Tony Clark resignation details, Braves lose 2 arms, New tech for umps

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Speaker 1: It's e FT Live the spring training tour engineered by fast and All. Check out fastball dot com for more information. They're on the calendar. So are the Cleveland Guardians, Royals Camp done, Guardians Camp now A's Camp tomorrow, Dodgers Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows. Don't forget it will be live, Mariners Camp, Rangers Camp. Also, AJ, you have double duty tonight, a doubleheader, and you might be able to swing a cocktail while you're doing that double header. First, a little look at Guardians Camp this morning, bright and early, getting those stretches in, AJ, did you like this part of the job.

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Speaker 2: I love this part of the job.

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Speaker 3: The only problem with the guardian is.

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Speaker 2: Not sure if we can hear it? Yeah? Can you not hear me?

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Speaker 4: I got you now, we got you now.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I did not like stretching because you never see a cheat a switch before it's an antelope. So no, but it was a good We had this conversation with a couple of the fasten All people that actually are in camp today with us. They asked me the same question, did you like the stretching? And you know what the stretching was for, It's changed now it used to be what'd you do last night?

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Speaker 2: What was your fun?

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Speaker 3: What'd you do after practice?

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Speaker 2: Did you nap?

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Speaker 5: In?

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Speaker 3: All that stuff? Now these guys are too serious and they're all like, no one's laughing. They're all just like perfect high knees. We got to do the high knees. We've got to do the butt kickers, you know, we got to do all that stuff. We used to be just a free for all. Now they have whistles and all that. It's it's crazy now.

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Speaker 5: High wash, it's eyewash. You're not out there. If you're going out there to prepare, you're cooked. Those dudes have been. They have a sweat going before they get out there. If they're strolling out like Jimmy Rollins style where it's like he gets his uniform on at like three point fifty nine and he's out there by four, you're cooked. Like, that's not how That's not how it rolls.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollinds catching strays for just being able to hop field and do thing.

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Speaker 5: Oh he know, he was. He was the latest on time person ever. He would Jimmy, you're listening. You know exactly what I'm talking about. You were like Superman somehow you came into the field, but never a panic in the world.

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Speaker 2: This is is good.

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Speaker 5: Ready to go like you were, you were all ready, it was. It was crazy. Never seen anything like it. Always ready to get there on the field.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy. So Spencer swelling back and.

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Speaker 1: Hurston Waldrip both going under the knife and they don't even know obviously when they'll be back. And they didn't even confirm a timetable for now. Here's Mark Bowman, he said, surgery for removing loose bodies. They Spencer today, Waldrip on Monday, and the Braves are not providing a timeline. Walt Weis, their manager, said he hopes both will be able to pitch again this year. It's not just those two who both should have been part of the rotation. Aldo Lopez is a high injury risk just based on what's gone on with him lately. Grant Holmes had injuries lately. Chrissale has been their most durable guy. This is not good.

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Speaker 5: Who if you talk to a Red Sox fan, they'll be like, Chrisale durable?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 5: But he won the sy young as a Brave. So there's that.

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Speaker 2: That's tough.

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Speaker 5: It's tough, and it's not We went through it a little bit yesterday. Fortunately it's bone spurs or bone chips. I just hope they find out what is causing those bone chips, because you don't just randomly go around like creating bone chips in your body like something is causing that. It's your body reacting to something. Hopefully they can figure that out.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on with the player's side of the situation here that runs all of baseball. Right you have Major League Baseball Commissioner Manfred and all the people blow him other side because someone said the other day, oh, he's just the executive director.

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Speaker 4: No, that is the leader of the Players Association.

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Speaker 1: So the player's side that makes up our sport and represents all of the players, that's the Players Association, the union, and that is Tony Clark, who is now out. So we'll start there and then we'll get to the succession plan. So this broke yesterday. We had Ken and Evan Drelick all over the story first saying Tony Clark's resigning, then step two was passing, and Don Benetta putting out from ESPN that Clark resigned after an internal investigation revealed he had an inappropriate relationship with his sister in law who had been hired by the union in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 4: That's a Jerry Springer shit right theocratz.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not what you're looking for from the leader. And I want to reiterate what you said, like the leader of the union, he is Rob Manford. As much as you say Rob Manfred, you know he can be the puppet for the owners. Okay, that's fine, you can say whatever you think. Like, this is a huge thing that the Players Association has to figure out. And people say, well, people make mistakes, Well, it's when you're a public figure, like they have to deal with that right now, and it's a big thing.

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Speaker 4: It is a huge thing.

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Speaker 1: Aj and he is still under investigation by the FEDS for if he did anything shady money wise. So there's stuff going on there and we don't know the resolution of that yet.

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Speaker 4: I think it's still ongoing.

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Speaker 1: So and to my knowledge, that's why there was a group that was internally making sure everything was okay to represent the player side. And with that, they're doing their homework and they're like, wait a second, what is this communication that's going on here? Then they speak to Tony, they notify the players and the committee there, and then the players call Tony on.

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Speaker 4: Monday and they're like, what's the deal.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like they essentially said, your toast, do you want to announce it yourself or not? And then by Tuesday morning we find out before his first meeting that's set in camp and he meets with all thirty teams, he's out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, this is just terrible situation. Honestly, I don't know enough about this, but from reading this, there has to be more to this, I feel like than what we've gotten so far, and I'm sure Kenondrek and everyone else is digging for it a little bit. This seems like the.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't even want to get into this because this just sucks for so many And I hate to get into people's personal life because you don't know what anyone's doing on a personal level unless you're living their life. So listen, whatever Tony did, this seems like the way for them just to get him to resign with a little bit of dignity if there's more, which I obviously hope there's not. But this just sucks, man. I don't even I hate even talking about this.

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Speaker 2: It just sucks.

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Speaker 3: This whole thing sucks.

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Speaker 4: They had a meeting yesterday, which is Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Bomb Nightingale said Bruce Meyer, who was kind of the number two there and he's the union's lead negotiator, is still going to be in that spot even if he also becomes the interim executive director. So that was one bit of news from Bob, and there's been a lot more.

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Speaker 4: Evan and Ken.

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Speaker 1: Came out with an article saying intriguing candidates emerge as MLBPA debate successor for ousted leader Tony Clark. Names they mentioned in there included Matt Nusbaum, who's part of the general council or I think is the lead general counsel there.

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Speaker 4: Don Fair who used.

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Speaker 1: To work with the MLBPA back in the day and then he went to the NHL side.

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Speaker 4: Daniel Murphy is on that picture.

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Speaker 1: He used to be part of the PA mix there. And Andrew Miller is part of the mix currently. We've had him on the show. So there's some names, there could be others. It sounds like there's some dissension to where some guys want to just get this roll in, keep the train on the tracks. Go with the guy who's already there and let him go. He's going to be a part of the mix regardless. Others are like, hey, let's take some time, let's make sure we get this right. Let's make sure we maybe talk to other candidates. You can speak to this, Kratz, because you've been part of the union. You got to get a lot of people on the same page. And they're a little busy right now with spring training, so there's a lot going on.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's better now than during the season. Like, you don't want guys to have to worry about this during the season. But when you're part of the subcommittee, when you're part of the executive committee as a player, you're representing the twelve hundred some odd players that are saying yay, you're nay to certain things. And I would agree. I would sit on the side of, hey, let's take some time. Let let's not need to name somebody the next forty eight hours. Nothing's going to happen. Nobody's attacking your city, nobody's attacking the union. No, but like this isn't like maybe baseball time to strike because Tony's out there, executive directors out No, there is such a structure built, such a game plan already built. Tony was really like the rallying cry guy. He was a guy that sat through the strike of ninety four and so he was him along with some of the other over player player reps or not player reps, but representatives from the players Association.

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Speaker 2: They saw it.

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Speaker 5: They saw that, and it's supposed to be there to remind guys, hey, you know what, we need to stay unified. That's where they need to find somebody. That's who they need to find. They need to find somebody who's not trying to politic their way into this role. They need to try to find somebody who has the best intentions, not somebody that's looking to get a major salary bump because they're getting this role. And I don't think that decision should be taken lightly. I think the next executive director needs to be somebody who was respected on both sides, respected by Major League Baseball, respected by the players, and respected in the avenue. That this is all going to be negotiated in lawyers like legal representatives, because there's a lot of there's a lot of things that go on that players may know what's going on, but when you have people that went to school for this stuff that are professionals in this realm. Sometimes I'm little against the player being in this role. The executive director doesn't necessarily negotiate this CBA. He's in there, he's part of it. But just like Rob Manfred doesn't negotiate the CBA, there's other people that are doing the negotiations, so those people are still in place. To me, this needs to be something that they didn't need to take time and they need to get it right because they need to make sure the union is still continue or continues to stay galvanized as one unit and not factions of big time superstars, mediocre players, Latin players, you know, Japanese players, players from the South, players from the North. Like they have to be one group and that's the best way that the Players Association works.

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Speaker 4: I'll use a comp here too.

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Speaker 1: Aj Bud Seeleague was the commissioner for a long time in Major League Baseball. He owned a team, He owned the Brewers, right, and the commissioner is the person that leads the charge with the owners. Right, they vote on what they want to do, then commissioner plays that out. Now it's Manford for a while he didn't own a team. He was a lawyer and on the fight for a long time. Then they bring him up to be the next guy. So playing to Kratz's point, it could be a former player. Doesn't have to be a former player.

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Speaker 3: No, it need to just be the best, like Eric said, the best person for the job that can can encompass all players, right, And I think there's no need to rush. But this is a bargaining year, so you got to put a little bit of maybe a fast forward on it, but not a rush. Maybe you know, like when you hit your your remote and it goes like one time two times, may maybe put it one and a half time instead of the four times, or it just zooms through your show you have on your DVR. Right, so there is a little bit of a rush. I don't think that because of where they're at and they're bargaining and they have they still have most of the team. I think when we look back on it now, they had Don Fear, then they had Michael Wiener who was the successor for Don Fear. He obviously got sick, passed away, horrible story. Then they hit the rush button. I feel like, who can we get in well Tony Clark was there, he was a player. He knows us, right. Boom, let's all right, Yeah, let's so Tony Clark in there. Okay, Tony Clark takes over. You can make the argument how it went good or bad.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's not for me to argue. But now you have a situation here where you got to get it right because it's a bargaining year, because there's going to be so much on the table, with the salary cap stuff, with the international draft stuff, with all the TV rights. Everything we've been talking about, we're going to talk about for the next ten months. You got to get this one right, guys. You just have to get this one right. Whether it's a player, a lawyer, somebody off the street that we don't even know about.

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Speaker 2: Please please please. As a I.

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Speaker 3: Guess we're not members of the union anymore crowds because we don't play anymore. But as a former member of this union and someone who's pension and insurance relies on this, please guys, just please get it right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 5: I think it's important that they continue to stay unified. I think it's important that they take their time. I'm not saying take months to do this. I'm saying take a week or two rather than a day or two. I think the fast forward button is understood and agreed upon, but I think there's also a sense that it is bigger than you. And if you have somebody that has an agenda that wants to take this job, I don't think that's and I don't think that's the type of leader that the union wants. So you know, I think that subcommittee will hear from people, hear from names, and hopefully they make the best choice.

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Speaker 1: I tried to make as many phone calls as possible. I'm no Ken Rosenthal, not reporting on any story, but the one consensus that I did get was that this is a good thing.

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Speaker 4: For all sides. Not the actual story.

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Speaker 1: And the implications of what came out of what Tony you know, was doing. But it was time because it felt like there was a lot of distractions off the field, and clearly we're learning about some of them, but it felt like people were that was permeating, right. There was a lot going on, and you want someone who's super focused and who's almost like a nerd about this stuff, and it's all they do, They eat sleep and breathe it and you can call them in any time in there around, right, Isn't that often how the best gms are The commissioner It is a twenty four to seven job, and it seemed to me like people felt as if there were distractions going on here. So they're like, we need someone who is strong, who is focused, who I can reach at any time, and who's going to get along well as best as possible.

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Speaker 4: With MLB.

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Speaker 1: You're going to have your battles. But from a fan perspective, that's where I'm coming in here. I want games to be played, you want things to keep rolling in, you want things to get better.

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Speaker 4: One of the things that I thought was.

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Speaker 1: The best part of the last agreement between both sides was to get a little lot of reaction going on, so you can't just tank. NBA is going through a massive tanking issue right now, and I think MLB has done MLB and the players have done things to be able to make that better. We've seen a lot of rule changes that I think continue to improve the game. So you want someone that's just going to be able to speak the language, and I think that there was a lot cleaned up just now as far as the streamlining all of this, Yes, they have to get a leader back in place. But if you're waiting on someone to make a final call and that person is busy with a million things going on that are off the field issues, right, You've got a federal investigation, You've got the sister in law situation going on here, which recovered earlier in the show, that's not good.

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Speaker 4: You're busy, and you're busy for the wrong reasons. It's true.

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Speaker 1: We say whatever we want on this show, AJ and that part is true. I say, I got told this by multiple people that are in different worlds, right, some more on the MLB side, some more on the player side, and they were like, I'll tell you this. I think everybody would agree. It's going to be a good thing. It'll help get someone who's in there, who's focused.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Let's hope. That's all we can do is hope Scott.

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Speaker 4: Shake it up.

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Speaker 1: Engineered by Fastenall where industry meets innovation for more info fastenall dot Com. Okay, so let's talk about MLB umpires that can now request real time feedback on ball strike calls during the upcoming season, and that includes the postseason as well. They'll be able to practice this in spring training. So here's the deal, because there actually has been some confusion. I have heard some people that know the game that think that an umpire can look at a pitch and be like, oops, I don't know if I got that one, and they can ask and then it's almost like an umpire's challenge. Nope, that's not what this is. This is real time feedback in between innings. So in between innings and you gotta break, the umpire can go on his little walkie talkie and be like, psh, hey on that two to two to Judge and I wrung them up?

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Speaker 4: Was I wrong?

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Speaker 1: And they'd be like, yep, you were wrong. As usual, Judge's zone is actually not that large. Okay, great, thank you. I'll make sure I try and make that better next time around. And also if he gives me shit next a B then I'll just take it. But that's really what's going to happen is you can ask every half inning to look back at any pitches. Now you communicate that you're not going to actually see it, but they'll just tell you like, oh, on that too too, Yeah you were wrong that one missed on the ABS challenge system, so.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't affect anything in game.

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Speaker 1: It's more to help you, I think, evolve aj during the game when you're calling it.

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Speaker 4: As an umpire.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like this, And instead of a player having a run back to the iPad and say told you that pictures a strike last at bat, umpires can actually ask and then they might imagine this God and Eric apologize, Man, I missed that call. I apologize you should have challenged it, and yeah, I know we still wrung me up, crapy umpire. So I like this. I think it keeps everyone accountable and it helps umpires learn on the fly. I'm all for this, making the game better, making umpires better, and just making everybody happy.

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 5: I never I never figured it out. Is it an actual communication system or is it where they can talk to them or do they because they said they'll make a signal about a call and then they'll tell them, so it's not a direct umpire talking to somebody.

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Speaker 2: Is it somebody talking to the umpire.

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Speaker 1: I can clarify all of this for you because I did a lot of nerdy work since I was hearing things that were so you can't do this during the game.

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Speaker 4: This has to happen in a half inning.

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Speaker 1: What you can do is you can do a quick alert like hey, I'm go don't want to check that pitch back. You can do that during the actual play during games, right when we're in play. That could cause a problem, and it was mentioned in this article which included Evan Dryk and some others from the Athletic I think Mitch Bannon on there our new host on Bluebird Territory.

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Speaker 4: But imagine if you're doing that and you're like, hey.

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Speaker 1: Bank that I want to bring that up during the half inning and see if it was a ball or strike. What if someone hears you and they're like, wait, so you weren't confident about that pitch. So they did mention that in the article because they're not going to tell you that until the half inning.

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Speaker 4: What it does is it could speed up the process.

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Speaker 1: Let's say they wanted to look at three pitches during that half inning, or have the person they're communicating with right the operator, so.

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Speaker 4: Kratz, the operator's not going to talk to them.

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Speaker 1: They would call for this and be like, hey, it's the middle of the fourth I think I messed one or two up. In the top of the fourth. I just want to get clarification, make sure I was right. How did I do boop? They talk, they tell them, so that's the process.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it's in between the half innings. My thought was when I read it they were or how it was. How I read it was, it was a signal, you know. So it'll be fun for me to watch different umpires and be like, oh, if he if he grabs a side of his mask, that's the signal. He wants them to check that pitch. And then at the half inning they'll they'll give him the result of what that pitch was. Because I love watching different intricacies Brian and Nora. After every pitch he shifts his he shifts his chest protector and he does something with his chest protector every single time. You know, Vic Carrapozzo doesn't move at all until it's time for strike three. He's the one who's actually in that picture there. So I love watching that kind of stuff. But I want to see a little tick, like if they go check because.

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Speaker 4: Now they're not doing that. It's tech.

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Speaker 1: It's tech, so they'll be attack so they'll hit the teck, but you'll look for them to like hit their belt buckle and be like.

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Speaker 4: And get that.

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Speaker 2: That's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: It's it's not going to be like a sign. It's not going to be a sign for that someone's watching them on there. It'll be some button that they hit and they want them to review.

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Speaker 2: And I want to see.

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Speaker 4: But is going to be subtle?

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Speaker 1: So if you're catching, I mean, are you going to see the umpire trying to subtly just oh.

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Speaker 5: I'm not as I'm catching, I'm saying the bench will see it.

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 2: There's there's an umpire. There's an umpire that doesn't use the clicker. He has. He has hair bands on his hand and.

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Speaker 5: He pulls them, pulls them to the one finger when it's two strikes, when it's when it's three balls on the other f on the other hand, that's how he does the that's how he does his ball cat like.

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Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff is interesting to me.

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Speaker 1: I think this will cause more fights and injections. Why because a JA this gives the umpire ammo. They didn't have any ammo. And credit to MLBNPA right, who both agreed, we're doing all of these things, but we're not really giving the umpires as much access during a game, we get to run, like you, guys both said, to the dugout and check the tablets and see who was right and wrong. And we've seen sometimes guys get tossed after as they're screaming at the umpire, they talk to them the next day. B umpire has a little revenge now too. If he gets he gets a little shit from the player. He could be like, okay, okay, I see you that half inning he checks and he's like, nope, I was right. And I don't know if an umpire is going to bring that up, but he's certainly going to have the amo if someone says something to him, be like did you check that pitch?

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Speaker 4: Did you check that three two where you felt like you had ball four? I got you, bro.

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Speaker 3: I dis agree, scout, because now there is no arguing anymore because you know what the argument is. Cap your helmet if you don't like to call, and we'll challenge you and we'll see you right there. So I don't think it's going to lead any more rejections. I just think it's another tool to help the umpires improve. And I'm here when umpires.

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Speaker 1: Get better, do you think that a catcher might be like, hey, next half inning, you should just check a few of your pitches.

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Speaker 3: Well, that might get somebody objective, but again there will say challenge it if you don't like it.

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Speaker 5: That's the thing. Like they're they're not checking the egregious ones. The catchers are going to go They're gonna challenge the egregious ones. This is where this is where the money's gonna be made. That fifty to fifty ball. And when I say a fifty to fifty ball, it truly means that umpires call that pitch fifty percent of the time of ball fifty percent of the time a strike.

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Speaker 2: Who was right?

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Speaker 5: Because now there's it's black and white. Now there's no gray area. It is you were either right or you were wrong. And you can see the progression on the screen for the podcast, we have a we have a progression of what umpires zones look like throughout how they've changed since two thousand and seven to twenty five and twenty five. To me, it's interesting because there's different times when they've kind of implemented different like objectives. Hey, our objective starting twenty twenty five, which teams found out in spring training I think it was, or maybe in the winter meetings I forget was, Hey, we're going to call the tighter zone. We're going to call the actual zone. It shows over an entire year, it kind of shrunk on the sides a little bit. Back in two thousand, I think it was fourteen or fifteen, they said, hey, we're going to make an onus about not making the zones so.

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Speaker 2: Wide and more top to bottom.

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Speaker 5: Ironically, you know, the four seam fastball was really starting to get some life pun intended, but it was something that it shows umpires overall can make adjustments and players can make adjustments too. But it's such a cool graphic that we just showed.

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Speaker 4: There it is again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two thousand and seven was kind of brutal compared to what it looks like now in twenty twenty five. Look at that chunky amiba in two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 4: Ah, and now how different strike.

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Speaker 3: Zones a differently. It looks you'll be called differently though, so you can say people are like, oh, they sucked in two thousand and seven, but that was the strike zone that we were given. Players make adjustments. Talk to any player, they'll adjust to what's being called, right, and it's gotten tighter because we've gotten better technology. And over the years the technology has gotten better and better, and so have the umpires and so have the hitters. So yeah, it's a natural evolution of what happens with technology and players and us.

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Speaker 1: And we can do a separate segment on this, but just to clarify for people, we're not losing the strike zone box.

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Speaker 4: On the games that have them.

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Speaker 1: There will be a delay though they'll have a I think it's a nine second delay to put the game broadcast out. That they have some separation there so the players can't be sitting there and who knows is that, I guess aj so that they don't have some system where someone's seeing it in real time and trying to tell someone to challenge it, even though you have to do an instant challenge, but so that someone doesn't like like this and this is oh because they saw the sign from someone.

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Speaker 2: Yes take.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's I also watched the Triple A game where the guy hesitated too long. He took one step across the plate and he was like, oh, it looked like he forgot that they had another challenge left because it was in It was in extra innings and he tapped on it and the umpire was like, nope, sorry, and there had already been like six challenges at that point in the game, so the umpire was having a pretty tough day. M hmm.

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Speaker 1: I just want to conclude by saying that many people are underrating how fun this is going to be. You know, we put stuff out there about this and sometimes it gets loved, but it doesn't get as many like views and clicks as I think because I don't know if people realize how fun this is going to be. The pitch clock ended up being a big success for most people that wanted to speat the game up. This is going to add a wrinkle inside the game that I think is going to be super fun, especially for the in game experience. If you're a fan and you think you got it or you're just pissed about a call, and then the place is going to go freaking crazy, just like I mean, AJ you're a big football fan where somebody, you know, where the coach throws the red flag and fans freak out.

00:28:26
Speaker 4: They're like challenge that.

00:28:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see, We'll see. I can't wait to see it in action, though. I'm excited to see this.

00:28:34
Speaker 5: I'm glad it's by the players and not by and not by the coaches or some replay guy. I honestly, when they first came out replaced, I thought it should be the players and then you have more more challenges, but the players should challenge it.

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Speaker 2: I would. I would love to see it because there's so many dudes who are like, oh, check that. Check we kept it.

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Speaker 5: We kept We kept a stat the one year, how many times one person I won't say his name said check that and he was wrong? And it was it got like six or seven all of a sudden, you'd all of a sudden be like, hey, you're not allowed to challenge. If he challenges something, you're not allowed to challenge. And I think the same thing is going to happen with the strike zone.

00:29:16
Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun.

00:29:17
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Speaker 5: Mean, I love the plus four thousand that I'm getting for Bradish.

00:30:29
Speaker 2: I do really like that.

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Speaker 5: I think there are a couple names ahead of there that if you're not going the Crochet Scooble route, which are respectively Crochet's four hundred plus four hundred and then Schoobles at plus three hundred. It's like you're getting some nice numbers on that. Like that is that shows you how wide open this could be? And is Scoobale going to be the third ever three consecutive Cy Young Award winner.

00:30:57
Speaker 2: That's tough to do.

00:30:58
Speaker 5: Only twice has it ever been done, and he do it for the third time. To me the name on the list that really brings me the most value. And also this could be his year because of based on you know who else is on his pitching staff, Hunter Brown. If you're paying me thirteen hundred plus thirteen hundred for Hunter Brown, I'm gonna put something on that because I feel like his next step, his next step in maturation. Obviously he's got to stay healthy as anybody on this list, but it's gonna be Can he be that ace? Can he be that ace now that Framber's gone? Can he say, Okay, I'm taking the next step, because if he does, he's gonna best all these guys.

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