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Speaker 3: Opening day show every year since that establishment opened. It

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Speaker 3: There's three, like ten pole shows we do every year

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Speaker 3: We just had last week, the March Madness Show the

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Speaker 3: Opening Day for a lot of people, stop being awesome

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Speaker 3: I know it sounds like I'm picking on Key Brian Hayes,

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Speaker 3: ESPN is reporting that Tiger Woods has been involved in

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 7: I am doing good? Look, it's one game of you know,

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Speaker 7: six months of baseball. I know that you got.

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Speaker 8: Your passion with that defense yesterday, But I'll tell you

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Speaker 8: what my passion is. The beast Haall's baseball and everybody

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Speaker 8: should know how to when they get up there in

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Speaker 8: the batter pack. They all should know their jobs. And yesterday,

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Speaker 8: I know Suarez is a big hit guy, but on

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Speaker 8: you know, basis juice with one out and they're playing

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Speaker 8: you know, double uh double play depth, why can't they

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Speaker 8: lay one down?

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Speaker 2: You want to uhanu Suarez to lay down a bunt there?

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, let's say a great hitter hit three

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Speaker 7: out of ten times you want to pop up or

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Speaker 7: a home run, he ends up striking out. You know,

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Speaker 7: I don't know the analytics. You know, I don't think

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Speaker 7: you have to know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think you have to know the analytics.

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Speaker 3: A Johano Suarez was hit forty nine home runs last season.

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Speaker 7: And truck out and we left for three guys on.

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Speaker 7: I'm just saying.

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Speaker 2: All right, well let me I'll put it. I'll put

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Speaker 2: it to you this way, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Jannio Suarez last year hit forty nine home runs and

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Speaker 3: had zero sacrifice buns. I don't know, man, a dude

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Speaker 3: who had forty nine home runs last year and had

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Speaker 3: zero sacrifice buns. I'm more comfortable with him taking his

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Speaker 3: taking his hacks.

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Speaker 7: And I get it first game. You know they'd all

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Speaker 7: get behind him. I'm just saying, baseball players and baseball players,

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Speaker 7: if you would have done it, no one would have,

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Speaker 7: you know, ever expected it. And odds are McClain and

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Speaker 7: his speed. On third, we got a run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess a couple of things.

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Speaker 2: I guess I guess a couple of things.

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Speaker 7: Here.

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Speaker 3: I'm playing for a beginning. I've got the bases loaded

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Speaker 3: with one out. I've got a dude who again hit

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Speaker 3: forty nine home runs on the team, uh, didn't have

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Speaker 3: a sacrifice bunt at all last year.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm trying to.

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Speaker 3: See if, at the very least he can lift one

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Speaker 3: of the outfield for a sacrifice fly. I like that

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Speaker 3: more than I liked the idea of in that situation

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Speaker 3: with that hitter laying down a bun I think if

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Speaker 3: you were to ask Alex Korra, the manager of the

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Speaker 3: Red Sox, what would you prefer a Juhanio Suarez do?

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Speaker 3: He would say, yeah, man, lay down a bunch, go ahead.

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Speaker 3: So why would I do what I think the other

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Speaker 3: manager wants me to do?

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Speaker 7: I get I get major League baseball. I know that

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Speaker 7: bunting is not sexy, and I know small ball is not sexy.

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Speaker 7: It does you know, it doesn't fill the seats, but

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Speaker 7: so you know, and it's not like they're playing that

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Speaker 7: game for a playoff game and I and look, I

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Speaker 7: get it, but it would never ever ever have been

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Speaker 7: expected and it didn't happen. And get too strikeout lady inning,

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Speaker 7: And you.

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Speaker 2: Know what, why do you want? Why do you want

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Speaker 2: someone to do something that they're not good at?

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Speaker 7: How do you know he's not good at it?

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Speaker 2: He hasn't laid down a sacrifice bun in ten.

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Speaker 7: Years doesn't mean he's not good at it.

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Speaker 2: If he was, if.

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Speaker 3: He was, if he was good at it, do you

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Speaker 3: think over the course of the last decade he would

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Speaker 3: have laid down at least one bun.

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Speaker 7: I don't know. You know, no one teaches bunching anymore.

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Speaker 3: I mean, all right, so okay, so no one teaches

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Speaker 3: it anymore, so then he's probably not good at it.

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Speaker 3: So in that situation, well one run game, in fact,

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Speaker 3: the game was scoreless at that point. You you want

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Speaker 3: him to do something that isn't taught, so he's not

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Speaker 3: good at it? Like what what is you don't ask

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Speaker 3: people to do? You don't ask a slow runner to

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Speaker 3: steal bases. Why would you ask a guy who's good

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Speaker 3: at hitting home he's good at hitting home runs, he's

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Speaker 3: bad at laying down sacrifice buns, and you want him

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Speaker 3: to lay it down of sacrifice bunt.

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Speaker 7: He's fan at it just because he hasn't done it.

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Speaker 7: Everybody's learned how to bunch since the time they're in novel.

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Speaker 3: If if somebody, well you just said nobody, nobody teaches

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Speaker 3: it anymore. So if somebody has zero stolen bases, they

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Speaker 3: should suddenly start stealing bags. If somebody has zero stolen bases,

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Speaker 3: wouldn't suggest they're not good as to only basis it's.

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Speaker 7: Stealing bases and hitting or two different things. One is

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Speaker 7: speak one is getting the bat on the ball. It's

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Speaker 7: it's the Morges again.

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Speaker 3: If he was good at laying down sacrifice bunts, do

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Speaker 3: you think he would have at least one over the

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Speaker 3: last decade? His last sacrifice bunt literally literally was in

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Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. I'm sorry, his last sacrifice bunt literally was

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Speaker 3: in twenty fifteen. If he was good at it, do

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Speaker 3: you think he would have at least one sacrifice bunt

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Speaker 3: on his ledger over the last decade in today's world?

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Speaker 7: No, no way he would. You know, it's not sexy

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Speaker 7: enough for a power hitter.

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Speaker 3: To do that, right, So you just you just you

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Speaker 3: just made my point. You just you just answered the question.

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Speaker 3: You just made my point. He's not good at laying

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Speaker 3: down buns. So why in that situation would I ask

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Speaker 3: a guy he's not good at bunting to lay down

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Speaker 3: a bun?

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Speaker 7: Oh, he just never does it.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think he never does it?

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Speaker 7: Because he's paid to swing the bat.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so he's paid to swing the bat. The bases

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Speaker 3: are loaded, there's less than two outs. He's paid to

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Speaker 3: swing the bat. You want to ask him to do

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Speaker 3: something that he's not paid to do.

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Speaker 7: I mean, at least he would you know, I'm bunting,

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Speaker 7: You're more than likely to get the bat on the ball.

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Speaker 3: If you're good at bunting. Yes, he's not good at bunting.

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Speaker 3: If he was good at bunting, but do it occasionally.

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Speaker 7: You're assuming you were assuming he's not good at just

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Speaker 7: because he doesn't do it.

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Speaker 3: If there's something I haven't done in ten years, I'm

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Speaker 3: probably not good at it. I haven't played tennis in

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Speaker 3: ten years. I haven't played tennis in ten years. Guess

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Speaker 3: what if we got on the court today, I would

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Speaker 3: embarrass myself because I haven't done it in ten years.

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Speaker 7: Are you sure he hasn't practiced bunting at all in

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Speaker 7: ten years?

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Speaker 3: I think I'm going to imagine that most of the

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Speaker 3: time when a Uhenio Suarez, who has three hundred and

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Speaker 3: twenty five Major League home runs and zero sacrifice bunts

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Speaker 3: since Obama was president, I'm going to assume that he

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Speaker 3: spends most of his time in the batter's box winging away.

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Speaker 7: I don't know, well, you know what to think that

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Speaker 7: if he struck out, they didn't get anything.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's right, right, Yes, I still in that situa.

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Speaker 3: Right, in that situation, if if you had a chance

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Speaker 3: in that situation to walk into the Boston dugout and

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Speaker 3: say to Alex kra what do you want him to

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Speaker 3: do here?

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Speaker 2: Want him to try a bunt?

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Speaker 3: Want him to By the way, if he's bunting with

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Speaker 3: a guy on third base, chances are the guy on

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Speaker 3: third base McLean is running, so if he doesn't lay

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Speaker 3: the bunt down, doesn't make contact. Now the guy at

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Speaker 3: third base is dead and you've made it out without

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Speaker 3: Suarez swinging the bat. Now he can't drive in a

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Speaker 3: run on a fly boll of the outfield like I

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Speaker 3: would be willing to bet you.

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Speaker 2: This is obviously hypothetical.

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Speaker 3: If you went into the Boston dugout right now and said, uh,

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Speaker 3: basses loaded one out.

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Speaker 2: Suarez is up.

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Speaker 3: He could hit a grand slam, or they could ask

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Speaker 3: him to lay down a bunt. What would you like

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Speaker 3: to do, Alex? He would say, yeah, can can you

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Speaker 3: tell Tito to have him laid down a bunt? Why

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Speaker 3: would you do what the other team's manager would probably

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Speaker 3: want them to do.

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Speaker 7: Why would you ever go into the other dougout and

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Speaker 7: tell them what you're doing? It's the rise, you know

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Speaker 7: you lay.

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Speaker 2: It down, Dave.

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Speaker 3: I don't have any more time to go around and

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Speaker 3: circles with you.

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Speaker 7: Why from the get go, this is not a popular

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Speaker 7: I told.

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Speaker 9: You that it's not feasible.

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Speaker 3: It's it's not, it's not it's not popular because why

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Speaker 3: would you again, why would you ask a guy who

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Speaker 3: wasn't successfully laid down a sacrifice bun in ten years

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Speaker 3: to lay down a bun when he's on the team

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Speaker 3: to hit home runs?

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Speaker 7: And you know what in this situation, I was saying

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Speaker 7: it beforehand, and then the next inning, Boston lays one down,

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Speaker 7: pushes the guy over to third, They get a run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, with a with a with a guy who's good

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Speaker 3: at bunting. By the way, the guy would have scored

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Speaker 3: with a hit anyway.

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Speaker 7: See, you're projecting that there would have been a hit.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not projecting that there would have been a hit.

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Speaker 3: Literally literally, the guy after Narvaia's laid down a bun.

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Speaker 2: Literally, the next guy got a hit.

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Speaker 7: And you don't know that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Though, I don't know that it's gonna happen, but it did.

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Speaker 3: The dude would have scored. The guy would have scored

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Speaker 3: from second on a hit anyway.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I'm talking you know, with a defense playing

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Speaker 7: deep and it all he gets to do is get

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Speaker 7: the bat on the ball, you know, a dribbler and

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Speaker 7: McClain's squeezing. I mean, look, it's the beginning of the season.

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Speaker 7: You don't want to play it like it's a playoff.

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Speaker 7: I get it, okay, But I'm just saying in situations

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Speaker 7: like that, in baseball baseball, not Major league baseball baseball,

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Speaker 7: you know it's done from the not bowl. It's done

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Speaker 7: through high school. I know it's not done as much

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Speaker 7: in college, but people learn how to win the game

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Speaker 7: by small ball, and it's a lot of art in

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Speaker 7: the Major League.

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Speaker 3: I won't argue with that. I think it's largely a

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Speaker 3: lost art with a lot of teams. I think there

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Speaker 3: are a lot of teams that play small ball. By

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Speaker 3: the way, bunting doesn't happen nearly as much for two reasons.

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Speaker 3: A pitchers don't bat anymore. Be it's statistically been proven

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Speaker 3: to be bad strategy in that situation, and I appreciate

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Speaker 3: the phone call Dave. In that situation. A Euhaneo Suarez

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Speaker 3: has not laid down a successful sacrifice bun since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 3: He is not good bunting. If he were, I'd see

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Speaker 3: one good sacrifice bun over the last ten years. In

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Speaker 3: that situation, I'm asking the dude to swing the bat.

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Speaker 3: I'll take my chances. Unfortunately he struck out. It happens.

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Speaker 3: He's a high strikeout guy. I would be willing to

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Speaker 3: bet if you said to the other manager, do you

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Speaker 3: want him to swing or bun? Alex cor would say,

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Speaker 3: please bunt. Why on earth would any coach or manager

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Speaker 3: do what the other team's manager wants him to do.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the phone call, Dave. Have a great weekend,

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Speaker 3: all right. It's a ton away from four.

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Speaker 9: That was awesome.

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Speaker 3: I didn't have I did not have on the Bengo

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Speaker 3: card today. Somebody wanting, due to it forty nine home

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Speaker 3: runs last year, to lay down, to lay down a bunt.

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Speaker 9: When he told me wanted what he wanted to talk about,

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Speaker 9: I just chuckled to myself because I knew exactly what

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Speaker 9: was coming. It's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Carlos Narvaiaz who bunted yesterday, and that

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Speaker 3: was bad strategy. Bunting his historically speaking has been statistically

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Speaker 3: proven to be bad strategy.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I know not whole guy doesn't like this.

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Speaker 3: I know the dude who grew up applauding the pitcher

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Speaker 3: when he laid down a bunt doesn't like this.

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Speaker 2: I am I side with Matt.

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Speaker 3: I once had a guy who worked here tried to

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Speaker 3: tell me that a legendary high school coach wouldn't like

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Speaker 3: my take on bunting. Because we're not talking about high

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Speaker 3: school baseball. It's major league baseball. It's statistically been proven

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Speaker 3: to be bad strategy. Boston gave up an out. Yes,

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Speaker 3: they move up a guy to third. Sometimes it does work.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes bad strategy does work. Sometimes you can get behind

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Speaker 3: the wheel of a car, get into a car accident

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Speaker 3: without your seat belt and still survive. You don't want

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Speaker 3: to do it, though it's a general rule. Statistically speaking,

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Speaker 3: it has been proven to be bad strategy. So they

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Speaker 3: lay down a bunt and the next guy gets a

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Speaker 3: hit that would have scored the runner anyway.

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Speaker 2: In that situation.

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Speaker 3: If you said to Alex Korra, this guy had forty

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Speaker 3: nine home runs last season. We're in a hitter park,

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Speaker 3: the wind is blowing out. Would you like for him

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Speaker 3: to swing away or would you like for him to

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Speaker 3: try for his first sack Bunch since twenty fifteen. Alex Cora,

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Speaker 3: when he got done laughing, would say, please please try

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Speaker 3: a squeeze play here. Please, let's see what happens. Nine

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Speaker 2: You know that a phone call or a segment is good.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I love calls like that, the one

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Speaker 2: By the way, my name is Maaggor. This is ESPN

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Speaker 2: fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: You know a call is good when there are people

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Speaker 3: doing stuff, and yet like people are texting them going, man,

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Speaker 3: how about this call on most show? And they have

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Speaker 3: By the way, Austin's already podcast the first hour of

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Speaker 3: the show, so you could revisit that eight minutes of fun,

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Speaker 3: which I genuinely I enjoy fun discussions and debates over

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Speaker 3: strategic decisions. Whenever a team bunts and it ends up

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Speaker 3: generating offense, folks will throw it at me on social media.

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Speaker 3: There are times where flawed strategy can work. There are

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Speaker 3: occasions where maybe a sacrifice bunt might make sense because

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Speaker 3: of the quality of the hitter, maybe just quality of

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Speaker 3: a pitcher, overmatched I should say, or out whatever, facing

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Speaker 3: a pitcher that he has basically no chance.

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Speaker 2: Of getting a hit against.

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Speaker 3: There are times, but I'll just I just tweeted this

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Speaker 3: out a few minutes ago at Moegger So as a

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Speaker 3: game unfolds. Whether you're on MLB dot com or ESPN

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Speaker 3: dot com, and I'm sure other websites as well, there

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Speaker 3: is a running win probability, and I'm sure you're familiar

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Speaker 3: with this by now. You see it across a whole

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Speaker 3: lot of different sports, and win probability being decidedly in

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Speaker 3: one team's favor certainly doesn't guarantee that they're gonna win.

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Speaker 3: You see, in UCF two weeks ago, in the Big

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Speaker 3: twelve tournament, you see's win probability was at like ninety

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Speaker 3: eight point seven per up eight with like two and

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Speaker 3: change to go. They obviously did not win. At the

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Speaker 3: end of the sixth inning yesterday, when Spencer Steer struck

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Speaker 3: out with the bases loaded against Garrett Crochet, the game

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Speaker 3: was scoreless and the win probability for both teams was

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Speaker 3: fifty percent. The game at that point was basically a

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Speaker 3: coin flip. When Marcelo Meyer led off the top of

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Speaker 3: the seventh inning with a double, the win probability changed

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Speaker 3: by twelve percent, and at the end of that play,

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Speaker 3: with Boston having a guy on second and nobody out

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Speaker 3: to start the seventh inning. At that point in the game,

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Speaker 3: the Reds had statistically speaking, a sixty two percent chance

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Speaker 3: of winning the game. Understandably so right late innings, the

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Speaker 3: swing by twelve percent makes sense at that stage in

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Speaker 3: the game. The next batter, Carlos Narvayaz comes up and yes,

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Speaker 3: successfully lays down A and he moves Meyer to third base.

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Speaker 3: The winning percentage of the win the win probability percentage

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Speaker 3: for Boston then went down one percent, not not a

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Speaker 3: huge drop, but literally their chances of winning the game

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Speaker 3: went down based on that play. Now, the old school

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Speaker 3: baseball part of me understands, like, it's it's a scoreless game,

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Speaker 3: you're playing for a run. You've got great relievers in

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Speaker 3: the back end of the bullpen. One might do it

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Speaker 3: and one would have done it. Obviously, the Red Sox

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Speaker 3: scored a couple of insurance runs later on. But so

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Speaker 3: I get it right, like, let's let's see if we

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Speaker 3: can get a run across here. Let's get a guy

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Speaker 3: to third base, well less than two outs, maybe we

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Speaker 3: can drive him in with a sacrifice fly. That said,

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Speaker 3: statistically speaking, their odds of winning the game went down.

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Speaker 3: So for me, and you can call me a nerd,

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Speaker 3: you can call me into analytics whatever.

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Speaker 2: For me, I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: We do this with football and going forward or not

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Speaker 3: going forward on fourth down all the time, when to

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Speaker 3: go for to not go for two Those decisions to

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Speaker 3: me are based on what increases our chances of winning

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Speaker 3: the game. I never understand leaning too hard into strategy

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Speaker 3: that is statistically proven to not increase your chances of scoring.

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Speaker 3: And if your chances of scoring aren't increasing, then your

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Speaker 3: chances of winning aren't increasing. So that play yesterday and again,

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Speaker 3: you could argue that it worked because the guy did

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Speaker 3: score and the Red Sox did win the game. It

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Speaker 3: had the next batter, Rafaela gotten a sacrifice fly. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 3: they played for one run and it worked and they

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Speaker 3: could have won the game one nothing. But statistically speaking,

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Speaker 3: after one hundred and fifty years of Major League baseball,

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Speaker 3: it has been proven that bunting is not strategy that

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Speaker 3: drastically increases your chances of winning? Are there exceptions?

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Speaker 2: Of course?

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Speaker 3: There are are there times when it might not be

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Speaker 3: good strategy, but it works. Yeah, there are things. Look, man,

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Speaker 3: a manager might decide, I'm gonna leave in a lefty,

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Speaker 3: a left handed hitter to face a left handed pitcher,

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Speaker 3: even though he's not very good against lefties and he

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Speaker 3: may hit the ball five hundred feet and it works,

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Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily mean that it was statistically speaking, the right strategy. Now,

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Speaker 3: manager may have played a hunch that sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: But still, so that's like I get this all the time, like, well,

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Speaker 3: you don't lean into bunting, you don't like bunting, Like

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the art of it. There's nothing prettier than

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Speaker 3: a beautifully executed suicide squeeze. I appreciate a batter's willingness

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Speaker 3: to sacrifice himself if we're gonna go that deep into it.

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Speaker 3: But to me and I just I'll use yesterday as

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Speaker 3: an example that play increased the Red's chances of winning,

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Speaker 3: despite the fact that the Red Sox pushed a guy

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Speaker 3: to third base.

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Speaker 2: So that's just a question about bunting.

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Speaker 3: The Suarez thing, Like, would him laying down a sacrifice bunt,

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Speaker 3: a suicide squeeze, even a safety squeeze have caught the

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Speaker 3: Red Sox off guard. Probably, But I'm going to guess

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Speaker 3: that at this stage in his career, he's just not

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Speaker 3: a good bunter. Now, are there larger discussions about, hey, look,

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Speaker 3: the hitters need to be more well rounded and have that.

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Speaker 2: In their toolbag. Yeah, but like.

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Speaker 3: At this stage in a uhaneos Warez career, and he

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Speaker 3: looked awful at the plate yesterday, There's no getting around it.

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Speaker 3: That's just probably not something you want him to do.

869
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Speaker 3: In sports and in life. I think you're you're gonna

870
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Speaker 3: have bad results if you're consistently asking people to do

871
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 3: things they're simply not good at. They don't ask me

872
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 3: to fill it on the shows down the hall where

873
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 3: they're talking about stuff that ain in sports. Why because

874
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,479
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be good at it. Although you could argue

875
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 3: successfully I'm not very good at this. You don't ask

876
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 3: people to do things they're not good at. The Uhaneo

877
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Speaker 3: Suarez is on this team to hit home runs or

878
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 3: at least get the ball to the outfield. In that situation,

879
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 3: it didn't work. It's unfortunate, it's baseball.

880
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: It happens.

881
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 3: But had he laid down a bunt, whether it would

882
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 3: have been on his own or called from the bench,

883
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 3: chances are, and we're never gonna know for sure, and

884
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 3: that's the beauty of this. It's an open ended discussion.

885
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 3: Chances are the results wouldn't have been good, and there

886
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 3: would have been a lot of criticism and a lot

887
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 3: of second guessing, and all of it deserved. So there five, one, three, seven, nine,

888
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Speaker 3: fifteen thirty. Let's see here Matthew and Mount lookout you're

889
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 3: on ESPN fifteen thirty. Matthew, good afternoon.

890
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 2: How are you.

891
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 4: I'm great.

892
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 12: Though I really appreciate the dialogue about bunting. I don't

893
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 12: want to rehash what you just said, but you're exactly correct,

894
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 12: and the average baseball fan is becoming more more ignorant

895
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 12: about it because we're so football centric. But those of

896
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 12: us who know understand baseball, there's about aggregated totals over

897
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 12: the long term yielding or result, which brings me to

898
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Speaker 12: my more pressing concern. The seventh inning was asking people

899
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Speaker 12: to do things they're not good at. Is Will Benson

900
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 12: pitch hitting in that particular spot with the runner on

901
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 12: first and less than two outs, and then immediately following

902
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Speaker 12: with the other black hole in the lineup of kee

903
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 12: Brian Hayes, those two at bats were the difference in

904
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 12: the ballgame period, and I think.

905
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 3: In large part because I think in large part because

906
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 3: of knowing who was coming in the eighth and then

907
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 3: more specifically the ninth.

908
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, one hundred percent agreed. I don't think that first

909
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 12: Benson should have made the club and second should be

910
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 12: in the high leverage situations late ending pinshit. I just

911
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 12: I don't agree with Tito's decision there and if that's

912
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 12: indicative over what he does with the long term. I

913
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 12: think the team has problems. They already have problems offensively,

914
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 12: but when you're making those kinds of decisions in high

915
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 12: leverage situation, to me, that's as bad as laying down

916
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 12: a buck.

917
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 3: You know what I thought when he when he pulled

918
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,399
Speaker 3: when he pulled Marte for Benson. I just I talked

919
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 3: about this on the show on Wednesday with Tommy Frawl.

920
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 3: I wonder how long noelvi Marte's leash is and we

921
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 3: can get it as you just did understandably so that

922
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 3: the House and whives of using Benson there. We could

923
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 3: debate the merits of him making the team. But my

924
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 3: first thought was, Gee, if you're not gonna let Marte

925
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 3: bad here when he's actually been better against righty's than

926
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 3: Benson was last year against a righty who is better

927
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 3: historically against lefties, like with re Signs in the miners

928
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 3: and with JJ Bledet and the miners and just the

929
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 3: way they sort of challenged Noelve during spring.

930
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,359
Speaker 2: I just I wonder how long his leash really is.

931
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 12: I totally agreed, And the presence of Hayes complicates this

932
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 12: even further. Yes, the defense is great, and I know

933
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 12: Oldhead loved that defense, defense, defense, but he's a black

934
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 12: hole offensively period. And sal Stewart not even being considered

935
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 12: for third base changes team complexion of the lineup completely

936
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 12: with not having Steer it first, and then the outfield configuration,

937
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 12: all of it falls off of that, which you know,

938
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 12: going back in retrospect, I still don't understand the Hayes trade.

939
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 9: I don't get it.

940
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 12: I don't understand why they're doing the lineup construction this

941
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 12: way when offense is the most glaring need on this club.

942
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it. I just don't agree with it. Look,

943
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 3: I understand what they're leaning into. They're leaning into his glove.

944
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 3: I just I think it's going to come back to

945
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 3: bite him. Having a guy at a corner infield position

946
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 3: who is among the worst hitters in the sport. It's

947
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 3: not even like he's league average or slightly below league average.

948
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 3: He is among the worst hitters. In the sport, and okay,

949
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 3: that's fine, But in high leverage situations, when you have

950
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 3: an option on the bench in Nathaniel Low and you're

951
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 3: not willing to use them, that tells me you have

952
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 3: no confidence in anybody else playing third base. That can't

953
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 3: be the case when you've got a third baseman who's

954
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,720
Speaker 3: not a good offensive player. You've got to have somebody

955
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 3: that you're comfortable being in the game in lieu of

956
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 3: key Brian Hayes, so you can pinch hit form in

957
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 3: situations like yesterday's.

958
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 12: Correct and if no one else. We're supposed to have

959
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 12: all this versatility with the claim being able to play

960
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 12: multiple positions and Steer and Stewart playing multiple positions, yet

961
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 12: we're not going to utilize them in that fashion. I

962
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 12: don't understand the construction of the roster.

963
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's it's very fair, Matthew. Thank you for

964
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 3: the phone call. I hope have a great week, and

965
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 3: I mean think about it. Elie Dela Cruz has played

966
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 3: third base. Salstewart. Salstewart got to the big league's playing

967
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 3: third base last year. Spencer Steer has played third base.

968
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 3: Uh euaneus are as and I understand not wanting to

969
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 3: use the DH at a position because then you use

970
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 3: you lose the d AH. But like there were, there

971
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 3: were options, and none of them defensively are as good

972
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 3: as Keith Brian Hayes.

973
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 2: None of them.

974
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Speaker 3: But you're losing the game, like a in a one

975
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 3: nothing situation. When you're winning, I think you could still argue, like,

976
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 3: let's break the game open here, let's try to play

977
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 3: for one more run. But at least, okay, we want

978
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 3: our glove in the game defense first, we're winning. Okay,

979
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 3: that situation yesterday, I don't believe that Tito Francona legitimately

980
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 3: believed keep Brian Hayes was the best offensive option there.

981
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 3: It felt like there was a lack of confidence in

982
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 3: anybody else playing third base, and that's confusing. I don't

983
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 3: know if they have told Sal Stewart, you've got to

984
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 3: dig in so much on playing first base that don't

985
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 3: even worry about third. Okay, the dude just played it

986
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 3: last September. It can't be that hard for him. Could

987
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 3: you really not ask Elie de la Cruz to play

988
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 3: third base for two innings? Could you configure things that

989
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 3: have in a way that would have Spencer steer moving.

990
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 3: There were just there were options. And again, man, if

991
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 3: you're winning the game, no big deal, one nothing ballgame,

992
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 3: guy on first. And part of it is that seventh

993
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 3: inning gap that presented itself where Garrett Crochet is out

994
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 3: of the game. You did nothing against him. Know, Garrett

995
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 3: Whitlock is coming in, you know, after him as a

996
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 3: role as Chapman. You have the tying run on base.

997
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 3: The only plausible explanation for allowing Kee Brian Hayes to

998
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 3: hit is they simply don't believe anybody else could play

999
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 3: third base. But the problem is, there's gonna be a

1000
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 3: more occasions like that where Key Brian Hayes is going

1001
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 3: to be up, where his position in the batting order

1002
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 3: is going to be up, and it's gonna make sense

1003
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 3: to use somebody else, And instead they're just gonna use

1004
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 3: Key Brian Hayes, who's a way, way below average big

1005
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 3: league hitter, because they just don't feel like anybody else

1006
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 3: could play third base. Like that's a problem, man, that's

1007
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 3: a problem. Twenty after four five point three seven, four nine,

1008
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 3: fifteen thirty at five o'clock, I guess there's gonna be

1009
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 3: a press conference in Florida to detail UH Tiger Woods

1010
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 3: and UH to whatever extent he's dealing with injuries. But

1011
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 3: he has been involved in Florida in another role over

1012
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 3: car crash, so we'll monitor that for you between now

1013
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:06,840
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1014
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Speaker 1: This report is sponsored by Come Just.

1025
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 2: PN fifteen thirty. I'm Mullweger on golf dot com.

1026
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 3: According to my guy, Austin Elmore, who is dressed like

1027
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 3: a high school strengthen conditioning coach. Today, Austin informs me

1028
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 3: the golf dot com reports that the Martin County fire

1029
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 3: Rescue reports there are no injuries to anyone involved in

1030
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 3: the crash involving Tiger Woods.

1031
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 9: Only took you an hour and a half to say something.

1032
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 3: I launched into it pretty good at the UH at

1033
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 3: the end of your show, Yeah you did. You could

1034
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 3: pull it off. Austin's wearing like a a sweatsuit. If

1035
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 3: I wore that today, you guys would understandably just crush me.

1036
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 2: I couldn't pull that off. I don't.

1037
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 9: I don't agree with that.

1038
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 2: All right, I'll get a sweatsuit.

1039
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 3: We're not exactly going into sweatsuit season, but I will

1040
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 3: buy a sweatsuit at some point before next fall. I

1041
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 3: will wear it, and then I will just watch people

1042
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 3: and we'll gauge there.

1043
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 9: This is my I'm exhausted from yesterday and want to

1044
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 9: be comfortable out there.

1045
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 3: Oh I have those. Oh I have tons of those,

1046
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 3: most most of most. Actually it's kind of how I

1047
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 3: dress most days. High school strength and condition. Ah all right,

1048
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 3: So good news Tiger Woods. According to a golf dot

1049
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 3: com UH, they say the Martin County Fire Rescue reports

1050
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 3: no injuries to anyone involved in the latest Tiger Woods crash.

1051
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,280
Speaker 3: More details coming up later on Also Austin also informs

1052
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 3: me that Dante Jackson is leaving XU to be on

1053
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 3: Chris mackstaff at USF. There you go, Austin, a fountain

1054
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 3: of News and Information hosting this show on Monday. By

1055
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 3: the way, five point three seven nine fifteen thirty is

1056
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 3: our phone number, uh AJ from my hometown of Taylor,

1057
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 3: Mill AJ. You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Good afternoon, AJ.

1058
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:35,839
Speaker 2: How are you my man?

1059
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 13: MO? I'm doing great, Thank you, thank you. And I

1060
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 13: think you could rock a royal Scott Blue sweatsuit. I

1061
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 13: think you could rock that.

1062
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 3: Could The folks at Scott High School send me one

1063
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 3: I wear in XL.

1064
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 13: We'll see what we can do. We can do. Speaking

1065
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 13: of and speaking of Scott High School, Yeah, you're alma mater.

1066
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

1067
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,280
Speaker 13: I'm actually the assistant coach of the men's varsity tennis

1068
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 13: team and helped coach out the JV team as well.

1069
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 13: We're off to a great start at two and one

1070
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 13: this year.

1071
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 2: Nice and I wanted to.

1072
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 13: Give the boys a shout out because they've had hard matches,

1073
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 13: but we've prevailed and the older guys are really taking

1074
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 13: control and teaching the younger guys. And we've seen our

1075
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 13: younger guys get better and better throughout the first two

1076
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:18,360
Speaker 13: three weeks.

1077
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 2: So very good.

1078
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 3: So is Scott a burgeoning Northern Kentucky tennis powerhouse.

1079
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 7: I tell you what we.

1080
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 13: Might start at dynasty here. My head coach, Coach Jackson,

1081
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 13: actually coached me ten years ago.

1082
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 2: Wow, and he.

1083
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 13: Recruited me to come back and help coach the kids.

1084
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 13: I went off after going to state for four years

1085
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 13: at Scott High School for tennis, I went to Georgetown

1086
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 13: College and played for four years, and then I came

1087
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 13: back home and kind of rebirth in the tennis program

1088
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:46,240
Speaker 13: at Scott.

1089
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 3: I guess you'd want to call it what I was

1090
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 3: a student at Scott High School over thirty years ago,

1091
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 3: the tennis courts were nothing to write home about.

1092
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 2: Has that changed?

1093
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 4: Oh?

1094
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 13: No, you've got to come out, man. They are beautiful now.

1095
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:59,959
Speaker 13: We have four brand new just put in brand new court.

1096
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 13: Wish they would have done five so we could host

1097
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 13: the regional tournament. But that's all right. We'll get another

1098
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 13: one soon. And apart from that, yeah, we're looking up.

1099
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 13: We have a couple of matches coming up next week,

1100
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 13: so i'll uh, I'll give you a call next week

1101
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 13: in a little bit of an update, how about that?

1102
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 2: Who are our best players?

1103
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 13: Oh man, now you're gonna get You're gonna get me

1104
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 13: in trouble because I got to shout out all the seniors.

1105
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 13: Our seniors are this phenomenal. We have Ari at doubles

1106
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 13: and Corlin at one doubles. We got one singles is Ethan.

1107
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 13: I had two singles, we got Bryce, had three singles,

1108
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 13: we got Daniel, and then at two doubles we got

1109
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 13: Cameron and there's it's actually at fighting. It's there's three

1110
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 13: guys that are trying to earn the two doubles spot

1111
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 13: with Cameron senior Cameron. Wow, we have a couple of

1112
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 13: guys trying to fight for that last position right now.

1113
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 4: So it's looking good, very good.

1114
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 3: We'll tell the boys I'm supporting them and keep me

1115
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 3: updated on the progress of the tennis program at my

1116
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 3: alma mater.

1117
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,959
Speaker 13: I absolutely will and mode for you. I just wanted

1118
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 13: to say thank you for everything that you do. Always

1119
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 13: recognize in Scott High School. Trying to give a shout out.

1120
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 13: Even on all the other shows I listened to, I'm like,

1121
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 13: oh man, I love moegg or that dude that's the guy.

1122
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 3: Well, you know you got you gotta support Jarama Mater

1123
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 3: in any way you can. And uh that's my my

1124
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 3: little way of doing it. And uh, well that's away.

1125
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 13: Go to the high school football. You always try to

1126
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 13: get them on. I always hear you trying to get

1127
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 13: them on high school football.

1128
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 3: I you know what, I I once gave Joe danim

1129
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 3: In a hard time, but I watched because I like

1130
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 3: their Friday night show and they they didn't they didn't

1131
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:35,760
Speaker 3: have a crew. And I get it, they got a

1132
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 3: million games to cover. They didn't have a crew Scott

1133
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 3: High School. So then like the next week they had

1134
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 3: a crew at Scott High School and they mentioned like, okay,

1135
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 3: here this is for.

1136
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 2: MO and so I made me happy. I I try

1137
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 2: to give They.

1138
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 13: Have the best announcer too, the best announcer, Rocky.

1139
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 3: Todd, Rocky toime, best announcer my cousin. Yep, no way, yeah,

1140
00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 3: saw rock yesterday. Yeah it's my cousin. Scott High School legend, Yes,

1141
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 3: the mayor of Scott High School and a one time

1142
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:09,040
Speaker 3: when I was a student there, Scott High School substitute

1143
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 3: gym teacher Rocky Tie.

1144
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 13: There you go, I'm gonna have to bring that up

1145
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 13: to him next time. I said, well, no, you have

1146
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 13: a great day, thanks for taking the call. Do you

1147
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 13: have a great one.

1148
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 3: We'll give you a call next week, all right, I

1149
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 3: look forward to that. It's twenty nine away from five o'clock.

1150
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 3: Austin's dressed like a substitute high school gym teacher.

1151
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 9: You're glad you can make yourself laugh.

1152
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to take a picture of what you're wearing,

1153
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 3: just so folks get the after to do anything so

1154
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 3: they understand. Well, and it's you look great, you look awesome.

1155
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 3: I did ask Austin because he's dressed like a gym

1156
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 3: teacher if he also had to teach driver's at or health.

1157
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 3: It's twenty eight away from the five o'clock. See, we

1158
00:59:52,080 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 3: were doing a normal show, and then that caller who

1159
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 3: wanted to make the case for Suarez laying down a

1160
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 3: bunch just drove it off the rail.

1161
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 9: I've been thinking about guy and he kept saying that

1162
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 9: you know, you're projecting that he won't get a bunt down,

1163
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 9: and I'm thinking you're projecting that he will.

1164
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 3: Can you imagine what it would have looked and sounded

1165
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 3: like had they laid down a bunt with Suarez in

1166
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 3: that situation and it fails what we're doing.

1167
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 9: You were in the ballpark, everybody was standing up. Yes,

1168
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 9: if he lays down a bunt, I would have gone

1169
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 9: down to the dugout myself and yelled at Francoon.

1170
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:29,200
Speaker 2: I would have liked to have seen that.

1171
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 3: Brendanman and Jones on Baseball's coming up in just about

1172
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 3: twenty minutes. Sports headlines are next on ESPN fifteen.

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01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 5: Thirty Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty. Traffic from the.

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Speaker 6: UC Health Traffic Center. The UC Health Women's Sports Medicine

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Speaker 6: Program provides specialized care for female athletes at all levels.

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Speaker 6: Schedule and appointment online at UCHealth dot com. There's still

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Speaker 6: an accident on eastbound two seventy five in Ohio at

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Speaker 6: seventy one left two lanes blocked off, with a twenty

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Speaker 6: minute at the laid back from Mostellar northbound seventy five.

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01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 6: Also an accident approaching State Route one twenty three to

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01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 6: Franklin exit and traffic slow approaching that zone. I'm atty

1182
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Speaker 6: zelic with traffic.

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1186
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 3: traditional day after Opening Day off day for the Reds

1187
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 3: series with the Red Sox continues tomorrow four to ten.

1188
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:31,919
Speaker 3: Brady Singer and former Red Sonny Gray on the Hill

1189
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 3: Sunday's game at one forty tomorrow Kids Opening Day radio

1190
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 3: coverage obviously both days on seven hundred WLW. According to

1191
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 3: a ESPN, Tiger Woods involved in a rollover crash on

1192
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 3: Jupiter Island, Florida. According to the Martin County Sheriff's Office,

1193
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 3: the county Sheriff's officials are scheduled to speak at five o'clock.

1194
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 3: Golf dot Com is reporting no injuries related to that crash,

1195
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 3: which is good news.

1196
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 2: By the way. No Red game tonight.

1197
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 3: Austin Elmore, who today is dressed like somebody who got

1198
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 3: invited to a sleepover but didn't want to pack a bag,

1199
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 3: wants me to remind you that though there is no

1200
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 3: game today, you could still visit the clock outside the ballpark,

1201
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 3: So just keep that in mind. The Sweet Sixteen continues

1202
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 3: tonight on Fox Sports thirteen sixty. Rick Patino and Saint

1203
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 3: John's against Duke. Also tonight, Alabama takes on Michigan. Michigan

1204
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:28,720
Speaker 3: State hooks up with yukon Tennessee battles Iowa State. Can

1205
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 3: you imagine your favorite college basketball team losing an NCAA

1206
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 3: tournament game where the dagger was delivered by the other

1207
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 3: team on a play we're coming out of a timeout,

1208
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 3: you only had four players on the floor. For the

1209
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 3: life of me, I don't know how that happens. It

1210
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 3: happened to Fred Hoiberg and Nebraska last night, and there's

1211
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 3: a very good chance I was still would have won

1212
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 3: the game, but they scored an old school three point

1213
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 3: play to make it six. We're coming out of a

1214
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 3: time out. The Cornhuskers only had four dudes on the floor.

1215
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 3: College basketball like benches, staffs have never been bigger. There's

1216
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 3: not one guy there who could count to five. Hockey tonight,

1217
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 3: cyclones skate at Iowa. Also there that's a hockey hotbed.

1218
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 3: By the way, Iowa you talk about like you're great

1219
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 3: like American hockey. You know parts of the country Iowa.

1220
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 3: The cyclones are there all weekend. Puck drops tonight a

1221
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 3: little bit after eight o'clock. They're there Saturday and Sunday

1222
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 3: as well. Nineteen away from four o'clock. More of your

1223
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 3: phone calls are coming up. Brentaman and Jones on Baseball

1224
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 3: is ten minutes away. We've kind of hammered on the

1225
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 3: key Brian Hayes thing a lot today and I don't

1226
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 3: do this. We know why he's on the team. I

1227
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 3: may not agree with it. When the trade was made,

1228
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 3: it was puzzling because the Reds needed offense and kee

1229
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 3: Brian Hayes is not a good hitter, and I know

1230
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 3: why they did it, but he ain't going anywhere. That

1231
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 3: dude is locked in for the rest of the decade.

1232
01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 3: Assigned a deal with the Pirates a couple of years ago,

1233
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 3: eight years seventy mil. He's here for a while, and

1234
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:05,440
Speaker 3: understand why they value his defense, and his defense is terrific,

1235
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 3: but all right, he's a deficient offensive player. You then

1236
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 3: have to have somebody that you're comfortable not just using

1237
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:17,360
Speaker 3: to pinch hit for him. You have to have somebody

1238
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 3: that you're comfortable also playing third base.

1239
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 2: When you pinch hit for him.

1240
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 3: You know, we talked about this on our Opening Day

1241
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 3: show yesterday from Smoke Justice. In close games, you have

1242
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 3: to treat him like a pitcher. He is a better

1243
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 3: hitter than your average pitcher was back when pitchers actually hit.

1244
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 3: But you have to treat him like a pitcher. So

1245
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 3: a one nothing game in the seventh inning, you've got

1246
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,560
Speaker 3: to be willing to pinch hit for him. You're only

1247
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 3: willing to pinch hit for him if you've got somebody

1248
01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 3: else to play third base. Now again, they have lots

1249
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 3: of dudes on the team who have played third base before.

1250
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 3: Elie Dela Cruz has played third base. Sal Stewart played

1251
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 3: a lot of games at third base in the minor leagues,

1252
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 3: and a whole bunch as Red when he got caught

1253
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 3: up last year at third base. Spencer Steer has played

1254
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:08,479
Speaker 3: third base. So there's lots of different things you could

1255
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 3: have done. It felt like Tito was uncomfortable with anybody

1256
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 3: else playing third base because, quite frankly, with Nathaniel Lowe

1257
01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 3: on the bench, a guy who can hit the ball

1258
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:22,440
Speaker 3: out of the ballpark, a guy who made the team

1259
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 3: was a fun story out of spring training. Made the

1260
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 3: team because you wanted a bench guy. You know, you

1261
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 3: signed JJ Bleday this offseason and sent him to Louisville

1262
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 3: because you want him to play every day. But you

1263
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 3: got a bench guy Nathaniel low same for Reese signs

1264
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 3: not pinch hitting Nathaniel Low for key Brian Hayes suggests

1265
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 3: they're uncomfortable with anybody else playing third base. How why

1266
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 3: and is that going to be the case all season long?

1267
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 3: I am likely making this out to be a bigger

1268
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 3: deal than it is, which you do after opening day,

1269
01:05:55,960 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 3: because it's only one game. I do think it's fair

1270
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 3: to wonder, as the season unfolds, how many high leverage

1271
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 3: situations will a poor hitter be asked to hit him again?

1272
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:11,920
Speaker 3: Like that's not me being subjective, it's it's looking at

1273
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 3: years of performance. Keep Brian Hayes has over twenty five

1274
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 3: hundred Big league played appearances. Not a good hitter. Now,

1275
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 3: Credit to that dude for carving out a career and

1276
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 3: a lucrative one, because he's awesome with the glove, and

1277
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 3: there are gonna be situations where you don't want to

1278
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 3: pull him because you don't want to take his glove

1279
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 3: out of the game. If it's one nothing good guys yesterday,

1280
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:36,200
Speaker 3: there's an argument that, hey, forget playing for one more run,

1281
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:37,640
Speaker 3: don't take your best glove out.

1282
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:37,959
Speaker 2: Of the game.

1283
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 3: Have him on the field in the in the eighth

1284
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:44,959
Speaker 3: and ninth inning, But how many high leverage situations where

1285
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 3: the Reds are trailing late in games will they let

1286
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 3: him bat in because they simply don't trust anybody else

1287
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 3: to play third base. And again, obviously ayuhanus Warez has

1288
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 3: played a ton of third base in his life. I

1289
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 3: do understand not wanting to move the DH to third

1290
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 3: base because then you lose the DH like eight fine,

1291
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 3: but that to me, the biggest question out of yesterday

1292
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 3: was do they have a problem Not so much with

1293
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 3: key Brian Hayes, but do they have a third base problem?

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Speaker 3: And then, like you know, diving into it yesterday, I

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Speaker 3: don't understand how you don't say to Sal Stewart like,

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Speaker 3: hey man, you're gonna play first base, but be ready

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Speaker 3: in the event we have to move you to third

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Speaker 3: because there are probably gonna be situations where we got

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Speaker 3: to hit for a guy who's not a good hitter,

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Speaker 3: and so you're gonna have to You're gonna have to

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Speaker 3: stay sharp at third base or Ellie uh, make sure

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Speaker 3: you're getting some reps in and you're you're good to

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Speaker 3: make that throw, which I think you would be at

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Speaker 3: third base or somebody else. That is gonna be interesting

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Speaker 3: to follow as as the season unfolds five point three,

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Speaker 3: seven four nine, fifteen thirty and eight six six, seven

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Speaker 3: oh two three seven seven six. We talked about key

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Speaker 3: Brian Hayes and the noelbe Marte thing as well, Like

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Speaker 3: I at face value using Benson for Marte in the

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Speaker 3: seventh Tito's trying to go lefty righty. He's looking for

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Speaker 3: a dude who can maybe run into one. Like I

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Speaker 3: didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. The noelve

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Speaker 3: Marte thing, to me is really really interesting from this perspective.

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Speaker 3: They they jammed him into right field last year and

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Speaker 3: he made that catch against the Pirates in game number

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Speaker 3: one fifty nine that was the play of the season,

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Speaker 3: but there were also times where it looked like he

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Speaker 3: had never played the position before, which prior to Midsummer

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01:08:28,280 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 3: last year he hadn't. This spring training was interesting because

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Speaker 3: midway through, if you read some of the quotes from

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Speaker 3: Tito and I'll pull him up in the next hour.

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Speaker 3: Not exactly a ringing endorsement for Noelve Marte kind of

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Speaker 3: felt like he was challenged into Noelva's credit. He answered

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Speaker 3: the challenge enough to make the team, but because of

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Speaker 3: you know, just the lukewarm nature of how Tito talked

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Speaker 3: about him, plus re Signs carved it up during spring

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Speaker 3: training and JJ Blanet was acquired for a reason. It

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Speaker 3: was to play at Corner roule Field Spot had a

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01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 3: good spring. Neither one of those guys did anything during

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Speaker 3: the Cactus League to deserve a demotion.

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Speaker 2: So you wonder, like, how long is the leash going

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Speaker 2: to be?

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Speaker 3: And was yesterday reflective of Noelve not playing with a

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Speaker 3: very long leash as the season unfolds. We will see,

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Speaker 3: we will see, but that to me was interesting. The

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Speaker 3: bigger one was not hitting for Keith Brian Hayes. We

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Speaker 3: talked about Noelve Marte with Tommy Thrall because I asked

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Speaker 3: him that same question, and if you want his answer,

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Speaker 3: go listen to the podcast. It was from Wednesday show.

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Speaker 3: It's on the iHeartRadio app. So is our conversation with

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Speaker 3: Sam Lequere and Jared. Jared Calhoun participated in the Finley

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Speaker 3: Market opening day parade yesterday, but I'm sure the highlight

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Speaker 3: of his first few days as UCS head coach was

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Speaker 3: talking with me, and if you missed that conversation, it

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Speaker 3: is also available on the iHeartRadio app podcast of this show.

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Speaker 3: A service of long neck Sports Grill this weekend. If

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Speaker 3: radar over the last few days that we will talk

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Speaker 3: about in the five o'clock hour, But first Brenneman and

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Speaker 3: Jones on.

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Speaker 1: Baseball Cincinnati's ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: You know what that man says, what's up minute late

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Speaker 3: start to the hour. This is ESPN fifteen thirty on Moeger.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for listening, Pope. Your weekend is off to

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Speaker 3: a rip roran start, rip roran start. I said, we've

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Speaker 3: been heavy on the Reds and opening day. By the way,

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Speaker 3: the most important developments yesterday may have been how good

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Speaker 3: Andrew Abbott was and the fact that Sal Stewart got

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Speaker 3: three hits and apparently dodged a bullet when it looked

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Speaker 3: like maybe he broke his wrist. So those things, to

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Speaker 3: me were the headlines, but they didn't win the game,

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Speaker 3: and so they become secondary story story, so to speak.

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Speaker 3: But the Andrew Abbott thing, they're asking him to take

1379
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Speaker 3: on a heavy load here early in the season, and

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Speaker 3: the strength of this team should still be at starting pitching.

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Speaker 3: If you believe that Chase Burns has a chance to

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01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 3: very quickly become a quality big league pitcher, and if

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Speaker 3: you believe that that's going to happen with Rhet Louder

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01:11:57,240 --> 01:12:02,280
Speaker 3: and Brett Williamson, and if you believe that Nicolodolo's moist

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Speaker 3: fingers are going to stop having blisters on them, the

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Speaker 3: strength of this team could very well still be the

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Speaker 3: starting pitching, but it has been compromised and there's an

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Speaker 3: experience gap, and so that puts the onus on the

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Speaker 3: guys at the top of the rotation. Brady Singer is

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Speaker 3: going to have to pitch a lot of innings, which

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Speaker 3: I think he's going to be up to the task.

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Speaker 3: Based on last year's performance. I think it's reasonable to

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Speaker 3: assume that that will happen. But we spent a lot

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Speaker 3: of time during the spring wondering what do we make

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01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 3: of what Andrew Abbott did in the Cactus League and

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Speaker 3: which pitcher will we see this year. It's not like

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01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,680
Speaker 3: he was awful in the second half last season, but

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01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 3: he was awesome in the first half, and maybe he

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01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:44,920
Speaker 3: set the bar so high that he's just not going

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Speaker 3: to be capable of maintaining that sort of performance over

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Speaker 3: the course of an entire season. But with just the

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Speaker 3: way the Reds starting pitching is structured right now, they

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01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 3: kind of need the first half Andrew Abbott here early

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Speaker 3: in the season.

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Speaker 2: They got it yesterday. And the Sal Stewart thing.

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Speaker 3: I've talked about him a lot over the last few days,

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Speaker 3: and it's not just believing that he has a chance

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Speaker 3: to be a terrific player. It's watching a dude who

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Speaker 3: every time the Reds have asked him to do something,

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Speaker 3: he's done it. Whether it be what they've asked him

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Speaker 3: to do, is he's progressed through the system, throwing him

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Speaker 3: into a playoff push last year and watching him help

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Speaker 3: the team. Telling him this offseason like got to remake

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Speaker 3: your body a little bit and really needs you to

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Speaker 3: work on your defense. He did those things, telling him

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Speaker 3: like no roster spot during spring training for you is guaranteed.

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Speaker 3: I think we all believed he was going to make

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Speaker 3: the squad and then he did nothing but rake during

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Speaker 3: the Cactus League. And it's one game, it's one day.

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Speaker 3: But the confidence they's show in him hitting him lead

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Speaker 3: off and then becoming the first Reds rookie ever to

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Speaker 3: get three hits on opening Day, that's a terrific sign.

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Speaker 3: And we've talked about this from a gambling perspective, Sal

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Speaker 3: Stewart to be National League Rookie of the Year, I

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Speaker 3: think it's an awesome bet. And then just from the

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Speaker 3: perspective of what this what he could mean for this team,

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Speaker 3: a multi dimensional offensive player relative to what Ejohaneosuarez could

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Speaker 3: be A guy who feels like he could just do more.

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Speaker 3: And you know Souarez is this is they got him

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Speaker 3: for this reason. He's the one dimensional guy hitting the

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Speaker 3: ball out of the ballpark. I think we believe there's

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Speaker 3: going to be a little bit more offensively that Sala

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Speaker 3: Stewart can do. And maybe yesterday would suggest that. I

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Speaker 3: am looking at ESPN right now and Hannah Storm is

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Speaker 3: interviewing Mark Schlayball. So we've heard the story throughout the

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Speaker 3: afternoon that Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover car crash.

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Speaker 3: I obviously don't have audio in here, but the local

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Speaker 3: sheriff spokesperson in Martin County, Florida just finished a press conference,

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Speaker 3: and the headline that I see on ESPN is that

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Speaker 3: Tiger Woods is being cited for dui.

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Speaker 2: Austin, do you know anything about this efforting?

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Speaker 9: But I have not yet seen that.

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Speaker 3: Right, I see Tiger Woods involved in car accident in Florida.

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Speaker 3: And then, if I'm not mistaken, the yes arrested on

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Speaker 3: suspicion of dui after car crash. So there's the headline

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Speaker 3: on ESPN right now, Tiger Woods arrested on suspicion of dui.

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Speaker 3: We've talked in the golf world, there's been a lot

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Speaker 3: of chatter about Tiger this week. Competed in the TGL

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Speaker 3: finals on Tuesday. There has been chatter about him playing

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Speaker 3: at Augusta in a couple of weeks. I certainly don't

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Speaker 3: know what any of this is going to mean for him.

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Speaker 3: He apparently was unharmed, which is good news, but arrested

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Speaker 3: on suspicion of dui.

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Speaker 9: I see here as well. It says that the according

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Speaker 9: to the Martin County Sheriff, the duy is not related

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Speaker 9: to alcohol. Woods is also charged with refus usual to

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Speaker 9: submit a lawful test, stemming from the signs of the impairment.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha all right?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's unfortunate to hear and read, and if we

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Speaker 3: find out more, we'll certainly give it to you. Throughout

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Speaker 3: the course of the afternoon, we have folks who have

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Speaker 3: been waiting and we'll chat with them. Scott and Dayton,

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Speaker 3: you're on ESPN fifteen thirty. Scott, good afternoon.

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Speaker 4: How are you good afternoon?

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Speaker 13: Mo?

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Speaker 4: Can you answer a question for me?

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Speaker 2: I can try.

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01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 4: Have you have you heard the flag football commercials?

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Speaker 2: The flag football commercials.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that you're running on your air.

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Speaker 2: I've heard arena football commercials.

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Speaker 4: No, I figure maybe this was an iHeart thing and

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01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:45,439
Speaker 4: maybe you didn't get the chance to hear it. But

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Speaker 4: they advertise flag football and they say boys girls, high

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01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:54,680
Speaker 4: school girls. I just wondered if you had how the

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Speaker 4: two are different.

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Speaker 2: How boys and girls life football are different?

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Speaker 9: No, no, the different.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to be funny and not not the succeeding

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01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 4: at all. But they they advertise that they have age

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01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 4: groups for boys girls, high school girls, and then and

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Speaker 4: then one other group which I'm drawing a blank on.

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01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 2: But is it high school boys? It's not cool boy.

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Speaker 4: Hence the question. That's why I was curious that if

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Speaker 4: there is a big difference between the two.

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Speaker 3: I will have to listen. I will have to listen

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Speaker 3: from the spot. But I I can't say that I

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Speaker 3: have I have heard it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so now you have been a little unfair. I

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01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 4: think to our friend at third days By is not

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Speaker 4: the worst hitter in the Major League. It's not even close.

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Speaker 2: Do you want me to read the stat that I

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Speaker 2: gave earlier?

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Speaker 4: Yes, please.

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01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,439
Speaker 3: To pull this up on my computer hang on sky,

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Speaker 3: I have a lot of tabs open.

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Speaker 4: Do you know that the average batting average last year

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01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 4: was two thirty or two forty five. When do you

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Speaker 4: know what the average for key Brian Hayes was.

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Speaker 2: It was like two two thirty five.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, yeah, to be fair, it was lower.

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Speaker 2: But he alow a below average big league hitter? He yes, no,

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Speaker 2: I answered for yourself.

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Speaker 4: Well, I will get I will grant that, but below.

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Speaker 2: Average is he? Is he a good big league hitter?

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Speaker 2: He's uh no, no he's not.

1507
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 3: So here's the stat that I gave before, and admittedly

1508
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 3: this uses an advanced metric. Since the start of the

1509
01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:53,360
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four season, there have been two hundred and

1510
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 3: fifty major league hitters who have had over six hundred

1511
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 3: and fifty played appearances. Okay, he is second worst, and

1512
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 3: weighted runs created Okay, that's not good. Second worst. Well

1513
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:14,000
Speaker 3: that that means there were two hundred and forty eight

1514
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:15,000
Speaker 3: players who were better.

1515
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:19,639
Speaker 4: So here's I guess here's the point I'm making, and

1516
01:19:19,880 --> 01:19:22,719
Speaker 4: this is going way too far back, but Ozzie Smith

1517
01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 4: was a terrific defensive player, terrific, and you just realized

1518
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 4: he was going to hit hate all the time and

1519
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:36,040
Speaker 4: he was going to be a hole in your lineup

1520
01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:42,920
Speaker 4: until he got better. So I think that's all I'm saying.

1521
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:46,960
Speaker 4: Every every lineup, every major league lineup has a hole.

1522
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, and then Brian Hayes as the hole. But

1523
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 3: but usually when that's why when that?

1524
01:19:56,520 --> 01:19:56,800
Speaker 2: When that?

1525
01:19:57,600 --> 01:20:00,040
Speaker 3: When that hole comes? Okay, so he hits where the

1526
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 3: pitcher used to bat. Is is there a world where you

1527
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 3: would let the pitcher bat in a one nothing game

1528
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:08,000
Speaker 3: with a guy on first base when you have other

1529
01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:08,880
Speaker 3: options on the bench.

1530
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 4: But that's I don't think that's fair either. I mean,

1531
01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 4: if it's Michael Lauren, then I do.

1532
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, but I mean there's a hole.

1533
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:19,920
Speaker 3: Maybe you have reserve players on the team for a reason,

1534
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:22,720
Speaker 3: and one of those reasons is to use them in

1535
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 3: situations where maybe it would it would warrant not using

1536
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 3: a guy who's that not very good at the plate.

1537
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:32,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again I think that's fair. I just think

1538
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:34,719
Speaker 4: it was the first game. I didn't have any problem

1539
01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 4: with him.

1540
01:20:35,160 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 2: By the way.

1541
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:37,800
Speaker 3: By the way, Ozzie Smith also had seasons where he

1542
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 3: batted three zho three and two years.

1543
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 2: Oh no, he did, he and he can mine better.

1544
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:45,719
Speaker 3: Stole later in his career, stole thirty bases multiple times,

1545
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:49,719
Speaker 3: stole fifty bases and ended up with something like twenty

1546
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 3: four hundred hits. Key Brian Hayes will be very lucky

1547
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 3: to be as good offensively as Ozzie Smith.

1548
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 4: I think you know why I brought him up, because

1549
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:02,040
Speaker 4: if you look at the first five or seven years

1550
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:05,439
Speaker 4: of his career, he was he was awful. He was

1551
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 4: a zero.

1552
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:08,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, but but we're not in that. But we're not

1553
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 3: in the first five or six years of keep. We're

1554
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 3: none in the first four years of keep. Brian Hayes' career.

1555
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 3: This is a seventh big league season.

1556
01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 2: Right, I'm twenty nine years old.

1557
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 3: I think this isn't so much about him like Scott,

1558
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 3: it's I could I could throw metrics at you. I

1559
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:28,720
Speaker 3: could give you his spot in the batting order. He's

1560
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 3: not a good big league hitter. He's on the team

1561
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 3: for his defense. When you have a guy who's on

1562
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:35,800
Speaker 3: the team for defense and his spot in the order

1563
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:38,639
Speaker 3: comes up in the seventh inning of a one run game,

1564
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:42,080
Speaker 3: whether it's in March, whether it's in October, and there's

1565
01:21:42,160 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 3: another guy on the bench who just feels like offensively

1566
01:21:45,880 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 3: would be a better option, don't you then wonder why

1567
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 3: they didn't use that option.

1568
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:56,720
Speaker 4: I didn't yesterday, I came to.

1569
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 3: The plate, keep Brian Hayes came to the plate, And

1570
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 3: because it's opening day, you're not wondering why he's left

1571
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 3: in for himself to hit.

1572
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 4: I I wasn't okay, but but that's all right.

1573
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,200
Speaker 3: So so but now but now with the bend, now

1574
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 3: now with with you know us having talked about this

1575
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 3: for a large chunk of the afternoon, isn't it reasonable

1576
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:21,680
Speaker 3: to wonder why Tito left keep Brian Hayes in the

1577
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 3: bat when he had Nathaniel Low on the bench.

1578
01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:28,760
Speaker 4: Reasonable?

1579
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, isn't it is?

1580
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:31,600
Speaker 13: So?

1581
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 2: Isn't it?

1582
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:36,719
Speaker 3: Isn't it then reasonable to wonder? And I'm not concluding anything,

1583
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 3: but isn't it then reasonable to wonder? Well, if if

1584
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 3: they lack confidence in anybody else playing third base?

1585
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:48,599
Speaker 4: Uh? That again, that's fair.

1586
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 2: So that's all we're doing this.

1587
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:53,639
Speaker 3: This isn't this isn't This is not so much about

1588
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:56,360
Speaker 3: being unfair to keep Brian Hayes. Like, well, keep Brian

1589
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 3: Hayes is is well established. He's a high end defenders,

1590
01:23:00,439 --> 01:23:02,960
Speaker 3: arguably the best defensive third baseman in the sport. There

1591
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 3: are many Wholestate's the best defensive player in the sport.

1592
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:09,600
Speaker 3: There is immense value in that. As a hitter, he

1593
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:10,360
Speaker 3: leaves a lot.

1594
01:23:10,240 --> 01:23:10,879
Speaker 2: To be desired.

1595
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:15,120
Speaker 3: He's batting ninth for a reason. I could throw you

1596
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:17,719
Speaker 3: a number of metrics that would tell you he doesn't

1597
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:19,680
Speaker 3: hit for a lot of power. He doesn't hit for

1598
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:23,680
Speaker 3: an exceptionally high batting average. When he got called up

1599
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 3: to the Reds last season, aside from his first game,

1600
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:30,040
Speaker 3: I can recall no situation where he did anything offensively

1601
01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 3: at the plate. He looked overmatched in the postseason. I mean,

1602
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 3: he's not if you want to use batting average as

1603
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 3: a number. Two years ago, he hit two thirty three.

1604
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 3: Last year he hit two thirty four. That's fine. If

1605
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 3: you provide some pop he provides none. It's fine if

1606
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 3: you could provide a burst of speed. He doesn't do

1607
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 3: anything really to write home about on the basis because

1608
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:53,840
Speaker 3: he's never really on base like. He's not a good

1609
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,720
Speaker 3: offensive player. That doesn't mean he doesn't have value to

1610
01:23:56,760 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 3: the team. But when you have a player who's not

1611
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:04,479
Speaker 3: good offense, it's always fair to wonder aren't there better

1612
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:08,720
Speaker 3: options on the bench in high leverage situations. There was

1613
01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 3: I think for most would argue the better option offensively

1614
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 3: was Nathaniel Low. Now he doesn't play third base, but

1615
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 3: they have other guys on the team who do. Don't

1616
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:25,160
Speaker 3: you wonder why they weren't comfortable putting somebody else at

1617
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 3: third base for two innings for the sake of getting

1618
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:30,680
Speaker 3: a better bet in the game in the seventh with

1619
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:32,840
Speaker 3: a guy on first and one out.

1620
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 4: Again, I think it's always there, the second guess. But

1621
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:43,679
Speaker 4: my I think my overriding thing is if Tito thought

1622
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 4: that that was his best option, he knows way more

1623
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:48,800
Speaker 4: than you or.

1624
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 2: So, so we're not so so now we're back to this.

1625
01:24:51,439 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 3: It's Tito the Magnificent, and God forbid we ever second

1626
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:54,799
Speaker 3: guess the guy.

1627
01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 2: Because then, because.

1628
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:58,559
Speaker 3: Then Scott the the whole fun of being a fan

1629
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 3: goes away, like I'm sorry, dude, So so now we

1630
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 3: can't second guess the manager because he knows more.

1631
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:08,200
Speaker 2: But that's what you just said. So because Tito knows

1632
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 2: so much more.

1633
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:11,600
Speaker 4: I give him a pass.

1634
01:25:12,320 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 3: So the game keeping it you believe, you believe based

1635
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 3: on what you know, and you just cited a bunch

1636
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,759
Speaker 3: of numbers, so you're obviously well versed, and keep Brian

1637
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:22,320
Speaker 3: Hayes offensive statistics.

1638
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,559
Speaker 2: You look back, knowing what happened in.

1639
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 3: The game, knowing what options were better also available to Tito,

1640
01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:31,720
Speaker 3: and it doesn't even occur to you that maybe a

1641
01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:34,640
Speaker 3: better option was available. And then it doesn't occur to

1642
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:37,360
Speaker 3: you that maybe that option wasn't used because they simply

1643
01:25:37,360 --> 01:25:40,360
Speaker 3: don't trust anybody else to play third base like that,

1644
01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 3: those questions don't go through your mind.

1645
01:25:43,400 --> 01:25:43,800
Speaker 4: They do.

1646
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 7: Okay, that's all we're doing.

1647
01:25:45,880 --> 01:25:46,599
Speaker 4: I think it's fair.

1648
01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 2: That's all we're doing.

1649
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,639
Speaker 3: Because if the answer is a, well, Tito knows better,

1650
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 3: then honestly, Scott, what's the point of doing any of this.

1651
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:53,759
Speaker 14: Right?

1652
01:25:54,040 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 4: Right? Any movie?

1653
01:25:58,400 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 7: Right?

1654
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:02,240
Speaker 3: We're never We're know Zach Taylor never question going forward

1655
01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 3: on fourth like I mean, legitimately so. But I don't

1656
01:26:05,240 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 3: know if it's so much a Tito thing as much

1657
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 3: as it's a roster construction thing. Nobody else who could

1658
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,640
Speaker 3: play third base. So you're gonna use a guy in

1659
01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:15,400
Speaker 3: Scott like you may say him being mean to keep

1660
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 3: Brian Hayes. There's an army of stats that will tell

1661
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 3: you he's just not a good hitter. And by the way,

1662
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 3: if he was a good hitter, he wouldn't be batting ninth.

1663
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 3: It's just not a good hitter. If he was a

1664
01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 3: good hitter, the Pittsburgh Pirates wouldn't have given up on

1665
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:27,639
Speaker 3: him like they did.

1666
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:31,679
Speaker 2: Sorry, man, they did. So he's not a good hitter.

1667
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:34,439
Speaker 3: Are the Reds comfortable using a guy who's not a

1668
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 3: good hitter because they're afraid to play somebody else at

1669
01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 3: third base? Completely legitimate question that I'm not sure is

1670
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 3: that damning of an indictment against Terry Francona Right, Yeah, I.

1671
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:49,559
Speaker 4: Get yeah, it was one game. It was one moment.

1672
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 3: But but would that one moment suggest that over the

1673
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:56,759
Speaker 3: course of the season, we're gonna watch Key Brian Hayes

1674
01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:00,200
Speaker 3: bat more often in high leverage situations when they're be

1675
01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 3: a different option on the bench.

1676
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 2: That's it.

1677
01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 3: That's the question. None of us know the answer. That's

1678
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 3: the fun part of it. But it's one worth asking.

1679
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:07,360
Speaker 3: Would you agree that.

1680
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 4: I would totally agree. Here's the only again, the only

1681
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 4: caveat throw in. I know he's been with the Pirates

1682
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:20,280
Speaker 4: and maybe with the Reds, maybe they've discovered something. Maybe

1683
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 4: maybe Kerry thinks that, hey, he's got to be better

1684
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 4: in this situation.

1685
01:27:26,280 --> 01:27:31,320
Speaker 2: I mean, he hits all hard, he's discovered something. What what?

1686
01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 2: What would they have What would they have discovered?

1687
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 3: What what did they discover in the two months last

1688
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:39,600
Speaker 3: year when the numbers he put up were commensurate to

1689
01:27:40,439 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 3: pretty much the numbers he's put up his entire.

1690
01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:46,639
Speaker 2: Career, were they Yeah, dude, like two thirty.

1691
01:27:46,479 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 3: Last year for the Reds, for the Reds, here you go,

1692
01:27:50,439 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 3: I will, I will do us all a favor. I

1693
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 3: know Austin's losing his mind. Hit two thirty four for

1694
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:57,840
Speaker 3: the Reds last season. This ops was six fifty six.

1695
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 4: Like no, no, no, I was talking about four the

1696
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 4: So you're saying you for.

1697
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 3: The Reds he did next to nothing offensive right, he

1698
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 3: has done next to nothing offensively for the majority of

1699
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 3: his career. Now, are there moments where he gets a

1700
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 3: hit or he's a big league hit, or it's gonna happen? Well,

1701
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I just I think you're I think and

1702
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:20,559
Speaker 3: I do got to go here. I think you're gonna

1703
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,000
Speaker 3: have a hard time getting anybody to believe that he

1704
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:25,760
Speaker 3: was the best option. And if we understand that there's

1705
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:27,760
Speaker 3: a reasonable case that can be made that he wasn't

1706
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:30,719
Speaker 3: the best option, then you wonder why the manager didn't

1707
01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,679
Speaker 3: go at that option. Maybe he simply had a hunch.

1708
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 3: Maybe he believed in Key Brian Hayes. Maybe he thought

1709
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 3: I all embarrass Key Brian Hayes if I pinch hit

1710
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 3: for him, I can't help. But wonder do they not

1711
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:42,640
Speaker 3: trust anybody else on the team despite the fact that

1712
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:44,479
Speaker 3: a lot of guys on the team have experienced playing

1713
01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:45,040
Speaker 3: third base.

1714
01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:45,599
Speaker 14: Uh.

1715
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 2: I always enjoyed talking to you, Scott. Have a great weekend.

1716
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 4: Always enjoy it. Thanks mom.

1717
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:51,960
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Speaker 6: leaving only one lane open. A's for work on the

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Speaker 6: Carrol Cropper Bridge. Thirty minute delay back from the Ohio line.

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Speaker 3: reading here from a TMZ some of the details about

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Speaker 3: Tiger Woods, who has been arrested in Jupiter, Florida, after

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Speaker 3: speeding down a street, clipping a car, and rolling his

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Speaker 3: range Rover over. This, according to a law enforcement didn't

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Speaker 3: happened around two o'clock. Pickup truck was turning into a

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Speaker 3: driveway on a two lane street when the range Rover

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Speaker 3: roared down the street at a high speed. According to

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Speaker 3: the sheriff, driver of the pickup truck time that tried

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Speaker 3: to turn into a driveway, but the range Rover was

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Speaker 3: going at such a high speed that the pickup truck

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01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:19,679
Speaker 3: could not fully enter the driveway and Tiger clipped the vehicle,

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Speaker 3: which caused his Range Rover to flip over on the

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Speaker 3: driver side. He climbed out the passenger window. Cops arrived

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01:30:26,040 --> 01:30:31,280
Speaker 3: shortly thereafter. Deputies quickly observed the Tiger appeared impaired and lethargic.

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01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 3: Conducted an alcohol test that registered at zero percent. Sheriff

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Speaker 3: said during the news conference. He believes Woods was not

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01:30:38,400 --> 01:30:41,360
Speaker 3: under the influence of alcohol, but rather medication. Was placed

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Speaker 3: under arrest, taken to the police station, he refused a

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01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:48,280
Speaker 3: urine test booked on DUI and refusal to submit to

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Speaker 3: your analysis. He'll have to spend a minimum of eight

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01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 3: hours in jail before he is bailed out. Did note

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Speaker 3: that Woods explained he had various surgeries and they took

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01:30:56,760 --> 01:30:59,760
Speaker 3: that into account when assessing him. Neither Tiger nor the

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01:31:00,320 --> 01:31:05,639
Speaker 3: driver were injured. Other sports headlines next and more phone

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Speaker 3: calls on ESPN fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports.

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Speaker 6: at all levels. Schedule and appointment online at UCHealth dot com.

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Speaker 6: Northbound seventy five in Ohio after two seventy five in

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Speaker 6: accident off on the left shoulder. Police there on scene

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Speaker 6: with a five minute delay from Sharon Road southbound two

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Speaker 6: seventy five down to one lane at the Indiana Kentucky line.

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Speaker 6: Looking at a thirty minute delay back into Ohio. I'm

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Speaker 3: for life, kelseyshow dot Com Off day for the Reds

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Speaker 3: Kids Opening Day Tomorrow, Reds and Red Sox four to ten.

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Speaker 3: First pitch GABP Brady Singer and Sonny Gray here at

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Speaker 3: on seven hundred WLW one forty game on Sunday, Tiger

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Speaker 3: Woods arrested on suspicion of Dui after flipping his car

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Speaker 3: over in Florida. Neither he or the other motorists involved

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Speaker 3: were harmed.

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Speaker 2: Thank god.

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Speaker 3: College basketball Tonight, the Sweet sixteen continues Saint John's and Duke,

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Speaker 3: Michigan and Yukon in one bracket, Alabama, Michigan, Tennessee and

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Speaker 3: Iowa State and the other and tonight on the road

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Speaker 3: cyclone skate against Iowa. They will play Iowa in Iowa

1782
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Speaker 3: all three days this weekend. Waiting very patiently for his turn. Mike,

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Speaker 3: go ahead.

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Speaker 2: You're on ESPN fifteen thirty.

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Speaker 14: Thank you, Mo.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome.

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Speaker 14: Did you then enjoying the basketball extra avaganda.

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Speaker 2: The NCAA tournament immensely? Yes? Do you have me on

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Speaker 2: a speakerphone?

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Speaker 13: No?

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Speaker 2: You sound bad. Now you sound better, go ahea. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I've been.

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01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:03,960
Speaker 3: I've enjoyed the tournament immensely. Do you know why I'm

1794
01:33:04,040 --> 01:33:05,760
Speaker 3: enjoying the tournament immensely?

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Speaker 14: To divide people that said the basketball is going downhill

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01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 14: and that the tournament's going downhill and that basketball is

1797
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:17,320
Speaker 14: in fine shape, whether there's NIO or not.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's one reason. The other reason is, and I'm probably.

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Speaker 3: Jinxing myself, but if if the tournament ended today, I

1800
01:33:26,840 --> 01:33:31,840
Speaker 3: would have my fourth iHeartMedia Office Pool championship sewn up.

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Speaker 14: Ooh, nice job.

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01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:37,639
Speaker 2: Now the tournament.

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01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 3: The tournament doesn't end today, and to be fair, I'm

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01:33:41,240 --> 01:33:43,320
Speaker 3: tied for first with somebody, but.

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01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:46,280
Speaker 14: H how many losses so far?

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01:33:46,479 --> 01:33:49,040
Speaker 2: How many losses? I don't have my bracket in front

1807
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:53,800
Speaker 2: of me, but more than a few. But again, well

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01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 2: so I'm more than that. It's interesting.

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01:33:59,400 --> 01:34:01,880
Speaker 3: I'm in I'm I don't think anybody cares about this,

1810
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:05,639
Speaker 3: but I'm in three different pools, and I don't believe

1811
01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:08,800
Speaker 3: any I don't believe anymore in submitting multiple brackets, but

1812
01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:10,759
Speaker 3: the one that I'm in here in the work pool,

1813
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:13,320
Speaker 3: I made a mistake because I picked Illinois to go

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01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:15,760
Speaker 3: to the final four. But in the one here at work,

1815
01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 3: in the one here at work, I picked Florida, and

1816
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:22,759
Speaker 3: so that's going to cost me. But as of today,

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Speaker 3: as of today, I'm proud to say that I'm atop

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Speaker 3: the standings in the iHeartMedia office.

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Speaker 14: Did that bum me out last night when Illinois took

1820
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:33,160
Speaker 14: it to Houston, well.

1821
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:34,759
Speaker 3: A little bit, because you know, I like the Cougars,

1822
01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 3: but uh, I bet on Illinois. I thought getting three

1823
01:34:39,479 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 3: and a half was a bit much. I thought that

1824
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:44,000
Speaker 3: was a tough matchup for the Kougs. From this perspective,

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01:34:44,479 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 3: Illinois offensively, they run great stuff and they can beat

1826
01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:50,639
Speaker 3: them for multiple places on the floor. But they also

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01:34:50,680 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 3: don't turn it over and they're also a great offensive

1828
01:34:53,160 --> 01:34:55,000
Speaker 3: rebounding team. And I sort of felt like they had

1829
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:58,799
Speaker 3: the anecdote to Houston's defense. What I did not expect

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01:34:59,280 --> 01:35:01,559
Speaker 3: was Illinois kind of and Tony put it this way

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01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 3: during since he three sixty kind of out Houston and

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01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:06,439
Speaker 3: Houston with their toughness and defense.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, well, they were an all star Eastern European team.

1834
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:12,160
Speaker 14: That's that's what you got.

1835
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:13,240
Speaker 13: Boy.

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Speaker 14: Can they play basketball?

1837
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:17,759
Speaker 2: And I like I like Brad Stevens. I like Brad Stevens.

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Speaker 3: I've had the pleasure of interviewing him when he was

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01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:25,400
Speaker 3: at stephen Off Austin and was terrific. A friend of

1840
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:27,519
Speaker 3: mine went to a coaching clinic that he did, and

1841
01:35:27,560 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 3: he's a big fan. And just I've I've watched pieces

1842
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:33,479
Speaker 3: with Brad Underwood where I've thought that's that's a guy

1843
01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:35,559
Speaker 3: that I I'd like to root for. So I'm as

1844
01:35:35,640 --> 01:35:39,040
Speaker 3: much as yes, I wanted Houston. I've wanted Houston to

1845
01:35:39,040 --> 01:35:41,720
Speaker 3: win the national championship, you know.

1846
01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 2: And I have a good friend. I have a good

1847
01:35:43,240 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 2: friend who's an Illinois grad.

1848
01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 14: So there you Okay, You've got an update on Caleb Foster.

1849
01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 14: I heard him say game time.

1850
01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:51,719
Speaker 4: Decision I've not seen.

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01:35:52,439 --> 01:35:55,360
Speaker 14: I've not seen, but he hasn't played basketball in three weeks.

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01:35:55,439 --> 01:35:56,599
Speaker 14: That's not gonna help him.

1853
01:35:56,439 --> 01:35:58,680
Speaker 2: Many, no.

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01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:02,559
Speaker 3: I Now I look up here and I see yeah

1855
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:07,880
Speaker 3: who says reportedly will play. Now we'll see how much

1856
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:11,240
Speaker 3: they had a broken foot, So we'll see. But according

1857
01:36:11,280 --> 01:36:14,439
Speaker 3: to Adam Zagoria College Basketball Insider, he is going to

1858
01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:17,160
Speaker 3: try to play tonight against Saint John's.

1859
01:36:17,479 --> 01:36:21,640
Speaker 14: I like the Johnny's, I like like you. I do

1860
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 14: like Tommy y Izzo's team to beat Yukon and I

1861
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 14: like Iowa State, so that's not really any going on

1862
01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:31,960
Speaker 14: on a limb there with anything. Tennessee has been a

1863
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:34,960
Speaker 14: bit of a surprise to me, so good for them.

1864
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:38,080
Speaker 14: Last night, I had the pleasure of going to the

1865
01:36:38,160 --> 01:36:41,960
Speaker 14: Dodgers game with some other veterans. Yeah, it's a little

1866
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:43,840
Speaker 14: bit of a hassle because you've got to take your

1867
01:36:43,880 --> 01:36:47,880
Speaker 14: ivs and gear with you, but what a what a pleasure,

1868
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:49,759
Speaker 14: and they put us up in the hotel and stuff.

1869
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:53,000
Speaker 14: So I mean, I'm so grateful. And uh, I wore

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01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:56,200
Speaker 14: my Air Davis Reg jersey. I've never worn a Reg

1871
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:57,719
Speaker 14: jersey the Dodgers stadium.

1872
01:36:58,439 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 2: How did how did?

1873
01:36:59,160 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 4: How did?

1874
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:01,040
Speaker 2: How did your fans react to that?

1875
01:37:02,160 --> 01:37:06,240
Speaker 14: Tremendously? I must have gotten fifteen pats on the back

1876
01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:08,280
Speaker 14: because Eb's from La.

1877
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:10,240
Speaker 2: Played for the Dodgers.

1878
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:13,160
Speaker 14: Yeah, and they love him and they just loved him.

1879
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:15,679
Speaker 14: And then of course they knew we were veterans and stuff, right,

1880
01:37:15,760 --> 01:37:18,840
Speaker 14: but they It was really cool because I had no

1881
01:37:18,880 --> 01:37:21,760
Speaker 14: idea what the reception would be, not that I could

1882
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 14: dictate it, but it made me feel really good that

1883
01:37:25,400 --> 01:37:29,639
Speaker 14: people were open minded and cognizant of one of their homeboys.

1884
01:37:29,760 --> 01:37:31,519
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's very good.

1885
01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 3: You know, Eric Davis is an LA guy that actually

1886
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:36,360
Speaker 3: does I mentioned did play for the Dodgers, and so

1887
01:37:36,400 --> 01:37:39,000
Speaker 3: I'm that's a cool Davis is the coolest baseball player

1888
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,680
Speaker 3: of all time. So that's I'm thrilled that you had

1889
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 3: that jersey. But uh, and I'm glad, you know, for

1890
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:47,639
Speaker 3: your sake, the Dodgers won. Yamamoto Yamamoto pitch well, Will

1891
01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:50,120
Speaker 3: Smith had a homer, So that's good for you. But uh,

1892
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 3: the Dodger dog is really bad, isn't it.

1893
01:37:56,200 --> 01:37:57,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's you know, it's bad.

1894
01:37:58,200 --> 01:37:59,439
Speaker 14: It's so So.

1895
01:37:59,439 --> 01:38:03,080
Speaker 3: I went to Dodger Stadium in two thousand and eighteen

1896
01:38:03,560 --> 01:38:06,840
Speaker 3: because UC was playing UCLA and the Dodgers were home

1897
01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:09,000
Speaker 3: that weekend, and Tony and I went to a Dodgers

1898
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 3: game and I got a Dodger dog because all I

1899
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:13,439
Speaker 3: heard gotta get a Dodger dog, Gotta get a Dodger dog.

1900
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:16,439
Speaker 3: It was bad, Yeah, it was a It was a Now,

1901
01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:18,560
Speaker 3: the pizza at Dodger Stadium was good. It was like

1902
01:38:18,640 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 3: twenty four dollars a slice. But I got the Dodger

1903
01:38:21,160 --> 01:38:23,120
Speaker 3: dog because every guy get the dog. It was awful.

1904
01:38:23,400 --> 01:38:27,360
Speaker 3: It was almost not edible atrocious. The Dodgers are worth

1905
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:30,080
Speaker 3: billions of dollars, right they're gonna win a third straight

1906
01:38:30,120 --> 01:38:32,320
Speaker 3: World Series. You gotta have a better hot dog at

1907
01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:35,160
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium for what they're charging for tickets. Got to

1908
01:38:35,160 --> 01:38:35,960
Speaker 3: have a better hot dog.

1909
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:42,640
Speaker 14: They've improved that since then. But I'll tell you I

1910
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:48,280
Speaker 14: took my dad uh several years ago and before he passed,

1911
01:38:48,320 --> 01:38:51,519
Speaker 14: and we got these speaks. They were called dugout boxes.

1912
01:38:51,560 --> 01:38:55,400
Speaker 14: They were dugout level right behind home plate and he

1913
01:38:55,479 --> 01:38:57,240
Speaker 14: had to take an elevator to get down there. I

1914
01:38:57,240 --> 01:38:59,840
Speaker 14: did it for my dad for his birthday and they

1915
01:38:59,840 --> 01:39:01,840
Speaker 14: were playing the mess. It was the coolest thing, though,

1916
01:39:01,880 --> 01:39:04,080
Speaker 14: because you were right at butt level with the catcher

1917
01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:08,559
Speaker 14: as if you were in the dugouts. My dad said, man,

1918
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:10,920
Speaker 14: I would wanting to try one of these Dodgers. He

1919
01:39:11,040 --> 01:39:13,240
Speaker 14: got it and he said, this is garbage.

1920
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Speaker 2: It was terrible.

1921
01:39:14,360 --> 01:39:17,360
Speaker 3: It tasted like I was eating like someone's cooked finger.

1922
01:39:17,400 --> 01:39:21,800
Speaker 3: I mean it was I can't speak to how bad

1923
01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:24,120
Speaker 3: I get a hot if I ever go to a ballpark.

1924
01:39:24,600 --> 01:39:26,640
Speaker 2: You know, in this era of like fancy food, what

1925
01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:27,840
Speaker 2: I want? Has your hot dog?

1926
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:31,240
Speaker 3: Like Milwaukee has a great hot dog Pittsburgh has a

1927
01:39:31,280 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 3: great hot dog. Saint Louis has a great hot dog.

1928
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 3: Chacott Wrigley Fields hot dogs abysmal. You don't want to

1929
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:41,519
Speaker 3: go there. Cleveland's got a good hot dog, Atlanta solid

1930
01:39:41,560 --> 01:39:46,160
Speaker 3: hot dog. Dodger Stadium, the world famous Dodger dog almost uneedable.

1931
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Speaker 2: It is atrocious.

1932
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Speaker 3: It is an embarrassment to Vince Gully and Don Drysdale

1933
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:55,160
Speaker 3: and Kirk Gibson and show Hey Otani himself that that's

1934
01:39:55,160 --> 01:39:56,559
Speaker 3: what they serve at Dodger Stadium.

1935
01:39:57,479 --> 01:40:00,840
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, you made your point, and everybody out there,

1936
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:04,160
Speaker 14: do you hear that? Hey Mo, could you quickly break

1937
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Speaker 14: down to awesome for me? He's a little confused on

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Speaker 14: the home dog situation. All right, to a quick breakdown.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do this one more time so, Mike,

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Speaker 3: I know you're not a social media user, but I

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Speaker 3: have documented on social media. I'm going to try to

1942
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Speaker 3: do this all season long, which, like most things in

1943
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Speaker 3: my life, I'll start something then give up after a

1944
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Speaker 3: few minutes. But I've tried to document all season long

1945
01:40:27,520 --> 01:40:29,680
Speaker 3: the home dog strategy. Now we're not off to a

1946
01:40:29,720 --> 01:40:32,680
Speaker 3: great start. We had three home dogs yesterday, only one

1947
01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:35,640
Speaker 3: of them won. Saint Louis. But the home dog strategy

1948
01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:39,840
Speaker 3: works like this. At the beginning of a series, pick

1949
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Speaker 3: find the underdogs the beginning of the series, the home underdogs,

1950
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Speaker 3: not road underdogs. Home underdogs, bet on them. Let's say

1951
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Speaker 3: we're going to bet ten dollars. Bet ten dollars on

1952
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:56,760
Speaker 3: those underdogs. If an underdog wins, collect your winnings, don't

1953
01:40:56,800 --> 01:40:59,679
Speaker 3: bet the rest of the series. If the underdog loses,

1954
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Speaker 3: bet on that team the next game, regardless of whether

1955
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:06,600
Speaker 3: or not they're underdogs, and double your bets. So now

1956
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Speaker 3: we're betting twenty bucks. If they lose that game, bet

1957
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Speaker 3: on them the next game, but this time bet thirty

1958
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:14,759
Speaker 3: or if you want to double your bet, bet forty.

1959
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Speaker 3: What we're doing is we're betting against series sweeps. We're

1960
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:20,920
Speaker 3: starting with the underdogs, so we're getting good value in

1961
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Speaker 3: the first game. Hopefully they win, but if not, we're

1962
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Speaker 3: basically hedging against their being a sweep. Now, there obviously

1963
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Speaker 3: are sweeps. So for instance, San Francisco Night one on Wednesday, underdog,

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Speaker 3: we're betting on them today because they lost that game.

1965
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Speaker 3: Saint Louis as an underdog at home. By the way,

1966
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Speaker 3: that Giants Yankees game is scoreless in the fifth inning.

1967
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Speaker 3: Saint Louis as a home dog, won yesterday one on

1968
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Speaker 3: Opening Day. Cardinals aren't going to win many games this year.

1969
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Speaker 3: They're going to be home underdogs a lot. Beat Tampa

1970
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Speaker 3: Bay nine to seven, then we're not touching that series

1971
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Speaker 3: the rest of the way. Conversely, San Diego and Cincinnati

1972
01:41:54,200 --> 01:41:57,360
Speaker 3: were home underdogs. Both lost, so we're betting on them

1973
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Speaker 3: in their next game. For the Reds, that's tomorrow. The

1974
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:03,400
Speaker 3: Padres actually played their game tonight, so we're betting on

1975
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Speaker 3: San Diego. That's the best way that I can encapsulate

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Speaker 3: the home dog strategy.

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Speaker 14: And I don't know. I won't bring it up again

1978
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Speaker 14: because I know it's getting old to you, and I

1979
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Speaker 14: apologize for that. One more last statement, if you would.

1980
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Speaker 14: The thing I think is really cool about south Stewart

1981
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Speaker 14: is that his really mentor, and you may know this

1982
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Speaker 14: is Manny Machada. He did know that, yeah, like his uncle,

1983
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Speaker 14: and he has been his mentor, his confidant in life,

1984
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Speaker 14: in baseball and everything. I just thought that was so

1985
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Speaker 14: cool because nobody ever talked to even in California, knew that.

1986
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Speaker 2: I remember that story.

1987
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Speaker 3: Being told when south Stewart got caught up last year

1988
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Speaker 3: that Manny Machado's had a great influence on salth Stuart.

1989
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Speaker 3: Now here's something I bet you didn't know. Twenty eighteen,

1990
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Speaker 3: the year that I went to Dodger Stadium, Many Machado

1991
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Speaker 3: played for the Dodgers. Remember he got traded by the

1992
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Speaker 3: Orioles of the Dodgers. Yeah, and he didn't resign because

1993
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Speaker 3: of the Dodger dog. So they're gonna have to find

1994
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Speaker 3: a way to rectify that hot dog problem at Dodger Stadie, Mike,

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Speaker 3: have a great weekend. Take care, you're nut real really thanks,

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Speaker 3: Thank those Tyson Anderson walk to go to the Denver

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Speaker 3: Broncos where he gets a one year contract worth one

2012
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Speaker 3: and a half million dollars. And I know this happened

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Speaker 3: a few days ago, but that is I would be

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Speaker 3: willing to bet that if if you if you got

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Speaker 3: Darren why Ale Men's thank you, I was gonna say, Simpson,

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Speaker 3: I thank you, thank you Boston very much. Simpson, maybe

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Speaker 3: I was. And Dan Rolofski going on the Pat mcavie show.

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Speaker 3: If you were to ask Darren Simmons, how do you

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Speaker 3: one year, one and a half million dollar contract, he

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Speaker 3: you know, fine, you don't want to go get a linebacker?

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Speaker 3: That makes no sense?

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Speaker 2: Cool?

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Speaker 3: Paid Joe Flacco six million bucks, didn't have some change

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Speaker 3: left over to keep arguably your best special teams guy,

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Speaker 3: great work. The same team that drafted a kicker, you

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Speaker 3: would think would invest in their best special teams players,

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Speaker 3: not not Tyson Anderson let him get away one year

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Speaker 3: one and a half mil, couldn't come up with five

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Speaker 3: hundred k to keep him shows over, got to go.

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Speaker 3: I AM off next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Austin Elmore

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Speaker 3: will host this show on Monday and was great to

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Speaker 3: have him in for tearing with me this afternoon. Anything

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Speaker 3: forget Tony's since the three sixty is noon on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Have an awesome weekend. Thank you for listening. This is

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