Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with my friend and colleague Alana Rizzo.
Speaker 2: Alana.
Speaker 1: Our friend and colleague Joel Sherman wrote a column I
Speaker 1: don't know about two weeks ago in which he was
Speaker 1: talking about the Red Sox and he was saying, man,
Speaker 1: it's a long season and we all forget it always,
Speaker 1: and the Red Sox for one example.
Speaker 2: The Blue Jays will talk about them. They're another. But
Speaker 2: the one we want.
Speaker 1: To start the show with is the San Diego Padres
Speaker 1: from the what yeah.
Speaker 3: The latest in terms of this right coming back from
Speaker 3: the dead. Tell me more.
Speaker 1: Well, they won fifteen of nineteen and if you remember
Speaker 1: mid June, mid June, not that long ago, six weeks ago,
Speaker 1: they were last in the National League and runs per game.
Speaker 2: Short time after that rotation was in tatters.
Speaker 1: Michael King, a guy who is really their mooth, solid starter,
Speaker 1: was kind of holding up the rotation.
Speaker 2: A number of their others were injured, of their starting.
Speaker 1: Pitchers or ineffective. Now they've traded for Robbie Ray, traded
Speaker 1: for Casey Miiz, Joe Musgrove is on his way back,
Speaker 1: and suddenly they are hitting again.
Speaker 2: Actually not so suddenly.
Speaker 1: This has been building and this run that they're on
Speaker 1: it started against Miami, Colorado and San Francisco, three teams
Speaker 1: that are not or at least at that time were
Speaker 1: struggling or not really in a place where you would
Speaker 1: say they're contending.
Speaker 2: But then even when.
Speaker 1: You thought, okay, the Padres are kind of doing it
Speaker 1: against weaker teams, their schedule got tougher and they started
Speaker 1: playing tougher teams. Split a series with Arizona two of
Speaker 1: three from Houston, and now they just have swept Milwaukee
Speaker 1: and here they are Tatis. Remember he had no homers.
Speaker 1: He's up to twelve homers. OPS is up to seven
Speaker 1: seventy three Merrill Jackson Merrill since July nineteen has been
Speaker 1: on fire. Three seventy six batting average, nine home runs,
Speaker 1: eleven hundred OPS. And Manny but Chado, while he's not
Speaker 1: really hitting seventy ten OPS, two hundred batting average in August,
Speaker 1: still has twenty three homers. So they look like the
Speaker 1: Padres again, even with all their injuries. And to me,
Speaker 1: it's impressive what they've done. And it's just another example, Alana,
Speaker 1: of a long season. So here we go, the San
Speaker 1: Diego Padres. They're back in the playoff mix. They're holding
Speaker 1: the second spot in the wild card race right now.
Speaker 2: Good for them.
Speaker 3: It's insane to think that Ken, we had written them off.
Speaker 3: Some people would have even used as sharpie and said
Speaker 3: that the San Diego Padres were done. But it is
Speaker 3: not to be. Let's talk about another team, or really
Speaker 3: another division that's interesting, and that is the AL East.
Speaker 3: Three of the best teams in the league all coming
Speaker 3: from that division. And Ken, it doesn't seem like the
Speaker 3: Rays have any thought of stopping anytime soon.
Speaker 1: No, and they're coming off nine to zero road trip,
Speaker 1: admittedly again against weaker or struggling teams it's Colorado, Seattle
Speaker 1: and the A's, but hey.
Speaker 2: You have to win the games in front of you.
Speaker 1: And we just saw Arizona lose two or three at
Speaker 1: home to Colorado, so it's not as easy as you think.
Speaker 2: And the Rays they have done this all season long.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this, and what's interesting to me is
Speaker 1: the effect that Liam Hicks seems to be having in
Speaker 1: a very short time since arriving from the Tampa sort.
Speaker 2: Of the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 1: Remember the Rays were talking about adding another hitter really
Speaker 1: could do it at any position.
Speaker 2: They wanted a compliment, a fourth compliment to.
Speaker 1: Their big three of Junior Caminero, Yondi Diaz and Jonathan Ronda.
Speaker 2: Hicks looks like he can be that guy. Now.
Speaker 1: I know it's a small sample, but he's eight for
Speaker 1: twenty six since the trade. He is a guy with
Speaker 1: two home runs, three doubles during that time ops about
Speaker 1: eleven hundred and yes, you'll say small sample, can well
Speaker 1: guess what a trade acquisition is design to help you
Speaker 1: over a small sample. Obviously, Hicks will be with the
Speaker 1: team beyond this season, but this is the boost that
Speaker 1: they were looking for. They've got Chandler Simpson hot as well.
Speaker 1: They're doing some really good things, and of course they
Speaker 1: have the pitching both at the back end of the
Speaker 1: bullpen and in the rotation. So the Rays, We've talked
Speaker 1: about this endlessly.
Speaker 2: They're not going away.
Speaker 1: They've got a huge lead in the AL East. They
Speaker 1: are the best team in the American League.
Speaker 3: Ken the Blue Jays are one of those teams we
Speaker 3: talked about in terms of being streaky again, kind of
Speaker 3: writing them off as many did with the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 3: But hang on because Toronto, Ken is saying, not so
Speaker 3: fast is their life. For these Blue Jays, there.
Speaker 1: Seems to be alta and it's shocking to see because
Speaker 1: this team is another one kind of like the Patres
Speaker 1: below expectations all season long, rotation battered by injuries.
Speaker 2: Still having problems in that regard you. Savage is now out.
Speaker 1: But they've won ten of their last fourteen game and
Speaker 1: a half back in the wildcard race, and they've gotten
Speaker 1: a real boost from brit Bateman, who came over in
Speaker 1: the Gossman trade, as well as Charles McAdoo at the
Speaker 1: top of their order. Vlad still does not have a
Speaker 1: home run at Rogers Center, and there's still questions in
Speaker 1: the rotation Beyond Cease and now Soriano, along with Schrzer
Speaker 1: and Bieber, there really is no fifth and one are
Speaker 1: injury more and they're gonna be in real trouble again
Speaker 1: with that rotation.
Speaker 2: But they're playing again the way we saw them play.
Speaker 1: Not so much in October, but down the stretch last season.
Speaker 1: In October they were on another level. But one and
Speaker 1: a half games back in the wild card you cannot
Speaker 1: rule them out. And it's been interesting to see this
Speaker 1: team evolve over the course of the season as well.
Speaker 3: I cannot believe Vladimir ger Junior does not have a
Speaker 3: home run yet this season at home. I will say
Speaker 3: this though, I just love saying Charles McAdoo. I love
Speaker 3: this kid's name. What a great baseball name. All right,
Speaker 3: as far as the Boston Red Sox are concerned, Ken,
Speaker 3: they were going on a meteoric tear going into the
Speaker 3: All Star break. Coming out of the All Star Break,
Speaker 3: they looked unbeatable. We never thought they were going to
Speaker 3: lose again. But not only did they lose again, Ken,
Speaker 3: They've dropped five straight. What's going on with them?
Speaker 1: Their offense is stalled a little bit. Wilson contraris a
Speaker 1: little bit banged up. I'm not terribly worried. And when
Speaker 1: you're as hot as they were, there is simply no
Speaker 1: way you can sustain that. We all knew this was
Speaker 1: coming to some degree. The good news for the Red
Speaker 1: Sox is that Roman Anthony seems to be on his
Speaker 1: way back. There's a chance Crochet could come back now.
Speaker 1: Whitlock is suddenly a concern. He's got an elbow problem.
Speaker 1: We'll know more about that as the day and perhaps
Speaker 1: the weekend goes on. But the Red Sox still are
Speaker 1: in a commanding position four and a half games up
Speaker 1: in the wildcard race, holding that lead over the third
Speaker 1: place team. So they're in a good spot and I
Speaker 1: don't expect them to go all the way backwards.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, this was coming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's go to the National Leak or
Speaker 3: hot second. Well, actually I guess two teams, one in
Speaker 3: the NL, one in the AL the Phillies Field of
Speaker 3: Dreams game tonight against the Twins, Bryce Harper in right field.
Speaker 3: First of all, let's talk about the game itself. This
Speaker 3: is something that I absolutely love. It's the one thing
Speaker 3: in my career I've not been able to cover and
Speaker 3: not being able to attend, and I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3: I'd like your take on the Field of Dreams. And
Speaker 3: then what the heck is going on in terms of
Speaker 3: Bryce Harper and moving him back to the right, you know,
Speaker 3: to right field, and everything going on with the Phills.
Speaker 1: Well, I did the first two Field of Dreams games
Speaker 1: for Fox, and they've been on hiatus with this game
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, and tonight it will
Speaker 1: be on Netflix, and I'm interested to see whether it
Speaker 1: kind of captures the magic of what it was.
Speaker 2: That first year.
Speaker 1: When the Yanes played the White Sox, that was amazing.
Speaker 1: The next year, I believe was Reds and Cubs not
Speaker 1: so amazing. The novelty kind of wore off.
Speaker 2: But here it is.
Speaker 1: Back after a few years away, and we'll see if
Speaker 1: it becomes again this big event that MLB wants it
Speaker 1: to be. A Phillies We talked about this at the deadline,
Speaker 1: when they got a rise and they started moving in
Speaker 1: field pieces all over the place. What was going to
Speaker 1: be the impact And one of the possibilities, certainly, was
Speaker 1: that Bryce Harper having to run a little bit more
Speaker 1: than he would at first base, maybe a lot more
Speaker 1: in right field. Who knows what that would mean to him,
Speaker 1: And obviously he's having a left knee issue. His quote
Speaker 1: was to Charlotte Farnes of the Athletic, I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna spring training game with my arms.
Speaker 2: Legs, everything.
Speaker 1: He feels like he's going to be okay. He wants
Speaker 1: to play every game. I've noticed a lot of Phillies
Speaker 1: fans online saying, what are we doing? Why isn't Harper
Speaker 1: at first? Why isn't Boem on the bench? If you're
Speaker 1: going to play Bryce in Scott at third. There were
Speaker 1: easier ways to go about this. Now their outfield is
Speaker 1: very thin and they didn't really acquire an outfielders, so
Speaker 1: that was one problem with that idea. But I can
Speaker 1: see the point there, and it's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: to see at some point if they sacrificed in the outfield,
Speaker 1: which has been a problem all season. Put Harper back
Speaker 1: at first and say to Bohm, listen, you're going to
Speaker 1: be a part time player now. It maybe should have
Speaker 1: been what they did in the first place. Then you
Speaker 1: could have gone and signed Austin Hayes like the Padres did.
Speaker 2: I know the Phillies had him before, But there were
Speaker 2: ways out here.
Speaker 1: This is the path they chose, and it's a perilous path,
Speaker 1: there's no question about it.
Speaker 2: It's been that way from the very start.
Speaker 3: And ken Rice Harper was an outfielder and then he
Speaker 3: became a first baseman, then he was a DH then
Speaker 3: he was a first baseman, then he's an outfielder again.
Speaker 3: Now he's back, but his body is feeling it. He's
Speaker 3: feeling the change in terms of position. What do you
Speaker 3: make of that?
Speaker 1: Well, they're giving him some dhds, and they're going to
Speaker 1: continue to do that. But it's not surprising to me.
Speaker 1: I remember a lot of asking Mookie Betts about playing
Speaker 1: right field and going to shortstop, and he was telling
Speaker 1: me what a relief it was for him physically, and
Speaker 1: I was like, wook, what are you talking about? He goes, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you try running back and forth to the outfield nine
Speaker 1: times a game and then running around.
Speaker 2: In the outfield. It does take a toll. It's might
Speaker 2: sounds silly to fans.
Speaker 1: Because these guys are, of course, highly trained athletes, but
Speaker 1: it's more of a toll, there's no question about that.
Speaker 1: So it's not surprising that this is taking more of
Speaker 1: a toll on Harper, and they're going to have to
Speaker 1: find ways around it by diging him certain days and
Speaker 1: also maybe by revising this plan.
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers Saturday on Fox Jacob Mazerowski versus Justin Robleski
Speaker 3: potentially a Battle of the All Stars. What are you
Speaker 3: looking forward to?
Speaker 1: Battle of the All Stars, Battle of the skis. If
Speaker 1: only aj Prazinski was in the booth voted.
Speaker 2: But what I'm looking forward to, of course, is seeing
Speaker 2: the Miz.
Speaker 1: But Rubeleski has been a guy for the Dodgers all
Speaker 1: year long who has quietly just been excellent. So the
Speaker 1: Miz is going to command all the attention, and rightly so.
Speaker 1: He's at two hundred plus strikeouts already. It's incredible what
Speaker 1: he is doing, throwing a million miles an hour, all
Speaker 1: of that, and we're gonna have him on the broadcast.
Speaker 1: Smolts will be in the booth. Smoltz is always a
Speaker 1: great win it comes to starting pitchers. I'm interested to
Speaker 1: hear his analysis as this game goes on of Jacob Misrawski,
Speaker 1: and interested to see as well how these two teams
Speaker 1: fare in this series. The Brewers are coming off getting
Speaker 1: swept in San Diego. Now the Padres are red hot
Speaker 1: right now and the Brewers kind of got in their
Speaker 1: way and that was that. And the Brewers are dealing
Speaker 1: with some injuries as well on the left side of
Speaker 1: their infield. But they've been a remarkable team all year
Speaker 1: and their manager Pat Murphy said yesterday, Hey, we've got
Speaker 1: the most wins in baseball. There's a reason for that.
Speaker 1: And even when you have the most wins in baseball
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that struggles are impossible. Doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 1: not going to happen. And we've seen this and again
Speaker 1: it goes back to the long season. Long season stuff happens.
Speaker 1: So the Brewers will be looking to bounce back against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. The Dodgers just got their gift playing three
Speaker 1: against the Kansas City Royals and sweeping them.
Speaker 2: To end their one and eight slide.
Speaker 1: So it's two teams kind of trying to get back
Speaker 1: into gear. But remember the calendar says it's only mid August.
Speaker 3: Yeah, August twelve. Patmnfree was stated, as you mentioned, Ken,
Speaker 3: you're still going to go through tough times like this.
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Speaker 3: we're making our way right in to Grill and Ken
Speaker 3: your opportunity, of course, to ask Ken Rosenthal some questions.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the Cubs and the Cardinals, and then
Speaker 3: of course White Sox, Mariners and d Backs up next.
Speaker 3: But let's talk the first question Ken, in terms of
Speaker 3: Mike g fifteen has just got here. L Oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: what did I miss? Are we talking about how the
Speaker 3: Cubs are on an absolute wagon? Mike wants to know, Ken,
Speaker 3: what do you make of these Cubs and Alex Bregman
Speaker 3: and his three home runs?
Speaker 1: Mike, glad you asked, because we haven't talked about the
Speaker 1: Cubs and we should be talking about the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Guess what, they are only three games.
Speaker 1: Behind the Brewers right now. They won I believe eight
Speaker 1: of nine. Their offense again is on fire.
Speaker 2: And I remember it.
Speaker 1: Was about a week ago, either on foul territory or
Speaker 1: fair territory. I was asked, can the Cubs catch the Brewers?
Speaker 1: And I said I probably not leave. The deficit was
Speaker 1: six or six and a half at that time, and
Speaker 1: you just do the math. It's not that easy to
Speaker 1: do but they have games left with the each other,
Speaker 1: and these are teams that are going to be battling,
Speaker 1: perhaps to the end. But we'll see if the Cubs
Speaker 1: can sustain this, because remember, they've had their highs this
Speaker 1: year and they've been extreme, and they've also had some
Speaker 1: extreme lows. So I don't rule anything out in this
Speaker 1: division race. And the Brewers, they've got some things going on,
Speaker 1: as I said, with injuries right now, they're a little
Speaker 1: bit dicey for them. But I love what the Cubs
Speaker 1: did at the deadline, and maybe that is the impetus
Speaker 1: they needed to catch Milwaukee in at en El central Ken.
Speaker 3: We haven't talked much about the Brewer or excuse me,
Speaker 3: of the Mariners. We've talked a lot about the Brewers.
Speaker 3: But of the Mariners. Lance Johnson fifty oh four would
Speaker 3: like to ask you, Seattle fire Scott Service because of
Speaker 3: their lack of hitting, will they do the same to
Speaker 3: Dan Wilson? How much of a leash does he have?
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I will say to Lance Johnson
Speaker 1: five four that question has crossed my mind. Now it's
Speaker 1: late in the season for a managerial change, but they
Speaker 1: fired their third hitting coach, A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: Bobby Magga yan that didn't do the trick, and it
Speaker 1: was kind of a silly move anyway, You're firing your
Speaker 1: third hitting coach, your assistant to the assistant. You got
Speaker 1: Edgar Martinez up top, you got Kevin Sitzer right after that,
Speaker 1: and Bobby Banging.
Speaker 2: Honest was after him. That didn't do it. But this
Speaker 2: team does look like it needs a kick in the rear. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know that fire and the manager would do it,
Speaker 1: but it's a really interesting question right now where the
Speaker 1: Mariners are going with this and what happens to Dan Wilson.
Speaker 1: Maybe not right away, but at the end of the
Speaker 1: season if they do not pick it up, and we've
Speaker 1: been waiting for them to get hot all year long.
Speaker 3: Cal Rawley not hitting perhaps a reason for that too. Ken,
Speaker 3: Marvizelten wants to ask you, Ken, do you think there
Speaker 3: will be more off season activity like trades and signings
Speaker 3: before or after the CBA gets settled.
Speaker 1: If settled, I would say both. And the real question
Speaker 1: will be November. And we know that the CBA expires
Speaker 1: December first, and we know in twenty twenty two the
Speaker 1: last time the sport.
Speaker 2: Was in this situation.
Speaker 1: There was a flurry of activity right before the lockout
Speaker 1: started on December first. The guy I've been thinking about
Speaker 1: here is Scooble, because if you're Schooble, it probably want
Speaker 1: to sign before we have any kind of new system
Speaker 1: in place.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The new system is not going to take effect immediately
Speaker 1: if indeed it's a cap system, and even if it's not,
Speaker 1: we might have some grandfathering in. I would think if
Speaker 1: they kept the current luxury tax plan in place then
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be like that.
Speaker 2: But either way, it.
Speaker 1: Might behoove Schooble to act sooner rather than later. And
Speaker 1: his agent, Scott Bores, is not one who always moves quickly,
Speaker 1: but in certain periods does so that's the one to watch.
Speaker 1: I would say there has a chance, a good chance
Speaker 1: of happening, perhaps before December first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would like if I'm Schooble, to lock down
Speaker 3: that big contract as soon as possible, certainly before a lockout.
Speaker 3: Along the same lines of a lockout can armand our
Speaker 3: friend is amazing wants to know with the recent sale
Speaker 3: of the Lakers obviously twelve billion dollars, which is bananas
Speaker 3: and MLB owners seeing that price and drooling over it.
Speaker 3: What percentage would you put the entire twenty twenty seven
Speaker 3: season as locked out? And is there a correlation in
Speaker 3: your mind?
Speaker 1: Certainly MLB owners have looked at the NBA and NFL
Speaker 1: valuations of the franchises and been jealous.
Speaker 2: For lack of a credit's round. They've been envious of
Speaker 2: that situation.
Speaker 1: Now, the Yankees just were valued at ten over ten billion,
Speaker 1: So I don't know that it's as dire as circumstance
Speaker 1: as you would think. But certainly MLB owners are quite
Speaker 1: worried about their franchise valuations.
Speaker 2: That's why they want a salary cap.
Speaker 1: That's the number one reason they can talk about competitive
Speaker 1: balance all they want.
Speaker 2: Now, do I think.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty seven season will be entirely missed?
Speaker 2: I do not think that.
Speaker 1: I think that would be the height repeat the height
Speaker 1: of stupidity as time when the sport is experiencing a renaissance.
Speaker 1: Are the owners capable of that kind of conduct when
Speaker 1: they're intent on getting a salary cap?
Speaker 2: Absolutely they are capable of it. But at some point,
Speaker 2: cooler heads must prevail.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of implications from television contracts
Speaker 1: to fan discontent to all kinds of things that would
Speaker 1: happen if you miss an entire season. Sport would come back,
Speaker 1: but it would take some time, and your franchise valuations
Speaker 1: might suffer a little bit in the process.
Speaker 3: I absolutely love that the height of stupidity. You my
Speaker 3: friends are absolutely right. All right. We crowned dude and
Speaker 3: dork of the week.
Speaker 2: Next I'm the dude, So that's what you call.
Speaker 3: Me, all right, Ken? I know somebody in the chat
Speaker 3: who already is going to agree with your pick of
Speaker 3: dude of the week, Christian A. Three. Why don't you
Speaker 3: tell everybody, Ken, who you're due to the week is?
Speaker 2: It is Alex Frigman of the Chicago Cubs. Three homer
Speaker 2: game last night.
Speaker 1: His ops is up to seven point fifty eight, and
Speaker 1: we've been talking about it the entire show.
Speaker 2: It's a long season, and.
Speaker 1: It's started off for Alex Bregman not so great. You
Speaker 1: often see this when a free agent signs a big
Speaker 1: contract with a new team. It is not always easy
Speaker 1: for that player to get going right away.
Speaker 2: It's a big transition. We see it time and time again.
Speaker 2: Gregman is a guy who is as serious about his
Speaker 2: craft as any player in the major leagues.
Speaker 1: He can overthink it at times, perhaps, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he was in his head a little bit while he
Speaker 1: was struggling in the first half.
Speaker 2: But he is back. The three homer game proved it,
Speaker 2: and he again is the dude of the week for me.
Speaker 3: Alex Bregman very studied. He is a guy that absolutely
Speaker 3: pays attentions, always trying to get better, always studies. Obviously,
Speaker 3: congrats on getting more than ten years of service time
Speaker 3: for Alex Bregman this season. My dude of the week
Speaker 3: is a couple of pitchers. I'm going to start with
Speaker 3: Dean Kramer throwing seven innings of one run, one hit
Speaker 3: ball against your longtime team Can nine days after they
Speaker 3: traded you away. That had to feel pretty darn good
Speaker 3: for him. And I'm also going to give an honorable mention.
Speaker 3: I know you're gonna roll your eyes to Blake Snell
Speaker 3: just because he came off the il, hasn't pitched since
Speaker 3: May ninth. He's always a second half pitcher. He wants
Speaker 3: to take half the season off. Good for him. Six innings,
Speaker 3: three hits, one earned run, one walk. But the ten
Speaker 3: punchies Can That's why Blake Snell gets an honorable mention
Speaker 3: for me. All right, time now for the dork of
Speaker 3: the week. Ken, You and I are in agreement upon this,
Speaker 3: and I will let you go first, because this was
Speaker 3: absolutely bananas before.
Speaker 1: Out fiasco in Toronto involving the Red Sox and the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. Now, initially my thought was the Red Sox players,
Speaker 1: the two guys on base who forgot the number of
Speaker 1: outs there were or didn't know the number of outs
Speaker 1: there were, Well, that's on them, but the scoreboard.
Speaker 2: Showed two outs.
Speaker 1: They were kind of obviously not totally aware. But it
Speaker 1: was a confusing situation for them. But they're not the
Speaker 1: dorks of the week for that alone. There was so
Speaker 1: much going on. There was so much Dortom and John
Speaker 1: Boy in his latest video it's fifteen minutes long, he detailed.
Speaker 2: It all and it shows.
Speaker 1: He shows in that video that the Blue Jays could
Speaker 1: have avoided this whole mess by throwing to third base
Speaker 1: instead of first base for the fourth out of the
Speaker 1: inning or end, as well the umpire by signaling and
Speaker 1: waving the run off. Initially, that caused confusion, so everybody
Speaker 1: on the field seemed to be confused. Now, in fairness
Speaker 1: to everyone involved, I don't know how many of.
Speaker 2: Us knew this rule.
Speaker 1: I certainly didn't, and a lot of people fans people
Speaker 1: in the game didn't really know it that well either,
Speaker 1: or the entire sequence that involved these rules. So I'll
Speaker 1: give it a little bit of a break to everyone involved.
Speaker 1: But you can't just blame the Red Sox, you can't
Speaker 1: just blame the Blue Jays, you can't just blame the OMPs.
Speaker 2: Everybody had a role in this fiasco.
Speaker 3: Ken, I'm in agreement with you. They also are my
Speaker 3: dorks of the week, a lot of dorkdom as you
Speaker 3: put it. I was sitting there watching this unfold in
Speaker 3: real time, and I was watching it with Chris, and
Speaker 3: he was like, wait a minute, shouldn't the players know
Speaker 3: how many outs are going in the inning right now?
Speaker 3: Because he was he also said, you're always told the
Speaker 3: scoreboard isn't right, Like, don't pay attention to the scoreboard,
Speaker 3: Like you always have to be mentally in the game,
Speaker 3: because that type of stuff happens, right, whether it was
Speaker 3: an individual that accidentally put two outs up on the scoreboard,
Speaker 3: or whether it was an automatic system or however it
Speaker 3: went down, you can't always rely on the scoreboard, right
Speaker 3: so it would behoove you to make sure you know
Speaker 3: what's happening in terms of being in the game. I
Speaker 3: think the only person in real time that kind of
Speaker 3: was spot on with the rule was Lumor LONEI of
Speaker 3: the Nessen broadcast. He seemed to be able to break
Speaker 3: it down before the seventeen other explanations of what was happening.
Speaker 3: I certainly didn't know what was going on, but you
Speaker 3: would think that the players on the field would have
Speaker 3: a better sense of how many outs were in the game.
Speaker 3: But Ken, before we let you go, it is official
Speaker 3: Garrett Whitlock is on the IL for Boston with that
Speaker 3: elbow inflammation, and they have recalled Greg Weissert from Triple A.
Speaker 3: So how concerned should they be in terms of Whitlock's
Speaker 3: arm issue.
Speaker 2: Anytime it's an elbow, you have to be concerned. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. And I don't know what this
Speaker 2: means for him. Maybe it's a short term thing, but again,
Speaker 2: elbows are a.
Speaker 3: Problem, all right, Ken, Great to be with you as always.
Speaker 3: That is it for us here on Fair with Ken Rosenthal.
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