WEBVTT - Anonymous MLB Player Poll reax 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.320 I don't know if there's anybody who looks quite like Sale, 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.560 and I think that difference. You know, we heard that 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.880 like there's just nobody who looks like him out there, 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:09.520 combined with the nasty stuff. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.920 Okay, so part of the theme of today's show is 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.280 reacting to the player poll that was put out in 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.560 the Athletic There are a number of categories, so we'll 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:24.279 try and get to some of them, and then we'll 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.439 also have a guest on to talk more about it. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.000 But let's just do the manager side for this conversation. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.199 Did you guys see this? Did you see this? Or 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:34.080 do you want me to quiz you? 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.360 I haven't seen that. I saw a little bit of it. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.440 Do you know the manager that you haven't seen it? 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.680 The manager that players most want to play for. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.800 Is do they most want to play for? 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:47.199 M hm? 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.600 It's got to be like Dave Roberts or aj Hinch, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:51.400 one of those two. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.440 Kevin Cash, Oh, no vote. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.000 He was in the top three though, Tito's too. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:58.960 Steven vote. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.280 When I say this one, you'll go, oh yeah, that 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:15.080 that tracks big big resume. Oh Bruce Bochi Rangers, Yeah, yeah, 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.440 I mean he's won a ton he. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:22.200 Treats his players good fame, handle every situation. Yeah, it 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.160 makes it. Boach is fun to be around. A wait, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:26.680 I'm not talking about it and the dog. I never 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.280 played for him, but I'm talking off the field. He's 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.520 a fun guy, right. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:35.320 Ye. Thanks, I appreciate your saying that. Just really plus 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:35.880 it rained. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.319 Plus if it rains, he could take his hat off 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.000 and put it over the whole city and it stays 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.560 dry when we're dry. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:43.400 Yeah. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:44.319 Uh. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.520 The great quote that I found from that portion was 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.120 a player. Because it's all anonymous, right, they talked to 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.280 one hundred plus players. A player on Tito, he commands 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.639 a room almost like a friend. He's still an authoritative figure, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.520 but I would say he's more like a young grandpa. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.760 I thought it was just a fun life. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.440 I would know he's a grandpa, but I would say 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.919 he's more like an uncle. I would say he's more 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.680 like an uncle. But spring training with Terry Francona is 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.960 worth all six weeks of spring training. He has a 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:21.800 slogan team that gambles together, wins together, and like there's 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.280 like you'd play games in spring training, like sometimes they 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.679 like fifty dollars for the first one off the field, 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.040 like he has an MVP of every game, every spring 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.800 training game that you win, he's got an MVP. Sometimes 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.839 they can't, the coaches can't agree, and they'll split. They'll 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.400 split the one hundred dollars, but you get a hundred 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.640 dollars if you win MVP. Like a lot of people 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.880 are very engaged in Terry Francona's spring training. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:51.840 Fun. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.320 Anything to break up spring training. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.440 Okay, now I'll go to the other side of this, which, 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:02.760 no surprise, received a lot of na as in they 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.840 didn't vote, but they tried to get players to say 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.040 the top manager they wouldn't want to play for. Patrickfall 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.280 not eligible. Although you know who was on this list. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.799 I didn't read into how that happened. But Kapler cracked 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:18.200 the list. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:19.400 He's not even. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.280 In a minute. I'll just read you. There were only 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.640 forty players that chose to respond out of the one 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.320 hundred plus. They respond to almost everything else. Most of 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.320 them are just like, I'm not going there. And in fairness, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.040 I started reading some of the quotes, like Ali Marmole 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.040 was tied with Bud Black for the top and one 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.600 of the players who voted for him said this direct quote, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.040 I don't really know many managers. I'm trying to think 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.120 of someone in our division just so I can say 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.960 someone who is the Cardinals guy. Yeah, just put him down. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.000 So I'm like, Okay, clearly don't know Allie because all 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.040 he's very nice and right. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.360 But that's what I'm saying. I the votes are so low. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.320 This is my favorite one, Ron Washington, because I want 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.640 to use my cell phone. Yes, that's the best one. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.600 But the quote because I want to use my cell 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.160 phone so good. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.400 I think we're done. I think the game. I think 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:12.640 the game's done with having managers that are not player centric. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.920 Now you're gonna have You're gonna have managers that guys 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:17.720 will be like, dude, that's a bad that guy is 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.640 a backstabber, which happens. There's some managers that are like 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.320 they'll do anything to hold on. They'll have a death 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.880 grip on their job. But I think front offices have 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:33.559 stopped bringing guys in that don't connect in some way 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.480 with the players. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.680 Most front offices. Somebody screwed one up a few years ago, but. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.560 True one listen. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:43.680 I played with some managers. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.279 I played for some managers that would do anything they 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:47.679 could to make the media happy. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:48.160 After the game. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.560 Like their moves, we're predicated on the answers. They'd have 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.279 to answer after the question, and then then they would 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:56.320 like crowds. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:57.479 They get you. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.920 Yeah, but I know managers now who use the media 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:01.080 to talk to their players. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.840 So yeah, but that's fine, as long as that's fine 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.520 they're listen. I played for Rozzie Gehan for seven years. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.840 You think Ozzie Gan didn't use the media to get 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.080 messages across the people. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.720 Of course you did it every day. Of course he did. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.720 Yeah, because I mean I remember I had a combo 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.760 with the current manager who was like, I know there 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.080 are some players who I can chat with, but then 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.039 if I say something to the media, they will see 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.360 it on their phone in five seconds and it will 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.080 resonate more from their phone than it will for me, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.920 Which is kind of sad about society if there's somebody 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.719 who can't listen to a face to face conversation, but 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.200 they'll see it in their phone. I wanted to get 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.200 this quote in there so someone did have a whole 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.839 personal beat with Bud Black in here they go, because 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.360 he doesn't stop talking when he's in the dugout, and 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.920 as a player, it gets kind of annoying. Plus it 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.080 means I'd be pitching in Colorado, so obviously there were 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.359 a lot of other things involved. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.320 But I just Hurdle to me when I when he 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.479 was the manager on whatever team he was on, it 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.640 was just yelling all the time from their dug like. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:06.000 Dude, like shush, like shush, I can hear you. You're 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.960 you're you're managing bad team after bad team. Dude, shush. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.320 Hmmm, that's why. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.599 You played for Hurdle, didn't you? Crowdzy? 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.880 Was he always just yelling? I just always felt like 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.000 maybe it's because he just has that voice. It's just 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.159 really loud, and I just heard it a lot, but 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.159 it just always seemed like he was screaming something. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:28.160 Yep, he's got a loud voice. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.279 Crats look like he wants the same way like this 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.000 does the role with that, I don't know. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.640 I mean a loud voice. He has a loud voice. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.400 I'll stop it at that. He has a loud voice. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.480 We'll show two hours a day and that's all we got. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.640 That's what we got, man, Listen, listen. I worked with 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.680 Joe Girardi and I told him I'm like, dude, when 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.440 you were at the Yankees. All I heard was you 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.400 yelling from the dug out. There was literally one time 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:57.599 I looked at Joe and I go, can you just 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.080 shut up? From the field. I'm like, can you just 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.560 stop talking? He's like does it bother you? And I'm like, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.080 it's just get annoying as hell. Can you just stop? 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.719 And he's like, well, then it's working. I'm like, stop, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.600 then it's working. I'm like, stop, yo, please, because you 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.440 had him and Tony pain and it was like, I'm like. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.200 Dude, just gamesmanship. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.480 I guess the Cardinals. The Cardinals were the worst at that. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:21.720 The Cardinals, Mike Methane, Cardinals, Tony LaRussa Cardinals. Mark McGuire 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.840 was a hitting coach. They would anytime you'd throw up 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.480 and in close, especially as a young pitcher coming up 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.680 with the Pirates, like any of those young pitchers would 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.640 throw anywhere, up and in. Even with the Phillies they 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.960 do the same thing. Knock it off, like they like, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.320 come on, like, we're all adults. Even the dudes are 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.120 like twenty three, twenty four years old. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.080 We're adults. You don't need to try to intimidate people 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.360 from the dugout. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.960 Like you're not you're not you're in the game. You're 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.440 not part of the game, like relax. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.400 It's gamesmanship, and then they're trying to get you to 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.760 not pitch inside anyway. 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I mean, most guys I 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.440 approached were pretty cool about it, just wanting to hit 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.760 their opinions. Heard a few questions guys didn't really have 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.600 much opinion on or know much about. But the gambling 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.960 question really stood out to me. That was like the 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.480 one that really opened my eyes. I didn't I did 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.680 not realize how much that conversation is a part of 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.640 their daily the daily noise that they have to kind 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:58.319 of tune. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.360 Out there was an other one that stood out to me. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:07.240 I'm like, wait, do they like the automatic ball strike 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:11.920 system or they don't? And I'll actually ask this before 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.560 we dive into this part. Do you wish that you 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.600 had done a secondary level of this to quiz them 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.840 on the challenge system specifically? You know, I read that 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.880 part of it, and I'll pull up the numbers as 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.000 we're chatting here, But there were not many that said 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:27.880 I am in favor of robo'mps. I think it was 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.000 seventeen percent and more than half of the group. I 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.040 think sixty three percent was against it. But that was 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.840 calling every pitch? Am I accurate on that one? Versus 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.400 just a challenge system? Uh? 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.840 Well, the way I was phrasing it was just, you know, 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:48.559 any kind of any kind of non human umpire system, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.680 you know, So whether that was the challenge system where 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.280 you tap your helmet or the the all all strike 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.880 zone thing, that's what I was That's what I was asking. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.080 And I don't think there's there's a movement to have 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.600 every pitch be called balls and strikes. I remember when 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.760 that was going on in the minor leagues. I went 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.480 down there to the Independent league and did a story, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.680 But that was several years ago. Now they're fear and 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.559 more towards the challenge system. But it seems like a 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:12.800 lot of players don't even like that. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.960 Why did you get any more context from them on 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.480 why they wouldn't want at least the big calls to 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.440 get fixed. I know, I saw some of the quoto 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.000 human element, and you'll kill the game if you don't 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.760 have that. Oh are they on social media enough? Most 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.520 fans lose their minds on bad calls. We want to 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.920 go on every borderline call and have twenty challenges. No, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.920 not necessarily, I don't, but I mean I would you know, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.559 you watch games every night like we do. Most games 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.480 have I would say at least three to five moments 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.520 where you're like, damn, he missed, right? 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.800 I think, well, I mean, you guys are catchers, you 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.240 could you could speak to it well like that. I 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.440 think some players talked about that catcher higher dynamic, that 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.599 relationship that that a catcher has with an umpire to 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.600 be able to get certain calls, the art of catching 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.720 and I hate the word framing, but you know, receiving 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.959 that that would be diminished. I mean, I think it 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.760 would still be a part of it because you're not 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.000 challenging every single call. But I think there you know, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.079 we heard some stuff about that. We heard that the 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.160 technology is not that the guys saw at minor leagues 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.560 if they were rehabbing or planning down there, that it's 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.160 it's not where it needs to be. Like there's the 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.760 strike zone felt incredibly small to a bunch of guys 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.400 down there. So, you know, surprising calls even within a 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.480 system that's supposed to be perfect. I think they have 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:39.160 no time for that. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.680 But who but you know, are they are they just 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.240 are they skeptical so they don't want it yet or 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:52.120 is it something that they're like, I don't ever want it? 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.320 Or did you not get any kind of reaction in 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:55.360 that in that sense? 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.800 Yeah, I think if it could be better, some guys 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.640 would be more open to it. But you know, there's 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:05.800 there's kind of a natural hesitation or a natural skepticism 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.800 to something that that the league can impose on them, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.280 you know, Like I mean they I know, they have 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.320 influence and input and everything, but when it comes down 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.880 to it, Manford can can just put this thing through 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.079 and they'll have to deal with it. And it worked 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.000 out with the pitch clock I think that was a 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:27.480 terrific addition. But I think there's understandably, you know, an 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.440 element of our god. You know, they're going to impose 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.600 this on us. We were not really gonna gonna embrace it. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.120 But eventually it'll it'll probably turn out to be second nature. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.920 Tyler. Let's go to something a little more cheery, shall we. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.880 Depending on what side of the ball you're on, what 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.000 was more intriguing to you the answer to who you 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.200 would have won up in game seven of a World series? 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.440 Or who guys said they didn't want to face in 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:51.800 game seven of a World series. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.439 Yeah, you know what I had to I had to 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.760 frame that differently when I was asking, because if you ask, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.200 I found inevitably if you asked the player, like who 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.800 would you least like to face, you know, they're like, well, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.360 you know, I I could take on anyone, you know 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.480 I I they didn't want to sort of frame it 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.440 that way. But if I framed it like, you know, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.960 who's the most challenging at bat or who's the most 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.320 challenging guy to face? If you sort of frame it 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.120 more like a challenge, then then they were fine. I 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.960 don't know, it's just the just the wording of it 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.640 in the guys, I asked. But yeah, I mean some 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.200 of them talked about, you know, the big time closer 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.720 or all this Chapman kind of or Josh Hater type, 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.800 but you know, other guys it was sort of someone 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.160 who causes them trouble in particular. But you know, you 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:41.760 got a lot of predictable Otani kind of responses. But yeah, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.280 that's that's always good because sometimes you'll hear ones that 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.200 guys just can't hit a certain dude and it's like, no, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.320 I can't touch that guy. So but yeah, that's always 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:50.240 that's always interesting. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.600 Were there any questions that kind of overlapped that you're like, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.120 wait a minute, everybody said, I don't want to face 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:02.000 this hitter in game seven, or I love watching this player, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.800 but then he's not on the you know hitter that 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.320 I that I least, you know, want to face the least, Like, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.880 is there any overlaps where you're like, you guys are 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.400 kind of contradicting yourselves with some of these answers. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.240 You mean, like someone that they really like to watch 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.680 but also don't want to come up in the big 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.800 spot exactly. Yeah, Well, I guess sometimes like you're a 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.760 pitcher though, like if you might like to watch this guy, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.120 but you don't want to face them, right like that, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.200 that's understandable, like if you don't. Everybody loves Otani and 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.200 meyers Otani, but like they don't necessarily want to see 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.240 him up there. And as you see, you know, Soto's 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.360 a good at bat. I think most of the stuff 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.360 with during spring training. If you did it now, I 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.320 think Judge would probably be a little bit higher, but 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.560 Sodo is just such a tough at back because of 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.360 his eye at the plate. You know, you can see 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.880 Jose Ramirez. The switch hitter element of it is, you 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.480 know that that's one that I thought would maybe be 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.920 a little bit higher. But he's probably the best switch 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.840 hitter in the game. No Lindor on there in the 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.680 top three is another switch hitter is pretty good. So yeah, yeah, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.760 but SODA's gonna win that when I think, just because 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.840 of the selectivity. And he's hot now by the way. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.640 I saw him last night at City Field and he 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:10.840 did a no doubt or he's starting to feel it. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.800 What did you think about the pitching side for a 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:22.320 game seven? So were you surprised that old Chris Sale 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.600 who won a cy Young Award last year, got what 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.160 maybe two more boats than Trek Scoogle. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.000 Yeah, it was a little surprising. I mean, I think 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.960 you see Sale, I mean obviously he's they're both coming 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.120 off the cy Young there. It might have just been 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.400 who who we talked to in particular, but they're both lefties. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.960 You know, Sale has done it longer, and I think 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.080 Sale is just so naturally funky. I mean, you guys know, 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.520 like there's just no other pitcher now. 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It's just like it's the player's opinion 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:48.200 because other years like that's that always always raises good debates. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.040 Yes, I was. I'm glad you said that, Eric, because 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:52.800 I'm going to suggest that again next year, like I 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.040 had some we all kind of put in our questions 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.320 for what we wanted and the somehow that didn't make 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.520 the cut. But that's a good one, and I'd like 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.439 to see where that lands next year because you never know. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.520 I mean, I if it's just like overrated means like overhyped, 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.359 that's I guess usually what it means to players. But 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.320 you know that that you'd you'd find some interesting things 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.240 and then you get the guy who takes that personally 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.119 and tries to you know, use that as fuel. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.040 Right, Yep, that one's good. Yeah, I'm a big fan 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.040 of that one, just to see where players are at. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.720 Yeah, that's who the most hated player is now because 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.160 I'm not playing anymore, so they can't say me now 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:31.480