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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. We're

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Speaker 1: going to get to the World Series Game three coming

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Speaker 1: up tonight in a second, but I want to start

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Speaker 1: the show today with the news of the moment, the

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Speaker 1: news that broke last night, first by Jeff Passon of ESPN.

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Speaker 1: The Orioles have a new manager. His name is Craig Albinas.

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Speaker 1: He was the bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians the

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Speaker 1: past two seasons under Steven Vote. Stephen Vote could very

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Speaker 1: well win his second straight Manager of the Year award

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Speaker 1: for what the Guardians did this season. So Craig Albinaz

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Speaker 1: is an interesting hire, and he's a guy who has

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Speaker 1: been kind of in demand in i'd say the last

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Speaker 1: two years. He's had some interviews, I believe the interview

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Speaker 1: with the Marlins last year and others. So here's someone

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Speaker 1: that was going to get a job this go around.

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Speaker 1: And what's interesting about this for me is how Cleveland

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Speaker 1: is a target for other teams when they're hiring executives,

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Speaker 1: when they're hiring managers, and just look at this hiring

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Speaker 1: cycle alone. Albern As to the Orioles Kay Correa, who

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Speaker 1: was a coach with Cleveland. He's going to be the

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Speaker 1: Mets new bench coach. He was also in San Francisco

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Speaker 1: with albern As before they were in Cleveland. And Matt Foreman,

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Speaker 1: the Guardian's assistant GM, is a finalist for the Rockies

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Speaker 1: head of baseball operations job. And it's interesting because with Foreman,

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Speaker 1: he is up against Amiel Sawde from the Arizona Diamondbacks,

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Speaker 1: who has been in the game a while. He was

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Speaker 1: with the Red Sox prior to the Diamondbacks, and to me,

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Speaker 1: it seems he's much more experienced than Foreman. And when

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Speaker 1: I ran that by someone in baseball recently, that person

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Speaker 1: said to me, yeah, but Cleveland is seen as the

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Speaker 1: model mid market team, the team that seems to compete

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Speaker 1: every year and how they do it. That secret sauce

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Speaker 1: is what everyone wants. So the Orioles have their man.

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Speaker 1: Still a number of managerial openings to go. We will

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Speaker 1: get to them in due time over the next several weeks.

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Speaker 1: But the World Series is still going on. Oh yes,

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Speaker 1: no major announcements during the World Series. This never happens.

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Speaker 1: That's the rule in baseball, which is never followed. But

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Speaker 1: we have Game three coming up, and this is an

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Speaker 1: interesting series, perhaps more interesting than some people anticipated when

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Speaker 1: we got going here, it's one to one, and tonight

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Speaker 1: we've got Max Scherzer against Tyler Glass. Now Max Scherzer

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Speaker 1: for the Blue Jays, Tyler Glass now for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: Bobaschet will be in the lineup again for the Blue Jays,

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Speaker 1: and Bobaschet, you know, before World Series Game one, had

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Speaker 1: not played since September sixth, a span of nearly seven weeks.

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Speaker 1: He had that spring left knee, and as I reported

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Speaker 1: on the broadcast in Game two, after the second inning

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Speaker 1: in Game one when he was playing, when he was

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Speaker 1: in the lineup, he put on a bulky knee brace.

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Speaker 1: He was wearing a sleeve around that knee, but he

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Speaker 1: decided he needed more, he needed bulk, so he did that.

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Speaker 1: I assume that's what he's going to wear tonight. Did

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Speaker 1: not play except for a pinch hit appearance in Game two.

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Speaker 1: The Jays are trying to take it easy with him

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Speaker 1: because of course he's coming off his injury. They don't

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Speaker 1: want to play him every day, even with the off

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Speaker 1: I presume he'll be batting clean up behind Guerrero. He

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Speaker 1: he's healthy, and in talking to the Blue Jays players

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Speaker 1: during this series, they've been quite adamant about how he's

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Speaker 1: So Bobaschet back in the lineup. The pitching matchup, it's

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Speaker 1: an interesting one, to say the least, because of Max Scherzer,

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Speaker 1: forty one years old starting Game three, coming off that

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Speaker 1: brilliant performance in Game four of the ALCS that really

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Speaker 1: thing around. Max Scherzer is pitching on extended rest, as

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Speaker 1: Shane Bieber would have been pitching on extended rest and

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Speaker 1: Aj Persinski mentioned this on foul Territory the other day.

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Speaker 1: ultimately going to be a bullpen game, most likely short

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Speaker 1: Go back to twenty twenty one, the NLCS Game six.

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Speaker 1: Scherzer had pitched in relief in the Division Series in

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Speaker 1: Game five against the Giants. He came back in Game

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Speaker 1: two of the NLCS, wasn't particularly good and then told

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers his arm wasn't right. It was overcooked. That

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Speaker 1: up using Walker Buehler on three days rest in Game

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Speaker 1: and ultimately the Dodgers lost. The series. Has been something

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Speaker 1: but fans are not exactly short memory people in Dodger

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Speaker 1: to remember that Scherzer did not take the ball. Whether

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Speaker 1: it's going to be an interesting atmosphere, of course, the

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Speaker 1: aer amazing postseason history will go through it all tonight.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure on the broadcast. He's one of the great

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Speaker 1: that was one of the great Shurser moments and one

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Speaker 1: as we discussed World Series Game three, the Dodgers are

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Speaker 1: considering a lineup change. It's interesting with the Dodgers, how

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Speaker 1: But Dave Roberts is mulling a lineup change because Andy

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Speaker 1: Time now for the inside dish, the part of the

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Speaker 1: After at FTFAM all right, time now for grilling? Can

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Speaker 1: the first question. It is from Richard Procter, who asked,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe the owners will be willing to go

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Speaker 1: through with this. I'm still not convinced. So I would

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Speaker 1: sign players to free agent contracts. I would sign them

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Speaker 1: to long term extensions. Easy for me to say. I'm

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Speaker 1: just don't see why it would necessarily disrupt things to

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Speaker 1: that degree. Now we've seen it already happen. The Angels

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Speaker 1: only gave Kirk Zuzuki a one year contract as a

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Speaker 1: new manager, it seems, because they want to keep their

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Speaker 1: options open entering a potential lockout situation. That's the Angels.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe it's going to be every team

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Speaker 1: all right now. Next question, this one comes from foul Territory.

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Speaker 1: What has surprised you about this World Series so far?

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I would say the Dodgers' offense

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Speaker 1: has surprised me, and Otani not being this major force

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Speaker 1: has surprised me. O'tani's had that one great game, the

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Speaker 1: clincher in the NLCS, but he hasn't done all that

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Speaker 1: much else. The Home Running Game one was kind of

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Speaker 1: in garbage time, So I'm not sure I really count that.

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Speaker 1: I would say that is what has surprised me most,

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Speaker 1: that the Dodgers' offense has not been all that potent.

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Speaker 1: All right, one more question before we go, Let's see

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Speaker 1: what we have. This one comes from Jim Huerta, who asked,

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Speaker 1: do you believe John John Stanton will actually let Seattle

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Speaker 1: spend this offseason? Well, the way I would answer that

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Speaker 1: is past performance is an indicator of future performance. Right,

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Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it. They've been a

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Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive Seattle in at least in the

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Speaker 1: deadline this year when they took on Ajohano Suarez and

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Speaker 1: Josh Naylor. But it's not like they're going out and

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Speaker 1: spending like reckless sailors. So I don't necessarily believe they're

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Speaker 1: going to spend big. I think they will spend and

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Speaker 1: try to keep it going forward. Do I expect them

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Speaker 1: to be a major player in free agency? No? I don't.

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Speaker 1: They never have been, so let's see what happens. I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't say never. They've done some things. Adrian Beltre was one,

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Speaker 1: but in general, well, Sale Mariners have not been that

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Speaker 1: big a spender. All Right, I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: everyone for watching for listening. We will be back Friday

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Speaker 1: with Alana Rizzo. I will probably still be either at

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Speaker 1: even know, and we'll see what happens. Then have a

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Speaker 1: great week everyone, enjoy the rest of the World Series.

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