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Speaker 1: All we heard about was the dudes that they did

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Speaker 2: Hi guys, I'm Britgeroli. For those who aren't familiar with me,

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Speaker 2: I'm a senior m web writer for the Athletic. I

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Speaker 2: work very closely with Ken Rosenthal. I also do some

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Speaker 2: stuff for us. And why in a curage on the League,

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Speaker 2: you guys let me crash the party you're at FT

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Speaker 2: and that is when I am doing this afternoon, much

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Speaker 2: to AJ chagrin, Aj, why don't you tell everyone you

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Speaker 2: really wanted to host today?

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Speaker 3: Just just let it out and you'll feel better.

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Speaker 1: No, I did, listen. I thought I should have hosted today.

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Speaker 4: I know that Britt, you have children that you have

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Speaker 4: to deal with, and you know the problem is that

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Speaker 4: the producer lady and the powers that be would never

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Speaker 4: let that happen because the show could never get back

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Speaker 1: So therefore we had to bring you in. Bread. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I clearly didn't dry off very well after I'd taking

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Speaker 1: The disaster happened.

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Speaker 4: I didn't try off, I was in a hurry because

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Speaker 1: But it's fine. That's why you don't get the host.

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate the break from my children from one

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Speaker 3: Lots to get to today, though.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna charge them mount and get this

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Speaker 3: Which what's going on in Detroit right now? Guys? It

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Speaker 3: is really a motor city. Aprin I think, just beautiful

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Speaker 2: Oh what are we going?

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Speaker 1: It was me trying to get onto foul territory on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: who are the best team in the American League right now.

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Speaker 3: To tell you that, I don't think a lot of

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Speaker 2: But if I was to tell you that Hobby Baiez

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Speaker 2: How surprised, would you be? Because this was somebody that

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Speaker 2: aren't familiar, Hobby Bayez signed a big I believe it

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Speaker 2: So now is it looks like a changed man. What

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Speaker 4: It's small sample size, but it's good for the Tigers

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Speaker 4: it's great to see Howvey Bia sixty. The baseball is

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Speaker 1: Swing and missing the zone has never been Hobby's issue.

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Speaker 2: But they did what they did last year without him.

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Speaker 1: Player, you're kind of almost like fomo, like you're like,

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Speaker 2: Obviously, though Bias last night a big the big blow

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Speaker 2: All these trends are so you know, it's so hard

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Speaker 1: They're starting to pitch. They need to pitch, and they

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Speaker 1: Come to do a similar thing in Saint Louis with

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Speaker 1: some of the position players. What's what's your reaction to

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Speaker 7: Disappointing for sure, definitely don't want to have the bullpen

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Speaker 1: Just same thing. Just disappointed.

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Speaker 7: But I mean it's not our decisions. I probably would

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Speaker 3: Better, guys.

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Speaker 2: What does what does this do? Obviously this is Pat

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Speaker 1: Do you think nothing? They won the game. Nothing, They

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Speaker 4: So Tyler Alexander came in and pitch grade the rest

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Speaker 1: The Brewers try to figure out how to piece everything

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Speaker 2: Did you guys watch the Orioles Yankees game on Prime

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Speaker 4: It was kind of crazy. But I don't know.

436
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Speaker 1: The bullpen's running in too.

437
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Speaker 4: They had the Yankees bullpen had to wait for the Orioles,

438
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Speaker 4: But why don't they.

439
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Speaker 1: Just fight in the bullpen? Let's just have him like

440
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know.

441
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Speaker 4: You can have Devin Williams off the top rope on

442
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Speaker 4: the mountain and see if he catches him in the air,

443
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Speaker 4: like I don't know. Because the Yankees bullpen is above

444
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 4: the Orioles bullpen, the Orioles are going to try to

445
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Speaker 4: figure out how to take the high ground to be

446
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:45,480
Speaker 4: more entertaining than what we got.

447
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Brian Hokee, Yankees longtime Yankees dot Com reporter, just

448
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 2: tweeted up on that full screen there that he had

449
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Speaker 2: downstairs neighbor who'd bang on the ceiling every time I walked,

450
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Speaker 2: especially if I used the bathroom in the middle of

451
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Speaker 2: the night. It's my fault for a learning not learning

452
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 2: to levitate. Pablo Reys can probably relate. Yeah, this whole

453
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,280
Speaker 2: thing is silly, very silly. I think a lot of

454
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 2: it too. On the Oriole side, guys, it's probably frustration.

455
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 2: You're playing the Yankees, you're trying to win the series,

456
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 2: which they did end up doing. But there's always been

457
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,960
Speaker 2: a little bit of that little brother syndrome. And you know,

458
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 2: Yankee fans come to Camden Yards, they make all this noise.

459
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 2: The Orioles always feel like even these home games oftentimes

460
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 2: are yank home games, so I think that had a

461
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Speaker 2: little bit to it as well. There's been a lot

462
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Speaker 2: of people on edge in Baltimore. But yeah, this was

463
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Speaker 2: taken totally out of context. I would love to see

464
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Speaker 2: a bullpen on bullpen fight. I would pay to see

465
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Speaker 2: a bullpen on bullpen fight. But let's be real. These

466
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Speaker 2: guys are running out from the bullpen. No one is

467
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Speaker 2: prepared to throw punches. They're just running out because everyone

468
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Speaker 2: else is running out and they're bored, right.

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Speaker 1: Iwash iwash, and they will be danger It's dangerous unless

470
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Speaker 1: they changed it. They used to have like cobblestone steps

471
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Speaker 1: coming down from the bullpen and Camden yards and it's

472
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Speaker 1: dangerous as walking out there. So you can't have people

473
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Speaker 1: running out let alone. The bullpen guys are never gonna

474
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Speaker 1: fight each other because they're you know, bullpen comrades out there.

475
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna bring this a little bit more back

476
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,119
Speaker 1: to like reality. I get it why Heston Kurstad was pissed,

477
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,919
Speaker 1: not in a baseball sense. Next time you bang your

478
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Speaker 1: head in your house, think about what Heston Kurstad was thinking.

479
00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 1: Because he got hit in the head by a huge

480
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 1: butt he got hit in the head, and like anytime

481
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Speaker 1: you get hit in the head, it just for some reason,

482
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Speaker 1: it makes it makes me angry. Maybe Aj Britt, you

483
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Speaker 1: guys are better than me. But when I get hit

484
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Speaker 1: in the head, like I bang my head on something,

485
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Speaker 1: it just like just irritates me. Gets I don't know,

486
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Speaker 1: I don't understand. So maybe that's how he felt.

487
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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, guys, I don't know. This has much to

488
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Speaker 3: do about nothing, especially in April.

489
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Speaker 2: If it's September and these teams are playing to win

490
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 2: the American League East, tensions are high. I'm all in.

491
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Speaker 2: I got it. But to me, this seemed like so silly.

492
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Speaker 2: And I was watching the broadcast and they didn't show it.

493
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Speaker 2: They like later went to it. It was very and

494
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Speaker 2: it was a very odd sequence. How Prime did it

495
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Speaker 2: last night? So I'm with you, guys. If we're gonna fight,

496
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 2: let's see some real fights. If we're gonna fight, I

497
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 2: want to see like Kevin Gregg trying to punch David

498
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 2: Ortiz when he storms the mound. I don't want to

499
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 2: see bullpen guys empty everyone take up a ton of time,

500
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 2: the game get delayed for literally nothing. So this to

501
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: me much to do about nothing. But let's switch gears here.

502
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 2: There is, in my opinion, a little bit of a

503
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Speaker 2: concern here out in Arizona. AJ Puke is going on

504
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Speaker 2: the IL. They made some roster moves. This to me

505
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 2: is concerning. Look at these moves that they just made.

506
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 2: Earlier today they transferred him to the Sorry, they transferred

507
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Speaker 2: him to the sixty dail.

508
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Speaker 3: He was expected to be back before then.

509
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Speaker 2: So this guy's is kind of screams like he will

510
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Speaker 2: not return for the rest of the year. Elbow inflammation

511
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 2: seems like it's going to be something where we don't

512
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 2: see him.

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Speaker 1: What this sounds like, Tommy John to me, yeah, it does.

514
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Speaker 4: I hate I hate saying that too, but you know,

515
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 4: sixty day IL already, there's more than sixty days left

516
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Speaker 4: in the ear and usually if they had I know

517
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,639
Speaker 4: they needed a roster spot. But this sounds worse than

518
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Speaker 4: what they're saying. And I wouldn't be surprised if in

519
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Speaker 4: the next few days. And this sucks to say, and

520
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 4: I do not want this to happen, but Puck in

521
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 4: a couple of days are going to see like, oh,

522
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Speaker 4: he went to see Measter Meister in Texas to reevaluate

523
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 4: his elbow or Ela Trash to reevaluate get a second opinion.

524
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Speaker 4: I hope it doesn't come to that, but sixty days

525
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Speaker 4: it sucks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, unfortunately for Arizona.

527
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Speaker 2: If you look at the West right now, and I

528
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Speaker 2: think a lot of people when we did this Front

529
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Speaker 2: office poll this spring, talked about how great Arizona was,

530
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Speaker 2: how they're a team on the up and up, and

531
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Speaker 2: they're a good team. But you just look at the

532
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Padres and the starts that they've jumped out

533
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Speaker 2: to and then of course the Giants as well, and

534
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Speaker 2: you know, right now Arizona is in fourth place and

535
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 2: really needs a lot of things to click and to

536
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Speaker 2: fall into place for them to kind of leap frog

537
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 2: all of these teams. And we'll get some more Padres

538
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 2: talk later.

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Speaker 3: We got Kevin A. C From the San Diego Union

540
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 3: Tribune and talking to us later.

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Speaker 2: But I think when you look at Arizona, it's too

542
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 2: early to say panic, but certainly you know they needed

543
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 2: Aja and they needed to kind of find.

544
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Speaker 3: A way to win some of these early games.

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Speaker 2: I feel like the NL West is a division where

546
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Speaker 2: you can't afford to have a bad week or a

547
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 2: bad two weeks that you kind of have to be

548
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: on your game from the start of the season until

549
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Speaker 2: the end of September because it is just going to

550
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Speaker 2: be one of, if not the deepest division in baseball

551
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Speaker 2: outside of, of course, the obvious caveat that the Colorado

552
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Speaker 2: Rockies are in that division.

553
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Speaker 3: But you've got four legitimate teams that are in that division.

554
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Speaker 4: Right, is the Is the NL West now the AL East?

555
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Speaker 4: It used to cover because remember the Alas used to

556
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Speaker 4: be the goal? Yeah, is it now the NL West?

557
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Speaker 3: I mean I think so. I mean you look at

558
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Speaker 3: what the AL East, the AL East.

559
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Speaker 2: Every team is flawed.

560
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 3: Like you know, I was talking about this the other day.

561
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Speaker 2: If the Yankees are the best team right now in

562
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Speaker 2: the AL East, if we're going by like how we

563
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 2: are judging records, right, they're still in first place even

564
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Speaker 2: though they lost that series.

565
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Speaker 3: I believe in the Red Sox are right behind them. Yeah,

566
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 3: they're a game and half up on the Red Sox.

567
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Speaker 2: They're flawed. They've had like three players that are playing well, really,

568
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Speaker 2: Rodan Freed and Judge. The rest of their lineup hasn't

569
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Speaker 2: done anything. The Oriels have been a train wreck. Toronto

570
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 2: has been missing power for quite some time. We heard

571
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Speaker 2: Pete talk a little bit about the issues with Boston

572
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 2: and Tampa Bay's having a little bit of a down year.

573
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Speaker 2: We expected that, So I think that, you know, when

574
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Speaker 2: you look at divisions, definitely the National League as a

575
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Speaker 2: whole is stronger, but the National League West is a

576
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Speaker 2: lot deeper. I think the NL East is a tough

577
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Speaker 2: division because you've got the Mets who are playing extremely well.

578
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 2: You know, the Phillies are going to be better, and

579
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 2: Atlanta got off to that brutal start. But I think

580
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 2: we all know they're a little.

581
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Speaker 3: Bit of an issue. So yeah, I think so.

582
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Speaker 2: I don't think the AL East is this big power division.

583
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 2: May take eighty eight wins to win the American LEAGUEES

584
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 2: this year, which makes it all the more frustrating. I

585
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 2: think if you're an Orioles fan in that this division

586
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: is wide open, and the front office went out and

587
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 2: got no one and got nothing and did nothing on

588
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 2: the pitching side. So certainly the NLS, because I think

589
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 2: if the Padres were in another division, they'd be leading it.

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00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 3: Don't you guys think? Are the Padres in the top

591
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 3: handful of teams in baseball?

592
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: Right now?

593
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Speaker 3: I'm going to say yes, based on how they've played.

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00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,239
Speaker 1: Yes, agreed, And I think the Yankees are probably one

595
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: and two with the Tigers and the best teams in

596
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: the American League. And I would fight against you. I

597
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: think the guys in the Yankees lineup, which is banging

598
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: out home runs that are doing well, are not the

599
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: like star studded names, the Vulpies, the Bellingers, the Jazz Chisholms.

600
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's Trent Grisham who is coming off, was

601
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: coming off the bench. Now he's earned a spot. It's

602
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: Ben Rice, it's Paul Goldschmid who's had a resurgence. So

603
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: their lineup is still vaunted. It's just not the media

604
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: darlings that everybody's like, well, Cody's gonna come over and

605
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: he's gonna have an MVP year, and Jazz is so

606
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: glitzy and glamory, and it's so different. Guys are doing

607
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: it there. It's not. And that's obviously, you know, judges

608
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: other worldly. But I don't think. I don't think the

609
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: AL East is what the NL West is right now?

610
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 3: AJ, are you going to petition for the AL Central?

611
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 2: No?

612
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Speaker 1: For what they didn't meet three teams in the playoffs

613
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Speaker 1: last year, though they did get three teams last year. No,

614
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm not partitioning for the AL Central. I mean the

615
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: only way.

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Speaker 4: I I just meant, you know, when I asked that

617
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 4: question Bright, it was remember back in the day, I

618
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 4: remember forever, it was, oh, man, how do you ever

619
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Speaker 4: get through the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Blue Jays, Right,

620
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 4: the Orioles are up and coming, the Rays always seem

621
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Speaker 4: to make the playoffs. Well, now you look at it

622
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Speaker 4: and you say, the Dodgers, the Padres, the Giants, the

623
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Speaker 4: d Backs, and then you have another team division we

624
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 4: don't talk about it, have five wins. But that's that

625
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 4: was kind of my point is like it used to

626
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 4: be such a gauntlet to get Whoever got through the

627
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 4: AL East is going to represent the AL in the

628
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Speaker 4: World Series. And now it's like, man, if you can

629
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 4: get through the NL West, then you have a great

630
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 4: chance to represent the NL and the World Series.

631
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree. I think you're seeing the power

632
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 2: kind of shift a little bit. I mean, if you're

633
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 2: a team right now and you're in the American League,

634
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: like if you're Detroit, they're what the fifth or sixth

635
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 2: best team. If they're in the National League so it is.

636
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 2: It's a totally different setup. It's a totally different ballgame,

637
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: I think, and I think for this Yankee team, a

638
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 2: lot of it was injuries, Like if Garrett Cole was pitching,

639
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 2: if a little bit more of their lineup was contributing,

640
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 2: maybe they'd be a little bit scarier. But to me,

641
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 2: there's just not really any scary teams in the American

642
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 2: League like there is in the National League at all.

643
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 2: Look at this guy's the highest stolen basis percentage in

644
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 2: m We'll be history minimum one hundred steals.

645
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 3: This is courtesy of Aaron Glehman.

646
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: With the athletic we've got Byron Buxton, Kyle Tucker, Chase Utley,

647
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 2: under Cement, Carlos Beltron.

648
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 3: This is this is impressive. This is now in the era.

649
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: Of course, when we're looking at of bigger bases of

650
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 2: guys being encouraged to steal. I think we are now

651
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Speaker 2: seeing the stolen bases come back over the last couple years.

652
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Speaker 3: It's now a big part of guys games. It's important speed.

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00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 2: Speed is being valued again, and you know, if you

654
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: are an elite, prolific base runner, there's no reason why

655
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Speaker 2: you can't steal forty fifty bags, kind of like Aj

656
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Speaker 2: Prazinski in his prime.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think my career high was too. But I

658
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Speaker 1: love this.

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Speaker 4: But the only thing I don't love about this is

660
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Speaker 4: these dudes need to be stealing more. Why is if

661
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Speaker 4: you can steal Byron Bucks and what the heck?

662
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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 4: You need to be going like every time you're on

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Speaker 4: first I know you got some injury problems. Andrea Semenez like,

665
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Speaker 4: let's go many If I'm on your team, I'm telling him, like, go,

666
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Speaker 4: if you're eighty seven percent whatever it is, you go,

667
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 4: you go, you go, you go. Every chance you get,

668
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 4: you go, you go. You just stop by high five

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Speaker 4: to the first base coach and go to a second.

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Speaker 1: Byron Boxer. We gotta we know stone bases can get

671
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: to you. And if you got leg issues, don't know.

672
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: And I know Chase Utley, he came up in the

673
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: Davy Lopes era, coaching first base with the Phillies. Davy

674
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: would just be like, look, when I tell you to go,

675
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Speaker 1: you're gonna make.

676
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Speaker 2: It all right, guys, look at beef it is may

677
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: just look at these Aaron Judge statistics, the first player

678
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: in Americ League history with a four hundred plus batting average,

679
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: ten or more home runs and thirty or more RBIs

680
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: in March slash April minimum one.

681
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Speaker 3: Hundred at bats since nineteen twenty.

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00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: I mean, you hate to say that things are over

683
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: in April, but it sure looks like the al MVP

684
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 2: race is pretty much over as long as Aaron Judge

685
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 2: stays healthy. It is unbelievable watching that game last night,

686
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: It's like, well, you kept him in the ballpark, even

687
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 2: though the guy lines a single into the outfield, and

688
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 2: it's almost.

689
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 3: Like, wow, we won against Aaron Judge, is it?

690
00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 2: Bat That's how good he is.

691
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Speaker 4: To hell of a start, hell of a start, to

692
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 4: hell of a start. It is an absolutely hell of

693
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Speaker 4: a start, and all the stats are throwing up there.

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Speaker 1: Just think about this now, and I'll say this, Barry

695
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: Bonds did this for years, just close numbers like this,

696
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: so so he did it for years.

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Speaker 4: As good as we think Judge and o'tani are. Barry

698
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Speaker 4: Bonds did this for years.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 4: That's my comment, britt. Aaron Judges off to a hell

701
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Speaker 4: of a start. Let's see if he can.

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Speaker 1: Do it for the whole year. Yeah, I mean, to

703
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Speaker 1: be able to hit four hundred like it's hard to

704
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: surprise you when somebody who should have three MVPs, in

705
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: my opinion, a two MVP, two time MVP winner, then

706
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: has a start to a season that surprises you like,

707
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Speaker 1: this is crazy, but Baseball reference it okay, check out,

708
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: check out all the italics in Barry Bond's columns. It's crazy.

709
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Speaker 1: But what Judge is doing right now it is. Yeah.

710
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Speaker 1: You can't even you can't even really bet on the

711
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Speaker 1: MVP right now because he's locking it up.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, this is from the Baltimore Suns. Jacob

725
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 2: Calvin Meyer was on the show recently. He talked to

726
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 2: eight Orioles players, including team leaders, former top prospects Leada YadA. Basically,

727
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Speaker 2: though everybody said, manager Brandon Hyde, we have his back.

728
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Speaker 3: He has not lost the clubhouse.

729
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Speaker 2: This to me, the fact that we even need this

730
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Speaker 2: kind of a story speaks to the start that they've had.

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Speaker 2: Do I think the Brandon Hyde is the problem?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't do.

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Speaker 2: I also think that the manager is almost always the

734
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Speaker 2: sacrificial land before the GM when things go south. Yes,

735
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 2: history has told us that, and I think people who

736
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: aren't familiar with the Orioles maybe are not aware. The

737
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 2: Oriols made coaching changes. They took guys off a hide

738
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: staff last winter after they got swept out of the playoffs.

739
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 2: So that is always kind of the warning shot, if

740
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Speaker 2: you will, like we are going to get some coaches

741
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Speaker 2: out of here, we get some fresh faces in here.

742
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Speaker 2: The manager always comes next after that, so you know

743
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Speaker 2: the players are publicly going to back him. They're always

744
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 2: going to back him. You know, in some cases they're

745
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: lying about it. I don't have the reason to believe

746
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 2: that the Ools are lying about this. I think guys

747
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 2: genuinely like playing for him. They like that he doesn't panic.

748
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: I think Orioles fans have been really upset about some

749
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 2: of the lineups and the matchups and.

750
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Speaker 3: The platooning that he has done.

751
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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, if the Ools

752
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 2: don't turn this around, Brandon Hyde is going to be

753
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Speaker 2: the guy on the hot seat. As Ken Rosenthal wrote,

754
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 2: he is on the hot seat and is going to

755
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: get hotter and hotter and hotter. I believe that michae

756
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 2: Elias is more responsible for why the Orioles have taken

757
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: this nose dive. Brandon Hyde can't pitch for them, he

758
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: can't make them have a good rotation. But I think

759
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 2: no matter what the way baseball goes, it always is

760
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 2: blame the manager before you go upstairs. And I expect

761
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 2: that to be the case in Baltimore. If they don't

762
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Speaker 2: turn things around here quickly.

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Speaker 4: What is a player supposed to say? What's the player

764
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 4: supposed to say? No, I hate my manager, he sucks,

765
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Speaker 4: he's the problem. Of course, they're going to say they

766
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Speaker 4: like him, they want to play, and they want to

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Speaker 4: be there.

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Speaker 1: I mean this, listen, I don't know what there's managers.

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Speaker 4: You played for, Krats, I'm sure that you didn't like,

770
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Speaker 4: and the media would come up to you and be like, Oh,

771
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Speaker 4: he's awesome, I love him.

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Speaker 1: We don't like because I want him to play me.

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Speaker 1: I want to be here. I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: in tripa a like.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, yes, but I like Brandon e. He is

776
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 4: not the problem like you said. But Brittany, what you

777
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 4: said is exactly right. They fired some coaches. Freddygan Zalz

778
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 4: a good friend of mine. He got let go.

779
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Speaker 1: Some other people got let go. That is usually the

780
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Speaker 1: warning shot.

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Speaker 4: And then the manager's next and then the GM says, oh,

782
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Speaker 4: give me five more years to get my manager in place.

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Speaker 1: That's how it always works. You know what, you know

784
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: what gms really want. Besides five years, they went cash

785
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: to spend, and to me, michae Elias didn't execute that

786
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: cash to spend because he also had some cash and prospects,

787
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Speaker 1: and he allowed all these starting pitchers that got traded

788
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 1: or all the starting pitchers that were available, to either

789
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: stay at their team or get traded to other teams.

790
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: When everybody had this Michae Elias, you know, cachet of

791
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: prospects that he could have dipped into, but he wasn't

792
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: willing to ownership. Isn't the problem right now because they

793
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: gave I think seventy three million for him to spend.

794
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: You know what, maybe this could be the case where

795
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,240
Speaker 1: the general managers first to go and not the manager

796
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: because I've heard nothing but positive and you don't hear

797
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: positive from every manager's every manager that's out there, but

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00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: everything about Brandon Hyde we've heard, and you know, I

799
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: know a lot of people that can back that up too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think, guys, when you look at this

801
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 2: Orioles team, you know they're going to hit, but there's

802
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 2: no solution for the pitching at all. You know, Kyle

803
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 2: Gibson was supposed to kind of give them depth, and

804
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 2: you saw him get Rock give up four home runs

805
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 2: in the first inning against the Yankees, kind of wore

806
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 2: that middle game that they ended up losing. They're hoping

807
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 2: to get back Grayson Rodriguez at some point soon. They're

808
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: hoping to get back Zack Eflyn, but at the end

809
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 2: of the day, they just did not create that rotation depth.

810
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 2: And you don't know if it's an easy fix, Like

811
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: there's just not these prospects down below. As you mentioned

812
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 2: Cratsey with Elias, I think another knock on him is

813
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 2: we know that they did an exceptional job drafting hitters.

814
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 3: We've seen the position players. They have too many position players.

815
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 2: But they purposely did not take pictures early because it's

816
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: risky and they wanted to find some gems in the

817
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 2: later rounds and that was kind of their strategy. And

818
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 2: until they had Brandon Young, who I think debuted recently

819
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: this past month. That was the first player that Mike

820
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 2: Elias had drafted, developed, signed and brought up to the

821
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 2: big leagues. And Michaelias, of course took over after the

822
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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen season.

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Speaker 3: It is twenty twenty five.

824
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Speaker 2: That is not good enough. If you are not going

825
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 2: to draft develop from within in pitching, if you're not

826
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: going to create this pitching lab like the Mats and

827
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 2: make guys better, then you need to go and trade

828
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 2: for a Garrett Crochet. You know. The Orioles like to say, well,

829
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 2: free agents didn't want to sign with us. Corbyn Burns

830
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 2: is a great example. Well then you make those guys

831
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Speaker 2: play for you. You find a way to trade for them.

832
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 2: And I don't know why Garrett Crochet is not a

833
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: Baltimore Oriole. I still don't know why. I think there

834
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 2: was a absolute no brainer to bring him in, similar

835
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Speaker 2: to what they did with Burns in trading him for

836
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: a year. You know, they don't like to part with prospects,

837
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 2: but sometimes you have to to get to where you're going.

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00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 2: This year is a last year. Are we going to

839
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 2: in your mind kind of lose another year of this

840
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 2: window because you've got Adley and Gunner and all of

841
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 2: these guys under team control for another year. And if

842
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: the Oriols don't go to the playoffs, if the girls

843
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: don't win a game in the playoffs, which by the way,

844
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 2: they have not done in a decade, are we going

845
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 2: to sit here and say they're similar to the Toronto

846
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 2: Blue Jays who had this young, enviable core and who

847
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 2: we never saw actually get it done.

848
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 3: I mean, how do you guys view this season? If

849
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 3: it is another lost season?

850
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: Just said a waste, a waste, it's a waste.

851
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 4: And we've we've railed on him. We've railed on them

852
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 4: more than anybody about exactly what you're saying, Britt. We've

853
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 4: we've we've railed on them that they should have went

854
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 4: out and got Dylan Cees when he went to the

855
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 4: before he went to the Padres they should have. They

856
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 4: have all these position players in the one trade they

857
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 4: did make the guys in Triple A. Right with the Marlins,

858
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 4: they gave up two of their guys for guy in

859
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 4: Triple A.

860
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Speaker 1: So I don't know. Michael Aias is smarter than me.

861
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: He knows better than I do, and he's good. He

862
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: produced position players. Sometimes it's hard you miss on pitchers.

863
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: Maybe you know the staff isn't able to produce pictures

864
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: from the minor leagues. That's okay. All we heard about

865
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: was the dudes that they did have that were just

866
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Speaker 1: murdering Norfolk, and yet Jesus Lozardo went a few miles

867
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: north to Philly this offseason. AJ brought up Garrett Crochet.

868
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: Teams are willing. I mean, hey, we could have taken

869
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo from the Mariners. He was clearly out there,

870
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: but he came with a price tag of twenty five

871
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: million a year, I think for four more years, and

872
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: somebody's making the decision to not be willing to do that.

873
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: It's not Brandon Hyde, it's not Gunner Henderson, it's not

874
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: the hitting coaches, it's not the first base coaches. So

875
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: it's somewhere somewhere, above them.

876
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of people are surprised by this.

877
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 2: CBS Sports ran an article recently the biggest surprises good

878
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 2: and bad. The Orioles obviously on the bad side, the

879
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 2: Mariners offense on the positive side. What a surprise do

880
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 2: you got? The Giants also list that is like a

881
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 2: positive surprise. What would you guys say has surprised you?

882
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 2: Has been one of the pleasant let's be optimistic. What

883
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 2: has been a pleasant surprise for you guys here this

884
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 2: first month of the season?

885
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 4: Well, segano for the Orioles, where would they be without him?

886
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 4: That's one we'll start with him. What else has been

887
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:30,280
Speaker 4: a pleasant surprise?

888
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: I think. I think the fact that there's some teams

889
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: that are in it that we didn't necessarily count on,

890
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: like the Giants, is a pleasant surprise to me because

891
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 1: I want to see other teams. Everyone wants to see

892
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: other teams, and I like that The Mariners. A lot

893
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: of people said, Ah, we don't know they're gonna bean

894
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: a good They're in first place, right, so things like that,

895
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: that's what I like. I like seeing teams that we

896
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: didn't really talk about that have a chance to possibly

897
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: get in. I love seeing what the Mets have been

898
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: doing because I personally hate it on them and I

899
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: personally they had them in third place in the division.

900
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna make the playoffs. But to

901
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 1: come together like they have as a lineup has been awesome.

902
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: But what they're doing in the rotation and the bullpen,

903
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: the fact that they didn't go out. We just talked

904
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: about Hazus Lozardo, Garrick Crochet and you know, they're probably

905
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 1: more in the Corbyn Burns Max Freed era, but they're

906
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: doing all of this with Juan Soto not having a

907
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: Jan Soto year yet. And this pitching staff has been

908
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: a incredible surprise. And yet David Stearns has done this

909
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: for years in Milwaukee, and he did it last year

910
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: in New York. So to me, that's a pleasant surprise. Yeah.

911
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 3: I agree.

912
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool to see those fans and the

913
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 2: Mets have just a ridiculous home record. It's cool to

914
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 2: see the fans feed off that and vice versa. You know,

915
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 2: I mentioned the pitching lab in New York, and you know,

916
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 2: you look at Clay Holmes. I mean I was looking

917
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 2: at his advanced stats. This guy, you know, goes from

918
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 2: the bullpen to the rotation as a really strong start

919
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: to the season, and he actually should be even better.

920
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: His FIP, which is fielding independent percentage of the ERA

921
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: half a run lower. I look at David Peterson, you

922
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 2: look at the fact that they're missing like you mentioned

923
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: Wan Soto, but they're also missing Sean Maaya, and you

924
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 2: know they've had some injuries in that rotation. So I

925
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 2: think when you look at the Mets, they've been a

926
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 2: real pleasant surprise. The Mariners are a team who I

927
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 2: didn't think could handle any pitching injuries, and they've had

928
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 2: pitching injuries and they've been able to overcome them. I

929
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 2: think watching the Chicago Cubs, who have had a really

930
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 2: really tough start to the season schedule wise, watching them

931
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 2: kind of come out. And Ken had a great article

932
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 2: about how Craig Counsel is playing to the wins at

933
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: Wrigley Field, which I didn't realize was such a thing. Aja,

934
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 2: I guess you might be better speaking on this. I

935
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: didn't go to Wrigular a lot as a beat writer.

936
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 2: Is that a big thing in just like the win

937
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 2: factor there that why is this new?

938
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: Then?

939
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 2: Why is he the first guy be like, hey, we

940
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 2: should not try to hit a home run when the

941
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 2: wind is going in, Like, why is that revolutionary? Why

942
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 2: I haven't that for years?

943
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: It wasn't It was the foot of whatever anniversary of

944
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: Lee Ilia. The other day he said it. He said it.

945
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 4: He knew Lee Ilia knew back in the day when

946
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 4: he called him out. But it's because when the wind's

947
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 4: blowing in, you can't hit a ball out of there.

948
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 4: So you've got to be able to do small ball.

949
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 4: And then when it's blowing out, you can just hit

950
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 4: a pop up and it goes out. So this is smart.

951
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 4: This how you should play. But you have to have

952
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 4: multi dimensional players that can do different things. You can't

953
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 4: just have guys that go up there and slug or

954
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 4: guys that just hit the ball on the ground.

955
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: You have to have both. And if you have that,

956
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: that's how you can win. That's how the cub teams

957
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: that win have done has had more than one thing

958
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: they can do.

959
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 6: Pitching has been at the forefront of the technology revolution

960
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 6: for a long time. This is for at least ten years.

961
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 6: It's at least ten years ahead of hitting, and I

962
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 6: think that we I think that's pretty well known. Prime

963
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 6: example of that is the fact that this offseason, the

964
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 6: kick change. Someone threw one in a game last year,

965
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 6: it was like, oh, that was a weird grip. And

966
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 6: then coming to spring training, there are dozens of guys

967
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 6: who now throw that pitch that is the way. That

968
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 6: is an indicator that pitching has gotten to a place

969
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 6: where you can plug in up does this work into

970
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 6: a little like machine, and then it's like yeah, it does,

971
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 6: and you can just add it and you can go

972
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 6: one day not having the pitch. Two days later you

973
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 6: have the pitch in the game like that had never

974
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 6: been possible before. You were just guessing before. Now we

975
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 6: know whether or not something could be good or not quickly,

976
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 6: and then it comes down to can you throw it

977
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 6: over the play or can you throw it where you

978
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 6: want to regularly. That's what it comes down to. Pitching

979
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 6: is at that point, and arguably it's been at that

980
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 6: point for a couple of years now, to where a

981
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 6: pitcher is gonna get can make two quick changes and

982
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 6: be really really good, really really fast. We're seeing all

983
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 6: over the place, especially guys going from starting to relieving,

984
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 6: and they're like, oh, I threw a new slider and

985
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 6: now it's the best pitch in the league. Like that

986
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 6: stuff happens. Hitting doesn't have that.

987
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: Quite yet.

988
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. Let's slap some hands. We still

989
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 2: do that figuratively literally. Oh all right, snaps like like

990
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 2: the Bendon snap snaps, snaps and claps.

991
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we'll go right to the crats

992
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: hats because all right, it's been breaking a lot of

993
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: big League ones out. This is the uh copa diversity own.

994
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 1: It's the diverse diverse. I can't even say the word anyway,

995
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: it's the mamma wanas and if you have ever been

996
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: to the Dominican you know what mama wana is. So

997
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: this is the Mamauana's hat that they that the Iron

998
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: Pigs wore.

999
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 2: Don't forget to catch fair territory. I'm back, slightly blurried,

1000
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 2: but here to tell you, Ken Rosenthal, Watricia Whittaker, they

1001
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 2: are going to get into baseball's biggest storylines. They're gonna

1002
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 2: get into the blue Today's come back win last night,

1003
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 2: Chris Young losing his patients with the Rangers offense, and

1004
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 2: of course Ken's dude and dork of the week.

1005
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 4: All right, well, I'm gonna be in Baltimore this weekend, Britz.

1006
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 4: I'll look forward to seeing you Royals Orioles with Fox.

1007
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 4: I'll wave to your royals for you, Cratzy. I'll say

1008
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 4: hi to Salvi and those boys for you. And we

1009
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 4: look forward to Scott joining us back tomorrow on foul Territory.

1010
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 4: Todd'll be here right with you, Cratsey. Well, one eyed

1011
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 4: Scott and one eyed Scott.

1012
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. So good luck to you guys. Everyone, have a

1013
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: great weekend.

1014
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 4: I won't see you, but I'll see you guys in

1015
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 4: Baltimore and Kratz Mamajana.

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