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Speaker 1: Day two of the off season, Big News Day. Did

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Speaker 1: you guys see the news this morning?

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Speaker 2: Big big Newsday show?

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Speaker 3: Dam Minaga we're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna get to that. It's a big FT News Day.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah. The three new shows, not.

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Speaker 1: One, not two, let me angle it, but three new shows.

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Speaker 1: We get requests all of the time for us to

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Speaker 1: pick up other teams, team dedicated shows. Here's three more

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Speaker 1: to add to the table. Beautiful Graphic, Bucco Territory, Josh

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Speaker 1: Harrison who's going to join us later on this edition

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Speaker 1: of FT, Noah Hayles, who is an insider in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: and Platinum Key, who is an excellent content creator. So

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Speaker 1: that's your pirate show. And that's an incredible logo. So

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Speaker 1: is Riverfront Territory of Beauty. Daddy Graves, Red Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: and C Trent Rosecran it's frequent FT guest dialed in

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Speaker 1: on the reds So that's a Red show. And then

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Speaker 1: Splash Hit Territory hosted by FP Santangelo and special guest

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Speaker 1: Susan Sluster.

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Speaker 2: Will join him frequently. I mean, that's a good list. AJ.

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Speaker 1: Those are all people that we know pretty well that

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Speaker 1: we've brought on the show quite frequently, so welcome those three.

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Speaker 1: And now that gives us do you know how many

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Speaker 1: do you guys know how many we have for team shows?

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Speaker 1: Not for the entire FT network? All right, then you

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Speaker 1: don't give it away, Kratz. Do you have an idea

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Speaker 1: AJ For team shows we're at fifteen eighteen. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: include say, foul Fair may Day. But for team shows

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Speaker 1: we're at fifteen. That means that we have exactly half

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Speaker 1: the league.

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Speaker 2: So half the.

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Speaker 1: League's fans are now satisfied, and half the fans in

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Speaker 1: the league are still pissed at us and sending us notes.

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Speaker 2: And that's fine.

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Speaker 1: It is a slow burned, methodical process to get these

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Speaker 1: up and running. Shout out to the team behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: But they have episodes out, all three of them. Actually,

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Speaker 1: one more bit of news. Cardinal Territory has now added

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Speaker 1: some significant firepower our buddy Lance Lynn, Matt Holliday, Kyle Gibson,

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Speaker 1: Jim Hayes. They had their own pod running. They are

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Speaker 1: transitioning over to Cardinal Territory. So all of that has

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Speaker 1: officially happened as of this morning.

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Speaker 3: It's a lot of big news.

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Speaker 4: It is a lot FT finally passed. How many teams

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Speaker 4: I was a part of. So congratulations.

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Speaker 3: FT.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we took down AJ's career list a while ago,

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Speaker 1: but we have succeeded now.

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Speaker 3: Miilas is a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah what was there? Seven?

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Speaker 3: Six? Yeah? Nice?

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Speaker 1: Okay, perfect? Well, congrats to those three shows. We'll give

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Speaker 1: you more info on those shows, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk to Josh Harrison this week. We'll give you some

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Speaker 1: clips throughout the week of what to expect in those

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Speaker 1: shows during some of the breaks that we do on

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Speaker 1: TV and keep running on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: But let's charge.

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Speaker 1: Let's charge about. We had been waiting and we were

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Speaker 1: expecting to hear the news straight from the source, which

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Speaker 1: is the team Alexanthopolis keeps it close to the best

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Speaker 1: running the Atlanta Braves, and his decision is Walt Weiss,

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Speaker 1: who has been the bench coach with the Braves for

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Speaker 1: a long time now, since twenty eighteen. As Chipper Jones

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Speaker 1: immediately yesterday saying, boom, love this dude, Walt Weiss is

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Speaker 1: the choice.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we have heavily scrutinized the manager choices

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Speaker 1: there's a lack of experience. Walt Weiss managed a bad

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Speaker 2: Do you like this?

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Speaker 3: I love this.

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Speaker 5: It keeps the connuity and you know, it keeps the

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Speaker 5: connuity with the front office, with the players, and this

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Speaker 5: Snitt was there for since twenty sixteen when I was

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Speaker 5: So it just keeps the continuity of they're what they're

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Speaker 4: I agree. I don't know that they needed to go

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Speaker 4: Weiss might not even outlast this core of cores of

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Speaker 4: you know, I don't think this should be run a

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Speaker 4: like AJ said, great continuity for the team.

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Speaker 2: Walt Weiss loves it there too. AJ.

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Speaker 1: He said during the intro press conference this morning, he

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Speaker 1: decade if Snit kept the job. Brian Snicker is moving on,

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Speaker 1: calling it a career manager wise. But that's how much

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Speaker 1: appreciation Walt Whys has for the organization.

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Speaker 2: It's funny when you get a choice like this.

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Speaker 1: I feel like there was a ton of dissension and

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Speaker 2: You have a group that.

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Speaker 1: I think really follows the braves and knows that continuity

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Speaker 1: you have another group that's like, oh, how could they

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Speaker 1: stay eternal? They should have gone outside the org. Not

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Speaker 1: going to necessarily name names, but there were some people

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Speaker 1: you number one, they don't know Walt Weise. Number two,

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Speaker 2: In my mind.

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Speaker 1: Like Alexanthopolis and the Braves have a really good machine

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Speaker 2: Disrupt a lot of success that they've had.

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Speaker 1: Do some players maybe need a kick in the pants

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Speaker 1: or to get more consistency that are locked up long term?

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Speaker 2: Okay, but what did their rotation look like last year?

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Speaker 1: And they were missing ronaldccuna Junior for half the year

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Speaker 1: It sounds like they've got more cash to spend this offseason.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great move. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: great decision. I think some of the teams that have

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Speaker 2: So we'll see.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I love this again. I love this move.

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Speaker 3: I was my last team was the Brave, so.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't have Alexanthopolis, but I had Snitt and I

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Speaker 5: I think this team can compete with the Phillies and

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Speaker 1: I'm scrolling through to try and provide a little more proof.

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Speaker 1: So let me just bring up an example. I'll go

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Speaker 1: So there is a writer by the name of Chris Klegg.

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Speaker 1: He writes for Dynasty Dugout. He does Rotoballer a lot

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Speaker 1: and I've never really seen him be opinionated, but like this.

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Speaker 1: But yesterday he quote tweets the news and says Atlanta

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Speaker 2: I was like, whoa of agism? As if?

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Speaker 1: As if, like Bruce Bochi didn't win a World Series

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Speaker 5: People aren't clamoring for that job.

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Speaker 4: Yes, there's people that are not going to ever turn

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Speaker 1: And what Weiss is clearly on the same page with

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Speaker 5: He's like a black belt something jiu jitsu, some jiu jitsu.

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Speaker 5: I saw Walt this season out of uniform in San Diego.

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Speaker 5: Johnny was Johnny Leroy in the Last Dragon when he's

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Speaker 1: What about David Rosser, Mark Drossa well, Mark Bowman? The

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Speaker 1: It sounded like Danny Lehman on the Dodgers' coaching staff

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Speaker 2: Really.

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Speaker 1: He didn't reveal who else was in the running. He

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Speaker 1: But if that's what they felt like they wanted to do, Aja,

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Speaker 2: They waited until after the World Series.

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Speaker 1: We love it so that we could actually talk about

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have no problem with the way they handle this.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that.

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Speaker 5: And as far as the David Ross and the Mark

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Speaker 5: have you guys ever seen anyone Mark de Rosa like

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Speaker 4: When you're not in a dug euy, you got to

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Speaker 4: he's got He's got so much chops for a guy

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Speaker 4: He's been around the Dodgers, Like, I feel like he's

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Speaker 1: Overall, three thumbs up each of us like this hire. Hey,

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Speaker 1: The White Sox are true to their word. They have

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Speaker 1: And if we're being real, Aja, this is not the

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Speaker 2: The problem for me is that he's.

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Speaker 5: How do I say this nicely? They said their payroll

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Speaker 5: You don't think they'll trade them this offseason, because that

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Speaker 1: Frequent baseball tweeter Danny Vietti posting some other information about

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Speaker 1: what you can expect this off season. You said bad

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Speaker 1: news baseball over good news. Off season could feel very,

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Speaker 3: Who's back? Yeah? I know?

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Speaker 5: And That's what's going to make this offseason feel really sure,

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Speaker 5: They'll take a World Series for a short turnaround.

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Speaker 3: They're fine, They're fine.

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Speaker 1: his way. That would be more than the player option.

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Speaker 1: He probably again would say no. It does hurt your

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Speaker 1: free agency a bit. It often hurts one or two

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Speaker 1: free agents per year, and that's what the qualifying offer

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Speaker 1: is for, to try and keep prices down for certain players.

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Speaker 1: That happened to Nick Pavetta last year, and that was

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Speaker 1: to the benefit of the Padres. So I think the

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Speaker 1: first question AJ is do you think this was the

447
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Speaker 1: right call? We don't know the medical, we don't know

448
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Speaker 1: everything else going on, But do you think now you

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Speaker 1: think he was worth the three years on three or

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Speaker 1: fifty seven?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: For me, the way he pitched. Are you finding me

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Speaker 5: another if Louise Robert, you're saying isn't worth twenty million,

454
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Speaker 5: Showedoime in August is not worth nineteen million. But the

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Speaker 5: way he pitched and what he's done, and the excitement

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Speaker 5: he brings and the marketing that he brings, Let's not

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Speaker 5: forget there's a big marketing component to this too, is

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Speaker 5: showdo so. I don't understand this why the Cubs wouldn't

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Speaker 5: do this. They think they're going to get him on

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Speaker 5: a cheaper deal, or they're bigger, better fish out there

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Speaker 5: they can get.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't understand this at all. I thought I never

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Speaker 5: even thought this was a possibility. I thought this was like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: show does there for three more years? A nope, surprise.

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Speaker 4: The whole qualifying offer throws a wrench in it for me.

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Speaker 4: I think they want him back. I don't think they

468
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Speaker 4: won three more years of him. I think they see

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Speaker 4: him as somebody that will be already five years old

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Speaker 4: at the end of that contract, which in my opinion,

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Speaker 4: is not that old for pitchers. And we can name

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Speaker 4: the pretty terrible list of pitchers that got paid eighteen

473
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Speaker 4: million for two years this offseason this past offseason, and

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Speaker 4: you could have him for nineteen million for three years

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Speaker 4: a year. I'm I just I feel like the qualifying

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Speaker 4: offer sets the Cubs up to be like, look, we

477
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Speaker 4: did all that we could and it's really gonna screw

478
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Speaker 4: showed to because he's probably not gonna get larger than

479
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Speaker 4: the three year deal. And when you're giving up a

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Speaker 4: when you're giving up a draft pick, teams are just

481
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Speaker 4: gonna They're gonna sit there and they're gonna ham and

482
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Speaker 4: Hall and then he's gonna have that what is it

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Speaker 4: twenty one point seven. I think this year is the

484
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Speaker 4: qualifying offer. It's gonna have that hanging over his head

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Speaker 4: and it's gonna hurt him or the Cubs will be like, hey,

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Speaker 4: look we offered it to him. Hey that's a lot

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Speaker 4: of money. It's more than you would have made before.

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Speaker 4: But the reality is it's really undercut his value for

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Speaker 4: a guy that for the last two years has been

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Speaker 4: great for this team.

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Speaker 2: Can I bring up the other side? I love Shanna Naga.

492
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Speaker 2: He is one of my favorites to watch another very

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Speaker 2: much worse year.

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Speaker 5: AJ What I have a great team for him to

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Speaker 5: go to. He loves Chicago White Sox.

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Speaker 1: Baby wait, but his numbers weren't down a lot this year.

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Speaker 1: Got I'm just bringing up will be good for a

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Speaker 1: few years, I know, but you know it was thirty

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Speaker 1: less innings. The ERA plus went from one thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: which is fantastic, to one oh three the fifth fielding

501
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Speaker 1: independent pitching much higher. The XCRA expected ra A, home

502
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Speaker 1: run rate was up, walks up, strikeouts down a lot,

503
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Speaker 1: strikeouts down from nine per nine innings, so one printing

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Speaker 1: to seven point three, drake out to walk ratio obviously

505
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Speaker 1: going down all that, right, So the numbers did significantly

506
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Speaker 1: decline in year two. Do you think there's any concern

507
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Speaker 1: that the Cubs feel as if the league figured.

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Speaker 2: Him out a little bit?

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Speaker 1: I'm just throwing this out there, because no team knows

510
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Speaker 1: the pitcher more than the team that he's coming from.

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Speaker 5: Even if he has the numbers he had right last year,

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Speaker 5: is he worth eighteen nineteen million dollars a year on

513
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Speaker 5: the free agent market compared to another guy that's going

514
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Speaker 5: to possibly get eighteen to nineteen million.

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Speaker 1: I think if okay, I think if if it works, if.

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Speaker 5: You're the Cubs, if you're the Cubs, if you're the

517
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Speaker 5: Cubs and you have a chance, and you have a

518
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Speaker 5: guy that's a known commodity, loves it in Wrigleyville, has

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Speaker 5: pitched well there, has been to the playoffs, has done

520
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Speaker 5: all these things. And you know him, and you're saying

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Speaker 5: he's not worth nineteen million dollars a year for three

522
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Speaker 5: years fifty seven you're the Cubs fifty seven million dollars.

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Speaker 3: That's not that much.

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Speaker 1: If it should have been an easy five numbers, If

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty five numbers, if that's all you're guaranteeing me,

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Speaker 1: then he is not worth that contract, not at the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five numbers.

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Speaker 2: But he's not what how can you say that?

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Speaker 4: But this is what this is what organizations are doing this.

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Speaker 4: Organizations will sit there and they'll go He did his

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Speaker 4: home run. His home run rate after he came back

532
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Speaker 4: from the IL was the worst in baseball. It carried

533
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Speaker 4: into the postseason, like, we don't want this. They're convincing

534
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Speaker 4: themselves this is not a good option. And that's fine.

535
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Speaker 4: You can do that. Your formula can say we don't

536
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Speaker 4: want him. Who are the Cubs going to get for

537
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Speaker 4: the same price dollar for dollar, pitcher for pitcher? Who

538
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Speaker 4: are they going to get? And that's where I think

539
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Speaker 4: teams like the Cubs, who are clearly they're a playoff team.

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Speaker 4: They wanted to make the playoffs, they don't quite want

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Speaker 4: to go the rest of the way. They trade some

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Speaker 4: of their guys to be able to get Kyle Tucker

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Speaker 4: and then at the end of the season he kind

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Speaker 4: of kind of petered out. So we're not going to

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Speaker 4: go get and we don't. We had Cody Bellinger, he

546
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Speaker 4: had a great year for us and then he had

547
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Speaker 4: a down here.

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Speaker 3: We're fine trading.

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Speaker 4: Him instead of saying, like the team that we just

550
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Speaker 4: talked to Max Muncy about, we're pushing all in. We

551
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Speaker 4: got everything we need. We have the core that we need.

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Speaker 4: We have great pieces in Kate Horton, Justin Steele's gonna

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Speaker 4: come back. We're going to add another starting picture. We're

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Speaker 4: gonna keep showda and we're gonna add a mega piece

555
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Speaker 4: to our lineup because we are a rich franchise that

556
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Speaker 4: takes all the fans away from the White Sox and

557
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Speaker 4: we have this entire city of Chicago.

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Speaker 1: You guys are acting as if there's nobody else on

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Speaker 1: the free agent market there.

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Speaker 3: Are they gonna get.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, just I'm just presenting the other side, because

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Speaker 1: if you do truly believe that he's the free five version,

563
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Speaker 1: that's the decision.

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Speaker 2: That's the free Agentarez, Mike.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna make less than nineteen million or more than nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Million, Rmber. It's not about that now.

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Speaker 1: If okay, he was about it's all about that we

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Speaker 1: go through.

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Speaker 3: It's all about that.

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Speaker 1: If they go through the off season and they don't

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Speaker 1: pick up somebody to replace him in the rotation, I

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Speaker 1: think you can make a case. But if they say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're going to save that nineteen and we're going to

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Speaker 1: do thirty year on King or c fromber Ranger, Suarez,

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Speaker 1: guys like that, then I think you can make a

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Speaker 1: case that Cubs fans will be okay, just throwing that.

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Speaker 2: Out there, that's all. It's a good debate.

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Speaker 1: We can continue this. Maybe we should bring on someone

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Speaker 1: that watched, you know, all of his starts and can

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Speaker 1: give us the perspective on the Cub side and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: here's why the Cubs really didn't like him for three years.

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Speaker 2: Reliever at I'm on a v No could be in.

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Speaker 1: The mix for the Rockies open position whatever they're calling

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Speaker 1: a GM or President Base Operations. Yes, Adam out of Vino,

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Speaker 1: and you might be like, wait, did Adam out of

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Speaker 1: Vino even retire? He made a few appearances last year

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Speaker 1: for the Yankees. He didn't officially retire, but I think

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Speaker 1: this would certainly tilt you towards that direction. It is

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Speaker 1: very clear Aj that he wants to be either a

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Speaker 1: front office leader or a manager in the near future.

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Speaker 1: He pitched for the Rockies for a good chunk of time,

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Speaker 1: I think twenty twelve to twenty eighteen, and he apparently

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Speaker 1: the owner, Dick Monfort, and those conversations have continued.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that he's going to get the position.

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Speaker 1: But we did learn in the last twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: that the two candidates everyone thought were in the mix,

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Speaker 1: Amiel Sarde assistant JAM for the Diamondbacks and Matt Foreman

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Speaker 1: assistant JAM for the Guardians, are out. One of them

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Speaker 1: declined an offer, so it sounded like he had a

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Speaker 1: shot of getting it, and the other one, I think

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Speaker 1: just took himself out of the mix, maybe after meeting

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Speaker 1: with the team. So your thought on a player jumping

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Speaker 1: right from the big leagues to leading a front office.

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Speaker 5: I can't cuss on the show, but it would be

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Speaker 5: f Yeah, let's see how this goes, because this would be.

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Speaker 2: Up an unbelievable krats are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: Right? From the player right?

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Speaker 5: Like now I control all this?

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Speaker 3: Are you kiddy me? Guessed?

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Speaker 5: And can we also get cameras to follow him around

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Speaker 5: every day? This would be the most Rockies thing of

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Speaker 5: all time if this actually happened, This would be unbelievably

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Speaker 5: Rockies right now, because one they probably could get it

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Speaker 5: for cheap. Two they did Momford could just be like, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Do those do those blah blah blah. I don't.

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Speaker 5: Oh, you don't have any money, spend too bad?

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Speaker 3: Figure it out.

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Speaker 5: I hired you right off the field, like yes, please,

642
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Speaker 5: And we need a documentary on this. We need someone

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Speaker 5: foul Territory will make Michael Beer and producer Lady follow

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Speaker 5: at a Monavino around day to day and do a

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Speaker 5: show on this, because this would be must watch TV

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Speaker 5: for a guy that has absolutely no experience in anything

647
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Speaker 5: other than playing. So if he once gets a job,

648
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Speaker 5: then Kratz can get a job too, So yes, let's go.

649
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Speaker 5: Am I am I looking for a job. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: You get a job. Everyone gets getting am I getting fired?

651
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Speaker 5: You know what I want to see? I want to

652
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Speaker 5: see it. Like AJ said, it's must see TV, but

653
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Speaker 5: I want to see it.

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Speaker 4: I want to see honestly, this is this is less

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Speaker 4: joking and more serious. I want to see if Adam

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Speaker 4: Anavino institutes the things that he told me when he

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Speaker 4: came when he came over to the Yankees from the

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Speaker 4: Rockies playing against some of the Rockies then I played

659
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Speaker 4: with them with the Yankees, and.

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Speaker 3: He had this booklet.

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Speaker 4: He had the iPad of everything and going through all

662
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 4: the numbers and everything, and he was just like, Rockies

663
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 4: didn't have any of this. Rockies are so behind the times.

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Speaker 4: And DJ le Mayhew would never say a word. And

665
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 4: DJ was over on the other side of the locker room.

666
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 4: He's like, yep, nothing, they had nothing. They had nothing.

667
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 4: So you know what if Otto steps in to this

668
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 4: role and people listen to him because he's there, maybe he's.

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Speaker 3: The perfect person.

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Speaker 4: Maybe he's the perfect person because he's come from other

671
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 4: organizations and they they're not afraid of.

672
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Speaker 3: Listening to him. I think too many people come into.

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Speaker 4: The Rockies organization and the insular like unit of people

674
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Speaker 4: that are there, like nobody from the outside. No, how

675
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 4: do you not how do you not just fall in

676
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 4: step with Dick Montfort, Like, how do you not just

677
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 4: fall in step with everything we've done for the last

678
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 4: twenty five years? Don't change a thing. We got a

679
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Speaker 4: lot of fans and maybe they look at Auto and

680
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 4: they're like, you know what, it's a good picture, you

681
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,719
Speaker 4: know what. We think he's smart. What does he have

682
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 4: to say? Maybe we'll listen, And maybe that's just a

683
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 4: small step in the right direction, because they need somebody

684
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 4: who knows pitching and knows how balls work at coursefield

685
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 4: because it has not worked. And maybe he's like, hey,

686
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 4: you know what, this is exactly how it can be implemented.

687
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 4: So maybe it will be something totally outside the box

688
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 4: like this and it would maybe work.

689
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Speaker 3: But I am definitely here to see it.

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Speaker 2: This part's important.

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00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: We remind people all the time that the team is

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Speaker 1: run ultimately by the owner. Will it help to have

693
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: Ottamavino telling them on forts what they should be doing? Yes, example,

694
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Speaker 1: a Buster Posey ajay. Even if Buster Posey, would it

695
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Speaker 1: wasn't great at his job, which I think he'll do

696
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: a great job. He has the ear of ownership in

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Speaker 1: a way that is different. It's true you have to

698
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Speaker 1: be able to talk your decision makers into doing things,

699
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Speaker 1: and I think otta Vino would help an He's super smart.

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Speaker 2: I think he would be successful.

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Speaker 1: I like this is a little while to bring someone

702
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Speaker 1: right from an organization playing into running an organization. It

703
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Speaker 1: might be quote outside the box, but I don't think

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00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 1: it's off. There are some I think it's way more

705
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: crazy to bring in somebody who's barely touched the big

706
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 1: leagues as a coach and then have them be a manager.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think the Nats situation's way more wild

708
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: than what this would be for the Rocky. So I'm

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Speaker 1: totally with you guys. You know, I think some people

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Speaker 1: probably look at this as like, oh, they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a player right off the field.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Giants essentially did that. Posey didn't spend

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Speaker 1: that much.

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Speaker 5: Buster was around though Buster was around in the front

716
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 5: office doing stuff. That's to me the crazy part. Like

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00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 5: Chris Katz is a former player, right, he was in

718
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 5: player development and doing this and that. Right, there's there's

719
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 5: a bunch of them. Brandon Gomes is a former player,

720
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 5: Craig Breslow, these guys had jobs that they kind of

721
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 5: get the lay of the land to just take a

722
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 5: player that literally pitched this year and throw them in

723
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 5: that job and say, hey, go make trades, go go

724
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 5: figure out the minor leagues and this and that. I mean,

725
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Speaker 5: it's it's way outside the box, Scott, and that's why

726
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 5: I'm here for let's try it.

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00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 3: I sat in.

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Speaker 4: I sat in when I worked for the Red Sox

729
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 4: and a you know, front office type of role. I

730
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 4: sat in on all these meetings, had to make zero decisions,

731
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 4: just more evaluating. Dude, Auto is not ready for six

732
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 4: zoom calls a day, nine you know, group meetings with scouts,

733
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Speaker 4: with all this stuff. I don't know how you can

734
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 4: be ready right away after playing, Like, go sit in

735
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 4: in on it for two years minimum minimum. You're having

736
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 4: so many freaking meetings. And then on top of that,

737
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 4: he's got to be he's got to be one making

738
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 4: decisions and making changes and going in there and going like, hey,

739
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 4: you know what, I came up through the minor leagues

740
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 4: and you were my coach. But I remember how much

741
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 4: you did nothing. I'm gonna have to fire you. If

742
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 4: he's going to run the organization the correct way.

743
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: That Rockies position might not be open in two years.

744
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: Maybe they give him an assistant gam role and they

745
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: bring someone in with him, but even still then he

746
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: doesn't have to pathway if that person does well. Whatever, anyway,

747
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: we're all over this story. There was a trade while

748
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: we've been on the show, and it's somebody who can

749
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 1: be quite helpful in a bullpen. The Cubs traded Andrew

750
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: Kittridge back to the Orioles for cash considerations per both teams.

751
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: Kittridge had an option that I'm assuming the Orioles are

752
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: going to pick up. They initially signed him. He had

753
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,240
Speaker 1: a nine million dollar club option for twenty twenty six.

754
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: Cubs say no, they traded for him around the deadline.

755
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: Orioles say yes and get him back. You're not I

756
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: don't think legally allowed to do one of those, trading

757
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: him to you, but we want him back at the

758
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: end of the year.

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00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 2: It appears like that's what happened.

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00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 5: Exactly what happened for cast considerations, whether it's give him

761
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 5: a million bucks or something and it only cost him

762
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 5: eight million whatever, Good for you, Andrew Kittridge. I hope

763
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 5: you like Baltimore because you're back for in f they

764
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 5: suck again. Guess what you're gonna get traded again. Yeah,

765
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 5: good for them. We don't hear you, Scott, Scott, we

766
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 5: don't want.

767
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 3: To hear you.

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00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: It's good for Baltimore. Baltimore needs to build back up

769
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: their bullpen. Felix Bautista is not going to pitch this

770
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: coming season. There were a lot of tryouts going on

771
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: in the last couple of months for them. Pitching wise,

772
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: this is a solid veteran who's had a lot of success,

773
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: including this past season.

774
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 2: Not nearly as nasty as twenty twenty four.

775
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: He was off the charts good, but he was still

776
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: an above average reliever this past season for multiple ball clubs.

777
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 3: He was hurt at the beginning.

778
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, at the beginning, right, but I mean he ended

779
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: up going how many appearances.

780
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: I think he's still racked up like fifty something.

781
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 3: Started a bunch of games.

782
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,399
Speaker 5: Did didn't he start playoff games for him?

783
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 3: Yeah? He was starting closing.

784
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 4: My favorite is all the gifts is like comes into

785
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 4: your comes into your picnic whiffle ball game, and you

786
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 4: know he's just standing there like this how he pitches

787
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 4: and then he rows one and they're like, this is

788
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 4: the best whiffle ball picnic player of all time.

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Speaker 1: Well he's worth nine million dollars orioles get him back.

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00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: Bet MGM tweet on Andy Pai is saving the Dodges

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00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: season Krats, Would you like to explain what we're looking

792
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Speaker 1: at here?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you'll get off the track when the train's

794
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 4: coming through. Pie is just and Max Munsey's Max Munsey's

795
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 4: evaluation or not evaluation of it. But what he said

796
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 4: key K's reaction was key K said he said he

797
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 4: was sulking on the ground because he just lost the

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00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 4: World Series because he screwed up a fly ball to

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Speaker 4: the left center.

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Speaker 3: And then he's like, oh yeah, we called it. Nice job.

801
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 4: So he's fine being the being the school bus on

802
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 4: the on the train tracks.

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00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 3: Ah.

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00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: I heard key K after that game said that he

805
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: was trying to do his best really maze impression.

806
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:04,919
Speaker 2: Because they were like, what are you doing?

807
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Speaker 1: Because he's like, he's looking at it the over shoulder

808
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: action and then all of a sudden he just got

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00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: the truck sticked by a dude way bigger than him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was funny. That's what made it so funny.

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Speaker 5: And then he just laid there first second, which was great.

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00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 5: Max's explanation was awesome. But I mean, I thought k

813
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 5: was gonna catch that ball, even though he said he

814
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 5: swears he wasn't. I thought from from what I saw,

815
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 5: it looked like I was like, oh, Kik's got that ball.

816
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 5: But then all of a sudden, Pa, He's like, no,

817
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 5: I got this ball. And that's what you want centerfielders

818
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 5: to take over. Centerfielders to take over and take charge.

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00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 2: That ball was carrying too.

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00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 3: Yes, yes it was, but it was caught.

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Speaker 1: concern called one eight hundred gambler. Hey, can we rack

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Speaker 1: these three tweets in a row as we go? I

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Speaker 1: want to get them all in during this break here

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00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: world Series Game seven most watched Rogers broadcast ever, So

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Speaker 1: that's up in Canada. Average audience ten point nine million viewers.

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00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: It's the most watched English language broadcast on record in

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Speaker 1: Canada outside of the twenty ten Winter Olympics. So that's one.

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Speaker 1: Number two. This from Mike VORKANEUV. I'm probably butchering the name,

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Speaker 1: but he's talking ratings. NBA MLB both out at Game

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Speaker 1: seven for their championships this year. Both dramatic average viewership

838
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: numbers were not close. NBA Finals sixteen point sixty one million.

839
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Speaker 1: World Series averaged about twenty six million watching that Game

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00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: seven into us, by the way, and then Chaidavidi with

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Speaker 1: the power of the Blue Jays reach, he said, eighteen

842
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: and a half million Canadian viewers four twenty five percent

843
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: of Canada's population watched summer all of Game seven. It

844
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,720
Speaker 1: peaked at fourteen million in that Game seven.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 5: Wow, Baseball's dying. Where's the Japan numbers?

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00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 3: Dead? Though?

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00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 5: Basketball is thriving because the salary cap, and baseball's dying

849
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 5: because they don't have a salary cap.

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Speaker 1: I will say this to me, that has a lot

851
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: to do with how both leagues are being run Baseball

852
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: looks like the more popular sport. Yet NBA players have

853
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: way more followers and videos that could put out online

854
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: have way more views. NBA wise that part they have

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00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: us speed. I'm just saying that has to do with

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00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: something that our show is all about, right, Like MLB

857
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: is the most restrictive league by far in terms of

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00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: video rights and usage and all of that. Those are

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00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: the things that hold it back from being even bigger

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00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: in world's ahead of the NBA. It's true nfls is

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00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: in its own categor but MLB could be a very

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00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: firm number two, which it was for a long period

863
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: of time. It was number one, then it was number two.

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00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: Now people make a case for NBA versus MLB, but

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Speaker 1: those are the kind of things that hold it back.

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00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: Promoting their players, right, who promote their players better?

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00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 2: NBA or MLB?

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00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 4: Do your own, do your own math. It's super easy.

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00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 4: NBA commissioners all about promoting players, going on players podcasts.

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Speaker 4: The commissioner, I.

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Speaker 3: Think i'll call him number two.

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00:43:35,000 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 5: You show that Turner's boss, Scott.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Bartolo Cologne having fun on social media, staying active,

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Speaker 1: staying relevant. He tweeted, such an honor to be named

875
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Speaker 1: Pulls twenty twenty five Sexiest Man Alive.

876
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Speaker 2: Thanks for keeping my seat warm. John Krasinski.

877
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing that John one, but he has been replaced

878
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Speaker 1: via photo shop by bart Aka.

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Speaker 2: The original Big Sexy oh An.

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Speaker 1: FT's Sexiest Man Alive four November fourth is Eric Kratz

881
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Speaker 1: with his vintage Yankees photo Krats, congratulations.

882
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Speaker 4: I'd like to thank all the people that had all

883
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 4: of my steroid tests coming back negative.

884
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 3: I'd like to thank them.

885
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 4: And this is an honor that I've known for minutes

886
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Speaker 4: now for minutes. So I'm going to celebrate this after

887
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 4: the show, like the Dodgers celebrated their World series.

888
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: You just thanked the people that watched. You have to

889
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: be in a cup to prove your innocitizence.

890
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Speaker 2: Those are the people you want to show your hat.

891
00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: We got thirty seconds.

892
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 4: Panic Panic in Chicago showed is gone. They know their

893
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 4: owner is not paying any money. Tucker was a one

894
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 4: year rental How to Wear the Cubs? How to Wear

895
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Speaker 4: the Cubs because AJ is loving every second of what's

896
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Speaker 4: going on.

897
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 5: Breaking my heart, cratch, breaking my oh Man cup fans

898
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Speaker 5: full panic mode just break crushes me deep down my hand.

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Speaker 2: Not criteria, Go do something.

900
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Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox sign showed how's the time to strike

901
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Speaker 1: like snake's territory