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Speaker 1: Hi doing, everybody, Welcome to another episode of Monster Territory.

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Speaker 1: Embarrassing loss here tonight. That was not fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: You're hoping, you know, you're coming off the walk off

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Speaker 1: win to salvage the series against the Blue Jays. You're

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Speaker 1: coming in here to a White Sox team that is

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Speaker 1: pretty dreadful all the way around. But they looked the

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Speaker 1: exact opposite tonight, especially old friend Chase my Draft. He

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Speaker 1: looked like he belonged in the big leagues, for he'd

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Speaker 1: been in the big leagues for a long time.

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Speaker 2: Might get us.

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Speaker 1: The guy walked a few times tonight, had a good

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Speaker 1: base hit tonight. Okay, good for Chase my draft man.

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Speaker 1: That definitely stung when you know, yes, I loved getting

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Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet, but it should always sting a little bit,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're pulling off a trade for that

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Speaker 1: caliber of a player. You know, Kyle Teel, Yeah that

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Speaker 1: one hurt. Britty Montgomery, Yeah, that one hurt. But I

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Speaker 1: was ok with that, you know, because we just drafted him.

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Speaker 1: Rome and Anthony obviously you had him, so I was

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Speaker 1: okay with that. But Chase Myndraft was a guy that

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Speaker 1: I wanted to keep around. But Hey, that's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: when you want to make a big trade like that.

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Speaker 2: But good for him.

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Speaker 1: Tonight, the White Sox just look the exact opposite of

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Speaker 1: what they're supposed to look like. They just took took

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox to town here tonight. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: be here very long. There's not really too much to

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Speaker 1: talk about, but I will give my thoughts on some

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Speaker 1: things with the lineup. We'll do a bit of a

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Speaker 1: game to preview, not really a whole lot, but just

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Speaker 1: an embarrassing one here tonight. You know, I'll say this again,

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Speaker 1: it's April eleventh. You know, it's easy to overreact, especially

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Speaker 1: when you know with all the hopes coming into the season,

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Speaker 1: with how good of an offseason they had, the expectations,

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Speaker 1: and you don't want to be seeing a start like

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Speaker 1: this in April. You want to see them kind of

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Speaker 1: picking up the pace a little bit, especially against a

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Speaker 1: White Sox team like this. But you know, I'll say

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Speaker 1: this when the offense has been slumping over the last

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Speaker 1: few games now they've lost four out of their last

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Speaker 1: five games. When the offense is slumping, Sean Newcomb is

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Speaker 1: starting and Blake Sable is catching you're asking for a

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Speaker 1: long night. I don't even care who you play. You

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Speaker 1: could be playing the Portland Pickles, for crying out loud,

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a tough night. I'm gonna say this

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Speaker 1: right off the bat. Please Blake Sable send him to

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Speaker 1: the Sun. I mean, I'm sure that he's a nice man.

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Speaker 1: Nothing against the man personally, but wow, that was a

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Speaker 1: very bad night behind the plate. You know the Red

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Speaker 1: Sox postgame show, they were over I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say over emphasizing, but they were really talking about the

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Speaker 1: errors tonight. Five errors for the Red Sox tonight. Blake

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Speaker 1: Sable had a couple of those. Tristan Cassis also was

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Speaker 1: involved in a couple of those. He made one error

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Speaker 1: and then another one was charged to Winkowski, and then

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Speaker 1: Saday Raphael had an error as well.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: The way they were kind of making it sound, it

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Speaker 1: was like the whole team was just.

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Speaker 2: Having a bad night.

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Speaker 1: Defensively, it was really just a couple of players. And

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Speaker 1: then you know Seti on one of them. But you're

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Speaker 1: not worried about Seti Blake Sable. Wow, the Red Sox

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Speaker 1: did bring in Ya's money grandal not too long ago.

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Speaker 1: In a minor league deal. Please get that man to

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Speaker 1: the big league roster as soon as possible. He's not

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Speaker 1: gonna have the best arm, but you know he'll at

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Speaker 1: least give you decent defense behind the plate. He's going

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Speaker 1: to be a good framer. My goodness, get yas money,

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Speaker 1: grand doll to the big league team. I cannot take

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Speaker 1: another game of Blake Sable for crying out loud. The

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Speaker 1: offense pretty terrible for the most part. Another bad night

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Speaker 1: for the offense. Like I said, they lost four other

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Speaker 1: last five games. It was a cold night in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: But listen, you can't keep using the cold weather thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here's my take. I was listening to the guys over

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Speaker 1: at Section ten. They got a great show, and you

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Speaker 1: know they weren't using the weather as an excuse. Here's

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Speaker 1: here's my take on the whole cold weather thing. It

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Speaker 1: really comes down to, how are you gonna which team

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Speaker 1: is going to adjust to the elements better?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: You gotta deal with it, you know, So you can't

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Speaker 1: use it as an excuse for the White Sox Blue Jay's. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been a little chili, but these teams have made

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Speaker 1: the adjustments, right, you know, Hey, will you or bray

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Speaker 1: you talking about how he's doing better or how he's

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Speaker 1: doing so well in the cold weather. He talks about

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Speaker 1: using baby oil. I've seen some guys on Twitter land

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Speaker 1: know if some of these guys gotta, you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: try something out like that, you know, Garret Crochet saying

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Speaker 1: his his fingers were frozen basically, well, I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: Like the other at the end of the day, these

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Speaker 1: other teams, they're making the adjustments and the Red Sox

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Speaker 1: are not. So I don't know what's going on there. Now,

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Speaker 1: there is a bright side. Like I said, will you

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Speaker 1: or bray you? I did look pretty good at the

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Speaker 1: plate tonight. A couple of very hard hit balls had

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Speaker 1: a double tonight. I'm gonna go over some lineup possibilities

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Speaker 1: here at a second. Don't want to jump to conclusions

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Speaker 1: just yet when it comes changing line of spy. I

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Speaker 1: do have a few ideas on what maybe they could

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Speaker 1: I do want to throw a few stats out at

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Speaker 1: you coming into tonight. The Red Sox twelve in WRC

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Speaker 1: plus weighted runs created plus on the year. However, that

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Speaker 1: that it is a small sample size, so a little

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Speaker 1: inflated at the moment, I would say. However, I dug

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Speaker 1: a good base running team. There are sixth in base

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Speaker 1: running on the year. We've seen that they're very aggressive

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Speaker 1: on the basis, but I'm getting a little a little

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Speaker 2: They are the.

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Speaker 1: Ninth highest team when it comes to chase rate outside

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Speaker 1: So put a bow on all of that one more time.

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Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to you know, the way

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Speaker 2: Bit, you know, when it comes to the approach.

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Speaker 1: You can't just keep pounding and pounding and pounding the

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Speaker 1: same approach if it's not working. Again, it's early, however,

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Speaker 1: I'm just noticing these things. It just seems like these

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Speaker 1: But then you mix in you know, a few other

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Speaker 1: more thought here, trusting Cassus. Luckily for him, he had

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Speaker 1: himself a good double there to night, good hard hit ball,

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Speaker 1: looked very good to start the year. He had the

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Speaker 2: On the pitching side of things.

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Speaker 1: Brutal night for Sean newcom Brutal night for Sean Newcomb

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Speaker 1: here tonight, I'm thinking the the clock is a ticking

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Speaker 1: when it comes to Newcom here. He was just getting wrecked.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's not really much else to say here.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the breakdown again. I'm not gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna get too crazy when it comes to you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, breaking this down here. But taking a look,

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of four seemers threw on a

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Speaker 2: It was just not good.

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Speaker 1: Had a fastball that got wrecked pretty good there, you know,

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Speaker 1: wasn't effective himself, you know. When it came to the White.

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Speaker 2: Sox, I mean, hey, they went to town man Jacob.

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Speaker 1: Amaia had a two RBI double in the third to

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Speaker 2: They had RBI bass hits. You know, they got a.

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Speaker 1: Sack fly, they added on a couple more against the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: There's not really much to say, honestly, they're just leaving

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Speaker 1: Where I defended Casus, Carlos. Where am I defending mister Cassus.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back here tomorrow for the postgame coverage. Until then,

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