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Speaker 3: It's happening. Cameron Mayven, Welcome to the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they look pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah. Conforto's kind of the forgotten guy from the

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Speaker 3: We did a postgame show all over this Game one

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Speaker 3: Kratzy said that MLB is going to make around thirty

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Speaker 3: So we'll see. This was one of their stars, their

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Speaker 3: Breakoutso we just spoke to last week.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to be the Tobias Myers of twenty twenty

436
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Speaker 1: five because he came out, kind of came out of nowhere.

437
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Speaker 1: You see his stuff and you're like, whoa, they never

438
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Speaker 1: overexposed him. You know, he wasn't an innings eater guy.

439
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Speaker 1: But this is what this team. This is how this

440
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Speaker 1: team finds value, whether it was Council, whether it's Murph,

441
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Speaker 1: whether you know, I guess Hooky's been there for a

442
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Speaker 1: while pitching coach. But you know, they cycle guys in

443
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Speaker 1: and out because they're not afraid to get guys opportunities,

444
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Speaker 1: but they also kind of build the lane that they

445
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Speaker 1: put them in. Tobias Myers is no different. They have

446
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Speaker 1: some legit arms in the minor leagues that might now

447
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Speaker 1: need to step up sooner than they thought they were

448
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Speaker 1: gonna have to. Again, we're always talking about depth. They

449
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Speaker 1: just don't have a ton of depth. But what they

450
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Speaker 1: do have they trust in and that is the biggest thing. Confidence,

451
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Speaker 1: whether you have it or someone else has it in

452
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Speaker 1: you will take you so far in this game. Because

453
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Speaker 1: everybody is really talented whoever has the most confidence can succeed.

454
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Speaker 1: This is unfortunate injury, but seems like he'll be back

455
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Speaker 1: based on the image.

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Speaker 3: And the thing is this team actually has quite a

457
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Speaker 3: few starters that should be returning throughout the year. I mean,

458
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Speaker 3: Ashby's hurt, Myers will come back, dal Hall will come back,

459
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Speaker 3: Brandon Woodriff will come back, Robert Gasser will come back.

460
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Speaker 3: They have a whole rotation that's on the il, which

461
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Speaker 3: you can look at as bad but also as okay.

462
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Speaker 3: Get through the first month of the season and then

463
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Speaker 3: at least some of these guys are going to work

464
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Speaker 3: their way back and be on the mount. So even

465
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Speaker 3: though depth has been an issue, it actually could become

466
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Speaker 3: a pretty good problem for them, you know, at some

467
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Speaker 3: point this season. So we'll see. Brewers are still gonna

468
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Speaker 3: be strong. That's the end of the story here. Don't

469
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Speaker 3: forget about Jackson. Curio look like a superstar the last

470
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Speaker 3: four months of the season. After the first tour, bet

471
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Speaker 3: MGM locks yesterday was terrible. Cam, You're okay because you

472
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Speaker 3: had a big boy parlay. I just picked Seas Azuki

473
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Speaker 3: to do it in front of the home country fans.

474
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Speaker 3: But it didn't happen today because he ran into the

475
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Speaker 3: Dodgers pitching buzz sauce. So let's spin it forward. Game

476
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Speaker 3: two is tomorrow morning again, six am Eastern times. So Cam,

477
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Speaker 3: you want to cook something up for us first.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, you know what not that

479
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Speaker 4: we want to go with.

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Speaker 5: But you know what I learned, my listen, there's no

481
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Speaker 5: way I'm going to pick against the Dodgers again. We

482
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Speaker 5: are going Dodgers' money line. It will not happen the

483
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Speaker 5: rest of this season. I don't care who they're playing,

484
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Speaker 5: Dodgers money line. We're gonna throw a little hundred out there.

485
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Speaker 5: Hopefully we can get that money. Get that money right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you got the under eight and a half

487
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Speaker 3: runs paris also.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, also eight and a half. You know what, that

489
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Speaker 5: kitchen looked too good on the Dodger staff. I know

490
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Speaker 5: we got justice still again tomorrow. It's gonna be I think,

491
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Speaker 5: another pitching duel. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I jumped the

492
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Speaker 5: gunning on the over too. We're gonna stick with the under.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I like that, but I'm going against your

494
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Speaker 1: immediate what you just gave me because I locked in

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Speaker 1: this next one. I think two days ago. I got

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Speaker 1: the money line for the Cubs. Wasn't sure how Game

497
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Speaker 1: one was gonna go. They have the experience. I'm going

498
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Speaker 1: money line for the Cubs, and I bought it at

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Speaker 1: plus one thirty five, and I think now it's down

500
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Speaker 1: at plus one twenty five. So I'm putting one hundred down.

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Speaker 1: It's really tough to sweep a series, and I think

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Speaker 1: this line's up really great for me.

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Speaker 5: I like it. Thank you better than me, Cratcy. I

504
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Speaker 5: appreciate it. I didn't want to do it again. I'll

505
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Speaker 5: let you have this.

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Speaker 3: One, yeah, yeah, hey, and we can show the board

507
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Speaker 3: while I give you mine first five innings under four

508
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Speaker 3: and a half runs. I got stealing rookie Sasaki, both

509
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Speaker 3: looking really good. I don't think Roki's gonna deal with

510
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Speaker 3: the butterflies like Yamamoto had in his first big league

511
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Speaker 3: start in Korea. He's in front of the home crowd

512
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Speaker 3: in Japan. He's done it plenty of times here, So

513
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Speaker 3: let's lock that one in minus one twenty. I'll throw

514
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Speaker 3: down one twenty to win one hundred. And hey, there

515
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Speaker 3: is an odds boost token to start the season here.

516
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Speaker 3: You can activate it on the bet MGM app only

517
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Speaker 3: here for the Tokyo series. You'll receive a bigger payout

518
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Speaker 3: if you'rre bet Wade. So go check that out right now, FTFAM.

519
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Speaker 3: And if you have a gambling problem or concern, make

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Speaker 3: sure you call the number one one hundred gambler Tem

521
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Speaker 3: rosenbel out a story yesterday about Roki Sasaki and the

522
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Speaker 3: recruitment process. He's about to make his Major League debut.

523
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Speaker 3: He is signed up to the Dodgers under team control

524
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Speaker 3: for a while now, and he doesn't cost much six

525
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Speaker 3: and a half million dollars signing bonus, and he's a

526
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Speaker 3: league minimum player this year as a rookie because he

527
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Speaker 3: signed was signed away from Japan before he was eligible

528
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Speaker 3: to be a free agent officially, you know, a pro

529
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Speaker 3: free agent like Yamamoto was. So the title of the

530
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Speaker 3: article is meet the Japanese company that irked MLB execs

531
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Speaker 3: during the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes. Of course, Ken did a

532
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Speaker 3: brilliant job of reporting and getting certain people on the record,

533
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Speaker 3: even if they had to do it anonymously. Apparently the

534
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Speaker 3: process involved what essentially sounded like his marketing agent, a

535
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Speaker 3: guy named Tomaki Sakai from a marketing company called Densu

536
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Speaker 3: and Joel Wolf was his actual player agent. This was

537
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Speaker 3: very different. Wolf was leading the charge with Yamamoto because

538
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Speaker 3: it was a player contract cam and in this case

539
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Speaker 3: the money was going to be about the same. Obviously,

540
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Speaker 3: the Blue Jays and the Padres had a little bit

541
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Speaker 3: more to offer, but not much. So they said that

542
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Speaker 3: this guy Sakai was kind of running point on these conversations,

543
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Speaker 3: and Wolf was instructed to give opening and closing remarks

544
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Speaker 3: to teams, but then told not to talk in between

545
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Speaker 3: because to me, it actually makes sense. It is a

546
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Speaker 3: marketing conversation. What does the marketing money look like for

547
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Speaker 3: a guy who is not going to be paid his

548
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Speaker 3: value for the first five six years or more of

549
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Speaker 3: his career. So there's a lot more in here. There

550
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Speaker 3: were a lot of pissed off executives that felt like

551
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Speaker 3: this was all a roose and that he had it

552
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Speaker 3: decided in his head already. So he asked teams to

553
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Speaker 3: do homework on why his velocity was down. Teams presented

554
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Speaker 3: cases with custom websites. Some of them even gave him

555
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Speaker 3: a tablet to look at, and then they asked for

556
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Speaker 3: it back. When he didn't select them, They took the

557
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Speaker 3: websites down the whole deal. Obviously the information was already collected,

558
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Speaker 3: but you know, a lot of execs just felt skeptical.

559
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Speaker 3: And he even had one executive tell Ken ROSENTHALDENTSU the

560
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Speaker 3: marketing agency had an agenda and it just never felt

561
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Speaker 3: like we truly fit with whatever that agenda was, and

562
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Speaker 3: that they're skeptical moving forward when that marketing group represents

563
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Speaker 3: a player. So I'm just curious for your take, because

564
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Speaker 3: for me, I'm like, I get it, and you're going

565
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 3: to be a pissed off Ezech. But if you really

566
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Speaker 3: felt that was the case, then just take yourself out

567
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Speaker 3: of the running. Nothing actually was done wrong here. He's

568
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Speaker 3: allowed to have in his head a front runner. So

569
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Speaker 3: if he said, hey, I'm going to probably pick the Dodgers,

570
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Speaker 3: then he's allowed to do that. And if he feels

571
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Speaker 3: like they have the best marketing machine, then why not.

572
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Speaker 3: What are your thoughts from the player perspective?

573
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Speaker 5: Yeah, from a player perspective, this is one of the time.

574
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Speaker 4: This is the time in his situation. Quite it's a

575
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Speaker 4: free agency.

576
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Speaker 5: This is the time where you can be selfish, right,

577
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Speaker 5: I don't have to care about how you teams feel,

578
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Speaker 5: because at the end of the day, I'm only looking

579
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Speaker 5: for one team to like me. We knew there were

580
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Speaker 5: a lot of teams that like Roki. So as far

581
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Speaker 5: as marketing, yeah, like you said, I don't see what

582
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Speaker 5: the problem is. He wants to see where his marketing

583
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Speaker 5: value is going to be the best, where it's going

584
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Speaker 5: to be elevated the highest. So you know, if he

585
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Speaker 5: did have a front runner, that's his business. That's also

586
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Speaker 5: his prerogative. So you know, for me, it sounded like

587
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 5: a lot of pissed off organizations that.

588
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Speaker 4: You know, they didn't get their prize, so they're upset.

589
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Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, you know, I

590
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 5: think himself and his representation had every right to handle

591
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 5: the situation the way they did. Let's see what information

592
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Speaker 5: I can get from the organization who gives me the

593
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 5: best information. Hell, he might have got something from somebody

594
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 5: and gave an iPad back and don't take it.

595
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Speaker 4: To the Dodgers. So we'll see what happens.

596
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 5: But for me, sounded like a lot of disgruntle organizations

597
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Speaker 5: that just didn't get the prize that they wanted to get.

598
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Speaker 1: I mean, every kid, every kid when they're ten, is

599
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Speaker 1: like this is the favorite team that I want to

600
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Speaker 1: play on. Then every kid, when they're sixteen, they start

601
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Speaker 1: going through the process, Teams start talking to them. You

602
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Speaker 1: could be a third rounder. Okay, you know, I want

603
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: to play in the minor leagues. And then you get

604
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: drafted and you're you're or you're about to get drafted.

605
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Speaker 1: I don't care what team I play for. I want

606
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Speaker 1: the one that's going to give me the best opportunity

607
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Speaker 1: to make the big leagues and make the most money.

608
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Speaker 1: Things change, you know what. That's exactly what Rochie did.

609
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Speaker 1: And until we find out that there was a pre

610
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Speaker 1: signing deal, there was something already worked out, which is

611
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Speaker 1: against the rules. All this says is just boo hoo,

612
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Speaker 1: the ambulance backing up for all these executives.

613
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Speaker 2: You put your best foot forward, you go and you.

614
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Speaker 1: Give the presentation that you think will get this guy here,

615
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Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, we didn't get it

616
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Speaker 1: because there was a marketing agency. And sorry, you didn't

617
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Speaker 1: get it. That's not that's that's not his fault. That's

618
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Speaker 1: your fault.

619
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Speaker 3: And the players being restricted on a player salary cam

620
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Speaker 3: not to make more money off the field over this course.

621
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Speaker 4: And and I'll just add this too. Going back over

622
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Speaker 4: the processes we.

623
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Speaker 5: All heard about, you know, certain certain courtship, you know

624
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Speaker 5: ways that we try to be had. Well, a lot

625
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Speaker 5: of you guys who you know, try to make a pitch.

626
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Speaker 4: It sounds like the pitch wasn't that.

627
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Speaker 5: Impressive, right, I don't want to say any names, but

628
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Speaker 5: certain guys bringing certain people in to meet them, and

629
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Speaker 5: it's like, eh, like there you go meet Showy and minky.

630
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Speaker 4: And like I don't want to hear it.

631
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Speaker 5: Like at the end of the day, he made the

632
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 5: decision that was best for him, and it's not like

633
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. They did a better job rolling out that

634
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 5: red carpet than anybody else. So hey, sometimes you got

635
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Speaker 5: look in the mirror and blame blame the guy that

636
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Speaker 5: you're looking at.

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Speaker 1: All we heard about this guy was all thirty teams

638
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: won them. There's plenty of free engines out there that

639
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: nobody even made a single run at. You think this

640
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: dude who's like I can go anywhere I want, I'm

641
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: gonna go somewhere where you didn't put any players around me,

642
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: Like this team did good for the Dodgers, They've put

643
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Speaker 1: their best team out there.

644
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Speaker 2: And if you really.

645
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Speaker 1: Want players like this to come over on the cheap,

646
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Speaker 1: on like less than what they paid Paul Schemes to

647
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Speaker 1: be drafted out of LSU. And you know what, you

648
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: gotta put money up front. Ain't nobody coming to your

649
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Speaker 1: golf outing if you ain't got awesome prizes, don't cheap

650
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Speaker 1: wear your cheap.

651
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Speaker 2: I love it.

652
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Speaker 3: And also, you know, for the for the salary cap

653
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 3: criers wouldn't have mattered either way. You're telling a guy

654
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 3: that he's essentially gonna get the same money regardless, this

655
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 3: is what you'll get more of. They will pick a

656
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 3: place based on where they feel like they have the

657
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 3: best opportunity to make a little extra money off the field.

658
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 3: It could give an even greater advantage to a bigger market.

659
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 3: Keep that in mind here. Other teams also could have

660
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 3: made wild offers to Yamamoto to show hey Otani. Now,

661
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 3: thinking back, I think some teams are like, man, we

662
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 3: should have offered Otani a billion dollars or more just

663
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 3: to see if that at least swayed things because of

664
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Speaker 3: how much money he's making guys off the field. And

665
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 3: if I had Otani, how much would that have helped

666
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 3: the recruiting process with someone like Roki Sasaki. So the

667
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 3: other thing that I want to point out from this article, guys,

668
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 3: is the Blue Jays factor in here. So Ken pointed

669
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Speaker 3: out that executives were pissed off about Toronto being in

670
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: the final running along with the Padres and the Dodgery.

671
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 3: Everyone was okay with the Padres, it's a West Coast club,

672
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 3: it's a smaller market. You Darvish is there, it's a

673
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 3: good team. Great. That all made sense, But other executives

674
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 3: were pissed about Toronto being in the finals because Joel Wolf,

675
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 3: Sasaki's agent said at the winter meetings he wanted to

676
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 3: join a team that had success on the field and

677
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 3: a history of developing pitchers, and execs were like, well,

678
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 3: the Jays haven't won a postseason games since twenty sixteen,

679
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 3: and it's not like they've done a great job at

680
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 3: developing pitching talent. Okay, So again, I'm going to come

681
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 3: back on that and say, they run things in Canada,

682
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 3: and if this guy is looking for that extra bank

683
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 3: for his buck, this is a place where they felt

684
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Speaker 3: like he might have been able to absolutely dominate that market.

685
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 3: The other factor here Krafts Dentsu, which is that marketing

686
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 3: agency they said, there's no comp in America to what

687
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 3: they do. They basically do deals on every front. They

688
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 3: do advertising deals. They even have the media rights contract

689
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 3: right now, so Major League Baseball being watched in Japan

690
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 3: actually benefits them the profit off that. So some people

691
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 3: were like, oh, maybe they actually do want Roki Sasaki

692
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 3: to end up on the East Coast and dominate with

693
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 3: a different team in the Al East, right, And so

694
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 3: we have which they used to have, I guess years

695
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: back with the Deki Matsui playing and then Ichiro at night,

696
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 3: you'd have basically Japanese baseball fans filling up six hours

697
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 3: of content instead of three hours of content. I do

698
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 3: think that's what was going on behind the scenes. So

699
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 3: we like to try and give you the business side

700
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Speaker 3: of baseball that probably was being waged at least to

701
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Speaker 3: some extent. Hey, can we talk this guy into being

702
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 3: the face of East Coast baseball for Japanese players and

703
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 3: everyone will watch the Blue Jays and then they'll watch

704
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 3: the Dodgers later on that night because the fans out

705
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 3: there are connecting with a particular player and then they

706
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 3: are adopting that team as their team. So I thought

707
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 3: the article was fascinating by Ken. There was definitely some

708
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 3: crying from executives for losing the battle. There's definitely some

709
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 3: things that can be done to fix that exactly exactly.

710
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Speaker 3: So I thought it was really cool though, and ultimately, though,

711
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it was going to

712
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Speaker 3: be his decision. I don't nobody's going to know what

713
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 3: they actually said to him, but they might have just said, hey,

714
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 3: we're good with either of those teams. Who knows Kratz.

715
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 3: Maybe they were trying to talk him into joining the

716
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 3: Blue Jays and he just said, listen, I don't feel

717
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Speaker 3: like there's going to be enough winning or enough around here.

718
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 3: I mean, Vladdy Junior is supposed to be the face.

719
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Speaker 3: He wasn't even at the meeting, like the Dodgers were

720
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 3: sending all their big boys. So I thought it was

721
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 3: really good timing from Ken to put this out because

722
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 3: he's about to make his debut and he ended up

723
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Speaker 3: in a place where he wanted to be in a

724
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Speaker 3: fair process. The pre cut deal. What's the pre cut deal. Oh,

725
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 3: we're going to give you our whole bonus. That's what

726
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 3: every team's good to do in this case. So I

727
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 3: do think that the Toronto part made sense to me,

728
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 3: even if it didn't make sense on the field, and

729
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 3: maybe that's what cost them all. Right, So another injuries

730
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 3: suck that we'll get to. This one's weird. Max Scherzer,

731
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Speaker 3: who obviously is late in his career, said that his

732
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Speaker 3: thumb is causing issues for him after he hits the

733
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Speaker 3: fifty pitch more and he said it's crucial to arm health.

734
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Speaker 3: He said, you know, he had examples in the past

735
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 3: two years where a similar issue actually led to injuries elsewhere.

736
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Speaker 3: So he said the thumb issue flares up in his

737
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 3: recovery and that he said pitching through it could actually

738
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Speaker 3: lead to a shoulder issue. And then here's the tweet

739
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Speaker 3: from Hazel May who says it's from Scherzer, the quote

740
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 3: it just hurts to grip the ball. But the more

741
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 3: critical thing here is what I've learned over the years

742
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Speaker 3: is that your thumb is absolutely critical to your arm health.

743
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Speaker 3: So what do we think about this one? Because I

744
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 3: think that the Blue Jays are going to have to

745
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 3: be in a really good spot for everything to work out, guys,

746
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Speaker 3: cam and for them to be competitive in a division

747
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 3: where there aren't any bad clubs.

748
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Speaker 5: Yeah, especially when you look at what Boston has done.

749
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 5: I mean, we know the Yankees are going to stay

750
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 5: competitive the Baltimore Oils, but yeah, this is unfortunate, you

751
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 5: know because when you talk about this type of injury,

752
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 5: and I'm sure crazy can maybe expound on a little

753
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 5: bit more. You know, Max surgeron we're talking about a thumb, right.

754
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 5: We don't want thumb to go to arm, to go

755
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 5: to elbow. So I'm hoping this could be just I

756
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 5: don't know if it's a nerve issue. I don't know

757
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 5: what it may be, but I'm hoping they can get

758
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 5: it under control because I do still think Max Serger

759
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 5: has some good baseball left in him.

760
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 4: I think he has some quality innings left in him

761
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 4: that the Jays could.

762
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 5: Definitely use the need. So, you know, you never want

763
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 5: to see guys banged up. We know Serger is a warrior,

764
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 5: you know. I think early on his career he had

765
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 5: a lot of people questioning his mechanics and whether or

766
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 5: not he would be able to hold up. And we're

767
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 5: starting to see it kind of coming to effect later

768
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 5: on his career.

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Speaker 4: But you're right, this team can't afforce. Got to lose

770
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 4: many pieces.

771
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 5: When you're talking about the struggles that they've had playing

772
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 5: the game on both sides, putting it together offensively, defensively, pitching.

773
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 5: You can't afford to lose any guys that you brought

774
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Speaker 5: in to be kind of a catalyst to help you

775
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 5: get back to where you want to go, and that's

776
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 5: one of the more dominant teams in that division.

777
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Speaker 1: This seems like a repetition injury, and baseball players know

778
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: about repetition injuries. You get a bruise, you get a

779
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: bruise right here from getting jammed. Now, you hit there

780
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: six hundred times in the season. You hit there one

781
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: hundred times before each game. If this is a repetition

782
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: injury on his thumb, guys, use this. This is the

783
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: rudder for some of your pitches. You know you're gonna

784
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna slide it, and it's gonna hold a little

785
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: bit more grip on a breaking ball. There's a lot

786
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Speaker 1: of things that your thumb you don't want to get

787
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Speaker 1: into shoulder and elbow issues.

788
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Speaker 2: So fix it first. Yeah, that's what he said.

789
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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

790
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 2: That's what he said.

791
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 3: That's what he said.

792
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Speaker 7: The crazy thing is, no one knows what direction is

793
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 7: it's gonna be at length. I don't think he knows

794
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 7: what it's gonna do. Sometimes with that, sometimes I'm saying

795
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 7: it's just you know, you're trying to just get over

796
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 7: the plade and the one game he fit filips and scraming,

797
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 7: he threw kind of them that well, and when he

798
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 7: missed it by like ten feet, I feel like the filth.

799
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Speaker 7: You know, I'm sure he's gonna be pretty amped up

800
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 7: for his first start for us. Well, you know, hopefully

801
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 7: he can get into a runner control and not be

802
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 7: too at it. But you know it's we tried to

803
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 7: tell him that there's no prep found them. I mean, yeah,

804
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 7: im a force last year in three you know, partly

805
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 7: maybe out the first gaming and so you know there's

806
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 7: there's there's no prep for rios. You still out there,

807
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 7: be who you are, have some finals it and let

808
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 7: us work behind you. Look at the offense and runs

809
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 7: and you know we're both from there. The ball does

810
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 7: a little bit different things over here in the sopeer round.

811
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Speaker 7: They can go compressed the area for the roof and uh,

812
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 7: you know, being at sea level less just state the

813
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 7: ball has a lot more rise. Even the American balls

814
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 7: they had a lot more rise. We found that out

815
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 7: there for there's different games and so the balls aren't

816
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 7: doing entirely what they're supposed to do. So a lot

817
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 7: of guys, I mean they fall ust someone and popping

818
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 7: them up, and I think we sell that tonight.

819
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 3: It was really good stuff from Max and yeah, there

820
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 3: were a lot of pop ups today in game one

821
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Speaker 3: of the season. Awesome to have him on. Just gonna

822
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Speaker 3: plug this part. Full interview is up on the ft

823
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 3: YouTube channel, including that full postgame show from this morning.

824
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 3: We're up at five am. You can barely see my

825
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 3: eyes because it looks like I'm so damn tired, But

826
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Speaker 3: I am here, I'm with you, I'm away but six

827
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Speaker 3: am game Krazinski's actually on the call again for Game

828
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Speaker 3: two and then we'll do another postgame show. Do you

829
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 3: want to keep moving? So let's also plug our guy

830
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,919
Speaker 3: Trevor May with may Day yesterday and a little clip

831
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Speaker 3: from that.

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Speaker 8: Why is he underrated? Well, let me tell you one.

833
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 8: He's on the Angels. The biggest reason usually is because

834
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 8: he's on the Angels. When do you think Angels? At

835
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 8: least a couple of years ago, it was shohe Tani

836
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Speaker 8: and it was Mike Trupp, he's thirty one years old.

837
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Speaker 8: He's been there for a while, but he's what we

838
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 8: call a producer, plays left field, just up this defense.

839
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Speaker 8: Got his first year last year of above average run

840
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 8: value on his defense. According to stat Cast, he was

841
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 8: in the top seventy fourth percentile, which top quarter of

842
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 8: the league. That's solid. He was always kind of average,

843
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 8: sitting at about a zero, and he improved last year.

844
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 8: That's a positive, especially at thirty years old. That's a big,

845
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 8: a big deal. He was a two point three war

846
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 8: player for a bad team. I get it, but he's

847
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 8: every year he's a two plus war player. That is

848
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 8: what you that is what you want. He's a career

849
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Speaker 8: one ten ops plus with a one to eleven last

850
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 8: year when twenty five and seventy five home runs and RBIs,

851
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 8: that is hitting twenty five pumps.

852
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Speaker 1: Is.

853
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 8: I think every team will take that. That was a

854
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 8: career high. He actually had a career high in home runs,

855
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 8: RBIs and solo bases with six. Just had to throw

856
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:37,959
Speaker 8: that in there. And he played one hundred and fifty

857
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 8: six games. Yes he had two forty six. The strikeout

858
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 8: numbers maybe a little bit high, but he actually had

859
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 8: a lot of plate appearances, so it's not that bad.

860
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 8: It's about league average. He walked a good number of times,

861
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 8: sixty times isn't bad. And hit twenty five home runs

862
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 8: twenty six doubles. This is just like, just like any team

863
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Speaker 8: would be better with that guy. So he's a well

864
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 8: above average player. He is a good aid hitter. He's

865
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Speaker 8: a guy you have to worry about in that lineup,

866
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Speaker 8: especially with no Mike Trout, so if they get drop back,

867
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Speaker 8: he is healthy. Taylor Ward iss got to pay attention to,

868
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 8: and he's constantly producing.

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Speaker 3: Good stuff from Trevor every Monday. It's part of the

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Speaker 3: FT Network. Check out the show four o'clock Eastern time

871
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 3: Mondays on the FT YouTube channel and then that flips

872
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Speaker 3: over to may Day's channel, Trevor May's channel for the

873
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 3: second hour. But good breakdowns there, good one on Taylor Ward.

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Speaker 3: I'll bring this up to since we have a moment.

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00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 3: Jesse Rodgers during the game this morning tweeted seeing some

876
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 3: of those close pitches reminds me of a conversation I

877
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Speaker 3: had with a manager last week. He's a little worried

878
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 3: that on opening Day a player's going to forget and

879
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 3: he's going to tap his head for review, and the

880
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 3: UMP will take it as a sarcastic gesture since they

881
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 3: can't actually challenge this year. Kratz, this would so be you.

882
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,959
Speaker 3: This would be you in the clubhouse for Game one

883
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 3: right where a teammate would go yo, ten g's if

884
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 3: you just do this during the at one point when

885
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 3: the UMP screws.

886
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: Up ten geez, that'd have been simple. I'd have gotten

887
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: out there first pitch. But hey, when you have what

888
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 1: do you have to understand? We have to understand is

889
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: almost every catcher that I ever know, that I've never

890
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 1: known that's been on a team for more than a month,

891
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: has something to the dugout to let a guy know,

892
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: let the manager know, like that was a strike, he

893
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: missed it. You know some guys they'll like tug the

894
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: mask some guys. Some guys will adjust their strap. It's

895
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: a way to not show up the umpire but it's

896
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: also a way to let the manager know, hey, he's

897
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: not giving us this pitch like this was there. You

898
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: can't just look over and be like it was a strike,

899
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: he missed it. So yeah, I definitely ten grand Scottie.

900
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta lower you can lower your sight

901
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: you can get a coupon for me. I'll do something

902
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: for I mean, I might give that for two fifty.

903
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,959
Speaker 4: I do it every yet, mad right, craancy.

904
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 3: Every time, every time there's a miss. Next year, next year,

905
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:17,959
Speaker 3: you're done, bro Boum's coming for you next year. Yeah,

906
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 3: I hope someone gets tossed this year that.

907
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 5: I had a teammate, I had a team that I

908
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 5: used to ask the umpire, can you throw me off

909
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:28,280
Speaker 5: what I'm thinking?

910
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 4: Of course I can't throw you off what I'm thinking.

911
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 4: I think you're horrible.

912
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 3: You didn't say it, that's right. What's the word you

913
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 3: can't say?

914
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 4: You can't say you?

915
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 3: Well, then wait, you said you're horrible.

916
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I already asked him, can't you throw me

917
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 5: out from thinking that's what I was thinking?

918
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,479
Speaker 4: So technically you said you can't throw me out, so.

919
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 3: It works right, right, So you just say okay, so

920
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 3: I can't be thrown out just for thinking that you're horrible?

921
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 3: Got it all good? This has settled for now and

922
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 3: again next year. Let's lap spencer Strider returns to the

923
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 3: mound in spring training for the first time in eleven

924
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 3: and a half months since he went down with the

925
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 3: elbow surgery. Twenty seven pitches, twenty three strikes, eight hitters faced.

926
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 3: He struck out six of them. There was one fair

927
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 3: ball on the first pitch that he threw. Zero pitch

928
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 3: is thrown while behind in the count. Jason starked posting

929
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 3: the stats ridiculous. And then here was the postgame quote

930
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 3: after his first trip to the Mount since last April. Said,

931
00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 3: it was fun to play again, and this is great,

932
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 3: Cam he goes, that was definitely kind of a rare

933
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 3: emotional moment for me on the field where I was

934
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 3: happy instead of just angry at the world.

935
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.

936
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 5: And that was that him speaking on he he usually

937
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 5: attacks hitters? Is he usually attack guys angry? Yes, well,

938
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 5: if that's what we're doing, happy and smiling, and we

939
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 5: might need to go ahead and bottle that up. Right,

940
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 5: If you can get that type of production out of

941
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 5: a happy Spencer.

942
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 4: Strider, let's go out there a little bit more happy, right.

943
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 5: I guess if you need to pull that chip out

944
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 5: or need to get angry, you know you still have it.

945
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 5: But we're talking about a guy who's the fastest the

946
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 5: two hundred strikeouts in the season. I think he's broken

947
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 5: Braves records. I mean, he's incredible. So one thing we

948
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 5: don't have to worry about is the swing and miss

949
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 5: stuff not being there or him having to have some

950
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 5: time to get back in action, to get back to

951
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 5: him old, to his old self. He's picked up right

952
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 5: where he left off and continue to dominate hitters in

953
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 5: this league. So we talk about a big acquisition for

954
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 5: the Braves. This is a huge acquisition to get Spencer

955
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 5: Strider back in that rotation.

956
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,720
Speaker 1: Was Stder facing, was Strider facing the day rate guys

957
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: at the Miami Marlins were checking up to playing games

958
00:45:58,719 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: like That's what.

959
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 2: He made it look like.

960
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes when dudes rehab and like they don't even

961
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: go to the minor leagues and rehab, I'm always I'm

962
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: always so impressed. I'm like, oh, Cameron Mayben, He's just

963
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: he's rehabbing against the Cardinals here. Like some dudes go

964
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,720
Speaker 1: down and rehab against you know, the Toledo mud Hens

965
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: or the Scranton rail Riders. No, some dudes, they just

966
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: make big leaguers look like minor leaguers.

967
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

968
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Speaker 3: There were real players in the lineup yesterday for the

969
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 3: Red Sox and know they were on the road taking

970
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 3: on the braids. But Dave Hamilton, David Hamilton, big league player,

971
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 3: Von Grissom, obviously trying to get himself back, big league player, Nervaiez,

972
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 3: Marcelo Meyer soon to be a big league player. So

973
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 3: there were a few guys in there that did not

974
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 3: have fun days, right, Yeah, Grace fans, we can, we

975
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 3: can we get that back for the regular season a SAP.

976
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 3: They're not going to have him obviously starting out the year,

977
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 3: but the timelines do feel like they keep creeping too

978
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 3: closer then anticipated. Yeah, I know you want to be

979
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 3: careful and not rush it, but it's the same thing

980
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 3: with a Kunya. I mean, they feel like he's going

981
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 3: to be ready maybe you know, end of April, and

982
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 3: so there's talks about early May versus mid May to

983
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 3: late May. So we'll see and that could decide the division.

984
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. We're going to be at

985
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 3: Braves Camp by the way, so the calendar for you

986
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 3: on the way out the cam Maven tour. He gets

987
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 3: to stay in one place tonight, which is good news.

988
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 3: The complexes are pretty close to each other. Twins in

989
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 3: Red Sox about ten minutes down the road, something like that,

990
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 3: depending on traffic. And then Thursday finishing strong with Braves Camp.

991
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 3: Have you been to that new Braves Camp? I think

992
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 3: it's what now three years old.

993
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 5: I have not, but I've heard good things, so I'm

994
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 5: eager to see. I thought they would never leave Disney,

995
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 5: but it's started to turn into a little bit of

996
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 5: a not the best situation.

997
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, it worked out well where they are now, and

998
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 3: also where they are now, like used to be nothing

999
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 3: and now it's like they built a whole town around

1000
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 3: them of passes that all look the same. See tomorrow.

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00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 2: Oh,