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Speaker 1: Thank you Dan for not texting me the whole time.

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Speaker 2: All Right, I'd like to go to Cratsky and Alana

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Speaker 2: and I'd like to say, how much of that story

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Speaker 3: And Toronto is on fire lately? The AO East is

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Speaker 3: an interesting race. We talked about the Yankee struggling. Albeit

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Speaker 3: But are the Toronto Blue Jays, Eric? Are they for real?

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Speaker 3: They won on Sunday, they swept the Angels. They extended

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Speaker 1: Yes, they're for real.

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Speaker 4: Why I say that because the last two years I've

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Speaker 4: said this lineup is good, they just haven't hit. I

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Speaker 4: can't figure out why they haven't hit. Haven't figured out

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Speaker 4: how to hit in Rogers Center. They haven't figured out

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Speaker 4: how to hit as a lineup together. This guy had

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Speaker 4: has been good the whole time. They just never have

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Speaker 4: gotten it done. Now they're doing it. Now they're doing

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Speaker 4: it with the added I mean, their their defense is

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Speaker 4: And guys that come off the bench and their pitching

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Speaker 4: has benefited from that. And you sit there and you go,

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Speaker 4: is that what a complete team is? The starting pitching

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Speaker 4: I feel like they should have been doing for a while.

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Speaker 4: So that's why I think they are for real.

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Speaker 1: They only have one problem that I see right now.

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Speaker 1: They need a better play by play guy. I'm not

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Speaker 1: He's handsome. He is handsome. We're gonna get into this

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Speaker 1: when he comes on. He is the biggest jinks in

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Speaker 1: the history of sports. And I'll tell you why when

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Speaker 3: Us, Really the biggest jink and the history.

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Speaker 4: Of love a teaser, what a test?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean that is that's quite the that's quite

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Speaker 3: As Aj mentioned, Shulman joined us nuts And speaking of

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Speaker 3: mister Shulman, Dan is so gracious to be joining us today.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate it very much. Dan, good to be with you.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry that I interrupted your dining time with Boog

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Speaker 3: Chiambi of the Chicago Cubs, but I do appreciate you

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Speaker 3: coming on. Is this team for real? And man, they've

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Speaker 3: been playing well. The last we can.

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Speaker 2: Change, they really have And great to see all you guys.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to hearing from aj Y. I'm the

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Speaker 2: world's biggest jinks because there's not a lot of facts

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Speaker 2: little bit later. But great to see all of you guys.

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Speaker 2: And they're playing great right now. They're actually twenty six

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Speaker 2: think I've ever seen a team where one through twenty

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Speaker 2: heard Kratzy talking kind of going through the team and

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Speaker 2: he was bang on. The defense is great. The starting pitching,

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Speaker 2: You've got the three veteran guys at the front now

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Speaker 2: Max Scherzer's back, Eric Lower has been a godsend for

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Speaker 2: they just keep filling in with guys as guys get hurt.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Hoffman's been great lately, Ariel Rodriguez has become a

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Speaker 2: And then offensively, like some days it's the big boys

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Speaker 2: It just seems like in the big moment in a

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Speaker 1: By the way, Ken, the Blue Jays are playing the

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Speaker 1: White Sox, not the Cubs. So why on earth are

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Speaker 2: Thanks Versus, thanks for helping me out there with that.

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Speaker 2: AG's always I appreciate your friendship. So Boog and I

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Speaker 2: So it was great to see him. He's one of

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Speaker 1: Nice. All right, now, let's get to the real team

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Speaker 1: in the series, the White Sox. How did the Blue

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this. They played two weeks ago

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Speaker 2: But I don't think they're taking the White Sox lightly.

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Speaker 2: but it's almost like it doesn't matter who's it there

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Speaker 2: This is different. This is guy's kind of scratching and

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Speaker 5: give me a player this season that you think is

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Speaker 1: James Would. I don't know that he's underrated, but Washington

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Speaker 5: He's on a Nationals team that's may putting enough attention.

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Speaker 5: He's been intentionally walked four times in a game. Anyway,

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Speaker 4: Does it feel like we gotta do it for bo

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Speaker 1: It makes total sense that you know, but don't be

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Speaker 1: careful using grinders because crats will yelling you you're not

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Speaker 1: The Yankee series. You guys just played. You swept the

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Speaker 2: and the A's end the break. But AJ, honestly, I

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Speaker 2: Well, that's very kind of you. And I love when

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Speaker 2: Like you guys were saying before, you know, they underachieved

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Speaker 1: A couple things off that answer. One when I heard

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Speaker 1: So Dan Shulman, as we all know, works for ESPN.

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Speaker 1: You're the biggest Jinks of all time. And then when

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Speaker 2: All Right, I'd like to go to Kratsy and Alana

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Speaker 2: and I'd like to say, how much of that story

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Speaker 2: you remember the SEC tournament in Nashville, all those games?

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Speaker 2: Do you remember who was calling the games?

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Speaker 3: Here, that's a given. I already I'm on hashtag team

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Speaker 3: Shulman all the way. Don't let the facts get into

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Speaker 2: By the way, the National Championship, it was really cool.

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Speaker 2: and it was a really cool story. What a team,

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Speaker 2: I mean, what a you know, it's a team that

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Speaker 2: know this. They just found a way, right, Like one

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Speaker 1: You're right ahead and Todd Golden's of the USA coach.

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Speaker 1: But before I let you go, Dan as one of

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Speaker 1: the few Canadians that I talked to on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: I have to know what's on oak Island, what's in

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Speaker 1: what's on Oak Island. I can stop watching that show

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Speaker 2: Watched I don't know, twelve years.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm all in on baseball, man, I don't. I can't

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Speaker 3: There is nothing on Oak Island. They have been doing

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Speaker 3: There's nothing on oak Island. Please tell them that the

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Speaker 3: Bobby Dazzler that they're never going to find. They have

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Speaker 3: spent so much money on this show. My word, they're

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Speaker 3: never going to find anything. Stop it.

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Speaker 2: I like, al Alana can put you in your place.

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Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta text her after and find out

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Speaker 3: Dan, It's been great talking with you as always. Best

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Speaker 3: of luck the rest of this season with the squad.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, it's great when the Jays are doing

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