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Speaker 1: out to the team. It was a great few days.

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Speaker 1: A lot of hard work behind the scenes to put

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Speaker 1: I got to spend some time with our monster territory

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Speaker 1: host that is Robbie Hyde. He does an awesome, awesome

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Speaker 1: job postgame after every single Red Sox game all year long,

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Speaker 1: and then fills up the content in the off season.

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Speaker 1: Todd Father, he's a little newsbreaker now. He broke a

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Speaker 1: little news last night and then everybody else jumped on

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Speaker 1: this morning, Robbie Hyde said, Mark Lighter Junior signing with

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Speaker 1: the A's, he was told he was correct. One year,

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Speaker 1: three million bucks. The A's pick up a little relief piece.

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Speaker 1: You got to watch Lighter a little bit too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Tom JRiver guy. That's that's that's my guy.

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Speaker 3: We used to work out in the all seasons together,

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Speaker 3: like Kratzy knows all too well before we would hit summer.

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Speaker 3: Good for him, you know, I think this is kind

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Speaker 3: he's not a bad reliever at all. He throws well.

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Speaker 3: But I think kind of getting out of New York,

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Speaker 2: I think this is a great signing him.

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Speaker 3: He can go out there and be himself, not really

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Speaker 3: He's helping out the youth here a lot and I'm

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Speaker 3: happy for him. I'm really happy for him. I think

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's a guy that's kind of bounced

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Speaker 4: somebody I love to see. I'd love to see them,

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Speaker 4: you know, continue to push. They have a young core

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Speaker 4: of guys that they tried to add. You know, when

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Speaker 4: they added seven reno last year. To me, this year,

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Speaker 4: we'll say this offseason will say whether or not they

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Speaker 4: on who else they added last year because they had to,

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Speaker 4: like show me this year. I get it. You traded

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Speaker 4: Mason Miller. You got a nice little haul back. My

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Speaker 4: opinion is like, don't stop like this. Make this move

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Speaker 1: I know one other move they made a year ago,

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves building up their bullpen. Now it's Robert Suarez

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Speaker 1: three years of forty five million bucks. Jeff Passon breaks

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Speaker 4: I mean, not many people knew about him until he

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Speaker 4: nice competition here, and really I get it. Everybody knows

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Speaker 4: see how they really deploy Robert Suarez. Well they deploy

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you're totally excuse me, totally right

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Speaker 3: To me, at least, it looks like every time he

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: They are not afraid of going out there and spending

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Speaker 2: And I think this is a really good pickup.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys like better, Devin Williams or Robert Suarez?

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Speaker 1: They signed for very close money.

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Speaker 2: For me right now, I.

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Speaker 3: Would say Robert Suarez just knowing on the fact of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh last year's performance. It's a good call. It's

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Speaker 1: not even close. I mean, yeah, we have er plus right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there have been plenty of guys this offseason,

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Speaker 4: I disagree Devin Williams. Why Devin Williams. I get it,

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Speaker 4: the peripherals are there, But what are you looking for

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Speaker 4: What are you looking for in a long term contract?

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Speaker 4: When I consider three years a long term contract, Devin

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Speaker 4: Williams will be Robert Suarez's age when his contract is over.

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Speaker 4: How is Robert Suarez going to age? What kind of

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Speaker 4: miles did he put on his body banging around the

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Speaker 4: I'll take because the money's similar. I know he had

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Speaker 4: a better year. I know Robert swaz had a better year.

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Speaker 4: But in my opinion, watching Devin Williams, I felt like

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Speaker 4: he was not used correctly. The pitch selection was not

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Speaker 4: I think this is a I think this will be

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Speaker 3: Let me let me ask you this though, But he's

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Speaker 3: he should be in control of his own pitch count. No,

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Speaker 3: if that's what you're saying, I'm not trying to call

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Speaker 2: So that's where it's like I hear you.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time, it's like, you're in control

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna sit on that change up he threw.

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Speaker 4: He threw ten percent more change ups. You have to

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Speaker 4: establish your fastball no matter what. Like I get it,

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Speaker 4: his change up is bugs Bunny has the highest spin

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Speaker 4: of any change up. Like guys don't see it. But

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Speaker 4: it's like we always talk about with Tommy Kinley, you

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Speaker 4: can't just keep throwing it. Oh wait, you can, but

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Speaker 4: it is it's something that when you pop that ninety five,

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Speaker 4: I am not saying that. He said, oh, you know,

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Speaker 4: believe Hey, you know what, they're gonna unlock some stuff.

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Speaker 4: You want to believe that. Okay, I hear what you're saying.

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Speaker 4: My pitch, my changeup. That's my pitch. It's the goat.

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Speaker 4: It's gotten me to where I am I can use

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Speaker 4: it more. Okay, I will, I will. I'll trust you.

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Speaker 4: I'll trust you. At some point, you have you make

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Speaker 4: Since I started watching baseball, the Braves have produced pitching.

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Speaker 1: And I think Suarez, because he was such a late bloomer,

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Speaker 1: Hoby Milner one year, three point seventy five million, Chicago Cubs.

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Speaker 1: Kras did you run across him? Because then I guess

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Speaker 4: goes out there in posts and he's going to be

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Speaker 4: a piece to that bullpen for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he keeps the walks down and he gets weak contact.

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Speaker 1: He gave seventy innings of work last year and ends

433
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Speaker 1: up getting himself a nice little paycheck. Cubs bullpen, they

434
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Speaker 1: lost a lot of guys, and they traded away Kittridge

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Speaker 1: again but got Polentcia. They signed Mayton. I think porter

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Speaker 1: Hodge has a high ceiling. Got Milliner in there and Brown.

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Speaker 1: If he's sticking in the bullpen, there's enough going on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully if your Cubs fan aside is more

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Speaker 1: of a bullpen guy and a swingman to fill in

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Speaker 1: for start, so he's there, Luke Little it's starting to

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Speaker 1: come together where it's looking pretty good and everyone knows

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Speaker 1: what the Cubs should be doing next, and that's also

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Speaker 1: focusing on starting pitching. Du Leo Vet MGM futures. We've

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Speaker 1: been racking them up, Todd Father, n Elsai Young Winner.

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Speaker 1: We're looking for value and actually there's plenty of value

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Speaker 1: in my mind in all three here you're getting decent odds.

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Speaker 1: Paul Skin's at plus three hundo, so it's three to one.

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Speaker 1: You got four and a half to one on Yamamoto,

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Speaker 1: and Christopher Sanchez at ten to one odds. What are

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Speaker 1: we thinking here, Todd Father, I mean we're just showing

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Speaker 1: the top three. Of course you can go deeper down.

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Speaker 1: But you like any of these?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I like Paul Skins, man, I just don't.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's the top pick. The guy has just

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Speaker 3: been incredible. I think you go with him at the

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Speaker 3: top and then yeah, I mean plus one thousand. I

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Speaker 3: don't think you can go bad with that. For Sanchoz.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's it's an easy yeah, it put whatever

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Speaker 3: you want on it, but you gotta take a guy

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Speaker 3: that's down below there.

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Speaker 2: I do like Sanchos too as well.

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Speaker 1: I think he nailed it for me Kratz because he

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Speaker 1: didn't say Yamamoto. I love Yamamoto, But the Dodge take

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Speaker 1: care of their pitchers during the season. They've got twenty starters,

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Speaker 1: and I know that starts to dwindle, but they're well

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Speaker 1: aware that Yamamoto pitched a lot in October. So that's

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Speaker 1: one where I'm shying away.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't get on the fact that Yamamoto's gone

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Speaker 4: blue past his starts, that he's the amount of starts

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Speaker 4: he's ever had. And I get it he pitches once

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Speaker 4: every six days, but he you know, I just don't

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Speaker 4: see he could have the same production. But I don't

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Speaker 4: see the same amount of innings because they're playing for

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Speaker 4: another ring, which I don't blame him. Paul skeens, this

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Speaker 4: is huge. This is a huge you know, that's a

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Speaker 4: big number for me for the Favorite plus three hundred.

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Speaker 4: I really like that number. And when I go down

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Speaker 4: the list, I would love to drop a little bit

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Speaker 4: on Logan Web and maybe because if it were was

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Speaker 4: maybe more like sixteen to one. Right now it's twelve

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Speaker 4: to one. Hunter Green, I think has taken that next step.

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Speaker 4: I think Hunter Green's figured out how to stay healthy.

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Speaker 4: He's taking the next step of how to be a

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Speaker 4: clip in the first three innings, he's now pitching and

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Speaker 4: still getting those numbers at twelve to one. I really

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Speaker 4: like Hunter Green to win the sy Young. I feel like,

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Speaker 4: you know, we could have somebody that could step up

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Speaker 4: like Christopher Sanchez stepped up this year and take it

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Speaker 4: if it's not Skeens, because Schemes has shown he's not

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Speaker 4: letting anybody else win this award.

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Speaker 1: M hmm, I like that one. Hey, bet MGM's not

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Speaker 1: Gambling problem or concern, Call one eight hundred gambler for

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Speaker 1: any hit. Todd Father right off the jump here for

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Speaker 1: his thoughts and then krats can take over. Minor league

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Speaker 1: rule change experiment could eliminate hit her timeouts. Todd Father.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to take the game time down because it's

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Speaker 1: actually creeping back up again. We're at two hours and

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Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes. The league would like it to be

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Speaker 1: two and a half. They're trying to game plan. We

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Speaker 1: do see a timeout per at bat essentially for hitters,

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Speaker 1: so they're going to experiment your thoughts on this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't mind it. I don't mind it at all.

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Speaker 3: You know, I've always had problems trying to read what

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Speaker 3: MLB is trying to do. You know, you get one

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Speaker 3: time out for plate appearance. I don't mind that.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: I'm probably sure everybody's gonna use that, you know, just

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Speaker 3: because pitchers trying to speed you up. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 3: mind doing stuff in the minor leagues trying to check

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Speaker 3: it out to see if it'll work in the big leagues.

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Speaker 2: I don't mind that.

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Speaker 3: But if it's if it's very far fetched, then you know,

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Speaker 3: it's a bigger issue. But I thought everything was working well.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: Besides, you know, all of a sudden, you know, now

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Speaker 3: we can you can tap your head if you want another,

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Speaker 3: you know, if they want them to check the pitch.

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Speaker 3: I think that's really good. But ultimately, yeah, I don't,

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't see the big problem in this.

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Speaker 3: I think this will be just fine.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're saying that. I think Kratz is gonna disagree.

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Speaker 1: But Kratz, they're doing this also because of the ABS

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Speaker 1: challenge system, and they think it could creep up the

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Speaker 1: minutes and they just don't want to get back to

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Speaker 1: three hours again. The pace is good, and hey, for me,

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Speaker 1: I'm just giving you fan perspective. Krats, krats. It's not

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Speaker 1: just the time, it's the pace. Like hit her time

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Speaker 1: out and I gotta wait thirty seconds for him to,

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Speaker 1: you know, fit fix the jockstrap and do all the

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Speaker 1: bs and think about what he wants to do the

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Speaker 1: rest of the ab screw it. I want to watch

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Speaker 1: the game keep going.

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Speaker 4: We're telling, we're telling Tied to get out of here,

541
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Speaker 4: so I just want to push his screen and just

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Speaker 4: like get it at like, see see how that happened.

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Speaker 4: I control this I control this show. For that comment, No,

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Speaker 4: that just shows that Todd didn't need the minor leagues.

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Speaker 4: Todd didn't need the minor leagues. Just dudes that are

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Speaker 4: grinding in the minor leagues. There's guys that need to like,

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Speaker 4: oh man, everything's going so fast. I gotta I got

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Speaker 4: to create a routine. Hitting is not just oh whack it. No,

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Speaker 4: it's like you're figuring out the time and you're figuring out, Okay,

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Speaker 4: what did he just do? How did that change the

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Speaker 4: situation that we were just in? How is this, Oh crap,

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Speaker 4: I got a bug in my eye. Like, I get it.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of eye wash timeouts, you know, Jose

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Speaker 4: cabiiro is probably the best at it. But it's also

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Speaker 4: part of the gamesmanship. It's also part of the fact

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Speaker 4: that you can, like you can change how the pace

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Speaker 4: of an at bad is going. And it's hard to

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Speaker 4: explain without you actually being in the moment and saying, hey,

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Speaker 4: why did you use the time out there? I wanted

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Speaker 4: to slow him down. I felt like he was landing

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Speaker 4: all of his pitches. I wanted to figure out, hey,

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Speaker 4: would he double up on this pitch or whatever it is?

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Speaker 4: And you're taking that away from the minor league guys.

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Speaker 4: I hate I hate it because these guys have no

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Speaker 4: these guys have no recourse. There's nobody standing up for him,

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Speaker 4: and Major League Baseball just says, you're our guinea pig.

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Speaker 4: We're probably gonna actually take away low a in a

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Speaker 4: little bit because we're a bunch of cheap punks who

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Speaker 4: don't want to pay for kids' dreams to develop into

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Speaker 4: big leaguers. Because dudes do come out of those leagues.

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Speaker 4: Dudes do. It's not all just it's not all just

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Speaker 4: first rounders. It's not all just second rounders or big

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Speaker 4: bonus guys. And I lean towards that. And to me,

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Speaker 4: when you take this away from a hitter when they're

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Speaker 4: facing dudes that throw a billion, and especially in low A,

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Speaker 4: I mean it is, dudes are throwing rocks up there,

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Speaker 4: they're throwing balls. You know, they'll paying a slider down

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Speaker 4: in a way and then you'll get a hundred running

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Speaker 4: up and in at your chin. You need a second,

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Speaker 4: You need to take a breath. And I hate that

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Speaker 4: they would take this away from these guys for what

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Speaker 4: for what? Scott, three extra minutes? Stop like that? To me,

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Speaker 4: in the big leagues, you think you think the timeouts

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Speaker 4: are saving or save three extra minutes in the game.

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Speaker 1: More than that, I do. I think it would be

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Speaker 1: closer to ten. You got to think about it. Let's

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Speaker 1: say we have a long inning. Right there's been ten

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Speaker 1: dudes at the plate, they all call time out. That

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Speaker 1: right there could add up to a few minutes in

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Speaker 1: an inning alone, and even in a short inning, right

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Speaker 1: three AB's batter time out. I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: average timeout is, but it's not five seconds. Probably at

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Speaker 1: least ten to twenty.

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Speaker 4: I'd be up for I'd be up for a time out,

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Speaker 4: like a ten second timeout if you're a quarter timeout,

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Speaker 4: if you're cutting, if you're splitting hairs, I'd be up

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Speaker 4: for that. You can say, okay, you know timeout and

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Speaker 4: then they you know, they give this and they reset

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Speaker 4: the clock to ten seconds, and at ten seconds then

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Speaker 4: they reset the clock like there's there's timing there. I

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Speaker 4: feel I feel bad for the pictures. I think the

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Speaker 4: pictures in the big leagues need a timeout. They need

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Speaker 4: to be able to step off with nobody on. They

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Speaker 4: need to step off, and they're not.

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Speaker 1: Giving wait krats, hold up. Two things. Number one, you

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Speaker 1: can step off. It just counts as a step off, right,

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Speaker 1: And if you do that.

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Speaker 4: Nobody with nobody on, you can't step off.

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Speaker 1: The clock is running, okay. You also can call time

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Speaker 1: out and have a little chit chat with your catcher.

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Speaker 1: That's allowed.

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Speaker 4: That's a mountain visit.

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Speaker 1: I know that's part of a mount visit. But that's

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Speaker 1: a thing. The other thing that I think is important

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Speaker 1: is discretion. The reason that we have human beings on

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Speaker 1: the field that get paid quite well to police the

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Speaker 1: game is for a moment when there's serious chin music

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Speaker 1: and a guy needs a moment, right ball hits a

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Speaker 1: catcher in the nuts, let's fake like we got to

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Speaker 1: clean the plate. I think that's the way that you

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Speaker 1: help to bridge the gap. The problem is most abskrats

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Speaker 1: don't need it. I know that you feel as if

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Speaker 1: a player needs it, but it's the same conversation that

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Speaker 1: I had with pitchers when they were anti pitchclock, and

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Speaker 1: the pitch clock has been one of the best things

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Speaker 1: for the sport. And the only reason we didn't have

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Speaker 1: it five to seven years ago is because the league

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Speaker 1: and the player's side do not get along. We should

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Speaker 1: have had that long long ago. But anyway, we have

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Speaker 1: it now, and to me, the game is crisper and

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Speaker 1: it is a much better viewing experience. I know I'm

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Speaker 1: going to get plenty of pushback from the old school

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Speaker 1: fans that never want to see a single thing change.

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Speaker 1: I am actually old school because I grew up watching

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Speaker 1: the game in the eighties and the nineties, and for me,

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Speaker 1: that's when the game was at a much better pace

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Speaker 1: and we've gotten back to that. They're just trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out ways to make sure that it doesn't creep

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Speaker 1: back to three hours because the ABS Challenge system could

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Speaker 1: add minutes to it and could add a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a slower pace. I don't think it's going to

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Speaker 1: make a big difference. I don't think the ABS is

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Speaker 1: going to suddenly add ten minutes. But they're just concerned

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Speaker 1: that teams and players are really smart and they figure

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Speaker 1: out ways to take advantage of every single rule in

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Speaker 1: every single system, and that is their job. Their job

647
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Speaker 1: is to win and their job is to thrive. So

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Speaker 1: the league is pushing back and making sure that we

649
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Speaker 1: stay more in that two and a half range and

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Speaker 1: we don't get back to two forty five fifty three

651
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Speaker 1: hour plus games. If you think this isn't the right thing,

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Speaker 1: then offer other solutions, because they're not going to let

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Speaker 1: the sport slow down again.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I need to see I need to see the number.

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Speaker 4: I need to see the number of how slow it's

656
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Speaker 4: actually gonna get to with ABS and with the timeouts,

657
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Speaker 4: Like there needs to be a cap with like what

658
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Speaker 4: we're taking away because of the fact that I know

659
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Speaker 4: what my mind is doing in the box. We talk

660
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Speaker 4: about it all the time with Max Munsey on here.

661
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 4: We talk about all the time. With winning teams, you

662
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Speaker 4: have team at bats boom, first pitch out, guy comes up.

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Speaker 4: Second pitch of his at bat, ground ball. Now we're

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Speaker 4: at three pitches, two outs. Okay, you come up, you're

665
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Speaker 4: taking two pitches. Pitchers in a groove boomy, lands a curveball,

666
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Speaker 4: lands a heater. Now you're down oh two. Your mind

667
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Speaker 4: isn't like, oh, it's okay, I'll just see a baseball

668
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Speaker 4: coming at me here. No, your mind is like, gosh,

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Speaker 4: darn it, that's the worst time that could happen. Timeout. Timeout.

670
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Speaker 4: I need to slow this down. I need to re group.

671
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Speaker 4: I need to know I have one pitch left and

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Speaker 4: I haven't even really had a competitive at bat yet,

673
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Speaker 4: and I'm O two. Because there's times when you have

674
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Speaker 4: six hundred at bats in a season, your mind is

675
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Speaker 4: just like, oh my gosh, did I come up to

676
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 4: the plate, oh two, Like they're like now batting Eric Kratz,

677
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Speaker 4: oh in two, and you're like, what the what the heck?

678
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Speaker 4: Like there's times that that's going on, and I think

679
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Speaker 4: the timeout allows you to slow that down, and you

680
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Speaker 4: have to learn that at the minor leagues because when

681
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 4: you get to the big leagues, who baby stuff starts

682
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Speaker 4: going fast?

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you want one time out per inning for hitters.

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Speaker 1: One timeout per hitter is an issue. Two timeouts per

685
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Speaker 1: inning for hitters, Okay, see we can negotiate. Now we

686
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: can start to work off of that. And it does

687
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Speaker 1: give you one other thing you have to pay attention to.

688
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Speaker 1: But these are smart hitters, and if you put it

689
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Speaker 1: in a place where they can see it and they're

690
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Speaker 1: well aware of it, I think that's your spot. And again,

691
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Speaker 1: if something anti Larry happens like chin music, guys freaking

692
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: helmet flies off, there's discretion here. But just for your

693
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Speaker 1: average inning, if we have an inning where there's six

694
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Speaker 1: dudes at the plate, that would take us from six

695
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Speaker 1: timeouts to two. And the one problem in my mind

696
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Speaker 1: with baseball ten years ago was unlimited timeouts. Then we

697
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Speaker 1: started limiting the mound visits. That part alone is still underrated.

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Speaker 1: You know. I bring that up all the time because

699
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Speaker 1: that was my prime days of being at games, and

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Speaker 1: the amount of times that certain catchers in baseball would

701
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: call timeout almost every ab and go have a chit

702
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: chat with their picture was insane. And half the times

703
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: you talk to the picture and they'd be like, Yeah,

704
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: that's just their thing. They're doing it every ab Now,

705
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: that was terrible that was done, and that was where

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00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: you were taking advantage of rules because we didn't used

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Speaker 1: to have that right. The rule never existed that we

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Speaker 1: had to limit the timeouts, but it was caused by

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Speaker 1: gamesmanship on the field. So are we negotiating right now

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Speaker 1: where we get two timeouts in an inning? And should

711
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: you text one of your buddies at the league office?

712
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: Is Rolla Banya's or some like that still working there.

713
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: I can text Michael Hill, maybe one of those guys

714
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Speaker 1: the league office and throw that their way.

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Speaker 4: I would love it, But I just want I just

716
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 4: want somebody to look out for the minor leaguers and

717
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 4: not to use them as freaking guinea pigs. Don't raise

718
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 4: the mound, don't extend the mound. This isn't like indie ball.

719
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Speaker 4: I get it, you know, I feel bad for the

720
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Speaker 4: indie ball guys, but you know, maybe that's the place

721
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Speaker 4: to try it. Not a guy who's getting his feet

722
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Speaker 4: wet and it's the first time he's ever been away

723
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Speaker 4: from his home. Facing dudes are throwing one hundred and

724
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, yeah, I'm just trying to survive here.

725
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 4: Holy crap, I saw I saw in a Jason Stark's

726
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 4: article Low A where they would start this. In the

727
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 4: three Low A leagues, Low A hitters average is at

728
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Speaker 4: two thirty one. They hit two thirty one on average

729
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Speaker 4: because of how tough the pitching is. Right now, you're

730
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 4: gonna make it this is will make it tougher for hitters.

731
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Speaker 4: I completely agree. It will make it tougher.

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Speaker 1: For I agree with you that part. I don't dispute.

733
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Speaker 1: And they have to experiment somewhere. They're not going to

734
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Speaker 1: bring things straight to the bigs. They have to do

735
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Speaker 1: it somewhere. There's only so many places where you can experiment.

736
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. It sucks. It's not ideal. It could

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00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: cost a player in a b that costs him a

738
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Speaker 1: spot on a team. But I don't always have the

739
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Speaker 1: best solution. I'm just saying the problem is they get

740
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: worried about pacing game time. It's a good debate. We

741
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: can bring it on with AJ and more Todd Father

742
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Speaker 1: at some point. Now, let's lap we're so good today

743
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: three o'clock on the dot, three hundred thousand subscribers is

744
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: the next goal for us. We're getting close. I'd like

745
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: to get there either right before right after the new year.

746
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Speaker 1: That'd be nice. So tell your friends if you're watching

747
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:53,919
Speaker 1: us right now, and we'll be on tomorrow to cover

748
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,240
Speaker 1: more trades and signings, and we're on every single weekday

749
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Speaker 1: baseball the way it should be covered. And it's not

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Speaker 1: just te Fair Territory Special edition episode tomorrow with Ken Rosenthal,

751
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 1: which I'm very much looking forward to, a recap from

752
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: Ken on winter meetings, and really it's not just the

753
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: recap on what happened, it's what he's hearing while he's there.

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Speaker 1: I see Ken in the lobby the whole time. I

755
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: did a lot of like little shoulder tap, like I'm

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Speaker 1: passing by you. I'm not going to say a formal

757
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: high because I know how busy you are, and I

758
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 1: see him walking with front office people and chatting with them.

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00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: So it's cool to see Ken really in his element.

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00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: And he'll give you some word tomorrow on what else

761
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: he's hearing about what's coming up next in terms of

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Speaker 1: trades and signings. Also, Dodgers' Territory five o'clock Eastern today

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Speaker 1: a special time for them two o'clock West Coast as

764
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 1: they'll bring on Jerry Harriston Junior to talk about what

765
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have done so far this offseason, which is

766
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: actually more than most teams. They signed Edwin Diaz. We'll

767
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: see what's next. One thing we didn't get to that

768
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: I hope they get to on Dodgers' territory today is

769
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: continuous rumors about taoscar Hernandez being floated in trade talks.

770
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: Their jam Brandon Gomes kind of shut it down. But

771
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 1: if you keep seeing it float out there by people

772
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: that you trust, oh no, no, We'll see what Alana and

773
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: Clinton have to say, along with Jerry kratsat's on the

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00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: way out, and then you can say to goodbye.

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Speaker 4: I love seeing all the all the uh, all the

776
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 4: rumors too about Trek Scubel to the Dodgers. Love love

777
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 4: seeing all these rumors. Some people that are saying they

778
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 4: have insight on it. Crazy to me. But anyway, we'll see,

779
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 4: We'll see what happens, and then all these people who

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00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 4: are just throwing stuff out will be like, oh yeah,

781
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 4: I told you, Oh yeah, right, Okay. If I say

782
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 4: everyone's gonna hit a homer, somebody will hit a homer. Marlins.

783
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Speaker 4: I think they're gonna have a bigger part of this

784
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 4: off season than what people think. So I wore my

785
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 4: Marlins hat today.

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Speaker 1: That's a good prediction. And yes, some people do predict

787
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: a homer on every ab and then you're right once

788
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: out of you.

789
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 4: Know, clip that clip that Scott said Peter Lonzo was

790
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 4: gonna hit a homer. Tyler O'Neal is gonna hit a

791
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 4: homer on opening Day. Tyler O'Neil, I'm saying it right now.

792
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 4: Clip this December. If he's healthy, he's going to hit

793
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 4: a home run one opening day.

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Speaker 1: That is his thing. We'll see you tomorrow more Toddfather Kratz,

795
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Speaker 1: Me and guests,