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

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with my friend Alana Rizzo. And Alana,

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Speaker 1: we've got a lot of Pennant Race action to discuss,

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Speaker 1: and I want to start off by talking about one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite things every September, unknown players contributing in

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Speaker 1: a big way to Pennant Race contenders. And who am

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Speaker 1: I talking about. Let's just use the al Wes as

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Speaker 1: an example. Leo Reevis sign is a minor free agent

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Speaker 1: January twenty twenty three for the Mariners. Last night walk

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Speaker 1: off home run Leo Reevis Jason Alexander, thirty two years old,

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Speaker 1: undrafted free agent Houston picks him up seven scoreless for

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Speaker 1: the Astros last night and a huge win against the

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays. And finally, Michael Hellman Texas Rangers. Weaver claim

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Speaker 1: in May two huge homers against the Brewers in the

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Speaker 1: Rangers sweep this week. More of this fun is coming, Alana,

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Speaker 1: but we've got some serious stuff to discuss as well.

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Speaker 1: We do.

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Speaker 2: Ken great to be with you is always on this Thursday. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're looking to the young guns to make things happen

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Speaker 2: for them, but when you look at the other teams

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Speaker 2: ken that are typically perennial postseason contenders. You have to

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Speaker 2: think just when things are going great, they went bad.

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Speaker 2: Tell me more about the Mets situation.

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Speaker 1: The Mets were at one point this season the talk

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Speaker 1: of baseball. They were forty five and twenty four early June.

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Speaker 1: They look like the best team in the majors. Their

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Speaker 1: record was the best in the majors. And then the

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Speaker 1: rotation disintegrated and now they are looking at a real problem.

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Speaker 1: You could see on June twelfth, where they were best

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Speaker 1: record in the majors. Their rotation at that time was

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Speaker 1: the best by ERA and now it ranks twenty fourth

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Speaker 1: in the ERA. I shouldn't say now, since then it's

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the RA. And you see their record

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Speaker 1: since June thirteenth, the fourth worst in baseball. Their lead

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Speaker 1: in the Wildcard race is down to two games and

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Speaker 1: effectively over the Reds. It's one game because the Reds

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Speaker 1: hold the tiebreaker. The Giants are also two games back.

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Speaker 1: But the Mets, as they approached the finale of their

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Speaker 1: series in Philadelphia tonight, they've lost the first three games

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Speaker 1: of this series. They are in a position that they

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Speaker 1: never wanted to be in and they are looking if

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Speaker 1: this doesn't turn around, then if they can't hold on

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Speaker 1: at one of the most disappointing seasons in their history.

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Speaker 1: Joe Sherman of The New York Post has written about this.

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Speaker 1: He has basically asked the question, would this be the

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Speaker 1: most disappointing team, because of course they've spent three hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty million on this club, brought in Juan Soto,

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Speaker 1: signed some starting pitchers, and yet here they are life

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Speaker 1: and death to reach the postseason, not exactly allow on

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Speaker 1: what they had in mind.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about that. And across town.

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Speaker 2: Can the New York Yankees we thought I wrote them off,

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Speaker 2: I said they're not even gonna make the postseason?

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Speaker 3: Shows you what the heck? I know what's going on

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Speaker 3: with the Yanks.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees look like they were in good shape a

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Speaker 1: week ago, actually a couple of days ago. What happened?

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Speaker 1: They started off that Houston Toronto six game set by

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Speaker 1: course they've got another tough series in back of this one,

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Speaker 1: and yet in the first two games against Detroit their

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Speaker 1: bullpen has fallen apart. They again raise all these questions

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Speaker 1: that look to be resolved. Their bullpen was the thing

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Speaker 1: that they fix the most at the trade deadline, and

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Speaker 1: yet except for Bednar, it remains something of a mess.

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Speaker 1: It's inconsistent, to say the least. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: where it's going with the Yankees right now. The division

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Speaker 1: looks pretty much out of reach. They're three games back,

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Speaker 1: as are the Red Sox of the Toronto Blue Jays,

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Speaker 1: and they've got a series against the Red Sox coming up,

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Speaker 1: and that series is going to be really important toward

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Speaker 1: determining which team would have home field advantage in the

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Speaker 1: wildcard round, if indeed that's how this ends up, and

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Speaker 1: it's certainly trending that way. You just look at the

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Speaker 1: standings here. The Yankees and Red Sox both up two

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Speaker 1: and a half games over the Mariners in the wildcard race.

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Speaker 1: They hold commanding positions. In other words, it's just a

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Speaker 1: as for the rest of the wildcard race, you see

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Speaker 1: what's going on there. The Rangers are a game and

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Speaker 1: hugely wild finish in the West. But for the Yankees

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Speaker 1: and the Red Sox, it's going to be a question of, all, right,

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Speaker 1: where does this series start and that series. You can

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Speaker 1: make the case either way. Yankees prefer being at home,

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Speaker 1: Red Sox prefer being at home. Maybe the Yankees be

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Speaker 1: expect that every team in the postseason, in the wildcard

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Speaker 1: picture would prefer to be at home. It's as simple

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Speaker 1: as that. Comfortable and all the things that come with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you always hear about I get to sleep in

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Speaker 2: my own bed. That makes a big difference. Ken, you

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Speaker 2: were talking about the Rangers and the Astros in the

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Speaker 2: Al West. The Rangers lost all of their studs, yet

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Speaker 2: here they are we're still talking about them in terms

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Speaker 1: I mentioned Cody Freeman is another one. Dustin Harris had

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Speaker 1: a big hit for them last week, and Asuna has

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Speaker 1: been also a contributor. Young guy. It's incredible what has

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Speaker 1: happened with their team. For I would say five months,

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Speaker 1: they were arguably the most disappointing team in baseball at

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Speaker 1: least right there with the Braves. My other World Series pick,

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Speaker 1: by the way, this year, Rangers and Braves had that workout,

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Speaker 1: but because of all the injuries they had in late August,

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Speaker 1: Simeon Evaldi Seger, you thought there's no way they're done,

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Speaker 1: and yet they've drawn energy from those players I just mentioned,

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Speaker 1: the younger, less experienced players. They're going to get Seger

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Speaker 1: back probably next week. Adolie s Garcia might be coming

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Speaker 1: back as well, and once that happens, I assume they'll

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Speaker 1: be in a really good spot to challenge the rest

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Speaker 1: play at City Field Friday night. It's fascinating series ahead

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Speaker 1: of us there. Rangers at Mets will be started by

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Speaker 1: none other and former Mets ace Jacob Dekron.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be an interesting I tell you what, it's theater.

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Speaker 2: You can't make this stuff up. Ken, So let me

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Speaker 2: ask you this question, because we just don't know. Does

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Speaker 2: this mean we're going to get an exciting, unpredictable October

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Speaker 2: or are we really just gonna get a random champion

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Speaker 2: Because it doesn't seem Ken, in the thirty teams that

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Speaker 2: there's one that really sticks out.

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Speaker 1: Alna, I totally agree with you, and it certainly appears

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Speaker 1: from this vantage point right now as we look at this,

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Speaker 1: their rotation. And I know it's come against two last

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Speaker 1: But Yamamoto and glass Now and Otani and Kershaw, all

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Speaker 1: Blake Snell. He was really good last night. If those guys,

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Speaker 1: would in my mind perhaps make them the favorite. But

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Speaker 1: that said, we've watched the Dodgers all season, Alana. You

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Speaker 1: watch them as closely as anyone. They've been an enigmatic team,

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Speaker 1: a team that's been somewhat disappointing. And maybe now they're

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Speaker 1: rounding into form and things are going to be better,

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Speaker 1: and Mookie BET's certainly playing better. But I don't know

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Speaker 1: that I entirely trust the Dodgers. Their bullpen has been

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Speaker 1: a bit of a mess, so we'll see. But to

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Speaker 1: your original point, yeah, it looks wide open the American League.

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Speaker 1: Who knows Tiger's and the Blue Jays two best teams

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Speaker 1: jockeying for the best record in the league home field

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Speaker 1: advantage throughout the American League playoffs. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: either as invincible. Jeff Hoffman gave up another homer last night.

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Speaker 1: The Tigers looked good the last two nights, but they

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Speaker 1: two weeks. So yeah, it's looking really interesting.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this about the can I have

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Speaker 2: my own opinion on it, but I want yours and

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Speaker 2: your perspective. You Nobu Yamamoto through one hundred and twelve pitches,

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Speaker 2: That's a career high for him. He gives up the

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Speaker 2: home run to Jackson Holliday. I think Andy pai Has

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Speaker 2: could have made a better attempt to get that ball,

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Speaker 2: considering a no hitter was going on, but that's neither

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Speaker 2: here nor there. Would you have sent Yama back out

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Speaker 2: or did Dave Roberts, in your opinion, make the right

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It looks bad because of the outcome.

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Speaker 1: That's the only reason that looks bad to me. And

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Speaker 1: I would have sent him out, of course. And I

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Speaker 1: know it's a career high, but my gosh, we count

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Speaker 1: this sport, and understandably, so it's that kind of sport.

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Speaker 1: It's very statistically driven. But no hitters are special. No

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Speaker 1: hitters are once in a career perhaps for most pitchers.

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Speaker 1: And Yamamoto had a chance there, of course you send

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Speaker 1: them back out. I don't even think there's any question.

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Speaker 3: That's funny.

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Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't have I think Dave made the right

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Speaker 3: And you got to think that you would believe, you

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Speaker 3: would believe Ken Rosenthal that your bullpen could get one out.

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Speaker 2: That is neither here nor there, My friends, all right,

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Speaker 2: coming up here, don't forget to get your questions in

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Speaker 2: for Ken Grill and Ken is next. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: Time to get those questions in for Ken Rosenthal. But

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Speaker 2: we do actually have some breaking news. Can you and

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Speaker 2: Britt Jeroli, both of the athletic of course, have some

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Speaker 1: What is it? Well, you see it right there, and

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Speaker 1: it's interesting because some Oriel fans, perhaps we're wondering if

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Speaker 1: Mike Elias would be back at all, considering how disappointing

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Speaker 1: the team has been this season. It turns out the

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Speaker 1: team promoted him to president of baseball Operations last winter,

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Speaker 1: and now they're starting to build out their front office

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Speaker 1: under him. You remember last week they hired Danny Has,

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Speaker 1: plan right now is to hire a general manager under Elias,

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Speaker 1: so another executive to help things along for the Orioles.

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Speaker 1: This represents obviously a show of faith in Elias. That

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Speaker 1: show of faith came even before this disappointing season. And

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Speaker 4: Time for your weekly Arena Club segment where we see

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Speaker 4: what AJ pulls from a slab pack and we go

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Speaker 1: Always, I'm always looking for the big thing. Next big Thing's.

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Speaker 4: Got big money, big money, Baby. We've got a Dave

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Speaker 1: You like legend?

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Speaker 3: In my showroom, I have a Robin you out, I

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Speaker 3: All right, time for due to the week, Ken, who

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Speaker 5: I don't know what's happening, but the Broncos, if you're

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Speaker 5: not going to take their tax dollars, you're going to

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Speaker 5: build a brand new stadium. I would love it if

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Speaker 5: you named it, you know, Alana Rizzo Field at Mile

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Speaker 5: High or whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Okay, my dude of the week is

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Speaker 2: out there. Candida's time for Dork of the week.

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Speaker 1: Okay, as usual, we have a plethora of candidates, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to let the Dodgers off the hook

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Speaker 1: for what happened last Saturday night at Camden Yards. This

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Speaker 1: was one of the more memorable games of the season,

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Speaker 1: if not the most memorable, and it was just a

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Speaker 1: shocking outcome. Let's go back to the details. For eight

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Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, Yoshinoba Yamamoto had a no hitter

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Speaker 1: at that point. After eight and two thirds, with one

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Speaker 1: out to go, the Dodgers led three to nothing. They

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Speaker 1: had a ninety nine point five percent chance of winning

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Speaker 1: that game. That was their win probability, ninety nine point

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Speaker 1: five percent chance, and the other point five came in.

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Speaker 1: They blew that game and detailed it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It was a comedy of errors in a certain respect.

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Speaker 1: And it was so appropriate that the Orioles made this

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Speaker 1: comeback on the night they celebrated now Ripkin's thirtieth anniversary

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Speaker 1: of breaking Lou Garrig's record. That was the shock of

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Speaker 1: shocks again, the game of the year for me and

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers for losing it, the Dorks of the week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so am I because I was sitting there

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Speaker 2: tweeting it like, oh my gosh, if you're not watching,

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Speaker 2: you should probably tune in.

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Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: And then it was like Jackson Holiday, which is so

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Speaker 2: ironic too, Ken that he the Holiday family requested permission

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Speaker 2: from the Ripkin family for Jackson to wear number seven

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Speaker 2: and then he breaks up the no no Andy Pa

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Speaker 2: has I don't know what the heck he was doing

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Speaker 2: in the outfield. Then you have to pray that your

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Speaker 2: bullpend can get one flipping out, and they couldn't. I

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Speaker 2: almost went to bed after the no no was I

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Speaker 2: was like, all right, well, no, No's over, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to go to bed, and I stayed up like and

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't have because then I just got pissed. All right,

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Speaker 2: My my York of the week, besides myself, is Philly's

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Speaker 2: Karen Ken. I mean, I know I'm not really going

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Speaker 2: out on a limb here, but my goodness, woman, what

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Speaker 2: are you doing? And now, I mean, just first of all,

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Speaker 2: I don't think that this woman should have lost her

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Speaker 2: job and people should be stocking her.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's just ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Okay, be the bigger person, but the way that she

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Speaker 2: handled this situation, my goodness, you, Karen. You Phillies, Karen

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Speaker 2: are my dork of the week. And I tell you what, Ken,

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Speaker 2: she's getting served. Karma is a is not a good thing.

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Speaker 3: I tell you that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And she did get a five thousand dollars offer

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Speaker 1: for that ball if she autographed it and said I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry in the inscription. But of course she's not going

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Speaker 1: to do that because that would identify her. People wouldn't

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Speaker 1: know who she is. Now, I'm with you a lot.

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Speaker 1: At one point I want to make here, the social

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Speaker 1: media witch hunt takes place in a number of different

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Speaker 1: ways at a number of different times. It's ridiculous. The

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Speaker 1: woman did something wrong. Okay, we all have our bad moments,

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Speaker 1: maybe not publicize the way this one was. But I

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Speaker 1: don't care for that at all, and that needs to stop.

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Speaker 2: I agree, completely leave her alone. She did a bad thing,

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Speaker 2: but you don't need to harass her. Kim, tell us

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Speaker 2: a little bit more about the Native Nations baseball team

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Speaker 2: and the article that you recently wrote.

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Speaker 3: This is interesting stuff.

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Speaker 1: I wrote it a couple of days ago and actually

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Speaker 1: worked on it for nine months on and off. What

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Speaker 1: it is is an effort by the former Major league

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Speaker 1: pitcher DJ Carrasco to build a national program for Native

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Speaker 1: American players that doesn't exist right now, and they took

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Speaker 1: a very dramatic first step recently by having the first

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Speaker 1: Native American team compete in the Babe Ruth World Series

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Speaker 1: in Branson, Missouri. Their long term dream is to build

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Speaker 1: out an infrastructure where you have a national program from

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Speaker 1: childhood up through adulthood for Native American players and then

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Speaker 1: ultimately to get a team into the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 1: That's complicated, it's going to take time. It's not something

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Speaker 1: that can happen right away, but it's certainly an appropriate dream.

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Speaker 1: And Alta we talk this and you mentioned it to

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Speaker 1: me off the air. Baseball is always looking for talent. Well,

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Speaker 1: here is an untapped source of talent, the Native American community.

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Speaker 1: Now we have some Native American Major leaguers, but the

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Speaker 1: point of this program is to identify the players, maybe

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Speaker 1: on reservations, maybe in rural areas, who don't get the

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Speaker 1: opportunities that guys like Ryan Helsley did and John Gray

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Speaker 1: did and some other players because those guys went to

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Speaker 1: public high schools, they went to college in many cases,

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Speaker 1: and they're in a different category. What they want to

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Speaker 1: do is create opportunities for players who are not getting

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Speaker 1: those opportunities now. And it's a wonderful idea. It's an

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Speaker 1: incredible program that DJ Carrasco is trying to start here

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Speaker 1: and is starting, has started, and we'll see where it goes.

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Speaker 1: But that was the point of writing it, and I

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Speaker 1: hope people read it to see just what's going on

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Speaker 1: here because it's kind of a cool effort and an

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Speaker 1: effort that really anybody can everybody can get behind.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: What was the most interesting thing that you've found out

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Speaker 2: when you were spending nine over the course of nine

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Speaker 2: months to put this together, just that this.

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Speaker 1: Was happening really and that things were progressing, and that

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Speaker 1: DJ Carrasco, who is Native American but in a very

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Speaker 1: small way, but he's not a guy who is part

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Speaker 1: of a tribe really or anything like that. He's mostly

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Speaker 1: Mexican American. That's his greatest lineage, and this is his passion.

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Speaker 1: And there's a guy named Ryan Flynn who created the

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Speaker 1: baseball program, the national program in New Zealand, and they're

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Speaker 1: kind of combining on this, and these guys are incredibly

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Speaker 1: passionate about what they're doing. And they want to make

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Speaker 1: this as big as possible, so we will see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Dusty Baker had an interesting quote and Jacob Elsbury, Jacoby Elsbur,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, cannot be the last great Native American player.

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Speaker 1: There have to be some players there. I know they are.

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Speaker 1: Dusty has contributed time and money to the Native Nations effort,

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Speaker 1: and others are getting behind it as well. And again

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Speaker 1: we'll see where it goes. Alana. But it's a cool

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Speaker 1: thing that DJ Carrasco is trying to do.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you, and please if you take the

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Speaker 2: time to read it, that would be great. Learn more

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Speaker 2: about the Native Nations article. We want to say goodbye,

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Speaker 2: thank you guys for being here, thank you for watching

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Speaker 2: and listening. Foul Territory is next. Aj Pierzinski, Eric Kratz,

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Speaker 2: and Scott Brown welcome Will Salmon, Annisabo and Matt Barnes

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Speaker 2: to this show. We appreciate you guys. Ken is back

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Speaker 2: with a fresh new episode on Monday.

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Speaker 3: See you later.

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