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Speaker 1: FT breaking news. We have just learned that Carlos Peltron

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Speaker 1: is a Hall of Famer. Scotty Brown, A. J. Perzinski,

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Speaker 1: and Eric Kratz, let's talk about him. You guys both

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Speaker 1: faced Carlos Beltron. So what was it like to face

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Speaker 1: Carlos Beltron and how much does he deserve?

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Speaker 2: This a lot.

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Speaker 3: One of the greatest switch hitters I've ever seen played

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Speaker 3: against Carlos since rookie ball all the way up right.

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Speaker 2: So one of the greatest switch hitters I ever played against.

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Speaker 3: Could hit, could hit for power, could steal bases, and

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Speaker 3: was unbelievably clutch in big moments in the postseason. The

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Speaker 3: run he had with the Houston Astros that year was

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Speaker 3: one of the greatest runs, wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the first go round with the Astros, the second

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Speaker 1: and did everything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the second goal second round is something completely different.

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Speaker 1: It held him back for a little bit of time here,

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Speaker 1: But that's what fans want to hear from us. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to it.

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Speaker 2: He deserves to go in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Gokratz, no, his I.

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Speaker 4: Mean, I just run now Again, I didn't play against

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Speaker 4: him as long as AJ did, so AJ saw his peak,

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Speaker 4: his prime. There's a few swings that I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: you know this guy's a switch hitter. Lance Berkman, you

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Speaker 4: know he's a switch hitter, Chipper Jones. Switch hitter swings

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Speaker 4: can be how they are, and those guys are the

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Speaker 4: elite ones that I've ever seen. But to me, like,

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Speaker 4: I just remember his left handed swing as a catcher

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Speaker 4: sitting back there seeing the swing and you go, because

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Speaker 4: you're always reading swings, and you go, man, it just

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Speaker 4: always it just felt like his swing was in the

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Speaker 4: zone the whole time, and you're like, this is the

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Speaker 4: opportunity we're going to have to be able to get

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Speaker 4: a ball in on him. Nope, And I mean he

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Speaker 4: was still he was up there in age mid thirties,

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Speaker 4: and it just it looks like a long swing. It's

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Speaker 4: almost like Juan Soto swing in the sense that you're like,

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Speaker 4: doesn't look like the fastest swing, but it's in this

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Speaker 4: it's in the zone so long, and he hits the

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Speaker 4: ball so flush and so square, and he gets to

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Speaker 4: so many different pitches. It's just like he was one

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Speaker 4: of those guys that really stood out to me for

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Speaker 4: the years that I played against him.

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Speaker 1: He had good runs with almost every team that he

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Speaker 1: was part of Right. I mean, he did a lot

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Speaker 1: of time with KC and then had some good moments

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Speaker 1: with the Yankees.

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Speaker 3: I just remember him Casey, they had him, Jermaine Died,

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Speaker 3: Johnny Damon in the outfield.

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Speaker 2: They were all young studs. They had Mike Sweeney, Joe Randa, the.

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Speaker 3: Joker, they had, They had some good they had some

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Speaker 3: good players, young players, and I was like, whoa, this

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 3: And then obviously Carlos moved on to multiple teams after that,

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Speaker 3: but he did a nice job everywhere.

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Speaker 2: People remember him in New York, both Mets and Yankees.

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Speaker 1: He was.

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Speaker 3: Listen, when you look at a Hall of Famer and

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Speaker 3: you look at his numbers, say, this guy should be

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Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame. Okay, I mean he did everything.

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Speaker 3: He performed in the postseason. He hit four hundred and

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Speaker 3: thirty five home runs, almost had three thousand hits.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this guy was he got on bass.

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Speaker 3: I mean, now, Mets fans also remember when Adam Wayne

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Speaker 3: Right do him a three two.

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Speaker 2: Curve ball and struck him out there one pitch.

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Speaker 3: I know, but this dude had unbelievable run and that

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Speaker 3: was one of the best pitch of all time.

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Speaker 2: So Carlos beltch Un deserves being This isn't even an argument.

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Speaker 3: And if we want to go to the twenty seventeen

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Speaker 3: oh for a sec I mean, people say, oh, this

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of other people doing things at

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Speaker 2: the same time, right right. I played on teams where

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Speaker 2: guys were doing all kind nothing like that. Crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but there was always stuff going on.

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Speaker 3: So you can't that that wasn't something you could hold

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Speaker 1: Teams, and he was coming over from the Yankees, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: And I think there were some things going on there too.

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Speaker 1: I'm not pointing out just the Yankees. It's the Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: The Red Sox got caught with some stuff. There was

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Speaker 1: Astros took it too far and that changed a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. But does that prevent a guy for his

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Speaker 1: Because if we're going to start getting that specific on everything,

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Speaker 1: it gets really challenged.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: He was a ringleader. That was pretty much proven. He

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Speaker 1: was a big part of it.

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Speaker 2: He also lost his job as a manager because of it.

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Speaker 1: He got punished.

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Speaker 2: He's been punished.

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Speaker 4: It means a matter if you think he was doing

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Speaker 4: it other times, Like if you think he shouldn't be

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Speaker 4: in because twenty seventeen wasn't his only year doing some

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Speaker 4: type of scheme, I would say, look like, let's pump

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Speaker 4: the brakes on that. Something that I think and I

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Speaker 4: know from talking to guys that he was probably one

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Speaker 4: of the best is picking tips up from pitchers. Not illegal,

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Speaker 4: not illegal at all, picking things up. So what does

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Speaker 4: that mean? It means he was a supremely talented hitter,

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Speaker 4: but it also means he was paying attention to the game.

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Speaker 4: He was trying to find little things. You talk to

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Speaker 4: Alex Corer, you watch Alex Corer now as a manager

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Speaker 4: on the bench, you know you'll see him like you'll

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Speaker 4: see him look over. You'd be like, oh, it's probably

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Speaker 4: a curveball here. Like guys are picking things up from pitchers.

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Speaker 4: Carlos Beltron was from what I heard, one of the

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Speaker 4: best at doing that. So did he go too far

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Speaker 4: with the trash can thing? Yes? Does it exclude him

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Speaker 4: from the Hall of Fame all the numbers that aj

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Speaker 4: just pointed out, No, it does not exclude him from

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Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: And there are some people that are like, well, he

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Speaker 1: did a form of cheating and got caught. Steroid users

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Speaker 1: did a form of cheating and got caught. I think

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Speaker 1: we all agree at this point on this show that

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Speaker 1: if you're caught after testing officially began and attempted to

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Speaker 1: level the playing field, then that's a differentiator. There are

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Speaker 1: some people that don't share that opinion, but I certainly do.

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Speaker 1: I can see cases made before that, But once the

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Speaker 1: start to emerge. It's very greatly affecting one individual player,

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Speaker 1: and for some people that's their line. I do think

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Speaker 1: there's a line between a guy getting busted for royds

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Speaker 1: guy being part of a big scandal and one of

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Speaker 1: the ringleaders for one season and being punished for his

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Speaker 1: entire career for that. Do you guys agree that it's

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Speaker 1: two different categories in terms of how you judge a player.

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Speaker 1: For the Hall of Fame, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, and the trash can scandal thing for the astros,

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Speaker 4: everybody needs to understand it wasn't happening on every pitch

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Speaker 4: because there was teams who knew stuff was going on.

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Speaker 4: The Astros were petitions were not petitions. Grievances were filed

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Speaker 4: by other teams on the Astros during that season. Major

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Speaker 4: League Baseball just turned the blind eye and was like, well,

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Speaker 4: you guys are just mad because they're you know, they're

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Speaker 4: doing things and you could be doing things too, Like

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Speaker 4: this could have been taken care of during that season,

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Speaker 4: and teams and players took care of it. That's why

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Speaker 4: you'd see nine visits to the mound. You had to

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Speaker 4: change your signs. You have to mix things up. If

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Speaker 4: you mix things up and you switch it and it's

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Speaker 4: hard to figure it out, kind of hard to tell

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Speaker 4: somebody from a camera what's coming if or from a

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Speaker 4: and it's like, all right, it's fine. Steroids. Those dudes

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Speaker 4: were using it every single pitch. There wasn't a pitch

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Speaker 3: I don't know want this to turn into this argument,

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Speaker 3: so I wonder, let's just gme back to Carlos congratulations,

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Speaker 3: you deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. You're

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Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame. In that twenty seventeen year,

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Speaker 3: he didn't even have a great year. So he won

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Speaker 3: a World Series, but it was about the other years before.

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Speaker 1: That, right in a great team year, but he didn't

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Speaker 1: have a great individual year. That was the end of

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Speaker 1: his career.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was last year.

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Speaker 3: So listen, this is about Carlos belter On getting elected

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Speaker 3: to the Hall of Fame. Congratulations, Carlos, you deserve it.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm going to be fascinating to see what hot

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Speaker 4: It's kind of that's That's what I'm kind of gonna

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Speaker 4: get at. Like what team will he choose? Do you

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Speaker 4: guys remember that he was a Giant? I had no

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Speaker 4: I completely forgot he played for the San Francisco Giants,

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Speaker 4: and I feel like I'm to have locked into baseball,

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Speaker 4: like understand when like this was the Eras twenty eleven.

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Speaker 4: He played for the Giants. So for people who don't know,

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Speaker 4: you can look up Baseball Reference. He went his first

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Speaker 4: just a ridiculous season. Then he I mean a ridiculous

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Speaker 4: half a season. Then he signed with the Mets. Then

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Speaker 4: he went to San Francisco for a tick, and after

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Speaker 4: Wayne Wright struck him out, he's like, well, I'll go

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Speaker 4: play for him with the Cardinals. So it'll be interesting.

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Speaker 4: Who do aj Who do you remember Carlos beltron As

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Speaker 4: and who he should go in as?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I mean to me, it's a Met, But I

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Speaker 2: mean he was there the longest.

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Speaker 3: I mean I remember him coming up with the Royals

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Speaker 3: because again I played with, I played against him in

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Speaker 2: But I think that he's a Met. For me, he's

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Speaker 2: a Met, He's a Met. That's a boy, He's a

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Speaker 2: Royal just as long.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think. I just say there was more

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Speaker 3: And his numbers weren't as great as they were when

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Speaker 2: But this is a well deserved honor.

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Speaker 4: So cool in an era when like Griffy was before

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Speaker 1: That's right, Small, Clavin Maddox incredible pitchers, but certainly didn't

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Speaker 2: Time he played so shallow. He was so great at

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Speaker 3: He played very shallow and took away a lot of

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Speaker 3: He started out with like eight under eight percent, barely

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Speaker 1: This was his ninth year.

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Speaker 2: Now, in his ninth year he got in. So congratulations, Andrew.

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Speaker 1: You only got ten years on the ballot, right, He

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Speaker 1: It's just crazy to look back and be like, if

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Speaker 4: He was still hitting a lot of dinger. That's a

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Speaker 1: There are some guys where now we're looking at like

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Speaker 1: At this point, I'm like, what am I missing? Right,

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Speaker 3: It is important one player that gets in helps out

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Speaker 1: I think the media does help here. Obviously I'm biased,

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Speaker 3: The catcher to me is the one. But that's a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why it's tough. Those are two premium positions. Defensively,

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Speaker 3: Everyone builds their team up the middle. They want to

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Speaker 3: He got into the Hall of Fame. Now when I

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Speaker 4: not all on the same level. They're all on their

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Speaker 4: own individual level. You think about Andrew Jones wearing down,

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Speaker 4: you think about like a Grady Sizemore was having an

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Speaker 4: incredible year. He wore down Ken Griffey Jr. Was going

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Speaker 4: to be the greatest player of all time. He was

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Speaker 4: Mike Trout, you've seen what's happened all Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying great Sizemore is. I'm just saying that

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Speaker 4: mid thirties and for it got you like you have

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Speaker 4: to kind of look at it differently. This guy burst

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Speaker 4: onto the scene and did not skip a beat. There

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Speaker 4: it is kind of hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Wow, now he'll get even more love. We'll see in

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Speaker 1: Cooper's town. Andrew, congratulations,