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Speaker 1: I know we're all in love with conspiracy theories and

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Speaker 1: everyone wants to accuse the Yankees of everything, but in

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Speaker 1: this particular case, they're guilty of nothing.

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Speaker 2: Let's hit the inside scoop with FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal. Ken,

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Speaker 2: let's get right to the Jerks and profar suspension. What

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Speaker 2: was your reaction when you saw that news yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I can't say I was totally surprised, because anytime you

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Speaker 1: have a player who has a year like he did

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Speaker 3: Season, you wonder a little bit. That's just the nature

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Speaker 1: Obviously, it's terrible news for really the sport not to

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Speaker 1: mention all the people involved, including Profar, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know what else there is to say. We have tried

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Speaker 1: to understand over the years that this is still happening,

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Speaker 1: and I've emphasized to people over the years that this

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Speaker 1: is still happening. As much as Baseball has tried to

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Speaker 1: eradicate it, you can't totally eradicate Pedes, and that's the

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Speaker 1: issue that the sport will face really Forevermore So, it's

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Speaker 1: cleaner than it was, there's no question about that. But

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Speaker 1: to pretend that it's entirely clean.

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Speaker 3: That would be a mistake.

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Speaker 4: Is there more that we could do to catch this

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Speaker 4: point one percent of guys one percent of guys or

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Speaker 4: maybe it's higher what you're alluding to, which I would

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Speaker 4: agree that you know. Is there more that we could

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Speaker 4: be doing as a players association and also as Major

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, Eric, I'm not an expert on drug testing.

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Speaker 1: It seems to me that the program that was introduced

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Speaker 1: and is somewhat effective. Now is it totally effective? No,

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Speaker 1: and our guys doing crazy stuff, maybe with undetectable substances

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Speaker 1: and avant garde masking agents and all these different things.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But it's something that the sport does have to remain

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Speaker 1: vigilant about, that's for sure, and it has to constantly

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Speaker 3: As clean as possible.

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Speaker 1: And it's just really difficult for fans I think out

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Speaker 1: When something like this happens, there is this doubt that

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Speaker 1: it forms in your mind, and that's the doubt maybe

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Speaker 1: I had with PROFI right that. Okay, we don't know

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Speaker 1: entirely that the changes he made, the work that he

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Speaker 1: did in the private previous offseason with the Tatis family

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Speaker 1: had a positive impact purely on that alone, or was

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Speaker 1: there more to it? And there was suspicions around the

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Speaker 1: game last year, But of course you can have suspicions

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mean it's true.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday confirmed that something perhaps was going on.

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Speaker 2: Ken, what did you think of his statement to me?

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Speaker 2: I said, copy paste. I've seen that one before. It

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Speaker 2: didn't willingly lawyer ish, just what everyone else puts down

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Speaker 2: their statement. And do you think that the Braves front

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Speaker 2: office feels like they got worked because they signed him

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Speaker 2: to a three year, forty five million dollar contract. He's

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Speaker 2: gonna miss half that for year one, but he's gonna

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Speaker 1: I will say his statement, I thought, compared to some

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Speaker 1: of the others, was better. It was not an excuse

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Speaker 3: It was basically an apology. So I had no problem

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Speaker 3: with that. Yes, he said, it's because of my.

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Speaker 1: Deep love and respect to this game that I would

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Speaker 3: Yes, we've heard that before, but there isn't a whole

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Speaker 1: Now, as from the Braves perspective, Yeah, I would imagine

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Speaker 1: that there's some concern or feeling in the front office that, ah,

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Speaker 1: sure they're not pleased with this development.

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Speaker 3: And then you wonder does.

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Speaker 1: He come back the same player, a different player, a

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Speaker 3: It's hard to know.

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Speaker 5: Well, let's stay on this for a little bit here

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Speaker 5: the Braves. You read an article a little bit ago

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Speaker 5: Nardis he got dfayed earlier. They brought up Zach Thompson,

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Speaker 5: of why they're you know, struggling a little bit in

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Speaker 1: It's a bad start obviously with bad news on top

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Speaker 1: of it. The Lopez injury the Profile suspension, the bullpen

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Speaker 1: moves that don't seem to.

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Speaker 3: Be working out all that well.

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Speaker 1: They really didn't do much in the offseason outside of

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Speaker 1: not happy with his physical backed out of the deal.

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Speaker 1: thirty three million to be their closer. The Braves intent

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Speaker 3: Make him a starter like they did with Rinaldo Lopez.

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Speaker 1: Last year, and then that would give them the flexibility

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Speaker 3: Hasn't worked out that way.

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Speaker 1: The curious thing to me is that they didn't do

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Speaker 3: And I know offense is the bigger concern right now.

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Speaker 3: They had the twenty nine innings scoreless streak.

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Speaker 1: I get that the offense is going to be fine,

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Speaker 1: but with the pitching, their concern was if we bring in,

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Speaker 1: Later that those guys were purely starters, and they would

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Speaker 1: With Strider coming back as well, we can always look

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Speaker 1: one we look at like that. But the other point

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Speaker 1: I made in this story is that with Profar they're

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Speaker 1: about fourteen million under the.

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Speaker 3: Luxury tax threshold. That's according to Fangraft's estimation, and.

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Speaker 1: That gives them the flexibility to do things if they

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Speaker 1: So Alexanthopolis has been aggressive in the past at the deadline.

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Speaker 3: We know that I.

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Speaker 1: Expect him to do some things, but he didn't do

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Speaker 1: Does that?

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Speaker 4: You just said that about Profar as eighty games. Does

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Speaker 4: that come off of their luxury tax threshold?

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Speaker 1: Yes, salary, yes, so it doesn't get credited for it.

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Speaker 1: So right now his salary for this year was twelve million.

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Speaker 3: They will get charged.

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Speaker 1: I believe the number was six point one to nine million,

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Speaker 4: Okay, well they can spend that six point nine million

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Speaker 4: too big of a deal out of it? And who

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Speaker 4: torpedo bats, because we've seen everything from relaxed they've been

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Speaker 4: around to this is the worst thing ever. Major League

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Speaker 4: Baseball needs to investigate the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: Well, first of all, the Yankee aspect of it is

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Speaker 1: So I know we're all in love with conspiracy theories

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Speaker 1: Al East. They have tried them, and Alex Corus said that.

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Speaker 3: Those guys that they have don't like them. Necessarily, other

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Speaker 1: So this is not illegal or anything like that. Now,

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Speaker 1: the impact of it, that's the better question. Eric and

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Speaker 1: the Brewers, of course, they were the victims of the

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Speaker 1: Brewer's pitching. We'll find out in time if these bats

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Speaker 1: sort of doubt that's going to take place. Making contact

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Speaker 3: As they do all the time now.

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Speaker 1: But it's something that over five games or after five games,

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Speaker 2: Best perspective in my mind right now, and bat companies,

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Speaker 2: they're like everyone needs one, everyone needs one. Kids, you

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Speaker 2: needed torpedo bat. I've been seeing all the executives for

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Speaker 2: So I think that part's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to like a Judge's perspective, Scott, I

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Speaker 2: That was really good. So from a coverage perspective, Ken,

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Speaker 2: are you surprised at how much this took off over

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Speaker 2: the weekend, especially being that these bats have existed for

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Speaker 2: a little bit of time. Some guys have had them,

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Speaker 5: One hundred percent. He took the words out of my mouth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're spending and they're off to a slow start

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Speaker 1: The timing surprised me only because Crochet said on a

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Speaker 4: Ken, do you like April Fole's Day?

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 4: Do you have any good stories, because normally it's about

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Speaker 3: And I fell for it, hook line and singer.

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Speaker 3: It was all April Fools, a big hoax, the Mets

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Speaker 2: You and probably millions of oh yeah, great job, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and Alana on Thursday, twelve thirty Eastern, Normal times for

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Speaker 4: or above he was an All Star. This doesn't happen,

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Speaker 4: So it doesn't happen by chance. It's not all of

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Speaker 4: the Bregman, the dhing, all that stuff, the shoulder or

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Speaker 4: it's not one of those things. It's all of them.

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Speaker 4: It's all of them combined, and the results are just

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Speaker 4: you know, he took a few walks. That's huge. I

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Speaker 4: think he's four walks now. But he's in between everything.

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Speaker 4: He's behind the fastball, ahead of the breaking ball. He

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Speaker 4: swung in a pitch the other day, a change up,

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Speaker 4: and he was laid on the changeup trying to swat

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Speaker 4: at it. It is a bad place. It is so

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Speaker 4: good when you see guys like that to know that

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Speaker 4: you're sitting in this chair and you don't ever have

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Speaker 4: to go through that. And he's only had twenty five

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Speaker 4: starts as a dh SO in an eight year career.

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Speaker 4: That is not many.

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Speaker 5: No, that's right. Some people people strive on that. Edgar Martinez,

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Speaker 5: big poppy. Like these guys, they're veterans, they understand that.

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Speaker 5: Like it's very hard to sit there for two, you know,

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Speaker 5: two three innings, forty five minutes and not getting the

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Speaker 5: bat Like it's very difficult, and there's only so many

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Speaker 5: swings you can get in the cage. You get loose.

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Speaker 5: That's what drove me crazy when I was dhing. How

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Speaker 5: many more swings do I need to stay loose? Like

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Speaker 5: when you're playing in the field, you're moving, your body

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Speaker 5: is in it, your mind is in the game. Your

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Speaker 5: mind can just drift in the dugout and you know,

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Speaker 5: talking of there's it's very hard for a guy like that,

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Speaker 5: knowing that he's been a starter, and now all of

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Speaker 5: a sudden, just because we got this guy coming in,

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Speaker 5: I'm not a start anymore. I'm telling you it's gonna

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Speaker 5: play with your mind a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. I mean, they need him, obviously it's early,

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Speaker 2: but they need them. They're off to a slow start.

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Speaker 2: When he goes when he goes down, they go down.

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Speaker 2: You're expecting the Red Sox to be better this year

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