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Speaker 1: What is up, Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of the Metsuff Podcast. It's been a minute miss you, guys.

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Speaker 1: There's really not that much Met stuff going on. I

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Speaker 1: don't know about you, Jame Well, actually I do know

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Speaker 1: about you, and I don't know about the viewers at home,

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Speaker 1: the listeners.

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Speaker 2: I'm just so focused on the WBC right now.

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Speaker 1: I know that there's a lot of Mets fans that

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Speaker 1: are listening to this that hate that I'm saying that,

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Speaker 1: But man, do I feel like the World Baseball Classic

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Speaker 1: is so much more interesting when watching Mets Spring training

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Speaker 1: right now?

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Speaker 3: Well, we're going to have a whole WBC segment at

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Speaker 3: the end of this episode of people that want to

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Speaker 3: stay on just hear us talk about WBC because it's

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Speaker 3: been one of the most funs I've had a long

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Speaker 3: time watching baseball presented by Fox One, of course.

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Speaker 2: But there's plenty of stuff in the Mets world talk

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Speaker 2: about right now.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, we got Christian Scott, we got

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Speaker 1: Carson Bench, who's like, I'm just gonna be the right

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Speaker 1: fielder opening Dave Francisco Indoor News, David Sterns spoke. Everybody

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Speaker 1: on Twitter thought that it was gonna be gloom and doom,

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Speaker 1: which I don't know why that's become a thing all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, that the replies of David Stearns and

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Speaker 1: now there's being a David Stearns press conference and everyone's like,

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Speaker 1: who's gonna be out for you? What the fuck is that?

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Speaker 1: That's crazy? I hate that shit.

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Speaker 3: I think too many Mets fans are conditioned to bad news,

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Speaker 3: and I think that we've had some executives in the

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Speaker 3: past that didn't.

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Speaker 2: Have that much face time. Sears hasn't reallyven had this

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Speaker 2: much FaceTime over the last two years.

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Speaker 3: I think the fact that now we're seeing him like

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Speaker 3: every week or so through the entire offseason, it's kind

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Speaker 3: of nice. So I think it's nice that he gave

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Speaker 3: a press conference and it was super chill.

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Speaker 2: Should we start there?

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say start there because I think that'll

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Speaker 3: lead into Carson Bench because Stearns had a lot of

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Speaker 3: interesting things. I think the most interesting thing was specifically

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Speaker 3: can be roping day red fielder basically, and he was like,

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Speaker 3: did the David Sterns saying no decision yet, but he's saying,

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Speaker 3: we're seeing what we expected out of him, and that

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Speaker 3: he's taken competitive at bats. He's a tough out, and

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Speaker 3: he plays really good defense in right field. He's making

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Speaker 3: this a very difficult decision for them as to whether

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Speaker 3: or not it be their opening day, And no matter what,

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Speaker 3: they expect him to contribute to the major league team

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Speaker 3: this season, no.

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Speaker 1: Matter what, yeah, exact words, I expect him to tribute

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Speaker 1: to our team this year.

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Speaker 2: There's no question about that.

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Speaker 1: I think the way he's developed throughout his professional career

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Speaker 1: indicates that he is reaching that level. Whether that's on

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Speaker 1: way he's playing again, it's the similar conversation that I

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Speaker 1: feel like we have at times to a less to

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Speaker 1: hitting nearly four hundred. I know batting stats don't particularly

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Speaker 1: like pretty much every single time he steps in the box,

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Speaker 3: He had a great one too in the game on Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: They got a lot more people talking because it was

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Speaker 3: not matter, especially because right now, Bench's opponent quality on

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that is kind of like standard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. But he hit that triple off of Tyler Phillips,

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Speaker 3: who's a major league believer on the Marlins, who's famous

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Speaker 3: if you guys know him, for slapping himself in the

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Speaker 3: great a psycho. But we love that jersey and yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've kind of I know we always like preach

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Speaker 1: around to the idea of being a more balanced hitter.

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Speaker 1: To the point when when you make good contact, like

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Speaker 1: Still you're not gonna hit it as hard as if

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Speaker 1: Now there's obviously guys, you don't want to see that

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Speaker 1: Like that's the conversation. I'm just saying that kind of player.

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Speaker 1: I know he's not on his neck. It's it's one am.

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Speaker 1: We're we're recording this. We recorded like seven videos today

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Speaker 1: But like the idea of like Benj's a good enough

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Speaker 3: And something that we talked about in the last episode

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Speaker 3: be a team that lets these prospects get to know

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Speaker 3: one size fits all baseball player because definitely has different

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Speaker 3: A guy like Zach Netto finds all of his success

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Speaker 3: His pulls, fla balls, aggressive, a swing, just go crazy

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Speaker 3: you love talking about this. How much he shortens his

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Speaker 2: As he gets his feet.

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Speaker 3: power probably comes. But just seeing all these things happen

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And like benj is gonna be hitting eight or

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Speaker 2: It seems like he can do that.

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Speaker 1: It's a great way for a rookie to come into

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Speaker 2: I love the fit there. Again, you can't.

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Speaker 1: Convince me that Mike Talkin should be playing right field

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Speaker 2: It was nice. Nice knowing you. We'll see in Colorado,

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Speaker 2: And what a couple weeks later when we go there,

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Speaker 2: the people are gonna be mad. The people love Mike Takman.

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Speaker 1: There's a better baseball player on this roster. His name's

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Speaker 1: Carson Benje Also m J. Melendez hitting the ball well

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Speaker 1: we're holding Mike Takman for two weeks to give Carson

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Speaker 3: I don't disagree with that take, but I think the

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Speaker 3: combative because again, Mets fans love Mike Talkman. They talking

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Speaker 3: a good thing. Players Union did a good thing in

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Speaker 3: the last CBA. Where if you call up that rookie

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Speaker 3: It's a very important incentive, and you know, what if

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Speaker 3: I don't even think we get the PPI if he

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Speaker 1: The ball to talk about some of the other Mike

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Speaker 1: my God, to talk about some of the other things

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Speaker 1: that man talk man implies that there's a quiet man

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Speaker 1: as well, silence man to talk about other big things.

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Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor seems like he's on track for Opening Day.

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Speaker 1: The biggest thing that I heard, besides the fact that

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Speaker 1: is that his first competition will not be Opening Day.

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Speaker 1: So if we don't see him playing Greape Fruit League games,

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Speaker 1: he will not be playing on Opening Day. They want

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Speaker 1: at City Field. But it does seem like all signs

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Speaker 1: But anything else from the David STURTNS press conference before

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Speaker 3: One few more little comments he made. One he said,

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Speaker 3: Everyone in the clubhouse knows how much we're emphasizing defense.

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Speaker 2: But still that's that's the end. Last thing.

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Speaker 3: I think everyone's really fins and needles for extension talks

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Speaker 3: two weeks spring and we saw Hayesus Lazard though sign

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Speaker 2: But he'll say one plus one equals fish.

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Speaker 3: He's like, if he make twenty seven million, this guy's

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Speaker 2: Okay. Paralta is not a Boris guy, right, No, he's not.

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Speaker 1: Also, just to keep talking about Frey Parlta. Now, George

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Speaker 3: Also, Carson Bede one more spring training stad only one

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Speaker 3: was really experimenting hard with a cover that we didn't

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Speaker 3: see at all last year. We saw it like a

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Speaker 3: teensy bit smitch in twenty twenty four most thrown pitching

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Speaker 3: that adding ten of them in thirty three total pitches.

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Speaker 2: The old one used.

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Speaker 3: To blend a good bit with his tight slider. This

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Speaker 3: one had a little bit more lyft, a little bit

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Speaker 3: more of the glove side break, kept it high and

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Speaker 3: tighten the righties. It again, similarly, was three miles prow

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Speaker 3: slower in this spring outing than it wasn't twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: But I just think he's going to be able to

448
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Speaker 3: build up some velo and I think again could be

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Speaker 3: a good weapon for him acause rity's which he needs

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Speaker 3: one of those right now, sinker to try that change up.

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Speaker 3: This is just mets Her pitchers are in tryout mode

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Speaker 3: right now, and I think that's nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would just like to see that ve low

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Speaker 2: up a little bit because we're just to get back

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Speaker 2: ninety one still, it's the extension.

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Speaker 1: We're two weeks out, and you know, i'd like I'd

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Speaker 1: like to see nineties here again.

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Speaker 3: You only through thirty three pitches, which is why I

459
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Speaker 3: was like making that comment about Scott or the hitting

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Speaker 3: fifty and sanger about just talk about got to fifty

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Speaker 3: as well, and weddingers get to fifty every single time.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, he's a dog.

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Speaker 3: How many Sean and I are throwing that last week

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Speaker 3: of March. If on March, I think that was what

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Speaker 3: March seventy made that game March sixth, he's still only

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Speaker 3: throwing thirty pitches.

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Speaker 1: He might be a sneaky I l for the first

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Speaker 1: month of the season at least, maybe sneaky like be

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Speaker 1: the long man to Bias Myers.

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Speaker 3: Like those two piggyback on one another, talk about talk

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Speaker 3: about different r mangals back those two. You'd be like,

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Speaker 3: what the fuck you look at those two guys pitch.

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Speaker 2: That'd be fun. One. I think there could be somebody

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Speaker 2: to see that happen. Go diy naety seven miles per hour.

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Speaker 2: It's all that's got his high nine, that's all that matters.

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Speaker 2: Just get crazy. This is the slowest pitching through ninety five.

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Speaker 2: That was above his average last year. He goes gass

478
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Speaker 2: it though. That's all I need. He's he's at his

479
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Speaker 2: best when he's throwing hard.

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Speaker 3: And those were ninety mile pro fastballs in the zone.

481
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Speaker 3: Not chaotic, almost a sixty percent zone. Right, the vellow

482
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Speaker 3: is so important. He got a sweeper up over eighty

483
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Speaker 3: that was below eighty last year. Villo is not only

484
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Speaker 3: important for the fastballs, important for everything. And Code I

485
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Speaker 3: needs it so bad. Yeah, and we know that ghost

486
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Speaker 3: work is gonna be nasty.

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Speaker 1: Everything going a little bit faster makes you have to

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Speaker 1: be a little bit quicker, and that makes the ghost

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Speaker 1: work coop.

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Speaker 2: Here goes my mic makes the ghost forking stronger.

491
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Speaker 3: And he still tried to throw like seven pitches in

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Speaker 3: this so we'll see it get again. Just if you

493
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Speaker 3: could throw a ninety seven, do whatever you want. I

494
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Speaker 3: really do not care. And then said I love Jack Wenninger.

495
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Speaker 2: That's gonna be your guy.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's just he's a fun pitcher, like it

497
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Speaker 3: talked about the guy who I'm just going to be

498
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Speaker 3: so confident.

499
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Speaker 2: And be like a three four forever.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like see if it all gets back together, like

501
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Speaker 3: he he pitched the last three innings in that game

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Speaker 3: on Saturday, that Code I started against the Cardinals, and

503
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Speaker 3: like he didn't have close to his best command, Like

504
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Speaker 3: the splinter was kind of all over the place, a

505
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Speaker 3: lot flothered slider was here and there, but like he

506
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Speaker 3: just he just kitchen sinks every single guy.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to get a grip on him. Yeah, he's

508
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Speaker 2: he's I don't want.

509
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Speaker 1: To say crafty because I think that that's undermining the

510
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Speaker 1: actual quality that he is. Crafty, I feel like normal,

511
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Speaker 1: nasty and crafty. Yeah, like crafty, I feel like almost

512
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Speaker 1: means like you're you're gimmicky in a way, like you're

513
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Speaker 1: you're you're trying to fool people. You're trying to trick them.

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Speaker 1: Where Wheninger winninger, winninger, winning gerl Yeah.

515
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Speaker 2: Just is good. The stuff is. The stuff is good

516
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Speaker 2: at all plays.

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Speaker 1: It may not be frontline ace level quality type stuff,

518
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Speaker 1: but you don't not everybody needs to be the number

519
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Speaker 1: one starter.

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Speaker 2: You can make a hell of a career being a

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Speaker 2: three four.

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Speaker 3: It's the kind of thing too, where like we're seeing

523
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Speaker 3: him get so much better in such quick succession, where

524
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Speaker 3: if he just if he gets like a halftick on

525
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Speaker 3: his command grade every single year, like eventually it'd be

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Speaker 3: like is Jack Wenninger is her two?

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Speaker 1: Like it's like that the last mean thing I'll say

528
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Speaker 1: about Shaum and I a right now, because I hope

529
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Speaker 1: he does have a great season, But like having a

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Speaker 1: guy like winninger get good and be able to be

531
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Speaker 1: at three four stops you from paying guys like Sean

532
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Speaker 1: and I at twenty five million dollars a year when

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Speaker 1: you don't have.

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Speaker 3: To, definitely, which is nice that we're getting more of

535
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Speaker 3: these guys popping up every single which way. And hopefully

536
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Speaker 3: he's the one that he's like it cans it's top

537
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Speaker 3: punch of prospect. Now it's amazing se himself and but

538
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Speaker 3: just yeah, we'll see if that gets there. Then, last

539
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Speaker 3: pitching note, Devin Williams messing around with some stuff that

540
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Speaker 3: goes left either a col it's just every single wrinkle

541
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Speaker 3: the guy can get. I like that the Mets are

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Speaker 3: experimenting this spring.

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Speaker 2: This is what this is for. These games do not

544
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Speaker 2: count or Matt warm up? See what you got? That's

545
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Speaker 2: what we want to see. Try stuff. Guys never try

546
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Speaker 2: stuff anymore. Try something. Guys are a little.

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Speaker 1: Skittish sometimes, but I like to see that Justin Willard's

548
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Speaker 1: got them right. Anything else or is it time to

549
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Speaker 1: talk about some WBC.

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Speaker 2: Let's get some WBC stuff all right.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget All of our World Baseball Classic coverage is

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Speaker 1: the best WIB action all season long, from WBC through

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Speaker 1: Baseball Classic is awesome again.

563
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Speaker 2: We might have just lost seventy five percent of our audience.

564
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Speaker 1: I know that this is divisive in the Mets world,

565
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Speaker 1: but me, this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: In the WBC is it's it's getting way better than

568
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Speaker 1: when I even started loving it years ago.

569
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Speaker 2: It's peak right now.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're hitting twenty years the WBC this year, which

571
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Speaker 3: is nice. And while it's the twenty th year of

572
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,360
Speaker 3: the WBC, it's been herkie jerky every time. It's never

573
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Speaker 3: like the regular four years apart that was always intended

574
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Speaker 3: to be. It's got some threes, got a six in there,

575
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Speaker 3: I got a couple of fours, but this is it's

576
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Speaker 3: hitting a whole new peaking level right now. And I

577
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Speaker 3: think that's because this time a lot of the great

578
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Speaker 3: USA players we're gonna we're like, we're soothing up. Got

579
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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge, Paul Skens looked outrageously good.

580
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Speaker 2: On Monday.

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Speaker 3: I had friends in group chats who don't watch very

582
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Speaker 3: much baseball, being like Paul Skins and Bobby Wit Look

583
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Speaker 3: at these guys. I'm like, no shit, Sherlock, but tell

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Speaker 3: me what city they play in?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Right, Like one of my friends like, I get Skans

587
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Speaker 3: on the Yankees one damn you shut up, but I'm like,

588
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Speaker 3: I hate you. And then I think, especially the mid

589
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Speaker 3: your public team is captured the harsh and souls of

590
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Speaker 3: everybody right now. It's impossible to watch that team play

591
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Speaker 3: and not love baseball more than I think you did

592
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 3: before you did it. We talked about it a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I think it was last week. Did we get talk

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Speaker 3: about the exhibition game?

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Speaker 2: Did we sneak down.

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Speaker 1: Into did how how the Dominican fans were just going

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Speaker 1: ballistic for an exhibition game and they were bimping home

598
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Speaker 1: runs And it's the vibes are unmatched, and obviously this

599
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Speaker 1: can never happen over Major League Baseball season.

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Speaker 2: It just it's not possible.

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Speaker 1: But wow, if we could do this for the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I really think that's how baseball would get

603
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Speaker 1: to the next.

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Speaker 2: Level for growth.

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Speaker 3: It's just there's a joy when these other Latin American

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Speaker 3: countries are watching baseball, like the Puerto Rican fans losing

607
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Speaker 3: their minds over a group stage game, but he'll walk

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Speaker 3: off home run and they again, they could definitely got

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Speaker 3: a little bit screwed by injuries and Insuran stuff. Heading

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Speaker 3: into WBC, they do not have the same caliber of

611
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Speaker 3: team they've had in years past, but they point every

612
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Speaker 3: single game they played if you get it, if they

613
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Speaker 3: can lead. They're both players clamping down on people. They're

614
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Speaker 3: playing good defense. Team been as Wales also looking really good.

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Speaker 3: Like you're going to be in Venzuale, a Dominican Republic

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Speaker 3: on Wednesday, which is like there's gonna be a scene.

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Speaker 2: And down in Miami. It's just it's like a World

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Speaker 2: Series and of its own.

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Speaker 3: It's fun to watch a guy like Junior Cameronaro who

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Speaker 3: for us and you guys who taking a lot of baseball.

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Speaker 3: If you guys taking a lot of national baseball, not

622
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Speaker 3: just the Mets. We know that last year he said

623
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Speaker 3: it's being a star. But to see him now become

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Speaker 3: like a dude who everyone on the internet is talking.

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Speaker 2: About, Like this junior Cameronaro. Guy's electric because he is.

626
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Speaker 3: And the fact that there's like a cool subplot of

627
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Speaker 3: many a child of being his childhood island. He's hitting

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Speaker 3: behind him in the lineup, and they went back to

629
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Speaker 3: back in the exhibition game. They've driven him in a

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Speaker 3: few times. They're dancing and doing handshakes together.

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Speaker 2: It's so much fun.

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Speaker 1: I mean, wan So too and Vladd Junior doing press conferences,

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Speaker 1: which by the way, oh Flad would have been our

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Speaker 1: first basement if he fren agency, Oh man, he would

635
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Speaker 1: have been our first baseman. But like him and So

636
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Speaker 1: doing the press conference, getting rid of the show, Hao

637
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Speaker 1: Tani green tea that's on the podium, no free promos.

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Speaker 1: Love it, Like there's there's so much pride for all

639
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Speaker 1: their countries and like for the teams that they're on.

640
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to say that there's like an

641
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Speaker 1: animosity building nationwide because it's never really gonna happen that way,

642
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: but like even just a little bit of the gamesman

643
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Speaker 1: ship stuff of like not shaking hands with the guys,

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Speaker 1: or Jack mcrally and Robie Prick Perkins. Jack Perkins is

645
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Speaker 1: as like Randi Roseraina tonight in the Mexico USA game,

646
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 1: went to go shake Cal rallies Hey, and Cal told

647
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Speaker 1: them no. Like obviously they're probably joking about that, but

648
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Speaker 1: like just the idea that these guys are so so

649
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: so locked in for these games and they care. And

650
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Speaker 1: I think that's what makes it even more fun to watch,

651
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: is that even like the bad teams that we're talking about,

652
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Speaker 1: like the Czech and Nicaragua and Brazil, they've all massively improved,

653
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Speaker 1: even Great Britain massively improved from the previous World Baseball

654
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Speaker 1: Classics that they featured in, or even for their first time.

655
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Speaker 1: The quality of competition is getting really good, and I

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Speaker 1: think from the world stage, it's very cool to see

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Speaker 1: that baseball is becoming more of a world game, even

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Speaker 1: at the lowest of levels.

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Speaker 3: Dude, Chinese typey Taiwan has had four or five guys.

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Speaker 3: They are pumping high nineties with nasty stuff.

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Speaker 1: There's a group of guys that are gonna come over

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Speaker 1: from Major League baseball from that league that that would

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Speaker 1: have never happened in previous years. Stuart Fairchild looks he's

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Speaker 1: a quadruple A like thirty girls. He looks like a star.

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Speaker 1: We're seeing some ascending young talent a team like Korea

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Speaker 1: young men on and he looks gross and Doyan Cam

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Speaker 1: I guess the other dames.

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Speaker 2: No, it's do young KMB.

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Speaker 3: But what young MANA won the Rookie of the Year

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Speaker 3: in the KBO last year. He looks like he'll be

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Speaker 3: a major leaguer in a few years and looks like

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Speaker 3: he could be a guy that's like an impact bat

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Speaker 3: when he gets.

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Speaker 2: There, just with a little bit more growth.

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Speaker 3: Like these teams are fun like Also, what you're talking

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Speaker 3: about a team like Australia, I know, I've talked about

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Speaker 3: them a few times.

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Speaker 2: They wind up.

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Speaker 3: They have a national league that's growing tremendously year over year.

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Speaker 3: The Aussies love baseball right now, is one of the

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Speaker 3: fast growing sports in their country. And these guys came

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Speaker 3: to play in WBC and they.

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Speaker 1: Were got it to lose the advancement on a run differential,

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Speaker 1: on a run differential going into the last inning like heartbreaking.

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Speaker 1: Travis Bizana hit a run to go ahead, to make

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Speaker 1: the run differential go back in the Australian way. So

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Speaker 1: you got them celebrating even though they're losing because they

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Speaker 1: know what the what the stakes are. These games are awesome.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see more of it. We got

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Speaker 1: Noel McLean going up again Italy today. When you guys

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Speaker 1: are listening to this, which can't wait. I mean, USA

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Speaker 1: is through, but for Italy, like if they win, they're through,

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Speaker 1: like they automatically punched their ticket if they win that game.

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Speaker 2: So some actually do they automatically punch their ticket? They

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Speaker 2: might not. I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: I thinks two wins they can still Yeah, they can

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Speaker 3: still there. But those teams playing on Wednesday, Like I

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Speaker 3: never who ever thought that you would say a baseball

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Speaker 3: game between Mexico and Italy would be like almost must

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Speaker 3: watch on Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: Like we know Italy is like you know with the

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Speaker 1: little asterisk, like everyone's basically American. There's there's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of Venezuelans on that team too, but like it's it's

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Speaker 1: really cool. I love the World Baseball Classic, and I

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Speaker 1: think this year's World Baseball Classic has by far been

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Speaker 1: the most successful and I can't wait to see what

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Speaker 1: happens when we get.

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Speaker 2: To the knockout round.

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Speaker 3: But it's also nice to see a team like Italy

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Speaker 3: who are really buying into like being Italian. Like Vinie

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Speaker 3: pas Quentino's the captain of Team Italy, Rock and the

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Speaker 3: Sea on this chest, so is the captive of Team Columbia.

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Speaker 3: But Italy's now doing a tradition I think was sprend

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Speaker 3: a little bit last time by manager of Francisco Cervelli,

715
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Speaker 3: where if youre the home run shav espresso. Yeah, most

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Speaker 3: of them are spitting it out right after there, but

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Speaker 3: like because you can't play because we have three shots

718
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Speaker 3: of espresso. It's really hard to play baseball. But one

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Speaker 3: it's a perfect level. But I think it was Dezenzo

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Speaker 3: and J. J. Ed Razzio who made an error in

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Speaker 3: the first ending of that game, a past pass ball

722
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Speaker 3: against Great Britain Andrew Fisher. It was Andrew Fisher and

723
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Speaker 3: Razio went back to back and they were ripping the

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Speaker 3: shots of espresso. Dante Nori had a the league home run.

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Speaker 3: He's been ascended. He looks like a dude. I like

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Speaker 3: d'anta no, he's Philly system right Phillies.

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Speaker 2: He was a Phillies first round pick a couple years ago.

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Speaker 2: And like that's why this is also fun, because you're

729
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Speaker 2: seeing prospects who didn't have a lot of critical acclaim,

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Speaker 2: especially on Team Brazil on Friday night, come out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: There's there's three guys in total that really stuck out

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Speaker 1: to me that have not been like part of the

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Speaker 1: Asian countries, but from Team Brazil.

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Speaker 2: Lucas Ramirez, who was Manny Ramirez's son, not.

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Speaker 1: A highly touted prospect at all, had like a seven

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Speaker 1: hundred ops is like a nineteen twenty year old I

737
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Speaker 1: think at lower high A last year. In one week,

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Speaker 1: he's hit a home run off of Jake de gram

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Speaker 1: Logan Web and then went lefty lefty against Gabe Spier,

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Speaker 1: which is is pretty insane honestly, and threw a guy

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Speaker 1: out from right field third base, I believe, so like

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Speaker 1: showing that he's a well rounded player. Also Many's son,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be a good baseball player. Jose Contreras's son,

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Speaker 1: seventeen years old, pitching on the mound for Team Brazil.

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Speaker 1: Josepha gets Aaron, Yeah, Joseph Contreras gets Aaron Judge to

746
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Speaker 1: break his back ground out into a bases loaded double

747
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Speaker 1: play get out of the inning.

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Speaker 2: Like are you are you kidding me? You're seventeen years old.

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Speaker 1: I know he's going to Vandy and he's a he's

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Speaker 1: a top stud prospect in the high school ranks in Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Teen, but he's seventeen. That's crazy.

752
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Speaker 1: And then even to talk about Team Great Britain for

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Speaker 1: a second, like Harry Ford's had another moment where like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this guy is a good ball player going up against

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Speaker 1: good competition, and naj Victor, who is a guy who

756
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Speaker 1: legitimately was complete hot ass as a twenty four year

757
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Speaker 1: old in a ball last year for the Angels, went

758
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Speaker 1: up against Team USA and was untouchable. This stuff was electric,

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Speaker 1: Like do the Angels just now put him in the bullpen?

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Speaker 2: What do you do? I mean?

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Speaker 3: The thing that's fun too, because a lot of these

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Speaker 3: teams that are mentioning it's they don't really have the

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Speaker 3: same town as a lot of these other teams that

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Speaker 3: we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: At the top, there's a clear six good teams and

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Speaker 1: the rest of them are all kind of just fighting

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Speaker 1: to be seventh and eighth.

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Speaker 3: But the fun thing about the teams are fighting at

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Speaker 3: the bottom. If you win one game in the tournament,

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Speaker 3: you get yourself guaranteed to the next tournament.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily, you just want you have to avoid being

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Speaker 1: in last place. That usually means winning one because like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna not win a single game.

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Speaker 3: So like Great Britain goes up against Brazil and Great

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Speaker 3: Britain dogs them, they get they probably now get to

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Speaker 3: be in the next in the next tournament, which is like, yes,

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Speaker 3: it's just fun that these teams can like have something

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Speaker 3: to fight for at every single level. I don't think

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Speaker 3: you think Lucas Smiris has another hit.

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Speaker 2: After might not that might run after that?

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Speaker 3: Ye still like even just a guy like that to

782
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Speaker 3: get a little bit more prospects shown a little bit

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Speaker 3: more critical acclaim like it's it's just it's such a

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Speaker 3: fun tournament to watch it.

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Speaker 1: It's been great, and want so to hit a walk

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Speaker 1: off home run, so I'm happy and want.

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Speaker 3: So the walk off home run so quick, Media Marvel

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Speaker 3: want so, those saying the most fun years of his

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Speaker 3: career twenty nineteen, twenty twenty four. Yeah, some people freaked

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Speaker 3: out about that. Fair, of course they did it.

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Speaker 2: Fair. It's fair now James Temming. What happened in those years,

792
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Speaker 2: went to the World Series, went to the World Series.

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Speaker 1: The guys, I likes winning. I don't know if anybody's

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Speaker 1: noticed this, but he's happy when he wins. That's what

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Speaker 1: the Mets have to do.

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Speaker 2: He looks happy. He looks happy.

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Speaker 3: Team Dominican, him and Tatis are doing dances again, Tatis

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Speaker 3: doing the Capiro in the locker room. Junior Kemeneros like

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Speaker 3: swinging his hips when he hits home runs, like it's

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Speaker 3: a lot of us are Onrey Dominican's watching some of

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Speaker 3: these games, like I am glued everyone you know, every

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Speaker 3: single time they play. I can't stop watching New Cruise.

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Speaker 3: I've never I'd like barely ever seen him smile before.

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Speaker 2: But I didn't know actually had emotions. I thought he

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Speaker 2: just played baseball.

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Speaker 3: And then also, for you guys, we are maybe not

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Speaker 3: super locked in the managers of these Teamsmican Republicans, Butholes,

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Speaker 3: Puerto Rico's Yadi Venezuela is Miggy like he is real, well,

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Speaker 3: Miggi's a hitting coach.

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Speaker 2: He's a hitting coach. Israel Kevin Nucleus on the staff

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Speaker 2: and Ian Kinsler.

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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, Eddie Pettitt's on the American staff was

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Speaker 3: supporting Mark de Rosa, like it's.

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Speaker 2: For Jesusco Survellia's team Middle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned that one before. One guy not having

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Speaker 3: great World Baseball Classic, Mark Fantos.

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Speaker 2: But that's whatever. I mean, we kind of knew that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just Dusty Baker's the manager of Nicaragua. Baker does.

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Speaker 2: Baker's got that shit on right now. It's rocking.

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Speaker 1: It's a fun Timea's played close games. They only lost

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Speaker 1: to Venezuela by four today. That game shouldn't be close.

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Speaker 1: Marconos is their best player.

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Speaker 2: I see right now. I think so again. We Jeter Downs,

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Speaker 2: who's never played at the majors, basically don't there's Mail Mungia.

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Speaker 2: I had a nice game. Yeah, but he did have

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Speaker 2: a nice game. You know what, shout out him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a can't.

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Speaker 3: It's like seeing these guys who are like like seeing

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Speaker 3: guys like Harold Ramirez, Donovan Solano, like pop Up Holo

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Speaker 3: just watching these I mean, Alexi Ramirez, he just watching

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Speaker 3: these guys play baseball.

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Speaker 1: It's like cool, this feels fun. Yeah, the World Baseball

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Speaker 1: Classic is fun. We hope you guys are enjoying it again.

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Speaker 1: Check out Fox one. They are streaming now. You can

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Speaker 1: watch all the World Baseball Classic coverage there. I also

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Speaker 1: forgot what had a go ahead hit the other night.

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Speaker 2: He's been on base like crazy for Panama. He's got

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Speaker 2: nine dred ohps in this tournament.

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Speaker 3: And also, guys, our friends of Foul Territory, they're doing

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Speaker 3: postgame shows after these big World Baseball Classic grounds, so definitely.

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Speaker 2: Check that out too. Check that out.

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Speaker 1: Big out to Fox One, Big shout to you guys

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Speaker 1: for listening and watching this episode of the Mets UF podcast.

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Speaker 2: You can follow James on social media James Chiano, I'm

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Speaker 2: Draftnick Mark. Thank you guys for watching. We'll catch on

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Speaker 2: the next one. Peace out, peace out. Let's go Mets

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Speaker 2: broil at then the bla