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Speaker 1: Not doing it? Yeah, So that's all. If you think

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Speaker 1: And we have details on the PCA deal from yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So now let's get final thoughts on that with charge.

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Speaker 1: All right, AJ, Now that you see the money, six years,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen million dollars, there is a really

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Speaker 1: to almost all of these deals, a club option. He's

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Speaker 1: that doesn't include an option. He said the Cubs were

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and no, and no opt outs, right or not

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Speaker 3: that he would opt out because he's arbitration, but no

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Speaker 3: get him for six years one what was it fifteen? Fine,

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Speaker 2: That's fine.

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Speaker 4: The Cubs are like, okay, if your game is going

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Speaker 3: That's not even, that's that's you can't even, that's not

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Speaker 3: even Pek Armstrong went thirty thirty last year. Michael Bourne

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Speaker 2: Size, or that.

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Speaker 1: There are a number of players that were so good

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Speaker 3: Agreed. That's why I don't understand why people so were

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Speaker 3: a hundred million sounds pretty good, I don't know how

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Speaker 3: it's going to go in the major leagues. Well, PCA

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Speaker 3: This is great for both sides.

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Speaker 1: In easy and they got it done before the season starts.

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Speaker 3: He was gonna do that.

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Speaker 3: Have you met this guy? I mean, this guy's great.

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Speaker 3: You were with him, this guy's great. I think this

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Speaker 4: Obviously, there's no no comparing anybody to show Hey. But

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Speaker 4: back to me exactly what AJ just said. He's affeable,

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Speaker 1: He will do all the interviews. He's entertaining. His family's

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Speaker 3: Well, he gets it, he gets it, he does, he

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Speaker 1: Did you hear Ken on the WBC when he said,

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Speaker 3: I think that's wrong.

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Speaker 1: No, that's the point, is it is wrong. Ken was like,

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Speaker 1: Well, in conclusion, good for the game, good for everyone,

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Speaker 1: So congrats to him. Hey, we received more details on

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Speaker 1: the new contract for Christopher Sanchez, twenty million in deferred

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Speaker 1: the Phillies can do deferrals can do this?

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Speaker 2: What disgusting? O that?

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Speaker 1: What's disgusting?

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Speaker 2: Just cheaters.

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Speaker 4: It's just not even fair salary cap we need it.

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Speaker 4: Salary crap salary crap, that's.

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Speaker 2: What it is.

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Speaker 4: Deferred money illegal against the rules sarcasm inserted.

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Speaker 1: And know that other teams can do deferrals. How many

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Speaker 3: I mean the Mets are still paying on Bobby Venia

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Speaker 2: Right? Good point?

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Speaker 1: That is true.

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Speaker 3: Yell I don't know about yell at or you know,

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is a good few minutes for us to

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Speaker 3: From like an a standpoint, any Opening Day is great

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Speaker 2: Mean tonight's game.

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Speaker 4: I know it's not technically Opening Day, but tonight's game

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Speaker 4: Logan Web versus Max Freed. Max Freed has to step

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Speaker 1: Yep, I think Seattle is going to be crazy too.

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, they've got a night game. Do you like

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Speaker 1: Hey, we're back. Did you guys see how Brandon sprot

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully hopefully it's it's it's good because it was Murph

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Speaker 1: It was so murfh. Go ahead, Kratz. You played for

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Speaker 4: I mean, hey, Sprote, you made the team, didn't he said, like,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he just yelled at it, like bro, you made.

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Speaker 4: It, like somebody else just got fired. And Murph was

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Speaker 4: I wonder if I wonder if Sprot was wondering if

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Speaker 1: The exact quote is, hey, Sprote, you're on the team.

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Speaker 1: Deal with it, deal with it.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said.

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Speaker 1: Murph has cracked the code.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Murph was just being himself. Yeah, so he just

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Speaker 1: Oh, we have the sounds, let's play it.

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Speaker 5: I heard it through the grape vine. So if he

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Speaker 5: That sprout said it like.

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Speaker 5: That's what I saw him. So I saw him in

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Speaker 5: anybody know across the room or you know, down the

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Speaker 5: hall and just told him to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: Having fun with this.

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Speaker 3: Himself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's genuine. He's having a good time, just.

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Speaker 4: Like Dusty Slay says. Just like Dusty Slay says, we're having.

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Speaker 2: A good time. We're having a good time. Look it

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Speaker 2: up if you don't know.

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Speaker 1: But he's one of a kind. Nobody else is doing

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Speaker 1: it like he's doing it.

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Speaker 3: No, just hees himself, yes, being himself, which is why

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Speaker 3: people like him.

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Speaker 1: The back to back champ that he hates to hear

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Speaker 1: the back to back.

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Speaker 4: When he was when he was a bench coach in

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Speaker 4: spring training. One time there's three minor leaguers sitting at

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Speaker 4: the end. Called one of the minor leaguers over and

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Speaker 4: the kid was like, thinking he's.

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Speaker 2: Going in the game.

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Speaker 4: He goes, hey, he goes, counsel doesn't think you're good

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Speaker 4: enough to go in the game, So go tell the

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Speaker 4: other two guys they're going in and the kids sat

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Speaker 4: and didn't play the rest of the game. It was

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Speaker 4: one of the roast crude, rude, funny things that I've

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Speaker 4: seen that I saw Murph do in the spring training game.

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Speaker 1: the app coming up, and let's start with AJ's team predictions.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're doing here for this segment. I want

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Speaker 1: to know who's winning each division, the wildcard teams, and

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Speaker 1: eventually lead us into what the World Series matchup is

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Speaker 1: going to look like.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I mean, I've kind of like Tim Perchman. I

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Speaker 3: went pretty chalk Yankees, Tigers, Mariners in the AL. I

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Speaker 3: think those you know, Yankees Toronto they tied last year.

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Speaker 3: I think Eric Cole coming back. I think they are

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Speaker 3: just they're gonna figure it out this year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why.

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Speaker 3: I don't have a reason for Judge, you know, as

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Speaker 3: Judge's judge. I think they're just they're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 3: win that division. They tied the Blue Jays last year.

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Speaker 3: That's it. My wildcards Toronto, Boston and Rangers just a

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Speaker 3: surprise because I wanted to mix it up. I could

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Speaker 3: have gone somewhere else, but Toronto and Boston. I think

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Speaker 3: they're they're really good. I think the Rangers with Gore

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Speaker 3: de Grom ofald at the top of their lineup, and

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Speaker 3: I love Skip Schumacher, so I think that's their wildcard.

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Speaker 3: The top seed in the ALS the Mariners because they

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Speaker 3: play in a lesser division than the other teams, and

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Speaker 3: I think they'll win the most games and get there.

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Speaker 3: So that's my American League, and then the n is

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Speaker 3: the Phillies, Cubs, Dodgers. Seems pretty self explanatory. I think

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Speaker 3: everyone kind of is picking those three teams, the wild cards,

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Speaker 3: the Mets, the Brewers, and my surprise team again is

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Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 2: Why not.

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Speaker 3: Tory Leavello does a great job. Jack Allen's gonna have

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Speaker 3: a big year. I think Merril Kelly coming back. I

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Speaker 3: just think that their prime Corporn Carroll get off to

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Speaker 3: a better start. I just think they're there. Uh And

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Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be better than the Padres and

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Speaker 3: the Giants, and I think the Braves are too banged up,

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Speaker 3: and so I think that's where we're at. And then

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Speaker 3: the Analtop Speed does the Dodgers for the World Series.

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Speaker 3: I have the top seeds making it. I have Mariners, Dodgers,

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Speaker 3: and I have the Dodgers winning because they're gonna be

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Speaker 3: number one of my power rankings until someone beats me.

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Speaker 1: M right. So before we dive into Eric's list, were

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Speaker 1: there any teams that you struggled with in terms of

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Speaker 1: making the playoffs or not? I know you just mentioned

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Speaker 1: that PoTA.

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Speaker 3: I mean you could you could throw the Houston. You

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Speaker 3: could throw Houston in there in the American League. I

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Speaker 3: think you can throw the Guardians in the American League, Orioles.

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Speaker 3: Orioles are another one, but their division is so tough

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Speaker 3: with the Yankees, Blue Jays and Red Sox. They're gonna

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Speaker 3: beat each other up to a point where if their

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Speaker 3: pitching goes a little bit sideways, they're in trouble.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And then and then actually you could think Padres, you

516
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Speaker 3: could go Red to me last year, you could go Braves.

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Speaker 3: I just think that the Diamondbacks are going to survive

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Speaker 3: that they're not afraid of the Dodgers. So yeah, was

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Speaker 3: there some options. Absolutely, But you know we'll.

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Speaker 1: See, Okay, crats lay it all out them make people mad.

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Speaker 4: I definitely will make people mad because I have in

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Speaker 4: the American League. I'm going with the Yankees, Tigers, Mariners.

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Speaker 4: I feel like those are the three easy division winners.

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Speaker 2: Now this is.

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Speaker 4: Where I'm gonna make people mad. I got the wild

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Speaker 4: card being the blue Jays number one seed. I got

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Speaker 4: the Royals making it, and I got the Rangers making

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Speaker 4: it because I also like Skip Schumacher and I think

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Speaker 4: just there's some guys on that team I think are

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Speaker 4: going to take a next step or continue like a

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Speaker 4: Nemo coming over from the Mets. I think Josh Smith

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Speaker 4: is going to continue to have a great, a great

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Speaker 4: career that I don't think people a lot of people

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Speaker 4: know about them. I think that offense will turn around.

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Speaker 4: So I have those three leaving out some good American

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Speaker 4: League teams the top seed. I think the Tigers are

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Speaker 4: gonna get it done to be the top seed. I

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Speaker 4: think they did in the first half and they collapsed.

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Speaker 4: I think they're gonna learn from that collapse if they

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Speaker 4: can continue to score runs throughout the entire year, because

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Speaker 4: I think they're gonna pitch this year. The National League.

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Speaker 4: I got the Phillies, Cubs, Dodgers. Seems like that's pretty

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Speaker 4: standard for everybody right now, and don't see anybody beating

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Speaker 4: those teams in a division. But I have the Reds

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Speaker 4: making the playoffs, I have the Mets making the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: and I have the Padres making the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I think the.

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Speaker 4: Lack of pitching for the Padres will will keep them

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Speaker 4: from really pushing to win a division. And they also

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Speaker 4: play the Dodgers. I just think it's really tough. I

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Speaker 4: think the Braves miss out because of the fact that

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Speaker 4: their starting rotation is very much in flux. They're gonna

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Speaker 4: have to have a lot of guys step up even

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Speaker 4: if they do score a lot of runs in have

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Speaker 4: a good bullpen. I think the Dodgers will have the

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Speaker 4: best record, and I think this is the year that

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Speaker 4: the Phillies pushed through to the World Series and beat

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers. And I think this is the year the

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Speaker 4: Tigers pushed through and it is going to be an

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Speaker 4: epic matchup in the World Series because the Tigers have

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Speaker 4: two bona fide starting pitchers, I mean two bona fide

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Speaker 4: number one aces type of pitchers, and the Phillies are

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Speaker 4: going to have three by the.

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Speaker 2: End of the season. And that's why I think the

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Speaker 2: Phillies end up winning the World Series this year.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, you gotta throw something in there. Kratz picked

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Speaker 1: the Phillies to win the World Series.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's fine. We all have our we all

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Speaker 3: can pick that we pick, and we understand why Crouts

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Speaker 3: picked the Phillies.

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Speaker 2: That's fine.

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Speaker 3: The Tigers are more of a surprise to me after

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Speaker 3: the way they struggled with contact in the postseason last year.

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Speaker 3: And you know, Fromber and Terrik are great, but you

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Speaker 3: got to score runs at some point. Unless they figure

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Speaker 3: that part out. Mcgonaga will help. But I mean, I

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Speaker 3: get the Phillies pick, and it's smart if you if Sanchez, Zzarto,

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Speaker 3: Wheeler and Nola are all healthy, it's pretty good. And

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Speaker 3: then you have Deron and well Al Rodal the pitch

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Speaker 3: in the postseason this year, yep, well throwing Keller. That's

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Speaker 3: a pretty good back end of a bullpen mm hm.

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Speaker 1: And even position player wise for the Phillies, Justin Crawford

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Speaker 1: could have a big year for them. Aiden Miller at

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Speaker 1: some point should come up for the ball club this year,

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Speaker 1: right Kratz.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you could.

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Speaker 4: But I think I think that the path for the

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Speaker 4: Phillies to win is they have to do exactly what

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Speaker 4: they did last year. They have to get the they

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Speaker 4: have to get the days off, you know. I think

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Speaker 4: that number one seed would be huge for them. The

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Speaker 4: buye in the first round would be huge. But I

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Speaker 4: think they they essentially lost the Dodgers series because of

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Speaker 4: the bullpen. I think they upgrade while they are running

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Speaker 4: back the same lineup and everybody's like, I don't know

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Speaker 4: how it's gonna I don't know how it's going to age.

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Speaker 4: But I think this year it's still gonna be fine.

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Speaker 4: I think that bullpen is better than it was last year,

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Speaker 4: and I think that's say that was you know, that

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Speaker 4: was what kept them from getting past the Dodgers, because

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Speaker 4: they were winning every game going into when it became

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Speaker 4: a bullpen game, and then they ended up losing.

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Speaker 1: Eric did not think will make the playoffs. I think

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Speaker 1: we should start with the team that is near to

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Speaker 1: his heart, the Milwaukee Brewers not a playoff team this year.

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Speaker 1: Was that the most difficult one for you? I'll name

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Speaker 1: a few others just for the fans that were looking

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Speaker 1: quickly at the board. Red Sox, Brioles, Astros, Diamondbacks, Giants, Braves.

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Speaker 1: Those were some of the other notable teams that I

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Speaker 1: think I all have on missing out on your board.

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Speaker 4: No, the Brewers weren't. The Red Sox were probably my

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Speaker 4: toughest one. I chose the Royals over the Red Sox

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Speaker 4: because I think the Royals are going to take the

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Speaker 4: next step. I think we'll get it to our awards tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: I think Bobby Witt playing for Team USA just another

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Speaker 4: year in the Big leagues is the MVP, and I

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Speaker 4: think that type of thing leads to just kind of

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Speaker 4: everybody having better years. And so for me, the hardest

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Speaker 4: one was the Red Sox, just because I think their

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Speaker 4: pitching is going to be really good. I think their

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Speaker 4: offense is still going to be good. I just am

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Speaker 4: afraid of them being it's a little bit short in

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Speaker 4: the division, and I think the Brewers leaving the Brewers out.

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Speaker 4: I'm just not sure where they're gonna get there. I'm

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Speaker 4: just not sure where they're going to get all the

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Speaker 4: innings for the rest of the year. And it's the

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Speaker 4: same question every single year, and you make all your like,

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Speaker 4: let's say they have all average pitchers, which I think

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Speaker 4: Big WU can be above average. I think their bullpen

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Speaker 4: shows every year and a year out. They're always elite.

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Speaker 4: But it makes their defense, makes their pitching so much better.

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Speaker 4: I just think they lost too many key pieces from

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Speaker 4: last year for them to be able to make the

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Speaker 4: playoffs this year in a better division than what they

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Speaker 4: played in last year.

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Speaker 1: The Brewers strongly disagree with you and feel like they

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Speaker 1: keep replenishing.

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Speaker 2: They can.

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Speaker 4: They totally do, They totally do. You can never pick

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Speaker 4: against them, and I'm doing it.

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Speaker 1: So there it is exactly at some point it could crack,

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Speaker 1: and maybe it could be this year. All right. This segment,

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Speaker 1: you can lay out your joke too. Because you just

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Speaker 1: talked about the Brewers. Go ahead, I mean people, people

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Speaker 1: know the PR man the Brewers.

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Speaker 4: Yik fasalo is is all of a sudden, he's super

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Speaker 4: locked into foul territory. Probably gives us the most guests

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Speaker 4: of any team. He's the PR guy for the Brewers,

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Speaker 4: and now he's super locked in because Game Changer. It's

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Speaker 4: enabled him to stay at his job, which is being

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Speaker 4: the big league PR guy at the field, and also

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Speaker 4: watch his kid play baseball.

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Speaker 2: I do it.

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Speaker 4: I just I just ran the Game Changer last night

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Speaker 4: for our high school team, and like, to me, it's seamless.

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Speaker 4: You get a you get a camera, you get that

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Speaker 4: John put on the fence. People that like our games

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Speaker 4: are three or four o'clock in the afternoon. People that

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Speaker 4: send their kids to school, probably have jobs and can't

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Speaker 4: make it, so it enables them to be able to

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Speaker 4: live stream it is. It is the best app for

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Speaker 4: anybody that needs to be able to want to support

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Speaker 4: your kids, support your grandkids, whatever it is, and it's

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Speaker 4: so easy to use.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys hear about the left field streak coming

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Speaker 1: to a close for the Giants? Isn't it crazy how

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Speaker 1: long that was?

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Speaker 3: Well, there's another there's a right field one somewhere. I thought, yeah, Cleveland,

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Speaker 3: Cleveland has a right field one right fifteen years or

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Speaker 3: something that's.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen years. The Giants six plaid a different So

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Speaker 1: the Giants had a different opening day starter at left

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Speaker 1: field for nineteen years and it's over. Elliott Ramos breaks

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Speaker 1: that up since he was the opening day guy in

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Speaker 1: left field, not for two years in a row. So

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Speaker 1: now it's up to the longest streak. That was the

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Speaker 1: longest streak since nineteen hundred that they had, and Sarah

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Speaker 1: Lang's doing great research on that different player, no repeats

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Speaker 1: either at that particular position, and now it's up to

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Speaker 1: Cleveland with fifteen and then they were running through the list.

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Speaker 1: It started with Barry Bonds in two thousand and seven

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Speaker 1: and ends with ramos here. I mean, you've got all

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Speaker 1: kinds of names from Dave Roberts, Mark De Rosa, Pat Burrell,

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Speaker 1: Aubrey Hoff. I'm just bouncing around, Mike Morris, Noriaki, Hunter

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Speaker 1: Pence Connor, Joe, Alex Dickerson, Blake Sable, Jock Peterson. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is just a cavalcade of names that you know,

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Speaker 1: but they just couldn't do it two years in a

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Speaker 1: row until now. It's a cool stat cool nugget.

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Speaker 2: I like that. That's what Opening Day is.

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Speaker 4: Everybody feels one hundred percent today, just remember that Tomorrow

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Speaker 4: not quite as much.

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Speaker 1: A reminder to everyone. This is big news. Tomorrow is

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Speaker 1: Opening Day, one pm Eastern Time, live on the West Coast.

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Speaker 1: It's ten am. The show is back to normalcy. We

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Speaker 1: actually received a good amount of questions over the past

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours, like, hey, spring Training's basically done. What's

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Speaker 1: the deal. The deal is the games begin and the

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Speaker 1: one o'clock Spring training games are over, and we go

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Speaker 1: back to one pm Eastern Time, so the show will

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Speaker 1: be live one to three for the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: We do this for spring training. I always explain it.

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Speaker 1: It worked out great awesome spring training tour. But now

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Speaker 1: we're back to one o'clock live every weekday, so mark

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Speaker 1: your calendars. And for those of you that weren't up

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Speaker 1: early enough on the West Coast or weren't at work

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Speaker 1: early enough to listen and all of that, you will

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Speaker 1: be back in the live window. So we're excited for

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Speaker 1: that too. During slappands, I'll go over guests for the

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Speaker 1: big opening day show, we'll do some more predictions for

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's show, and we'll start mixing in some questions too.

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Speaker 1: It's been busy, so I've been in the chat as

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Speaker 1: much as I wanted to over the past couple of days.

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Speaker 1: But I will be back, and we have many new

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Speaker 1: shows that we'll talk about. I mean, we've been introducing them,

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Speaker 1: but for example, talking to Tim Kirkchin about the show

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Speaker 1: that he's been running and it's now part of the

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Speaker 1: FT Network. A new Blue Jays show that launched about

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Speaker 1: a month ago that we'll get into a little bit

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Speaker 1: more with KP. So there's a lot of that. But again, Kratz,

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Speaker 1: what time tomorrow, don't don't show.

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Speaker 4: Up eleven, don't show up at eleven, don't show up

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Speaker 4: at eight, show up at one o'clock Eastern time. One o'clock.

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Speaker 4: That's when you show up. The boys will be back.

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Speaker 4: Have your TV on here, have us on right there.

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Speaker 4: You can watch Paul Schemes dominate and you can watch

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Speaker 4: aj wear his hat backwards.

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Speaker 1: Also, by the way, there's only one one o'clock game.

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Speaker 1: The rest of them are later. I mean it's Schemes

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Speaker 1: and Freddy at one fifteen technically, so we'll be on

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Speaker 1: for you and you can we'll watch while we're chatting,

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Speaker 1: not going to do play by play. And then there's

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Speaker 1: a couple two o'clock games Shane Smith and Jacob Misowski

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Speaker 1: White Sox Brewers and the Gnats take on the Cubs,

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Speaker 1: and then the rest occur after our show, so most

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Speaker 1: of the games are a little later in the day,