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Speaker 1: Murray, Murray, you there. You love sandwiches. Huh, Let's go

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Speaker 1: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went

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Speaker 3: He caught them the game last night, although they won

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Speaker 1: Jeff Passion has turned into a fucking superstar, and he's

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Speaker 1: also turned into a bit of a diva because right

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Speaker 1: before we started recording, he was complaining. I was complimenting him, saying,

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Speaker 3: But now he's a diva.

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Speaker 1: It's all getting to his head because he was complaining

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Speaker 2: Let me, I was not complaining. I was not complaining.

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Speaker 4: I was I was merely pointing out the fact that

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Speaker 2: You feel like there have been murders here. I don't.

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Speaker 4: And here's the thing, Like, when I'm traveling by myself,

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Speaker 2: So I don't care.

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Speaker 2: And I need a blow dryer, No you at all.

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Speaker 4: I went on TV one too many times and my

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Speaker 4: I'm like, oh shit, all right, so how do I

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Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, man, when I walked into this place,

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Speaker 4: And I was trying like I got the least expensive

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Speaker 2: But definitely a dead body has been taking that.

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Speaker 1: Listen, you're in my I mean, there's a fifty to

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Speaker 1: fifty shot any hotel room you're stay in there's been

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Speaker 1: a murder. Oh so good. How often does mom call

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Speaker 2: Oh? Mom loves my segments.

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Speaker 4: Mom's so happy, like she's she's the best. And and

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Speaker 4: And normally it's it's positive. Normally she's like, that was

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Speaker 4: good job. I was like, thanks, Mom, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: Any of us take advantage of it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the best.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about steamers versus irons blow dryers.

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Speaker 4: Last week that had bath sheets instead of towels, And

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, I want to talk some baseball with you,

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Speaker 1: perhaps some March madness, but uh, you're a big store

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Speaker 1: at ESPN. I have scrolled through the hotel options when

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Speaker 4: So if I can stay in the murder hotel and

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Speaker 4: they get to write their story, all good.

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Speaker 2: That works for me.

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Speaker 1: Listen, the Jay and Jeff passion, Jeff passion, I call

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Speaker 3: Marriot. It should stand for JW.

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Speaker 2: But really Marriott, yeah, Marriott.

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Speaker 4: Marriott keeps track of lifetime nights staid in their properties.

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Speaker 1: Lifetime nights the amount of nights Jeff Passing has spent

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Speaker 1: at a Marriotte Hotel. This is exactly what I want

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Speaker 3: His entire life has been in a Marriotte.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, yeah that is I mean that is quite literally

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Speaker 4: In Marriouts, five full ass years in these hotels.

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Speaker 2: So one would think I could at least get n

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Speaker 3: The room to not be in a murder hotel.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, you know the mini fridge in

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Speaker 4: I think I think it comes down to nationalism, honestly,

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Speaker 2: You're just paying it back to them and hoping that.

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Speaker 4: You can see a generation of kids who while they

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Speaker 1: or is this thing impossible to replicate with inside of

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Speaker 4: And you know, I think there are areas where baseball

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Speaker 1: No less, what do you say to guys like Taylor

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Speaker 4: It's it's where your loyalty lies. That's a that's a

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Speaker 4: That's what sports can provide people, not just a respite

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Speaker 2: In and that they have passioned about.

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Speaker 4: Dude, we as we get older, like I mean, things

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Speaker 2: Hey, good for you. Do your thing, you don't.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to, Jeff, I will Taylor grow up

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Speaker 5: Speaking of American and national pride? What do you make

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Speaker 3: Yes, but past is about to tell you that's not

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's here, like he's in Miami. He drove to,

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 4: Why is anyone in a position to tell Tarek Scooble

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Speaker 2: About how this thing's going to land.

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Speaker 4: And look, we all make bad decisions sometimes, we all

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're just wrong, right, You're just wrong.

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Speaker 5: I would say, I would just say this. I tell

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Speaker 3: Can't always get what you want.

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Speaker 5: I get that you want to be part of it,

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Speaker 3: You got to pick one you're going to sacrifice somewhere, yes.

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Speaker 2: Mike, But Mike, but Mike, he did get what he wants.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, because he's that you can't get all that

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Speaker 2: Is that not what all of us would do?

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Speaker 4: There, Like if the if the public saying things about us,

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Speaker 2: Well most of them can, some of them not not

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Speaker 4: But but I think trek school is going to be

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Speaker 1: Well, the problem is he gave us a taste, and

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Speaker 3: How about that.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm shocked to hear them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you have, you have, indeed made a career

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Speaker 2: So maybe I'm the wrong guy to be.

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Speaker 1: Now, your job is to be responsible, to be a journalist,

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Speaker 3: God.

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Speaker 6: Jeff if you could take one person from the World

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Speaker 2: Oh? Good question, hmm, very good, Like can I take

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Speaker 4: I think he's yes, yeah, you're saying oh, you're saying

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Speaker 3: Yeah you want you to say Junior Camanaro.

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Speaker 6: I think I feel bad that Junior Camonaro has to

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Speaker 4: make some noise this year. So yeah, I think I

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Speaker 4: think Kemonaro is a decent answer. I mean, I think

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Speaker 4: the Royals are going to contend. But the Royals have

444
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Speaker 4: like won the WBC, you know, between Bobby Witt playing

445
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Speaker 4: like he has, Vinnie pas Quentino is the captain of

446
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Speaker 4: Team Italy hitting three homers in the game, Jack cagleone,

447
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Speaker 4: and on Venezuela, the captain of Venezuela, Salvador Perez, their

448
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Speaker 4: catcher mikel Garcia, their third basement. Like, the Royals have

449
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 4: had a good WBC and will be interesting to see

450
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Speaker 4: just how much like this translates into the season. Like

451
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Speaker 4: that's always a fascinating thing to keep an eye on.

452
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Speaker 4: Who takes the WBC momentum and actually moves it forward

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Speaker 4: in the MLB?

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Speaker 1: Are you surprised, Jeff that the United States is such

455
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Speaker 1: an overwhelming favorite tonight?

456
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Speaker 2: No, because of a couple of things.

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Speaker 4: Number One, I think they had the better starting pitcher

458
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Speaker 4: with Nolan McClain compared to Eduardo Rodriguez. Number Two, you

459
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 4: look at their lineup, I know the US really hasn't

460
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Speaker 4: hit much this tournament, but still the names of the names,

461
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 4: the pedigrees are the pedigrees. But on top of that,

462
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 4: the US's bullpen is rested and good, and Venezuela's bullpen

463
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Speaker 4: had to throw seven to two thirds innings last night

464
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Speaker 4: after cater Montero didn't get very deep into his start,

465
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Speaker 4: and it's gonna be tough on Omar Lopez. Venezuela was

466
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Speaker 4: manager to try and figure that thing out. But I

467
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Speaker 4: give Venezuela credit. Like they were trailing an Italian team

468
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Speaker 4: that hadn't lost the game in the WBC and seventh

469
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Speaker 4: inning comes around two outs, single single, single, single, Like

470
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Speaker 4: they're not trying to hit home runs. They're just trying

471
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Speaker 4: to get the blonde play and hit it hard. And Venezuela,

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Speaker 4: top to the bottom of that lineup capable of doing that.

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Speaker 1: Roman Anthony is he a top ten player in Major

474
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Speaker 1: League Baseball already?

475
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Speaker 2: Not yet. I think he's going to get there pretty soon, though.

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Speaker 3: Right is Like that's a chance to be an all

477
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Speaker 3: time right, yes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think.

479
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Speaker 4: Look he's twenty one, man, like, I think he's got

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Speaker 4: a chance. I hate saddling guys with this young in

481
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Speaker 4: their career. Roman Anthony has a chance to be a

482
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Speaker 4: Hall of Famer, Like, that's how talented he is. And

483
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Speaker 4: we have no idea how he's going to age, We

484
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Speaker 4: have no idea you know, health going forward.

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Speaker 2: But just in terms of tools.

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Speaker 4: And mentality, he's about as good of a young players

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Speaker 4: you're going to find in baseball right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm very nervous about this, Jeff, because Taylor

489
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Speaker 1: has an issue with something that you wrote. I will

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Speaker 1: leave it to Taylor to explain that to you. Good luck, Taylor,

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Speaker 1: go ahead.

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Speaker 6: So, Jeff, first off, I read all your articles. I

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Speaker 6: consider myself. I was between a pass stan or a

494
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Speaker 6: past fan. Which one do you prefer?

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Speaker 2: Neither?

496
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Speaker 3: How about a pass night.

497
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Speaker 2: We got to do better, fellas.

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Speaker 3: We will do better, I promise you. So it was you.

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Speaker 6: It was your article where for each team you gave

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Speaker 6: fantasy baseball advice for said team.

501
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 3: Your advice for the Yankees, he knows.

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Speaker 6: His advice for the Yankees was, hey, try to get

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Speaker 6: Aaron Judges.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So so can I can I walk you

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Speaker 4: through like the mechanics of how this works?

506
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Speaker 2: Please?

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Speaker 4: When I When I'm doing these capsules for every team,

508
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Speaker 4: there are just certain guys whose names I feel like

509
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Speaker 4: I have to get in there because I have to

510
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Speaker 4: say something about them, and the other two categories. For

511
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 4: the Yankees, I had better fits, and I not Taylor.

512
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Speaker 4: Did I not acknowledge the absurdity of saying go for

513
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Speaker 4: Aaron Judge. This was more informed by a my fantasy league,

514
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 4: which is an auction league. And I look at auction

515
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 4: leagues as like pay as much as you need to

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Speaker 4: to get Aaron Judge. So perhaps it was a little

517
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Speaker 4: bit of a niche like fantasy advice. And I acknowledge

518
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 4: it wasn't the best look. It wasn't my finest work

519
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Speaker 4: by any means, and I do deserve to get called

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Speaker 4: out on.

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Speaker 2: It, just as you did for a past fan and.

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Speaker 3: Past fanses like we're workshopping those.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was terrible. But I do understand his outrage.

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Speaker 1: It seems like you mailed that one age yet it does.

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Speaker 3: I mean I understand what he said.

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Speaker 4: No, that's reasonable, yes, And I mean I didn't look

527
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Speaker 4: at it like I was mailing it in like it

528
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Speaker 4: was an active choice to get Aaron Judge in there,

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Speaker 4: because I feel like if you talk about the twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty six Yankees without talking about Aaron Judge, you're not

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Speaker 4: necessarily doing the best, and I think like their season

532
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 4: hinges on others more than it does. Well, now it

533
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Speaker 4: probably doesn't. I probably should have just put him in

534
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Speaker 4: that category. Sorry, guys, Thank you, thank you Taylor for

535
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Speaker 4: call me out of that. I'll make sure next year

536
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Speaker 4: not to give advice and get Aaron jen and fantasy next.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for acknowledging that. We acknowledge our nickname stank.

538
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: We will work on it better. We will work on

539
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: something more better than what was presented to you. Just

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Speaker 1: looking at Major League Baseball, looking at the season, the

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Speaker 1: upcoming season, Jeff, because I think we're all caught up

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Speaker 1: in the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 3: We forget.

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00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: Oh, there's a Major League Baseball season to be played,

545
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Speaker 1: and it's going to be played very soon. The second

546
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Speaker 1: best team in the non Dodger Division, the team most likely,

547
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Speaker 1: which is all the other teams, the team most likely

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Speaker 1: to win the World Series if it's not the La Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Wow, it's uh.

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Speaker 2: Let's guys, let's not forget.

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Speaker 4: The Mariners got to Game seven of the ALCS against

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Speaker 4: the Blue Jays last year, and the blue Jays took

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers to Game seven of the World Series, so

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Speaker 4: I don't know that I'm entirely going out on a

555
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 4: limb here. They added Brendon Donovan this offseason. Their rotation

556
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Speaker 4: with Brian wu and Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Luis Cassio

557
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 4: like it. It is a very good and very deep rotation,

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Speaker 4: especially if Bryce Miller gets healthy. He's got two extra

559
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 4: miles on his fastball. This spring looks good. Bullpen's been

560
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Speaker 4: tightened up, and they brought Joshnaylor back. Cal Rowley runner

561
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Speaker 4: up in the MVP, Julio Rodriguez awesome, Randy Rose Arena

562
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Speaker 4: always consistent. They've got a tremendous minor league system, and

563
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 4: a couple of those guys could graduate this year.

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Speaker 2: Like that, it's I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, it's a really, really talented baseball team, and at

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Speaker 4: the end of the day, I am always betting on

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Speaker 4: talent other teams that could.

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Speaker 2: I like the Yankees a lot.

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Speaker 4: I know they're sort of running it back, and same

570
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Speaker 4: with the Phillies, but they're running back like ninety five

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Speaker 4: plus win teams. There are worse things to do than

572
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 4: to have a team that was excellent and say you know,

573
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Speaker 4: let's try that again and listen. Baseball fans can can

574
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Speaker 4: be a little bit spoiled because there's so much movement

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Speaker 4: in the off season and so many.

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Speaker 2: Players who are available that it's like we go out

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Speaker 2: and get some of that.

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Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I think season

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Speaker 4: moves or off season overhauls can be a little bit

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Speaker 4: overrated just because you have no idea how bringing a

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Speaker 4: bunch of new players in they're gonna mesh with the

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Speaker 4: culture there, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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Speaker 4: So if I see something that has been proven to work,

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Speaker 4: I'm usually going to lean in that direction.

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Speaker 1: We'll get you out here in just a second. Have

586
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Speaker 1: you filled out your NCAA tournament bracket yet?

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Speaker 3: Have you done that? Do you have a final four yet?

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Speaker 2: No? I have literally no idea.

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Speaker 4: If you ask me who the one seeds are, I

590
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Speaker 4: could tell you Duke.

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Speaker 1: Right, because you're guessing, and you're the way well better

592
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Speaker 1: than fifty percent of the time.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be right if he guesses Duke. So yes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I got nothing else.

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Speaker 1: Wait, so are you expecting if Team USA pulls this

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Speaker 1: off tonight? Are we expecting a party into the wee hours?

597
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: In South Beach tonight and will Jeff pass and be

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00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: following the team around if indeed that happens.

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Speaker 4: If I didn't have an eight o'clock flow to Phoenix

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Speaker 4: tomorrow morning, I one hundred percent would be out there

601
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Speaker 4: like after championships, like going to the party and and

602
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 4: just like observing it all. Some of the best reporting

603
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 4: that I get comes from like when a team wins,

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00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 4: and not just because like they've been drinking and they

605
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 4: talk a lot, but you you know, you see, you

606
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,479
Speaker 4: see when people win something together.

607
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: You see like where the real love is.

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00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 4: Because when you're when you're celebrating something that's as meaningful

609
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 4: as a championship, even for like a tournament like the

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Speaker 4: WBC that's been around only twenty years and the tournament

611
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 4: itself alf is less than two weeks, Like there's still

612
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 4: bonds that get formed, and that's where the best stories

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00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 4: come from. Like that's that's the human stuff that I

614
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 4: got into this business frankly to write about. And you

615
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 4: don't really see it better than when people win championships.

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Speaker 6: If they partied so hard when they thought they advanced, Jeff,

617
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 6: I can't wait to see when they win a championship.

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Speaker 2: Don't disagree. But is South Beach this team scene?

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Speaker 3: No? I mean.

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Speaker 1: I think yes, Scottsdale, right, Venezuela, it's perfect.

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Speaker 3: I mean.

622
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, like, is Tim gonna show up at eleven?

623
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 3: No?

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00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: No, but Venezuela will, Jeff. We appreciate it. We know

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Speaker 1: it's a busy time for you. Thank you, you're a superstar.

626
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: And stay safe in that hotel.

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Speaker 2: Man, I'm gonna do my best. I hope there's no

628
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 2: chalk outline of me tomorrow, fellas if so, r I.

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Speaker 1: P all right, man, We're sorry to have upset you

630
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: with the with the fantasy question.

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Speaker 3: It feels it feels like, no, I'm not my question

632
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 3: upset him? Yeah, no it was.

633
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 2: No, it was the right thing to call me out.

634
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 3: Dude.

635
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 2: Am I ever actually upset?

636
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 4: No?

637
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: Never, No, I've never seen you upset. I did see

638
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: you on CNN, and I was very thrilled to see that.

639
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was well? Did you I mean

640
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 2: did you see the end?

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00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 4: He did not tell me he was going to say

642
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 4: something like, uh, yeah, your mom watches CNN.

643
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: Do you want to say anything to her?

644
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 4: And I should have been like, fuck you, mom, traumatize

645
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 4: me as a child.

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00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 2: No, it was. It was very awkward. I was like, hi, Mom,

647
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Speaker 2: I made it to CNN, which is such a thing

648
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: to say. I just yeah, I fumbled.

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00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: That one a little bit, but fuck you mom is

650
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: not what you Yeah, I probably should have done that.

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00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 3: It would have been.

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00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: Great if you did that. Jeff, we appreciate it. Enjoy

653
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: the game tonight. Safe travels out to Arizona. You are

654
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: the best man. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you boys, great talking, see you, Assume