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Speaker 1: All Star slugger from the A's Brent Rooker hanging out

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Speaker 1: with us.

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Speaker 2: Rook, good to see you, dude. How's the off season going,

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Speaker 2: man off sea?

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Speaker 3: It has been good.

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Speaker 4: Been busy. He's been traveling a pretty good bit kind

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Speaker 4: of all over the place, a couple of teammate weddings, uh,

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Speaker 4: Sacramento trip, things like that. So it's been busy, but

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Speaker 4: it's been a good one.

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Speaker 2: Wait before you go, look at his backdrop in ours.

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Speaker 2: That's very so almost identical.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, well more minds bar over here before we

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Speaker 5: get before we get into a whole bunch of stuff

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Speaker 5: your off season. Did you hear what Eric Kratz said

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Speaker 5: about people from that go to school in Mississippi yesterday?

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Speaker 5: He said that there's never been any hitters that are

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Speaker 5: any good from Mississippi.

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Speaker 6: That's what he said.

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Speaker 3: And I said, pal.

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Speaker 5: Merrow Clark Rookery, that.

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Speaker 4: Might be true in one school in Mississippi, but definitely

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Speaker 4: not our school in Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: Hold, let Kratz defend himself. Then Rook can decide, you know,

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Speaker 1: because AJ likes to all.

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Speaker 4: Right, what was this?

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Speaker 3: Historically?

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Speaker 7: Historically high school hitters from Mississippi do not pan out

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Speaker 7: in the big leagues. Scouts have told me that for years,

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Speaker 7: and it was something that I never never really thought of.

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Speaker 7: And then AJ, being the media mobile that he is,

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Speaker 7: skewed my words and started bringing up everybody from old

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Speaker 7: Mississippi State and Mississippi University and all of those schools.

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Speaker 4: So you're saying, like kids from Mississippi who get drafted

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Speaker 4: out of high school, not they go to college. Okay,

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Speaker 4: what's a more specific group of people that can't speak

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Speaker 4: as higher as as informed on as the college thing.

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Speaker 5: But no, no, no, If I defended you, Rook, you were

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Speaker 5: one of the first names I brought up about being

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Speaker 5: from guys from Mississippi that could rank. You were like

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Speaker 5: school in Mississippi, so it counts.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't get went to school Missippi. It's fair, doesn't count.

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Speaker 1: Also, krat said this was coming from a scout. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't like crats just sat there.

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Speaker 6: I didn't hear that.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 7: AJ's misremembered. And before we get into anything, I love

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Speaker 7: that you have the headphones on rope for everybody listening.

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Speaker 7: You don't even need to see what Brent Rooker looks like.

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Speaker 7: He just looks like every high school kid right now

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Speaker 7: when you walk into a high school headphones on.

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Speaker 4: During school hours.

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Speaker 7: That's between classes they walked, they put their headphones on.

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Speaker 7: Then during school they put their headphones around their neck.

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Speaker 3: It's the new thing. So your hip your hip rope,

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Speaker 3: so they.

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Speaker 2: Don't talk to each other.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know what you're saying. Am I lagging?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 4: Am I behind lagging?

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Speaker 6: I don't know, miss that, missip, the internet gotcha?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Let's see. That's why I'm like, I don't know what

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Speaker 2: to do about that.

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Speaker 5: You know, we had Vinnie on and Vinnie's Internet was fine,

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Speaker 5: So maybe it's a coorehouse.

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Speaker 3: Is too big.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it could be. It could definitely be my house.

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Speaker 7: It could be your silver slugger is getting in the way.

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Speaker 7: It's like the frequency with the silver Slugger and all

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Speaker 7: your awards and everything BENNI does.

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Speaker 4: BENNI doesn't have one of those to mess up his connection, so.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't as.

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Speaker 5: Fine, and we won't let it, but we aren't allowed

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Speaker 5: to show it because Scott. It embarrasses Scott that I

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Speaker 5: have when he doesn't, so he made me take it

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Speaker 5: off set.

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Speaker 2: I actually want it on set.

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Speaker 1: Todd Fraser puts his home run Derby Trophy next to

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Speaker 1: me every day when I'm with him.

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Speaker 2: We should put it right here.

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Speaker 1: How do you trick the A's into thinking it's the

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Speaker 1: summertime so that they're good the whole season?

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Speaker 4: Uh? That Yeah, back to the answer, I think that's

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Speaker 4: had a lot to do with an experience and having

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Speaker 4: so many young guys. So I mean, theoretically we should

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Speaker 4: be more experienced. We have more guys with some full

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Speaker 4: seasons than to their belts, and so we shouldn't really

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Speaker 4: necessarily have that same learning curve that we've had the

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Speaker 4: past few years. And you know, figing match the second

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Speaker 4: that in the first half and the second half this year,

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Speaker 4: then we're gonna be in a good spot.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that was better, little better.

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Speaker 4: A little better. We'll take a little better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And then one be question was, since you were the

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Speaker 5: first guy of the A's to sign their extension, do

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Speaker 5: you feel like the veteran because now they're starting to

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Speaker 5: sign a bunch of guys to extensions, So were you

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Speaker 5: were you.

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Speaker 6: Like looking at any children. I'm gonna show you the.

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Speaker 4: Way I feel like I feel like the veteran just

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Speaker 4: because I'm the oldest guy, almost the oldest guy in

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Speaker 4: the locker room. We do. We got we got Jeff

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Speaker 4: now soon I'm not. I'm not the oldest hitter anymore,

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Speaker 4: which is a little a little relieving for me. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean compared to the rest of our lineup, I

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Speaker 4: am a old, salty seasoned vet, which is a little unique,

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Speaker 4: you know, for our team, because I mean, I know

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Speaker 4: I'm old, but like, I'm not that crazy old yet.

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Speaker 4: I'm getting there, but not yet.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear they almost got Nolan Ironado?

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Speaker 4: I did hear that they didn't have any I know,

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Speaker 4: that would have been that would have been that would

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Speaker 4: have been something to get No. One in Sacramento, So

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Speaker 4: obviously it would have been exciting. But we like our

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Speaker 4: internal options. So I think we're I think we're in

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Speaker 4: a good spot rosterwise.

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Speaker 2: Okay, uh, what do you think about the off season

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Speaker 2: deals so far?

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Speaker 1: Some of these big stars taking some of the shorter

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Speaker 1: turn deals, and you know, some people claiming the players

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Speaker 1: are are not happy about it, Like what's been going

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Speaker 1: on Dodgers adding guys whatever. I mean, I know you

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Speaker 1: don't speak for everyone, but you are part of a union.

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Speaker 4: So what do you think, Yeah, I think the I

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Speaker 4: think the shift to the shorter term high AV deals

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Speaker 4: is interesting. I think it's obviously great for players, great

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Speaker 4: for the guys getting them. It's it's maximizing value, which

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Speaker 4: I think is awesome and exactly what we wanted to

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Speaker 4: do as players. It's a little bit different than I

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Speaker 4: think the kind of what fre agencies looked like in

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Speaker 4: they they they've historically kind of wanted the cash in

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Speaker 4: to the shorter term, higher AAV deals is interesting to me.

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Speaker 4: And and if you know as a as as a player,

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Speaker 4: if that's what those individual guys feel like is best

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Speaker 4: betting on themselves to be able to get back in

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Speaker 4: the market, I think it's awesome.

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Speaker 5: Agreed, especially the young guys, right, the young the Bobashefs,

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Speaker 5: the guys that are fairly young, they get their opt

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Speaker 5: outs and all that. It gives the I always say

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Speaker 5: it gives the player a little bit of power, right, like,

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Speaker 5: oh I have I have, but I can.

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Speaker 4: Get it's It's yeah, I like the the betting on

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Speaker 4: yourself again. I mean, Kyle is what twenty seven, he

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Speaker 4: I think is an awesome way to kind of maximize

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Speaker 4: earning power and maximize your leverage to to get you know,

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Speaker 4: a couple of different bites at the apple there. So

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Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's great, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Rok, So explain that I fight this with fans,

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Speaker 5: and I fight this with all the time.

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Speaker 6: Salary cap, salary caps. It's all you hear, salary caps,

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Speaker 6: salary caps, salary cap, and.

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Speaker 5: I always fight for the players. Listen, if salary caps

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Speaker 5: are so great, why does the NBA, the NHL, the

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Speaker 5: NFL have.

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Speaker 6: Work stoppages too?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 5: If salary cap is wonderful, the cure all, why do

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Speaker 5: the Kansas City Chiefs go to like every Super Bowl?

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Speaker 5: They're like, oh, at a whole parody? Right, the Patriots

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Speaker 5: won all those Super Bowls, the Chiefs from the Super

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Speaker 6: I don't.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to give the thought on this cap,

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Speaker 5: but just when you talk to other players, some thoughts

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think you just hit on some

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Speaker 4: major points, right. It's not like a salary cap inherently

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Speaker 4: offers this parody, inherently levels the playing field. Because you

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Speaker 4: look at the NFL and the NBA and you name,

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Speaker 4: I mean, the Patriots did their thing when on their run,

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Speaker 4: the Chiefs did the same thing. You look at the NBA,

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Speaker 4: the Warriors dominated for so many years, and those are

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Speaker 4: in two leagues with caps, right, So it's not like

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Speaker 4: you just install a cap and oh, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: now the playing fields level. Now there's going to be

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Speaker 4: a different World Series winner every year, is going to

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Speaker 4: not how it works. It's just it's a way for

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Speaker 4: owners to increase their leverage. And it doesn't exactly what

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Speaker 4: it says it's going to do. It decreases salaries, It

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Speaker 4: doesn't offer any answers to the questions and the issues

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Speaker 4: of seen as this, like you said, this fix all

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Speaker 4: thing that, Oh, you just install a salar gap and

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Speaker 4: all the problems are done, they're solved, And that's just

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Speaker 4: that couldn't be further from the truth on a number

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Speaker 7: What do you think the league would look like if

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Speaker 7: every owner wanted to win as badly as every other owner,

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Speaker 7: Like if as badly as the players, I'm sorry, not

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Speaker 7: as every other owner as badly as the players. What

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Speaker 7: do you think the league would look like? Would it

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Speaker 7: raise the level of competition in the level of viewership?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think. You know, you look

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Speaker 4: at the sport and the league as a whole right now,

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Speaker 4: and viewership is up, attendance is up, revenue is up,

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Speaker 4: Jersey sales are up. All these different things are up,

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Speaker 4: and there's still room to improve, which is exciting. And

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Speaker 4: we know that that way to improve is the teams

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Speaker 4: that you know, the historically and in the past few

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Speaker 4: several years that haven't been willing to spend, that those

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Speaker 4: teams become willing to spend and put their best foot

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Speaker 4: forward to put a competitive team on the field. And

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Speaker 4: when that starts to happen, when you see payrolls at

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Speaker 4: the bottom start to start to climb and start to

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Speaker 4: get higher and higher and kind of closer to that

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Speaker 4: you know that middle ground, you're going to see the

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Speaker 4: revenues continue to climb, and the attendance and the viewership

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Speaker 4: and TV contracts and things like that are just going

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Speaker 4: to follow suits. So we're in a great spot right

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Speaker 4: now in terms of in terms of visibility, in terms

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Speaker 4: thing for us is we know with with a few

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Speaker 4: changes that that should come from those teams at the

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Speaker 4: you work your whole life to get the free agency.

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Speaker 4: And you're gonna say, Okay, I know this is you're now. Look,

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Speaker 4: But we're gonna put more restrictions on that to make

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Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I hate this idea, and who ever said this?

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Speaker 5: January first is the free agent deadline to sign, and

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Speaker 5: nobody gives you an offer you want. They say, sign

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Then I have to set out to July and.

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Speaker 6: Then maybe get another offer like this. It's it's ridiculous

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I completely agree. And it's like, Okay, so you

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Speaker 2: It takes a decade on average.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it takes forever.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, unless you're one of those guys that gets

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Speaker 6: Any power at all.

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Speaker 5: And that's why again I love the short term deals

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Speaker 6: Really good yet I drop down and get more money.

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Speaker 5: Whereas you know, most teams, as you know, want club

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Speaker 5: Anyways, I hate talking about this because we're gonna have

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Speaker 5: So one more on the stupid CBA that I have

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Speaker 5: we have a payroll of one hundred million. These are

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Speaker 5: so we lost fifty million. What about your concessions? What

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Speaker 6: What about this?

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Speaker 5: That's all in a different company, but it all goes

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Speaker 3: So would you be okay?

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Speaker 5: As a player, every owner said, here's every dollar that

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Speaker 6: Would that make you feel better?

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Speaker 4: Because it made me feel better for sure. I mean

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Speaker 4: So I think you're exactly right.

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Speaker 7: A lot was made about Rob Manford going into the

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Speaker 4: The road He gave me Sacramento. Yeah, Rob came to

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Speaker 7: How did that conversation go? From your viewpoint, but also

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Speaker 4: But you know, my main takeaway from the meeting was,

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Speaker 6: True. True, I agree.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of merch sales, I know you've been to the

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Speaker 4: I think we're pretty confident that the athletics thing is

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Speaker 5: I love the strippers, because you guys are gonna be

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Speaker 4: Could be a real, uh, real good out of Joe

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Speaker 7: Somebody does Frankie his name does out of context, so

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Speaker 4: cultures breed breed winning, Right, So if you go all

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Speaker 4: in and for one year and you say, okay, here

444
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Speaker 4: we're going for right now, and then you make the playoffs,

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Speaker 4: you make a playoff run, that is going to breed

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Speaker 4: more winning down the road because you're create a winning culture.

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Speaker 4: You're creating a clubhouse and an environment. A franchise it

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Speaker 4: expects to get back to the playoffs, it expects to

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Speaker 4: make these runs. And I think that can't be understated

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Speaker 4: as well as how much just kind of that commitment

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Speaker 4: and that dedication to winning is going to create future

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Speaker 4: winning opportunities and winning seasons down the road, just from

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Speaker 4: like I said, a culture and an expectation perspective.

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Speaker 5: Brent, how confident are you in the athletics this year

455
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Speaker 5: taking that next step? I know you've put out quotes

456
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Speaker 5: you guys are gonna be much comfortable in Sacramento, much

457
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Speaker 5: more comfortable to travel everything. So how much and we

458
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Speaker 5: talked about this a little bit earlier, that you think

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Speaker 5: guys are ready for the next step. So how confident

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Speaker 5: are you that the athletics can compete in a division

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Speaker 5: that's pretty tough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a really tough division. But I love where we're at.

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Speaker 4: I think we have people talk about the offense and

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Speaker 4: talk about the hitters we have and talk about Nick

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Speaker 4: Kurtz and talking about Jacob Wilson, Tyler Soda Sherman, Lawrence

466
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Speaker 4: Bouler and all these guys, and I think that is

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Speaker 4: obviously very well justified and people should be talking about that.

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Speaker 4: But we've got some really really exciting young arms too.

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Speaker 4: I think Luis Morales showed frontline stuff last year at times,

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Speaker 4: and I think he's still so young and developing that

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Speaker 4: he's going to be really good. You know, Perkins same way,

472
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Speaker 4: had a great year when he was healthy, through the

473
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Speaker 4: ball really well. And you kind of couple those guys

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Speaker 4: up with some veterans, with Sevy and with Jeffrey, who

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Speaker 4: can teach those guys how to go out there and

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Speaker 4: do their thing at the major league level. I think

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Speaker 4: it's super exciting. And then I think, I think adding

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Speaker 4: Jeff to our lineup. Getting Jeff McNeil and there is

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Speaker 4: going to be huge for us, and it makes the

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Speaker 4: lineup deeper, it makes us more well rounded, versatile. He

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Speaker 4: can play all over the place, plays great defense, and

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Speaker 4: I think when you throw him in Jacob Wilson the

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Speaker 4: same lineup and just being like, all right, look here,

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Speaker 4: here's two guys that you're like, you're not gonna punch out, like,

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Speaker 4: they're gonna grind, they're gonna foul pitches off, they're gonna

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Speaker 4: put the ball in play. And you put that in

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Speaker 4: the same lineup with guys who can hit homers left

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Speaker 4: and right. I think it makes us very dangerous. And

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Speaker 4: I think we're an exciting team, and I think inside

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Speaker 4: our clubhouse there's a lot of confidence that we can

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Speaker 4: go out there and and and do some damage this here,

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Speaker 4: So we're excited about it.

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Speaker 6: Nice, nice, All right, Before before we let you go,

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Speaker 6: I have to ask you.

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Speaker 5: On Saturday night, I have to go up on the

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Speaker 5: stage and present Drake Baldwin with his National League Rookie

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Speaker 5: of the Year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 5: Now somewhere sitting next to me will be Nick Kurt

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Speaker 5: m Is there a story that.

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Speaker 3: I need to ask him?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 5: And when I see him that we can obviously tell

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Speaker 5: on the air that I need to go up to

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Speaker 5: him and say, hey, Nick, I heard this happened or

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Speaker 5: rook said this.

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Speaker 4: Oh I'm thinking nothing comes to mind. I don't think

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Speaker 4: he's a pretty laid back guy. I mean he's he's

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Speaker 4: not like he wasn't like an abrasive rookie who got

510
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Speaker 4: who had a tough time. You know. He he kept

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Speaker 4: throw himself a little bit. He did his work, and

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Speaker 4: he was he was a he was a good young player.

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Speaker 4: I'll say that. So nothing comes to mind. If anything

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Speaker 4: comes to mind, specifically that I can't stay live, also,

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Speaker 4: I'll shoot you a text about it. But no, I

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Speaker 4: wish I wish Kurt said more. But he's just kind

517
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Speaker 4: of a great, great dude and just and just does

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Speaker 4: the right stuff too often where it's a little bit annoying,

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Speaker 4: but you're gonna enjoy being around him. You're gonna enjoy

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Speaker 4: being around him. I'll say that he's a good song.

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Speaker 3: I know this.

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Speaker 6: He won the introduction battle. Do you know who's introducing him?

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Speaker 5: No, I don't know if I'm allowed to say it,

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Speaker 5: but she was a tall blonde pitcher from softball Jenny Finch.

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Speaker 6: Okay, yes, he's definitely he definitely want to.

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Speaker 3: Introduction Jenny Finch and a J Perzinski.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's a great dude.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, have you been have you?

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Speaker 2: Have you been?

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Speaker 4: Around him. I think you're going to be shocked at

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Speaker 4: how big he is. He's gigantic. It's always he's like

532
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Speaker 4: surprisingly large.

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Speaker 6: No, because we've had him on the show.

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Speaker 5: But unfortunately, I've never done an Oakland game Sacramento game. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I actually have. I take them back, I have. I've

536
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Speaker 5: never done one at their home ball. I've done one

537
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Speaker 5: in Toronto, which is the weirdest thing of life.

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Speaker 4: Time.

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Speaker 5: So I've no in the last I don't know the

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Speaker 5: last time Sacramento was on Fox, but it's probably hasn't been.

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Speaker 3: He is he Adam? I beg to go there every year.

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Speaker 3: Can I go to Sacramento?

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Speaker 4: Please? I don't think I've ever met Adam, but probably not.

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Speaker 4: But Kirks is like, uh, he's huge, but his head

545
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Speaker 4: is tiny, so he kind of like I think people

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Speaker 4: don't realize how big he is because his head so

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Speaker 4: small on TV and it doesn't do it justice how big.

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Speaker 6: So if I walked in to him beetlejuice, you might

549
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Speaker 6: get a little langeah.

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Speaker 4: A little tiny head. You should make fun of that.

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Speaker 2: You might not know what beetlejuice is.

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Speaker 1: It just came out of yeah, oh yeah, right right, Well,

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Speaker 1: Rook This was great, man, great catching up with you.

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Speaker 1: Will catch it actually spring training. Perhaps you'll be out

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Speaker 1: in Arizona.

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Speaker 4: Quick in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thanks Brook, good to see you, dude.

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Speaker 4: Sounds good, guys, appreciate it. Sorry for all the technical trouble.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad we figured it out somewhat.

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Speaker 2: It was great. So appreciate you. Man. Than thank you.

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Speaker 1: We just go round and round futures regular season wins

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Speaker 1: for the Red Sox. The number, every number for the

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Speaker 1: good teams is around the same number. Eighty seven and

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Speaker 1: a half for the Red Sox over under.

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Speaker 5: M I'm staying away from this one. I'd just like

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Speaker 5: to see him get one more bat.

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Speaker 2: They're looking to get one.

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Speaker 3: I love their pitching.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody in the Al East can't win ninety

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Speaker 1: games under.

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Speaker 6: Krauts is going under.

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Speaker 7: Overrat's going under Today January twenty second, we are weeks

573
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Speaker 7: away from spring training starting. They're gonna get another bat. Okay,

574
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 7: then I might change it to over. But last year

575
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Speaker 7: they hung around a five hundred team.

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Speaker 3: They hung around.

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Speaker 7: They had a few spurts here and there is Roman.

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Speaker 7: If they don't get another bat, I have a hard

579
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Speaker 7: time taking the over just because that's saying Roman Anthony,

580
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Speaker 7: who everyone has said is going to be a superstar,

581
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Speaker 7: like a generational superstar, and I just can't bet on

582
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Speaker 7: that going into the season. Gark O, it's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 7: Ranger Suarez, I love his I love his repertoire in

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Speaker 7: Fenway in the American League East. He doesn't seem phased

585
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Speaker 7: by big games, so he's gonna have big games all

586
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Speaker 7: the time. I think they won eighty nine games last

587
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Speaker 7: year and without Bregman. I can find two games that

588
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,719
Speaker 7: they would have lost without Bregman.

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Speaker 6: So, by the way, it's right, what is it?

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Speaker 5: Ron Hair run rent Hand, Oh.

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Speaker 1: Not Ranger Suarez. But he said Rangers, okay, So Rangers okay.

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Speaker 7: The g is silent. Yes, I've been I've been saying

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Speaker 7: it wrong the whole time. Row had limits.

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Speaker 2: Yes, asked him.

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Speaker 1: I heard, he said no, But we can try again

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