Marlins sweep Yanks, Astros-Red Sox BEEF, Duran’s entrance, AJ’s HoPG acceptance speech w/Lance Lynn!

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Speaker 1: Look at this the Battery made back together. It's Lance Linn and Aj Prizinski on a show together for the first time. Aj, you missed lance debut the other day.

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Speaker 2: I know I wasn't too upset about that though, so I'm sure you did great, Lance, or at least you tell me you did great.

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Speaker 3: No matter what.

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Speaker 4: Hey, don't act like you didn't check in to see how I did and told me I did a good job via text. Everybody knows you play hard to get publicly, but behind the scenes, he's just a big, nice guy.

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Speaker 2: I honestly, that would be like saying I read the rundowns or I knew neither.

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Speaker 3: So no, he was Where was I when Lance? Which city was.

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Speaker 4: In you're living your life?

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Speaker 1: Usually I guess Chicago just because he is.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't there, you go.

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Speaker 1: I was just going, yes, Well, since you guys are are two, you know playing a lot of ball in the Midwest too, Midwesterners baseball wise, for of your career. I have two things to share at the top of the show. Number One, you guys both played for the White Sox. Did you know that they surpassed last year's win total this past weekend? So they will not have a worse record than last year.

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Speaker 4: That it was impressive.

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Speaker 3: Is that something to be proud of?

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Speaker 2: Yes, if they're not going to have the worst record of all time again I said at the beginning of the year, They're not.

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Speaker 3: They cannot possibly be that bad.

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Speaker 4: It could have somebody, somebody trying to beat him.

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Speaker 1: Though, true, true, the Rockies. Yeah, but this is this could be about a twenty game improvement for the Socks, who played pretty well this weekend against the Angels. And then I've got one for Lance that I think I'm going to stump him on Lance. We had eight call ups for the Twins on Friday who decided to sell about half of their team. It's okay if you don't know the answer. Most of America I would say ninety nine point percent of America doesn't know this. Can you name a relief pitcher on the Minnesota Twins?

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Speaker 4: Oh No, And the ones that I could want, the ones that I could name are just got traded.

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Speaker 1: So no, exactly, No brock Stewart, no Louis Island, no Griffin.

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Speaker 2: Left John John. There was another Juwan with the j H. Lefty what's his name? I forgot his name. No, he's not there anymore. No mm hm, No, I can't name one.

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Speaker 3: Then Stewart Jack's Colomb, he going colomb, he gone, colombe gone.

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Speaker 2: The theod Barr doesn't play for them anymore. He was there forever he was a staple yep uh duranchies.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thunder Burke, thunder Burk, thunder Birk.

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Speaker 1: That was good.

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Speaker 3: You know why?

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Speaker 2: The only m hm and you know the only reason why I know who he is is is because there used to be a Twins prospect named Mark VanderBurg who was a left handed hitting first baseman. Okay and so, and I used to watch him when he was in Double A and Orlando, and he made a little bit of call up. But he was not the same person as the Thunderbirk that's there now. So yes, there's Thunderbirk. Though I got one.

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Speaker 1: Good job. Good job. And if anyone listening at home wants to quiz their friends, I'll give you some other answers that you can use. Justin Topa, Michael Tonkin, Cole Sands, Erasmo, Ramirez came back, Pearson ol Yeah, Noah Davis, Travis Adams, Jose Arena. There are your options for now with the Twins who have completely scrapped their bullpen and decided to start over. But let's talk about a team in much better shape right now, the Marlins. Let's charge.

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Speaker 2: Let's charge about.

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Speaker 1: Aj Are the Yankees okay? And are the Marlins good? Because they just swept the Yankees for the first time in franchise history. They've played them well in the past, but never swept them. The place was packed, of course, It's always packed for these games because you get the satellite people, the New Yorkers who filled the place up, but they were very disappointed as the judgeless Yankees were swept. Luis Hill came back, didn't matter. Jazz Chisen made a little base running flub, although he said he would do it again. Add it all up. Oh wait, and Friday, all of the new guys or many of the new guys came in for the Yanks and had some issues. So can you get a larger nightmare than what just happened for them down in South Florida?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: But by the way, happy anniversary to Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura because today is the anniversary of him charging the mound, which we use for charging the mound. So just fyi, today is the anniversary of that. Nineteen eighty three was a year. So just FYI for all the people out there, No, you can't have a worst weekend for the Yankees, and which just happened. They got swept by the Marlins, who were now five hundred, by the way, which is amazing.

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Speaker 3: And CLAYT.

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Speaker 2: McCollough deserves a ton of credit. The team deserves a ton of credit. As hard as we were on Peter Bendix, he deserves a ton of credit. They're at five hundred, they're there, so but no, could have been worse than And by the way, Jazz would do that again, what get doubled off on a pop up to the second basement?

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Speaker 4: What are we doing?

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Speaker 2: Like, just go back to the base, dude, like but trying to be too cool, Just go back to the base.

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Speaker 1: Man's what do you think?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was That's a tough weekend. There's no way to look at or you know, there's that's It was bad. It was bad, and it puts them in a kind of a tough spot. You know, all their new acquisitions are didn't fill the wall. Well for him, Uh, you're making a lot of base running theirs. It seems like everything's going bad at once, you know. Hope the hope for them is when Judge does come back, that he rights all the wrongs that they have going on right now, because that's kind of the only only chance they've got going on is for him to carry him.

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Speaker 3: By the way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but by the way, uh, you mentioned the believers they signed are traded for. They all had to blow up on the same day. That is not what Yankees fans wanted to see. They were hoping this bullpen would be super charged and they all and then Kable Hero, the guy who they got from the Rays, misses the ground ball which leads to the winning run scoring.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that was just a nightmare of a game. We met, We questioned it.

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Speaker 2: Remember when the trade went down for Bednar and some of the other guys, Like they're going from no pressure situations to the Yankees. It was only one game. Don't get better. But you saw it happened Devin Williams. It happened to him early in the year, right, Like, it's not you're not playing for the Pirates and the Rockies anymore. You're playing for the Yankees, and all eyes of you lance you know, you played for these organizations.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's totally a different ballgame. When you get there, you got to embrace it. You got to enjoy the competition and enjoy the platform that you're on now, and it is different from some of those smaller market teams going to New York. So I think when it's all said and done, you hope that that for them for their sake, the guys that they got, it's it's the get the bad one out of the way right away and then now they can move forward. But all in all, that's a that's a tough start after the trade deadline and all that for the Yankees and their fans for sure.

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Speaker 1: Hey Jay, can we roll that playback with Jazz and can you explain to me what happened? So Zavor Edwards said he was thinking about dropping it to eliminate Jazz because Goldie is a much slower runner and he's the one who popped it up. So he's like, I could get Jazz and replace him with Goldie, and Jazz kind of said that's what he was thinking, and that's why he would do it again. And Boonie said, it's not like a lack of hustle, it's just you know, a play that he's thinking about. Are they wrong there? Should he just be hugging the bag and making sure he doesn't get doubled up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Goldschmith's right there. It's not like they were gonna they were gonna get Goldschman out at first. So I listen, Boon standing up first players. It's what Aaron Boone does. But my thing is is, Goldie's not a guy that doesn't hustle. Goldie runs the ball out and he was right there at first base. So a Lance played with him, he knows he's not going to not hustle. He was right there, So yeah, that was the excuse they used. But I mean, dude, just go back to the base because if he does drop that, Goldschmick can steal bases too. It's not like Goldschmith's some bass cloggers, not me right, Goldschmick can get on their score from first on a double, especially in Miami.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think that was an excuse they used. But he should have just been one step off the base if he drops it, if he drops it on purpose, first of all, on that turf, it's gonna bounce so high. Maybe jazz can make it anyways, but you can't be far enough off where it's even close.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't risk that. You can't risk that right there as you saw the peak of the second basement. I think he was thinking about it, obviously, if you have a no doubt base stealer that you gotta gotta worry about. I've seen it work. I've seen it work in LA where they where they made sure the right guy was at first and got rid of the fast guy with the force out. But in that in that instance, you just got to play the game right way, stand next to the bag, let them get there out one way or the other. Because the more you like when you saw what happened, the more you try to think with them, you get yourself in more trouble. I understand what Jazz was thinking and the idea of it, but by doing that, he just gave him an extra out instead of Hey, you still have a runner on first no matter what. So all in all it it was a bad play.

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Speaker 1: Lance you played for Boonie, right I did. Do you think he's catching too much heater? Do you think it's fair because Yankee fans lose their minds. You're not going to replace the GM who's locked up for a while and been there forever. I've been always saying, I feel like these are veteran guys. It's not like they need somebody to sit down with them and teach them the basics of baseball. But a lot of fans disagree and think that Boonie should be much more harsh. I don't know many other managers that are harsh, especially publicly about their players. There was one example I think that Ken Rosenthal brought up in a recent article about the Yankees earlier this month. He said Pat Murphy, Brewers manager, stood out when he was asked why Joey Ortiz was held out of the lineup for a second straight day and whether he was dealing with something. Murph's reply was, yeah, is that because the manager's pissed? I want to give him his best approach at the plate every day, and we've given him a lot. We've playing him, We're playing him every day. He just can't have lapses at the plate. You don't hear that very often. That's an outlier, but it sounds like that's what Yankee fans want. They don't make the decisions, though, So what do.

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Speaker 4: You think Here's the thing is boons if it needs to be addressed. He is addressing it. He's not going to talk through the media. He's not going to tell you what's going on in the clubhouse. He played the game, he played at a very high level in big markets. He knows how it works. Whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. So I'm sure positive that he's addressing everything that's going wrong with the players, and the players are addressing it too, but they're not going to tell you about it, because the more that gets out in New York, the worse it gets. So they would rather say, oh, you're not doing enough, than oh, he's blowing people up, and there's more of a story there and things leaking out of the clubhouse, and that causes more problems than what's going on. They know what's wrong, they know how to fix it, and they've addressed it. But the problem with the fans and meeting all that they want to know what's said and how it was said. And we all know from the best clubhouses we've been in, they stay in they stay in house, and no one knows what's going on, and you write it yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big difference in market too, AJ. I mean Murph is saying his thing out in Milwaukee. Boonie says, anything, it's getting a lot of coverage.

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Speaker 2: No agreed, and listen, Well, we also saw Boone grabbed the first base coach. I forget who the first base coach is there, but he grabbeds first space coach. Travis Chadmo was like, you know, kind of kind of game an airfaw on the on the camera, so I don't know, listen, I don't mind this. Listen, no manager. Nowadays, there's no Ozzie Gians left in the world where they just come out and shred guys. Right, there's no Tomulus Ordas and all those guys that used to just kill guys. They just kind of go with the flow and everything is positive. They don't want to make it into bigger things, and they have their conversations quietly in their office when no one's around.

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Speaker 3: And that's fine. That's the way it is.

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Speaker 2: That's the way because we don't want, you know, every we don't need everything air at all, our dirty laundry eared. But I mean, I think in this case, Boone protected his player. They came up with a reason, and it's what they came up with, and that's what they said. But I mean it can't happen again.

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Speaker 1: Are you worried that this team could miss the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: A Jay, they need judge back quickly. They're behind the Red Sox. Let's not forget the Red Sox past them. Red Sox up to Houston. There are the Red Sox past them. And for all the kudos we gave the Yankees and non kudos we gave the Red Sox, the Red Sox are ahead of the Yankees right now, which and are also behind the Jays. Let's not forget the Jays are in first place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Everybuddy dermerin Maymon, who's on this show, Lance said, just thinking out loud, it's actually possible they missed the playoffs? Or is it actually possible? At some point? You are who you are? Shaky d hitable rotation, No Steed on basis home, We're a best offense. Way too many blunders, just my inner thoughts speaking out loud. Jeter on Fox the other day kind of blasted them too and said they have to clean it up, no excuses.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think everybody's right here. Yes, it's very possible to miss the playoffs. There's a lot of teams that got better at the deadline, and they're also playing better at this point in the season. You look at health overall, they've got to get healthy, but they also have to stay healthy on the pitching side. If they have any more issues with they're starting pitching, they're going to be in a world to hurt. So, yes, it's very possible that they could get themselves in a spot where they missed the playoffs. I think if you look at the team as a whole, you don't see that happening. But you know, if certain things don't go their way, it's it's going to be a tough, tough fight for him. I mean, you look at their third and their division right now, and there's other teams creeping up in the wildcard too.

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Speaker 3: Here's my thing.

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Speaker 2: Can we show that tweet again, the second one with Jeter and a Rod going back and forth a little bit about this. Let's let's not forget something here. What a Rod says is actually right. If we made them, any of us made a mistake like Jazz did, we'd be sitting our butt right on the bench. He's right, that doesn't happen anymore. I mean, the number one motivator in sports is the bench. You make a mistake, you get sat down. Guess what you want to play? How do you make money?

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Speaker 3: You play?

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Speaker 2: And if you don't get to play because you make stupid mistakes, you go sit on the bench, and then you can't make money and you kids, you can't play. And I agree with what they said here, like they have to clean this up. What did the Dodgers say after they beat the Yankees in the World Treo last year? We knew they were going to make mistakes. All we had to do was put the ball in play and keep the pressure on them, and they were going to make mistakes. Well, this is what we're seeing now this last week or so. The Yankees are making mistakes and they need to clean it up if they want to go deep in the postseason. Now, their home runs and some of the things they've been able to do have covered up some of these during the regular season, but in the postseason they're magnified and we're starting to see some cracks already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll finish with this. We are giving the Marlins credit, but they are still six games away from a playoff spot. They are playing great. They've been one of the best teams the last couple months. Awesome. There's still six games away with teams in front of them, plus the Cubs, Mets, and the Padres holding those playoff spots. Those are pretty talented teams. Hey, this was a big win from the weekend. Jan Duran in Philadelphia has the same exact entrance that he did in Minnesota, and it feels even crazier aj because Minnesota has been a little quiet the last couple of years. Ever since twenty three when they made the playoffs and it was nuts. You know, they've pissed off their fans. Things have calmed down a lot. But Duran gets to bring his show to Philly and the Twins were super helpful with the Phillies and making sure that that whole setup was there for him from the jump.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was awesome.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the coolest moments when he came out of the bullpen for the first time and the camera follows them in they do the whole chill. I mean, that's why Lance wishes he was a closer, because starters don't get light shows. Closers get light shows, and closers get cool entrances, not starters. Starters, Closers cool.

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Speaker 4: All about the show baby, and that's they can trade your entries now too. You can't beat that now. You can just take everything with you when you get traded.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, the whole package. It's included in the package. They sent, the digital assets, they sent the music remix, they sent everything to make sure in a very quick time period that Duran's interests would kind of take over in Philly. And Philly's had really good crowds for several years now. You know, it's not just the playoffs. They fill it up pretty good for games like this over the weekend. So it was a cool scene. It was like, chills better than box scores. Let's hit the Astros and the Red Sox from the weekend. AJ. The Astros got swept, so they're struggling. There's two teams that are chasing them that got better exactly, and the Red Sox are like, I don't care that we barely did anything at the deadline. We're good. We won five in a row. Like you mentioned, they're passing the Yanks, they're going after the Blue Jays in the division and also they're in a wild card spot. So what did you think of the weekend Korea Returns hit a homer the other day, but not enough for them. They beat Framber with Lucas Giolito dealing on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: The Red Sox outplated them in a very tense series, a very intense series of playoffs. Fere Red Sox outplayed them, they out pitched them, and they got the big hits. But the Astros jumped out to some leads and the Red Sox came back. Like you mentioned, the pitching for the Red Sox was really good. They make great defensive plays, they got the big hits. The Red Sox looked like the better team in this three game series. Three game series. So let's everyone calm down. But yeah, in this series, the Red Sox look like a better team.

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Speaker 1: Wend A Lance.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think you definitely saw that. I think the Red Sox you they've kind of had a quiet deadline, but they've kind of like slowly been picking away at it. When they traded Devers away. They're creating something that they they like and they think is gonna be that's gonna go well, especially with some of their young talent coming up. They didn't get rid of any of their outfielders. That are really good players. They're starting to pitch. Gilito, I think his last eight starts has been dealing. So you're starting to see those guys come along, find their find their way. And you know with that with that team, with Bregman back being healthy, I think you're gonna see him start to just play good baseball and winning baseball. And story talked about a post game yesterday. They're not afraid to get the hit, move it, take the walk, get to the next guy, not try to hit a home run, just put the ball on play. And then you saw that in that six round ending yesterday. So they're doing all the small things. Especially when you see like what the Yankees are doing, they're doing the opposite of what the Yankees are doing, all the small things and the right things to play winning baseball. So they're going to be scary down the Stretchkrats.

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Speaker 4: Go for it.

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Speaker 1: And we had beef in that series. So AJ On Saturday, Framburg or was it sorry? Net Narius? On Saturday, Narius is pitching uh Astro's reliever and he gives up a double to Trevor's story with Rob Refsnyder standing on second story to second and Narius is like, Nah, I'm good, I'm gonna bock you over to third. They're worried about sign and stealing Will Middlebrooks points out on the red SOX broadcast. I'll read some quotes of his so I don't miss quote him. He said, quote, imagine the Astros being mad about stealing signs, so someone's not bitter yet. And then another quote, A lot of guys that throw split fingers a lot you can pick the grip out of their glove. This is not cheating. This is part of the game. If you don't like it, hide your grip better. So, anyway, thoughts on that little back and forth.

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Speaker 4: I think people you got you got it.

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Speaker 3: J No, go ahead, lies.

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Speaker 4: I think you're looking at the split guy right. I'm sorry I interrupt you, but I think he presets it. So it's one of the more obvious ones that get from second base if he doesn't really hide that glove tight. And it is kind of weird when you say, oh, the Ashos are mad. But but Boston was the ones that got in trouble in eighteen for they were there were some issues with some you know, relaying signs too back when they knew what signs were, you know, when you're actually using fingers. So both teams are are known to be good at it and known to be eyeful of it. So but for me, whenever you're stealing a pitch grip out of a glove, you can do whatever you want that's on the pitcher.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, agreed, deep this and this is intense series, like I said, a playoff type series. So they're looking for anything. And I think teams are hyper sensitive to pitch now because the guy's jumping around at second base.

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Speaker 3: You know, look it's a splitter. It's a splitter. Wave my hands, it's a splitter.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, people are sensitive to it and they're looking for it. And I don't know that Nears necessarily handled this the right way. There's probably a better way to handle this, but he took care of it the way he thought was right and he moved on and we move on. So, I mean people said they weren't doing anything. They always say they weren't doing anything. I wasn't throwing at the hitter. Do you just happen to hit them? Come on, we all know you were throwing at them. Like, So, I mean, it was handled the right way, but I didn't think it was great. I thought was kind of like, why are we why are we yelling at the third base coach?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't see I didn't see any chirping, so I'm surprised. I mean, if he was telling him, hey, if it happens again, I don't know exactly no way said what was said. I think they asked Hector what he said, and he said something funny and he didn't like it or something like that was his comment, which I thought actually was funny because it is nobody's business what he said. But hey, if you're going to chirp, be ready for somebody to come back, so be interesting. What the actual back and forth was there that started the bench clearing. But when it's all said done, you gotta do a better job of hiding your grip. And then also, like if you're gonna, if you are going to steal signs, be ready for someone to chirp at you too, or still pitches because they're gonna they're gonna bark two and you expect your guys to bark a little bit too.

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Speaker 1: Well, answer, are you good with former players taking shots still at the Astros? In fairness, the thing that was funny is they're playing the Red Sox. Alex Kor was a key member of that Astros team, And I mean there's been there have been people admitting, you know, Red Sox issues from the past too. I think Mookie Betts has been on the record talking about the stein steeling that they used illegally in twenty eighteen, and the Red Sox got caught with the I the Apple Watch scandal and all that. But the Astros seem to be like the total poster child of that twenty tens era for electronic signs stealing, and I feel like, hey, justified, you can go after them. But when it's Astros Red Sox, I'm like they both were doing stuff. One was a ten, one was an eight. But maybe that's just me. What did the Fires think? No?

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Speaker 4: I for me, I think that was it been. I guess you're always gonna kick the first guy that keep him down that got caught, right, they're the first team to get caught, and they're not the first team to do it. I think everything kind of started at the same time in a lot of different organizations, and then in eighteen, everybody around the league's got a good idea that Boston was doing some things too, and they've been it's been said that they were doing some stuff. So it kind of is an unnecessary jab when in house your team was doing the same thing. So it was kind of a silly comment, to be honest with you, when you know that the Boston was doing the same thing in eighteen when they won.

00:24:41
Speaker 1: Yep, ajay, who's the manager.

00:24:43
Speaker 3: Who's the manager of the Red Sox.

00:24:46
Speaker 4: He invented it, all right.

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Speaker 2: He was the main one. He got suspended. Let's not forget he got fire job for this. For Will Middlebrooks to be like, oh, it's funny the Astros. Oh, but look in your manager because he listen. I mean, we all moved on from it, except for fans will never move on. But come on, Alex Korra was like the main guy in charge of this whole thing. So it's kind of like glasshouses don't throw stone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why a lot of people pointed out how it was funny timing with those two teams facing each other. It was wild times back in the twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen world. Hey, Blake Snell's back. He made his return this weekend, and of course he was pitching in Tampa, which was cool. Did you see that Lance Snell five innings, eight strikeouts, no walks, which is good. Give a couple YONDI diez homers, so three total runs in that one. Dodgers lost that game. But they're just looking to get their big boys back. You know, glass Now's back the other day. Now they're still waiting I guess for Roki Sasaki if he's going to return. But the rotations Yamamoto, glass Now, Snell, Otani, Khurshan and Emachen pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, no, it's a good rocation. And it's all about getting them healthy for October. Right, just kind of float, keep trying to stay ahead in the division. His stuff look good, it looks sharp. So once he gets back into you know, game, big league game shape, I think is his stuff will even get better. So that group as a whole, you know, you're building show hey up innings wise, and the rest of them have to get healthy. And if they get healthy, they're gonna be a they're gonna be tough to deal with in October. And that's what they're all about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. Change up looked really good. Yeah. Hey, they're playing the whole year for October a JA, So all they.

00:26:30
Speaker 3: Care about October.

00:26:31
Speaker 2: Get October and see we got I mean everyone said they weren't the best team that won it last year.

00:26:35
Speaker 3: They remember San Diego had him. Last year, san Diego had them.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: They had them and Dodgers survived and one. So you never know what the Dodgers they're sneaky and they have veteran guys that know how to win in big moments.

00:26:47
Speaker 1: And the Padres might catch the Dodgers. Let's not forget about that either. I mean, you're preparing for October. You look up, you might have the Padres to sneak past you, and then you don't have that buy to start the playoffs, and then all of a sudden you're facing which be a good team because they're all going to be a good playoff teams in the NL in a wild card round inside edge, giving us a little data dish action, Let's talk Laddy Junior. Since we were just going over the Blue Jays. Lance, I'm sure you faced this guy. Nineteen balls in play exabilo over one hundred miles an hour over the last fourteen days, tied for third most in baseball. Flatty hits the ball very hard.

00:27:24
Speaker 4: Yes he does. And he is one that looks like he is trying to hit it very hard when he's in the box. So I am not surprised by any of those numbers, even though that's a that's a lot of hard contact right now. But he's been on a tear, I feel like, all year ever since he got this payday, which is well deserved, because man, this guy is good and he is he is fun to watch, but he is not fun to face when he's in the box, that's for sure.

00:27:49
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean eight fifty eight ops on the season, one thirty eight ops plus, which isn't as good aj as last year he was nine to forty ops, won sixty five ops. Pl I think the one thing that I still expect a little more out of him is is pop. You know, he's at let's see sixteen homers on the air. I think he's got forty homer popping there. I mean he had forty eight that one year in twenty twenty one, but he's been more of a twenty five to thirty type for the rest of his career.

00:28:17
Speaker 2: You'd love to see him get more homers, and so are Blue Jay fans. But they changed the parks got you know, they changed the park and it changed everything, which I never thought I would hear. The day where Toronto was a place you wanted to pitch. It was a place I wanted to go and hit because the ball just flew out of that place.

00:28:33
Speaker 3: So I don't know what they did.

00:28:33
Speaker 2: I don't know how they changed it, but if you're a pitcher, Toronto is not the worst place in the league to go.

00:28:39
Speaker 4: It must have changed some airflow or something because that was not a fun place to pitch. But he's right, it did change a little bit when they did their reconstruction somehow, Someway.

00:28:49
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it felt like it took a year or two for the team to adjust to it and for the way that they were putting the roster together. You know, this roster has a lot more of that contact, small ball feel to it, which it feels like you need for that park now.

00:29:04
Speaker 4: No, definitely with turf too, you put the ball in play and do some things you can you run a little bit and do all that. So it's, uh, you know, obviously, every every team's got to play a little bit to their home ballpark, and I think it's an unexpected change they had to. But you saw you've seen them kind of do it very well here, especially this year, and they've been playing pretty well up until you know, last last week or so. But they've done a nice job of justin on the fly.

00:29:28
Speaker 1: There. AJM on my phone right now in Arena Club, and I'm looking at the Emerald slab packs and I see in the grail a Bobby Witt Junior twenty twenty Bowman Chrome Prospect Auto Gold Refractor card.

00:29:43
Speaker 3: Give me that, give me your phone. I'm gonna I'm gonna get you.

00:29:46
Speaker 1: Well, you got to buy to me. I don't have it. You got to know you have to get a slab pack. No, I don't have that, And give me your slab pack. That card's worth you buy new.

00:29:53
Speaker 2: Slab pack, Scott, so I can get the Bobby Witt Junior Gold Refractor twenty twenty Bowman Chrome AUTI because that sounds all and it's worth a lot. It's worth a lot. He's a stud, he's not going down. Get a grill. Get a grill.

00:30:05
Speaker 3: I want a gril, Scott, give me the holy grill.

00:30:07
Speaker 1: You do it. To do that, you must get yourself a slab pack in Arena Club, or if you want to get it for a friend, you can do that too. And right now you can get twenty percent off your first slab pack or your first card purchase. If you're going on there and you're just like, hey, I want a specific card. I find it there, I want to grab it for my showroom Arena club dot com slash foul and use the code foul. Okay, kids. There was a fake festival years ago called Fire Festival that was run by New York City scammer and a lot of people went out there and felt like they were on an episode of Lost or Naked and Afraid, depending on what they were wearing. Anyway, at Bristol Motor Speedway, the shots and the scene looked awesome in my mind right for the Braves and Reds. We're gonna talk more to c Trent Rosecrants about this, but Lance they ran out of food. Apparently, the fan zone was kind of a mess. The lines were insane, So it just felt like, from an event preparation standpoint, hot dogs without buns, nachos without cheese, and overall lack of options was a bit of an issue, and that led to fans saying this was the MLB version of the Fire Festival.

00:31:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's definitely tough. I mean, I guess they were on the what's that the carnivore or paleo diet where you eat no buns and stuff like that. That's what they've got going on there. But to be honest with you, I'm shocked, right, Isn't that what NASCAR is all about? Hot dogs, spears and nacho's and cheese. So I'm surprised a place like that didn't have the the proper things to get through to get through ball game. Obviously this time of year, they're probably with parking and stuff like that. They were, I mean, obviously they were not prepared for the extra careers. Besides the baseball game, which was awesome to watch on TV. They did a great job put it on a show and all that, but they forgot about everything else, which makes it makes it pretty obvious that it was like the the music festival that was nothing like they said it was gonna be.

00:32:12
Speaker 3: Hey, don't Knock, don't Knock firefest.

00:32:13
Speaker 2: Scott was there, okay, Scott had his gloves, sticks and molly and everything ready, okay, but he just brought He just brought a peanut butter and jelly with no bread. So that's why he couldn't eat because he forgot.

00:32:24
Speaker 1: That's acted. Now, that's the trick to any good festival, bring your own food sneak it in.

00:32:29
Speaker 3: Where would you put it?

00:32:30
Speaker 2: Scott, I'm just wondering, oh Mann, who hasn't wanted a pocket pancake before? I can't argue with with Pat in his pocket pancakes. By the way, Trisha Whittaker did a great job handling that whole situation. But listen, Fox in and unbelievab We're gonna we'll talk about Fox is an unbelievable job covering this, and you know Norman plans for a five hour rain delay and then people and and.

00:32:56
Speaker 3: This and that.

00:32:57
Speaker 2: I mean, it was just it was just It's just one of them things didn't work. But it was cool as hell to see on TV. It was cool as hell to see and in them to do it there was.

00:33:06
Speaker 3: It was awesome. Just something's missed.

00:33:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta feed the people.

00:33:13
Speaker 6: Andrew Vaughn at twenty seven since he's joined the Brewers, check out the stat line. He's hitting three seventy five with a four to thirty nine on base percentage, seven to seventy one slugging and five homers and twenty one RBIs in fifteen games. That is production because he's only been there since July seventh. He is having one of the best months of anyone's had this year. Before he was traded, he had been hitting one eighty nine with a two to eighteen on base so he does not walk five homers in nineteen RBIs in forty eight games, so he's already doubled his home run since joining the Brewers.

00:33:48
Speaker 4: And uh, if you.

00:33:50
Speaker 6: Want to know more about the Brewers, we have an article that was written recently it's really good by David about how they do what they do over there in Subsex.

00:33:59
Speaker 4: To check that out.

00:34:00
Speaker 1: But one interesting thing really quickly before we move on.

00:34:03
Speaker 6: This just shows you how important like the atmosphere and the culture of the team you were on is for feeling comfortable and getting going right. By all accounts from every single person who has covered the White Sox and is walk around the White Sox clubhouse, it is like a graveyard in there.

00:34:24
Speaker 4: It is miserable.

00:34:26
Speaker 6: And if you wake up every day thinking that your team probably isn't going to win that day, the motivation to be good, like to do the things you need to do to be good, is just not quite as high as it would be before. And it doesn't feel good to only worry about yourself.

00:34:43
Speaker 4: It's not fun.

00:34:46
Speaker 1: It just isn't.

00:34:47
Speaker 6: And when you go from being in a pretty dire situation that isn't very fun to be in to a team that, by all accounts is very close knit, is a great clubhouse to be in, has a lot of fun. Sometimes that acceptance is enough to give you enough energy so where you feel like you can make the adjustments you need to do. And we're seeing that right now in Andrew vaugh So if you ever had the question, how important is clubhouse culture? How important is the vibes for being able to play?

00:35:18
Speaker 1: Exhibit a good call there, Trevor Great Breakdown may Day is Wednesdays now on the FT Network. You can catch the first hour right after our show every Wednesday. We're excited that he'll be right after FT for the rest of maybe ever. I would have loved to watch that clip right next to our buddy Lance Lynn to see what he said. But hey, you gotta be happy for Andrew Vaughn man. That is right from the jump, thriving with the Brewers. He's always hit the ball hard, and I felt bad for him. I think the White Sox vibes are getting better. Actually, Now, a lot of young guys coming up, but he was part of like that middle group where it was ugly.

00:35:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, he needed a fresh start. There's really no other way to say it. I like it too, a quarterback having like five offensive coordinators in their first five years of the league, right, I think. I think Andrew Vaughn's had four hitting coaches so far in the big leagues. So he got away, he got away from there, he got to go reset and a and then he got up and came into a winning an environment and he's able to just show what he's capable of. So Andrew's good people, I'm happy for.

00:36:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good stuff. All right, we're gonna focus on Yeah.

00:36:25
Speaker 3: You're right.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: The vibes are better in Chicagoland these days. They got a younger team there. They look better, they look fresher, they look more fun, they look like they're having fun. They just are some credit. The players have stepped up and they're playing a lot better. I wouldn't want to Playhi, rightw because they're playing better. Yeah, give Will credit too. Will Wilson a great job as manager.

00:36:44
Speaker 4: Knows he's played, he knows what's doing and he's not he knows how to speak with him and get and get the best out of him every day while they're still learning on the job. So they they're putting in a good I guess a good progress right now is where they're at, so hopefully they can keep building on it.

00:36:59
Speaker 1: When you're in a bad relationship, you try and date someone that's very opposite from the last one. Will Venable is very opposite from patro confol I'm sorry. Those two guys are so different. It's true. So they went in another direction. It's working for them. He's got like the California cool, but he'll have his moments. I've seen him get objected from a game. I watched a lot of White Sox this weekend and PLEASEK was on the call and was good. But anyway, let's focus on a White Sox legend coming up next who has a very special acceptance speech during slap You don't want to miss this big day on Friday, can we show the ultimate announcement for our buddy, the hustler, the everyday guy, AJ Prisinki. The MLB Hall of Good is very popular on social media and aj Prizinski received ninety one percent of the vote and I heard the other nine percent were Cubs fans to become the twentieth member of the Hall of Pretty Good and the fifth member of the illustrious Inner Circle. AJ, congrats speech.

00:38:13
Speaker 3: All right.

00:38:14
Speaker 2: First of all, I want to thank the academy. Oh wait, no, that's not right. I want to thank the writers. No wait, that's not right either.

00:38:21
Speaker 1: Oh.

00:38:22
Speaker 3: I get to thank the fans.

00:38:23
Speaker 2: Thank you fans for electing me to the Hall of Pretty Good. Also, I'm in the Inner Circle. I don't know what that means, but I think it means you get over ninety percent of the vote. So I just want to know who the nine percent are that didn't vote for me. So the nine percent, I'm like, each you at I'll buy you guys dinner at Bristol. Okay, I'll buy you guys all dinner and hot dogs and nachos at Bristol next time they have a game there after.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: They run out of food, clearly. So no, it's a great honor, honestly.

00:38:46
Speaker 2: And they do great on social media, and they're starting this thing and there's I think twenty people in and so to get into the Inner Circle is pretty special. And now I can sign my autographs. AJ Prasinski hPG. I don't know if it gets to be paid as much as huof but it sounds kind of cool, doesn't it.

00:39:02
Speaker 1: It's more unique than HO have, actually, lance, so I'm into it.

00:39:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can always hang your head on it. And I see that you bought the food and not the parking, so I see still tighten the wallet, so it's good.

00:39:13
Speaker 3: Hey, what I want to know? Do I get a gold jacket? Green jacket? Who gives a.

00:39:18
Speaker 4: Yeah? Hey, happy to get more? Tues Out just came out on Netflix, so I know, I thought he did a pretty good job. I thought he did a pretty good job.

00:39:26
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for my son to watch with me, but there you go. Yeah, the first one was great, and the second one, I'm sure I'll be fine. People kind of said it up and down, but listen, that's my kind of humor because I'm still like twelve year old kids, so I'm sure I'll laugh numerous times. But yeah, I know, listen, I'll be honest with you guys.

00:39:40
Speaker 3: It was. It was pretty cool.

00:39:41
Speaker 2: I didn't even know that was a thing until they tagged me in the Instagram and said, hey, we're doing this, and I was like, all right, let's see how it goes. And then so some fans must have thought I was pretty good, even though Lance thought I wasn't any good. Mike METHENI didn't think I was any good. Apparently ninety one percent of the fans thought I was pretty good.

00:39:57
Speaker 4: Hey, I thought you had good fingers. We got along. It's just fine. It's just keep throwing it right here, and as long as I don't have to block it, I was good. So we got along, just just fine.

00:40:09
Speaker 1: Hey, we're back. Can we actually show the shot of Lance with the graphic that was under him there, the lower third graphic. I felt like we were too quick on that one, and AJ would appreciate it. AJ, you want to read that.

00:40:24
Speaker 3: All pretty good? Hopeful? Well, I don't know, Lance, Lance, I don't know. Were you pretty good? I don't know. We have to maybe, you know, as a former player, maybe I can try and get you in on the Veterans committee.

00:40:35
Speaker 4: I don't know. I appreciate it. I did. I had a decent run. So we'll see if they think that's that's pretty good or just decent.

00:40:43
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Yeah, it's a new thing. It's it's it's caught social media by storm. A lot of players that need to get some more love. The Hall of Fame voting is a little tight.

00:40:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think your media presence has really taken you from decent to pretty good. So I don't know if I've got a shot like that.

00:41:03
Speaker 3: We can all dream kids, We all have dreams.

00:41:05
Speaker 4: You and Wayno take up all the spots everywhere, so I can't get rid of any either one of you. You guys retire and you're everywhere.

00:41:12
Speaker 3: That's what we do. Ex Cardinals. You know, we were all taught ex cardinals.

00:41:16
Speaker 4: Yep, Cardinal Way Baby, look.

00:41:19
Speaker 1: At me, Lance. AJ. Sometimes will walk around and someone's like you the guy on foul Territory, Mike.

00:41:26
Speaker 2: Way, more than they say, oh you played baseball. By the way, Mark, our producer just had a great line.

00:41:32
Speaker 3: Is good.

00:41:32
Speaker 2: When I won Most Hated Player in twenty twelve, I only got thirty four percent of the vote, So see, I'm going up in the world.

00:41:38
Speaker 4: There you go. I'm surprised you didn't get ninety nine percent of that one.

00:41:40
Speaker 1: But there's competition the charts. Yeah, Q rating is soaring for AJ. All right, let's let people know in a couple of minutes what to look forward to. First off, Dodgers Territory coming up next on the FT Network. It's going to be on the Dodgers Territory YouTube channel, so you can check that out. But after Dodgers Territory is one of my favorite hot sheet episodes of the year, Baseball America Prospect Nerds telling you what your team got in return for giving up your favorite player. This is the episode, right it's the Monday after the trade deadline. Jeff Ponson JJ Cooper will join me and they will explain what you received. A's fans, you want to know about Leo da Frees. They're here for you, among many other teams and will take questions. So if you're watching right now and you want to know about a particular prospect that was moved at the trade deadline, this is the show for you, so go check it out. It's coming up in thirty minutes live on the Baseball America YouTube channel. All right, good stuff, that was fun. Combo. I like the AJ Lance Reunited combo here media style.

00:42:47
Speaker 2: By the way, I want to say, I honestly thank you to the people the fund the holes. Let me just start because the internet was down where I'm at, so Luckily the holes have star Link in their house, so we saw the random people walking up and down the stairs since their house.

00:43:00
Speaker 3: I was just borrowing it. So thank you to them.

00:43:04
Speaker 1: You used You just went to some random house to do the show.

00:43:07
Speaker 3: I just knocked on the door of it. Can I use your house? Please? You have startling? Thank you.

00:43:11
Speaker 4: They were one of the nine percent didn't vote for you. You know that right, I know.

00:43:16
Speaker 1: Wait, I feel like you buried the lead here though. You don't know that. They were just that nice.

00:43:22
Speaker 3: No, I know the people, Scott, they're Canadian.

00:43:24
Speaker 4: They're Canadian.

00:43:25
Speaker 3: That anybody Canadian? And I met him this morning. What do you expect good? I met him this morning.

00:43:30
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