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Speaker 1: They're on the calendar. So are the Cleveland Guardians, Royals

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Speaker 1: Camp done, Guardians Camp now A's Camp tomorrow, Dodgers Friday,

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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday shows. Don't forget it will be live,

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Speaker 1: Mariners Camp, Rangers Camp. Also, AJ, you have double duty tonight,

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Speaker 1: a doubleheader, and you might be able to swing a

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Speaker 1: cocktail while you're doing that double header. First, a little

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Speaker 1: look at Guardians Camp this morning, bright and early, getting

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Speaker 1: those stretches in, AJ, did you like this part of

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Speaker 1: the job.

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Speaker 2: I love this part of the job.

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Speaker 3: The only problem with the guardian is.

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Speaker 2: Not sure if we can hear it? Yeah? Can you

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Speaker 2: not hear me?

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Speaker 4: I got you now, we got you now.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I did not like stretching because you never see a

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Speaker 3: cheat a switch before it's an antelope. So no, but

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Speaker 3: it was a good We had this conversation with a

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Speaker 3: couple of the fasten All people that actually are in

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Speaker 3: camp today with us. They asked me the same question,

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Speaker 3: did you like the stretching? And you know what the

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Speaker 3: stretching was for, It's changed now it used to be

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Speaker 3: what'd you do last night?

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Speaker 2: What was your fun?

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Speaker 3: What'd you do after practice?

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Speaker 2: Did you nap?

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Speaker 5: In?

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Speaker 3: All that stuff? Now these guys are too serious and

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Speaker 3: they're all like, no one's laughing. They're all just like

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Speaker 3: perfect high knees. We got to do the high knees.

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Speaker 3: We've got to do the butt kickers, you know, we

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Speaker 3: got to do all that stuff. We used to be

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Speaker 3: just a free for all. Now they have whistles and

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Speaker 3: all that. It's it's crazy now.

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Speaker 5: High wash, it's eyewash. You're not out there. If you're

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Speaker 5: going out there to prepare, you're cooked. Those dudes have been.

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Speaker 5: They have a sweat going before they get out there.

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Speaker 5: If they're strolling out like Jimmy Rollins style where it's

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Speaker 5: like he gets his uniform on at like three point

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Speaker 5: fifty nine and he's out there by four, you're cooked. Like,

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Speaker 5: that's not how That's not how it rolls.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollinds catching strays for just being able to hop

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Speaker 1: field and do thing.

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Speaker 5: Oh he know, he was. He was the latest on

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Speaker 5: time person ever. He would Jimmy, you're listening. You know

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Speaker 5: exactly what I'm talking about. You were like Superman somehow

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Speaker 5: you came into the field, but never a panic in

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Speaker 5: the world.

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Speaker 2: This is is good.

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Speaker 5: Ready to go like you were, you were all ready,

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Speaker 5: it was. It was crazy. Never seen anything like it.

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Speaker 5: Always ready to get there on the field.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy. So Spencer swelling back and.

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Speaker 1: Hurston Waldrip both going under the knife and they don't

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Speaker 1: even know obviously when they'll be back. And they didn't

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Speaker 1: even confirm a timetable for now. Here's Mark Bowman, he said,

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Speaker 1: surgery for removing loose bodies. They Spencer today, Waldrip on Monday,

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Speaker 1: and the Braves are not providing a timeline. Walt Weis,

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Speaker 1: their manager, said he hopes both will be able to

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Speaker 1: pitch again this year. It's not just those two who

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Speaker 1: both should have been part of the rotation. Aldo Lopez

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Speaker 1: on with him lately. Grant Holmes had injuries lately. Chrissale

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Speaker 5: Who if you talk to a Red Sox fan, they'll

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Speaker 5: be like, Chrisale durable?

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Speaker 5: But he won the sy young as a Brave. So

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Speaker 5: It's tough, and it's not We went through it a

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Speaker 5: little bit yesterday. Fortunately it's bone spurs or bone chips.

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Speaker 5: I just hope they find out what is causing those

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Speaker 5: creating bone chips in your body like something is causing that.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on with the player's side of

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Speaker 1: the situation here that runs all of baseball. Right you

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Speaker 1: have Major League Baseball Commissioner Manfred and all the people

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Speaker 1: he's just the executive director.

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Speaker 4: No, that is the leader of the Players Association.

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Speaker 1: So the player's side that makes up our sport and

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Speaker 1: and that is Tony Clark, who is now out. So

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Speaker 1: So this broke yesterday. We had Ken and Evan Drelick

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Speaker 1: all over the story first saying Tony Clark's resigning, then

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Speaker 1: step two was passing, and Don Benetta putting out from

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Speaker 1: ESPN that Clark resigned after an internal investigation revealed he

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Speaker 1: had an inappropriate relationship with his sister in law who

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Speaker 4: That's a Jerry Springer shit right theocratz.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not what you're looking for from the leader.

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Speaker 5: And I want to reiterate what you said, like the

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Speaker 5: leader of the union, he is Rob Manford. As much

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Speaker 5: as you say Rob Manfred, you know he can be

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Speaker 5: the puppet for the owners. Okay, that's fine, you can

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Speaker 5: say whatever you think. Like, this is a huge thing

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Speaker 5: that the Players Association has to figure out. And people say, well,

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Speaker 5: people make mistakes, Well, it's when you're a public figure,

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Speaker 5: like they have to deal with that right now, and

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Speaker 4: It is a huge thing.

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Speaker 1: Aj and he is still under investigation by the FEDS

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Speaker 1: for if he did anything shady money wise. So there's

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Speaker 4: I think it's still ongoing.

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Speaker 1: So and to my knowledge, that's why there was a

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Speaker 1: communication that's going on here? Then they speak to Tony,

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Speaker 1: they notify the players and the committee there, and then

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Speaker 4: Monday and they're like, what's the deal.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like they essentially said, your toast, do you

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Speaker 1: want to announce it yourself or not? And then by

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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning we find out before his first meeting that's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, this is just terrible situation. Honestly, I don't

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Speaker 3: know enough about this, but from reading this, there has

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Speaker 3: to be more to this, I feel like than what

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Speaker 3: we've gotten so far, and I'm sure Kenondrek and everyone

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't even want to get into this because this

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Speaker 3: into people's personal life because you don't know what anyone's

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Speaker 3: So listen, whatever Tony did, this seems like the way

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Speaker 3: hope there's not. But this just sucks, man. I don't

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Speaker 2: It just sucks.

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Speaker 3: This whole thing sucks.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: territories So what's next for the union. Players have been

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Speaker 1: meeting fast and furiously.

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Speaker 4: They had a meeting yesterday, which is Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Bomb Nightingale said Bruce Meyer, who was kind of the

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Speaker 1: bit of news from Bob, and there's been a lot more.

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Speaker 1: Came out with an article saying intriguing candidates emerge as

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Speaker 1: MLBPA debate successor for ousted leader Tony Clark. Names they

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Speaker 1: Let's make sure we maybe talk to other candidates. You

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Speaker 5: next forty eight hours. Nothing's going to happen. Nobody's attacking

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Speaker 5: isn't like maybe baseball time to strike because Tony's out there,

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Speaker 5: executive directors out No, there is such a structure built,

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Speaker 5: such a game plan already built. Tony was really like

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Speaker 2: They saw it.

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Speaker 5: They saw that, and it's supposed to be there to

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Speaker 5: That's where they need to find somebody. That's who they

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Speaker 5: to try to find somebody who has the best intentions,

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Speaker 1: I tried to make as many phone calls as possible.

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Speaker 1: Engineered by Fastenall where industry meets innovation for more info

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Speaker 1: fastenall dot Com. Okay, so let's talk about MLB umpires

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Speaker 1: that can now request real time feedback on ball strike

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal, because there actually has been some confusion.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't affect anything in game.

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Speaker 1: It's more to help you, I think, evolve aj during

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 5: I never I never figured it out. Is it an

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Speaker 1: I can clarify all of this for you because I

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Speaker 4: This has to happen in a half inning.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it's in between the half innings. My

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Speaker 5: thought was when I read it they were or how

440
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Speaker 5: it was. How I read it was, it was a signal,

441
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Speaker 5: you know. So it'll be fun for me to watch

442
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Speaker 5: different umpires and be like, oh, if he if he

443
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Speaker 5: grabs a side of his mask, that's the signal. He

444
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Speaker 5: wants them to check that pitch. And then at the

445
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Speaker 5: half inning they'll they'll give him the result of what

446
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Speaker 5: that pitch was. Because I love watching different intricacies Brian

447
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Speaker 5: and Nora. After every pitch he shifts his he shifts

448
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Speaker 5: his chest protector and he does something with his chest

449
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 5: protector every single time. You know, Vic Carrapozzo doesn't move

450
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Speaker 5: at all until it's time for strike three. He's the

451
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Speaker 5: one who's actually in that picture there. So I love

452
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Speaker 5: watching that kind of stuff. But I want to see

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Speaker 5: a little tick, like if they go check because.

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Speaker 4: Now they're not doing that. It's tech.

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Speaker 1: It's tech, so they'll be attack so they'll hit the teck,

456
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Speaker 1: but you'll look for them to like hit their belt

457
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Speaker 1: buckle and be like.

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Speaker 4: And get that.

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Speaker 2: That's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's it's not going to be like a sign. It's

461
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Speaker 1: not going to be a sign for that someone's watching

462
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Speaker 1: them on there. It'll be some button that they hit

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Speaker 1: and they want them to review.

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Speaker 2: And I want to see.

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Speaker 4: But is going to be subtle?

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Speaker 1: So if you're catching, I mean, are you going to

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Speaker 1: see the umpire trying to subtly just oh.

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Speaker 5: I'm not as I'm catching, I'm saying the bench will

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Speaker 5: see it.

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: There's there's an umpire. There's an umpire that doesn't use

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Speaker 2: the clicker. He has. He has hair bands on his

473
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Speaker 2: hand and.

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Speaker 5: He pulls them, pulls them to the one finger when

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Speaker 5: it's two strikes, when it's when it's three balls on

476
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Speaker 5: the other f on the other hand, that's how he

477
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Speaker 5: does the that's how he does his ball cat like.

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Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff is interesting to me.

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Speaker 1: I think this will cause more fights and injections. Why

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Speaker 1: because a JA this gives the umpire ammo. They didn't

481
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Speaker 1: have any ammo. And credit to MLBNPA right, who both agreed,

482
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Speaker 1: we're doing all of these things, but we're not really

483
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Speaker 1: giving the umpires as much access during a game, we

484
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Speaker 1: get to run, like you, guys both said, to the

485
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Speaker 1: dugout and check the tablets and see who was right

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Speaker 1: and wrong. And we've seen sometimes guys get tossed after

487
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Speaker 1: as they're screaming at the umpire, they talk to them

488
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Speaker 1: the next day. B umpire has a little revenge now too.

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Speaker 1: If he gets he gets a little shit from the player.

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Speaker 1: He could be like, okay, okay, I see you that

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Speaker 1: half inning he checks and he's like, nope, I was right.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if an umpire is going to

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Speaker 1: bring that up, but he's certainly going to have the

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Speaker 1: amo if someone says something to him, be like did

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Speaker 1: you check that pitch?

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Speaker 4: Did you check that three two where you felt like

497
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Speaker 4: you had ball four? I got you, bro.

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Speaker 3: I dis agree, scout, because now there is no arguing

499
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Speaker 3: anymore because you know what the argument is. Cap your

500
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Speaker 3: helmet if you don't like to call, and we'll challenge

501
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Speaker 3: you and we'll see you right there. So I don't

502
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Speaker 3: think it's going to lead any more rejections. I just

503
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Speaker 3: think it's another tool to help the umpires improve. And

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Speaker 3: I'm here when umpires.

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Speaker 1: Get better, do you think that a catcher might be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: next half inning, you should just check a few of

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Speaker 1: your pitches.

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Speaker 3: Well, that might get somebody objective, but again there will

509
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Speaker 3: say challenge it if you don't like it.

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Speaker 5: That's the thing. Like they're they're not checking the egregious ones.

511
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Speaker 5: The catchers are going to go They're gonna challenge the

512
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Speaker 5: egregious ones. This is where this is where the money's

513
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Speaker 5: gonna be made. That fifty to fifty ball. And when

514
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Speaker 5: I say a fifty to fifty ball, it truly means

515
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Speaker 5: that umpires call that pitch fifty percent of the time

516
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Speaker 5: of ball fifty percent of the time a strike.

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Speaker 2: Who was right?

518
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Speaker 5: Because now there's it's black and white. Now there's no

519
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 5: gray area. It is you were either right or you

520
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 5: were wrong. And you can see the progression on the

521
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Speaker 5: screen for the podcast, we have a we have a

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Speaker 5: progression of what umpires zones look like throughout how they've

523
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Speaker 5: changed since two thousand and seven to twenty five and

524
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Speaker 5: twenty five. To me, it's interesting because there's different times

525
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Speaker 5: when they've kind of implemented different like objectives. Hey, our

526
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Speaker 5: objective starting twenty twenty five, which teams found out in

527
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Speaker 5: spring training I think it was, or maybe in the

528
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Speaker 5: winter meetings I forget was, Hey, we're going to call

529
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Speaker 5: the tighter zone. We're going to call the actual zone.

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Speaker 5: It shows over an entire year, it kind of shrunk

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Speaker 5: on the sides a little bit. Back in two thousand,

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Speaker 5: I think it was fourteen or fifteen, they said, hey,

533
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Speaker 5: we're going to make an onus about not making the

534
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Speaker 5: zones so.

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Speaker 2: Wide and more top to bottom.

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Speaker 5: Ironically, you know, the four seam fastball was really starting

537
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 5: to get some life pun intended, but it was something

538
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Speaker 5: that it shows umpires overall can make adjustments and players

539
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 5: can make adjustments too. But it's such a cool graphic

540
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Speaker 5: that we just showed.

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Speaker 4: There it is again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two thousand and seven was kind of brutal compared

543
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Speaker 1: to what it looks like now in twenty twenty five.

544
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Speaker 1: Look at that chunky amiba in two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 4: Ah, and now how different strike.

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Speaker 3: Zones a differently. It looks you'll be called differently though,

547
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Speaker 3: so you can say people are like, oh, they sucked

548
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 3: in two thousand and seven, but that was the strike

549
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 3: zone that we were given. Players make adjustments. Talk to

550
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 3: any player, they'll adjust to what's being called, right, and

551
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 3: it's gotten tighter because we've gotten better technology. And over

552
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 3: the years the technology has gotten better and better, and

553
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 3: so have the umpires and so have the hitters. So yeah,

554
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Speaker 3: it's a natural evolution of what happens with technology and

555
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Speaker 3: players and us.

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Speaker 1: And we can do a separate segment on this, but

557
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Speaker 1: just to clarify for people, we're not losing the strike

558
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Speaker 1: zone box.

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Speaker 4: On the games that have them.

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Speaker 1: There will be a delay though they'll have a I

561
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Speaker 1: think it's a nine second delay to put the game

562
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Speaker 1: broadcast out. That they have some separation there so the

563
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 1: players can't be sitting there and who knows is that,

564
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Speaker 1: I guess aj so that they don't have some system

565
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: where someone's seeing it in real time and trying to

566
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Speaker 1: tell someone to challenge it, even though you have to

567
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: do an instant challenge, but so that someone doesn't like

568
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: like this and this is oh because they saw the

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Speaker 1: sign from someone.

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Speaker 2: Yes take.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's I also watched the Triple A

572
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 5: game where the guy hesitated too long. He took one

573
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 5: step across the plate and he was like, oh, it

574
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 5: looked like he forgot that they had another challenge left

575
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Speaker 5: because it was in It was in extra innings and

576
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Speaker 5: he tapped on it and the umpire was like, nope, sorry,

577
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 5: and there had already been like six challenges at that

578
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Speaker 5: point in the game, so the umpire was having a

579
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Speaker 5: pretty tough day. M hmm.

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Speaker 1: I just want to conclude by saying that many people

581
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Speaker 1: are underrating how fun this is going to be. You know,

582
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: we put stuff out there about this and sometimes it

583
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: gets loved, but it doesn't get as many like views

584
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Speaker 1: and clicks as I think because I don't know if

585
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: people realize how fun this is going to be. The

586
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,719
Speaker 1: pitch clock ended up being a big success for most

587
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: people that wanted to speat the game up. This is

588
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: going to add a wrinkle inside the game that I

589
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: think is going to be super fun, especially for the

590
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Speaker 1: in game experience. If you're a fan and you think

591
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: you got it or you're just pissed about a call,

592
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Speaker 1: and then the place is going to go freaking crazy,

593
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Speaker 1: just like I mean, AJ you're a big football fan

594
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: where somebody, you know, where the coach throws the red

595
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: flag and fans freak out.

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Speaker 4: They're like challenge that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see, We'll see. I can't wait to see

598
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 3: it in action, though. I'm excited to see this.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad it's by the players and not by and

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Speaker 5: not by the coaches or some replay guy. I honestly,

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Speaker 5: when they first came out replaced, I thought it should

602
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Speaker 5: be the players and then you have more more challenges,

603
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 5: but the players should challenge it.

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Speaker 2: I would. I would love to see it because there's

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Speaker 2: so many dudes who are like, oh, check that. Check

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Speaker 2: we kept it.

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Speaker 5: We kept We kept a stat the one year, how

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00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 5: many times one person I won't say his name said

609
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 5: check that and he was wrong? And it was it

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00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 5: got like six or seven all of a sudden, you'd

611
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Speaker 5: all of a sudden be like, hey, you're not allowed

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Speaker 5: to challenge. If he challenges something, you're not allowed to challenge.

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Speaker 5: And I think the same thing is going to happen

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Speaker 5: with the strike zone.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep talking about We'll keep asking players about it too.

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Speaker 1: more information. Bet'mjam Futures al Cy Young. Hi, these are

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Speaker 1: the trends. So we went over this the other day,

621
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Speaker 1: but now we've got the trends report, So I like

622
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: to point this out. Like yesterday the surprise topic was

623
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Speaker 1: Roman Anthony getting a ton of love on MVP based

624
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: on the what plus two thousand odds that he's running.

625
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: Highest ticket percentage for al Cy Young is Garrett Crochet

626
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: point two percent, so that means he's getting six point

627
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Speaker 1: two percent of the picks. As far as handles where

628
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Speaker 1: the money is going on the picks, thirteen point three

629
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Speaker 1: percent to Kyle Bradish, who is the biggest liability liability

630
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Speaker 1: meaning if Bradish wins, bet MGM takes the biggest hit.

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Speaker 1: And the odds leader, of course is Trek Scoogle at

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Speaker 1: plus three hundred. Your thoughts here, I.

633
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Speaker 5: Mean, I love the plus four thousand that I'm getting

634
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Speaker 5: for Bradish.

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Speaker 2: I do really like that.

636
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Speaker 5: I think there are a couple names ahead of there

637
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Speaker 5: that if you're not going the Crochet Scooble route, which

638
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 5: are respectively Crochet's four hundred plus four hundred and then

639
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 5: Schoobles at plus three hundred. It's like you're getting some

640
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 5: nice numbers on that. Like that is that shows you

641
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Speaker 5: how wide open this could be? And is Scoobale going

642
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 5: to be the third ever three consecutive Cy Young Award winner.

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Speaker 2: That's tough to do.

644
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 5: Only twice has it ever been done, and he do

645
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 5: it for the third time. To me the name on

646
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 5: the list that really brings me the most value. And

647
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 5: also this could be his year because of based on

648
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 5: you know who else is on his pitching staff, Hunter Brown.

649
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 5: If you're paying me thirteen hundred plus thirteen hundred for

650
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 5: Hunter Brown, I'm gonna put something on that because I

651
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 5: feel like his next step, his next step in maturation.

652
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 5: Obviously he's got to stay healthy as anybody on this list,

653
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 5: but it's gonna be Can he be that ace? Can

654
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 5: he be that ace now that Framber's gone? Can he say, Okay,

655
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 5: I'm taking the next step, because if he does, he's

656
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 5: gonna best all these guys.

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Speaker 1: I like it interesting to me that these trends when

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