Can't Hit, Can't Field, Can't Win? + A Look Back at Bonds' 756th | Thompson 2 Clark

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[SPEAKER_01]: with Drosion, throws to Sandberg on the pitches proud of the second base.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thompson has it, throws the first.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty seven years of waiting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's still excited to do this podcast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: because you and I get to chat and hang out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm so depressed about what we have to talk about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, but the joy is though that we still get to talk about baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that, you know, we always, we always take that, you never take that for granted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You always talk, get the fact that we get to hang out, you and I get to hang out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we get to talk baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's, I don't care how bad they're doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We still always get that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, yes, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The reason, you know, I did get to go to the game this weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it got to see them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's third game in a row or third game this season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I went to three last season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh and three last season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh and three this season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I'm going to be able to go to any more games this year unless something changes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At this point, they should just pay me to stay away.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's not just you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we'll talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People are going to the games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I do have some, you know, some thoughts on what I did get to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I want to start with Carson was in hunt because I was actually really excited to see him pitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, you know, young kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's, you know, super high prospect for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the same issues that we've been talking about, the, you know, the fastball is, is it's not happened for, for today's baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's got the one great out pitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got to see all of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what I was thinking as I was watching.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I almost wonder if the nationals who are by the way, the nationals are one of the dogmate teams in the league this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we can underestimate why this weekend in giant space, well, was as disappointing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was because the nationals are terrible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not even, they're barely trying to win baseball games at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was watching, and I was going like, wow, I think their strategy is to

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[SPEAKER_01]: just be super aggressive because it's not like Wizz and Hunt control change of on every pitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, you know, if you don't have a good fastball and your third pitch, it is still sort of undistinguishable when it comes to whether it's good or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you go up there hack happy,

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[SPEAKER_01]: you're going to guess right probably two out of four times and get a ball you can drive like James would just was like I'm just going to swing out of my ass at the first pitch that I see right and just do that's a home run to start the game and I was just like okay this is that you know how how is he going to figure this out now I think he did battle he he battled through he gave up three solo home runs

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I was also like, oh man, like unless he comes up with a really strong third pitch and may in and a fourth pitch probably is a starting pitcher.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if that's the strategy that all teams are going to take with them, which is just be really aggressive because he can only throw the change up, you know, every three pitches, probably.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the one you got to worry about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the one that they were swinging through.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But everything else is super hitable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's that's kind of what I got at watching him throw a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That, you know, and that's what we've been talking about leading up to and everybody's been talking about it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That third pitch, man, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you

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[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe the fastball sinker, it's more like a fastball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know they keep calling it a fastball, but then I see it sometimes show up as a sinker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think he has a fastball and a sinker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, if he can be a dialed in really good to pitch pitcher, he doesn't have blow you away type of stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he's got good, like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, sixth inning, seventh inning type of stuff that can get you out of jam because he can miss bats.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the nice thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you're going in there and trying to get through five and six innings with two pitches and an undeveloped slider and that was the problem too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was talking with somebody online about that yesterday on on Blue Sky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, talking about how the slider was just really, really rough the other day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And his start in New York, he had a really hard time finding control with that slider too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I when it was down, it was down, it was down, it was inside, it was down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then on Saturday and seemed like he found control with the slider.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he wasn't finding corners of the plate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't finding edges.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was finding the heart of the plate with the slider.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think he pretty much abandoned it too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just became a two pitch pitcher trying to get through five, which is really, really impossible in twenty twenty five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the offense was not helping him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There were some moments where they hit a couple atom balls.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when I was a little kid and, uh, Khyper would call it an atom ball and not a little kid, but it could teenager.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I was like, why does he call it an atom ball?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I was in like chemistry class one day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just hit me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, not A T O M. Adam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Adam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like in it, right, Adam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, now I get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because I was trying to figure out the, yeah, the chemistry like what does this a science term or, or why do they keep naming a ball atom?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So special about Adam.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Adam's ball Adam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Casey Schmidt hit two nice drives that maybe another ball parks would have actually done some damage, but they were, you know, long outs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And nothing else would like that that was really the part about the game that that made me really sad is

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[SPEAKER_01]: Almost nothing was hit hard, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like sometimes you'll see the hitters, like they would just, you know, put something into the gap and you're like, okay, now things are cooking because hitting could be contagious and you're just seeing like pop up, ground ball to second bait.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the one that hurt the most was they had a rally, and these bases loaded, or maybe it wasn't basically loaded, but there were runners on and Chapman is up and I'm thinking like, okay,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Guy knows how to hit a fly ball, drive in a run.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He popped into the picture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the worst.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you see the picture take the fly ball, you go, he really didn't hit that hard hole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it was just a little looper.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That type of stuff is just absolutely maddening when you're already not scoring runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and you get a looper to the pitcher and you know they did have a couple of smart abes and they were able to take some walks and get some guys on but just nothing was hit hard nothing that made you think yeah I take it back

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[SPEAKER_01]: Devours had a couple of a couple of nicely hit balls and what I thought while watching Devours is he is a little bit more into with the strikes on right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He looks way more comfortable with his eye.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But in some other cases, he's still swinging out of issues at certain pitches that you would think that he would lay off a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was in that game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, okay, he's he's a bit more comfortable now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The stats aren't going to really show you stuff because what we're going to talk about this later in the show, we did our July players of the month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I was like, okay, like I wonder what he did this month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it two home runs in July.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, two, fifty two home runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is just not he, you know, they're as collectively as a team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not doing much, but, you know, that's your number.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's your ace right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if he's not hitting

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[SPEAKER_01]: then he's missing in big spots and then it relies on other people who also may not be hitting you kind of need him to get hot and then things kind of come together would because your best player is playing well and that is not happening with him though there are some signs here and there he went deep recently like I said he hit those two two hard balls that were that were nice and then he doesn't get picked up so it really doesn't matter but yeah I think they lost four to two

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just the most one of the most home games that I've been to and I was so thankful that I was hanging out with my old Twitter friends.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My friends at Darren and Stephanie, like I met Darren like gosh, it's been like sixteen years ago or whatever, just talking on Twitter about the giants and we he and I've been to probably fifteen games together and then Stephanie and I

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we went to opening day two years in a row together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and we hadn't seen, I hadn't seen both of them since before the pandemic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But otherwise, I was just like, man, this is just not a fun team to watch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you saw Melvin's quote after yesterday's game where they lose eight to zero and really have no chance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're out hit seventeen to three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, if Washington was any good, they would have scored probably like twenty runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, they left ten runners on base.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's ridiculous.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't eat nothing and leave ten runners on base.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's nuts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Melvin Rabad team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Melvin kind of called out the team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, man, we had forty thousand large here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we didn't give them a single thing to cheer about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's really, you know, the crux of what we want or what we wanted this season was we wanted a competitive and entertaining ball club.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they were actually

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[SPEAKER_01]: playing above water and that first half and and then since then they've been one of the worst teams in the league, but at the same time in being one of the worst teams in the league.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're like sick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're eight and sixteen in the second half or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not entertaining.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is the thing is these games are whole hum two hours and twenty five minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, see you later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't really have much of a chance to win this ball game and that just sucks because you're just as a fan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're you're hoping that they're just competing and they have chances and when they don't you just like, oh man, this team is worse than I even realized in some cases.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, then there's five hundred ball clubs that look like five hundred ball clubs and then there's five hundred ball clubs that look like they should not even be close to five hundred.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when the giants lose and when they lose a series, they do it in fantastically awful fashion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you lose a series to the Washington Nationals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You get swept by the Minnesota twins.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, when this team loses a series, it's ugly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's probably the most frustrating thing because it's like, what business do they have right now being around five hundred?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've seen articles and talk about, well, gosh, coming up here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got the pod drinks coming up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to face some seven out of the next ten games and those are super important.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about anybody else but right now I'm not feeling any pressure whatsoever because I'm not expecting anything and that's kind of what's you know what the sad thing is you've you've seen what this team does offensively I don't think a switch is going to get turned on

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[SPEAKER_00]: where they're going to maintain some sort of offensive prowess for the next, you know, month and a half.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't think that's going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can bring up the old ridge, maybe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can bring up, you know, the kid that they traded for a backup catcher.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could do little things here and there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's going to change a whole lot of Chapman slumping hard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think with all the injuries, it devours as right now, I don't think he's going to come around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, you know, and then, yeah, I mean, what was that, you know, something I read today from Baggherley that the league average OPS is like, seven, sixteen, and the giants have three guys just barely above that and one of them was he has.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so you'd say, you're taking some offense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know, there's a lot of people that just didn't like jazz and wanted them to be traded, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, you know, he's kind of one of the better offensive production guys on our team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, that's just the way it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it's that to be all doom and gloom, but I mean, you know, enjoy the rest of the season for what it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the end sure you could be optimistic and say, well, maybe this team's going to sneak in in the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Realistically, no.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think you have to look at, you know, the bright spots.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's watch Wizz and Hunt, you know, develop more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's watch Rodriguez become that ninth inning closer that that locked down guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's let's start looking at some some things here positively for next season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's kind of what I'm looking at when I watch these games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, just lose the idea of losing to the nationals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: at in this stage where the Met's cannot win a baseball game for what I've seen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've lost seven in a row.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Padres who are coming into town today to start a series, a three gamer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're actually playing some pretty good baseball, but the opportunities are there for the giants to actually make this interesting, but they just can't, like there's, you know, the, uh, and Kronocione gets hurt running out, uh, ground ball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't even, I'm not trying to make fun of it, but it's just like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got the the risk thing and finally comes back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like the longest home run that we've seen in quite a while and then running down first base pulls his hammy and it just shows you

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of the guys that they've cultivated and a lot of these are pre-pozy roster moves, but they're all the same.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just right-handed DHS who you sometimes have to play in the field because you can't play three DHS at a time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so something that you want them to go back to a little bit is more athleticism, more speed, more utility.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is it's not how they are built.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do wonder if this is the offseason

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[SPEAKER_01]: where Buster just goes, okay, I saw what we had.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to give us a shot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now we really have to change up this roster in a major way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's almost like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was like the year to give it a go with the talent, a semi-talented roster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then maybe this is the off season to break it down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe it's like we do have to take a step back in order to make some adjustments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just, I'm putting thoughts into his brain, but I've got to see some of the stuff that we see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, and I was thinking about it today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of, you know, read some articles and I was just thinking,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I want to get back to the athleticism.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about that, but suppose you talked about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it kind of shined a little bit early on and every now and then we'll get a flash of a, oh, a stolen base and, you know, jungly reading a ball, you know, in the dirt or nobody's covering home plates, so he takes off and scores, you know, little things here and there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: defensively, it has not translated into the outfield.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, especially now that Yas is gone, you really see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the glaring holes in left center and right field for the most part that the giants have to fill.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could fill that and metrics have been shown that if you move jungle lead a left field or right field, he becomes a stellar outfielder versus just a below average center fielder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He becomes a much better corner outfielder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what do you do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, like I said, we have way too many deaches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you can't move Ramos to DH because Devers is going to be your DH and you're not going to platoon Devers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to trade for Devers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Pay them all that money and then platoon Devers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's not going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So was, do you trade Ramos?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can get a hall for Ramos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you trade Ramos?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, in some sort of package and some sort of package comes back from Cleveland where you get Stephen Kwan and Stephen Kwan is now your center filter who gets on base hits for average has a little bit of pop, but he's a very good center filter and then you move junk who leads to left field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you've got a really good outfield, two thirds of a really good outfield, and then you need to fill that right field hole.

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[SPEAKER_00]: is Gilbert the type of guy who can play right field at Oracle?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We saw him make a couple of really good catches the other night, but he's got hit, that's the other thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's a lot of offseason work to be done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking more and more of trading Ramos, his OPS Plus is one, twenty-two, and the chance of Ford to lose offense at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You almost have to, though, if you've got a guy who's just offense,

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[SPEAKER_00]: can't play the outfield, but also slumps hard and goes into really bad slumps to the point where he's not hitting the ball and not catching the ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then what do you do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't hide him anywhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't hide him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can only hide him on the bench at that point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then again, you don't have anybody who can play a left field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Tyler Fitzgerald will play it what two games and right field in the last couple of days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think they're trying it, you know, maybe

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[SPEAKER_00]: get him to become an outfielder so that's another option but we've seen him be streaky as well so yeah there's there's a lot of questions in the offices and there's a lot of things that can be done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've always said on the show we've been doing the show for five years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've always said when the team is bad and you go on the offices and you don't go to the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably the most exciting time for me as a fan because I know changes are going to happen, especially with the bus proposal because I knew the Farhan changes after about four years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Change is going to be made, but what are they going to be?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Are we going to miss out on free agents?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to miss out on this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now with bus proposal, I'm excited to see year two, you know, possibly again, a five hundred ball club.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is he going to do going into the off season?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be actually some exciting off season time for us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's take a look at some of the other things that we wanted to talk about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So kind of to your point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was my state of the team ran.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've dropped ten of their last eleven at home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: super frustrating yeah um they are currently hitting two thirty four as a team and uh seven oh seven ops with runners in scoring position and that is in the bottom eight in uh the major leagues and the frustrating part of it is like we said

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[SPEAKER_01]: they're still fifty nine and fifty nine and they've actually gained a couple of games in the race to that third wild card slot in playing this poorly so just imagine if they've been played five hundred baseball they'd be right in the mix um... the uh... i guess the one nice thing over the weekend even though didn't mean much as far as the game was concerned is uh... just in verlander thirty five hundred career strikeout

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[SPEAKER_01]: probably the last guy to hit that mark ever right just based on the way that that starters ago these days and maybe the last one to get to that milestone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I think that's gonna be a tough one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's one of those things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was fun to see and and that was the

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's from at the side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, first inning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was super exciting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought, oh, this is going to be a good game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to, you know, we're, we're dialing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to win the series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But of course, in the back of my mind, it was like, but we got to score runs, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could pitch, he could pitch his ass off all he wants to, but we got to score runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In that same baggly article that you were talking about, you could tell he's really frustrated with the defense as well, but he's not telling the defense under the bus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the defense is just poor.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And again, I think, Buster wanted to give this roster a run because they were, you know, they've been competitive in the past and

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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, you know, we got to play better defense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got to pitch better and they have not played better defense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've pitch decently well, but the defense is just so bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Junghulie is like statistically, I guess he's he's fairly poor.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ramus is the worst maybe in all of baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the other thing, and this is an interesting one, and I wanted to get you thoughts on this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people believe

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[SPEAKER_01]: that Willie Adamus as a full-time shortstop is not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's not a lot of future for him to stick at that position, which then you wonder, like, okay, well, what do you do with him?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't move into third, because Chapman is there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a big dude and not the nifty guy in the world, so he wouldn't seem like a second basement, and then you have Bryce Eldridge that you're hoping becomes your first basement, and what do you do with the Domus if he kind of grows out of that position?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, again, that comes back to the lot of questions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So many questions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Devers has gone on record two as saying when he played first base.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went on record saying he was more engaged.

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[SPEAKER_00]: in the game when it was playing the field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's tough to hear because you know he's going to be the DH for very long time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to be your first basement.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to be your third basement.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And especially because Chabins are around for a few more years once Chabins Lee is you're not going to put Devours at third because Devours is going to be X amount of years older at that point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're going to want an athletic third basement.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of tough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of tough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of holes in this team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we knew that early in the season too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And one thing I beat, you know, I beat the drum on quite a bit early in the early in the season was depth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When this team had injuries, I was getting a little nervous because I thought, when this team has injuries, we're going to have depth problems big time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And sure enough, you see it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what Buster's trying to do is trying to build that form system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He likes line drive hitters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He likes guys who hit line drives and our ballpark that plays, that's something you want.

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[SPEAKER_00]: guys who run into fastballs every now and then, or you know, off speed pitches and hit them out, that's great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll take a line up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I will take a line up of guys who hit three, fifteen up and down one through nine and don't hit more than fifteen home runs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll take that because they're going to score runs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to find gaps.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to get on base.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to score five runs again, probably.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you have good pitching, you're going to win a lot of ball games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm fine with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not the type of person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need to have a forty home run hit or on my team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I need guys to get on base and I need guys to steal bases and I need guys to take extra bases.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And also play defense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you can get guys like that, I'm all for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just tourists is doing these days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We need an undress Torres on the space be dazzling his jeans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We need a player like that who is almost like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: his confidence is probably higher than it deserves to be but who cares because right you know he he he feels like he's one of the best player like we need guys like that and but different different game I I'm just thinking about these guys because I'm still reading Pavlovitch's book on the judge so good I just got through the chapter and the

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[SPEAKER_01]: be caught chapter in the Timmy chapter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on the chapter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all good stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm on the ace's chapter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do so much reading on vacation and you come back from vacation and you get back into the real world and you start doing stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't picked up my Kindle since I got back from vacation like three weeks ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I really need to get back to that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I did buy an iPad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have no idea.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've been reading the athletic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great way to read the athletic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's so fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you and I both have the Apple news plus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So getting their chronicle on there and being able to read sluster all of her stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it I'm just having a blast with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm reading all of that when I go to bed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm like, by the time I do that, I'm tired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, I'm not going to pick up my book because I should go to bed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, but I am going to get back to the book.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I guess the last thing before we move on, uh, landed group looks like he is slowly but surely getting back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I think he threw, I forgot what is through fifty pictures or something on the side the other day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, they do need him because they we, though the only game they won on this home stand so far was a bullpen game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, come on, guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fifty pitches in a rehab start for Sacramento.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good old Bryce Aldrich Homer, again, which is awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, JJ, my son has been on about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Luciano, Luciano, why is he not playing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's going on?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why are they not bringing them up in back of the road?

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[SPEAKER_01]: That the reason is because the only outfill position that they've tested him at is in the last.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Ramos is there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's like no space for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, and, and it's sad what he's saying that he's a downgrade in left field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think he's a, I think he's the worst metrically.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's the worst outfielder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In all of baseball, not just left fielder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's all of the outfield.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to shout out my buddy Mark Nobita who listens to this show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He sent me a note the other day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then was just kind of putting the show over and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So shout out to Mark, you know, Mark is actually one of my pickleball inspirations there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's been on the pickleball train for a couple years now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's throwing it out there and throwing it out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We finally bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm such a Jimmy Buffett fan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I'm not on the pickleball train yet because Jimmy Buffett was a big pickleball player.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he had been playing for years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, but someday we have a pickleball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have an indoor one here in Reno.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's a big warehouse type of place, but it's all indoor pickle ball, but it's funny.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It tells you their target audience, I drove out the other day and it said, you know, it said something of a pickle ball and then underneath it said snacks and coffee.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's he.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, hey, I'm old.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like coffee in the morning and playing pickleball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They open it like five a.m.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to which is fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you know what's interesting about this pickleball like beginners stage thing for me is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've always been hyperware of both of my knees just, you know, there's been some structure, but before I understood exactly what arthritis was, I just assume like, okay, this is my knees aren't bad shape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of need knee braces and X, Y and Z. And then I learned about what arthritis was and I talked to doctors like, no, structurally, your knees fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just you have arthritis and that's why you have the pain.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So once I figured out that, I was like, okay, I'm not worried about

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[SPEAKER_01]: My kneecap, dislocating, or ACL, or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I mean, you would think about that stuff, but it's not like, my knees are more prone for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just that I just have the arthritis playing pickleball and, you know, getting in better shape and all that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm now, I'm now able to take off one of my knee braces.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was kind of scary.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what's so funny is I've been wearing two knee braces for so long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That I almost feel uneven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm walking around and going like, wait, this feels so weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have one sleeve not the other sleeve, but I've been able to play, even was able to play pickleball the other day without the left knee sleeves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the movement and everything else is keeping the inflammation down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it is just

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[SPEAKER_01]: the the one thing that you don't have to do that you do in some other sports is generally jump like there's not a lot of jumping there's a lot of side to side side movement and a little bit of back and forth but there's no like real like dead on sprints like if you if you've played basketball before you know how to move side to side and up and back it's a lot of that movement

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that does not hurt my left knee for whatever reason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like, hey, I'm just going to take advantage of it, not not with the knee sleeve, which I've been wearing for fifteen years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're not generally big movements, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Every now and then, I'm sure you get kind of a lunge or something, but more quick, like quick and anticipatory movements.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, she'll shout out to Mark.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening and everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I kind of looked at this, and I was kind of wondering, because I was like, man, where do the giants fit in like what teams are hot, what teams are cold,

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[SPEAKER_01]: The team that's on fire right now is the Milwaukee Brewers like, oh my god, they're just they're just on fire.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Mariners and the Guardians are also playing really well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then of course, the Padres, which is in great for us who are in town today as we record this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The coldest teams, the deaths are like the reverse brewers right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, the Rockies, the Yankees surprisingly post trades, the Orioles, and the Nationals who came in and kicked our butts into those games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, it's just so interesting to look at teams and I sort of, so I looked at the giant, so it was just mostly looking back two weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The giants are five and seven, which puts them kind of square in the middle, but I just, I could have sworn that they were like two and thirteen or whatever, but nope, they're not that bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, and you know what the other thing is, that's kind of interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In the second half, it feels like they've been outscored by like a million runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're only minus five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they, I think they were a plus

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[SPEAKER_01]: seventeen going into the all-star break so they still have a I think they still have a plus run differential so it's just it just things just like look worse than than they are statistically because they're still fifty nine and fifty nine but sometimes they just play so poorly yeah just like oh my gosh they gotta be like worse than they are and note they're kind of hanging in there and like like I don't expect it

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[SPEAKER_01]: But let's say they went to at a three from San Diego.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are right back in the mix again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that would be fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Which is weird.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I was saying earlier.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you look at five hundred teams and you go, well, that looks like a five hundred team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're losing close ball games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're winning close ball games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, one swing, one where the other and they're probably ten games over five hundred.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then you look at the chance and you go,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You play like you do against, I mean, they get swept by the pirates and then, you know, at home, a couple weeks ago and then they lose a series to the nationals at home and you're like, if you can't win at home, are you really a five hundred ball club?

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're winning on the road, but not winning at home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those two can easily swap at any moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You start losing on the road and winning at home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're still a five hundred club, but when you're losing series like you're losing, it doesn't feel like it just doesn't feel like they belong anywhere right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of the weird part.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where they belong and who they are anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's get to our players of the month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We forgot to do this last week by the time we try and look at the player of the month offensively and from a pitching perspective and also kind of like the surprising, unsung offensive in and picture of the month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So do you want to go first?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'll throw it out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have the pictures this month for the month of July.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You shouldn't say this month where it's already August eleven, but we're not too far into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: picture of the month for me for the month of July was a guy that we just talked about and he's coming back and that's land and roof and he had a really nice July.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had four starts in July only one and one record, but again, you know, you can't blame him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's, I think he gets even less defensive help than verlander does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's what Bagley was her red tattoo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so he's having a really tough time getting some sort of defensive support.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you look at his fifth, it's three point-on-one, but as the RA is one point eight zero, still.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not too terribly far off, but a good fit of three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And his case per nine, nine point four five for the month of July.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He did pitch in in twenty innings in those four starts and had a point four war and and in those twenty innings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had, uh, I'm trying to, I'm not also also start having to wear glasses.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's getting pretty bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, twenty, and those twenty, and he had twenty, he gave up twenty hits, uh, and only four earnings in those twenty innings, and then walked eight, struck out twenty one,

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[SPEAKER_00]: only give up one home run in the month of July, which was really good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he got hurt and then we missed him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, um, but I got to give it to him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was looking at Robbie Ray's numbers and looking at, um, Logan Web's numbers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Logan Web, as you remember, in July, I had a really rough time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had a six point one eight ERA.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yikes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, and land a group hanging out in his four starts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And everybody else only had one more start than him for land or at five.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would read at five and love at Web at five.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Landarube definitely, you know, enough to win that player of the month for our show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hit pitcher of the month, sorry, not player.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I looked at a few players again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was trying to force it to like diverse.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, maybe diverse in like a sneaky good month and we're just not realizing it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't diverse.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Ramos has been consistent offensively.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He hasn't been consistently great, but he's been sort of consistently, you know, slightly about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But really when you look at

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[SPEAKER_01]: who actually was hitting a ball with a little bit of power and driving in runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a, it's a Domus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had six jacks and fourteen RBI.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, sixteen RBI actually.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Any hit, three, thirty, three in July.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now he was in such bad shape to, you know, earlier in the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like his number shot up, but, you know, they're starting to become a little bit more serviceable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's, I think he's still hitting in like the two, thirty somethings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, to show that power,

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... he's got a hit twenty jacks twenty five jacks to to be worth that value that they paid him especially as his defense uh... is maybe not as good as we thought it was going to be uh... but he delivered in July so i'm going to give it to uh...

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[SPEAKER_01]: What about for your uh, unsung picture of the month?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a good pick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Adomas, um, he's kind of been carrying the offense and that's not saying a whole lot, but, you know, um, but, but he's had he really has turned it around and I still think him endeavors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: are going to come flying out of the gates in twenty twenty six because they'll be more comfortable being with the club.

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[SPEAKER_00]: More comfortable in the city and then when you start out in the spring training in your Arizona.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, this will be diverse for spring training in Arizona too, which would be kind of interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But having those two guys, I think flying out of the gates are going to help this team in twenty twenty six.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My unsung picture of the month for the month of July was a guy that we talked a lot about in July.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because we lost Eric Miller and we thought, Oh, shoot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What are we going to do with lefties going forward?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't we don't have many lefties.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they bring up Joey Lucas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and and he pitches twelve and a third innings out of the bullpen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's second most only to Spencer Bivins and we know Spencer Bivins is kind of our mop up guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At that time he was now now he's a little more leverage guy, which I know you don't like it, but he is he is a more leverage guy, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, you get that you get that verlander and Bivins back to back and you're talking about like, hey guys, we should get through this thing and not die.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and speaking of Spencer Bivots at eight point five three year in month of July.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he wasn't anywhere near this, but Luke Casey in twelve and a third innings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't give up a run.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You gave up five hits.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One walk struck out fourteen in those twelve and a third innings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and only yeah, like I said, only walked one and he had a zero point zero zero ERA.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's my, I mean, he was almost in the running also for, you know, pitcher of the month, but I kind of lean towards starters in that and unless you got a guy who's got like seven or eight saves in the month, you know, whatever month it is, but for for Lucas you to really pick up the left handed torch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And kind of put, you know, our minds and ease of, what are we going to do and show?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, it comes up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What are we going to do and, you know, so it's all left hand or comes up, you know, now at least we know any Eric Miller is on the mend and he's on his way back, hopefully soon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're going to have to solve it lefties in the bullpen, which would be really nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's my unsung picture of the month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am wondering what you think about Randy Rodriguez because again, bringing up JJ because he's very vocal about Randy Rodriguez.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was vocal about Randy Rodriguez when Joval was actually pitching well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, nope, I don't trust him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Randy Rodriguez.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I've started calling him a eighth inning Randy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's because I want.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's got to prove that he can close.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's got to prove such a young guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he's getting a great opportunity, especially where

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, as if the giants fall out of the mix, there's a little bit less pressure on him to, you know, to close out these games, but you like to see him in some opportunities and maybe one of those things as you sort of figure out roles for next year is like, yeah, can we get some data on if this guy can do, cause obviously he made the all start team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he can, he can pitch in that seven to eighth inning, like lights out, but it's a little bit different pressure wise when it comes to the night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I like Randy Rodriguez.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have the track record, you know, to be that ninth inning guy, to be that lights out closer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think he's got the make up, just watching him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He makes me feel more comfortable than Doval does, just because I feel like when Randy Rodriguez starts off and ending with a walk,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, I looking at him and watching his makeup.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like he nuts up and he gets down, you know, not down on himself, but hard on himself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he wants to turn it around and and I'm not saying to evolve didn't want to, but watching to evolve, you know, I was a little bit frustrating.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to watch them walk the first two batters and then be like is he in there like is he in there like is he I mean we got used to Brian Wilson and Sergio you know we used to call him emo romo right yeah yeah

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[SPEAKER_00]: And watching those guys, you thought, when they got pissed off with themselves, you knew it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you knew, okay, here they go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to bear down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to put two miles an hour more on his fastball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what I like about Rod Regas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really like his makeup, but I think he could be there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a fantastic way for him to really test the waters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got six, seven weeks to really kind of, you know, grab that role.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then going to next season say, hey, we got a closer because after last season with Ryan Walker, we thought, hey, we got a closer, but we always knew in the background of our minds that if

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dovol came around, now you've got a competition, but then do you trust either guy?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that was the problem with this season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that was even one of our questions, you know, our predictions at the beginning of the season is who is going to get more safe?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And look, if Randy is the guy,

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[SPEAKER_01]: then you just tell Ryan Walker hey dude just don't eat you don't worry about closing you're the eighth get eighth inning guy and then yeah he can you know because I think there was some pressure on him and probably affected him to be the outright full-time closer but then at the same time like he said the second that he was going to leave the door open we knew that they were going to go towards jove all right because he'd been there before so that's

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a little bit of a mind game in it of itself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the funny thing too is, I do, I think it depends on the person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hear a lot of, you know, the ninth inning is way different than pitching the eighth inning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's more pressure and everything else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But my personality, me, if I was pitching the eighth inning, I would feel the pressure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd feel a lot of pressure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: especially with a lead because I would want to get my guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's safe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would want to, you know, get it to the ninth where we still have the lead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to cough it up and have costed him a chance without him even touching the rubber.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so that's just my makeup and who I am personally, that would drive me nuts if I blew, if I blew a hold in the eighth inning and all of a sudden I'm like, man, I lost the same for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of it also though is

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[SPEAKER_01]: who gets the blame?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you could give, like let's say the giant's go up three two in the eighth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and then Walker gives up a run in the eighth, or let's say, and let's say Giants, the game gets tied, and then they take a lead, and then the closer finishes it out, or the closer blows it, the story is the closer, no matter what, like the eighth inning guy, he gets a little bit of a, you know, a couple sentences in the paragraph, but the closer's gonna get a couple paragraphs if he gives it up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I think that's the difference.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, let's say, actually, I'll, I'll just go with my on song and my on song is Casey Schmidt Casey Schmidt hit two fifty five and had four bombs and ten ribs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now the highest batting average for the month was Wilmer, but he had

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[SPEAKER_01]: obviously less A.B.s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Casey Schmidt had four jacks, which I would not have even thought based on what we saw.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I do remember, I didn't need to click a grand slam, like before the All Star Break and, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they may have been like two grand slams or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he got a little bit of a hot trick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it wasn't necessarily consistent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, I can live with Casey Schmidt hit in two, fifty five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just can't live with him hit in one, eighty strike and other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's yeah, Wednesdays on the field is, you know, that he actually puts a ball and play.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've already got those guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need any more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got plenty of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So do something different.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for this upcoming week, the giants have the Padre's Monday Tuesday Wednesday day game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the race come into town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The race and the giants are sort of similar in record wise and such.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The race come in Friday and Saturday night game and then Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that is the week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just a quick look at the standings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, the brewers are just hot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the brewers have seventy three wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the next highest team in all of baseball is the Blue Jays was sixty nine and then a bunch of teams.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Tigers, the Phillies and the Dodgers all have sixty eight wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Surprisingly, the Podras are just like only two games behind the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of surprising to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're, you know, they are mixing it up, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the giants, when we look at wild card standing, so for the, the three wild card teams in the National League, the Cubs have sixty seven wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The podgers have sixty six wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Metz who are in a free fall have sixty three wins with their hold it on to that third wild card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The reds are game and a half back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The cardinals are three and a half games back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The giants are four games back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then in the American League,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have the Mariners and the Red Sox and the Yankees are the top three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Guardians are a half game back of the Yankees.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The Rangers are two and a half games back of the Yankees for that third spot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Peace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This week in giant history now, we had we're doing this thing where the AI has got to give us some good information here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think this is right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't actually double check it, but I think I saw this on social media.

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[SPEAKER_01]: August seventh, two thousand and seven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what day this was?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Say that it say the day again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: August seven, two thousand and seven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mary bonds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, hit seven fifty six a three-run shot off of watch the nationals pitcher Mike Basick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he wasn't a very good pitcher.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was just pretty basic or it might be back sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Be a. Oh, it is back sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I remember him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, he's infamous now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Backsick bonds off of backsick to hit the seven fifty six at AT&T Park.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What up?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember where you were when you heard that news?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was probably watching the game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a one year old.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she was almost one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that, yeah, so I'm pretty sure I was probably home watching the game tired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think, but I do remember I do remember watching the game when that happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had been to a game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say, like we, I've, everything was trying to time, you know, when you're going to go to the park to see bonds hit it, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we had bought the tickets like a few weeks before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to say we were at the park.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that week or maybe a little bit before that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: thinking that he was going to do it, but we we promised it by several games, but I just remember the idea of like, OK, we've got time this thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can we get, can we get it the right game when he does it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then by the time you're there, like, OK, he's he's a few away or a couple away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, we went, we went, we went to games that season to see him because it, you know, I don't think it was a secret that he was once he broke that record, they were going to

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're going to be gone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Be like him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was at the ballpark for Barry bonds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Home run number one with the giants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the Florida Marlins game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was at that game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I always joke with people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I liked the grateful dead.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was the only time I've ever seen the grateful dead live because.

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[SPEAKER_00]: National Anthem.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Jerry Bob and I think Phil sang the National Anthem.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, yeah, that was the first time I've ever, and the only time I've ever seen a great full deadline.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they sang the National Anthem, the flyover, everybody was super excited.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, because giants were home, they were staying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Barry Bond said that three rounds shot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was like a second at bat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it was the first set bat as a giant.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was the second at bat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but yeah, the place just went nuts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was, it was a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was definitely watching that on TV.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was out in the, not in the new bleachers, because that's when they put out, remember, they put out the new bleachers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I was up higher in, uh, you know, still left field, but they used to close off down left field a little bit lower because you'd be looking at the stand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they did so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Giants fans crush your fingers that they can pull off some victories this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They need them desperately, you know, yeah, I lose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You lose all three of these games against the Padres and you look, the Padres are the second wild card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not the third wild card, but that is kind of proof of who you are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're trying to get into the wild card and they're right there in the mix, like this is kind of who you compare yourself against.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would be fine with them just competing and playing good baseball man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I want to see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and that's I think so that's what we talked about in the beginning in the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we would love to see a competing ball club.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's kind of, you know, we've lost that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't have that right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're they're doing okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, and you know, when when they win, it's exciting still don't don't get me wrong.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when all the runs though and those wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They went twelve to four and then they scored three runs over the next four games and I'm like, can we save them?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm looking, I'm looking.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I did, I'm trying to think I did go during the chase.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went to ball game and what year was this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, two thousand six.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that was the last game I went to before you and I went to a game last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, so you're almost gone like eighteen years from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was a live giant scheme.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a long time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so this was two thousand six.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, I don't have the day because in moving pictures, digital pictures and all that, it got wiped out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was two thousand six, though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was probably June.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I do have the date.

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[SPEAKER_00]: June twenty fourth, two thousand six, bonds hit number seven nineteen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was there for that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was there for part of the chase, which was kind of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was over seven hundred.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was just excited to see him hit like something in the seven hundred.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was happy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alrighty, that's it from here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We will be back next week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we want winners recorded an episode yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that went up this morning on the audio feed and the video feeds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be yesterday morning based on people listen to this, but the live streamer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was this morning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we'll have another episode of Valks Valley.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are in the mix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can actually give this news here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mentioned it on our last episode of Valks Valley that we are going to change the podcast name of the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to combine the warriors in the Valkries podcast to Golden State hoop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have segments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to have the death line up segment, which is about the warriors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And currently, the episode is called, the show is called Valks Valley.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are thinking of adjusting because the Valkaries, when they play at the Chase Center, they call the Chase Center, Ball Hala.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Brian has this idea of changing the podcast name of our Valkary stuff to POD Hala.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think we're going to change from Valk's Valley to Pot Hall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about it this week on Valk's Valley until we change it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got to get some graphics work done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're also going to get some graphics work done for Golden State hoop and all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So things are slightly just changing visually and maybe in name, but we're still going to have our separate segments and shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're just playing around with stuff because we can.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alrighty, that is it from here for Brad, I have WG, we will see you when we see you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Peace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Peace.