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Speaker 2: I'm Ken Rosenthal here with a lot of rizzo, a

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Speaker 1: So let's get to it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kenny, some people call it parody. Some people call

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Speaker 3: our chat. Let's get to the lead. Ken, and you're

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Speaker 1: Two and a half games, Alana, And really, these two teams,

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Speaker 4: You heard Ken talk about it earlier.

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Speaker 3: We have another question for you regarding Alex Cora.

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Speaker 3: We have one more here in Grill and Ken. This

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Speaker 3: We always appreciate you being here, Referee Ken. What's your

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Speaker 1: And if the A's can turn him into three really

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Speaker 1: good prospects, for example, they have to consider it. Is

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Speaker 1: he going to be part of their first great team

434
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas? Probably not. So you don't want to

435
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Speaker 1: see them do this because they actually have played fairly

436
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Speaker 1: well for who they are, for what they have, for

437
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Speaker 1: the money that they've spent. But at the same time,

438
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Speaker 1: I can see if they get the right offer this happening.

439
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 1: I can definitely see it happening, and it probably for

440
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Speaker 1: the franchise's sake should happen. They're spinning their wheels. They

441
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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about taking off the fan base

442
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:06,439
Speaker 1: because the fan they're going to Sacramento next year. I

443
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Speaker 1: can see it, and.

444
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Speaker 3: They want to play ten percent of their home games

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Speaker 3: away from home. It's just it's just a comedy of

446
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,160
Speaker 3: errors when it comes to the Oakland Athletics.

447
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Speaker 4: I feel bad for that family.

448
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry. The person asked where where will he go?

449
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: Every team would everywhere. Even if you've got a closer,

450
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Every team will be in on him.

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Speaker 1: The Orioles will be a great fit.

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Speaker 3: I was about to say that, Ken, I was about

453
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Speaker 3: to say that, wouldn't you love to see Mason Miller

454
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Speaker 3: in Baltimore as as that final piece in the back

455
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Speaker 3: end of that rotation.

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Speaker 4: I respect Craig Kimbrel. He's not the answer.

457
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Speaker 3: You don't replace Bautista easily, but man, I'd love to

458
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Speaker 3: see Mason Miller in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: He'd be great there. And Craig Kimberl has been much

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Speaker 1: better of late. Let's give him credit where credit is due.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you get a Mason Miller

462
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Speaker 1: to anchor a bullpen that right now has Krimberle and

463
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Speaker 1: others who have done well. And you've got a rotation

464
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Speaker 1: of a top three right now of Burns, Grayson Rodriguez,

465
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Speaker 1: and Kyle Bradish. That's pretty good and that would be

466
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Speaker 1: something too, really if you're Baltimore fan, get excited about.

467
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a lot to be excited about there,

468
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: including a new ownership group. Time now for dude and

469
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Speaker 3: Dork of the week. This is where we each give

470
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Speaker 3: a deserving dude and a deserving dork. I just like

471
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Speaker 3: to say, dude, all right, Ken, dude is up first.

472
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Speaker 4: Who is yours?

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Speaker 1: Well? I go back to last weekend and I go

474
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Speaker 1: back to the Dodger fans marching on Yankee Stadium and

475
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Speaker 1: there were thousands of them with a police escort. And

476
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Speaker 1: this is a fan club called pantone five twenty four

477
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Speaker 1: is that right? Nine four? Okay, got the numbers wrong,

478
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 1: but that's one of the great traveling fan clubs in

479
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Speaker 1: all of sports. And you see right here, this is

480
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: right outside the stadium. On Fox the other night, I

481
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Speaker 1: called this a glorious act of civil disobedience, and.

482
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Speaker 4: That is what it was.

483
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Speaker 1: These were conscientious dissenters and they are having the times

484
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Speaker 1: of their lives going into Yankee Stadium making a lot

485
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Speaker 1: of noise. It was a great scene and a great

486
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Speaker 1: scene in part because of pantone nine four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pantone two ninety four is the exact color of

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Speaker 3: Dodger blue on the color scale, and it's a great

489
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Speaker 3: fan base. They're very respectful, they're very courteous, and they

490
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Speaker 3: do they I remember in twenty sixteen, the last time

491
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers went to Yankee Stadium, that was the first

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Speaker 3: time pantone two ninety four took over the Bronx and

493
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 3: the Yankees fans were stunned. And in this past week,

494
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Speaker 3: and as you know, being there, Ken, they did their

495
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 3: own version of the role call with the Bleacher creature.

496
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Speaker 3: So I'm sure the Bronx bombers and those fans were

497
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Speaker 3: pissed off about that.

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Speaker 4: All right.

499
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Speaker 3: My dude of the week right up my alley is

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Speaker 3: Kevin Ginkel, who is sponsoring thirty seven adoptions for any

501
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 3: cat or dog that is six months or older at

502
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Speaker 3: a main shelter in Arizona. I think this is such

503
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 3: a tremendous thing. I'm very big on adoption and rescue

504
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 3: and not buying from breeders. Just because of the overpopulation.

505
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,479
Speaker 3: Perfectly healthy dogs are getting euthanized. I appreciate Kevin Ginkel

506
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 3: for doing this for the Diamondbacks give back. So good

507
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Speaker 3: on you, Kevin Gyinkle. You are my dude of the week.

508
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 3: Please adopt, don't shop. Okay, Ken dork options, Who do

509
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:15,400
Speaker 3: you have?

510
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Speaker 1: I've got Noelvi Marte. He's still serving his suspension for

511
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: a positive substance that he tested for, and he came

512
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,360
Speaker 1: finally and talked to the media because he's almost eligible

513
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 1: to play. He's going to be eligible June twenty seventh.

514
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: He's not a rehab assignment now. And he said, in reality,

515
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: the substance bolder Owne just appeared in my system. I

516
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: really don't know how it came about. Unfortunately. You can

517
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: see the quote there from Charlie Goldsmith and Okay, I

518
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 1: understand he's in a horrible spot. He doesn't have a

519
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 1: lot he can say but that argument, except in one

520
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: particular case. There's a substance that I've written about. I'm

521
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: not going to get into it here where there are

522
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 1: a number of players have tested positive for it over

523
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: the years, and they, to a man have fought this

524
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 1: and said this is a weird thing, and it certainly

525
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: looks like a weird thing. Another story for another day.

526
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: But for positive tests for substances like this steroids, No,

527
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: it doesn't suddenly appear in your system. It appears in

528
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,479
Speaker 1: your system for a reason. And if you accidentally ingested something,

529
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,360
Speaker 1: I get it. But we've heard this too many times.

530
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 4: Here's a couple of things to that.

531
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Speaker 3: And Aj Pierzinski on foul Territory the other day was

532
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 3: talking about this. Why the man waits two months to

533
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 3: say anything about it is beyond him because if you

534
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 3: don't know that somehow something appeared in your system and

535
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 3: you find out that there's a violation of whatever it

536
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,120
Speaker 3: was that went into your system, I would be screaming

537
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 3: from the mountaintops that I did not know that it was.

538
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 3: You know, list, let's I didn't do this, let's look

539
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 3: at this further, and I would be doing it immediately

540
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 3: after this was found out that there was something that

541
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Speaker 3: was not NSF pro in my system.

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Speaker 4: That's number one.

543
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 3: I'm not waiting two months until I'm almost ready to

544
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: play again to be like, oh, I'm so sorry, I

545
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 3: didn't know. Number two, as a professional athlete can, as

546
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 3: you know better than anybody in the amount of clubhouses

547
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 3: that you've been in. It is posted all over the

548
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 3: place about what you can and cannot do. Make sure

549
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 3: anything that everything is NSF certified. Todd Frazier was saying

550
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 3: he was even paranoid to go to like Jumba Juice

551
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 3: and get a smoothie because you don't know what's in

552
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 3: those things, or people use the same containers, there can

553
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 3: be cross contamination. I don't buy that. With all of

554
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 3: the rules and how upfront Major League Baseball has been

555
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 3: about this, you have to know what's being put in

556
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Speaker 3: your body. So that's that's number two on that. I'd

557
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 3: be screaming from the rooftops and I'd be damn sure

558
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 3: I knew what was going into my body, all right.

559
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 3: My dork of the week is an organization. It is

560
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 3: the Miami Marlins who basically wave the white flag can

561
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 3: back in early May, when they traded away Luisa Rise,

562
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 3: their best player to the San Diego Padre, is basically

563
00:26:58,359 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 3: conceding their season.

564
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 4: And now, oh, it seems like they just.

565
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 3: Mentally have forgotten to play baseball or the fundamentals. And

566
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 3: Gary Cohen of the s n Y broadcast basically went

567
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 3: off on the Marlins. They basically tried to turn a

568
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 3: double play on they forgot how many outs there were.

569
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable to me, the mental mistakes that this

570
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 3: team is having.

571
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 4: You can't do this.

572
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,239
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand you are one of only two

573
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 3: teams that has no shot of going to the postseason,

574
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 3: but you can't.

575
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 4: This type of stuff can't happen. Am I right in

576
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 4: saying that?

577
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: You're right in saying that. And I would say, though,

578
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: it's not just the Marlins doing stupid things on a

579
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: nightly basis. We see that throughout the game. A lot

580
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: of it is because guys are rushed to the big leagues.

581
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: They don't have the foundation in the minors that they

582
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: once did. But with regard to the Marlins and that

583
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: particular play, Gary Cohen's point was somebody could have gotten

584
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: hurt because he threw over for the third out, and

585
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: it was the third out and play was short of

586
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: dead at that point. So I get it, and it's

587
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: a fair criticism for sure. I would just say, it's

588
00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: not just the Marlins.

589
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 4: No, it's not.

590
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 3: It's easier to pick on them, though, when again they

591
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 3: trade the best player in the beginning of May when

592
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 3: they go to the postseason last year talk about not trying.

593
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 4: My goodness.

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Speaker 3: That's going to do it for Ken Rosenthal and myself

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Speaker 3: Territory is next Hannackeiser will lead the charge there. Scott

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Speaker 3: bron is still on vacation on a yacht some place

613
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Speaker 3: Have a great Thursday, everybody boye bye,