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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of Fair Territory. We've got a

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Speaker 1: ton to talk about this week. As usual, a ton

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to start today with the series that

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Speaker 1: I attended this weekend in Los Angeles at Dodgers Stadium

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Speaker 1: Padres at Dodgers. You might have seen the outcome, a

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Speaker 1: sweep for the Dodgers, the eleventh straight regular season victory

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Speaker 1: in a series by the Dodgers over the Padres. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're a Padres fan, you're saying, okay, but yes,

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Speaker 1: look at last year's Division Series. That was the Padres

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Speaker 1: monumental moment in franchise history for San Diego winning that series.

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Speaker 1: But still, as I write today, in the athletic there

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Speaker 2: Between these teams.

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Speaker 1: And it's not really a separation in talent, because you

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Speaker 1: can argue that the Padres have more.

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Speaker 2: Talent than the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: It's more separation in identity in who these teams are

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Speaker 1: and what I mean by that goes to the construction

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Speaker 1: of each of these clubs. Look at the number of

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Speaker 1: homegrown players on each team. Ten for the Dodgers, presently

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Speaker 1: three for the Padres, and it only got to three

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Speaker 1: The other two home grown players on the Padres right

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Speaker 1: not a lot of homegrown impact. Why because the Padres

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Speaker 1: trade a lot of their prospects for some of their

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Speaker 1: star players. They have star players, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: But their roster is top heavy. It's kind of slapped together.

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Speaker 1: You've got guys out of position now, Corona Worth, the

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Speaker 1: funky mix, and it seems to me that there is

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Speaker 1: no there there in a sense with the Padres. There

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Speaker 1: is no Padres way. These players come from other teams.

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Speaker 1: They know what their other teams did and how they

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Speaker 1: Sometimes such a team doesn't really come together at all. Now,

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Speaker 1: there's plenty of time left in the season, I know

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Speaker 1: that it might get to the point where the Padres

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Speaker 1: simply out talent the Dodgers, But right now the separation

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Speaker 1: is seven games, and the Dodgers have without question a

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Speaker 1: winning culture, ten straight postseason appearances. I know they've won

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Speaker 1: only one World Series, but they always get there, and

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Speaker 1: they get there because they've done things a certain way

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Speaker 1: for a long time. They incorporate young players into their

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Speaker 1: year for them. They're bringing in a number of young guys.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing Autman and Miguel Vargas, of course, two of them.

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Speaker 1: Some younger pitchers as well, and we'll see more as

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Speaker 1: a whole rotation full of them, and it's one wave

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Speaker 1: after another. Some get traded, Yes, some players do come

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Speaker 1: from other teams, Mookie Bets, Freddy Freeman, but by and large,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that has an identity, has a

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Speaker 1: The bottom of the lineup is not very good. Cronenworth

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Speaker 1: Finally, on this point, I know, Padres fans are probably thinking,

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Speaker 1: That's the NL West. Now let's go back east, all

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Speaker 1: And I want to talk about a team that probably

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Speaker 1: But on Friday night they beat Spencer Streyder Spencer Stryder

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Speaker 1: Great split with the Yankees this weekend, hard fought games.

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Speaker 1: now for the inside Dish, in which I go deeper

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Speaker 1: on a story developing in Major League Baseball, or perhaps

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Speaker 1: Contreras back behind the plate a very short exile, as

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Speaker 1: He told the Cardinals it's time, and because Jack Flaherty,

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Speaker 1: Reporters asked Wilson Contrell's yesterdays he changed anything in his preparation?

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Speaker 1: back when the Cardinals signed Wilson Controllers to a five year,

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Speaker 2: Cardinals and I basically said, what are you guys doing?

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Speaker 1: You had the all time greatest defensive catcher, Yadio Molina,

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Speaker 1: and now we had this great three and a half

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Speaker 2: He said all the right things. We think we can

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Speaker 1: Thirty five games into the season, there was a problem.

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Speaker 1: Now there's no problem again. Now, Wilson Contreras is a

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Speaker 1: very good player, a very good offensive player for sure,

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Speaker 1: and actually the passion he brings, the savvy he brings.

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Speaker 1: You saw what he did to Kenley Jansen the other night.

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Speaker 1: He completely got inside his head with this pitchclock stuff,

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Speaker 1: messing around to the box, brilliant. He does not have

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Speaker 1: the best reputation as a defensive catcher. The Cardinals should

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Speaker 1: And one other thing on this. The Cardinals had a

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Speaker 1: chance this offseason to trade for Sean Murphy. Like every

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Speaker 1: The A's asked a lot for a lot. They asked

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Speaker 1: At least two of those three guys, maybe all.

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Speaker 1: It always seems like there are more candidates for due

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Speaker 4: And for me to take this long to come to

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Speaker 4: a decision, it's just and make these people wait out

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Speaker 4: here without any clue.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. That to me is uncomfortable.

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Speaker 3: It's really a shameful episode on the part of Major

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Speaker 3: League Baseball to permit this to happen and then to

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Speaker 3: come to this kind of a resolution to charge fans

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Speaker 3: twice tomorrow rather than playing straight through with the completion

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Speaker 3: of suspended game.

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Speaker 1: All right, that is Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez,

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Speaker 1: three of the absolute best. And I can assure you

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Speaker 1: if this had happened at the Mets home Park City Field,

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Speaker 1: they would have had the same reaction.

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Speaker 2: That's not where they're coming from.

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Speaker 1: They're not ripping the nets.

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Speaker 2: They're really ripping major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Now, I should add that fans who could not attend

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Speaker 1: the resumption of this game the next day is flit doubleheader,

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Speaker 1: they could exchange their tickets for a future game at

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Speaker 1: Nationals Park. But the point the broadcasters made there is

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Speaker 1: absolutely right. You cannot leave people in the dark for

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Speaker 1: four hours and just have nothing said. It's just wrong.

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Speaker 1: It's disrespectful of your fans, and it's something that Baseball's

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Speaker 1: got to get better at. This happens once in a while,

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Speaker 1: not often, but it happens once in a while, and

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Speaker 1: it just makes you scratch your head and wonder, what

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Speaker 1: the heck are they thinking? Looking ahead this week, I've

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Speaker 1: got Dodgers at Cardinals on Fox Saturday, and I am

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Speaker 1: looking forward to this one, looking forward to seeing the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals circus up close and in person. This is a

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Speaker 1: big week for the Cardinals, as we talked about earlier.

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Speaker 1: Contreras resumes catching Monday night in this series against the

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Speaker 1: Brewers of big series of course in the division, and

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Speaker 1: then the Dodgers, red hot Dodgers sixteen and five in

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Speaker 1: their last twenty one come to town in Saint Louis.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to be quite interesting to se see

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Speaker 1: how the Cardinals play this week. They've done a great

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Speaker 1: job six of seven since they're absolute in idea, but

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Speaker 1: they've got a long way to go. All right, now,

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Speaker 1: it's time for some fan questions. Let's get to them. First,

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Speaker 1: one comes from Jack Casey, Sports fan Jy. Do the

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Speaker 1: Royals move a role as Chapman before the deadline? Like? Now?

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Speaker 1: Do the Royals lockdown? Vinnie Singer Bobby Wick Junior long term?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: First on Chapman. I wrote about this last week, and

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Speaker 1: you guys know this, people who follow the game. Trades

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Speaker 1: generally do not happen.

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Speaker 2: In May or even in early June.

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Speaker 1: Not even often in late June. Teams just aren't ready

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Speaker 1: to give up prospects, big time prospects, and that's what

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Speaker 1: other teams, the teams with players to trade require at

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Speaker 1: this time of year, to give up that much control.

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Speaker 1: The Royals are open to trading a role as Chapman

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Speaker 1: right now. They're getting calls on a roll As Chapman

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Speaker 1: right now, but they have a certain price that they

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Speaker 1: want met, and if it's not met, they'll just hold

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Speaker 1: him and in their mind, hopefully value keeps building. It's

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Speaker 1: odd because your value can only build so much when

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Speaker 1: your club control is diminishing. But that's the strategy team's take.

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Speaker 1: When they can't get their price right now, they just wait.

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Speaker 1: As for those long term contracts, Vinny Pasorentino, maybe at

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Speaker 1: some point Brady Singer's got a pitch better and Bobby

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Speaker 1: Wood Junior I have a hard time believing he's going

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Speaker 1: to sign one.

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Speaker 2: When he sees what all these free agent shortstops are getting.

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Speaker 1: Royals know this, it's going to be difficult to keep

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Speaker 1: him all right. Next fan question, This comes from seemingly

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Speaker 1: depressed discount.

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Speaker 2: Dave Franco, Go Grado nago?

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Speaker 1: Okay, whatever are the Oriols for real? Oh? And he

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Speaker 1: gives the answers to the question spoiler alert. Yes, fair question.

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Speaker 1: A lot of fans are probably wondering are the Oriols

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Speaker 1: really this good? And I was wondering the same until

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Speaker 1: last weekend when they played the Braves really tough, won

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Speaker 1: the first game in that series in Atlanta nine to four,

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Speaker 1: then lost two to one run games the second and

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Speaker 1: twelve innings. It was just impressive the way they stood

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Speaker 1: up to the Braves and just played them almost evenly.

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Speaker 1: And then they go back to Baltimore and win two

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Speaker 1: of three from Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: Now that's six games against really good teams, and.

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Speaker 1: The Oriels fared very well. They're in a tough part

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Speaker 1: of their schedule now, twenty two straight games with a

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Speaker 1: winning record, twenty two straight games against.

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Speaker 2: Teams with a winning record.

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Speaker 1: They're five and four so far, coming off the two

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Speaker 1: of three with the Pirates this weekend, and yes, they're

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Speaker 1: for real. Now the real question for me, and I've

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Speaker 1: said this before, will they act like they're for real

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Speaker 1: from a front office perspective when the deadline comes and

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Speaker 1: it will be time to add. It's time to add

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Speaker 1: if they're still in it in July.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they need to go forward.

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Speaker 1: Final question comes from Felipe at Ocean Drive Z. Felipe asked,

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Speaker 1: how bad is Rodin's injury. I've been seeing conflicting reports

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Speaker 1: on when and if he'll even come.

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Speaker 2: Back this season.

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Speaker 1: Good news, Felipe. He's throwing again through on Saturday and

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Speaker 1: Sunday sixty to seventy five feet. These are baby steps.

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Speaker 1: And remember he first had the form issue and then

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Speaker 1: the more troublesome issue that has arisen of late, the

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Speaker 1: back problem, a problem that he described at one point

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Speaker 1: as chronic. Now it seems to me he misspoke. If

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Speaker 1: it was chronic, he would not have passed his physical

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Speaker 1: and gotten six years and one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 1: millions from the Yankees. But certainly it's been a problem.

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Speaker 1: He is still a long ways away, probably six weeks,

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Speaker 1: but fully intending to pitch this season, and the Yankees

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Speaker 1: are fully intending to have him pitch this season. He

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Speaker 1: would be the equivalent at this point of a trade deadline.

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Speaker 2: Pickup, and a really good one.

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Speaker 1: Now, we've been talking about some honorable mentions with Dude

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Speaker 1: and Thrower of the Week. Let's do one with the

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Speaker 1: fan questions. I'll show you one more. This gets our

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Speaker 1: honorable mention from the fan questions, this comes from that

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Speaker 1: guy Garrett at Gary Stood ninety four, and he says,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, goodness, I made it on Ken show.

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Speaker 1: You sure did, and we appreciate you reach it out.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate your reaction. That's exactly the reaction we're looking for. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks to everyone for listening, Thanks to everyone for watching,

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