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Speaker 2: show we have for you today. Coming up, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: with Washington National Stars, young slugger James Wood he joins us,

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Speaker 2: plus Sweeney Murdy.

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Speaker 2: Plus we'll do a little foul or fare that and

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Speaker 1: Take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Number one.

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Speaker 2: This past week, outfielder slugger Sammy Sosa return to Wrigley

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Speaker 2: On Tuesday, Chase Burns made his major league debut for

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Speaker 2: To say the least, Chase Burns was electric.

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Speaker 2: To be in Great American Ballpark and see this fine,

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Speaker 3: It's so good now let's welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 3: What a season you're having home runs? I'll be eyes

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Speaker 5: Talk about it all the time, right, did.

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Speaker 10: You you know or do you try to hit home runs?

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Speaker 3: Was there a moment where you decided you just knew you.

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Speaker 7: Mean it's like you said, it's just a bump in

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Speaker 5: Last thing, Mike, have been building here.

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Speaker 8: I got a lot of young players, some guys from

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Speaker 9: I'm from, so I mean, yeah, I mean I.

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Speaker 7: Think there's a lot of potential in my locker room,

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Speaker 7: Just get the best version out of each other.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Our guest James Wood from the Washington Nationals the Slugger.

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Speaker 3: See you at the All Star Game in Atlanta. Maybe

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Speaker 3: let's see it. Yeah, that'll be great. All right, buddy,

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Speaker 11: Dina you love Rob Parker in the showdown here in

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Speaker 4: I like Cincinnati, and that was a few years ago.

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Speaker 4: We know, I don't know you're talking about it? All right,

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,

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Speaker 5: Sweeney, how are you?

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Speaker 10: I'm good, buddy, I'm starting.

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Speaker 13: I think it's like thirty years you and I have

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Speaker 2: Right at least on Friday, the Yankees open up a

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Speaker 5: Aaron Judge, let's start to the American League.

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Speaker 2: MVPs wanted a few times, and here we go off

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Speaker 10: That's something if you look.

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Speaker 13: Fifty DiMaggio Mattingly Mantle, that's gonna be hard for anybody

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the al Cy Young targ

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Speaker 13: So I think I think those are the guys I

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Speaker 2: Social media guru over there doing all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to the National League Shoho Tani's unbelievable. He's

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Speaker 5: a unicorn.

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Speaker 2: But coming into Sunday that in two ninety one ton

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Speaker 2: of home runs a small amount of RBIs And I

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Speaker 2: get it. He's a pitcher, so everybody thinks he should

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Speaker 2: win the MVP if he pitches hits. But Pete crow

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Speaker 2: Armstrong is having a really fantastic season for the Cubs

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: Where are you?

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Speaker 2: Is it just show Hay as long as he pitches,

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Speaker 2: where are you in the National League MVP?

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Speaker 13: I mean, he's leading off most of the time. He's

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Speaker 13: sitting a lot of solo home runs. You know, he's

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Speaker 13: better in the leadoff spot.

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Speaker 5: But here's the follow the issue.

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Speaker 2: He bet at leadoff last year knocked in one hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty this year he was on pace for like

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Speaker 2: seventy nine or eighty RBI. So you can't tell me

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Speaker 2: like it was all because of the other people on base.

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Speaker 2: And I'm just saying I don't think that that's fair.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying that's.

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Speaker 13: Part well, that's well, that's part of it. He was

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Speaker 13: having a better season last year. But you know, it's

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Speaker 13: it's about you know, RBIs are dependent on the guys

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Speaker 13: in front of you, and.

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Speaker 10: So that's a big part of it.

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Speaker 13: I think show Hayes ops is if it's if that's

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Speaker 13: going to lead the league and he's going to be

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Speaker 13: in you know that, you know, forty fifty home run range. Again,

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Speaker 13: I don't see any and he can't be the MVP.

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Speaker 13: Pete Armstrong is having an amazing season. I'd love to

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Speaker 13: see where he goes, where he finishes, and where the

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Speaker 13: Cubs finish. But if you're going to tell me that

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Speaker 13: second half is going to feature show Ao Tani as

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Speaker 13: a pitcher as well, you know that's going to be

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Speaker 13: hard to knock him off the MVP pedestal there. That's

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Speaker 13: a big reason why he won the American League MVP.

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Speaker 13: Obviously wasn't a factor last year because he didn't pitch.

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Speaker 13: But if he's going to pitch and pitch, well, you know,

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Speaker 13: we saw him throw a scoreless inning on Sunday, and

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Speaker 13: you know what his potential is there. If he's going

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Speaker 13: to throw boy Robbie. I don't know if he's gonna

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Speaker 13: pitch you know, sixty innings. I'm making up numbers here

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Speaker 13: because I haven't done the math.

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Speaker 10: But if he's gonna.

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Speaker 13: Throw me fifty or sixty innings, at an elite rate

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Speaker 13: in the second half of the season and hit the

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Speaker 10: I have a hard time seeing him not.

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Speaker 13: I have hard time believing he's not going to be

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Speaker 13: the MVP.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's go to NL. Saw Young Yamamoto with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: He's a top contender. He's the ace of the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: staff now. And also Paul Skeins, who is rokied to

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Speaker 2: ye last year in the National League.

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Speaker 5: Those seem to be the two top front runners for NL.

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Speaker 5: Cy Young, where are you?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 13: Trying to see if there was going to be a

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Speaker 13: schemes won't necessarily wreck up the wins because the team

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Speaker 13: he's on. I was not going to see if there

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Speaker 13: are any closers in the mix that are just blowing

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Speaker 13: away that field. And nobody jumps out to me right now,

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Speaker 13: I've got it. Unless unless Youmamoto goes on one of

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Speaker 13: these second half runs with the Dodgers, I got to think,

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Speaker 13: and unless you know, Skimes has a little bit of

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Speaker 13: a blow up that's going to cause that Eer two

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Speaker 13: to jump up, I got to think it's his to

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Speaker 13: lose at this point right, I think we all look

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Speaker 13: at him as the best pitcher in the league and

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Speaker 13: waiting for him to throw up the best staff.

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Speaker 10: And if that Erra still stays, you know, Christine, that is,

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Speaker 10: if that is.

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Speaker 13: An elite era going into August and September, I think

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Speaker 13: you've got the makings of a real special season there,

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Speaker 13: and he would be probably my front runner at this point.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 2: It is the halfway point the major awards in Major

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Speaker 15: it's almost lights out in his first start. Sure, he

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Speaker 15: That's like jump off the page dopeness. I'm awake for

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Speaker 15: Health Willing. What excites me with Chase Burns is the

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Speaker 15: That's gonna be something. Those two have a chance to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said it.

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Speaker 15: The Reds are slowly putting the pieces together, and Chase

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Speaker 16: It was a rough week last week. Zero wins, two

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Speaker 16: losses brings a season total to fourteen up, twelve down.

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Speaker 16: But let's get it right this wee can go to

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