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Speaker 1: Front Office, unfiltered resident GM Jim Bowden joining us right now, JB.

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Speaker 1: I actually want to start with a statement for you,

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Speaker 1: just like our old days when we still host some

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Speaker 1: radio shows together. So I'm just gonna start with this statement.

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Speaker 1: The game is broken, JB. It is broken. We have

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Speaker 1: the smallest TV market in Major League Baseball with by

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Speaker 1: far the best record in baseball. This is exactly what

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Speaker 1: everyone said all off season long, JB. Everyone was like,

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Speaker 1: it's so unfair. The smallest TV markets always are the best.

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Speaker 1: It's not fair that the Dodgers always stink. They get

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Speaker 1: to spend all the money and yet they're looking behind

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Speaker 1: them and the Padres might catch them. Oh wait, that's

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Speaker 1: not anything that we said. Most people said, one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty wins for the Dodgers. No one else has

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Speaker 1: a chance. Small markets have no chance. Oh wait, maybe

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Speaker 1: the Brewers are just run well. So what do you

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Speaker 1: think about where we're at as a sport in mid August.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been exciting, hasn't it. The fact that we

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Speaker 2: have so many middle of small market teams that are

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Speaker 2: in the middle of a race. It's been a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun. And as you mentioned, the Milwaukee Brewers. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they have been the best team in baseball, and it's

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Speaker 2: been really fun to watch, right, the first team since

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen to put together two ten game winning streaks

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Speaker 2: in the same season, Like that's just incredible. And yet

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Speaker 2: you look at their team and you understand why they

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Speaker 2: have three number one starters. Right. Freddy Peralta, who faces

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Speaker 2: Paul Skins today, has thirteen wins and a three o ERA.

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Speaker 2: Before Missarowski got hurt, he had four and one with

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Speaker 2: a two seven ERA, and Brandon Woodruff looks like the

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Speaker 2: ace was before he got hurt. He's four and oh

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Speaker 2: with a two two ERA, and oh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: the fourth starter, Jose Cantana, has ten wins in a

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Speaker 2: three four ERA, and Quinn Priestra has eleven wins and

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Speaker 2: a three four ERA, and oh, by the way, they

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Speaker 2: have an impact closer and Trevor McGill who's converted twenty

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Speaker 2: eight to thirty one save opportunities with a two to

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Speaker 2: two ERA, and oh, we'll talk about the offense fifth

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Speaker 2: in baseball and run score second in stolen bases, and

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Speaker 2: depending on what the defensive metrics you like, they're either

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Speaker 2: fourth or fifth or sixth. Right, pick your poison whatever

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Speaker 2: you want, but this is a complete team. Their manager

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Speaker 2: Pat Murphy's done unbelievable job. Their GM, Matt Arnold is

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Speaker 2: the reigning executive of the Year in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: It's a small market team that is going out there

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Speaker 2: and is legitimately has a chance to not only win

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Speaker 2: this division, but get to the World Series and maybe

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Speaker 2: win the World Series. So it's been great for baseball.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun to watch in the vibe

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Speaker 2: that's going on in Milwaukee is just sick.

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Speaker 3: I love it if you're the GM of this team.

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Speaker 3: Besides like saying, hey, these guys are winning, like I'm

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Speaker 3: just gonna let them, let them do what they do.

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Speaker 3: You've lost. Matt Arnold's been there before when David Stearns

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Speaker 3: was there, and this team just bows out in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Is there some kind of message that you're sending down saying, hey, okay, analytically,

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Speaker 3: we need to make sure that our manager makes this

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Speaker 3: adjustment because in the playoffs this hasn't worked because all

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Speaker 3: those names that you just said, it's all the same numbers,

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Speaker 3: just rinse and recycle different names. Besides Freddy Peralta in

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Speaker 3: Big WU, like it's a new closer. They've had the

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Speaker 3: best closer for the last six years in baseball. Like

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Speaker 3: it's just constantly they're just rinsing new names in. But

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Speaker 3: they haven't been able to push it through in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. And you know, I think when

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Speaker 2: we go back and we look at the ccs of

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Speaker 2: Atthew days when he was pitching on two in three

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Speaker 2: days rest just to go out there and try to win.

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Speaker 2: And then we had the run when they had Hater

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Speaker 2: and they were babying him, right, they weren't pushing the

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Speaker 2: envelope with him, which you know, maybe not caused them

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Speaker 2: a chance to get there. But I think this particular

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Speaker 2: team is a little bit different than the rest. I mean,

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Speaker 2: when you have three guys of Paralta, Mazerowski, and Woodruff

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Speaker 2: pitching up to their capabilities. With McGill and what he's

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Speaker 2: done the first time All Star this year, and the

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Speaker 2: way they play defense, the way they're so athletic, the

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Speaker 2: way they move the chains, and yet they have the

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Speaker 2: veterans like Christian Yell that can also carry the team.

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Speaker 2: I think this team is a little bit different. I

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Speaker 2: think this team has a better ceiling just because of

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Speaker 2: how deep they are. And again and I think, I

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Speaker 2: think Pat Murphy has just done a brilliant job with

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Speaker 2: this group. They're very close. They can beat you in

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Speaker 2: so many different ways, right, and you know Bryce Terank

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Speaker 2: can make a diving play up the middle, uh to

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Speaker 2: win your game. Durbin's jerseys dirty by the national anthem.

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Speaker 2: They're just knit. There's grit, there's it's a complete team.

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Speaker 2: So I actually like this team a lot better than

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Speaker 2: any Brewer team since Sabbathia was on the bump.

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Speaker 4: Everyone loves when Cec was pitching those games with the

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Speaker 4: Brewers because he pitched on two days resting, went nine

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Speaker 4: innings every time, Jim, So it's tough to fault anybody.

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Speaker 4: Oh hey, Cec, go throw a shut up. Okay, guys,

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Speaker 4: I pitched, Go do it again. Okay, I'll do that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's pretty tough to beat that. Speaking of

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Speaker 4: CC one of his other teams, I thought you were

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Speaker 4: talking about the Yankees and we were talking about a

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Speaker 4: complete team athleticism, well managed, pitching, defense, all. Oh wait, no,

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Speaker 4: you were not talking about them. What's going on in

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Speaker 4: the Yankee lamb? And who's to blame? I keep saying,

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Speaker 4: it's not Aaron Boon's fault. He's given a roster, he

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Speaker 4: does the best he can, he stands up for his players.

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Speaker 4: But who's really to blame for Yankee woes?

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you're completely right about it not

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Speaker 2: being on Aaron Boone, who, by the way, is a

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Speaker 2: defending American League champion manager and not only managed into

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Speaker 2: the World Series last year. But you know, look, this

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Speaker 2: team is built on their offense and more I guess

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Speaker 2: better said their power right, their first in the American

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Speaker 2: League and run scored, they lead Major League Baseball and homers,

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Speaker 2: they lead Major League Baseball and slug We know Aaron

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Speaker 2: Judge has most to do with that, But the fact is,

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Speaker 2: as a team, that's not the part of the team

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Speaker 2: we're worried about that. That part's good. It's how they

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Speaker 2: win games. They have to win with their power, but

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Speaker 2: they can do that. But then we get to the

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Speaker 2: pitching part, and I'm looking for Garrett Cole but oh,

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Speaker 2: I guess he had Tommy John surgery. Oh I was

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Speaker 2: looking for Clark Schmidt. He's not there. I didn't get

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Speaker 2: to see Lewis heel in the first half. Marcus Stroman

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Speaker 2: got released, and there's seventeenth and TmrA. The starting pitching

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Speaker 2: is tenth because you know, when you have freedom, you

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Speaker 2: have Rodon and now heelback's that's okay, and the kids

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Speaker 2: a pitch well, right, Schuittler has been really good for them,

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Speaker 2: which is a positive sign. Will Warren pitch great last night.

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Speaker 2: So the starting pitching kind of gives you a shot.

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Speaker 2: And then we go to the pen, which has been

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Speaker 2: a huge problem. Right they're twenty second in baseball and

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Speaker 2: TMRI back there. Devin Williams has been a nightmare as

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Speaker 2: we all know. But GM Brian Cashman does what he

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Speaker 2: always does. He stepped up of the deadline, went and

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Speaker 2: got David Bednar and made some other moves to try

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Speaker 2: to fortify it defensively. As you guys know, it's not

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Speaker 2: a good defensive team, right, It's in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the pack no matter how you want to break down.

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Speaker 2: They're not very athletic, they're kind of one dimensional offensively,

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Speaker 2: and they're a team that you know, maybe gets a

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Speaker 2: it's kind of a borderline team right now, it's going

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Speaker 2: to come down to pitching, and that's that's gonna be

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Speaker 2: the focus. They're gonna have enough offense, the defenses are

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Speaker 2: going to be great. But at the same time, how

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Speaker 2: do you pitch the rest of the way. He's going

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Speaker 2: to determine if they're a playoff team and how far

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Speaker 2: they go. But to sit there and blame any of

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Speaker 2: this on the manager's foolish. I love the way he

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Speaker 2: stands up for the players, and by the way, behind

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Speaker 2: the scenes, he's a pretty good communicator, and you know

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Speaker 2: he'll get tough on a player in his office one

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Speaker 2: on one. But he doesn't embarrass players, right, not publicly

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Speaker 2: and not privately does he embarrass him. He's done a

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Speaker 2: great job and as I said, American League champion. But

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Speaker 2: we all know what it's like in New York, right

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Speaker 2: if you're not in first place, everyone needs to be fired.

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Speaker 2: you know, if we don't win tonight, boom boone's gonna

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Speaker 1: surf Shark today. JB. That was not a perfect roster

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Speaker 1: last year. That was evident, right, that was a clunky

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Speaker 1: roster that Aaron bood led to a world series. And

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Speaker 1: also we know the front offices have as much, if

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Speaker 1: not a bigger impact than ever on our sport. Right

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Speaker 1: help on some sides to side lineups they script games

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Speaker 1: the whole deal. So my follow up here, because I'm

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Speaker 1: getting into many debates with Yankee fans, including some right

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Speaker 1: now that are in our YouTube chat, revolves around Devin Williams.

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Speaker 2: Two parter for you.

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Speaker 1: One, do you fall to any of the usage Like

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Speaker 1: I believe it was Friday's game when Boonie said afterward

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Speaker 1: he can't really find a soft landing spine. You got

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Speaker 1: to use your relievers. So essentially it's like, unless you're

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Speaker 1: cutting this guy, you got to put him in some

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Speaker 1: games if they're all tight games. That's the first portion.

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Speaker 1: The second portion I'm getting into right now with a

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Speaker 1: fan who's who wanted to ask you why they didn't

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Speaker 1: trade Devin Williams at the deadline, and he said, they

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Speaker 1: already have two closes they brought in, why would they

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Speaker 1: have another? So can you explain how teams like to

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Speaker 1: gather high leverage relievers. And also, if Devin Williams was

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Speaker 1: that broken that a contender's trading him away, then what

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Speaker 1: team would even want him at that point?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not gonna want them. And look, when you

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Speaker 2: have a talent like Devin Williams that has a bugs

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Speaker 2: bunny change up, you know, you're hoping you can get

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Speaker 2: him back on track. You know, we've seen a lot

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Speaker 2: of relievers go through bad slumps and all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden they figured out and they can be dominant. We

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Speaker 2: have six weeks left in the season. But I think

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Speaker 2: there's an argument that sometimes Devin Williams has been brought

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Speaker 2: into games where you know, I probably would have done

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Speaker 2: something differently, right, I mean, you got to win, and

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Speaker 2: I can't sit there and hope that I'm going to

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Speaker 2: get the Devin Williams of last year. I have to

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Speaker 2: understand that I had the Devin Williams of this year,

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Speaker 3: All right, you said about the Dodgers not winning the West.

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Speaker 3: You know it's gonna be close. But isn't that the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's fair. I mean, you know, Andrew

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Speaker 1: Yeah, It's funny we said the same thing last year

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Speaker 1: Good catching up with you. JB.

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, tied with Victor Roeblace in twenty seventeen. I

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Speaker 1: don't have time to read all of the others on here,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of Aaron Judge and Luis Arise Arise

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Speaker 1: for contact Judge for strength. What do you guys think?

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to look at the one that Alex Avila

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Speaker 3: is on La sweet Spot.

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Speaker 1: Launching Laundjangle sweet Spot.

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Speaker 3: So that's good.

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Speaker 2: I guess I think it's going, but I think it's cool.

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Speaker 3: But it's not anything. It's not anything we didn't know.

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Speaker 3: That's why I was looking at all that stuff like

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Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, you knew those guys were all going

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Speaker 3: to be at the top. I didn't know when That's cool.

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Speaker 3: Was the Byron Buckson. We talked about it the other day.

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Speaker 3: Byron Buckson's just more faster than Simpson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, than Chandler Simpson. That's true.