Bryce Eldridge & the Giants' Playoff Hopes: Breaking Down the Final 13 Games | Thompson 2 Clark

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[SPEAKER_01]: with Drosion, throws to Sandberg and the pitch is crowded a second base, Thompson has it, throws the first, it's over 27 years of waiting, it built on it, then you're going to have someone to put it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Thompson's at Clark.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are down to the last two weeks of the regular season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That sounds crazy to me, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like we just started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we just started.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had it we get through 150 somewhat games of this season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the funny thing too is a minor league, AAA baseball season ends a week from yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I haven't gone to a game and I know I didn't know it's a science game either.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's crazy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of how this year has been.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So next year, I make it a point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to make it a point to get more reno aces games, especially when the river cats are here, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you could have seen some Lucey auto bombs this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I could have seen some Eldridge, some Lucey auto.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I could have seen a lot of stuff, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I just, when they were here, the two times they were here, it was really tough to get over there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like 4th of July weekend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just like a couple of weeks ago, and I was out of town.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I came back, and there were two games left, and it was raining, and it was nasty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I didn't even bother.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the main reason I didn't go to any sounds with giant skins is because prospects wise, you know, no one, no one giant.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think if Gonzalez and level get to San Jose, then you kind of have to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's maybe when I will try and get over there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, yeah, I wanted to show you my t-shirt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You've seen it before, but anybody who is watching?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the shirt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: there we go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you got to show a whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is sweet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to had to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I have the hat to throw in a couple of years ago when I bought another shirt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is from the website and social channels, Warriors World.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he put it together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, I got to get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never seen a shirt with my favorite baseball

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[SPEAKER_01]: Imagine if when we met those guys, or at least when we met a Fleming and in John Miller, if I was wearing that shirt, they probably thought that was a little weird.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nah, they would have laughed, I'm sure they would have absolutely loved it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Although they would have been like, so what royalties?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What the eggs, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so we have to talk about what happened last week in giant spaceball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty good for a little while and then it went really bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we would have hoped that they could have swept the Diamondbacks because that would have set them up very nicely, but they lost the third game of that series, Diamondbacks were here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the Dodgers came here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Friday night, we were all going nuts as Patty Bales.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a walkoff grand slam off of Tanner Scott, who simply can't do anything right these days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so at that point, you're sitting pretty, you're tied for the wild card, even though we lose the tiebreaker to the mets and you're thinking, you know, if we can just get one more game out of this series,

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[SPEAKER_01]: this may be this may set us up very well for the following week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so game two in that series scheduled for Logan Web in Clayton Kursha.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the old ace versus the current giant's ace, and I was kind of frustrated because I thought the Dodgers, at least the strategy it seemed from the Dodgers was, we're going to treat this like a must win playoff game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We see that Kursha didn't have anything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The giant's batted around

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was and that was the only time in Clayton Kurshal's history against the giants that they've batted around against him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're thinking at that point, you're like, okay, like we have a lead, let's do everything we can to keep this lead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, Logan Webb was, it probably in his head a little bit just because he's faced the Dodgers so many times over the years and he probably wanted to surprise them a little bit and he was throwing a little, this pitch, the pitch as he was throwing leaning a little bit more towards something that he thought maybe they weren't looking for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and he's getting beat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he'd given up like 10 hits in four innings or something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so my feedback was that they needed to pull him because if you if you sort of rely on Robbie Ray,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like if you could take game two and then you go, hey, Robbie Ray, we're just going to need everything that you got.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We emptied our bullpen on Saturday and then a few lose and then you maybe throw a little Christian costs in there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No big on the foul, but you at least win that second game and Bob Melvin stuck with Logan Webb a little bit too long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Butto has to inherit runners and as you anybody knows, it is so much easier for a picture to come into a game without runners on then with runners on and then it just went all too hell from there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not blaming Bob Melden for them losing I just thought.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a distinct difference in the managing styles for both of those guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But to Bob Melvin's credit, he probably has seen this from web before thinking, yeah, he may not have his best stuff, but he is still our best bet instead of, you know, some middle reliever that we're going to have to bring in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I trust Logan Web a little bit more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it didn't pay off because they got smoked in that game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They lost 13 to 7.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and then the getaway game, do they still call it the getaway game?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't hear that too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they had none chance on Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a blowout pretty much from the get go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they lose two out of three to the Dodgers and they are now a game and a half behind the Metz for the wild card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot better than where it was a couple weeks ago, but still the story of the season is every time the Giants, it seems like they're gonna make some make-up some ground.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Something happens and it's the opposite and that was what happened the weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, what it does though, because they've played such good baseball over the last few weeks, the last 10 games or so I think they're only 500, but previous to that, what it does is it sets up what should be some competitive?

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[SPEAKER_01]: baseball to end the season, which is what we asked for at the beginning of this season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just want, we want these games to matter going down the wire as a season is over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what we're getting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, hopefully, you know, it could be this weekend and it might, and it could be done or this week, and all of a sudden, you know, they've made even more ground, like we'll have to wait and see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a scenario that I'm going to guess, we'll put them in a pretty decent spot because they have seven games, so three against the Diamondbacks by the way, who are only a half game behind the Giants and have left over the Reds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're hanging in man, so you got three games against the Diamondbacks, and if you're the Diamondbacks, you're thinking, oh, we got the Giants coming off of getting destroyed at

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[SPEAKER_01]: they're right for the pickings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not afraid of no Kai Wei Ting and TBA who's starting game to and they think maybe we can actually jump over the meds here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this series I find it hard to believe that

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of people are taking this time and back series for a little bit for advantage taking advantage of this the idea that the giants are just going to go walk through them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like Arizona is right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have the same thoughts as the giants.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So here's my hypothesis to how the season goes for the remaining.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What is it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: 13 games?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they have left something like that or two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we go into Arizona.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got to win two out of three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't win two out of three, not only are you behind the meds, but you are also behind the Diamondbacks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you've got to win two out of three, and there's gonna be by Hooker by Crook in this series cause like I said, you have WayTang, starting, you have TBA starting, and then I don't know who's after that is who would it be after that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, because Verlander would, Verlander was Friday, right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he would throw Wednesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a Wednesday or third or would he throw this first for the night or so, you're going to do Z. No, he could throw Wednesday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be day five.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you have that and you're hoping.

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[SPEAKER_01]: by that game three that you're you're playing for the series and also if you win that game you win the season series against the diamond backs, which is the tiebreaker there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so you got to take two out of three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You go into LA and I think you have to split.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't split in LA, if they go one in three or if they get swept, I think it's almost time to call it at that point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Two and two gives them a chance, I think, because, and here's why, last six games remaining at home, Cardinals Rockies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You guys sweep both of those series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, if you set yourself up to have a winning week this week, you go into the last week of the season, two games over 500.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And,

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[SPEAKER_01]: six games to win, and you win all of those games, I think they're right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether that's enough, I have no idea because I think the meds have the Padres this week, then they have the nationals, and then they have the marlins, and I forget who the fourth team is that they have next week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that is, that is my hypothesis in how do you win?

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[SPEAKER_01]: the wild card or at least how do you give yourself the best chance?

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Dodgers just showed us that they were so happy to see the giants for whatever reason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we are the antidote.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whenever the Dodgers are having problems, they're like, okay, who's going to be our robot test?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And up San Francisco, okay, San Francisco's robot test.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is how we get rid of our cough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's, that's what I felt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was my worry going into the season or into the series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was so happy that they won that first game because my worry was that we were gonna get three games of Saturday and Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what are your thoughts on that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are you, what are you feeling?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are you expecting?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And look, man, you know, all we want, all we wanted was a chance and they're giving us a chance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we can watch, hopefully, some really strong baseball these next couple weeks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and us giants fans, we know that when the giants go into Arizona and you need to win ball games, weird stuff always happens, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're going to have at least one game of weirdness and let me just tell you how much

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[SPEAKER_00]: how much Arizona Diamondback fans are treating this series and and how excited they are for it sarcastically the outfield I just looked at tickets for tonight's game the outfield is not sold out at all it's not even close come on 15 dollar tickets

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[SPEAKER_00]: the entire upper deck is still available, 15 dollar thick is like nobody's going to these games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so if giants fans could feel it kind of feels like, you know, giants south, which the giants fans do fill up that time backspall park quite a bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I'm with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean,

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[SPEAKER_00]: The thing is, the mess just came off of an eight game slide and just won yesterday with an extra inning home run for Peter Lanzo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're, they're also not playing lights out baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you kind of have to take into account that I know I heard a lot of a couple days ago, you know, the Giants have to go 13 and 3 or, you know, before that it was, they got to go 16 and 3 because of the mats and this isn't a, the mats aren't playing good baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the Reds are playing Giants baseball, the Diamondbacks are playing Giants baseball, those three teams are all playing the same Giants Reds Diamondbacks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If the Met's goal on another five or six games slide, we're battling it out with Arizona and Cincinnati and I don't think the Met's are going to be hanging in there because they also have to play good baseball for all of these scenarios where the Giants have to be

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, play 600 baseball the rest of the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's not looking like that right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, the giants do have to take two out of three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If they, if they are below the Diamondbacks and the low, the reds when they go into Los Angeles for four right for game series, then

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're looking at problems, man, like big time problems.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dodgers played great baseball at home, especially against the giants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this could be either the nail in the coffin this week or you know what rises us to the top.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If the giants can get out of,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Arizona miraculously with a sweep and again weird stuff happens in Arizona weird baseball happens in Arizona the giants can go in there's sweep

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[SPEAKER_00]: we could not be expecting that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It usually what happens in Arizona is what you're not expecting as we've seen over the years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the giants could go in there and walk out of there with the sweep and all of a sudden be in that third wildcard spot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that series in Los Angeles, senses are heightened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's hiding.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's hyper.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She might be a little tighter, though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: cheeks might be a little bit tighter, but you know what if they've got that third wild card spot, the giants might start playing a little bit looser and saying, hey, now this is ours to lose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just go out there and play baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're getting a shot in the arm with a call up today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that might help, you know, Mr. Elderidge is coming on up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but if I get what are we expecting from him, we'll talk about that in a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be the pitching and I was looking at the bullpen too, because I was kind of lamenting in our chat over the weekend about the bullpen and how if we go into a

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[SPEAKER_00]: play off series, you know, with a team like the Dodgers can our bullpen keep up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We saw over the weekend, our starting pitching couldn't keep up and that was the problem.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when I started looking, I thought, I want to see what the Giants bullpen has done since the since the trade deadline when they got rid of Camilo and got rid of Tyler Rogers and I was looking, they have the exact same ERA they had before the trade deadline.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And after the trade deadline, it's like 0.01 off before the trade deadline, the bullpens ERA was 3.22 and now it's, oh, I'm sorry, I looked at the wrong number.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's 3.83.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a little bit higher, but instead of being 14th in the majors, before the trade deadline, now there are 11th in the majors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's bullpen is kind of slid off a leaky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, everybody's leaky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, come on, it's September.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, tired, gasped, falling apart.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's the whole thing is going into a series in Arizona.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You also have to have a good bullpen because it's hot and the ball flies out of there as we see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be, it's going to be a tough series no matter what you're talking about

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just looking at, you know, another thing I was thinking about today, that I kind of pulled up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And because we get frustrated, giants fans, I mean, our biggest frustration is getting hits with runners and scoring positions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's been for years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought, I want to look at the, I want to look at the teams in the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: right now who are slated to make the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to see what their teams are doing with runners in scoring position versus us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Giants are number 16 in the league dead center at 251 hitting 251 with runners in scoring position.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you look at the top 10 teams,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Only seven of the top 10 teams are playoff teams.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Miami's in there at number four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The nationals are in there at number five.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tampa Bay's in there at number six and they're just outside of the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: numbers 11 through 18, there's only one team that's slated to make the playoffs, and that's Boston at number 15.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you start going down the list, Yankees are number 19 in the league.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Podaries are 20th, Astros are 22nd, and the lowly mariners are 27th in the league with runners in scoring position, leading the American League West.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I always thought, you know, runners in scoring position, those key hits, that's kind of telling of the type of team whose clutch that makes a playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then I looked at that and I thought, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a combination.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just kind of tells you a little bit more baseball, such a team sport.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can have a game where you go one for seven with runners in scoring position.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you still win three nothing because you get a sacrifice fly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, like the Giants, a run thrown in that's one of our favorite stats over the years of run thrown in where, you know, somebody makes an error in the infill in giant score two runs and win the ball game three nothing because of pitching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I just thought that was kind of a fun thing to look at and popped in my head this morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought, you know, runners in scoring position, we suck at that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see where everybody else is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know what, I found

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, man, what if the giants were in the American League?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they'd be sick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They'd be like sick and a half games back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, very happy to be in the national league this year because the Rangers, good ol' Brucey Bogey, they're 79 and 71 and they're still two games behind the Astros.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're playing good baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're seven out of the last 10, they're a plus 94, putting comes a run differential, which is better than both the Astros and the Mariners.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the giants, they're only plus 22, and they would rank last out of any of the playoff contenders.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the Diamondbacks and the Reds are also right around the plus 20s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's just one of those years where if they sneak in, they may not even be

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[SPEAKER_01]: one of the best 12 teams, they may be one of the best 15 teams, but if you sneak in just because you're in the national league, you kind of have a halfway decent shot at, you know, possibly doing something because the divisions outside of the fillies and the brewers and maybe even the clubs like there's no real powerhouses, so you might be able to sneak out a victory

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if the Dodgers win the division, I believe we would because the fillies are probably going to end up with the top seed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, fillies are actually actually the brewers currently have the top seed, but the fillies have been playing better baseball of late, so they may catch them, but the Dodgers are, you know, they're there are a bunch of games behind both teams for top seed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and actually, yeah, you're right, the brewers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the giants right now, if they snuck into that third spot, they would be playing Philly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They'd go to Philly for two out of three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the Dodgers would play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't the first, don't the top two teams get buys?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it is the top two teams.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we would get the Dodgers and in the podries and the Cubs would play in 1984 rematch that'd be pretty sweet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you thought.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, and not to make this sad, but yeah, Ryan Sandberg's MVP season is when that was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, 84.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was a crazy, good series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember watching that and then I think they're some aging myself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then like, I think on one of the off days when they weren't playing, there was a punky Brewster episode where her and the old man go to a cubs game, and I think it's like the playoff game or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, remember.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a long time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you mentioned a gentleman, a young gentleman, by the way, who is up, as of today, Giants announced that Bryce Eldridge has joined the Big League squad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and I was kind of thinking about this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been asking like, you know, when this is a student coming up and I even talked to our our our guide Jarrett, and he said, well, you know, if they if they really wanted him up, he could have come up, you know, weeks ago and they do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe they're just not interested.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And today his first ever big league game,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's hitting fifth and de H. So it's sat what it sounds like is he's going to de H against varieties.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that means Devers at first.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And against lefties, I'm guessing Wilmer goes to first and Devers goes to the de H. I think that's how they're playing it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll get to

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I want to say how old Wolk Clark was when he made the bigs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was 22, but it's because he played three years in college or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and so elders and even 21 yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he even he got he got to the big leagues a couple years earlier than will did on the age there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The worry, if you were a giant's fan, is that he's still struck out 31% this year, 31% of his abats, he's T struck out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So his his contact is is is not there yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And here here's kind of the thing that I'm wondering, like, you know, you always want to test the roof.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I imagine these pitchers are going to want to test the rook so he may actually get some pretty good pitches to hit, yeah, but if he does something with those pitches second time around there, I mean, like, okay, like we're making this dude swing at pitches that are not strike zone, but apparently the big holes in the swing are low.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's weird for a life-handed hitter, but then again, it's not weird for someone who is six-seven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I wouldn't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have no idea what he's six-seven is like so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because low and in would seem to be the pitch for your pat-your-life-and-a-power hitters to just be able to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But if his arms aren't

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[SPEAKER_01]: As long as his legs, he may not be able to reach that pitch necessarily.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I mean, I think we're about as excited as you can be because these games matter and the kids coming up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just worry that it might, you know, do you want to just throw him into the mix?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Buster Posey said, ah, you know, he kind of has the make-up where I think he'll thrive in the scenario.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, dude, he's like 20 years old, you know, can you imagine, you have a a child who is close to that age, can you imagine the pressure, like think about his parents, but you know, they're proud of God, we raised him to be like this or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and 20 years old is young.

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[SPEAKER_00]: everybody's built so differently though, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And listening to his interviews over the last year and a half or so, he is so ready for this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is what...

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[SPEAKER_00]: this is what again, this is what he's built for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is ready to compete at the highest level.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to go out there and perform.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, you know, he puts the pressure on himself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think anybody else is going to put pressure on him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He puts pressure on himself to be good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I don't, and again, it's two weeks if he goes up there and hits 1-10 and, you know, strikes out 40% of the time, but hits one home run, hey, you know what, he's got his big league home run under his belt.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He got some big league at bats, he got a taste,

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[SPEAKER_00]: nothing to rumenate over in the offseason over two weeks of baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you would have come up three months ago and hit below 200 for three straight months, that's a lot to chew on in the offseason.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think that's what Buster Posi wanted to do back, you know, a couple months ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I understand this tripways got one week left.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They aren't going to the playoffs, Rivercats aren't going to the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's either he comes up now or a week from now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that's that's why he came up now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You just given that extra week of that bats.

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[SPEAKER_00]: See what he can do, give him the taste of it, then that way

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[SPEAKER_00]: opening day next year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's special.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's opening day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's your first opening day as a big leader.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you've been there before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've seen the clubhouse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've met the clubhouse guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know everybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it's a little less pressure maybe at the beginning of next season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I'm excited.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not expecting much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be happy with one to two home runs between now and the end of the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't be shocked if he doesn't hit one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just because it's a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot to handle and again, he may not get the abats.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If he's only facing Rides, he's not going to get that many abats between now and the end of the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the reason that they pulled the trigger on him or at least that they had to is because Dom Smith dirty Dom got a hurt himself on a stretch making a great play to help a great play

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[SPEAKER_01]: with Matt Chapman made a dive in Friday night's game and Dom Smith went into the full on splits like that one hurt just watching it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it looks like it's a thigh injury.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's going to be out and so they needed to replace his position and it was elders like we were thinking about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were wondering,

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[SPEAKER_01]: is it going to be Fitzgerald like who do you bring up is is Luciano gonna come up and they're like nope it's eldritch so that that is the way that he gets the big leagues and it and that may be a little bit more of why Buster had the quote that he did which is it's out of necessity so

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[SPEAKER_01]: You wouldn't bring him up if you didn't think he could handle it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you'd kind of tell him that, like, hey, maybe this isn't the timeline that we wanted to do this, but we need you and we believe that you can come in and help us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that makes it less about, hey, you have to come in and you have to be the All Star starting first spaceman, super star.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's more of like, hey, you just need to help us in this time, this is winning time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we need some help.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe that's a little bit of the psychology.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Dom Smith injury comes at an inopportune time because I thought he was playing some good baseball and I would love to see him back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure he's going to heal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll have some offers on the market because he has played good baseball for the giants this year, but now, you know, he's hurt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you got to bring up the kid and I just I want to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to see what he looks like in a big league uniform in like I can remember.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When Buster came up, I can remember, and Buster, you know, people remember May 28 actually 2010 when Buster came up, he actually came up the September before that, yeah, and he didn't really play that much like Bochi did not play him very much at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I remember being at a game and he would and I was just like, oh, man, I just want to see this dude play Same with bum garden.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was all man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to see what this guy looks like and that's what it is With I'll just I just want to see what he looks like in this uniform so that we can get a you know You kind of get a look at him and then you start thinking about the offseason I'll oh, man, you know, what's it going to be like what's the and this is why baseball's great, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's the starting lineup going to be next year?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know when when we were kids it was like

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here's the batting order and then they make a trade.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, where does this guy fit in the batting order?

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[SPEAKER_02]: We kind of didn't have any part.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We kind of did that with devours when they made the trades.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now we got a three hitter or two hitter or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, it'll it'll be fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I hope that he doesn't get overwhelmed, but at the same time, I, you know, I want to see you kind of do want to see if, you know, how he handles himself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I looked at Brandon belt,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bren about was 23 when he came up in 2011.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He and Bren about hit nine home runs and two hundred and nine played appearances.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that that that was that was pretty good for a rookie season though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't have a high batting average, but nine home runs was was pretty good for the short

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, you mentioned this earlier and the pitching and if you are a skeptic some may say a realist about this next two weeks and the chances I think you would point at the starting pitching you would point at

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kaiwei Tang being your number four starter going into the stretch run or going into the last two weeks of season you would point at TBA which probably means bullpen game or or maybe you have someone with the idea that throw four innings or five innings and then you got the old man Verlander who they've been really relying on and then Logan Webb who's thrown the most pitches in baseball this season

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Robbie Ray, who has thrown these second most pitches in baseball this season and that's what you're trying to string together to win baseball games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you are a naysayer and you say, you know what they're not going to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't argue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, I'm hoping I'm hoping that that is not the case, but you look at it on paper and you go, yeah, this is going to be really hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you look at the bullpen and you know, we talked about it with some of these known name guys, but you know, like you said, they've kind of held up, and maybe they hold up a little bit better if the rotation isn't really put together with Scotch tape after your three guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is word that if the Giants would make the playoffs, it's a possibility that land and root would be available.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he would probably not start, but you'd have a really strong

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[SPEAKER_01]: there's talked that Eric Miller could possibly be back around the same time and you know he was he was literally there only left handed pitcher for like the first half of the season before he got hurt left hand or the bullpen and then you have a possible the whiz kid the whiz kid

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[SPEAKER_01]: He may be available.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I didn't even know I or maybe I knew when I forgot, but I guess he got hurt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and he was on he had a back something that he was on the he was injured for and they're talking about he could possibly be back by this weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Though I don't know what that means because if you have I guess one of those three games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: if it's a web and then Ray, or what are those four games?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Web and Ray and Tang and maybe Wizz and Hunt are your four starters in LA, but he's another rookie and you just throw them into this like whole thing and you're like, oh my god, basically a two pitch pitcher against that line up in Los Angeles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a great recipe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like it, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that that that would be tough, but at this point, it's like next man up, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like who else is there?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, who's a warm body who can get on the mountain right now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That that's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what are your like because your your you're a very optimistic fan you're a glass half old kind of guy so she went it comes to the spaceball team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As you look at the the last 13 games

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think the giants hang in there and are fighting until the last series and stay there alive, you know, with Colorado coming home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I said a month ago, this team wasn't making the playoffs, but that's when they were.

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[SPEAKER_00]: pretty far back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time I think we bury this team, they go on a little run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't even know, I met a total loss.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 2025 has been the weirdest year for giant spaceball that I can remember.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The last weird year we had was 2021 because

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[SPEAKER_00]: the entire year we were thinking what the hell is going on with this team?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When are they going to fold?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When are these old guys going to stop hitting?

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[SPEAKER_00]: When is everything going to stop working?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it didn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just kept going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this year's been one of those years, where when is this team going to officially get buried, when are they not going to be in the hunt anymore?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it hasn't ended.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I even, like I said, if the Giants finished this week, they got seven games, they could probably go three and four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if the Met continued to crumble,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the reds, I mean, the reds are, you know, they got swept by the ace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They got swept by the ace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're playing their cardinals now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're, you know, they're in St.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Louis and they're winning the first game on this Monday night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if they don't play great baseball and we don't play great baseball and the Diamondbacks don't play great baseball and the Met's continue to fold, you're still gonna, you're still gonna gain games on them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that possibility is slim compared to the met finally going on a tear and putting this thing away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I honestly, I don't even know what to think anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, but one thing is one thing and going back to what you alluded to earlier.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One thing I am really enjoying is the baseball that's being played right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though we lost two out of three to the Dodgers, this team being competitive, this team showing fire, I'm still, I went nuts Friday night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, my wife wasn't feeling good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was laying in bed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was out in the front room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The other kid wasn't home from her friend's house yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was going crazy in the front room and Bailey hit that grand slam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that, I mean, to still do that in mid September, you can ask for anything more as a giant's fan, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's just to be in there and to be fighting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a blast, and I'm really enjoying it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll give people a little insight into how our chat was going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the previous AB, Bailey,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I forgot how baggly described it in his athletic piece.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Something like a high school kid, something like the app that was so bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, wait, is this guy left hand to hear batting right handed?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's how bad his swing looked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so when the giants are up and then didn't they walk someone in front of him?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they did and I'm trying to think was it wrong.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, wasn't Ramos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, my driven Wilmer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was Wilmer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I said, I said in the chat, because we love Wilmer's at bat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, you know, the Dodgers are about to see the most professional late game at bat they've ever seen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, they walk him because they knew they were.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: we kind of were doing like I didn't I wasn't like I was like okay who's coming up next and you know in in a new hope where Luke is putting together where the storm troopers are going and he's like doing the math and it's like home and he had to go back home and then when he got home everyone was was dead like I was doing that math when Bailey was coming

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bailey and I did just like that as as I was like coming to the conclusion that it was him at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Of cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this dude had the most.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Pimp.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bat throw I've ever seen from a giant's player.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is this guy's not home run here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, but he hits the ball and he knows off the bat that even if it's not a home run, this thing is overly outfielders head.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They couldn't be playing that far back because a sack fly wins a game too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so he just hits it the ball's laser and he just chucks that bat like in one motion and I was like, okay, this is why you kind of keep rooting for this guy, even though his at bats kind of suck and you want him to do so well, he's homegrown, he's the best framer in the game, he keeps them, you know, he keeps base runners.

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[SPEAKER_01]: off, you know, it's from stealing off of their pictures and you're just like, man, if this could just hit a little bit, he would he would be the perfect catcher for the giants.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So when he does things like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You just love the guy, but the previous app before I was like cursing his name go like it was off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who like, there's no other player in major league baseball right now that has a worse app bat than Patrick Bailey just had and he goes out and lasers, Tanner Scott's fastball out of the zone, by the way, the Tanner Scott was probably like how did he hit that one?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just like, man, that that was one of the best moments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think

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[SPEAKER_01]: in another baguerly thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he had a staff that said Patrick Bailey already has more game winning home runs than Bustroposi did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Which is amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if he has more than Benji Molina.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my goodness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember that what was a Benji Molina home run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was 2010.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd have been 2010 where he had a home run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's nobody in the stands left to win the ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like a two-one game and he hit it in like the 11th or 12th inning or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that was some,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Patrick Bailey was probably exhausted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's a giant Dodger game, it's late, we're in extra innings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's out there battling, and it was a nasty fast follow-up which was crazy and to throw that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, I think you're thinking at that point after watching, like said, after watching Bailey's previous set bat,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could throw him that and he's going to swing through it, especially right handed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not a good right handed hitter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to correct you though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want the Star Wars nerds coming after us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was the sand people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The sand people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't want, you know, I don't want hate mail, I don't want, I don't want, I know how Star Wars nerds can be because I'm one, you're one, I don't want them coming after us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was about to say stand sand people and then I said star war or stormtroopers and I think you're like, oh, oh And I just watch a new hope not that long ago, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay You know what I watch around my birthday is Empire Strikes back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's when I always like right around my birthday It's just like throw it on while I'm doing stuff that's yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I watched the

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the Disney, I've never watched any of them on Disney Plus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so the 4K versions, which looks nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure if we had the 4K DVD probably looks even better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so I watched it on the Disney Plus and it looked awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what I have, Star Wars nerds are going to love this one too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have the 4K laser disc rip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: on 4K disc of the original three movies without any of the special edition stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I got those three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got him from somebody giving to me for Christmas one year and they're phenomenal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were, I mean, they look fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody really took the care to make them 4K from the laser disc rip and no special addition stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So all the goofy weirds, visual effects are in there and everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Greedow doesn't shoot first.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He does not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and job of the, the human version is, is in the movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, this is, this is, I don't even think there is a job of the hunt scene because in the original there was no job of the hunt scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They added that in the second movie or in the, in the, you know, in the special edition and they cut it from the original when Java was a human because

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[SPEAKER_00]: Spielberg just didn't like it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I don't like the way it looks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So in the original original version, there is no job of the Hudson whatsoever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They just head out to them falcon and get the heck out of Moss Isle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's no thing of ongoing like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm about to get the money like the princess no because that was going to be an original film and it was just a dude who was kind of like a stand in they got up in special effect and later and they never did so when the special edition came out Lucas goes oh now I could put a job of the HUD in there because now we know what he looks like and all that and that looked terrible all right all right so

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[SPEAKER_01]: strap, you know, get strapped in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, here we go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 13 games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got seven in a row.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No days off of the giants.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You and I will be back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm guessing on Monday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the Valkyries are going to win their playoff series against the Minnesota links or the best team in the league.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think I'm going to have to worry necessarily about the following week in Valkyries basketball, but that was where my mind went.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, can I be great Monday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think we're going to be good Monday and Monday will be our last show of the regular season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we can kind of break down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: this week and then we'll set up next week and we'll figure things out from there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But pretty excited, man, this is where you want to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is what you want to see when it comes to the team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And until that magic number or that elimination number, whatever that number is, until you're eliminated, they can still play some good baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So heck yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be, it could go down to the final day of the season,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's always fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If it goes down to the final game of the season that that's a blast wait did you say Spielberg

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's at the Spielberg.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he kind of prepared it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He meant to say Lucas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he meant to say Lucas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's a Monday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Grang old guys with glasses.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm sure you're not the only person who has made that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You mean Spielberg and Lucas aren't the same guy?

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I was a little kid, I thought they were exactly the same guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a day where a kid, a two-headed monster of filmmakers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, that is it from here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For Brad, I am WG, we will see you when we see you piece out, piece.