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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of their territory. I am back

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Speaker 1: talk about for Starters. The best player in the game

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Speaker 1: You can always argue with Tani, But Aaron Judge right

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Speaker 1: now is well as Joe Davis described him on Fox

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Speaker 1: after he ran through the fence the other day, Superman.

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Speaker 1: You might have seen that play. It was an amazing play,

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Speaker 1: He had another one in Seattle that was amazing. But yes,

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Speaker 1: for Starters a photo because the injury that Judge suffered,

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Speaker 1: if it's an injury to his right big toe, is

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Speaker 1: kind of a concern. As we tape on Monday morning. Now,

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Speaker 1: what caused the issue. Now, earlier this season, Jash Chisholm

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Speaker 1: Marlins Ballpark in Miami Lone Depot Park, the greatly named

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Speaker 1: Lone Depot Park. And after that, the Marlins and MLB

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Speaker 1: And I wonder if the outcome of all this is

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Speaker 1: that stone curb. Not good, but let's hope Judge is healthy.

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Speaker 1: We never want to see a player hurt, any player hurt, good, bad, indifferent.

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Speaker 1: That's the start. The other part of this, of course,

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Speaker 1: he is looking like again the Aaron Judge of twenty

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Speaker 1: in May. He was out something like April twenty eighth

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Speaker 1: He is playing exquisite defense as well. And the reason

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Speaker 1: Check out what he is doing with regard to his

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Speaker 1: this season compared to the previous two. Now, he has

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Speaker 1: That's what the Yankees have played compared to last year,

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Speaker 1: what the outcomes of his imaging are today. One more

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge is six seven. And actually I got a

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Speaker 1: They win two of three. But now I want to

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Speaker 1: They brought in a number of free agents starting pitchers

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Speaker 1: Just a stellar performance all around by the Rangers. And

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Speaker 1: Now they've done some things and they've done okay, But

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Speaker 1: Next question comes from Cornelius. Cornelius asks, is this trade

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Speaker 1: a really good question, and I have two thoughts on it.

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Speaker 1: The first is there is going to be a scarcity

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Speaker 1: No one's gonna break away, it seems like, because the

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Speaker 1: if we do some things right in the second half,

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Speaker 1: maybe make a trade. I don't know it's going to

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Speaker 1: play out that way, but it certainly might. Now for

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Speaker 1: the Orioles, the Orioles are a team, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: cornelis with a surplus of middle endfielders. They've got Henderson

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Speaker 1: at the major league level, he's actually playing third base

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Speaker 1: for them. They've got Joey Ortiz, Jordan Westberg. These guys

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to act. They're gonna have to move.

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Speaker 1: We said this last offseason and they didn't do anything. Well,

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Speaker 1: they did something. Kyle Gibson turns out to be a

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Speaker 1: pretty good signing. So, yes, there's a scarcity. No, you

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Speaker 1: never want to overpay to the extreme, but if the

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Speaker 1: Next question comes from John B. John B asks the

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Speaker 1: Royals are an unwatchable mess. It seems most of the

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Speaker 1: young players are not working out. Only the A's seem

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Speaker 1: to be a worse organization. Is there any hope for

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Speaker 1: this current group? I'm not sure John, that there is.

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Speaker 1: Royals are eighteen and forty one. Now that's not as

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Speaker 1: bad as the A's we're twelve and forty nine, but

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Speaker 1: there's not a lot to like right now. Only two

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Speaker 1: hitters on this team, one of them is Salvador Perez,

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Speaker 1: has an OPS over eight hundred. And the bigger problem,

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Speaker 1: as always with this team is their starting pitching. The

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Speaker 1: young starters just have not developed the way the Royals

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Speaker 1: envision now. Brady Singer was better yesterday, but a Zra

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Speaker 1: is still in the sixes. Greenky's been their best pitcher,

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Speaker 1: and Greenky, of course, is nearing the end of his career.

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Speaker 1: Jordan Lyle's free agent hasn't been that good, and their

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Speaker 1: youngsters just haven't developed for injury reasons or other reasons

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Speaker 1: the way they've envisioned. And the worst part of it

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Speaker 1: for the Royals is that they're sort of trying here.

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Speaker 1: They wanted this season to be a step forward and

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Speaker 1: it's not turning out that way. Oh, next question comes

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Speaker 1: from David. He's got a great question favorite stadium food. Now,

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Speaker 1: the truth is I don't eat a lot at ballparks

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Speaker 1: because I'm working at the game and I've got myself

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Speaker 1: wired up to an IFB, to a microphone and just

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Speaker 1: a not a position to run around and sample the

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Speaker 1: various fares. But that said, when I go as a

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Speaker 1: writer only sometimes midweek, my favorite foods have been, well

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Speaker 1: it's easy, really, Boogs barbecue at Camden Yards. Now, this

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Speaker 1: is where I work for many, many years, so when

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Speaker 1: I was at the Baltimore Sun, yes, I would indulge

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Speaker 1: in Boogs barbecue without needing to worry about being on TV.

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Speaker 1: That's number one, number two, And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: this still exists, but imagine it does. I haven't eaten

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Speaker 1: it in years. The Cho Chop Bowl at San Francisco's

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Speaker 1: Oracle Park. It's the Orlando Cepeida standout and I think

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Speaker 1: in left field a listener. You guys can correct me.

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Speaker 1: If the Chow Chow Bowl no longer exists, I'm confident

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Speaker 1: it does. It was quite popular. But those are the two.

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