one you want to name, playing a
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Samford or a Mercer or a mid major ish team. Right. Yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: they can score on the opening touchdown, opening drive because
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: they scheme up some funky plays that you know, the
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: big team hasn't really focused on. But then over the
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: time the depth just wears them down. And that's what
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: happens when you get into some of these bullpens. They
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: just don't have the depth of the Basically, it's about
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: big five teams. I would say US, Japan, Korea, Dominican, Venezuela,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: and maybe Mexico Ish or the Big Six maybe, because
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: even even if you look at Puerto Rico, they don't
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: have the pitching depth that a lot of the other
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: teams have. So eventually just they just get to them
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: and they were and then they walk a couple guys,
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: they get to some younger guys and then boom, someone
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: hits a home run in the game's over. It's a
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: It's a great tournament. I love it. It's so fun
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: for the fans. But I wish some of the teams
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: are other teams were better. It would be even more fun. Well,
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I don't think they can.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I don't think they can loosen the rules anymore in
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: terms of no, I know, I'm not no, I'm saying
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: that for the teams you qualify for. So I think
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: players have the ability to play for multiple different countries
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: now as you've seen multiples that played for multiple countries,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: so you know the you know, baseball is just not
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the same in every country we go to. But I
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: do love your analogy with you know, a top ten
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: team playing a mid major. That's kind of why this
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: tournament plays out early in the year. I do think
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: you see the occasional upset because a lot of these
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: teams will play down to their competition a little bit.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: But I think this we're getting to the point, especially
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: with the USA game today, where you know, they knew
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: eventually they could just turn it on and beat the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: first two teams they play. You play down to your
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: competition a little bit. Your you're fresh out of spring training,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: your timing's not quite there. You do face the unique
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: guy who is actually throwing under the comfortable hitting speed.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: For a lot of these guys, it works for a
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: little bit of time, but eventually the good teams, the
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: great teams, are going to wear down these smaller teams
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: that just don't have the depth. But this is where
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the tournament gets really exciting. The players have more at
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: bats under their belt, pitchers have more innings. Log everything
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: starts to sharpen a little bit and the competition turns
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: up a little bit and you start to see a
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: team like USA play up to their competition with a
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: team in Mexico today, and I think it can end
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: up being a very one sided game. I think you
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: knew Japan was going to be there. I think you
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: knew Korea was going to be there. It's a shame
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: with some of the insurance things and the health things
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: that happened to some of the Puerto Rican players too,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: because you could put them in that category of a
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: team that you expect to kind of be in that
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: second round of this tournament. But it's really gonna come
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: down about four or five teams. They have enough depth
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: to kind of withstand. You know, the way this tournament
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: is set up, how.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Much circling in the lineup and avoiding should teams do
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: with Otani?
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: There are other good names in that lineup.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: I tell who wouldn't be wouldn't be Poland? Team Poland,
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: would not be Tani.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen, or at least not right now.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I mean I don't say never, not never, but well,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: What team's never going to be in a Team New Jersey.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: So let's not poll in the country, so you're not.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Taking a shot at me. I identify with many different states.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: Okay, I like to touching that one, but I like Florida.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Who do you pitch around that? That's the problem with
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: some of these lineups like USA, Who do you pitch around? Japan?
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: Who do you pitch around? Dominican? Who do you pitch around? Venezuela?
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: Who do you pitch around? Mexico's lineup? Who do you
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: pitch around? For?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Meo Tani? For Japan?
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, you just don't let Otani be So he
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: walks and he's still second, and then the next guy
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: bunts him over and then the guy gets STACKI fired
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: at one oven.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Sometimes do you disagree because there's five or six other
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: names that you feel good about.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: So, but like, I mean, the thing is, they have
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: a lot of lefties, so if you could have a
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: nasty lefty. That's why scooball makes so much sense in
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: the finals, because they have so many lefties that you
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: can if you can neutralize them with a lefty, because
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: they have a ton of left handed hitters in that lineup,
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: not the school. I mean, he's split neutral because the changeup.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: But anyways, but still yeah, it would help.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: So Mark, I know New Jersey is not a country,
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: so don't say the Polish guy thinks New Jersey is
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: a country. Okay, so well you have to me come on,
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: you think I don't know you guys wish you guys
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: wish New Jersey was a country, and it would really
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: don't and we would make you guys secede from the
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Union if.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: It was a country. Of that. I love my country,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I love Usa.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: But anyway, the last point I wanted to make was, yes,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: we didn't see any upsets yet, but I mean Japan
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: is a good example. Like we were very close there
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: for to three win for Team Japan, and then, like
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: you mentioned at the top of this segment, Korea almost
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: didn't advance. Not only did they have to beat Australia,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: they had to beat them by five runs. They won
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: by five runs with a sackfly in the top of
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the ninth inning. Otherwise they would have beaten Australia six'
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: two and gotten knocked.
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  Speaker 4: Out that's just the way it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Is you're not playing that many games and if everybody
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: has the same number of, losses, Right japan was, good
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: but then you Had Korea australia And chinese. Typeey Since
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: chinese typey, UPSET i guess.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: That was the upset you.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: Mentioned it's been like the one upset that's the biggest,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: upset the biggest game of this whole. Tournament and you
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: guys will laugh WHEN i say this is tomorrow or
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: it might Be, no it might be. Today brazil Versus Great.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Britain the winner doesn't have to qualify for the NEXT,
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Wbc so as long as you don't finish last like,
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: check they're. Out so they have to. Qualify they're gonna
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: lose The poland in the next. Qualifier hopefully If poland,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: can we can figure out how to Get poland in the.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Qualifiers But Brazil, BRITAIN i think it's today at one
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: o'clock On fox. One the winner doesn't have to. Requalify
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: they're in the NEXT. Wbc so that even though it's,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: like why would anyton want to watch that, game it
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: means a lot to those.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Teams, hey do you guys consider these home, runs these
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: walkoffs that create the mercy?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Rule are they considered? Walkoffs?
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: SEE i said no on the on the broadcast when
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: who was A soto hit? One the other, NIGHT i
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: asked that, question and but Then waino And ADAM i
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: mean said, yes because it's technically a walk, off.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: It ends the, game but it's not.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Really but it's not really it's like a mercy home
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: or you should call it like the mercy. Homer but
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: In Red cross, homers.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: It wins you the game. THEORETICALLY i, mean if they
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: were already gonna win the, game.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Theoretically it's, over, well then it could be a runoff for,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: walkoff but the game is not, Over like you could
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: be up nine runs and some team could come back
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: from nine runs in the ninth.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Inning is it?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Likely, No but the point is if you're up ten
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: runs through, seven the game is actually. Over so you
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: did walk it, off you you won the.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: GAME i. Disagree what do you, THINK? KP i don't.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Know If i'd be celebrating LIKE i hit a walkoff,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: HOMER i. MAY i would probably feel good that the
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: game's over and we knew we were going to win the.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Game but you, know when you're up nine runs in
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the fifth or sixth, inning you know you're you're pretty
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: certain your team's gonna. Win BUT i, mean, hey everyone's
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: got a different. STYLE i mean the guys enjoy hitting
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: these walk off homers as the home team in the seventh,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: inning go enjoy?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Him.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Yep and by the, way should they here's a question for, you.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Gus should they implement the run roll in the regular
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: season Of Major League baseball ten after seven so you
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: don't have to see a position player?
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: PITCH i don't think. SO i don't. KNOW i got
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: to think more about. It why do you THINK i.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Don't i'm just going out.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: THERE i say, YES i say. YES i think.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Then guys on the bench don't get a bat.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: SOMETIMES i, MEAN i don't not worry about. That but
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: does happen enough that it? MATTERS i, GUESS i guess it.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Does the thing is you still see position players if
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: it's a seven run, game you, know in the.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Ninth so what's the, line?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: THOUGH i think you should just be able to waive
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: the white.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: FLAG i, mean if you're going to go down that
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: route of you, know not using a guy to your,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: bullpen you're you're clearly sending a message to the other
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: team that we don't believe we can win this. Game
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And i'm gonna save my pitchers for. Tomorrow so let's
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: allow everyone to get off the field and.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Get home a little bit.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Earlier And i'm all for it because as offensive player,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: too it's such a lose lose situation when you go
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: up to home plate and you have to face a position,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: player you get a, hit you're supposed, to you hit
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: a home. Run, yes ultimately it counts on your. Statistics
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: does it feel the same way at the end of
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: the year when you go into harbor free? Agency it
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: counts just as everyone you, know all the other. Ones
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: BUT i think at some, point you, know when a
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: position player comes out of the bullpen or the dugout to,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: pitch it's no longer a good look for the. GAME
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: i don't think the people that come to a game
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: and watch this really enjoy. It and if the game
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: is that lopsided at some point of the, game the
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: people have either gotten their money's worth if your team's,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: winning or they're ready to go home anyways if your team's.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Losing SO i think you should be able to wave
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the white.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: FLAG i think it makes our sport look a little
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: bit amateur when we have the position player stuff going.
• 34:59
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• 35:02
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• 35:36
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• 35:40
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• 35:45
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• 35:48
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• 35:52
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• 35:55
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• 36:13
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• 36:18
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• 36:20
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• 36:28
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• 36:30
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• 37:01
  Speaker 5: Too. Yeah by the, Way dero was talking about the
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: other Day durosa THE usa thing about how some guys
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: might not get to. Pitch they need to. Pitch so
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: what are we gonna. Do we're gonna have Like David
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: ross And Michael young And brian mccannon taking bats off of.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Them And i'm, Like i'll take it a bat off of.
• 37:17
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• 37:19
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• 37:21
  Speaker 5: like any of those righty, Dudes i'll take my.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Shot, yeah this, weekend that's your.
• 37:26
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• 37:28
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• 37:31
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• 37:34
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• 37:37
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• 37:40
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• 37:42
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• 37:44
  Speaker 2: i know you didn't get any work.
• 37:45
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• 37:48
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• 37:51
  Speaker 2: you need to get some work in.
• 37:52
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• 37:55
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• 37:57
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• 38:00
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• 38:03
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• 38:06
  Speaker 2: you need a guy to just take at. Bats i'm your.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Guy you can be their center field coach, too.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: RIGHT i don't have it all figured. OUT i don't
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: have it all figured.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: OUT i just want TO i didn't crack any, CODES
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: i didn't do. ANYTHING i JUST i just want to
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: TAKE i just want to take our bats off their.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Guys and need, work And i'll let them know how
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: good they.
• 38:24
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• 38:25
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• 38:35
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• 38:39
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• 38:43
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• 38:59
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• 39:03
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• 39:14
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