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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I'd cover everything, but you won't let me, Scott,

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's been a player guest on this

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Speaker 2: So we got the MLB report on revenue krats. The

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Speaker 2: But aj even playing more so, to your point, do

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Speaker 3: Means they like the product on the field. It's not

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Speaker 2: AJ What does that equal for that lineup in the

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Speaker 1: It equals good for Adam Fraser. Didn't he make Did

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Speaker 1: This is what Houston does, right, they'd say. It's kind

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Speaker 1: all this real quick about bregmant. So he's turning down

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Speaker 1: out after one. But his big thing was the twenty

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Speaker 1: eight point six whatever he made last year. He wants

435
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Speaker 1: to beat that. Is there a team that's going to

436
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Speaker 1: beat that over a six year fan? No?

437
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Speaker 2: I mean, go back to Houston.

438
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Speaker 1: Go back to Houston where you're comfortable, they love you,

439
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Speaker 1: finish your career as an astro, have your legacy. That's it.

440
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Speaker 1: If that's no, Alex Brigman has his own things. But

441
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, if it's me and they offered me this,

442
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Speaker 1: now you know, listen, it's not my money, so and

443
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Speaker 1: it's not me making the money and I but if I,

444
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Speaker 1: if I have a team I've been with my whole career,

445
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Speaker 1: and I don't know that's just me.

446
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Speaker 2: Though sometimes we're like, damn, this is rough. But six

447
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Speaker 2: one fifty six looks pretty nice if that's what you're

448
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Speaker 2: looking for the long term package. If you want the

449
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 2: short term package with the opt out, there are other

450
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Speaker 2: options out there. Just keeping this going for a moment here.

451
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Speaker 2: I talked to yesterday about the Alex Spear report that

452
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Speaker 2: the Red Sox won't go past four years. So I

453
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Speaker 2: just think it's funny that they're still in on Bregman.

454
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Speaker 2: Why would he take a four year offer from the

455
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Speaker 2: Red Sox when he reportedly has either the six one

456
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Speaker 2: fifty six which sounds like it's the highest overall number

457
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Speaker 2: and it's Texas taxes which is no state income, or

458
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Speaker 2: the six year contract that's probably for less that has

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Speaker 2: an opt out after year one. Where does the Red

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Speaker 2: Sox part fall in, Like, shouldn't they just be out at.

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Speaker 3: This point thirty a year in on everybody?

462
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Speaker 2: So you're saying four at thirty a year.

463
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Speaker 3: I'm saying that maybe that's like, think about it. If

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Speaker 3: you have something in your mind that you're like, oh,

465
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Speaker 3: I want this number. Hey, the Red Sox offered me.

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Speaker 3: I'm not saying the Red Sox did, I'm just saying

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Speaker 3: if they offered me thirty a year, hey, I want

468
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Speaker 3: to come back to Houston. I want thirty a year.

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Speaker 3: I went over. I went over that amount of twenty

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Speaker 3: eight point six they offered it, but they only offered

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Speaker 3: it for four years. Can you guys add another year?

472
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Speaker 2: Or you're saying he's going to be very focused on

473
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Speaker 2: the opt out situation where it's like, hey, let me

474
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Speaker 2: get as much as I can in year one and

475
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Speaker 2: then I'm going to crush it and opt out.

476
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Speaker 3: That's a bad idea, I think. I mean, he's gone

477
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Speaker 3: through free agency. Free agency isn't just like oh, everybody's

478
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Speaker 3: lining up. He tested the market, he saw what's out there. Okay,

479
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Speaker 3: come on back home. I mean it's it may not

480
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Speaker 3: change next year. I get it. It changed for Chapman.

481
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Speaker 3: Boris came on and said, how oh, you know he

482
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Speaker 3: still got it. But what did Chapman get. He's still

483
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Speaker 3: got the number that was out there from the previous offseason.

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Speaker 2: That's what's hurting this cause right now. Chapman signed a

485
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Speaker 2: six year, one fifty one extension, so he basically ended

486
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Speaker 2: up if you go back to the previous offseason at

487
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Speaker 2: seven one sixty nine. Although I'm like, wait, Bregman's at

488
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Speaker 2: six one fifty six. It's pretty damn close, you know,

489
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Speaker 2: for they know in a place.

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Speaker 1: He knows and they know him and they know what

491
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Speaker 1: I mean. That's the key to me for me, I mean,

492
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Speaker 1: can you get maybe ten fifteen million dollars more? Sure,

493
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Speaker 1: you got to move your family whatever, you know. I mean, listen,

494
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Speaker 1: ten to fifteen millions a lot of money. But at

495
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, go where you're happy. That's

496
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Speaker 1: that's one of my biggest things, man, Go play where

497
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Speaker 1: you're happy.

498
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Speaker 2: Seven two was the contract for Chris Bryant, and he

499
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Speaker 2: had bigger credentials before that. But also you can't go

500
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Speaker 2: off that deal. The Rockies don't do math like other teams.

501
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Speaker 2: I'm serious.

502
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Speaker 1: As hasn't played. He also hasn't played in that deal

503
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Speaker 1: very much.

504
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a great one to point to. One

505
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Speaker 2: more while we're on the Cardinals, Dylan Carlson, who was

506
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Speaker 2: with Saint Louis and then Tampa Bay last year and

507
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: was brutal, signed a one year contract with the Oriels. Obviously,

508
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Speaker 2: he's still super young, so he can turn this around.

509
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Speaker 2: Used to be a big deal prospect. One year contract,

510
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Speaker 2: nine to seventy five K. If he gets to two

511
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Speaker 2: hundred played appearances. That turns into a clean one million

512
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Speaker 2: dollars for Carlson to join what could be a pretty

513
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Speaker 2: crowded outfield. Alex Fast, who covers the Oriols pretty closely,

514
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Speaker 2: works for MLB, said Mullins. Kowser, Tyler O'Neill, Daz Cameron,

515
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Speaker 2: Hessen Kerstad, and Dylan Carlson, and he was like, does

516
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Speaker 2: this mean someone like Cameron's on their way out or

517
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Speaker 2: Kurstaed starts in the miners, it gets traded, And then

518
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Speaker 2: also was reminded that Carlson has options, so Carlson actually

519
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Speaker 2: could start the season in the minor leagues. I don't know,

520
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Speaker 2: I don't know how the deal is split up, but

521
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing yes, since he has options, they can do

522
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Speaker 2: that and he's still controllable. He's got three options, right, Yeah,

523
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Speaker 2: so they can. They can start him in the miners

524
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Speaker 2: or option them back and forth. But we'll see if

525
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Speaker 2: Carlson can turn it around. Baltimore, they've been pretty good

526
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Speaker 2: at developing hitters. I will give them that.

527
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Speaker 3: They haven't and he's a switch hitter, gives them versatility

528
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Speaker 3: once he figures it out. Because you think he's gonna

529
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Speaker 3: figure it out. I mean's he's had some decent years

530
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Speaker 3: in the big leagues. Again another you know, didn't play

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Speaker 3: a ton. But I don't know how many times he's

532
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Speaker 3: been optioned down. He's been optioned twice. Based on he's

533
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Speaker 3: got three he's got still I don't understand. I don't

534
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 3: understand the option system. Okay, I'm pretty dirty on the game,

535
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Speaker 3: but I don't understand it. Someone replied, Yeah, well, one

536
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Speaker 3: of our our fan grafts buddies, John Becker, replied and

537
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Speaker 3: said he's got three options remaining. I would disagree with

538
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Speaker 3: John unless unless the rule changed, because he was up

539
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Speaker 3: in the big leagues in twenty one and in twenty

540
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Speaker 3: two and twenty three and he got optioned down, So

541
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Speaker 3: he's used up two in my in my calculation, he's

542
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Speaker 3: used up two options. If you ever go down to

543
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Speaker 3: the minor leagues, that's what I would look at. But

544
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Speaker 3: he probably still has one option left based on what

545
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Speaker 3: I'm looking at. Either way gives him good depth. Is

546
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Speaker 3: he impact right now? No? Could he be absolutely a

547
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 3: switch hitter in that lineup? Gives them versatility.

548
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's kind of He was the guy that was

549
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Speaker 1: supposed to be a star and never panned down, went

550
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Speaker 1: to Tampa, did okay last year. But he's also you know,

551
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Speaker 1: kind of been on the Jordan Walker plan. Oh we

552
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Speaker 1: really like him. We're not gonna play. We really like him.

553
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna play.

554
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Speaker 3: We really like him.

555
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Speaker 1: Oh he can't play because we're in a penny race.

556
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Speaker 1: It's like, just let the kid go and play and

557
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 1: see what happens. Now, Baltimore might not be the best

558
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 1: place for that to happen, but at the same time,

559
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: it might be the only chance he had. So he's

560
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Speaker 1: going there, and if he has to start in triple A,

561
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: hopefully he goes down and gets hot, comes back and

562
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Speaker 1: has a nice year and says, sees what he can do.

563
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Speaker 2: That MGM futures win total four the Arizona Diamondbacks at

564
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Speaker 2: eighty five and a half. I'll go first. I'm taking

565
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Speaker 2: the over on the Diamondbacks. I really like this team.

566
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Speaker 2: Corbyn Burns is going to have a freaking banger of

567
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Speaker 2: a year. You know, the one thing about Burns was

568
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Speaker 2: he wasn't completely right for a couple months last season,

569
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Speaker 2: and then figure that out towards the end of the year. Also,

570
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Speaker 2: I think he still has so much in his arsenal

571
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Speaker 2: crats that hasn't been tapped into yet. Like I think

572
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 2: it was the sweeper towards the end of last year.

573
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 2: I got to go through it that that he started

574
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Speaker 2: using more, and then I was like, damn, if he

575
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Speaker 2: uses that even more, he's gonna be insane. Like it's

576
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 2: just it's video game is for him at times, and

577
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 2: I think if it clicks on the right cylinder, it

578
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 2: could be a cy young season for him. So I've

579
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Speaker 2: got the Diamondbacks improving from last year's I think it

580
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: was eighty nine wins.

581
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Speaker 3: Yep, I got the album.

582
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Speaker 2: I'll give him ninety ninety ninety one.

583
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna put a number on it because I

584
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Speaker 3: think the West is tough. I think there's besides the Rockies.

585
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 3: I think you know there's winning baseball out West. But

586
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 3: I have over eighty I have over eighty five and

587
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 3: a half wins. Because you're gonna get a walk year,

588
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 3: I'll come from Gallon. You're gonna get a Merrill. Kelly

589
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: just gonna be consistent. I think some of their young

590
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 3: guys and the pitching staff are gonna really anchor the

591
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Speaker 3: bottom end of this rotation, which I think is really

592
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 3: deep with burns and Gallon being two number ones. But

593
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 3: this lineup, this lineup crushes Coutel Martees an MVP candidate.

594
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: Corbyn Carroll tried something early last season and then the

595
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Speaker 3: second half he started banging like this lineup is awesome.

596
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Speaker 3: Even without Christian Walker, Josh Nail will be fine.

597
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Speaker 1: I just think they're a better team. Corbyn burns. Corbyn

598
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Speaker 1: Carroll had an awful first half. I think he'll be better.

599
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: Suarez had a bad first half, turning on the second

600
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Speaker 1: half Moreno, their catcher was hurt for most of the

601
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Speaker 1: early part of the year. They won eighty nine games

602
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Speaker 1: last year. I think again they're close to eighty nine

603
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Speaker 1: to ninety one team. I think the reason they're number

604
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Speaker 1: down is down because everyone thinks the Dodgers. But they

605
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Speaker 1: played well against the Dodgers, and I think they're gonna

606
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Speaker 1: be The Padres might be a little bit worse. We

607
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Speaker 1: don't know about them. Giants can be a little bit worse.

608
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Speaker 1: But I think the Diamondbacks are going to be really

609
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Speaker 1: good again.

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Speaker 2: I think they're the second best team in the NL West.

611
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Speaker 2: And while the Dodgers are the world's team and Japan's team,

612
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: I think Arizona might be America's team because everyone's going

613
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 2: to be rooting for them to beat the Dodgers, besides

614
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 2: Dodger fans, since fans are so pissed off this offseason.

615
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Speaker 2: So anyway, fifteen hundred dollars first bet offer. When you

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Speaker 2: use the code foul, it's always there for you. Sign

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Speaker 2: back in bonus bets gambling from more concern called winning

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Speaker 2: hundred gambling. All right, this one broke just before the show.

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Speaker 2: But the Reds pick up Austin Hayes. I like, what

622
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Speaker 2: the Reds of it up to? You guys just adding

623
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Speaker 2: at the margins and Hayes was a really good player,

624
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: went through a bunch of crap last year. Crowds, you

625
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: might know more about it than we do. And then

626
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: the Phillies decided to non tender him and go with

627
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Speaker 2: Kepler over Hayes. But I mean, this is still a

628
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 2: pretty good player. You just didn't see the best of

629
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Speaker 2: him last year.

630
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Speaker 3: That back was wretched, that back was grinding on them one.

631
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Speaker 3: I think like six of the balls he hit in

632
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 3: Camden Yards would have been homers, but they had moved

633
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 3: the fences back, so he was already behind the eight balls.

634
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 3: Back was grinding, got traded. Thought it was gonna step

635
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Speaker 3: up in Philly, but.

636
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: Unfortunately he had a kidney infection. That was what. It

637
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 2: was a serious kidney infection that there's all these stories

638
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 2: about too that he was dealing with. So anyway, should

639
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: be back on track. It's a good player. I mean,

640
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: he's one to or he's been a gold Gloff finalist.

641
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 2: I guess what I was gonna say. I mean he

642
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, he was an All Star, a goal

643
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Speaker 2: Glof finalist. You can definitely play all three outfield positions.

644
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: He can definitely swing the bat a little bit. And

645
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Speaker 2: he's pretty young. So actually I really liked this pick

646
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Speaker 2: up for them.

647
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 3: A little bit of a vet too, got some experience

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Speaker 3: to bring to that young that young core that's already

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Speaker 3: there in Cincy.

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Speaker 2: Some people said he was a glue guy too aj

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Speaker 2: and that when he left, you know, it definitely hurt

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Speaker 2: Baltimore a little bit more than they anticipated in terms

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Speaker 2: of the vibes.

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Speaker 1: They said that last year, Remember we had some oorios

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Speaker 1: guys on that said that last year that when we

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Speaker 1: lost him. It changed something so good for him to

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Speaker 1: go to Cincinnati. And this is one of the teams

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Speaker 1: that I think you can look for an uptick and

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Speaker 1: they're you know, crowds already talked about Lodolo, Tito Francona

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Speaker 1: coming in there, some of their other guys. Another taking

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Speaker 1: another year, Elie de la Cruz, Scott, look at what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing to your Ellie de la Cruz card? Touching it?

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Speaker 3: Don't that touching it? Why?

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Speaker 1: What does it matter?

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Speaker 2: Well? The grade just went from a ten to a one?

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Speaker 3: What if I do this.

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Speaker 2: Now? Why not?

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Speaker 3: When?

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Speaker 2: Kind of weird for like the people?

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Speaker 1: What do I do this or that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's probably like a like an only fans you

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Speaker 2: know channel for that doing weird things to cards. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: you would know, you would know out of almost you

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Speaker 2: would know. Rody, dude, there's there's somebody who makes millions

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Speaker 2: with just like a cam on them while they're sleeping.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, what am I missing? What am I missing?

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Speaker 2: We're at least talking baseball crats like I'll set up

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Speaker 2: a camera to watch me sleep. I'll make millions.

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Speaker 3: It'll be loud. Look at this note. Do you think

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Speaker 3: this nose ain't snoring.

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Speaker 2: Tim Anderson and Grayson Rodriguez player guests tomorrow on Foul Territory.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be hot Kratz hats.

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Speaker 3: We'll throw back Central Nice Milwaukee Brewers, appreciate you didn't

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Speaker 3: bring this back. We had baby blue unis with us.

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Speaker 3: What an electric uniform?

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Speaker 2: I love that glove with the baseball inside. You can

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Speaker 2: get to maybe one or two more rumors here real quick.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Bill Plunkett was on Dodger's Territory yesterday and said he

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Speaker 2: has not heard anything about here. Nande'z link to the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: If you want more on that, you can check out

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Speaker 2: the show. And then some Diamondbacks rumors from Nick Pocoro,

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Speaker 2: who talked about how they still want to add preferably

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Speaker 2: a closer, a late ending option to the bullpen, and

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Speaker 2: a righty bat. So maybe more about the team we

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Speaker 2: were just covering, by the way.

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday Jermaine Die World Series MVP from two thousand

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Speaker 1: and five. It's his birthday today, so happy birthday, JD.

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Speaker 2: Did you text him? He loves ft he follows us

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Speaker 2: on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: I text He's my buddy. He's a good fellow of

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Speaker 1: course I text him. I feel like, you know, as

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Speaker 1: funny is I go. I have a lot of birthdays

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Speaker 1: on my phone, so I'll send out a textas someone

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Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him like a year. And they're like, damn,

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Speaker 1: you're crazy if you know it's my birthday. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I must be crazy. And his car, because his car

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Speaker 1: that he wanted, he might have got rid of it.

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Speaker 1: He did last time I asked him.

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Speaker 3: I think that's super cool.

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Speaker 2: It's a good fella. AJ texts his friends on their birthdays.

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Speaker 2: Good to you tomorrow for Tim Anderson and Grays and

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Speaker 2: Rodriguez