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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal. Be with you for the next twenty five

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes or so. I am back from ten days

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Speaker 1: in Florida. Ten camps in ten days. It's not quite

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Speaker 1: the MLB network thirty camps and thirty whatever they do now,

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Speaker 1: but I did hit ten different camps. And while I

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Speaker 1: didn't write every day or every about every team that

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Speaker 1: what I was doing there were interviews for Fox that

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Speaker 1: part of it, of course, was work for the athletic

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Speaker 1: And I ended this tour with the Mets. There's no

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Speaker 1: And at Mets camp yesterday, it was rather interesting just

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Speaker 1: is excited. We understand that even the lowliest teams in

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball are optimistic at this time of year.

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Speaker 1: But the Mets do have a different feel and a

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Speaker 1: Boba Schet. I want to touch on him a little bit.

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Speaker 1: He is a guy that is in much better shape

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Speaker 1: during the season. And he's a guy with unique back

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Speaker 1: Mets have all of these potentially new players. Luis Robert Jr.

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Speaker 1: Robert Jr. On a baseball field, he is a specimen.

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Speaker 1: He can do special things. He is a rare talent.

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Speaker 1: My question with Luis Robert Jr. Are the same questions

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Speaker 1: quite sure it's going to come together the way David Stern's,

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Speaker 1: going to be quite an interesting journey. Samy and at second,

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Speaker 1: only do they have new players that have new coaches,

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Speaker 1: The guy I wrote about today is of course one

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Speaker 1: And you see the headline right there on my story

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Speaker 1: He's kind of a pitching version of Aohano Suarez. Aohano Suarez,

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Speaker 1: We've talked about them ad nauseum, and if there's a

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Speaker 1: And that is going to be where this becomes a

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory is in Jupiter today, Jupiter, Florida, at Cardinals Camp.

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Speaker 1: all season long. Now, speaking of the WBC, we had

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Speaker 1: Talking of course about Team USA, all of the other

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Speaker 1: at the same time, it's something that they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to just go through the entire season and figure out

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Speaker 1: as they go along. All right, final question, This one

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Speaker 1: comes from foul Territory, our good friends of foul Territory,

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Speaker 1: who asks, how does Glad Guerrero Junior look this spring?

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Speaker 1: Flag Guerira Junior, he always looks good. And if you

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Speaker 1: read Jason Stark's article about the Blue Jays and their

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Speaker 1: reaction to Game seven and losing it and coming into

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Speaker 1: this season, Blad Junior is quoted in that. It's a

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Speaker 1: quote that actually I got when I interviewed Lad for

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports and he talked about how hurt he was

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Speaker 1: hurt just sitting there in the dugout after Game seven.

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Speaker 1: He said he wanted to sit there and he wanted

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Speaker 1: to be the last one out of the dugout going

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Speaker 1: back to the clubhouse because he wanted to feel it.

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Speaker 1: That man is motivated. That man, as we saw in

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Speaker 1: the postseason, the entire world got a glimpse of what

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Speaker 1: Toronto fans knew. He is not just a hitter. He

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Speaker 1: is not just a power hitter. He is a good

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Speaker 1: defender at first base and above average defender at first base,

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Speaker 1: and he is an excellent base runner as well. Vlagerreo

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Speaker 1: Junior expecting big things out of him this year. Expecting

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Speaker 1: big things as well out of the Blue Jays. All right,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for watching and for listening.

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory, as we said earlier, coming up at eleven

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Speaker 1: Eastern from Cardinals Camp. Aj Prizinski is live from that camp.

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Speaker 1: Eric Kratz and Scott Brunn also will host We're Back

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Speaker 1: Thursday at our usual time twelve thirty Eastern with Lanorizzo.

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Speaker 1: It will be a WBC extravaganza cause we get ready

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Speaker 1: for the tournament. We'll talk to you then