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

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal and people always ask me Ken the ever

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Speaker 1: run out of things to write about? And actually it's

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Speaker 1: the opposite problem. Covering the entire sport, there is always

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Speaker 1: almost always too much to write about, and that is

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Speaker 1: the case right now, and that is the case with

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Speaker 1: this particular show. We're not gonna go to in depth

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Speaker 1: today on the Jose Albarado suspension, which obviously hurts the

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Speaker 1: Phillies bullpen. He'll be out for the postseason. He'll return

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Speaker 1: this season after the eighty games, but no playoffs for him.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna go too and deep on the Twins

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Speaker 1: thirteen game winning streak, though of course it's an amazing

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Speaker 1: feat by a team that started off so badly. And

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Speaker 1: we're not even gonna get to in depth on the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals seven and two road trip, which was really impressive.

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Speaker 1: They are only two games back in the NL Central.

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Speaker 1: I've got other things to this and don't yell at

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Speaker 1: me for not getting too deep into the topics most

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Speaker 1: passionate to your heart. The things I want to discuss

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Speaker 1: are the things that to me seem most newsworthy from

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Speaker 1: the weekend and let's start with the Baltimore Orioles. The

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Speaker 1: firing of Brandon Hyde not exactly a surprise. Their game

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Speaker 1: Friday night was horrible, and it was the kind of

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Speaker 1: game that you look at and say, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: surprised if the manager gets fired tomorrow. That's what I

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Speaker 1: said watching that loss to the Nationals. But the real

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Speaker 1: question here is not why this happened, and not a

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Speaker 1: rehash of all that michae Elias did as general manager

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Speaker 1: to not set up Brandon Hyde very well for this season.

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Speaker 1: I want to look ahead, and I want to show

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Speaker 1: you first just how bad the Orioles situation is. Right now.

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Speaker 1: They are fifteen and thirty, and let's look at the

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Speaker 1: al standings for starters to show you just how buried

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Speaker 1: they are even at this early stage of the season.

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Speaker 1: Check it out. They're fifteen and thirty. They were eleven

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Speaker 1: and a half games back in a division in which

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Speaker 1: only the Yankees are playing well, then the only team

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Speaker 1: above five hundred. I know teams have rallied in the past,

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Speaker 1: the Nationals in twenty nineteen, the Astros last season, and others.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's happening for this team, so

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Speaker 1: where are we going with this? As I said on

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Speaker 1: the Fox broadcast Saturday on the pregame show, Tony Mancelino

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Speaker 1: is the interim manager. I don't know that he's going

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Speaker 1: to be the manager of the rest of the season

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Speaker 1: if they're truly intent on salvaging this thing and shooting

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Speaker 1: for a wild card. This is a very inexperienced staff.

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Speaker 1: Mansllino's never managed in the majors. You've got a first

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Speaker 1: and a second year pitching coach. Now, these guys might

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Speaker 1: all be quite good at their jobs. I understand that,

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Speaker 1: But is this the group that's going to lead this

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Speaker 1: team out of its current state? I don't know that

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Speaker 1: the answer to that is yes. And then if this

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Speaker 1: team cannot rally, and right now they have the fourth

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Speaker 1: worst record in the Major leagues worst. If they cannot rally,

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Speaker 1: then what do you do with the deadline? And if

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Speaker 1: Mike Elias, in the ownership's estimation, is perhaps not the

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Speaker 1: right guy, then what is he the guy you let

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Speaker 1: take this team apart at the deadline. They've got some

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Speaker 1: interesting pieces. Cedric Mullens Junior. He's streaky, but he's a

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Speaker 1: good center fielder still. Zach Efflin. I know he had

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Speaker 1: a bad start the other day, but he's a good

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Speaker 1: starting pitcher. Sir Anthony Dominguez in the bullpen. Frankly, this

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Speaker 1: team is a mess. I don't see them coming out

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Speaker 1: of it. I don't see how that by the deadline

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Speaker 1: they're backing contention. So yes, I see them as sellers.

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Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neal. They're big free agent signing from the offseason. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. He's on the injured list for

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Speaker 1: the sixteenth time in his career. They gave this guy

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Speaker 1: three years, forty nine and a half million dollars. He

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Speaker 1: has an opt out. Guess what, he's not opted out,

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Speaker 1: not when he keeps getting hurt. It's his second trip

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Speaker 1: on effectively waivers. They dfad him. Top to bottom. This

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Speaker 1: team is a complete mess. And again the questions in

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Speaker 1: the future, what do you do about the manager for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season, What do you do with

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Speaker 1: the deadline? They're a lot more pressing now than they

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Speaker 1: David Rubinstein as the head of it. What do they

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Speaker 1: do with michae Elias. Do you hold him responsible for this? Well, yes,

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Speaker 1: set of circumstances. To say the least. There's no drama

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Speaker 1: It seems that he is not going to play first base,

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Speaker 1: But it also seems that for all the people criticizing him,

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Speaker 1: he's the best DH in baseball, first career walk off

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Speaker 1: going to do about first base now? The Red Sox

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Speaker 1: on Friday started working out Christian Campbell, the rookie second baseman,

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Speaker 1: at first and the idea could ultimately be if Campbell

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Speaker 1: better defender than Campbell at second, and you open up

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Speaker 1: a spot perhaps for Marcelo Meyer down the line. But

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Speaker 1: I want to show fans just what Alex Cora told

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Speaker 1: just to Campbell, but it really applies to Devers as well.

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Speaker 1: And yes, it was a selfish look on Ralphael Dever's

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Speaker 1: This is referencing Campbell. All this talk about this guy

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Speaker 1: you five examples why it didn't work the last five years.

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Speaker 1: It's not just plug a guy over there. Here we go,

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Speaker 1: let's see what happens. There's more than just standing there

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Speaker 1: and catching the throws. That's the point I made in

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Speaker 1: Trying to play first for the Red Sox, referencing Franchie Cordero.

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Speaker 1: They tried him at first, didn't work. So with Campbell,

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Speaker 1: this is not fat accompany by any stretch of the imagination.

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Speaker 1: And I want to go back to Devers again, because

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Speaker 1: he is not the athlete that Campbell is. He's a

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Speaker 1: guy who really is not a very good third baseman.

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Speaker 1: And this assumption, then in the middle of a season

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Speaker 1: a mighty big assumption. Now, it doesn't mean he shouldn't try,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't mean when you're making three hundred million

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Speaker 1: how that goes, all right. Finally, this weekend some really

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Speaker 1: interesting news out of Los Angeles. Actually, for the last

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Speaker 1: couple of days. First we had the dfaing of Austin Barnes,

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Speaker 1: a guy who had been the longest tenured Dodger until

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Speaker 1: the release of Chris Taylor. He was the longest tenured

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Speaker 1: mainstays over the years are now effectively going to be gone.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting about this is not that these two guys

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Speaker 1: is not the defender he once was, never really was

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Speaker 1: in a row, and with the emergence of Haisong Kim,

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Speaker 1: there was simply no spot for him. What's interesting to

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Speaker 1: good prospect, no question, Kim absolutely deserves to be in

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Speaker 1: the major leagues, But there's a question on whether they'll

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Speaker 1: especially after now well, especially now that Tommy Edmond is back.

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Speaker 1: That compromises Kim. When Taoscar Hernandez comes back, it becomes

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Speaker 1: What's interesting here is the NL West standings and the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: For all this talk of how they were going to

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Speaker 1: So here are the Dodgers. They're not running away with anything.

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Speaker 1: includes fifteen players. These aren't all of them. They've got

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, same as it ever was Armageddon. Yes, arms

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Speaker 1: the part of the show I talk about maybe a

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Speaker 2: If you're a card collector or you'd like to get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't need me grabbing your packs, because last

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Speaker 2: They offer full transparency, showing every card in the slab

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Speaker 1: Ah. Yes. Time now for grilling Ken, the part of

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Speaker 1: all know Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro, they are under scrutiny.

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Speaker 1: Ross Atkins the GM, Mark Shapiro the president. Do they

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Speaker 1: fire the manager while they're under scrutiny? Well maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: they try to salvage the season if they feel it

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Speaker 1: needs salvaging. But I don't believe the Blue Jays are

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Speaker 1: there yet come the offseason. We could see some different

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Speaker 1: things happen in different franchises situations with their manager. All right. Finally,

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Speaker 1: the final question, and this one comes from Henry Cochel,

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Speaker 1: who asks, Ooh, who is the most interesting player you've

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Speaker 1: ever covered and why? The answer I always give to

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Speaker 1: this is Pedro Martinez and it kind of harkens back

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Speaker 1: to what I was talking about earlier with Devers, though

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Speaker 1: Pedro was an entirely different guy. But Red Sox drama,

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Speaker 1: there's a long history of Red Sox drama and Pedro

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Speaker 1: was the principal actor in that drama during the years

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Speaker 1: he was there. I know Manny was there, I know

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Speaker 1: Big Poppy was there, but there was always some kind

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Speaker 1: of tumult around Pedro. And beyond that, he was a great,

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Speaker 1: great pitcher and so much fun to watch So I

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Speaker 1: loved covering Pedro because he was so much fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: He was so compelling as a player period, and I

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Speaker 1: love covering him because there was always something. If you

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Speaker 1: remember the Mango Tree press conference at Yankee Stadium when

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Speaker 1: he said, Hey, I was a kid sitting under a

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Speaker 1: mango tree in the Dominican and now I'm commanding the

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Speaker 1: attention of the entire city of New York. It was

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Speaker 1: always something with Pedro and good stuff. For the most part. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had some diva and I'm okay, a lot of

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Speaker 1: players do, but covering Paedro was a ton of fun.

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Speaker 1: I loved every second of it. So he is the

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Speaker 1: guy that I would choose to be the most interesting

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Speaker 1: player I've ever covered. All Right, I want to thank

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