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Speaker 2: Hey, we've got Jesse Friedman joining us right now, the

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Speaker 2: new host of the new show Snake's Territory, which did

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Speaker 2: its first live show last night, So check it out

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Speaker 2: on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Jesse, great

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Speaker 2: to have you on. Let's just start really nice and

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Speaker 2: simple here. What kind of grade would you give the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, first of all, thank you guys for having me,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Yeah, a grade for the first few

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Speaker 1: I would probably give them an a minus feels roughly appropriate. Granted,

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Speaker 1: Eighteen games in. Certainly it hasn't all been perfect. The

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Speaker 1: an area of improvement for this team. Certainly there were

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Speaker 3: So what are we missing? What is the what is

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Speaker 3: like I see that Corbyn Carroll's leading team and Homer's

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Speaker 1: Corbyn Carroll has certainly gotten the vast majority of the

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Speaker 1: who's been a pretty solid player in this league over

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Speaker 4: What's the achilles heel of this team? Is it the bullpen?

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun division to follow if the

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Speaker 2: They're have a good series against Philadelphia too. Jesse, this

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Speaker 2: was great, thanks for joining us. Congrats again on Snake's Territory.

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Speaker 2: Keep it up. We'll talk soon.

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Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, guys, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Jesse Friedman, host of Snake's Territory. So go

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Speaker 2: But go check out the show. It's awesome. They'll pop

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Speaker 3: See right.

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Speaker 2: Show sometimes is for gold stars. How do you say

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know Mark rip Mark Rippager,

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Speaker 2: They can We all agree.

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Speaker 4: That this is really cool to see. Good for you.

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Speaker 3: This is why we haven't had the abs till now,

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Speaker 3: Bad call.

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Speaker 4: He didn't touch him, didn't touch him. I used to

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Speaker 4: You don't get these for nothing.

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Speaker 3: I think it is I think it is interference. I

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Speaker 2: This is good, this is I love this, this is

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Speaker 4: This is the batter's interference.

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Speaker 2: It's not you guys are the experts.

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Speaker 4: Not it's a week tweaks back when I played you

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Speaker 4: You had to fake it till you make it right.

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Speaker 4: But not anymore. You don't even have to touch the guy.

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Speaker 3: I mean, according to that of the law, it is interference.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you got follow then manipulate them. I didn't try

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Speaker 3: Please, people go and look it up. It's on YouTube.

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Speaker 4: To see the playoffs when I was with when I

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