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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory, and

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Speaker 1: happy opening Day to all. It's not the Netflix Opening Day,

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Speaker 1: this is the real opening day. Today slate of games

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Speaker 1: ahead of us and Alana. Actually, we have some news

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Speaker 1: this morning to get into. First. Tommy Fam minor league

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Speaker 1: deal with the New York Mets. He returns to the Mets,

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Speaker 1: where he was in twenty twenty three. If you remember,

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Speaker 1: he played there in the first half, then got traded

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Speaker 1: to the Diamondbacks at the deadline. The Mets needed another

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Speaker 1: outfielder for depth because Mike Talkman, of course, blew out

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Speaker 1: his knee at the end of spring training, a very

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Speaker 1: unfortunate injury for him. They're going with Carson Benji in

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Speaker 1: right field, but Fam will at least present them with

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Speaker 1: another option. And he's a guy that in my view,

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Speaker 1: should have had a deal quite some time ago. This

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Speaker 1: is a minor league deal, I know, and the demand

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Speaker 1: for him and his age thirty six, I believe is

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Speaker 1: not going to be what it was. But it's a

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Speaker 1: quality major league player. And I'll add this before throwing

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Speaker 1: it over to you, Alana. Francisco Lindor when he was

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Speaker 1: on the Mets, before he was traded, or actually right

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Speaker 1: after he was traded, but before he left the team,

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Speaker 1: he told Tommy fam you're the hardest working guy I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen. Thank you for teaching me to work hard again.

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Speaker 1: So I am sure Lindor welcome this news. And now

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Speaker 1: I welcome my friend and fellow red wearing.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go with Maroon or maybe Murlou. Happy

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Speaker 2: New Year to you, Ken Rosenthal, Happy opening day everybody

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Speaker 2: out there. Thanks for being with us on fair territory.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, it got a lot to get

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Speaker 2: into today. Let's get into the rest of the lead

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Speaker 2: powered by Game Changer. More on Game Changer in a moment,

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Speaker 2: and Ken Brewers plays Jackson Churio on the il with

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Speaker 2: a fractured left hand. This is a team Ken that

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Speaker 2: many think could win the NL Central. How does this

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Speaker 2: affect them moving forward?

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Speaker 1: It affects them, no question, at least early in the season.

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Speaker 1: Now Churio will be out two to four weeks. This

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Speaker 1: is kind of a weird deal. So he injured the

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Speaker 1: hand in an exhibition while playing for Venezuela. It was

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Speaker 1: March fourth, West Palm Beach and originally he missed two games,

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Speaker 1: then came back and played throughout the WBC and it

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Speaker 1: didn't seem to be an issue, but he continued to

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Speaker 1: fractured left hand. And for the Brewers, obviously, he's a

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Speaker 1: guy who is still on the rise. He's so young

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Speaker 1: still and such a talented player. They're going to bring

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Speaker 1: back Blake Perkins, another right handed hitting outfielder. The rest

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Speaker 1: this on MLB Network this morning, that Christian Yellwick may

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Speaker 1: play some more outfield in the interim. Obviously, this is

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Speaker 1: a blow for the Brewers, at least temporarily. One other

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Speaker 1: point here, I'm sure people will say, oh.

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Speaker 3: Here we go WBC injuries, But this was actually an

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Speaker 3: injury he suffered in an exhibition game in Florida, and

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Speaker 3: really the WBC kind of escaped injury free for the

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Speaker 1: Kyle Teel, of course with the White Sox, had the

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Speaker 1: strained hamstring, says Suzuki the issue, but these are injuries

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Speaker 1: that might have occurred in spring training. There wasn't a

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Speaker 1: So so far, so good on that front for the

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Speaker 1: It's just something they have to patch together for the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the WBC, as far as injuries are concerned, pretty unscathed,

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Speaker 2: and start contributing to their team. Opening Day is here, Ken,

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Speaker 2: So let's get into your twelve storylines piece that you

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Speaker 2: wrote for the Athletic Let's start with the Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: Daughters in pursuit of a three peat, Ken, Rosenthal. But

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Speaker 2: they have to figure out what to do with Roki

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Speaker 2: Sasaki and the pitching struggles. What do you make of those?

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Speaker 1: It's interesting a lot at first. I saw, obviously the

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Speaker 1: But they want to find out and they want him

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Speaker 1: is convinced that Sasaki is going to figure this out

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Speaker 1: if that happens, great, If it doesn't happen, they've got

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Speaker 1: Justin Robleski is effectively their sixth starter. They've got River

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Speaker 1: I would expect the Dodgers are going to be okay.

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Speaker 1: And heaven forbid, they have a need of the deadline,

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Speaker 1: what are they going to do? They're going to trade

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Speaker 2: Katie Wu, your colleague with The Athletic are co host

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Speaker 2: on Dodgers' Territory, talk to Dave Roberts about it. She

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Speaker 2: has a quote in her story that Dave said, I

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Speaker 2: don't think that you can completely just bank on or

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Speaker 2: evaluate spring training or an exhibition game. Roberts said, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: it hasn't been great. It really hasn't. And we know

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Speaker 2: we know that. So we'll see what happens with Rochi Sasaki.

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Speaker 2: All right, Ken, When we were asked to put our

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Speaker 2: predictions together for who is going to win every single

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Speaker 2: sixth season, I picked the Mariners to win the Al West.

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Speaker 2: Is the industry sleeping on the Astros?

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Speaker 1: First off, I don't know that the Mariners are a

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Speaker 1: people are picking them as you are, allow us to

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Speaker 1: go to the World Series, maybe even win the World Series.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at the projections that you see

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Speaker 1: the best odds of winning their division. Now that said,

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Speaker 1: the question you raise is quite vouid. Are we sleeping

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Speaker 1: on the Astros? Well, we might be, And here's why

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Speaker 1: They've got Correa, They've got Christian Walker. It's too much, right,

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Speaker 1: The Mariners are really good, and they're really good because

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Speaker 2: One of the questions that was asked in terms of

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Speaker 2: of chuckled at that I did not pick Joe Espada

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Speaker 2: that both GM Dana Brown of the Astros and Joe Espada,

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Speaker 2: the manager of the Stros, could face seat warmers on

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Speaker 2: lame duck deals. Tell us more about that.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're in the last years of their contracts, respectively.

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Speaker 1: And Jim Crane, the owner, we have seen that he

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Speaker 1: He's been a very successful owner. And you remember, of course,

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Speaker 1: with James Click as general manager, James Klick left. He

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Speaker 1: He didn't want it. So Jim Crane will change up

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Speaker 1: They didn't make the playoffs last year for the first

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Speaker 1: see Crane certainly doing something because his history would be Hey,

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Speaker 1: I want excellence, I want the best, and if you're

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Speaker 1: not winning, you might be out all right.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you about your four teams here

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Speaker 2: in terms of surprise teams. We talked about perhaps the

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Speaker 2: industry sleeping on the Astros, but you have some surprise teams.

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Speaker 2: The Astros not one of them. But hardly anybody seems

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Speaker 2: to be talking about the Miami Marlins like you are.

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Speaker 2: What do you know that we don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I know anything that anybody doesn't.

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Speaker 1: And in this story, as I point out, I've been

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Speaker 1: covering the game now, this is my fortieth season, and

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Speaker 1: it seems like I still haven't figured it out. No

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Speaker 1: one figures it out. That's the beauty of baseball. That's

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Speaker 1: what keeps us coming back year after year. What I

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Speaker 1: jump last year, sixty two wins to seventy nine. They

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Speaker 1: opening the season hurt, but they've got an interesting group

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Speaker 1: They're kind of the Brewers Southeast and beyond all that

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Speaker 1: It's healthy and the question is going to be do

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Speaker 1: but I do like them now. They're in a tough

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Speaker 1: a long way toward why I think under Clayton McCall,

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Speaker 2: Ken, Why do you think the Pirates could possibly qualify

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Speaker 2: for a surprise team this year? You just quickly mentioned them.

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Speaker 1: Simply because of the work that they did in the

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Speaker 1: Connor Griffin is just about ready to come. He's going

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Speaker 1: Marcella Zuna there. They've built a more respectable offense. They

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Speaker 1: led by the best pitcher in the sport, Paul Skins.

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Speaker 1: I just believe that they feel finally more urgency and

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Speaker 2: It seems like a win win for both sides. My

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Speaker 2: dude of the week is a Skip Schumacher, the skipper

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Speaker 2: of the Texas Rangers, the way that he went to

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Speaker 2: the mound a mound visit, telling Carter Bombler that he

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Speaker 2: had made the Rangers. And you know, he's probably going

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Speaker 2: out there thinking always coming to take me out of

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Speaker 2: the game or whatever. And you could just see the

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Speaker 2: excitement on everybody's face. Everyone's smiling. Obviously he was a rual,

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Speaker 2: you know, a rule five pick there and he's made

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Speaker 2: the Rangers. I texted Skip after that, I said, you

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Speaker 2: are a legend for this, and all he said was

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Speaker 2: that he's super happy for the kid. That was a

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Speaker 2: really nice way for him to find out that he

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Speaker 2: made the team. Okay, time now for our dork of

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Speaker 2: the week. All right, Ken, go ahead, who's your dork?

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball? Now it's not going to be a

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Speaker 1: screaming hallet like a bansheet dork week because this is

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Speaker 1: a complicated issue. But the story that Evandrellik and I

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Speaker 1: wrote the other day about the coaches having to stay

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Speaker 1: in the coaches boxes this year, new adjustment to the

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Speaker 1: rules and them fearing that they're in harm's way, now,

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Speaker 1: this is a complicated issue. As I just said, major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball wanted to do something after there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of complaints last year and a lot of issues

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Speaker 1: with coaches wandering out of the boxes and trying to

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Speaker 1: pick up pitchers tipping. Okay, that's a problem, and yes

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Speaker 1: it needed to be addressed. In my view, what happened

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Speaker 1: here was they went too far and they didn't consult

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Speaker 1: the coaches. They talked to the managers, and the managers said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: clean this up. But the coaches are the ones who

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Speaker 1: are facing one hundred and ten hundred and fifteen miles

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Speaker 1: per hour coming out them in the coaches boxes. And

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Speaker 1: we had in that story any number of coaches on

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Speaker 1: the record as well as some managers saying, hey, what

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Speaker 1: are we doing here? We have no place to go,

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Speaker 1: we have no place to hide. MLB says, well, you

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Speaker 1: can move back toward the dugout to stay out of

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Speaker 1: harm's way that way, but one coach pointed out, well,

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Speaker 1: that's not really staying out of harm's way. And two,

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Speaker 1: I've got a coach that's the whole point of this.

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Speaker 1: So a mild dork of the week for MLB for

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Speaker 1: not consulting the coaches and not coming up with a

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Speaker 1: better solution. That is kind of something that would fix

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Speaker 1: all of this if possible. I know it's hard and

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Speaker 1: it's hard to figure this all out, but it seems

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Speaker 1: to me there's a happy medium that was not reached here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeremy Meyer pointing out that first page, coach has

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Speaker 2: to be next to the bag too to time the

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Speaker 2: pitcher ken and obviously have the conversation with the folks

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Speaker 2: that it impacts the most. Perhaps for a better solution,

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Speaker 2: mine is the Atlanta Braves. And the reason I say

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Speaker 2: that is there some good pitching still without a job.

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Speaker 2: Lucas Giolito could use it, and the Braves rotation is

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Speaker 2: in a bit of a flux right now. Can Chris Sale,

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Speaker 2: Rinaldo Lopez, Grant Holmes, Brace Elder Diddy or Fuenttez Jose Suarez.

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Speaker 2: But they have a lot of really good arms on

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Speaker 2: the il Joey Wentz, Spencer Star, Spencer, Schwellenbach, Hurston Waldrup.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised that the Braves did not do more in

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Speaker 2: terms of addressing the starting staff because of the injuries

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Speaker 2: that they've had.

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Speaker 1: It's very curious a lot, to say the least. I

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Speaker 1: have not understood it. From the very beginning. They said

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Speaker 1: that their number one priority was a starting pitcher going

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Speaker 1: into the off season, never addressed it all. Right, let's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. I tell you what. The Foul Territory

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Speaker 2: family is growing. Ken, let's talk a bit about the padres,

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Speaker 2: some interested parties in the looming sale. Who's going to

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Speaker 2: buy the pods?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure who's going to buy the Milana, but

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Speaker 1: as I wrote with Dennis Lynn yesterday, they're going to

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Speaker 1: go for a lot of money, and we wrote that

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Speaker 1: people close to the process are telling us that it

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Speaker 1: could be as high as three point five billion. Seemingly

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Speaker 1: will be at least three billion. Now, it's complicated because

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Speaker 1: when you have to factor in debt, the price isn't

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Speaker 1: exactly always what the headline price is. But it's going

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Speaker 1: to be big, it's going to be a record. So

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Speaker 1: then the question becomes, Okay, well, how does this affect

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Speaker 1: the negotiations because MLB teams and the owners seemingly are

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Speaker 1: worried about their franchise values. That's why they want a

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Speaker 1: salary cap to ensure their franchise values will be higher,

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Speaker 1: and the padres MLB will argue, I would think are

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Speaker 1: an outlier in some respects Now, they've clearly built their

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Speaker 1: team up in a great way, and it showed what

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Speaker 1: investment can do in a team. But there also are

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Speaker 1: a California team. Most of the investors here or the

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Speaker 1: potential investors, are California based, and not many California teams,

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Speaker 1: if any, are going to come up for sale in the

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Speaker 1: near future, so there's a pent up demand. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, while they might not be analogous to

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Speaker 1: Cleveland's and Cincinnati and Pittsburgh's, it clearly shows the sport

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Speaker 1: is healthy enough to command this price for this team.

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Speaker 1: I know the Twins didn't do as well, and I

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Speaker 1: know the Nationals didn't, but at the same time, it's

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Speaker 1: going to create some interesting conversation. Let's put it that

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Speaker 1: way as the CBA talks get going.

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Speaker 2: Ken, as you know better than anybody, you wrote it.

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Speaker 2: Steve Cohen bought the New York Mets in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: for two point four to two billion. Multiple sources close

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Speaker 2: to the process that a number north of three billion.

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Speaker 2: Who would have thought that the Padres would be more

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Speaker 2: valuable in terms of purchase price than the Mets.

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Speaker 1: It's a credit to them, and it's a credit to

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Speaker 1: what they've built there. And yes they've had to go

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Speaker 1: backwards a little bit with a payroll. They might have

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Speaker 1: gone too far. Okay, we all get that. But Peter Sidler,

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Speaker 1: when he was alive, had a vision and they transformed

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Speaker 1: that franchise into something much more than it was before.

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Speaker 1: Now you can say Peter Sidler was willing to spend

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Speaker 1: in a way and had to wherewithal to spend in

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Speaker 1: a way that the Cleveland ownership couldn't and the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: ownership couldn't. Well, Cleveland's got new ownership, David Blitzer at

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Speaker 1: some point is going to take over, and maybe you

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Speaker 1: need new owners like Peter Sidler. Even though these markets

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Speaker 1: might not be as lucrative as San Diego, this certainly

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Speaker 1: has been an argument they can spend in a bigger way.

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Speaker 2: Well, Peter Sidler wanted to win, that's for certain. God

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Speaker 2: rest his soul. Well, That's it for us. Foul Territory

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Speaker 2: is next Bob Nightingale, Kevin Pullar, Ryan Divis, joined Aj

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Speaker 2: Kratz and Scott Braun. Then Dodgers Territory follows with our

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Speaker 2: post game tonight. Happy Opening Day, everybody, ken. We'll be

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