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Speaker 1: Hi, Hello, Welcome back to Cardinal Territory, presented by Fox One.

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Speaker 1: It's me your host, Katie Wu. The twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: MLB season has officially come to an end, with the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the Toronto Blue Jays five to

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Speaker 1: four and eleven innings of Game seven of the World

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Speaker 1: Series Saturday night to become the first back to back

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Speaker 1: World champs in twenty five years, capping off one of

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Speaker 1: the most thrilling World Series in recent memory. As someone

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Speaker 1: who was lucky enough to have a seat in the

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Speaker 1: action over the last week, I can't even begin to

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Speaker 1: comprehend the baseball we just saw. It was truly, I think,

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Speaker 1: a World Series that we'll be talking about for a

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Speaker 1: very long time. No matter who you're a fan of,

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Speaker 1: whether you're a Dodgers fan, blue Jays fan. I feel

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Speaker 1: like twenty nine fan bases were Blue Jays fans heading

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Speaker 1: into this World Series. But again, no matter who you

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Speaker 1: were rooting for, if you liked crazy baseball, this was

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Speaker 1: the World Series for you. I'm still myself, I just

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Speaker 1: got back from toront Know this evening, I'm still trying

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Speaker 1: to process whatever the heck we just witnessed. In this

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Speaker 1: year's Fall Classics. So I'll just go ahead and read

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Speaker 1: a couple of the storylines that we saw, and these

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Speaker 1: are the things that only happened in the World Series.

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Speaker 1: I think overall this postseason was insane. But let's just

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Speaker 1: break down the last seven days. Okay, So the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five World Series was the first feature all of this.

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Speaker 1: Per the Athletic A pinchit Grand Slam that was Assombarder

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Speaker 1: in Game one of the World Series, which feels like

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Speaker 1: three weeks ago. Two extra inning games, eighteen innings in

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Speaker 1: Game three, so that's essentially two games if you think

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Speaker 1: two extra inning homers PARTI Freeman and Will Smith, a

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Speaker 1: seven to four double play to end a game that

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Speaker 1: was Game six, in one of the most wild endings

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Speaker 1: I can imagine to any baseball game, back to back

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Speaker 1: Homer's lead off a game that was Blake Snell Game five,

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Speaker 1: a complete game. You have amoto unreal performance through a

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Speaker 1: told me that would somehow have ranked lower on his

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Speaker 1: list of accomplishments this World Series, I would have been astonished.

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Speaker 1: After seeing what he did over the last seven games.

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Speaker 1: I am at a loss for words. The first twelve

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Speaker 1: strikeout zero walk game pitch in World series history. Trey

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Speaker 1: by a rookie a World series. That game that was

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Speaker 1: Game five, a player who reached based nine times in

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Speaker 1: series that happened in game seven by Miguel Rohas, so

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Speaker 1: no shortage of missed action there. There was also a

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Speaker 1: benches clearing incident in the game seven, a lodge ball

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Speaker 1: rule in game six. Again, an incredible world series from

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Speaker 1: an entertainment standpoint alone, and shout out to everyone covering

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Speaker 1: that game, whether you or were a reporter, analyst, print digital.

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Speaker 1: I had so much fun over the last month and

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Speaker 1: now I'm excited to sleep for the next three business days.

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Speaker 1: But as we know, Cardinals fans World Series is over,

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Speaker 1: which means we can officially talk about the Cardinals off

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Speaker 1: season now because it has officially started. And hey, what

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Speaker 1: do you know, I actually have news for you. Over

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Speaker 1: the last week, Heim Bloom has started to make some

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Speaker 1: front office changes. We talk about this on the Athletic.

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Speaker 1: If you missed it, good news, you can still find

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Speaker 1: don't really know my days right now. Full disclosure, I

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Speaker 1: believe this was Thursday the Athletic Reporter. The Cardinals were

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Speaker 1: hasn't been a ton of news, but that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: this article here can explain this too. I'll break down

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Speaker 1: a little bit of it. The Cardinals were planning to

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Speaker 1: expand the professional scouting department. We talked about this right

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Speaker 1: Barring anything crazy, a few organizations have not yet finalized

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Speaker 1: game planning coach Packi Elkins. They will no longer be

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Speaker 1: remain in the organization in strategist roles. So the cut

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Speaker 1: means the Cardinals will be looking to hire a new

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Speaker 1: this time that there will be a place for Yadi

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Speaker 1: hosts of the Rushety podcast, Chandler Rome reported hein Bloom

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Speaker 1: That's Joe Douglas. So the Cardinals hired him to oversee

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Speaker 1: the Athletic and here at the Foul Tarritory Network. Cardinal

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