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

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal, and needless to say, it has been a

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Speaker 1: crazy season, a crazy season to say the least, and

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Speaker 1: now it is reaching its climax in these final few weeks.

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Speaker 1: And I want to talk about the latest craziness in

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Speaker 1: the first segment this morning, and it kind of relates

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Speaker 1: few days ago and the theme of this season. Alden

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Speaker 1: summed it up really well, just when I think a

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Speaker 1: team is bad, it's good. This is baseball in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. That post by Alden kind of inspired what

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Speaker 1: I wrote today in The Athletic, a column about fifteen

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Speaker 1: teams and basically telling fans of each of those teams, listen,

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Speaker 1: if you think you have it bad, it could be worse,

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Speaker 1: because every team seems to be going through a phase

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Speaker 1: or has gone through a phase in which they have

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Speaker 1: their fans pulling their hair out, exasperated, frustrated, infuriated with

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Speaker 1: the way their teams are playing. And there's the colony

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Speaker 1: with the NL West, because there is a division that

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Speaker 1: we all thought was going to be this incredible powerhouse

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Speaker 1: and it really isn't turning out quite that way. The

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Speaker 1: team that is ruining baseball the Los Angeles Dodgers. On Saturday,

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Speaker 1: what happened to the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were no

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Speaker 1: hit by the last place Orioles for eight and two

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Speaker 1: thirds innings. They had a win probability at that point

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Speaker 1: and they lost the game. And this was obviously the

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Speaker 1: extreme example of essentially a season long pattern for the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: but one that really since early July has been a

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Speaker 1: huge issue. They are nine games under five hundred since

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Speaker 1: July third, nine games under. The operating premise of this

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Speaker 1: team all season has seen to be we'll turn it

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Speaker 1: on at the right time. Well, guess what they've already

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Speaker 1: cost themselves a buye in the postseason. Most likely they're

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Speaker 1: commanding position for that buy now. Granted anything can happen.

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Speaker 1: The deficit to the Phillies from the Dodgers is four

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Speaker 1: looking good. And there's Sarah Lang's with her classic wei

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Speaker 1: on what happened Saturday night. The Dodgers have a bullpen

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Speaker 1: good one when it comes to the Dodgers. They had

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Speaker 1: another one, of course Saturday. They went one in five

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Speaker 1: they thought they would be. So that's the Dodgers in

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Speaker 1: the NL West. And then there were the Padres. Now

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Speaker 1: the Padres ball saluted them for winning the trade deadline,

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Speaker 1: and they did that. Aj Peller, their general managers, seemed

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Speaker 1: What are the Padres? Eighteen and sixteen, just two games

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Speaker 1: five hundred. Their offense is enigmatic. As I wrote today,

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Speaker 1: they're starting pitching is problematic. Their bullpen is down, Jason

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Speaker 1: and they're likely going to need to overtake the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: And that's important for the Padres because they draw such

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Speaker 1: pretty much set. Well. The Seattle Mariners have opened this

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Speaker 1: And then the Mariners. The Mariners, a team that has

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Speaker 1: want to show you exactly what I'm talking about. The Mariners. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they still leave the wildcard by a game and a

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Speaker 1: That's a big series in the wildcard picture, of course,

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Speaker 1: They're an intriguing team because they're without many of their

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Speaker 1: top players Nathan Avaldi, Cory Seger, Marcus Simmi, and Adolice Garcia.

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Speaker 1: They've got a bunch of guys I wouldn't call them

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Speaker 1: we have another development in baseball. This is the development

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Speaker 1: we always seem to have, and that is, of course,

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Speaker 1: Trede Turner with the Phillies suffered a right hamstring strain

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Speaker 1: Trey Turner has kind of gone under the radar this year.

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Speaker 1: You see Jason Stark's tweet right there. He is fourth

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Speaker 1: a really good regular season, but they need their players obviously.

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Speaker 1: Now we all know the meaning of Bobbywood Junior to

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Speaker 1: that franchise. He is their best player. He's one of

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Speaker 1: Time now for the Inside Dish, the part of the

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Speaker 1: Davy Johnson, who passed away on Saturday. Davey had a long,

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Speaker 1: Time now for grilling Ken, the part of the show

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Speaker 1: where I answer your questions. Let's get right to them.

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Speaker 1: Time is wasting, all right. The first one comes from

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Speaker 1: what do we have here? This comes from Armand who

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Speaker 1: Sprot's debut yesterday and what did you think? I did

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Speaker 1: look or did watch a little bit of that, and

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Speaker 1: I was impressed. All I had heard about from reading

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Speaker 1: that they've passed him. And watching Sproke yesterday, he looked

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Speaker 1: really good. Stuff was good, stuff was down, and I

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Speaker 1: know at the start of this outing it was really good.

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Speaker 1: And then he allowed three straight hits after retiring. I

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Speaker 1: believe the first nineteen something along those lines. He looked good.

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Speaker 1: Now I touched on the Mets in my column today.

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Speaker 1: Three rookie starters in the postseason. I'm not saying they're

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Speaker 1: going to do that, but the possibility would certainly appear

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Speaker 1: to exist. It's happened only a couple of times. It

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Speaker 1: would seem to me to be a stretch. They need

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Speaker 1: to get Peterson going again, and I don't know that

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Speaker 1: you can start three rookies. But my goodness, McClain is

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Speaker 1: extremely talented. He is a guy that has presence. His

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Speaker 1: stuff is crazy to me. He looks like the real deal.

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Speaker 1: Tong is a kid, He's got some growing to do, obviously,

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Speaker 1: but extremely talented as well. And then sprote joining that

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Speaker 1: it might even be that the present is going to

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Speaker 1: require those three guys as well. All right, let's see

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Speaker 1: what we have of anything else. I don't believe we

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Speaker 1: do have anything else. All right, We're gonna close it out.

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Speaker 1: Then close out this version of our show. This is

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Speaker 1: the Monday version of Foul Territory or Fair Territory. We

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