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Speaker 1: What is your problem? I got a lot of problems.

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Speaker 1: When you'll Houston, we have a problem with what's your problem?

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Speaker 1: I've gotten ninety nine problems on ninety three, he's double YBC.

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Speaker 2: Time for a little group therapy and what's your problem? Jim?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is weird. Look, we are intellectually honest on

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Speaker 1: this show. And unfortunately, my problem today is with myself.

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Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, I had a lot of problems with you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got problem. Two weeks ago on the show, I

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Speaker 1: which is kind of this electronic replay for balls and strikes,

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Speaker 1: and I was totally against it. I said, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: slow the game down. That's what I was worried about.

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Speaker 1: More than anything. They just put the pitch clock in

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Speaker 1: a few years ago. It's been great for baseball. I

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Speaker 1: and it turns out ABS is one of the great

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Speaker 2: It's totally changing major League Baseball. So what you're saying

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Speaker 2: is that your problem is with you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh no, I'm I'm the problem today. I'm the problem.

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Speaker 1: Happy to admit that because we're honest on this show,

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Speaker 1: I was totally wrong about MLB and the ABS system.

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Speaker 1: Tony roll back that hot take.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So MLB they introduced the Automated Ball Strike Challenge

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Speaker 2: System and it lets batters and pitchers and catchers challenge

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Speaker 1: It does add.

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Speaker 2: A new strategic layer, right because now you will actually

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Speaker 2: the teams can decide when and how to use the challenges.

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Speaker 1: It's part of the strategy.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: It has turned into a game within the game because

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Speaker 1: These umpires get publicly shamed in front of forty thousand

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Speaker 2: There was a I can take bets on when they're

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Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. I didn't even think of.

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Speaker 2: The game within the game within the game.

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Speaker 1: Betting on the ABS system. Man, I was so wrong

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Speaker 1: about this. No, it really is fun. There was an

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Speaker 1: As long as long as you're right, you can just

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Speaker 2: Any of these umpires are going to be put on

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Speaker 2: that the uh, you know, the ABS is saying you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And again, the big part of this is they

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Speaker 2: Well, you're not the only one who agrees this is

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Speaker 3: Him, which has completely changed baseball in five days. It's

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Speaker 3: The guy who does the challenge, but he missed it,

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Speaker 1: I was wrong. I what's your problem? Me? I have

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Speaker 2: I feel like you need to go take a shower

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Speaker 1: So it's I don't know what a tablespoon of baking

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Speaker 2: Well, just because you're on vacation doesn't mean that your

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Speaker 2: You're at the phase in your life where you wake

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Speaker 2: N that I've eaten an entire sleeve of Girl Scout

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Speaker 1: Oh that's happened. Oh the the coconut caramel samoas, Oh

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Speaker 1: I could slam. You put a box of Samoa girls.

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Speaker 2: The fitness journey that you're on is how far can

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Speaker 1: Pizza in my mouth. That's my fitness journey.

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