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So I went in the office to talk to him just to yuck it up with him a little bit.
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And here comes the trainer.
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Guy's just talking to me.
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Trainer comes in with a heat pack.
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This big machine puts it on his body.
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I'm like, Murph, what are you doing?
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Are you playing it?
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He's like, no, bro, I'm about to have a hip replacement surgery.
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My hip's killing me, you know.
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It's like, this guy's guy's grinding to go manage right now.
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You know, now and now he's finally had the hip surgery, you know?
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It's great.
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Coming in hot.
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Chinchy, what's going on, brother?
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Coming in hot.
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You're looking jack, dude.
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Look at you.
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I'm feeling it, man.
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I'm feeling I'm getting getting after the weight room.
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Yeah, we got the Jack Mayor's office.
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You, me, let's get after.
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Let's get after it, dude.
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Gotta stay above a father time, you know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, that's very true.
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That's very true, dude.
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It's funny.
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I go to the gym now and like I'm like, oh, is that tendonitis?
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Everything hurts, but like you just fight through it.
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Is that tennis elbow?
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I'm not, I don't even play tennis.
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I'm like, why is my elbow killing me?
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Yeah, where are you?
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Dude, you're at the network, I looks like right now.
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I'm at the network.
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Can you see the makeup?
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I haven't taken off yet.
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I just got off the set.
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I was on, dude.
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I was just on with it was pretty cool.
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Obviously, Brian Kenny, one of my favorites.
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But when you're on with Bob Costas, you're kind of like, I can't believe I'm on TV with Bob Costas.
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This is still pretty cool.
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Even though it's my 18th year at the network, when Bob Costas shows up on your show, you're like, that's Bob Costas.
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Dude, it's pretty legit, man.
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And anytime I've ever, first of all, he's the greatest guy, too.
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So it's like you're like, oh wow, Bob Costas is so nice to me.
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I know Bob Costas, and he's nice, he's a nice person, and he's nice to me.
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He has old phones.
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He doesn't, you know, he's chill, old school guy.
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His son Keith is the greatest, great people.
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Great people.
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Great people, man.
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Yeah, he was like, he was like, I got caught in the Lincoln Tunnel because he lives in New York.
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Yeah, he almost didn't make the show, Lincoln Tunnel traveling.
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Two hours, Bob's in there, like, gotta get to the network.
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Imagine you're in the Lincoln Tunnel and you just turn around and Bob Costas is sitting there, like yelling at his Uber driver because he's late for the uh the MLD awards.
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I'll tell you what, bro, Bob Costas was telling me a story.
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He was saying, like 1983, he went up to the booth, Howard Cosell was there.
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He's like, hey Howard, how you doing?
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I'm Bob Costus, like, I know who you are.
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You're the young kid.
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You know, you did this thing, like flick this cigar stuff on him.
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I was like, ah, and it's like turned out to be Bob Costell with the greatest of all time.
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But like to hear Bob tell a story about Howard Cosell, I was like, that's incredible.
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And dude, did you know have you seen the documentary on Tyson on Netflix?
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I haven't seen it yet.
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It's so good, dude.
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It's like four episodes.
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But did you know Brian Kenny used to work out with Tyson in the Catskills in New York?
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Boxwood.
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Let me take you a little back a little.
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First of all, Brian Kenny could box, man.
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First of all, he's like son of like son of cops, like you know, the Irish Kenny family from back in the day on Long Island, bro.
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He's yo, he's legit.
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You ever see him?
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He gets into there.
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He was a great, he's a any of the old school like boxing announcing shows, whatever, BK pops up there, man.
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He's he was in a mix, dude, for years.
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He knows it.
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Yeah, and he dude, he has an unbelievable interview.
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I was just choking around with him because he was on Brandon Gomes, who's the GM for the uh Dodgers, and he was talking, he kind of like he kind of threw a couple like zenies at Gomes, and I said, bro, I said, I felt like you were talking to Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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again.
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Have you ever talked about that at all?
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Have you seen that clip?
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The greatest.
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Dude, anyone that's listening to this show, go to YouTube, look up Brian Kenney, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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Dude, BK does not back down.
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So it's right at him.
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And you're right, dude.
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That Irish play, his dad was straight off the boat from Ireland.
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Yep.
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Came over, was a New York City cop back in the day.
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BK almost became a cop and then got into like broadcasting.
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Yes, dude.
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It's just an incredible story.
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But when he talks about Tyson, yeah and Rooney and those guys, all those guys, Tony, Teddy Atlas or whatever the guy's name was.
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That was his boy.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So Kenny was like, yeah, I was with he's Brian Kennedy says he was with all those guys watching the Trevor Burbick fight.
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Tyson Burbick.
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Yeah, how cool was that?
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I was like, tell me more.
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Because like I said, I just watched the Tyson thing.
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First off, Tyson's uh absolute savage.
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To say the least, put it politely, but it did.
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It's an incredible documentary.
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I gotta check it out.
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All right.
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Well, you are there.
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We gotta talk a little bit of baseball here.
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World Series is over.
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That was amazing.
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And now we got the awards and the guys that deserve to win them.
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It started with the rookie of the year the other night.
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Start there.
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We're gonna go down the list.
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Well, a lot of good rookies of the year, dude.
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I mean, you know, when you look at the lists, it was great.
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You know, you you got uh I, you know, the the the two guys that end up winning, Kevin McGonagall.
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You look at McGonagall's
year, bro.
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He didn't even, you know, he did so well at the Arizona Fall.
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He had such a good year in double A.
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They skipped him right to the big leagues because he was so good in the spring trend.
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Turns out they were right, dude.
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He led the AL with a 7-1 war.
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Not rookies, not in led the AL with a 7-1 war, played over 90 games in third, over 90 games in short.
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The value of that's huge.
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But dude, this guy had one of the best chase rates in the game.
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You know, hit almost, I think he hit 18 home runs, uh, had over 800 OPS, doesn't strike out, almost, I think he had 95 walks and 100 strikeouts, which that's tough to do nowadays in this day and age.
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So almost the same strikeouts to walk ratio, played 162 games, played every single night.
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You know, it was almost a slam dunk, but when you think about, you know, some of these, some of the talents that is, you know, the young guys that are out there.
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Kevin McGonagall for me is one of those guys at the top of the list where you're like, this kid is a franchise player.
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You know, they've all already signed him to a nice deal, but you know, the the the future is bright out there in Detroit, man.
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For real.
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Yeah.
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And then one of your guys, the Cincinnati Reds, they got another piece of hardware.
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Dude, Sal Stewart, you've got to love Sal Stewart, man.
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This kid loves baseball.
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Uh, Cincinnati loves Sal Stewart.
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I mean, talk about him, 162 games, too, 32 home runs.
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I think 13 of his home runs were APO, man.
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What I love about Sal Stewart, when you watch him play, drives that ball to right center, which I think really sets up his power.
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32 home runs.
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I think he had 112 or 113 RBIs.
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Maybe you can tell.
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112.
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112 RBIs, dude.
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Uh, you know, was right there.
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I think he was like second or third in the in the NL.
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Uh, just an unbelievable season.
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Uh, you know, when you when you look at the year that he, you know, it was it was right on right on the money.
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Sal Stewart, you know, winning that award.
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Then, but if you look at Carson Benge with the Mets, dude, I
mean, you would talk about a true five-tool player.
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This guy's got a can of an arm.
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I believe he led the NL and maybe even baseball with 10 outfield assists.
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If you looked at his arm, how hard he throws the ball, it's like 97 miles an hour from the outfield.
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Guy can plays a great right field, plays a great left field, uh, hits for power, hits for average, really legit, runs the base well, five-tool guy, first 20, youngest 2020 guy since Daryl Strawberry did it two times back in the day.
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And Strawberry wasn't even a rookie when he did it.
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So if you take away that first month for Carson Bennett, dude, he hit over 300, over an 800 OPS, really was like one of the best players in baseball.
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We don't see it because the Mets were so bad last year, but he was a really a big bright spot for them.
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So, you know, that's that's a great thing.
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That's what you know, a good thing they have going.
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And uh, and also JJ Weatherhole was the third guy, you know, out there in St.
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Louis.
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I mean, his war was great because his defense is really gay.
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He's really a shortstop playing second base.
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Uh, and uh, you know, really swung the bat well, hit the ball in the ballpark.
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Just some really good candidates uh, you know, in the NL.
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And you look at the AL, just going back there with McGonagall, Parker Mesick, you know, lefty for the Guardians.
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You know, he'll be he's gonna be in the top six for sight.
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Yo, that's how good he was.
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So, I mean, he was a huge reason the Guardians played so well.
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And then Peyton Tole, the lefty who is one of the best personalities in the game with the Red Sox.
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Very cool.
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He he was right there too.
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So some really good players, man.
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Really, really top-of-the-line players for uh rookie of the year.
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Yeah, I want to take you back, you know, go back to your uh your Cincinnati.
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Like Eddie Money, like Eddie Money.
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I want to go back.
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No, but dude, you win anything for the Cincinnati Reds.
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I mean, you're in a Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.
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Nobody knows better than you the history of that.
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This guy joins the likes of Frank Robinson, rookie of the year for the Reds.
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Pete Rose is on that list, Johnny Bench is on that list.
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Can you talk about like what it means to have your name in a record book as a Cincinnati Red?
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That's that's something special, isn't it?
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It really is, man.
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Playing in Cincinnati, the history of the Reds.
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And if you for all the baseball fans, if you're going to different parks, try to get to Great American Ballpark.
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It's pretty incredible.
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But they have the best outside of Cooperstown, hands down, the best baseball hall of fame, or Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.
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The names in that Hall of Fame are incredible.
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I'm I I dude, I'm so grateful and honored to be in that Hall of Fame.
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When you think of like Rose and Bench and Frank Robinson and Ken Griffey Jr.
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and Barry Larkin and Ted Klazuki and uh you know George Foster and Concepcion, you know, the list goes on of incredible players.
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And then when you talk about those guys you just named for rookie of the year, the history of the Reds, dude.
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They're the first ever, the first ever um uh um organization, uh ever a major league baseball organization ever.
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So you go back the history of Sal Stewart to win that is so huge.
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Dude, it really quick.
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I want to throw this out there because I just think it's a great thing.
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It makes me think of the I believe it was a Cincinnati Red Stockings.
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Dude, this is how baseball started, which I thought was so cool.
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When I was in Cooperstown, I got a tour and I and I, you know, I started asking some questions.
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And you know, like I was golfing the other day, and then you know, you're at Valley Brook Country Club or St.
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Clair Country Club or you know, Rockville Center Country, wherever you're at, you know, you're like, oh, that's cool, they have country clubs.
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Well, back in the day, dude, when baseball was really popular, they had baseball clubs.
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Okay.
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So that was cool.
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You go, you know, after work, boom, you go to your baseball club, and you instead of playing golf, you played baseball.
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That's why clubhouses are called clubhouses, not locker rooms, right?
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Which is pretty cool.
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So there was a guy in the very cool yeah, there was a guy in Cincinnati
back in the 1800s that decided, man, I love baseball.
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This is a great game.
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You know what I'm gonna do?
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I'm gonna get the best players from each club in Cincinnati, and I'm gonna start giving them a couple dollars, and then we're gonna go play clubs in Boston and Cincinnati.
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I mean in New York and you know, all over the East Coast, and we're gonna just and we're gonna and the Cincinnati Red Stockings were formed as the first team ever, baseball team, to get paid, right?
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And and so then they go and they start just dominating people, they're running over just local clubs.
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It'd be like you and your buddies playing like the best players in Cincinnati playing local clubs.
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Well, dude, all of a sudden the new New York's like, hey, why don't why don't we do that?
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And all of a sudden, dude, that's how Major League Baseball was formed, and that's why they're called clubhouses instead of locker rooms, because they used to so I thought that was cool.
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And I think about the Red Stockings.
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Then you think about Sal Stewart and then Pete Rose and Johnny Bench and Frank Robinson, you can go all the way back to the Reds being the first ever professional baseball team in the in baseball.
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Look at you.
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Look at that history lesson, you guys.
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You guys got a free history lesson here.
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That's phenomenal, dude.
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It's cool.
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It's really cool.
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I love it.
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You didn't, Chinch, did you know that?
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I didn't know any of that.
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And I've been working in baseball my entire life.
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So exactly, dude.
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When I when I learned that I learned that after baseball, I'm like, dude, how did I play this game?
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You're a professional baseball player.
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All right, so we got more rewards to go through.
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Um, what's going on right now?
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I can give you we'll do this as we go.
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We are recording this during the manager of the year uh nominees.
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I have right now the AL manager of the year.
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Can you guess?
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Let me guess.
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Let me guess.
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Okay, I think it should be don't tell me.
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Let me give let me give you my case.
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Okay.
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The three candidates are Will Venable with the White Sox.
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Now, they lost 102 games in 2025.
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They won 84 this year.
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And they did it with you know not a real rotation.
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He had to really use a lot of bullpen games.
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Over 30 times they had an opener, the most at baseball.
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They had the 19 rookies he had to navigate.
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So he did an incredible job because they lost 102.
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Then they won.
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Then they're on the postseason.
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They almost won.
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They ended up losing, but they had they almost won.
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Lost the Guardians.
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So there's a great case for for Will Venable.
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Then you got Don Mattingley, who took over a team.
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No, no, not Mattingley, you got Chad Tracy.
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You got Chad Tracy, who took over a team for Boston.
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Al Score gets fired and the end of April.
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Boom, here comes Chad Tracy, triple A guy, does an incredible job.
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Played for his dad, dad, Jim Tracy.
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Wonderful man.
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Those players bought in, the Red Sox make that run.
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Bam, they're in the postseason.
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They called it the Tracy, the Tracy Transformation.
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They were calling that.
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Tracy transformation.
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It was incredible.
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Keep going.
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He's a wonderful guy.
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I guess they get a lot of credit of that.
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But then also you've got my man Kevin Cash.
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And this is why I believe Kevin Cash should win the manager of the year.
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It's because this is his 12th year in the big leagues.
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We don't want to have a voter, you know, when we have voter fatigue here.
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He's already won it twice.
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And remember, it postseason doesn't matter with this voting.
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It's done right after the regular season's over.
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So we could think, oh, who's in the World Series?
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They don't do it that way.
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Right after the season's over.
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So he won 98 games for a mid-market team who has one of the lowest payrolls in the game.
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Does a great job of managing
the platoon roles that they have.
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They didn't have a ton of superstars in that team.
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They do a great job of making Nick Martinez great.
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And uh Frey Peralta comes in.
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Rasmussen had a great year.
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The bullpen was great.
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Baker was great closing.
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I just feel like Cash does a great job in that clubhouse, leading those guys and doing his thing.
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I think to win 98 games to be the best team in the AL in the AL East, when you look at Venable, a lot of people think Venable should win it, but he did win 84 games in the central.
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So I would just say it's going to be close between Venable and uh and cash.
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In my opinion, cash should be the winner.
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Gotcha.
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I'll give you one more cash thing.
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Winning the AL East by four and a half games and like almost pretty much wire to wire, kind of dominating that division.
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That's not easy to do.
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All right.
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The winner is Will Venable.
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Whoa, really?
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Yes.
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Manager of the year.
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I don't know the numbers yet, but he gets it.
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Oh, I do have the numbers.
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Okay.
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Here's the numbers.
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Voting.
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Venable got 15 first place votes.
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Cash got 12.
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Tracy got three.
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That's super close.
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Venable gets 11 second place.
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Cash gets 12.
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Venable gets three third place.
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Cash gets two.
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So he had 111 points to cash's 98.
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That's like neck and neck.
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Tracy got 47.
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That's gross.
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That's close, dude.
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That's close.
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I was on with Bob and Costas and Kenny tonight.
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They both said Venable.
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I said cash for those reasons, but obviously the voters thought that turnaround from losing 102 to winning 84 was enough.
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Congrats to Will Venable, man.
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He did an incredible job with the White Sox this year.
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And uh, you know, they're relevant again.
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Relevant again.
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Okay, so we don't have the uh the other award just yet.
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So we're gonna keep going with our preview of the rest of the awards, and when that pops up, I'll let you know.
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And we should do it again like that.
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I like how you guessed it.
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Yeah, that was great, dude.
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I like I like that.
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I was like, dude, that was that was breaking news.
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Yeah, that was breaking news.
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That was breaking news to us.
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To us.
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All right.
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Let's dig in to the Cy Young Awards.
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And you would think uh we think we would know, but I'm gonna give you, let's go NL first.
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Here's the nominees.
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You got Chris Sale, you got Christopher Sanchez, and you got the Ms.
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Jake Mr.
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Rowski.
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Well, let's start with Chris Sale.
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I mean, Chris Sale had one of the best years for the Braves.
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I mean, top of the rotation, literally domination on so many fronts.
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So, I mean, you know, obviously he was neck and neck at one point there, you know, for the Cy Young.
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Christopher Sanchez, what had a 38 score or something like that, 38 and third scoreless inning pinch, you know, really made an unbelievable run this year.
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Um, yeah, it had ups and downs here and there, but really, for the most part, was really consistent throughout the whole year for the Phillies and a big reason they kind of went went on that run winning, which was huge.
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But Jacob Mizarowski, what he did this year, sub two ERA, you know, all the strikeouts that he had was throwing 100, you know, 100, I think he was averaging 100, 101 miles an hour, but you know, hitting 105 a few times.
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Uh, he really, really took it to another level, and a huge reason that the Brewers ended up winning their first World Series in uh in their franchise's history.
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So, you know, for me it's gonna be the Miz.
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I I can't imagine, you know, Sailor Sanchez make a run at the end, you know, in the voters' uh tallies, but I really think that uh the Miz did enough to win his first Cy Young in his in his second year in the big leagues.
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Dude, do you think about also like just physically?
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I mean, you have a son who's playing baseball who has been growing and growing and growing, and you physically you grow between like your 20s and
30s.
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Do you think about like he might actually throw harder in a couple of years?
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Like he is tall and likely and thin, and he's a baby, dude.
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Like, like he's only gonna get better, isn't he?
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Like, how much better can he be if he's gonna want to do that?
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Dude, I think he's only gonna get better as a pitcher.
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I think that's the biggest thing.
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I think you saw him mature this year as a pitcher, you know, being able to really fill up the strike zone, go to that slider, the cutter was better this year.
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I mean, there was a lot of maturity as a pitcher.
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Um, so you know, I think you know, you can't teach experience.
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I think as you're in the lead more, as you learn how to face hitters, he's only gonna get better.
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Well, and by the way, he had to mature on the biggest stage.
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It like he didn't have his best stuff in a World Series, and that's what all the pitches, you know, you know, Al Leiter and all those guys is like, and John Smokes they always talk about like the best guys are the best because when they don't have it, they figure out what to do to get to kind of get those out still.
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So right.
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Well, he still figured it out.
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I think that in that game five, we went five to two thirds, ended up getting a calf cramp.
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Kind of brought him out of the game.
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Make sure the brewers, uh, you know, make sure those you guys start getting your relay pills in.
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Let's go.
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What are we doing?
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Mix in a banana every once in a while.
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Mixing a couple of bananas and some electrolytes.
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Yeah, what do we got?
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All right, moving on to the American League.
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You got Dylan Cease, you got Mesik, and you got your boy Cam Schlitler.
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Handicapped that race for him.
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Well, dude, Furker, we we talked about Mesick because, you know, first off, you know, he had an incredible year with the Guardians, one of the best change-ups in the game.
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And this guy has a great fastball, it plays well, but I think his fastball plays so well, and he gets swing and miss on it because the change-ups elite.
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So that's that's the first thing with with Mesick.
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You know, he he was he was so good.
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Um, Dylan Seast, man, this guy just kept,
you know, what a great sign it was for was for the Blue Jays with what he did this year.
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It was just right on the money.
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Great, great stuff, punching tickets, you know, a lot of strikeouts.
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So he did incredible.
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Uh, you know, and and at one point, I thought he was gonna cat catch Cam Schlittler, you know, because he was making that move and it got banged up a little bit the end of the year, missed the I think the final start.
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But Cam Schlitzer, how good he was all year long, sub, pretty much a sub-2 ERA uh, you know, most of the season and just dominated, dude.
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And I think his presence, you know, I think last year's postseason really showed who this guy is, and he just totally went to another level this year.
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I think his confidence is at an all-time high.
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Yeah, and you think about it, uh, the the ace of that team was pretty banged up throughout the year, but you, you know, you've been in that locker room with uh Garrett Cole and like learning from that guy as far as like the mental game of pitching.
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Schlitler, dude, listen, to have Garrett Cole, it's like Garrett Cole learning from Verlander.
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to have Schlitler be able to watch Garrett Cole work.
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And Garrett Cole is almost like another coach.
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I've I've seen it, you know, how he talks to the pitchers and the staff.
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I've seen how he does it.
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So like he's almost like another coach.
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So um, you know, just impressive that Schlittler has a has a guy like Garrett Cole that he can lean on in that rotation.
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And other guys too, like Rodon.
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And you know, there's some there's some real veterans and Max Fried.
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Those guys are some real veteran guys.
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You know, you could he could he could pick their brains, especially mentally.
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Yeah, there you go.
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All right, still waiting on the uh NL Manager of the Year.
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So we're gonna move on to the MVP races.
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Which one do you want to do first?
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Let's do NL.
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Okay, you got Picrow Armstrong, you got Shohei, and you got Bryce Tarang, your boy.
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Yeah, dude.
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I mean, there's there's some great players in this one.
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And obviously, the fact that it's probably not gonna be Shohei Otani uh that is incredible.
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I mean, yeah, he just had he
had an amazing year, still played 135 games.
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Um, and uh uh, you know, when you look at it, he had 30 home runs.
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It was just like a it was it wasn't an Otani year when we can come to expect so much from this guy, which is ridiculous.
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He went 8-2 with a 1-7-90 array, 85 innings pitched, started 14 games.
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So it's like he only started 14 games.
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One other person started a one game.
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So so that being said, it's almost tough to stomach that someone was gonna have to have an incredible year, uh, you know, a next level year um to to take him over.
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Now that happened, Peter Armstrong turns out to be that guy.
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40 40, 45 bombs, 41 stolen bases, over 100 RBIs, 119 runs, and the biggest number that he had obviously played 162 games.
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But the biggest number that he had, he in a 10.6 war.
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That means he's ten almost eleven games better than his replacement.
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Right.
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It's incredible.
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So, you know, when you look at when you look at Otani, you know, I think that was the biggest difference was the war that he put up because defensively, Pete Crow Armstrong is so elite.
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He's hands above, he's like an Andrew Jones back in the day where like no one's even close to this guy.
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That's who PCA is.
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So I think PCA wins it.
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Now, also when you look at Bryce Tarang, dude, what an unbelievable.
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This guy, all around, is one of the best players in the game.
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The way he plays second base, the way he you know hundred drove in 100 runs, 21 home runs, hits with guys runs in scoring position, stole almost 20 bases, had almost a sixth war.
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So, you know, it's it's a it's a great the three great candidates.
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I'm shocked that Otani is not gonna probably win it this year because P.
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Crow Armstrong had such an incredible season.
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I know, like you better get it while you can right now, you know.
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Like it's like when when when Jordan like retired to play baseball for a couple years and somebody else could win a championship for like that's kind of how this is right now.
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It is it is and PC P.
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Crow Armstrong had one of the best years, and we say it every time.
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Whoops, Mets, whoops, whoopsies.
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Oh my gosh, the Mets trained hobby baez for two months for P.
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Crow's uh whoopsies.
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Whoopsies.
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That's a bad one.
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That's a bad one.
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All right, the American League might be a little bit closer.
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You got Alvarez and Camarero, and then Bobby Witt Jr.'s on there.
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Bobby Wood Jr.
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is probably going to be on this top three list for the rest of his career, but I don't think I don't think he's up there with the other two guys in this race, right?
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Well, here's the one thing Jordan played only, you know, I don't know, uh, 20 20 something games in left field.
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So mostly he's a DH.
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Now he had the best offensive numbers of anybody in the league, maybe even in baseball, with a 190 OPS plus, 105 runs scored, you know, 42 home runs, hit 316, almost won the triple crown.
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Um, and he had a 6'8 war.
00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:11.039
Now that war is still really good, but Bobby Witt Jr.
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had a 7 war, dude, because he plays elite position defensively at shortstop, still had 18 home runs, stole 45 bases, and that shortstop piece is a big deal.
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Now, his OPS plus was only 125.
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We're talking about Jordon's being 190.
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That means the average player is 100.
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He's at 190, he's almost two times the average player, which is pretty incredible.
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Now, Junior Cameron had a great year, 42 home runs, drove in over 100 runs.
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He had a nice year, but not the year those guys had.
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I think at the end of the day, they're gonna give it to Jordon Alvarez because you think about Otani when you go back when he had the 50-50 season was basically a DH.
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He won the MVP.
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Jordon's gonna kind of like slide in there here with that 190 OPS plus.
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I think he ends up beating Bobby Witt Jr.
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for the MVP.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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When you look at these numbers as a former player, and like when you put together like your best year, like best all-around year, what like can you explain how elite it is to put the numbers up that these guys are putting on for an entire season?
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Just so elite, dude.
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I mean, so elite, you know, to to nowadays too, chinch, to hit 316 like Jordan did with uh, you know, oh almost 1100 OPS, 42 home runs, it's really incredible, man.
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Like the 190 OPS plus, it's so hard to be consistent nowadays, you know, with some of the pitching that's out there.
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So for him to do what he did is pretty amazing.
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Bobby Witt Jr.
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to play a premier position as shortstop night in and night out, like a PCA playing center field, you know, having you with the toll it takes on your body, but then to put up those offensive numbers is pretty incredible.
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So this is why they're in the MVP race, too.
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These are the best of the best in both of these leagues, and they're best for a reason because they post every day, they have a skill set that is that's elite, and and the and the war number wins above replacement, can really give us a sense.
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It's not perfect, but it gives you a sense of the all-around caliber on these guys.
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There you go.
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All right, you ready?
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We got the NL manager of the year has been announced.
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Let me guess.
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Let me guess.
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You got Mattingley, who you know did an incredible job taking over for Rob Thompson, making that run for the Phillies when they struggled at the beginning.
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Walt Weiss did an incredible job.
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I mean, 18 games, 18 more wins than they had in 2025.
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They love Walt Weiss.
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They love him in the clubhouse.
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Um, so he did a great job.
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But for me, man, Pat Murphy, 103 wins.
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The Brewers were the cleanest team in baseball, the way they played the game, top to bottom.
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Just an unbelievable brand of baseball.
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No real superstar on that team.
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I'd have to see Pat.
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No, no, no manager's ever won three in a row, and Murphs won two in a row.
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This is his by far his best year.
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I'd be shocked if Murphy, if you say somebody other than Murphy, I'll be shocked.
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It's Pat Murphy.
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It's your boy.
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But you knew it, man.
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You knew it.
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He did an incredible job.
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This is only his third year managing the big leagues champs.
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That's his third award.
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Three Pete, dude.
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Three Pete.
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And dude, you know him, dude.
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You got to, like you said, you you got to get up close and personal with that team, how he manages.
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You
know him personally.
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You know him, the type of person he is.
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What type of a leader that is, what that does for the young players.
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Yeah, I just think the standard he sets, he doesn't give a crap, you know, that oh, well, this is the way the guys nowadays, you know, they can't handle being uh talked to the way the old skies do it.
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Murphy doesn't care.
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Like you saw earlier the year, Cooper Pratt kind of lost the ball, fell in, he didn't run, taken out of the game.
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Sal Freelick last year didn't hit a cutoff man, took him out of the game.
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They asked Murphy after the game, hey, are you gonna talk to Sal Freelick?
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He's like, What do I talk about?
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He knows what he did.
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Yeah, so it's like the standard.
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Christian Yelitz, their star player, not playing someday, sitting against some lefties.
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Hey, he buys in.
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Even Christian Yelitz had a great comment.
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Say, hey, listen, you want to play for the Milwaukee Brewers of Pat Murphy?
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You better be mentally and physically tough.
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This is not a clubhouse for the week.
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So Murph, Murph sets the standard.
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Those guys follow.
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He's a great guy, he knows the game.
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And I, you know, he's a true leader, Chinch.
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He reminds me like the Jim Lelands, the Terry Franconas, the, you know, the some of the elite, the Dusty Bakers, the elite managers of these generations.
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Yeah.
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And you want to talk about tough and leading by example?
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I'm looking at it right now as I pull it up.
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He's accepting the award from a hospital bed because he just had hip replacement surgery.
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So, like the the shot you'll see, it's gonna be all over the internet.
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He's in a hospital gown, laying up on a hospital bed, getting the order.
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That is so funny because I went down about a week ago in the season.
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You know, I live in Pittsburgh, so I went down when the pirates, when the brewers come in to play the parts, so I went in the office to talk to him just to yuck it up with him a little bit.
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And here comes the trainer.
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Guy's just talking to me.
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Trainer comes in with a heat pack, his big machine puts it on his body.
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--> 00:29:07.359
I'm like, Murph, what are you doing?
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Are you playing it?
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He's like, No, probably about the hip replacement surgery, my hip's killing me, you know.
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It's like this guy's this guy's grinding to go manage right now.
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You know, now he's falling out the hip surgery, you know?
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It's great.
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Amazing, amazing.
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All right, so there we have it.
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All right, the awards are gonna come.
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Mayor's off spec.
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Crazy stuff going on right now.
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There's like some GM meetings going on.
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With there's the, you know, obviously the labor strife is going on.
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John Heyman came out with a report today.
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Turk Scoobyl's gonna meet with the Mets next week, but what does that all entail?
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You know, we're gonna be here the whole offseason.
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You gotta at some point we gotta get it inside your mind of like, you're a player right now.
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Am I signing early?
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What am I gonna do?
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That's all gonna be coming up in in this offseason.
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We're gonna be here for talking.
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We'll talk about that.
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We'll talk about that next mayor's office because that's some those are some good questions to think about, especially with the players.
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You know, it could be a December 1st lockout coming, uh, which is probably gonna happen.
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:01.279
Yeah, probably gonna happen.
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But hey, you know what?
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They thought they were gonna cancel uh intentional talk, but that didn't happen.
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They're back.
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So anything can happen in baseball this year.
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Here we go.
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You never know, dude.
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You never know.
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So hopefully, hopefully it doesn't happen and we're back.
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But one thing we know, Chinch, is we're back, baby, and we're doing it.
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And we want to tell everybody appreciate you guys.
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We're over.
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I think we're closing on 6,000 YouTube subscribers.
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We're over.
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We just passed 6,000.
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Over 6,000.
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Thank you.
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Chinch, you're doing a great job with the clips, man.
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Thank you.
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I'm locked in.
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The mayor's office is now its own channel.
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It is, dude.
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It's his own channel.
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So everyone uh get out to our YouTube channel, check us out, and uh keep subscribing, downloading, and uh keep following us.
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I'll see you next week.
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Love you, bud.