SF Giants Hitting Slump & Bryce Eldridge Call-Up Rumors | Thompson 2 Clark

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Brad, as it turned out, I didn't visit you in Reno this weekend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, terrible weather.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on with the weather?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's still bad up there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I keep looking at the, um, caltrans cameras just because, uh, not now and, and Reno, we, we didn't get hit hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have little tiny bit of snow this morning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And some flurries and a little bit of rain last night, but you look in the mountains and it's a complete nightmare.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you can get over the past right now it's not closed but in some areas there were chain requirements just looking at you know everybody's going about I'm looking to some canter an hour but he's gone like 30 miles an hour so yeah so you would out of that you'd probably be hitting the road here pretty soon to go back home and you'd be looking at like a six hour drive

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We had we had kind of looked at this through the week kind of to figure out if we were going to actually make the trip and the whole thing is I actually have to go out of town on Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we weren't going to do our normal show on Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But since I was able to stay here because we canceled heading out to visit Brad, we were like, hey, let's just go right after the

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[SPEAKER_01]: and we chose maybe the worst game to do, I mean the last night's game wasn't that great, they're honestly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At least they took the lead in the last night's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Last night's game was a rare one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was for me, it was rare because I tried to get out and do the lawns.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, well, I didn't plan on doing the lawns this weekend because of the rain and everything but I'm like, I have a break right now the lawn is dry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let me let me get a nice cut on it and then that

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, as you do when you turn on the sprinklers for the first time in an area like this because you turn you turn off your outdoor water and the winter Turn everything back on and I found a broken sprinkler.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so I have the standard hour doing that, but I finished right before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Vegas called a night's for playing, you know, to try to get into the playoffs, they ended up clenching and the Giants played.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I actually had two screens going and I sat on the couch for like the entire game and that rarely happens anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that happens like twice a year now during the baseball season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, okay, great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna sit here and watch this game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was ugly too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I spent my time watching the two games this week and that were garbage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I did catch Friday night's game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was barbecue and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it ended before dinner, which was good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I technically got to watch all three games, but yesterday it was one of the first times this season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to sit down and watch a game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not exciting right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's tough and you know, we recorded on Monday and then later that night the giants went on to lose the opener of that series to the fillies, but then the next two games they threw shutouts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So really this week, like if you understand giant spaceball, at least from the last few years, it was the best.

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[SPEAKER_00]: of times and the worst of times for giant space, well, because you saw what when this team plays good, what they do, which is blank the fillies, and you know, they didn't kill them, but they scored well, you know, well enough runs to win both games comfortably.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they actually beat Baltimore in game one in in Baltimore, and you're like, okay, we put together

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Saturday and Sunday, the bats just decide, there's like, you know what, we won three games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've clinched a 500 week thus, we don't, you know, at least the last two series, you know, we don't have to do anything anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the bats just absolutely went to sleep unless your name was Casey Schmidt today who went to the ninth inning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just, you know, it's just,

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[SPEAKER_00]: go back to what we consistently say on this show it's like there are 500 team until they're not but right now they're well below 500 you know they're already going to be like six games below the Dodgers and we're so early in the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they're what three games under 500 right now right aren't they like five and ten right now?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No no no no I think we have six

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[SPEAKER_01]: because dearly in this, yeah, we're 6 and 10.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's 6 and 10.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you take away that opening Yankees series and this team is what 6 and 7, 500.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But again, you can't take it away because it happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was such a thing, because it was that home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And at home, two games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When two games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exciting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You got 20 Vitalos, you're new manager and they lay an egg and all three games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Run different draw it now as minus 21 for games under 500 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's bleak.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This seems not fighting for anything right now, other than just to kind of write the ship.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think four games under 500, even early in the season, like this, you're really really going to have to turn

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just sniff a playoffs spot now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this game was, it was close early on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Houser was pitching fairly well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He gave up a two run jack there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Was it the first sitting?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it was the second inning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, back then.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he got out of here on a rocket, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the Giants bounce back, they scored a run and it was two to one and then with two outs, a Gunner Henderson gets a hit and there's another hit and then the polar bear doubles down the line and it's four to one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why I'm mentioning this is because collectively the Giants fan base went

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[SPEAKER_00]: three runs difference.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's too much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're losing this game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know Giants fans outside of the most optimistic Giants fans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody just went, well, this one's over because they didn't believe that the Giants could actually make up the three run deficit because of the way that they're hitting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I did, I did only because I always think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the giants are never out of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because baseball's such a weird sport and so many strange things happen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm always thinking of it back in my head.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you get two runners on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody accidentally pops one out and now all of a sudden it's one run game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But so I'm always thinking,

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's something, but I'm starting to lose for a couple of years of doing that again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you have that optimism.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, you know, the giants, at least the hardcore fan bases kind of a negative, you know, always thinking negatively, even when we were winning World Series championships, there was always that thought, I don't know, they're going to get us excited again and then break our hearts because that's what they did for so many years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, this version of this team, it is hard to believe that they can come back from any sort of difference because the bats are so sleepy right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So as I was betting on them not making a comeback, I just went and look at, I was like, I wonder what the collective OPS is of all of the teams in Major League Baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you add a few ever use stat muze,

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I guess that stat mu's has a paid tier.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so they show you like some data.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then like you click the thing to show you the rest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe you have to pay some money to do so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: OK.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So they showed like the first 20 teams in collective OPS.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There were no giants there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so to see where the giants were listed, I would have had to click and pay them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, OK, there's another website that does this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I go to ESPN.

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[SPEAKER_00]: of course, the Dodgers were won.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the Dodgers collectively to start this season are, their OPS is over 200 points higher than the Giants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you think about how you create runs, the Giants don't get on base enough and then they don't have the power numbers to make up for you the stuff and that's how you come back from baseball games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, the team is not hitting well enough to even think that you know that that they're going to create some crooked crooked numbers and in these innings and I was trying to like I was looking for this because I was like, okay, you know, they started because it's the left handed picture to start the game today, they started a lot of right handed hitters though, young who Lee and divers are both in the lineup.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, okay, and Karnasione, he's in here for one reason, and it is to possibly give this team a lift against left handed pitching.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The risk is he asked to play the outfield, because Casey Schmitt's de-aging, because all of your infielders playing without rise are all right handed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you can't fit him in there anywhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's de-aging and Karnasione's play

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[SPEAKER_00]: the risk is that the defense is going to be bad, but then you're like the reward, well, what if he hits a couple of balls off the fence, then you play that game, you go, okay, there's balance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: this dude is wailing at curveballs as if he's never seen them before and he's top of balls up and, you know, it's not only him by the way, like, Elio Ramos was like, was like, curveballs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me swing and throw my bat into the, into the stands.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so excited to swing at this pitch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the point, I'm, I'm completely being over the top, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is, is that when you play a lineup like that, because you're trying to jump start this offense, you are going to take a little bit of a risk defensively.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in Karnasino didn't make an error, he wouldn't have done anything where any normal baseball fan would have been like, oh, yep, I can spot the bad player in right field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a blooper that had you had a better if Jung who was in right field.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He possibly catches it, but he's not in carousel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's it drop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He almost threw the ball away at third.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's things like that where you can't really see it unless you pay very close attention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, if he would have hit a jack, then you would have been like, okay, we'll live with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he didn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm just kind of wondering like, you know, they bet on Oliva.

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[SPEAKER_00]: who they don't play, and then they bet on and Karnasio, and they let go of our guy, Luis Matos, who knows if Matos is gonna be a player, but that's just the risk in doing that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But now, if they determine that you know what, we're not happy with this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know Hank Schoeman predicted that Eldridge or he didn't really predict.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, I'm kind of wondering if they're going to bring up Eldridge now because they need to jump start this offense and bringing him up in Cincinnati would be a good place because it's a hit or small part.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just like, OK, well, if you bring up Eldridge, does someone mysteriously go on the DL?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Or do you just have to cut and Karnasio in any way, which you put him on the team so you don't have to cut moths?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So like, there's all of these reactions to decisions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just don't feel like they had a really a great handle on this roster.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was almost like, well, we're just going to play it by ear as it happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so we'll see how that happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel like Eldridge could possibly come up sooner than later?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like he could again, like you said, I mean, there's a log Jan, we have so many DHS on this team, so it's not, he can't DHS can have to play first base, but after watching Devers play first base today at that, how much worse can it be?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was kicking the ball, two shots that just bounced off of him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was playing gold tender in the NHL, first base and made a little baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just keeping everything in front of him and blocking everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which is great, again, you know, keep the ball from long enough, but one of them luckily calmed over to cost, and he was able to make the plate a house or covering a first, but then the other one kicked off of them and cost couldn't get to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So having Eldridge over first base, it could help your defense a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I would think if it's, if, if a rise is wrist is, is, is, is,

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[SPEAKER_01]: bad enough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He could go on the 10 day IL retroactive to today and then you've got nine days or so of Eldridge technically less maybe because they're next game is Tuesday not tomorrow they have an off-day on Monday so you could technically get six seven games out of Eldridge to see what

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, in Karnasion, off the team, again, another right-handed bat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now all of a sudden, you've got a left-handed bat taking his place.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You lose in Alfielder, but what kind of an Alfielder is in Karnasion right now?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that the giants have three or four true Alfielders and the miners who could probably come up right now in Phil Spots with like, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: you've got Drew Gilbert is one of them, um, you've got a guy, names escaping at the moment, but, but guys, you know, Brandon, Brandon, Grant McCray, I mean, so you do, you have, there's three guys right there, um, who could come up and, and help you out in the outfield.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There would have to be some shuffling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We saw that Henk is a reliever for the giants who they signed in the off season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He actually threw a scoreless inning today in San Jose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he could be coming back soon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's another reliever from the giants that could be gone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you get rid of another reliever down to AAA and go with less relievers at the moment?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of shuffling around that would have to be done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If I tell you, and Buster would have to be comfortable with having a reworked roster at this point, which I think they would be if you got the number one prospect for your club up and into the majors and getting some atbats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because again, yeah, he's going to get better and triple A, but you're never going to get

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[SPEAKER_01]: the true Brice Aldridge until he's up here, taking his lumps, taking his hacks, hitting, you know, 114 mile an hour plus shots off the bat, whether they go for home runs or not, just the fact that he's seeing Major League pitching, that's only gonna help his growth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm all for, I'd love to see it, and I'd love to see the roster shake up that would happen because of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we're trying to play Buster Posey here, but he was on the Tim Kawakami show and it very much felt like there were no immediate plans to bring up Bryce.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if they do it either Buster's playing poker or this has been a little bit of a change in philosophy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what would

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[SPEAKER_00]: and to stay up because I don't know if I he's so young I don't know if I would mess around with the yo-yoing aspect of this if he comes up he should just stay here and he's got to play at least 75% of the games maybe you do rest him against some of the filthiest lefties but

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he is your prize prospect, he is the guy that you're going to, that you're hoping is going to be the guy to just plug in into that lineup for the next 10 years, unless they look at him as trade bait.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He, like, in order for him to be in this lineup, can you have him and Devers and arise all in the same lineup at the same time, thinking about offense and defense, because then that means Devers has to play first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if Devers is a play first, Bryce will play first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're both

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[SPEAKER_00]: average at best and less than average consistently there, at least right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we all know about a rise at second, you know, he's not going to, you're going to have holes in the right side of that defense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If that's if that's who you're plugging in, you're just saying this is what we're doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, that we're going back to that risk reward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If Devers and Eldrida's an

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you're like, okay, we may have to give up a little bit of defense, but they're hitting so we can and and it balances it out, but if they're not hitting, then you have bad offense and bad defense, so I guess they they played out that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But like you said, man, this line of business has so many DHS casey Schmidt, if he's locked out of shortstop and third base, then it becomes a utility guy, but if he's got the hottest bat right now, he fills in as D.H., you got to find time to get him on the field, O'Liva finally had an A.B.

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[SPEAKER_00]: today, it a really good A.B.

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[SPEAKER_00]: to end the game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He looked like he was on on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to see him play a little bit more, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: young who lead in Patrick Bailey, they may be the single two worst hitters in Major League baseball right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so to give them a few, a few more nights off and you get Su second and maybe you get a leave it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wouldn't be completely against that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's also this bigger piece of the Tony Vatelo puzzle of how he wants to manage this baseball team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's lean towards giving his guys a chance to play every day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's just frustrating to see the same thing happen

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if Eldridge does come up yet in Cardinals, you know, it's probably gone and then your DH slash first base platoon is going to be Eldridge endeavors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just going to go back and forth to fill those spots.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I always like to defend a rise whenever I can right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's fifth in the majors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and how it's above average, plus three.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think he's taken the challenge of getting better defensively to heart, Ron Washington has helped him so far at this point of this season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Last time he played second base, he was minus 11 out above average in 2023.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His in, his in movement, he was minus 10 in out above average.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so far this season, he's plus one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know, we're not even like 20 games into this season, but still, that's something, that's better.

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[SPEAKER_01]: With the wrist injury, that's his throwing wrist, how is that going to affect him?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we'll see luckily it's a short throw from second to first, so we don't have to worry too much about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be turning the double plays when he comes back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I am interested to see

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[SPEAKER_01]: If and when elders just come up because you know, being four games under 500, you're you're going to get calls.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're you're going to get calls to say, okay, it's time to bring the guys up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's time to bring up Eldridge and see what he can do because.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This offense is so disgustingly inconsistent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: During the three-game win streak, you look at their OPS, you look at their batting average, you look at their run score, you look at everything, during that three-game stretch, they were second or third in the league in all of those categories.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then just to see them drop off again, you don't know what kind of team you have, and it's just extremely inconsistent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The one thing they are consistent at, though, is not taking walks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The word not the league.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like a six percent, they didn't get one today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they might have had one today, but they, and a lot of the philosophy lately has been swinging at the first pitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to ambush.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it works sometimes against some pitchers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But other times, as you saw today, you're just, you're keeping opposing pitchers pitch counts down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah and and that's not good because then then you're going to get a guy like you know like povitch today they got the guy gets into the sixth inning and uh and he's got a low-pitch count and they're not really working him but last night Willia Domas did you know work the starter quite a bit and a ten-pitch first at bat which was nice to see um and then later on I think had an

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[SPEAKER_01]: against him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not offended by William Domas in the leadoff spot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yet I might be down the line, especially if he starts going on a tear and hitting a lot of home runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the 789 guys aren't getting on before him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be a bit of a problem.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know if I like Adama's batting lead off a whole lot longer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think things need to kind of mix up a little bit, but yeah, I would love to see Eldridge come up and see if you can like, you know, punch this, punch this offense up a touch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Zero walks today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Zero.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I saw one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, yeah, unicorn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I saw unicorn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did not see you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't want to take away

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[SPEAKER_00]: beating the Philly's two out of three because that was important.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That felt like giant space ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you're not going to throw shutouts every game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not not not not with this starting rotation and not with a normal thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: full-pensive to be a manager's best friend and busters like, hey Tony, I know you're new.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll teach you what it's like to have a bad one to start this and hopefully we'll build it from there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But show you how valuable a best friend can be later on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I was looking at Camilo's numbers because I was, I'm in a fantasy base while coming to somebody cut Camilo's like, oh, try not to look at those guys' numbers, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'll pick up Camilo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: not picking up Camilo he's not he's not doing too well so far this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so yeah, you know tie tie rods maybe tie tie rod haven't seen tie rod just numbers, but he's just he's uh yeah, I just looked him up six and two thirds five strikeouts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a W he's got a 0.5 war already.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he would have been, he would have been Vatellos go to for this this beginning of the season for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, but, you know, three and three, sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If we if we count the the week starting Monday, they go three and three, two out of three from Philadelphia, and then they lose two out of three in Baltimore, they head to Cincinnati, and then they go to Washington, Cincinnati's nine and seven, but, you know, they're

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[SPEAKER_00]: similarly around where the giants are, the giants are probably a little bit more talented than the nationals, but they're all right now, they're all kind of in the same same universe as far as where they should be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So these could be competitive series for the giants, they should be competitive series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm hopeful that they can play some decent baseball, but you know, who's lurking around the corner, or guys who are not our best friends,

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Dodgers, I think the Dodgers come to town, when do they come to town?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it the following week that the Dodgers come to town?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and a April, so a couple weeks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, April.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So after the nationals, then the giants have a day off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So but basically by the time we come back when we record again, which will be April 20th, we will set up giants Dodgers for three and then the marlins for three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that'll be interesting to see where they are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So no, this will be our last little blip show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm appreciative for Brad for finding some time on on a Sunday, a little, a little bit of a quicker show, but we wanted to get some up before this week was over because of the fact that I'm out of town, but I will be

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[SPEAKER_00]: seeing our our rival Padre's up close and personal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Crystal and I are going to go to a game Tuesday night to get the Mariners.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Padre's have started at season fairly well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and so two Mariners are always a fun team to watch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When when I come back and we do our regular show, if there's something interesting, we'll talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, you know, it's hard to be positive about the spaceball team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if there is something to this Bryce Eldridge thing, that is something to be fired up about to be excited about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just would love to see what the blueprint to the roster looks like if you have it because I think I think he needs to be

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[SPEAKER_00]: And every day got I don't think you can kind of sit him and let like you want him to just play like that's what they've been saying Yeah, he's in AAA just because he's gonna play every day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna succeed or fail But he's just gonna get those A-B's up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if the idea is that he's gonna come up to the big club I think you're gonna do it the same way and just hope that he doesn't tail spin out right because that would be the worst of all things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just he's no

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[SPEAKER_01]: he's he's definitely gonna have to face left-anders.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean that that's the bottom line because like you said to it's it's there's so bad against left-anders and he's He's also a left-ander.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't have the greatest history against left-anders, but but again to see pitches see pitches see pitches because you know if he ends up being the top prospect

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[SPEAKER_01]: and ends up being the guy that everybody thinks he's going to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to play you know 120 games a year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have him in there against lefties.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll rest every now and then against some lefty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe face, you know, two out of three lefties like belt would never curse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I came into town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have your guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have that one guy that's got you that one left handers that that's just got you that you're not seeing his stuff because, you know, it's starting out behind your back and finishing over the plate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: lefties because also the other thing too is if he starts against a righty and then the fourth or fifth ending you got a lefty coming in he's not coming out of the game especially if you have a chance for him to face a closer righty later on in the game so he's gonna have to see lefties and I think it's time now I I could see them waiting another week or two maybe the beginning of May but

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm ready now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I as soon as I saw that and you and you sent that to us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, well, that's exciting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of like that and I'd be on board with that or just start hitting now team and then, you know, let Eldridge keep, you know, keep percolating and triple A so that he gets he does get more seasoning and he doesn't have to be the savior of the offense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the team could literally just start having better A.

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[SPEAKER_00]: B.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, a Thomas,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Thomas did hit a couple of balls on the nose that just, you know, hit it into deeper parts of the part.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The, the thing is just, that's just so frustrating is when you see guys just roll over balls.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The short stop and it's second over over and over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, and that's the joke with Patrick Bailey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know he's going to hit this ball to the second baseman is he going to hit it softly or is he going to hit it hard like we're going to get a four to three how hard is he going to hit it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, and looking at all judges numbers in AAA right now, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's hitting 360.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got one home run, five doubles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When do they come into town for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you got to check them out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a few weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like to try to go with problems, dynamic pricing, prices going up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you're paying like 40, 50 bucks for a seat to a man that sucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not that great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun stadium and I love golfing, but it's hard whenever Sacramento comes into town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, he's got an OPS of over a thousand, 19 strikeouts and 50 at bats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to get the strikeouts with this, it's going to be the way it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he's walked 10 times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's probably more than the Giants of Walked Else season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if we can get if you can get him up here and get that bat in the line up and you can start to kind of replicate that it's got some confidence right now and you want to bring a guy up when he's got the confidence You know, and not not not wait and say okay, we're going to bring him up in two weeks and then he has three or four games where he's you know over 16 and then you bring him up, but no get it get him while he's hot get him while he's got an attitude and he's got some swagger and then see what he can do

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you are interested in joining the discord, the link is in both the YouTube video, as well as our podcast post in our feed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I would love to have more giants conversation going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our Valkyries channel in the discord is going insane right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would love for your agency right now, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: free agency draft is Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So things going to keep popping.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see more giants more nine or some more warrior stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you are interested, the just come join the discord and say hi, and we'll we'll get you in there and get you a chit chat and okay, thanks to Brad for being available after the game today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we could at least get something in and we'll be back

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[SPEAKER_00]: In a week and a day for the our normal show and hopefully with some good news with some good information, if something happens and like a briseldridge gets pulled up and if we can find some time later in the week to do a quick thing we will, but if not you'll see us back the following Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, for Brad, I am WG, we will see you when we see you peace out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Peace.