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Speaker 1: When we last we left these teams, when last we

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Speaker 1: five of the World Series, and we know it did

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Speaker 1: not end well for the Yankees. It ended much better

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Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of

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Speaker 1: Fair Territory, the live edition. I'm Ken Rosenthal here with

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Speaker 1: Alana Rizzo and Alana. We have the usual potpourri to

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Speaker 2: We do agree to be with you as always.

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Speaker 3: Can I tell you what the Houston Astros? Ken, this

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Speaker 3: is a team decimated by starting pitching injury, but they

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Speaker 3: are lurking.

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Speaker 2: What more can you tell us? As we get going

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Speaker 2: in the lead?

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Speaker 1: It's rather amazing, Elana. We say this every year with

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Speaker 1: the Astros are seemingly the last few years. Ah, this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be the year They're not that good. Well,

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Speaker 1: here we go again. They have lost three starting pitchers

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Speaker 1: since the season started. I'm talking about Blanco, was Nesky

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Speaker 1: and Arasgetti. They've have a number of other starting pitchers

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Speaker 1: down and yet even without Jurdan Alvarez, who has been

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Speaker 1: out since May Tewo their best hitter arguably here, they

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Speaker 1: are a half game out of first place in the

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Speaker 1: American League West, and it's amazing to me they've had

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Speaker 1: a better record without Alvarez than they had with him.

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Speaker 1: They're fourteen and ten without them, they were sixteen and

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Speaker 1: fifteen with them. They have all these pitching injuries, real

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Speaker 1: questions there and probably a deadline need for them. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time they are doing their Astros thing.

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Speaker 1: And let's look at their pitching Alana, just to show

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Speaker 1: you how dire this circumstance is for them, and yet

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Speaker 1: they keep going. Anyway, here are the current starters for

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Speaker 1: the Astros. It's Hunter Brown fromer Valdez and Lance McCullers

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Speaker 1: Junior who has been resurgent. Good for him, Colton Gordon

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Speaker 1: Because of the list on the right, Spencer Araghetty, Blanco

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Speaker 1: all possibly will return along with Araghetty at some point,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know how you can count on those guys.

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Speaker 1: A lot of them have been out for quite some time,

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Speaker 1: so the Astros likely will need a starter. We've seen

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Speaker 1: Dana Brown their GM be aggressive in the past It's

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Speaker 1: just impressive to me that they do this year after year.

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Speaker 1: They've got a lineup now without Alvarez that is essentially

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Speaker 1: all right handed. It is not what you want. And

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Speaker 1: again here they are. Let's look at the AL West

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Speaker 1: standings and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: with regard to their position in the division. Seattle Mariner

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Speaker 1: now a half game back. The Rangers have been awful.

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Speaker 1: Actually I shouldn't say that their pitching has been great,

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Speaker 1: the Angels playing better twenty five and thirty five and

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Speaker 1: So the Astros in a division that we expect it

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Speaker 1: we thought, Alana, and maybe that will bode well for

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Speaker 3: This is amazing to think that the Astros, this is

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Speaker 3: always a team like, well, maybe we should bury them

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Speaker 3: maybe next year. Maybe this is a rebuilding season. It

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Speaker 3: never seems to be that way. I mean, again, Ken,

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Speaker 3: this is without Alvarez in their lineup. This was the

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Speaker 3: departure of Alex Bregman. This is also with the departure

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Speaker 3: of Kyle Tucker. It is unfortunate though that their arms

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Speaker 3: are so hurt. Chandler Rome, your colleague and co host

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Speaker 3: of Krush City Territory on the Foul Territory platform, brought

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Speaker 3: out in his article about this that if you pair

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Speaker 3: Blanco's workout can with one hundred and forty five innings

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Speaker 3: and Spencer Aragedy's. If you compare Blanco's workload in two

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Speaker 3: this is a Houston Astros rotation can now that is

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Speaker 3: without three hundred and twelve and the third innings from

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Speaker 1: I don't know that they'll need to do that, but

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Speaker 1: As we're starting to see a lot of this race

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Speaker 3: Yeah, things are starting to spread themselves out. One guy

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Speaker 3: we know that is not available for a pickup is

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Speaker 3: Paul Skins Ken. We've talked about it so many times

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Speaker 3: how special Paul Skins is. But there's another reason why

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 1: Just the way he is performing through a lot of

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Speaker 1: and it speaks to his work ethic, his approach, everything

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Speaker 1: something that Tory Lavello, said, the Arizona Diamondbacks manager, to

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Speaker 1: and it says from Bob Nightingale Diamondbacks manager Tory Levello

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Speaker 1: all trade talk speculation, and Skins did the same again

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Speaker 1: today after the game when asked about a future contract extension,

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Speaker 1: else is he gonna say? And you might ask, well,

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Speaker 1: He can't get involved in that. That's all true. But

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Speaker 1: there have been people within the game asking is there

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Speaker 1: frustrated enough to say, you know what, I'd like to

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Speaker 1: pitch for a better team if you're not gonna surround

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Speaker 1: All we see from this guy is every fifth day

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Speaker 1: just pitching and pitching at an extremely high level. One

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Speaker 3: Scherzer, and that is high praise, a good company to

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Speaker 2: Paul Skeen's a.

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Speaker 3: Two oh three er and thirty five starts. You mentioned

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Speaker 3: One guy that we don't talk enough about and maybe

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Speaker 3: we should be is Noah Cameron. Is he good enough

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Speaker 1: I think we need to know more and see more

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Speaker 1: introduce him. Noah Cameron is a rookie pitcher for the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals. Grew up about an hour outside of

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Speaker 1: particular is a strength. But right now they've got Lugo

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Speaker 1: They're twenty seventh in the majors and runs per game.

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Speaker 1: So while it's great to see Cameron and what he's

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Speaker 1: the Year picture, perhaps they need to score more runs

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Speaker 1: to be competitive in what has been a pretty good

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Speaker 3: Kenned got to wonder when when you and I were

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Speaker 3: having this conversation with Jeremy, our producer, about the six

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Speaker 3: and the third innings, it's like, how many other pitchers

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Speaker 3: I realize it's only been four starts, But there's interesting.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting to note that Paul Skeens is the only

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Speaker 3: six and the third. Now that's over twelve starts, so

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Speaker 3: that's a lot better. But again, it's nice to have

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Speaker 3: Noah Cameron in this conversation that when given the opportunity,

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Speaker 1: He certainly is, and that comparison is actually pretty good

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Speaker 1: in my estimation, Alana, because yes, it's only four starts,

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Speaker 1: and that's what Skeens is doing on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: But to see a young pitcher come up and do that,

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Speaker 1: which is a rarity in itself, it's impressed overall.

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Speaker 3: Is it too soon to stack him against Jacob Wilson

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Speaker 2: Are we being too premature here?

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Speaker 1: Probably you need to see more than fourth darts. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long he'll be in the majors

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Speaker 1: out they're going to use him, whether he'll be up

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Speaker 1: and down. But right now, Jacob Wilson of the A's

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Speaker 1: He's had a tremendous start to his season. Jason Dominguez

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Speaker 1: has been very good himself, especially in May. But Cameron

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Speaker 1: could come on. You never know, And certainly the Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year races are often not decided until later

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Speaker 1: In many cases, Paul Skens was a good example, So

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Speaker 1: let's not rule out Noah Cameron. He is certainly entering

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always the question too, Can a pitcher be

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Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year over a position player? Obviously Paul

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Speaker 3: Skeens did it most recently. Much more to come here

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Speaker 3: on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. Get those questions in,

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Speaker 3: load them up for Grill and Ken. We'll be right

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Speaker 3: back after a word from our friends at Foul Territory.

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Speaker 3: Are the Rays the only team in the American League

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Speaker 3: this is Alex Core's fault.

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Speaker 1: It's the first year of a three year extension for Cora.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot going on at Fenway Park this season.

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Speaker 3: One more question for you. I'm Grill and Ken. This

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Speaker 3: you expect the market to be more active than years

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I will say more active than

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Speaker 1: And it almost doesn't matter how close the races are.

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Speaker 1: The general managers in general cannot sit still. They're going

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Speaker 3: That, Ken, As you know, prospect means unproven. You never

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Speaker 3: Grill and Ken, Dude and Dork of the Week is

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Speaker 3: next right after this.

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Speaker 4: If you're a card collector or you'd like to get

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't need me grabbing your packs because last

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Speaker 5: So let's not have that. And that's why Arena Club

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Speaker 5: You know, come safe, they're already graded. Or you could

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Speaker 1: Can't buy sal trade.

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Speaker 4: They offer full transparency, showing every card in the slab

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Speaker 1: Dude, dude, dude.

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Speaker 3: All right, everybody, time for Ken and I to give

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Speaker 2: Who is your Dude of the week?

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Speaker 1: Miami Marlin's second baseman, Ronnie Simon and all of the

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Speaker 1: The game is really hard to play. And Ronnie Simon

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Speaker 1: obviously had a bad night. And what was so cool

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Speaker 1: about this? You see his teammates supporting him there, you

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Speaker 1: see too afterward, Fernando Tatis, Manny Machado, a number of

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Speaker 1: the padres. Luisa Rise was another one reaching out to

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Speaker 1: him and saying, hey, you're gonna be okay. Here's Tatisa's quote.

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Speaker 1: It's baseball. It happens. Everyone who's won a Gold Glove

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Speaker 1: or Platinum Glove has had one of those nights. I

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Speaker 1: definitely know he's a great player. Simon was back out

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Speaker 1: there the next day working his tail off again, he's

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Speaker 1: the dude of the week, as well as all the

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Speaker 1: players from the Padres and Marlins who supported him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll absolutely love that.

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Speaker 3: It's one thing for your coach to say something, your

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Speaker 3: manager to say something.

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Speaker 2: Your mom, your dad, your neighbor.

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Speaker 3: But when your counterparts, your colleagues that are playing the

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Speaker 3: same game that you are, reach out and say, you

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Speaker 3: know what, we've all been there, I think that has

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Speaker 3: a little bit more weight. I never thought in a

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Speaker 3: million years Ken Rosenthal that I would say this, but

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Speaker 3: I don't think we're talking about the New York Yankees enough,

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Speaker 3: and the New York Yankees are dudes of the week,

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Speaker 3: specifically Brian Cashman. I mean, he takes a lot of

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Speaker 3: grief all of the time, as he should, being the

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Speaker 3: general manager for a lengthy amount of time over one

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Speaker 3: of the most historic franchises in all of sport. But

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Speaker 3: he is put together a very nice team and Aaron

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Speaker 3: Boone has managed a very good season so far. The

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Speaker 3: Yankees are seizing the Al East while the rest of

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Speaker 3: the teams not Tampa Bay. But while the rest of

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Speaker 3: the teams in the division seem to be sinking a

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Speaker 3: little bit, this is a team that has the largest

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Speaker 3: division lead, and they're doing it without some key pieces.

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Speaker 3: They're doing it without Garrett Cole, They're doing it without

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Speaker 3: Louis Heel, They're doing it without Jean Carlo Stanton. They're

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Speaker 3: doing it without some of the key pieces of that roster,

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Speaker 3: and they're doing a really good job. So you are

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Speaker 3: my dudes of the week, The New York Yankees. Okay,

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Speaker 3: time now for the John Fisher dork of the Week.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Ken, I.

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Speaker 1: Could choose any number of teams here. I mentioned in

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Speaker 1: the previous segment, the Diamondbacks, the Rangers. I could go

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Speaker 1: on and on and on. But the Red Sox this

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Speaker 1: week take the cake. I mentioned their five game losing streak.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned their players at a position. I mentioned their

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Speaker 1: big money players like Story not producing. Red Sox always drama,

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Speaker 1: always too much drama. Dorks of the week, Yeah in.

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Speaker 2: A bad way. Drama, drama, drama.

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Speaker 3: Trevor Story, by the way, owed fifty million over the

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Speaker 3: course of the next two seasons. The Red Sox have

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Speaker 3: a twenty twenty eight opt out for Trevor Story. He's

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Speaker 3: got to get it going. My dork of the week

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Speaker 3: is the grounds crew member that got hurt, not because

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Speaker 3: he got hurt, Ken, but because he showed us the bird. Obviously,

488
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Speaker 3: Zuri upset. Looks like he dislocated his knee or something

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Speaker 3: there at Comerica Park. Didn't like what was happening, that

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Speaker 3: he was being filmed. And then one of the guys

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Speaker 3: that was helping him said, hey, bro, I know you're

492
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Speaker 3: in pain, but you got to put that middle finger

493
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Speaker 3: down because now not only are you hurt, you might

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Speaker 3: get fired. So that gentleman, his fifteen minutes of fame

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Speaker 3: is not a good one. He is my dork of

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Speaker 3: the that's a bummer.

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Speaker 2: Ken. You don't want to see a guy get hurt,

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Speaker 2: but you gotta kind of control. You gotta control yourself.

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Speaker 1: I understand his frustration. Obviously he's in pain, he's not

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Speaker 1: feeling great, but the cameras are what the cameras are,

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Speaker 1: and the recording the plays that are going on on

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Speaker 1: the field. And I was actually shocked to see this,

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Speaker 1: and it just kind of struck me as a reaction

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Speaker 1: that was not proper. Let's put it that way. I

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Speaker 1: won't go any further. It just wasn't a proper reaction.

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Speaker 3: No, it's funny too, because it's like not only was

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Speaker 3: it not proper, but to me, that kind of came

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Speaker 3: out of nowhere, like that's the last thing I was

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Speaker 3: expecting for that guy to do. It's like, Oh, I'm

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Speaker 3: really hurt, and I love the guy that was surrounding

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Speaker 3: him like trying to help.

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Speaker 2: He's like, Bro, you gotta like simmer down here. I understand.

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Speaker 3: But again, now we have like a you know, maybe

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Speaker 3: there's a work comp claim, but you also might go

515
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Speaker 3: from the work comp line to the unemployment line.

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Speaker 2: Because perhaps you're about to get fired. In this whole situation, Kenny,

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Speaker 2: did you ever think that the we wouldn't be talking

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Speaker 2: about the New York Yankees enough and my dude of

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Speaker 2: the week.

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Speaker 1: No, And you're right, they've won sixteen of twenty. They

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Speaker 1: deserve all the props that you gave them. And it's

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Speaker 1: interesting with the Yankees how they've pivoted so well from

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Speaker 1: losing Soto from the coal injury, all the things that

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Speaker 1: have happened with them. And you're right, Cashman has done

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Speaker 1: a great job. Their organization as a whole has done

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Speaker 1: a great job. I wrote earlier and took a lot

527
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Speaker 1: of grief for it about how they've done with homegrown talent.

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Speaker 1: It's gone pretty well for them.

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 3: All Right, much more to come for some of us

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Speaker 3: here on Fair Territory. For now, we're going to say

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Speaker 3: goodbye to our new friends watching us on nesson Sports

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Speaker 3: Net Pittsburgh and nesson Nation. We say goodbye to you

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Speaker 3: for now, all right, everybody that's still with us, we appreciate.

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Speaker 2: It very much.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Ken, I have heard a rumor that

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Speaker 3: Ken Rosenthal. All right, where are you this weekend? What

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Speaker 3: game do you have?

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Speaker 1: I am in Lovely Los Angeles for a rematch of

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four World Series between the Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Dodgers and the New York Yankees. And obviously this is

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Speaker 1: going to get a lot of attention, this series, as

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Speaker 1: it should, because when last we left these teams. When

551
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Speaker 1: last we saw them on the same field together, it

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Speaker 1: was Game five of the World Series, and we know

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Speaker 1: it did not end well for the Yankees. It ended

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Speaker 1: much better for the Dodgers. I believe in the athletic

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Speaker 1: either today or tomorrow, we're going to have an oral

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Speaker 1: history of Game five. I know it might trigger Yankee fans.

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00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: I advise them perhaps not to read it, but everyone

558
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Speaker 1: else can read it, and actually Yankee fans might want

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Speaker 1: to read it too, just to flick the pain one

560
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Speaker 1: more time, and then it enhances the enjoyment of the

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Speaker 1: current season when so many good things are happening with

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Speaker 1: the Yankees, and they're pitching in particular without Cole has

563
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Speaker 1: been stunning.

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Speaker 2: It really has.

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Speaker 3: And honestly, right now, if you take the microcosm of

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Speaker 3: what happened the season so far, the Yankees are playing

567
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 3: much better than the Los Angeles Dodgers are. Again, we

568
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Speaker 3: talked about that division lead in the Al East, not

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Speaker 3: that the Dodgers aren't in first place, but they're certainly

570
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Speaker 3: not running away with the division as the Yankees seem

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Speaker 3: to be doing right now. We had a conversation Ken

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Speaker 3: Clint to Cis and myself during spring training with Dave Roberts.

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Speaker 3: He was kind enough to say, hey, I will walk

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Speaker 3: you through the decisions I was making in the postseason,

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Speaker 3: particularly the NLDS of course with the Padres, and then

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Speaker 3: we kind of skipped over the CS to get to

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Speaker 3: the World Series, and it was interesting to kind of

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Speaker 3: take us through the manager's mind. Do you ever have

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Speaker 3: you ever in your life wanted to kind of manage

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Speaker 3: a game and see how it would go for you.

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Speaker 1: No, my job is enough, and I would not pretend

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Speaker 1: that I could do that job or general manager's job,

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Speaker 1: a scouts job. I do my job. Now that said,

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Speaker 1: it is always really insightful to hear a manager do

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Speaker 1: what he did for you in Clint and go through

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Speaker 1: moves because a lot of times when we're watching from

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Speaker 1: the press box, or we're sitting in the stands, or

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Speaker 1: I'm in the camera well doing a game on TV,

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Speaker 1: there are things going on in decision making factors that

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Speaker 1: go into certain moves that we don't know, we don't understand,

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Speaker 1: and then afterward we'll ask the manager and perhaps he'll explain,

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Speaker 1: perhaps he'll hide the reason. But there's a lot that

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Speaker 1: goes into each of these decisions. I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: excuse any manager from making a bad move, but they

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Speaker 1: always almost at least almost always have an explanation. And

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Speaker 1: for Roberts to take you through that in what might

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Speaker 1: have been his finest hour, honestly, that was cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly think that it was his finest hour

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Speaker 3: over the course of his tenure. Ken Rosenthal, we look

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Speaker 3: forward to watching you and the Fox crew with Yankees

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Speaker 3: and Dodgers this weekend at and AJ Przinski, Eric Kratz

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Speaker 3: and myself are next on Foul Territory. I'm pinch hitting

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Speaker 3: for Scott brons so Ken. We'll have a brand new

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Speaker 3: episode of Fair Territory on Monday. Have a great weekend, everybody.

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