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ALCS Game 4 preview with Jeff Francoeur, Brewers sweep Dodgers, Kratz part of Milwaukee celebration · Foul Territory

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Move over, basketball. Did you see that, Toddfather? Move over, Bucs.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: They're going to have their home opener at 3 o'clock.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't, but yes, that makes sense.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 3 o'clock instead of 7 o'clock to celebrate Milwaukee
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: hosting game one. Kratz ready to pop a bottle that's
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: probably not going to taste good. That bottle's pretty old.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about a very cool bottle that Kratz is
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  Speaker 1: involved with coming up in a moment, but can we
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  Speaker 1: also show the tweet from Sarah Langs about post season
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: or make that world series appearances and the amount of
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: years between that for the Cubs, which was 70 from
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: 1946 to 2015, the white socks went from 1960 to
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: 2004 without being in a world series. And then third
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: on this list, Todd father is Milwaukee 1983 after their
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: 82 appearance all the way up until last year, that's
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: 43 years. That's a lot of decades.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's it's a lot it's and you got to
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  Speaker 3: be a true fan of all those teams to really
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  Speaker 3: understand going through some some hard times so um yes
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  Speaker 3: that's all incredible but now you're getting the fruits of
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  Speaker 3: the labor here you got those old timers that have
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  Speaker 3: been waiting since they were you know young maybe young
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  Speaker 3: at what 10 years old you had 43 of that
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  Speaker 3: now they're in their 50s that's uh It's truly remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're a Milwaukee fan, even if you don't
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  Speaker 3: live in Milwaukee and you're a fan, you're ready to
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  Speaker 3: go here, and you're going to have that TV on.
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  Speaker 3: So a big congratulations to them. They figured out a
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  Speaker 3: way to get through a gauntlet, and they did it
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  Speaker 3: with a sweep.
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  Speaker 2: Man, how sweep it is, as they say. Yeah, impressive.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get Kratz's thoughts, but we'll do it
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  Speaker 1: with our first segment here. So let's hit it. All
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  Speaker 1: smiles presented by Lorraine Co.
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  Speaker 2: The pouches. Go get them.
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  Speaker 1: They're right here. But also I want to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: I know you have one in right now, and you're Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Brand endorser at the moment since the Milwaukee Brewers also
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  Speaker 1: had a celebratory Eric Kratz bottle to pop. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not joking. Kratz, do you want to explain more of this?
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  Speaker 4: They, as the Brewers advanced to the World Series, they
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  Speaker 4: put a bottle in With everybody's name, they put the
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  Speaker 4: label over top of it, and we'll show it here
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  Speaker 4: in a second. Everybody's name that had ever played for
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  Speaker 4: the Brewers in the postseason. This was sent to me
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  Speaker 4: last night. I'm trying to think what time it was.
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: It was late, so I could look at my text,
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  Speaker 4: but it's just... It says on the bottom, celebrating Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 4: And it says the date that I played in the postseason. Like,
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  Speaker 4: no way... did I do anything for this team to win?
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  Speaker 4: But when you're included in that kind of stuff, you
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  Speaker 4: start looking back and you start thinking about, in 2018,
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  Speaker 4: what little thing did you do positively that affected this team?
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  Speaker 4: Is it an interaction? Who cares if you hit a
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  Speaker 4: homer in a game in July? Nobody cares about that.
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  Speaker 4: What I think the Brewers did really well, and it
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  Speaker 4: culminates to this point where they're in the World Series,
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  Speaker 4: is everybody matters and everybody has a piece in the
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  Speaker 4: next step for them. The players obviously have to play,
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  Speaker 4: but everybody matters and everybody has a piece. And it
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  Speaker 4: was such a cool representation of that to have a
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  Speaker 4: bottle with my name on, to have a bottle with.
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  Speaker 4: Domingo Santana's name on it, a bottle with Lorenzo Cain's
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  Speaker 4: name on it, a bottle with Chase Anderson's name on it.
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  Speaker 4: Like guys that people might not remember. And then the
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  Speaker 4: superstars like Ryan Braun and Carlos Gomez, Robin Young. It's
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  Speaker 4: so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Get you on the fields a little bit, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, oh yeah, they, they remembered me a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: even though they didn't have to, you know what I mean? I'm, I'm,
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  Speaker 3: I'm being serious and funny at the same time. Like
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  Speaker 3: they didn't have to do this at all. And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's a huge gesture getting all those. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's gotta be hundreds of bottles too, that they got
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  Speaker 3: to give out, which is pretty cool. It goes to
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  Speaker 3: show you that this Milwaukee brewer team is a close
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  Speaker 3: knit group. It's a close knit organization and they want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure they give back. Cause I'm sure everything
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  Speaker 3: was different from the coaching staff on, um, that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're just putting in a little remembrance and, it would
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  Speaker 3: be great to cap it off with a World Series.
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, that bottle would be even better sitting somewhere
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  Speaker 3: in your man cave.
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  Speaker 2: I know which it would be.
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  Speaker 3: So good for you, good for the organization. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that's another one you're probably not going to open
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  Speaker 3: up until never.
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  Speaker 4: I hope somebody sprayed it all over somebody's face, down
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  Speaker 4: their back, whatever it was. But it's the little things
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  Speaker 4: that I think get overlooked. And it's not that the
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers didn't do that stuff. We've had Max Muncy on here,
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  Speaker 4: Glass now, Blake's now, like so many different guys on here,
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  Speaker 4: and they talk about that's what they do. And if
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  Speaker 4: your organization's not doing it, if you don't hear about
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  Speaker 4: stuff like this, like to me, you're behind the eight
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  Speaker 4: ball a little bit getting value from little places. Chase
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  Speaker 4: Peterson is like a coach. He's like a bench baseball coach.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know what his actual role is. But
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  Speaker 4: it's like he connects with players. He connects with the coaches.
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  Speaker 4: He connects with the front office, and he tries to
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  Speaker 4: bring it all together from somebody that was just out
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  Speaker 4: on the field and can relate to the players but
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  Speaker 4: also can relate to Murph and the front office and
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  Speaker 4: all that stuff. There's so many people behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 4: and to do this as a gesture of just remembering
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  Speaker 4: and commemorating.
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  Speaker 2: It, I think it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, yeah, Jace Peterson, is a consultant for
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  Speaker 1: performance psychology and player development.
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. And also I want to play to
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  Speaker 1: this point that you said, Kratz, if you're an organization
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  Speaker 1: and you don't appreciate and promote your history, then you're
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  Speaker 1: a fraud. You should absolutely be doing that. Even if
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: there's not a ton of success. Almost every organization has
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  Speaker 1: some sliver of success. I know that there are some
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  Speaker 1: that don't have a World Series title yet, including Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: but Milwaukee talks about 1982, the Brewers organization, all the time.
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  Speaker 1: There are articles out this week that are great about it, right?
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  Speaker 1: You're a player, you enter the org, you know about
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  Speaker 1: 82 pretty quickly. There are some organizations I've heard of
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  Speaker 1: that don't promote their history much and almost want to
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  Speaker 1: wipe it away, and that's garbage. So I appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: way the Brewers do this. It's very cool. And then
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  Speaker 1: let's get into their brand of baseball here. So let's
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: start with the three true outcomes. This was a little
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: bit surprising because you look at some of the teams
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  Speaker 1: still involved and you're like, small ball, contact. Well, the
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: Brewers didn't hit a lot of home runs during the season.
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  Speaker 1: They definitely were able to manufacture runs in a unique way.
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  Speaker 1: But they're hitting dingers right now, Toddfather. And they're three
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  Speaker 1: true outcomes, which about 10 years ago in our game
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  Speaker 1: was a problem because three true outcomes can get boring
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  Speaker 1: after a while. their percentage was the highest by any
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  Speaker 1: team in a best of seven post season series all time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Plate appearances ending in a home run, a walk or
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: a strikeout 47%, almost half of their plate appearances were
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  Speaker 1: a three true outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: That's a, you don't really see that, uh, in a
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  Speaker 3: best of seven series too. That's it's crazy. Um, You know,
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: it starts from the top. It starts with Murph, as
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  Speaker 3: everybody says. The guy's an absolute gem of a human
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: being and a manager. They are old school in the
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: way they do things. You know, you see it as
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  Speaker 3: it begins. People, you see Murph, he doesn't shake anybody's hand,
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  Speaker 3: so you slap him on the chest and he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: that was a good way.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they make stuff up. That's fun. That's fun stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you as a manager can do whatever really you want,
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  Speaker 3: baseball terms, and within your organization– to make it fun or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to be a little pain in the butt
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  Speaker 3: in the best way possible. And these guys really, really
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  Speaker 3: enjoy playing for this team. And, I mean, listen, home runs, walks,
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  Speaker 3: and strikeouts, 47%. Holy cow. And they were down 4-0
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  Speaker 3: yesterday and came back in true fashion where the base hits, doubles. Pretty,
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool way to win that game and to hold
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: them after they scored four to put up another goose egg.
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  Speaker 3: Organization from top to bottom is the real deal. We
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  Speaker 3: could be seeing the World Series champ. They got one
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  Speaker 3: step to go. But if this is the way they're
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  Speaker 3: going with some of the names that a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys never heard of before, I tip my cap to them.
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  Speaker 4: I think sometimes narratives are tired because I think narratives
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  Speaker 4: that broadcasters, narratives that people like us, come into series
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  Speaker 4: with and they're like, well, no, you know, I don't
• 9:25
  Speaker 4: know how many times I said, well, did they hit
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  Speaker 4: enough home runs? Trade deadline. Do they got to get
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  Speaker 4: somebody that hits home runs? This team showed me, and
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  Speaker 4: I think it should show a lot of players in
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  Speaker 4: the game. I don't care about organizations. Organizations are going
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  Speaker 4: to run things the way they want to, but players,
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  Speaker 4: if you have the essentials as far as how you
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: go about your approach, The success is going to be there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if Todd agrees with me on this
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  Speaker 4: or not, but in the playoffs, you get a superpower.
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  Speaker 4: You get extra power. The ball just jumps off your
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  Speaker 4: bat more. I'm not saying you hit more home runs.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying that's why they hit more home runs.
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying you get adrenaline and everything is just heightened
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  Speaker 4: because it's a different level of focus. Throughout the year,
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  Speaker 4: the Brewers hitters made a concerted effort to drive the
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  Speaker 4: ball to right field. Last year, They had less strikeouts
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  Speaker 4: than they did this year. They struck out a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more this year. It was some give and take.
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  Speaker 4: But they're trying to drive that ball to the opposite field.
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  Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, they're clipping some cutters
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  Speaker 4: out in front, some sliders out in front. They catch
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  Speaker 4: a heater after a long 12-pitch at-bat. They started putting
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  Speaker 4: at-bats together. And sometimes narratives get in the way of
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  Speaker 4: the fact that this is a game played by dudes
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  Speaker 4: that Who wants it more in each individual situation? And
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  Speaker 4: I think the Brewers came out on top. The Dodgers
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  Speaker 4: wanted it bad, but the Brewers came out on top
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  Speaker 4: because they put all that stuff together and they had
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  Speaker 4: a true belief as a team and the ball started rolling.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: I want to show a tweet from Kurt Hogue, Brewer
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  Speaker 1: Territory and beat writer. He said, David Hamilton bunted in
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  Speaker 1: his first at-bat today because Pat Murphy told him to.
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  Speaker 1: The reasoning, drop a bunt down and their pitchers won't
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  Speaker 1: respect you the same following at-bats. He would get pitches
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  Speaker 1: to hit. Hamilton followed with an RBI single and a
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  Speaker 1: home run. Todd, do you believe in that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes and no, to a point. Yeah, I mean, listen.
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  Speaker 3: He batted what? He batted what in the order? I'm
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  Speaker 3: just drawing.
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  Speaker 2: Was he last in the order? Am I mistaken? He
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  Speaker 2: was low. He was low.
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  Speaker 4: I'll check it for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He was last in the order.
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  Speaker 3: So, understandably, your big guns are coming up next, and
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: they don't want to get to one of their big guns.
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  Speaker 2: Who was that? Insurio, right? He let off. So, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I was just drawing a blank there.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, if you're the nine batter and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to put one down in the beginning, and he did
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: say it wasn't a great bunt and got thrown out by, what,
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: a step and a half, okay, next to bat, all right,
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: we just, you know, let's just get a couple by
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  Speaker 3: him here because, you know, we want to get this
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: guy out so we can, you know, not get too
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  Speaker 3: cheery of him.
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  Speaker 2: So I do believe in that 100%.
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: You know, pitchers sometimes get in that mode where they're
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: really like, all right, let me just try and hit
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  Speaker 3: my spots with these fastballs. And if you miss it
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: by a morsel, these are professional hitters. I don't care
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  Speaker 3: where you bat in the lineup. They're going to find
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  Speaker 3: a way. And, yes, they did come up big. He's
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: pushing all the right buttons, Scott.
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  Speaker 2: In there. I mean, right now, every single button that's
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  Speaker 2: been pressed has been green. And green is good.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, there hasn't been much downfall. The pitching
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  Speaker 3: has been absolutely phenomenal. The hitting has come up clutch
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  Speaker 3: from guys. I mean, Jake Bowers, MVP to me. This
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: guy has been absolutely insane, you know, coming in. I
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: think batting 211 and then boom, all of a sudden,
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: he's missed a playoff. And to do it in L.A.,
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: they're not afraid and they are bought in. And I
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: hate saying bought in because it feels like somebody's making
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  Speaker 3: you do something that you don't want to do, but
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  Speaker 3: they've come together and have leaned on Murph and said,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is you want, we're going to go through
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  Speaker 3: it because we're sick of being the odd man out
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  Speaker 3: here and not finishing what we started. And it didn't
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  Speaker 3: matter who they played. They were going to win these
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: games and down four or not. And I said it
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: to my boy, I said, I said, it doesn't seem
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  Speaker 3: like 4-9. We were out at a restaurant getting something
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  Speaker 3: to eat. Boom, the 2-RBI double. I said, they just
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  Speaker 3: put themselves back in this game. And it was truly
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  Speaker 3: a baseball game. If you love baseball, it was truly
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  Speaker 3: from top to bottom, a game of baseball that you
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  Speaker 3: could watch and say, man, that was remarkable. And how
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  Speaker 3: they came back and nobody looked down and how they
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  Speaker 3: did it. Here you go, another tip of the cap.
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: I got one last one. I watched the postgame. with
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  Speaker 4: Jake Bowers talking. And he talked about, because I'm big
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  Speaker 4: into mindset, I really feel like it's a razor thin
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  Speaker 4: edge from talent, the worst talent, to the best talent,
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  Speaker 4: or to the top of the middle class talent in
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  Speaker 4: the big leagues. And then there's the superstars. Like I
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  Speaker 4: would never be better than the superstars, but it's that
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  Speaker 4: middle of the road talent. And it's mindset. Jake Bowers
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  Speaker 4: talked about how after the Dodgers beat swept them last year,
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  Speaker 4: swept them. He said it looked like their high-five line
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  Speaker 4: was like they'd won a spring training game on the
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: sixth day of spring training. And some people will be like,
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: I saw a tweet where they were like, oh, some
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: people freak out after a walk-off hit in July, and
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: they high-five at the end of a, you know, winning
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  Speaker 4: the National League championship. And I think what he saw
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  Speaker 4: was a team that was supremely focused on He didn't see, oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: they had such much better players than us. We're definitely
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  Speaker 4: not going to be able to beat them. He saw
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  Speaker 4: there's a focus to win a World Series, not to
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  Speaker 4: make the World Series. And I think that focus helped
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  Speaker 4: this team grind through everything that they went through this season.
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  Speaker 1: One more step, and we'll keep talking about it. We've
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: got plenty of time. They have a week. Until they
• 15:26
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Francoeur, to talk about the ALCS. They're playing unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 6: Congrats to them. I hope that they end up winning
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  Speaker 6: it all. They're almost playing perfect baseball, and that's a
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  Speaker 6: team that's Incredibly hungry, incredibly talented. Their pitching was lights out.
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  Speaker 6: Their offense was almost, you know, suffocating. I don't know
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  Speaker 6: if we might have had one shutdown inning all four games,
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  Speaker 6: and it's a tough, you know, recipe to win like that. But,
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: you know, at the end of the day, we got beat.
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  Speaker 6: They played better than us. We didn't hit. We pitched well,
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  Speaker 6: but we didn't– You know, they just didn't give us
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  Speaker 6: a chance. And, you know, congrats to them.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: There's so many comments flying around. Some people are like, oh,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: they were relying too much on Kike at bats. Like,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: have you seen Kike Hernandez in the World Series over
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the years? Like, pressing the Kike Hernandez button. If they didn't,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: you'd have people being like, why is Kike not up
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: at this point? Like, come on. And then, actually, we
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: have a comment from Jason in the chat who said
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: he heard Dan Patrick call the Dodgers roster contractors. They
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: might all get along, but maybe sometimes trying to piece
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: this together that way. won't always work. I mean, they
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: just won the past two World Series titles, so I
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: think they did a good job. It's really hard to
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: win every single year. I don't know. I think we're
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: overdoing it here. There's no chemistry issues. This isn't on
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts, no matter what he did, unless
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  Speaker 1: he pressed a button and got a new roster to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: beat the Brewers in five minutes, it wasn't happening. Brewers,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: better team this year.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: Period.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: It was a sweep.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Like I said, tip your cap to them guys. They're
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: They're the best team in the National League right now,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: and they are, and they showed why. There's no excuse.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Stop making excuses and making up words that are going
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to make you sound better.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Like, that's just silly.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Again, that's a lazy narrative. You're trying to just completely
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: pick Dave Roberts? Anybody who brings Dave Roberts up, Dave
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Roberts went back to his three MVPs at the top
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: of the lineup. How did that work out? Shohei put
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: that man almost out of the stadium. That was a ridiculous–
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: that move alone shows Dave Roberts gets it. He has
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: the pulse of this team. They didn't have enough to
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: beat the Brewers. It's not Dave Roberts' fault. nobody nobody
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: all the narratives that i hear out there i'm just
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: like geez louise just stop it just irritates me.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah bring up baseball that that's where i think we
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: should be doing bring up the bullpen bring up the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: abs right bringing up like the the chemistry the contractors
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: like it's such a.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Stretch They showed a video of Will Smith missing a
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: high five from Dave Roberts, and I'm like, stop, stop.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Stop it.
• 18:59
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• 19:03
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• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Jeff Francoeur doing a great job calling the ALCS on TBS,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and he brought the sunshine, too, to Cleveland. Frenchie, thanks
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: for doing that. I heard it's great out there.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: You know, guys, it was really nice yesterday at one o'clock.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: And but you know what? What's more Cleveland than rain
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: and 30 mile per hour winds tonight? Like now with
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: the Dodgers series over, I was telling Brian Anderson and
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: Jihadi and all them this morning. I'm like, you got
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: the Guardians tonight. You got Ohio State, Indiana at noon tomorrow.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: Guardians tomorrow night. And then, dude, you got the first
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: place Cleveland Browns at the Dog Pound Sunday. Like, freaking
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: come to Cleveland.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Ohio and Cleveland specifically is thriving right now.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: This series, this is it. You guys are the series now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: We got the NLCS out of the way, and now
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: this is the main event, finally. So... What are we
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: thinking then? And I agree with you. Watching bad weather
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: from home is awesome. So I'm excited about that. I mean,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you just sit on your couch, have a beer, some popcorn,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: whatever it is. What are we thinking here heading into
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: this next one, especially in terms of the pitching matchup, right?
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: We're going to get some bullpen concoction from one of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the best bullpens in baseball.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so. And I think this is one
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: of those games for the Guardians. The longer they keep
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: this close, then, you know, the advantage goes to them
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: because they're going to start Uh, you know, Slade Ciccone,
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: you know, how many innings he goes, we don't know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: but at the end of the day, there's two or
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: three guys are going to try to get them to
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: the fifth or sixth, a lot like what we saw
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: at the Brewers last night. And if you're still in
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: the game and, uh, you're right there, then you're going
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: to get the good, the good players. I say this.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: That matchup of Cade Smith and Yandy Diaz in the
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: bottom or in the top of the eighth yesterday was awesome, man.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: I mean, Yandy's had some great at-bats. Cade Smith's one
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: of the best in the game. It was kind of
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: like in football. They call it big on big. It
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: was awesome.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Real quick, do you mind, before I ask this question,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: flipping your camera so we can get a little wider
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: view if possible?
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I can.
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: You want to go sideways? There we go.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, there we go. Delicious.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, let's go. Let's go there. Look at Cleveland boys.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I know where you are right there. I've had that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Hey question. So you brought up the weather a little
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: bit in the beginning. I want to ask about yesterday.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: It looked like some of the hitters are having a
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: lot of trouble hitting. I mean, I bring up Caminero
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: striking out four times. I, I feel like he's been
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: swinging pretty good. I feel like that was unlike him yesterday.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: A lot of foul balls. Talk to me about the
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: pop flies. That one o'clock game was a little bit tricky.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: You guys talked about it a lot. Was it really
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: that bad?
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: It was, there were no clouds in the sky at all.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: And y'all know this, that is a tough, that sun
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: is right behind a home plate there. So it's just,
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: it was really bright yesterday. And then you got Gavin
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: Williams out there chunking a hundred up in the zone.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's the one thing, right? You always try
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: to say like, you know, are guys in a slump?
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: Are guys, you know, just facing better pitching? I think
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: we'll always say it. The guys are going to face
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: better pitching in the postseason, but I will tell you
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: this for Tampa and Kevin Cash, you know, I actually
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: saw him at dinner last night and he was very
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: out of me. He's like, we got a hit, man.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: I mean, you look at a junior two for 11
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: with seven case, a Rhonda who was really good against
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: the Yankees guys in those three games over 10. So
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: it's like, they have got to generate some offense. The
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: pitching for the Rays is held up there into the bargain.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: I mean, they really have. They've given themselves plenty of opportunities,
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: but the Rays are going to have to hit. And tonight,
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: you figure, might be that type of game for them
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: because they're not facing Gavin Williams. You know, they have
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: a chance that they get the lead to stay away
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: from Zabrowski and Cade Smith.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: The Rays tonight, and then you look.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: At it, right?
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: If they get tonight, they have Drew Rasmussen going tomorrow.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: I mean, this series could go a lot of different
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: ways right now. All right.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I know you didn't watch the Rays all year, but
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: we had Brian Anderson, the Teemu Brian Anderson, not your
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Brian Anderson. And this is a team that doesn't strike out,
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: and you just talked about it. I get it. You're
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: facing good pitching. Do you see them– pushing or trying
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: different things that maybe, ah, this wasn't exactly the team
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: that was here? Or is it truly just, yes, it's
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: good pitching and sorry you're striking out? Because this team
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: was the best. They had the lowest K rate in
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: the entire league.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: I think you're seeing some guys chase, and you want
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: to talk about Yandy Diaz, right? His experience in the postseason,
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: he's played many a times. He's not chasing necessarily. He's
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: putting better at bats, fouling balls off. I just think, too,
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: when they played the Yankees, everything went right. They did
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: not hit great. I think in that series versus the Yankees,
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: they might have hit 200. I think they were two
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: for 20 with runners in scoring position. Their pitching was
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: just so elite that it kind of masked all that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: Then they take five more days off, and you come
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: in facing a red-hot Guardians team who, again, their bullpen
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: is really kind of like what we saw with the Brewers.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: is so good with so many different big arms in
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: that bullpen. I mean, we're not even talking about Espino
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: coming into this series, and all he's done is pitch
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: two innings and strike out five out of six guys.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's been incredible to watch his bullpen, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: I think we can all agree. I think the Guardians
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: underachieved all year. I thought the Tigers had the most
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: talent to win that division, but then when they got behind,
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: we kept waiting for Cleveland to come, and they didn't, right?
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: They didn't until that last month, but now... I mean,
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: you look at some of the guys they've added and,
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: you know, Lowe's some big hits. DeLauder and Wright is
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: a beast, man. I mean, what a beautiful swing he has.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Kwon decided not to try to hit home runs again, right?
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: And try to get on base and get base hits.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: And that's what he's doing. So, right now, man, you
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: got to tip your hat. The Guardians are playing well.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about the Guardians, too, a little
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: bit more. Like, it just.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: For you, I want to get your opinion on this.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Every time somebody gets on, does it seem like they're
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: going to try and steal a base? Has this just
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: been their motto going on? I mean, Hicks back there
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: is pretty darn good, but I seem like every time
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: somebody gets on, you know, the right person, of course,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: it just seems like it doesn't matter how many balls
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: or strikes or how many outs they're going to try
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: and get that extra base. Has that been their kind
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: of MO going into this?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: I think it's almost, yeah, Todd, like they're playing with
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: health money, right? They're just running. I mean, Ramirez gets
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: thrown out. First pitch that he goes yesterday comes up
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: in the third inning. First pitch, gone again. Like, I
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: don't care. You know, throw me out again. And so
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: I think they're taking some chances, which they feel like
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: against the Rays they have to a little bit. But
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: tip your hat, man. They're doing it. If they don't
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: get it done, you know, they're going back out. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: then for Steven Vogt, I give him a lot of credit.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: We talk this time of year sometimes about playing the
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: hot player. against playing the guy that's been there a
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: long time or put up the numbers. I mean, Martinez
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: has actually led the Guardians in home runs this year.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: And we all know he was, what, 0 for 15
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: with 7Ks going into game five against the White Sox.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: So what does he do? Puts in Petey Alpin. What
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: does that guy do? Hits two doubles. And now he
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: comes here yesterday and in a massive moment. I mean, when,
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: you know, the fans, we got changed to one o'clock.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: They were all there. They were getting in the game.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: But when he hit that home run, That place exploded
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: inside that stadium. So I give Stephen Bowe, too, a
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: lot of credit for, you know what, man? I know
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: he's had a great year. It's not working right now.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: I'm going to play the hot dude.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: This weather that you were talking about, breezy, windy, drizzle.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: You talked about the shiny sun the other day and
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: how it's like, oh, it's tough to see. Who does
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: this weather– Who does it benefit? Is it benefit Guardians?
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Because it's like, hey, you know what? We're used to
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: this in April. We've played in this. Or does it
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: benefit the Rays because Nick Martinez is going to throw
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: that change up and the Guardians are the third worst
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: in the league against the changes?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I know this.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: I think it benefits whoever the hell grew up in
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: the Northeast or Midwest and has done this before. I'll
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: tell you that right now because I know this. Me
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: being from Atlanta, dude, I want 70. I want sunshine.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: I want to be out there. But it will be interesting.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: And you look at Nick Martinez, right? He went to Fordham.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: He's been around a long time, so he's pitched in
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: these conditions a lot of the time, whether it's in April,
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: whether it's whatever. And, you know, it's not going to be...
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Tomorrow night's the cold night. I think tomorrow night the
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: high is like 49. Tonight's just going to be really,
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: really windy. And so I think it'll be interesting. The
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: outfielders are going to have to be backing each other up.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: These are both really good outfield teams. So I think...
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: You know, we'll see. I think the big question is, guys,
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: is the wind blowing in? Is it blowing out?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Is it blowing to left?
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Is it blowing to right? That will be a big
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: story because if the wind's blowing in, man, this might
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: be a one-nothing game tonight because it's supposed to be
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: 25 to 30-mile-per-hour gusts.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: I know this.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: I'm glad I'm calling the game in the booth and
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: Lauren Jihadi is going to sit there with her hair
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: and hat flapping all over the place during the game.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: That's incredible. Weather does play some tricks. I want to
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: talk about Jose Ramirez a little bit. This guy, I
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: just feel like he's starting to become the hero of
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: everybody here in baseball and how good he's been.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: He made the big error. But guess what?
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Nobody cares about that anymore. It was just one game.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: And I feel like that's what makes guys truly remarkable,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: how you come back. I just feel like he's going
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: to do something every time he gets up, especially when
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: he hits left-handed. Can you talk about his presence and
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: what he means to this, not only organization, but city
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: and baseball? Yeah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: Well, I think it's cool because I think we can
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: all agree a lot of times in our career, right?
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: It was like, who's going to pay me the most money?
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: I've put up this great year and they got to
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: pay me. And I look at Hosey and he went
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: on with those guys after game one down in the
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: studio and he told Pedro and Jimmy and Curtis and Lefkoe, like,
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: I love this city. and they love me. And it's
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: 14 years he's been here now. He's been to the
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: postseason eight times. And it's him, man. He brings that
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: energy for this place. That is incredible. And I think
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: anybody that's played against him, played long enough, respects the
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: heck out of what he does. Just go look at
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: his career numbers and how consistent he was. And he was, dude,
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: he was very adamant. I had a bad year this year, statistically,
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: the worst of my career. He had injury zone. He's like,
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: I'm feeling good. These off days, those five days they
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: got by getting the second seat, I think for him
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: to rest his hammock bone were a huge deal. But, man,
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: how can you not love when you see this dude
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: come out there? And, I mean, that ovation he got yesterday,
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: because I think we can all agree, if you put
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: that dude on the open market, the amount of money
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: he could make with how healthy he is and how
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: he plays the game, what, 36, 37 bags this year? Like,
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: the way he does all that stuff, but, man, he's
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: so easy to root for.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: All right, the guy's behind him, because Jose Ramirez can never–
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Ever beat me, so I don't understand what these teams
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: are doing. But Chase De Lauder went three for four
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: the other day. I'm not even going to go with
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Chase De Lauder because you already said it. He's putting
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: together good at-bats. It's Joe Adele. Joe Adele, for me,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: I think he started. You didn't do the series, but
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I think he struck out seven times in his first
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: ten at-bats.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: Struck out six times in his first seven ABs against
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: the White Sox.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Okay, thank you. And now the at-bats that he's having,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: even to the point where last year is where he's
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: not slapping, but he's trying to hit balls to the
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: opposite field. Do you see this as something that you're like, whoa,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: this is a talented player that's okay making adjustments that
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: maybe guys don't make during the regular season?
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, excuse me. Absolutely. I completely agree. And think about it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: This dude's out in Anaheim. He had to feel like
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: when he came here, it's like, wow, I got a
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: chance to play in the postseason. I got a chance to...
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: do all these things that I never was able to
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: do out in Anaheim. But I do. I think you
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: all know this. When you get to the postseason, it's like,
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: how can I help this team win? How can I
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: be successful? You see guys cut down a lot of
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: times on swing and miss, right? Shoot one the other way.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: And just them giving length and protection, that's the biggest thing.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: We did the Guardians two years ago against the Yankees
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: in that ALCS. And there just was not the length
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: in this lineup that you see for the Guardians. And
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: there is now. You get to six. You get to seven. Bailey,
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: Patrick Bailey having a heck of a postseason. We didn't
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: have that two years ago covering the Guardians. It was
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: like you go through Kwon, Ramirez, and it was kind
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: of like, all right, you have an inning, inning and
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: a half where you probably had some outs in that lineup.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: it's not happening anymore. And I, like I said, I
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: being able to have a chase Adele and low boom,
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: it gives them way more chances to get the big hit.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I want to ask you a little bit about Cleveland
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: or yeah, Cleveland, excuse me. It just seems like you
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: brought it up a little bit. It seems like first
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: half of the year, they're just going about their business.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: And then they kind of like kick it up in
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: the second half. I, I'm just curious, how do they
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: keep that going? I mean, why are they so much
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: better doing that? And then in the playoffs, all of
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: a sudden, do you think it's calculated at all? It
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: just seems like this team... Oh, yeah, no, they're going
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: through the motions again. But again, they're on top. They're
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: two games out, three games out. Talk to me about why, though.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: It took them a while to get going. I will
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: tell you this. Steven Vogt and Chris Antenetti, you know,
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: Chris Antenetti did an unbelievable job, guys. We see guys
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: out at the deadline, right? And there's teams that can
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: go get the best arm, can go, well, Cleveland's not
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: like that. We know that. They don't have an unlimited payroll.
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: And so what did they do? They went and got Adele.
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: They needed a right-handed power bat. They got him. They
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: needed a first baseman. They went and got Lowe. They
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: needed a catcher. They went and got Bailey. They needed
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: one more starting pitcher. They went and got Griffin from Washington.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: So give credit. They didn't make the big sexy headlines
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: in getting the top guys. But, man, I think they
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: got the right guys to fit this team. And that's
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: what Stephen Bowe told us before game one. He's like,
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: the last time we played the Rays was before the
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: deadline at the end of July. He's like, we are
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: a completely different team. We believe we're a completely different team.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: And if you go back to September 1st, I mean,
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: this team is playing, I think, almost a 70% win clip. So,
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: you know what? They got hot at the right time. And,
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: you know, right now they're doing the things that are
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: going to help them win ballgames.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: On the adverse side. On the adverse side. Did the
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Rays do enough at the deadline? Did they add enough
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: of their pieces that, not saying that they needed to,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: 96 or 97 wins this year? That's incredible. But did
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: they do enough? And is that showing up here in
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: how the team is playing?
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: You know, I do think they did enough. I think
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: they have a very good team. I think the biggest
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: thing that you talked about was the swing and miss.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: This was a team that did not do it much
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: during the year. And all of a sudden they got
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: to this now. It's a little bit, we can say it,
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: but like you remember, I did that four game sweep
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: of the Dodgers with the Brewers last year. And the
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: Brewers were talking about contact and putting the ball in play.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: And those pitchers for the Dodgers just mowed them down.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: There was a lot of swing and miss in that
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: four-game series. And this year, we didn't see that. And
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: so I think for Tampa, it's just find a way
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: to put the ball in play. They have great hitters.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: You know, they really do. They have a fast lineup.
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: Chandler Simpson, DeLuca, those guys have been great. But I
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: think it's that middle part when you talk about it
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: with Aranda, Caminero, and Victor Mesa Jr. Those three have
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: got to find a way. Just get base hits. If
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: the big ball comes, great. And then we talk about
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: the weather these next two games. Cold, windy. The chance
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: of home runs in those games, guys, you know as
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: well as I do, especially if the wind's blowing in,
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: that's not going to be a recipe for success. So
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: for me, it's those guys have to be able to
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: get some hits because that's a 2-3-4 in the lineup.
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: If you don't hit, you're not going to win.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: All right, you talk about the hitting, but last one
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: here from me, Kevin Cash. Kevin Cash has left some
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: guys in to give up damage. Is this the same
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Kevin Cash that we know? Or is this the Kevin Cash?
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Is he going to go back to the Kevin Cash
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: that a lot of Rays fans loathe over because Blake
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Snell still got taken out in 2020?
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: You know, it's funny because I've been around Cash. We
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: did that series in 2020 in the bubble. And he's
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: definitely evolved. Look at him, dude. Game one, he left.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: People say he left Rasmussen in too long. I think
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: that's bull crap. Rasmussen's unbelievable. I watched him throw eight
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: innings against the Yankees and absolutely car. He threw a
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: bad pitch. It was a spinning cutter to Patrick Bailey
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: that he tied the ball game up. If that's a heater,
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: if that's something else, we might be talking about something different.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: He left Freddie Peralta in and he delivered in game two.
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: He went the full six innings. Yesterday, look, it was
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: the fifth inning, and it just happened quick for Griffin Jacks.
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: And that's probably the one guy he might be saying,
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: you know what, I got to keep an eye on
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: a little bit sooner if something goes. I think the
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: good news for him, though, is their bullpen came in
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: yesterday with Wells and Mattson. They did a phenomenal job.
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: So you can say a lot of different things with that,
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: but I do think Cash has realized for us to
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: win a seven-game series, I do have to get some length.
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: out of some of my starters. And that'll be a
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: storyline tonight with the Guardians, guys. If they have to
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: go to the pen in the second, third inning and
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: keep running that out, it's going to be tough for
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: them to win. Whereas, look, the other side, Martinez, you
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: got to figure he's going to give us five, six,
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: and go to a natural bullpen. So I know this,
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: between Kate Smith and Brian Baker right now, you do
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: not want to be down going in the ninth inning
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: because those guys are about as locked down as there
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: are when it comes to closers in baseball right now.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: I love that you said that about Cashy because when
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: I watch him, it looks like he's watching the game
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: now and not looking at his paper. And I think
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: the new Cash is the good Cash and the real Cash.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: I love it. Last one. Everybody needs to make adjustments.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Are you shaving before the game or are we kind
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: of going off?
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: I am, dude. I don't have a 4 o'clock pickup,
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: so I'm going to do a little work and then
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: I'll get a fresh shave. even though it's going to
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: be cold. I'll be looking good. The wife's got all
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: my suits picked out. She don't let me dress myself.
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: I will tell you this. To finish off, though, I
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: do love what you're saying with Cashy because I knew
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: when Rasmussen gave up that home run, it's going to
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: be like, he should have gone to him. He should
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: have pulled him.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: I'm like, dude.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: If you're sitting in that dugout and I got Drew
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Rasmussen out there, I'll lose with that dude before I
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: lose with three-fourths of the bullpen. I don't care how
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: good they are. And you know what I like about Cash?
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: As he said the next day, I don't regret anything.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: And I told him in the office, no, you did
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: the right move. He threw a bad pitch.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't wear those shoes, though. Those shoes do not match.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: The ones you're wearing right now, do not wear those.
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: Shoes?
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I can see your shoes. They do not match your shoes.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: He's messing with you, Frenchy. He's messing with you. He
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: can't see your shoes.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: Exactly.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Don't take that from him. Kratz is on his high
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: because did you see they had a bottle that had
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Kratz's name on it in Milwaukee when they were popping bottles?
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: I'm just hoping Brian Anderson's alive after last night, you know,
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: to be honest with you with this, but I did
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: love yesterday. If you watched our game, Brian Anderson gave
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: a shout out to the Brewers. Cause I know y'all just,
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: I was listening to y'all on some of this, the
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: Dodgers lost to a better team this year. They did.
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: It is what it is, man. The Brewers are freaking good,
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: and there's no problem in the Dodgers clubhouse. We all
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: know those guys. It's a great clubhouse. Every time I
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: go in there, give credit. The freaking Brewers were on fire,
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: and they played a heck of a series.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Better team.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: No decision.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: It wasn't one decision.
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: They swept them.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Better team, period. There's nothing to dissect. That one decision,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: that one IKF lead like last year. Like, we don't
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: have that. They were just better. I'm with you, dude.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I like BA. He's like, yeah, I'm paying
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a little attention to that series, too.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: I'm like, yeah.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: That was a good line.
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, trust me.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: Went to dinner the other night. The big screen TV
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: set up at the restaurant here. And we were watching
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: it all.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: He deserves it. Well, give him a hug for us.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: And we're excited to check out the next and really
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the headliner now, the next few games here. on TBS. Frenchy,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: thanks for the time.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: Ohio, baby. The state of Ohio. This is their moment.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: It's Ohio weekend and you're there for it on the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: ground floor.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Frenchy.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Talk soon, man.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: Y'all are the best, man.
• 40:26
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• 40:27
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Hey, we talked about the Phillies yesterday with Jim Salisbury.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: One little note from Jeff Kerr. Maybe Kratz can tell
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: me more about who that is. He said Kevin Long
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: was massive in prospects, improving their hitting from high to AAA,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: named guys like Aiden Miller. but the Phillies had to
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: make changes. His approach was too inconsistent at major league level.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: I think it's the exact opposite. I'm sorry, Kerr. I
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: think you got the wrong info because I talked to
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: people in the minor leagues, and I think it was
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: the exact opposite. I'm not saying that Kevin Long was
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: the reason that the big league roster was inconsistent, but
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: I think there was not enough continuity there. from the
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: big leagues to the minor leagues. It doesn't mean like, oh,
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: if there was, then Trey Turner would have hit better. No,
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: obviously big league hitters are big league hitters. But to
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: say that, oh, this organization is going to be behind
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: because the big league hitting coach is gone and now
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: the minor leaguers are going to have less. No, like
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: that's not, I disagree. And I think there is some
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: low hanging fruit there for the Phillies because Boehm is
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: most likely gone. even though Dave Dombrowski said it's going
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: to be tough to replace his 90 runs that he
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: drove in. Trey Turner may be switching positions. You might
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: need a whole new left side of the infield if
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: they keep Stott at second base. There's some spots that
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: need to be filled, and I think that the fact
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: that that offense needs to have an infusion of youthful
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: vigor in the box that okay, the veterans can feed
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: off of and just that youthful optimism that you get.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: And that only comes from the minor leagues. And I
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: think there was a little bit of a, I know
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: there was a little bit of a disconnect.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: And Justin Crawford's going to have to get better too.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I know he was just a rookie last year, but
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: they gave him 465 plate appearances. He didn't hit much.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: And that's going from, that is your classic case though, Kratz.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: That is someone you see all the way through and say, okay,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: he's going from minors and then up to the show
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: with the development look like versus signing a Trey Turner.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: He's already got his, his shtick down.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: And it's learning. He learned in the big leagues. Todd
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: had to learn in the big leagues because he had
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: a lot of success in the minor leagues. And it's
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: a whole development process from top to bottom.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: And then there was one else.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: So you have tonight, today's Friday. If you're listening to
• 43:58
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• 44:02
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• 44:06
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• 44:11
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• 44:41
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• 44:45
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• 44:47
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• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is the weekend of Ohio, I think,
• 44:52
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  Speaker 1: teams do their end-of-season pressures as they get knocked out.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: We had AJ Preller just deliver his about 24 hours ago,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: and there wasn't anything standout to me. Kratz, I just
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: saw him talk about some of the free agents and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: how they want him back. So just your classic, yeah,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Morjon would be nice. I remember Tatis was telling him
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, you better keep this man. Michael King,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Ty France, who had a great year. And Nick Pavetta, too,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I think can opt out.
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: He can.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah. Cool. Got it.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Do they even try what's going on with this lockout, man?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. I don't know what's going to happen.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course you try.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: You got November.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: You do it in November. Do your biz in November
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: and then you wake back up in, I don't know,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: April when they let you do things again.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: The other year, I forget who it was said it like,
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: we haven't had our budget conversations yet. That's a lie.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Everybody's had the conversations or you ain't spending any money,
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: but Pavetta? To me, Michael King's. Michael King's the guy.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: He's got the player option. He came in on three years, 75.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: What he did, the fact that he was out there,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: made 32 starts this year with a 3-2 ERA. I
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: think some of these guys are pricing themselves out of
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: San Diego unless San Diego is able to shift some
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: of that. Morihone, I don't see how Morihone's back. I
• 48:07
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• 48:11
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• 48:13
  Speaker 4: to go closer money for more at home. And I
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: don't know that the Padres maybe with new ownership, ownership,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: but man, you can't lose that piece of that or
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: Michael King.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I am the guy who argued with an
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: umpire at first base and allowed two runs to score
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  Speaker 5: during a big league game.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. There's always drawbacks.
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: There's always stumbles along the way. So, you know, I
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: think early on what I learned was, you know, after
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: that conversation, I started to pay attention a little bit
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: to how I reacted to every umpire's call. You know,
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: whereas previously, if I thought a pitch was close and
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: I didn't get the call, I'd become a little unnerved
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: out there. Becoming more accepting of your fate a little bit,
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: of staying in the present and not worrying about other
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: people's jobs around you. Just stay on your job. Stay
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: in the moment where your feet are, to use an
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: old expression. That's the quest for me, was learning how
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  Speaker 5: to do that. As I said, you're going to fall
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: off the cliff here and there. You're going to have meltdowns,
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: but when you do, you get it back quicker now
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: because you're more self-aware.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: That's David Cohen on Dirt from the Dugout, Carl Ravitch's show,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: focusing on some youth sports topics, some younger player topics,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: but then also just getting into the nitty-gritty of the guest.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: And there's been some really good ones, and you've come
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: across them quite a bit, I'm sure, Todd Father.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Way too many it's travel baseball has been absolutely not
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: what i expected when i first came in and it's
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: uh it gets easier when they get to the big
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: field i think when on the smaller field it is
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: an absolute shit show for a better lack of better
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: words it's insanity and you didn't have it right well
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: you didn't have i'm talking about now no you played two.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Games on sundays that was it and now Oh, my
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: God almighty. It's nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody thinks their kid's going to be, you know, the
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: next big leader because they throw a certain amount of
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: miles per hour off the mound. And it's just crazy, bro. Oh,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: my kid hit 100 home runs. My kid hit 100
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: home runs in a year. Well, look at the bat
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: you're using for one. Everybody can hit a home run
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: with the bats they're using. Wait till you get to
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: the big field where the playing field evens out a
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: little bit. And I'm sitting back like, yeah, I don't
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: know what to tell you, man.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Good luck, you know?
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: It's Todd's fault, though, Kratz, because decades back, you're watching
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: a Little League World Series legend, and you're like, wait,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: that dude made it to the big leagues, so this
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: is how it works. Play well as a kid, and
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: you'll make it.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: There's a lot that had to happen there, and the
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: bats were totally different. They were skinny, and it's just, Kratzy,
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  Speaker 3: you know. You see, the bigger field, it's a game changer.
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  Speaker 2: It separates everybody.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: You have to be able to hit your cutoff. You
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: have to do, like, little things.
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  Speaker 2: Little things, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Just to make a regular play.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa.
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  Speaker 4: New slab hands.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: You're slap with some playoff action to it. Some of
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: the playoff.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: Deucer lady thrown in the gnats there at the end.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: A little bit of a different sound too. We like it.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: We like it. Hey, with the last couple of minutes
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: that we have, um, actually the two rays related things.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: One is MLB trade rumors. And I don't remember somebody,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I guess, put it out who, um, we'll give them
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: credit maybe on Monday. Uh, Mariners interested in Rocco Baldelli.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Remember Rocco? Former race player, by the way. But the
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Mariners are talking to everyone, so I'll take it with
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: a grain of salt until I learn more there. And
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: then I was looking at this tweet yesterday from David Adler,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: who works for the StatCast team with MLB, and he
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: was pointing to Yandy Diaz and how he just refuses
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: to challenge anything. Have you guys seen this? Yandy Diaz
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: hasn't challenged a pitch the entire season.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's been a lot of potential chances for
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: him to do it. I think the number I'm seeing
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: here is 55 times that he's had a missed call
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: that he could have challenged. So does he know that
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: there's a challenge system this year? Did anyone tell him
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: about it?
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: No, he does. He doesn't.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: I think he said something along the lines is he
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: doesn't want to embarrass the umpire and embarrass himself, something
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: along those lines. And he's just, he's okay with it.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: And that's just what you got to deal with. But
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: I got a feeling there's going to be one that
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: he's going to have to do, especially when, when or
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: go home.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: You can't worry about umpires feelings on a missed call
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  Speaker 1: one time.
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  Speaker 6: Yandy.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Come on. It could cost you a game.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: He can't lift his arm. You see how big his
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: arm is. He can't get it to his hat. So
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: he's going to be like, he's gonna be like, I want,
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: this is my challenge call. I can't.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, dude, he get there.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Got to bring the neck down to the biceps. Well,
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