June 4, 2026

Pod 630 : Cracks

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This has been a fun couple weeks of Orioles baseball but there are cracks not on the Orioles but in Matt and Josh's lives. we get to all that and some Baltimore Orioles Talk

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[SPEAKER_01]: Three, six, we on this, so true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to Birdland.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Baltimore Sports fans of all ages.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to section 336.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The next generation of one of our sports talk.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I am your inherently studying host Matt Sworka.

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[SPEAKER_03]: As always, I'm joined by the Button Lab of Jazz Shroker.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Matt.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I apologize for putting this off long enough, just in time for the Orioles to have an embarrassing loss.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know we were just one day too late.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was in recording this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's been a fun two weeks of Orioles baseball, but yesterday was not like the, hey, everything's positive, things are looking better.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yesterday's not to game to come off of with that type of conversation.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I was just reading before the show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was looking up, you know, on MLB.com, somewhere else news.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I was just scrolling through stuff.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then it really was.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was just more MLB news.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I saw, did you see that yesterday with Tani?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Show Hillotowny through six scoreless innings to lower his RAA to 0.74, 0.74, and he reached base five times.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's pretty good for her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you're not sure if you know this, but Otani's not only is he.

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[SPEAKER_02]: a money-making machine for the team that signed him the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's also a pretty good baseball player.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty good about there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like any team could have signed him with that contract and it would have been worth it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and it's not, and I feel bad if I'm a really good player in the National League.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because there's no way anyone can ever win the MVP again, as long as Otani is pitching and hitting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a Tony all the way until every year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If a Tony's not hurt, he's the MVP.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Just start talking about their sports.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No more on the other teams.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't go and be a finals.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I watched them be a finals.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You should know, which was a very game for us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Remember, there were people that actually thought the Orioles would sign a Tony.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, there was someone who renounced, who was the guy who said I'm no long in Orals ran because the Orals didn't pursue that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, forgot about that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So was that JLC?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, this was a national guy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's was, no, no, it was it, uh, it's the guy from it's a zips guy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Dan's a broski with a broski.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it was Dan's a broski.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, which I get like you should pursue a tiny, but also, I don't know, why waste your resources when you know you had no shot at a tiny.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And above all the other things to be upset about historically with the Orioles, that's not the top my list.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But hey,

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[SPEAKER_03]: We don't need a tonny.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We just came off of, I know we lost yesterday, but prior to that, we are coming off a seven and three homestand.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Josh, what I said would be, this is kind of a gauntlet, right, where we got, I forget exactly how broke down, but I think Blue Jays, then Tampa Bay Rays, then the Blue Jays again, then the Red Sox, and then I think we have the Blue Jays again after this, I think, like, and I told you,

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[SPEAKER_03]: I said, this ALE's gauntlet, we're going to get to the end of it here in another week or so.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to have a really good idea of where we stand and so far it's looking pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's.

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[SPEAKER_02]: it's amazing because two weeks ago I went out to Tampa for the game and it was the last time the Orioles got blown out before this where it was like oh my goodness why did I come into it after just two weeks ago I felt like ten years ago you were depressed you were ready to jump off the train and as I never did I never as out we said you can't once you jump off touch you can't come back on so be careful other people in our text thread said they weren't watching games

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, to the next day, they still text about the game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know how, if you're not watching any game, how are you texting about the game?

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[SPEAKER_02]: To be fair, this team has a way of destroying you and getting you right back in it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's this team is very compelling.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's interesting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was thinking about this prior to show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a couple guys on here who remember at the beginning of season or even going back to the off season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We were like, why did they trade for blaze Alexander?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, we already have Jeremiah Jackson.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We have already have every position in the infield full and a utility guy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And now Blaze, all the set is on fire and has been a key contributor over the past, you know, a couple of weeks for our success.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the other guy has been really good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We were like, there's no room for Kobe Mayo, like shouldn't we be trading him for starting a picture?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like there's just no way that Kobe Mayo can fit in to this year's version of the order.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you're looking at now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And he's played in, I think, 50 of the games of our 61 or 62 games.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's played in the overwhelming majority of them and played pretty well as of as of late.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and even to the point that, yeah, it was a rough beginning where we're like, well, he can't handle third base, he can't hit the ball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What's he doing here?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think I don't know if it's the pressure of Jackson Holiday showing up that there's another infielder, but he has pulled it together, both defensively and, of course, the bat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's crushing the ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And once the epic continues, he's always been a bit streaky.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm curious to watch.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's going to be part of our key success here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ken, people like Mayo, because you know, Alonza has been put, he, Alonza has been great, too, the basketball weeks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We've had a few guys who just been super hot, basalio, blaze, Mayo, Alonzo of all been super hot over the past couple of weeks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Alonze and you feel like, okay, he's got the track record.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you don't know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think that's going to be something to watch.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ken may have continued to perform at a high level.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Cause with the injuries, we certainly need him to.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to find Dan's, uh, Dan's Twitter post about, uh, I believe it was Dan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm no longer an Orioles fan.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And what I did find was people are mistaken.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A Baltimore Orioles meme for an election misinformation bot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it is all based off the I am that seals the deal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am no one in order to stand and and then it's a bunch of people who are then spun off of that into election stuff that seals the deal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not whatever and made it political.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's funny.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I did a sea or else crossover there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like a little or else crossover and I like orials.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like that the pain of being an orials fan turned into the pain of like your losing an election or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, but Kobe Mayo is, if it can keep a, if he can keep this up, that's a huge bat to having your lineup.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And a huge like, I know it's two weeks and these two weeks have been a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But these two weeks also have kind of been like, all right, it's almost like, all right, holidays back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've accepted West Brooks and not coming back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the team

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's true.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No no upsccoming.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there's Dylan beavers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was I think it in baton cages a couple days ago.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So Dylan beavers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you back.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's a ton of more folk now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Josh.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Have you looked at Chris says numbers recently?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, they're really bad.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Here's what he's done last nine games.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Going back to May 22nd because I just pulled this up before the show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's part of my prep work to see how Hester was doing down there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: May 22nd, two for four, the next day, one for four, the next day, one for four, the next day, two for four, the next day, two for four, the next day, one for four, the next day, two for four, the next day, one for four, he's got a has a nine game hitting streak in the last, let's see in the last one, two, three, four games, he has five doubles in the last four games.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so he's hitting the bull.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he still strikes out too much.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's, it's only has one home run.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and encouraging to see him hitting the ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What is that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was sure you were going to tell me he sucks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's what I was expecting to see when I pulled it up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was expecting to see it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But no, he's actually played pretty well down there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So something to keep an eye on going forward.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it's going to be his caught up any time soon, but what have you been more impressed with these past two weeks?

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[SPEAKER_02]: The bats are the pitch in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because the pitch in,

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[SPEAKER_02]: really stepped up as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Our starting, I know yesterday was not good, but our start rotation has been pitching really well.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I agree, and I told you the other day I was like, this, our success, this season is going to come down.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think mostly to three guys, Braddish, Baz, and Rogers and Brad Young.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and I didn't put brand in y'all, but he's looking great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's been an excellent surprise.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A really cool emergence.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully, that's not just beginning his luck here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He can keep that going.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But Scott, Scott, Brad, has been great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Shane Baz, in his last start was one of his best start of the year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Correct.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So Trevor Rogers also had one of his best start of the year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, is he back?

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I've been as intense along and again, when the quote is from Trevor Rogers post game after that was I was even I was wondering why it wasn't pulled but I had just do my best to support the team if I'm out there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, but hey, on the positive side, Auburn has fully owned that he left him in there so long.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be expecting some coach speak or whatever, but he just said, yes, I let him into long.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I should go in earlier.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate Auburn being asked about that in the post game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, he was encouraging up into that point.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, Rogers is not back from every inning.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, oh, no, I texted you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think after the second inning, pull them now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Quick while you're ahead.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because this is just a second time, Bob, I'm out there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I need to see more Rogers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's going to be another key going forward because five, six, and then Rogers would have been fine.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, bad as it's pitching well, broad as pitching well, young as pitching well, bass it is, you know, whatever.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we need Rogers to pitch well.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's...

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[SPEAKER_03]: kind of the last is Rico Garcia kind of being all star.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, he looked at his rock solid.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's so fun when they do like when he saved the other it was a two, two days ago and they're doing shots but I got in the dugout was just loving it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty fun to watch.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't know how we just, how do we do this every year?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Whether it's fun.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, or even Kano who's took us that back, but we mean, he was like when he first came on the scene He was like no one's seen this guy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and now and now with current current Garcia Why can't we do that with this in arms?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Why can't we do that with a start and picture?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know why Maybe Rogers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, maybe you're all in now

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[SPEAKER_03]: Braddish maybe young.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but no, that's yeah, I think that's great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And Ryan Hellsley should be back soon.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's throwing bullpen sessions now, so he should be back soon.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we got a pretty strong bullpen when Hellsley's back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know we're below 500.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're 29 and 33 today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I know yesterday was a bad loss.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But we got to rubber game today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been such a good two weeks that it, I feel like we're rolling into June, like the, the toughness of June, July, August.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Baseball, I feel like we're in a good spot as a team.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, we took care of business with the Tigers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We won that series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Then after that, we swept the race, which felt like a bit of revenge because the series before that, they were not lost.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and honestly, we handled them pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't even close games.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We handled our business against the race.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Then two tough losses against the blue jays, especially that second loss, where we blew the lead, that was a Roger start.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But then we come back and win two, so we split against the blue jays, we sweep the rays, we beat the series against the tigers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, the blue jays and rays, especially, they're good baseball team, so you got to feel good about how we're playing now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then of course, we got to see what happens this afternoon in the rubber match against Boston.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But it does.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It feels like these games are really important in terms of there's a whole bunch of teams crammed with kind of in our similar standings and record.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I especially we face Boston because listen it's you now

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[SPEAKER_03]: Teams are going to decide, are they good or not, are they going all in, are they going to try to win or not?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, this is the time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so every time you beat Boston, not only does it help your record, obviously, but it pushes Boston down and makes them less likely to try to contend.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I want fewer teams trading and trying to get better and trying to improve with the deadline.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I want more teams to give up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And

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[SPEAKER_03]: Blue Jays, Orioles, Red Sox, all of us.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're still in limbo.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, well, that's why can we compete this year or not?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Right, that's why winning today is important.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, to be able to take that series and roll into Toronto feels like a really big series as well, because I think they're right above us in the stand-in, right now, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Same as that record.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, same as that record.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, both 29 and 33.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the whole kind of AL is crammed up in here, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: If you look at the card standings, the athletics are game under 500 with that last, what, what, what, what card space spot.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then there's one, two, three, four, five teams within three games.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I, so it's just, it's kind of, it's going to be pretty exciting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A couple of months here to see which teams separate themselves and which teams kind of fall back and realize they can't compete.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and you're looking right now, it's the rays leading the division, and we're eight and a half out, but we just played so well against the rays that you feel like anything's possible.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, stuff together.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's true, like if anyone goes on, like if the Oras go on a five game win streak, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: All of a sudden, now we're we're we're, we're sitting close to a top the the Watt card.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're we're probably sitting second in the Watt card, just by going on a five game win streak, which is right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A reasonable thing to do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the other thing is can't remember the last time we've gone on a five game win streak.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we just swept the race the other day.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's three.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, but not that wasn't a five-year-in win streak was my point.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'm saying a five-game win streak is not I think no hurt if we go forget that just go seven out of ten.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, or if you take five out of seven games a week you're going to be gaining traction and moving up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, fine.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll take that too.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you're right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This weekend tied with Toronto will be a good statement if we could go in and sweep that series.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Good move, or at least come out of that series ahead of them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just win that series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Only you'd even need to sleep just win that series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So you are in the standings in third place.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How'd feel good about that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why it's hard like, I'm totally frustrated yesterday's game.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, really?

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[SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, I'm not frustrated with the team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: because they've been playing so well.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you first do that on?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no, just won't baseball in general.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The slow start.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that we're but we're close to 500.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But doesn't feel like Josh's team could go either way over the next 10 days.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like it wouldn't shock you if they went 3 and 7 and it wouldn't shock you if they went 7 and 3.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you there?

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of where I'm at with this team.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm also like preseason, I expected this team to be better.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I expected this team to be a 90, some wind team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And now it's like, I just want them to get to 500.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like we're 4 games under.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We can get there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Again, a 5 game wind and street come where they are.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you said.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, uh-huh, but it's I feel like this team always needs to prove it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What's for you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I and I think we've had some the past couple games with the red sauce.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've had some really bad first innings where the offense is off on that first in and or stupid things like oddly getting thrown out at second.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, like we should import a bunch of runs at first inning.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Missed opportunities.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I feel like that's been happening to the Orioles a lot lately.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because, and we see it happen against us, too, with Bassett, and sometimes put your settle down, but that first inning can be in and to jump on them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we've had opportunities and kind of, but didn't take full advantage.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree, I agree.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And stupid, I still think our outfield sucks defensively.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know how you get it better.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Kurt, Kurt, that's coming.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry, Josh.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's not a plus.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's how I make it better.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yesterday Josh yesterday was a rough day for me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I had this meeting in West Georgia a two hour drive for this thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, but it was like a full day thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I was there till I got there at like nine.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was there to four.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then coming home.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was hit Atlanta traffic, which is the worst.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it took me like three hours.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Emily and I have had this big debate.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know where you stand on this Josh with travel ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We've talked before about all the stuff that comes along with these travel balls and their families and all the stuff that they've made to these events.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So hopefully.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you've been going back and forth about the biggest item people bring to these travel ball events.

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[SPEAKER_03]: True.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 10.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Emily and I going back and forth going to 10.

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[SPEAKER_03]: and do do do do do we get the 10 or not get the 10 it's hot most of the ball to have no shade a 10 to big thing to look a 10 a 10 sucks a 10 sucks to carry around it's a pain to set off just setting up you need like four people to set the first thing up right

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I've been a strongly anti-tent and but we're going down to Alabama for this week-long tournament in the golf shores next week and I get home and in my driveway shipped from what's that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not sports authority.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What's the big sporting good?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the joy they have down here?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, um, uh, Dirty, I am blanking on it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a blue letter and, uh, yeah, the blue letter.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Academy sports Academy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Sports Academy are Academy sports, whatever it is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That that the their logo and the big old chat sitting right in there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So you've got to go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You bought something where you can go and advertise for them and put up a billboard at all baseball games.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm sure they gave you a good deal for it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, hopefully they're hopefully they paid us right exactly you're doing that every time for them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I was like, oh man, uh, so I was annoyed at that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But Emily what you lost.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, apparently I didn't even know I lost.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought I won until like at home.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then but this has been going on for for months to debate probably after a year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now, yeah, forget about setting it up, tearing it down, all that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Processing fit in your car, because you have a car full of kids.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm looking at right now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how that works.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we got the minivan now, say, you know, maybe if it did a fit or it'll fit like sideways.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, sit, you may be on the ground.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you have some, do you have some rails on the roof?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No rails on the roof, bungee corded up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to have a pack.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So then, then, and I, and no one would tell him because they were at my son's travel ball practice.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then Salis gets home and you know he gets out of the car the first thing he says he takes out his bat and shows me his travel ball bat is all cracked the barrels all cracked jagged edges ridges is this is the height fire the height fire.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, was this cracked from a baseball game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't know when it happened, but we've been playing a lot of baseball, so I'm sure it was during practice yesterday, swingin' at a tree or something, it's been a baseball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, he doesn't do that, but what's happened, Josh, is in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because, you know, life has been crazy about the baseball, because he's had his all stars and trouble ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And at all stars, the hype fire, I think because people saw us, I was hitting a good bat, has become kind of the team bat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that'll wear on a bat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So there's like five people doing bat and practice in games, all using his hype fire bat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the bat was already, it's not a new bat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he got this bat when he was seven,

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[SPEAKER_03]: and it was you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So you got it two years ago and it was you when he got it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess it was a matter of time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So anyway, now we need to a new travel all that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And in fairness, I never even paid for that travel all bad.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope they don't get mad at me, but that was the travel team gave them that bad.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, have you thought about Gilmath to that team and be like, should I ask for like a replacement?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Something happened to this and not sure if you have a lifetime warranty.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I looked up, they do one year warranty, but we're well beyond the one year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the new hype fire looks pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's got some pink and green in it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I have right now on my computer, you know how I do things Josh, I have about 10 tabs open in terms of, I've been doing all the research on bats.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you nowhere first with bat research?

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[SPEAKER_03]: You

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, I don't go to Timo.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, you do.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I want to go for your bat research.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, why go in the category.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I go used.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, okay, okay, okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to get a used bat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I went to I never go to this place.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a place called basebook.com slash marketplace.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have people stuff on sale on the market place right now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, um, I've never participated, but I just went search in there, baseball bats.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So now, whenever going Facebook, I'm sure I can get a hundred baseball bats ads for the next players in my life.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But, um, it's hard to tell, like, how used they are because all of them have been you until.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't tell and what you need to write for it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You need to look for dense, which really you're going to have to hold it in your hand and see, like, are there dense?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it still round?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Did it lose shape?

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[SPEAKER_03]: But even the hype fire bat like that he had, that is two years old, on Facebook, Marketplace was selling for 200.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because the new one is 350.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's outrageous how expensive it is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So then you're like, well, isn't worth getting a

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[SPEAKER_03]: are used back without the warranty and like what if it breaks as opposed to a new bat for an extra hundred fifty dollars but you get the warranty at least.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And something I have realized too is I was always thinking that a bat will last like a year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: These bats can last a few years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think when you buy a bat, I'm going to get that argument ready.

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[SPEAKER_03]: three years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just arguing my head now on justifying spending.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I have a bad I like the saddest likes that we both like.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Which bad is it?

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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you want?

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's this that let me pull up the official name here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's an eastern bet but it's not the hype fire.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I also

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[SPEAKER_03]: went on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I did go on YouTube to watch some videos of guys reviewing these bats.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's the dub.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Is it the dub?

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's the east and dub.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the dub is the dub.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the good thing about the dub Josh is, I guess they just released a bunch of 20, 20, six dobs, specials, break dobs,

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you've got a 2025?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and the 2025 dropped from 500 to 300.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Just really recently.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's 300 set of 500, which is still insane for a baseball bat, but for one of these U-trip bats, these travel bats that they use.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But your whole life now is travel ball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's literally ball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's all you guys do, so it makes sense to invest a little.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's been a bit much this summer.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We've got to reevaluate.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is getting me a bit.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is like, figure this bat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Would you rather buy this bat or three more team sweatshirts?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, yeah, and we avoid all the, I mean, even the all-star stuff like every week someone's posting, hey, we're doing team hats.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All the fans getting hats.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, we're doing T shirts.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_02]: T shirts for all that for all the parents.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is all the part of the kids.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you, I don't know if you've talked much with Laura about our sister about the, uh, about this because she is all in on the little league travel ball, yes, to the point that last time I was visited her, she was looking because she needed a new pair of shoes because the team uniforms are now a different color.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So she needed shoes to match the kids uniforms.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I did talk about like our lack of red shirts, like Emily didn't have any red shirts.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we took it out or read T-shirt, but just like I just read T-shirt.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Go to O'Neighby, get the little $5 red U.S. A shirts.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we did get a couple of red T-shirts, but we haven't kind of the point where we're

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[SPEAKER_03]: walking or gear, but we are like, we're the only parents on our traveling that don't have all the gear, everyone else is all the gear in the city.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because travel balls all about money and spending money and that's the one that you refuse to do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, even, so that's, I feel a little bit better about that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because even his glove, he didn't have a glove and, and they we finally love and lost and found.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I didn't even pay for his glove.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there are very few things I paid for.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's no one else on that little league team who uses Patriot Mob or whatever you have.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Tello, okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Tello, tello mobile.

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[SPEAKER_03]: $15 a month, you can't be that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess I'm gonna, and I, you know, and it's, I hate how there's different bats for wreck ball and travel ball, but it's just, it's just how it is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So have you, you know, I'm gonna have to bite the bullet here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Have you considered making a phone call?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Who would I call?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Santa, the text may be showing a picture of the bat and being like, can you believe, saw this broke this bat?

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[SPEAKER_02]: It might mess up his baseball career.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't do that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't do that Josh.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have an enemy to do that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I did think about like surely Albee has gone through some bats.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Does Albee just have a leftover?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You haven't done that yet.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, I feel like his bats might be, I guess they might be the right size.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Or, or no, he will, but he will out, but he will outgrow bats and he will move to new bats.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, but I'm concerned about size using a bigger bat than Albee.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You, that's, that silence needs a bigger bat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's the best option.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How many, how many is a small guy?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's a little guy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I think that's, but he's older.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But anyway, I've been watching.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, a lot of East, East and Dub is the bat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're going to go with, I will watch it watch a lot YouTube videos.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there were things that were compared to the high fire.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Whether they're like, yeah, where they just swing one bat then they swing the next bat and they're like, you can't look how much further the ball went.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And they try to explain the pop in the sound,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, they have the the EV on there, like XFLS, not not that like 115 compared to 120.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what that matters if a kid's hit and, you know, exactly 40, but he's at PECO Park.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, baseball bats or something.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's the youtuber.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the Park hitting bombs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've watched them, I'm right there with you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I was looking for, I think something that's useful in that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He hits him really hard, and like the hype fire he used in it cracked, and so it can be helpful, like which one's most durable, because that one's going to last hopefully a few years.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think I cracked something this week too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But by the way, anyone looking to buy bats, do don't ever buy the 2026 version, always go with the previous year or two years because they get this kind of big time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's bad at money.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, there might be something special about the new version besides a paint job.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, also, I think it's got bat skins.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can get your own wraps, like people wrap cars, but you can wrap the bat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So then you can make it look better.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it just hits a little wrap.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to could I trick Silas and everyone else and get a really cheap bat and do the hype fired new hype fire rap on it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I don't think I don't think I don't think I don't think I don't think they would have the hype fire, but maybe you could get, but like the ones where it's like the pencil and stuff you could do that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll do the pencil.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, all right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This Matt, this past, uh, well, this happened like,

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[SPEAKER_02]: 10, 12 days ago, but I just kind of an update yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you ever just like, falling around and you just dive into the bed or dive into the couch?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm just exhausted.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, not really.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I can see you doing that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I did that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I did that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the day just exhausted, just diving to bed.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a Josh move.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And immediately have pain.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, I've done this a thousand times.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm in pain.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But not a thousand times at your age.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I can go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, but I ignore it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I ignore it for a week.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I go to the doctors.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know about ignoring pain and not having the doctors.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know a thing about that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell them with you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they go to take X-rays.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing shows up on the X-ray.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's now been two weeks.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The pain still hurts.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They have decided that I have a bone bruise or a hairline fracture in a rib.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So now I have pain if I bend over, if I pick things up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like they're called two very different things.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A hairline fracture versus a little bruise.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I think bruise, I think okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they've got to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be

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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing, he said I don't need to I can't make it worse.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It just hurts.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, are you all right diving in the bed?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, but in fairness you're not doing much right now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you playing softball?

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm not doing anything.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, do anything.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's no they kept asking me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, did you do you think you strained something working out?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like I'm up into the gym in a month

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[SPEAKER_02]: haven't done anything because I traveled and I got sick of traveling and then I couldn't I've had a call for six weeks so I haven't gone to the gym at all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've done nothing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't tell him you got a there's rib injury from just flopping on your bed.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You got to say I know you're playing golf ball pitching a shot back up the middle or working out something.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You need the a better story than laying in bed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The nurse said so you Superman in the bed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Did they ask you to kind of replay what you did to re kind of know how they did not they did not okay and I was really hope they scared me to say well it could be the start of shingles

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[SPEAKER_02]: but no rash has shown up so it's not shingles.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was hoping it was shingles because then it wouldn't be as embarrassing as diving in the bed.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, shingles are very painful.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Did they have one of those, uh, the doctor's office like to have with the kids with the little plastic paper on the little bed there and did you try to superman onto the, onto the hospital bed?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, my bed's a lot softer than the hospital bed.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I just don't know you're talking about Superman.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you do this all the time whenever you go into a room.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't I don't think I do Superman on the future.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This was a quite the oil centric podcast.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Did we cover it?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know it's a snow orials news, but they're cheering us up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's any other orials stuff we should be covering.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I guess I mean, let me say I put up a couple notes I want to mention, one is the injury news.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I mentioned before that Ryan Housley has thrown a bullpen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He should be back hopefully in the next couple weeks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Dean Cramer, note, note, note sign of return, Kate Povitch,

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[SPEAKER_03]: No sign of the return, getting stuff.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's doing the quarter zone injections in Albo.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That never sounds like a good thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then Dylan Beaver should be back soon, which I think will be a nice, I think he's just, you talked about the struggles of our outfield.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's an upgrade defensively in our outfield over a lot of those corner outfielders we'd be through out there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, that did in terms of, I mean, we know Mount Castle and Westburg and Fland and Batista are still out for the rest of the year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, did, did you watch yesterday's game?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I watched it, and I watched the first few innings.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, did you see the third base coach?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that he got get to when he went in the kind of place in the field of play to the point that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not just Oriol fans that are upset about this, that I even saw on Fox News today they had.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The Red Sox third base coach does something never before seen in baseball, even everyone confused.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I thought they were making a deal to enforce those boxes, they were and I looked the line up says you must be in those boxes when the picture is on the rubber.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I say what after that you go wherever you want and then and I see apparently just to find it well, he can't see the ball in the corner at Fenway.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But this guy coaches in Fenway all the time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't understand how to do that every time before.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is every time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If he does it every time, why would it be on the cover of Fox news today?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Saying something baseball's never seen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's not, and I just Google it and it's on Yahoo and sporting news.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the Boston Journal, like, it's not like it's not like it's just something

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's been a there's been a couple of weird things like that in baseball did this happen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This really happened.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I saw the headline did three players get ejected for standing too long For the National Anthem and I watched a video and there was like a stand-off But I didn't think yeah, they got ejected They were raised and the Dodgers player because they were doing this the food.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like the move.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like the idea of like

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[SPEAKER_02]: the team guys on the other team and you're just it because you know it was unspoken.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know it was like well, I'm not going to leave.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to leave.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They never actually talked about the plan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yes, they didn't get injected over the weekend.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe we're a couple of days ago.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So just some weird things in baseball this week.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I like it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like weird things.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I like because it means the players are starting to care a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Even if it's something stupid, like I'm going to beat you at the National Anthem.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We did have our greatest this past week.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We did have the greatest comeback, the Orioles have had in a long time with the five runs in the ninth.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was real fun to see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's and that leads to how much fun it is to watch the players care and from the dugout.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You mentioned it with Rico earlier that you see the players paying attention where we've had bad Orioles

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[SPEAKER_02]: where they don't care when they're in the dugout.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This team does seem to care about each other.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, and it also was fun to see Jeff Hoffman break down and all the blow kiss memes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, that's fun to see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I like all the AI of the entire or team kissing back.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So they, Jeff Passen, other ordinary kind of, I was looking up before the show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is, as of this morning, Jeff Passen put out an article, talking about trade deadlines, moves,

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[SPEAKER_03]: And who would be buyers and sellers?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think he had the Oros as buyers or sellers at this point?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe Jeff Passon because I was at a nice fancy dinner route or lunch out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was at the Red Robin organization.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe on the TV Jeff Passon was on there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he said, Passon like that, Passon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was Passon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's passing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, fine, Jeff, passing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not like we say, but you can go and see if it sounds.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Mr.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Person, the sound was off, but from what I saw with the words underneath in the headline, I believe that he said that Michael Ayes is so desperate that he will be a buyer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Really is that correct is that where you're going he said that Michael eyes his job is on the line, so he will be a buyer.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, interesting No, I mean he had them so he categorized them into unloaders tweeners Could acquire but And then I think the last category was Like I don't know like need needs to do it or something, but he put the order says a tweener

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[SPEAKER_02]: a tweener and I think a tweener is a fair spot to have them and the red stocks by the way also tweeners yeah because I don't the the red stocks would have to get pretty hot to be a tweener they're what three games behind us yeah so I think I'm

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[SPEAKER_03]: And he has best potential trade, you know, we talked about him before.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The most obvious candidate for a trade, the best potential trade chip we have.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Adley Ruchman.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, actually, matches Adley Ruchman in the article as being someone who probably would be more likely to be moved in the winter at the trade deadline.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, then trade deadline if we're sellers or in order to make us better.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No sellers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if we are sellers, um, sellers just for this year, we're not going to the full rebuild.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, Pitchon or maybe silver Rogers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hit it because I think his contracts up the end of this year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, I want it, that's not the answer.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I wanted the Orioles to extend Trevor Rogers so badly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm so glad they didn't extend Trevor Rogers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, can you imagine how much money, like if he's at, I mean, he's just, the next, I don't know, in terms of like just personal financial while being,

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if the next five months matters for anyone else in the world as much as he added for Trevor Rodgers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It does.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How much money will he make next year?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because he is a serious area with two or a seven, like he is so far this year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Then, then if you're going position player, it's got to be our hottest bat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's only one bat in our lineup that you can rely on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That he's going to get a walk or a double.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to get on base.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that'd be Mr. Taylor Ward.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what they have as the most likely got to be prepared.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Also, because you won't give up a whole lot for him.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, he's on a one year, he's on the final year of his deal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So the same argument I had with Rogers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right, but he's been better than Rogers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, he's been very good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so if you need him, yeah, so, but it's not again, it's not going to give you a huge haul.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know in terms of being buyers,

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, our prospects system isn't what it used to be.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't even know if, I mean, I don't mean we have enough prospects to make any, to acquire any big names.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know it would be a trade strength for strength.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It'd be a, hey, we have two catchers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Here's one, give us a picture or something.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It'd be, I don't know, it feels silly, but I can also see we're just gonna roll it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're just gonna see what it happens with this team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, question about the roster.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Where's Ryan Mount Castle?

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's injured.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's in the 60th day of the year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: His injury was a 60 day?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's done for the season.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Right mouth castles done for the season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know he was done for the season.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he, I didn't, what was his injury?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, maybe I just, I thought it was just like a hamstring thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I thought he broke something.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, now we gotta, I could be wrong here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought he broke something.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I just wrote him off as being done.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see, right mouth castles in these.

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[SPEAKER_02]: place on the 60 day injury list on April 13th due to a fracture in his left foot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, fracture left foot is he maybe can come back to see General Manager Michael Lies noted that Mount Castle will need a few weeks to ramp up activity once his 60 day i.e.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Austin concludes in mid June.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so it could be back in July, so maybe July for a little depth.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So that was a trend in our acquisition.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like one of the internal moves where it's like, well, we don't need to make moves because we've got right Mount Castle coming up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, um, how are you feeling about Jackson holiday?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now that he's been out, do you trust him?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, he's,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, do you think he's like an important part of this team right now?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's been interesting looking at the silo being so good and then you hope kind of all your rookies and prospects are that good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And holiday, um,

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he still needs a bunch more games, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: He has, he started off in an injured list.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So he's been up about two weeks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's a small sample size.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I mean, I've been pleased.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's shown some pop.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's got three or three more months this year, and it limited sample size.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's about one.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, he's had at least two.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As you are, I remember the one that was like the shortest home run ever.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because yeah, too recently.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so I'm okay with holiday.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The fact that Basayo and Alanzo's here, I mean, I when Hollywood was was called up, and I think our experience for holiday, super high, they're still pretty high.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But we view him as a top of the order that in 280 to 90, getting a bunch of steals, hitting a bunch of home runs.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I feel like just the way the rush was constructed now with so many hitters playing well with Alonza Bastayo, Ruchman, of course Gunner.

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[SPEAKER_03]: that the pressure for a holiday and we can even see where he's hitting down near the bottom line up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The pressure for a holiday isn't there like I think it was their last year or even maybe where the expectations were.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I start thinking holiday can ease into this thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think there's a little pressure on him.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I do hope that when we're looking at in August that he maybe is our leadoff hitter about one or two.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like to see him up there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I do too, but I don't like gunner up there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I would do if it works out well, maybe if holiday continues to improve and hit better, maybe a holiday ward gunner or something.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would do holiday ward gunner.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Adley Alonso, maybe, or Alonso Adley.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Alonso, Pesayo, Adley, or Adley Pesayo, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, so I'm okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's been not terrible.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He hasn't been great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's been okay coming off the injured less than you hope he continues to improve.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you hope maybe he even goes on a run, like I think Mayo,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, over all his numbers are great, but Mayo has been on a radar because lately he's just been hitting the cover off the ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He also hits the longest foul ball of his job or senior life.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But he does he crushes those balls.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If they just want to move, that's what came in yards should do not move the inf the outfield in or out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If they can move the that left field foul pole, maybe 10 more feet into foul territory.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I kind of have 10 ways got some weirdness where where the pole is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just jet out there a little bit of the outfit.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that would help me as numbers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I think holiday has been fine.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's not really been, he's just been okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not bad so you're talking to him or like, what's going on with holiday?

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[SPEAKER_03]: But not great where he's talking about man.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's really one of our hottest hitters.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's just kind of been okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, we'll see.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, the hype for holiday, just like Richmond, was so high that we expect him to be an all star.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we do.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we have not seen that level yet, but hopefully it's there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I feel okay about that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is Mike Elias on the hot seat?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Or do you give him grace because of all the injuries?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because he clearly thought Westburg would be on this team by now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He thought a rotation wouldn't be so messy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, do you give Elias a pass or are you like a lot of Birdland that he's on the

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I think Alonzo is a great signing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I agree.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Ford wasn't even better signing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Really?

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[SPEAKER_03]: What is Grace Rodriguez done recently?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's sucked.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He gave up like eight runs in like two innings.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, he just had a new, his latest start was actually pretty good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you sure?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I thought I saw something on Facebook.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, never mind.

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[SPEAKER_03]: His latest on the news, Angel Square, Chris Rodriguez, lit up in a loss.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Three strikeouts, three walks, eight hits, eight earned runs, three point two innings.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is that so?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you think that you want Grayson back?

47:32.926 --> 47:35.649
[SPEAKER_02]: I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure the angels would trade, do straight up, trade back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, we'll take Ward and you can have Grayson that we want Mr. Taney R.A.

47:43.763 --> 47:44.925
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, your A is actually 10.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, so far we're winning this trade.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But time will tell.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I mean, the baths deal, I think was his most intriguing deal because he traded a better prospects and extended baths.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So kind of went on with Shane baths.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think I see that I see what a lot of soul and baths.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I see the potential there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but if if we end up not miss not making the playoffs this year and after what happened last year and this is his team right this is Adley Gunner Curstet this is all in topics.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is his entire team everything's him

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[SPEAKER_03]: And with the excretations, I mean, we talked about this a few years ago, Josh, look at the number one ranked farm system, then look at who's in the world series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And there's a connection between number one ranked farm systems.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then getting to the playoffs in the world, there's that we had the number one ranked farm system for a couple years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We have to be the success.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And if the criticism on Michael Ayes was been from day one, is we know he can identify talent, we scout, we know he can draft what we know he can do all the infrastructure type stuff.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But Kenny, when at the marriage of the level is what we don't know, can he make the move is to get the team over the top to win at the marriage level.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so far he hasn't been able to do it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So if we don't make the playoffs this year, having this be his team.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's I think

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's his team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He drafted everyone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's his manager.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He selected the manager.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He had oversight over everything.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We even believe that he was been involved in the lineup construction the past three years.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Or at least.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, if you're a liar, do you buy into basans argument that

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[SPEAKER_03]: If I don't make the playoffs, my job could be in jeopardy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think you do.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Who cares about what's in single layer of double layer.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I need to win now for my own career.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm doing whatever it takes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care for a few games out of the wild card.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm pushing on my chips in this year because I'm out if I don't get it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If I'm like a liar, I am.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'm doing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We saw that with, but that cat here's a go where he's like, I have to go all in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but then who cat and Elias are so different, Elias is whole thing is, how can I build, how can I get in the playoffs every year?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How can I build this thing to be sustainable?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we're just pretty good every year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and this is all against that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It would, but he's also like, it's he does he buy into the hype that he's fighting for his job.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This year, then you cannot get into the playoffs every year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How long is that leash before the we're in the playoffs every year?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Start.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Or does miss in the playoffs by a couple games count as being in the hunt?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And to me, the injury is at this point.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know there's been some, but it's injuries.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's not at the point where it's, it's, it's, it's the excuse.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you lost a couple guys for the year like Kramer.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I'm sorry, usburg, Fland and Westburg.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Really early on and that's a blow.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But the team who's players, so it's all about depth, do you have the depth to get through baseballs a long season?

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[SPEAKER_03]: If it was your best hitter gunner and your best pitcher, Bradish, you might have a stronger argument, but F1 was going to be a number four starter.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And Westburg was going to be maybe our fourth best offensive player.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, but maybe our best defender.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean certainly he's an upgraded third base over whoever we have over there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I don't think that's good enough to give a lie as a path and and what's to say next year will be any different than this year right like feels like it's not working it's not working and we need to go in different direction right I feel like this year you have to hit the playoffs in order to prove you can then get in the play I'll find every year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: because what's happening is all these baby birds aren't babies anymore.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, we talked about this young team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Gunner Henderson and Adley Wachman are no longer young.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so if they don't wait to play up this year, like it's almost like you got to start over again, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's almost like this core of players after this year, you have to start playing and moving on from them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, I do it like if you don't make the playoffs, I think it's very like to that Russian move moves on and you have tough conversations about got gutter if you're going to be able to extend him.

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[SPEAKER_03]: At the same time, Elias has done moves like extending Bas, extending Lanzo as if this is going to be a good three year for your window for us to win now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it really puts this team in a bit of a

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[SPEAKER_03]: of a really tough, interesting spot if we don't make the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see how we hand us a trade deadline and just how this team performs over the next few weeks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It does feel like a pivotal year for a life and for the Orioles.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm okay with Auburnas to be honest.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't love all the stuff it does, but I don't put a lot of this stuff on Auburnas.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm right with Auburnas.

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[SPEAKER_02]: have you paid attention to the Norfolk stats at all?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Have you seen the catcher, Creed Willems?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I know he's having a nice year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's having a nice year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, 12 hundred runs, 284 bat an average.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's having a nice year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A nice year that he's going to start being put and he starts you up here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's young too, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's 21 or 22.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's still pretty young.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna have to be on the 40-man roster this off season.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, is he?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Or he'll be dead.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's in that rule five class.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you'll lose him because he's doing so well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Which I think when you look at this team as far as depth with Basala with Adley, I think that's why you might see an offseason move.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the fact that Adley's doing so well,

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I think Elias has to make a decision.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Who's he moving?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Creed, basala or Adley.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All three can't are not going to stay on this 40-man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's interesting for the Orioles.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think again a little.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I get a little head.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A little head.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's Elias still on this team.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, you've been like Wilhelm's, he's not like a top prospect, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's not, he's not a top 100 prospect.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's not, I would warrant he's now in our top 10.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You're saying he'd make it through the rule five draft?

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm saying you're probably tech to him, but.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, which means you got to put him on the 40, man.

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[SPEAKER_03]: right and then you put them on the 40 man and then I think next year, maybe you invite, you know, he's competing for a spot and spring training, you see what happens injury-wise or like you can wait it out, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And add they can play one more year next year and then as they believe and then you you find out more about your homes if he's actually like I don't I don't think wool what what what welms is

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[SPEAKER_03]: is good enough to be forcing your hand at the major level yet.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you're saying we've got other guys we could dump off the 40 man and then hide him on there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Look at our 40 man right now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Just take one of those relievers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I have the relievers are going to be off the 40 man, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I guess so.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll make some room there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just look at our 40 men and get rid of a some, I mean, Cameron Foster.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You can get rid of him if you want.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so yeah, I think we'll have, I think we'll have room going forward.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But it's good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I was looking at the other day at our records in terms of Norfolk and buoy and their terrible records.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think which reflect not a lot of depth in terms of I think most of our best players are at the lower levels of the miners at this point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If you look at what you expect because we've been bringing so many guys up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, it's not surprising.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If you look at our two best prospects, Nate George and Nate, a guy rich, they're both at the single leg, at the Frederick Keys.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, and that's I think our best team is probably the Frederick Keys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How's Bradfield doing?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You still expect him to see him up here in July?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, or has he been hurt?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he doesn't play enough.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He hasn't been in the recent, um, I just look at backscores from Norfolk, and he hasn't been there, so I assume he's hurt somewhere.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I just always assume he's hurt.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we got a double last night.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, for what team?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not from Norfolk.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Where's he even at?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, where is he?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what's playing in ad before I can see the clip.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, and this might be part of a rehab deal, too, if he's not playing for a walk.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Where's he at?

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[SPEAKER_03]: He would never guess.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's a Frederick.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This must be like a rehab type thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's got to be a rehab.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He must have been hurt because I'm like, why are he wearing a keys uniform?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he was hurt to be in the season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's why we haven't seen him in box scores.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I know, in Ricca Bradford such, I mean, so fast, and you talk about an, an afternoon defense of help, even just the idea of we talked before, dreamed on having hearing Mateo just as you're late in a pinch, runner and defense replacement.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Ricca Bradford is a perfect guy for that, but he has to stay healthy and just perform a little bit better.

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[SPEAKER_03]: to warrant taking up one of those spots on the, you know, 26 man or 28 man when expands in September.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm still like those guys.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like, and you see them drop down the prospect list, too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And Breaker Bradford, you just go further down the prospect list every year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And cursed at kind of a similar trajectory, the cursed at had a higher ceiling.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it was drafted higher.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But both of those guys, I still keep an eye out

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[SPEAKER_03]: for maybe the ghost of what they could have been in hasten and wreaking, you hope they can somehow put together.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But at this point, I think that very little value to the Orioles or to other teams.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't think so, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What the heck?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're coming with, on... kind of juggernaut.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you trying to wrap me up there Josh?

58:52.087 --> 58:56.533
[SPEAKER_02]: I was, but something's certain with your mic where once I started playing music, I couldn't hear you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I was going to talk, I mean, because we still got this Boston and then we got out the blue jays.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and today's an afternoon game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, get a waiting line.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 35.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know I need to normally text you and say, hey, the Orioles are on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But now you just told me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So you don't normally, normally you guys are texting a something that happened in the game.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, oh crap.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and hopefully something happened with the early in the innings.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Second turn on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But after this, then we go away from the AL East for a long time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So this is our, that's good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The Red Sox and Blue Jays.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then we don't play another AL East team.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Josh, till July 20th.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, um, it's that whole balance schedule where they're trying to put them, games that matter in division in the second half of the season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you look at September.

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[SPEAKER_03]: September is all pretty much all at the least.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we have Toronto huge series.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Then we have Seattle, San Diego, which by the way, Seattle is one of the hottest teams in baseball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's going to be a really tough series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a four game tough series.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Then we got San Diego San Diego is not a good team.

01:00:01.838 --> 01:00:03.059
[SPEAKER_02]: But all that time is at home.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

01:00:04.408 --> 01:00:05.649
[SPEAKER_02]: Then we head to the west coast.

01:00:05.909 --> 01:00:06.929
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's the tough swing.

01:00:07.569 --> 01:00:09.270
[SPEAKER_03]: What that was the first one that was tough.

01:00:09.290 --> 01:00:09.870
[SPEAKER_03]: What you just said.

01:00:10.010 --> 01:00:10.250
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

01:00:11.051 --> 01:00:11.911
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, the toughness.

01:00:11.931 --> 01:00:18.873
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's tougher when you go out of town and you got to get with like the, fine, how about this tough on the fan base?

01:00:19.153 --> 01:00:20.554
[SPEAKER_02]: Because these are the late night games.

01:00:21.094 --> 01:00:21.314
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

01:00:21.554 --> 01:00:22.355
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we had.

01:00:22.395 --> 01:00:23.095
[SPEAKER_03]: I can stay up late.

01:00:23.515 --> 01:00:24.135
[SPEAKER_02]: We have these.

01:00:24.455 --> 01:00:25.776
[SPEAKER_02]: We have three games in Seattle.

01:00:26.696 --> 01:00:27.176
[SPEAKER_02]: Tough team.

01:00:27.536 --> 01:00:28.957
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, playing great ball right now.

01:00:29.549 --> 01:00:32.510
[SPEAKER_02]: three games with the Dodgers, a best team in baseball.

01:00:32.650 --> 01:00:32.930
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

01:00:33.710 --> 01:00:34.911
[SPEAKER_02]: Three games with the angels.

01:00:35.611 --> 01:00:38.192
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not that great, but it is still in LA.

01:00:38.532 --> 01:00:39.332
[SPEAKER_03]: I could be a graceman.

01:00:39.352 --> 01:00:40.552
[SPEAKER_03]: We get to prevent a game, too.

01:00:40.672 --> 01:00:42.373
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to watch for that.

01:00:44.514 --> 01:00:48.035
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we come home to Washington who kicks out every time.

01:00:48.915 --> 01:00:49.355
[SPEAKER_03]: The what's that?

01:00:49.435 --> 01:00:52.456
[SPEAKER_03]: Or are in the water cards, about now playing cards in well.

01:00:52.676 --> 01:00:53.796
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the rest of June.

01:00:54.577 --> 01:00:56.277
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's not an easy swing,

01:01:00.933 --> 01:01:04.595
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it makes that West Coast trip is, it's pretty brutal.

01:01:04.955 --> 01:01:11.738
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a brutal trip and it's coming at a time where we need to step up our game.

01:01:11.858 --> 01:01:16.721
[SPEAKER_02]: And we need to play, we need to go 7 and 3 every 10 games.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We need to win these series.

01:01:18.902 --> 01:01:24.685
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to win 2 out of 3 against Toronto, 2 out of 3 against Seattle, 2 out of 3 against San Diego.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because I want to I want to lie us and we talked about a lie us with his job in Jackford, but I want him to be in a position in the or has been a position where we're we're we're trading it back to that line and to do that we need to be right in the thick of things.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, the huge.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, hit the button now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I can't hit the button because it messes up your microphone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, music will be added later.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the last time you tweeted.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a couple of years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But one day I will.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I want you to be there when I go back on access.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I want everyone to be there to see you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I am at drop slow.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, thank you, listen quick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all we have.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's really cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, people, let me keep you safe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We are the fangirls, and we run this town.

01:02:58.338 --> 01:03:03.102
[SPEAKER_00]: When you step into the only ones who take this hand, you're the fangirls.

01:03:05.315 --> 01:03:22.361
[SPEAKER_00]: Underdog's dabble will be crushing the curve And we really don't care what they hate and say We'll be back here from the city to the chance of you pay You're there, that bird time you've run this town Everybody knows you ain't necessary

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we run this town, when you step into the only musk we take this hand You're the fan of it, haven't you heard?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Got that underdogs time, and we'll be crashing the crew And we really don't care what they hate is said We'll be rocking from the city to the chastle, be fair You're the fan of it, and we run this town Everybody knows you ain't messin' around

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