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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to the opening day edition

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Speaker 2: Alana Rizzo. We are excited for the season to start.

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Speaker 2: We are excited to talk about all things baseball, as

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to get going. Twenty twenty five is

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Speaker 1: you as well, Ken. And there's a lot of storylines

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's exactly what I wrote today in my

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Speaker 2: But in the Division Series, what has happened in the

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Speaker 1: Sport, no question about it. It's not as if can

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Speaker 1: Ken. There is a delicious possibility that the Oakland Athletics,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I love when Mike Trott is healthy. Everybody loves

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Speaker 1: All right, we welcome you back here to Fair Territory

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Speaker 1: with Ken Rosenthal and Ken. One of the storylines that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, bet on yourself. You rarely go wrong when you

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Speaker 1: That's the heck of an off season sign. When you

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Speaker 2: Oh? I haven't looked at it that closely. Skeens is

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Speaker 2: They're not trading Cease. They haven't done that. Aj Preller,

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Speaker 2: don't expect it to happen, and the Yankees aren't getting

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Rolando Martinez, thank you for that question. Our next question,

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Speaker 1: Ken comes from videos two to oh seven. What team

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Speaker 2: But I will say this about the Red Sox. The

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Speaker 2: You've got Crochet pitching for a competitive team for the

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Speaker 1: All right. Sticking with the Red Sox, Rafael Devers is

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Speaker 2: I haven't been around them lately, so I can't say

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Speaker 1: Last question here on Grill and Ken again with the Angels,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Lum wants to know what the healthy trout. Can

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Speaker 2: I actually think the answer is yes. The rotation with

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Speaker 2: But do I expect them to be better?

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Speaker 2: But the question was with a healthy trout. Yes, that

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Speaker 1: Question about that healthy trout makes a team much better immediately.

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Speaker 1: All right, Ken, tell me something good. Who's your due

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Speaker 1: to the week?

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Speaker 2: I was going to go with cal Raley for his

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Speaker 2: six year, one hundred and five million dollar extension, but

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Speaker 2: then last night on social media, Tarrek schoob Will put

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Speaker 2: out what I thought was a fairly remarkable statement by

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Speaker 2: a player. I'm not going to read the whole thing,

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Speaker 2: I encourage people to read it. It was kind of

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Speaker 2: a love letter to the city in which he plays, Detroit,

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Speaker 2: and basically what he said was, Hey, we're in this together.

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Speaker 2: I've had some adversity in my career, the city has

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Speaker 2: had some adversity. Let's go forward together. And rarely have

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Speaker 2: I seen a player attempt to connect with his city,

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Speaker 2: even show that kind of care for his city in

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Speaker 2: that way. Guys, of course love playing where they are

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Speaker 2: in many cases, but this was really an impassioned message

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Speaker 2: to Tigers fans, and I loved it. I thought it

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Speaker 2: was really cool. It spoke well of Tyrek Schouobel, who

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Speaker 2: is an intensely competitive dude and wants to do right

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Speaker 2: by the Tigers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets it. I love that. I think perhaps

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Speaker 1: maybe in the National League Bryce Harper would be that guy.

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Speaker 1: Also for the Philadelphia Philly is the way that he's

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Speaker 1: embraced living there and playing in that city. My dude

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Speaker 1: of the week is actually Cam Smith and the Houston Astros.

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Speaker 1: The way that the Astros allowed Cam Smith to know

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Speaker 1: that he made the opening day roster was so special.

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Speaker 1: Joe's spot of there. Of course, the manager of the

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Speaker 1: Astros had Cam Smith's family come into the clubhouse, which

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Speaker 1: is a sacred place. You heard Todd Frazier talk about

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Speaker 1: this on foul Territory. The clubhouse is a sacred place

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Speaker 1: and his family was there. I'm assuming that's his mom

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Speaker 1: was there, his girlfriend was there, and he had, you know,

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Speaker 1: he had some legitimate tears of joy that streamed down

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Speaker 1: his face in front of his teammates. I thought that

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Speaker 1: was really well done by the Astros, and congratulations to

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Speaker 1: Cam Smith. I wonder what Cubs fans are thinking right now.

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Speaker 1: But that was that was a special moment and obviously

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Speaker 1: a dream realized not only for the player Ken, but

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Speaker 1: also for his family. So good on the astros for

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Speaker 1: for getting that done. Okay, time for the John Fisher

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Speaker 1: Dork of the week. All right, Kenny, who do you

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Speaker 1: have for dork of the week?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: I want to show everyone a visual so we can

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Speaker 2: get into this, because it's quite a striking visual. It's

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Speaker 2: my old friends at MLB Network, Matt Rescuersion and Damn

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Speaker 2: Plea Sack. Now I'm going to name Matt the dork

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Speaker 2: of the week. I'm exempting Poleae Sack from this conversation.

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Speaker 2: If you look at those microphones there, as Mark Lurino

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Speaker 2: points out here, these mics aren't plugged in. In other words,

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Speaker 2: the elevator here doesn't go all the way to the top.

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Speaker 2: Let's zoom in on mister Polee Sack and you can

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Speaker 2: see that's the kind of mike he's wearing. It's called

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Speaker 2: alv MIC. I know this because I work in TV. Now,

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Speaker 2: Damn Plea Sak, I'm exempting him from this. Good guy,

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Speaker 2: it's not his fault. Matt fast Cursion, my old friend

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Speaker 2: from the Hot Stove show, there's a man who should

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Speaker 2: know better. There's a man who is cynical to text

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Speaker 2: things all the time. And if we were still together

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Speaker 2: on Hot Stove, if Matt and I were still doing

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Speaker 2: the show and we saw another MLB network talent with

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Speaker 2: a microphone not plugged in like that, that person would

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Speaker 2: have been obliterated on Hot Stove for six weeks. If

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Speaker 2: freg Amsinger had done that, uh huh, we would have

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Speaker 2: crushed him. So, as Harold Reynolds often said, when Matt

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Speaker 2: would play the soundboard, fake news, that was fake news. Matt,

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Speaker 2: get a real mic. Actually take those mics off the desk.

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Speaker 2: You guys are wearing mics. You're good, Matt fast Cursion.

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Speaker 1: Dork of the Week, you gotta never let him live

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Speaker 1: that one down, Ken, all right, My Dork of the

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Speaker 1: is not even a baseball player. It is a guy

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Speaker 1: that probably could play baseball if he wanted to, because

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Speaker 1: he's unbelievably talented. But Tiger Wood's asking his six point

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Speaker 1: five million followers to give him privacy after he announced

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Speaker 1: that he is now in a relationship with the current

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Speaker 1: with Vanessa Trump who used to be married to Don Junior.

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Speaker 1: Good for them. I have no problem with this relationship,

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Speaker 1: But how can you ask for privacy for all of

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Speaker 1: those close to your heart When you're Tiger Woods and

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Speaker 1: you are known to switch girlfriends as many times as

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Speaker 1: you switch underwear, and you're dating the President of the

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Speaker 1: little silly. I don't think that you can ask for privacy.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe they are the first ones to put

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Speaker 1: the photos out there so the paparazzi couldn't make money

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Speaker 1: off of it. I'm not sure, but that just seems

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Speaker 1: a little bit silly to me.

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Speaker 2: Just one thought a lot on this. Usually when people

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Speaker 2: ask for privacy, it's when they're getting divorced. It's not

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Speaker 2: when they're like together. It just kind of strugg me

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Speaker 2: as odd too.

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Speaker 1: Yes, fifty three million views as of this morning on

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Speaker 1: that post, So yes, you're going to You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get privacy, But God God willing that relationship last forever,

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Speaker 1: with Mike Trott. All right, always great to be with you, Ken,

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