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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to fair territory and welcome.

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Speaker 2: The final six days of the regular season should be

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Speaker 2: rather interesting, but actually we have more clarity than I expected.

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Speaker 2: The clarity is in the division races. Every one of

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Speaker 2: those races is pretty much decided. Even the AL West,

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Speaker 2: where the Rangers have a two and a half game lead.

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Speaker 2: The Rangers are eighty six percent now to win the division.

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Speaker 2: Every other division is either decided or above that in

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Speaker 2: terms of playoff odds, So we know pretty much who

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Speaker 2: the division champions are going to be.

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Speaker 1: What we don't know are.

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Speaker 2: The identities of the wildcard teams in each league and

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Speaker 2: the American League Big Series started last night. Justin Verlander

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Speaker 2: was absolutely brilliant in Seattle. And look at the Mariners,

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Speaker 2: they are falling apart here. We could have some clarity

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Speaker 2: on the Ale wildcard race by the end of the

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Speaker 2: week two. The way the Mariners are going, they are

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Speaker 2: in the midst of a critical ten game stretch to

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Speaker 2: end their season. They are zero to four to start

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Speaker 2: that stretch. Got swept in Texas over the weekend, lose

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Speaker 2: and then three with Texas at home to end the season.

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Speaker 2: The Mariners are eight and fifteen in September. In this

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Speaker 2: zero to four run, their playoff odds have dropped, get this,

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Speaker 2: from sixty five percent to.

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Speaker 1: Twenty eight percent. They need to win, and they need

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Speaker 2: And let me show you how the final series are

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Speaker 2: going to shape up for each of the contenders once

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Speaker 2: they are done with each other. I'm talking about the

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Speaker 2: Mariners and the Astros, two teams competing for that wildcard.

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Speaker 2: Houston will be at Arizona, Seattle will be hosting Texas,

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Speaker 2: so not an easy series for either team. And yes,

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Speaker 2: I am granting the Blue Jays a playoff spot. They're

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Speaker 2: pretty much there. So we're talking about Houston and Seattle

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Speaker 2: as we get into this final couple of days here,

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Speaker 2: you've got three teams competing for two spots. Arizona Chicago

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Speaker 1: Miami is unbelievable to me.

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Speaker 2: By the way, twenty sixth in runs per game this

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Speaker 2: Skip Schumacher has got to be a strong candidate from

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Speaker 2: Manager of the Year. I've been thinking Council would get it,

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Speaker 2: So the National League, well, we're gonna see some interesting

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Speaker 2: things developed over the next few days. And let's look

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Speaker 2: at the schedules for these teams, because they all play

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Speaker 2: six more games starting Tuesday, the Cubs, the Marlins, the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 2: The Marlins have I would say the easiest schedule here

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Speaker 2: at the Mets, at the Pirates.

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Speaker 1: I know they're on the road, but they're playing two

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Speaker 1: teams that are not that potent right now.

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Speaker 2: The Cubs, on the other hand, at the Braves and

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Speaker 2: three and then home against the Astros. The most interesting

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Speaker 1: Going to be wide open. And why do I say that,

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Speaker 2: The teams that looks like it will be in the

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Speaker 2: playoffs is flawed. The Orioles right now without Felix Bautista,

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Speaker 2: the bullpen's not the same. The rotation inexperienced as far

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Speaker 2: one injury after another going on right now. Brandon lau

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Speaker 1: Yondi Diaz, They've got issues.

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Speaker 1: They're not at full strength. The Blue Jays. I sort

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Speaker 2: Finally, they're still fifteenth in the majors and runs per

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Speaker 2: the Twins a dark horse team in my opinion. But

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Speaker 1: Do you like their rotation? No, you don't.

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Speaker 2: So you look at all this and finally all conclude

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Speaker 1: They're scoring, their hitting on runs, doing what they've done

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Speaker 2: So I can see the American League being a complete

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Speaker 2: emerges from this incredible scrump the National League, we've thought

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Speaker 2: Braves certainly look like an invulnerable team suddenly though they're vulnerable,

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Speaker 2: and they're vulnerable because of their starting pitching. Max Freed

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Speaker 2: will miss the Division Series. Now Freed is likely to

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Speaker 2: He had the one start after the delay because of

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Speaker 2: blister would be a problem. Spencer Streyder, his second half

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Speaker 2: Bryce Elder since the start before the All Star break,

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Speaker 1: The Braves offense is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Bring it in. I'm gonna tell you a little story.

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Speaker 2: This is the kind of story we usually do in

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Speaker 2: the Wildcard game. Back when there was a wildcard game,

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Speaker 1: Host, future foul Territory host at that time, Todd Fraser.

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Speaker 2: Todd Fraser says to me, dude, you've got little hands man.

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Speaker 1: You ever see me on foul toritory with Todd?

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Speaker 2: He comments on my hair, he comments on my shirt.

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Speaker 2: Todd notices things a lot of players are like this, Okay,

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Speaker 2: so he says that I don't think anything of it.

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Speaker 1: Texting, tweeting the whole deal.

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Speaker 2: People say, don't text while you drive, or you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: But things happen, let's face it.

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Speaker 2: I've got my hand on the microphone and the ball hooks,

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Speaker 2: And the Pirates dug out, the trainers helped me out,

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Speaker 2: Scursion about this. He was doing play by play because

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Speaker 1: And he stitches me up.

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Speaker 1: I mean not dying, but I'm in pain.

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Speaker 2: Now for the inside Dish. This is the segment where

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Speaker 2: I usually go inside a story I've written, or inside

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Speaker 1: Developing within the game.

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Speaker 1: This is a big secret.

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Speaker 2: Whatever where do we think Otani will go? The Dodgers

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Speaker 2: Matt Chapman. Matt Chapman with the Blue Jays maybe the

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Speaker 1: In Matt Chapman.

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Speaker 1: The Chicago Cubs.

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Speaker 2: He has meant an awful lot to their offense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going.

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Speaker 2: that shows you why Aaron Nola will appeal to teams.

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Speaker 2: Innings pitched since twenty eighteen, Garrett Cole one thousand and

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Speaker 1: And they will be intrigued. Finally, Joey Vado, Joey Vado.

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Speaker 1: Seven million dollar buyout.

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Speaker 2: But all the better that he gets what Calwriken Jr.

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Speaker 1: All teams have been giving Maggie a gift.

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Speaker 2: It's his last season, great farewell tories had and here

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Speaker 1: Other teams had given him similar gifts. It's ceremonial. The

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Speaker 2: How about showing little bit of effort when you give

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Speaker 1: The only effort they put forth is the one to get.

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Speaker 1: Farewell gift to Miguel Cabrera.

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Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty thousand people. Time now for Grilling Ken.

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Speaker 2: This is the segment of the show in which I

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Speaker 2: answer your questions.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the first one this week, and it.

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Speaker 2: Comes from Luis free Us. Do you think that Bob

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Speaker 2: Melvin will be back with the Pods next year? Knowing

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Speaker 2: that the relationship with Preller is unfixable.

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Speaker 1: That line unfixable.

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Speaker 2: That word is directly from our in The Athletic last

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Speaker 2: week that detailed the Padres dysfunction player called an institutional failure.

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Speaker 2: And in that story, which I co wrote with Dennis Lynn,

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Speaker 2: we detailed the rift between general manager Aj Preller and

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Speaker 2: manager Bob Melvin.

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Speaker 1: Now where this goes is unclear.

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Speaker 2: The Padres CEO Eric Ruper went on the radio in

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Speaker 2: San Diego after the story came out. Instead, when a

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Speaker 2: team falls short, everything gets laid bare, and what he

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Speaker 2: meant by that was everything has to be looked at,

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Speaker 2: Everything has to be assessed and analyzed going forward. So

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Speaker 2: the Padres are going to take a look at where

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Speaker 2: they are as an organization. They're going to assess Aj

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Speaker 2: Preller and Bob Melvin and make a determination at that

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Speaker 2: point which one of them stays, which one of them goes.

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Speaker 1: If that's how they want to do it, maybe both stay.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine that happening.

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Speaker 2: What I can imagine happening is at least one of

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Speaker 2: them not being back with the team next year.

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Speaker 1: We'll just have to see how it all plays out.

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Speaker 2: Good question here, Michael, can you explain the typical motivation

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Speaker 2: behind a mutual option. Team wants a club option, players

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Speaker 2: want a player option. A mutual option seems like a

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Speaker 2: compromise that neither side is happy about. Michael again, great question.

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Speaker 2: And you often see these mutual options and you might wonder,

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Speaker 2: as a fan, why did it even include these? They're

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Speaker 2: almost never exercised. If the player has a great year,

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Speaker 2: the club exercises the mutual option, the player says, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to become a free agent. If the player

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Speaker 2: has a down year, the player says, yeah, I'll exercise

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Speaker 2: the mutual option. I want to be back at this number,

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Speaker 2: and the club says, no, you can become a free agent.

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Speaker 1: We don't need you. So they're almost never exercised.

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Speaker 2: And I went back in time to a story on

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Speaker 2: ESPN dot com by Sam Miller in twenty seventeen which

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Speaker 2: did a great job detailing the motivations for mutual options,

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Speaker 2: and the biggest one usually is to simply defer money

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Speaker 2: into next year to attach a buyout to that mutual

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Speaker 2: option to be paid later. The buyout doesn't come right away,

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Speaker 2: it can.

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Speaker 1: Be paid at a later date.

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Speaker 2: Other parts of this include creating a connection with the

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Speaker 2: player that gives you groundwork for a future negotiation.

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Speaker 1: That's a motivation too.

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Speaker 2: And finally Sam wrote this, it makes a player feel better.

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Speaker 2: It gives him some idea that the team does have

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Speaker 2: interest in him beyond this year, and you can be

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Speaker 2: viewed in that sense as a win win, though it

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Speaker 2: he almost never turns out that way.

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Speaker 1: So those are the mutual options.

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Speaker 2: We'll be hearing a lot about them this offseason again,

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Speaker 2: as we always do.

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Speaker 1: But no, I don't take them too seriously, all right.

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Speaker 2: The final question this week comes from Riley, and Riley asked, Hi, Ken,

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Speaker 2: if you were trapped on a deserted island for a

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Speaker 2: year and could bring three books with you, what would

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Speaker 2: they be? Well, if I was trapped on a deserted

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Speaker 2: island for a year, hopefully I'd be able to read

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Speaker 2: more than three books. But here are the top three

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Speaker 2: that I came up with. The first Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry,

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Speaker 2: a classic, a Puitur Prize winner for fiction. Lonesome Dove

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Speaker 2: is eight hundred and forty three pages about a cattle drive,

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Speaker 2: and you can't put it down. It's one of my

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Speaker 2: favorite books of all time. Of course, it became a

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Speaker 2: movie and television series whatever after that.

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Speaker 1: But the book is where it's at.

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Speaker 2: Second book an author who I met over the years.

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Speaker 2: One of the most brilliant journalists and authors are recent

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Speaker 2: times Richard ben Kramer. Now Richard ben Kramer wrote a

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Speaker 2: biography of Joe DiMaggio.

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Speaker 1: He's written a couple of other sports.

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Speaker 2: Related things as well in his career, but the book

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Speaker 2: I love from him most, What it Takes.

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Speaker 1: What it Takes is.

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Speaker 2: A story of the nineteen eighty eight presidential election. It's

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Speaker 2: a journalistically written story. What I mean is it's involving

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Speaker 2: a lot of reporting, behind the scenes stuff, just telling

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Speaker 2: what's going on with all of.

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Speaker 1: The different candidates.

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Speaker 2: It was Ducacus, it was George Bush, is Gary Hart,

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Speaker 2: there were a number of candidates, and Joe Biden is

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Speaker 2: in there as well. There is no political bent to

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Speaker 2: this book. Okay, so don't even go there with me.

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Speaker 2: But it's a fascinating story of a presidential campaign, which

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Speaker 2: is actually something I've always sort of wanted to cover

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Speaker 2: because a presidential campaign has some similarities.

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Speaker 1: To a baseball season.

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Speaker 2: There's an ebb and flow, it has a definitive timeframe.

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Speaker 1: It's just kind of interesting to me. All right, final book. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with a baseball book. Here. Lord to

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Speaker 1: the Realm is one of my all time favorite books.

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Speaker 2: But I'm going to pick Moneyball, And you might say Moneyball, Eh,

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Speaker 2: come on, it was.

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Speaker 1: Not that good.

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Speaker 2: It was just really about the Oakland A's and it

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Speaker 2: left out some things. It didn't focus enough on Hudson

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Speaker 2: and Zeno. And yeah, I know all the criticism, but

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Speaker 2: if you read that book by Michael Lewis, one of

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Speaker 2: the brilliant authors ever. Michael Lewis not only tells the

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Speaker 2: story of Billy being in this book, which is a

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Speaker 2: great story in itself, but he does it in an

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Speaker 2: entertaining way that few writers anywhere can capture.

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Speaker 1: It's just a great read.

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Speaker 2: And I frequently go back to Moneyball as a reference

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Speaker 2: for some stories. I do that, but I also just

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Speaker 2: read it for the writing, because I love the writing

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Speaker 2: in that book. And yes, it became a movie with

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Speaker 2: Brad Pitt, but the book is where it's at. And yes,

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Speaker 2: you can complain about money Boy, you can complain about analytics,

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Speaker 2: complain about anything you want. I'm just talking about the

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Speaker 2: quality of the writing, the quality of the book.

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Speaker 1: It is a great book. Looking Ahead this week.

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Speaker 2: On Fox We've got the Rangers at the Mariners in

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Speaker 2: what should be a very important game. If the Mariners

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Speaker 2: can figure out how to win, maybe, you know, make

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Speaker 2: it kind of interesting. This series is one that we've

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Speaker 2: been pointing toward all season, really as this Al West

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Speaker 2: race has shaped up.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: As I said earlier, the Rangers are in a commanding

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Speaker 2: position for the division title. Who knows, that could be

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Speaker 2: a clincher by then. It also could be the Mariners'

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Speaker 2: last stand, So it should be a really interesting game

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Speaker 2: coming from Seattle on Saturday on Fox.

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Speaker 1: Thanks everyone for your questions.

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Speaker 2: You know where to find us, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, like us,

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Speaker 2: subscribe to us. We will be back next Monday, wrapping

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Speaker 2: up the regular season and looking ahead to the wildcard round.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some awards talk as well.

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