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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to this week's edition of Fair Territory, and

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Speaker 1: I want to start off this week by talking about

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Speaker 1: a phrase in baseball. Maybe it's a phrase in the

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Speaker 1: general society as well. I don't know, because my world

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Speaker 1: is basically limited to baseball. But the phrase is red ass.

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Speaker 1: And I don't like to use even mildly vulgar language

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Speaker 1: on my show or Foul Territory, unlike some of the

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Speaker 1: guys on Foul Territory. It's not my style. But the

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Speaker 1: phrase red ass refers in baseball is someone with a temper,

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Speaker 1: someone who gets excited rather easily. And when someone is

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Speaker 1: guy's got the ass. Well, I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 1: something as we start the show this week. I've got

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Speaker 1: the ass about pitching injuries, and I've got the asked

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Speaker 1: not just because of what is happening. The injuries to

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Speaker 1: Shane Bieber, Spencer Stryder, Uri Perez, Jonathan Lewiseca within a

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Speaker 1: span of what like three days. It's not just that

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Speaker 1: because this problem did not start last week. This problem

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Speaker 1: goes back years, goes back decades even, and yet the

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Speaker 1: problem persists, and the problem is not going away. And

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Speaker 1: what do we have over the weekend? Instead of constructive conversation,

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Speaker 1: we had the usual bickering between the union and MLB.

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Speaker 1: I'm tired of that. I'm tired of this back and

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Speaker 1: forth constantly over every issue. This issue is not a

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Speaker 1: trivial one like the uniforms. This one is really serious.

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Speaker 1: And this is one that, as I wrote today in

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Speaker 1: The Athletic, needs to be addressed and addressed quickly. Now

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Speaker 1: I understand Baseball is conducting a research study and eventually

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Speaker 1: plans to form a task force. And that's all well

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Speaker 1: and good. No one is ignoring the problem. I'm not

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Speaker 1: about to see suggest that, and I wouldn't suggest that

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Speaker 1: everyone wants to address the problem. But it keeps going on.

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Speaker 1: And one reason it keeps going on is the mentality

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Speaker 1: the analytical side, but not exclusive to them. And they're

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Speaker 1: thinking is, hey, let's keep emphasizing Vello and stuff and

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Speaker 1: spend because that's what wins. And I refer my column

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Speaker 1: to a conversation I had with a friend at Wrigley

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Speaker 1: how are you going to change this when this is

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Speaker 1: the stuff that is so effective. This is how pictures succeed,

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Speaker 1: no argument, this is how pitchers succeed. The problem is

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Speaker 1: the sport is not succeeding. And this is why at

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Speaker 1: some point there have to be conversations that take place,

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Speaker 1: really intelligent conversations about where to go with this. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and pretend. And I

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Speaker 1: didn't pretend in the column, and no one should pretend

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Speaker 1: that they have the answers. No one has the answers

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Speaker 1: to this problem. Okay, it is not just in major

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Speaker 1: league baseball, It's in minor league baseball. It's all the

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Speaker 1: way down to youth baseball. All pitchers, their parents, their

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Speaker 1: coaches are chasing velocity and spin. Why because that is

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Speaker 1: what gets rewarded at the major league level. Okay, we

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Speaker 1: can identify that as the problem. Keith Meister, the Rangers

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Speaker 1: lead team physician, one of the games leading orthopedic surgeons,

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Speaker 1: identified the problem about a month ago. In an interview

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Speaker 1: emphasizing performance over availability. That's what's going on. Give me

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Speaker 1: single game, give me a guy for one hundred innings

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Speaker 1: spin it as hard as you can, throw as hard

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Speaker 1: next one. That's where this sport is, and it's not

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Speaker 1: figured out how to address now. I reference the statements

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Speaker 1: I think are the biggest drivers, the velos spin kind

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Speaker 1: One year of data. That's what we're going on. And

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Speaker 1: enough on either part. Clark's statement, as I wrote, was opportunistic,

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Speaker 1: kind of grandstanding, a little bit shrill. And MLB acts

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Speaker 1: No one has all the answers. That's the problem. And

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Speaker 1: certainly need to drill down on everything else, training methods, mindsets,

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Speaker 1: you name it. This problem is not going away. This

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Speaker 1: problem has persisted for years. This problem is costing players money,

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Speaker 1: it's costing teams money. It's preventing the sport from being

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Speaker 1: everything it can be. Now, Listen, injuries are inevitable in

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Speaker 1: We all understand that. But when you see what happened

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Speaker 1: doctor Keith Meister says, I have never seen more elbow

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Speaker 1: problems in my career, it goes up every year. Cooler

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Speaker 1: heads need to prevail. I want to see we all

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Speaker 1: want to see the best players on the field. That's it,

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Speaker 1: as often as possible. That's the whole thing. And that's

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Speaker 1: what baseball needs to point to with its comprehensive study,

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Speaker 1: with its task force. I get it, keep going, but

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Speaker 1: Let's try to figure out the core this thing, and

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Speaker 1: That's my rant on the pitching injuries. We had some

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Speaker 1: I didn't include in that article was anything about the manager,

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Speaker 1: Skip Schumacher, who at the time, it had been reported,

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Speaker 1: the Marlins, who could be the first team to conduct

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Speaker 1: Skip Schumacher will be a free agent after this year

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Speaker 1: because the Marlins essentially agreed to avoid the club option

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Speaker 1: call last night checked on it. It's true, So Skip Schumacher.

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Speaker 1: Like Alex Cora, his contract is up at the end

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Speaker 1: When they basically took his team out from under him.

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Speaker 1: that it isn't getting away from him in any way,

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Speaker 1: and listen, they've had some down years in recent years,

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Speaker 1: He's experienced in a big market. He's won in a

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Speaker 1: He was a special case. He had done some really

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Speaker 1: Council didn't win a World Series like Alex Cora did.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, these guys are accomplished, they

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Speaker 1: It's a topic that actually Mark Kurigg, my boss at

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Speaker 1: because I'm permanently scarred by what I saw during that

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Speaker 1: So that was very memorable. Now, that same trip, before

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Speaker 1: who asked if Trevor Story's injury is season ending, could

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Speaker 1: They probably can afford to do that. They're still waiting

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Speaker 1: one comes from Christian Martinez who asks what are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Royals early season success? What needs to

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Speaker 1: be done for them to be better contenders? Good question, Christian,

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Speaker 1: And if you recall at the start of the year,

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Speaker 1: I believe I said on this show that I expect

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Speaker 1: the surprise teams to come from the Al Central, whether

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Speaker 1: it's the Royals, whether it's the Tigers or both. Based

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Speaker 1: on their starts, it could be both. Now, what do

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Speaker 1: I like about the Royals. I like the rotation second

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Speaker 1: in the Majors right now in era only to the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox. And you know they rebuilt that rotation. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Cole Reagan's came in that trade for a world as

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Speaker 1: Chapman last year. Then they signed Waka and Lugo. They

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Speaker 1: have Brady Singer coming back, Alec Marsh as well. So far,

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Speaker 1: so good. They've got Bobby Witt. Their offense right now

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Speaker 1: looks like a middle of the pack offense at best.

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Speaker 1: But when you've got a player like Wit, maybe becomes

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Speaker 1: a little bit more question I have is the bullpen

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Speaker 1: as we speak here today sixth in the majors right now,

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Speaker 1: sixth in the bottom I should say in opponents ops.

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Speaker 1: So only five teams have allowed a greater opponent's ops

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Speaker 1: as a bullpen than the Royals. They're gonna clearly need

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Speaker 1: help there, and maybe that's where they have to address

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Speaker 1: things in order to be a real, genuine surprise team

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Speaker 1: and sustain that for the whole season. In the Al Central,

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Speaker 1: no team is that good. All things are possible. The

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Speaker 1: Guardians are off to a tremendous start as well. The Twins,

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Speaker 1: at least right now we're only talking I don't know

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Speaker 1: one one sixteenth of the season do not exactly look dominant.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how this all plays out. But I

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Speaker 1: am still watching the Royals and Tigers carefully because yes,

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Speaker 1: I believe still that both can be surprises. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: everyone for their questions, Thanks for watching, for listening. You

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