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Speaker 2: Go ahead, Kratz, tell what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Just got to check it, replay, Yeah, look at it.

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Speaker 2: The runner's sleeve was tagged barely. We're getting a little

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Speaker 2: at all. Right, I think it's fun. Let's still remember

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Speaker 2: this is entertainment. Canny sneak a barely in there, why

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Speaker 3: Totally.

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Speaker 1: You can't just if you don't have any connection to

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Speaker 2: I want to hear them talking to each other. I

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Speaker 1: And ultimately it helps more people connect with more players,

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You got the broadcasters doing

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Speaker 4: I think that'd be great you put hawk and you know,

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Speaker 2: Now, rock unfiltered, you know, and for for people like me. Right,

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Speaker 4: But you don't even know, you don't. You don't use

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Speaker 2: In my opinion, Crats, I'm gonna let everyone in on

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Speaker 1: At I mean, it's also the lowest ops he's had

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Speaker 1: They got to put people around him to keep that

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Speaker 2: And Lindor wants to win a World Series because he

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Speaker 2: They are screaming at you. Twenty four seven saying hurtful things,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome back to New York.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Bronx. I should say, wow, yeah,

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Speaker 4: But I don't mean interrupt crats. That's part of the

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Speaker 4: I got to make sure I get my stuff in here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: If you don't want people to say this stuff about you,

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Speaker 3: Then you can.

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Speaker 4: to get in first place.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, Padres are a half game back as

434
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Speaker 2: of this conversation. Dodgers do have an off day coming

435
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Speaker 2: up on Thursday, but soon after that they'll go twenty

436
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 2: nine games in thirty one days if there's no rainouts.

437
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Speaker 2: That's hefty. That's hefty when you're feeling it a little bit.

438
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Speaker 2: And this probably is the deepest organization with pitching names right,

439
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 2: with guys who can pitch in the big leagues, of course,

440
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Speaker 2: but they're not the deepest pitching staff in baseball right

441
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Speaker 2: now because half the guys are missing. It's a story,

442
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Speaker 2: it's real. I mean, we're not talking about this in

443
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Speaker 2: July or August. We're talking about it in May. I'm

444
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Speaker 2: just trying to weigh the level of how much we

445
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Speaker 2: should bring this up on the show, Like, should we

446
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Speaker 2: be talking about this a lot and concerned or are

447
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Speaker 2: they gonna are we gonna look at the end of

448
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Speaker 2: the season, they're gonna win the division by four games,

449
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Speaker 2: They're gonna have ninety seven wins, and then they're gonna

450
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Speaker 2: be locked and loaded for the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: They definitely could, but right now I think there's a

452
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Speaker 4: cost for a little bit of concern.

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Speaker 2: I do not a lot.

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Speaker 1: I think ninety six wins will win the division, and

455
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Speaker 1: people are like, oh, there's so many good teams in

456
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Speaker 1: the division. They're gonna start beating each other up if

457
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Speaker 1: they had If they had two good teams in the division,

458
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Speaker 1: you might need to win one hundred and one games

459
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Speaker 1: to win a division. But right now they're four deep

460
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Speaker 1: in this division with you know, with some you know

461
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: laughers with the Rockies. But for the Dodgers not not

462
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Speaker 1: being at full strength in their rotation. You can't you

463
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Speaker 1: can't get swept by the Angels. You can't get swept

464
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Speaker 1: by the Angels. That's not that's not a Dodgers team.

465
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Speaker 1: My fear is and I thought they were gonna win,

466
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Speaker 1: you know, the game last night, because they come off

467
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Speaker 1: of that and they're like, screw that. We're in the division.

468
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Speaker 1: Now we're coming out same issue. Boys were throwing the ball.

469
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Speaker 1: Gotta throw strikes. You gotta throw strikes because the Diamondbacks walks,

470
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Speaker 1: you walk diamonback guys, it's a double. They just run

471
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Speaker 1: the bases, even if not stealing or getting an extra

472
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Speaker 1: base when the ball is put in play. They're doing

473
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Speaker 1: all the right things. That walks will kill you.

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Speaker 2: That's a good team, the Diamondbacks. And for some team's

475
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Speaker 2: going to be really tough matchup, which yeah, looks like

476
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Speaker 2: it's the case for the Dodgers. Crats, you're on every day.

477
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Speaker 2: You remember what we just went through from call it

478
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Speaker 2: October through March. Right October begins the playoffs, the Dodgers

479
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 2: end up victorious, last man standing, last team standing, and

480
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Speaker 2: then they won the offseason. They even get the guy

481
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Speaker 2: who anyone could have had for a lower price, Rookie

482
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Speaker 2: Sasaki because he couldn't sign as a normal free agent.

483
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Speaker 2: He was still an amateur free agent. We add that

484
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Speaker 2: all up, and when we were in February and they

485
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Speaker 2: were starting to just pile on and back up Tanner

486
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Speaker 2: Scott and Kirby Yates, suddenly people were like, I actually

487
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 2: felt like some people were serious. Why even play? Why

488
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Speaker 2: even play the games? They're gonna win one fifteen, They're

489
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Speaker 2: gonna sweep through October. I'm like, come on, now, did

490
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Speaker 2: I think that they'd be missing most of their starting

491
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Speaker 2: staff by mid may Man? Maybe? No, I didn't. But

492
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Speaker 2: the point is baseball's different. It's just different. In the NBA,

493
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Speaker 2: if there was a team that got seven super players,

494
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Speaker 2: right or whatever. At least you know, I'm not as

495
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Speaker 2: dialed in this second, but I know right there was

496
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Speaker 2: a time where it was just hey, let's get three

497
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Speaker 2: or four of the best together and let's do this

498
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Speaker 2: super team thing. Yeah, it's easier to predict baseball no way.

499
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Speaker 2: I mean here, I'll ask it again, Kraft as you

500
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Speaker 2: rebut here, you're taking the Dodgers or the field to

501
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Speaker 2: win a World Series this year?

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Speaker 3: The field.

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Speaker 1: I've said that every day this offseason. I said it

504
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Speaker 1: in spring training. That is not Dodgers hate. That is

505
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Speaker 1: realism in baseball. You're giving me the field. I will

506
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Speaker 1: take the field.

507
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 2: You I picked them to win it all.

508
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 4: I'm gonna stick with the dollars.

509
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 2: You got the Dodgers over the field, over the field.

510
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 2: Why why do you think?

511
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Speaker 4: I think once everybody gets healthy, it's gonna be bawl game.

512
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 4: And that's just the way I feel about it. I

513
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 4: think they're gonna do the same thing they did last year,

514
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 4: and all this is the ups and downs of baseball,

515
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 4: the ebbs and flows. We're gonna talk about. Man, oh

516
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 4: they're not the team to be. Then they'll be like, oh,

517
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 4: here they come again then and then what happened to them?

518
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 4: It's gonna be up and down, and once the playoffs

519
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 4: come around, everybody's healthy or for the most part at least,

520
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 4: they're gonna be the team that's gonna stroll their way through.

521
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, we'll see. Yeah, they're definitely hitting some early

522
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 2: adversity here. It is early, but just worth pointing out here.

523
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Speaker 2: In mid May, hey crats Mark fine sand mlb dot

524
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Speaker 2: com article said Prior to the announcement of Alvarado's suspension,

525
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 2: a source said the Philadelphia Phillies reached out to free

526
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 2: agent David Robertson. Remember him, the guy.

527
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Speaker 1: Who probably has set his price to where he thinks

528
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Speaker 1: it's should be and until they reach it. D Robin

529
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: ain't coming out of retirement. Ain't coming off the couch,

530
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: especially now since you think crap.

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Speaker 3: Like, is he ready? Is he not ready?

532
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Speaker 1: Is he gonna have a down year like he had

533
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 1: in twenty three with the Marlins? Is he gonna have

534
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: a great year right on his career norms like he

535
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: had last year with Texas?

536
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 2: What else? Oh, it's an interesting phone call. Oh oh,

537
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 2: you guys had a bullpen problem and now it's about

538
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: to get much worse with this little announcement you got.

539
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 2: Oh oh, well, my price is the same.

540
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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: He's great.

542
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Speaker 4: Doesn't have an agent either.

543
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 2: He knows what he's smart man, he's got veteran leverage.

544
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 2: It's hey, I made a lot. Yeah I don't want

545
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 2: you got to talk me off the couch, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That's it. He's got young kids too as well. He

547
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 4: wants to be around them. But you know, play play

548
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 4: baseball for four months. That'd be fun.

549
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 2: What do you think his number is? Because also, I mean,

550
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: he'd have to get ramped up a little bit. So

551
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 2: you're looking at I have a little about a half

552
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 2: a season, maybe a little bit more.

553
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 4: I'd be guessing if I knew his number, but he'd

554
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 4: probably wants I would say ten million.

555
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 2: That sounds about right. Hey, do you know who's joining

556
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 2: us tomorrow? Because it's relevant to my last combo, I

557
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 2: call him polar Bear, but yeah, whatever you want to

558
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: call him. You introduced him that way now I'm kidding. Yeah,

559
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo is the name, and we're excited to get

560
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 2: him back on. So we'll dive into things with Pete.

561
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 2: Not too deep, but we'll dive into things with Pete

562
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: and get the load down on what's going on with

563
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: the Metropolitans. So actually it's a good timing, you know.

564
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 2: We get to hear his take on what the SODO

565
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: experience has been like for him, you know. And obviously

566
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Speaker 2: Pete at a pretty banging start to the season in

567
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Speaker 2: the first.

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Speaker 1: Month, and everybody, like Mets fans like it's okay, half

569
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: a game out is still essentially first place, like this

570
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: is a good team. When we talk about it is

571
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: something enough, is something gone wrong? We're talking about to

572
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: win the World Series, not to make the playoffs, like

573
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Speaker 1: this is a playoff team when they're what they're adding

574
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Speaker 1: on the fringes makes them a World Series winning or

575
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Speaker 1: a NLCS losing team.

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Speaker 2: It does not feel like they've hit their stride yet,

577
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 2: which is scary. All Right, we're back and we'll give

578
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 2: you a little bit of news today. Kyle Gibson has

579
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: cleared waivers, so he's a first officially a free agent again.

580
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: He was defaid by the Orioles. They gave him four starts.

581
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 2: Was that fair? Can you tell in four starts if

582
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 2: the guy has anything to contribute to the big league team?

583
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 2: He's been in the league for a long time and

584
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Speaker 2: he had a very late start to his season, or

585
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Speaker 2: did he catch a team at a bad time and

586
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: they needed to start making changes And besides kicking your manager,

587
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: there's not that much they can do. I mean, you're

588
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Speaker 2: not making trades yet, So who are you gonna cut?

589
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a veteran who you paid.

590
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Speaker 1: I was trying to look up his status, his contract

591
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Speaker 1: status to see if he was you know, if it

592
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Speaker 1: was one of those forty five day Johns where it

593
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Speaker 1: was like, but I don't think it was No. I mean,

594
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Speaker 1: he was getting five point twenty five. To me, I

595
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Speaker 1: think it's too early. I think there's a threshold right

596
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Speaker 1: at that seven start mark. It's not like they have

597
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Speaker 1: somebody else. He's not taking starts from he's not taking

598
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Speaker 1: if they had somebody that was hot in triple A,

599
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: not even for the Orioles. You need somebody that's hot

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00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: to somebody's that's hot, And to me, you already have him.

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Speaker 3: It just seems like a mismanagement.

602
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Speaker 1: Of funds and I don't I wouldn't be surprised if

603
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Speaker 1: he get if he latches on with the team, if

604
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Speaker 1: he wants, if their fit is there for for Gibbey

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Speaker 1: and his family.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they were all starts right. Morton was put

607
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Speaker 2: in the bullpen, and so that messed the other day

608
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Speaker 2: the game after they fired Brandon Hyde, you had Gibson,

609
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 2: didn't last long, got beat up, then more incoming in.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you could put Gibson temporarily in the bullpen,

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Speaker 2: let him low leverage, eat some innings. You know you're

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Speaker 2: gonna need him to rescue someone. No, I mean that's

613
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Speaker 2: what they're doing with like I know, it's not great.

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Speaker 2: My point is they're often having blow up starts from guys.

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Speaker 2: It's it's four, five, six runs in the first few

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Speaker 2: innings and then you need someone to rescue the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: Do and that's where the innings. I think you keep

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Speaker 1: him as a starter. He's essentially on like March twentieth

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Speaker 1: He's trying to figure it out. These hitters, they're getting

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Speaker 3: He's been over the fence.

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Speaker 2: Uncle Kratz right now. Todd father left. We were doing

649
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: arm wrestling. I won. The bet was he'd have to

650
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Speaker 2: leave early if I won. So he's out. Maybe I'm kidding,

651
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: maybe I'm not, Maybe you'll seem to maybe not. Anyway,

652
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Speaker 2: we love you, Todd. So we got ten minutes here,

653
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Speaker 2: and first off, I want to start with the hottest

654
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 2: team in the National League, The Saint Louis Cardinals took

655
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 2: it to the Tigers yesterday. And I got a question

656
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 2: in the chat today and I don't remember who it was.

657
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 2: I think it was Brandon, but Brandon goes, when is

658
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 2: it time to talk about this team potentially actually being good?

659
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 2: World Series? Good? Relax? But could this team actually be

660
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 2: good be a contender for wildcard or division? When does

661
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: the narrative change on a show like ours? Right where

662
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 2: it goes from what are we doing? You're in a rebuild,

663
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: but you didn't even trade anyone kind of a lost

664
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 2: season to hold up a lot of the youngsters are

665
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 2: starting to click in, and this team's got a little

666
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 2: old school way to it. But they might actually survive

667
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: a marathon to be able to get through in a

668
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 2: entire season with an intact staff. It might not be

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00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 2: the best pitching staff in terms of stuff, but they

670
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: might be healthier than the teams that they look around

671
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Speaker 2: and see below them.

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00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, they might be healthier. And the pitching staff

673
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: is there. Fetti's Fetti's doing doing well. Sonny Gray is

674
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Speaker 1: going to be the anchor of this staff. Miles Michael

675
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: lists they're getting some young some young pitchers in also

676
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: a young lineup. To me, it's not necessarily like super

677
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: young in the sense of like they have they have

678
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: some dirt in their cleats, not a lot, not like

679
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: the Cardinals Cardinals teams of old, but a young lineup

680
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: that doesn't drive the ball and is weighted on on base.

681
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: I think they're leading the league and on base and

682
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: batting average. You wonder if tonight, I think they go

683
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: up against Scooble, you wonder if they're.

684
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: Able to.

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Speaker 1: Do enough against pitchers who are not going to walk them,

686
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: are going to challenge them. They're batting average. I think

687
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: they were leading the league in batting average. It's something

688
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: we don't see so to say it's gonna work or

689
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 1: it's not gonna work. At some point in the big leagues,

690
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: if you don't do damage, and you don't do damage

691
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: as an entire team, the walks start to diminish. The

692
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: walks start to go down because all of a sudden,

693
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: it's like, well, why did you throw a borderline pitch

694
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: to that guy? He's not going to hit a home

695
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: or he has three homers in his last one hundred

696
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: and fifty at bats, And I think that's an adjustment

697
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: that teams are going to have to make against them.

698
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: If they don't make it, and this team really does

699
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: have great plate discipline as a team, it will be

700
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Speaker 1: a different type of finish to the season where they're going. Okay, well,

701
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: I mean, this team's in it. I guess we have

702
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: to make a move at the trade deadline, which could

703
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: could hurt them down the road here. But I feel

704
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: like the way they're playing right now, they don't need

705
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: to change anything, but they need to continue to improve

706
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Speaker 1: at the areas that they're not improving at. I mean,

707
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: Nolan Arnatto, I think just got dropped down in the

708
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: lineup the other night. Jordan Walker, who's supposed to be

709
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Speaker 1: the guy supposed to be, you know, Rookie of the

710
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: Year candidate two years ago. He's hitting eighth every day

711
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Speaker 1: in the lineup. He has like a six hundred ops. Like,

712
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: they're not getting results from guys that you would think.

713
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: They're getting results from guys who you didn't think of

714
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Speaker 1: and are out there every single day in the lineup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I know, Walker's had a better past week, but

716
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 2: it's still been a rough season for him at the plate.

717
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 2: He just hasn't developed. He's always switching it up too.

718
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 2: I mean, I know we talk about that with a

719
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 2: lot of guys, right, who else does that? Bragman's big,

720
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 2: always switching it up. Bellinger makes big changes over the

721
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: course of his career. You're better at this than I am.

722
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 2: But Jordan Walker's always it's that is he comfortable? You know?

723
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 2: Did he Has he found himself yet? Obviously the answer

724
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 2: is no. He's twenty what is he twenty three years old?

725
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 2: And it hasn't come around for him yet. But you're

726
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 2: talking that way, and I'm like, wait, Jordan Walker's doing

727
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 2: nothing and the Cardinals can't lose right now? I mean,

728
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 2: where are we at here? It's like thirteen out of fourteen,

729
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 2: some crazy number. Right. His team's balling.

730
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 1: The team is balling. Here's my issue with the team

731
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: is is there nothing? Maybe I'm maybe I'm like too

732
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,479
Speaker 1: much into the new school era of driving the ball.

733
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: I'm just into the thought process of if this team

734
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: isn't going to do damage against you, how are they

735
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: going to win in games? Obviously, very few teams beat scooball.

736
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Speaker 1: How are they going to win games consistently? And they've

737
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: done it right now, so they've proven me wrong. But yeah,

738
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Speaker 1: you're talking about ops is seven eighty seven thirty seven

739
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: eighty six eighty seven point fifty six forty guys that

740
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: are playing every single day. Jordan Walker's OPS is five

741
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: forty six. They have a leeway, they have a runway

742
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: to do that this year. We're other years. Jordan Walker

743
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: was in like two eighty and they sent him down

744
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 1: to the bushes. So I think guys are getting having

745
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 1: success because they're just run out there every single day

746
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: and they're able to put at bats together on a

747
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: day in and day out basis.

748
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Speaker 2: So in the power department for now, they rank nineteenth,

749
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 2: so they're close to the middle of the pack in

750
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: total homers. That's not the perfect stat to be able

751
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 2: to measure the pop, but it's not like they're bottom

752
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 2: three or bottom five. Okay, so there's some pop going

753
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: here right now. And my thing, Kratz is, you just

754
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 2: don't have a lot of weak spots. I mean, you

755
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 2: have it at the bottom here of what we're talking about.

756
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 2: But coming into the season, did you see large new

757
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 2: bar doing this? Maybe on base about thirty six percent

758
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 2: of the time. OPS is close to eight hundred with Lars.

759
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 2: The story to me is someone like Brendan Donovan breaking out.

760
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: He's been you know, in what the three spot. I

761
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 2: think for most of the year in the lineup, he's

762
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 2: he's got an eight sixty seven OPS three ninety two

763
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 2: on base one forty one OPS plus. I mean, he's

764
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 2: been a star. He's been a star bat for the Cardinals,

765
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 2: right and he's always been a pretty good on basis

766
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 2: guy for them. It's just a contrarist to me. I mean,

767
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 2: you're gonna have some ups and downs, but that's a

768
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 2: pretty consistent bat. He was one of their better bats

769
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 2: last year when he was on the field. Arnado's had

770
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: a bounce back season. Burlison's got pretty good potential. I

771
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 2: think could take another step. Is it a great lineup?

772
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 2: Is it a feared lineup? No, but it's solid and

773
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: if guys are staying on the field and they're hitting

774
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 2: their peak right now, that's how you can hang around.

775
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still feel like it might be a little

776
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 1: too short. You asked, is this the team? Is this

777
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: the team at the trade deadline that's going to be

778
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: making moves to add. If you're going to add, you

779
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: got to add somebody that has a slugging slugging percentage

780
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: close to five hundred. If you're going to add, you

781
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: were still looking to get rid of Aeronauto because you're

782
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: looking to shed some payroll. Aeronado's ops right now is

783
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: I think below seven hundred six to eighty seven, and

784
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: he's an everyday guy. Wilson Contraras while he's a consistent

785
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: at bat, I mean he's a consistent bat. Do you

786
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: want your first baseman in Major League Baseball hitting having

787
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: a seven thirty one ops.

788
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Speaker 2: I'm not as worried as you are, dude. I mean,

789
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: he's a little bit above league average right now. There's

790
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 2: actually a lot of bad bat first basement right now

791
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 2: in our league. And last year Contrera's game for game,

792
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 2: and I know was half a season, was their best hitter.

793
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're saying he's a little bit above the

794
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: league league average.

795
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 2: Right now, but he's got a track record and he

796
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 2: should still be in good prime years. I'm not too

797
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 2: concerned about Wilson Contrarius. I mean, what do you want

798
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 2: from him, just, you know, off league average? If he's

799
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 2: twenty league average and above with the bat, I'm good.

800
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's that's average for first baseman in general.

801
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: That's gonna be your average for first basement. Like it's

802
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: like saying catchers who are below league average are still

803
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 1: above average, are above the position average. Who's the aircraft carrier?

804
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 1: Are we talking about a team that will end five

805
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: hundred be above the projected wins? Yes, because I mean

806
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: they've had this hot streak. They are Teams don't want

807
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: to play him right now, They're they're winning ball games.

808
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: We talk about teams who just can't figure out why

809
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: they're not winning. These guys are winning. They are winning

810
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: ball games, and they're figuring out different ways to do

811
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: it every night.

812
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: I'm just sizing up the too. I mean, the Pirates suck.

813
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 2: The Brewers so far have been down compared to last year.

814
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 2: That could change, but so far it's been down. The

815
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 2: Cubs have been good, but they're not running away with

816
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 2: things by any means, at least not yet. And I

817
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 2: think the Reds will play better as the season moves along.

818
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 2: They've been hovering around the five hundred mark. They're twenty

819
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 2: five and twenty four. But to answer Brandon's question, wait

820
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 2: and see. Right now, it's a fun story for a

821
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 2: town that was pretty pissed about the product and the

822
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: way that the team is being treated in the offseason,

823
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 2: and right now they're playing above expectations. And yes, if

824
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 2: they're six games over five hundred at the trade deadline,

825
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 2: prats they're buying. They're not mortgaging all their prospects, but

826
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 2: they're going to buy a little bit if they're six above,

827
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 2: that's just the way the league works. You can't tell

828
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 2: them to sell and be like, oh, well, we'll worry

829
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 2: about next year.

830
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Speaker 1: Yeah, six of their last games were against the Pirates

831
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Speaker 1: and Nats too, So saying.

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