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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. We have some news

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Speaker 1: this morning, Andrew McCutchen signing a minor leak deal with

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Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: That from Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News.

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Speaker 1: We have two games from the WBC in the books

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Speaker 1: Korea be Chechia and Australia, and a bit of an

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Speaker 1: upset over Chinese Taipei last night or this morning, however

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Speaker 1: you want to look at it WBC for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the tournament. Rest of the groups starts tomorrow. You'll

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Speaker 1: have Team USA in action against Brazil. That'll be on Fox.

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Speaker 1: I'll be there for that one and all the way

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Speaker 1: through the WBC SOLA. It'll be a WBC heavy show today.

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Speaker 3: And I love it because I love the World Baseball

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Speaker 3: Classic and Ken, all of our World Baseball Classic coverage

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Speaker 3: and after that the best Made League Baseball action all

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Speaker 3: season long. So Ken, let's start our WBC coverage on

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Speaker 3: this fair territory with one reason from you why each

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Speaker 3: of the top four seeds can win the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 3: Let us start with Team Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: All right, Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, they're depleted a little bit because aw Twova is

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Speaker 1: not playing due to the insurance issue and Pablo Lopez

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Speaker 1: pitching staff. But if you ask me, the reason to

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Speaker 1: like this team in this tournament is the dynamic combination

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Speaker 1: of Ronald Acuna Junior and Jackson Churio. These are two

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Speaker 1: of the most electric players in the game. Not to

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Speaker 1: take anything away from anyone else on the Venezuela roster,

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Speaker 1: including of course Salvador Perez, but if you're going to

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Speaker 1: see them maybe rake a run in this tournament, it's

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Speaker 1: gotta be with a Cunya and Churio doing some big things.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we talked about Venezuela, but what about the Dominican

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Speaker 3: Republic can I don't think people are giving the dr

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Speaker 3: A lot of.

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Speaker 1: One thousand percent and their lineup is every bit is dangerous,

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Speaker 1: if not more dangerous than Team USAS and who am

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Speaker 1: I talking about. I'm talking about vlad Junior and Tatis

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Speaker 1: and Manny Machado and Julio Rodriguez and Katel Marte and

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Speaker 1: Rado Perdomo, on and on and on. And you might say, okay,

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Speaker 2: With the US. I'm not so sure about that either.

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Speaker 1: It's Christopher Sanchez at the top of the rotation, It's

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Speaker 1: Brian Beao from the Red Sox, Luis Severino, and overall,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that really can do some things

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Speaker 1: in this tournament because of what they have offensively.

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Speaker 2: So I do like.

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Speaker 1: Them, and I would think, along with Team USA, they

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Speaker 1: are one of the favorites right now.

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Speaker 3: I would certainly think so. All right, Team Japan obviously

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Speaker 3: the champions can the last time the WBC was played

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Speaker 3: three years ago. What about this team do you like

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Speaker 3: as far as a reason that they might be champions again?

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Speaker 1: This is the team that has won three of the

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Speaker 1: in NPB, but they still have a formidable group. And

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Speaker 1: what I like about them the most is what you

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Speaker 1: see there the team unity and the style of play.

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Speaker 1: These guys go about it the right way. They play

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Speaker 2: We know this from watching them over the years.

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Speaker 1: They're a joy to watch actually from a baseball standpoint.

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Speaker 1: So their rotation without Otani is not going to be

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Speaker 1: necessarily as strong. They still have Yamamoto, they still have

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Speaker 1: Chicano from the Colorado Rockies, and they still have Kokuchi

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Speaker 1: as well as the reigning Japanese Sawamura Award winner. He's

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Speaker 1: a picture named hiromi Eto. So they're going to be

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Speaker 1: as always right in the mix. Do they have enough

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Speaker 2: And beat the Dominican I don't know. Seya Suzuki also

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Speaker 3: And let me ask you this about Team Japan in particular,

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Speaker 1: It has been in the past, and you're right, Alonge,

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Speaker 2: To make teams uncomfortable. So yes, that does give them

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Speaker 1: But in this tournament, it's such a short press time frame,

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Speaker 1: It's going to be really interesting to see how this

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Speaker 3: Yes, Team USA, can you look up and down the

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Speaker 3: lineup one through nine, you begin to salivate. I don't

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Speaker 3: know that there has ever been a more potent lineup

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Speaker 1: We've seen the last two days the exhibition games, that

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Speaker 1: they've played in Arizona, San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies. They

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Speaker 1: outscored those teams twenty nine to five. Now, granted it's

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Speaker 2: I know they won in seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I know they had a strong roster in two thousand

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Speaker 2: We have not seen both Cy.

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Speaker 1: Young winners on a team USA entry in the WBC.

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Speaker 1: We'll see it in this tournament, Schiens and Scooball. We'll

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Speaker 1: They have this togetherness that maybe Mark Durosa has said,

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Speaker 2: So I'm really interested to see how they fare here.

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Speaker 2: They are, of course, like every other team.

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Speaker 2: That they've got to go show it.

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Speaker 3: Mark Durosa, the skipper, said he really wanted to focus

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Speaker 3: they molded together. Well, okay, we've talked about the top four, ken,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you two, Alana, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to mention Team Mexico because they are right outside

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Speaker 1: the top four in my opinion. But the two i'll

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Speaker 1: give you are Italy and Canada. Italy has a number

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Speaker 1: an interesting team to watch, a fun team to watch,

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Speaker 1: and sure I can see either one of these teams

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Speaker 3: Adam Odovino also with Team Italy, recently retired of course

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Speaker 3: for him Team Italy, though the coaches this picture can

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Speaker 3: their manager Francisco Cervelli, the hitting coach Tod Hipposava, of course,

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Speaker 3: that's definitely Italian, and hitting coach Frank Mencino. So good times.

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Speaker 3: This is a fun tournament. But I love to see

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Speaker 3: this and perhaps you're right, perhaps the Italians are the

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Speaker 3: dark horse team of the WBC. All right, one more

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Speaker 2: So I guess we look at a guy like henromi Eto,

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Speaker 1: He's the best pitcher in Japan right now, who is

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Speaker 1: to play more than Alex Regman did in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Roman Anthony, the Roman Empire has certainly been all

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Speaker 3: the talk for the Boston Red Sox. They think very

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Speaker 3: games that you're most excited to see, of course, Tmosa

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Speaker 3: You had mentioned you're on the call on Fox. Is

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Speaker 1: And that was a game the last time that was

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Speaker 3: Fox one streaming now. Time now for Grill and Ken.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna go ahead and keep the WBC theme going here.

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Speaker 3: Why are there not challenges in the WBC. Obviously there

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Speaker 1: Well, because ABS has not been used yet in Major

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Speaker 2: In fact, I'm pretty sure they're not. That is the reason.

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Speaker 3: All right, makes more sense, all right? Some questions now

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Speaker 3: Wicked Better fifty four, can you report it in your

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Speaker 3: latest article that the Astros have interest in Lars Nutbar

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Speaker 1: All right, Wicked Better, I didn't report it exactly like that.

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Speaker 1: I said Saint Louis was a potential fit for the Astros.

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Speaker 1: Estoc Parades. ESOC Parades is not a player the Cardinals need. Now,

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Speaker 2: Pass, I would expect that what Houston would.

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Speaker 3: Keen Ce Carrera nine to five to one wants to

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Speaker 3: know this. Would it have been crazy to invite Connor

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Speaker 2: Yes, that would have been a leap too far.

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Speaker 1: And the question is valid because, as I mentioned in

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Speaker 1: the Christian Lightner nineteen ninety two Dream Team version of

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Speaker 2: Griffin is not yet a major league. He's nineteen years old.

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Speaker 1: He needs to get involved in the majors before I

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Speaker 3: Ken, we have a new member to our foul Territory family,

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Speaker 3: and it's a family that you know very well. Why

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, I'm very happy to announce Alana that the

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Speaker 1: same banner. Foul Territory Network proudly welcomes Tim Kirchen and

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Speaker 1: his son Jeff's show. Is this a great game or what.

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: When we were at the Baltimore Sun, were actually at

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Speaker 2: We were competing. He was at the.

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Speaker 1: Tim and I are not twin towers. That is why

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Speaker 1: Frank gave us that nickname. And in short, he would

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Speaker 2: Us sometimes the Towers. What are the Towers got for

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Speaker 3: That's great? I love that. Obviously neither of you was

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Speaker 1: The one thing people should know about Tim Kirchin is

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Speaker 3: It is a scrappy little guy that Tim Kirchen. Well,

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Speaker 3: We'll start with you, ken On. You're due to the week,

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Speaker 3: and it's another one of your colleagues that you have

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Speaker 1: Play by play man for NBC's Sunday Night Baseball Jason

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Speaker 1: Bennetti Due to the week. Jason worked at Fox for

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Speaker 2: Congratulations to Jason.

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Speaker 1: He is totally deserving of this, and if you haven't

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Speaker 3: Wicked smart. Congratulations did you and Benetti? I have a

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Speaker 3: do it, and for praising him as well. All right,

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Speaker 3: time now for our dork of the week. All right,

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Speaker 3: so our dork of the week, go ahead, Ken, you

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Speaker 3: have the honors.

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Speaker 2: Two words in need, I say more. Jerkson profar.

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Speaker 1: Now, his case has not been totally decided yet, but

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Speaker 1: he has been suspended for one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 1: games for a second violation of baseball joint drug policy

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Speaker 1: with the Union. That decision is under appeal, likely won't

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Speaker 1: be decided for several weeks, but his suspension will begin Friday.

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Speaker 1: I had one time a source who would say to me,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be really dumb to failure drug test.

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Speaker 2: Well that's two for Jerrekson.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how this resolves. But dork of the

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Speaker 1: week until proven otherwise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my dork of the week. The Atlanta Braves not

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Speaker 3: because of what Jerks and Profar did. But just because

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Speaker 3: they basically copied and pasted most of their Jerks and

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Speaker 3: Profar statement, And it's unfortunate Ken that they had to

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Speaker 3: do it to begin with. I mean, basically, they just

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Speaker 3: took out that they were, you know, surprised, because in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five they were surprised and extremely disappointed to

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Speaker 3: learn that Jerks and Profar tested positive for performance enhancing substance.

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Speaker 3: But take a look at the twenty twenty six to one, Ken,

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Speaker 3: They basically just took out the word surprise and were

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Speaker 3: incredibly disappointed. I mean, it just basically a copy and

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Speaker 3: paste situation. But honestly, fool me once, shame on you

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Speaker 3: for me twice, or fool me once, shame on me.

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Speaker 3: We'll meke to whatever the heck of thing is. But

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Speaker 3: the point is, Jerks and Profart, what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: All right? Guys?

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for watching and listening. We

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Speaker 3: appreciate it very much. Congratulations again to Jason Benetti, very

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Speaker 3: proud of you, very happy for you. Don't forget fair

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Speaker 3: with Ken is back on Monday. Enjoy the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you then,