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Speaker 1: indeed to Cardinal Territory.

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Speaker 2: It's been a minute. My apologies, I promise I'll explain.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Katie Woo, and we are only two

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Speaker 1: weeks ish into the off season, but it kind of

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Speaker 2: So much longer than that, right, I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because post season baseball has been insane,

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Speaker 1: two weeks. Perhaps you've noticed, however, we have switched up

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Speaker 1: I am going to help out at the Athletic with

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Speaker 1: our National League playoff coverage, as evidenced by the show

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Speaker 1: being recorded straight from my hotel room in Milwaukee ahead

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Speaker 1: so a minor setback for Cardinal Territory for now, though

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to get him back on the show soon.

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Speaker 1: I know he has plenty to say and talk about

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Speaker 1: with all the changes coming to Cardinals Land over the

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Speaker 1: But the Cardinals are very much underway with their off

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Speaker 1: season planning, and we'll get to that. But since we

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Speaker 1: are on the subject of playoffs, let's break down the

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Speaker 1: upcoming ALCS, which starts tonight real quick with our presenting sponsor,

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Speaker 1: including all ale playoff games.

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Speaker 2: And the World Series.

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Speaker 1: Tonight Sunday, we have Game one of the ale Yes

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Speaker 1: between the Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays, a

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Speaker 1: league championship matchup we definitely all predicted back in April.

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Speaker 1: But seriously, I love this matchup so much, not just

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Speaker 1: for the baseball element, which I will get into, but first,

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Speaker 1: can we talk about the fan bases, I mean, Mariners fans.

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Speaker 1: then Toronto just a great city to go visit. Playoff

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Speaker 1: Flatty is electric Baseball has been deserving a playoff Vladimir

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Speaker 1: two great fan bases. Just incredible matchup for the Alcs.

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Speaker 1: But how about before we even get to the Alcs,

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Speaker 1: how about that fifteen inning game Friday night between the

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Speaker 1: Tigers and the Mariners Alds Game five on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic game. And we'll get to that too.

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Speaker 1: But I actually just want to say I really enjoyed

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Speaker 1: the broadcast, Adam Aman doing play by play, and of

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Speaker 1: course Cardinals fans are very familiar with analyst Adam Wainwright

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Speaker 1: and our guy here at Foul Territory, agent Prasinski. They

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Speaker 1: Nine and means in a deciding game, an elimination game

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Speaker 2: Insane, and they were on it the entire time.

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Speaker 1: I think the term instant classic gets overused a ton,

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Speaker 1: especially in the postseason, but that game was simply October

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Speaker 2: I don't know, just just a great baseball game.

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Speaker 1: I loved it, watched every second and I hope both

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Speaker 2: I hope the ALCS go seven.

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Speaker 2: Now. Okay, let's talk Cardinals. Where do we even start?

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Speaker 1: Since Tim Bloom's introduction as Cardinals President at Baseball Operations,

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Speaker 1: Upon the athletic Earlier in October, we reported that the

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals are one of the very few teams that

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Speaker 1: Cardinals need to get better at evaluating players in Major

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Speaker 1: Many teams are pivoting for technology over a straight up evaluations.

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Speaker 1: And it would have been so understandable. I Burlson was like,

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Speaker 1: Okay, some news as we head into another week. Albert

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Speaker 2: Here's your shot in Orange County. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: One thing that was not surprising on the topic of managers,

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Speaker 1: Skip Schumacher.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations are in order.

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Speaker 1: He was hired as the Texas Rangers a new manager,

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Speaker 1: something that I think we all saw coming when he

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Speaker 1: was hired to be a special advisor under President Baseball Operations.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Chris Young. So yeah.

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Speaker 1: When Bruce Bochi and the Rangers said it two part ways,

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Speaker 1: it was just a matter of time before Skip was introduced.

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Speaker 1: They and I actually believe they said it at their

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Speaker 1: ennfseason press conference that the Rangers would not be interviewing

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Speaker 1: anyone externally from the organization and their main focus was

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Speaker 1: to hire Skip, so a plus for honesty, not exactly

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Speaker 1: again a surprise, maybe the least surprising managerial role opening

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Speaker 1: so far. But congratulations again to Skip, a friend of

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Speaker 1: the show, front of the podcast, and a Cardinal's favorite.

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Speaker 1: He did a heck of a job with that Marlins team,

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Speaker 1: an unfortunate situation with that front office after the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three season in which he returned to the Marlins

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Speaker 1: to the postseason, something that is objectively hard to do.

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Speaker 1: The front office changed. Skip took a gap year learning

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Speaker 1: about the Rangers organization, and now he's back to lead

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Speaker 1: them for a four year contract deal. So congratulations again

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Speaker 1: to the entire Schumacher family.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's what I.

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Speaker 1: Got for you on this episode of Cardinal Territory. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: we will have to do our an emergency podcast like

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Speaker 1: our friends at Krush City Territory after the Houston Astros

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Speaker 1: cleaned house. Great job by Chandler Roman, Tyler Stafford to

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Speaker 1: break all that information down. Hopefully, fingers crossed. It's a

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Speaker 1: nice chill day in Cardinals week, and I survived the NLCS.

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Speaker 1: I've never covered the post season before to this extent

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Speaker 1: because the Cardinals never made it out of the Wildcard

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Speaker 1: Series in my five year tenure here, so I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to experience baseball and cover at a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a higher level, higher level, and hopefully I write better

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Speaker 1: than I speak. Thanks guys as always for watching Cardinal

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Speaker 1: Territory again. I'm your host, Katie. We'll be back next

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Speaker 1: week hopefully Bernie as well.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, thanks as always for watching