MAILBAG: Streak Has Ended | Locked On Rays

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Can I say something?

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Do it. Okay, everybody put your, grab your tinful hats on. Let's put it on. All right. Everybody on with the conspiracy hat?

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Okay, we got it. Okay. Are you going to suggest, are you?

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You are locked on rays. Your daily Tampa Bay Rays ORG podcast. Part of the Locked on

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podcast network, your team every day. Hello, my name is Kevin Weiss PERSON.

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That intro is a banger, and I'm Ulyssi Sambrano PERSON.

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Thank you for making us your very first listen every single day. Be sure to check out and subscribe to where you do channel at Lockdown Raise ORG. You can also find us on X and Instagram at Lockdown Race ORG. And email us anytime, Lockdown Raise at Gmaildown Raise. You can also find us on X and Instagram at Lockdown Raise and email us anytime. Lockdown Raise at gmail.com. All right. It is that time. Mailbag episode and we have a bevy of them to get to questions, comments, concerns, hot takes, and it all. So let's not waste any time. This first one, pretty brief message, but we'll take it from Samuel PERSON. He says, if the team plays like that every time you all go to the drop, I'm buying. Glad you got to see a good one.Sam PERSON, thank you. We appreciate it. That is referencing the game that Ulyssi PERSON, myself, and others attended on Friday evening, the breakout City Connect game where we saw good things all around. Yes, we did. So,

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hey, Sam PERSON, I don't know where you are. I didn't say on the message. But if you're buying, but let's get together. Let's have some good talk at the drop and, uh, meet up over drinks, man. Why not? Yeah, we need all the help we can get between

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parking. Well, we have a plug for that, but, um, between the expense,

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on the, wait, wait, no, not anymore. Not anymore, Kev, not Not anymore. Because Tony said, fellas, Kevin PERSON, Ulysses,

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glad to hear you found your parking plug this season.

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Hitting me up for your concessions plug so we can stop bashing the food and beverage on the program.

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Tony PERSON.

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Yeah.

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The only thing we're bashing is the dollar sign.

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Yeah, we are not bashing the quality is.

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The quality control is up to par.

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And sometimes above that, we're talking about the sticker shock of I buy a beer, chicken

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tenders, and fries, and it's $40.

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And I know different ball game, single A baseball, major leagues, but recently I did go

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to a tail wagon Tuesdays game at Yankee Stadium for the Tampa Tarpons going up against the Clearwater Threshers ORG.

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And for, well, first of all, the tickets are just $2.

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Parking is free.

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You can sit literally wherever you want because nobody checks.

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Wait, wait, wait.

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Anywhere on the stadium is $2.

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Anywhere.

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Yeah.

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Oh, my God.

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Now, they might give you like a listed, okay, here's your seat, but you can sit anywhere.

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That's awesome, man.

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So we actually sat in the handicapped section with the dogs because one of our dogs is kind of a half-width.

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But that's neither here nor there. one of our dogs is kind of a half-wick. But that's neither here nor there.

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What I'm saying is for $40 at the raised ballpark, I got a beer, chicken tenders, and fries. For $40 at single-A baseball game, I received an extra long hot dog, sausage and peppers, peanuts,soda, souvenir soda, and a 25 ounce beer. So that is talking about bang for the buck. And they have water stations, water fountains, they have splash guards,cup holders. I mean, they go the whole nine yards with all that

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holders in every seat. To my knowledge, everyone that I've sat on has had a cup holder. And it makes

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sense. I mean, that's where the Yankees perform their spring kind of thing. Kind of upset.

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They have a lot about that. I'm not going to lie. The cup holder thing, it is really a thing for me.

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If you're an everydayer, you definitely know that,

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and you're probably tired of us talking about the cup holder situation.

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But you know what?

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Some people have other things.

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That's one of my things, cup holders.

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You know what? Let me devil's advocate this. You're not seeing big leg baseball, though.

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I was seeing some quality play out there.

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The defense was shockingly impressive.

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I had no idea who any of the ballers were on the field.

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There's one guy that I sort of heard of for the Thresher ORG's,

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but there's no like Jason Dominguez PERSON is on the roster.

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High A or AA?

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I think it's low A. Oh, it's a low A.

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Yeah.

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Okay. Somebody checked me on that, Florida State League ORG. But the defensive play was immaculate. I mean, very hard hit ground balls, scooped up and thrown accurately to the man at second or first, going back, making a play look easy at the warning track,communicating on catches in the gap, fly ball in no man's land, the shortstop of the second baseman, calling off the two other outfielders. Like, it was, it was pretty good. I'll be honest. I like where you're going with this. You're a. Like, it was, it was pretty tough. I'll be honest.

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I like where you're going with this. You're a segue master because talking about defense, we got somebody else talking about defense here.

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just throwing it to the raised powers that be, the people that come up with the promos, I know it's a little bit Bush League, two minor league-ish, but I'm liking the tailwagon Tuesdays. Every Tuesday home game, we know it's a tough draw.Bring your dog to a certain section of the ballpark and have some fun. Just throwing it out there.

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The $2 tickets like the Tampa Tarpins ORG do.

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But just a suggestion.

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Why do cats not get any love in this tail wagon situation? They've got tails.

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Allergies and nobody likes cats and cats don't like anybody else. And they get lost in the cat

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I love this. There's going to be cat lovers on this episode. Please drop your hate on Kevin PERSON on the

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cat's situation down below. Look, I don't hate cats. Cats hate me because the allergies are unsustainable in my own.

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He only likes six-toed cats that are in Key West LOC for his wedding.

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That's the only type of cat that Kevin PERSON's cool with. Yeah. Yeah. Put 60 of them outdoors, and I'm good with it. All right, this next question from Nick from France GPE. Hey, Nick PERSON.He says, what a great weekend of baseball we had. First, those City Connect ORG jerseys were beautiful. Ordered the hat and have it shipped to my brothers who lives in Palm Bay GPE. Then DeLucah PERSON, I knew this kid was special, but I don't know. I didn't know that he would have an impact day one. I think with Josh Lowe coming back to the raise, it could benefit our defense to have DeLuca PERSON in center field and low and right field.I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of Siri's defense and his nonchalance. Questions? What do you see for Siri? Where do you see the raise at the end of May? Let's tackle the last one first.

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Where do you see the race at the end of May? I see them having a positive winning record. Yes. Hopefully three to four games about 500. As the recording of this, they're 19 and 18. So hopefully they can take advantage of the White Sox ORG.And when the Yankees ORG come to town, well, do work. Because the next few series are going to be within the ALE East LOC. So this is the time to show up and say who you are as a team. So hopefully the race do that. Should be fun. So that's where I think the race should be in May.Do you agree with that assessment?

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No, I agree with you. And I think they're going to have much better month than they did in late March and April and all of the mess that went on and still holding their heads above water here. As for Jose Siri and DeLuca, I know we've pooed on Siri. A lot of people have of late. But just because DeLuca PERSON is showing out doesn't mean we make an instant reaction and say thatSiri is off the team. I think there's a couple of considerations at play. One, he's out of options. One, you got to have a backup, and you really should have a backup for the backup. So who's the backup center field?I think the question's going to be, who's going to get more reps going forward? I'd like to see more of Johnny DeLuca and less of Jose Siri PERSON. But I think the rays are more or less in a holding pattern with Siri, even if he continues the mess-ups in the outfield and the strikeout rate and all that. But my opinion is that Siri remains on the roster through the end of the year.And then once his arbitration clock hits and he's wanting, you know, four or five, six million dollars, that's where the raise cut ties with him and find alternate options for center field, backup center field, in that end.

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I don't, I don't completely agree with that just because I feel like.

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So are you going that they will get rid of Siri sooner or keep him on the roster longer than there's team?

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I think it's a, it's a possibility that syria PERSON does not

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end their year with the race okay i mean i'll take that i'm i'm not saying that i am not uh

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banging my hand on the keyboard to keep hose syri PERSON i'm just saying that no but do you think

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if luca gets hurt and you don't have Siri, then who's playing center field? Yeah.

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Then you're at for Randy PERSON, but I don't think that's a spot that Randy should be playing

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each and every day.

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No, no, no.

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And then I guess it would be a better option for Josh Lowe PERSON to play center field.

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But then again, you saw Luke Grayley in center field last year, you know, where you had

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Josh Lowe PERSON very available.

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So that kind of tells you what they think about maybe Josh Lowe PERSON being in

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center field all the time like that.

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Maybe that's a new for them.

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But I was, I'm saying that because look, right now they're obviously not happy with

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series performance.

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Yeah.

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I don't think the fandom is the fan, most of the fandom is not happy with, with what has gone on.

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And with the strikeout rate at 45% and with the laxadaisical performance in the outfield

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where the priority seems to be, seems to be. Key word seems to be how good do I look, how cool do I look instead of actually making the play as the priority. So those negatives are definitely there for the fandom.And I do think that they have seeped into Kevin Cash PERSON in the front office because he hasn't started a game in this White Sox ORG series. And although he did have some played appearances against the Mets in the 4th and 5th, which were Saturday and Sunday's game, he did sit on Sunday. And on Saturday's game, I believe, he got pinch hit for, which is fine.The race liked to pinch hit. But it was a righty who pinched for him, Harold Ramirez PERSON. So that right there, even, look, even Neil Solons and andy fried on the radio were like huh that's kind of odd and like you know they they're usually a little bit more PC than what we are able to be and that's why maybe people like you know gravitate to it to us because we don't have to be and that's why maybe people like you know gravitate to us because we we don't have to be that PC about what's going on with the team where a little bit more frank and a little bit morehonest right there was a slip up not even a slip up but like a moment of of of honesty between and nil where they were kind of like us the fans and said like that's that's odd though right like why would see why would they you know, pinch it Siri for another writing? That doesn't make sense. You would have just lit in Siri.

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So I think there is enough in the last five, seven games where you could see a moment,

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a shift where the focus is on, let's get Siri right.

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But that doesn't mean that he's back to being a starter like if johnny du luc PERSON it keeps doing his thing we're going to give more playing time to johnny luke and maybe hoses syri PERSON gets bumped down in the hierarchy level i guess my question is

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if syri PERSON gets dfade or traded i don't know who would take him at this point

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who is your backup center field?

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Is it an internal option, or do they go out and try to find Mani Margo PERSON-esque dude, for example?

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Is Randy and Josh PERSON available? Sure.

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So that's who you're banking on as the... Now, what if you DFA Siri and DeLuca PERSON gets hurt?

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Guys get hurt. Guys get hurt. And that's why I think it's going to be a very difficult situation right now because Siri is out of options, people. So you can't just be like, oh, set them down. No, you can't.

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I guess you pass the waivers and you bring them back.

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Right.

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Which, by the way, it could very well happen.

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Somebody's going to look at that 45% strikeout rate and those offensive numbers.

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And the quote unquote stink from the lack of defensive, you know, focus.

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Right. But then again, when you have an elite elite tool you're going to be wanted and the speed is definitely there and the outfield play except for this year has been really phenomenal so it would be really difficult for him to clear waiver so the question is prize pits it is the number

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Can he stay in the team as a backup and still be valuable? And I think the answer is yes.

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Okay, that's fair. And you would like to see him not make those mistakes again and showcase a little bit more power.

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It's crazy because last year he had 25 homers in 101 games. And maybe that shifted his focus a little bit, which is why I mean this credit rate was always high.

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Look, we know what Siri is. He's going to hit between 180 and 210 every year.

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He is not really moving above that. But you hope that with the strikeout rate, with the lack of on-base percentage, that he'll at least give you some dingers as well to go along with the speed and the defense. And we have not seen that to this point but he was the guy to replace Kevin Kiermire PERSON and there's been stretches where it was like yeah we don't really miss Kevin Kiermire PERSON right now but then we're at the point where it's likeKevin Kiermire would never do what Jose Siri PERSON just did so no it's a really interesting dynamic

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about what's going on. And just like the job was

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series to take after the Kiermire non-Raysign, it's DeLuca's now to take with what Siri is going through. And I just hope that I think the raise have a strong enough culture and clubhouse and leadership, maybe not vocal leadership, but organizational leadership to not let, I don't know, maybe I'm hyper negative in this sense, but I hope that Jose Siri PERSON doesn't become a bad apple in the clubhouse for the lack of playing time and seeing somebody else at his position having much success and getting much hype and he's uh you know starting some trouble

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internally if you will just saying can i can i say something do it okay everybody put your

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grab your tinful hats on. Let's put it on.

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All right.

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Everybody on with the conspiracy hat? Okay, we got it. Okay.

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Are you going to suggest, are you going to suggest that Wander Franco PERSON?

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No, no, no, no, no, no. Has affected Jose Siri's play because, uh, Siri was Wander PERSON's only friend on the team.

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No, no, no, nothing at all with without how she who shall not be named. Now you shall not be named yet. I'm at Harry Potter movie number six now. Okay, good.

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I'm now to Half Blood Prince WORK_OF_ART, so we'll see how that goes. I'm glad I'm glad Stacey PERSON's putting some damn order in that house.

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Look, conspiracy.

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He had any other reasons, by the way,

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which I'm not going to delve into, but she's really mad.

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Just like the famous is mad at Siri.

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Not going to go there, but continue with you.

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Conspiracy theory here. Conspiracy theory. There, we have obviously been pro-Johnny DeLuca PERSON since the start. You can go back on the tapes.

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Yeah, when he was acquired in trade, we were like, I watched a couple of clips, read a couple of quotes, and said, I like this guy.

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But this is us from the outside. I feel like, and this is where the conspiracy theory comes in, the media that the media that gets access to the clubhouse is really pro-johnie de Luca PERSON right now.

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Yeah, I buy it. So, I mean, is there something happening behind the scenes where they've been told, hey, push the narrative? Where we like Johnny DeLuca PERSON, make the fandom like Johnny DeLuca. We can tell you, the race have not spoken to us about this at all. We just like Johnny DeLuca PERSON. But it seems could it be that the mainstream media likes Johnny DeLuca PERSON?Of course it could be. And that's why this is a conspiracy, funny theory. But I'm just saying, it's been rather obvious, the love for Johnny DeLuca PERSON by everyone.So I'm just saying, is there something behind that where there could be talks about, hey, push this because this other guy ain't going to cut it.

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Yeah, and some subtle and maybe not so subtle shade toward Siri between B.A. and Dwayne and Neil and Andy PERSON. You said that. You said that a couple of days ago. Yeah.

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That during the broadcast, they were kind of hinting at it. I told you about what I heard from Neil and Andy PERSON.

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So you've got the radio guys.

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You've got Clubhouse ORG questions and answers.

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And then you've got the TV broadcast.

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I'm just saying conspiracy theory.

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Prop bet to your conspiracy theory, day after the trade deadline,

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is Jose Siri PERSON on the race roster or no?

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Right now on May 7th?

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Oh, cough, cough, cough.

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Yeah, I would say he's not with the race.

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I will say he is just based on the aforementioned injury stuff,

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but I don't feel overly confident about it. So there it is. Great question there from Nick from France GPE. This next comment comes from social media. The cranky fan. Haven't heard from him in a while.He says, are you aware the Yankees are paying for Instagram ORG posts, sponsored post, that is, to buy tickets at the TROP this coming weekend. Really appreciate a team that is so egotistical to pack the stand with its own fans. It's helping a division rival and small market team increase its revenue. And if you watch on YouTube, you can see the screen grab sponsored Instagram post with a New York Yankees at Tampa Bay with Aaron Judge as the poster boy, May 10th through May 12th. First glance at that, you think, okay, the razor up in New York GPE, right?Nope. They are at the crop.

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And the Yankees ORG have it in their color, their font, their brand standards,

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and they want their fandom to pack the trap,

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which wouldn't be the first time that happened. And I'll be curious to see what the percentage breakdown is this weekend of raise fans to Yankees ORG fans, vice versa. We saw a pretty large smattering of Mets fans this past weekend. And I've not checked the standings recently, but I think Yankees ORG fans have been relatively happy so far this season.They love the Juan Soto PERSON action and all of that as well thus far.

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If there was a lot of Mets fans, there's going to be a lot more Yankees fans than than Mets fans so hopefully a lot of racers are going to show up I feel like I do want to go to a game this weekend I don't know which one but I but I do want to go one just to like just show support the boys are are playing well and and there's nothing better than watching yankees fans go to the trops spend money for the franchise and then go home uh being uh really really sad and distraught about how a team with that you know low payroll can beat their very very rich yankees so um hopefully if you guys can make it to a game, you can do so. That would be great. Oh, and thanks to the cranky fan.

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Hadn't seen him in a while. So thank you for sending that. Yeah, we love the cranky fan. He always gives us some good things.

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He's funny, man. But, you know, I get it.

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Look, Steinbrenner's name is all over the Tampa Bay Area LOC. There's a high school in Hillsborough County GPE named after him. There's a Boys and Girls Club ORG named after him. You have spring training, Yankees ORG, of course. You have their, I think, training and rehabilitation facility in Tampa, the 27 rings. All the people that have moved and retired over the years from New York GPE.I mean, it's been pretty embedded year and year out. I mean, there is a point. I don't know if it's still around, but one of the local sports radio stations in town actually broadcasted Yankees ORG game. I read a stat. I saw a stat somewhat recently that the percentage, how do I phrase this, there are three times more Yankees fans living in Tampa, Tampa Bay compared to Pittsburgh GPE. Does thatmake sense at all? That is gross. Yeah. So that's what, that's what we're dealing with. And we have the notorious Severino PERSON quote of, hey, we like playing at the drop because, you know, the rays don't have many fans that show up. So it feels, you know, like the home game.

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Guess what? If the boys are in a six game winning streak, then hopefully that won't be the case with the Yankees ORG coming in.

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And it's probably gotten worse. Like, I know that the rays PRODUCT are building up generational youth fan bases. Get them now. They become adults. They have kids. And then you got family fans for life.But you also have a lot of New Yorkers since COVID that have moved down to the tampa bay area for one reason or another people just wanted to move out of the big cities i don't i don't want to get taxed for buying a candy bar or soda and other reasons as well so i mean we're we've seen quite an exodus i mean look at all the the new york plates new jersey plates california plates um illinois plates Illinois plates. So there are a lot of New Yorkers NORP here. What can I say that?

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That's what happens. And I don't blame the Yankees ORG for buying a sponsored post to push the effort there.

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But hopefully the City Connect drive some more race fans out this weekend.

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All right.

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We have one more question to get to, and that is a voice memo from another one of our great listeners.

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Hey, Kevin and Ulysses PERSON.

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It's locked on superfan Jack Voorhe PERSON's calling with another hot take. Here's something I'm noticing. Here I'm watching the Brewers Ray's series, the second game in, and the fielding is beginning to fall apart. I believe, here's my theory, this is a consequence of the bad pitching. And specifically, pitching that does not get across the zone, right? You can be beat.You can be beat if you get a pitch across the zone and they get a hit or they get a home run, but just not that many walks. Here's a further consequence of walks is that over time, you're infield, your outfield, the fielding falls apart because they're not getting the reps of throwing. The timing is off. They should be getting a good amount of ground balls and pop-ups if you're getting it across the strike zone, right? That's my theory. I'd love to hear what you have to think about it.And also, shout out to Evan PERSON if he's out there too. We love you, Kloskey PERSON. Raise up. All right, Yosis PERSON, what do you have to say about that?

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That was awesome, Jack PERSON.

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Thank you always for listening, for watching, and for sending those voice moments. They're always enjoyable. We'll send Kloski your best because he's getting married or has been getting married for the last three, four days. Kevin PERSON, I want to play a game with you. Okay. And it's 60 seconds long.It's kind of like Kloskey PERSON on the clock. Okay. Defensive F4 by team. What is the race ranked from 1 to 30th?

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I have kind of sort of looked at these numbers. I'll say middle of the pack like 14.50. 24th. What are the raise ranked in outs above average? I

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believe I confirmed

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that unless I really did a bad job in statistics here. 22nd?

Speaker 51996.74s - 1997.96s

I had 21st, so

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basically... We changed a game or two.

Speaker 52000.44s - 2008.42s

Yeah. UZR Ultimate Zone ORG rating over 150. What do you have them ranked in that category?

Speaker 32008.86s - 2020.38s

1 to 30? Yes. I'll see middle of the pack again, like 14th, 15th. 18th. What do you have a defensive run saved?

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What do you the rank?

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What do I rate this up?

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11th.

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27th. Okay, I've really botched my numbers here. So you're saying that's not good. What do you the rate this up? 11th?

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Okay, I've really botched my numbers here.

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So you're saying that's not good.

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No, and I have two more.

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I know field in percentage is not what it used to be.

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18th percent.

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It's very subjective.

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I know, still 18th percent, 18th place. And then errors, they're 12th in amount of errors, 12.

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So maybe that's the one you were talking

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about um no bueno my friend yeah no i i'm with you and i i know that we can't um put everything into

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the defensive metrics but i think you get a decent picture of where the race stand and of course

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the race have proprietary metrics that would probably say similar things that it's not going all too hot.

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And just to wrap this question up relatively briefly, I understand Mr. Boer PERSON.

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He's point there.

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But I'll also say that you have guys that are new to the organization, aren't familiar with the drop.

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You have guys that are playing new positions.

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You have rookies. I mean, Curtis Meade at second base. Medrizario PERSON playing corner outfield. Randy PERSON having to move to center field. Whatever.

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Jose Siri PERSON has been putting forth.

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So you have a lot going on there.

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And Caballero PERSON, even though we like his playing, we like him, there have been some shoddy play on Tuesday evenings game, for example.

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Yeah. Now we've seen some amazing plays from him, but we got to find, I think there was a point where Willie Adamas PERSON was like making the outstanding, unbelievable, five-star performance plays.

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But the routine ones, he wasn't quite handling. So maybe there was a little bit of that. And again, yeah, like you said, Cavalero, He was a second baseman with Seattle ORG, moving to shortstop. So exactly adjustment as well. So I think that kind of hits on the points there. But we'll see what happens.

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We'll see if they improved in that category going forward. In the meantime, though, hope you all have a wonderful day.

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Stay safe and we will talk to you on Friday. Hey, Prime members, you can listen to this locked on podcast ad-free on Amazon Music ORG. Download the Amazon Music app today.