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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stupidity, home of the greatest media mind ever

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Speaker 1: to walk the planet. Okay, sure, here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: He's a true icon in every sense of the word.

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Speaker 2: He's loved and feared more than any being.

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Speaker 1: To Grace's plummet, there's got a bad with a voice

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Speaker 1: that sounds like very white and be got say he

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Speaker 1: let you with baby, God himself would pay thirty nine

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Speaker 1: ninety nine for a cameo. Fact of the matter is,

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Speaker 1: you are about to embark on a transcendent experience that

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Speaker 1: can only be described as psychological nudity. This iss and

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Speaker 1: this is stupidity.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, jump in holy.

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Speaker 4: Exciting time of year the baseball playoffs. As upset because

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Speaker 4: the Yankees aren't in it this year. I'm upset because

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Speaker 4: the Mets spent a billion dollars they're not taking it

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Speaker 4: to the postseason. But such as baseball because the Marlins

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Speaker 4: they did spend that much money, and here they are

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Speaker 4: just a couple of days away from making it to

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Speaker 4: the postseason as a wild card. See Billy, why are

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Speaker 4: you shaking your head? Why are you not more excited

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Speaker 4: about this? Your team is going to make it to

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Speaker 4: the playoffs, Billy.

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Speaker 5: I know, but these damn Mets and their groundskeepers are

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Speaker 5: doing everything that they can to ruin this week for me.

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Speaker 5: For some reason, I don't understand it, and it.

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Speaker 4: Like they've ruined my life. The Mets, Billy, you can

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Speaker 4: take a week of it. I mean it's the groundskeepers.

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Speaker 5: Don't get me started on them. I don't know what

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Speaker 5: they're doing. They don't seem to care about their jobs.

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Speaker 5: They're like, ah, this season's over and they're just playing around.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw what happened last night. Lastly,

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Speaker 5: there was a three hour rain delay. At one point,

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Speaker 5: the groundskeepers were taking group photos on the field instead

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Speaker 5: of keeping the ground or whatever it is that they do. Like,

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Speaker 5: I don't know why they were taking group pictures. They

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Speaker 5: were laughing about. They were removing the tart making puddles

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Speaker 5: in the outfield. Not the puddles that we've wanted in

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Speaker 5: the outfield to make the game more fun, the puddles

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Speaker 5: that cause games to not continue. They've just been an

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Speaker 5: absolute disaster, this grounds keeper team. I don't get me

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Speaker 5: started on them. I'm not gonna do it. You're not

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Speaker 5: gonna make me do it. You're not gonna make me

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Speaker 5: do it. It's not gonna happen. The fact that the

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Speaker 5: Marlins have to go back on Monday to play an

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Speaker 5: inning and a half is absurd, absurd. The Mets should

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Speaker 5: have just been like, you know what, guys, we already,

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Speaker 5: we already screwed you enough earlier this week. Let's just

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Speaker 5: forfeit this one. You guys can take this one. We're

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Speaker 5: not gonna make you come back, because if the Marlins

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Speaker 5: make the playoffs, they're gonna have to make an extra

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Speaker 5: stop in New York just to have one guy get

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Speaker 5: out for the Marlins and then hopefully have a one

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Speaker 5: two three inning, which you know is not gonna happen.

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Speaker 5: You know they're not gonna have a one two three inning.

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Speaker 5: You know that Buck is gonna go out there. He's

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Speaker 5: gonna put some all star team out there. They're gonna

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Speaker 5: acquire players, god knows what's going on. This is why

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Speaker 5: they should have had Madison Bumgarner should dart one of

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Speaker 5: those games, like I said, they should have. This would

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Speaker 5: have been done by now. It should have been done.

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Speaker 5: And at some point in that review yesterday, someone should

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Speaker 5: have come up and said, like, you know what, doesn't matter.

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Speaker 5: Take the runaway from the Marlins. Let's just keep this

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Speaker 5: game moving. Rain is coming, inclement weather. We know what's

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Speaker 5: gonna happen here. Let's just keep the train on the

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Speaker 5: tracks and keep things moving because if this game gets delayed,

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Speaker 5: then we're gonna have complications. But no, there was no foresight.

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Speaker 5: They decided to have this replay review go on for

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Speaker 5: like fifteen minutes when it couldn't have been clearer that

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Speaker 5: the umpires made the wrong call, and that do you

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Speaker 5: even know the player I'm talking about. I'll tell you

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Speaker 5: the play that I'm talking about. Here's what happened. They

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Speaker 5: need an out right. Bases are loaded for the Marlins.

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Speaker 5: What ends up happening is that they go and they

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Speaker 5: throw the ball to second base. They ruled that the

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Speaker 5: runner was safe at second base, so the inning didn't end,

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Speaker 5: but the runner overslid second base and took out the

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Speaker 5: so then it ended up tagging the runner. Now the

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Speaker 5: ruling initially was the play was safe at second. The

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Speaker 5: it was very obvious that the runner was tagged out

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Speaker 5: immediately and the runner coming home was lollygagging and did

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Speaker 5: should have been a very easy situation. Now both teams

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Speaker 5: somehow challenge the same play. Both managers ran out on

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Speaker 5: the field and both of them challenged the same play.

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Speaker 5: They were challenging different things. It was a whole disaster

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Speaker 5: where the umpires like, oh, the Marlins are challenging this,

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Speaker 5: the Mets are challenging this, and it's like, guys, you

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Speaker 5: don't both need to challenge. Just have one of you

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Speaker 5: challenge it because they're gonna look at the thing anyways,

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Speaker 5: like you don't need this, right. So then it goes

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Speaker 5: to New York, and New York never knows what the

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Speaker 5: hell is going on. That's been very apparent by the

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Speaker 5: grounds crew. But they go to the replay booth in

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Speaker 5: New York and then it's this weird dark room. I

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Speaker 5: don't know if you guys have ever seen it, where

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Speaker 5: it's like this dark room with a thousand TVs under

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Speaker 5: there you don't know who's looking at what. You wonder

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Speaker 5: It's very weird. It's like the banker a deal or

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Speaker 5: no deal. You know that room, the banker room, banker

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Speaker 5: no deal that he's sitting in a dark room. You

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Speaker 5: can't see what's going on. You just see the screen.

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Speaker 5: That's the replay situation in MLB. So you had that

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Speaker 5: going on. Have that not taken fifteen minutes, they could

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Speaker 5: have ended that game without a rain delay. I also,

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Speaker 5: by the way, we don't need to go any further.

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Speaker 5: It's fine, what are we doing today? What are we

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Speaker 2: What is this? I'm glad we didn't get you started.

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Speaker 2: What is this?

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Speaker 5: What show is this?

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Speaker 2: What are we doing? It's stupidity. And I'm gonna put

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Speaker 2: a smile on your face right now because you I

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Speaker 2: doubt that you can.

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Speaker 5: I doubt that you can. I dare you, I dare

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Speaker 5: you to put because I'm not going to smile this weekend.

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Speaker 5: I'm telling you right now, I'm not gonna smile this weekend.

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Speaker 5: And that is my vow to you. Even if the

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Speaker 5: Marlins make the playoffs. I refuse to smile because of

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Speaker 5: I will not do it.

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Speaker 2: There is one person. There is one person. I believe that,

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Speaker 2: even while in this frustrated state, even and upset. Yeah

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm happy team's about to make the playoffs potentially,

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Speaker 5: but the Shenanigans must stop.

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Speaker 2: But you're not gonna smile.

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Speaker 4: You're telling me I can't make you smile, because I

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Speaker 4: feel like I can, because I think that person.

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Speaker 2: It's not me. It's not mikey A, it's not as

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Speaker 2: much as you love him. It's certainly not fucking Chris Simms.

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Speaker 5: Okay, but I have a guy.

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Speaker 2: I have a guy. Sorry about that, I have a guy.

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Speaker 2: I have one guy.

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Speaker 4: It's the only person. It's not your wife, it's not

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Speaker 4: your parents, it's not anyone in your family, not even

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Speaker 5: Oh, Ti Kirchen is good.

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Speaker 3: Like the smile, smiling.

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Speaker 5: Wait, I vowed not to, damn it.

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Speaker 3: It is so hard being me sometimes this is never easy,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sorry every day. Okay, you can see me

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Speaker 3: and you can hear me.

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Speaker 5: We can see you and we can hear you.

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Speaker 4: Tim and we love you, and it's great to see

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Speaker 4: you and it's great to hear your voice. But it's

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Speaker 4: it's not Tim, it's just getting old. Like I could

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Speaker 4: say this as a person who is now considered to

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Speaker 4: be old, Getting old sucked, Tommy.

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Speaker 3: I know I'm sixty six. I know all about that. Okay,

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Speaker 3: all right, I'm ready to whatever you are.

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Speaker 2: I just started by asking you about getting old. Why

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Speaker 2: are you so exasperated right now? What's the matter with you?

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Speaker 6: Because I tried to get on the zoom chat and

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Speaker 6: it didn't work because my camera doesn't work on my

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Speaker 6: like as small as a pinhole and I can't figure

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Speaker 3: Now we're straight. Now, I'm on the phone and I'm

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Speaker 3: speaking to you guys.

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Speaker 5: All right, We're good, all right, Tim.

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Speaker 7: I will have you know that this is.

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Speaker 4: A very excited Billy Guil because his Florida Marlins, as

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Speaker 4: it stands right now, they are in a wild court

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Speaker 4: spot spot in the National League.

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Speaker 2: And well, I'll allow.

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Speaker 4: Billy to speak for himself. Billy, this is as excited

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Speaker 4: as you've been being a Marlin fan. Correct, Because I

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Speaker 4: don't think anyone really well, you want a World Series.

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Speaker 5: No, well, the Marlins have won two World Series.

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Speaker 2: I know, but ninety seven. How old were you in

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Speaker 2: ninety seven?

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Speaker 5: I was ten. I was at the games. It was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so this is the third the third greatest

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Speaker 4: time at Billy's life. Interns, you just say you were

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Speaker 4: gonna allow me to speak for myself, speak for yourself,

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Speaker 4: Billy Goumm.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. It's an exciting time to be a Marlins fan.

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Speaker 5: It's a exciting time to be a baseball fan. But tim,

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Speaker 5: it's also been a very frustrating week to be a

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Speaker 5: Marlins fan because there's been sheenhanigans at play. It would

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Speaker 5: appear with the New York Mets and their grounds crew.

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Speaker 5: They somehow managed to watch the first game of the

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Speaker 5: and then last night they had a rain delay which

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Speaker 5: they probably could have avoided because they had a strange

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Speaker 5: play which I've never seen before where both teams challenged

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Speaker 5: the same play at the same time, which seems like

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Speaker 5: one team challenging would have kind of resolved that issue,

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Speaker 5: and that delay went on much longer than it should have.

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Speaker 5: It seemed very apparent that the umpires got that wrong

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Speaker 5: and it should have been ruled in favor of the Mets,

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Speaker 5: and they could have probably ended the game. And then

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Speaker 5: they went on a long delay three hours before they

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Speaker 5: ultimately canceled the game or not the game postponed the game,

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Speaker 5: and now they may have to come back on Monday

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Speaker 5: to finish up the ninth inning, depending on how this

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Speaker 5: to be able playoff team at the end of the season.

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Speaker 7: Well, if they have to go back and play an

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Speaker 7: inning on Monday, then yes, I will have never seen

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Speaker 7: anything like that. As far as Shenanigans go. When it

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Speaker 7: comes to the tarp on the field, I've seen that

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Speaker 7: many times. I've seen games that were when I covered

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Speaker 7: the Rangers and I think eighty three it was, they

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Speaker 3: The difference, Billy is this is a pennant race. This

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Speaker 2: So they make a chance, Billy, they'll have to play

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Speaker 7: Right, But even in a suspended game like that, the

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Speaker 7: You know, I got the Marlins about fifth or sixth

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Speaker 7: They're not even going to make the playoffs. I had

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Speaker 7: But I had six or seven other teams win or loose,

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Speaker 7: Just when you think you understand the game, you realize

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Speaker 5: I wanted to ask you about the Orioles because you

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Speaker 7: They finished thirty nine games out of fourth place two

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Speaker 3: One hundred games in a three year span in which

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Speaker 7: That's the list. That's what the Orioles have done. It

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Speaker 7: and fellas. The lesson here is this is a young

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Speaker 3: That's how you win today.

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Speaker 7: That's who the Reds are, That's who the Diamondbacks are.

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Speaker 7: That's who the Orioles are. That's how you win today.

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Speaker 7: You take a chance on your young guys, come up

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Speaker 5: So tim headed into the season, there were a lot

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Speaker 7: Well, look, I'm always going to hate the runner on

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Speaker 7: But I'm gonna take the high road as always and

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's there's no question there has to be a

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Speaker 7: It's way easier to steal a base today. Ricky Henderson

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Speaker 2: Oh no, he's lashing out, Billy No.

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Speaker 5: And it's not a criticism at all, like it's been

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Speaker 5: They look for any reason to talk about how their

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Speaker 2: Now I love that.

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Speaker 5: So where does that mini astris rank against the other

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 7: When you go from one hundred and fifty four to

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Speaker 7: So I'm going to say this is just a small change,

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Speaker 3: This is what happened. I just looked up the I

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Speaker 7: Andy Dalton is on the all time yardage list and

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 7: Andy Dalton is right behind Johnny Uniteds. So please let's

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Speaker 4: Also, Joe Damith, the guy who's been blasting Zach Wilson,

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Speaker 2: For his career, Timmy has a higher passer reading.

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Speaker 7: That's why we have to be careful that we didn't

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Speaker 7: Bill Russell blocked ten million shots before we started to

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Speaker 4: Shots, Timmy headed into the postseason here, Billy, did you

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Speaker 5: I want to ask about the als, but we can

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Speaker 4: Greek Fiki Greek freak Giannis in Milwaukee. You're a big

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Speaker 7: The Heat, Well, he's a great player. I don't pretend

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Speaker 7: it from as deep as Damian Lillard does and make

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Speaker 7: shots consistently. He's incredible, and yes, he will be great

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Speaker 7: with Giannis as long as he gets his feet squared

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Speaker 7: and gets ready. He's one of the great three point

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Speaker 7: shooters of all time. Can't wait to watch that team play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be fun, Tim.

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Speaker 4: Heading into the postseason here, the team who's pitching staff

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Speaker 4: you have the most confidence in is blank.

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Speaker 3: H.

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Speaker 7: Well, that's difficult because the Brewer's front three with Burns,

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Speaker 7: Woodroff and Peralta, that is a devastating threesome. When all

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Speaker 7: three of those guys right and they have the big

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Speaker 7: closer at the end of the game, that team is

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Speaker 7: really good. The Braves have have a really good rotation,

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Speaker 7: but Max Reed has to be blister free and Charlie

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Speaker 7: Morton has to be healthy, and neither one of them

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Speaker 7: is healthy at this point.

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Speaker 2: I just saw.

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Speaker 7: I just did a Mariners game the other night. The

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Speaker 7: Mariners leads our second American League in er and they've

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Speaker 7: got three starting pitchers who never walk anybody and throw

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Speaker 7: a million strikes, so they're really good too.

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Speaker 3: I just don't think there.

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Speaker 7: Is that one team out there that you look at

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Speaker 7: like the Dodgers of recent years, where you say, oh

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Speaker 7: my gosh, they can throw four guys out there who

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Speaker 7: might throw a shutout tonight. I'm not sure that exists,

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Speaker 7: which is why it's so interesting that this entire playoff

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Speaker 7: situation is way up in the air, because I don't

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Speaker 7: see that dominant starting pitching for any team right now.

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Speaker 5: The Aos seems to be the tightest division, where the

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Speaker 5: Rangers have a two game lead but they still haven't

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Speaker 5: clinched it. The Ashers are back, and then the Mariners

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Speaker 5: are one game behind that. So two out of those

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Speaker 5: three teams are going to make the playoffs. Which one

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Speaker 5: do you think kind of doesn't make it all?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 7: Well, I just did the Mariners Astros game on the

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Speaker 7: radio Wednesday night. By the way, I flew there on

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Speaker 7: Wednesday morning. Long story, I had no choice.

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Speaker 3: I had to fly to.

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Speaker 7: Seattle on Wednesday morning. I always get in a day

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Speaker 7: in advance to do a game, but I had no choice.

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Speaker 7: And then I took the red Eye home Wednesday night

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Speaker 7: from Seattle back to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 3: What a trip that was. The Mariners I think are.

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Speaker 7: Going to be the odd team out because they are,

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Speaker 7: you know, ten and sixteen in the month of September.

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Speaker 7: They're not a particularly good offensive team. They left thirteen

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Speaker 7: runners on base the other night in the game that

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Speaker 7: I did. And Texas is just a dominant offensive team

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Speaker 7: right now. And the Astros, you know, they just find

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Speaker 7: ways to win because they've been there so many times.

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Speaker 7: None of those guys is intimidated by playing the biggest

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Speaker 7: games of the season. So if I have to pick one,

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Speaker 7: it's the Mariners because they just haven't played particularly well

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Speaker 7: for the last month.

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Speaker 5: Well, the disadvantage for them too, is that they're playing

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Speaker 5: the Rangers, who are trying to lock up the division.

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Speaker 5: So you could have a scenario where the Rangers win

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Speaker 5: the first game, they clinch the West, and then maybe

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Speaker 5: take the two games off, which could benefit them if

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Speaker 5: the Diamondbacks are still playing for something against the Astros

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Speaker 5: or No.

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Speaker 7: No, I don't think they're going to take any days

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Speaker 7: off if they clinch because they Bruce Bochie doesn't work

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Speaker 7: that way. But you're right, and I just don't think

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Speaker 7: mentally they say, all right, we're the division champs, but

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Speaker 7: they can if they close them out early, they can

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Speaker 7: start to look at what are we going to do

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Speaker 7: with our pitching?

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Speaker 5: But I refuse to.

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Speaker 7: Believe even after a Champagne celebration, you're not going to

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Speaker 7: show up the next day ready to win. But you're right,

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Speaker 7: it's going to put It's going to be different if

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Speaker 7: they clinch, say earlier rather than later.

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Speaker 2: Timmy, how many days does it take your to recover

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Speaker 2: from a red eye flight?

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Speaker 7: Well, I had to take a nap yesterday. I haven't

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Speaker 7: taken a nap since nineteen seventy nine, and well, I'm exaggerating,

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Speaker 7: but I had to so I could get up and

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Speaker 7: watch the games last night.

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Speaker 3: The games are so so important.

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Speaker 7: So my body hasn't really recovered, but I'll get through

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Speaker 7: it today and once I and I'm going to Toronto

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Speaker 7: tomorrow to see the Rays and the Blue Jays because

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Speaker 7: there it looks like I'm going to cover that series

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Speaker 7: for US on TV on Tuesday. So I got to

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Speaker 7: go up and do some reconnaissance a couple of days early.

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Speaker 5: You take me back.

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Speaker 2: I actually believed him with his nap.

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Speaker 4: I did Timmy will Well aram Boom be back next

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Speaker 4: year as the Yankees manager?

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Speaker 7: Yes, I nope, I hesitation. We're never sure about New York.

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Speaker 7: It looks like they're going to finish over five hundred,

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Speaker 7: and as of the other day, they had the best

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Speaker 7: record in baseball from August twenty eighth on. And I

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Speaker 7: think they're gonna look at this and say terrible season.

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Speaker 7: Almost finished under five hundred, finished in fourth place, very disappointing.

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Speaker 3: But there were some.

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Speaker 7: Signs that the young guys who have just come up

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Speaker 7: have really started to make a difference. As I told

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Speaker 7: you guys, this is a young man's game and it's

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Speaker 7: the kids that are carrying. And this is what the

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Speaker 7: Yankees have figured out. I am not going to blame

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Speaker 7: Aaron Boone for the fact that a bunch of older

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Speaker 7: guys on that team.

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Speaker 3: Just didn't hit. They just didn't produce. So I think

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Speaker 3: he'll be back, and I think he should be back.

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Speaker 5: How much Ashman?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: How much longer does Cashman have?

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Speaker 7: I think Brian Cashman is going to be back and

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Speaker 7: should be back again. He just signed a four year contract.

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Speaker 7: This is the first of a four year deal. I

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Speaker 7: just don't see the Yankees, who actually care about saving

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Speaker 7: money here and there, getting rid of a general manager

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Speaker 7: with three years left on his deal. He would get

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Speaker 7: a job in ten minutes if they were to fire him.

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Speaker 7: I don't think he's going to I don't think he

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Speaker 7: should be because I think they have now recognized, right,

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Speaker 7: we have some kids in the system who can help us.

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Speaker 7: We just got to put him out there and take

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Speaker 7: a chance, because it's better to take a chance on

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Speaker 7: a young guy than put it in the hands of

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Speaker 7: an aging veteran who's way.

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Speaker 3: Past his prime.

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Speaker 2: How about Buck to the Mets again?

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Speaker 7: Note my hesitation, I think Buck is going to be back. Also,

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Speaker 7: I'm not going to blame him for the injuries. The

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Speaker 7: first one to Edwin Diaz and then to all sorts

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Speaker 7: of other guys on that team. The way that team

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Speaker 7: failed to produce, mostly offensively, I'm not going to blame

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Speaker 7: him for that. I think he's going to be back.

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Speaker 7: I think he should be back, and I think he

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Speaker 7: works a lot better when the expectations aren't enormously high,

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Speaker 7: and with the young guys they're starting to bring in,

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Speaker 7: He's really good with young guys, getting them better, developing them.

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Speaker 3: I think he'll be back. I think he should be back.

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Speaker 2: All right, two more, Timmy, we get you out of here.

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Speaker 2: Quick ones for me? Oh, Todi? Where's he playing next year? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Impossible question? Total guests. I'm going to say he goes

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Speaker 3: to the Dodgers.

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Speaker 7: The Dodgers have everything that he wants there because they're

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Speaker 7: going to obviously have to give him a chance to

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Speaker 7: hit and pitch in twenty twenty five, which I think

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Speaker 7: they will be willing to do.

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Speaker 3: But he has his.

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Speaker 7: Entire career mapped out when he was fifteen years old,

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Speaker 7: and the one thing he doesn't have is playing for

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Speaker 7: a championship. And I think he's going to look at

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Speaker 7: the Dodgers and say, they are going to give me

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Speaker 7: the best chance to win long term, it's not far

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Speaker 7: from Anaheim. I'm gonna say he plays for the Dodgers

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Speaker 7: next year. But again, stugats, this story's going to change

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Speaker 7: one hundred times before he signs this offseason, all right,

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Speaker 7: And last.

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Speaker 4: One for me, Timmy, I think the Braves are the

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Speaker 4: best team in baseball. That doesn't mean they're going to

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Speaker 4: win the World Series, but I happy to think.

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Speaker 5: They will win it again.

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Speaker 2: The Atlanta Braves win the World Series? Do you agree?

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Speaker 3: Again?

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Speaker 7: Impossible question, because any team against the field, I'm usually

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Speaker 7: taking the field. But the team that I plan on picking,

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Speaker 7: not like that matters to win the World Series are

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Speaker 7: the Braves because they are a devastating offensive team.

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Speaker 3: They are going to break the record this year for

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Speaker 3: most home runs in a season. And you win in

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Speaker 3: today's game by hitting the ball out of the ballpark.

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Speaker 7: And go look at the numbers about teams that out

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Speaker 7: homer others in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: They win seventy five percent of the time they're one

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Speaker 3: through nine. There is thunder in that order.

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Speaker 7: Again, The danger is if Max Freed's blister doesn't heal,

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Speaker 7: and he's not really good, Charlie Morton's finger doesn't heal,

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Speaker 7: and he's not really good. They're gonna have a hard

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Speaker 7: time with Spencer, Strider and others winning the World Series,

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Speaker 7: but I still think they'll be the team to beat

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Speaker 7: when October starts.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Timmy, we love you, we miss you. Get

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Speaker 2: some rest. You seem tired, you seem cranky. I think

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Speaker 2: ESPN is working too hard to me.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not tired. I'm not cranky.

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Speaker 7: I am happy because the greatest baseball games happen every

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Speaker 7: night now, and that's really cool.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully the Marlins will make a deep run for Billy.

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Speaker 4: We'll check in with you during throughout the playoffs, Timmy,

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Speaker 4: thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: All Right, guys, see it