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Speaker 6: Hello and watch the show, go for it right, isn't

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Speaker 2: For you pictures, it was okay, you just wear the

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Speaker 1: Hey man, we're sissy's.

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Speaker 3: he's gonna be a Mariner for a while. They bought

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna call him superstar Catcher. Yeah, six years, one

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Speaker 6: FT fan, get after it.

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Speaker 7: He's an absolute beef Scottie. We're gonna see him playing

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Speaker 2: Like you said Jerry to put I didn't even think

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Speaker 7: You know, everybody, Jerry, you know he's not a guy

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Speaker 1: Especially after some comments he made durned off season. Now

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Speaker 6: You want a Platinum Glove.

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Speaker 3: Last year, thirty four homers, and the plate discipline is

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Speaker 4: But you also see a team that's aspiring to get

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Speaker 6: You have to hit.

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Speaker 3: Not only do they get cam Smith and he becomes

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Speaker 6: He's ready to go.

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Speaker 5: I'm brought back to another first round pick, third baseman,

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Speaker 3: Chandler Rome, Tyler Stafford, Josh Reddick can talk outfields. Astro's

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Speaker 3: Evan Carter was a star in the postseason a couple

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Speaker 3: strikes at a young age. You know he knows his

437
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Speaker 3: zone since he came up to the show. We saw

438
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Speaker 3: that right away from him. So hopefully he gets himself

439
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Speaker 3: right and gets up to the Rangers, which should be

440
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Speaker 3: a really competitive team this year. A lot of people

441
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Speaker 3: have them as like a sexy pick to when the Division,

442
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Speaker 3: if not even.

443
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Speaker 6: Gets to the World Series.

444
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Speaker 3: All right, up next, baraldis Chapman officially named the closer

445
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Speaker 3: for the Red Sox. We saw coming and for me,

446
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,320
Speaker 3: this is the one part of the team that you

447
00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,199
Speaker 3: still have some question marks with because the rotation certainly

448
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,879
Speaker 3: got fixed up, and the position player group already was

449
00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:09,760
Speaker 3: pretty good last year.

450
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Speaker 6: They could hit. The defense should be decent too, and.

451
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Speaker 3: Especially better now with Alex Braikman over at third base,

452
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Speaker 3: so and the bullpen hold up. And of course, Chapman

453
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Speaker 3: said he's looking forward to closing a game at Yankee

454
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Speaker 3: Stadium when he's with the Red Sox because he's an

455
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Speaker 3: adrenaline junk.

456
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Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.

457
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Speaker 7: And I feel like watching a roll this from when

458
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Speaker 7: he played here. When I play with him here, I

459
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:30,640
Speaker 7: feel like he's got.

460
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Speaker 2: Bigger and stronger each year.

461
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Speaker 7: He's like a fine wine man, and I know he'll

462
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Speaker 7: sip on his wine here and there. But this guy

463
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,719
Speaker 7: is an absolute legend. He's an absolute stud. His numbers

464
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,119
Speaker 7: just cute, absolutely rising and rising. I mean, dare I say,

465
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Speaker 7: one of the better closers to ever play in this game.

466
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Speaker 7: I mean, to be honest with you, he's been absolutely

467
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Speaker 7: doing it. From a guy in Louisville TRIPLEA where I

468
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,440
Speaker 7: used to tell him after the games, the games aren't

469
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Speaker 7: supposed to be this long. We have to pick it up.

470
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Speaker 7: We start laughing, and the next thing you know, he's

471
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Speaker 7: a closer. This guy's been putting up his whole career.

472
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Speaker 7: I think it's year fourteen or fifteen coming up on

473
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Speaker 7: Watch Out Man. This this is gonna be a fun

474
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Speaker 7: year for him.

475
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Speaker 1: It's it's crazy because when he first came up and

476
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Speaker 1: he's thrown one hundred and four miles an hour, who

477
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Speaker 1: would have thought that he'd still be pitching with this

478
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Speaker 1: kind of velocity in the fourteenth or fifteenth year in

479
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Speaker 1: the big leagues. It's it's awesome to see, but it

480
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of and I'm not saying he's

481
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 1: Lebron James, but Lebron keeps getting bigger and stronger as

482
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Speaker 1: he gets older too, and eround us. He's scary, like

483
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 1: he's a big dude man, Like see that guy coming

484
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Speaker 1: in from the bullpen.

485
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Speaker 3: Some pictures are worried about how they lift weights, and

486
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Speaker 3: he just doesn't care.

487
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Speaker 7: The house all right, and he's the analytical stuff and like, oh,

488
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Speaker 7: you're supposed to do this. No, No, he lives by

489
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Speaker 7: his means. He lives by what he's gotten there. He's

490
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Speaker 7: his dad taught him how to box at a young age.

491
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Speaker 7: He taught him how to lift weights at a young age.

492
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Speaker 7: And guess what it works out for a lot of it.

493
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Speaker 7: Bronson Royal used to you see the videos of him

494
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Speaker 7: doing cleans at like age eight nine, ten years old.

495
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Speaker 7: You know, not every everything is what it's made out

496
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 7: to be. And for him, he looks stronger, he looks

497
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Speaker 7: physically fit, and he's ready to go.

498
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Speaker 2: This Boston Red SoC team is going to be a

499
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Speaker 2: team to be feared.

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Speaker 5: Some of the people don't realize because he came up

501
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,159
Speaker 5: and he was gunslinging one hundred and five whatever. He

502
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Speaker 5: hit one hundred and five point three than one hundred

503
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Speaker 5: and five point whatever. They don't he's not necessarily just

504
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,239
Speaker 5: a gunslinger. He can actually throw the ball where he

505
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,120
Speaker 5: wants to. Does he get bounts of walks, absolutely, but

506
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 5: he knows what he needs, like Todd said, and what

507
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,160
Speaker 5: he needs is to be a monster in the weight room.

508
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 5: I've never seen I've never seen a pitcher military press

509
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 5: ninety fives, just like it's his job. Like this man's

510
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 5: out at the gym post game, and I'm not talking

511
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 5: to the field gym. He's going to like Planet Fitness

512
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,719
Speaker 5: anytime Fitness Genesis down the road with his crew and

513
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Speaker 5: he's just he lives. He lives a different life. And

514
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 5: the way you know, he still has more in the tank.

515
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 5: Last year when Ben Joyce hit like one hundred and four,

516
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 5: I think this was the same day saw it and

517
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 5: was like, I still got that in the tank. But

518
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 5: he's not every every day. He's not gonna do it.

519
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 5: He's not just gonna go out there and throw. He

520
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,120
Speaker 5: knows what his body needs, needs to how he needs

521
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 5: to use his body, and he's evolved.

522
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Speaker 6: He's a changed man.

523
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's still the high strikeout and high walk.

524
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 3: You gotta be careful there, guy, But I mean he

525
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 3: mostly used to be a two pitch pitcher. So last

526
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,359
Speaker 3: year he threw four pitches more than ten percent of

527
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 3: the time. He's got the four seemer, the sinker, the slider,

528
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 3: and the splitter.

529
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Speaker 6: Now that's fortunate, and it's filthy too.

530
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Speaker 7: You see one hundred coming at you, and you see

531
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 7: this split change coming at you looks like one hundred

532
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 7: year swing and you're missing it by like that mark.

533
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Speaker 7: So uh, I think Danny needed that split change back

534
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 7: in the day.

535
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'd still be pitching right now and

536
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Speaker 1: I'm fifty one years older.

537
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 2: You needed to split splinker, kick change. But he had

538
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 2: a good year.

539
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 6: Chapman. Last year we're going on ERA plus one hundred

540
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 6: league average. He was one eleven.

541
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Speaker 3: Because you know, the year before I mean, I think

542
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 3: some people were like, hey, is he going to be

543
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 3: done soon with Texas?

544
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 6: Let's see just what was he at.

545
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Speaker 3: I believe he was three seven to two with Texas

546
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Speaker 3: after a two four five era with Kansas City and

547
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 3: era hanging in the same range last year with Pittsburgh

548
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 3: and spent the whole season there. I thought he was

549
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 3: gonna get traded at the deadline. Pittsburgh was like, now

550
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 3: we're gonna kind of try. So he stayed there, but

551
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 3: he's gonna he's gonna get in an adrenaline boost. I

552
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 3: think here too, Kratz with Boston because he's gonna be

553
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 3: involved with a team that's probably going to be more

554
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 3: competitive than Pittsburgh, and I feel like he feeds off.

555
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 4: That and he's going to be used.

556
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Speaker 5: Like I said yesterday talking about closers, closers are not abused.

557
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 5: Closers are used. There's a difference that seventh eighth inning

558
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 5: guy might warm up in the sixth might warm up

559
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 5: in the eighth in case, you know, something else happens,

560
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 5: like you're getting Can I say dry humped on here?

561
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 4: But I did so, Yeah, that's what they call it.

562
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 4: That's what they call it.

563
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 2: And say it.

564
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 5: That's that's not happening. That's not happening to That hasn't

565
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 5: happened to him his entire career. So to me, I

566
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 5: think that's genius by Kora knowing, Hey, you know what,

567
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 5: I got another closer down there. Liam Hendricks too. He's

568
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 5: gonna have to wear it, but he'll probably be the

569
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 5: eighth inning guy and just throw Rodas out there in

570
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 5: the in the role he's been his entire career. And

571
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Speaker 5: he's gonna love pitching a Yankee stadium against the Yankees

572
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 5: because he loved it pitching a Yankee stadium against the

573
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Speaker 5: Red Sox.

574
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Speaker 6: It is hump day, so you're good. Yeah, it's a thing.

575
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 2: It's a thing.

576
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 6: He's not lying, all right.

577
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Speaker 3: Lastly, there were a ton of moves made by the Angels,

578
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,959
Speaker 3: so let's go over one good one. Nikki Lopez has

579
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 3: a locker in the Angels clubhouse, so uh, he's on

580
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 3: the team, and then they pick him up because they

581
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,639
Speaker 3: Kahata does not have a locker.

582
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Speaker 6: There's Sam Blum going over some of the news. Here's

583
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 6: a couple more.

584
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 3: Mickey Moniak was cut former number one overall pick Kratz

585
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 3: Phillies picked them back when they were going through their rebuild,

586
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 3: and he actually, this is what's interesting where our show

587
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 3: gets into it. He took the Angels to arbitration, right,

588
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 3: they didn't come up with a number. They wanted one

589
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 3: and a half mill for him. He said two. They

590
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 3: go to arbitration. He wins the case, but doesn't make

591
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 3: the team, didn't hit well in spring training, didn't have

592
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 3: a great year last year.

593
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 2: Defensive metrics don't like him.

594
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 3: He was a slightly a negative win player, which I'm

595
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 3: sure arbitration doesn't care about because the arbitration judges don't

596
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 3: know baseball, but they cut him, and because he won

597
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 3: an arbitration and didn't settle before arbitration, instead of getting

598
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 3: say the one and a half or a little bit more,

599
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 3: the two million dollars gets cut down to about three

600
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty three grands. So it just shows for

601
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 3: some players why they end up not going to arbitration,

602
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 3: because just in case you don't have a good camp

603
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 3: and you're kind of a you know, lower end maybe

604
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 3: bench player for a team, they could cut you and

605
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,239
Speaker 3: not really have much of a consequence. I mean, three

606
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 3: hundred grand is nothing for a big league team. So anyway,

607
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 3: what do you think about the way that that.

608
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 4: Sorry, I gotta, I gotta.

609
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 5: That's no and no, no contract under five years of

610
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 5: service is guaranteed arbitration pre ORB anything like that. They're

611
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 5: not guaranteed, even if he would have even if he

612
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 5: would have agreed before go into an arbitration process, you

613
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 5: need five years of service to have it guaranteed. So

614
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 5: him getting part part of it guaranteed is actually a

615
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 5: boon for him.

616
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 3: Oh so it doesn't matter if your arbor pre orb.

617
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 3: I must have understood that wrong.

618
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 5: Five years are under And the only reason I know

619
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 5: that is because I went through the same thing. I

620
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 5: had four years and like, I was thirteen days short

621
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,719
Speaker 5: of five years, and they were gonna cut me at

622
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 5: the end of spring training, and I was like, well,

623
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 5: don't because that would suck. And they ended up trading

624
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 5: me and so I got my I got my contract

625
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 5: because I was on another team, But had they cut me,

626
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 5: I would have only gotten it, says a third. I

627
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 5: think it's like, I think it's considered ninety days of

628
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 5: your of your salary, so it's not fully guaranteed, but

629
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 5: there is a guaranteed.

630
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Speaker 4: Portion of it.

631
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 3: No, this isn't totally adding up. So let's say you're

632
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 3: you know, Julio Rodriguez and you signed a couple of

633
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 3: years in. I mean that everything that he just signed

634
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 3: is guaranteed. So what do you what do you mean

635
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: he signed?

636
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 5: He signed a big league contract. An arbitration contract is

637
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 5: not fully guaranteed until after five years of service.

638
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 6: If you get to ARB.

639
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 3: If it's pre ARB and you settle on a contract

640
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 3: like an extension, I think it's guaranteed.

641
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 6: All right, we'll look it up.

642
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 2: We could, we could defend it. Text.

643
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna text the first over. Yeah, yes, stay out

644
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 3: of this fight. We talk every day, so we're allowed

645
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 3: to do this. Brian Johnson has made the Angels opening

646
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 3: day roster. He was picked last year out a Dallas

647
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 3: Baptist didn't throw in the minors last year. He's twenty

648
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 3: two years old, seventy fourth overall pick the comp pick

649
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 3: for them losing Otani, and they're like right up to

650
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 3: the biggs, which the Angels do every year.

651
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 6: Right.

652
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 3: They don't really believe in the school system of minor leagues.

653
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: If you're good enough, they're like right up to the chef,

654
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 3: right up.

655
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 2: If you're ready to go.

656
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 7: I think of Mike Leak Cincinnati read Yeah, same guy

657
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 7: came up.

658
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, man, he's on the fence. Here is

659
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 2: he gonna make it? Is he not? Boom came right up? Boom.

660
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 7: Why not let's go see what you're made of. Some

661
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 7: guys don't need it. There's a lot of guys I

662
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 7: thought that didn't need it that should have been called up.

663
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 7: But that's the nature of the beast in baseball. But yeah,

664
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 7: fortunate for him, he's gonna have a big opportunity. Let's

665
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 7: let's give him a chance to And I think people

666
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 7: need to understand that give this guy a chance. He

667
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 7: might fail a little bit, but guess that's it. He

668
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 7: deserves to be there. And congratulations to him.

669
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: I trust Ron Washington. Whatever decisions he makes to keep

670
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: somebody on the roster. I know it's not just uh,

671
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: let's just go and see what he's gonna do. I

672
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: think he feels something good about about this kid, that

673
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: he's got a great arm and see what you can

674
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: and if it doesn't work out, guess what. Plenty of

675
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: time to go down in the minor leagues and develop.

676
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: But why not give the kid a chance if he

677
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: feels he's ready I don't like wasting bullets of pitchers.

678
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: If you feel like he's a big league pitcher, I'm

679
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: fine with that sometimes with the position players. I think

680
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different with the Angels where you

681
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: should let him marinate a little bit, But it.

682
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 6: Is what it is.

683
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrew Suck. We've had a bunch obviously in spring training,

684
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 3: as we always do. Here's one that just popped up

685
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: yesterday right after The show Man. Jordan Montgomery has had

686
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 3: just a weird journey the last couple of years. Kratz,

687
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 3: former teammate of yours. He appeared in two spring training games.

688
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 3: He was going through like a finger issue that he had,

689
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 3: so he's mostly doing backfield work, and then he wasn't

690
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 3: recovering well after outings, so he's actually going under the knife.

691
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 3: He's not going to pitch for the whole year. He's

692
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: getting Tommy John surgery. It's the second TJ that he's getting.

693
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 3: He had one in twenty eighteen with the Yankees, so

694
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 3: that'll be it for his Arizona Diamonbacks career, right.

695
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 6: I don't think he has another option after this to use.

696
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 3: And you know, it was just the World Series win

697
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 3: with the Rangers stud picked up at the deadline. The

698
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks regretted not getting him at the time right and

699
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 3: thought maybe if we had him on our side, because

700
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 3: we were close, we would have won the World Series.

701
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 3: They signed him in the off season. He had a

702
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 3: terrible year. He gets booted to the bullpen, he's pissed

703
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 3: about it, switches representation off season.

704
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 6: You're thinking he's going to get traded. He doesn't.

705
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 3: Now we're in spring training, doesn't make the starting rotation,

706
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 3: gets booted to the bullpen, and then one day later

707
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: announces Tommy John surgery. How was that for chronological order

708
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 3: of a crazy freaking year and a half.

709
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 5: And the thing that people don't remember is Ken Kendrick,

710
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 5: the owner of the Diamondbacks, came out and said when

711
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 5: they signed him, when they signed him originally, they said,

712
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 5: you know what, our success last year has led to

713
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 5: x amount more season tickets that they sold, So it

714
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 5: was kind of a later signing in the Blake Snell ilk.

715
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 5: You know, each of them missed the spring training and

716
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 5: it was a tough start. So kudos to Ken Kendrick.

717
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 5: Then fast forward a year, not kudos to what he said,

718
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 5: and it just sucked like This is just I'm not

719
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 5: saying that people should take the first offer that they

720
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 5: get or just just more. Each individual situation in free

721
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 5: agency contract offers is different. Jordan Montgomery was looking at

722
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty million. It didn't come It was

723
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 5: kind of a late late surge in his career at

724
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 5: the end of it, you know, before he made it

725
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 5: to free agency where he was really successful, really healthy.

726
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 5: It sucks, but after all of this, a year to

727
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 5: just like reset, a year to rehab and be one

728
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 5: hundred percent healthy for next year.

729
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 4: I think we'll do him a world of good.

730
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 3: Well, the story too with him that offseason was about

731
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 3: four years one hundred million dollars. Insiders have put it

732
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 3: out there and even I asked a couple of people

733
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 3: and got some confirmation. So I'm not the insider, but

734
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 3: it was about four hundred. Yeah, he's looking for the

735
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 3: one fifty. It doesn't come through, and you know some

736
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: people are like, oh, he held out too long and

737
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 3: all that.

738
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean he had one hundred mili, he

739
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 6: might not have wanted to go to Boston.

740
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, but here here's the problem that I have, and

741
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 7: I remember going through it when I tried signed in

742
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,239
Speaker 7: long term. And I don't blame the agencies, but at

743
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 7: the same time they go about they don't want to

744
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 7: ruin the landscape, like you got it, you gotta stick

745
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 7: with this. You know you can't go under this price?

746
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 7: Well why not? I know it's fifty million, But at

747
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 7: the end of the day he lost out on so

748
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 7: much more money if somebody was to offer you that.

749
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 7: I mean, at the end of the day, like, oh,

750
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 7: you can't do that, You'll ruin the landscape of what

751
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 7: you know, the younger players are gonna get coming up.

752
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: Baloney. This is my life too as well.

753
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 7: And I you know, looking back on some things in

754
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 7: careers and in my career it's like maybe, you know,

755
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 7: I shouldn't have listened, and I should have did this,

756
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 7: or other guys shouldn't have listened, did that, Like listen,

757
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 7: one hundred million dollars is game changing. He wouldn't have

758
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 7: to wear He still doesn't have to worry about anything.

759
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 7: But still his kids, kids, kids, everybody else down the

760
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 7: road would have been taken care of. Stop worrying about

761
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 7: the norm of what everybody else got, and worry about

762
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 7: what you feel is right.

763
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: It's hard to say no to something has nine figures

764
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: in it right for however many years. And I know

765
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: it's easy for us to say that here, but if

766
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: any of us were offered that, I think it would

767
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: be a pretty easy decision. But yeah, I think when

768
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: you mentioned that they're trying to keep the kind of

769
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: the salaries where they are or above as the years

770
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: go by, I get that. I understand where everybody's going

771
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: with that. But at the same time, like if somebody

772
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: takes a hometown discount, nobody's really complaining about that. They're

773
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: complaining when you're going to free agency and not signing

774
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: for fifty extra million dollars, like you know.

775
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,879
Speaker 7: You can't do They go you can't do that, Yes

776
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 7: you can, You're lot right. The other side's going to

777
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 7: be like, yeah, we could do whatever the heck we want. Well,

778
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 7: you know you're going to change your landscape of you know,

779
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 7: free agency and this and that below me.

780
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my life. I want to get what I

781
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 2: feel like I deserve.

782
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 6: We've had him on.

783
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 3: It's been a minute because he's been going through a lot,

784
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 3: but I'd love to get him back on at some

785
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 3: point Kratz, because I'm not even sure if it was

786
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 3: just about the money.

787
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 4: I know.

788
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 3: You know, remember that offseason two years ago, there were

789
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 3: talks about his wife studying in Boston for something. But

790
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 3: then it sounded like talking to some other people behind

791
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 3: the scenes, he really wanted to go back to Texas.

792
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 3: Maybe they were hoping that something would formulate. But the Rangers,

793
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 3: you know, really didn't spend much a couple off seasons

794
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 3: ago after winning the World Series, So I'm curious what

795
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 3: ended up happening there. I Mean, sometimes you know, you

796
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 3: run with something, Oh, this person's doing some school here

797
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 3: for a year, he must want to sign there, and

798
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,479
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, that might not be the case because

799
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 3: he was brought the deal and he said no.

800
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent.

801
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 5: And I mean that did the Rangers make the right choice?

802
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 5: You know, the Rangers fans will probably be like, oh, no,

803
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 5: they had a down year. I wish we would have

804
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 5: had another guy. Yeah, you're always looking for better players,

805
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 5: resigning players. Their TV contract landscape was up in the

806
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 5: air in the off season, so they didn't make moves.

807
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 5: Looking back on it, yeah, they needed more pitching depth.

808
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 5: They got Jacob deGrom and you know, he didn't throw

809
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 5: a lot for him. A lot of things a lot

810
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 5: of things go into it, and it's not cut or dry,

811
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 5: but it is exactly what Todd said.

812
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 4: I get it.

813
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 5: Agents are gonna be around a lot longer than players are.

814
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 4: Players.

815
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 5: Association is gonna be at around a lot longer than

816
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 5: an individual player is. But it's your opportunity to capitalize.

817
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 5: And if you think that number is your number, hey

818
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 5: get it.

819
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 3: Can I get some clarification here too, just from the

820
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 3: show that has all these players on that say whatever

821
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 3: they want.

822
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 6: You know, you have some people online like.

823
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 3: Oh, he didn't make the rotation, so he was just like,

824
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 3: screw it, I'm gonna get surgery. I'm like, you know,

825
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 3: as much as you want to buy into certain conspiracy

826
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 3: theories and storylines, and I'm sure he's not pleased with

827
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 3: the owner of the team, you're a pitcher and he

828
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 3: already had TJ.

829
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 4: Yeah.

830
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 6: Do you think that someone would be like.

831
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: You know what, I probably don't need this, but let

832
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 3: me go for it.

833
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 6: I saw plenty of that.

834
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 5: Yeah.

835
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 6: No, I'm sure.

836
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 3: Oh he was on the cusp and decided because he

837
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 3: didn't make the rotation, he's just gonna sit the year

838
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 3: out and get surgery.

839
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 2: Kind of like the Rendoin story.

840
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 3: Which, Hey, I'm the first person to be like, this

841
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 3: guy doesn't like baseball, bat signing, whatever.

842
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 6: But I don't think he's getting hip surgery for fun, right.

843
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: You don't want to go under the knife just to

844
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: go under the knife. It's not like you're getting plastic

845
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: surgery to fix something, right, Like this is something that

846
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 1: you're fixing inside and then you can't play for a while.

847
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery, whether he made the rotation or didn't make

848
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: the rotation, he wants to pitch better so that he

849
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: can get a contract when free agency comes again. It's

850
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: he's not gonna cry wolf and say, Okay, I'm just

851
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: gonna go and get cut right now, have this big

852
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: slice in my elbow again.

853
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then obviously, I mean you're a double TJ guy.

854
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 3: Your value goes down, right, if you want to clearly

855
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 3: just go off of that narrative. Your value goes down.

856
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 3: Your dad had two Tommy John surgeries. I don't know

857
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 3: when he's gonna come back, but it's probably not going

858
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 3: to be at the start of next year. So do

859
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 3: you really think that he's that spiteful. He's just gonna

860
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 3: miss a year and a half. The time and cost

861
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: himself even more money just by going under the night. No,

862
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: he couldn't recover after he's got a tear again.

863
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, he still wants a pitch. I mean yeah, he

864
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 7: wants to play. He's still pretty young.

865
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 3: Yeah he is yes man two years ago, dude, he

866
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 3: was freaking nasty, just just picking his spots, changing speeds,

867
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 3: like the sequencing was so on for him. He was

868
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 3: just so good in the playoffs. He's not the biggest

869
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 3: stuff guy, but he was a pitcher.

870
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it spot up with the best of them.

871
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, so get well soon, Demanti. We'll get him on

872
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,919
Speaker 3: at some point. We'll we'll we'll have krats text him,

873
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 3: you know, every other week and say we miss you.

874
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 3: So we get him to join us because he's pretty

875
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 3: fun combat. Anyway, let's get to Jared Jones. It was

876
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 3: really fun to watch last year for the Pirates. So

877
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 3: he goes down for a little bit of time. He's

878
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 3: getting testing done. This is actually good news here. He's

879
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 3: gonna miss time, but no torn ligaments, no surgery. He's

880
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 3: gonna go six weeks without throwing. So this was from

881
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 3: Noah haile To we've had on the show. Does great

882
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 3: job covering the team. He said overall encouraging news for

883
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 3: the Pirates. It is encouraging long term news for the Pirates.

884
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 3: On the short term, I just feel like this is

885
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 3: a team that needs so many things to go right

886
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,439
Speaker 3: for them to be a playoff club. And if he's

887
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 3: not doing anything for six weeks, well here you start here,

888
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 3: six weeks, then you got the ramp up and he's

889
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 3: a starter. I didn't look up what the date is,

890
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 3: but if we had to guess, I mean we're talking

891
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 3: what maybe late May, maybe June.

892
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: Well, if they're if they're making him sit for six weeks,

893
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: why don't he just go ahead and get cut, just

894
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,240
Speaker 1: like Jordan Montgomery is going to get.

895
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 6: His elbow cut right right, just going under the Yeah.

896
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 1: So it's unfortunate for them, obviously, but I still think

897
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: that they're ways away.

898
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 6: The Pirates.

899
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they would need Paul Schemes to pitch every

900
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: single day of every single game. So but it's unfortunate,

901
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: and hopefully, you know, when he does get ramped back

902
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: up after the six weeks, it may be June, it

903
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: may be after the All Star break, but I don't

904
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: think there's any reason to rush him to get where

905
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: they want him to be because they're not going to

906
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: be contending. They're still in that rebuild and they're still

907
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: going to be relevant for a little bit. But at

908
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you don't want to risk

909
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: this guy and actually have him go under the knife

910
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: if you bring back too soon.

911
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 7: You know, I mean, I mean, what can you do?

912
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 7: I mean you're gonna have to. I would build my

913
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 7: legs up like nobody else's business. That's probably the only

914
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 7: thing you can do. And for him rehab, build your

915
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 7: legs up, get a little stammin or get on the

916
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 7: bike and on the treadmill, stuff like that, and be

917
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 7: ready to go. Because when your time's called, what happens

918
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 7: if all of a sudden they tear it up and

919
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 7: they need a guy, Oh well, we got him coming back,

920
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 7: so be ready to go. I think it's it's six weeks.

921
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say three months at least in my opinion,

922
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 7: because you're gonna have to ramp back up, start your

923
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 7: throwing program, go down to a minor league stint, and

924
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 7: where you.

925
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 4: Go, easy, easy, ty.

926
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 5: You're exactly right, because if he's not thrown for six weeks,

927
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 5: you're talking about a build up for six weeks after

928
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 5: that then rehab so and that rehab stint can be

929
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 5: twenty days, probably three or four starts, depending But either way,

930
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 5: are we not concerned that this is back to back

931
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 5: years of a young kid who throws a billion with

932
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 5: a banger that there's no structural damage, but there's pain

933
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 5: and inflammation in that elbow, Like, are we like, is

934
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 5: there a concern that, hey, you know what, maybe physically,

935
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 5: biomechanically he may need to change something because no damage

936
00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 5: is great, but there's precursors and if they don't nip

937
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 5: it in the bud right now, where are we at?

938
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 3: It's tricky though, because, like we're talking about, you're not

939
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 3: going to just get surgery right that it's not needed, No,

940
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 3: no, no no. But the issue means you're saying, when he

941
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 3: comes back to change something, is there a formula like, well,

942
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 3: what he actually has to do?

943
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 6: Spin it different?

944
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 2: Maybe?

945
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, you know, maybe.

946
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: Come up with a different pitch, one that's not going

947
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: to put so much stress.

948
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 6: But which one is that?

949
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: That's what they I think that's what Cratsy's saying that biomechanically,

950
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: you got to figure that out. Figure out what is

951
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: causing this this issue the pain because there's there's no

952
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: structural damage. But if there's pain when you're throwing, you

953
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: can't just keep throwing that way and hope that there's

954
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: no structural damage. Eventually, you got to figure out how

955
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: to make this work where you can pitch without pain

956
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: and memris.

957
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 2: They don't show everything, you know.

958
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 7: I when I had knee surgery, I had of torn meniscus,

959
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 7: but they also found three different other things in there

960
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 7: they didn't see on the m R. That's just the

961
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 7: God's honest true. So I'm not saying they're missing the

962
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 7: big thing, but there could be some underlying factors as

963
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 7: well we're not seeing.

964
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we talked about the pitching injury epidemic

965
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 3: for a couple of years now. Kratz, I feel like

966
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 3: I'll read, Hey, throwing hard causes a problem. Hey, throwing

967
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 3: breakers causes a problem. I'm like, so what doesn't cause

968
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 3: a problem, Like you know, just long doss or medium

969
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 3: what doesn't cause a problem, Like forget that, what pitch

970
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 3: doesn't cause a problem?

971
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 6: And an eighty two mile an hour fastball.

972
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 5: Maybe throw maybe throw more. I mean even one of

973
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 5: the one of the slower throwers. As far as like

974
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 5: prospects go Drew Thorpe with the White Sox, he went,

975
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 5: he went Yankees to the Padres Padres. You know, he

976
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 5: was in big trades. He got Tommy Johns. So it's

977
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 5: not necessarily only the guys that throw hard. To me,

978
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 5: why don't if you're if you're a pirates organization, why

979
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 5: don't you try to go outside the box. You're not

980
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 5: willing to pay for the big time guys. And I'm

981
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 5: not saying this to one specific player. I'm talking about

982
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 5: the org. Have these dudes throw more, Have them throw more.

983
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,919
Speaker 5: People are gonna be like, what, You're an idiot. Okay, yeah,

984
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 5: I've been called an idiot before. And before you say

985
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 5: anything else, I'm a two h nine career hitter, So

986
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe try something

987
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 5: different than what everybody like. We're guys, innings are going

988
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 5: two hundred to one eighty. Now, a dude's a workhorse

989
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 5: if he throws one hundred and sixty innings. Have them

990
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 5: throw more, and maybe they learn to pitch and like

991
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 5: not have to throw their one hundred pitches at a

992
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 5: billion percent.

993
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: And be out of the game in the fourth inning

994
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: after four thirds. So I agree with with Cratzy there.

995
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: I think as pitchers, you have to throw more. You

996
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: that's your one and only job is to throw, So

997
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: why not throw more long, toss more, whether it's every

998
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: day or every other day. But I also, and this

999
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 1: is going to probably piss off a lot of pictures

1000
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: and strength coaches, but I never wanted to go in

1001
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: the weight room and do anything upper body except like

1002
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: normal shoulder routines. And as far as weightlifting, are they

1003
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: weightlifting too much? Is that's what causing this strain on

1004
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: their elbows? I never once had a sore elbow. My

1005
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: shoulder would hurt often, but my elbow never bothered me.

1006
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: But is that because I never worked out my upper body?

1007
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Maybe these guys are

1008
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 1: working out too much.

1009
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 2: For all this.

1010
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 3: Chapmen from thirty minutes ago in the show says, excuse me,

1011
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 3: I lift like a beast, And yeah, he's had some injuries,

1012
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 3: but he's mostly been a freaking workhorse reliever, and I

1013
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:42,720
Speaker 3: get it, different starter reliever.

1014
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 6: And also there's some outlier bodies.

1015
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 3: But crats I mean, I just don't think we have

1016
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 3: a formula yet we do this all the time. We're like, oh,

1017
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 3: we got to fix the pitching injury epidemic. And then

1018
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 3: we ask people, even smart people, like what's the answer,

1019
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 3: And there's not much of an answer. I think that,

1020
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 3: you know, the most common one is probably the youth,

1021
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 3: but that's not even.

1022
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 2: The right way to look at it.

1023
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 6: Forever or not.

1024
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 3: Every picture was pitching a million innings when they were

1025
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 3: a kid, either, and they still get hurt. So I

1026
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 3: just don't feel like there's good answers yet. Besides the body,

1027
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 3: unless you want to change the body and turn it

1028
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,959
Speaker 3: into a cyborg, it's just not made to do this stuff.

1029
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 5: I think, and I said this before, the biomechanical stuff

1030
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 5: that teems if you don't have a bio mechanical lab

1031
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 5: with the force plates, and I think it's like a

1032
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 5: twelve camera system around in like an enclosed area. If

1033
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 5: you don't have that, now you're three or four years

1034
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 5: behind every other organization that has it. That's how we're

1035
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 5: going to figure out how structurally mechanically, you know, biometrically,

1036
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 5: people are moving, and what is going to create long

1037
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 5: term sustained health and what is putting a lot of

1038
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 5: stress on this and on this The stress is on

1039
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 5: this Okay, we.

1040
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 4: Come back after a year to fourteen months.

1041
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,320
Speaker 5: If they play through this, then you start getting some

1042
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 5: Danny Gray's stress on this, and that ain't it because

1043
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 5: once this goes tough to come back from it.

1044
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 3: A pitching lab is the sexy word in baseball, but

1045
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 3: I think only half the teams, if not less, have it.

1046
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 6: It costs several million dollars.

1047
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that

1048
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 3: the Pirates don't have a pitching lab yet. I hope

1049
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 3: someone's watching or listening to another plenty of exact agents whatever,

1050
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 3: text me if I'm wrong, or crats if you know,

1051
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 3: but I don't think they have one.

1052
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 5: They have one of the most elaborate batting cages. I

1053
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 5: mean it looked like Chuck E. Cheese is in there

1054
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 5: when I hit with my son in the batting cage.

1055
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,240
Speaker 5: They got so many gimmicks and other things. I didn't

1056
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 5: see the force plate, but a lot of people, a

1057
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 5: lot of teams have it in a different section their

1058
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 5: own pitching lab, like they want to be super secretive

1059
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 5: about it. Plus the lighting has to be perfect, and

1060
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 5: there's a lot of the red Sox.

1061
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 4: I saw it that John.

1062
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 6: Is nice nice. At some point I want to talk

1063
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 6: about that on the show.

1064
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 3: If anyone can reveal it, maybe we'll get a cia

1065
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 3: op on to talk about it. Let's slap, We'll get

1066
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,240
Speaker 3: to one fan question if we have time. You know what, Also,

1067
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 3: I keep forgetting to do this, So krats hats go now,

1068
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 3: and then I'll do our quick shout out here.

1069
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 2: I got it. I gotta be a Philly hut.

1070
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 4: I mean, why wow off. I mean I'm going.

1071
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 5: I'm going Phillies and rads here. Only problem is, just

1072
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 5: like my hair, whoa, Reds are gonna be out. They're

1073
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 5: gonna be knocked out by the Phillies in the playoffs

1074
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 5: this year.

1075
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 6: Wow.

1076
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 3: A little sneak peak of his playoff predictions for tomorrow.

1077
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 3: All right, let's shout.

1078
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 6: Out a long time broadcaster with the Nationals.

1079
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 3: You've had a really cool message to fans a couple

1080
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: of days ago.

1081
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 9: It's good to be back in our ballpark. And as

1082
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 9: we do, I've got a little personal news to share

1083
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 9: with you. The twenty twenty five season will be my

1084
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 9: final one as the nats primary TV play by play guy.

1085
00:48:58,120 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 9: Whatever you like to call me, I'm okay with that.

1086
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 9: But I've got a new deal working for next year

1087
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 9: as a full time husband, dad and grandpa, and it's

1088
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 9: been pretty cool to have the kids around for the

1089
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 9: last couple of months after they moved home from Seattle.

1090
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 9: So my objective is to all season long, thank you

1091
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 9: Nets fans for the way that you've been to my wife,

1092
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 9: Debbie and I and our family over these nineteen years previously.

1093
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 9: Let's make number twenty a lot of fun. I'm sure

1094
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 9: next time, at this next year, at this time, I'll

1095
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 9: be a little melancholy and a little bit sad with

1096
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 9: opening day approaching, but feeling like I'm doing the right

1097
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 9: thing for my family, and that's good enough for all

1098
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 9: of us.

1099
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 2: All right.

1100
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 3: So cheers to Bob Carpenter, who this is his twentieth

1101
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 3: season calling Nats baseball, forty two seasons calling ball.

1102
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 6: Easy listens.

1103
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 3: He's got a great home run later, exactly great, great

1104
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 3: home run Paul too, So very good.

1105
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 6: My girl doesn't watch baseball much. That's her favorite CAB.

1106
00:49:58,960 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 2: That's a marketable call.

1107
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,760
Speaker 7: That's doubt you Later.

1108
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,839
Speaker 2: I think it's great. It is great. There's some really

1109
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 2: good call. Oh my god.

1110
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 7: You know, I've always sat back and always thought like

1111
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 7: what would be my home uncle.

1112
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 2: I I still don't have like a natural one. You know.

1113
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 7: I always take like a few from this guy and

1114
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 7: that one. It's always the Michael k one that always

1115
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 7: comes comes to my mind, like because just because I

1116
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 7: hear them all the time, you know, and I work.

1117
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 7: But it's like, you got to come with something natural

1118
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 7: that was absolutely incredible.

1119
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, can you come up with something for tomorrow?

1120
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 7: You know you and are gonna sit down over a

1121
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 7: little surveys yea, and we're gonna figure it out.

1122
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: And we're gonna be people gonna look at a screaming.

1123
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 2: MGM place next door. We're gonna just scream it out.

1124
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have one, I mean, muss up.

1125
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 2: Oh so so just do just do it real quick.

1126
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 7: Danny Graves throws a picture Todd Fraser go ahead and

1127
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 7: strike three.

1128
00:50:59,280 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: Up.

1129
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 6: I wouldn't do you remember when now I sorr, I

1130
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 6: beg you whatever else.

1131
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 3: But then I'd be like Fraser muscles up for his

1132
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 3: thirty second homer of the year and the Reds go.

1133
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: You know, I like the secondary call.

1134
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 6: But whatever.

1135
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 3: Anyway, if you're watching online, we're staying. We got thirty

1136
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 3: seconds left. Krat Oh. There was a question about Austin

1137
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 3: Wells an extension. I'm going to save that for tomorrow. Actually,

1138
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 3: I think it was a very good question Pinball Wizard

1139
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 3: asked it.

1140
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 6: So how about this.

1141
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 3: I'm going to put it in my little notes, which

1142
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 3: you know eighty percent of the time I actually remember them.

1143
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 3: So there's a good chance we'll talk about it tomorrow.

1144
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 3: We got an opening day show tomorrow, of course, eleven

1145
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 3: am Eastern Time. That'll be our last eleven am of

1146
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 3: the season. So one more one more sleep than one

1147
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 3: more early time.

1148
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 6: Yeah,