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Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Sahadev Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are your

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Speaker 1: Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic Patrick. We are

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Speaker 1: headed into Memorial Day weekend. The Cubs are ten games

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Speaker 1: over five hundred. They're not fully healthy, but they got

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Speaker 1: Ian halfback. They won a series against the Marlins. They're

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Speaker 1: doing what they are supposed to do in this weaker stretch.

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Speaker 1: I believe they are now seven and two in that

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Speaker 1: twenty one game stretch against under five hundred teams. I'm

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Speaker 1: not even sure if the Reds are still under five hundred,

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Speaker 1: but they start three against the Reds, a talented team

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Speaker 1: that's probably not playing up fully up to its potential yet.

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Speaker 2: But the Cubs.

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Speaker 1: The Cubs are getting a lot of different contributions. Matt

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Speaker 1: Shaw's returned and he looks like the player that you know,

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Speaker 1: we kind of expected him to be, or.

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Speaker 2: Hoped he could be. The Cubs hoped he could be.

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Speaker 1: He is driving the ball to the right field with consistency.

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Speaker 1: It seems like every every other at bat is a

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Speaker 1: hard line drive to run. Daniel Palencia bounced back nicely

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Speaker 1: blew that game on Monday and comes back with a

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Speaker 1: real nice save, quick one two three inning. The bullpen

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Speaker 1: isn't perfect, but it has some talent there.

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Speaker 2: Brad Keller with.

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Speaker 1: Huge one and two thirds innings, just to I mean,

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Speaker 1: and obviously, you know, I don't think anybody that watches

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Speaker 1: baseball expected Kyle Tucker's slump to last much longer than

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Speaker 1: it did.

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Speaker 2: He is back to being Kyle Tucker.

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Speaker 1: Uh. Just you know, this is a this is what

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Speaker 1: they're not click. I wouldn't say they're clicking on all cylinders,

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Speaker 1: but they are. I mean, they won a game fourteen

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Speaker 1: to one, so I guess maybe they are. But they're also,

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Speaker 1: you know, winning the games they should be winning series,

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Speaker 1: and like I said, they're ten games over five hundred

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Speaker 1: and first place heading into kind of what do we

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Speaker 1: call this a mile marker?

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Speaker 2: I guess in the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think to your point, I think that's the

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Speaker 3: most impressive part about this season thus far is that

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Speaker 3: they aren't really clicking on all cylinders. Like it doesn't

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Speaker 3: feel like the Cubs are kind of maxed out at

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Speaker 3: this point, like things have gone wrong and they've withstood

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Speaker 3: the injuries to show to Monaga and Justin Steele and

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Speaker 3: Javier assad and they've figured out to an extent what

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Speaker 3: works in the bullpen, you know, while acknowledging that there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of work to be done and they'll have

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Speaker 3: to bring in reinforcements here pretty soon. But like you know,

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Speaker 3: fifty games is not an insignificant amount of time off

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Speaker 3: the calendar. And when you see them ten over, when

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Speaker 3: you see how this offense has clicked, you see the

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Speaker 3: young talent rising to the surface, whether it's Kate Horton,

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Speaker 3: matchaw obviously Peek Armstrong becoming like an m VP candidate.

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Speaker 4: This is.

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Speaker 3: Pretty close to what the Cubs could have could have

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Speaker 3: hoped for back in Mesa, you know, boarding the plane

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Speaker 3: to Japan. Uh. It is, in just about every respect

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Speaker 3: a very impressive start to the season and one that

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Speaker 3: they think they can sustain.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't see any reason why they

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Speaker 1: can't sustain it outside of stacking up injuries.

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Speaker 2: I like the idea that you know, they've built some depth.

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Speaker 1: Here, they've they've they've won while not maybe playing their

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Speaker 1: best or having some injuries. Kyle Tucker is the best

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Speaker 1: player on this team I know, pe K Armstrong is

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Speaker 1: probably the least in war right now. But I mean

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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker is the one that's established himself. Let's just

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Speaker 1: say that he has the the history of doing this.

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Speaker 1: So they have that guy, they have a breakout star,

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Speaker 1: they have they have a lot of elements that.

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Speaker 2: That lead to success.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we could talk about so many different aspects

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Speaker 1: of this team.

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Speaker 2: Really.

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Speaker 1: There's the the catching duo is just remarkable. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: youth that's coming up. Cad Horton is he was he dominant.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that, but he's he's he's getting, he's

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Speaker 1: he's he's producing. I think that's important. I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of positives that you can

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Speaker 1: bring up about this team right now. Patrick, Let's take

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Speaker 2: All right, Patrick, Let's bring in Trent.

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Speaker 1: He has been covering the Reds or well, let's ask him,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know the number of years.

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Speaker 2: It's a long time.

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Speaker 1: It's longer than I've been around covering baseball, and Trent's

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Speaker 1: been doing it and doing it well, Trent, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing?

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, man.

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Speaker 4: I'm okay. Besides you talking about how old I am.

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Speaker 7: You've been covering the Reds since before I was born.

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Speaker 7: And then of course, of course, the great thing about

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Speaker 7: this is I'm totally playing into it because somehow I

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Speaker 7: just unplugged my camera and I can't get the background off.

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Speaker 7: When it does, I've turned in my father. Is this

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Speaker 7: a bit, Trent?

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Speaker 4: It is not a bit?

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Speaker 7: Sadly, I wish it were, because that would make it

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Speaker 7: would just make me feel better. But nothing's going to

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Speaker 7: make me feel better. We're just all gonna die sometimes.

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Speaker 7: So sign of a biscuit. Oh my god, I am

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Speaker 7: just like playing every stereotype that you can. And oh no,

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Speaker 7: it makes it worse. Apparently all I did was accidentally

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Speaker 7: clicked stop cam. Oh my god, you have seen me

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Speaker 7: age in real time, and I did a background once.

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Speaker 4: I can't get it off, but only on Crow, not

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Speaker 4: on Safari.

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Speaker 7: Oh god, I am my father and I don't have

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Speaker 7: me to call. It's like when he died, his spirit

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Speaker 2: There we go, all right, we see how about that ram?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 4: Trent?

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Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Reds. They're not a dominant ball club. They

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Speaker 1: are not a bad ball club. They are the Cincinnati Reds. Uh.

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Speaker 2: One thing that I'm gonna start.

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Speaker 7: Like technological knowledge, like I exist somewhat. It was much

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Speaker 7: better many years ago. The glory days were there. Now

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Speaker 7: it's sometimes you go right, sometimes you don't.

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Speaker 4: Fifty shot its coin flip.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's start with this starting pitching. It's good because yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did not expect them to be this good starting

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Speaker 1: what what's the standout is it? It's you know, I

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Speaker 2: Hunter Green's had a breakout season.

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Speaker 1: He looks like, uh, you know, a stud what what

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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, and it's pretty funny to like it's

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Speaker 4: Right. I mean we've I mean you have X amount.

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Speaker 7: I mean, what five hundred pitchers make the All Star

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Speaker 7: So you know it's going from that top five percent,

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Speaker 1: No, I mean I think that's a that's something a

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Speaker 1: hammer the zone. These guys can't handle your stuff majority

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Speaker 7: Was was being a being a hitter taught him like it,

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Speaker 7: thing's really really hard. If I just throw it. You

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Speaker 7: So like, I think there's something about I don't know

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Speaker 7: And it's funny because you guys have been around enough

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Speaker 7: So it's one of those things. It's just kind of fun.

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Speaker 4: You get, you know, you have that rhythm that.

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Speaker 7: So whether they're you know, five hundred or five games

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Speaker 1: Sure, let's take a quick break, and I have a

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Speaker 5: Trent, I just want to say, before Arena Club, if

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Speaker 7: I don't know I even know how to do it,

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Speaker 7: But I'm glad we have Arena Club now because it's

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Speaker 5: It is and right now you can get twenty percent

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Speaker 2: Go get after it, all right, Trent.

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Speaker 1: The offense for me is where I thought this team

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm a big believer. I buy long term Matt McClain.

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Speaker 4: I just do. I'm a big believer in Matt McClain.

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Speaker 7: I think a lot of it is missing a year,

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Speaker 4: I am not panicking over Matt McClain.

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Speaker 7: Why are you guys picking on me like this?

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, that's the thing.

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Speaker 7: It's like, those are two guys that I just don't

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Speaker 7: worry about long term.

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Speaker 4: I think they're going to figure it out. I mean.

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Speaker 7: And the other part is if you have them on

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Speaker 7: the field, they both changed the game.

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Speaker 4: They really do.

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Speaker 7: It's it's a matter of getting on base, and that's

446
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Speaker 7: going to be important. But Ellie de la Cruz is

447
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Speaker 7: the one of the best base runners in baseball. He's

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Speaker 7: taking fewer chances on the bases, which I think is

449
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Speaker 7: good and bad. You know, like anything, it has its

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Speaker 7: positives and negatives, and he's kind of reflecting more of

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Speaker 7: what the manager's asking.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 7: So David Bell was a big believer in, Hey, we're

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Speaker 7: gonna press and sometimes we're gonna get thrown out.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 7: David Bell, like the contact play was on anytime you're

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Speaker 7: at third base, and you know, Tito's a little less aggressive,

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Speaker 7: and he'll say that we're still aggressive, but within reason. Well,

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Speaker 7: you know, previously they just said, hey, Ellie, do what

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Speaker 7: you want. If you think you can get it, get it,

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Speaker 7: whereas maybe Tito's messages closer to if you know you

462
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Speaker 7: can get it, get it right. There's a there is

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Speaker 7: a slight difference, and so we've seen that.

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Speaker 4: And it's funny.

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Speaker 7: I've like got all these things like why isn't Ellie

466
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Speaker 7: hitting home runs? Why isn't he stealing basis, like, well,

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Speaker 7: he's got more home runs on the team than anybody

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Speaker 7: on the team, and he has more stolen bases than

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Speaker 7: anybody in the league. Okay, you know it's it's it's

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Speaker 7: all about expectations. That's kind of I think our expectations

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Speaker 7: for Ellie de la Cruz are I mean, they're show

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Speaker 7: Hay levels. Yeah, And and is that fair? And with

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Speaker 7: show hey, show hey it. You know where was show

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Speaker 7: hey at twenty two? Oh he was in Japan. He

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Speaker 7: wasn't even overhear yet, you know so I think that's

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Speaker 7: a lot of it is is what we expect. And

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Speaker 7: baseball is funny that way, whereas, like you know, most

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Speaker 7: other sports, you go to the gaming you expect. You know,

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Speaker 7: you're gonna see your guy and he's gonna you know,

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Speaker 7: Lebron James is gonna Lebron James that night. Well, baseball

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00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 7: you can go to like you can go to a

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Speaker 7: whole Angels series, well back in the day and say

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Speaker 7: Angels and say Mike Trout and he didn't Mike Trout.

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Speaker 7: Or or my aunt here's a better example. My aunt

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Speaker 7: went and it lives in Arizona. She went to a

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Speaker 7: Diamondbacks Dodgers game last year.

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Speaker 4: She got so.

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Speaker 7: Annoyed because the fans right behind her were just screaming,

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Speaker 7: show hey the whole time or no, it's oh Tony,

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Speaker 7: because I can hear her say it, and she's like,

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Speaker 7: and he.

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Speaker 4: Went over four, he didn't get a hit. He staks.

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Speaker 7: It's like, I think my aunt, like she's she's a

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Speaker 7: brilliant person, and I will trust her on anything about energy,

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Speaker 7: uh and and and those kind of things. She's an engineer,

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Speaker 7: but I don't trust her about baseball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Call In terms of expectations here, I feel like the

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Speaker 3: Reds are one of those teams in the middle, like

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Speaker 3: that it's not as hopeless as Pittsburgh. They have not

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Speaker 3: maybe overachieved to the extent that the Brewers have in

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Speaker 3: recent years.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know.

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Speaker 3: When I watched the Reds from this distance, they always

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Speaker 3: have like nice, interesting position players. You have a pitching now,

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Speaker 3: they're attractive enough to draw Tito off his couch in Arizona. Like,

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Speaker 3: what is the scenario in which the Reds catch fire

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Speaker 3: and ruin the cub.

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Speaker 4: Season and chase them down in the division? Like, how

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Speaker 4: does that happen?

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Speaker 7: Okay, first, Ellie gets a little more consistent. Matt McClain

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Speaker 7: is Matt McClain. Austin Hayes stays healthy because when he's

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Speaker 7: been on the field this year, man, he hits Gavin

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Speaker 7: Lux continues to Gavin luck Bucks like it's I don't

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Speaker 7: think it's that far away. You know, you can squint

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Speaker 7: and see it. I'm not betting on it because I

517
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 7: know too much about baseball to ever bet on baseball

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Speaker 7: or in sports in general.

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Speaker 4: Because it's just I have long enough.

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Speaker 7: I remember his rookie year, Sid I bet this kid

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Speaker 7: will never remount to anything, and I was wrong. No,

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Speaker 7: So so like that that's part of it, and it's just, yeah,

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Speaker 7: I can see it.

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Speaker 4: There's a there's a way where it happens.

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Speaker 7: And in this division you don't look at any team

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Speaker 7: other than the Pirates and say, I know what's gonna happen.

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00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 7: And even the Pirates you had some hope a while early,

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00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 7: real early, it's gone and shattered like you know it does.

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Speaker 7: But like every other team, like the Cubs, I think

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Speaker 7: they're better offensively and don't know if that pitching holds

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Speaker 7: up all year. The Brewers, it looks like okay, I

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00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 7: mean they're they're kind of where the Cardinals were a

533
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 7: couple of years ago. It's like, oh your depeomagic died?

534
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 4: What happened?

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Speaker 6: You know?

536
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 7: And the Cardinals they're not very good. You look at

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Speaker 7: them and like they got hot and they did.

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Speaker 4: Well, But are they good? No, I don't know that

539
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 4: anybody in this division is good.

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Speaker 7: Every four of the teams in the division can be good,

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Speaker 7: But is anybody like even what are we fifty games

542
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Speaker 7: in somewhere around there?

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Speaker 4: Like where are we like?

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Speaker 7: And take away what I just said about betting and

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Speaker 7: that you shouldn't do that, although our sponsors would disagree,

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Speaker 7: I'm sure like, is there any team that you would

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Speaker 7: look at in this division right now and say, okay,

548
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Speaker 7: they're going to win this division.

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Speaker 1: I mean, since we're on a Cubs podcast, I'm gonna

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00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: say that the Cubs have the advantage.

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Speaker 2: But I don't. I'd never advantage, Like, yeah, you know

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Speaker 2: what they have.

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Speaker 4: They have the money advantage right now.

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00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're going to and they're going to be

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00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: very aggressive. Oh we lost Trent. Uh, well, I'm assuming

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00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to use technology.

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00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 2: Oh wait, he's he's back. Did you just did you

558
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 2: just remove yourself?

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00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 4: Trent?

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00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll.

561
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Speaker 4: Take we'll take the head. I tried to do something.

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00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 2: All right, well this is oh my goodness. We're gonna

563
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 2: leave you with this.

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00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 4: Trent. Trent over under on Connor Joe.

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Speaker 2: Hits seven this weekend. He is a Cubs killer.

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Speaker 1: You may not be aware of that since he's just

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Speaker 1: joined the Reds, but he will. He will kill the

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Speaker 1: Cubs this weekend. Just to give you a heads up.

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Speaker 1: All the all the listeners right now are nodding along

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Speaker 1: and cursing Connor Joe's name because I I've watched him.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: This will be the third or fourth team, maybe the

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Speaker 1: fourth team he's been with, Yes, fourth team because.

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Speaker 4: Red when he's a rule five pick by the Reds

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Speaker 4: one year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but I've seen him.

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Speaker 1: I've seen him beat up on the cubs, with the Rockies,

578
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: the Pirates, the Padres, and now it'll be the Reds.

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Speaker 2: He will he.

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00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: Will come up with a big hit, or he will

581
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: hit a three run homer. Something will happen. It's just

582
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. I'm just preparing you for that.

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00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: Get your Connor Joe's story written.

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Speaker 4: I love that, you know.

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00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 7: I say, hey, never bet on baseball. That's a terrible idea,

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Speaker 7: And yet here we are yet another betting line, the over.

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Speaker 7: So I will show you, like how brilliant I am

588
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 7: that I know I'm dumb, and I'm gonna go with under,

589
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 7: which means over is gonna win, and I will look dumb.

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00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 7: But hey, man, that's what I've done this whole time,

591
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 7: Like everybody was like, why do you have this idiot on?

592
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 7: He can't even work a computer, And and for that,

593
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Speaker 7: I just said, get off my lawn, crazy kids.

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Speaker 1: Grant, thanks so much for joining us. Make sure to

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00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: read Trent's work over at the Athletic. Appreciate your time. Man,

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Speaker 1: We'll see you soon.

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00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 2: Take it easy, say you guys, all right? Patrick here

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Speaker 2: we go.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do our arena club player spotlight. Okay, Patrick,

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Speaker 1: I think the player we're gonna focus on today is

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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker had six hits, six hits against Miami.

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Speaker 1: He was kind of the guy that got things going

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00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: on Wednesday and Tuesday and Wednesday he got the he

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Speaker 1: got the offense going. He was the entire offense for

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Speaker 1: the most part on Wednesday.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,720
Speaker 1: He has a one fifty seven way to run screat

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00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 1: at plus slash land two seventy eight, three eighty seven,

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00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: five point fifty two. This man is everything the Cubs wanted.

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00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: They paid a hefty price. You know, Cam Smith is

611
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: maybe not tearing the cover off the ball right now,

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00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: but he's a young, talented kid.

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00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Esak Pritis is doing everything everyone expected he would in Uh.

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00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,959
Speaker 2: Uh is it DACD what's the name of the park?

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Speaker 2: What in Houston let let let.

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Speaker 4: On Field? Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Hayden was nesk. He's on the shelf

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Speaker 1: with TJ. But still they gave up a lot to

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Speaker 1: get Kyle Tucker. I don't think anybody nobody should be complaining.

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00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 1: This is just a remarkable level of production.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm trying to be less online, but you know,

624
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 3: his Tucker's performance dipped a little bit, and I think

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00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 3: there was some chatter on social media about that. I

626
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 3: just think it's impressive what he brings to the table

627
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 3: every day, and that even you know, if he wasn't

628
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 3: maybe crushing the ball there for a little bit, you know,

629
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Speaker 3: a couple games in late April, there are pockets in

630
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 3: May still contributing at a really high level, taking his walks,

631
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 3: setting an example, taking pressure off teammates. I think, like

632
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 3: we started the show this season, while he's had some

633
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 3: unscripted moments thus far, the overall body of work the

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Speaker 3: Cubs would have taken it in spring training, and like

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Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker is at the top of that list, like

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00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 3: really well liked teammates, like a tone setter for the

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00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 3: entire tire lineup.

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00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 4: I think what Joe Madden.

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00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 3: Liked to call a force multiplier who just makes the

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00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 3: players around him better, Like the Cubs pieces just fit

641
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 3: nicer because of what he does in so many phases

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00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 3: of the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely agree force multiplayers a good way to

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00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: describe it. Takes the offense to another level. Obviously, young

645
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: guys stepping up. He's not alone in this lineup, but

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Speaker 1: he deserves a lot of credit for kind of bringing

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00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: it to another level. All right, Patrick, let's check out

648
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: the slab pack we ripped from our friends with Arena Club.

649
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: So let's see who do we got here. This is

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Speaker 1: not Kyle Tucker from my understanding, it is Jacob Robinson.

651
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 2: That is a fancy card.

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00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: I'm a card collector, Patrick, I collected a lot of

653
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: cards as a kid. I started collecting again in the

654
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: pandemic with my son, so I'm into this.

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00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 2: You know you can you can trade this.

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00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: You can use the buyback program from Arena Club to

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00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: get Kyle Tucker's card if that's if you so want

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Speaker 1: to these are This is fun stuff. I love collecting

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Speaker 1: with my kid. He actually got a bunch of stuff

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Speaker 1: from his grandpa recently. Even though he's a teenager now,

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Speaker 1: he's still you know, I don't want to call him

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Speaker 1: out to his friends. Maybe maybe his friends don't want

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Speaker 1: me to say this, but he still opens cards with me.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fun.

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Speaker 5: I just want to say before Arena Club.

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Speaker 2: What I wanted to hit.

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Speaker 1: Right now, you can get twenty percent of your first

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Speaker 1: lab pack or card purchase by going to arenaclub dot

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Speaker 1: com slash foul and use codefoul. That's arenaclub dot com

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Speaker 1: slash foul, code foul for twenty percent off your first purchase. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, baseball cards I think are just kind of

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Speaker 1: the heartbeat of baseball and my youth. I know that

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Speaker 1: I did a lot of it with my dad, and

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Speaker 1: I do it a lot with my son now, and

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Speaker 1: it's still fun for me.

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Speaker 3: I've had a similar experience of you know, did it

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Speaker 3: as a kid and then as my son got into

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Speaker 3: the game. Like, it's kind of amazing how cards are

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Speaker 3: kind of timeless and how once you're at a certain age,

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Speaker 3: like it really draws you in. And to get a

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Speaker 3: Jackie Robinson, you know, a real piece of history. It's

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Speaker 3: pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, Patrick, We will be back next week

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Speaker 1: with more episodes. We will have a weekend slate of

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Speaker 1: Reds games. We'll see the Reds are always dangerous and

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Speaker 1: they're painting the Cubs, but whether they're good or bad,

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Speaker 1: so you know, we'll see how this weekend goes. The

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Speaker 1: Cubs have been playing well through like maybe not. I

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Speaker 1: think we both agree they're not playing their best baseball.

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Speaker 1: But they're winning the games against the bad teams, and

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Speaker 1: that's so huge. We cannot forget twenty two three and

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Speaker 1: how that what happened when they sunk against some some

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Speaker 1: bad teams early on in the season and that bit them.

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Speaker 2: So win these.

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Speaker 1: Games, win series, try and try and get through this

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Speaker 1: easy stretch looking good. Uh and then and then you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see where they are come June or yeah, June

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Speaker 1: and July.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: to everyone.

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