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Justin Turner blasts “absurd” M’s ownership, Portland’s ballpark plan · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hide, saying I'm very hopeful. Well, yeah, he's hopeful. He's
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  Speaker 1: hopefully he's getting his MVP candidate shortstop back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you can hear the cage in the backgrounds
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  Speaker 2: clear water. AJ. Are you tempted to go in there
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  Speaker 2: and take some ACKs?
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  Speaker 1: Well we got j Rowlie.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, AJ, your mic, You're gonna put your mic. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta put your mic on.
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  Speaker 1: AJ is hustling, right, he's been hustling. He's it's cold.
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  Speaker 3: He's sorry. I've been up and down. Sorry, sorry, I've
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  Speaker 3: been up and down chasing people. Uh it's first of all,
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  Speaker 3: it's fifty degrees. I I thank god it When I
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  Speaker 3: left at five in the morning, I checked the weather
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  Speaker 3: and I happen to bring my foul territory get a
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  Speaker 3: foul territory shop dot com, uh hoodie, and I put
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  Speaker 3: pants on because it would have been there would have
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  Speaker 3: been a lot of cold legs if I did not
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  Speaker 3: put on. But yeah, so I was just in the cage.
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  Speaker 3: J Rowl, Ryan Howard, Charlie Manuel, we're in there. We're
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  Speaker 3: talking hitting Kevin Long, who will not come on the show.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, and I've asked him a million times.
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  Speaker 3: I love you, k long. Uh, we're in there. We're
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  Speaker 3: all talking hitting, so right by the cage like we
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  Speaker 3: were last year. They've changed some things here, Cratzy, since
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  Speaker 3: you were here. They got this brand new food tent
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  Speaker 3: which smells delicious. So I would love to go in there.
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  Speaker 3: But listen, Phillies are strong. Philly's event strong and had
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  Speaker 3: the PA meeting. Tony Clark was here, Bruce Meyer was
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  Speaker 3: here this morning. So it's been a good morning so
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  Speaker 3: far to catch up with some guys.
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  Speaker 2: Good. I love that. Yeah, we'll have some combos. We will,
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  Speaker 2: we will have some combos. Big day for you too, Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Philly, this is your spot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at home. I'm in the cold North. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the cold North. It's probably the same degrees as it
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  Speaker 1: is in in Florida right now.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you call them? You know how you
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  Speaker 2: called the Mets a third place team? What do you
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  Speaker 2: call the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I'm am I supposed to
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  Speaker 1: say what they're gonna what spot they're gonna be?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, are they a first place team in the
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  Speaker 2: division or a second place team?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think it's a toss up between
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  Speaker 1: the two of them. I really think it's who stays
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  Speaker 1: healthier throughout the season. I do what.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the Phillies. Man, I'm surprised.
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  Speaker 3: Me too, Me too, Me too.
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  Speaker 2: This is a regular season first place team in my mind,
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  Speaker 2: based on how they're built.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a fan.
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  Speaker 1: But here's my man, here's my pick. I could care
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  Speaker 1: less and I'll pick whoever ends up. You know, I'll
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  Speaker 1: pick my pick, my AL East rankings or my n
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  Speaker 1: L East rankings. But I think the Phillies get it done.
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  Speaker 1: I think they push it across the line this year
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  Speaker 1: and they win.
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  Speaker 2: The World Series. Wow, okay, hey, they're all in.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, this is it right. I mean, you got some
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  Speaker 3: free agents at the end. You got Sharver, you got
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  Speaker 3: jt Is a free agent. There's some free agents. They
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  Speaker 3: lost a couple guys this year often for example, A
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  Speaker 3: stev Is left at the end of their team last year.
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  Speaker 3: So they're all in. The Phillies want to win. John
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  Speaker 3: Middleton wants to win. The Phillies wanna win with this group,
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  Speaker 3: and this is they're gonna go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, perfect segue for me, because there's one team
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  Speaker 2: that does not care about winning. Not the players not
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  Speaker 2: the players, the owner. Let's hit, We'll charge the mound action.
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  Speaker 2: This one's got spice charging. Justin Turner had a nice
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  Speaker 2: finish to last season, which ended up earning him a
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  Speaker 2: one year, six million dollar contract with the Chicago Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to stay in the Pacific Northwest. He loved
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  Speaker 2: the vibes there, obviously, he loved watching that pitching staff.
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  Speaker 2: He connected with the fans, and he played well. He
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  Speaker 2: hit well there. Aj he unloaded on really ownership there
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  Speaker 2: to Bob Nightingale. So there's an article out now, and
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  Speaker 2: there are so many good quotes. Wait, wait, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: not the only one that goes after Mariner's ownership. Okay, good,
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  Speaker 2: just checking, just making sure that there are other humans
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  Speaker 2: that think this situation is absurd and the most frustrating
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  Speaker 2: in baseball right now, So you're seeing some on the screen.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read a few for you and then we'll get
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  Speaker 2: thoughts from our players. Quote. The fact that they missed
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs by one game and didn't go out and
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  Speaker 2: add an impact batter too, when you have the best
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  Speaker 2: pitching staff in baseball just seems absurd to me, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: as much as I wanted to be back there. If
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  Speaker 2: I was the only piece they brought back in, I
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  Speaker 2: would be saying the same thing, what the hell are
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  Speaker 2: we doing? Are you trying? There's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: a better time to go for it, So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what they're doing. I'm very confused. It's a head
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  Speaker 2: scratcher for me, and I'm just taking more and more
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  Speaker 2: quotes here. These are lines that are mixed throughout the article.
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  Speaker 2: JT said, I told them several times this offseason, you
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  Speaker 2: have a unicorn of a pitching staff. This might be
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  Speaker 2: the best five starting pitchers in the history of the game.
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  Speaker 2: That can be debated, but still, this is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty nine of one hundred and sixty two starts
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  Speaker 2: that last year from five guys aj with a three
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  Speaker 2: to four to ozho Era. JT said, I thought Alonzo
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  Speaker 2: would be a slam dunk. How could you go after him?
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  Speaker 2: He goes, are you kidding me? And then I'll finish
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  Speaker 2: with this. He said he thinks that Jerry Depoto catches
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  Speaker 2: a bad rap for a lot of the trades and
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  Speaker 2: how crazy some of the trades have been, But he said,
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  Speaker 2: being a part of it, I kind of understand. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have any money to spend, so he's got to
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  Speaker 2: create money, Like, okay, is it really Jerry's fault? And
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  Speaker 2: he alluded to the Kendall Graveman trade a few years back,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going, I'm thinking, what in the world is
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  Speaker 2: this trade? But he said, you probably need to trade
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  Speaker 2: guys during that season just to be able to spend
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  Speaker 2: money in the next off season, which is nuts.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, the best part of this article was
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  Speaker 3: besides all the quotes, but this quote stands up out
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  Speaker 3: to me more than anything. As much as I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be back there, and if I was the only
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  Speaker 3: piece they brought back in, I would be saying the
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  Speaker 3: same thing, what the hell are we doing? Are you trying?
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  Speaker 3: That's a veteran guy knowing where he's at in his
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  Speaker 3: career and understand he wanted to be back there, and yes,
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  Speaker 3: could he help that team win? He thinks absolutely, But
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  Speaker 3: what does he think they need more? They need more offense,
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  Speaker 3: they need more power, they need more speed, they need
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  Speaker 3: more just everything on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And so for him to be that self conscious and
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  Speaker 3: self aware to say with that and then to back
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  Speaker 3: it up with these other quotes, incredible interview. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, my hat is on backwards, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: tip my hat to you Justin Turner for saying what
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  Speaker 3: Scott Brown has been saying for almost two years now.
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  Speaker 3: Way to go, JT, Way to go, Way to just
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  Speaker 3: say what you feel and say it with your chest.
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  Speaker 3: As Krat says, awesome interview and great job by Bob,
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  Speaker 3: and by Justin Turner.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I feel like JT must
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  Speaker 1: be watching the show because everything he said is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what we've been saying on this show. I also think
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  Speaker 1: that Mariner's pitching staff has an easy Slam Dunk T shirt.
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  Speaker 1: Every pitcher gets a T shirt with a Mariner's symbol
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  Speaker 1: and a unicorn on it. Like I feel like when
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  Speaker 1: a guy says this, I want to hit on what
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  Speaker 1: AJ said about the fact that he's like, what are
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  Speaker 1: we doing if I'm the only person doesn't mean just
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  Speaker 1: Turner doesn't think he's a good player. It just means
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  Speaker 1: that they have an opportunity that they have squandered, and
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  Speaker 1: another offseason has gone by where they squandered it again.
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  Speaker 2: I want to just clear this part up too. Most
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  Speaker 2: players apparently were asked about it, they shrugged it off JP.
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  Speaker 2: Crawford said, that's not our job. I know the fans
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  Speaker 2: are mad at certain people, but they're taking it out
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  Speaker 2: on all of the players. I don't really get that
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  Speaker 2: nobody is taking it out on the players. I just
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  Speaker 2: mean JT's right, Pete Alonzo, oh my gosh, add him
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  Speaker 2: to that mix when they needed a first baseman. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been awesome. They're not spending anywhere close
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  Speaker 2: to that. That's why the last couple off seasons. But
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  Speaker 2: when fans are sending us ideas for who the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: can acquire ninety five percent of them, I'm like, they
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  Speaker 2: they're not spending like that. Their ownership has made it clear.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane. Right, We're talking about two different cases here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're talking in Phillies Camp today where they
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  Speaker 2: go all out. John Middleton is one of really the
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  Speaker 2: dream owners in our game, and then John Stanton, who's
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  Speaker 2: the owner of the Mariners, the majority owner or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: He's the control guy. I mean, he just doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: And props to JT because he's in that point in
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  Speaker 2: his career. But crats just echo what I said. Please
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  Speaker 2: if you agree, nobody's going after Mariners players. Sure there
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  Speaker 2: might be some frustration, and you know last year that
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  Speaker 2: they're not hitting as well, But Mariners fans are pissed
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  Speaker 2: at one place, right, and that's ownership slash some front office.
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  Speaker 2: They are not mad at the players. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 2: a super superstar cast of starters. He gave a ton
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  Speaker 2: of credit to cal Riley to and how damn good
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  Speaker 2: he is in the game as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think some ownership would probably say, well, one player
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  Speaker 1: doesn't win you a championship. You're right, one player doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: But the five dudes you have in your starting rotation
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  Speaker 1: and the bullpen that you just keep churning over and
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  Speaker 1: it's the same dudes, they are just legit lights out.
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  Speaker 1: They do win you a championship. And you already have
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  Speaker 1: studs up the middle. Cal Raley, JP Crawford and Hollo
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  Speaker 1: Rodrigez all up the middle. You did a good job,
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  Speaker 1: just supplement it. Nobody's mad at the players. Yes, you
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  Speaker 1: want them to do better, but that's just when you
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: look at the scoreboard and you see him hitting two ten,
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  Speaker 1: you're mad at ownership. The ownership is where the anger
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  Speaker 1: is at, and it should be. And to me, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a travesty that two years ago they got
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  Speaker 1: an All Star Game and they don't spend like it
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  Speaker 1: should be some type of mandate, like, hey, you want
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  Speaker 1: an All Star game, you gotta show us you're putting
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: trying to put a competitive team on the field, not
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  Speaker 1: just oh well, your name came up on the wheel
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  Speaker 1: of haven't had an All Star Game for a while,
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  Speaker 1: so that's what we'll give it to you now. I
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  Speaker 1: think there should be just more things tied to competition. Competitive.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, middle of the pack payroll about one fifty ish mill.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's asking you to have two hundred plus every year.
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  Speaker 2: But these are the years that you should have done it.
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  Speaker 2: You would have made more money if you won a
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  Speaker 2: World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Oh forever.
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  Speaker 2: So frustrating, Leo. What do we have some weird ones
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  Speaker 2: West teams to make the playoffs? If you need a
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  Speaker 2: reminder on who's in the NL West, the Dodgers, the Padres,
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  Speaker 2: the Giants, the Diamondbacks, and I think the Rockies are
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  Speaker 2: still there. I've heard that they still have a pulse.
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  Speaker 2: So one two, three four two is by far the leader,
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  Speaker 2: and it makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense. And as Scott says,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody can Not everybody can be an over, not
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: everybody can be an under. So we said yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: I thought three teams make it from the East. This
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  Speaker 1: But there's a guaranteed one team. But is it just one? Though?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a Diamondbacks. I think I think the
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  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks are gonna be a clear NL favorite here. Unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get second place in their division.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I still like the Padres too, So plus one
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  Speaker 2: come back to Kratz and I for a moment. I
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  Speaker 2: want to remind everyone about something. So next week FT
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: takes the spring training tour to Arizona for the first time.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: We've had many questions about the schedule. Yes, so I
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: want to keep reminding everyone these next couple of days
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  Speaker 2: because people are confused, and that's fair. But also we
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: are lining up the show with player schedules. Usually the
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  Speaker 2: show all years one o'clock Eastern time, last couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks we're doing it at eleven Eastern time so we
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  Speaker 2: can talk to players. I've heard Kyle Schworber. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to join us next by the way, and he'll make
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  Speaker 2: his FT debut next week one pm Eastern time. Back
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  Speaker 2: to one. Why because if the show is at eleven
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  Speaker 2: Eastern time, it would be two damn early in Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: and everyone would be cranky, including the players, and they
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't join us.
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  Speaker 1: So and in you, and including you, I would cranky.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm still TBD if I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 2: Arizona or not for other reasons, but either way I
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  Speaker 2: would be cranky about it. So I'm very happy that
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  Speaker 2: it's one o'clock. The week after that back to eleven
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  Speaker 2: as we'll be back in Florida for training camps. All right, Kratz,
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: let's hit. A few injuries suck. Just during the break.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: We hadn't talked about Gunner Henderson well, Intercostal. It's a
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: little strain. Hopefully we'll be ready for opening day. This
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: was actually cover at length on Fair Territory today too
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: with Ken and Alana, so if you want to check
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: that show out right after this one, do it. They
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: talked about Christian Walker's oblique issue, which we covered yesterday,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: but Brandon hyde O's manager very hopeful that he'll be
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: ready for opening day and that he is improving. Obviously,
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: you want to take your time on this one, Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing that comes to mind is if you
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  Speaker 2: really want the division, everything's going to count. The Yankees
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  Speaker 2: are going to be right there with them. I think
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox are going to be a much better
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: ball club this year too, so even the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: are going to be a much better team. A few
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  Speaker 2: days not going to make too much of a difference,
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  Speaker 2: but the division could come down to a few games a.
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  Speaker 1: Few days in spring training is going to make a
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  Speaker 1: big difference. The games in March, and I think there's
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  Speaker 1: two for each team in March are exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: value as the games in September. The end of September.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd saying I'm very hopeful. Well, yeah, he's hopeful.
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  Speaker 1: He's hopefully he's getting his MVP candidate shortstop back. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if he would have said I'm very very optimistic that
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  Speaker 1: he's ready for opening Day, that would be different. Intercostal
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  Speaker 1: is a little bit different than an oblique, but it's
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  Speaker 1: in the same it's in the same same genosphere, it's
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  Speaker 1: in the same like you just got to make sure
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  Speaker 1: everything's moving around. Okay, you know at his age he'll
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  Speaker 1: recover quickly, but you just don't want you don't want
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  Speaker 1: obliques to linger because there's a dude that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: out there one hundred and sixty two games and you
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  Speaker 1: can't just like kind of play through an oblique or
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  Speaker 1: an intercostal. You gotta let it heal completely and then
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  Speaker 1: you're ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: And one other quick one. Jordan Walker inflammation left need.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like they'll stop him for a week and then
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  Speaker 2: ramp him back up. Apparently he kind of stepped on
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: a sprinkler out in the outfield. I'm like, what, why
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  Speaker 2: is that a thing? They don't have him like completely underground.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was on a backfield or
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  Speaker 1: what it was. Maybe they need some upgrade, maybe the Cardinals.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Cardinals need to upgrade their stadium. They're sprinklers
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: in the outfield. I mean the sprinkler system' don't don't
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: get a Twitter. Sprinkler systems are not like they used
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: to be where it's like this like huge unit that
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: comes up out of the ground. No, but if there's
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: some inflammation in that knee, this is a big dude
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: meeting him in person when I was in the clubhouse
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: and in Jupiter the other week last week, Big dude,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you need the knees just to stay together.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's had a struggle to start his career. All right,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: here we are. We have a little Roco Baldelli behind
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the scenes speech to his ball club in the Twins clubhouse.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: So that's not yet. We're going to run that soon though,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: in ten seconds, I'll run that. But this is the
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: speach that AJ always asks managers before they get to
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: spring training. What's going to be the speech. What are
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: you saying this time around when you're the twins right,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: and you're like, we thought we were going to get
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: sold to these billionaires, but we weren't. So we are
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: somewhere they were the.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: White Sox instead Twins fans.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: That's true, all right, we have the clip, all the
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: work matters. Your families are on the field, everybody's celebrating.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: You've got parades. I've never had parade.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I want to prede.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, the community will forever be indebted to you, forever.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: They can love you. I want to give our community again.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Not wrong, I'm freezing. Look at me. This is about
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: how cold I was when we won the World Series
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: and had the parade, except I was kind of drunk,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: so I wasn't as cold.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Great for graded, how was that?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: It was the best experience of your life? I'm telling
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: you right now, there's other than you know, marriage, kids,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: that whole deal.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: The speech, the speech, The speech was solid.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Trust me, that was a good speech. I want to parade.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: You know what. I want to parade to Rocco. So
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: let's go get a parade. Every team wants to how
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: many Phillies guys that we had here crats and say
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I want to win the World Series right everyone. Bryce
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: was just I just talked to Bryce. What does he want?
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Win a World Series? Strong? Boom? Kyle Schwarver's done it.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: He wants another parade? Why? Because it's awesome.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I'll give it a seven. He had a cheat sheet.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: He was going. He had the paper and he was like,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: he just wanted to make sure he didn't miss. I'll
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: give it a seven. He hit the right hit the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: right buttons. The boys are going to be fired up, but.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: M okay coming up next?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Hold on, I'll say it ain't football scot so like,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: you can't be all fired up. There's seven months to go.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: So like, remember that speech other than the video that
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: it was because I I can't tell you one thing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: There's only one speech of an opening manager I ever remember,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: and it was Ozzy Gan and I can't say what
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: he said because it involves some things. That's only one
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I ever remember.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: There's a hot corner time. The Portland Diamond Project formed
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen and they're still working hard. They unveiled renderings.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Now those are renderings. Okay, that's on the Willemette River
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: hopefully any Portland, Oregon people are judging me and saying,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: either great job, you nailed the pronunciation, or you botched it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll learn more if they get a team.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: But it's between two bridges. The backdrop is super sick.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: There's public support, there's politician support, which is always a trip.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: There's a three and a half year window for them
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: to buy property at what's called Zidell Yards. And we
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: don't know who the big money person behind the scenes
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: is yet, but there's some unknown own financier. It's some
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: anonymous person that could purchase the land if they end
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: up getting the team. And there's a thirty two thousand,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: thirty two thousand seat stadium. I was like, what's the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: word seat stadium with a retractable glass roof. I mean
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that looks good, a j that's a good look there.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, we saw renderings from Vegas, the Armadillo Action.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: That's how you do renderings right there.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Maybe the A's might actually end up in Portland instead
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of Vegas, because I still haven't seen a shovel in
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: and ground yet. I know this, if they want a team,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: they better get the A's or they you know, they
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: say they have a guy behind a finance seer, which
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: is a fancy word for seeing a guy with a
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: lot of money, a person with a lot of money.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: But the financier if he wants an expansion team, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: they better have about five billion in their pocket ready
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: to go, which is a lot of money. But good
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: luck Portland. And if they don't name them the Portland Pickles,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: because they do have a team called the Portland Pickles,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I would be very disappointed.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: The Portland Pickle is famous for going viral and google
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: him if you need more help there. But anyway, five billion,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I mean I think the relocation fiatat is going to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: be about half that. No, in the.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Twos yeah, but then you got yeah, but then you
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: got to build a stadium, and you got to do
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: the minor leagues and there's a whole bunch of stuff.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: So it's you're looking at about five billion.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Hmm, okay, as much as as much as two things.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: We don't want to give away who that financier is
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: because we don't want the Orlando group to steal that
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: financier from Portland. But we also don't want Vegas to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: understand that they put a rendering out there where the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: sun is not setting in center field of the stadium.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: So don't don't show all your renderings because I know
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Vegas probably has some really really nice renderings and Fishers
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: got it all figured out.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Insert sarcasm and just for your PSA for fans that
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: haven't consumed us talking about this situation, we are not
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: knocking Vegas by any means. We go there frequently, we
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: like it. We are knocking the group that's trying to
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: go there because they are stupid for a lack of
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: a better term. But in all seriousness, AJ, it's super impressive, right.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: It sounds like they've got money, they've got public support,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: they've got an awesome looking setup there near the water
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: with the backdrop. The question is when MLB does eventually expand,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and let's say the A's do end up in Vegas.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: To me, it's a heavyweight till it's Portland versus Utah.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: They are both not going to get an expansion team,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: and if they both have availability at that point because
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the A's didn't end up in Vegas, one team is
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: going to land you on the whatever Manfred calls it,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: west side of the country. Remember when he said, yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: they're going to be west so Utah or Portland.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I played in Utah, so I'm gonna side for Utah
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: because I loved playing in Salt Lake City, So I mean,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: other than it was Triple A, but it was a
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: great city to play and the fans are amazing, the stadium,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the views are awesome.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: So I mean, I'm gonna lean towards Utah. But what
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: do I know. I also have been to Portland, had
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: a great time in Portland.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: By the way, Hey, I know that guy.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: That guy, I've heard of him before.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So Bryce Harper future Portland pickle, He's not a billion
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: year deal expansion.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Draft Salt Lake, Salt Lake my fly for Bryce, Vegas
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Vegas guy.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: That's right. But what do you think Kratz to try
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: and take out any bias, Like where do you actually
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: think baseball would end up? First? Portland, Oregon, Salt Lake City, Utah?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Because of what I've heard about Portland, I have to
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: lean towards Portland. They already have, you know, they have
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a rendering. I guess, you know, I don't know. I
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: don't know. I would if I were to pick a city,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I would pick Portland. And I also like it based
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: on the fact that now Seattle, when you're in Seattle,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you're not traveling two and a half hours from Seattle
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to your next game. That travel can wear on guys,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: and you'd have more of a close proximity there. It's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: right on the coast. I just I I would say
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Portland wins it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: And just to be clear, if there's no other relocation
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: to me, it is a Portland versus Salt Lake City matchup.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: West East looks like Nashville and something Carolina related. Yeah, Riley,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Charlotte versus Nashville and Nashville's not a lot. They were
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: or they looked like one for a while. But it
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: would have more to with the fact that MLB is
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: not getting everything it wants from the city, not that
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the city can't handle baseball. They would love to have baseball.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: So Slick City all the way, Slick City all the
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: way on the West coast. I'm just saying I'm biased,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: but Slick City.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Baby, you're not going to get two on one side
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: or two on the other side. I just want to
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: be clear on that one. They're going to split it
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: up that way, and there also probably is going to
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: be massive re alignment. It's going to piss a lot
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: of people off. But anyway, if you're catching this later on,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: let us know your thoughts. But great job by the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Portland Diamond Project in terms of putting out some cool
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: public renderings and work there and at least doing the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: homework to try and make a bid for a team
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: when one does become available. The expansion from MLP crats ads,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: thank your phills here did we did well today? We
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: did good work.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Thank new Era and thank the Phils. It's classic. I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: mean it's one of those things you know that we
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: made fun of the w for Washington. This is classic.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Just like Charlie Manuel said, make him let me hear
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the bell. They ring the bell after every win and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: every homer.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, Charlie's here, he's here.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Chuck's always there.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I told him. He said hello, He didn't remember who
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: you were, so I said, well, you know that we
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: gotta hit you a homer once in a spring training here.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I liked him what he was doing. Remember we had
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: masterm on he and he said that Charlie Manuel was
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: a huge cart collector. You know what he was doing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: He was sitting in the bandingcage right here with imagine
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: this Jimmy and Ryan Howard, you know two former MVPs
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: ripping packs. By the way. Oh yeah, had a whole
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: had a whole slew of him, was just sitting there
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: ripping packs.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Chuck loves Chuck loves like different stuff like that. He
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: loves putting his money into things that he can put
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: in his hands. He's like, I buy gold, I buy baseball.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Cards, old school. Yeah, the Phils have baseball lifers. That's Manual.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: That's definitely Larry Bo who I got to work with
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: quite a bit back in the day. All right. Lastly
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: for the Ft Fam the Calendar Police. Thanks to all
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the teams so far this week. Today's Thursday. AJ is
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: a grinder this week, so we'll see him on Friday
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: as well. Blue Jays, Nationals, Astros, Phillies, Thank you, Phillies.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Raise Tomorrow we'll talk to the Rays and then next
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: week we're in Arizona. Mystery teams. Mystery teams are involved, no,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: well at least some of them are. AJ.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I know Monday is Dodgers, I know that for sure.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure Thursday is White Sox. I'm pretty
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: sure about that also.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Now the other thing go back to back couldn't get
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: couldn't get your cat or a or a five star
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: suite on the Dodger side or a cot on the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: White Sox side.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a they have like a four seasons
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: a cappella on the Dodgers sid and on the other
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: side they have like a daze in or a Motel
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: six and the White Sox s how where you have
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to stay? You get to cheers.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I picture it's like Legends Club. If you go to
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: a Yankees game and they've got like unlimited lobster and
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: steak and all this stuff, and then you go to
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Socks camp and they're like p B and J or
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: pizza for you Today.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: It's pretty folk eggs both eggs Minor League eggs. By
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: the way, shout out, shout out to our I look.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Back, yeah us, Hey, we're back. All right, krats, I
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: forgot you got booted? What are you tired? You need
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a break? You need an off day?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Craft, I was yawning, I'm gonna take an off day.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I'm I feel like a right now?
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: What's up? You don't have to work on Friday?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: You know, Rais? Did you play for the Rais for
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: like a second?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I did number six, number six of your programs, number
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: one in your hearts.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I'll tell Kevin Cash you said, Hi.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: The thing with the.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Rays is they're probably the highest turnover team over the
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: past at least decade. Right, it's just what they do.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: There's been a little less of that, not really. Actually
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: they sold it the deadline and got rid of everyone again,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: so they are the turnover team. They also are a
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: top five team in the past couple decades I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: on win percentage something around that range. So give them
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: credit for the success, although they haven't won a World Series.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: But with all that being said, AJ, there's not many
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: names that you can throw out to current players and
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, member, so and so. Nobody's good at
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: history lessons there because you don't get the connectivity from
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: one player being there for a long time and passing
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: the torch to another. I guess you had that with Longo,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: but it's a team that doesn't have a lot of
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: that overall.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be Franco soon.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Now it's cam Andero.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Now it's going to be and it was David Prisom.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Blake Snell, Chris Archer, some of those guys
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: but none of them were there ten years.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Yandy, I mean, Yandi's been there for a while.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Now, maybe four years, but no long term extension. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you're like, I'll just wait till his jersey gets sold
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: in Ross on the discount shelf, and I'll get it
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: after they trade him. Uh.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: All right, So coming up next Dodgers territory. You've got
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Alana in Clint and yes, Dodgers fans will be at
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: that camp on Monday. Like AJ mentioned, he's visiting his
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: old stomping grounds on Thursday to talk to the White
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Sox and there will be other teams we visit on Tuesday, Wednesday,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and Friday to be announced later. We will see you
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Manyana at Ray's camp.