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Speaker 2: Birthday boy.

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Speaker 3: Happy birthday from yesterday, Todd Father.

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Speaker 4: That was thank you, thank you. It was good. It

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Speaker 5: He threw a surprise birthday party. Man, really classy, good

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Speaker 5: call by Jack. I appreciate you, love you, Hunt. But

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Speaker 5: it was a solid, solid time man, big four oh Man,

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Speaker 5: welcome to the forty club.

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Speaker 2: You look good. He looks good.

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Speaker 6: Crats, I didn't get I mean forty. I didn't realize

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Speaker 6: you were forty. Man, You're on another level.

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Speaker 1: You're on another level.

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Speaker 6: I thought you were still still super young. You got

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Speaker 6: them fake pearly white.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Tell Jackie, Tell Jackie. I didn't get tell Jackie.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get a text. Man.

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Speaker 4: She just texts me now.

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Speaker 5: She said for some reason, he said, call couldn't go

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Speaker 5: through for some reason.

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, bad network network, tough service in the sticks.

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Speaker 3: Sorry about it, but anyway, everyone wished Todd Father a

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Speaker 3: happy birthday. If you're watching live in the chat or

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Speaker 3: We have a really beautiful calendar with palm trees, and

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Speaker 3: later in the show. Now let's go over the ABS

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Speaker 3: Challenge system information that has been shared and Jeremy running

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Speaker 3: point behind the scenes.

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Speaker 2: Here you can just start to put up what we have.

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Speaker 3: I'll read it to set the scene for our guys,

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Speaker 3: a few little intricacies of the rules, and then we

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Speaker 3: can react. So this from Alden Gonzalez. New Wrinkle with

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six. In extra innings, teams will have

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Speaker 3: at least one ABS challenge. So if a team has

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Speaker 3: zero after nine, boom, you get one for the tenth.

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Speaker 3: If you lose that one in the tenth, you get

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Speaker 3: one again for the eleventh inning. So that puts you

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Speaker 3: in a position where, of course, if you feel like

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Speaker 3: you didn't have to save, you got another one that

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Speaker 3: going with some of the other rule implementation pod fither

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Speaker 3: sounds good to me, right, You get a little extra

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Speaker 3: something when you're an extras where, of course every pitch

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Speaker 3: and you don't want to be without a challenge.

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Speaker 5: Think you'll see during those innings, you're gonna see a

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Speaker 5: At the same time, it's like that first pitch, all

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Speaker 5: I think it's the right decision because you want to

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Speaker 5: And I think this is this is the first start

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Speaker 6: in the minor leagues, I think it's fifty percent challenged

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Speaker 6: fifty two percent. This is just taking care of the

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Speaker 6: That's that's that's the excitement of the extra innings. That's

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Next up, those challenges are not to be used when

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Speaker 3: the game gets silly position players in the game. Now,

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Speaker 3: game's done from the league. This from Jesse Rodgers ABS

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Speaker 3: Challenge presentation. So they did a presentation to some media.

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Speaker 3: One interesting thing will be when an ABS challenge and

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Speaker 3: a video challenge. Oh this is something else, just so

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Speaker 3: you know. One interesting thing will be when an ABS

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Speaker 3: challenge and a video challenge occur on the same play.

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Speaker 3: This could happen on stolen base attempts for example. First,

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Speaker 3: the ball strike call will be decided then the challenge

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Speaker 3: on the basis so just some clarification, right Kratz. Little

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Speaker 3: things are gonna pop up or you're gonna be like what.

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Speaker 3: So they went over all the scenarios and there it

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, if you want.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I guess people haven't gone to minor league games,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and this this is the part where it's like, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 5: Scott if I'm not mistaken, Will they get extra time

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Speaker 3: so as far as I know and I'm out the

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Speaker 2: Go ahead and I'll follow.

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Speaker 1: They don't.

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Speaker 6: They don't get any extra time, but it's seen at

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Speaker 6: a different pace because think about just think about nobody

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Speaker 6: on strike three. You're like strike three are like ah

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Speaker 6: damn challenge where strike three ball thrown down? Everybody's watching.

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Speaker 6: There's a little bit of time there to make that decision,

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Speaker 6: you know, Todd, Like any little bit of timing is different.

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Speaker 6: You still have to say. You can't go, oh, well,

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Speaker 6: we're going to challenge the out or safe call at

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Speaker 6: I want to challenge the strike call too. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 6: that doesn't that timing doesn't change. What they're going to

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Speaker 6: then they challenge that. They show that they take that

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Speaker 6: challenge first. If it's a strike three call, they don't

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Speaker 4: It's gonna happen.

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Speaker 5: It's gonna happen, and we're gonna be like sure, wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 5: who goes first?

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Speaker 4: Let's go back and read the rules.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, hopefully it happens in spring training so we

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Speaker 4: I think that would that would help a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 6: Before you go, Scott, this is twenty fourteen is when

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Speaker 6: they implemented replay. We are we open the season against

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Speaker 6: the Rays. I'm with the Blue Jays Salve butere Drew

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Speaker 6: but Terra's dad. Not anything with Blake Butterra. This is

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Speaker 6: a different Salve. Butterra is running the replay room with

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Speaker 6: I'm not even sure who center fielder in fourteen for

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Speaker 6: not sure if we should challenge. Everybody looks over Posey

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Speaker 6: Rayis pulled his hamstring running the first base on the playoff.

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Speaker 6: Everybody's panicking literally, first play of the season couldn't have

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, you wanted to iron out in spring training?

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Speaker 3: Oh sway, And there are many spring training games to

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Speaker 3: be able to hash this out with. So you'll pick

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Speaker 3: up on any issues or any learning experiences for teams. Right,

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Speaker 3: If anything big pops up, we'll learn about it. Okay,

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Speaker 3: Next up this I mentioned briefly. No challenging of pitches

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Speaker 3: when position players are pitching, yes, he put thankfully.

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Speaker 1: Trash?

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Speaker 5: What's trash?

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Speaker 1: Todd?

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Speaker 6: Todd, are you gonna face the position player this year

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Speaker 4: Never? Never?

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Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Like that, but you guys are also now, in my mind,

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Speaker 5: Yes, but yes, dude, they they give the they give

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Speaker 5: So that's where they need to implement it more with

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Speaker 3: In my opinion, save all your challenges for the twelve

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Speaker 5: You I know what, Scott, it's funny that you do say.

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Speaker 5: you're not allowed to do a challenge, Like come on, dude,

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Speaker 5: I struck a guy out and it was probably you know,

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Speaker 4: Adam Duvall, Sorry.

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Speaker 3: Okay, fine, fine, I'm with you. You get your challenges.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two things.

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Speaker 3: One, you know what I mean, you don't. The league's

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Speaker 2: Right, We're in the same boat.

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Speaker 3: When we evaluate players. We're trying to be quick, and

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Speaker 2: So I'll give you that. That's fair, I understand.

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Speaker 6: This is this is my only example. In twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: I got trade to the Yankees, and.

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Speaker 6: I got six at bats, five at bats against position players,

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Speaker 6: I remembered it because we tracked it. It was something

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Speaker 6: They're not like God, you played every single game. We're

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Speaker 6: keeping you out there so you can face Chris Heisei

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Speaker 6: Suarez throwing the last inning. No, they put the bench

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Speaker 3: Okay, I thought that one's going to be ten seconds

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Speaker 3: with that.

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Speaker 2: This is your show.

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Speaker 3: I'm just here to point guard it and act like

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Speaker 2: One more for you. Let's look at the zone itself.

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Speaker 3: So Jesse Rogers from the presentation, I've been in some

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Speaker 2: The league will put like a.

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Speaker 3: PowerPoint together, put a lot of slides together, Google slides

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Speaker 3: whatever it is, and they'll lay it out. It's usually

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Speaker 3: really well done. I actually really enjoyed those. Jesse said.

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Speaker 3: we see the ABS zone it is a square. We

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Speaker 3: different geometry, Krats. Do you want to explain as a

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Speaker 1: Just learning? Todd?

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Speaker 6: Basically, it's over hundreds of thousands of pitches and just

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Speaker 6: there's there's so many like is it the catchers? Is

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Speaker 6: Some guys dev eight smaller, some guys deviate bigger, a

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Speaker 6: well that is a strike, and then there'd be ones

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Speaker 6: a you know, a little intricacy for big leaguers and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you see the corners were never called really,

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Speaker 4: So those are the ones. You know.

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Speaker 5: If you can give me a one box real quick

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Speaker 5: throw it. As a fan, you watch, oh, I think

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Speaker 5: that got it, you know what I mean, instead of

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Speaker 4: Saying, oh, the box didn't get it.

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Speaker 5: So now it's not a strike because umpires have a

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Speaker 5: that's what they told me when I played.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 3: But I'm going to present the other side as a

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Speaker 2: I am obsessed with the box.

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Speaker 3: If you take the box away from me, or you

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Speaker 3: even faded a little bit, I'm pissed. I understand that

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Speaker 5: I'm not mad that it's there, but if they did

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Speaker 3: That's because you played the game. You're just eye testing.

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Speaker 3: You know what stuff looks like. And maybe you like

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Speaker 5: By the way, I had a facial too this morning.

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Speaker 5: My wife got me a facial man, first time Jersey

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Speaker 4: Thank you girl.

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Speaker 1: That's it's not your first time you.

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Speaker 5: No, no, not my first time. But it was a surprise.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know I was getting it this morning, So we.

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Speaker 6: Have so many surprises. Ken was in surprise and was

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Speaker 6: I would love to have not the side angle because

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Speaker 6: I love the box. I love when they don't have

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Speaker 1: Ball Like I love that.

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Speaker 6: Because we're talking about pitches that are fifty to fifty

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Speaker 6: to get half them wrong. Players are going to get

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Speaker 6: It's the egregious ones. That's the only reason we have this,

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Speaker 3: One more layer Cratzy. We're a catcher for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: They know the assignment.

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Speaker 3: Now, not for every pitch, because you can't challenge every

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Speaker 3: You're like, Okay, I mean, of course it varies based

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Speaker 6: Here is the strategicy, the part that is it going

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Speaker 6: to change the game. No, dudes are still going to

441
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 6: get jobs because they throw ninety nine miles an hour.

442
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 6: But there is a value for the dudes who can

443
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 6: tickle the top and they can get the bottom corner

444
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 6: and the guy who can figure out, you know, my cutter,

445
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,199
Speaker 6: I'm able to throw that up and in where it

446
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 6: does touch the top of the zone inside, but it's

447
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 6: got to end up a little more on the plate.

448
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,480
Speaker 6: My cutter never is able to stay in the zone

449
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 6: long enough to be able touch upper upper quadrant or

450
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 6: the down and away quadrant. So there's going to be

451
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 6: strategy for a handful of guys. And those handful of

452
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 6: guys they might be able to find value in this.

453
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 6: They might be able to find you know who, who

454
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 6: is that guy? Is it a guy that used to

455
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 6: throw ninety eight? Now he's throwing more like ninety one

456
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 6: ninety three. But he's able to take He's able to

457
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 6: take some of the advantages of that zone and use

458
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Speaker 6: it for his advantage.

459
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Speaker 3: In conclusion, after what I thought was a very informative segment,

460
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 3: just now we finished with a tie. Each of you

461
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 3: used one fake word. For Crats the word was strategicy,

462
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 3: and for todd father the word was intricately. So you

463
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 3: guys tied. Good jobs doat one one one more introcral? Oh,

464
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Speaker 3: intricral still not a word, so integral strategical, I don't

465
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Speaker 3: think so. I have a lot of AI in my

466
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Speaker 3: world these days.

467
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Speaker 1: Definitely fine.

468
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Speaker 2: Spell it for me, Todd and I'll I t.

469
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Speaker 4: Integral o r T O I M T E D

470
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Speaker 4: G r A.

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Speaker 3: L oh integral. You said intrical integral, Yes, essentially, R

472
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Speaker 3: I C A l introcral. Yes, that's not a word integral. Yes,

473
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Speaker 3: but we just rolled back the tape and we heard intricole.

474
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Speaker 3: I had recently used the word intricate, so it could

475
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Speaker 3: just be a little bit of word.

476
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Speaker 4: Sometimes my t e rs go tru instead of ur.

477
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Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

478
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Speaker 5: That's the Jersey part of me. Okay, integral, I said

479
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 5: integral instead of integral.

480
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 2: Judges rule Olympic Judges.

481
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 4: Said that word again. He is about it.

482
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 5: We need somebody to use figure out the words we use,

483
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 5: like at the end of the show, what we got wrong.

484
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 2: You know, try to do more of it.

485
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 3: As you know, I've been working with you guys for

486
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 3: years and I just say whatever. So I'm just like,

487
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Speaker 3: I'm going to chime in as stat boy nerd boy.

488
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Speaker 1: I like I like the word monolithic.

489
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Speaker 6: I've always liked the word monolithic, and I try to

490
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 6: use it in as many sentences as possible.

491
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: What does it mean monolithic?

492
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, one singular, like one singular object, like a like

493
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Speaker 6: a large rock.

494
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Speaker 1: Monolithic.

495
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 3: Wow, that was actually beautifully when when I put it

496
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 3: in my eye, the first thing that popped up was

497
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Speaker 3: a single solid piece of stone.

498
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Speaker 2: Beautiful. Yeah, I swear A plus A plus. All right,

499
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 2: you are now for prepared for your SATs. Let's move

500
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Speaker 2: on to a trade. Aja.

501
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520
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Speaker 3: one zero FM. I think the Astros are the movers

521
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 3: and shakers of spring training because they still have more

522
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 3: moves up their sleeves. They have this surplus with their infield.

523
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 3: They also are still trying to clear some money, perhaps

524
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 3: to make some more moves.

525
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 2: They bring back.

526
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 3: Joey Lo Pervido Low Perfido from the Blue Jays. Remember

527
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 3: he was involved in the USA Kukuchi deal a couple

528
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 3: of years back. Jesus Sanchez going to Toronto Chandler Rome

529
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 3: of the Athletic and crush Shitty Territory telling us that

530
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 3: it's a money saving move. Sanchez is owed six point

531
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,959
Speaker 3: eight million dollars. Joey Lo Pervito is making less than

532
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 3: one million dollars. She's making the league minimum, which is

533
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 3: seven hundred something thousand dollars. Low Perveto's pumped because he's

534
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 3: already in that organization. It's like you got to go

535
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 3: for the ride with the Blue Jays into experiencing a World.

536
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 2: Series in Canada.

537
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 3: But now he goes back to Houston, where I think

538
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 3: he might get himself more playing time.

539
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: Sanchez definitely a platoon guy.

540
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 3: Also helps Phil avoid maybe left by Santander out there

541
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 3: and the Blue Jays can mix and match a little bit,

542
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 3: and they can certainly afford the contract, not that the

543
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 3: Astros can't. Kratz on the other side. Here, you have

544
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,479
Speaker 3: a surplus for the Astros, so you still wonder if

545
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 3: something's cooking. We're getting a lot of rumblings. I think

546
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 3: Chandler puts something out there along the lines of expect more.

547
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 5: So.

548
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 3: They are very active right now, and you keep thinking

549
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 3: that it involves the sock paratus because of the infield surplus.

550
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 3: Even Carlos Correa was asked about the situation, he said,

551
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 3: we have a lot of people that could potentially be

552
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 3: used in trades later on. I'm not a GM, but

553
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 3: I know that only four infielders can play at a time.

554
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 3: You have to make some move put some people in

555
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 3: the outfield have depth. So Cray had said, with the

556
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 3: owner that we have, we're not going to make our

557
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: team worse. Everybody knows that when the Astros make a move,

558
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 3: it's to make players better and make the hem better

559
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 3: and that might be the case. I will say, I'm

560
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 3: trying to get all this stuff on the fly. Jesus Sanchez,

561
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 3: when he joined the Astros, they were pumped to get

562
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 3: him for the misbalance that they had left you righty

563
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 3: in their lineup.

564
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: That was a big story over the years. But he

565
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: did not perform well with Houston.

566
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 3: So if your owner, Jim Crane, Kratz, and you're a

567
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 3: baseball super fan and you invested in Sanchez last year

568
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 3: and didn't work out.

569
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Speaker 6: Or like bait it, I like, I'm just gonna go

570
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 6: by what Carlos Correa said. Carlos Correa was one hundred

571
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 6: percent brought back here now that Dana Brown didn't like him.

572
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 6: Jim Crane loves him. I have heard Jim Crane say

573
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 6: it when he and I were talking back and forth

574
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 6: years ago, and how much he loves Carlos Correa and

575
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 6: everything that he embodies and how he you know, just

576
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 6: how he handles himself. So yes, Carlos Correa said, I'm

577
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 6: not a GM. Carlos Correy is talking to the guy

578
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 6: who ultimately makes the choice of how much money is spent.

579
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 6: And this is a money move, and this is also

580
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 6: a move that it was one of those things where

581
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 6: Low Perfido when they traded him. I remember reading an

582
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 6: article from the Astros and I wish I'd kept better

583
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 6: notes like Scott does. They really didn't want to get

584
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 6: rid of them. It was more of the like, okay,

585
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 6: like it's fine, like we're adding, we're adding what we

586
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 6: wanted in Kokuchi, but we really like Low Perfido and

587
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 6: you don't usually hear that from organizations. So for him

588
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 6: to go back, I've heard he is just one of

589
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 6: the nicest dudes. He's gonna get more playing time than

590
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 6: he did with the J's and he had a great

591
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 6: year with the Jays. So the J's were like, hey,

592
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 6: I know, we didn't use him a lot and we

593
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 6: have a surplus, so I guess, I guess we'll get

594
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 6: rid of them. But it's also a case where hey,

595
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 6: sus Sanchez just didn't He wasn't drinking the secret sauce

596
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 6: in Houston. It just didn't work out.

597
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: Some trades.

598
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 6: Some guys go places and the isn't always there, and

599
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 6: that's okay, so good for them moving on. But I

600
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 6: think there's another move. What if they went and got

601
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 6: Gallon too, What if the parades thing I don't know.

602
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 6: I just I feel like there's something more than just ah,

603
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 6: we gotta get rid of Paradis and you know, continue

604
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 6: to add to our to our outfield, you know, mix

605
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 6: what if they do something out of the ordinary. I

606
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 6: know they don't like the whole qualifying offer connected to him.

607
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 6: It just feels like Houston's lingering for something.

608
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: I have one other idea before Todd jumps in.

609
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 3: Everyone can add to their bullpen Josh Hater dealing with

610
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 3: the bicep thing, just keeping an eye on it. I

611
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 3: think Michael Kopeks still out there, and there are a

612
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 3: few other names too. Did they add a reliever?

613
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: No, yeah, they could.

614
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 6: They could, but that's not like they're not making moves

615
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 6: to add Michael Kopeck. They could add Michael Kopak yesterday.

616
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: Why you think he's gonna demand at this point?

617
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 2: You think? I don't know it?

618
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: And a large amount.

619
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Speaker 2: What's large?

620
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Speaker 3: I mean is he going to command one year seven

621
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 3: million bucks, which is around what Jyzus Sanchez was making.

622
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 3: So this is my one thing that I do think

623
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 3: the Astros look at is the luxury tax number. They're

624
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 3: usually dancing right below or above it, and they like

625
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 3: to stay in that range. Jim Crane essentially treats it

626
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 3: like a salary cap, not a hard cap, but it

627
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 3: is a soft cap. They keep themselves around that range.

628
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 3: So I could see that happening.

629
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: Again.

630
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 3: This broke right before the show, so I haven't done

631
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 3: my nerdy homework, but just throwing that out there, you

632
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 3: could see an arm like that. Added, there's still guys

633
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 3: out there that are going to command multimillion dollar contracts.

634
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just to jump in, Like when someone

635
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 5: says they're not done yet, maybe it has something brewing.

636
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 5: There's talks going on where it could lead to something.

637
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 5: I mean usually when somebody says they're not done yet,

638
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 5: there's something in the background going on. But there's plenty

639
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 5: of guys out there that are itching to get a job.

640
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 4: So this is the time as.

641
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 5: Presidents, as gms that go out there and bey, hey,

642
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 5: take it or leave it. This is what we're gonna

643
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 5: give your guy if he wants a place. IF's not

644
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 5: you know, I hate to say bargains, but people need

645
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 5: to People have livelihoods and they got it. They want

646
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 5: to play, so got to feed the family. So these

647
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 5: could be some shorter not as much money for some guys,

648
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 5: not as many years for a couple of guys and

649
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 5: spot fillers that they're gonna be like, you know, it's

650
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 5: a major league deal. I didn't want to I didn't

651
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 5: get the money I wanted. I've been a part of that,

652
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 5: and it's it stinks, but you got to find a job.

653
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 3: The one thing that just keeps bothering me is that

654
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 3: I feel as if the Ashlers are trying to get

655
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 3: Escoc Paratus in Houston for years and then he's the

656
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 3: name that's being floated around in trade rumors, and they

657
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 3: have some guys who are getting up there in years.

658
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 3: It just seems like such a classic case of I'll

659
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 3: just throw this out there. Let's say Krag gets hurt right,

660
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 3: and then you're like, oh man, this team is maybe

661
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 3: gonna make the playoffs by a game or two. They

662
00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 3: really need something. Oh wait, they need Escoc Paradus that

663
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 3: can just pull dingers in that ballpark and beat up

664
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 3: the Crawford boxes. Still would love to see another full

665
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 3: season of him out there. I get the logjam, and

666
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 3: Krey is going to be the guy that's going to

667
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 3: play every day until something happens at third. Jeremy Payne

668
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 3: had short I'll two ve at second, I think some

669
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: Bryce Matthew's over there too.

670
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: And then first is for Christian Walker. It's tough. You

671
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 2: can't have Paradis on the bench.

672
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: You can't keep him. You can't.

673
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 6: Sorry, it's not that's not how that's not how it works.

674
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 6: Maybe you can have seven or eight really good starters,

675
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 6: you know, starting pitchers, but when you have a guy

676
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 6: who should play every day, there's other ramifications to it.

677
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: Do you know do you know Correy is not going

678
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: to play every day? Do you know he's gonna get hurt? No,

679
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: you don't know that. Do you know that Christian Walker

680
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: is not going to get hurt? No, you don't know that.

681
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 6: But you can't have your organization. Can't one pay a

682
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 6: guy that much to see on the bench who is

683
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 6: an All Star last year? And two what does that

684
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 6: look like for other guys who go and sign places?

685
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 6: Oh what's gonna happen to me? If I sign here

686
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 6: and I had a good year and they're not willing

687
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 6: to get rid of me? Like there's there's a little

688
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 6: bit of a not saving face, but a you know

689
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 6: the look, what does it look like to the rest

690
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 6: of the league If they keep a guy like Parades

691
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 6: on the bench.

692
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 2: It looks like you have an embarrassment of briches.

693
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 4: I know, I know.

694
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 2: It just sucks.

695
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 3: I wish that they that this team didn't have a

696
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 3: logjam just because one of the most extreme pool hitters

697
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 3: in baseball with the Crawford boxes is.

698
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 2: Just fun, easy math to root for when you're a fan.

699
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 4: Of where Bill, when we need them?

700
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 3: What come on, man, why you gotta do that? We're

701
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 3: gonna have this clip later.

702
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: But yes to Boston.

703
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna happ and now because I

704
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 3: guess they consider durban and everyday guy.

705
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 2: But I think that will walk through nice. Oh gosh,

706
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,720
Speaker 2: I agree. I agree.

707
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 3: Okay, here's another guy who's up for grabs, Nick Castianos.

708
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 3: So we talked about him on yesterday's show, and then

709
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 3: by the end of yesterday's show he had been released.

710
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 3: We learned about the beer incident. Some fans went after

711
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 3: us on social media. I'm sorry, I'm going to stand

712
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 3: by this one. I know that some teammates were pissed.

713
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 3: I still don't think it's that big of a deal.

714
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: So John Hayman said, there's a lot of interest in

715
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 3: Castianos now that he's about to be free teams apparently

716
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 3: we're waiting for the expected release, and Isaacazout from fish

717
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 3: On First said, the Marlins do not have interest in

718
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: Nick Castianos, per sources, Well, there are many other teams

719
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,240
Speaker 3: good good thing. Just want to make sure that Marlins

720
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 3: fans are Awarecrats that your team is again not going

721
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 3: after a player.

722
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: Don't worry. They don't like free agency. That still remains

723
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:56,959
Speaker 2: the same.

724
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,479
Speaker 1: It's not a free agent. It's not a free agent.

725
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: What can can we put that tweetback up? Can we

726
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: put that tweetback up?

727
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 6: Because if I had like a good like a the

728
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 6: Marlins do not have interest in winning, per sources, is

729
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 6: what they meant, not Nick costs.

730
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 3: No, they just don't believe. You don't need, you don't

731
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 3: need free agents to win, Cracks. You can build everything homegrown.

732
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 1: You don't.

733
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 6: You don't need they have good players, like everyone's gonna

734
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 6: get after us because oh they got so much pitching,

735
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 6: death and depth and they have so much to offer, Like, okay,

736
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 6: then build around it. If you have this incredible build up,

737
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 6: not even build around it. Build something something I think

738
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 6: I read this morning seventy eight million dollars is their

739
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 6: current payroll what it would be opening day if nothing changes,

740
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 6: and Nick Costianus would be seven hundred and eighty thousand.

741
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 6: I think the minimum is seven eighty or maybe seven

742
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 6: to twenty. I'm not one hundred percent sure. So the

743
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 6: Phillies are on the hook. And I said it before,

744
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 6: I'll say it again in Philly everybody in Philly. I

745
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 6: even got put on a radio My clip from our

746
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 6: show here got put on one of the local radio

747
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 6: stations and they spent a whole segment about it about

748
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 6: how wow, how could he say something like that? How

749
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 6: could he say Nick Costianos is a valuable piece. We

750
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 6: don't know exactly what went on, the whole beer and

751
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 6: the dugout thing, and then somebody saying what he did

752
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 6: was disgusting, like all the things that are are being

753
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 6: bantered around right now, like just pump the brakes. Wait

754
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 6: to ask somebody who was actually there, like Nick Costianos

755
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 6: and not just like some of the rumor stuff. But

756
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 6: he can be a valuable piece to a team. Is

757
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 6: he going to be a superstar?

758
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 2: No.

759
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 6: Twenty twenty three was the last time he got MVP votes,

760
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 6: but that was as a Philly His tenure in Philly

761
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 6: probably isn't as bad as the way it ended up

762
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 6: here is his defense declined? Yes, but can he help

763
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 6: a team one hundred percent?

764
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 5: Like, I'm just confused because I really I love the guy.

765
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 5: I think he's a great dude, but he's he's also

766
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 5: a really good player. He's I feel like he's getting

767
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 5: the bed end of the stick over here in Philly,

768
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 5: and I think a change of scenery might kickstart him

769
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 5: back to being the player that he is. Man, Listen,

770
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 5: everybody's strong minded. The strongest people in the word have

771
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 5: the world are the best minds. They can trick their

772
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 5: mind of being comfortable with being excited, being positive. But

773
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 5: if more stuff goes, it builds once you get home

774
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 5: you think about it. Everybody's human, So I think the

775
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 5: human side of him he needed to go just to

776
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 5: get away from all the craziness going on and all

777
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 5: that stuff. But I feel like he would help any

778
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 5: ball club he would get on the right path, and

779
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 5: I think people would love him because you know, I've

780
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 5: heard nothing but really good things about him and the

781
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 5: way he plays the game. I love his attitude, I

782
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 5: love his energy, a spark and that little arrogance in

783
00:38:58,120 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 5: the best way possible.

784
00:38:59,120 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 4: I love that too.

785
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 6: I Mean there's also articles out about Otto Kemp when

786
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 6: he got called up, how much he helped him, Like

787
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 6: if a player makes more of a positive impact on

788
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 6: your team than a negative impact. I think at the

789
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 6: league minimum, I think there's a lot of value to

790
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 6: a lot of different teams. It'd be very interesting to

791
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,479
Speaker 6: see not only who picks him up, but the fact

792
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 6: that he gets to choose. Now, who picks him up,

793
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 6: he gets to choose because it's just a matter of hey,

794
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 6: what team, So, yes, is his most value as a

795
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 6: DH for some team? Probably does he still feel like

796
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 6: he can play right field? So maybe a team that

797
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 6: says we'll let you play eighty games in right field,

798
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 6: We'll let you play one hundred games in the outfield,

799
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 6: you're not just gonna DH. Maybe that's where he goes

800
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 6: and it might not be the place that everybody thinks.

801
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, and last thing, like you think of I Henningo

802
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 5: Suarez talked about him, and remember when we had forget

803
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 5: voting on I said, hey, the Reds would love to

804
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 5: have him a good pick up. He kind of, like,

805
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 5: you know, shushed it off a little bit, not being

806
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 5: rude about it, but reds end up picking him up.

807
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 5: Nobody really saw that coming. So like, there might be

808
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 5: a team out there, like, dude, this guy can have

809
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 5: a resurgence and all of a sudden we give him,

810
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 5: you know, a little bit of money and next thing,

811
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 5: you know, kick start back his career.

812
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 4: I agree totally.

813
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 3: Well, the league looks at players mostly the same way,

814
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 3: and his defensive metrics are not good. You can argue

815
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 3: it however you want, they're not good. Most of the

816
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 3: league is going to want him to primarily be a DH.

817
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: He actually said earlier this offseason he would explore first base.

818
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 3: Maybe that's a spot that he starts messing around with

819
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 3: in spring training. I think he's at a prove it

820
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 3: point where a team's gonna say, I don't know, you

821
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 3: probably are going to DH. We can mess around with

822
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 3: first You might not play a lick of outfield, or

823
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 3: if there's injuries, you might play a little bit of outfield.

824
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: But I know you have a chip on your shoulder.

825
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 3: You've provided mostly above average offense over the last five years.

826
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 2: You are a timely hitter. If you watch him on

827
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 2: an everyday basis.

828
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 3: Nobody's saying this is a superstar, but this is a

829
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 3: guy like these guys are saying that he can contribute

830
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 3: to a team that needs some more offense.

831
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 2: So krats for me.

832
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 3: I think if I'm Nick, I'm like, dude, I don't

833
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 3: care what you do with me. I just want to

834
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 3: go Rake and playing the All Star Game in Philly

835
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 3: this year?

836
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: Such a your side? What is that called?

837
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 6: It's not trolling, but you're trolling. You're you're you're living

838
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 6: for that moment. You want to see every every two

839
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 6: for three game that Nick has this year. Scott's going

840
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 6: to be like, let's get.

841
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: The voting going, Let's get the voting going.

842
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 6: No, I yeah, that would be that would be nice,

843
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 6: That'll be would be sweet revenge, I guess you would say.

844
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 6: But I think he's got a lot. I think he's

845
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 6: got a lot to prove, and I think some of

846
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 6: the things that just have circled out there. How many

847
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 6: times has Nick really gone through struggles? How many times

848
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 6: in his career as a baseball player, not his life

849
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 6: his career as a baseball player. He was a massively

850
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 6: hot super prospect coming out of high school, made it

851
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 6: to the big league super early, and has had success

852
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 6: a lot along the way how to kind of re

853
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 6: re up his value part way through like rate at

854
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 6: free agency, and then he cashed in. So it's like,

855
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 6: you know, how do you handle those how do you

856
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 6: handle those setbacks? Is it time for a comeback? We'll

857
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,479
Speaker 6: see in twenty twenty six.

858
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 3: I'm going to read an excerpt from an article that

859
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 3: mac elb from The Athletic wrote. This was the article

860
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 3: that drove I think Castiano's writing about the beer into in.

861
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 2: Miami last year.

862
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 3: The article, by the way, if you want to check

863
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 3: it out, how the Phillies one hundred million dollar marriage

864
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 3: with Nick Castianos ended in divorce. I want to get

865
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 3: player perspective here because I'm getting a little bit of

866
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 3: shades of Adam Laroche. Young fans, you can look up

867
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 3: that story, google him. Here's from the article about four

868
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 3: hours right, So Todd, you got your first up here.

869
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 2: Let me cue you. Ready.

870
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 3: About four hours before game two of last year's NLDS

871
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 3: Castianos's final home game, a Phillies coach through batting practice

872
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 3: to Nick son Liam while some Dodgers players were on

873
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 3: the field doing pregame preparations. Real Muto waited to take

874
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 3: early batting practice. The same pregame hitting sessions carried over

875
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 3: to Dodger Stadium, where Liam joined his father on the

876
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 3: field before more playoff games. The Phillies had entered the

877
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 3: series not expecting Castianos to be a factor, and injury

878
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 3: to Harrison Vader forced him into action. Castianos had two

879
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 3: hits and fifteen avs. He drove in the team's lone

880
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 3: run in that heartbreaking eleven inning defeat in Game four

881
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 3: that sent the Phillies home. Afterward, he sipped on a

882
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 3: beer inside the losing clubhouses. Everyone reflected on what was

883
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 3: and what was not. By then, there was no love lost.

884
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 3: The Phillies knew their marriage with Castianus was ending playoffs.

885
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 3: Kid on the field, BP, is that okay?

886
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine?

887
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 2: I do.

888
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 4: I think it's fine. Maybe he could have picked a

889
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 4: different time to go. Maybe that.

890
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 5: That's the only problem I have with that. Make sure

891
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 5: you know when you're on there, nobody else is supposed

892
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 5: to hit. If a guy is supposed to come in,

893
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 5: Hey guy, Hey Liam, we got to get off the field.

894
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 5: That kind of deal I will never not side with

895
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 5: with a family member trying to have his boy on

896
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,439
Speaker 5: a field in a major league field working out having

897
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 5: a good time. But also I will always side with

898
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 5: the professional that needs to get his work done as well.

899
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 3: But but they said real Muto was waiting to take

900
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 3: early VP. Again, like this is you know a ton point.

901
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 3: Nick will come on the show. We can talk to

902
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 3: him about this, because this could be like one disgruntled

903
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 3: person or person in the organization. That's probably where Krats

904
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 3: is going to come in being like, oh, let me

905
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 3: get him, let me go after him.

906
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 2: So I'm just presenting what is out here right now.

907
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 2: He's gonna talk. I'm sure he'll come on here and talk.

908
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 5: If this was the true story and how everything unfolded. Hopefully,

909
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 5: while I talk, I sound like I understand. M two

910
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 5: comes up, Hey, big guy, we got to get off.

911
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 5: He's taken early BP. Let's go to the cage like

912
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 5: something like that probably should have happened. Yes, of course

913
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 5: the baseball player should get precedents of that. He's trying

914
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 5: to win as the playoffs. The beer thing, when you lose,

915
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 5: grab a beer, talk to the boys. What the hell

916
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 5: is that crap about? I mean, come on, man, like

917
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 5: that right there, putting in a beer after you lost, Well,

918
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 5: that's what. That's what guys do who like to drink

919
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 5: beer after a game, poor themselves. Whatever they're drinking, sip

920
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 5: on it and talk about what.

921
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 4: Could have been. There could have been, so should have

922
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 4: that part. That's bogus.

923
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 5: They shouldn't have put they put that in there for

924
00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 5: people just be like, oh, and did you hear about

925
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 5: him drinking a beer too?

926
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: That's well, I will say this pot let me.

927
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 4: I don't agree with that one at all.

928
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 3: I agree we're on the same page with that beer

929
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 3: in the clubhouse. That was kind of relating to the

930
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 3: beer in the dugout incident.

931
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 2: So just to I heard that, we're taking it. Yeah,

932
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 2: you saw that he.

933
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 4: Brought not the only one, not the only one to

934
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 4: ever do that. That's just what he got picked up

935
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 4: because it's it's here.

936
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 5: People are trying to find more crap and make it

937
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 5: seem like he's worse of a person for doing that.

938
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 3: Okay, every Joe Schmoe fan is acting like, you know,

939
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 3: he broke the holy rule of bringing.

940
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 2: A beer into that's where That's where I goug out when.

941
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 3: He was taken out of a game and we talked

942
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 3: about it live reacting to it yesterday and and I

943
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 3: got the uh the Straight Edge Brigade online being like,

944
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 3: how dare he? You guys are defending him because he's

945
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 3: come on the show before. I was like, I don't

946
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 3: give a shit. It has nothing to do with that.

947
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 3: I just know that there's probably hundreds of players who

948
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 3: have brought a little sip of alcohol into the dugout

949
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 3: after they're not in the game, or even some pictures

950
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 3: when they're not pitching in that game, like a starter.

951
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: So I know enough.

952
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 3: You guys know enough, right, But Krats the floor is yours.

953
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 4: Hey.

954
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 6: I won't comment more on the we hit the beer

955
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 6: thing plenty yesterday. I love the fact it was a

956
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 6: presidente and if you get an actual presidente from the

957
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 6: Dominican oh, I mean, it's almost like yeah anyway. But

958
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 6: the whole hitting on the field thing, I'm in agreeance

959
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 6: with Todd that, yes, families should be able to do

960
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 6: things you should be able to But there is zero

961
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:35,959
Speaker 6: chance that JT.

962
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: Real Muto was standing there like how Matt painted it

963
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: in that in that article.

964
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 4: J T.

965
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 6: Romutto wasn't standing there like, Oh, I guess, I guess

966
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 6: I'm not going to go watching these guys interact, watching

967
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 6: how different guys interact with the with each other on

968
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 6: the Phillies team. It really is like a family and

969
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 6: they've been there together. Was Nick taking you know? Was

970
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 6: he saying, hey, you know what, this might be my

971
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 6: last time that he gets to hit with me on

972
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 6: the field as a Philly. Maybe maybe he knew, you know,

973
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 6: his time was coming to an end. But I need

974
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 6: to see the fact that JT real Muto was being

975
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 6: put out because because of Liam hitting, like Liam hitting

976
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 6: before early work, like early work is happening, like when

977
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 6: pictures and catchers are out there stretching, when pictures are

978
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 6: getting their long toss in before before visiting, before home

979
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 6: team batting practice. So I don't think this was as

980
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 6: big of a deal. It was just more of a

981
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 6: It was another story that until JT comes on and says, dude,

982
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 6: I was I was put out because of that. That

983
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 6: banged up my entire rest of my routine, or Nick

984
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 6: comes on and goes like, yeah, Liam was hitting, like

985
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 6: it was totally finn Like I wasn't taking up any time.

986
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 6: Like that happens a lot, and I think that should

987
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 6: always happen.

988
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 5: Agreed, and to button it up. If JT was really waiting.

989
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 5: Even if JT and Nick had a problem with each other,

990
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 5: you have to let the guy go with it like

991
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 5: that's I just can't see that happen in that way.

992
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 5: And if it did, then that's news to me and

993
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 5: everybody in the baseball world that that happened.

994
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 3: We're gonna hear more about this. At some point, Dave

995
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 3: Dombraski was asked about this. I watched the back and

996
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 3: forth with media because Philly media was doing a really

997
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 3: nice job trying to get answers, and Dave was just

998
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 3: basically saying, listen, it was seven months ago, and I'm

999
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 3: gonna let Nick handle the rest. So I'm like, okay,

1000
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 3: I hope Nick comes out and talks about it at

1001
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 3: some point, you know, when he's comfortable to go over it,

1002
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 3: he'll sign and then we'll figure it out.

1003
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 6: Sorry, one last thing, I got a call after I

1004
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 6: talked about the whole Knick situation from somebody with the Phillies,

1005
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 6: And yes, the situation what I had said was a

1006
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 6: dress to me, but it was also then added on

1007
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:07,760
Speaker 6: to that the fact that you know, there's certain things

1008
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 6: that certain guys handle in certain ways, and it was like, okay,

1009
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 6: was it just the beer in the dugout situation. No,

1010
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 6: was it just the Liam hitting and j t Romuto

1011
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 6: standing there. No, this was something that was brewing. And

1012
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 6: like I think, whoever talked to Matt Gelb, or maybe

1013
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 6: Matt Gelb saw it and saw it a certain way

1014
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 6: because things have been brewing.

1015
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: Things have been brewing.

1016
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 6: And to me go back and look at what he

1017
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 6: did throughout his four years, his three years of his contract,

1018
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 6: three of the four years, I don't think it was

1019
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 6: an awful contract. There's much worse contracts out there. Right now,

1020
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 6: let's put it that way.

1021
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 2: It was four years because it was a five to

1022
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: one hundred, right.

1023
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: Years, Okay. I thought it was four years.

1024
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 2: Last year because he had one year left.

1025
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: I think offensive. Look what he did, m h.

1026
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 3: He did some things, okay, And I think the league

1027
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 3: evaluates a player like him differently.

1028
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 2: Now is that right or wrong? I don't know, but

1029
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 2: totally right.

1030
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 3: You get you get destroyed on a war number for

1031
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 3: defense these days, and if you're out.

1032
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: There, he doesn't.

1033
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 6: He doesn't control his zone very well. He doesn't control

1034
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 6: his zone very well. He strikes out like nobody's denying

1035
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 6: his deficiencies. The reason they came up with the acronym

1036
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 6: war wins above replacement. The replacement player is the guy

1037
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 6: coming up from Triple A. Literally my career, I am

1038
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 6: the replacement player. My career numbers are rate at zero.

1039
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 6: It's negative point one is my replacement number. So I

1040
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 6: am the replacement. Is Nick Costianos on every day of

1041
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 6: the week and twice on Sundays better than me. Yes,

1042
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 6: So that's why, in my opinion, he should be on

1043
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 6: a big league team giving you one hundred and sixty

1044
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 6: two games.

1045
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 2: Not a replacement in our heart.

1046
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 3: Okay, next up, I mean that was great. I really

1047
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 3: enjoyed that segment and hope everyone else did. To let

1048
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 3: us know, if you're watching this afterward, drop a comment,

1049
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 3: yell at us, do whatever you want. That calendar is

1050
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 3: sizzling bout Territory Spring Training Tour.

1051
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 2: We have one more show.

1052
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 3: We do have a show on Monday, okay, and then

1053
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 3: the spring training tour begins. AJ will be here doing

1054
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 3: Monday show. I actually don't think I'll be on Monday show,

1055
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 3: but AJ will be there. Krats will be there. Oh

1056
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that I take ten days off the show

1057
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 3: the whole year. So Royals camp on Tuesday Royals camp

1058
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 3: on Tuesday, Guardians Wednesday, A's Thursday, Dodgers Friday, Mariners Saturday, Sunday,

1059
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 3: Rangers camp and then there are a ton of other

1060
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 3: teams were hitting. I think about twenty five teams on

1061
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 3: a five week tour. So if you want to see

1062
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 3: the rest, then have fun.

1063
00:52:59,440 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: Uh.

1064
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 3: Tricia Whittaker hosting on Monday, and I heard it could

1065
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 3: be a very special episode Buck Show, Walter joining and

1066
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 3: we might have like a semi live audience. No promises,

1067
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 3: but Tricia Whittaker hosting on Monday. I had one other thing. Oh,

1068
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 3: Roman Anthony added to the WBC. He's going to play

1069
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 3: for Team USA in place of Corbyn Carrol if he

1070
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 3: passes the spring training physical.

1071
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,240
Speaker 1: Twenty pounds of muscle.

1072
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 3: Twenty pounds of muscle twenty pounds. I'm not saying he

1073
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 3: got heavy, but twenty pounds of pure muscle. Maybe that's

1074
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 3: a technicality and I'm being a nerd about it. So

1075
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 3: enjoy the weekend everyone, Todd Father's birthday weekend continues.

1076
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:49,840
Speaker 2: What other surprises will he have?

1077
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I got a big dinner tomorrow. Valentine's dead Man,

1078
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 5: my money, my buddy came through Mark, Thank you.

1079
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 2: I love it. Crawts Hats on the way out.

1080
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: No very Orange.

1081
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 3: They got a shout out today for Miles Michaelis, who said,

1082
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 3: if you back up enough as a bass.

1083
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 2: Coach, you might as well. That was the line of

1084
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:24,280
Speaker 2: the show. Happy Friday people, Happy Monday.

1085
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 4: Happy Birthday. Have a good day.

1086
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 2: H