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Speaker 3: You lose seventy games. You lose seventy games. Anyways, God,

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Speaker 2: We do talk about the Rockies on this show, not

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Speaker 3: What do you use ludicrosity, Well, you're ludicrosity. That's just

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Speaker 1: They they come out and they start chipping away with

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Speaker 1: So it's it's just something where you know, some of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, can we reply to him?

430
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Speaker 5: Dude?

431
00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:31,320
Speaker 2: What are you? What are you doing?

432
00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:32,080
Speaker 5: Like?

433
00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,560
Speaker 2: What are you doing with your team right now? Are

434
00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,080
Speaker 2: you awake? What are you doing right like? This is

435
00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,760
Speaker 2: one of the hardest people to feel bad for. You

436
00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,080
Speaker 2: have an awesome franchise in an awesome city that supports

437
00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,600
Speaker 2: the team regardless, it's a great spot to go for

438
00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,200
Speaker 2: a game. Are you awake? And I'm not just saying

439
00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:52,960
Speaker 2: player payroll. I'm not this isn't one of my Hey, dude,

440
00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,560
Speaker 2: spend more money on your team. There's more to it

441
00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,359
Speaker 2: in this case. What are you doing with your organization?

442
00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:00,880
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I mean. You guys have just been

443
00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,520
Speaker 2: hanging in abyss for a long time now, and it's

444
00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,399
Speaker 2: not like other teams in his spot can't compete. The

445
00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,640
Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians spend less money than the Rockies, right they

446
00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,119
Speaker 2: made it to the ALCS. They are just in the

447
00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,920
Speaker 2: middle of nowhere right now, So you need a good

448
00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,920
Speaker 2: organization to be able to compete too. Let's remember, aj

449
00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,760
Speaker 2: the Mets had the highest payroll ever a couple of

450
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,160
Speaker 2: years ago and didn't even make the playoffs. The Padres

451
00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,000
Speaker 2: were up there too, didn't make the playoffs. So we

452
00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,480
Speaker 2: have gone over the parody game. I get it for

453
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,440
Speaker 2: the five teams that always complain about their situations. Pirates

454
00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,160
Speaker 2: fans were here for you, Rockies fans were here for you.

455
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 2: But this is just such bs.

456
00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:37,960
Speaker 4: Dude.

457
00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:39,760
Speaker 2: I would swing it right back to you and be like,

458
00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,240
Speaker 2: how about relegation If you don't know how to run

459
00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 2: a team correctly? Right, how about you get punished for

460
00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,040
Speaker 2: never giving your fans a good product. It's been a

461
00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:51,000
Speaker 2: long ass time and it's ridiculous.

462
00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,639
Speaker 3: They're not doing that. They're not relegation. This isn't soccer.

463
00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,600
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it is cool that in soccer

464
00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:56,879
Speaker 3: you can't get relegated, But what are you going to

465
00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,800
Speaker 3: call up the Portland Pickles to be a big league

466
00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:01,760
Speaker 3: team next year? Because they don't even have like a

467
00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,679
Speaker 3: real team. They're a minor league team. They don't have players,

468
00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,359
Speaker 3: So relegation. Anyone that says that, including you, Scott, is

469
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,679
Speaker 3: as I like, we'd like to say down South, an idiot.

470
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,840
Speaker 2: I just figured while we're asking for anything, right, he

471
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,840
Speaker 2: was asking, he was asking for his wish list. We

472
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,919
Speaker 2: can throw our wish list out there too if you

473
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,760
Speaker 2: have a problem, because there's plenty of people that would

474
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 2: love to see a little more fire from that organization.

475
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,600
Speaker 2: Do you feel like they draw.

476
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Speaker 3: Three million fans a year? They draw almost three million

477
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,439
Speaker 3: fans a year. They're in a big they're in a

478
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,399
Speaker 3: medium to large market. Denver is a large area that

479
00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,120
Speaker 3: they have that they encompass, so they draw almost three

480
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 3: million fans a year. Todd, you've been there, of course,

481
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,440
Speaker 3: fields awesome place to go play. It's awesome sightlines. It's awesome.

482
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,359
Speaker 3: I mean in the summer when the sun's setting and

483
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 3: then it's like the sky is glowing orange and pink

484
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,640
Speaker 3: and purple and all these different colors. It's an incredible place.

485
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 3: People love going there. I mean, they have Dingers, their mascot.

486
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,160
Speaker 3: There's so many things that are great about Colorado. I mean,

487
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 3: you know, they have the whole area with the bars

488
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,880
Speaker 3: and the restaurants and everything around it. Listen, don't tell

489
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 3: me you're losing money. You're not losing money. But my

490
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,159
Speaker 3: thing with the Rockies is you gotta do something different.

491
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,680
Speaker 3: Nothing you've tried, which is the old way, old way,

492
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 3: old way, over and over and over again. Try something,

493
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 3: get crazy, do what the Rays did. Everyone wants to

494
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,360
Speaker 3: be the race, the Rockies that they're this poor, they

495
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 3: need to be the race. You need to go off

496
00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 3: the grid like Joe Madden did with all the crazy

497
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,879
Speaker 3: stuff he was doing, and he started all these new trends,

498
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 3: right shifting and openers and doing all these crazy things.

499
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:26,879
Speaker 3: If you're the Rockies, you got to come up with

500
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,000
Speaker 3: the next crazy thing and try to do it. Because

501
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 3: of your you know, you always say the field, the field,

502
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,480
Speaker 3: the field, the field is a disadvantage. Well, there's got

503
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 3: to be some smart people out there that can figure

504
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,200
Speaker 3: out how you can make kords Field your advantage instead

505
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 3: of a disadvantage that you always complain about.

506
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Speaker 4: Yep.

507
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 2: And just for clarification, Rockies are seventeenth TV market two

508
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,320
Speaker 2: point five pour million in attendance last year. I mean,

509
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 2: this team does well.

510
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 3: Just if they were good. Imagine if they were good,

511
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 3: what they would draw.

512
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an awesome spot for a ballpark experience. So

513
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,919
Speaker 2: it's just a shame to hear someone like this. I mean,

514
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,080
Speaker 2: in the past he usually puts out his predictions, but

515
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,240
Speaker 2: it's like, dude, are you paying attention to the transactions

516
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 2: that are going on with your team? Just just be better, bro.

517
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 2: It's just a shame to have someone like this in there,

518
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 2: who's just out in left field. And it to me

519
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 2: feels like, you know, picking a random person off the

520
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 2: street and being like, want to run a team. You

521
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 2: can bring some of your friends in and you guys

522
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 2: can figure it out. It feels like a mom and

523
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 2: pop shop and you know, I feel like we've been

524
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,360
Speaker 2: taking it easy on them and these kind of comments.

525
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,679
Speaker 2: It's just like it's tired, bro. Just just leave. The

526
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 2: Marlins are calling for former college and pro players to

527
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 2: be on their practice squad. There are tryouts in Jupiter, Florida,

528
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 2: and you can be on the practice squad from April

529
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 2: first to September fifteenth. There's the official call out. They

530
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,679
Speaker 2: are definitely going to get a phone call from the

531
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,639
Speaker 2: players Union. One hundred and fifty bucks a day. You

532
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 2: got to be available from noon to five, around ten

533
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 2: to fifteen home games days per month when the Jupiter

534
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 2: Hammerheads are in town, selling it as a unique opportunity

535
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 2: to gain exposure to pro players and coaches. One fan,

536
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 2: Robert Stock, said, I wonder if these won't turn into

537
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 2: a workaround a sidestep minor league roster restrictions, especially if

538
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,120
Speaker 2: they sign a player or two from the practice squad Eventually.

539
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 2: I actually think teams are gonna complain about this too.

540
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 3: AJ, I'm not complaining. Sign me up. By the way,

541
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 3: here's what we should do on our FT network. We

542
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,359
Speaker 3: need to get a camera crew down there. Todd and

543
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 3: I will sign up and we'll play on this team

544
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 3: and we'll see if for any good let's see if

545
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 3: we still got it. I mean, Todd can make it

546
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 3: down from Jersey for ten to fifteen days a month. Right,

547
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 3: they'll get one hundred and fifty dollars a day, and

548
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 3: we'll see if for any good and to see if

549
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 3: they sign us. What if they signed the Todd father

550
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 3: and he goes and plays third base this year in Miami,

551
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 3: he could put a new kneon behind him and he

552
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 3: could get another year of service.

553
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 2: Time.

554
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 3: Let's do this, tok.

555
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, all I'm thinking about the first person that

556
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: came in my mind was Vince Papali. Listen, they might

557
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: just find a rose in the thorn. Here a guy

558
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: comes out, run a six, four, five sixty. All of

559
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: a sudden, his gap the gap baseball. The guy's gonna

560
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: steal bang boom. Two years later, he's in the big leagues.

561
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: It's the new Vince Papa baseball.

562
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 4: You just never know.

563
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: Watch out that one guy that said they they screwed

564
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,719
Speaker 1: me over. You know, I should have been a big

565
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 1: league it's my time. And the mom and dad are like,

566
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,120
Speaker 1: here we go, Johnny boy, go ahead.

567
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:11,719
Speaker 4: Try out next thing.

568
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 5: You know.

569
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 4: A year later, I know you could do with Johnny Boy.

570
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,199
Speaker 4: You're run the mall like this is crazy. Yeah, And

571
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 4: then the Evince Papali's coming as you watch out.

572
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: That's good. I think about the movie The Replacements too.

573
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 2: You just have all these talented dudes that have these

574
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,719
Speaker 2: weird backgrounds and stories and they all get together and

575
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,479
Speaker 2: form a team, and then maybe they're even better than

576
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 2: the major league team. So be careful what you wish for.

577
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 3: I think I think of the ninety five spring training

578
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 3: when we had the replacement players and for big league teams,

579
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 3: and there was like I remember I was in spring training.

580
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 3: I never crossed the line, but we we roomed with

581
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 3: the replacement guys in spring training that year, and it

582
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 3: was like one guy was like a carpenter and the

583
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 3: other guy was a drywall guy. One guy was like

584
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 3: a coach at his high school, and they were gonna

585
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 3: play in the big leagues that year. I mean, think

586
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 3: about the story though. If you're a random guy there

587
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 3: and you could be the rooty, you and I could

588
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 3: be the rudy. We could go in there and everyone

589
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 3: lays their the hammerheads, all lay their jerseys down until

590
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 3: we get a chance to get in a bat in

591
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 3: a game.

592
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: Oh, I remember my brother in the minor leagues. Crazy.

593
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 2: Let's give you a little taste of what to expect

594
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 2: next week in the Tokyo series because they sold out

595
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 2: the workout. Over ten thousand people bought tickets. The place

596
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 2: is packed for their workout day, sold out within an hour.

597
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 2: We're doing postgame shows after those two games next week.

598
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 2: They do count their regular season games. But Todd Father,

599
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 2: the photos and the the tweets right now that I've

600
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 2: seen this morning from Tokyo are insane. We knew it, right,

601
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 2: we knew it. But it truly is like you know,

602
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 2: Dream Team Jordan kind of visiting you know, spots in

603
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 2: Asia when people would go nuts. I mean, probably honestly

604
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 2: more than that, because these guys are from Japan and

605
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 2: it is the football of Japan.

606
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 4: Right.

607
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 2: NFL makes the most money in America, Baseball is by

608
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 2: far number one in Japan.

609
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: Just think about this, Honestly, even if you don't even

610
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 1: go to game, you get to go to something like this.

611
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: Just think about a kid that's ten, eleven, twelve years old, Dad, Mom,

612
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: All I want this year is to find a way

613
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: to get to one of those stadiums, to see my

614
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: heroes play, to see show Hey a Suzaki, all these guys.

615
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: Just this is just a dream come true. For all

616
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: these people. They're packed in there, and guess what they

617
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: are all watching right now, and they are not I

618
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: know what's going on. They are not on their phones,

619
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: they are not doing anything. They are sitting in there.

620
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: They're taking mental notes, They're writing down stuff. There's coaches

621
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: up there that are watching. There's pictures being you know, made,

622
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: there's memories. Just imagine sitting there and these guys are

623
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: all on the edge of their seats, young men, young women,

624
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 1: young and old seeing a professional team take a workout.

625
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? People have to pay to do

626
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,640
Speaker 1: things like that. For the most part, this is the

627
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 1: coolest thing.

628
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 4: In the world. Look at the dome.

629
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: Look at how awesome that is, and the people in there,

630
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: and they are the most gracious fans you'll ever see

631
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: in your life. And if I'm a professional player right

632
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: now and I'm practicing there, warming up, I got goosebumps

633
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: thinking about it.

634
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 4: How cool and amazing this is gonna be.

635
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 2: There's two real MLB games next week. We'll have postgame shows,

636
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 2: but also we'll be watching the game and we'll be listening.

637
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 5: To dump dump dumb.

638
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 3: This guy right here, I'll be doing them. Yeah, I'll

639
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 3: be on the call for the series, Can you guys

640
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 3: hear me?

641
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 4: Yeah?

642
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: Who is on there with it? You know who's who's

643
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: going to be broadcasting with uh.

644
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 3: The first day, I believe is Benetti, mister Jason Bennetti.

645
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 3: In the second game, Adam Amin.

646
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, Well, we're looking forward to that. And also

647
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Speaker 2: a little bit of news show. Hey spoke about the

648
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Speaker 2: pause with the bullpen sessions and really just echoed what

649
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers have been saying. They just want to make

650
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: sure that he's preparing to hit. This is a difficult

651
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Speaker 2: balance that nobody can speak to with past experience. Hey,

652
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 2: how do you become a starter again coming off another

653
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Speaker 2: elbow surgery and an off season shoulder surgery. The elbow

654
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 2: surgery was obviously before the previous season, and then still

655
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Speaker 2: maintain your fifty plus homer self and try and be

656
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: a top end starter. It's a lot to me. I

657
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 2: mean it's a lot anyway, AJ But when you add

658
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 2: in the fact that he has had injuries and surgeries,

659
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 2: there's just nothing to go off of. So it does

660
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Speaker 2: sound like it was part of his plan. Hey, I'm

661
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: going to get some things going, then pause a little bit,

662
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Speaker 2: and then I can work into this as the season

663
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Speaker 2: goes along.

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Speaker 3: One of the most intriguing storylines of the year. Will

665
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Speaker 3: he pitch this year or ever again? And how do

666
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Speaker 3: they get him back to rehab because he can't go

667
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Speaker 3: on a rehab assignment, So how do they get him

668
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Speaker 3: back if he's going to be a starter? How do

669
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Speaker 3: you hold them up to five innings? You can't send

670
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Speaker 3: them to Oklahoma City. They're triple A and say, hey,

671
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 3: go give us four innings in Oklahoma City. Oh yeah,

672
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Speaker 3: and be back to d h in La tonight. So

673
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Speaker 3: it's going to be a fascinating thing that we're going

674
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Speaker 3: to have to watch here from the Dodgers, the whole

675
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Speaker 3: organization and Dave Roberts and Brandy Gomes and Andrew Freeman

676
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Speaker 3: and Show Hey and everyone else.

677
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

678
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's it's tough.

679
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's been all those conversations about him pitching whatever.

680
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: I think they're doing the right thing here. Slow it

681
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Speaker 1: down a little bit, and we've talked about it before,

682
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Speaker 1: like understandably, you know, if he is going to pitch,

683
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Speaker 1: which I think they are definitely going to try and

684
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Speaker 1: in to pitch, you don't.

685
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Speaker 4: Need to do it right away.

686
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Speaker 1: They have a lot of horses in the stable that

687
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: can come in and dominate. Just worry about mashing the

688
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: ball right now, slow play it if you need another month.

689
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Speaker 4: Two, three, four, whatever it is.

690
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Speaker 1: You want to be back one hundred percent like You've

691
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: got the squad, so understandably, if ten people go down,

692
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Speaker 1: then you got a problem. But listen, this team is

693
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Speaker 1: stacked and ready to go after another World Series, and

694
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Speaker 1: I think, oh.

695
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Speaker 4: Hey, hitting right now for a while, his beautiful thing.

696
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Speaker 2: All right, Arena Club's gonna help us out with some

697
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Speaker 2: Ronald Acunya Junior news and quotes. Will show off the

698
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Speaker 2: card that's available in his slab pack on Arena Club.

699
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Speaker 2: Will talk more about that in a moment here, but

700
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Speaker 2: here's the fresh quotes. He said, I'd rather steal thirty

701
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Speaker 2: and play the whole season as opposed to trying to

702
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Speaker 2: steal seventy injuring myself in missing the whole year. So

703
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Speaker 2: quotes fresh this morning Todd Father about Acunya trying to

704
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Speaker 2: figure out going forward what the best balance is for

705
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Speaker 2: him and pointing to out he's had multiple knee issues

706
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Speaker 2: and he just doesn't want to miss this extended time.

707
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Speaker 2: At the same time, damn two years ago when he

708
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Speaker 2: stole seventy plus. He was electric.

709
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he made me look like a smart man

710
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Speaker 1: because I said that that would happen. Luckily it did,

711
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Speaker 1: but on the sake of getting hurt too as well.

712
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think this is the right thing for sure.

713
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Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves want him to play. They want him

714
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Speaker 1: to play full season. They want, you know, one hundred

715
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Speaker 1: and forty five, one hundred and fifty plus games during

716
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Speaker 1: the season for him at a healthy pace. He doesn't

717
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Speaker 1: need to steal. He's fast enough to score from first

718
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: to home on a ball down a line or in

719
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Speaker 1: the gap. If he's on second base a ball hit

720
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Speaker 1: hard to the outfield, he's still gonna have a really

721
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Speaker 1: good opportunity to score. And they want to make sure

722
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: they have his legs on them, so maybe a DHDA

723
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Speaker 1: here or there. I think that's the smart move to do.

724
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Speaker 1: He's the best player on that squad and he's the

725
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna take them to the Promised Land if

726
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Speaker 1: they get that opportunity to do so.

727
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Speaker 2: This is often what happens aja with players as they

728
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Speaker 2: get deeper into their career. You get the exciting steals

729
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 2: early on in the career, and then it usually dips off.

730
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Speaker 2: I mean, Mike Trout obviously has had trouble staying on

731
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Speaker 2: the field lately. He used to steal a ton of

732
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Speaker 2: bags too, and he was actually running back in April

733
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: of last year when he was playing. But generally you

734
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: do see this dip off. There's a few other players

735
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think that you used to see them

736
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Speaker 2: run like crazy and then I mean who we talked to.

737
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Speaker 2: This isn't the prime example, but like breg In al

738
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 2: Tuvey never runs anymore. There's just a lot of guys

739
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 2: that once they get deeper into their career, they kind

740
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Speaker 2: of slow it down. So do you see this now

741
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 2: happening for a Kunye? Is this him telling us expect

742
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: more of the thirty steel season?

743
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Speaker 3: Yes, but he didn't get hurt. I mean he didn't

744
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 3: get hurt stealing bases. He got hurt kind of at

745
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 3: both times in like flukey ish plays. So I think

746
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 3: this is just him trying to protect himself. And remember

747
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 3: the first time he blew his towards ACL, he came

748
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 3: back and was not the same player. It took him

749
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 3: a full year to recover. That was when he went

750
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 3: with the seventy solen bases and listen, it's going to

751
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 3: take something like this to wrestle the MVP away from

752
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 3: Show Hey. So we need somebody to step up. It's

753
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 3: not gonna be a kunye. We need someone else to

754
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 3: step up, and whether it's Bryce Harper or somebody else

755
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 3: in the National League to step up having a historic

756
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 3: year in order to win an MVP, because that's the

757
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 3: only way you're getting one away from Show Hey if

758
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: he keeps doing what he's doing.

759
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Speaker 2: So should we expect this in the future from Elie too?

760
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 2: I mean, right now, Elie de la Cruz is mister

761
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Speaker 2: electric on the basis. I'm not saying in the next

762
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: year or two, but I'm saying, deeper in his career,

763
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 2: do you think he's going to slow it down. I'm

764
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 2: not saying when he's thirty five years old and he's

765
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Speaker 2: actually slower. I'm saying when he's twenty nine, is he

766
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 2: going to be like, hey, I gotta be careful. I

767
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 2: don't want to get hurt. I guess the question for

768
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: both of you guys is how much does base running

769
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Speaker 2: take a toll versus being a little less aggressive.

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Speaker 1: I think Ellie's in one of those stages where they

771
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Speaker 1: need him to steal. If you're in Cincinnati, he's one

772
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: of those guys that can do it all. So I

773
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Speaker 1: you know, when you reach a certain age, I don't

774
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: know what that age is. It's a gap of you know,

775
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: if you're in your twenties and you're still spry, and

776
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: you're still loosey goosey, and you know, you're one of

777
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: those guys that is that has to get that second

778
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: base for them to win games.

779
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's gonna be a lot opportunities for that.

780
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: So Ellie's a guy that they're going to rely on

781
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: the steal bases, they take the extra base until otherwise,

782
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, I don't want an injury

783
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: to any of these guys. I want everybody healthy. But Akunya,

784
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: it's happened a couple of times now, not from stealing,

785
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: like Ad said, but he's been injured. So you got

786
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: to be really on the careful side of you know,

787
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: do we really need him to steal this space this time?

788
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 4: All right, let's just pump the brakes and cool it off.

789
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: Just those kinds of things he's gonna steal, but it's

790
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: just a matter they're probably gonna pick and choose now

791
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: exactly when, or let him know, like, hey, listen, I

792
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: know it's a tie game, but you know we got

793
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: big guns coming up.

794
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 4: You'll be fine. Something like that.

795
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and ag, I know it's not like he, you know,

796
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 2: slid into a base and then tore his knee up

797
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: or whatever. But there's wear and tear when he's ripping

798
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 2: up the base paths like that.

799
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Speaker 5: No.

800
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And when we just had Lawrence Butler on, you

801
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 3: know what he said, He's like, I gotta run. Mookie

802
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 3: said the same thing. I got to run from right

803
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 3: field to the dugout. And I kind of laughed at him.

804
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: I was like, come on, dude, Like he's like, no,

805
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 3: it's real, especially in Oakland. When they were playing in

806
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 3: the Oakland Colsseum was like they had to run to

807
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 3: two right fields to get to the dugout. So Acuna

808
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 3: plays right field, that's a longer run than it is

809
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 3: from catcher third base, like Todd and I did. So

810
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 3: I get it. It's it's over time. We listen, Ellie

811
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 3: is gonna run as much as Ellie can. I would

812
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 3: love to see Acon you keep trying to steal bases,

813
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 3: because that's what made him. So exciting to watch is

814
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 3: he could go deep one and bad and the next

815
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,959
Speaker 3: to bat he could hit a single and still second

816
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 3: to third and score on a on a sack fly

817
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 3: and the Braves are up. So I want these guys

818
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 3: to keep running. I don't know how we figure out

819
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 3: how to keep them their legs healthy. But listen as

820
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 3: Todd and I can tell you father, time always wins,

821
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 3: and you do slow down as you get over, you

822
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 3: get smarter, It just slow down.

823
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the A's have I mean, the Braves have made

824
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: it clear that Akunya has got to be ready to

825
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 2: play the outfield pretty consistently. Yeah, they might mix in

826
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Speaker 2: some DH, but they have a full time DH. He's

827
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Speaker 2: not going to play the outfield and marcel A Zuna

828
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Speaker 2: So because of that, you're not seeing Acunya till May.

829
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Speaker 2: Debate on when it sounds like it could be earlier May,

830
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Speaker 2: when initially it was looked at as maybe later in May.

831
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Speaker 2: He's made significant progress. Obviously, he's young, he recovers quick,

832
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Speaker 2: and he's also been through this before. But we'll see

833
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he said.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said.

856
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Speaker 3: That's what he said, that's what he said.

857
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Speaker 4: All right.

858
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Speaker 2: So last night we spoke to Luis Severino at clutch House.

859
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Speaker 2: It was awesome to get these extended conversations with a

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Speaker 2: number of big names, but Severino stood out for a

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Speaker 2: number of his answers. Let's start with this one, and

862
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 2: he was sitting down with aj and Alana Rizzo. He

863
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 2: spoke about the difference between the Mets and the Yankees

864
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. For his experience personally with the coaching

865
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 2: staff and the medical.

866
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 7: Staff, the trainers and the Yankees were unbelievable, but I

867
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 7: think the Mets are a different level.

868
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 5: It was the guy that I worked with was Joe Golia.

869
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 7: It was since I got to the mess and splinter

870
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 7: in the first day with the pull up a routine,

871
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 7: and then from that day and to the playoff, we didn't,

872
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 7: you know, miss a touch. So just he was always

873
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 7: on top of everything. You know, the nutrition is there.

874
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 5: It was.

875
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 7: I mean, he's he's crazy sometimes about stuff, but he's unbelievable.

876
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 7: He's one of the greatest thing I ever seeing. I mean,

877
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 7: he's on top of everything. If I was pitching and

878
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 7: Cincinnati it was hot, he would me three days later,

879
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 7: you need more more cars because you might lose some

880
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 7: weight pitching that there he was, it was great. So

881
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,919
Speaker 7: I mean I also I think, you know, I learned

882
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 7: how to treat my body better, you know. And they

883
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 7: also so I talked to hire a person to it's

884
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 7: like a daughter or sleep.

885
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 5: She showed me how to sleep better, you know, give

886
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 5: me some tips. And everyone wants to know how to

887
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 5: sleep better for me. Like in the season, I was

888
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 5: sleeping four and five hours.

889
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 4: I was it.

890
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 7: So I sleep like three days with a machine in

891
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 7: my chest seeing what I have. So we found out

892
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 7: we have like have like a sleep ania. So she

893
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 7: told me to drink my Nancy and night Cherry Hughes.

894
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 7: The place had to be dark, so no lights and

895
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 7: even like if I got if, I wann't the whoop things.

896
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 7: So if you can put the time that you want

897
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 7: to go to sleep, So if I have to wake

898
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 7: up at eight, you had to go to sleep at

899
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 7: ten thirty. So even if you're not tired, just shout

900
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,479
Speaker 7: all the lights, dring my my man, my sherry juice

901
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 7: and go to sleep.

902
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: All right, What do we think about that Todd father?

903
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 2: You played for both teams and obviously he was with

904
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 2: them at different times, but he felt like there was

905
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 2: a step up in terms of his care.

906
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 4: Yeah.

907
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely incredible. You know, little things like that,

908
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: You know, is it gonna make him pitch better? Maybe

909
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: it might give more energy, It might give more focus

910
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: and determination to do better.

911
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 4: And I think that's absolutely awesome.

912
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: Joe Golia, who I know very well from the Mets,

913
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: He's been doing it for a lot of years with

914
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: one man, Chicky over there.

915
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 4: Those two are absolutely beauties.

916
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: They understand the game and they are really good at

917
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: what they do. So yeah, kudos to them. And yeah,

918
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: I'm glad he found out I sleep in four to

919
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: five hours. You know, a lot of people can do that,

920
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: but if you're playing at a high level and playing

921
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: competition at a high level, you need a lot more

922
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: sleep than that. To find that out absolutely incredible. And

923
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: you can see and hear it in his voice, how

924
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: you know, happy he is to be a Met.

925
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 2: Hey, By the way, some news here, Clay Holmes is

926
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 2: going to start opening day for the Mets.

927
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: No way, this is incredible about where he has and

928
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: where he's been and now all of a sudden he's starting. Ah,

929
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: good for him, man, he's a beauty. But he's an

930
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: awesome dude. Awesome, awesome dude. So that's really awesome. Congratulations.

931
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks really damnit enturing training too. Yeah, all right,

932
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 2: I got one more thing to show you from the

933
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 2: Sevarino conversation. Let's get it in there.

934
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 3: Your stuff was so good that get hit off this guy.

935
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean in the Yankees, it was a lot

936
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 7: of things I was doing, you know, a lot of

937
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 7: tipping globs, like, oh, show what it looks, you know

938
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 7: how it is it looks.

939
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you was like, look over here for a

940
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 3: certain picture.

941
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 5: With men and second.

942
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 7: I was looking at second and then stopping at third.

943
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 7: I was throwing fastball and then I look at second

944
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 7: going straight home and was hosby, So.

945
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 3: How did you stop?

946
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 7: They notice it, you know, And I just start practicing

947
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 7: like I either had to do one. I either had

948
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 7: to stop every time in third and go or just

949
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 7: not stop son't. Yeah, And you know, I started working

950
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 7: on the on the off season. I was, you know,

951
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 7: looking for that team I was signed. I talked to

952
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 7: two teams that I asked, if.

953
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 5: I signed with you, what are you going to help me?

954
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 7: And they told me, this is what we have when

955
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 7: we face you, so you know, just listen to those

956
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 7: guys like, okay, so I need something like for sample,

957
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 7: one team told me every time we face you, we

958
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 7: look always if it was down, it was aspie because

959
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 7: you don't throw the fastball down either. It was fastball

960
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 7: everything down with Osby, So change out was sliders, so

961
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 7: and varieties and lefty it was made away. So that's

962
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 7: why I I was working getting that singer in a

963
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 7: car and that sweeper, so I think that also helping that.

964
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 4: All right, good stuff ab absolutely incredible. It wasn't just

965
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 4: one thing, that whole boatload of things.

966
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 1: And that's that's actually a rarity to hear that many

967
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: things a player had going kind of the wrong direction.

968
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: You know, usually it's just a finger movement, a glove moment. No,

969
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 1: it was ball direction, it was head movement and.

970
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 4: It was glove placement. That's that's a threat of no good.

971
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, that MPM futures. We pick one of todd Father's

972
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 2: former divisi today, NL East, so Todd Pyter. We're gonna

973
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 2: do predictions obviously closer to start of the season, but

974
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 2: we're looking for value on the board. So Atlanta plus

975
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 2: one twenty five Philly plus one ninety. This is for

976
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 2: who's gonna win the NL East Mets plus two twenty

977
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 2: and then massive, massive drop off, which I don't think

978
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 2: you're touching, But tell me about what you like on here.

979
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 4: If anything, well, it's really close to top three.

980
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: If I'm looking for a little bang for my buck here,

981
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: excuse me, you know the bottom two is just not

982
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: going to happen, I would go I would go heavy.

983
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things. Now you bet

984
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: one hunt, you win one ninety, that's great, you know,

985
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: it's still a good chunk of change. But if you

986
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: had another zero on there, just speaking out loud, you

987
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: don't have to do that at all. I would go Philly.

988
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: And I think Philly will win that division. I think

989
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: they have a good opportunity. I think they took a

990
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: step back last year, but knowing who they have and

991
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: what they got coming in here, I think it's there's

992
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: there's for the taking. I honestly do. I think Atlanta's

993
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: going to be really good. I think the Mets will

994
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: be good as well, but I think Philadelphia, you know,

995
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: with Bryce Harper at the Helm, Schwarves doing his thing

996
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: wheeler and all these guys that are coming back. I

997
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: could see Philly, you know, kind of taking care of business.

998
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 4: This year, you know.

999
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: And you know people are like, oh, what about Atlanta. Well,

1000
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, I just don't see it right now.

1001
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually surprised there's this much separation between the

1002
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 2: Braves and the Phillies. They won't have a Kunyan Stryder

1003
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: to start the year. Phillies are pretty intact right now

1004
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 2: and they have a deep starting rotation. So that's where

1005
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 2: I see the value too. I'm with you, all right. Well,

1006
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 2: basketball offer for the ft fam here on bet MGM.

1007
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 2: Each Friday throughout the season, you pick a player you

1008
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 2: think it's going to score first in a game. But

1009
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 2: if it's not that guy and he scores the second

1010
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 2: field goal of the game, you get your stake back

1011
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 2: in cash. You only get that with the sportsbook Born

1012
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 2: in Vegas bet MGM gambling problem. We're concern called one

1013
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 2: eight hundred gambler. Good day here at A's camp, And

1014
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 2: obviously it's a comple completely different vibe. And I feel

1015
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 2: like a lot of teams say that when they go

1016
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: to camp and it's not true, right, Like maybe it's

1017
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: a club that didn't do much in an offseason or

1018
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 2: it's a club where you know they were coming off

1019
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 2: a disappointing year. This is a team that can actually

1020
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 2: say that because they finished strong. They're young, they've obviously

1021
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 2: had the tank rebuild situation going on for years. So

1022
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 2: with that, you're naturally going to get some extra talent

1023
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 2: come in your way, or should be, unless you're terrible

1024
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 2: at rebuilding. And then lastly they added pitching. I mean,

1025
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 2: that is what they needed. You watch that team, you're like,

1026
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 2: this team could swing it a little bit last year,

1027
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 2: but you're like, they need arms, and they did exactly that.

1028
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 2: They said, we're gonna spend our money on arms. We're

1029
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,240
Speaker 2: gonna extend guys, and we're gonna spend money on arms.

1030
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, and at first you didn't think that was gonna happen.

1031
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, all the turmoil with

1032
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: the stadium and trying to figure out where they're going

1033
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: to be this person the president, and they owner acting crazy.

1034
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: They're like, Oh, they're just gonna probably just wash it

1035
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: up and just go through this year and hopefully, you know,

1036
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: keep everybody healthy until next year. But they are on

1037
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: their way up. You could hear it in all their voices,

1038
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: the energy, the emotion, the realistic ability of maybe winning

1039
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: the division, and the positivity. And it starts with Katsea.

1040
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: It starts with him. He is as cool as the

1041
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: other side of the pillow, really soft spoken, but I

1042
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: know he carries you know, he carries himself well. So

1043
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: look out for these A's. You never know. It's not

1044
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: gonna be the A's of old, so just be prepared

1045
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,919
Speaker 1: for that. I think this team is ready. They're gonna

1046
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: be energetic and bring a lot of motion to the

1047
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: table this year.

1048
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: We know AJ likes them. I'm curious if he's picking

1049
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 2: them for the division or just for a playoff seat.

1050
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 2: We'll see. But spring training calendar for you, Actually, AJ

1051
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,720
Speaker 2: want to answer that question, then we'll show the calendar.

1052
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: We're gonna save that for the surprise. Just know that

1053
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,360
Speaker 3: I am picking the Athletics to go to the postseason

1054
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 3: this year. I'm not going to ruin the surprise for y'all,

1055
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 3: but I'm just gonna say that I am picking them

1056
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 3: to go to the postseason this year.

1057
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 5: I like it.

1058
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 2: All right, let's see what we've got for next week.

1059
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 2: We can put on the board thank you to the

1060
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 2: A's and look at all the teams that we hit

1061
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 2: in the past few weeks last week on the tour,

1062
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 2: because the week after that the season starts for everyone.

1063
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 2: Technically next week the season starts for the Dodgers and

1064
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 2: the Cubs, a regular season out in Tokyo, two games

1065
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 2: in the morning. But Tigers camp for us on Monday. Oh,

1066
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 2: this is very important. One o'clock I know we've been

1067
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 2: doing this week. We're back to eleven o'clock am Eastern

1068
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 2: Time lives So Tigers camp, then Twins, Red Sox, and

1069
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,800
Speaker 2: Braves on Thursday, plus postgame shows on Tuesday and Wednesday.

1070
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 2: After the Tokyo series with the Cubs and the Dodgers,

1071
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 2: WO