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Speaker 1: Hey body, it's around the park with Crook and Kipe.

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Speaker 1: And today we're going to talk about about the big

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Speaker 1: leagues and just how big they can be. And last

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Speaker 1: night we saw an example of that. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that when we come back. Heybody, it's around the Park

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Speaker 1: with crookand Kuypen. Today is game three of this four

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Speaker 1: game series with the New York Mets, and something happened

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Speaker 1: in last night's ball game that I want to talk about,

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Speaker 1: and it is the night that the Mets starter Nolan

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Speaker 1: McLain had against the Giants. And it's something that could

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Speaker 1: happen on any given night in any given ballpark around

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Speaker 1: the country, where you get a guy throwing so well

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Speaker 1: that he just can't get figured you can't figure him out.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he just goes through your team. And there

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Speaker 1: are five innings last night that he threw where he

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Speaker 1: retired fifteen in a row. It was just a mismatch.

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Speaker 1: And it's just a reminder of what can happen to

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Speaker 1: you up here because you're playing with the best baseball

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Speaker 1: players in the world, and on any given night, a

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Speaker 1: guy could have a career game or just even one

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Speaker 1: of the best games he's had that particular year, and

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Speaker 1: he could shut an offense down. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what happened last night. So you were a next hitter

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Speaker 1: and you hit for ten years. Were you aware early

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Speaker 1: in a game when a guy had it going like

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Speaker 1: McLain had it going last night? Is that something you

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Speaker 1: talked about in the dugout?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes, Mike, you're aware before he even takes the mound,

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Speaker 2: just because of who he is, maybe his history, maybe

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Speaker 2: he's had four or five years in the big leagues

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Speaker 2: and he's a perennial All Star, he's a you know,

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Speaker 2: eighteen game winner. And then sometimes you know, you got

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Speaker 2: the first inning, you can see that a guy's got

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Speaker 2: it going. Last night was kind of a combination of both.

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Speaker 2: We knew the kind of stuff that this guy has,

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Speaker 2: and then after you watched him in the first inning,

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Speaker 2: you knew that it was going to be a long,

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Speaker 2: long night. I mean, I've told this story before, but

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Speaker 2: we had a game in Cleveland and Toby Harrow was

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Speaker 2: our lead offitter, and I don't remember who we were facing,

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Speaker 2: but it was somebody pretty good. And you know, you

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Speaker 2: always get something from the guy that hits first, right,

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Speaker 2: what's he got? Well, you know, he's this he's movement.

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Speaker 2: So Toby takes us it bat. He strikes out on

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Speaker 2: three pitches. He comes back and in a really loud

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Speaker 2: voice in front of everybody, he says, we have no

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Speaker 2: chance tonight, and everybody looked at the person next to

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Speaker 2: him is like, oh really, because you know, Toby was

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Speaker 2: a good player and he could do a lot of

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Speaker 2: things including you know, bunton for a base it with

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Speaker 2: two strikes. So when he made that proclamation, we all

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Speaker 2: kind of sat on our hands like uh oh, and

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Speaker 2: you know what, he was right. It was one of

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Speaker 2: those nights where nobody did much of anything, so you

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Speaker 2: can tell early. And then there are occasions like we

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Speaker 2: see We saw it in San Diego with Logan Web

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Speaker 2: where he struggled for three innings and then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden in the fourth inning, boop Delight went on

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Speaker 2: and he just retires everybody else the rest of the way.

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Speaker 2: So you never know, and it can happen. But if

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Speaker 2: it happens when the very first hitter, you're going to

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Speaker 2: be in for a long night like they were last night.

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Speaker 1: It's just a reminder of where you are and who

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Speaker 1: you're playing against. I mean, it can happen with a

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Speaker 1: hitter too. I mean there are times will you be

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Speaker 1: on the on deck circle as a big lead hitter

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Speaker 1: that you knew that you were going to hit the

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Speaker 1: ball hard. You knew it. And when a guy gets

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Speaker 1: in a batter's box and he's got that feeling, you

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Speaker 1: can feel it when you're pitching against it, and you

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Speaker 1: know it's just a sixth sense you develop, and it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like, I'm not letting this guy beat me.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's on everything. I'm throwing, every speed, every location.

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Speaker 1: He is not off balance at all, and you know

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a it's gonna be a rough go.

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Speaker 2: But making a prediction tonight that after Francisco Lindor's first

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Speaker 2: at bat, he's gonna walk into the Mets dugout and

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Speaker 2: say we have no chance tonight. That's my call.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going with that. And then that's around the

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Speaker 1: park with crooked guy that enjoyed this great game