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Speaker 1: Welcome into ESB Nations Live Home Run Derby Green Room,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by T Mobile. I'm your host, Sam Wilson,

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Speaker 1: along with John Stoleness of the Good Fight, Brady Klopfer

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Speaker 1: of McCovey Chronicles, and last, but certainly not least, our

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Speaker 1: very special guest this evening, former MLB All Star and

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Speaker 1: current color analysts for The Phillies on NBC Sports Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: John Cruck. Guys, welcome in.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Sam. I'm good to be here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, excited, Sam, this would be fun.

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Speaker 4: Let's watch some home runs.

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Speaker 1: I know the Dingers are about to begin. It's perfect

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Speaker 1: timing now, John, you are a three time MLB All

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Speaker 1: Star yourself, so just like, can you give us a

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Speaker 1: little rundown? If you still get any like flashbacks? Do

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Speaker 1: you get any happy memories whenever it's All Star Weekend?

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Speaker 2: No, No, I enjoy watching it. You know. I think

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Speaker 2: this year the home run Derby to me is a

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Speaker 2: little more special because the things that O'tani's doing, not

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Speaker 2: only is it as a picture, and you know, the

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Speaker 2: trey Men's Sydney story is just incredible to me as

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Speaker 2: a former cancer survivor, you know, and my heart pulls

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Speaker 2: portraying this thing. But I don't know, man, Joey Gallows

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Speaker 2: just a month.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, So let's get right back into that.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead.

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Speaker 6: No, John, I was just.

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Speaker 4: Going to ask you.

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Speaker 3: I mean you you played in the All Star Game

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Speaker 3: in ninety three, had do you ever regret not getting

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Speaker 3: a chance or were you ever given a chance to

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Speaker 3: participate in the home run derby?

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Speaker 6: Is that something you would have wanted.

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Speaker 4: To do when you were a player?

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Speaker 2: No? After I think ninety one, Kyle rip can hit

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Speaker 2: like fifty seven or two and fifty seven maybe derby

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Speaker 2: and you know that. Yeah, no, I didn't. You know

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Speaker 2: those guys were you know, I was hit my best

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Speaker 2: boat and barely hitting it over the fence and these

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Speaker 2: guys were it BP swinging and hitting it five hundred feet.

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Speaker 2: So no, they were different animals than I was.

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Speaker 1: You were comfortable where you were, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, back in the rooms usually with some other guys

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Speaker 2: having a beer and watching it on TV like everyone

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Speaker 2: else from the stadium.

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Speaker 4: I love that, Hey, John, how hard is it to

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Speaker 4: actually hit a home run on the kind of pitches

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Speaker 4: that they're throwing in the derby? Because I would assume

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Speaker 4: that it just messes up your timing a little bit,

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Speaker 4: even if you're used to those in batting practice, but

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Speaker 4: without having that extra velocity from a fastball and having

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Speaker 4: it be a different timing, How difficult is that?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think it's better now for these

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Speaker 2: guys because they bring their own pitcher, whether it be

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Speaker 2: you know, someone on the coaching staff of the team

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Speaker 2: that throws BP to them every day, or a college

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Speaker 2: coach might come and throw to him, or someone I

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Speaker 2: know Bryce and Robinson Cano when they won the home

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Speaker 2: run derby. Uh you know their fathers threw to him.

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Speaker 2: So you know that that you know who knows you

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Speaker 2: better than your father. But uh, you know, these guys

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Speaker 2: have such great bats feed and at unbelievable hand eye

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Speaker 2: coordination that you know, no matter if you're throwing at

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Speaker 2: forty or eighty, they're there. They'll time it just with

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Speaker 2: their bat speed and their strength, you know, and especially

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Speaker 2: in Colorado too, it's just gonna just they're gonna put them.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna make a mockery of this thing, hopefully.

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say the levels here though it

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Speaker 1: kind of makes me nervous. Do you think anybody's going

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Speaker 1: to be reaching too far?

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Speaker 2: I tell you what. Uh well, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you saw Connie before.

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Speaker 1: Uhh yeah, BP, Well.

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Speaker 2: He swung and missed his first pitch. He swung and missed,

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Speaker 2: and then like he was easy swinging it and hit

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Speaker 2: one five hundred feet, like just trying to get lucy.

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Speaker 2: It went over five hundred feet. I like yeah, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: I tell you what. The people out right field, center field,

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Speaker 2: they're gonna be some. They're going to be a I

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Speaker 2: got a feeling there's gonna be a record number of

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Speaker 1: Well, that's one thing that fascinates me too, is you

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Speaker 1: can kind of look at some of these guys and

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Speaker 1: expect big home runs obviously based off of what they

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Speaker 1: normally do in VP. But Otani it comes out that

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Speaker 1: he doesn't even he's never hit VP during his MLB

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Speaker 5: So does that kind of hurt you?

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Speaker 1: You do not know what to expect, you to think.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to alter it at all. Does that

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Speaker 1: affect anything coming into today.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. He's got thirty two home runs, So

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Speaker 2: he's doing something right, you know what. I like, I said,

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Speaker 2: these guys they're so in tune, not only their own

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Speaker 2: swing but their bodies. Uh that you know, Look, he

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Speaker 2: not sooner.

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Speaker 1: What about you?

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Speaker 2: The hardest part about this whole thing, and I've done

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Speaker 2: this before, like in some charity things. Uh, when you

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Speaker 2: take batting practice and they have the batter's uh the

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Speaker 2: turtle thing they call it the batting cage around you,

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Speaker 2: there's like a sense of security, like no one can

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Speaker 2: see you when they move that thing you talk about

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Speaker 2: the besphincter. After that, when you're out there the island

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Speaker 2: some scary stuff.

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Speaker 1: Man, What about you? For and Brady, what do you

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Speaker 1: guys expect? Do you think it's gonna throw off the Tony?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that it's not going to really affect

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Speaker 1: him the fact that it's more of a BP setting.

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Speaker 6: No, I don't think so. I mean, this is a

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Speaker 3: I think it's going to feel a lot different than

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Speaker 3: batting practice for him. You know, he's he has performed really,

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Speaker 3: really well on the big stage so far this year.

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Speaker 3: I think he's going to continue to stay dialed in.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, he took VP today and

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Speaker 3: hit went into the fourth deck up in Colorado. So no,

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, there's probably gonna be a little

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Speaker 3: bit of jitters, a little bit of nerves, But you know,

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Speaker 3: I think at the end of the day, Otani is still,

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Speaker 3: you know, one of the favorites to win this thing.

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Speaker 6: I think he's going to do just fine.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know, maybe you get a few

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Speaker 4: but I mean that's wing. That's wing. We'll play on

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything that you can do to

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Speaker 4: to rattle show. Hey Otani, give them two or three

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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Otani, he is the number one seed

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Speaker 1: tonight and we're going to break down the bracket real quick.

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Speaker 1: So if you guys can envision it, I want to

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Speaker 1: hear what you guys have to say. So on the

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Speaker 1: left side, we have Otani the number one seed, against

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Speaker 1: Juan Soto, the number eight seed, and then we have

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Speaker 1: Salvador Perez, number four seed, going against Pete Alonzo. Who

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Speaker 1: the bracket.

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Speaker 2: I got Otani coming out at Alonzo. That, yeah, the

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Speaker 5: Against so and then Perez against Alonzo.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, though, Soto to me is a

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Speaker 2: sleeper because people are you know, people are thinking, you know, well,

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Speaker 2: he didn't hit that many home runs in the first half.

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Speaker 2: But I tell you what, man, this guy he's got

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Speaker 2: power to all fields. And you know it wouldn't surprise me.

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Speaker 2: And and uh, you know, you see some of his

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Speaker 2: he's a showman, and and you know normally people who

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Speaker 2: are showman put on a good display in this in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like, I'm kind of bumm.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I agree with that.

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Speaker 4: I think go for John. No.

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Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, you know, I think so,

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Speaker 3: I think you're right. I think Sodo isn't our course here.

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Speaker 3: Simply he reminds me a lot of a bray You

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Speaker 3: now I think I think so Soda is a better,

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Speaker 3: better pure hitter than Bobby Abray. But when when Abra

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Speaker 3: was in the home run Derby, I don't think he

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Speaker 3: was considered a favorite. And but because he has a

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Speaker 3: swing where he can hit it to all fields, where

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Speaker 3: he can go left, he can go center, he could

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Speaker 3: go right, and he just he just went off in

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Speaker 3: that in that home run derby, I think you could

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Speaker 3: see something similar with Juan Soto. So I don't think

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Speaker 3: he'll beat Otani. I think Otani will come out of that,

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Speaker 3: will come out of that matchup. And I also think Alonso,

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Speaker 3: you know, he's a Lonzo's got experience in the home

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Speaker 3: years ago, So you know, I think I think Alonso

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Speaker 3: comes out of the matchup with Salvador Perez as well.

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Speaker 6: Sorry, Brandon, I didn't mean. I don't mean Brady.

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Speaker 3: I didn't mean to jump all over you there.

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Speaker 4: No, no, You're all good. I was just gonna say

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Speaker 4: I'm just bummed in Otani and Soda are matched up

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Speaker 4: in the first round, because in my opinion, those are

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Speaker 4: the two guys that I'm most excited to watch tonight,

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Speaker 4: and I know that it's just a simple equation that

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Speaker 4: Otani has the most home runs in the field and

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Speaker 4: Sodo has the least home runs, so they get that

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Speaker 4: one eight matchup. But it's a bummer to me because

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Speaker 4: because those are the two that I really think are

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Speaker 4: the muscle Watch players. But I agree with both. I

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Speaker 4: think it's going to be a Sani and Pete Alonzo.

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Speaker 4: You know, Salvado Perez should not be overlook here. He's

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Speaker 4: having such a good season and he has so many

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Speaker 4: home runs this year. But I think Alonzo's swing and

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Speaker 4: style just works better in a Derby than Perez.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with all you guys. I think it'll

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Speaker 1: be fun also to see Otani with that story of

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Speaker 1: him not only being the number one seed in the

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Speaker 1: Home Run Derby, but then also being the started starting

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Speaker 1: pitcher in tomorrow's All Star Game, and then also being

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Speaker 1: the starting DH in the lineup, something we've never seen,

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Speaker 1: so obviously we want to see that story keep carrying on.

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Speaker 1: But then Peter Alonzo also has a chance to be

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Speaker 1: I guess you could call it back to back home

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Speaker 1: Run Derby champs since we didn't have one last year.

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Speaker 5: So those are cool stories. I agree with you guys.

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Speaker 1: I see them coming out and battling for that left side,

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Speaker 1: what about going into the right sign. You got Joey

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Speaker 1: Gallo going against Trevor Story and then matt Olsen taking

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Speaker 1: on Trey Mancini Krucky.

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Speaker 5: Who do you have coming out of that well.

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Speaker 2: I got Joey Gallow I think, I think, uh you know,

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Speaker 2: I I think Joey has a chance to win it all.

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Speaker 2: But he will win it all if he gets past

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Speaker 2: the first round because uh, you know, he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: Yeah. That is an interesting story too that we haven't

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was going to say with Trevor's story,

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Speaker 3: He's only got eleven home runs this year, so Joey

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Speaker 3: Olsen frankly is the dark horse to win to win

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Speaker 3: I have him.

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Speaker 6: I have him beating Trey Mancini in that matchup.

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Speaker 1: Also, and Brady, what about you, as just we can

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Speaker 5: But Brady, who do you have?

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Speaker 4: All Right, Well, I'm going to start with that matchup

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Speaker 4: Interesting fact, River Story only has six home runs at

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Speaker 4: I'm going with Joey Gallow on that side.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something that I didn't even notice there. So

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Speaker 1: maybe that's not going to play out to what everybody's expecting.

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Speaker 1: So maybe Gallow does have an easier ride than we

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Speaker 5: Who do you say wins it all? Joey Gallop, Stoleness,

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Speaker 5: what about you?

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Speaker 3: I give me, give me Pete Alonzo going back to back.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I like it, and Brady.

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Speaker 4: I feel like this is a dangerous pick, but I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my reason for not taking him. I don't

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Speaker 3: He's starting to get into the groove here as we're

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Speaker 1: Man, he just took that break and it completely shifted

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Speaker 1: I'll go Olson. Let's say Olson, somebody's gonna win. Guys,

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Speaker 5: Now maybe I just dinsed it.

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Speaker 1: As we watch Mancini kind of finish out this last minute.

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Speaker 1: I can't he has eleven home runs so far. Well,

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Speaker 5: Is that kind of the average going into this? What

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I think you know you're want anywhere

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Speaker 1: What about you, Sona?

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Speaker 5: So do you think that average people having?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're seeing it right here with Mancini,

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Speaker 3: I think it's probably going to be in the fifteen

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Speaker 6: Unless you know it's you're watching.

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Speaker 3: He's already getting tired, because you can see it. With

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Speaker 6: So you have fifteen to twenty sounds about right.

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Speaker 3: You could probably see a guy go twenty to twenty

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Speaker 3: doesn't you know, it doesn't get to a little bit

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Speaker 5: Know my guy might get knocked out first.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I took your advice, John, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: See here's where the lesson comes in. Do not take

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Speaker 1: So what about you, Brady, What do you think we

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think numbers wise, I think most of the winners

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Speaker 2: Hey, I think I think the thing too. We have

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Speaker 2: Is that what it is?

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Speaker 5: That's what I was just gonna ask. What determines that bullets?

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Speaker 2: I think they have to hit aber maybe they hit

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Speaker 6: It looks like.

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Speaker 4: It's you get an extra third.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not sure either.

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Speaker 4: The thing I'm reading is it's for thirty seconds for

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Speaker 3: So that's the first thing I found on the mean,

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Speaker 1: Yea, looks like already.

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Speaker 2: I also heard that these home run derby balls, you know,

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Speaker 4: So they took the baseball that's literally designed for home runs,

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Speaker 4: sure many.

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Speaker 1: Mancini just added on five more so now he's racking

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Speaker 3: So not about I guess today, what's what's the who

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Speaker 3: So I mean both guys have to, you know, have

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Speaker 6: A certain number of outs. I love this.

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Speaker 3: I like this version a whole lot better because it's

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Speaker 3: But you know, I'm sitting here wondering, like, is it

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Speaker 6: I think I think I would rather be the second

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing is though, if you go first and

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Speaker 5: So Tonni No, I think they have it the bracket

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Speaker 2: that's a big thing is going second, is utilizing the

441
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Speaker 2: clock now for guy, if a guy you know craps

442
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Speaker 2: the bed and only hits a few homers, then you

443
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Speaker 2: can really pace yourself and take your lead and get

444
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Speaker 2: it get a good rest for the next round. Yeah.

445
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Speaker 1: Nice. Also, thinks, and I think it's interesting how they

446
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Speaker 1: kind of set that thirty second break that they get

447
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Speaker 1: during the round as well.

448
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Speaker 5: Mancini. I like how he.

449
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Speaker 1: Did it, how he did it right before, probably about

450
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Speaker 1: like fifty seconds into it, so then it kind of

451
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 1: he got the nerves out, he got it gone, and

452
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: then he really saw him settle in those final two minutes.

453
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 5: So I think that makes a difference as well.

454
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, And you know, people don't take into

455
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Speaker 2: consideration the actual PP pictures. You know, there's a lot

456
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 2: of pressure on them. They're not used to throwing fifty

457
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 2: thousand people. You know. Oh yeah, you know you are.

458
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 2: You're watching this with here with Olsen hitting and the

459
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Speaker 2: guy throwing. He's throwing a couple of cutters. Remember I

460
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 2: think Bryce had a brother throwing to him one year

461
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Speaker 2: and didn't he hit him. I think his brother hit him.

462
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,160
Speaker 5: Yes, I think it was his dad.

463
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, the first one Bryce was in, I

464
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 2: think his brother threw to him, and then the one

465
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Speaker 2: he won his dad through to him.

466
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Speaker 5: Imber okay, okay, So he was like, brother, you're out.

467
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Speaker 1: Yeah that one here all right?

468
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Speaker 3: He looks like he's I mean, he got he looked

469
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Speaker 3: like he was hitting a lot more than than ten

470
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,200
Speaker 3: home runs. I mean, he got a really good groove there,

471
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Speaker 3: I mean hitting some moonshots. But he's still he's still

472
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Speaker 3: way behind. He used to get a minute at a

473
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Speaker 3: minute over a minute and a half before he before

474
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Speaker 3: his rounds over. But you know he's got a lot

475
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Speaker 3: of work left to do. I just show you how good,

476
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 3: how good a groove Mancini got in there and and

477
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Speaker 3: in the uh in the spot right before him.

478
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I really think it is all on the break

479
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 1: timing there for these first ones.

480
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Speaker 5: I think it's proven out. Koky, what were you about

481
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Speaker 5: to say?

482
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 2: Well, you know, he's getting a lot of balls that

483
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 2: are cutting in on him that are hard to keep fair,

484
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 2: even though it's even though it's batting practice, there's those

485
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 2: balls are still hard to keep fair.

486
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hard to get up in the air too

487
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Speaker 1: when they're low.

488
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Speaker 2: Like that, right, and probably hitting a lot of those

489
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Speaker 2: balls we are, But it looks like he's hitting a

490
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 2: lot of foul that have the distance.

491
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Speaker 4: M h. He needs to get a new picture at it.

492
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 6: Well, he's earned one thirty second bonus so far.

493
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, he's got.

494
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Speaker 3: Bonus so he's gonna get another thirty seconds here. And

495
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 3: the nice thing that ESPN has on on screen as

496
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Speaker 3: we're as we're watching is they have you an uh

497
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Speaker 3: an on pace thing so that he.

498
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Speaker 6: Basically on pace for given.

499
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

500
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Speaker 6: I like this.

501
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 3: It's in the you know, it's starting to now the

502
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 3: needle's starting to move up on pace for eighteen. He's

503
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 3: got twelve right now. So it's but again that clock

504
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,959
Speaker 3: is ticking down. That clock is ticking down. This is

505
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 3: not looking good for Matt Olsen.

506
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,919
Speaker 1: No, he's still twelve behind, and he's got thirty seconds

507
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 1: left in this original one, and then he's got a

508
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: minute of bonus, so he does have some time. But

509
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: you got to wonder if he can make up double

510
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: his amount now in order to win.

511
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be tough, I'll tell you what. Though

512
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 2: he's hitting some elationians line drives. Those don't count them.

513
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 4: He got a lot of doubles here, okay.

514
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 3: Wells to win the whole thing, to win it all

515
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 3: all by yourself, no help from anyone.

516
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 1: You know what you said, dark Horse, and it totally in.

517
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm going for it.

518
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: But it makes it fun. We all have so many

519
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 1: different you know, I couldn't say, Alonso, you stole.

520
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 5: My actual pick, so I went with your dark horse.

521
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,680
Speaker 1: But while we're waiting for him to get his bonus time,

522
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: let's get in to show Hey, o'tommy's I already brought

523
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: it up.

524
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 5: How he's the first ever player to.

525
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: Be the number one seed in the home run derby,

526
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher in the All Star Game, and then

527
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 1: also the starting d H for the same team. Does

528
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,959
Speaker 1: he open doors for more players to come and do this?

529
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: Or is do you guys not think that any other

530
00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: players for a long time are going to be able

531
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Speaker 1: to even match and compare and rise to his level.

532
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,399
Speaker 2: I personally, I hope we see more of guys that

533
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 2: could play both uh, you know, go go both sides

534
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 2: of the ball, pitch, hit to fen uh. You know,

535
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 2: there's so many guys I remember, uh, I forget us.

536
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 2: Talked to inn a praise organization, but they said that,

537
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 2: you know, Freddie Freeman had been clocked it like in

538
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 2: the upper nineties when they had Anderton Simmons, he was

539
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 2: clocked at the upper nineties pitching, you know. Uh, So

540
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 2: you know there, I think there's guys who could do

541
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 2: it like it wouldn't surprise me someday, hopefully someday soon

542
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 2: that maybe not a starting pitcher, but maybe like a closer.

543
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 2: Some guy just flipped over the rail. That's that's not good.

544
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: That's what I was beginning.

545
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 4: Man.

546
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: But but but you know, I think there could be

547
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 2: a guy uh that you know, you see some of

548
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 2: these outfielders Kevin Tiermyer throwing you know, ninety eight miles

549
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 2: an hour from the outfield. Uh, you know the Philly

550
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 2: Roman Quinn through what at ninety from center field? You know,

551
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 2: I think eventually these guys can uh oh he lost

552
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 2: by one.

553
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: Wow, he really started around backing up in that final

554
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 1: bonus minute. Oh yep, so my picks out.

555
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 5: I'm eliminated.

556
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean three yeah piece, guys.

557
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 4: Nice talking to you, samh Cruck.

558
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: You go on with what you were saying.

559
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right. I think I think it wouldn't surprise

560
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 2: me if you saw a guy who could like maybe

561
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Speaker 2: be a closer.

562
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, And well, going to your point and just like

563
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: thinking of names, I'm just trying to think of really

564
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: athletic pictures that you also see. And one guy that

565
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: came to my mind was four from the Mets. I'm

566
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: blanking on his actual name right now. No, it's Syndergard. Yes, yeah,

567
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: but you see guys with that makeup and that athletic

568
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: and Tyler Glass now, and you have to wonder, like

569
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,239
Speaker 1: those guys, if they really really wanted to and if

570
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: they were able to stay healthy, they could be at first,

571
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: they could be in the outfield kind of situation. So

572
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: it is something that it makes me wonder if you're

573
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: going to see guys trying to stay healthy and be

574
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: that dual threat.

575
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 2: And Jacob de ground was signed as a short stop

576
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 2: out of setson. Oh wow, now he's the best picture

577
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 2: in baseball.

578
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

579
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, ken Lee Janssen was drafted as a

580
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 2: catcher and he was turned into a picture. So yeah,

581
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: there's there's plenty of guys. Look, look, you know, I

582
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 2: know it's getting more specialized here as far as young kids,

583
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 2: you know, a picture only or whatever, but uh, you know,

584
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,959
Speaker 2: most of your best players in high school are probably

585
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 2: your best picture and they're also your short stop.

586
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.

587
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 2: So so to say that guys can't do it, the

588
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 2: sad thing is when they get to college, it's like

589
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 2: you're either one or the other. Uh. You know, some

590
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 2: colleges say screw it. You know you if you can hit,

591
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: you can play in the field, and you know what,

592
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 2: it's your turn to pitch, You're gonna pitch. I I

593
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 2: hope they baseball, major League Baseball, minor league baseball gets

594
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 2: back to that to let guys try it at least,

595
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: you know, you know, think think about the boredom of

596
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 2: being a starting pitcher. You pitch, you have to wait

597
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 2: five days before you can participate in another game. How

598
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: nice would it be to go out like you know,

599
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 2: d h or or or play you know, right field

600
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 2: or whatever, you know somewhere. Just give them something to

601
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: do other than just sit there and do nothing.

602
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: Go ahead, son, and so are you about sick?

603
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 3: I was gonna say one of the things that that

604
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 3: I speculated about about with Sho Tani is uh, and

605
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 3: why more players don't do it is because and you

606
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 3: would know this better than I, but a hitter spends

607
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 3: you know, it's their craft to work on their hitting, right,

608
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's they're they're they're spending a lot

609
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 3: of hours in the cage. They're spending a lot of

610
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 3: hours breaking down their swing. They're down breaking down to

611
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 3: film all that kind of stuff, and starting pitchers, they're

612
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 3: they're spending all their time working with catchers on game plans,

613
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 3: looking at the who they're going to be pitching the

614
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: pitching against the next time out, and so it's so

615
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 3: it's like you said, it's so regimented, especially when you

616
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 3: get to the to the big league level. Is it

617
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 3: even possible for I mean, Shoheyo Tani came from Japan

618
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 3: to the United States already having this skill set. Our

619
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 3: minor league teams, our minor league systems even set up

620
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 3: to be able to develop players to do both at

621
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 3: this point, because it seems like there's so much work

622
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 3: that has to be done, so much work that has

623
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 3: to be put into making a hitter, a position player

624
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 3: a good hitter at the major league level, and so

625
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 3: much work that has to go into turning a young

626
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 3: pitcher into a good major league pitcher at the big

627
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 3: league level, that it doesn't seem possible to me, logistically,

628
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 3: time wise, that you would have the ability to do

629
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 3: both unless you were just a freak of nature athlete.

630
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 2: No, I I agree with that, but I, like I said,

631
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 2: I think right now, the way set up in the

632
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 2: minor leagues and because of the uh you know this

633
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: dreaded fear of injury. Uh you know, we don't want

634
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 2: our picture hitting, We don't want him play in the field.

635
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 2: But when you watch, well, they don't do it anymore.

636
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 2: But when I played, like some of our pictures were

637
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 2: our best outfielders. Roger mcdowb was was an unbelievable outfielder,

638
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: Mitch Williams was an unbelievable outfielder, and BP and they

639
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 2: could have done it in a game if they wanted to.

640
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 2: But I think now it's like, you know, because of

641
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: whatever the money, uh you know, the lack of you know,

642
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 2: so many teams are looking for pitching that I'm afraid

643
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: they're they're afraid to turn their picture into something else,

644
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 2: afraid that they might get hurt doing that something else,

645
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 2: and fearing for their job to say allow that to happen.

646
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 5: That's one great point too ahead.

647
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 4: I wonder if we're going to see any of these

648
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 4: young prospects come up that maybe have a little bit

649
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 4: of leverage in this situation now that they've seen what

650
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 4: Otani can do. Like I was thinking today about Bobba Chandler,

651
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 4: who just got drafted today in the third round by

652
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 4: the Pirates. And he was a player who was you know,

653
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 4: seen as a high to mid first round talent pitcher

654
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 4: and a shortstop. But he's also committed to Clemson on

655
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 4: a football scholarship as a quarterback. So there are those

656
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 4: signability issues as to whether someone can pay him enough

657
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 4: to not go to Clemson and play football. And I

658
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 4: wonder if for a player like him, who you know,

659
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 4: has talked about wanting to be a two way baseball

660
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 4: player at shortstop and pitcher, I wonder if he can

661
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 4: use that at all, you know, to leverage himself to

662
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Speaker 4: you know, increase your chances of signing if you let

663
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Speaker 4: me play both of these positions instead of pigeonholing me

664
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Speaker 4: into one position that might not even be my best position.

665
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Speaker 4: You know.

666
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Speaker 2: The first thing, I think baseball has to start getting

667
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 2: over And I get it, when you pay a guy

668
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 2: a lot of money, you want to protect them, But

669
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 2: I think we over protect players now, like and I

670
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 2: think the ten day injured list is a lot of

671
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: that reason because it's so easy to put a guy

672
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 2: on and he you know, he might only miss you know,

673
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 2: if they have a couple off days, they might only

674
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: miss eight games, you know, and pitchers they might only

675
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: miss one start. So it's such a it's like they're

676
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 2: trying to protect the players so much, like you know,

677
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 2: a guy has a strain or something, Oh put him

678
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 2: on the injured list and we'll bring someone else. You know,

679
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 2: first of all, you know, it's hard to find twenty

680
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 2: five really good players on one roster, but when you're

681
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 2: asking to find thirty to thirty five because of all

682
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: the guys that go on the injured list, it's just

683
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: not there. The talent level is just not there, and

684
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 2: you're bringing up kids that aren't ready to come up,

685
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: and they can get overmatched and lose their confidence and

686
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 2: who knows what happens to him after that. But I

687
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: think you have to start in the minor leagues. Let

688
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: these guys play. You know, you know, we we we

689
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: they watch pitch counts, they watch everything, and I get it, Uh,

690
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: you know, you have to watch your pitch count but

691
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 2: like you know, you know, uh, we have a guy

692
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: came up with the Philly Spencer Howard. You know, he

693
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 2: had I forget how many starts in minor leagues. Then

694
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 2: he had a bunch of starts here.

695
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Speaker 10: But they would never let him go over forty five

696
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 10: fifty pitches, like what what did? What did they do

697
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 10: for him that made his progression because you don't know

698
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Speaker 10: what you're gonna have next year when the season starts

699
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 10: with Gad or with Spencer, and it's and it's not

700
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Speaker 10: fair to him.

701
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Speaker 11: Hey, Sam, we've got two awesome people from Amazing Avenue,

702
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Speaker 11: our Mets site, Linda Servic and Alison McCaig. I think

703
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Speaker 11: it's McCaig. I hope I'm saying that correction nicely. How

704
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Speaker 11: you doing, Alison? Thank you for joining us.

705
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Speaker 8: John glad to be here.

706
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Speaker 5: You take it away, Alison, Linda, welcome in to our

707
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Speaker 5: show today.

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Speaker 1: As Michael already said, you guys are from Amazing Avenues,

709
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: pot of their own, and you guys cover the Mets.

710
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: So I'm from Philly. You got John Stoleness, you got

711
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: John Cruck. We're all Philly lovers, So I don't I

712
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Speaker 1: can't speak for them, but I know for me, it

713
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Speaker 1: was a super love hate pick with you guys getting

714
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Speaker 1: that right handed pitcher Kumar Rocker last night at number ten.

715
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Speaker 1: What were both of your thoughts while watching those first

716
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Speaker 1: couple picks and seeing him fall to you guys, did

717
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Speaker 1: you know you were going to get him? When did

718
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: you guys kind of realize and what were your initial thoughts?

719
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Speaker 8: Oh my god, goodness. So my story of this pick

720
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 8: is that my boyfriend and I were on vacation last

721
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 8: week and we were driving back from Vermont in the car,

722
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Speaker 8: listening to it on the radio, listening to the draft

723
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 8: on the radio while was happening, and he said, before

724
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 8: the draft started, I think that Robert should fall to us.

725
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 8: And I said, you're a Mets fan, You're deluding yourself.

726
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 8: You're just setting yourself up for disappointment. This is what

727
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 8: always happens. No, I refuse to allow myself to hope.

728
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Speaker 8: Right And as they're driving, like he stays on the

729
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 8: board with each pick, he stays on the board, and

730
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Speaker 8: I'm like, no, no, no, All that's happening right now

731
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 8: is that we're setting ourself up for maximum disappointment where

732
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Speaker 8: he falls to us and the Mets pick someone else.

733
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Speaker 8: That is fully what I expected to happen. And then

734
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Speaker 8: when they announced it we were driving it, we just

735
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 8: started screaming in the car. I have never been this

736
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 8: excited about a draft pick. I can't remember if I

737
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 8: was ever this excited about a draft pick, like the

738
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 8: Mets are so lucky. And I feel like the Mets

739
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 8: have distinctly changed their draft strategy in the past couple

740
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Speaker 8: of years, where they've just gone really hard in the

741
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 8: first couple of rounds and just spent overslot, And I

742
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 8: think that it's the right move because you need to

743
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 8: make sure that you get those top couple picks right,

744
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 8: because baseball is different from other sports where most of

745
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 8: your talent is going to come from like those top

746
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Speaker 8: one or two picks, and you just got to go

747
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 8: all in. And I think the Mets have realized that

748
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 8: that's gage strategy and they're going for it, and I

749
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 8: couldn't be happier. Well, similarly, like I saw like rumors

750
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 8: on Twitter where they're like a Rocker could be there

751
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 8: at ten. I was like, no, these are just illusion.

752
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 8: On that hand, I'm not going to believe it. And

753
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Speaker 8: I said, I was with a bunch of my cousins

754
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 8: yesterday and they're like, oh, this time went first, and

755
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 8: we were like kind of keeping each other updated and

756
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 8: they're I was like, wait, roc are still there at ten?

757
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 8: I was like, are they really going to do it? Like,

758
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 8: because you know, we're still in that mindset of the

759
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 8: Will Coons, like would they pay him? Like that was

760
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 8: always the fears, would they pay the overdraft or oversawt

761
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:12,439
Speaker 8: he And they paid him like he was a top

762
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 8: five prospect, which he you know, was a year or

763
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 8: two ago before he fell a little bit. So that

764
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 8: like you're still tense to like, well they actually sign him,

765
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Speaker 8: well they actually do it, because we're still like that

766
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Speaker 8: Will Kanian sense of you know that they don't pay

767
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Speaker 8: for talent, but I think that, you know, like Allison said,

768
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Speaker 8: even last year, they did start doing that, like Matthew

769
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 8: Allen would they they definitely went hard for so it

770
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Speaker 8: seems like they're definitely the strategy is changed. And you

771
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Speaker 8: can't hope to hit on a Jacob de Groumm in

772
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Speaker 8: the ninth round.

773
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Speaker 1: Like he's a rarity.

774
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Speaker 8: He's like he's a he and a corn. You can't

775
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 8: count on finding, you know.

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Speaker 1: A Jacob de Grummer for a year.

777
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Speaker 8: So, you know, this just feels like everything's coming up Mets,

778
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 8: which is strange because I don't know how Mets fans

779
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 8: know how to react when things are going well.

780
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Speaker 2: I don't know him to miserate.

781
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Speaker 8: Totally, don't know how to act orate like I don't

782
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 8: want to be miserable is like their default state, and

783
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Speaker 8: so when good things are happening, they just like don't

784
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 8: know how to process it and they're like but and

785
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 8: then they find something to complain about, and I'm like, no, guys,

786
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 8: this is this is good. Like we're happy right now.

787
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 8: That's what's happening. You need to be at peace with that.

788
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 8: But you can be happy about your baseball. Well, I'm

789
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 8: happy for you, guys, like I said, not happy for me.

790
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 8: But with Rocker having a success he did.

791
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Speaker 1: He was a little shaky this year, but then the

792
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: success he had in twenty nineteen, and then obviously being

793
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: a college arm coming out, he'll he should climb faster

794
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: than most do. You guys see him coming up and

795
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: within a couple of years and pitching behind a grom

796
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: at some point.

797
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 8: That's the dream. Yeah, I was gonna say that's the hope.

798
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 8: And Vanderfield obviously has a wonderful program, so he probably

799
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 8: is closer. I mean not to disparage other programs, but

800
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 8: they're known to develop pictures as we see with Jack

801
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 8: Layer too, although he has so I could see him

802
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 8: probably being up in a year or two as long

803
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 8: as you know everything, like you know howth wise knock

804
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 8: on wood. But yeah, I don't see anything because it

805
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 8: is also unfortunate because Matthew Allen had Tommy John surgery,

806
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,720
Speaker 8: so they're very barren in their pitching prospects right now.

807
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 8: So I can kind of see the organization really throwing

808
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 8: everything behind him and really trying to develop him as

809
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 8: fast as they can, well within reason, and they're gonna need.

810
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 8: I mean, like everyone says, don't draft for need, and

811
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 8: that's absolutely correct, but the Mets absolutely are in a

812
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 8: situation where they need MLB ready pitching talent right now

813
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 8: because obviously they have to Gram. But Stroman is in

814
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 8: his walk year after exception Dergardening author this year. Yes,

815
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Speaker 8: Sinderguard is in his walk year coming back from Jommy

816
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 8: John surgery, So they basically don't have much behind the GROM,

817
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 8: and I think that they really are hoping that they

818
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 8: can develop pitching talent quickly with Rocker, Like, what encourages

819
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 8: me about him is that like his sliders a MLB

820
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 8: ready pitch right now. And what encourages me about him

821
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 8: is that not only does he already have like a

822
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 8: like seventy eighty grade pitch that's already ready major League

823
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 8: ready right now. He also is a player that C. C.

824
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Speaker 8: Sabathia said in his analysis of him, that knows when

825
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 8: to use his secondary pitches. And that's the type of

826
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Speaker 8: baseball IQ thing that comes with the like and already

827
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 8: fully developed, fully realized pitcher, right Like, that's the type

828
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 8: of thing that you have to develop. But the fact

829
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 8: that he's already way far along in that baseball IQ

830
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 8: and that situational awareness of when he used his secondary

831
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 8: pitches speaks really well to me. It's that fastball that's

832
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 8: going to need some work in development, because obviously he

833
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 8: had that velocity drop. How much of that is due

834
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 8: to you know, the college workload and how he'll have

835
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 8: to adjust to an MLB workload, and how much of

836
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 8: that is due to something in his delivery that may

837
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 8: need to be tweaked by the Mets coaches is unclear.

838
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 8: And that's where I feel like the difference between you know,

839
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 8: him being ready very soon and him needing a little

840
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 8: bit more season is going to lay.

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Speaker 1: Basically, I think you said it perfectly with you don't

842
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: draft for need, but you can't go wrong with a

843
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: guy like Rocker, so exactly like you said, he should

844
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: be up there in a few years, hopefully for.

845
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Speaker 5: You guys, not for us.

846
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: But reports did come out the last couple of days

847
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: that the Philly now have the best odds starting the

848
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: second half to win the entire NLS by the end

849
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: of the season, despite you guys three and a half

850
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: games leading ahead of us right now in the division.

851
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: How do you guys see the second half playing out?

852
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: Do you guys have your eyes on any trades that

853
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: can happen within the next couple of weeks, and what

854
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: do you see for.

855
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 8: The rest of the season with this NL East. Well,

856
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 8: I'm completely biased. I want them to trade for Chris Bryant.

857
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 8: But and I'm Alison. It's weird because Allison ended up

858
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 8: at I live in the Hudson Valley, so the Renegades

859
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 8: are not too far for me, and they're now the Yankees,

860
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 8: myor League team, and they were playing the Cyclones, which

861
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 8: was the Mets Triple A I mean a single A team,

862
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 8: So so the Cyclones and the Renegades are playing. So

863
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 8: since the Renegades aren't too far for me, I was

864
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 8: gonna I went Saturday to see the Renegades and Cyclones,

865
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 8: and of course Francisco Alvarez wasn't there because he got

866
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 8: called up to them, and I really wanted to Disney Opas,

867
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,760
Speaker 8: but I got to see Mauricio, and Mauricio is huge.

868
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 8: I don't see him sticking a shortstop. Plus Franciscolndor is

869
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 8: gonna be there for ten years, so if anything, I

870
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 8: can see them dangling Mauricio out there, and possibly for Brian,

871
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 8: although there was talk about, you know, there's rumors about

872
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 8: Josh Donaldson, so maybe they could package him with Jose Barrios.

873
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 8: But they definitely need like Alison said, there's they're starting

874
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 8: pitching is very thin. They're hoping for Carrasco and Cindergard,

875
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 8: but you can't count on them at this point, so

876
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 8: you really don't know what you mean, even if they

877
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 8: come back, you don't know what they're gonna give you

878
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 8: if they're gonna be one hundred percent when they come back.

879
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 8: So they definitely If I were them, I was focus

880
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 8: more on starting pitching than I would Chris Bryant, even

881
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 8: though I really really want.

882
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 7: Him, but starting to pitch anything, maybe even bullpen help

883
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 7: because their bullpens look a little their bullplets are off

884
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 7: really strong at the beginning of the year, and now

885
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 7: their bullpen's looking a little shaky the past couple of weeks.

886
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 8: But I definitely see some addition being made. I guess

887
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 8: it's just what they feel their biggest need is because

888
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 8: they feel like they're gonna hit. You know, they haven't

889
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 8: hit all year, but they haven't really been gotten into

890
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 8: approval year because they haven't had their whole team the

891
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,479
Speaker 8: whole year. Somebody's always been on the il. So Jabe

892
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 8: Davis is coming back after the All Star break and

893
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 8: he's their last piece, So then maybe we can finally see,

894
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 8: at least in those two weeks before the trade deadline,

895
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 8: what this offense can really look like with every piece

896
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 8: finally back together, and then maybe just focus on a

897
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 8: trade for starting pat like Jose Barrios or.

898
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: I don't know. I doubt the.

899
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 8: National pastures are in the division, but you never know. Yeah,

900
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 8: I feel like starting pitching is absolutely key for this team.

901
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 8: I like, I think that Carlos Carrasco's timing and his

902
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 8: return is key to deciding where the Mets go at

903
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 8: the deadline, because it's gonna be kind of a close

904
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 8: call about Carrasco is supposed to do one rehab assignment

905
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 8: like during this All Star break basically, and then the

906
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 8: Mets are saying he might be back after that, and

907
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 8: like to the extent that he is back and what

908
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 8: he looks like could really determine their direction, because the

909
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 8: difference between having like three starting pitchers versus four solid

910
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 8: starting pitchers is huge. But the Mets need another starting

911
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 8: picture regardless. I think it will just simply determine like

912
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,839
Speaker 8: how hard they go and who they go for. Whether

913
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 8: they go for a guy with extra team control like Barrios,

914
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 8: that might cause them to have to give up one

915
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 8: of their top prospects, which the Mets are saying they

916
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 8: don't want to part with. But I feel like that's

917
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 8: a lot of like, you know, we say that in

918
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 8: the media, so we have leverage situation, you know. So

919
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 8: I feel like the Mets really desperately need a starting pitcher.

920
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 8: Whether that's more of a one year rental or one

921
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 8: with team control is to be determined, But they need

922
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 8: pitching help. They need pitching help desperately in order to

923
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 8: make this run. As far as the rest of the

924
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 8: NL least is concerned, I you know, I get concerned

925
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 8: about a different NLS team making a run every week

926
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 8: because the best of the division is so under the Mets,

927
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 8: like the Mets have. The Mets have maintained like a

928
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 8: three to fourish game lead for you know, the past

929
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 8: while now. But you know, each team has you know,

930
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 8: had winning streaks and losing streaks underneath, and been the

931
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 8: team that's had the advantage of the bunch. Obviously, the

932
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 8: Marlins are you know, in the basement, and I think

933
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 8: they will remain so. But the other three teams are

934
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 8: all very tightly packed, and I was concerned about the

935
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 8: National heading in. But then Kyle Schwarber had that devastating

936
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 8: hamstring injury, unfortunately, and he was doing so well for

937
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 8: them and hitting all those leadoff home runs, and I

938
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 8: feel like that their winning streak was really on the

939
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 8: back of that and that kind of killed it. And

940
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 8: then you know, the Braves can always hit, it was

941
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 8: their pitching that was a problem. And then Akunya had

942
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 8: that absolutely devastating ACL injury. That really sucks for baseball,

943
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 8: and just like, really it makes me sad to see it,

944
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 8: but it does mean that the Braves are less of

945
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 8: a factor than they were before. I think not having

946
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 8: that MBB caliber player in their lineup, and it's really

947
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,439
Speaker 8: just screaming. But then the Phillies don't. The Phillies were

948
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 8: very injured, but now they're getting healthy again and Zach

949
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 8: Wheeler's at the top of their rotation along with Aaron Nola,

950
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 8: and they're a good baseball team. And I don't think

951
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 8: they can be underestimated at all. I think of the

952
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 8: NL teams, I'm actually most nervous about them right now

953
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 8: given the injuries to the other teams.

954
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: Oh I know, trust me, I know.

955
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 5: All two about Awesome, lady, thank you so much for

956
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 5: joining us.

957
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, let everybody know where they

958
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: can find you on social medium where they can find

959
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: your podcast.

960
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 8: Absolutely so, I am at the t PhD on Twitter

961
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 8: and our podcast is at a pod of their own

962
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 8: on Twitter, and if you subscribe to Amazing Avenue Audio

963
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 8: wherever you get your podcasts from, you can find our

964
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:23,439
Speaker 8: show and all of the other awesome pods and amazing ANU. Yeah,

965
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 8: thank you so much for having me, and you can

966
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,439
Speaker 8: find me at Lindis Servage, so I'm there and I'm

967
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 8: usually tweeting about the Mets.

968
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: Awesome.

969
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 5: Thanks ladies, have a great night.

970
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 4: Thank you.

971
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, I hope you're still there. I see you,

972
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: guys on you But the biggest upset of the night

973
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: so far. We're only in this set.

974
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, match up there called it Rocky Me and you

975
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 5: are just down the dumps, aren't we.

976
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:00,280
Speaker 2: Crap? Yeah, he could get a going and he got

977
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 2: to go on there for a second, but I noticed

978
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:07,240
Speaker 2: he kept like, uh, you know, like stretching out his shoulder.

979
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 2: I don't know if his shoulders stiffened up on him,

980
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna make an excuse for him that had

981
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 2: to be yet.

982
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 5: Had to be.

983
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 6: Well, that's nice.

984
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 3: I mean, what seemed like it seemed like Trevor's I'm sorry,

985
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say I think Trevor's story. It

986
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 3: seemed like he was it seemed like he felt right

987
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 3: at home.

988
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 2: I couldn't really.

989
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 3: Tell, you know, Joey Gallow's picture where he had pitching

990
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 3: for him. It seemed like, you know, like like Kruk

991
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 3: was talking about a few minutes ago, a lot of

992
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 3: these pitches diving in diving, in diving in I mean,

993
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 3: I know, left handed hit is like the ball, you know,

994
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 3: low and end most of the time, but it just

995
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 3: seemed like they were really having a hard time trying

996
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 3: to you know, get balls over the middle of the

997
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 3: plate that Gallo could could elevate and get out of there.

998
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 3: I mean he it looked like he was gonna not

999
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 3: even be closed until he went on a run in

1000
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 3: that bonus minute.

1001
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yet, you know, they always talk about the a hitter,

1002
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 2: how tired the hitter gets. But you know, as someone

1003
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 2: who's thrown a lot of batting practice all different age people, uh,

1004
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 2: you know, the the hardest thing is uh, not only

1005
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 2: maintaining location of where the hitter likes it, but velocity

1006
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,959
Speaker 2: to like you know, sometimes you throw one that comes

1007
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 2: out of your hand better and comes out of some

1008
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 2: of the others, uh, you know, and so your speed's

1009
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 2: inconsistent and it's up to the hitter to time it,

1010
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 2: you know, when you're in a situation like this in

1011
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 2: batting practice. That's why Larry Ball was the best VP

1012
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 2: pitcher I think I've ever had, because he not only

1013
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 2: you knew, you know, like he could you could tell

1014
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,720
Speaker 2: him I want to ball in, uh now, work me away,

1015
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 2: but it was always going to be the same same speed.

1016
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 2: It was so consistent with the speed, and that's a

1017
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 2: big deal when you're when you're hit taking batting practice, uh,

1018
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 2: you know and trying to and trying to hit home

1019
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 2: runs is maintaining uh you know, the your velocity.

1020
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 5: Clucky to go along with that.

1021
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: How like going into this their BP pitchers, do you

1022
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: think like how many days beforehand are they pitching to on?

1023
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: How often are they getting ready? Are they throwing into walls?

1024
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 1: How serious do you think they take this? Well?

1025
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 2: That the most of these guys are throwing. They you know,

1026
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 2: they're coaches, so they throw every day. Uh and normally, uh,

1027
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 2: you know, you have a certain guy. Uh you know,

1028
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 2: depending on where you hitting the lineup, you have basically

1029
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: the same guy throwing to you every day that you're

1030
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 2: in the lineup. Ah. But you know, like I said,

1031
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,479
Speaker 2: this is a different situation because you're used to throwing

1032
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 2: VP and there's a big screen around there and you

1033
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 2: see everything and all this. But uh, oh crap, there's

1034
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 2: my neighbor throwing Dave Jeff. He lives down the street

1035
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 2: from us in Florida. So but anyway, Uh, yeah, that

1036
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 2: that's that, uh, you know, getting used to the one guy.

1037
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 2: Like the guys that bring guys in, they'll normally bring

1038
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 2: them in to throw to them early. Uh you know,

1039
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 2: if it's not your normal everyday batting practice mature, they'll

1040
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 2: bring them in early to throw. Like I saw the

1041
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:18,800
Speaker 2: other day, Texas was playing Oakland at Gallo and Olsen,

1042
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 2: we're practicing without the net, without the batting cage, and

1043
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 2: they were practicing hitting home run derby without the net.

1044
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 2: So they were working on their home run derby swings.

1045
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: It doesn't shock me. I feel like in this kind

1046
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:35,919
Speaker 1: of crowd, with all this on the line, I would

1047
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: be doing the same thing.

1048
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 2: Well, it didn't work for either one of them, so far.

1049
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: True that maybe they worried too much about it.

1050
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 2: Maybe they over prepared.

1051
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: Right, Alonso already at the nine mark, he's got about

1052
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: two minutes left. He'll get a bonus as well, most likely.

1053
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1054
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 3: He hit one about five hundred and fourteen feet, so

1055
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 3: he's definitely got at least one.

1056
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. And he's been my my

1057
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 2: and he's a showman. Oh yeah, he loves this stuff.

1058
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 2: But you know the thing about him, like two years ago,

1059
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 2: I kept hearing people say, Oh, he's too big. You know,

1060
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 2: he's too big. You know he's going to tire out.

1061
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: Uh.

1062
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: He swings too hard, he's going to tire out. Well,

1063
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 2: I don't know. After that like five hundredth homer he

1064
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 2: hit that home run derby, he's seemed pretty fresh after

1065
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 2: after he raised that trophy.

1066
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: Well, he has a swing where even though he is

1067
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: big and strong, it doesn't look like he's overpowering it.

1068
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: You know, he's kind of got the good mechanics throughout

1069
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: his body and that he uses everything instead of his

1070
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: supper body in it.

1071
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 2: Hey a man that can stand at home plate in

1072
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,799
Speaker 2: front of about fifty something thousand people in.

1073
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: Dance, Yeah, he's got some com he.

1074
00:53:57,680 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 2: Ain't got that. There's not a whole lot of car

1075
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 2: going through that brain right now.

1076
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 6: He's No, That's what I was say.

1077
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 3: He's won this before too, so he knows what to expect.

1078
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: He knows what he has to do. So you know,

1079
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 3: I think there's a certain relaxation, like he's still jamming

1080
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 3: the music in his mind up at the place as

1081
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 3: he's swinging. I mean, he's he's hearing, he's got some

1082
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 3: kind of juke box playing in his brain right now

1083
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 3: as he's as he's up there and taking these swings,

1084
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 3: and he's getting a lot of balls, right down the middle,

1085
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 3: just right at the belt and smoking everything out of here.

1086
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 3: I mean it just it looks kind of effortless, and

1087
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 3: uh yeah, it's it's it's fun to watch because he

1088
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 3: is a he is a big guy making the ball

1089
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 3: go a very very long way.

1090
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:52,439
Speaker 2: Well, so far, had Dave Joss, who's pitching to him,

1091
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 2: has been the most consistent. Yeah, I mean everything's a

1092
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 2: little bit higher than the belt, middle middle in and

1093
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 2: all uh.

1094
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 5: Same exact wind up every single time release point.

1095
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and all Alonzo has to do a swing

1096
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 2: and it's gonna go in the air.

1097
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

1098
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1099
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 4: It really just looks like he's on repeat right now.

1100
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 4: All these pitches look the same, the swings look the same,

1101
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 4: a lot of the results look the same.

1102
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's slowing down a little bit right now

1103
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: with about fifteen seconds ago, but he's still already. I

1104
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: think he just said his twenty third and then he's

1105
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: going to have that bonus time too, so he's definitely

1106
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: going to be the leader on the board so far.

1107
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 2: God, oh mighty, he's scared.

1108
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 3: Feeling pretty good about my pre home run derby pick

1109
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 3: here feeling pretty.

1110
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: I know, it's so mad because I had Alonzo on

1111
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: my sheet and I let the dark horse get to me.

1112
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: But it's okay. So he finished out with twenty five,

1113
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: but he still has that bone him.

1114
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, John, I don't know, Sam explained to you,

1115
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 2: but we pick after every round.

1116
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll get we get news.

1117
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,439
Speaker 3: Fair enough, Yeah, fair enough, fair enough.

1118
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 2: Sam, you're the host.

1119
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 3: If you we can pick everyone, you got to say,

1120
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 3: all right, I'm the host. I'm picking first from now on.

1121
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 3: That's you just got to run this stuff, because I mean, yeah,

1122
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 3: he's this is such a great this is such a

1123
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 3: great swing watching him. They got the super slow mow

1124
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:15,280
Speaker 3: on ESPN and it's it's really something else.

1125
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: Well, and you see the confidence in it too, now

1126
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: that this is his chance at being the back to

1127
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: back hoom Run champion. But one thing that you did

1128
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: say that he's got definitely a song playing in his head,

1129
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: and that makes me think, Kracky, did you ever have

1130
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: a song that you would just always be around to

1131
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: on the field in the day.

1132
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 2: No, I don't even think we had walk up music,

1133
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 2: which was fine with me. Uh you know, I think

1134
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 2: Tony Gwynn wants They asked Tony about a walk up

1135
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:50,760
Speaker 2: song and he said, I'm not going up there to dance.

1136
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 2: I'm going up there to hit.

1137
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 5: So all business.

1138
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 2: The only thing I had my mind going up was

1139
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 2: that depending on who the picture was was, you know,

1140
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 2: either swing early to get the hell out of there,

1141
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 2: or or you know, be be more Like with Greg Maddox,

1142
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,919
Speaker 2: you could probably be a little bit more selective knowing

1143
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 2: that you know, if he throws you three pitches, all

1144
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 2: three of them are going to be strikes because he

1145
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 2: just didn't throw them any balls. Then there was others

1146
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 2: you had to go up there different with a different approach.

1147
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,439
Speaker 2: But yeah, I never went up there with the song

1148
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 2: in my head. I couldn't, you know. When I listened

1149
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 2: to some of these walk ups music and stuff like,

1150
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 2: I don't know, like it's amazing to me, Like, especially

1151
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 2: if it's a song you really like, Like how does

1152
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 2: that not stay in your head the whole with that?

1153
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 2: You know, like you hear a song in the morning

1154
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 2: and the next thing you know, you're singing it at

1155
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 2: ten o'clock at night too.

1156
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was just gonna say. I played volleyball,

1157
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: and every time I was a middle blocker, and I

1158
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: would for some reason sit there every single game with

1159
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: the Mario theme song in my head and Doop doop

1160
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: do do do do So I had a song that

1161
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: I'd always bought to who gave me confidence? But Sons Brady,

1162
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: what if you guys imagined yourself in this position and

1163
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: you had a song that would get your ants going up?

1164
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 5: What would it be as Alonzo?

1165
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 6: Baby Shark?

1166
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, baby Shark.

1167
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 3: I mean it's obviously successful. It's obviously a successful song.

1168
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 3: Uh it's burred. It's burred a team to win a

1169
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:38,480
Speaker 3: world series. Uh so yeah, I'll shark for for my No,

1170
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 3: I don't know that's it. I'd have to really think

1171
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 3: about that. I mean there's been some great walk up music.

1172
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 3: I mean Phillies fans of course, No Chase Utley with

1173
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 3: uh with Kashmir.

1174
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 6: I mean that's hard to be.

1175
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 3: Uh goodness, gracious, I don't know, come back to me.

1176
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 3: I have no idea what my walk up music would be.

1177
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: I know it's a tough one to put you on

1178
00:58:59,000 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: the spot, what about you.

1179
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 4: I feel like I would be one of those people

1180
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 4: who changed my walk up music, like every series.

1181
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: I like it.

1182
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 4: Just whatever song I was feeling, I like it. I

1183
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 4: feel like that's what because you know when you when

1184
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 4: you when you kind of fall in love with the

1185
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 4: song for the first time, it kind of energizes you

1186
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 4: and inspires you. So I think I think I would

1187
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 4: just be constantly rotating whatever my favorite song was for

1188
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 4: any given series. That would be my walk up music.

1189
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 4: If I had to just choose one, I have no idea,

1190
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 4: but it would probably be something like jay Z. I

1191
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 4: feel like that that would be a good inspirational music

1192
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 4: to get you ready to hit a ninety nine miles

1193
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 4: an hour fastball.

1194
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, get you going.

1195
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: And now, obviously Pete Alonzo absolutely shatters it, putting thirty

1196
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: five home runs up in the first round tonight, So

1197
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: obviously music must be pretty important.

1198
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 5: Kracky, do you wish that you used to have a

1199
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 5: song you think it would have added to the performance?

1200
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 2: No? Yes, but uh you know, you know, look, you

1201
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 2: know hitting is a rhythm, and you know it's not

1202
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 2: a way rhythm with your swing, it's a rhythm with

1203
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 2: your picture. And you know, Peter Alonzo gets that rhythm

1204
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 2: going in his head and it sinks up with this picture.

1205
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 2: Dave Jallis is pitch you know, the BP pitcher, and

1206
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 2: they're gonna walk away with this thing because it's it

1207
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 2: was that was impressive.

1208
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: Do you think Perez goes up to the play right

1209
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: now and he's just like, heck with it. I'm just

1210
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: gonna do you think, Yeah, right.

1211
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta catch I gotta catch five intes tomorrow.

1212
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 2: I'm gonna save some energy here. But you know what,

1213
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 2: he's a competitor and he's a winner, and uh, you

1214
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 2: know he's not gonna you know, he's not gonna go

1215
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 2: down easy. You got a pretty good rhythm.

1216
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:52,959
Speaker 6: But I think it's interesting he's got the first he does.

1217
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:54,959
Speaker 3: And I think it's interesting that this is the first

1218
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 3: left handed picture we've had we've seen so far tonight

1219
01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 3: thro one of these guys.

1220
01:00:58,640 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 6: Every even with the right.

1221
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 3: Handed hitter, we've seen right handed pitchers, this is the first.

1222
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 3: This is the first lefty throwing to Salvador Perez. So

1223
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 3: kind of kind of interesting that I know right handers

1224
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 3: generally see the ball better off of left handers better

1225
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 3: in games, but here in the derby, it's Salvador Prez

1226
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 3: is the first one to have a south pall throwing

1227
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 3: to him.

1228
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think it well. I think in

1229
01:01:19,840 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 2: a situation like this, if you're a right handed hitter.

1230
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 2: You know, the last thing you want is a lefty

1231
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 2: to throw a ball that. You know, lefties have a

1232
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 2: natural right to left movement on their pitches, like you know,

1233
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 2: the ball is gonna run away from right, home run derbys,

1234
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 2: the ball to run away from you. But this guy

1235
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 2: seems to be throwing pretty good, like you know, he's

1236
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 2: keeping it straight and pretty much centered for uh Per

1237
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 2: Salvador Perez, Well, we wait.

1238
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: To see if he can catch up to Pete a Lonzo,

1239
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: which is a big task. What are some trade deadline

1240
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:59,479
Speaker 1: moves that john Sons Brady that you guys see coming

1241
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 1: up with an the next couple of weeks.

1242
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 3: Well, I think, uh, I think you're gonna see the

1243
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 3: Cubs sell. Cubs are gonna sell a lot of guys,

1244
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 3: so I know, uh, I know, Chris Bryant is probably

1245
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 3: one of the guys you're gonna hear talked about a lot.

1246
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 3: I think he'll probably go. Wilson Contreras. Wilson Candras had

1247
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 3: some very interesting things to say in the media about

1248
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 3: his team the other day. He does not sound like

1249
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 3: a guy who is long for Chicago, so wouldn't be

1250
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 3: surprised to see him go someplace. You know, I think

1251
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 3: you're gonna see basically anybody else who you know hasn't

1252
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 3: been nailed down. I mean, maybe you see them even move.

1253
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,919
Speaker 3: Somebody like Anthony Rizzo may maybe you see them move.

1254
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 3: I think for sure you're gonna see Craig Kimberrell go

1255
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 3: someplace else. Which, again, as a Phillies fan, that seems

1256
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 3: like that seems like a target for the Phills and

1257
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 3: for Dave Dombrowski to go after any team, you know,

1258
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 3: anybody that's got a closer available, the Phillies should be

1259
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 3: hot on their heels. But yeah, I mean, I think

1260
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 3: you're gonna see. I think you're gonna see a bunch

1261
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 3: of Cubs move. And I think it's going to be

1262
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 3: very interesting to see what a team like the Atlanta

1263
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 3: Braves do. You've just lost a Kunya for the season,

1264
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 3: your pitching's been bad all year. Yes, you play in

1265
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 3: a division that's not doing very well this year, but

1266
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 3: things just do not look like they are in the

1267
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 3: cards for you. If you are an Atlanta Braves fan,

1268
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 3: if you're in the Atlanta Braves organization, do you say, okay, listen,

1269
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 3: we won three straight division titles. We're a couple games

1270
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 3: under five hundred, We're just not getting any traction, and

1271
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 3: now we've lost our best player for the season. What

1272
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 3: do we do.

1273
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 6: I certainly don't think they go out and buy.

1274
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 3: Is that a situation where the Atlanta Braves maybe sell

1275
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 3: some pieces and become sellers at the trade deadline?

1276
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 6: I think that could be an interesting situation, Brady.

1277
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 5: Are there any trades that stick out to you?

1278
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think kind of all those teams in that region.

1279
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 4: When you look at the Cubs, the Braves, the Nationals,

1280
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 4: the Cardinals, all teams that are just a few games

1281
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 4: below five hundred, They're close enough to the tops of

1282
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 4: their division that they still have some realistic hopes of

1283
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 4: winning the division, but those hopes are fading, and so

1284
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:05,439
Speaker 4: I'm curious to see, you know, if any of those

1285
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 4: teams come out of the break with a losing streak.

1286
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 4: Whatever hopes they have could pay pretty quickly. And they've

1287
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 4: all got some intriguing pieces that they could look to

1288
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 4: sell off and maybe retool for another year two or

1289
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 4: three down down the road, if you know. I think

1290
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 4: the Cubs are a prime example here, like John mentioned,

1291
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 4: with a guy like Chris Bryant, if you trade Chris Bryant.

1292
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 4: You know, in a walk here like this, you don't

1293
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 4: necessarily have to hit the rebuild button. Maybe you get

1294
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 4: someone who's a little bit worse, but has you know, three,

1295
01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 4: four or five years of team control and you can

1296
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 4: be retooling a little bit for the next few years.

1297
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 4: So those teams are the interesting ones to me because

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Speaker 4: I really think what they do in that first you know,

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Speaker 4: five to ten games after the All Star break, we're

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Speaker 4: going to really see the trade deadline shape up as

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Speaker 4: to who was going to be selling, who was going

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Speaker 4: to be buying, and then it's just going to be

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Speaker 4: a crazy season. I think we mentioned this on the

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Speaker 4: on our podcast that we did by other day that

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Speaker 4: I think it's going to be interesting to see what

1306
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 4: the market is like as as teams begin to kind

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Speaker 4: of bid against each other because teams aren't willing to

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01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 4: give away quite as much as the trade deadline as

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01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 4: they used to be. But there are enough teams trying

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Speaker 4: to win this year that a bidding work could just

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Speaker 4: force teams to have to make some big moves.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Sam, I've got Ashley mcclennan from d Ray's Bay

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Speaker 11: ready to join us. When did they get read before

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Speaker 11: the big O'shani.

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Speaker 6: And then Michael.

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Speaker 12: I appreciate the timing so that I have all my

1317
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Speaker 12: focus for the big round.

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Speaker 5: We always have perfect timing here.

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Speaker 1: So last night the race took a high school shortstop

1320
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Speaker 1: Carson Williams from California early in that first round.

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Speaker 5: What was your first reaction to the pick?

1322
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: Did you like it?

1323
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 5: Was it a hun Picking a.

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Speaker 12: High school in shortstop felt like a very razy kind

1325
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 12: of move, exact kind of got they have the skill

1326
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 12: for development on It's the exact kind of player that,

1327
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 12: even if he isn't the next Wander Franco, he's the

1328
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 12: kind of guy that they can build up in their

1329
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 12: system to be a really exciting trade option later on

1330
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Speaker 12: down the road. So I'm totally happy with the pick.

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Speaker 1: Were there any positions that you rather them had focused

1332
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:18,439
Speaker 1: on with that first round pick?

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Speaker 12: Well, I think infielders are really kind of a power

1334
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 12: position for them. They do well developing pictures too, but

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Speaker 12: I think they've really shown that they have a lot

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Speaker 12: of strength in developing those young guys in middle infield

1337
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 12: positions that aren't just you know, shortstops. They're adaptable to

1338
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:38,520
Speaker 12: different positions around that infield, and I think that it

1339
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Speaker 12: was a really smart pick for them.

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Speaker 1: Now, I know it's kind of soon, so I don't

1341
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 1: expect you to have all of the answers, But what's

1342
01:06:44,520 --> 01:06:47,680
Speaker 1: your initial reaction and feeling after the day two picks

1343
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: from earlier today?

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Speaker 12: You know what, I have absolutely no strong opinions.

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Speaker 6: I know that a pres slugger later on through the words.

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Speaker 1: I can't even remember his name right now.

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Speaker 12: I was just watching footage of hitting and he looked

1348
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 12: pretty solid at that, But yeah, I don't have any like,

1349
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 12: there was nothing there that really made me angry. And

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01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 12: I have this general kind of solid opinion of the

1351
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 12: raised farm system, where like anyone they take is somebody

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Speaker 12: that can develop. I know we were talking a little

1353
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,439
Speaker 12: earlier about two way players and how rare they are,

1354
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Speaker 12: but you look at the Rays and a guy like

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Speaker 12: Brendan McKay and the work that they've done developing and

1356
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 12: continuing to develop him as a two way player, and

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Speaker 12: I think that just goes to show the kind of

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Speaker 12: diversity they have in developing their players down there.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, like you said, as long as it's not

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Speaker 1: a bad feeling, then it's a win for you guys.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: Now, the Rays are just a game and a half

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Speaker 1: behind the Red Sox for the top of the Al East.

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Speaker 1: Do you see any significant moves for them coming before

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Speaker 1: the tradeline? Do you see him standing pat? How do

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Speaker 1: you see the second half of the season going for

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Speaker 1: you guys?

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Speaker 12: The only thing I could see them doing just with

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01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 12: glass Now's injury in him on the sixty dayil. I

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01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:00,280
Speaker 12: know he says he's feeling pretty good, but I think

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Speaker 12: that they're going to rush him to come back. I

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01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 12: could see them kind of sniffing around for another starting pitcher.

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01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 12: I know, the Rays or kind of that franchise that

1374
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 12: looks like they can do just about anything they want

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01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 12: in pitching. I mean with bullpen days and the opener.

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Speaker 12: But I could see them kind of looking out and

1377
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 12: seeing what's out there in terms of a pitcher. I

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Speaker 12: could see them even trading a guy like you know,

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Speaker 12: just newly named alsar Joey Wendall, who I love and

1380
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 12: would be devastated to lose. But he's such a strong

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01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:34,240
Speaker 12: trade candidate for a team that has so many infielder options,

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01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 12: and I think that they could probably get a pretty

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01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 12: solid return for him.

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Speaker 9: I would hate it, every minute of it.

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Speaker 12: They feel like they really need pitching going into the

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01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,559
Speaker 12: second half of the season. I could see them looking

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Speaker 12: at him. I mean they traded Willie Adamas earlier this year,

1388
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 12: which shelt inevitable with Franco and Walls sitting in the

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Speaker 12: minor leagues. So with a guy like Wendell, he's kind

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01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 12: of limited option, Like he's a fantas has to hit her.

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01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:07,640
Speaker 12: He's a pretty solid defender, but he is definitely on

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01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 12: on the list of guys I think that they would

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01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 12: be willing to part with.

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Speaker 5: Awesome, Ashley, Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Before we let you go, let everybody know where they

1396
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 1: can find your podcast and where they can find you

1397
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: on social media.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you got.

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Speaker 12: I run a podcast called Who's On Worst where we

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Speaker 12: look at the worst baseball movies and kind of go

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01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 12: through them, and John, I'm so sorry to do this.

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01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 12: We just did the Fan last week, and I gotta

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01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:35,760
Speaker 12: say we had quite the time of it. In your

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Speaker 12: death scene at the end, we absolutely loved that moment.

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Speaker 1: So thank you.

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01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 2: That was wrong.

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Speaker 1: We have lots of questions, but.

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Speaker 2: How hard they had it rain and when they killed me, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I've got thought the movie was gonna come to an

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Speaker 2: end because as I was running out for like the

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Speaker 2: tenth time, like I had a full wet suit on

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01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 2: underneath my baseball uniform, so like I was very restricted

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01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:18,120
Speaker 2: flexibility wise, and so I had to run and jump

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Speaker 2: over someone and then grabbed Robert de Niro. Well, the

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Speaker 2: one time, like the tenth time I did it, I

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01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:28,640
Speaker 2: ran out, tried to jump over the guy and he

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01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:30,880
Speaker 2: raised up, so he kind of clipped me a little bit,

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01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 2: and I wiped him out and took out some lights

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01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 2: and other stuff. And one of the assistant producer thought

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01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 2: that that might be the end of the movie because

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01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 2: the one in his contract for me to take him out.

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01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 2: So we were worried about that part. But he was

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01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 2: good and he stayed in there and hung in and

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01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 2: we finished it. But I had to lay in that stuff.

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01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 2: That pond per probably like two or three minutes every

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01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 2: time we did that scene, so we had to do

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Speaker 2: it like ten or fifteen times. Oh my gosh, many talent.

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01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 2: A very wet looking scene for sure.

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Speaker 12: So yeah, you can find the podcast on the d

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Speaker 12: rays Bay podcast network.

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Speaker 1: Such a search.

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Speaker 12: D Ray's a on any podcast servicetener there And I'm

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01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:28,639
Speaker 12: at ninety feet from Home on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, thank you again, Ashley. Okay, guys, wan Soto is

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01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,759
Speaker 1: killing it. He's up first, and then Otani will follow.

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Speaker 1: What do you guys like about his swing so far?

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01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 2: Nice and easy, fluid swing, He's not overswinging, and the

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01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 2: ball's jumping, which is you know something that you know

1439
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 2: when you get to watch him eighteen times a year

1440
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 2: when he's playing against your team, you see the swing

1441
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 2: quite often. Nothing, no overswing, just nice and easy and

1442
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 2: just unbelievable power from this young man.

1443
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:06,679
Speaker 4: I just adore watching one. So yeah, on the back

1444
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:10,719
Speaker 4: it's just so smooth, and he gets to his power

1445
01:12:10,840 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 4: so effortlessly. It's just, you know, his swing almost looks

1446
01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:16,799
Speaker 4: like a guy who's hitting for average, not for power.

1447
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 4: And then you see where the baseball goes.

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01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 3: I live in the DC area, so I see a

1449
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 3: lot of Nats games, even when they're not playing the Phillies,

1450
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:28,160
Speaker 3: and he it's just nice to see him get some pitches.

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01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 6: To hit for a change here because he just he

1452
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 6: doesn't get a lot of pitches to hit now. I mean,

1453
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 6: he's he's he gets pitched around so often.

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01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 3: I mean that's one of the things you think, is

1455
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 3: like he gets hit there he's because he don't know

1456
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:39,719
Speaker 3: what to do with the ball over the plates, because

1457
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 3: he just so rarely gets one. But it's what he

1458
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 3: does really well, and it's what he does when he's

1459
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 3: when he's at the plate, you know, in a big

1460
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 3: league ball game, is he can take the ball to

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Speaker 3: all fields.

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Speaker 6: He's not a dead pool hitter.

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01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:53,719
Speaker 3: He's not somebody who's just going to try and yack

1464
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 3: stuff towards the right field foul pole.

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01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 6: He's going to take the ball where it's pitched. He's getting.

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Speaker 3: He's got power to left, he's got power to center,

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01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 3: he's got powder right and he made it look pretty

1468
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:04,479
Speaker 3: easy there in the first part of his first round.

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Speaker 3: And he's gonna have some bonus time. It looks like too.

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Speaker 3: To add to it, just he's so he's so young too,

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Speaker 3: it's not fair. Oh yeah, he can be so good

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01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:19,599
Speaker 3: and so young and so clutch. And you know, even

1473
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 3: this year when he's having kind of what you would

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Speaker 3: call quote unquote a down year, that he's still as

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Speaker 3: good as he is. So it's, uh, it's it's it's

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01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 3: crazy that.

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Speaker 6: That he that this guy is as talented as he is.

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01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 3: He's put up eighteen here before his one minute bonus

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01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 3: round he'll probably finish with somewhere between twenty five and thirty.

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Speaker 3: Otani's gonna have his hands full here, guys. It's it's

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01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 3: gonna be It's gonna be very interesting to see if

1482
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:42,799
Speaker 3: Otani can overtake him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing I marvel about Soto is, you know,

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01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:51,760
Speaker 2: like you said, he's so young, but he is. He

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01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 2: knows his strike zone so well at such a young age.

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01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:59,639
Speaker 2: Like I played with some great hitters and it took them,

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01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 2: you know, probably two or three years as they were

1488
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 2: in the big leagues. They really know their strike zone

1489
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 2: and know their swing and know their body and how

1490
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 2: it's going to work throughout their swing. This guy, when

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01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 2: he came up had it at what nineteen, I mean,

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01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 2: it was just incredible to watch and you kind of like,

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01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 2: you know, you kind of like look at him, you're

1494
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 2: like jealous, like, even the hell's this guy? You know,

1495
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 2: he knows the swing, he knows the strike going. He

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01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 2: doesn't swing at bad pitches. He'll take his walks, he'll

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01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 2: take a single the other way, make a mistake, he's

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01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,439
Speaker 2: gonna hurt you, oh my god. And you know, you

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Speaker 2: know with him, you know, Tani of course, but Ronald

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Speaker 2: l'cunye Junior, Ta Tease Junior. I mean the game of baseball,

1501
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 2: like they're they're seeing generational players that you just don't

1502
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 2: see U coming up. Uh, and and and again. You

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01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 2: hope Ronald 'cuonye Junior gets healthy whenever he just whenever

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01:14:57,160 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 2: he can come back. You hope he comes back and

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01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:01,599
Speaker 2: he's one hundred percent ready to go. But I mean,

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01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:05,200
Speaker 2: there there's some generational talent here that uh, you know

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01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 2: we might not see for a long time.

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01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to go there. Oh go ahead, John Sons.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if you could start your team with with any

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01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,840
Speaker 3: one of these guys, John, who who would you start

1512
01:15:18,840 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 3: it with? Would you start it with a Kunya? Would

1513
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 3: you started with one Soto?

1514
01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:26,680
Speaker 2: I would? I would go with Tattis Junior. Uh. You know,

1515
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 2: a shortstop that can hit lead off or hit fourth

1516
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:35,640
Speaker 2: and do damage in both both ways, you know, in

1517
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:39,160
Speaker 2: both both positions. But he can also play shortstop too.

1518
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, look, it's a tough one because

1519
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:46,759
Speaker 2: those other guys are corner Outfieldercuon you could play center,

1520
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 2: but and probably Soto could too. But uh, you know,

1521
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 2: I think a shortstop that has the abilities that Fernando

1522
01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 2: Tettis Junior has. I think if I was starting the team,

1523
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 2: it would of those three, I think I would take him.

1524
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:05,680
Speaker 1: Now. Sodo just finish out that first round and he

1525
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:08,240
Speaker 1: only added four in his bonus things, so he's at

1526
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 1: twenty two. What are your guys feeling as Otani's about.

1527
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 5: To step up to the plate.

1528
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 3: Be careful in the upper deck, you know, I know

1529
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 3: I thought Otani would would outperform Sodo. Obviously we all,

1530
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 3: I think we all picked Otani to come out of

1531
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 3: the first round, but you know now that it's coming,

1532
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 3: now that it's here, it's a lot. It's a lot

1533
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 3: for a guy like you mentioned at the beginning, Sam,

1534
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 3: for a guy who doesn't really take batting practice all

1535
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 3: that often. You asked the question at the very beginning. Well,

1536
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:41,240
Speaker 3: the fact that he doesn't usually take BP like this,

1537
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:43,679
Speaker 3: But now they're showing highlights from him in Japan. Apparently

1538
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 3: he has been in a home run derby while playing

1539
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,759
Speaker 3: in Japan before that he's done this before, so maybe

1540
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 3: that's all moved pert way. He's hitting bombs in a

1541
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 3: home run derby in Japan. He wanted to mean no surprise,

1542
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 3: but you know.

1543
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 1: There's no shot there. Yeah, it is one of the things.

1544
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: As they've shown a swing, it just you're right. I

1545
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 1: was kind of nervous there, but now that they're showing

1546
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:11,680
Speaker 1: the swing, I'm feeling excited more. But it does make

1547
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 1: you wonder if he's going to get a little nervous. Brady,

1548
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: how do you feel going into this.

1549
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 4: I'm feeling curious above all else, because I think it's

1550
01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:21,760
Speaker 4: always just a fascinating thing to see such a good

1551
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 4: home run hitter in their first derby. Because you know,

1552
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:29,799
Speaker 4: the ability to hit the most home runs in baseball,

1553
01:17:29,880 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 4: that doesn't always translate to a derby where you're seeing

1554
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 4: different type of pitches. Here, you need to be able

1555
01:17:36,479 --> 01:17:40,679
Speaker 4: to regularly and consistently hit home runs instead of run

1556
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 4: into one on a ninety eight mile an hour fastball

1557
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 4: every third game or so. So I'm just kind of

1558
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 4: curious because he has a swing where we're going to

1559
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 4: see some incredible home runs. I think we're going to

1560
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 4: get the longest home runs of the night coming from him,

1561
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 4: But that doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to be

1562
01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 4: able to just be consistently putting every pitch over the wall.

1563
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 4: So I'm just excited and carrious more than anything.

1564
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 2: And that's amazing. You know, he might be just a

1565
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:13,200
Speaker 2: step above. Trevor's story is the hometown favorite man. You know,

1566
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 2: he he is like it's like he plays for the Angels.

1567
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 2: He's paid by the Angels, but like he plays for baseball.

1568
01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 2: You know, he's like everywhere he goes, it's like a show.

1569
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:32,639
Speaker 1: Well, he's one of those guys that you know, no

1570
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 1: matter what he does right now, for example, you know

1571
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: you're going to see greatness and you're seeing history in

1572
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: this moment, just for the fact that he was the

1573
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: number one overall seed.

1574
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 5: And then you'll see him hit and pitch it both

1575
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 5: starting tomorrow in the All Star Game.

1576
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 1: You know.

1577
01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 5: So it's always when you watch him, you know you're.

1578
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: Going to get something. As he hits line drives.

1579
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I know, he's not looking good so far.

1580
01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 3: He's hitting line drive after line drive.

1581
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 5: Here, look at him now, he's in his head.

1582
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:06,480
Speaker 1: It does make you.

1583
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:06,960
Speaker 2: At it looked like he's working on that first the third.

1584
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, guess for that batting practice.

1585
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,640
Speaker 5: I'm telling you where the batting practice could have come in.

1586
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:15,440
Speaker 2: Handy who picked than.

1587
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 5: Let me scroll down to my handy dog.

1588
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 2: I didn't.

1589
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 1: We all, don't you remember?

1590
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is right, that's right. Oh man, oh man,

1591
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 6: oh man.

1592
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:39,879
Speaker 3: It was interesting before the before they got started.

1593
01:19:41,840 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

1594
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 3: I was just saying before they got started, his picture

1595
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 3: was really was moving the mound around and needed a

1596
01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 3: couple of practice throws, and Tany was up there kind

1597
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 3: of like we're getting started here and and now maybe

1598
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 3: now he's going to start to get some Maybe now

1599
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:56,720
Speaker 3: he's going to start to run into some here.

1600
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:01,280
Speaker 2: Well he didn't. They get a they got a minute

1601
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:05,240
Speaker 2: to warm up before this all started. You get a minute.

1602
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 2: Each player got a minute. And it took the guy

1603
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 2: pitching like forty seconds to get the mound where he

1604
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:15,040
Speaker 2: wanted it, you know, and the balls where he wanted it,

1605
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 2: the net where he wanted it, and Tany only got

1606
01:20:18,439 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 2: like five or six swings and that in that practice

1607
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 2: round that they took prior to so again it you know,

1608
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 2: it's it's it's almost about as much about the picture

1609
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 2: as it is the hitter. The pitcher can win or

1610
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 2: lose it for you.

1611
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 6: Listen, I I.

1612
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: Sorry, John, go ahead.

1613
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:44,000
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.

1614
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:45,960
Speaker 3: No, Sam, I I was gonna say, I was I

1615
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 3: was coaching my my, uh my, ten year old son's

1616
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 3: little league team this year, and the hardest thing was

1617
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:53,720
Speaker 3: throwing batting practice to the kids.

1618
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 6: Because you just you have to get it over the plate.

1619
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,040
Speaker 3: And I know that's not the same as as this,

1620
01:20:58,240 --> 01:21:01,920
Speaker 3: but I'm reminded of the panic that comes from being

1621
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 3: a grown up throwing to little children and not being

1622
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 3: able to put the ball across the plate to the

1623
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:07,960
Speaker 3: point where little children could hit it for you.

1624
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:13,640
Speaker 1: It is definitely a mental thing. I know, even just

1625
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:15,840
Speaker 1: saw the toss is hard when you're trying to get

1626
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: into that repetitive kind of motion. So it does take

1627
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: a little bit when you're not used to it getting

1628
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,719
Speaker 1: warmed up, especially on a stage like this. But within

1629
01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:27,920
Speaker 1: those five home runs that Otani did hit before he

1630
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 1: took his break, he already did secure the bonus round,

1631
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:34,759
Speaker 1: so he will get an extra minute I believe, maybe

1632
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:37,960
Speaker 1: just thirty seconds as a nom but he is. He

1633
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,280
Speaker 1: just added three within like twenty seconds, so he does

1634
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: have some time to add on. But I don't know

1635
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: if he's going to quite hit that twenty two mark

1636
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 1: that Soda got.

1637
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 2: He better heard.

1638
01:21:47,960 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 4: He's just putting on the show now.

1639
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:52,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it makes me happy that at least

1640
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: when he did go to that break, he's kind of

1641
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 1: laughing at himself because I was, for a little bit

1642
01:21:57,560 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 1: taking on secondhand embarrassment for him, just because he did

1643
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:02,280
Speaker 1: have so much pressure going on into it.

1644
01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:03,799
Speaker 5: But at least he's having.

1645
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 2: Fun, I tell you what. But to me, when I

1646
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 2: took batting practice, you know, sometimes you like in the

1647
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 2: minor leagues especially, you'd have like some of the coaches

1648
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 2: were former players who just got done playing, you know,

1649
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:22,720
Speaker 2: and you know they still want to show you that

1650
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:25,559
Speaker 2: you know, hey, I still got something. I used to hate.

1651
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 2: Hitting off those guys like Larry Bow was just nice

1652
01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:32,720
Speaker 2: and easy, you know, just you know, you you did

1653
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,680
Speaker 2: the timing and you did all the work and uh

1654
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 2: and uh you know that to me, was was the

1655
01:22:41,479 --> 01:22:44,519
Speaker 2: easiest vp to take. Is when a guy throwing it

1656
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:47,639
Speaker 2: nice and easy and you can time it the way

1657
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:50,599
Speaker 2: you want, you can swing the way you want, and

1658
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 2: you're not feel like you have to rush to catch

1659
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:57,599
Speaker 2: up to something. And batting practice which sucks. Uh. But yeah,

1660
01:22:57,800 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 2: like I said, that's why Pete Alonzo with Dave John

1661
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 2: pitching to him, I mean that was nice to me,

1662
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 2: and it was consistent. Oh my god, that was a

1663
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:07,639
Speaker 2: beautiful round of VP.

1664
01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely was the most effortless so far that we've seen.

1665
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 1: But Atani did just finish out his second half and

1666
01:23:15,880 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 1: now he is at sixteen home run so he has

1667
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 1: a chance with this minute bonus round to come back

1668
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:23,760
Speaker 1: and add on those. What would it be six more

1669
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 1: to tie Soto? He needs seven advanced from this round.

1670
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 1: You guys think he can get it.

1671
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:33,240
Speaker 3: Yes, it's gonna be Yeah, he's gonna do it.

1672
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1673
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:37,080
Speaker 2: They just showed Ken Grippy Junior, so that that doesn't

1674
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 2: inspire him. Nothing will.

1675
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:41,679
Speaker 1: Oh this is just such.

1676
01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 5: It's such a new tiny storyline.

1677
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: It he comes back after that slow start and then

1678
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:50,679
Speaker 1: wins it all when everybody was paying. Oh there's two

1679
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: right there. Geez.

1680
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's getting dialed back in.

1681
01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's getting some sinkers. So yeah, wait that sinker.

1682
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 2: Oh there's another.

1683
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 1: I'm feeling the pressure, guys, it's not.

1684
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 5: Even me up there.

1685
01:24:09,720 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 2: No, he's good.

1686
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's still got seconds to hit three more. He

1687
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 5: needs three and thirty seconds.

1688
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:20,120
Speaker 1: Telling the guy to hurry up.

1689
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 2: Well that's the problem that the pictures hurrying up. But

1690
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 2: it looks like he's throwing harder. Jammingy yeah, he is.

1691
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:30,800
Speaker 1: He's definitely not giving him consistent pictures there. Oh man,

1692
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 1: this picture is going to ruin it for him.

1693
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:40,000
Speaker 2: One more, two more? I think I tied him. He

1694
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 2: tied him, Yeah, he tied him.

1695
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 3: What happens?

1696
01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:48,840
Speaker 2: They get three swings? I think I think they get

1697
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 2: three swings?

1698
01:24:51,040 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 1: Oh man?

1699
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,759
Speaker 5: Can he switch out his VP picture?

1700
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 4: Is that a thing?

1701
01:24:57,520 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 2: Well? Someone did one year, they.

1702
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: But I don't remember who it was.

1703
01:25:03,640 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 3: It was In recent Tony is wiped Oh yeah, Otani

1704
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 3: is wiped out. He has bent over at the waists

1705
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:14,600
Speaker 3: like his arms are down like he he is absolutely

1706
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:15,960
Speaker 3: wiped out from this.

1707
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 4: It's a it's a one minute bonus, another one minute

1708
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:22,440
Speaker 4: round for a tiebreaker.

1709
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 2: I believe it is.

1710
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 3: If what I'm reading is, yeah, that's what they're doing here,

1711
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 3: That's what they're saying.

1712
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 2: If I'm Kevin Cash, how might rescind my decision to

1713
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,519
Speaker 2: start even let him pitch later in the game so

1714
01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 2: he can get some rest.

1715
01:25:40,600 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 5: It is something you'll definitely think about.

1716
01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:46,679
Speaker 1: I don't know if MLB necessarily would like that because

1717
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 1: of the name, the star power starting that line off

1718
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: the story it'll bring, but it.

1719
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:57,559
Speaker 5: Would definitely make sense. Speaking of Otani, while cards on

1720
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 5: the table.

1721
01:25:58,080 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 6: Who wins this?

1722
01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:01,599
Speaker 4: So like that?

1723
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:06,639
Speaker 2: Wait, let me write this down, because we just saw

1724
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 2: the thing. They get one minute with no stoppage, and

1725
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:15,519
Speaker 2: you know, uh, Soto had a long time to rest, well,

1726
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:17,680
Speaker 2: not a long time, but a lot more time than

1727
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 2: what Otani's gonna get. And you can see Otani right now,

1728
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:23,599
Speaker 2: he's he's gassed.

1729
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 1: Man, You're right, that is a great point. What about you?

1730
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: Sonis who you taking? Uh? Give me?

1731
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:32,839
Speaker 6: Give me Soto.

1732
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 3: I do not like Otani. I mean, listen is it's

1733
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:40,519
Speaker 3: also Denver too, right, it's center air up there. If

1734
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:43,280
Speaker 3: Otani is this wiped out, he's not gonna he's not

1735
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 3: gonna recharge his batteries trying to catch his breath in Denver.

1736
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:47,799
Speaker 6: So I'll take Juan Soto.

1737
01:26:49,840 --> 01:26:50,680
Speaker 5: I'm brady for you.

1738
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 4: I picked Otani to begin with. I feel like i'd

1739
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:57,800
Speaker 4: be coward litter back out of it now. So I'm

1740
01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:00,479
Speaker 4: gonna say he does look wiped out out, but at

1741
01:27:00,520 --> 01:27:03,160
Speaker 4: the same time, he's he's got a little bit of rhythm.

1742
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:05,080
Speaker 4: He really found it there in the last about a

1743
01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 4: minute and a half. Uh. And so I'm gonna I'm

1744
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 4: gonna ride with him, still having the hot bat after that.

1745
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm also going with a Tani.

1746
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get that swing down his VP

1747
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:21,320
Speaker 1: guy's gonna get some time to really rest as well,

1748
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:23,639
Speaker 1: and so Doo's not starting out. I got to see

1749
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 1: that a little bit, so I guess I'm cheating a

1750
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 1: little bit. But I'm going with Otani.

1751
01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I I wouldn't want to be either guy,

1752
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, because I know what that air.

1753
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 13: Up there can do to you if I could screw

1754
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 13: you up for a few days. But uh uh, you know,

1755
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:48,920
Speaker 13: Soto just looks like he hit five in a minute.

1756
01:27:48,760 --> 01:27:52,439
Speaker 2: So six, so go good. Hell they might have to

1757
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:53,280
Speaker 2: hit another round.

1758
01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:57,600
Speaker 1: Oh geez, well would that be h?

1759
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:02,360
Speaker 3: You know they should if no one, if there if

1760
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:04,800
Speaker 3: there's no winner at the end of this round, they

1761
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 3: should just settle it with a home run derby see.

1762
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:14,599
Speaker 2: How many pitches it takes someone to hit a home run.

1763
01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 2: And then you got a topic like name that tune

1764
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 2: I can hit this home run?

1765
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 6: Yes, I like that.

1766
01:28:20,400 --> 01:28:27,799
Speaker 1: Oh I like that getting creative here a Tony something

1767
01:28:27,880 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 1: like he's trying to catch his breath up there.

1768
01:28:30,400 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, uh, yeah, I know there's some guys

1769
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 2: when when I was doing this with ESPN, We're down

1770
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,920
Speaker 2: on the field and there are some guys that they

1771
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 2: walked off and looked like, man, I hope this guy

1772
01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:45,439
Speaker 2: wins because I can't swing anymore.

1773
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: He's walking up.

1774
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:54,280
Speaker 3: I'm a little nervous in the home run derby messing

1775
01:28:54,280 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 3: with a player swing.

1776
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I know, uh, you know

1777
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 2: the year Bobby Bray, you won it in Detroit, which

1778
01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 2: was surprising. I mean, Bobby put on a show.

1779
01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:08,280
Speaker 1: Uh.

1780
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 2: And I think he only hit one home run the

1781
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 2: second half of the year for the Phillies. So I

1782
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:15,920
Speaker 2: was talking to run tomorrow about that, and he said,

1783
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 2: he said he still hit good, he just didn't hit

1784
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:20,679
Speaker 2: for power. And I and I said, you think that'd

1785
01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:22,800
Speaker 2: be the opposite he would he would think, Wow, I

1786
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:24,479
Speaker 2: must be a home run hitter. So I'm gonna try

1787
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 2: to hit more homers. But I don't think it does.

1788
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:30,599
Speaker 2: I mean, you you know, uh, you know you watch

1789
01:29:30,640 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 2: these guys swing like you don't really see any big

1790
01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 2: over swings. Uh you know that that uh, it's going

1791
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 2: to change their mechanics of their swing any but show

1792
01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 2: hey is starting to go so hot.

1793
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 1: He did a little hand to his He did a

1794
01:29:51,080 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: little hand motion to the guy and said, get the

1795
01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:55,080
Speaker 1: ball off. And ever since he's been pitching it higher

1796
01:29:55,080 --> 01:29:57,920
Speaker 1: in the zone has hit every single one.

1797
01:29:57,800 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 5: Out so far.

1798
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:01,960
Speaker 4: Swing is unreal, it is.

1799
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:05,000
Speaker 1: He needs one more to win it, and he's got

1800
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:07,080
Speaker 1: It's going to be tied again.

1801
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 2: Oh oh my god. Did he get it?

1802
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:12,920
Speaker 4: Did he get it? Did he get it?

1803
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:18,600
Speaker 2: Did he get it again? Jeez?

1804
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:21,599
Speaker 6: No, they tied him again.

1805
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:26,120
Speaker 5: Okay, so this it might change.

1806
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:28,360
Speaker 3: See I think the fact.

1807
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:32,120
Speaker 1: So I was just going to say it might change

1808
01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:34,320
Speaker 1: my thought on it for the fact that Tony, if

1809
01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 1: he's going to have to do that again, it's going

1810
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:38,120
Speaker 1: to start catching up to him that he's getting. Not

1811
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:39,479
Speaker 1: a big break in between.

1812
01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:44,520
Speaker 2: All right, here's another caveat. Here's another caveat to the rules.

1813
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:51,200
Speaker 2: How about you get like Ken Griffy Jr. Barry Bonds,

1814
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:56,200
Speaker 2: Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, and you have him waiting and

1815
01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:59,679
Speaker 2: if you go to a tie after the first tie breaker,

1816
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:02,280
Speaker 2: thing like these guys are going, they can pick one

1817
01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:04,800
Speaker 2: of them to hit for him.

1818
01:31:05,479 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 1: I like it.

1819
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 4: I paying a lot of money in a home run

1820
01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:13,479
Speaker 4: derby in twenty one. I bet you he could. He

1821
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:17,800
Speaker 4: could still be good for at least a dozen of them.

1822
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 2: I wouldn't surprise me if Junior could either.

1823
01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:24,559
Speaker 8: Ye, guhys, Big Junior looks good out there.

1824
01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:25,840
Speaker 4: He looks like he could be playing.

1825
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do have my I do have my sound muted.

1826
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:33,960
Speaker 1: Are they doing another minute round for each of them?

1827
01:31:34,479 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 1: Does it keep going?

1828
01:31:36,600 --> 01:31:40,760
Speaker 2: Three swings? My son said, three swings? Okay, they get

1829
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 2: three swings and then we'll see how that goes.

1830
01:31:43,400 --> 01:31:48,000
Speaker 1: Oh, Tommy better tell his VP guy to.

1831
01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:48,360
Speaker 5: Keep it up on the zone from the start then.

1832
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 2: And I think this is where because it's three swings

1833
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 2: and not timed, these guys have to be more selective.

1834
01:31:57,120 --> 01:32:00,200
Speaker 2: If the pitches down, just take it and I had

1835
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:02,320
Speaker 2: to wait for something to get elevated for you.

1836
01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:07,200
Speaker 4: I think that benefits so Tom because he's been doing

1837
01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:09,800
Speaker 4: better when he gets the right pitch, all.

1838
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:14,760
Speaker 2: Right for one there? Yeah, but you see you you

1839
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:17,000
Speaker 2: saw the first pitch he took, and he was swinging

1840
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:20,880
Speaker 2: at that pitch because of the time. Now it's more selective.

1841
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:21,800
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

1842
01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a nice little.

1843
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:30,480
Speaker 3: Oh oh man, that went far. Almost set the smashburger

1844
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:33,280
Speaker 3: sign in the second deck. My goodness, two for two.

1845
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:35,839
Speaker 2: He must be getting tired.

1846
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:42,760
Speaker 3: Oh gosh sign instead of just.

1847
01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:44,719
Speaker 2: Mh.

1848
01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:48,439
Speaker 3: I'll try not to ruin it for you.

1849
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:50,439
Speaker 1: No, I enjoy it because you know all the s

1850
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:52,040
Speaker 1: for me.

1851
01:32:52,720 --> 01:32:56,000
Speaker 3: All right, Sam, wait ten seconds, you'll see what happens here.

1852
01:32:56,280 --> 01:33:01,920
Speaker 3: Uh throwing behind behind the wall.

1853
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:05,360
Speaker 2: So that yeah, that's some strategy. Hey, that's some strategy

1854
01:33:05,439 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 2: right there, to kill some time to give his guy

1855
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 2: a rest.

1856
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:13,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, did he get did he get the third one?

1857
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 3: He went three for threes, three for three?

1858
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 1: Wow?

1859
01:33:18,200 --> 01:33:19,639
Speaker 6: Wow, Oh my goodness.

1860
01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:22,160
Speaker 1: Okay, so's got to live up to him.

1861
01:33:22,200 --> 01:33:22,479
Speaker 2: Now.

1862
01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:23,760
Speaker 3: Wow.

1863
01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 2: You know you know that Soto's hitting coach, uh Kevin

1864
01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 2: Long throwing to him, so he has he has he

1865
01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:37,599
Speaker 2: has a double advantage. He gets the hit off the guy,

1866
01:33:37,640 --> 01:33:41,599
Speaker 2: he hits off of a lot, and he also gets

1867
01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:43,160
Speaker 2: tutored in between rounds.

1868
01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 1: That's a good strategy there. Jeez, that's gonna be hard

1869
01:33:47,960 --> 01:33:49,240
Speaker 1: to beat for a Tommy.

1870
01:33:50,560 --> 01:33:52,320
Speaker 2: One bad swing and this one's over.

1871
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:56,560
Speaker 6: You know that that's clutch pretty go.

1872
01:33:56,680 --> 01:33:59,759
Speaker 4: Hud I said before this started that I was upset

1873
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 4: this and Ai were matched up in the first round

1874
01:34:02,080 --> 01:34:04,479
Speaker 4: instead of on the opposite side of the bracket. This

1875
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:08,719
Speaker 4: really does kind of feel like a final even though

1876
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 4: I think whoever wins this is probably gonna do pretty

1877
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:12,519
Speaker 4: bad in the next round because it's gonna be so tired.

1878
01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:15,880
Speaker 5: But now that's a great point, and you did say that.

1879
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 1: It's a good job on you, Brady.

1880
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:20,880
Speaker 4: I'm good for one smartest thing. Every Q.

1881
01:34:24,680 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 2: We got we have to we got right.

1882
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:31,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, we will jump after this takes is one sway.

1883
01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 1: There it is.

1884
01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:40,000
Speaker 6: Oh and Soto wins it.

1885
01:34:40,120 --> 01:34:42,519
Speaker 2: Wow geez.

1886
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:46,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what, it's not gonna get better

1887
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:46,960
Speaker 3: than that.

1888
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:50,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. If a Tani pitches an ending or two and

1889
01:34:50,360 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 2: the five strikeouts, six hitters, it hits a home run

1890
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:58,559
Speaker 2: while he's hitting, he'll take that m v P trophy

1891
01:34:58,560 --> 01:35:01,840
Speaker 2: and and walk out of there pretty happy, I would imagine.

1892
01:35:02,840 --> 01:35:04,679
Speaker 1: Well, and that's one thing that you guys already mentioned

1893
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:07,760
Speaker 1: too when Stoleness asked you cook if it will mess

1894
01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:10,800
Speaker 1: up swings permanently, you have to be mindful on the

1895
01:35:10,840 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 1: fact that, especially when you're getting this tired, you don't

1896
01:35:13,040 --> 01:35:16,439
Speaker 1: want to develop the bad habits. And you saw Otani

1897
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:19,519
Speaker 1: still sticking to those hardline drives, so you can't be mad.

1898
01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 1: It's something that's most likely going to be a hit

1899
01:35:22,439 --> 01:35:25,439
Speaker 1: when he's getting good shots. It's just sucks for him

1900
01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:26,759
Speaker 1: and the home runner every title.

1901
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:30,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what you know. These guys. They when

1902
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:34,200
Speaker 2: you watch these guys and you watch them over their

1903
01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 2: careers and and so far this season, there's not one

1904
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:41,280
Speaker 2: guy that's changed their swing to try to hit to

1905
01:35:41,360 --> 01:35:44,240
Speaker 2: try to elevate the ball more. It's just there. It's

1906
01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 2: their natural swing.

1907
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 1: Uh.

1908
01:35:46,720 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 2: You know when you watch Soto and them and a

1909
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:51,200
Speaker 2: lot of guys were doing it, hitting bass the center

1910
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:54,760
Speaker 2: and then the other way for home runs. You know

1911
01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:57,360
Speaker 2: that tells you that their that's their normal swing. That's

1912
01:35:57,400 --> 01:36:01,880
Speaker 2: their uh. You know, they're not trying to make sure

1913
01:36:01,880 --> 01:36:04,559
Speaker 2: a conscious eptor to try to pull everything for for

1914
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:07,640
Speaker 2: home runs. They're still hitting the batt all fields and

1915
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:11,040
Speaker 2: so too, especially hit a couple line drives the left

1916
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:14,720
Speaker 2: that went out by a long way. Like if you're

1917
01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:17,280
Speaker 2: a Rockies picture right now and you're watching this like

1918
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:22,679
Speaker 2: on TV, wouldn't you say that this it can't be fun.

1919
01:36:23,720 --> 01:36:26,559
Speaker 2: We gotta face these guys again sometime soon. You gotta

1920
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 2: be kidding me.

1921
01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:30,479
Speaker 5: Okay, so we're moving on to the next round.

1922
01:36:31,920 --> 01:36:35,240
Speaker 1: What do you guys do you guys want to I'm

1923
01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 1: not letting you choose against on us because you already

1924
01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:40,080
Speaker 1: sabotage me, so you can keep along though, which is

1925
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:42,160
Speaker 1: probably gonna work out in your favor.

1926
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:46,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm okay with that, Krucky.

1927
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:47,799
Speaker 1: Are you changing yours?

1928
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:49,080
Speaker 8: Oh?

1929
01:36:49,120 --> 01:36:51,040
Speaker 1: I guess you have to, but I have to be.

1930
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:55,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, unless they're taking VP somewhere else that

1931
01:36:55,479 --> 01:37:01,400
Speaker 2: we don't know about. But uh oh, you know, I

1932
01:37:01,400 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 2: I don't know who to go with. Who do you

1933
01:37:03,040 --> 01:37:03,880
Speaker 2: think I should go with?

1934
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:09,280
Speaker 1: You can? I don't know?

1935
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:11,400
Speaker 5: You did just say sodo over Atani?

1936
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:13,040
Speaker 1: Do you want to keep out of that wave?

1937
01:37:13,680 --> 01:37:17,559
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I'm gonna go with my heart.

1938
01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:20,440
Speaker 2: With that my heart, and that's Trey Mancini.

1939
01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: I like it.

1940
01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:23,760
Speaker 2: What about you?

1941
01:37:23,840 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 1: Ready? Hear you changing years too?

1942
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:30,439
Speaker 4: I really want to go with Trey Mancini, But I

1943
01:37:30,520 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 4: have to go with Peter Alonzo that that first round

1944
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 4: was just so convincing. He just he just looked like

1945
01:37:37,120 --> 01:37:38,439
Speaker 4: he has this thing figured out.

1946
01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:43,479
Speaker 1: So you guys are corrupting me again because I was

1947
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 1: gonna go back to Alonzo, who I originally had in

1948
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:49,000
Speaker 1: my head. But now I'm like, if there's three of

1949
01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:50,840
Speaker 1: us choosing Alonzo, he's not gonna win.

1950
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:54,559
Speaker 4: That's great, then right, and we'd all be happy with that.

1951
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:58,479
Speaker 1: So you're right, that is a good other thing. But

1952
01:37:58,680 --> 01:38:00,560
Speaker 1: I refuse to have three of us all have the

1953
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 1: same thing. So I'm going sodause nobody else said it.

1954
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 2: So who's the who's the one? I can't remember? Who's

1955
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:12,000
Speaker 2: the one we've left out? We've got Ato Trevor's story.

1956
01:38:12,280 --> 01:38:15,960
Speaker 2: Oh boy, we're not taking a hometown. Oh gosh.

1957
01:38:18,240 --> 01:38:22,479
Speaker 1: This Yeah, so there's still a possibility that it's somebody

1958
01:38:22,520 --> 01:38:25,759
Speaker 1: that we don't choose. Well, we'll see how it plays

1959
01:38:25,760 --> 01:38:26,720
Speaker 1: out for us.

1960
01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so.

1961
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:33,439
Speaker 1: We did see that one pitch from the BP pitcher

1962
01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:37,240
Speaker 1: fly off of the hands. Do you think that the

1963
01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:40,360
Speaker 1: BP pitchers are allowed to use any sticky stuff for

1964
01:38:40,439 --> 01:38:42,760
Speaker 1: the home run derby even though it's not allowed an

1965
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:43,599
Speaker 1: official MLB?

1966
01:38:47,040 --> 01:38:50,479
Speaker 2: I wouldn't I follow them because them baldre slick those.

1967
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:53,760
Speaker 2: First of all, they're a little bit smaller than a

1968
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:58,000
Speaker 2: regular baseball because they pack them so hard to get

1969
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:01,880
Speaker 2: them so tight that they travel farther. Uh so they

1970
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 2: are more slippery. And then the ones that you know

1971
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:09,920
Speaker 2: they get the extra time. I think it's a lavender ball.

1972
01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:13,040
Speaker 2: I think this year it's it's it's a lavender colored ball.

1973
01:39:13,479 --> 01:39:16,360
Speaker 2: Those things are like trying to hold an icickle and

1974
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:18,679
Speaker 2: throw it. So, yeah, I just think.

1975
01:39:18,560 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 3: I don't understand why they I'm sorry, John, I didn't

1976
01:39:21,880 --> 01:39:24,280
Speaker 3: mean to interrupt you. I was just saying why they

1977
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 3: can't get the ball right. Yeah, I was just saying

1978
01:39:27,080 --> 01:39:28,599
Speaker 3: I don't see why they can't get the ball right.

1979
01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:31,040
Speaker 3: I mean, it's this is not a one year issue

1980
01:39:31,040 --> 01:39:33,640
Speaker 3: where they've had trouble with They've had trouble with this

1981
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:36,200
Speaker 3: with the baseball being too slick or the lace is

1982
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:39,200
Speaker 3: too high or whatever. I mean, you should be you

1983
01:39:39,240 --> 01:39:42,800
Speaker 3: should be able to make a baseball, which is the

1984
01:39:42,840 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 3: most important piece of equipment you're going to use in

1985
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:47,400
Speaker 3: this game, and you should be able to make a

1986
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 3: baseball that a pitcher can grip well enough without having

1987
01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 3: to put a bunch of stuff on it. It's it's

1988
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:56,920
Speaker 3: beyond me that Major League Baseball and and whoever else

1989
01:39:57,360 --> 01:40:00,000
Speaker 3: is gonna is gonna put these baseballs together. They can't

1990
01:40:00,120 --> 01:40:03,320
Speaker 3: find some way to make it uniform and to make

1991
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 3: it so that you can actually grip the thing.

1992
01:40:07,200 --> 01:40:09,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's weird. It's like they go from one

1993
01:40:09,479 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 2: extreme to the other, like one year they said the

1994
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:15,000
Speaker 2: hitters were complaining that the laces were too big and

1995
01:40:15,040 --> 01:40:18,120
Speaker 2: the pitchers could spin the ball more. Uh. And then

1996
01:40:18,320 --> 01:40:20,640
Speaker 2: you know, the next year and talk to pictures, and

1997
01:40:20,680 --> 01:40:22,880
Speaker 2: they said, well, there's no laces. You can't hardly grip

1998
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:25,559
Speaker 2: your breaking ball because you know, the laces are so

1999
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:30,000
Speaker 2: tight to the to the ball now, you know. Then

2000
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:32,040
Speaker 2: one year they said it it was the ball was

2001
01:40:32,120 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 2: softer you could feel it while you're rubbing them up,

2002
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 2: that you could feel like the leather moving a little bit.

2003
01:40:38,439 --> 01:40:38,679
Speaker 1: Uh.

2004
01:40:38,720 --> 01:40:40,600
Speaker 2: And then the next year it was so hard you

2005
01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:42,800
Speaker 2: could didn't do no good to rub it because you

2006
01:40:42,800 --> 01:40:45,840
Speaker 2: couldn't get anything on it. And then they said that

2007
01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:50,080
Speaker 2: they quit using the mud from the Delaware River uh

2008
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:52,800
Speaker 2: to put on the balls. They were told not to

2009
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:56,080
Speaker 2: not to use as much, so the balls weren't dark

2010
01:40:56,160 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 2: and darker and tacky. I out or not what they want.

2011
01:41:01,880 --> 01:41:03,760
Speaker 2: You know, they want to see this great pitching, but

2012
01:41:03,800 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 2: they want to see more run scored because they think

2013
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:12,040
Speaker 2: it's more exciting to fans. You know, I got I

2014
01:41:12,080 --> 01:41:18,519
Speaker 2: had an issue a few years back when one through

2015
01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 2: nine in the American League and one through ay in

2016
01:41:20,479 --> 01:41:23,800
Speaker 2: the National League, they were all threat a home run

2017
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 2: threat because of how juiced uff the ball was. That

2018
01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:30,040
Speaker 2: that's not right to me. I mean, you know, you're

2019
01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:32,799
Speaker 2: you're basically telling your pitchers you have to be perfect

2020
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:35,679
Speaker 2: because if you make a mistake, everyone in the lineup

2021
01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 2: is going to take you deep. That's just not right

2022
01:41:39,320 --> 01:41:39,559
Speaker 2: to me.

2023
01:41:40,760 --> 01:41:44,240
Speaker 1: Cookie, How do you feel about the whole sticky stuff situation?

2024
01:41:44,320 --> 01:41:47,400
Speaker 1: Do you feel then that pitchers should be allowed to

2025
01:41:47,880 --> 01:41:50,599
Speaker 1: use it or do you feel that it kind of

2026
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:54,360
Speaker 1: defeats the purpose of them being talented enough kind of

2027
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:58,519
Speaker 1: in a way, I guess, and for turn or not

2028
01:41:58,600 --> 01:42:02,160
Speaker 1: being able to phrase it better, but not being talented

2029
01:42:02,320 --> 01:42:05,360
Speaker 1: enough to be an MLB pitcher, Well, is there going

2030
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:06,040
Speaker 1: to be at that level?

2031
01:42:06,040 --> 01:42:08,160
Speaker 5: Shouldn't they be able to pitch without it?

2032
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:11,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, someone said that it was gonna affect Garrett Cole,

2033
01:42:11,120 --> 01:42:13,280
Speaker 2: but he looked pretty good at last start against Houston.

2034
01:42:13,439 --> 01:42:16,599
Speaker 2: What won nothing? Shut out one hundred and twenty something

2035
01:42:16,680 --> 01:42:21,160
Speaker 2: pitches or something like that. But look, here's here's my thing.

2036
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:27,479
Speaker 2: If the pitchers, because like, like you know, I don't

2037
01:42:27,479 --> 01:42:30,320
Speaker 2: do every game. I only do like eighty five games,

2038
01:42:31,360 --> 01:42:35,080
Speaker 2: but like there's at least one pitcher on every team

2039
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 2: that is so stupidly blatant with before they and you know,

2040
01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:43,400
Speaker 2: before they started with this new rule of we're gonna

2041
01:42:43,479 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 2: check you after the inn. Like, there's some guys they

2042
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:50,240
Speaker 2: they would like go to their glove, the thumb of

2043
01:42:50,240 --> 01:42:53,120
Speaker 2: their glove, and then they're like you you watch them,

2044
01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:56,080
Speaker 2: they're trying to pry their fingers apart, and then they

2045
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 2: touch their hat and their fingers are sticking to their

2046
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:01,160
Speaker 2: head like like you'd have to be a moron not

2047
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:05,519
Speaker 2: to pick that out. And you know, but the problem

2048
01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:09,000
Speaker 2: is none of the managers could say anything because they

2049
01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 2: know they probably had three or four or five six

2050
01:43:11,120 --> 01:43:14,040
Speaker 2: guys on their pitching staff they were doing it, so

2051
01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:18,000
Speaker 2: you can't say anything. But then when they started, some

2052
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:21,080
Speaker 2: of them, you know, we know who you know, started

2053
01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:24,599
Speaker 2: bragging about the stuff that they're using, how they're sticky

2054
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:26,280
Speaker 2: and they get a better grip in this and that

2055
01:43:26,840 --> 01:43:29,040
Speaker 2: you know, you just brought attention to it. Well, what's

2056
01:43:29,120 --> 01:43:32,719
Speaker 2: major League Baseball supposed to do? Ignore it? And they're like, okay,

2057
01:43:32,880 --> 01:43:35,599
Speaker 2: you know the picture or the hitters were complaining about

2058
01:43:35,640 --> 01:43:40,320
Speaker 2: it from the start, and you know what's Rob Manford

2059
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:42,799
Speaker 2: and I'm supposed to do? Just ignore it and say, okay,

2060
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,000
Speaker 2: we're going to turn the other way and let you

2061
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:47,439
Speaker 2: guys just you know, keep you If they wouldn't have

2062
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:51,640
Speaker 2: said anything, if nothing was brought up, they no one

2063
01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:54,400
Speaker 2: would have said anything. It would they'd still be doing it.

2064
01:43:55,160 --> 01:43:58,600
Speaker 2: But because they thought, well, we can do whatever we

2065
01:43:58,680 --> 01:44:01,320
Speaker 2: want because we won't get trouble. We're above the law.

2066
01:44:02,360 --> 01:44:04,120
Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, the law came down and said,

2067
01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 2: you know you're not, and we're gonna check you every

2068
01:44:07,160 --> 01:44:09,800
Speaker 2: time you come off the mount, which is you know, now,

2069
01:44:09,800 --> 01:44:13,320
Speaker 2: it's like kind of stupid to do that too, but uh,

2070
01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:17,320
Speaker 2: you know, if these guys would have just kept their

2071
01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 2: mouth shuts and not brought up yeah, I use this

2072
01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:23,280
Speaker 2: TACKI whatever that stuff is, spider or whatever, it's spider

2073
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:27,040
Speaker 2: tack or whatever. You know, you know, you just admitted

2074
01:44:27,040 --> 01:44:32,160
Speaker 2: to everyone that you cheat. You know, if they would

2075
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:33,680
Speaker 2: have just kept their mouth shuts and it had all

2076
01:44:33,720 --> 01:44:35,960
Speaker 2: been finding Dandy and we'd have moved on, and they'd

2077
01:44:36,040 --> 01:44:38,040
Speaker 2: probably would have tried to do something in the off

2078
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:41,200
Speaker 2: season to let the pictures know, Hey, we're gonna watch you.

2079
01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:44,599
Speaker 2: If we see anything suspicious on tape or whatever, we're

2080
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:47,760
Speaker 2: gonna suspend you or whatever. But you know, now it's

2081
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:49,560
Speaker 2: like you had to You had to do it in

2082
01:44:49,560 --> 01:44:51,679
Speaker 2: the middle of the year because you had some guys

2083
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:52,599
Speaker 2: bragging about it.

2084
01:44:53,479 --> 01:44:56,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like you said, now they basically admitted that

2085
01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:01,040
Speaker 1: they were cheating, and then obviously the Asters got caught

2086
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:05,760
Speaker 1: for cheating. Do you think in both of those situations,

2087
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,080
Speaker 1: because obviously you said with the sticky stuff, everybody was

2088
01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:10,080
Speaker 1: doing it, Astros stealing signs.

2089
01:45:10,640 --> 01:45:13,240
Speaker 5: As much as people want to deny that everybody's doing it,

2090
01:45:13,479 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 5: every team tries to do it.

2091
01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:18,439
Speaker 1: Do you kind of agree with I don't want to

2092
01:45:18,439 --> 01:45:21,000
Speaker 1: say you agree with cheating, but do you kind of

2093
01:45:21,920 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 1: wish it was like, don't ask, don't tell on.

2094
01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:25,160
Speaker 5: That part for it?

2095
01:45:25,320 --> 01:45:29,080
Speaker 1: Or do you agree with cracking down on all those

2096
01:45:29,160 --> 01:45:30,400
Speaker 1: cheating scandals.

2097
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:35,760
Speaker 2: Well, you knew once they started putting technology and dugouts

2098
01:45:36,240 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 2: that there's a lot of smart people who are going

2099
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:40,280
Speaker 2: to figure out how to use that to their advantage. Now,

2100
01:45:40,400 --> 01:45:44,280
Speaker 2: the Red Sox, I guess we're using the Apple Watch

2101
01:45:44,400 --> 01:45:48,439
Speaker 2: or something and getting things relayed to them what I heard.

2102
01:45:49,360 --> 01:45:51,080
Speaker 2: And of course we know what the Astros with the

2103
01:45:51,120 --> 01:45:54,439
Speaker 2: beating of the Garby pan and all that stuff. But

2104
01:45:54,560 --> 01:45:57,160
Speaker 2: it all goes back to technology. When you start putting

2105
01:45:57,200 --> 01:46:02,559
Speaker 2: technology and you're asking teams to cheat. And you know,

2106
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:04,600
Speaker 2: I hear this, you know, I hear this all the

2107
01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:07,280
Speaker 2: time from people. Well, every team does it well, but

2108
01:46:07,320 --> 01:46:10,639
Speaker 2: not every team gets caught. You all got caught because

2109
01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:13,759
Speaker 2: you were so blatant about it. It was so easy

2110
01:46:13,800 --> 01:46:17,680
Speaker 2: to find out just by watching games and listening. That

2111
01:46:17,880 --> 01:46:20,360
Speaker 2: was so easy to find out that yes you were cheating,

2112
01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:23,080
Speaker 2: and yes you won a World championship because of it.

2113
01:46:23,439 --> 01:46:26,720
Speaker 2: Now granted, you know, look, it's hard enough to hit

2114
01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:28,800
Speaker 2: when you know what's coming or when you don't know

2115
01:46:28,840 --> 01:46:31,320
Speaker 2: what's common, But when you know what's coming, it gives

2116
01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:36,360
Speaker 2: you a lot more of an advantage as a hitter.

2117
01:46:37,160 --> 01:46:37,280
Speaker 8: Uh.

2118
01:46:38,240 --> 01:46:39,800
Speaker 2: And you know, I think they took advent. And now

2119
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:43,920
Speaker 2: look there, those guys are good hitters Korea to a Springer.

2120
01:46:44,400 --> 01:46:46,920
Speaker 2: You know, all those guys with the Astros back then, Bragman,

2121
01:46:47,040 --> 01:46:50,200
Speaker 2: You know, those guys are really good hitters. Anyway, why

2122
01:46:50,280 --> 01:46:54,120
Speaker 2: they thought they needed to do that is beyond me,

2123
01:46:54,439 --> 01:46:57,840
Speaker 2: but they did. They got caught, but none of them

2124
01:46:57,880 --> 01:47:00,840
Speaker 2: got penalized. So now, if you have a picture he's

2125
01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:05,320
Speaker 2: using sticky stuff in one game, he's going to get

2126
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:09,640
Speaker 2: suspended for how long without pay? That to me, like,

2127
01:47:09,720 --> 01:47:13,360
Speaker 2: you have to be consistent with your penalties. Yeah, the

2128
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:15,879
Speaker 2: Astros players should have some of them should have been.

2129
01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:19,439
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying suspend them all on opening day,

2130
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:23,639
Speaker 2: but pick you know, let Major League Baseball pick three guys,

2131
01:47:25,200 --> 01:47:27,760
Speaker 2: and then when those guys come off to suspended, you

2132
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 2: pick three other guys and so on and so forth.

2133
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:34,320
Speaker 2: So they're playing shorthanded basically for the first quarter of

2134
01:47:34,360 --> 01:47:34,879
Speaker 2: the season.

2135
01:47:36,160 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2136
01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:39,000
Speaker 1: I agree with that, and especially when it came out

2137
01:47:39,280 --> 01:47:42,840
Speaker 1: that there were certain guys with certain degrees of the

2138
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:45,680
Speaker 1: cheating levels. If you want to say with that, I mean,

2139
01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:49,759
Speaker 1: obviously al Twove was suspected of wearing wires and stuff,

2140
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,120
Speaker 1: So I feel like you are right in that, but

2141
01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:54,280
Speaker 1: they need to be fair across the board in the

2142
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:58,160
Speaker 1: fact of punishments. What about you, Stillness and Brady, what

2143
01:47:58,160 --> 01:48:00,960
Speaker 1: do you guys think? Are you guys more or let

2144
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:03,439
Speaker 1: them play, don't ask, don't tell, or do you want

2145
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:07,400
Speaker 1: MLB to start cracking down on these quote unquote cheating scandals.

2146
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:12,439
Speaker 3: I'm a I'm a cracking down guy. I think I

2147
01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:14,760
Speaker 3: think it Baseball could have handled this a whole lot better.

2148
01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:16,720
Speaker 3: I think John's points are right on the money. I

2149
01:48:16,720 --> 01:48:18,719
Speaker 3: think they had to go in the middle of the season,

2150
01:48:18,760 --> 01:48:20,479
Speaker 3: like he said, for the reasons that he mentioned, but

2151
01:48:20,560 --> 01:48:23,240
Speaker 3: it obviously would have been better for everyone had they

2152
01:48:23,320 --> 01:48:25,880
Speaker 3: been able to wait until the end of the season.

2153
01:48:25,800 --> 01:48:28,880
Speaker 6: And make a decree starting starting.

2154
01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:30,720
Speaker 3: Next year, that we were going to really clamp down

2155
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:35,200
Speaker 3: because there have been it's you know, been since baseball's

2156
01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:37,439
Speaker 3: been around that you haven't been allowed to doctor the ball.

2157
01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:38,360
Speaker 4: I mean you haven't.

2158
01:48:38,600 --> 01:48:40,960
Speaker 3: You just had some pitchers were sly about. I mean,

2159
01:48:41,040 --> 01:48:42,840
Speaker 3: you had some some guys who used to throw the

2160
01:48:42,840 --> 01:48:45,120
Speaker 3: spitball and it was kind of a wink and a

2161
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:47,760
Speaker 3: nod and you know, you knew who threw it, but

2162
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:50,120
Speaker 3: it was never really enforced. But then Pete guys stopped

2163
01:48:50,120 --> 01:48:53,000
Speaker 3: throwing the spitball for for some reasons as the years

2164
01:48:53,040 --> 01:48:55,320
Speaker 3: went on. So, you know, I remember back in the

2165
01:48:55,320 --> 01:48:58,120
Speaker 3: eighties you had like you had guys using sandpaper to

2166
01:48:58,200 --> 01:48:59,960
Speaker 3: kind of rub that I remember, I think it was

2167
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:02,400
Speaker 3: Kevin Grows to the Phillies had had a piece of

2168
01:49:02,439 --> 01:49:05,280
Speaker 3: sandpaper taped to the inside of his glove that he

2169
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:07,080
Speaker 3: was using to kind of scuff up the ball a

2170
01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:08,760
Speaker 3: little bit so that he could better get a better

2171
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:11,160
Speaker 3: grip on it and he got caught and got suspended

2172
01:49:11,240 --> 01:49:12,960
Speaker 3: for for ten games or something like that. I mean,

2173
01:49:12,960 --> 01:49:15,439
Speaker 3: that was That's this kind of stuff has going on forever,

2174
01:49:15,479 --> 01:49:19,400
Speaker 3: and so I think that stuff is a competitive advantage

2175
01:49:19,400 --> 01:49:22,920
Speaker 3: for the pitchers, and if it's against the rules, enforce.

2176
01:49:22,680 --> 01:49:23,680
Speaker 2: It, you know.

2177
01:49:23,760 --> 01:49:26,519
Speaker 3: So, I know, I do not like the idea of

2178
01:49:27,040 --> 01:49:28,880
Speaker 3: you know, as long as no one knows about it,

2179
01:49:28,880 --> 01:49:32,400
Speaker 3: it's okay if there is if there is some aspect

2180
01:49:32,439 --> 01:49:35,160
Speaker 3: of the game where the offense is getting an advantage

2181
01:49:35,160 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 3: they shouldn't have, or the pitching is getting an advantage

2182
01:49:37,200 --> 01:49:40,360
Speaker 3: they shouldn't have. Major League Baseball has to protect the

2183
01:49:40,360 --> 01:49:43,639
Speaker 3: integrity of the game the best that they can and

2184
01:49:43,680 --> 01:49:48,000
Speaker 3: not go about manipulating the integrity of the game themselves,

2185
01:49:48,040 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 3: such as you know, fooling around with the ball and

2186
01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:52,400
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. But I think I think

2187
01:49:52,439 --> 01:49:54,479
Speaker 3: they do have to crack down on cheating. They have

2188
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:58,200
Speaker 3: to crack down on anything that is the players are

2189
01:49:58,240 --> 01:50:00,440
Speaker 3: doing that makes it unfair for other players.

2190
01:50:00,920 --> 01:50:02,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brady, what about for you?

2191
01:50:03,080 --> 01:50:06,720
Speaker 4: So I have two kind of major issues here, and

2192
01:50:06,800 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 4: the first is I just dislike the consistency from Major

2193
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:14,600
Speaker 4: League Baseball here as to what they do allow, what

2194
01:50:14,640 --> 01:50:16,840
Speaker 4: they don't allow, you know, kerk hit the nail on

2195
01:50:16,880 --> 01:50:20,080
Speaker 4: the head that they had to do something once players

2196
01:50:20,120 --> 01:50:22,760
Speaker 4: started openly talking about it. But at the same time,

2197
01:50:23,280 --> 01:50:26,840
Speaker 4: like Kirk said, everybody knew this. Everybody with a pair

2198
01:50:26,840 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 4: of eyes who watches baseball knows that there are plenty

2199
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:35,559
Speaker 4: of pictures, pictures on every single team that have been

2200
01:50:35,640 --> 01:50:38,120
Speaker 4: using foreign substances, and it's been going on for a

2201
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:41,920
Speaker 4: long time. So it's just weird to me that Major

2202
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:44,360
Speaker 4: League Baseball was okay with it kind of being out

2203
01:50:44,400 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 4: in the open as long as nobody talked about it.

2204
01:50:46,800 --> 01:50:49,200
Speaker 4: But as soon as people start talking about it now,

2205
01:50:49,280 --> 01:50:51,599
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, it's threatening the integrity of the game,

2206
01:50:51,640 --> 01:50:54,639
Speaker 4: and you have to change these rules so that it'll stop.

2207
01:50:54,680 --> 01:50:56,679
Speaker 4: They'll stop doing it, Like we haven't all been sitting

2208
01:50:56,680 --> 01:50:59,920
Speaker 4: here for the last two decades watching every picture film

2209
01:51:00,080 --> 01:51:02,559
Speaker 4: with the bill of their cap every other pitch so

2210
01:51:02,600 --> 01:51:05,519
Speaker 4: that they can get better grip. And that's just kind

2211
01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:08,679
Speaker 4: of stupid and insulting a little bit. And my other

2212
01:51:08,960 --> 01:51:13,559
Speaker 4: issue is Major League Baseball has been blatant in their

2213
01:51:13,600 --> 01:51:17,559
Speaker 4: pursuit of making baseball a more offensive friendly game in

2214
01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:20,880
Speaker 4: the last few years. The ball is always changing and

2215
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:23,680
Speaker 4: it's almost always changing to benefit the hitters. We have

2216
01:51:23,960 --> 01:51:27,559
Speaker 4: things like this silly extra inning rule where you have

2217
01:51:28,120 --> 01:51:30,880
Speaker 4: a base runner starting on second base even though they

2218
01:51:30,880 --> 01:51:33,360
Speaker 4: did nothing to deserve getting there. You have the universal

2219
01:51:33,439 --> 01:51:37,240
Speaker 4: designated hitter coming pitch clock, so on and so forth,

2220
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:40,920
Speaker 4: the reliever rule where you have to stay in for

2221
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:44,840
Speaker 4: three batters. All these rules are directly made to benefit

2222
01:51:45,400 --> 01:51:49,479
Speaker 4: the hitters, and so at some point you've got to

2223
01:51:49,479 --> 01:51:51,320
Speaker 4: at least get something to the pitchers so that they

2224
01:51:51,320 --> 01:51:54,160
Speaker 4: can stay comdebtative or they're going to find their own

2225
01:51:54,160 --> 01:51:55,240
Speaker 4: ways to try to get there.

2226
01:51:56,720 --> 01:51:59,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, and one thing Major League Baseball has been doing

2227
01:51:59,160 --> 01:52:01,280
Speaker 1: as well, besides trying to make it more of an

2228
01:52:01,280 --> 01:52:04,200
Speaker 1: offensive minded game, is they're trying to speed it up.

2229
01:52:04,200 --> 01:52:07,200
Speaker 1: And I guess that's kind of we talked about this

2230
01:52:07,280 --> 01:52:10,840
Speaker 1: in an earlier episode Brady and Stillness, But they're kind

2231
01:52:10,880 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: of trying to speed it up, and it's more for,

2232
01:52:14,120 --> 01:52:16,600
Speaker 1: I guess, to attract a younger audience. But I just

2233
01:52:16,640 --> 01:52:18,960
Speaker 1: want to get all of your guys opinions about some

2234
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:20,519
Speaker 1: of the rules to speed it up with, like the

2235
01:52:20,600 --> 01:52:24,360
Speaker 1: extra innings base runner on second, relief pitchers coming in

2236
01:52:24,400 --> 01:52:26,639
Speaker 1: and having to face a minimum of three batters.

2237
01:52:27,080 --> 01:52:28,760
Speaker 5: In your opinions, what kind of.

2238
01:52:31,040 --> 01:52:35,639
Speaker 1: Overall reaction did you guys have to rules such as that, Krucky,

2239
01:52:35,680 --> 01:52:36,520
Speaker 1: you can start.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know again, I you know, as an announcer, now,

2241
01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:46,000
Speaker 2: I don't think I would enjoy a twenty ending game.

2242
01:52:48,160 --> 01:52:51,839
Speaker 2: So they wanted to do this with the runner on second,

2243
01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:59,960
Speaker 2: you know, to start the extra innings. But you know,

2244
01:53:00,600 --> 01:53:04,080
Speaker 2: they've tried for years to come up with ways to

2245
01:53:04,080 --> 01:53:05,920
Speaker 2: speed up the game, and I guess they thought that

2246
01:53:06,040 --> 01:53:09,920
Speaker 2: was a good one. Not sure how much it has

2247
01:53:09,520 --> 01:53:13,240
Speaker 2: sped up the game, because you know, here's the thing,

2248
01:53:13,479 --> 01:53:17,040
Speaker 2: here's why we thought, like a tie game going into

2249
01:53:17,080 --> 01:53:20,360
Speaker 2: extra innings, whether you put a guy second or not,

2250
01:53:20,520 --> 01:53:23,400
Speaker 2: is still pretty exciting. So like, if people are complaining that,

2251
01:53:23,479 --> 01:53:25,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, God, extra endings. We got to sit through

2252
01:53:25,840 --> 01:53:28,800
Speaker 2: extra Well, isn't that exciting knowing that you're probably gonna

2253
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:31,080
Speaker 2: have a walk off or a good chance of a

2254
01:53:31,160 --> 01:53:34,400
Speaker 2: walk off win if you're the home team. I think

2255
01:53:34,439 --> 01:53:36,800
Speaker 2: that would be more exciting than you know, whether it's

2256
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:40,360
Speaker 2: the tenth inning or twelfth inning or fifteenth inning that

2257
01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:42,519
Speaker 2: you know, God is exciting. You know, we had a

2258
01:53:42,640 --> 01:53:46,320
Speaker 2: chance as the emotions the EBB and flow of emotions

2259
01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:49,680
Speaker 2: for fans would probably be through the roof thinking that

2260
01:53:49,720 --> 01:53:53,000
Speaker 2: you had a chance to win and then whatever. But uh,

2261
01:53:53,600 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 2: you know, you're you're making it tough on the picture,

2262
01:53:56,080 --> 01:53:59,360
Speaker 2: but it's not an earned run for him. So that

2263
01:53:59,520 --> 01:54:03,720
Speaker 2: doesn't like like like you know, I don't know I

2264
01:54:04,479 --> 01:54:06,240
Speaker 2: some of these things that think they come up with.

2265
01:54:06,280 --> 01:54:08,320
Speaker 2: I just you know, if you want to speed up

2266
01:54:08,360 --> 01:54:13,640
Speaker 2: the game, uh, teach kids in high school, college and

2267
01:54:13,680 --> 01:54:16,360
Speaker 2: through the minor leagues how to put the ball play more.

2268
01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:20,760
Speaker 2: You know, X amount of number of strikeouts is not

2269
01:54:20,920 --> 01:54:23,240
Speaker 2: very exciting, and you want to bring kids back to

2270
01:54:23,320 --> 01:54:27,920
Speaker 2: a game, like young people to watch baseball. We did

2271
01:54:27,920 --> 01:54:34,640
Speaker 2: a game earlier this year, nine consecutive hitters three three,

2272
01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 2: and the I forget what inning. The top of the inning,

2273
01:54:38,080 --> 01:54:41,040
Speaker 2: three hitters struck out, bottom of the inning, three hitters

2274
01:54:41,040 --> 01:54:43,800
Speaker 2: struck out. Top of the inning, three hitters struck out.

2275
01:54:44,080 --> 01:54:46,360
Speaker 2: Now that's without putting the ball in play. It's not

2276
01:54:46,400 --> 01:54:48,640
Speaker 2: like there was a walk and a couple hit. That

2277
01:54:48,800 --> 01:54:53,560
Speaker 2: was nine consecutive strikeouts. Geez, you you tell me, you

2278
01:54:53,600 --> 01:54:55,960
Speaker 2: tell me if you're a kid watching that, Like, dad,

2279
01:54:56,160 --> 01:54:59,240
Speaker 2: can we come back and watch this crap again? Them

2280
01:54:59,320 --> 01:55:04,200
Speaker 2: come on, yeah, you know, and I and hopefully hopefully

2281
01:55:04,560 --> 01:55:08,440
Speaker 2: situational hitting comes back, because to me, that's exciting. Like

2282
01:55:08,480 --> 01:55:11,560
Speaker 2: the Phillies started winning games, but they're putting guys in

2283
01:55:11,600 --> 01:55:13,720
Speaker 2: motion now, and other teams you watch there, you know,

2284
01:55:13,800 --> 01:55:16,840
Speaker 2: the Padres when they play, they're putting guys in motion.

2285
01:55:17,240 --> 01:55:20,040
Speaker 2: They're opening up holes for their defense, for their offense,

2286
01:55:20,120 --> 01:55:23,240
Speaker 2: and they're scoring runs because of it. You just wish

2287
01:55:23,400 --> 01:55:25,400
Speaker 2: every team would be like that. But we've gotten so

2288
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:28,760
Speaker 2: caught up in like I said, we have nine guys

2289
01:55:28,760 --> 01:55:30,640
Speaker 2: who can hit the battle the ballpark, and if they

2290
01:55:30,720 --> 01:55:33,440
Speaker 2: strike out, so be it. Uh, but you know that

2291
01:55:33,560 --> 01:55:36,360
Speaker 2: one swing they might hit one out. Well, you know,

2292
01:55:36,800 --> 01:55:38,400
Speaker 2: you know, I always looking at it this way. If

2293
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:41,040
Speaker 2: you have six hundred at bats in the season, and

2294
01:55:41,160 --> 01:55:42,680
Speaker 2: let's say you have a great year and you hit

2295
01:55:42,720 --> 01:55:46,000
Speaker 2: forty homers, what are you doing your other five hundred

2296
01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:47,400
Speaker 2: and sixty at bats?

2297
01:55:48,080 --> 01:55:48,240
Speaker 1: Now?

2298
01:55:48,400 --> 01:55:51,240
Speaker 2: That was that That was always the point I tried

2299
01:55:51,240 --> 01:55:53,160
Speaker 2: to make, you know, tried to get an answer to

2300
01:55:53,280 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 2: from these uh you know, these these these sabermetrition people

2301
01:55:57,400 --> 01:56:01,040
Speaker 2: and these uh you know, these gm these gms that

2302
01:56:01,200 --> 01:56:03,760
Speaker 2: can't come in that you know from Ivy League school

2303
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:06,600
Speaker 2: or wherever. Yeah, not saying they don't do good jobs,

2304
01:56:06,640 --> 01:56:10,920
Speaker 2: but you know they look at like, you know, how

2305
01:56:10,920 --> 01:56:13,920
Speaker 2: many home runs can a guy hit, But they don't

2306
01:56:13,920 --> 01:56:15,880
Speaker 2: look at what he does his other five hundred and

2307
01:56:15,920 --> 01:56:18,240
Speaker 2: something at bads And if he strikes out one hundred

2308
01:56:18,280 --> 01:56:20,960
Speaker 2: and eighty times and he walks a hundred times, they think, well,

2309
01:56:21,240 --> 01:56:26,840
Speaker 2: he had a good year. A strikeout is not just

2310
01:56:26,880 --> 01:56:30,480
Speaker 2: another out. It's an out where you did absolutely nothing

2311
01:56:30,560 --> 01:56:33,960
Speaker 2: to move a runner or to give a chance of

2312
01:56:34,000 --> 01:56:37,520
Speaker 2: scoring a run with the groundout. A strikeout does you

2313
01:56:37,640 --> 01:56:41,280
Speaker 2: no good. And when I think when baseball can get

2314
01:56:41,280 --> 01:56:44,920
Speaker 2: away from believing that strikeouts are just are okay and

2315
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:47,560
Speaker 2: it's no big deal, I think you're going to see,

2316
01:56:47,960 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 2: hopefully it starts at a younger age, but I think

2317
01:56:50,760 --> 01:56:52,760
Speaker 2: you're going to see more kids say, wow, this is exciting.

2318
01:56:52,800 --> 01:56:55,200
Speaker 2: They're putting balls and play the defense is playing great,

2319
01:56:55,320 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 2: or you know, we can take advantage of their poor defense, whatever.

2320
01:56:58,720 --> 01:57:00,920
Speaker 2: But you can't take advantage of a defense if you're

2321
01:57:00,920 --> 01:57:02,840
Speaker 2: striking up fifteen times a damn game.

2322
01:57:04,600 --> 01:57:07,560
Speaker 1: No. And that's a great point because exactly like you said,

2323
01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:11,480
Speaker 1: it is such a thought process in the fact that

2324
01:57:11,520 --> 01:57:14,640
Speaker 1: they're trying to push the home run game, thinking that

2325
01:57:14,640 --> 01:57:17,480
Speaker 1: that's going to be the excitement of it all. But

2326
01:57:17,520 --> 01:57:20,120
Speaker 1: you're right, if it's only one batter out of nine

2327
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:25,200
Speaker 1: every other few three or four innings making any excitement

2328
01:57:25,200 --> 01:57:28,120
Speaker 1: out of it, it is going to draw people away. Stonness

2329
01:57:28,360 --> 01:57:30,480
Speaker 1: and Brady, What do you guys think about some of

2330
01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:33,000
Speaker 1: these rules that are coming in trying to speed up

2331
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:34,080
Speaker 1: the pace of the games.

2332
01:57:36,240 --> 01:57:38,760
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm all for the game being sped up.

2333
01:57:39,160 --> 01:57:41,240
Speaker 3: I think I think that's fine. I think it's on

2334
01:57:41,280 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 3: the umpires to actually enforce some of these rules that

2335
01:57:44,200 --> 01:57:46,040
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball wants to put in place. I mean,

2336
01:57:46,040 --> 01:57:48,720
Speaker 3: if you want to put a clock on pitchers, I

2337
01:57:48,720 --> 01:57:49,720
Speaker 3: don't love the look of that.

2338
01:57:49,800 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 6: I love that baseball is.

2339
01:57:50,840 --> 01:57:53,760
Speaker 3: The only game without a clock, But that's the whole

2340
01:57:53,760 --> 01:57:55,640
Speaker 3: thing about baseball being the only game without a clock.

2341
01:57:55,680 --> 01:57:58,760
Speaker 3: It just means you know that the game can go

2342
01:57:58,800 --> 01:58:00,480
Speaker 3: on as long as it needs to go on until

2343
01:58:00,560 --> 01:58:02,880
Speaker 3: somebody out scores somebody else, you get those twenty seven

2344
01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:05,840
Speaker 3: outs up. So I don't necessarily hate the idea of

2345
01:58:05,880 --> 01:58:08,560
Speaker 3: a pitchclock if that's actually going to work. But I

2346
01:58:08,600 --> 01:58:10,120
Speaker 3: just don't know that any of this stuff is actually

2347
01:58:10,120 --> 01:58:12,760
Speaker 3: going to work. You just I don't know that there's

2348
01:58:12,800 --> 01:58:15,840
Speaker 3: a way to speed up the game at this point.

2349
01:58:15,920 --> 01:58:18,440
Speaker 3: I think what Major League Baseball can do is try

2350
01:58:18,480 --> 01:58:21,080
Speaker 3: to encourage action, which is I think what John was

2351
01:58:21,120 --> 01:58:24,320
Speaker 3: talking about here. You know, get and it really has

2352
01:58:24,400 --> 01:58:27,640
Speaker 3: to start at the minor league level. And unfortunately kids

2353
01:58:27,920 --> 01:58:30,840
Speaker 3: kids was there, you know, playing in high school and

2354
01:58:30,880 --> 01:58:32,480
Speaker 3: they're going to all these tournaments and all this kind

2355
01:58:32,520 --> 01:58:35,800
Speaker 3: of stuff. You don't you don't learn the fundamentals because

2356
01:58:35,800 --> 01:58:37,680
Speaker 3: that's not how you get seen. That's not how you

2357
01:58:37,720 --> 01:58:41,600
Speaker 3: get scholarships, that's not how you get that's not how

2358
01:58:41,640 --> 01:58:43,920
Speaker 3: you get drafted. You know, you don't if you're the

2359
01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:44,520
Speaker 3: guy who was.

2360
01:58:44,520 --> 01:58:46,919
Speaker 4: Always moving the runner over from first to third.

2361
01:58:47,600 --> 01:58:49,760
Speaker 3: You don't you know, you you really you're the guy

2362
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:51,640
Speaker 3: who always manages to hit the ball to the right

2363
01:58:51,640 --> 01:58:53,440
Speaker 3: side of the infield to get the runner from you know,

2364
01:58:53,480 --> 01:58:55,760
Speaker 3: from second to third. You know, when you do the

2365
01:58:55,760 --> 01:58:59,040
Speaker 3: fundamentals right, Unfortunately, you don't really get rewarded for that.

2366
01:58:59,080 --> 01:59:01,000
Speaker 3: As a high school player at this point, you get

2367
01:59:01,080 --> 01:59:03,000
Speaker 3: rewarded for hitting the ball out of the ballpark and

2368
01:59:03,320 --> 01:59:06,400
Speaker 3: putting up an eight hundred slugging percentage. And so that's

2369
01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:08,840
Speaker 3: I think that's the that's the problem baseball has right

2370
01:59:08,880 --> 01:59:13,640
Speaker 3: now is that you don't really incentivize kids to to

2371
01:59:13,760 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 3: learn how to play the game the right way from

2372
01:59:15,680 --> 01:59:17,200
Speaker 3: a young age, and then so you get them in

2373
01:59:17,240 --> 01:59:19,360
Speaker 3: the minor league system and it's up to the it's

2374
01:59:19,440 --> 01:59:23,160
Speaker 3: up to the team's developmental staff to teach people how

2375
01:59:23,160 --> 01:59:25,920
Speaker 3: to play baseball, which is something they should have learned

2376
01:59:26,360 --> 01:59:28,360
Speaker 3: in middle school and high school and in all the

2377
01:59:28,400 --> 01:59:32,440
Speaker 3: tournaments that they're doing so until we until hitters are

2378
01:59:33,520 --> 01:59:36,440
Speaker 3: are willing to put the ball in play with two

2379
01:59:36,440 --> 01:59:39,000
Speaker 3: strikes to shorten their swing and make contact with two

2380
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:42,640
Speaker 3: strikes instead of being willing to strike out while taking

2381
01:59:42,640 --> 01:59:44,720
Speaker 3: a one hundred percent uppercut swing to try and hit

2382
01:59:44,760 --> 01:59:46,560
Speaker 3: the ball out of the yard, you're going to see

2383
01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:49,000
Speaker 3: a ton of strikeouts. And I do think it's I

2384
01:59:49,000 --> 01:59:51,280
Speaker 3: do think it's okay for Major League Baseball to try

2385
01:59:51,320 --> 01:59:54,000
Speaker 3: and do some things to help the hitters out, Like

2386
01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:58,560
Speaker 3: if pitchers are using substances to get extra rotation on

2387
01:59:58,600 --> 02:00:01,760
Speaker 3: the ball to the point where overmatching hitters, then yeah,

2388
02:00:01,920 --> 02:00:04,000
Speaker 3: you gotta you, you got to try and even the

2389
02:00:04,000 --> 02:00:07,320
Speaker 3: playing field there. But you know, I think baseball's issues

2390
02:00:07,320 --> 02:00:09,680
Speaker 3: with pace of play and with lack of action has

2391
02:00:09,720 --> 02:00:12,760
Speaker 3: more to do with players just don't know how to

2392
02:00:12,840 --> 02:00:14,440
Speaker 3: do that stuff when when they're coming up.

2393
02:00:14,440 --> 02:00:16,640
Speaker 6: And that's that's a lot for that's a lot for

2394
02:00:16,760 --> 02:00:17,520
Speaker 6: a minor league.

2395
02:00:17,360 --> 02:00:19,280
Speaker 3: System to try and have to teach kids how to

2396
02:00:19,320 --> 02:00:22,640
Speaker 3: play and also develop their skills at the same time.

2397
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:26,960
Speaker 2: What can I add something real quick? Uh to what

2398
02:00:27,040 --> 02:00:31,720
Speaker 2: John was saying? Uh? And I could. I witnessed this

2399
02:00:32,960 --> 02:00:37,800
Speaker 2: in a travel softball I asked my daughter once. I said,

2400
02:00:37,840 --> 02:00:40,680
Speaker 2: why did you step out and take your gloves off

2401
02:00:40,720 --> 02:00:42,960
Speaker 2: and tie your spikes? And he said, well, he gave

2402
02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:45,720
Speaker 2: me the sign because we have a time limit and

2403
02:00:45,760 --> 02:00:48,880
Speaker 2: we were leading. I said, are you You've got to

2404
02:00:49,000 --> 02:00:54,240
Speaker 2: be fricking kidney? Like they played a game once and

2405
02:00:54,240 --> 02:00:58,320
Speaker 2: they say, we're like this this uh eighth the nights

2406
02:00:58,360 --> 02:01:01,920
Speaker 2: hitter never gotten it back, Like, who the hell? Who

2407
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:04,800
Speaker 2: the hell wants to watch that. I'd rather have the

2408
02:01:04,880 --> 02:01:07,960
Speaker 2: kids lose and play, you know, five innings in an

2409
02:01:08,000 --> 02:01:11,200
Speaker 2: hour and a half or whatever than to play two

2410
02:01:11,280 --> 02:01:13,640
Speaker 2: innings and you know, some of the kids don't get

2411
02:01:13,640 --> 02:01:15,960
Speaker 2: a chance to hit. It's a joke.

2412
02:01:16,280 --> 02:01:17,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, it defeats the entire purpose.

2413
02:01:18,720 --> 02:01:22,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it but no that to me is when

2414
02:01:22,840 --> 02:01:26,120
Speaker 2: it becomes more important to the coach, who might be

2415
02:01:26,160 --> 02:01:30,480
Speaker 2: a parent, the win is more important to him than

2416
02:01:30,560 --> 02:01:34,360
Speaker 2: the development of the kids. So kids are used to

2417
02:01:34,400 --> 02:01:37,840
Speaker 2: now taking their time. Oh we have a lead, let's

2418
02:01:37,960 --> 02:01:43,520
Speaker 2: slow things up. You know, it was nauseating watching that

2419
02:01:43,640 --> 02:01:45,320
Speaker 2: and thank god that was our last one.

2420
02:01:45,440 --> 02:01:49,600
Speaker 1: Grady, what about for you on your thoughts with the

2421
02:01:49,640 --> 02:01:51,879
Speaker 1: new rules to speed up the game in MLB.

2422
02:01:53,040 --> 02:01:55,720
Speaker 4: Well, first off, I think there's just a gigantic irony

2423
02:01:55,760 --> 02:02:00,560
Speaker 4: here that that MOLB is changing the way the game

2424
02:02:00,640 --> 02:02:04,120
Speaker 4: is played to try to speed things up. And you're

2425
02:02:04,160 --> 02:02:08,240
Speaker 4: gaining a few seconds here and a few seconds there

2426
02:02:08,640 --> 02:02:11,480
Speaker 4: with some of these new rules and some of these changes,

2427
02:02:11,800 --> 02:02:14,160
Speaker 4: and then at the end of every inning you're stripping

2428
02:02:14,200 --> 02:02:16,400
Speaker 4: down the pitcher to his choney so you can check

2429
02:02:16,440 --> 02:02:19,240
Speaker 4: him for sticky stuff. And four times a game you're

2430
02:02:19,280 --> 02:02:22,320
Speaker 4: having an instant replay that lasts four or five minutes,

2431
02:02:22,360 --> 02:02:25,800
Speaker 4: when everyone can see after fifteen seconds what the outcome was.

2432
02:02:27,800 --> 02:02:31,320
Speaker 4: It's just so weird to me that they have so

2433
02:02:31,520 --> 02:02:36,520
Speaker 4: heavily prioritized cutting down the time of games while also

2434
02:02:36,600 --> 02:02:39,800
Speaker 4: implementing these things that are just making it longer. And

2435
02:02:40,360 --> 02:02:43,040
Speaker 4: I do get the desires to speed up the game.

2436
02:02:43,120 --> 02:02:45,800
Speaker 4: But I also think that MLB is going about everything

2437
02:02:45,840 --> 02:02:49,280
Speaker 4: wrong here, because let's be honest, if you're trying to

2438
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:55,240
Speaker 4: attract a younger demographic, maybe siphons some football and basketball

2439
02:02:55,320 --> 02:02:58,320
Speaker 4: viewers into baseball. No one's going to get excited about

2440
02:02:58,360 --> 02:03:01,040
Speaker 4: watching baseball because oh, this game is only going to

2441
02:03:01,120 --> 02:03:03,440
Speaker 4: take two hours and fifty three minutes and two hours

2442
02:03:03,440 --> 02:03:06,200
Speaker 4: instead of two hours and fifty eight minutes. That's not

2443
02:03:06,280 --> 02:03:09,880
Speaker 4: what's going to get anyone excited. No one thinks like that.

2444
02:03:10,320 --> 02:03:14,320
Speaker 4: You have to make the game more exciting, and both

2445
02:03:14,320 --> 02:03:18,040
Speaker 4: of the John's here, I think had some great points

2446
02:03:18,080 --> 02:03:20,800
Speaker 4: on that and on how you do make the game

2447
02:03:20,840 --> 02:03:23,200
Speaker 4: more exciting. And one thing I'll add is I do

2448
02:03:23,280 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 4: think there's a little bit of a natural.

2449
02:03:28,240 --> 02:03:32,480
Speaker 1: We're losing you a little bit, Brady.

2450
02:03:31,160 --> 02:03:34,240
Speaker 4: Can you hear me now? Yes, sorry about that. My

2451
02:03:34,280 --> 02:03:39,320
Speaker 4: cat's trying to eat my headphones. I think there's a

2452
02:03:39,360 --> 02:03:41,760
Speaker 4: little bit of a natural evolution to baseball. I think

2453
02:03:41,840 --> 02:03:45,320
Speaker 4: it tends to reach an equilibrium over time. And so

2454
02:03:45,680 --> 02:03:48,160
Speaker 4: I do agree that there are some issues here with

2455
02:03:48,720 --> 02:03:52,440
Speaker 4: hitters chasing home runs and just getting strikeouts over and

2456
02:03:52,480 --> 02:03:56,040
Speaker 4: over again. And I also think that that that will

2457
02:03:56,040 --> 02:03:58,080
Speaker 4: start to even itself out a little bit over time.

2458
02:03:58,320 --> 02:04:00,600
Speaker 4: I think we're seeing that already with the shift. So

2459
02:04:00,680 --> 02:04:03,400
Speaker 4: many defenses have been applying the shift and they're getting

2460
02:04:03,400 --> 02:04:07,120
Speaker 4: advantages over the hitters, and hitters are starting to realize, Hey,

2461
02:04:07,360 --> 02:04:09,360
Speaker 4: if I want to have success, I got to start

2462
02:04:10,120 --> 02:04:12,560
Speaker 4: being able to have the bat to ball skills to

2463
02:04:12,560 --> 02:04:14,520
Speaker 4: put the ball the other way or to put the

2464
02:04:14,520 --> 02:04:17,720
Speaker 4: ball on the ground down the line. And we're starting

2465
02:04:17,720 --> 02:04:21,040
Speaker 4: to see it naturalized there, and I think that sometime

2466
02:04:21,080 --> 02:04:22,800
Speaker 4: in the next five to ten years we're going to

2467
02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:25,680
Speaker 4: start seeing that with the home run and strikeout craze,

2468
02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:29,720
Speaker 4: where we're going to see hitters realizing that they're going

2469
02:04:29,800 --> 02:04:31,840
Speaker 4: to have to make a few changes because this isn't

2470
02:04:31,840 --> 02:04:36,280
Speaker 4: a reliable outcome when it results in so many strikeouts,

2471
02:04:36,320 --> 02:04:37,800
Speaker 4: and they're going to have to start putting the ball

2472
02:04:37,840 --> 02:04:39,840
Speaker 4: in play a little bit more and start to have

2473
02:04:39,880 --> 02:04:42,720
Speaker 4: to make some adjustments. We're seeing it already with the

2474
02:04:42,720 --> 02:04:44,960
Speaker 4: way that batters are working counts a little bit more

2475
02:04:45,320 --> 02:04:47,800
Speaker 4: than they were even just a few years ago. Walks

2476
02:04:47,840 --> 02:04:50,960
Speaker 4: are kind of the big saber metric thing right now.

2477
02:04:51,240 --> 02:04:54,160
Speaker 4: Everyone wants walks, and it's I think that's going to

2478
02:04:54,200 --> 02:04:56,360
Speaker 4: have a little bit of a domino effect force pitchers

2479
02:04:56,400 --> 02:04:58,640
Speaker 4: to throw more gettable pitches. Of course, hitters to put

2480
02:04:58,640 --> 02:04:59,440
Speaker 4: more balls in play.

2481
02:05:00,040 --> 02:05:02,680
Speaker 2: Mhm you know and that that that that is the

2482
02:05:02,720 --> 02:05:10,320
Speaker 2: one thing about uh like ops, uh you know that

2483
02:05:10,520 --> 02:05:14,400
Speaker 2: got me is is there's so many of these because

2484
02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:17,320
Speaker 2: I talked to some of these sabermetrician guys that worked

2485
02:05:17,360 --> 02:05:20,360
Speaker 2: for that worked at ESPN, that worked uh you know,

2486
02:05:20,440 --> 02:05:24,280
Speaker 2: for the Phillies and other teams, and uh, you know,

2487
02:05:24,360 --> 02:05:27,080
Speaker 2: they they talk about walks and walk and walk, you know,

2488
02:05:27,280 --> 02:05:29,320
Speaker 2: you know, oh this guy walks, about this guy walks

2489
02:05:29,360 --> 02:05:32,080
Speaker 2: a lot. And I said, well that that's that's great,

2490
02:05:32,640 --> 02:05:37,680
Speaker 2: but uh, you know they minimize batting average, which I get,

2491
02:05:38,760 --> 02:05:42,480
Speaker 2: uh to a certain extent, But is it batting average

2492
02:05:42,480 --> 02:05:45,960
Speaker 2: a part of on base percentage? And that's my point

2493
02:05:46,000 --> 02:05:47,880
Speaker 2: I've tried to make to them, like you you know,

2494
02:05:49,520 --> 02:05:52,720
Speaker 2: in a perfect world, if you're playing, if you walk,

2495
02:05:53,800 --> 02:05:57,360
Speaker 2: only one run can score, but if you hit a single,

2496
02:05:58,360 --> 02:06:02,160
Speaker 2: multiple runs can score. And so that's I think we

2497
02:06:02,280 --> 02:06:05,400
Speaker 2: got so And I talked to players about this and

2498
02:06:05,440 --> 02:06:07,880
Speaker 2: that's their thing. Oh I want to walk, I want

2499
02:06:07,880 --> 02:06:11,120
Speaker 2: to walk one hundred and fifty times. Well, why you know,

2500
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:15,040
Speaker 2: if you're a leadoff hitter or second hitter, yeah that's great.

2501
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:18,080
Speaker 2: But if you're a third hitter and you're taking pitches

2502
02:06:18,120 --> 02:06:20,800
Speaker 2: you can hit just to try to work a walk,

2503
02:06:22,200 --> 02:06:25,160
Speaker 2: you should be hitting eighth or ninth or first instead

2504
02:06:25,160 --> 02:06:28,400
Speaker 2: of in the middle of the lineup. Like, I walked

2505
02:06:28,440 --> 02:06:31,160
Speaker 2: a lot, but I never once thought about walking or

2506
02:06:31,160 --> 02:06:31,960
Speaker 2: tried to walk.

2507
02:06:32,640 --> 02:06:34,320
Speaker 1: Well, I think it goes along with what all of

2508
02:06:34,360 --> 02:06:37,200
Speaker 1: you guys were saying, how it is such a big

2509
02:06:37,400 --> 02:06:40,200
Speaker 1: common thing to see strikeouts now in today's game. I

2510
02:06:40,240 --> 02:06:41,920
Speaker 1: think that kind of goes along with what you just

2511
02:06:41,960 --> 02:06:44,640
Speaker 1: said is players are kind of thinking, well, I rather

2512
02:06:44,800 --> 02:06:48,040
Speaker 1: walk than strike out, because that's probably a big possibility too.

2513
02:06:48,160 --> 02:06:50,720
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like they're in their mind saying

2514
02:06:50,760 --> 02:06:52,160
Speaker 1: the walks better than the strikeout.

2515
02:06:52,160 --> 02:06:54,240
Speaker 5: But exactly what you said, why not.

2516
02:06:55,680 --> 02:07:00,160
Speaker 2: Go ahead, let me run this one by y'all. And

2517
02:07:01,160 --> 02:07:04,560
Speaker 2: I am praying that this isn't true, But I was

2518
02:07:04,640 --> 02:07:09,080
Speaker 2: told that there's a couple of teams major League Baseball

2519
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:14,200
Speaker 2: that have told their minor leaguers that if you have

2520
02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:18,280
Speaker 2: two strikes and you don't get a pitch, you could drive,

2521
02:07:19,120 --> 02:07:23,720
Speaker 2: not like hit a single other way. You know, if

2522
02:07:23,760 --> 02:07:26,040
Speaker 2: you if there's not a pitch you can't drive for

2523
02:07:26,080 --> 02:07:29,280
Speaker 2: at least a double, then just take it and strike

2524
02:07:29,320 --> 02:07:33,320
Speaker 2: out and go go after Mer next at bat, Like,

2525
02:07:33,480 --> 02:07:36,640
Speaker 2: oh my god, are you kidding me? Did you hear

2526
02:07:36,680 --> 02:07:37,040
Speaker 2: that too?

2527
02:07:39,040 --> 02:07:39,240
Speaker 4: Yeah?

2528
02:07:39,280 --> 02:07:43,120
Speaker 14: I mean I gave didn't give Kapler, I believe, bring

2529
02:07:43,200 --> 02:07:44,960
Speaker 14: you correct me for I'm wrong, didn't give Kepler say

2530
02:07:45,000 --> 02:07:46,960
Speaker 14: something along those lines at the beginning of the season,

2531
02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:49,800
Speaker 14: like you would rather have his pitchers strike out on

2532
02:07:49,840 --> 02:07:52,640
Speaker 14: a on a third on a called third strike, then

2533
02:07:52,960 --> 02:07:55,840
Speaker 14: then swing at a pitch that they wouldn't be able to.

2534
02:07:55,280 --> 02:07:58,680
Speaker 3: To slug someplace, which is just completely anathema to me.

2535
02:07:58,760 --> 02:08:01,720
Speaker 3: I have always yea and a believer you put the

2536
02:08:01,720 --> 02:08:04,520
Speaker 3: ball and play the two strikes and something good can happen.

2537
02:08:04,560 --> 02:08:06,560
Speaker 3: I mean, when you have to make a defender make

2538
02:08:06,600 --> 02:08:09,240
Speaker 3: a play, you got to they have to execute. That

2539
02:08:09,320 --> 02:08:10,720
Speaker 3: has never made any sense to me.

2540
02:08:11,920 --> 02:08:16,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you start rewarding strikeouts, is not are saying

2541
02:08:16,160 --> 02:08:18,840
Speaker 2: that strikeouts are no big deal. You're going to see

2542
02:08:18,840 --> 02:08:20,560
Speaker 2: a team that probably is not going to score a

2543
02:08:20,600 --> 02:08:23,840
Speaker 2: ton of runs and they're going to be easier to

2544
02:08:23,880 --> 02:08:29,720
Speaker 2: pitch too, especially really good pitchers can embarrass a team

2545
02:08:29,800 --> 02:08:30,000
Speaker 2: like that.

2546
02:08:31,520 --> 02:08:33,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just can't even wrap my mind around that,

2547
02:08:33,520 --> 02:08:36,360
Speaker 1: and the fact that, like you guys have all been saying,

2548
02:08:36,360 --> 02:08:38,360
Speaker 1: a strikeout doesn't help your team win and it doesn't

2549
02:08:38,360 --> 02:08:43,400
Speaker 1: help personal stats, so there's quite literally no benefit to

2550
02:08:43,440 --> 02:08:46,360
Speaker 1: it in reality. So I don't understand how anybody can

2551
02:08:46,400 --> 02:08:48,480
Speaker 1: try to warp it into something positive.

2552
02:08:49,120 --> 02:08:51,360
Speaker 5: But we kind of straight away from it.

2553
02:08:51,760 --> 02:08:55,400
Speaker 1: We do have one finalist ready for this home run

2554
02:08:55,440 --> 02:08:59,240
Speaker 1: Derby final, and that's Trey Mancini. He defeated Trevor Story,

2555
02:08:59,280 --> 02:09:02,240
Speaker 1: that hometown kid that we kind of heard, so at

2556
02:09:02,320 --> 02:09:05,120
Speaker 1: least one of us is gonna win here, guys, one

2557
02:09:05,160 --> 02:09:07,200
Speaker 1: of the guys that we chose is gonna win.

2558
02:09:08,720 --> 02:09:08,960
Speaker 2: Sam.

2559
02:09:09,040 --> 02:09:12,840
Speaker 11: We've got Jeremy Brenner from Bucks dug out of I'm

2560
02:09:12,840 --> 02:09:15,160
Speaker 11: interested to hear his thoughts on how this whole thing

2561
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:17,840
Speaker 11: has shaken out. And I just want to say, with

2562
02:09:17,880 --> 02:09:19,880
Speaker 11: a Lonzo coming up, he was my pick the entire time.

2563
02:09:19,920 --> 02:09:21,360
Speaker 11: I didn't I didn't get a chance to say it.

2564
02:09:21,400 --> 02:09:22,680
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, now you say it, Mike.

2565
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:24,840
Speaker 3: I like the cut of his.

2566
02:09:27,280 --> 02:09:33,400
Speaker 2: The cut of his jib. That's some old school stuff,

2567
02:09:33,400 --> 02:09:34,400
Speaker 2: that's like Andy Griffin.

2568
02:09:36,600 --> 02:09:38,280
Speaker 6: Mike reads well, guys, Let's.

2569
02:09:39,800 --> 02:09:40,880
Speaker 1: Well, guys, let's welcome in.

2570
02:09:41,000 --> 02:09:43,120
Speaker 5: Jeremy Brenner from Bucks dugout.

2571
02:09:43,720 --> 02:09:47,000
Speaker 9: Jeremy, welcome in, Thanks Sam, thanks kiss, thanks everyone for

2572
02:09:47,080 --> 02:09:47,600
Speaker 9: letting me on.

2573
02:09:48,560 --> 02:09:48,880
Speaker 4: How are you.

2574
02:09:50,320 --> 02:09:53,120
Speaker 1: We're doing well. We're enjoying this game before it gets

2575
02:09:53,160 --> 02:09:55,000
Speaker 1: any further and you have time to cheat.

2576
02:09:55,240 --> 02:09:56,760
Speaker 5: Jeremy, who's your pick to win tonight?

2577
02:09:57,000 --> 02:09:57,960
Speaker 4: I think that.

2578
02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:02,000
Speaker 9: We're going to to like could come like never before

2579
02:10:02,040 --> 02:10:06,240
Speaker 9: seen comeback here from Tani. I think they're gonna they're

2580
02:10:06,240 --> 02:10:08,480
Speaker 9: gonna rig it for him. Still, they're gonna be like,

2581
02:10:08,560 --> 02:10:09,720
Speaker 9: we're gonna have a comeback round.

2582
02:10:10,160 --> 02:10:14,520
Speaker 1: Any Oh, you think they're gonna do an out of

2583
02:10:14,560 --> 02:10:15,400
Speaker 1: nowhere comeback.

2584
02:10:18,560 --> 02:10:21,480
Speaker 9: It's really hard to bet against. Let's be real, like

2585
02:10:21,520 --> 02:10:26,200
Speaker 9: he has like he's just he's built for a home

2586
02:10:26,240 --> 02:10:29,240
Speaker 9: run derby, Like that's what he's meant to do. So

2587
02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:32,600
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go with Petelanzo right now, given what I've

2588
02:10:32,640 --> 02:10:33,040
Speaker 9: seen so.

2589
02:10:33,040 --> 02:10:38,520
Speaker 1: Far, Jeremy, before we get into the Pirates and evaluating

2590
02:10:38,560 --> 02:10:41,840
Speaker 1: more on their number one overall pick yesterday, what are

2591
02:10:41,880 --> 02:10:44,680
Speaker 1: your thoughts about what we were just speaking about with

2592
02:10:45,200 --> 02:10:49,200
Speaker 1: the MLB trying to place these rules to speed up

2593
02:10:49,240 --> 02:10:49,560
Speaker 1: the game.

2594
02:10:50,840 --> 02:10:55,320
Speaker 9: You know, the thing is there, the the reason why

2595
02:10:55,360 --> 02:10:58,120
Speaker 9: they're putting something in play is because they think that

2596
02:10:58,200 --> 02:11:02,480
Speaker 9: there's a problem and and if there is, the question

2597
02:11:02,680 --> 02:11:07,040
Speaker 9: is is there really a problem? And to me, I

2598
02:11:07,200 --> 02:11:09,880
Speaker 9: really don't see the whole issue with it. I think

2599
02:11:10,200 --> 02:11:13,040
Speaker 9: most people who have been fans of the sport for

2600
02:11:13,560 --> 02:11:16,320
Speaker 9: at least fifteen twenty years don't really have that much

2601
02:11:16,320 --> 02:11:18,880
Speaker 9: of an issue with the way the game was to

2602
02:11:18,920 --> 02:11:23,040
Speaker 9: begin with. But I mean trying to make the game

2603
02:11:23,080 --> 02:11:27,080
Speaker 9: more marketable with kids. I mean the way that Fernando

2604
02:11:27,160 --> 02:11:31,080
Speaker 9: Tatis like handles himself, it's I don't want to say

2605
02:11:31,080 --> 02:11:35,160
Speaker 9: it's like Ken Gurffy junior, but like there's like similar

2606
02:11:35,480 --> 02:11:37,800
Speaker 9: shades of that. And I think at the end of

2607
02:11:37,840 --> 02:11:41,520
Speaker 9: the day, you are the way that you get to

2608
02:11:41,720 --> 02:11:44,760
Speaker 9: fans is through the players, not through the game like

2609
02:11:45,240 --> 02:11:47,720
Speaker 9: make let the players do what they're like, do what

2610
02:11:47,720 --> 02:11:50,320
Speaker 9: they're supposed to act is if they're kids, Because at

2611
02:11:50,320 --> 02:11:52,240
Speaker 9: the end of the day, like, that's what's the that's

2612
02:11:52,280 --> 02:11:54,960
Speaker 9: what's the romance of baseball is that it's a game

2613
02:11:55,320 --> 02:11:58,360
Speaker 9: meant for kids that you know, adults get to play.

2614
02:11:58,720 --> 02:12:02,240
Speaker 9: And I think that is where your firepower is with

2615
02:12:02,400 --> 02:12:05,960
Speaker 9: not just baseball, what with most sports and you look

2616
02:12:06,000 --> 02:12:08,960
Speaker 9: at basketball, how they market their guys based off of

2617
02:12:09,280 --> 02:12:11,840
Speaker 9: like athletes that are in the game and football, they

2618
02:12:11,840 --> 02:12:14,200
Speaker 9: market it through the quarterbacks mostly, and I think that's

2619
02:12:14,240 --> 02:12:17,680
Speaker 9: what gets people into it is the personalities the people,

2620
02:12:17,720 --> 02:12:20,720
Speaker 9: the characters, if you will. I look at things very

2621
02:12:20,840 --> 02:12:25,040
Speaker 9: much like a story, and the way thing and the

2622
02:12:25,040 --> 02:12:28,640
Speaker 9: way that a story is best told is through its characters.

2623
02:12:29,160 --> 02:12:34,560
Speaker 9: And I think the way baseball will be like told

2624
02:12:34,680 --> 02:12:38,200
Speaker 9: is this like awesome story is through its players. And

2625
02:12:38,240 --> 02:12:41,879
Speaker 9: what brings people in personally that's what gets me excited.

2626
02:12:42,240 --> 02:12:45,680
Speaker 9: I like the whole storyline aspect of sports, and I

2627
02:12:45,680 --> 02:12:48,040
Speaker 9: think that's what kind of gets me into that. So

2628
02:12:48,800 --> 02:12:51,920
Speaker 9: for me, that's how you get to kids. That's how

2629
02:12:51,960 --> 02:12:54,240
Speaker 9: you market the game of kids. You make these guys

2630
02:12:54,280 --> 02:12:56,680
Speaker 9: look like they're superheroes, which is why a night like

2631
02:12:56,760 --> 02:13:00,200
Speaker 9: this is perfect because you know, what these guys do

2632
02:13:00,360 --> 02:13:03,200
Speaker 9: is absolutely insane. Like I know Sean Kruck did it,

2633
02:13:03,240 --> 02:13:05,440
Speaker 9: and like I can't like like what he did is

2634
02:13:05,440 --> 02:13:08,360
Speaker 9: like not normal. Like I don't think what John Kruck

2635
02:13:08,480 --> 02:13:10,920
Speaker 9: and all of these you know, home run hitters did

2636
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:13,680
Speaker 9: is like normal. Like I never have really played that

2637
02:13:13,760 --> 02:13:16,480
Speaker 9: much baseball, but like I've been around it enough to

2638
02:13:16,680 --> 02:13:18,560
Speaker 9: like recognize how really difficult.

2639
02:13:18,920 --> 02:13:21,680
Speaker 5: It is, Yeah, to appreciate their talents.

2640
02:13:21,800 --> 02:13:25,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, like these dudes like make them look like superheroes,

2641
02:13:25,240 --> 02:13:27,080
Speaker 9: make them look like the kid you want to hang

2642
02:13:27,080 --> 02:13:29,800
Speaker 9: out with. And I think that we're getting there in

2643
02:13:29,840 --> 02:13:34,160
Speaker 9: a way with Vladimir Guerrero, with sho Hao Tani, with

2644
02:13:34,560 --> 02:13:38,320
Speaker 9: Fernando Tatis. I think personally like having those guys there,

2645
02:13:38,800 --> 02:13:41,120
Speaker 9: it makes the game more fun. Like the way they

2646
02:13:41,160 --> 02:13:45,080
Speaker 9: hand the way they handle themselves, the way they the

2647
02:13:45,120 --> 02:13:47,720
Speaker 9: way they're about the game. They want to play, they

2648
02:13:47,720 --> 02:13:49,760
Speaker 9: want to and of course there's a business side to it,

2649
02:13:49,840 --> 02:13:52,480
Speaker 9: and we all understand that, but I think that's how

2650
02:13:52,520 --> 02:13:53,400
Speaker 9: you make the game.

2651
02:13:53,200 --> 02:13:54,080
Speaker 4: More mark with the kids.

2652
02:13:54,120 --> 02:13:57,480
Speaker 9: You you like show them, put their athletes in like

2653
02:13:58,120 --> 02:14:01,080
Speaker 9: the best way possible. Like one of my favorite things

2654
02:14:01,120 --> 02:14:05,040
Speaker 9: growing up was playing backyard baseball on my PC and

2655
02:14:05,160 --> 02:14:08,080
Speaker 9: I would play like all my guys, I played Pibal.

2656
02:14:07,880 --> 02:14:08,920
Speaker 2: Chanswers Big Number one.

2657
02:14:09,080 --> 02:14:11,640
Speaker 9: But I'd also like get Mike Piazza in there, and

2658
02:14:11,680 --> 02:14:16,080
Speaker 9: I would like have Piazza that that uh clean up

2659
02:14:16,520 --> 02:14:19,040
Speaker 9: and just having those guys and being like they were kids,

2660
02:14:19,320 --> 02:14:24,680
Speaker 9: so like it humanized the baseball players, turn them into

2661
02:14:24,760 --> 02:14:26,960
Speaker 9: kids because that at the end of the day, like

2662
02:14:27,200 --> 02:14:28,240
Speaker 9: that's most.

2663
02:14:28,000 --> 02:14:30,640
Speaker 2: Of what the big these are is just a kids game.

2664
02:14:30,840 --> 02:14:33,880
Speaker 1: So well, and like you said, it is the best

2665
02:14:33,880 --> 02:14:36,120
Speaker 1: way to kind of market it and target that young

2666
02:14:36,200 --> 02:14:38,560
Speaker 1: audience with the video games with social media.

2667
02:14:38,560 --> 02:14:39,919
Speaker 5: I think that is the best route.

2668
02:14:40,080 --> 02:14:43,320
Speaker 1: But as we were talking right there, Pete Alonzo, I

2669
02:14:43,360 --> 02:14:43,880
Speaker 1: should not.

2670
02:14:44,480 --> 02:14:47,560
Speaker 5: Have try to root against him. He's proven me wrong

2671
02:14:47,600 --> 02:14:49,280
Speaker 5: now a few times in a row.

2672
02:14:49,400 --> 02:14:52,960
Speaker 1: It is so Pete Alonzo will go against Trey Mancini

2673
02:14:53,080 --> 02:14:55,160
Speaker 1: in the final round of the home run derby coming

2674
02:14:55,240 --> 02:14:59,160
Speaker 1: up soon. But Jeremy, while we have you here, I

2675
02:14:59,200 --> 02:15:02,120
Speaker 1: spoke to briefly yesterday and it was kind of a

2676
02:15:02,200 --> 02:15:06,800
Speaker 1: quick initial reaction about Henry Davis the number one overall

2677
02:15:06,800 --> 02:15:09,360
Speaker 1: pick to the Pirates. After looking more into it, what

2678
02:15:09,440 --> 02:15:11,040
Speaker 1: are some of the pros and what are some of

2679
02:15:11,040 --> 02:15:11,640
Speaker 1: the cons?

2680
02:15:11,880 --> 02:15:14,680
Speaker 5: Had you grown more to like the pick?

2681
02:15:15,920 --> 02:15:20,480
Speaker 9: I have decided that Henry Davis is the greatest player

2682
02:15:20,520 --> 02:15:24,000
Speaker 9: of all time, as he shows. So he was the

2683
02:15:24,160 --> 02:15:26,880
Speaker 9: surefire number one pick, as he should have been, and

2684
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:29,240
Speaker 9: he's the greatest player of all time, so we made

2685
02:15:29,240 --> 02:15:34,040
Speaker 9: the right pick. I love looking more into it, like

2686
02:15:34,280 --> 02:15:38,880
Speaker 9: he's his interview yesterday with the Pirates, like his brief

2687
02:15:38,920 --> 02:15:42,080
Speaker 9: press conference right after he was chosen. He just seemed

2688
02:15:42,120 --> 02:15:44,400
Speaker 9: like a guy that was really excited, really happy to

2689
02:15:44,440 --> 02:15:47,640
Speaker 9: be there, and really willing to lay it out all

2690
02:15:47,680 --> 02:15:51,000
Speaker 9: on the line for his team. And that's exactly what

2691
02:15:51,080 --> 02:15:53,839
Speaker 9: you want in a guy that you draft number one overall.

2692
02:15:54,160 --> 02:15:58,800
Speaker 9: And considering the Pirates have had very like Andrew McCutcheon

2693
02:15:58,880 --> 02:16:03,760
Speaker 9: is like as this current generation's like hero right because

2694
02:16:04,040 --> 02:16:07,240
Speaker 9: he was the guy to bring Pittsburgh out of this

2695
02:16:07,400 --> 02:16:11,320
Speaker 9: twenty year drought that they were in. And I think

2696
02:16:11,360 --> 02:16:14,640
Speaker 9: that the Pirates need that face of the franchise again.

2697
02:16:14,640 --> 02:16:16,920
Speaker 9: And I'm not saying it's gonna be Henry Davis, but

2698
02:16:18,120 --> 02:16:20,400
Speaker 9: in fact it's probably more likely to be k Brian Hayes,

2699
02:16:20,480 --> 02:16:22,520
Speaker 9: just because he also, I think is one of those

2700
02:16:22,520 --> 02:16:25,280
Speaker 9: guys like similar. I think he's a couple of he's

2701
02:16:25,280 --> 02:16:27,280
Speaker 9: like a year or two behind, but I do kind

2702
02:16:27,280 --> 02:16:30,040
Speaker 9: of think he can be on that like Mookie Betts,

2703
02:16:31,200 --> 02:16:36,920
Speaker 9: Fernando Tatis, Laddie Junior like area where they can be like,

2704
02:16:37,360 --> 02:16:39,360
Speaker 9: you know, they're the guys that make the game fun

2705
02:16:39,400 --> 02:16:42,600
Speaker 9: again and things like that. So I think he's more

2706
02:16:42,680 --> 02:16:45,200
Speaker 9: likely to be that face of the franchise, But Henry

2707
02:16:45,280 --> 02:16:50,080
Speaker 9: Davis can be like a real fan favorite, and I

2708
02:16:50,160 --> 02:16:53,200
Speaker 9: think that that's something that the Pirates really need. They

2709
02:16:53,200 --> 02:16:56,040
Speaker 9: need like a hero to not only just to you know,

2710
02:16:56,040 --> 02:16:59,680
Speaker 9: sell tickets, but to kind of get the team out

2711
02:16:59,680 --> 02:17:01,440
Speaker 9: of this slump that they've been in.

2712
02:17:01,440 --> 02:17:01,480
Speaker 4: It.

2713
02:17:01,600 --> 02:17:04,600
Speaker 9: It's funny to say that because I looked at the team,

2714
02:17:04,800 --> 02:17:06,800
Speaker 9: you know, with Brian Reynolds starting in the Ulscar Game.

2715
02:17:07,240 --> 02:17:08,800
Speaker 9: I don't think a lot of people really know who

2716
02:17:08,840 --> 02:17:11,640
Speaker 9: Brian Reynolds is outside of Pittsburgh, but he's had a

2717
02:17:11,680 --> 02:17:15,039
Speaker 9: fantastic season so far, batting three under. I only want

2718
02:17:15,040 --> 02:17:17,240
Speaker 9: a little off topic, but you know, this is the

2719
02:17:17,280 --> 02:17:19,959
Speaker 9: first time in almost thirty years that the Pirates have

2720
02:17:19,959 --> 02:17:22,880
Speaker 9: had multiple starters in the Ulstar Game. Nineteen ninety two

2721
02:17:23,280 --> 02:17:27,160
Speaker 9: was the last time they had multiple All Stars. It

2722
02:17:27,240 --> 02:17:29,400
Speaker 9: was anyone want to take a guess as to who

2723
02:17:29,400 --> 02:17:29,800
Speaker 9: it was?

2724
02:17:30,400 --> 02:17:32,120
Speaker 4: Barry Bonds twice?

2725
02:17:32,400 --> 02:17:34,680
Speaker 9: Barry Bonds is one of them, but it wasn't a

2726
02:17:34,720 --> 02:17:37,520
Speaker 9: clone of Barry Ron's. No, So Barry Bonds is the one,

2727
02:17:37,640 --> 02:17:38,920
Speaker 9: But can you name it?

2728
02:17:39,440 --> 02:17:40,920
Speaker 1: I don't know who else it would be.

2729
02:17:42,200 --> 02:17:44,400
Speaker 9: I want to know we're talking about is definitely around

2730
02:17:44,480 --> 02:17:44,920
Speaker 9: his prime.

2731
02:17:45,280 --> 02:17:46,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, nineteen ninety.

2732
02:17:46,080 --> 02:17:48,760
Speaker 1: Two, Cruck, He's not coming in. I'm taking and he

2733
02:17:48,800 --> 02:17:49,400
Speaker 1: doesn't know it.

2734
02:17:50,520 --> 02:17:52,959
Speaker 9: All right, all right, it's it's Andy Vans, Like.

2735
02:17:53,800 --> 02:17:55,800
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I was mute. I was muted. What was

2736
02:17:55,800 --> 02:17:56,599
Speaker 2: the question.

2737
02:17:58,040 --> 02:17:59,200
Speaker 1: He would have gotten?

2738
02:18:00,080 --> 02:18:00,480
Speaker 4: Oh crook?

2739
02:18:00,560 --> 02:18:03,400
Speaker 9: This is the This is the first time in twenty

2740
02:18:03,480 --> 02:18:06,600
Speaker 9: nine years or yeah, twenty nine years that the Pirates

2741
02:18:06,600 --> 02:18:09,240
Speaker 9: have had multiple all stars start in the ulcer game.

2742
02:18:10,360 --> 02:18:12,320
Speaker 2: Barry, Yeah, he's.

2743
02:18:12,160 --> 02:18:13,400
Speaker 1: Won, ding ding ding.

2744
02:18:14,560 --> 02:18:16,679
Speaker 2: I mean, my god, you could pick from.

2745
02:18:16,720 --> 02:18:19,560
Speaker 9: Because those nineties Pirates teams were some of the best

2746
02:18:20,040 --> 02:18:20,440
Speaker 9: of the day.

2747
02:18:20,879 --> 02:18:26,720
Speaker 2: I mean, Bobby Benia probably wasn't the mid one, uh,

2748
02:18:26,879 --> 02:18:34,400
Speaker 2: Chico Lean j Bell, I mean my god, they were like, yeah, yeah,

2749
02:18:34,440 --> 02:18:37,039
Speaker 2: I could stick that too. Didn't Andy win a batting

2750
02:18:37,040 --> 02:18:39,760
Speaker 2: title that year? Yeah? I think he won. I think

2751
02:18:39,760 --> 02:18:41,600
Speaker 2: it was I think it was me and him and Sheffield.

2752
02:18:41,640 --> 02:18:44,840
Speaker 2: Gary Sheffield were like going down to the end of

2753
02:18:44,840 --> 02:18:47,080
Speaker 2: the season with a chance to win it. I think

2754
02:18:47,120 --> 02:18:48,320
Speaker 2: Andy ended up winning it.

2755
02:18:49,040 --> 02:18:49,879
Speaker 5: I love it, Jeremy.

2756
02:18:49,920 --> 02:18:52,000
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, where can everybody find your

2757
02:18:52,040 --> 02:18:53,240
Speaker 1: work and your social media's?

2758
02:18:53,680 --> 02:18:53,920
Speaker 4: Yeah?

2759
02:18:54,040 --> 02:18:57,320
Speaker 9: Find me find First of all, find Bucks dug out

2760
02:18:57,360 --> 02:18:59,199
Speaker 9: on Twitter at bucks dug out, and you can also

2761
02:18:59,240 --> 02:19:02,040
Speaker 9: head to stugout dot com from of all Things Pittsburgh

2762
02:19:02,080 --> 02:19:06,320
Speaker 9: Pirates on espnation dot com and personally if you if

2763
02:19:06,360 --> 02:19:08,720
Speaker 9: you really really really want it, you can find me it.

2764
02:19:08,800 --> 02:19:10,760
Speaker 9: Jeremy Brenner, that's j E R E M y and

2765
02:19:10,760 --> 02:19:11,480
Speaker 9: b R E any R.

2766
02:19:12,200 --> 02:19:12,560
Speaker 1: Awesome.

2767
02:19:12,560 --> 02:19:15,000
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Jeremy, Thanks Sam, Thanks everyone.

2768
02:19:15,480 --> 02:19:21,240
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, that was quite a final round for tray Vancd.

2769
02:19:21,879 --> 02:19:24,160
Speaker 5: He had twenty two home runs and.

2770
02:19:24,080 --> 02:19:26,920
Speaker 1: Now we're waiting for Pete Alonzo. What were you guys

2771
02:19:26,959 --> 02:19:28,080
Speaker 1: thinking as you were watching it.

2772
02:19:30,320 --> 02:19:32,800
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I noticed about him is that

2773
02:19:34,440 --> 02:19:40,440
Speaker 2: his handsy whipping of his top hand was very reminiscent

2774
02:19:40,480 --> 02:19:43,960
Speaker 2: of watching Kyle Ripken in ninety one. I believe in

2775
02:19:44,000 --> 02:19:47,119
Speaker 2: Toronto with the All Star Game home run, derby really

2776
02:19:47,240 --> 02:19:51,440
Speaker 2: use their hands well and again that that could take

2777
02:19:51,480 --> 02:19:54,680
Speaker 2: away some of the fatigue by just whipping your hands

2778
02:19:54,680 --> 02:19:56,760
Speaker 2: through the zone so you're not trying to muscle it.

2779
02:19:57,800 --> 02:19:59,960
Speaker 2: But I mean that that swing looked a lot like

2780
02:20:00,160 --> 02:20:03,080
Speaker 2: cows with the with how he uses his top hand.

2781
02:20:03,840 --> 02:20:05,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point, you're right. I mean, because

2782
02:20:05,600 --> 02:20:07,440
Speaker 3: he just there was one of those home runs. He

2783
02:20:07,480 --> 02:20:08,920
Speaker 3: just kind of think it was maybe the first home

2784
02:20:09,000 --> 02:20:10,800
Speaker 3: run after he took his time out where there was

2785
02:20:11,200 --> 02:20:13,080
Speaker 3: a ball that was maybe down a little bit more

2786
02:20:13,120 --> 02:20:14,680
Speaker 3: than some of the ones he had been swinging in

2787
02:20:14,760 --> 02:20:17,200
Speaker 3: it looked like he just poked it, but it went

2788
02:20:17,360 --> 02:20:20,560
Speaker 3: clear into the batter's eye out center field, and it

2789
02:20:20,640 --> 02:20:22,160
Speaker 3: kind of gave you a sense like, Okay, yeah, he's

2790
02:20:22,200 --> 02:20:25,560
Speaker 3: not exerting a ton of energy into each and every

2791
02:20:25,680 --> 02:20:30,000
Speaker 3: one of these swings. And that's as good as as

2792
02:20:30,040 --> 02:20:32,560
Speaker 3: Pete Alonso has been and as effortless as he's made

2793
02:20:32,600 --> 02:20:34,160
Speaker 3: it look so far in these first two rounds.

2794
02:20:34,160 --> 02:20:36,400
Speaker 6: It's gonna be tough to beat dray Manzini's total.

2795
02:20:39,040 --> 02:20:41,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just impressed with how comfortable he looked,

2796
02:20:41,959 --> 02:20:45,240
Speaker 4: how balanced his swing looked, for this being his third round.

2797
02:20:45,400 --> 02:20:47,879
Speaker 4: I feel like normally, by the time you get to

2798
02:20:47,920 --> 02:20:51,360
Speaker 4: the finals in a home run derby, players are winded enough,

2799
02:20:51,560 --> 02:20:54,440
Speaker 4: even when they're not at course field that their swing

2800
02:20:54,520 --> 02:20:56,800
Speaker 4: starts to break down just a little bit. They start

2801
02:20:56,840 --> 02:20:59,360
Speaker 4: to lose a little bit of the balance, start to

2802
02:20:59,480 --> 02:21:03,439
Speaker 4: use their legs a little bit less, and their mechanics

2803
02:21:03,480 --> 02:21:05,360
Speaker 4: just start to falter a little bit. But the tray

2804
02:21:05,440 --> 02:21:08,920
Speaker 4: Mncini really his swing looked exactly the same in that

2805
02:21:09,000 --> 02:21:10,280
Speaker 4: round as it looked in the first round.

2806
02:21:11,000 --> 02:21:14,959
Speaker 11: Sam I brought in the gals from Amazing Avenue just

2807
02:21:15,000 --> 02:21:17,640
Speaker 11: to kind of jam with us and react to my

2808
02:21:17,680 --> 02:21:19,400
Speaker 11: boy Alonzo, who was about to take this.

2809
02:21:21,680 --> 02:21:25,760
Speaker 8: I'm so guyed. He looks so good, like once he

2810
02:21:26,200 --> 02:21:29,600
Speaker 8: makes the look effortless, like he just gotten to rhythm

2811
02:21:29,680 --> 02:21:33,960
Speaker 8: and kept just he just I think the experience really

2812
02:21:34,000 --> 02:21:38,520
Speaker 8: helps him. And plus he has a way better VP

2813
02:21:38,800 --> 02:21:42,280
Speaker 8: coach this year VP thrower this year because his cousin

2814
02:21:42,920 --> 02:21:45,920
Speaker 8: in twenty nineteen was like hitting him with curveballs.

2815
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:47,320
Speaker 1: He was all over the zone.

2816
02:21:47,520 --> 02:21:52,720
Speaker 8: He nearly hit Pete, So I think having jows really

2817
02:21:54,000 --> 02:21:54,959
Speaker 8: has given him an.

2818
02:21:54,879 --> 02:21:56,440
Speaker 1: Advantage this year.

2819
02:21:56,840 --> 02:21:59,000
Speaker 8: I mean, I said this on Twitter, but he is

2820
02:21:59,120 --> 02:22:02,760
Speaker 8: literally a person who is basically genetically engineered to win

2821
02:22:02,800 --> 02:22:05,600
Speaker 8: the home run derby. Like he's just a large golden

2822
02:22:05,640 --> 02:22:09,040
Speaker 8: retriever of a man who loves to baseball's hard, and

2823
02:22:09,080 --> 02:22:12,560
Speaker 8: that's basically like his full personality. And he's in a

2824
02:22:12,640 --> 02:22:16,560
Speaker 8: natural element right now, basically like this is literally what

2825
02:22:16,680 --> 02:22:19,160
Speaker 8: he was made for, is to do this. I'm so

2826
02:22:19,280 --> 02:22:23,680
Speaker 8: excited for him, and literally an Alonzo Mancini final was

2827
02:22:23,720 --> 02:22:27,160
Speaker 8: my dream because the Orioles are my American League team.

2828
02:22:27,200 --> 02:22:30,120
Speaker 8: Having lived in Baltimore for six years, and so I'm

2829
02:22:30,160 --> 02:22:33,640
Speaker 8: just so excited for Trey Mancini. And honestly, obviously I

2830
02:22:33,640 --> 02:22:36,000
Speaker 8: want Peter Wanza to win because he's my guy, But

2831
02:22:36,120 --> 02:22:38,680
Speaker 8: if he uses to Trey Mancini, that's about the second

2832
02:22:38,760 --> 02:22:41,720
Speaker 8: best outcome that I could have hoped for. So I'm happy,

2833
02:22:42,160 --> 02:22:44,920
Speaker 8: very happy right now. Well, so Trey Mancini is just

2834
02:22:44,959 --> 02:22:49,600
Speaker 8: a good story, and yeah, if Mancini wins, I won't

2835
02:22:49,640 --> 02:22:52,680
Speaker 8: be that upset about it. Like, obviously I'm rooting for Pete,

2836
02:22:52,720 --> 02:22:57,320
Speaker 8: but I'm also very happy that Mancini is made that

2837
02:22:57,360 --> 02:22:58,560
Speaker 8: as far as he has.

2838
02:22:59,560 --> 02:23:01,440
Speaker 3: You know, as a Phillies fan, there are there are

2839
02:23:01,520 --> 02:23:03,720
Speaker 3: far too many good things happening to the New York

2840
02:23:03,800 --> 02:23:08,760
Speaker 3: Mets that that made me feel comfortable. Uh, if Mets

2841
02:23:08,800 --> 02:23:10,480
Speaker 3: fans had a good weekend, and it's been a pretty

2842
02:23:10,520 --> 02:23:11,840
Speaker 3: good year so far, it's unsettling.

2843
02:23:11,879 --> 02:23:12,600
Speaker 6: It's unsettling.

2844
02:23:13,920 --> 02:23:17,879
Speaker 8: John Okay ripped in a safe time continuum before the

2845
02:23:17,920 --> 02:23:20,360
Speaker 8: Mets get to win a championship. So don't you worry.

2846
02:23:20,879 --> 02:23:23,720
Speaker 8: Enough good things happened to the New York Mets. The

2847
02:23:23,760 --> 02:23:29,800
Speaker 8: world's may end as we know it. Well, half my

2848
02:23:29,920 --> 02:23:32,280
Speaker 8: family is from Philly, so I get it from both.

2849
02:23:32,400 --> 02:23:35,240
Speaker 8: Like my whole my mom's whole family is from Philly,

2850
02:23:35,440 --> 02:23:39,640
Speaker 8: so I definitely I know, I know the Phillies fame.

2851
02:23:40,560 --> 02:23:45,920
Speaker 8: Like my cousin moved from Philly to Jersey City and

2852
02:23:45,959 --> 02:23:48,800
Speaker 8: he chose the Yankees, and I was like, really here,

2853
02:23:48,920 --> 02:23:51,080
Speaker 8: you didn't stick with the National League. He said, no,

2854
02:23:51,200 --> 02:23:55,440
Speaker 8: I'm tired of lose. But now it looks like he

2855
02:23:55,560 --> 02:23:57,119
Speaker 8: might have picked the wrong team too.

2856
02:23:58,120 --> 02:24:01,520
Speaker 1: Peter Alongo had an absolute bomb that first hit. Yeah,

2857
02:24:01,720 --> 02:24:02,440
Speaker 1: people like.

2858
02:24:04,440 --> 02:24:08,040
Speaker 8: Wow, yeah, but he hit the farthest home run of

2859
02:24:08,120 --> 02:24:12,119
Speaker 8: the night, Hasie, what was it? I know, well, didn't

2860
02:24:12,160 --> 02:24:15,480
Speaker 8: know tany hit won like five twenty. Pete had a

2861
02:24:15,520 --> 02:24:18,600
Speaker 8: couple over five hundred, so maybe Oani had him beat.

2862
02:24:18,760 --> 02:24:22,400
Speaker 8: I know he hit won like five fourteen. Oh no,

2863
02:24:22,480 --> 02:24:24,720
Speaker 8: it was Soda the hit one five twenty. I'm being

2864
02:24:24,720 --> 02:24:26,120
Speaker 8: corrected by Sarah Sanchez.

2865
02:24:26,440 --> 02:24:29,600
Speaker 5: That's okay. Yes, he's definitely getting in his rhythm right now.

2866
02:24:29,640 --> 02:24:35,120
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's a sweet spot. Yeah yeah, jealousy. Are

2867
02:24:35,120 --> 02:24:38,000
Speaker 8: you feeling kucky? How are you feeling with your guy? Man?

2868
02:24:38,080 --> 02:24:38,400
Speaker 1: Si?

2869
02:24:39,720 --> 02:24:42,240
Speaker 2: No, not real good.

2870
02:24:42,520 --> 02:24:44,520
Speaker 15: It's not real good to be honest with you, but

2871
02:24:44,800 --> 02:24:52,439
Speaker 15: uh uh yeah, maybe maybe, maybe David Jos start to

2872
02:24:52,480 --> 02:24:53,480
Speaker 15: lose a little steam.

2873
02:24:54,240 --> 02:24:58,360
Speaker 1: I know we're talking about we're talking about these guys, Samona,

2874
02:24:58,480 --> 02:25:00,280
Speaker 1: the hitters, but what about else.

2875
02:25:00,280 --> 02:25:03,680
Speaker 5: He's not exactly the youngest BP thrower here, but he's

2876
02:25:03,720 --> 02:25:06,039
Speaker 5: got stamina. They're still right in the same spot.

2877
02:25:06,680 --> 02:25:08,160
Speaker 2: That guy's a machine man.

2878
02:25:09,440 --> 02:25:18,680
Speaker 8: Was he Griffy's BP coach when Griffy one? He was

2879
02:25:18,800 --> 02:25:22,480
Speaker 8: somebody's I can't remember who it was, but he's definitely

2880
02:25:22,520 --> 02:25:23,959
Speaker 8: thrown to a winner before.

2881
02:25:25,600 --> 02:25:26,720
Speaker 5: See if I can look it up.

2882
02:25:27,959 --> 02:25:29,840
Speaker 8: That's a good time for a break by Pete. By

2883
02:25:29,879 --> 02:25:33,199
Speaker 8: the way, he was kind of getting tired.

2884
02:25:34,400 --> 02:25:37,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks worn out, thank god.

2885
02:25:39,720 --> 02:25:42,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not dancing like he was.

2886
02:25:42,320 --> 02:25:43,680
Speaker 5: He's definitely getting a little tired.

2887
02:25:44,240 --> 02:25:50,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, rell is he's feeling it. He's getting he's hamping

2888
02:25:50,840 --> 02:26:00,560
Speaker 8: himself back up. Every met is like tweeting, So I

2889
02:26:00,640 --> 02:26:03,720
Speaker 8: love how supported like this just shows the camaraderie of

2890
02:26:03,760 --> 02:26:06,800
Speaker 8: this scene too, that every man is watching a tweeting

2891
02:26:06,879 --> 02:26:07,280
Speaker 8: right now.

2892
02:26:07,720 --> 02:26:10,000
Speaker 2: Pete was ready to hit, and that Chuck Torres walks

2893
02:26:10,040 --> 02:26:13,520
Speaker 2: in and tells him the way. Leave it to Chuck.

2894
02:26:14,560 --> 02:26:15,640
Speaker 2: Chuck works for now.

2895
02:26:17,160 --> 02:26:19,560
Speaker 1: Now he's dancing again. He's trying to get back into

2896
02:26:19,600 --> 02:26:20,520
Speaker 1: that rhythm, feeling it.

2897
02:26:21,280 --> 02:26:24,119
Speaker 8: Pie's a big energy guy. He feeds off the energy,

2898
02:26:24,160 --> 02:26:26,400
Speaker 8: and I think that really hurt him last year and

2899
02:26:26,800 --> 02:26:30,040
Speaker 8: without fans in twenty twenty. He needs that energy to

2900
02:26:30,640 --> 02:26:31,560
Speaker 8: feed off of it.

2901
02:26:32,000 --> 02:26:33,640
Speaker 2: Oh, that's why they're holding him up.

2902
02:26:33,720 --> 02:26:37,199
Speaker 8: He seen one of the people fielding is injured.

2903
02:26:38,120 --> 02:26:42,640
Speaker 2: Oh no, I tell you what that cool? Have you

2904
02:26:42,680 --> 02:26:45,879
Speaker 2: ever watched like like we watched the swing? We watch

2905
02:26:45,920 --> 02:26:48,879
Speaker 2: a ball, But if you're there, like some of these

2906
02:26:49,320 --> 02:26:53,360
Speaker 2: people that they have out there shagging, it's not safe

2907
02:26:53,360 --> 02:26:54,199
Speaker 2: for some of them.

2908
02:26:56,240 --> 02:26:59,120
Speaker 1: Where they're going. How does somebody get that job? I

2909
02:26:59,160 --> 02:27:00,560
Speaker 1: would love to be out they're shaggy.

2910
02:27:01,040 --> 02:27:03,720
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I don't know if it's like

2911
02:27:03,959 --> 02:27:09,879
Speaker 2: uh T mobile like employees or their kids or but

2912
02:27:10,560 --> 02:27:13,240
Speaker 2: I mean some of these, I mean it's scary because

2913
02:27:13,360 --> 02:27:15,440
Speaker 2: you know, the ones that they don't hit out are

2914
02:27:15,480 --> 02:27:19,720
Speaker 2: normally like hard line drive somewhere like that one. And

2915
02:27:19,800 --> 02:27:21,960
Speaker 2: these kids try to catch him. I'm like, oh no,

2916
02:27:22,040 --> 02:27:25,879
Speaker 2: don't try that. It's scary. Oh Pete just got drilled

2917
02:27:25,879 --> 02:27:31,320
Speaker 2: that away, Dave, he's trying to get trade to win.

2918
02:27:32,800 --> 02:27:36,240
Speaker 2: Hit him again. Don't hurt him, but just hit him.

2919
02:27:39,040 --> 02:27:40,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so close because he is the bone

2920
02:27:40,840 --> 02:27:43,160
Speaker 1: and he does get bonus still exactly, so.

2921
02:27:46,720 --> 02:27:48,920
Speaker 2: That one might be the longest one one he just did.

2922
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:57,080
Speaker 8: Oh out hit the wall. Yeah he's got a yeah

2923
02:27:57,240 --> 02:27:59,760
Speaker 8: minute moment right yeah.

2924
02:28:00,080 --> 02:28:02,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's one every twenty seconds. Very very doable

2925
02:28:02,720 --> 02:28:04,000
Speaker 5: for Peter A. Lonza today.

2926
02:28:04,080 --> 02:28:14,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's like very tired. Sarah's also telling me that

2927
02:28:14,400 --> 02:28:17,800
Speaker 8: the second to last shot was by fourteen, which is

2928
02:28:18,000 --> 02:28:18,440
Speaker 8: very far.

2929
02:28:20,800 --> 02:28:20,959
Speaker 4: Well.

2930
02:28:21,000 --> 02:28:24,360
Speaker 8: The Cyclones tweeted that it would have been like out

2931
02:28:24,400 --> 02:28:27,280
Speaker 8: of the stadium and like until like one of their

2932
02:28:27,360 --> 02:28:30,039
Speaker 8: rides if he had been hitting that. And where where

2933
02:28:30,040 --> 02:28:32,400
Speaker 8: the cyclone is? Yeah, Coney Island, if you were hitting

2934
02:28:32,480 --> 02:28:37,080
Speaker 8: these to Cony hit one of the rides on the boardwalk,

2935
02:28:39,640 --> 02:28:48,760
Speaker 8: that's the same, absolutely insane. Oh look at him, our

2936
02:28:48,840 --> 02:28:54,120
Speaker 8: big large sun. The polar Bear is just such a

2937
02:28:54,160 --> 02:28:58,680
Speaker 8: perfect nickname for him. It's it embodies his personality. So well,

2938
02:28:58,760 --> 02:28:59,560
Speaker 8: oh god, that's.

2939
02:28:59,440 --> 02:29:06,599
Speaker 5: A here we go, no, come down to the final minute.

2940
02:29:07,240 --> 02:29:11,480
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he going to do it inside thirty seconds.

2941
02:29:12,000 --> 02:29:15,800
Speaker 8: Oh no, oh he's doing this. Oh yeah, he's feeling it.

2942
02:29:16,120 --> 02:29:17,560
Speaker 8: It was.

2943
02:29:20,640 --> 02:29:25,119
Speaker 2: Let's go. Wow.

2944
02:29:28,160 --> 02:29:32,039
Speaker 8: Oh I'm so happy right now. Young the biggest grin

2945
02:29:32,120 --> 02:29:35,279
Speaker 8: on my face right now, way is Dave Jows?

2946
02:29:36,240 --> 02:29:36,440
Speaker 1: Yeah?

2947
02:29:36,480 --> 02:29:40,360
Speaker 8: What about down back there? I'm going, Hey, what.

2948
02:29:40,400 --> 02:29:43,240
Speaker 1: A story back to back home run derby champion missed

2949
02:29:43,240 --> 02:29:44,360
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season.

2950
02:29:45,440 --> 02:29:48,120
Speaker 8: My story of the twenty nineteen home run derby is

2951
02:29:48,120 --> 02:29:50,240
Speaker 8: that I was driving back from somewhere. I feel like

2952
02:29:50,280 --> 02:29:52,600
Speaker 8: all the big Mets moments, I'm driving back from somewhere.

2953
02:29:52,800 --> 02:29:55,720
Speaker 8: I was driving back from somewhere and I lived in

2954
02:29:55,760 --> 02:29:57,640
Speaker 8: Baltimore at the time, and I was trying to find

2955
02:29:57,640 --> 02:30:00,200
Speaker 8: a parking space, and finding a parking space and to

2956
02:30:00,200 --> 02:30:03,280
Speaker 8: her late at night obviously not ideal. And so I

2957
02:30:03,400 --> 02:30:05,800
Speaker 8: was like driving around trying to find a parking spot

2958
02:30:05,840 --> 02:30:07,160
Speaker 8: by my house, and I was like, you don't want

2959
02:30:07,160 --> 02:30:09,039
Speaker 8: to just as a home run derby, you can't do

2960
02:30:09,080 --> 02:30:13,320
Speaker 8: this to me my phone with earbuds in like driving

2961
02:30:13,360 --> 02:30:16,240
Speaker 8: my car trying to stop. I just have it such

2962
02:30:16,240 --> 02:30:19,440
Speaker 8: a distinct memory of that and now, but this one.

2963
02:30:19,440 --> 02:30:23,080
Speaker 8: I was here the whole time just to see him

2964
02:30:23,080 --> 02:30:23,840
Speaker 8: when it last.

2965
02:30:24,000 --> 02:30:24,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2966
02:30:24,280 --> 02:30:27,000
Speaker 8: I literally walked in the house for the final round

2967
02:30:27,400 --> 02:30:28,400
Speaker 8: just as he was winning it.

2968
02:30:29,840 --> 02:30:33,720
Speaker 11: Alison, Linda, thank you so much for joining us. Congrats

2969
02:30:33,760 --> 02:30:37,520
Speaker 11: to our boy Alonso. I suggest everyone check out a

2970
02:30:37,600 --> 02:30:39,160
Speaker 11: part of their own. It's amazing.

2971
02:30:39,720 --> 02:30:40,560
Speaker 4: You two have a great night.

2972
02:30:40,600 --> 02:30:44,440
Speaker 8: Okay, thank you and thank you for having Yeah, thank

2973
02:30:44,480 --> 02:30:45,000
Speaker 8: you so much.

2974
02:30:45,760 --> 02:30:47,320
Speaker 2: Yes, I think we're good.

2975
02:30:47,320 --> 02:30:49,920
Speaker 11: On some final thoughts from around the hole.

2976
02:30:51,040 --> 02:30:53,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, obviously I didn't have the best night because

2977
02:30:54,400 --> 02:30:56,600
Speaker 1: I let you on slow. This get in my head

2978
02:30:56,640 --> 02:30:58,920
Speaker 1: from the very beginning, and I should have went with

2979
02:30:59,000 --> 02:31:03,240
Speaker 1: my gut because back to back home run champion Pete Alonzo,

2980
02:31:03,320 --> 02:31:05,280
Speaker 1: who I had in my head from the beginning. What

2981
02:31:05,320 --> 02:31:07,600
Speaker 1: are some of your guy's final thoughts while watching everybody

2982
02:31:07,600 --> 02:31:10,000
Speaker 1: tonight crucky go ahead of start us off?

2983
02:31:10,520 --> 02:31:14,520
Speaker 2: Well, I think you might be seeing that a dynasty

2984
02:31:14,640 --> 02:31:16,959
Speaker 2: with Pete Alonso on these home run derbies. It just

2985
02:31:17,000 --> 02:31:20,400
Speaker 2: looks too easy for him, too natural for him. And

2986
02:31:20,480 --> 02:31:22,600
Speaker 2: I don't think, I know, there's only been a couple

2987
02:31:22,600 --> 02:31:24,840
Speaker 2: of guys that's wanted back to back, which Pete has

2988
02:31:24,959 --> 02:31:27,959
Speaker 2: just done. It wouldn't surprise me if he run off three,

2989
02:31:28,080 --> 02:31:30,440
Speaker 2: four or five of these things. I mean, he's dead. Well,

2990
02:31:30,959 --> 02:31:32,359
Speaker 2: it's an impressive human.

2991
02:31:32,160 --> 02:31:35,560
Speaker 1: Man, stonis what about you?

2992
02:31:36,720 --> 02:31:39,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think John's right. I mean, the

2993
02:31:39,600 --> 02:31:41,880
Speaker 3: thing is, he looks like he enjoys this too. That's

2994
02:31:41,920 --> 02:31:43,480
Speaker 3: That's the other thing. I think some of these guys,

2995
02:31:43,480 --> 02:31:45,480
Speaker 3: they do the home run derby once and then they're like, yeah,

2996
02:31:45,520 --> 02:31:47,120
Speaker 3: I'm good, I don't need to do this again. But

2997
02:31:47,200 --> 02:31:50,360
Speaker 3: he looks like he enjoys this as much as anything

2998
02:31:50,360 --> 02:31:53,320
Speaker 3: else and would do it over and over again if

2999
02:31:53,320 --> 02:31:55,560
Speaker 3: he could, so, I mean, he didn't in his last

3000
02:31:55,560 --> 02:31:57,800
Speaker 3: two rounds. He didn't even need all of the allotted

3001
02:31:57,879 --> 02:32:00,800
Speaker 3: time in order to move on, So I think it's

3002
02:32:01,400 --> 02:32:04,039
Speaker 3: I think it's really interesting too that in this after

3003
02:32:04,040 --> 02:32:06,600
Speaker 3: the first round, the four lower seeded players all advanced.

3004
02:32:06,640 --> 02:32:08,600
Speaker 3: So none of the one, two, three, or four seeds

3005
02:32:09,360 --> 02:32:12,480
Speaker 3: made it past the first round this year. So, you know,

3006
02:32:12,600 --> 02:32:15,680
Speaker 3: hats off to the underdogs in this one. And Pete

3007
02:32:15,680 --> 02:32:19,560
Speaker 3: Alonso probably should never be should never not be the

3008
02:32:19,600 --> 02:32:21,400
Speaker 3: number one seed in this tournament ever.

3009
02:32:21,320 --> 02:32:24,520
Speaker 1: Again, what about you?

3010
02:32:24,600 --> 02:32:24,880
Speaker 2: Ready?

3011
02:32:26,240 --> 02:32:28,160
Speaker 4: You know, I feel like this was just an incredibly

3012
02:32:28,200 --> 02:32:30,960
Speaker 4: exciting derby, and I feel like the derby was a

3013
02:32:31,040 --> 02:32:34,160
Speaker 4: lull for a little while, and it wasn't a very

3014
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Speaker 4: exciting event for a little while there, and I feel

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Speaker 4: like it's been making a comeback last few years and

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Speaker 4: it kind of all culminated tonight. This is just an

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Speaker 4: incredibly fun derby. All the rounds were compelling and you

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Speaker 4: couldn't look away from the TV. Alonso just looks like

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Speaker 4: an absolute beast, like the best Derby hitter of all time.

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Speaker 4: Show Heeo Tawny got everyone excited and brought so many

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Speaker 4: more eyes to the TV than I think the Derby

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Speaker 4: probably normally gets. So I hope that they're able to

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Speaker 4: build on this momentum, and I hope that seeing how

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Speaker 4: big of an event it was this year and seeing

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Speaker 4: it on the rise again, I hope that encourages more

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Speaker 4: young stars to want to participate, because as great as

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Speaker 4: this was, I can't help but think how great it

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Speaker 4: will be next year to have Pete Alonzo going against

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Speaker 4: Vladimir Guerrero Junior, Fernando Tatis Junior, and so on and

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Speaker 4: so forth. So I think this was a step towards

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Speaker 4: the Derby kind of returning to a marquee event that

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02:33:30,600 --> 02:33:32,879
Speaker 4: stars want to play in, and I hope that's the case.

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Speaker 5: Well, guys, we're wrapping it up.

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Speaker 1: Thank everybody so much for tuning in tonight for a

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Speaker 1: very fun ESP Nation MLB Home Run Derby, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by T Mobile thanks to John Cropp. John Stolens,

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02:33:46,160 --> 02:33:49,880
Speaker 1: Brady Klopfer, Michael Kissed for being our producer and all

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Speaker 1: our amazing guests. Make sure everybody to check out all

3039
02:33:52,840 --> 02:33:55,720
Speaker 1: of ESB Nation's MLB podcast as we head into this

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Speaker 1: second half of the season.

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Speaker 5: I'm Sam Wilson.

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Speaker 1: You can obviously find me at at Sam Will's eighteen

3043
02:34:01,480 --> 02:34:02,879
Speaker 1: on all social media.

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02:34:03,480 --> 02:34:06,520
Speaker 5: John Brady, John cruck give them where they.

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02:34:06,400 --> 02:34:07,960
Speaker 1: Can find you for the remainder of the season.

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02:34:11,320 --> 02:34:15,400
Speaker 2: Well where I like a Twitter thing or something.

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02:34:15,480 --> 02:34:17,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your social media hand Crucky.

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Speaker 2: It's a tough one at John Crook. Yeah, I really

3049
02:34:23,800 --> 02:34:27,680
Speaker 2: got creative with the name, and I don't have any

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02:34:27,680 --> 02:34:30,080
Speaker 2: of that other stuff. What's the other stuff? Instagram?

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02:34:30,320 --> 02:34:33,120
Speaker 1: And people want to hear from you, they can just

3052
02:34:33,200 --> 02:34:36,600
Speaker 1: go right to your Twitter and NBC Sports Philadelphia in the.

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02:34:36,600 --> 02:34:37,959
Speaker 3: Phillis game, right, Right's right?

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Speaker 2: Thanks Sam for.

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02:34:38,720 --> 02:34:42,160
Speaker 1: Help, No problem, buddy. What about you stolen to cir

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02:34:42,240 --> 02:34:42,880
Speaker 1: Can they find you?

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02:34:44,040 --> 02:34:47,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, same thing pretty simple at John Stoleness on Twitter.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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02:34:49,360 --> 02:34:51,000
Speaker 5: Must be nice to not have a basic name like

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Speaker 5: Sam Wilson.

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02:34:53,920 --> 02:34:54,360
Speaker 6: Sometimes.

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02:34:54,400 --> 02:34:57,880
Speaker 1: Yes, what about you, Brady?

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02:34:58,600 --> 02:35:01,960
Speaker 4: You can find me on Twitter at Brady clop for NBA.

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02:35:02,840 --> 02:35:04,560
Speaker 4: I know that's not very topical for what we've been

3065
02:35:04,640 --> 02:35:07,280
Speaker 4: talking about, and you can find all my baseball writing

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Speaker 4: at the Petty Chronicles dot com.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, Thank you guys so much, and everybody enjoyed tomorrow

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02:35:13,400 --> 02:35:13,920
Speaker 1: night's All

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02:35:14,000 --> 02:35:16,640
Speaker 5: Star Game to end out the All Star weekend.