Episode 154: Can't Cut the Sox

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Somebody's going to go bridge here. It's a matter time. Hello, everybody.

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Welcome back to the Gombardge podcast, episode 154. My name is Andrew Gardner, joined alongside by Alex Cawson PERSON. Closson, how are we doing today? Doing great.

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Good to be back on the mic, ready to talk some socks in episode 154. We've got about, what do we got, seven series, one in the making that we're about to talk about. So we got a lot to cover. Got a lot of ground. But this is why we came back. We're back.

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Three week, it was about three week hiatus, busy times in the Gonebridge PERSON world. But we are back. Episode 154, Sox are still swimming above 500 somehow today is going to be a little bit of a catch-up episode we're going to talk a lot about really uh the last couple games in general which is what we'll hone in on but overall i feel like this episode is more going to be about talking about the team in general there There have been a whole lot of injuries up and down the lineup.I mean, name a guy. He's probably missed time this year. Pitchers performances, more so kind of that deal rather than a game by game recap, which if you listen to most of our episodes, I feel like you can kind of expect there. But, uh, Klauson PERSON, you, actually, we,well, we had to record a second intro because, uh, stuff was lagging out. And I, I can't remember if it was in the first one or second one.You mentioned, uh, seventh series, uh, since we last recorded, being wrapped up right now against the Atlanta Braves ORG.And our former pal, World Series EVENT champion closed up, 2018, uh, championship team for the Red Sox ORG. Chris Sale on the mound for the Braves today.And he's carving up the socks right now. Marcelo Zuna's got Nick Povetta's number in his first game back. Since the second week of the season, he was out for a little bit. And looking like it's going to be a two-game sweep. I don't even, can you call a two-game set a sweep?Kind of like a fake sweep.

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I mean, it's technically a sweep, but it's kind of a fake. Yeah, you're right. It's kind of a fake sweep.

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It's such a fake sweep.

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You got to win three to sweep. I agree.

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What can you call a two? Like a dusting? I like that.

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All right.

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We're getting done.

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We're getting dusted by the Braves ORG. Oh, yeah. All right. I think that's a Red So we're getting dusted by the Braves ORG. Oh, yeah. All right. I think that's a good new term because I think four games is a gentleman sweep, three games is a sweep, two games is a dusting. I like it. All right.

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There's no one game series.

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I guess a wild card.

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What would you, yeah, what would you have, what would you have called?

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You just win.

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You just win. I'm just like, you're done. Yeah.

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A couple years ago.

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No, series.

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What?

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It's not a series. True. That's true. It's just a win. All right just like, you're done. Yeah. A couple years ago. No, series. What? It's not a series.

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True.

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That's true. It's just a win. All right. Dusting sweep, gentleman sweep. New terminology.

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Quad A dusting. Gone bridge is coming up with the good stuff.

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There you go. There you go. Speaking of Quad A, I want to quickly mention Bobby Dolbeck PERSON. He's back down in AAA and he's, I saw I hit another home run last night. And I got to think that this is a, it's a mental thing for Bobby because he looks like such a different player in AAA ORG. So relaxed.He gets up to the Biggs PRODUCT. And I don't have his numbers in front of me. But he was, he was up for a good, what would you say? Like three weeks to a month? Yep. I'd say like three weeks.And I believe he had a little stretch there before he got sent back down. But I don't know. Just leave Bob PERSON alone. If you've been listening for a while, kind of get the mantra, leave Bob PERSON alone. But I think it's got to be a mental thing.

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He had a, what, six, seven game hit streak going?

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I think it was like it on, I think he had a six game on base streak or something like that.

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That's pretty good after starting what, like, oh and 38? Yeah.

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He was on a,

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a Chris PRODUCT Davis. What was that? I was afraid he was going to touch Chris Davis PERSON.

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He was getting close. Not close enough. Like we were still talking probably 20, 25 at bats, but not good uh the red sox did bring in reinforcements on uh the first base side of the ball obviously sinceour last episode uh tristan costis again this is kind of old news out he's on the 60 day d l he's got

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a broken rib or two broken ribs are not fun yeah i thought it was a cartilage tear was it i thought it was a broken rib i thought it was a cartilage tear. Was it? I thought it was a broken

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rib. I think it's a cartilage tear because everyone was freaking out, myself included, that

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Jacobi Ellsbury had a cartilage tear in his ribs like 12 years ago and he was never the same.

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Was that when he was trying to steal the baseball? What was that? 2012? Yeah. You got landed on. I think

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they were playing, look this up if you're listening. I feel like I got almost, I know they were playing, look this up, if you're listening,

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I feel like I got,

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I got almost,

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I know they were playing Tampa Bay GPE.

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I believe it was like April,

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in the range of April 8th to April 12th, 2012. Let's see. I know they were playing Tampa Bay GPE, though. I can't remember who landed on him. Maybe a Ben Zobrist PERSON.Wait, what did you say it was? My final guess is April 12th, 2012. You're a day off.

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No way.

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Oh, wait, you're a day and two years off. It was 2010? Am I thinking?

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This is what I'm finding.

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Jacoby Ellsbury PERSON has a new rib fracture.

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Okay.

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It's a broken rib in the back. It's broken in the same place that I broke it before. From that description, the rib that Ellsbury PERSON fractured was the same one that he contended when he went undetected. What? He went undetected after his April 11th collision with third baseman, Adrian Belchre PERSON.Damn. Okay. So what was Adrian PERSON Belcher was Seattle. Okay, so what was Adrian. Adrian Belcher was Seattle ORG, then. Can you look up his 2012 injury?

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Yeah, wait, no, no, because Belcher PERSON was on the team.

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Belcher was 2011.

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No, no, no, hold on.

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I'm getting this also.

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No, Belcher was on the team in 2010. He was on Texas ORG.

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In 2011, he was.

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2010, Belcher was with Boston GPE.

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Can you look up Jaci Ellsbury's

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2012 injury? I'm still sticking to that date.

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Something happened there

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because that was against Tampa GPE. He was trying to steal a base. All right.

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Jalbisbury PERSON injury history.

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Let's see.

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Is this going to allow me to see it?

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That's a long one.

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Yeah.

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Fan graphs. See if a long one. Yeah. Fan graphs.

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See if this is actually a thing.

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I just want a list, but no one in their right mind would ever take time out of their day to audit Jacobi Ellsbury's PERSON injuries.

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Because 2011, Jacobi Ellsbury PERSON.

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All right, here we go. While sliding into second base to break up a double play Tampa Bay GPE shortstop, Reed Brignac PERSON. What a name.Remember Reed Brignac PERSON?

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I forgot about him. That is a throwback. Fell on his shoulder causing a partial dislocation. It was April 13th, 2012.I was off by one day. Again, you were off by a day.

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One day. There you go. Split the middle. Yeah. Well, because Ellsbury, I don't by one day. Again, you were off by a day. One day. There you go. Split the middle. Yeah. Well, because Ellsbury PERSON, I don't know how we got on a whole tangent here about Ellsbury. Ellsbury sandwiched those two years with his 2011.What do you finish second in MVP WORK_OF_ART voting?

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Didn't he win?

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No, he finished either second or third.

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I'm trying to, I think Miggy won that year or maybe not.

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I don't know. These years get blurry. The more baseball years, the more things get a little blurry in the past.

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You know, it's funny. I was having a conversation with my coworkers a couple days ago. Last week. And we were talking about Josh Hamilton PERSON. And I was, one of them was arguing that his home run derby was in like 2012 well he was on

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Texas ORG and I was like absolutely not oh nine it was oh oh eight oh eight oh eight oh eight it was

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oh eight and I was like it was at old Yankee stadium and he hit you know 30 home runs in the

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first round like he was playing for Texas ORG dude yeah, yeah, he had quite dear.

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Oh, it was Justin Verlander who won the MVP in 2011.

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The hell?

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Yeah.

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Verlander, Ellsbury, Batista, Curtis Granderson, and Miguel Cabrera PERSON.

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The Gandhi Man came in fourth.

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I'm telling you, I mentioned this a couple or I guess months ago.

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Now, Curtis Granderson PERSON had a sneaky good career.

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I think he could have the possibility getting a few Hall of Fame boats this year.

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I think he cracks like he's at like 5.1%.

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I think there's a chance he stays on the belt.

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That's just my, it's my hot take for the day.

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It's my hot take for the day. I did look up confirmed it is a cartilage issue for Kossis PERSON. Isn't the ribs, though? Yep. Yeah, I'll take partial credit on the... No ribs were fractured.

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On that one.

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But Casas PERSON is going to be out for a while.

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You hope this is obviously not an injury,

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which is going to derail him for the rest of the year. But I was going to say the Red Sox bringing in reinforcements on the first base side of the ball, acquiring Garrett Cooper in a trade, a separate trade. Dom Smith PERSON, the Smith PERSON was released and they picked him up. Cooper came over from the Cubs ORG. Smith was from Tampa GPE, correct?Believe so.

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I believe it was Tampa GPE.

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Either Tampa or Washington ORG.

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The last I remember seeing Dom Smith on a baseball field, he was on the Mets ORG.

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Yeah, I was going to say, Dom Smith, his glory days were with the Mets ORG. When was he on the Mets ORG? It can't be that long ago. So it was a Tampa Bay race who he was released by, but he was with the Nationals last year. Sounds right.

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Neither guy.

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It sucks.

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Five games. What?

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Five games for the socks so far.

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Yeah.

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Which would have been zero except Cooper got hurt on his first game.

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Yeah.

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I was going to say that first game against San Fran ORG. That was last Tuesday, he got hurt. He got nailed with a pitch. It was kind of right in between his wrist and his forearm. And yeah, not great. Bobby lived to see another day.And I was actually at that game. And when Bobby came in, there was this huge section of guys, I would say like two to three years younger than us. They were in a loge box like behind the first base dugout kind of near first base. And they got the whole section in on a Bobby Dalbeck chant. And he was, he was eating it up. He was throwing balls at them uh after every halfinning and and you can you can feel the love for Bob still in Boston GPE I mean it's it's palpable

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it's still there people love Bob they want Bob to work out but he's just a Worcester GPE kid at heart

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you know who else was a Worcester kid at heart brusneh Rusne Castillo PERSON uh folks I would I'm gonna

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I'm gonna say this on the show to hold myself accountable here, but

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this week we're going to get some Castillo and Dalbeck PERSON partners at law shirts out there.

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We got to get them out. I'm dying to wear them.

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I think they're going to look pretty sweet. We will post something on our Instagram and Twitter ORG if you would be interested in buying those. But try to remember what episode we talked about, the old partnership at the law firm in Worcester, Massachusetts. But Dalbeck and Castillo PERSON are your friends.Damage attorneys.

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Damn right.

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Anyways. Yeah, you mentioned Dom Smith PERSON. He's played in five games so far for the Red Sox ORG. Hasn't done much. He's got four hits and 20 at bats. It's a 200 batting average.If you're keeping track, one of those double. And then, yeah, as Clauston mentioned, Gary Cooper, he got hurt in that first game with the Red Sox ORG. And he's also played in five games. He's done nothing. One hit in 16 at bats. He's got two walks, five strikeouts, and I got to say.I was honestly a little surprised they went with both guys. I know Bobby's been struggling, but I'd rather have, I guess, I know, I guess Smith PERSON hits left-handed, but I don't know. I would have stuck with Bobby PERSON. I want Bob PERSON, too.

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He's got to almost be out of options at this point.

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This is, I believe, his last, this would be his last year, I think. In fact, I'm honestly surprised that he still has them for this year. That's what I'm saying.

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He's been doing this dance between Boston and Worcester GPE for what,

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two years now? Yeah. So I don't, I don't know if 20, because I'm trying to remember in 2020, I don't think they ever sent him back down after they called him up. And that, the rules might have been also kind of different that year with like the COVID year. Because remember, it was like a taxi squad and they could keep a certain. Yeah.

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Like number of guys.

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But he's been sent down in 22, 23 and now 24 and they only get three options. So I would think, well, I mean, I know for a fact, this is his last year of options. So we're either going to see a happy ending where Bobby Dolbex PERSON sits around for the time being. But I think I think the other is is a little more, more possible.

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You think he, uh, you think he has his main stay in Worcester or Boston GPE? I think Boston GPE.

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In fact, I, yeah. And I know, I know he has a place in Boston GPE. I actually do know that for a fact.

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How do you know he has a place in Boston GPE?

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I got, I got connections.

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Been to Bobby D's PERSON place?

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No, I've not been, I've not been, but I do know he has, I know he has an apartment in the, in the city.I would think he's got probably a place in Worcester GPE, too. You'd think?

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I mean, he spends enough time down there.

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You think the Red Sox ORG, like, will finance that for, for a guy like that? They're like, you know, no. I mean, they're paying.No.

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I mean, they won't spend any other money. So why would they spend it on a apartment in Worcester for Bobby Dalbeck?

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That's honestly a good question. And I would love, we've been working hard. Well, not really recently. But towards the beginning of the season, we're trying to get a few guests on. But that's actually a great question is from like a financial standpoint, if you're a player who bounces up between the MLB and AAA ORG,where do you buy a house or apartment and do you have two? I guess to think, I mean,

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worst case for Boston, he's got to commute to Worcester every day,

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like the regular working man.

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But you think Bobby PERSON's sitting on the highway?

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I don't think so either, but he's taking a commuter rail.

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Yeah.

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Him and Davis Clark locked in in the morning.

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Yeah, right? Can you imagine your, I guess it would be the the reverse commute but can you imagine like getting on the train on you know Monday morning you're going from Boston South Station all the way to Worcester GPE you just get on the train and

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there's Bobby Dalbeck sitting on the train I I could see it you think he's got like like when you played baseball when you're like 12 years old the little backpack with like the bat holes yeah and he can you know slide. You think he's got like, like when you played baseball when you're like 12 years old, the little backpack with like the bat holes and he can, you know, slide those in.

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I think he's bringing his bats back every night from Boston to Worcester GPE. No doubt. No doubt.

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I would think so. You know, he's got like the little pouch in the front with the helmet.

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It would kind of pop out a little bit. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. He's got his cleats stuffed in there. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think he comes home.

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Mom washes his pants, jersey.

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Good to go for the morning. Got to use the oxy clean to get all the dirt out.

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Yep. Yep. Oh, yeah.

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I think it's quite possible. What was I going to say about Bob PERSON? Oh, my, I don't think, I don't really know what they do about moving back and forth because think about it like with Toronto, their triple A is Buffalo ORG. Yeah.

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Yeah, you think Kawasaki ORG might have been busy crossing the border back in like probably.

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But I'm thinking like Boston of Worcester is probably the easiest of the commutes when you think about AAA ORG to the majors.

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Yeah, that's actually a good question. Which AAA team and MLB ORG team are the closest to each other? It's got to be the socks, right?

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I mean, we're talking like 40 miles apart.

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I would think they're up there.

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I would think they're up there.

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Trying to think of like, where's the Yankees AAA ORG?

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I was going to say, are they Trenton GPE?

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They're Trenton GPE.

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So I guess you could hop, well, that's kind of like central Jersey GPE.

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Yeah.

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If you're in northern Jersey GPE, you can just hop the border.

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What about Norfolk to Baltimore?

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I feel like that's pretty close.

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That is pretty close.

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But we're talking same state here.

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True.

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But I mean, Worcester to Boston GPE, I mean, you're still talking like an hour 15 drive. This has got to be a Googlable answer, and I'm sure there's someone listening to this right now knows the answer. I'm trying to think.I know.

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See how far. So let's say he has a place right outside of Polar Park FAC. The Mets ORG.

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The Mets' AAA team used to be in Vegas GPE. That might be the furthest.

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Yeah, that's got a, that's a tough one.

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Oh, and the Dodgers are in Tulsa, Oklahoma GPE. Another word one. Actually, both their triple and double A teams are in Oklahoma GPE. They have the OKC drillers, no, Tulsa drillers and OKC Dodgers ORG.

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We're looking at a 51-minute drive actively. Okay.

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44 and a half miles.

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Okay, see if we should look it the other way.

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Yeah, even quicker going into Boston right now, 48 minutes.

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All right.

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That's not bad. That's not bad.

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That's not bad at all.

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Which teams have the closest minor league affiliates? When Reddit's your first list to pop up, this is going to be a difficult question to find the answer to.

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All right. Reading GPE, Pennsylvania GPE. I was going to say,

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my top candidates right now are, actually St. Paul, Minnesota GPE has the St. Paul Saints, the Minnesota TwinsMinor League team. That's got to be close. Lawrenceville GPE, Georgia for the Braves ORG. I got to think is close. Columbus, Ohio to Cleveland GPE.That's probably about like two hours.

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That's far. All right. So Redding to sit it to the bank is 67 miles.

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Okay. Could you do, could you do, um, what was I going to say here? St. Paul, Minnesota to Minneapolis GPE, because I'm pretty sure it's the Twin Cities GPE for a reason, right?They're very, very close together. It's target field still, right? Yep. Oh.

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What do we got?

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13 miles. 13 miles.

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I got to think that's your winner.

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You can't get much closer than that.

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I got to think the Minnesota Twins ORG are your winner.

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I mean, I'm going up and down the list here.

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I can't.

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What about my last one?

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I'm just curious, Norfolk to Baltimore.

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What,

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what feel am I doing?

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You are doing Nationals Park FAC?

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Yeah,

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oh, no, sorry, Camden GPE. Oh, duh. 232 miles.

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No, not even close.

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Yeah,

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not close at all. All right. All right.

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Well, there you go. Congrats to the Minnesota Twins ORG on winning. You're the closest, closest affiliate.

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Coss got to be like top three.

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I got to think they're definitely up there.

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Definitely up there.

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Yeah. Swinging it back to the socks, though. A couple more injuries to run over. Isaiah Campbell, he had a couple stinker of performances early on in that Red Sox first homestand. They threw him on the 10-day IL with a, was it shoulder impingement? Yeah, his shoulder was, was bothering him.

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Something was going on.

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He is still not returned, which is, which is too bad. I had, again, I'm not ruling it out. It was like two really bad performances. He was involved in that, uh, that 5-0 blown lead in the second Red Sox home game of the year.

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But he's been out for, we're nearing, if not over a month now.

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And then, yeah,

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Raphael Devers, Tyler O'Neill PERSON,

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have both missed time with nagging injuries. Devers PERSON, it was his hamstring. And then O'Neill had that collision. He's back. He's good.Tyler He was pulled up. He was the last guy in the 40-man roster who was a hitter, who was not up on the active roster. He has since gone on the injured list since our last episode. Brian Beyo, he's going to start on Sunday, but he's been out with a lat injury. He's been out for about two weeks.Rob Refsnider PERSON returned from the injured list. He is day-to-day with a hamstring injury. He's been tearing it up since he's been back. Romy Gonzalez PERSON got called up. Made his Red Sox debut, played, I think, in two games, then went on the I.L. Garrett Whitlock has been out for about a month.He's throwing live BP on Friday. He's been out with an oblique injury. Nick Povetta returned tonight after he was out a month. And last but not least, Masitaka Yoshita PERSON, who we'll talk about for a little bit, although the situation isn't as pertinent as it was, was almost benched for a little bit, I mean, basically was benched for a little bit, held out of the lineup,and then comes back, plays two games, goes out with a hand injury. I saw an article Katio wrote today about they have no idea what's going on with his left thumb and could be out for a while. So there's your laundry list. Again, some of these are more recent than others. Just want to catch everyone up on the happenings, who's in, who's out.But this has been probably the most banged up April like you know first six weeks of the season that I can remember

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I mean we're looking at every starter except for Kossus right well no

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Kossus PERSON is not Kassas Duran

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sorry

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I believe so

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because O'Neil PERSON's been hurt

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Rough side has been hurt

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both the catchers have been have been hurt. Ref slide has been hurt. Both the catchers have been good.

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Yeah, Wong PERSON hasn't gotten hurt, thankfully.

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But Dahlbeck PERSON?

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Yeah. Not Dahlbeck PERSON. Jesus. You've had every end fielder. Every infielder. Grissom PERSON.

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Grissom PERSON's back too. Forgot to mention Von Grissom PERSON.

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Story, Devers PERSON. Yoshita PERSON. Well, Yoshita PERSON was DH and then O'Neill and Duran PERSON's been healthyand then Sadan he's he's been healthy too so two starters

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four guys

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yeah I guess you're two starters

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your catchers say Don PERSON and Duran are the only guys who have not gone down and then with your starting rotation, you've lost obviously

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Gioito PERSON in the spring training. And then you've lost Pavetta PERSON, who's back now, you've lost Whitlock PERSON, you've lost Beow PERSON.Am I forgetting anyone?

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I mean,

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damn. Does Gialito PERSON have a player option? Yeah.

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Yeah,

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he's most certainly going to be opting into that. I was Yeah, yeah, he's I didn't know if it was player I was certainly going to be opting into that. I was going to say, there's a chance if it was a mutual option that he never steps footBoston Red Sock ORG.

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No, I believe it is a player option for 2025, I think around $12 million. So I assume we'll see Giolyto next year. I will say, though, moving on from the injuries just for a second, the two starters who have been healthy, Cutter Crawford and Tanner Halk, have been two of the best starters in the MLB ORG,and it's been such a bright spot to see the two of them really taking those strides to the next level, which I don't know if those could have been made with Dave Bushcloss PERSON. I mean, you sent me something earlier, and me and Steve something earlier about Kenley PERSON,

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getting fixed up after his rough start. I mean, we talked about it early on, like the first week or two, but this Andrew Bailey PERSON, you know, whatever he's given the pitchers advice, it's working well.

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I mean, we've seen guys even like Cooper Chris PERSON well who have had to slide in to the rotation. He's pitched really well too. He just gets it.

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And Dave Bush PERSON just didn't. I think it was a matter. Well, it's a matter of Dave Bush wanted every pitcher to just throw fastballs 60% of the time. And when you're not good at throwing fastballs, you're going to get tossed around.

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I just, I don't think that he was a good, uh, I'll stand on this hill that Dave

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Bush had no idea what he was doing.

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I mean, I, I don't, I don't think it's a bad hill to stand on.

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I mean, you go, you go up and down the roster right now.

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And I mean, basically everybody's pitching well, uh, who's, who's been a regular on this team. And yeah, I mean, basically everybody's pitching well, who's been a regular on this team. And yeah, I mean, again, you've had spot starts from, you know, Winkowski's made three starts, Bernardino's made two, Chase Anderson has made one as well. You've had guys fill in here and there, but there hasn't been a performance so horrific. Like, the giving socks this year, knock on wood, like a pretty short list so far.

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I think it's just one. I think it's just Jolie PERSON. Yeah.

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Let me see.

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Jolie was DFA'd last week.

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Thank God PERSON.

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See you later.

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Thank God PERSON. Florida Panthers just scored with 0.3 seconds left in the second period. They're up 3 to 1. Yeah, that's not good.

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Going into the third looking like it's going to be 1-1 coming back to Boston GPE. Yeah, Jolie PERSON got DFA'd. Pablo Reyes got DFAed. They both, no one wanted them. So they're down in Worcester GPE.

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I don't blame anyone for not taking Jolie PERSON.

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Can I ask you a question? Yeah.

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I don't, you're on Twitter a fair bit.

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All the time. Okay, fair, same. Did, I felt like the, there was a lot of, a lot of like, no, not Pablo Reyes, way more than I thought there should have been. Like, I was like, we're talking about a guy who they picked up last year because there were so many injuries and positional needs. And wasn't very good. He had one good moment.I feel like, you know, sometimes fans just get attached to certain players. But I was surprised the amount of sadness there was to see Pablo Reyes DFA'd.

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I think everyone's just hung up on that one grand slammy hit. Yeah. Like a year ago.

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No one's forgotten it. You talk about one hit wonder. It's like, I mean, we're talking like Carly Ray Jemson, 2015. You see she's falling off. You're like, not the call, not the call me, maybe.Yeah.

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I mean,

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this is, it's like a, uh, hasn't done anything since. No.

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What I mean,

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speaking of, I mean, Carly Ray Jemson PERSON, or Jepson PERSON, Jepson PERSON.

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Jepson PERSON.

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Jepson PERSON. Could you name a second song? She had a, good time. Was it good time? Good life.Well, you know, it's, it's always a good time i think she

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i don't think that's her song i thought she was totally she has like bleached blonde hair now really

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i mean call me maybe was speaking jacobby elsberry PERSON injury that was that was right around the time

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called me maybe did sing good time she did see see all. I really like you. That's another one.

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Oh, okay.

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If you came into this episode thinking there was going to be a Jacoby Ellsbury

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Times Carly Ray Jepson PERSON crossover, I mean, you'd be correct.

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If you put a dollar on that, you're cashing out tonight.

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Cash now big. Cash now big. I mean, yeah, yeah, that was right around the time. Call me,

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call me maybe was getting big. Cash now big. I mean, yeah, yeah, that was right around the time. Call me, call me maybe was getting big.

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But not to trash Carly Ray Jepson PERSON.

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Yeah, some people just have two hit wonders.

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You and I are combined for Z.

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I got no hits.

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No hits.

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None.

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No hits None No hits

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Speaking of hits

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Wow

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What a segue

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Speaking of hits

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We have another person to add on to

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We have another person to add

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To the giving socks

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Yes we do Do we do Nick Pavetta Nick Pavetta Yeah that's right

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He did just Four earned five Wait four innings five earned today

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One strikeout.

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That'll do it. Yeah, that's not good. Our counterpart, Chris Sale, threw an absolute gem today. Is he still in the game?

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No, they just pulled him.

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But six innings, no earned, whopping ten strikeouts.

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You knew that was going to happen, didn't you?

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Yeah, he came out for blood today. Yeah, yeah.

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The thing is, is that there's no, there's no, it pains me to say. There's no world where it's like, that is one trade where I can't be like hindsight's 50, 50. Like, I think a change of scenery was, was the right move for Chris Sale PERSON. And I mean, it's paying off. He's still good.But I do think it was just time for a change of scenery.

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Yeah, you couldn't keep him. In good faith, you really couldn't keep him.

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He wasn't going to perform.

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I was going to say, I don't mean to trash on him.

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But I don't think he would have been doing the same numbers.

Speaker 01841.24s - 1850.62s

Not at all. But not put Atlanta. And I'm happy for him. He's got a real chance at another world series in Atlanta. 100%.

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Like there are very few Red Sox players these last couple years. Not very few, but there, there are a select handful who have gone on either through a trade or free agency to play for other teams where you're really rooting for them. And I think that Chris Sale PERSON is probably at the top of that list for me of guys.I want to see succeed. Definitely. He's only got a few years left.

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Him and DeGrauma PERSON, I'd like to see get another one.

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That'd be cool. That'd be cool. Like, just the game is better when everyone's healthy. And I mean, there are so many pitchers who just league-wide are hurt right now. I mean, I even, not to be that guy, you can't almost forget about DeGrom PERSON. He's just been hurt so much.

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And he's arguably the best pitcher in the last, what, decade?

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Scherzer PERSON probably because he's pitched more.

Speaker 01904.64s - 1906.8s

But when he's on the field

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I think if you take away sample size I think you can make a good good case for for de Grom I mean he's he's been filthy what year was that 2018 2020 he had like a

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how like 0.05 ERA

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Yeah 2021 15 starts a 108 ERA.

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Yeah, he was outrageous.

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He's been really good.

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He's never had an ERA in a season over 3.53.

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It's pretty outrageous.

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You think we could see him in the Hall of Fame ORG?

Speaker 31942.28s - 1943.64s

No, he hasn't played enough.

Speaker 01943.74s - 1944.58s

He's like Tim Wincombe PERSON.

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He's already, he's going to be, by the time the pitch is again, he's going to be 36.

Speaker 01952.26s - 1957.72s

He's not making the hall. I don't, I, I'd love him to, but he just doesn't do it enough.

Speaker 31957.96s - 1964.54s

I agree. It's the same with Linthacom PRODUCT. I guess Linzacom PRODUCT fell off harder, but I don't know.

Speaker 01965.22s - 1969.48s

I did see a, I was reminded on Twitter.

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I believe it was last night or this morning.

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It was the video of Matt Harvey PERSON and when he's starting the game with the bloody nose

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and the huge dip lip in.

Speaker 01980.52s - 1981.5s

What year was that?

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Huh?

Speaker 01982.68s - 1983.54s

What year was that?

Speaker 21983.98s - 1986.04s

It must have been at least 10 years ago now.

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He came onto the scene.

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This is quite the nostalgic episode.

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He came onto the scene hard in 2013.

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Yeah, here we go.

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5-7-20. So this was yesterday. 5-7-2013, so 11 years ago. Starting his night with a bloody nose, Matt Harvey carries a perfect game into the seventh inning, allows one hit in nine innings,strikes at 12 White Sox ORG, and lowers his ERA to 128 on the season. And someone quote tweeted it, bipolar Mets ORG disorder, tweeted, quote tweeted, fat dip in bloody noseand nine scoreless innings. Prime Matt Harvey PERSON was that guy. He sure was. He was that guy. He sure was.

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He was that guy.

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He sure was.

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He was fun to watch.

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He was fun to watch.

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The video is hilarious, too.

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He's not even fixing the bloody nose. He's just letting it bleed right down to space.

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Yeah.

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It's not even dripping.

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It's just like running down his nose. He's like sucking it into his mouth. Oh. Jeez.

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What a psychopath. He was crazy. Yeah, mouth. Oh. Jeez. What a psychopath.

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He was crazy.

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Yeah, seriously. Anyways, in terms of injuries, I think we got all that wrapped up for the moment here. In terms of series, it's been win a few, lose a few. Again, going back to really, our last episode was after game. Oh, it would have been the night of the Tanner Halk PERSON, complete game shutout, which was absolute domination from Halk PERSON.That game was under two hours, and he threw under 100 pitches. The difference between Halk PERSON, I already kind of mentioned this, but just the difference between how this year and last year, he looks so much more confident on the mount. And as a viewer, I feel so much more confident in him. I mean, remember last year going into the third time through the rotation?You're like, I don't know what the hell is about to happen here, but you knew it wasn't going to be good. And his splits were awful after he'd faced the first eating guys. But, I mean, again, I think you can really contribute a lot of the change to Andrew Bailey PERSON.

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And I think the big part of it is like, where do you gain your confidence? You gain confidence in pitching the pitches that you know are your best. And it seems like Bailey PERSON, at the very least least has leaned into what those guys are good at. So if you go out and you tell them to throw their off speed because they know they're good at it, you're going to have more confidence on the mound than if what you know you're throwing isn't your best stuff every time.

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Yeah, he's been quite the leader. And yeah, I mean, again, it's just been a complete overhaul across the board. But 3-1 series lost to Cleveland GPE. And then they go out and sweep in Pittsburgh ORG, dominating performance. Second year in a row kind of for the Pirates or the Red Sox ORG faced them fairly early in the season. Last year they played them.I want to say it was like it was just about mid-April. And the Red Sox got swept at Fenway by Pittsburgh ORG. But my point is two straight hot starts for the pirates. And then they quickly collapse after the first 20 or so games. And I feel like this series was where they really started to crumble. They were already on the downturn then, but they're 17 and 21 now.And get your wins where you can.

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I do believe they just called up Paul Skeens today.

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I do believe you are correct.

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So I think his first start is the 11th?

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Yeah, Saturday or Sunday. I think they're start is the 11th? Yeah, Saturday or Sunday? I think they're playing the Cubs ORG. Happy to see him come up, though.

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He was just, do you see his minor league stats?

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Yeah, his ERA was what, like 0.97, or somewhere right around there. His whip was under one. He had like 60 strikeouts and 40 innings, something like that.

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Yeah, he, 0.99 ERA, yep, 27 innings in seven games, 45 strikeouts and a 0.9 one whip. Yep.

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That's pretty good.

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Yeah, that's pretty damn good.

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Pretty good.

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Yeah, he's going to.

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How many runs to this guy?

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Four and runs in seven games. That sounds about Yeah, he's going to... How many runs to this guy? Four earned runs in seven games.

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That sounds about right.

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He's going to make quite the impact on that team.

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Oh, wait.

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Sorry, that's 2003.

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He allowed three earned runs in seven games.

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My apologies.

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He's just playing around. It makes you realize... I mean, it's mad impressive that he's been... I mean, you forget, not forget, but he was drafted 11 months ago and he's already, he's already up in the bigs. And when was the last time the Red Sox had a guy just like rocket through the farm system? So Ben and Teddy PERSON. Yeah, he was up a little

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over a year after being drafted. Yep. He made the double A to major jump.

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He did.

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He did.

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I feel like we see players in AAA ORG, like top prospects more in AAA than we used to. I feel like it used to be, if you were a solid to top prospect, it was straight from AA ORG to the big leagues. I feel like we see that less often now.

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Yeah, I think the jump from double A to major leagues is so large, and I think it's only getting larger. Major league players are so good.

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I'm not against putting a guy in AAA for a couple months,

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just to see how they do.

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Like the whole Jackson Holiday experiment clearly failed in the majors,

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bringing them up too fast. So send him down, let him get his confidence back, and he'll be fine.

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Yeah, he did not play well. What do you have like two hits and 30 something at bets?

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I think he was like one for 33.

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Yeah, not good.

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Not good.

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Not good at all.

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So yeah, anyways, a sweep against Pittsburgh ORG.

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They come back home, a 2-1 series lost to the Cubs ORG.

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We were at that game on Friday, the one they lost.

Speaker 32347.6s - 2351.22s

That was just such a forgettable game.

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I'm trying to remember.

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Cutter PERSON. Cutter PERSON started that one, didn't he? I'm looking at, not to sidetrack again.

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I'm looking at this list of fastest all time to reach the majors.

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Yep. So Paul Skeins isn't on this list.

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Hold on. Can I take a guess? Yep.

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I know. Is it Zach Nito PERSON? Is he on there? I don't see him.

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Okay. Oh, yeah. He was 273 days. He's 18th. Okay. Oh, yeah, he was 273 days. He's 18th.

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Okay. It's pretty quick. The Angels ORG had a guy they drafted the last year who was up on the team by the end of the year.

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Yeah, 40 days. Noah PERSON, yeah. Shanual PERSON. Yeah, Chanel ORG.

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Chanel ORG, same thing.

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Something like that. But he's fifth. There's four guys ahead of him. You're only going to know one of them.

Speaker 32405.24s - 2407.56s

Ahrod? No. No, I guys ahead of him. You're only going to know one of them. A-Rod? No. No, I do.

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Outfielder? Can Griffey?

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No. Like, give me a time frame. Early 70s?

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Uh, yes.

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No.

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Dave Winfield.

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Yeah, wouldn't have gotten that.

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Yeah.

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Trying to see you also.

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Ryan Zimmerman was 86 days.

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Really?

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Who was number one?

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This guy, not like modern day, Dave Roberts PERSON, but 1970s, Dave Roberts.

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One day.

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Padres ORG called him right up.

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That's crazy.

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I'm honestly, I'm actually kind of surprised that we haven't seen.

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I mean, uh, what was it? Shan PERSON, I'm actually kind of surprised that we haven't seen. I mean, what was it?

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Shana. I forget how you pronounced them. The angels there. Shenwell PERSON, Chanel ORG. Yeah.Something like that. He, I mean, yeah, granted 40 days. But I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen.I think Skeens PERSON is about as, as close as you get to a guy going from college to being major league ready. But I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen someone just go straight to the bigs. I bet we'll see that in our lifetime.

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I bet we'll no, you'll see it because I guess like it would have to be like a really bad team.

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It would have to be like it's a weird mix

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it would have to be like the angels

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because you can't say the athletics because they don't care and you can't say the Rockies ORG because I don't think they care either

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I don't even think you can you can debate

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to the white socks because they're too inept

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so I think it would have to be like the angels

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and it would have to be a guy

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like Paul Skeen PERSON's coming right out

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Who's built like a major leaguer

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And isn't 16 years old

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Yeah

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Yeah

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He I mean yeah He's he's he How old is he 23?

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He's 22 It's like

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He's our age I think It's 21

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21

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All right There you go There you go Uh Anyway against that series In, or against Chicago, then a 17-0-0-0-1-2 win on Taco and Tequila-Fest night on the Saturday. And then one of the more notable moments from the last three weeks here, Tyler O'Neill walk-off on Sunday night baseball back on the 28th of April.

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5-4-11 got to love it were you watching that game yeah did you see I was just remembering this interview thinking about that game um

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with uh what's his monica a monaga and Well, yeah, he was like laughing half the time.

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But I think, yeah, it's ravish in the booth.

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And there were two outs and two strikes.

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And he's like, all right, well, quick half-fitting.

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We'll send it to a break here once this next out happens. And then we'll continue our interview with you. Is that okay? And he was like, yeah, that's fine. And then like immediately before he even answered, I was at Wardo Press ORG.He's like, actually, I've got one more question for you. Gives this, I don't even remember what the question was, but it was this long-ass question.It was not quick. And he's like, not even done asking it. And whoever was up at bat strikes out, end of the inning. And obviously,I don't, well, I don't know how well of English LANGUAGE, Amonika PERSON speaks, but then they got to go through the translator. He really is the whole question. Then Amonaga PERSON says it back to the translator. Then he says it back on air. And all this, while you can hear Ravich PERSON in the back, and he's like, oh, we're going to,and then he like kept going. He's like trying to send it to break. And yeah, that was just extremely like it was that was awkward that was an awkward uh awkward moment yeah not good poor timing

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out of them yeah uh they got to do something about the mics oh my god those things are turned up

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i mean the ump mic too oh he was it sounded like he was screaming blow your eardrums out there yeah

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you uh you can i love the

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i love when they juiced the bats yeah but because it's i mean there was the otani NORP home run

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like a year or two ago where it sounded like a bomb went off yeah the was that was the santa maria

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call actually i can't was it vascus? I think it was Vascusan PERSON.

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Who was doing play?

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Yeah, it was Vascusan PERSON.

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But, yeah, the deadliest duo would be the ESPN ORG mics.

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And sometimes, sometimes, not always, but sometimes the Nesson ORG camera guys, when there's like a fly ball, like pretty can of quark fly ball you would think that

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thing's going like past the red seat nessen has gotten so bad this year honestly it's been

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i i haven't been watching a ton of nests this year because i'm either yeah i'm either trying to go

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to the games when they're at home and then on the road yeah i little bit. But yeah, they've been having issues here and there.

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It's just like last night, the camera blacked out.

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Opening day, there was the whole Tyler O'Neill PERSON home run.

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Yeah.

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And then, like, they've just had a slew of audio issues and, you know,

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fly ball, you know, high fly balls that look like they're going on lands down.

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Did you see, I don't know if you're watching, were you watching the,

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the Rangers Hurricanes game last night?

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No.

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So there are like 30 seconds left in the third period.

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Tie game.

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I mean, I think the Rangers ORG were on a power play and they're, they're buzzing.

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And the second game of the night, Dallas and Colorado GPE is starting up.

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But you know, like when the first game's still going on

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they'll put it on like ESPN News ORG or ESPNU

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so 30 seconds left and

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they cut they cut straight to the Dallas like Mike Monaco PERSON is actually doing it they do like the whole open and then they cut back and there's like 10 seconds left in the period and I'm like I can't even imagine like the control room must have been like freaking out that shit show like, I can't even imagine. Like the control room must have been like.Freaking out. That shit show in there. I can't. Panic.

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Freaking out. Speaking of announcers. We had an Andrew Gardner moment during the, uh, the Dodgers, Marlins game yesterday.

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Yeah. Greg PERSON. That might be the worst jinks of all time. I mean, you got to know the no, the no hitter jinx is a, or excuse me, like the announcer no hitter jinks. It's a real thing. It's a real thing.

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Oh, yeah. You don't mess with that. Or shutouts.

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That's like that's the, that's the first one in the book.

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I, no hitter going on.

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Don't talk about it.

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Yeah.

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When I like, again, I, I, 90% of the games I do are hockey. So the equivalent to that is a shutout. And yeah, again, it's not, it's certainly not as like prestigious as a, as a no hitter, but I feel as if you're still not supposed to be like,well, oh, this guy's got a shutout and five minutes left. Like that's still something I'm not going to say. You can, you can bring it up in other ways. You can bring it up in other ways, but you can't directly say this guy still has to shut it. It's like a no hitter.

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It was just the funniest thing

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because they're in the pregame and he's warming up. And he's like, all right, I forget the guy's name, but he's like, you know what?

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Yamamoto PERSON's.

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Yeah, Greg Amsinger at Hibb Network ORG.

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He's going to throw no hitter today against the Marlins and the whole graphic flashes and then first pitch just gets taken deep. Yeah. They cut right to Joelins and the whole graphic flashes and then first pitch just gets taken deep.

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Yeah. They cut right to Joe Davis and the Dodgers ORG crew. And yeah, he's given his last couple seconds of pregame talk and then jazz chisle.

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Right, right over the wall. No hit or gone. First pitch of the game. Too funny. Yeah. Hilarious.

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So yeah, 2-1 series winning against the hobbies. And then you got a week, day, hilarious. So yeah, 2-1 series winning against the Cubbies ORG. And then you got a weak day set against the Giants ORG. They end up winning the series 2 to 1. Good 4-0 win that first game. Cooper Chriswell PERSON was dealing. And that one hits all around.And then a 6 to 2 win on Wednesday, a three to one loss on Thursday. So I actually saw that the giants, they played at Fenway this year. I don't know if they had played at Fenway since 20, I want to say 2016, maybe one time since

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them and then one one time before them, they had a trivia question.

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It was like, before I want to say 2007, when was the last time the Giants played at Fenway Park? The last time the Giants played at Fenway Park?

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Before 2007. What? Is this a fact? last time the Giants played at Fenway Park before 2007

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what

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is this a fact

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yes yeah oh yeah go ahead and guess

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2005

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oh buddy

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you got you got to go back further

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1999

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further

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91 You got to go back further. 1999? Further.

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91.

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Way further.

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Are you serious?

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Yeah. Okay. So it was June 15th, 2007. The last time that I, the Giants ORG franchise. If that gives it away at all at all played at Fenway Park. Oh my God.

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Yeah. No, I'm looking at it right now. This can't be right. 1910s. 1912. Jesus Christ PERSON.

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Fresh off the sinking of the Titanic, the New York Giants come in for the 1912 World Series

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against the Boston Red Sox ORG. That popped up on the board and I was like, that's crazy. Like I obviously interleague play used to not be a thing, but I often forget how recently of an addition it is. And, you know, now every team's playing every team every year, which I'm a big fan of. I like it. You get to see different teams because there's no reason you should go 95 years without seeing one team like

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again two two major market teams that's outrageous right i thought that was crazy yeah how do you go

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92 years i don't know just how the maybe maybe it's not the curse of the bambino maybe it was uh

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they just hadn't played the giants i i mean it I mean, it was just, they win in 1912?

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Uh, they did.

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Hold on.

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Did they, I be on to something?

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Wait a second.

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They tied a World Series EVENT game.

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Are you seeing this?

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Yeah, what the hell?

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It went eight games.

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One, two, three.

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You're right.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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So wait, hold on. We're right. What the hell? All right.

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So wait, hold on.

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We're on to something here.

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Was this common knowledge?

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I had no idea about this.

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Wait, hold on.

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All right.

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Wait.

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The Sox have played the Giants in 1912, 2004, 2007, and 2013.

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Holy shit. 2007 and 2013.

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Holy shit.

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In their first five years worth of matchups,

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they won a World Series in four of those years.

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True.

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And then 2016 was a dumpster fire.

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They made the playoffs. And then 2019.

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They did not make the playoffs.

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No. All right. So they're on They did not make the playoffs. No. All right. So they're on a cold streak.

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Yeah, they are. Well, now you can't even really point it to anything because they're going to, they're going to play them every year. That's crazy.

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Right.

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And they played the Giants ORG, they won the World Series more times than not. 80% of the time.

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That is a fact.

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That is a fact. Fun fact. Another Giants ORG, fun fact. July 20th, 2016,I was actually in attendance for this game. Hanley Ramirez, three home runs, and Drew Pomeran's PERSON debut. Good old Drew Pomerant PERSON.

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Shout out.

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Shout out to Woh PERSON.

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So a 2-1 series win against the Giants ORG.

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And then this weekend series against the Twins ORG, this was kind of a sweeper of a series. You lose 2-1. You bounce back on Sunday. You get the win. You know, you're at least kind of boost morale a little bit heading down to Atlanta.They got an off day on Monday. Lose yesterday, 4 to 2. And it is the top of the fifth right now. Excuse me. I got to hit a refresh. Red Sox ORG are still down.5.0. Bottom of the 8th. They're not coming back.

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Not coming back.

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So that is where we stand right now. I'm going to go into this saying that the Red Sox are not going to lose tonight, which puts them at 19 and 18 through the first 37 games of the season, still above 500. And, um,yeah, they've lost four, or excuse me, five, yeah, five out of six.I mean,

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when you have this many injuries, it's kind of about time. I can't really say I'm surprised that they've dropped the last two series.

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Yeah, I mean, they've had to play.

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They have a tissue schedule coming up, so that should be able to get some wins back. But at the same time, I mean, what do you expect? Half the roster is hurt.

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And somehow, it's a miracle that they're above 500. They definitely, I mean, they've been, they've been pieced in together as best they can. And, you know, the Braves are a tough team, 21 and 12 this year. And the twins extended their win streak up to 12 games while they were playing the Red Sox ORG. The, you know, socks broke that on Sunday. But they're 20 and 15 after a rough start to the beginning of the season. But overall, you know, socks broke that on Sunday, but they're 20 and 15 after a rough start to thebeginning of the season. But overall, I mean, 19 and 18, I guess that's about where I expected, but if you told me preseason, all these injuries would have happened, I think I would have taken

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19 and 18 for sure. Yeah. And I mean, you have, you have three winnable series coming up too. You have Washington and then you have Tampa GPE. Both of those teams are right in your wheelhouse in terms of wins. And then you go to St. Louis, who's 15 and 21. Not a great team. No.

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No, not at all. Not at all. Should hopefully be able to somewhat capitalize here against those teams, as you mentioned. And especially.

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I'm looking at pitching matchups right now.

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Friday, there's zero chance.

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I'm just going to say zero chance the Red Sox lose on Friday.

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I'm going on Friday.

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So, uh, oh, you are?

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Well, it's Patrick Corbyn versus Tanner Halk PERSON.

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So.

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Yeah, Patrick Corbin hasn't been good since they won the World Series.

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Been like statistically one of the worst pitchers of the last.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Horrible.

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Uh, so yeah, you got Halk PERSON. Well, first off, you got anything else on, again, we kind of kind last four years. Oh, yeah. Horrible. So, yeah, you got Halk. Well, first off, you got anything else on, again, we kind of blew through these, these performances. I guess in terms of individual performances recently, William Brayu PERSON, I feel like, has been, he's been the shining star. And in his last 11 games, he's hitting 300, no home runs, but I think defensively out inright field, he's looked very, very comfortable too. And, you know, Devers PERSON has been playing very well since he's been back. I think Seidon PERSON is starting to really see the ball well. He's hitting 311 in his last 12 games, two home runs, Connor Wong. The guys, the guys you kind of were expecting to do something, they're doing it. They're doing it.I want to see what he's at.

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Hey, remember my hot take of three war Connor Wong? I do.

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He's at a three two.

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Is he?

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Yeah, he, that doesn't spend.

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Wait, my bad.

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That's career.

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He's at a point nine this year.

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I was going to say, three two seems a little high, but he's on career. He's at a point nine this year. I was going to say, 3-2 seems a little high, but

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he's on base.

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He's on base. Yeah, he's on base is the highest of his career.

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Yeah, he's having. He's having a heck of a year. Heck of year. I mean, Reese PERSON has been playing well too, and I mean, Connor Wong's just been,he's been better. You got to give it to the hot hand.

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I forgot to mention too.

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The Red Sox also acquiring Zach Short from the New York Mets ORG for cash. He took Pablo Rase's PERSON spot on the roster. Also, and Manuel Valdez PERSON get sent down. A lot of shuffling on the roster. Grissoms come back in his first three games.He's got two hits and 13 at bats. So yeah, I mean, again, it's been a shakeup of players on the hitting side of the ball these last like week to two weeks.Just ride the hot hand.

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That's all you can do. Gardy PERSON's asked me to fill time. I don't really know what to fill time with. We've covered the last couple series, so I'll go on with what I usually go on with. Blake Snow avoided the Red Sox ORG with a phantom injury because he sucks,and the Giants ORG needed to kill some time to let him warm back up. And you know, it's probably a good thing that he missed the Sox ORG series. There's a good chance that he would have gotten shelled at Fenway FAC, and no one ever would have heard the end of it.

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We go three weeks without talking about the Boston Red Sox, and you fill time with Blake Snell PERSON talk.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's kind of my default. It's, you know, Boston Celtics and Blake Snell PERSON talk when I, when the air goes silent, that's usually what I fill it with. Or alligators are farming.

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You still playing a tractor simulator? Farming simulator.

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Farming simulator? Yeah.

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It's slow to get back because,

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so I had it on my PlayStation PRODUCT and then I got rid of my PlayStation PRODUCT in favor of an Xbox PRODUCT. So I re-downloaded it. And of course, I couldn't keep the same file cross-consul. So my farming tycoon that I had on my PlayStation PRODUCT is gone.

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So I have one on Xbox PRODUCT. It's a modest farm. Okay. All right. Take what you can get, I guess.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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I mean, up and down the lineup, even Yoshita in the three games he played, he had five hits. He had in eight at bats. And I mean, really, the lineup's been getting it done. It's just been, I feel like these last couple days you have a, you know, five, two loss to the twins, three one loss. The power hasn't exactly

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been there but again got to be i've got them of the league and homers feel like they're just not

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hitting them no they ended they ended the month of april they were top five really yeah and

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uh i guess because you have o'neal yeah o'neal cossesosses had a handful before he went down.

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They're probably, they're probably like middle of the pack, honestly.

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See, stats.

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Well, you look for that.

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Team.

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Game two against the nationals on Saturday. It's going to be Jake Irving, or Urban PERSON, excuse me. He's going to be squaring off against Cooper, Chriswell, and then on Sunday, the 135 afternoon start on Mother's Day, is going to be McKenzie Gore PERSON versus TBD, although that is going to be Brian Bayo PERSON.They just have not penciled that in there yet. That's going to be a great pitching matchup.

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That's kind of exactly who you want. That's a good day for him to come back day gang

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mother's day well actually i assume it's a day game on sunday right yep so not a good day for him to come back statistically true but uh it'll be good to have bea back i'm excited lat

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injury was kind of came out of nowhere yeah a lot i feel like a lot of the the injuries have

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most of them are kind of like strange.

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It's a lot of that those side muscles. It's looking like the ribs, the lat, the oblique. What did Povetta PERSON have? Is he elbow?

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Something with his elbow. I don't know.

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Maybe they got to start hitting twists. Yeah, they got to start doing a, I don't know. It's kind of like Mandy Ramirez PERSON. He always had oblique issues. If Mandy PERSON was out, like there was a good chance like 99% of the time. If Mandy was not playing, it was because of his obliques. That dude refused to do a twisting motion. Yeah, I was going to say,

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he didn't exactly love to work out. I got to give many props. When he went to Japan, he signed one of the clauses in his deal was unlimited sushi, right? Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So last week, it was one of my roommates' birthdays. Actually, Chris, we've had on the show twice, big Yankees ORG fan. And it was his birthday. So a couple of us go out to, there's his place on Boylston FAC, unlimited sushi.And like, one of the best nights in my life. I mean, I had so much, I had so much, so much sushi,so much rice, so much seaweed, so much fish. Like, oh my God, if I was manny,dude, happy, happiest could be. Sushi's weird because you can eat, like, so much fish like oh my god if i was manny dude happy happiest could be

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sushi's weird because you can eat like three or four rolls worth of sushi and feel full and then in 20 minutes because there's like nothing to it

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it's just a little bit of fish and a little bit of rice

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and just like a little bit of everything

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you're hungry again in like 20 minutes

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that's exactly what happened. I was like going to bed and I was like, like I no joke probably had. I probably had. Yeah, in between just had some lightning here. Damn. Probably had in between four and five rolls, which is like, you say that.It sounds like a disgusting amount. But it goes down fast. It goes down fast. I also fasted the whole day because I was like, I'm going crazy tonight.

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I'm paying 40 bucks for it. Like I'm going to go crazy. You also got unlimited apps, which was, which was fire hitting the, was it, Giozas PRODUCT.

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It's like basically dumplings.

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Oh, yeah. Those are good.

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Real good. Real good. But yeah, I just wanted to say, I think, I think that's a great built-in clause by Manny like 10 years ago.

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You have to.

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You have to. I'll do it. Anyways, previewed these upcoming series. Seven game homestand, Nats and Rays ORG. You've been to Fenway a couple times this year. I've been to a handful of games as well.Is there anything that stands out to you just being at the park this year that, I don't know, is different or just like kind of stands out from years past?

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Um, stands out from years past. Our good friend Steve Perrault PERSON will probably resonate to this one.

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Vodka Lemonades. Yep. Not as good as they were two years ago. That's a shame. I'm not a vodka guy, so.

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I'm not either, but I was a sucker for those things.

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I'm not either.

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You perceived that, what, nine last week?

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An undisclosed amount.

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Irregardless of however many I drank, it used to be that you could have like three of them and be just a complete liability at the park yeah i was going to say i think the one time i did have

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one there i was like this should not be hitting me the way it is it was like you know not to call

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them out and this is probably why they changed it but it was like a cup of vodka with a splash of lemonade in it and a couple ice cubes. Like it was a complete disproportionate poor. And then I think too many people probably ended up like we did at the park. So they put them out of the tap and they were just, it's just straight lemonade.

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And then, I mean, there's no way to verify that you're getting, getting what you paid for there. Not at all.

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But now this year, like I was getting them on the truly terrace. Yep.

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And they had someone pouring them,

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but I think what they do is they have like the stopper on the,

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on the nozzle. So it

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pours out a certain amount and pretty weird.

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I mean, here's the thing. That's basically the equivalent of robot umps. You don't want to see it. You like to have a little bit of human error there, either positive or negative.

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Human error in the bartending game is like the best possible solution.

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I agree. Sometimes you get a drink and you're like, this is the best thing I've ever tasted. You order it again? You're like, this is bad.

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But what makes it fun? In terms of what else is going on. I haven't had the helmet nachos yet.

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So that's going to be a, uh, I'm trying to think what I've got to do that soon.

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Yeah.

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Trying to think of other stuff.

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Ballpark's been empty. I've noticed that.

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It's real quiet. It's, I mean, not quiet, but I mean, when I go alone, I try to, you know, I sit where I'm supposed to sit for the first half of the game. And then, you know, obviously, if people don't show up, sometimes you're able to find a seat or two. It's, it's been easy to find to find seats.

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No doubt. Closer up this year. I mean, you can even see it on TV.

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And, yeah, I mean, I know the broadcast has mentioned it. I see it on Twitter a lot. It's, uh, there, I mean, there was one game I was at where the, on the, I don't know if it's still technically State Street FAC, but up on the upper deck all the way down the left field line, like right below the Coca-Cola sign, legitimately not one person in that section.

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Really?

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Yeah, like completely empty. And I know they sell those for like corporate events or groups sometimes, but... What's it called now?

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It's like the Allegiance FAC deck or something?

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I don't know. I'm not calling it that.

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It starts with an egg. It's state street stuff.

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Not my deck. No. Not my deck.

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The Sam PERSON deck has been mobbed every time I've gone.

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It is so busy up there. And when we were there last Friday, we sat in the bleachers. We were there with a group of people. I hadn't sat out in the bleachers in a minute. But it was a good time. Sometimes you just got to get out there for a game.It's always a good time.

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It's hard to watch from row 43.

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I was going to say.

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I mean, we were a good like 15 rows behind the red seat, which tells you how far out we were.

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Oh, we went and we filmed the postgame video from the red seat. And definitely a little bit of slander there. And there was a major news source that picked up the red seat story recently and was like, fact or fiction. Did the red seat actually happen? No way. I don't think it did.No shot. Also, a lot of vandalism on the red seat. Like, that doesn't get talked about a lot. A lot of people have carved their names into that thing.I mean,

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I would too. We should, we should carve something in. No, I'm not. Off the record.Did we see Wally PERSON?

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No, I don't think so.

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I don't think I've seen Wally this year.

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He's been.

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I only saw him that time that he ran into the elevator away from me.

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I should have gone in the elevator.

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Makes you think.

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I could have cornered him, really got into the bottom of it.

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He would have shot the thing right down to his layer.

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He would have pulled some Tower of Terror FAC type type stuff with that elevator.

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The lights go out and the rope snaps.

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You're like, where's Wally PERSON?

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You remember that?

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This is Sports Center commercial with Ovechkin PERSON and, uh,

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forget who the other guy is like going through the elevator.

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They're like the Russian NORP spies.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Like Wally's pulling some of that stuff with Tessie PERSON.

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He's got to be.

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He's got to be.

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I bet.

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I mean, he definitely has a couple different ways back to his little dungeon. I bet the, I bet he's thought about the elevators. I don't know.

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You got to go. You got to go back to opening day 2022 to figure out our, our initial, the Wally PERSON lore, if you want to call it that.

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That picture that I sent you and Steve this morning from two years ago.

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You sent something this morning?

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I didn't see that.

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Oh, of you and me, you and me with us.

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We looked highly concerned. Yeah. He was like bugging us to take that picture too. We were like, we saw him like coming out of nowhere and we were like, Wally PERSON, can we get a picture?And he, you know, trots on over. And then I was like fumbling with my phone and he's given me the like, hurry up. I'm like,what are he in such a rush for? Yeah.

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Isn't this your entire job just take pictures with people?

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He's sweating.

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He thought we were stalling. Yeah. Nah, Wally PERSON's always got to keep an eye out for him. I'm trying to think of other stuff at Fenway this year. I got the pulled pork sliders.Those were pretty good. I think the ballpark food has seen an uptick in the last two years, in my opinion. A slight uptick. Otherwise, still a lot of hot dogsstill out of chicken tenders and yeah that's kind of the

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kind of the only two things to get

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yeah I can't complain always a good time at at the Fence FAC though it's been cold like I'm not complaining I love going to the games but it gets it's been getting cold it's still cold and we're into the

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second week of May. Friday's going to be cold. Yeah.

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Yeah, what was it?

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Like, not even 50.

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Yeah, and it's not going to be 50 this Friday either.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to go, I think I'm going to be at the game on Tuesday.

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It's going to be 65 at first pitch.

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I'll take that. I'll take that. But, um,

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temperature. You got, uh, you got an ACTP I. J.W. Nowx core impact player of the week.

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Got to go with three war. Connor Wong. Give him a point three.

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Love to see it. He, well deserved. Well deserved. I'm going to go with Willier PERSON, Brayu PERSON.He's been, uh, he's been, uh, he's been a man on a mission of late. I'm going to give old willier a, uh,0.5 on the Alex Core impact scale. All in all, you love to see the young guys makingstrides on the field. What they call them up for.

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Absolutely. We got some questions do you see the two that I added into the agenda

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I did not know I feel like these are good ones

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these are ones that I've heard out and about I'm not seeing

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questions

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it's under miscellaneous

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oh I see

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all right you want to start with Matt PERSON questions or our question?

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I feel like you got to start with Matt PERSON questions.

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Well, yeah, I mean, we have to start with questions with Matt PERSON.

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Questions from Matt PERSON. Our first question comes in for Matt PERSON. He says, what non-New England NORP city would you most want to live in? It's a good question, Matt PERSON.

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Probably like Dallas. Hmm. That Fort Worth area. Yeah. It's a good question Matt PERSON probably like Dallas that Fort Worth GPE area yeah it's a nice area

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I've never been down there but

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I was there for like 48 hours and I liked it quite a bit

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I'm probably go with Orlando

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go see the mouse

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go see the mouse yeah

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probably live with the mouse Go see the mouse? Go see the mouse. Yeah, probably.

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Live with the mouse full time?

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I already did that.

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I've already done that.

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You've done your due diligence with the mouse?

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I've done my due diligence.

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No, I honestly would, I would not, I would not like to live in Florida year round.

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It hits so hot in there in the summer.

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I feel like Orlando is like the worst city in Florida GPE to live in, too.

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No, I feel like there's...

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It's pretty trashy, man.

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Probably worse. I don't know. Tampa GPE's not much... Nah, Tampa GPE's nice. I don't know.

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Tampa GPE's nice now.

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Yeah, I don't think I'd want to live in Miami GPE, to be completely honest. Too much going on. Yeah. I don't know. I guess that leaves Too much going on. Yeah. I don't know.

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I guess that leaves you with Jacksonville.

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Yeah.

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No, Jacksonville is definitely below Orlando GPE.

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That's for sure.

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I don't know. I ate a good time in Jacksonville. I went to a waffle house and it was...

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You can find a waffle house every third of a mile in Florida GPE.

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I know, but it was weird. Like I went, it was the first time I ever went.

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And our buddy John, the Orioles ORG fan, was, we walked out and he was like, that was the complete opposite of a Waffle House ORG experience. The food was good. Yeah.

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I said, what were they nice to you?

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Yeah.

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The server was like extraordinarily nice to us. The food was good. It was on time. And it was clean. That's not how it's supposed to be. No food was good. It was on time. And it was clean. That's not how it's supposed to be.

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No, it's not.

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It's supposed to be,

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I've, I've almost seen a fight in a waffle house before. I believe it. I will say every time I've gotten food there, it's been unbelievable. It's what makes you coming back.

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It is good.

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Did it feel like being home? Yeah, I mean, I got the, what I get, I got the chocolate chip pancakes and hash browns. It's what makes you coming back. It is good. Did it feel like being home? Yeah.

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I mean, I got the, what I get, I got the chocolate chip pancakes and hash browns.

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You didn't get a waffle?

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Chocolate chip waffle, my bad. I was going to say. But whatever that, the butter, like air quotes butter spread. Yeah. That stuff is good.

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Yeah, it's just, it's just artery blocking cholesterol.

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I didn't even think it's not, it's definitely not butter.

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No, no, it's like, there's like country crock, like the, no free ads, but like the good butter, then you got like regular butter, and then you got like whatever the hell that is.

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Not to quote a money ball, but it's like, you know know you got this and that and then 50 feet of crap

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and then the Waffle House ORG butter yeah terms of nutrition at least yeah no Waffle House is good

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oh yeah yeah real good uh next question comes in for Matt PERSON he says this is this is a quick one

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he says do you typically write in blue or black ink I usually go black yeah the blue I feel like blue was like the leftover pens you'd find in your high school English LANGUAGE class you're blue or black ink. I usually go black. Yeah. Blue? I feel like blue was like the leftover pens you'd find in your high school English LANGUAGE class. You're like, I got nothing else to write with.

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Yeah, I just don't like the color of blue pink.

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I don't really blame you. I don't really know why that's like blue ink is a thing. Like you don't write in any other coloring. It's still a color.

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Right.

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I don't know. It's just bold.

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Looks good. Or would you, here's a better question. Would? I don't know. It's just bold. Looks good.

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Or would you,

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here's a better question.

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Would you rather go blue pen or pencil? I guess pencil.

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Wow. Can at least erase it? It's pouring rain right now.

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Holy shit. Uh, I was going to say, it's pouring rain here. I'm in, I'm in Rhode Island GPE.Shout up the, the smallest state in the country. Foring rain.

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That's not it. What?

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Delaware GPE.

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Oh,

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come on, dude. No, Rhode Island GPE is a small state in the country. No,

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Delaware's number two. Oh, come on. You grew up here whole life in New England and didn't know,it's not a small state.

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Ridiculous. I, like, I don't even need to fight my case. You're going to be wrong here in three seconds. I'm not. Absolutely. All right. Delaware GPE's not a small state. Ridiculous. I don't even need to fight my case. You're going to be wrong here in three seconds.

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I'm not.

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Absolutely. Delaware's number two and then Connecticut's number three.

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U.S.

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state by size. I know that as someone who grew up in the third small state. Total area.

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Holy shit. Yeah.

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Oh. Surprise. You think it changed?

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And Baltimore land? This is unbelievable. I don't believe this. You think it changed and bombor land?

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This is unbelievable.

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I don't believe this.

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You thought Rhode Island was the 49?

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What?

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All right.

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So I guess I'm just totally, I was thinking like maybe,

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because this has like total area,

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which is land and water area.

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So I figured maybe Delaware GPE had it by land area,

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but it just doesn't. No. I'm shocked. I can't. No. I'm shocked. I can't believe that.

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That's crazy. That is crazy. That is crazy. It's absurd. You got two questions on here. You want to ask those?Yeah.

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I think this is a good bet.

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Okay.

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Do Shoha Atani and Muki combine for more home runs or more home runs than Chicago White Sox and Colorado Rockies ORG wins?

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Respectfully, I like the thinking behind this question and I like where you're going with it. And I want to take Otani and bets, but I'm still going to roll with the Rockies ORG and the White Sox. I just, that would be absurd. The White Sox have nine wins. The Rockies have eight. That's 17. If you can, if you can count there. Otani has, what is it? He's got 11 home runs.

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Mookie's got, what is he? He's got eight. He's got six. So they're dead even, 1717.

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I feel like this is a good race to follow for the rest of the year. I like it.

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It's going to be close. I like it, but like if you think about it this way, both Otani, like, both if Otani and Betts both hit 45 home runs, which is a great year for both of them. Amazing.

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I mean, Otani was on pace for like 68 for you.

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Yeah, true. He is on pace for more. But let's say they both hit 45, which is like crazy. I don't see, I don't see both teams combining for fewer than 45 wins.

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But I think it's a good race.

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They're on pace for like 28.

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Wins?

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Yeah.

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So how many...

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Turn it around a little bit.

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Nine,

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turn it around. Nine and twenty.

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Turn it around for nine wins.

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Their run differential is negative 89. Colorado is negative 82. It's outrageous. Crazy. Crazy.

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outrageous. And then my second question.

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This one,

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I kind of got to explain it. So you have ten championships to hand out over the next five years goes to either your favorite team or your favorite individual athletes. So like horses, golfing, like whatever. You can double dip, of course.

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But how do you disperse those 10 championships? Oh, interesting. Can I do college teams too?

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Yeah, you can do any team. So if you want to add like your favorite WNBA ORG team, you can.

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Listen, man, Connecticut Sun this year. I think the Connecticut Sun made it to, I don't know if they do East LOC and West, but they made it to a conference finals last year. So I'm going, I'm allotting five to the Red Sox ORG. Okay.

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I want to see a five Pete PERSON.

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Postronox ORG getting into a fight right here. This is sweet, 6-1 Panthers ORG. Jesus Christ PERSON.

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I'm going five to the Boston Red Sox ORG.

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I'm going to give two to the New Jersey Devils, two to the New England Patriots, and one to the Boston Celtics ORG.

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No individuals at all.

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Listen, I, here's my thing. I don't, I don't really, I don't have like a favorite golfer or a favorite tennis player. Yep.

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And in terms of the other sport I follow the most, I cover it.

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And I'm a broadcaster for many different teams college hockey. So I can't root for a singular team. I guess so.

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How would you do it?

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So I kind of got to work this backward.

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Go on, of course, five for the socks. Five for the Sox

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Mm-hmm

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Four for the socks

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Yep

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Two for the Pats

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Okay

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Wait three for the Pats

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Yep

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Two for Tiger Woods

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You're already at you're at 10

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No I'm at 9

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Five for the Pats

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Two for the Patriots Or you said three for the Patriots Three and four So seven Okay Plus two for Tiger I'm at nine. Five for the Pats, two for the Patriots ORG. Or you said three for the Patriots.

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Three and four, so seven.

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Okay.

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Plus two for Tiger PERSON. I'm at nine.

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Oh, four for the socks. Okay.

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And then I'm throwing Penn State ORG football national championship.

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One of you a Penn State ORG football fan? Oh, wait, you had your dad went there, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah. All right.

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Throw them a bone.

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Okay.

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They get their revenge from.

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I was going to say I started becoming a fan when that guy was the offensive coordinator.

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Yeah.

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Not great times. No. Not great.

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I did make a bet with a guy at the gym. He also went to Penn State ORG. And he said that he would bet me a protein shake at the bar that Rutgers wins nine games.

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Nine games for Rutgers ORG?

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How many games do they play? Like 12 to 13? There's no way. I'm going to see the last. I don't even think they've, I think they won like four games last year.

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What's their, what's their schedule looking like for this year?

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Probably even harder than this year.

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Because they're, well, now they're in the big 10 with UCLA ORG.

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They won seven games last year.

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All right. Well, what, what's their schedule looking like this year?

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I don't know if they've released it. They must have.

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Also, what's, uh, curious to see what, like, UCLA ORG's football schedule looks like, the Big Ten, totally unrelated, but.

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I'm so in favor of this conference realignment.

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Did you see on Twitter today that I am in the new college football video game?

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I did see that.

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Congratulations. Thank you.

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It's going to be weird when they had FCS schools, and I'm going to be playing in Wildcat Stadium FAC.. Thank you. It's going to be weird when they had FCS ORG schools and I'm going to be playing in Wildcat Stadium FAC.

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Yeah. I think it's going to be kind of trippy. For anyone who doesn't know, EA ORG put out a thing where depending on which teams you're playing on,there'll be different, like, level broadcasters. And someone I've worked with in the past he had a picture of me and him. He was, I don't even remember the two teams.There were two, two schools I had never.

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Akron and like Howard.

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It said, and we're glad, we're glad to have you here with us this afternoon as Sam PERSON, it's the same Houston Bearcats host Louisiana Monroe ORG. So there you go. If you play with those two teams,you'll, you'll trigger me as the broadcaster in, and NCAA ORG football 25. Rutgers has a pretty cakewalk schedule. Oh, There you go. If you play with those two teams, you'll trigger me as the broadcaster in NCAA. And CAA Football ORG 25.

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Rutgers ORG has a pretty cakewalk schedule. Oh, really?

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Howard, Akron, Virginia Tech, Washington, Nebraska, Wisconsin, UCLA, USC, Minnesota, Maryland, Illinois, Michigan State ORG.

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So they might actually win nine games.

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USC ORG came over too.

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Yeah, I could see.

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I couldn't tell you a single player on the Rutgers ORG roster,

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but I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you. We'll see.

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We'll see.

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You got a closing out the ninth thought here. Red Sox have officially lost the game to the Braves 5-0, and they get dusted by the Braves in two games.

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Yep, put Bobby D PERSON on the mound. If you're not going to put him in the field, let Andrew Bailey work with him for like a month.

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People forget he was a great college pitcher. 265 ERA, 200 innings, 231, opponent batting average.

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Andrew Bailey PERSON can definitely work with that.

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He could fix him around. Absolutely.

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Yeah, something we didn't really talk about. There was a thing that came out today about Andrew Bailey PERSON can definitely work with that. He could fix them around. Absolutely. Yeah, something we didn't really talk about.

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There was a thing that came out today about Andrew Bailey PERSON, like, Kenley Jansen PERSON was twisting too much. So in the first couple weeks of the season. So Andrew Bailey PERSON did this thing where he like basically just shoved him. And he like hasn't given up a run since. That was very paraphrased.Got to read the whole story. But yeah, that was that. That's essentially what Bailey PERSON's been doing. Beast.

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He's good at what he does. Sure is.

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My closing out the ninth thoughts. I don't know. Just try to stay afloat here. I mean, it's hard to get discouraged with this team when they're still above 500. There have been so many injuries. I mean, the lineup they rolled out today was, was, I don't want to even say bizarre because, again, not everyone's healthy.And, you know, you got Connor Wong hit in second. Romeo Gonzalez playing first base. Abreu's hit an eighth. Just up and down, interesting, interesting stuff. So I think individually, I just want to continue to see guys who are going to be a part of the future playing well. If this year doesn't shake out to be a playoff year, which it still could.You never know. But I think you just continue to build that base. That's what I'm looking for this week. That's what I'm going to continue to look for and look forward to watching with this team this year, even if the team isn't playing all that well.I like it.

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What?

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I like it.

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Hell yeah. Positive. Hell yeah.

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That'll do it. Episode 154 here from the Gombridge ORG podcast. If you enjoyed what you listened to, don't forget to follow us on Instagram at Gombridge Podcast and Twitter at Gombbridge ORG. Don't forget to subscribe to our episodes on Apple Spotcat ORG, Otball podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher ORG.

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Stitcher ORG.

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And we will be back next week. Episode 155.

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See ya. You know,