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Speaker 1: It's not policed. Teams don't punish guys for that, Teams

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Speaker 2: Here we go with Merrifield joining us right now from

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Speaker 2: the best golf clubhouse in home Baseball.

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Speaker 3: Uh wait, good to see you, man.

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Speaker 2: I know you're a big football guy too, so I

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Speaker 2: actually want to start here because after this weekend it's

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Speaker 2: baseball talk. So what do you think the NFL does

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Speaker 2: well that MLB can take a page from. And I'll

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Speaker 3: I'm good to see you, dude. But they have a

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Speaker 2: Championship game that's actually been talked about in the past,

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Speaker 2: like can we do a day or two of the

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Speaker 3: Just throwing it out there.

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Speaker 2: I know that's an easy note for most players, but

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Speaker 2: that or anything else that comes to mind with the NFL,

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Speaker 2: and there amazing parody actually that they offer with that

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Speaker 1: That's a good question, and honestly, I've really never thought

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Speaker 1: it's one game. There's such a there's such an advantage

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Speaker 1: But Baseball, I mean it's it's a little bit of advantage,

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Speaker 1: not that much really really, the advantages in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The crowd can be an advantage, but it's batting at

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Speaker 1: a that's a whole other copie. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they do a good job of promoting the game.

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Speaker 1: I think we do as well. I just think it's

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Speaker 1: it's just different. You know, we play one hundred and

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't. So it's hard, it's hard to compare

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Speaker 4: Wait, wait, you said neutral site for the playoffs will

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Speaker 4: the ath Is of Sacramento or the Tampa area Rays

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. I mean, that's a little bit

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but think about it when if you signed with

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Speaker 1: But also I've learned that you never know who's gonna call.

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Speaker 4: Do you look at teams that have openings like yourself?

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Speaker 1: Do you ever do that?

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Speaker 4: Or do you look at even like like the most

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Speaker 1: Could get that, Like I'm I'm like, I'm out on

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Speaker 1: There longer, Hey, that's what happens. Man, read the book.

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Speaker 1: but no, it's a good call doing it wrong.

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Speaker 2: So raid stats are valued much more now than counting

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Speaker 2: stats versus even ten years ago. Right where they're like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I want to know what this player is doing on

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Speaker 2: a per game basis, and I don't care that he

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Speaker 2: gave me one, you know, sixty or whatever. Right, there's

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Speaker 3: Hey, bad bad at ball.

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Speaker 2: Luck we're looking at your peripherals and it says that

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Speaker 2: you actually should be much better. And I think parts

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Speaker 2: that that point to players who never actually reach those

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Speaker 2: expectations and just aren't that good, and they become, for

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Speaker 2: lack of a better term, like a sabermetric darling. Right,

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Speaker 2: we've seen players like that. I'm not going to throw

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Speaker 2: certain names out there right now, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: That's my take on how the game has changed. And

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Speaker 2: then I think players try to adjust to the way

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Speaker 2: that front offices are evaluating things.

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Speaker 3: Right where they're like.

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Speaker 2: Okay, they don't care if I play as much. Then

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna, you know, say that something's bothering me

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Speaker 2: and miss a couple weeks like you're saying, and it's

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Speaker 2: not being valued that you actually need that player on

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Speaker 2: the field because the backup is going to give you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think to this the way the game

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Speaker 1: is the way that front offices are approaching the game.

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Speaker 1: Got mandatory off days, and from the time these guys

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Speaker 1: are in the minor leagues, if you're a top prospect,

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Speaker 1: you're playing like, I think they played six games a

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Speaker 1: week that you're playing like four and you're getting two days,

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Speaker 1: of bred from the time you're young that it's not

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Speaker 1: normal to play every day. It's not normal to go

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Speaker 1: NBA and uh maybe not so much the NFL or football,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's different, different mentality of going about

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Speaker 1: I hate to sound like an old guy, but I

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Speaker 1: a long time to get to the big leagues, and

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Speaker 1: once I got there, I didn't want to take a

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Speaker 1: day off and I don't want this guy that's working

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Speaker 1: maybe it's not the guy. And you know, I wanted

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Speaker 1: in and never never give it up. And that's not

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Speaker 1: really I guess the the common mentality anymore, which is,

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Speaker 1: like I said, maybe I'm in the wrong, but it's

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Speaker 4: I don't believe you are. I don't believe you are.

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Speaker 4: Keep keep grinding until they take the jersey from you,

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Speaker 4: not not sitting in the tub until they give you your

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Speaker 4: jersey back. But I got a question for you now.

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Speaker 4: I want you to turn a little bit to the

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Speaker 4: left so the light hits you pretty good like this,

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Speaker 4: you see all grace, No no, no, no, no, grace,

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Speaker 4: I don't see it. I was looking at you because

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Speaker 4: the Yankees, the Yankees need a second basement. Would you

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Speaker 4: be willing to shave that because I've never seen that

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Speaker 4: that role? Like if the Yankees are like, hey, we

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Speaker 4: need a second baseman, Chris.

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Speaker 1: We played together when I had to shave my face,

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Speaker 1: You shaved it.

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Speaker 4: It was never it was never killing it would play together.

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Speaker 1: No, it was never. You never you always have that

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Speaker 4: That was the one rule that you bent in Olmaha

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Speaker 4: had had it bent. Look at that face you are.

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Speaker 4: You're You're like a constant five o'clock shadow.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, craft he's killing you.

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Speaker 1: Unbelievable. I mean, yeah, no, I my wife would would

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Speaker 1: love for me to have to shave my face. Mandatory

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Speaker 1: for me to shave my face every day. You would

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Speaker 1: love that.

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Speaker 3: So so w to the Yankee tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I did it twenty twenty twenty two when I was

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Speaker 1: really scuffling. Yeah, I'll clean twenty and uh, I think

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Speaker 1: it was towards the end of my time in Kansas

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Speaker 1: I was, I was full clean.

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Speaker 4: Okay, all right? Last one? Who won your towny who?

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Speaker 1: Since we haven't had you on what? What? Which ones?

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Speaker 4: Did you come up with a division that you could

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Speaker 4: win for yourself? This time again where you're like, oh,

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Speaker 4: here's my trophy.

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Speaker 1: No, you got it. You can't do it every year,

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Speaker 1: then nobody will show up, so you have to kind

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Speaker 1: of hear it, you know. Yeah, Aaron Hicks won the

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Speaker 1: gross division, so he was the best golfer there. He's nasty,

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Speaker 1: he's so good, so good. And then Jackson Stevens won

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Speaker 1: that he he won.

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Speaker 3: That's cool.

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Speaker 4: And how do you do? How did you do?

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Speaker 1: My game is not great right now. You know, I

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Speaker 1: got a little baby over there, and she's taken away

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Speaker 1: from from my golf. So sure I'll have to tell

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Speaker 1: her about it when she gets older. How much she

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Speaker 4: I'm sure she's gota care this much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah much, Crats lower it here, Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, thanks for coming on, and I'll take care of

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Speaker 4: my hemorrhoids later. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: There you go, Crat saying goodbye. Wait, good to see you.

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Speaker 3: We'll catch it in a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, good to see fellas