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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorite the podcast from the Action Network. Guy,

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Speaker 1: Am Chad Milman. Black Jack Fletcher is in the studio

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Speaker 1: with me today, and we were in the studio together

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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas last week. And we were in Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas together for UM a couple of days last week,

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Speaker 1: and we have a banner banner show. Um. First off,

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Speaker 1: we've got a huge ad read today. See see if

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Speaker 1: you can figure out who it is from my double entendre.

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Speaker 1: But of all our advertisers, this is the one who

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Speaker 1: was liked one of my tweets. A gigantic, pulsating ad read,

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Speaker 1: and so that's exciting. So stick around for that, uh

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Speaker 1: number one number two. Later in the show, our new

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Speaker 1: baseball contributor Shawn Zarrillo is going to join us. Shawn's

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Speaker 1: first time on the podcast. Listen, guy, He's got a

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Speaker 1: great story. I'm super excited black Jack. Do you know

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Speaker 1: his background? Nope, just met him today. His dad was

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Speaker 1: a cop for like forty years. That's nice. I don't

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Speaker 1: really like cops, but whatever. Black Jack just got off

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Speaker 1: a red eye from Vegas after eight days. He's not

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Speaker 1: feeling like he's in a mood. I'm feeling great. I'm

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Speaker 1: two drinks and I'm doing good. Shawn seems like a

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Speaker 1: nice guy. Shaun's a great guy, super smart about baseball.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about season win totals and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: light it up for us. Light it up. Don't do that,

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Speaker 1: don't do that. Can we start this thing already? First

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Speaker 1: up on the show, we're gonna start with some March

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Speaker 1: Madness recap. We're gonna launch into the Sweet sixteen before

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Speaker 1: we get to Mike Randall, action network writer extraordinaire um

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Speaker 1: who helped me go nine into Friday, Saturday Sunday six

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Speaker 1: and oh Saturday Sunday, here's a story for you. On

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Speaker 1: Saturday night, I went to the to the games in

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Speaker 1: Hertford and sat down as me, my wife, and two

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Speaker 1: of our friends. We sat down and I started rooting

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Speaker 1: for the Seminals and the kids in front of me,

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Speaker 1: they were like twelve years old. I don't know who

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Speaker 1: they are. They're like, they're rooting for John Morant and

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Speaker 1: they're like, why are you rooting for the Seminals. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: because I'm gonna make a lot of freaking money if

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Speaker 1: the Seminals win this game, and I am buying all

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Speaker 1: of you cotton candy, and they all became seminal fans.

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Speaker 1: Here's the fucking worst. Speaking of the worst, Um, black Jack,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy you some cotton candy. You don't sound

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Speaker 1: like a pedophile, black Jack. Uh. We had a couple

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Speaker 1: of bets against each other some reason, my Venmo account

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Speaker 1: has not dinged with the payoffs and I can't five days.

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Speaker 1: I need to pay you another way. I can't send

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Speaker 1: Venmos because you're not allowed anymore. I got a new

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Speaker 1: phone and it locked me out. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: to get back into it. So give me the fucking cash.

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Speaker 1: But whatever they will, whatever it is, so give it

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Speaker 1: to me. Well, I don't have it on me chat

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Speaker 1: because I don't walk around with cash. How long does

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Speaker 1: it take to pay a bet? You hold on on

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Speaker 1: me in cash? The down payment? I want you? All right, fine,

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. You still owe me money? Uh? You

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Speaker 1: also stuck you two thousand dollars. Yeah that one. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we we talked about that one. I'm actually visiting Stucky

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, going down to Kentucky, so paying him then? Alright? Good? Uh.

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Speaker 1: Stucky and Blackjack made a two thousand dollar bet on

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Speaker 1: U C Irvine and Kansas State on Wednesday night at

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Speaker 1: our massive Action Network party. We do have to spend

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Speaker 1: a few minutes talking about that. That was an amazing

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Speaker 1: event and we appreciate everybody who came out. We didn't

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Speaker 1: know what was going to happen with that. It was

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Speaker 1: a little bit like the podcast we did. We didn't

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Speaker 1: know how many people were going to come out, We

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Speaker 1: we had a freaking line for that thing that the

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Speaker 1: entire night match capacity was five and we had five. Hey, Randall,

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Speaker 1: can you put yourself on mute or something until I'm

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Speaker 1: done with my soliloquy. Yeah, Mike, this show isn't about you.

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Speaker 1: It's about Chad. Thank you. Um. We had like five

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Speaker 1: hundred people in the place the whole night. There was

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Speaker 1: a line before it opened, and the line lasted the

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Speaker 1: entire night. It did, it did, it was. It was

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Speaker 1: a great time. Uh, good times were had by all.

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Speaker 1: I put all of my drinks on your tab. Is

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Speaker 1: that why my tab was so big? Well? Jeff Schwartz

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Speaker 1: also put all his food on it, so it was massive.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what is going on here? To be fair,

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Speaker 1: Patrick told us too, so we were listen CEO at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, he pays for it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that happened. Um yeah, me and Stuck. He had

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is we were sitting there watching the

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Speaker 1: He's like, you know, this was a terrible bet that

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Speaker 1: the game was probably the worst game to watch of

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Speaker 1: the tournament. Like, it was dreadful. Kansas State just could

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Speaker 1: not get into the lane to do anything. They just

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Speaker 1: chucked bad three after bad three. Irvine went through stretches

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Speaker 1: to watch, let alone have two thousand dollars on awful. Awful.

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Speaker 1: But the party was fantastic. Yeah, the party was good.

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Speaker 1: So great to see our fans, great to see like

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Speaker 1: the people who love the Action Network. Great to be

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Speaker 1: a part of the company. Overall, it was a huge,

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Speaker 1: huge knife for us. We were really pleased with everything

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Speaker 1: that happened. Shout out to our guys from Oklahoma, boys

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Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. We'd a group of guys come in from

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma that we're ready to roll. They were amazing. They

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Speaker 1: were just amazing. Uh, I disagree with you. The worst

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Speaker 1: who the hell played last night? Houston? UH beat somebody

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Speaker 1: by nine. I had Ohio State, had Ohio State. That

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Speaker 1: was rough. Virginia Tech. That was a rough game. Who

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Speaker 1: the first round, second round, there was no flow in

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Speaker 1: stucky and Virginia. Listen, I've got Virginia winning the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: so do you. But I've never seen a team that

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Speaker 1: when they're locked in, they're really really good defensively, they

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Speaker 1: and it is maddening. I agree, thank you. Let's also

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Speaker 1: give a shout out to Stuckies squire, as everybody knows

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Speaker 1: Stucky of the Action Network is one of our favorite guys.

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Speaker 1: We had a had a suite at the Westgate. Thank

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Speaker 1: you to Jake Cornegie in the West Gate for the

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Speaker 1: amazing crew. But I showed up there early Thursday morning

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Speaker 1: guy he had adopted, and and he's like, he's like,

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Speaker 1: meet Alex, He's going to be our squire, Mike, what

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Speaker 1: does this mean. He's like, he's going to be sort

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Speaker 1: was hungry, Hatty, Mike Randolph mac he did have a

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Speaker 1: great time. It was Listen, it was a great trip

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Speaker 1: for all of us. Mike Randall, are you there? Are

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Speaker 1: you off of mute yet? What is your deal? I'm waiting.

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Speaker 1: I'm waiting to do is I'm I'm told here, you

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Speaker 1: guys are eight days in the Vegas. I'm just listening

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Speaker 1: to Mike. That's how life with with Chad is. You're

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Speaker 1: just waiting from the stop talking. It's not right. Nice

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Speaker 1: The favorite podcast from the Action Network. Full of Love

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Speaker 1: and laughter in the Euro of Kindness. Yeah you're so kind,

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Speaker 1: Mike Randall, Sweet sixteen. Handicap it for me right now.

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Speaker 1: Give me your power ratings as we speak, vague question.

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Speaker 1: Give me with the power ratings. Well, I happen to

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Speaker 1: have put them out. The best team left, gentleman is

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Speaker 1: North Carolina. They are the ones without any sort of

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Speaker 1: have matchups here in the Midwest region that our tailor

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Speaker 1: of crazed dogs. They're homing at the mouth. Great, we'll

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Speaker 1: And I saw that John Ewing, our own John Ewing

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Speaker 1: and I think that's going to continue. Very reluctantly, I'll

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Speaker 1: put Duke number three. I mean, they don't shoot the

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Speaker 1: should have lost the UCF. What a frustrating game that

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Speaker 1: They can go streaks where they shut down and they

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Speaker 1: an easy one. Michigan. Texas Tech is a phenomenal game. Michigan.

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Speaker 1: Something has been off with their offense all year. Their

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Speaker 1: as well for that game, and then U v A Oregon.

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Speaker 1: very touch tough matchup. Oregon is still a twelve seed guys,

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Speaker 1: People don't like Virginia basketball. They want to see a

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Speaker 1: Sean's got a great story. Sean sent me an email

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Speaker 1: You want to tell us what was in the email?

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Speaker 1: Maybe I don't be addict to Sean. I'm not. I'm

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Speaker 1: Unlike you. You better watch what you say here, Sean

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Speaker 1: zaril Oh, Hi, chat, we got so much to discuss.

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Speaker 1: We got MLB win totals, we got most home run odds,

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Speaker 1: we got cy Young odds, we got m v P odds.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with wind totals. Yeah, absolutely, that's

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Speaker 1: uh where I focus the majority of my time. So definitely. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I think we can find some matches in that market.

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Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox right now under seventy four and a half.

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Speaker 1: That's what you like? Is that because they didn't get

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Speaker 1: Manny mach out. Yeah. I think the White Sox line

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Speaker 1: moves in the trade market, and ultimately everything fell through.

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Speaker 1: They acquired a bunch of players who might not be

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Speaker 1: going forward. You know, I I don't think without Michael

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Speaker 1: Kopeck on that roster they really have much to play

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Speaker 1: for in terms of taking a step up this year.

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Speaker 1: They did sign el A Jmenez to a contract extension,

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Speaker 1: which will get him up into the major leagues quicker,

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Speaker 1: but realistically, you know, I still think the White Sox

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Speaker 1: are a year away from even being a five our club.

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Speaker 1: So you're not a big John J. Fan. I actually

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Speaker 1: I am a big John J. Fan. I went to

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Speaker 1: the University of Miami, Uh John J. And you know,

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Speaker 1: fantastical lump from there. I was a freshman with Yasmani Grandal,

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Speaker 1: great Milwaukee brewer now Yonder Alonso was on the team

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Speaker 1: Anny Canes in in Major League Baseball. But they didn't

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Speaker 1: out to complay with them. That's why they signed all

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Speaker 1: trains with What was the biggest line move you saw

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Speaker 1: for MLB win totals? That was completely irrational? I think

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Speaker 1: San Diego, Uh, you know, once they got Machado, their

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Speaker 1: total probably jumped by three or three and a half wins. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: I think anytime there's an individual player move, uh, there

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Speaker 1: might be a market over correction. You know, Bryce Harper

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Speaker 1: But you know the amount of action that San Diego

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Speaker 1: ticket on San Diego in in December. UM put five

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the fact that their odds are now at

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Speaker 1: is is outrageous. There's no value you and that to me, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, so, I think people just overreact to once

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Speaker 1: ask you about a win total that kind of has

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Speaker 1: confused me the entire offseason since these come outs Colorado.

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Speaker 1: You're confused by something. Shut the funk up? How many

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Speaker 1: times have I to say that it's getting so old? God?

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Speaker 1: Damn it? Well, you just keep saying dumb quiet billy,

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Speaker 1: he's so mad. Um, the Rockies, the Rockies, somebody has

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Speaker 1: to win games in that division other than the Dodgers. Right,

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Speaker 1: talking about a team that was a playoff team. They

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Speaker 1: Freeland showed he can pitch in corse Field. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how are they not over that total? Yeah, the Rockies

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Speaker 1: are really interesting team to me. I think teams like

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Speaker 1: So I certainly think the Rockies have a chance to

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Speaker 1: step back up. My projections have them going under their

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Speaker 1: win total. Last year I stayed away from it. Had

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Speaker 1: I certainly think that they're a team that you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, Ronado is there for the long term now.

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Speaker 1: So I definitely like the Rockies, and I think about

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Speaker 1: four to one, uh second choice in that division, they

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Speaker 1: might be a little interesting. What are you thinking about

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Speaker 1: when you put together your projections? What are the elements?

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Speaker 1: Without giving it all away? Sure, so I think defense

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's sevent of the teams who

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Speaker 1: the two. So there's definitely something to be said for

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Speaker 1: playing them. Now, setan, let me ask you a question

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Speaker 1: outside the box like I do. Which is the sexiest

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Speaker 1: mean by sexy? Exactly? Sexy? Yeah? I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: The Rockies were certainly a sexy team last year. Which

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Speaker 1: Give me a sexy team. I won one second. I

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Speaker 1: think that, you know, if we're just gonna define straight

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Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, they're fired up. Yeah, alright, I like that.

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Speaker 1: Let's just be clear. I think everybody should use Roman.

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Speaker 1: We get the advice of a doctor. We know you

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Speaker 1: think that he's taking three of them today. That's an

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Speaker 1: interesting question that around a woman. Are the Cubs a

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Speaker 1: sexy team? What? You know? I think people think that

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Speaker 1: the Cubs are a sexy team. I'm particularly low on

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Speaker 1: the Cubs. They have one of the older rotations in baseball.

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Speaker 1: Their average age in that rotation is thirty two and

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Speaker 1: a half. It will be thirty three by the end

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Speaker 1: of the season. They have a lot of players who

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Speaker 1: are coming off of down offensive years. Wilson co Trais,

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Speaker 1: Chris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Chris Bryan hit thirteen home runs

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Speaker 1: last year. He was banged up most of the season,

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Speaker 1: and frankly, I don't see any reason why he's all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden healthy. I'm not expecting a big Chris Bryant.

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Speaker 1: Are the Cubs of sexy team? The Cubs are like

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Speaker 1: like shoving a crusty potato into a wrinkled tube sock. No,

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Speaker 1: they're not sexy. I don't know if that's the analogy

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Speaker 1: I necessarily would have gone with. And now you've got

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Speaker 1: that image in your head, it's you know, I'm there now.

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Speaker 1: Anytime I watch a Cubs game this year, I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna be picking rusty tube sock. I like how professional

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Speaker 1: Sean is being. He's He's like, you cannot crack this guy.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's find a way. It's not gonna happen. We

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Speaker 1: could find a way which which players bat is most

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Speaker 1: in need of Roman this season? Oh, that's a really

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Speaker 1: interesting question, is it, Chris? Right now? We gotta give

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Speaker 1: us somebody who can't hit it at all? Huh, somebody

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Speaker 1: who somebody who can't get that bat up. Um, let's

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Speaker 1: go with I'm ed Rosario and the Mets. You know,

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Speaker 1: if if gets some some juice in them. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: Mets could be a real player in the NA least

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Speaker 1: going back to the office, because our producer Alex is

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Speaker 1: going to just never leave you alone. The man has

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Speaker 1: featured in more Mets highlight videos than anyone I've ever

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Speaker 1: seen other than He's everywhere. Paul Duca has spent like

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Speaker 1: two years with the Mets, and you think that he

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Speaker 1: is the greatest Met who ever lived. Mets fans love Paul.

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Speaker 1: They love Paul Duca. Paul was the perfect player for

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Speaker 1: New York. I really think he had shaved his goateee

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Speaker 1: by the time he got to the match. He had

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Speaker 1: should have been part of it, he did. I have

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Speaker 1: an old card of his on the Marlins where it's

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Speaker 1: it's straight up chinch trap from ear to ear. So

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Speaker 1: it's really something special. I'm going to bring that in

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Speaker 1: you mend On, hold on, Paul Duca is God, don't

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Speaker 1: do this. So this is a trap, Sean, I know

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Speaker 1: it's a t app. PAULI is not gonna like that.

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Speaker 1: His his advanced metrics show that he was a below

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Speaker 1: average had first career. But you know what, it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a different era and I don't think that that's

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk out necessarily the case. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a reason a guy like him became first time

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Speaker 1: All Starry you know. So it something really interesting about

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Speaker 1: Polly that most people don't realize. He didn't make an

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Speaker 1: All Star team. I believe he was twenty nine, which

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Speaker 1: was his first full year of the big leagues. Most

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Speaker 1: guys are hitting the big leagues at about twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: So to be able to stick it out that long

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Speaker 1: and then can come up as a catcher, that's oh,

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Speaker 1: is that true? Yeah, Mike so should turn him into

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Speaker 1: a catcher. When social was with Dodgers, that's very interesting.

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Speaker 1: Russell Martin is pretty similar. Russell Martin was a third baseman, Uh,

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Speaker 1: coming in to high school or college, and there was

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Speaker 1: an area scout there were you know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: area scouts are asked, name one guy who you think

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Speaker 1: could convert to another position, and Russell Martin was blows

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Speaker 1: is still playing. But yeah, he's on the Doctors. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers traded for him. He's Dodger again. He must

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Speaker 1: be forty years old. He's like thirty seven. I think

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Speaker 1: I looked it up. He's he's I I can't believe

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Speaker 1: he's still in the league. What are you gonna ask,

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Speaker 1: he was gonna ask about the Mets. I think the

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Speaker 1: Mets are one of the most polarizing teams when you

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Speaker 1: talk to people because that rotation, if it's healthy, which

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Speaker 1: is what we've been saying for the last four years,

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Speaker 1: is the I think the best in baseball. Sure, they

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Speaker 1: add Robinson Canoe, they shore up the back end of

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Speaker 1: the bullpen. You know, Conforto looked like he was taking

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Speaker 1: a step forward last year before he gets injured. Brandon

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Speaker 1: Nimo I think might be the best damn hitter on

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Speaker 1: that team. Um, what do you see for the Mets

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Speaker 1: in a very competitive and at least yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 1: a tough question because I am a Mets fan. I

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Speaker 1: think most people look at through teams through road colored glasses,

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Speaker 1: but I definitely look at the Mets through apocalyptic goggles. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, most worst at all times. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: Zach Whillier was absolutely incredible in the second half. He

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Speaker 1: started throwing a splitter that I think he carried a

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Speaker 1: one six three e r A in the second half,

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Speaker 1: struck out four times as many batters as he was walking.

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Speaker 1: So he finally looked healthy. They just signed Jacob the

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Speaker 1: Ground to a five year extension today, shocking. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: synder Guard was complaining about that yesterday and the next day,

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Speaker 1: you know, the gram gets locked up. So really interesting

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Speaker 1: to timing on. That's got to get him a nice gift. Absolutely, yeah, coincidence. Um,

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Speaker 1: so you know, synder Guard, Matts and Vargus if they

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Speaker 1: can stay healthy. My concern with the Mets is the

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Speaker 1: depth on the roster. You know, there's you're asking me

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Speaker 1: about a sexy team. Before I was gonna say the Rays. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The reason I really like the Raises they have so

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Speaker 1: much depth, will be on their roster where they can

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Speaker 1: just plug and play different guys in different spots. But well,

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Speaker 1: I think the odds of them are sexy. But the

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Speaker 1: Mets a little bit different because once the Mets lose

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Speaker 1: a guy, uh, that they're replacing him with a straight

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Speaker 1: up triple A quality player. And and it's the moment

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Speaker 1: you have a few injuries, and the Mets have had,

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Speaker 1: you know, a bad history with their medical staff diagnosing things,

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Speaker 1: uh like Davis. You know, I don't I don't know

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Speaker 1: what happened like Davis, But I'm worried he might not

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Speaker 1: be alive somewhere. He might need to check it and

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Speaker 1: just don't know, we need to make sure he's okay.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever recovered from valley fever,

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00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, I mean the Mets are certainly is

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Speaker 1: talented as any club in the NA least, but it's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of staying healthy and they'll stay in it.

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Speaker 1: I think the Nationals, though the Nationals a third choice

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Speaker 1: maybe now plus three, they're looking really interesting. You know,

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Speaker 1: I have them projected for the highest division total in

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Speaker 1: then the East, and uh, I think they got better

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Speaker 1: even though the pres However, I'm with you. I like

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Speaker 1: that team a lot. You'r MLB win Totals's some of

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Speaker 1: your highlights here, Atlanta under eighty six and a half,

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Speaker 1: Arizona over seventy four and a half, Chicago Cubs under

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Speaker 1: eighty nine and a half, Chicago White Sox under seventy

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Speaker 1: four and a half, Seattle over seventy one and a half,

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Speaker 1: and as you just mentioned, the two and o Seattle Mariners,

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay over eighty four and a half. Now, I like,

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Speaker 1: I like pretty much all of those, but I'm curious

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Speaker 1: about the Diamondbacks. One tell me why the Diamondbacks are

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Speaker 1: over seventy four. That team team traded away a lot

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Speaker 1: of players. Um, I feel like they're gonna move Grenky

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Speaker 1: at some point. I mean, right, doesn't that feel like

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Speaker 1: almost a foregone conclusion? I mean, why are they going over?

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Speaker 1: So the Diamondbacks for the best defensive team in baseball?

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Speaker 1: Last year, they saved a hundred and fifty three defensive runs,

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Speaker 1: which is equivalent to about fifteen wins of the course

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Speaker 1: of the season, which is a huge swing in her

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Speaker 1: win total. Obviously, you know, traded Paul Goldschmidt, Patrick Corbyn

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Speaker 1: sign with the Nationals, but they did get Carson Kelly back.

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Speaker 1: I think Carson Kelly is one of the top catching

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Speaker 1: prospects in baseball. They got Luca Weaver back, who I

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Speaker 1: think is due for a rebound in their rotation. You know,

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Speaker 1: like you said, they've Zach Grinky. They might trade him

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Speaker 1: at some point. Definitely a concern, but I tend to

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Speaker 1: think that people overreact to the public perceptions of injuryvidual

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Speaker 1: player moves. Like I said before, they have some minor

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Speaker 1: league prospects who they can bring up and plug holes.

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Speaker 1: Signed Eduardo Escobar doing extensions, so I think there's still

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Speaker 1: plenty of major league caliber players on that roster to

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Speaker 1: play close to five hundred like they did last season.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I don't necessarily think losing the name

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Speaker 1: brand talent hurts their team as much as people might.

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Speaker 1: So Line moves down, I go over. That's That's generally

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Speaker 1: how I got with public perception. I like that. It's

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Speaker 1: like he's liking Obama. They go low, he goes high.

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Speaker 1: Don't make this political shn Zarrella. The Obama of the

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Speaker 1: Action Network. That is That is quite the statement. I

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Speaker 1: will try to live up to that. Sean Zarilla, thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining the podcast. Thanks for joining the Action Network.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for all you're going to do for us and

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Speaker 1: all you have done so far. Appreciate it. Man Chad,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. I want to think black

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Speaker 1: Jack too. Black Jack mostly yelled at me, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you for ing alright. If you want me to

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Speaker 1: yell at you, I can yell at you. I think

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Speaker 1: Sean is a good addition. He's got a dry since,

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Speaker 1: a humor man, and a great delivery. I like Sean.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with Sean. You, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: I have a major problem because he has a problem

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Speaker 1: with you hiring me. I think that's the Well, of

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Speaker 1: course he's got a problem with me hiring anybody that

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Speaker 1: isn't black Jack Fletcher. Well, I mean, listen, you don't

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Speaker 1: need anyone else, but that's fine. We might need someone

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Speaker 1: to actually write stuff for the website. The written word

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Speaker 1: is dead has been in Idiot The Favorites from The

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Speaker 1: Action Network. You can download the podcast at Apple Podcast.

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