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Speaker 1: October five. WHOA, whoa? Was that a good night at

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Speaker 1: MLB postseason begins today Yankees Red Sox mandatory listen, we

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Speaker 1: Jason likes to think he knows everything when it comes

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Speaker 1: how good they've been this season. The Rays are the

426
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Speaker 1: best team in the A until someone proves otherwise, and

427
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Speaker 1: probably as the reigning champs. The Dodgers had the same

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Speaker 1: stat us in the n L. But when you just

429
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Speaker 1: look at the the way that the numbers play out,

430
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Speaker 1: and how good the Cardinals have been, I think, Jason,

431
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Speaker 1: I really believe this. The Cardinals arrived at Dodgers Stadium

432
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Speaker 1: with at least winning that game, like it is an

433
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Speaker 1: absolute coin flip. And if the Dodgers to me, are

434
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Speaker 1: declared by anybody as a clear favorite in that game,

435
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,239
Speaker 1: I just think it's a mistake. I don't look at

436
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Speaker 1: it that way. I think it's an absolute coin flip.

437
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 1: You've got the most veteran pitcher of veteran pictures in

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Speaker 1: baseball right now, and Wayne right on the mound for St. Louis,

439
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 1: with the Audi willing to calling the pitches. What what

440
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Speaker 1: what more do you want of your Cardinals? The Cardinals? Yeah,

441
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Speaker 1: I mean to me, Jason, they have got to feel

442
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Speaker 1: as confident as ever. And let's not forget the last

443
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Speaker 1: time the Dodgers played a winner take all game at

444
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Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium in the playoffs. They lost to the Nationals.

445
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 1: That was Game five of the divisions hereies. Of course,

446
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Speaker 1: last year was all in the bubble, so they never

447
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: had to play a Dodgers Stadium. That's that's the last

448
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Speaker 1: time they played a true winner take all, really meaningful,

449
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: big playoff game at Dodger Stadium. They lost it. So

450
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: certainly it is within the Rambo possibility that they lose

451
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Speaker 1: that game and they lost World Series at home in

452
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:14,119
Speaker 1: the seventeen World Series at home. I to me that

453
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,280
Speaker 1: there's not a huge pronounced home build advantage in the

454
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Speaker 1: scenario like this. I think it's Wayne right versus sus

455
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Speaker 1: are and for me again coin flip between two future

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Speaker 1: Hall of gamers. In my estimation, Fox Sports Radio has

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461
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Speaker 1: the You know, the Giants had had a dominant run

462
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Speaker 1: three World Series in I think five six years and

463
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Speaker 1: then the Dodgers just take over and they are now

464
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Speaker 1: on top, and now it's the battle between them. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, is it is there an edge to either

466
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Speaker 1: of those? Can you can you? Can you see one?

467
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Speaker 1: You know, that's a great question, Jason. I don't know

468
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Speaker 1: how much really it ties back into the into the past.

469
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Speaker 1: Although to say the Giants have enough World Series experience

470
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Speaker 1: with Posey and Crawford. Of course, Belt's been injured that

471
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Speaker 1: and Longoria has been in the World Series. There's not

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Speaker 1: the Giants. And Chris Bryant has been a World Series

473
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Speaker 1: champion of course too. We almost forget about him and

474
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Speaker 1: what would have been now has mentioned him as a

475
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Speaker 1: as a Passport Series champ. But the Giants to me

476
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,479
Speaker 1: have plenty of experience, plenty of swagger to go up

477
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Speaker 1: against the Dodgers, and the Dodgers again there they have

478
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Speaker 1: that cache of having won the championship last year. They

479
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Speaker 1: also have some pressure on them. Corey Seeger free agent

480
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 1: to be this winter. There's there's a lot on the

481
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Speaker 1: line for some of these guys. Um Max Scherzer of

482
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Speaker 1: course free agent after this season. So I think that

483
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Speaker 1: there is that respect back and forth those two teams

484
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 1: know each other so well, there's no secrets. It's it's

485
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Speaker 1: it's if they end up meeting up of course in

486
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Speaker 1: the you know, in the in the next round in

487
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Speaker 1: the division series. It's it's good for baseball. I think,

488
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Speaker 1: Jason to see this rivalry take center stages a hundred

489
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Speaker 1: and thirty years old there. And actually I worked on

490
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Speaker 1: a piece on this from w WE Network recently. And

491
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: when you really think about it, there's no rivalry liking

492
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Speaker 1: in American sports Dodgers Giants, because no other rivalry has

493
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Speaker 1: such heritage in two different places. I mean, it was

494
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Speaker 1: born in New York. I we looked up the note

495
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 1: it was they've been playing this rivalry since before the

496
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Speaker 1: New York City Subway was built in its current form,

497
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Speaker 1: and and it's migrated across the country. Okay, and yesterday,

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Speaker 1: so as we speak here that Sunday was the was

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Speaker 1: the seventy at the anniversary of the shot heard around

500
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Speaker 1: the world, Bobby Thompson. That was seventy years ago Sunday,

501
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Speaker 1: on the same day that the Giants beat the Dodgers

502
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Speaker 1: by one game. So it's just it's kind of a

503
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Speaker 1: cool circle closing a lot of history there. I think

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Speaker 1: both both fan bases are aware of it how intense

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Speaker 1: it is. And I'll say this, I've covered Dodger Giant

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Speaker 1: games in San Francisco and in l A. I've covered

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Speaker 1: Red Sox Yankees games in Boston and New York. The

508
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Speaker 1: intensity is that it feels the sa aim To me,

509
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Speaker 1: I really believe that in rivalry, and I think it

510
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Speaker 1: fits somewhat when when the Red Sox and Yankees um

511
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Speaker 1: meet here on Tuesday. I believe this that rivalry changed

512
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Speaker 1: forever once the Red Sox one. Yeah. Yeah, and it's

513
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Speaker 1: and it's not it's not for the worst, it's not

514
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's a you know,

515
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Speaker 1: Yankee fansom. I think it's a bad thing, but but

516
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: it's it's uh to me, it fundamentally changed everything because

517
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Speaker 1: I was I was going to university in uh, you know,

518
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Speaker 1: in in Boston around that time, and I remember what

519
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: it was like then, and it was just the antipathy

520
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: to the Yankees was just so severe and so uh

521
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: to me. Uh, it's never quite been like that again.

522
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Speaker 1: And and yet it's still a phenomenal rivalry to have

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Speaker 1: it be a one game playoff, Jason, I mean this

524
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Speaker 1: is one of those things where you and your family,

525
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: everybody you know growing up, you're all gonna be texting

526
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Speaker 1: during the game because it's that's a special moment in

527
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Speaker 1: American sports. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. Um, John, I want

528
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Speaker 1: to I want to close out like baseball not got lucky,

529
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: but has basically about as good of a collection of

530
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Speaker 1: teams in the postseason as you can imagine. You got

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Speaker 1: the Boston market, the New York market, you get Chicago, right,

532
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Speaker 1: so you're covered all those bases, and then the history,

533
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Speaker 1: like you said, Dodgers, Giants, and of course the Cardinals

534
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Speaker 1: we know are much loved, and I wonder if, like

535
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Speaker 1: you know, there is something to the Braves in their whole,

536
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Speaker 1: Like jeez, can these guys ever win? Can they ever

537
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Speaker 1: break through it? It's kind of an underdog role. This

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Speaker 1: is a really strong collection in the postseason, right. It's

539
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: a great point, Jason, it really is. I think that

540
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: you've got great stars. Of course on a lot of

541
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Speaker 1: these teams. The Brewers are a great story that they're

542
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: kind of an undercover great story because they've never won.

543
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: They won the World Series before, and so as a

544
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Speaker 1: franchise and it's the longest streak of playoff appearances they've

545
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Speaker 1: ever had as a franchise. Uh, A tremendous starting rotation. Obviously,

546
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: it's tough, tough news to Devin Williams is being out

547
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Speaker 1: with his injury last week. But but they've got I

548
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: think an excellent chance that Milwaukee Atlanta series is gonna

549
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: be specially you think about the of course, the heritage

550
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Speaker 1: of the Braves originally starting in Milwaukee, or actually starting

551
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Speaker 1: in Boston. Boston and Milwaukee Milwaukee Atlanta, So that's kind

552
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: of a cool matchup. Historically speaking, Uh, there's just a

553
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 1: lot of really unique to your point, Jason's is very

554
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: well said by you. We've got a lot of really

555
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: cool storylines every series out there, whether it's Larusa and Dusty,

556
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: whether it's My Milwaukee in Atlanta, having that connection through

557
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: the Braves in generations gone by Henry Aaron. Of course,

558
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: there's a lot of really special historical and also present

559
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: baseball notes. You get a chance to see Molina and

560
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: Wayne right together in a playoff game. Again, that's special.

561
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Speaker 1: We have to we have to remember, Jason, these are

562
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Speaker 1: moments to save her because you're not promised in this

563
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: sport being back to the playoffs next year. So when

564
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: you get a chance to watch a waynewright face assures

565
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: here in a two Hall of famers in my estimation,

566
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: that's special Red Sox Yankees in a wild card game.

567
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: Who knows when we're going to see that again. I mean,

568
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: these are special, special moments. So I'm just I'm thrilled, Jason.

569
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Speaker 1: It's a great way to start in the playoffs. I

570
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: got goose bumps talking about it already, and I'm just

571
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Speaker 1: excited to be part of it. Only team I kind

572
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 1: of wish was here was the Padres with tattoos and

573
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 1: this swag and like, I'm an old school Padres uniform

574
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: and hat. Guy, I have an old school throwback Padres had.

575
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 1: Like I kind of dig that team. I mean, how

576
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Speaker 1: close are they? You know, that's a great question, Jason,

577
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Speaker 1: And obviously that it's a huge disappointment for them this

578
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: year that they're not in the playoffs. Uh, they really

579
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: took a took a turn sort of midway through the

580
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: season where there was so much expectation on them. There.

581
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: Pitching let them down, um injuries, inconsistency, Blake Snell didn't

582
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: really deliver the way they expected him to, Tati Smith

583
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: some time a couple of different times. Uh the chemistry

584
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: seemed a little bit off. There's been a lot of

585
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: reporting on what Jason Tingler did or did not do

586
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: well as the manager with the athletic doing is really

587
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: good in depth reporting on this. Uh So for me, Jason,

588
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: I I think they'll they'll have to have some changes

589
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: going forward. And now you start to wonder, are are

590
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Speaker 1: they even going to enter next season with the perception

591
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: of of being a possible playoff team or a strong

592
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: favorite to be one if you look at the way

593
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: the Giants and Dodgers have played this season, so it's

594
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: they John did every and did anybody think the Giants

595
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: would be a one d and seven win teams? Close?

596
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: And did anybody think the Cardinals would peel off what

597
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: seven team? Straight? And I don't. Yeah, it felt like

598
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: the Padres just I don't really know how to characterize it,

599
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: but they were the team I thought everybody thought you

600
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: would be there right now. It's a couple of things

601
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Speaker 1: that are Number One, I don't think the Giants thought

602
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: the Giants would be a hundred and seven win teams

603
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: could be asked with Jason, Okay, so I'll say that,

604
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: and that they may not say that, but I'll say

605
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: it on their back. Like I don't think they thought

606
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: they were gonna be that good. I mean they probably

607
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: though they're gonna be a playoff team, but maybe not

608
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: are in seven wins um the Cardinals. Again, that was

609
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: a historic streak, that was very special. I think with

610
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Speaker 1: the Padres one thing Jason and I think it transcends

611
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: sports and you cover all sports so well and and

612
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: have an understanding of of team building and how these

613
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: different clubs come together. When when you're the Padres, you

614
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: go look down their roster and at any given day

615
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: and ask yourself, Okay, how many players in this lineup

616
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: we're drafted and developed by this team and we're brought

617
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Speaker 1: up with the culture of this organization. And the answer is,

618
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 1: day to day almost almost none. Christian was a trade,

619
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Speaker 1: Hosmer free agent, Machado free agent, Tatisse was a trade,

620
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: Corona Worth was a trade, Frasier was a trade. Austin

621
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Speaker 1: Nola was a trade. Like they're all they're all from

622
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Speaker 1: somewhere else, Darvish trade, Snell trade, must Grove trade, and

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Speaker 1: and so when exactly and when you get to a

624
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Speaker 1: moment like this, you say, wait a minute, like who

625
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Speaker 1: are we what's what are we all about? Here? And

626
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: and everybody else is why I came from here, and

627
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: I came from here, and he's all these different team

628
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: cultures that are now trying to blend in together. Exactly,

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Speaker 1: You're exactly right, Whereas I always say, like the model

630
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Speaker 1: for this was was the Kansas City Royals and when

631
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Speaker 1: they won because they took a bunch of players that

632
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: were signed from all around the world. Okay, Salvador Perez

633
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: from Venezuela, Eric Hosmer Cuban American from Florida, Mike Mustakis

634
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: Greek American from California, all these different really cool cultures.

635
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Speaker 1: But what they have in common they were playing together

636
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Speaker 1: from they were time they were sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old.

637
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Speaker 1: And so any of those, any of those differences get

638
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Speaker 1: melted away because you're together your brothers from the time

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Speaker 1: you're a teenager, and you cannot replace that time playing together,

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Speaker 1: and and baseball in particular, Jason, because you're together a

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games. You can't fake that. You

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Speaker 1: When when I had I had times, I remember I

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Speaker 1: was talking to the Cardinals guys like Daniel descalso and

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Speaker 1: Alan Craig. Guys were David Freeze, who were key parts

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Speaker 1: of the teams that were going in the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: eleven and in in thirteen in the World Series, and

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Speaker 1: they said, yeah, we we drew a lot of strength

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Speaker 1: because we had played together and won a championship together

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Speaker 1: in Memphis two years ago. The Padres can't say that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: they can't say that you have to have culture or

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Speaker 1: you have to have a manager who can really fuse

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Speaker 1: it together, like a Dusty Baker exactly, and so like

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Speaker 1: you gotta have a uniter, and it just it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like the chemistry worked. And so you know, it's

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Speaker 1: so interesting, Jason, just to watch different teams play and

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Speaker 1: you and I can we can watch a basketball game,

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Speaker 1: we can watch the football game, a hockey game. So

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Speaker 1: you know what this team is is jiving well together.

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Speaker 1: You can just tell. You can Socker, you can just tell.

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Speaker 1: And and the Padres, we're a team that from like

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Speaker 1: August Town was like something here is not right and

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Speaker 1: they gotta fix it. But you even heard Bryce Harper

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Speaker 1: talking about this from the Phillies. Sometimes the answer say,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go and spend more money. No, Sometimes the

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Speaker 1: answer is you gotta build from within. You gotta field

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Speaker 1: the culture, bring your players in together from all around

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Speaker 1: the world and make them a cohesive unit. And the

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Speaker 1: Phillies have not done that, and the Padres have not

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Speaker 1: done that, and that's why both of them are not

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. This yere good stuff, John Morosey, MLB Network,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Hopefully the Padres brass is listening. There

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Speaker 1: you go, Maybe they'll bring you into be a motivational speaker.

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Speaker 1: I got some passionate about this, Jason. It's initially a

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Speaker 1: lot to me. And it's true even for a like

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Speaker 1: kids in youth sports, like teammate, you know, learn you

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Speaker 1: don't just jump travel teams from here to there and

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Speaker 1: and hop on a team three towns away. No, find

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Speaker 1: your team, find your buddies, learn how to win, learn

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Speaker 1: not to lose together, learn how to pick up the

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Speaker 1: pieces and get to the next game. I'm a big

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Speaker 1: believer in that. So let's let's build some teams. Alright,

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Speaker 1: great stuff, John. You guys can catch him on the

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Speaker 1: MLB Network and Fox Sports Radio throughout the playoffs. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the postseason. John will definitely be watching your stuff. Jason,

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Speaker 1: my pleasure anytime, my friend. Please reach on any time.

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Speaker 1: I always love catching up baseball, soccer, hockey, whatever it

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Speaker 1: might be. Reached out the time. I love it. Thanks