Closing the Tab on 2025: Resolutions, Reflections & The 2026 Blueprint 🍻⚾️

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[SPEAKER_00]: You listen to the J-Bird Watching podcast, the official podcast of J-drill.com and fancays.com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We are the official ballroom chat for everything to run a Blue J-Space ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: From Game Highlights to Rumors and all the stuff in the tweet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here is your host Craig Borden, the co-host Jason Lyons and Liz McWarn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's talk, subtrotably J-Space ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Hello and happy new year everybody.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the J.B. watching podcast.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host Craig Boren here to talk all things.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wonderful Blue J's fandom and just whatever today.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So on that note, my buddy Jason Lyons, happy new year bud.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How you doing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Happy new year, my man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know we we chat it slightly over the break.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it was good to get a little bit of down time, a little bit of off time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some family times and

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of clean up around the house time and rolled right through new years and then to another, you know, we were just talking about this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like Groundhog Day for Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just keeps happening over and over and over again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, two massive hockey games tonight world juniors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I, I'm not sure if the America, I know America is getting more into it as the, you know, certainly as hockey.

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[SPEAKER_01]: sort of takes a bigger spot at, you know, in the, especially at the junior level, but I mean, you know, that didn't get me better than tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's, you know, the chance for if the U.S. win and Canada win, that that very sickly guarantee is a gold medal game between those two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we all want to see it again, and I don't care who wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love Canada, but the game is so much better when it's played like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then of course, tomorrow night,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Bang Bang Niners gang.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there is that hole NFL season's coming to a

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[SPEAKER_03]: Really ahead at this point.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So a lot and then in just I'm actually watching hockey for the first time in a million years because I'm One of God's unfortunate creatures that is a savers fan and it's been very horrible.

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[SPEAKER_04]: The world's been 10 euro 10 euro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This many So how sick was the college football yesterday?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you watched it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's incredible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like like let's call us made a spade.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That was some of the most entertaining One more play

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[SPEAKER_03]: You might have noticed I have a different silverstein here tonight with us.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We called in the righty.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We got our buddy Darrell here because unfortunately Shane told had a last minute cancellation.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, Darrell is always one phone call away and happy to absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Anthony's got.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, that's cool.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is a new one coming up mid January called the 1838 to symbolize baseball starting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, Craig, but baseball did starting candidates in 38, but that's a whole other story.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, I know the whole no-cooper-stown thing, just saying.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Then the Cooper-stown many of the times, and you do definitely tell there's like, oh, wow, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, guys, see why they did this to me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I don't know if there's been a first time at a long time, but it's been about a little over a month.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How the heck did you do it, Ben?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Doing great, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a wonderful holiday's family friends as it should be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: bringing in 2026 close in the chapter on 2025 much like everybody happy that it was there, but happy that it's done and looking forward to all the new chapters and what what will be new for 2026.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if it was this time last year, who would have thought the blue juice would have had a postseason run like they did, but then here they are and here they did so there there it was.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Greg, you're on mute Greg.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Liz McWyer, jumpin' back into the conversation.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Go there.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Hi.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How are we doing tonight?

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm good.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I apologize for my charting this.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I went outside, and then I said outside, and then I came back in.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's a lovely night in Toronto.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Good deal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: After you guys get some sunshine up there today too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it was so nice.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It was such a beautiful day.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just coming from my parents farm in the Ottawa Valley where it was minus like 18 minus 20 every day with a windshield of 27.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And then I come back to Toronto and it's like a balmy with minus six today.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't hate it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was eight here today.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, similar to that here from the States, not fun, not a good time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So anyways, tonight, I want to have some fun.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we're just going to chat the end off the 2025 our buddy Troy line is already hot in the comments called me king of the jungle apparently have a new nickname.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, but good deal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's all fun.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know Troy, you've been having fun to chat with me on the other Jay's latest stuff to every day talking Blue Jay's news on my other show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And to that point, we've been just roaring through 2025.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We have the rangeiest of things to talk about for what would be summary of the 2025 season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, we're going to close out the bar tab tonight.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then we're going to uncork what's going on in 2022.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This wonderful good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Look at that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like I actually did this hosting thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I wanted to do.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So on that note, let's talk out the 2025 early season, spring training, everything was going good in spring training.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We looked like we might have some good pieces, things were moving except for George Springer, and then all of a sudden the season started off with a flop.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So, we won the Golden Grapefruit.

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[SPEAKER_05]: All right, we won spring training.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's never forget that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That was the precursor to our glory.

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[SPEAKER_03]: there it is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I kicked me through that Darrell.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You weren't with us in a lot of those episodes early in the season, as we're, you know, ramping up to eventually winning an American League championship series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What was your thoughts early in the season, were you just dismal or were you thinking there still could be a light at the end of the tunnel?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think just as a Blue J fan for all these years, you go in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They've always put together what I would just call a decent lineup.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They always have, and there's always been missing pieces.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you can think back to even 20 years ago when we had Aaron Hill and Russ Adams, and we were always just a couple of key elements away.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then through the last 20 years, we've always just had a good solid team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, 10 years ago, we had better squads.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I went in with the optimism that we were going to just have another year, but my going into this year, I don't know if anybody else thought this way, but I really thought it was going to be a dominated division by the Baltimore Orioles, the Tampa Rays, and the eighties, and I did think I had the G's with somewhere flirt between second and third, and as they collected winds back to back, there was just this,

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[SPEAKER_02]: synergy and the growth and I would check and we watched against when boy they won, you know, another series they won another series.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They've taken another series and it was just an unbelievable momentum.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But even if you think about where we were at the all-star break, nobody was thinking world series at that time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was no perennial favorite.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It just kept building.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So for me, I will go into this

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[SPEAKER_02]: looking at it from a different angle because I think we have more superstars and we actually think that we do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there is that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So Jason, take us to the next step.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The team starts looking a little bit better.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We start getting some of these guys like barger and everybody that come up and continue to move this team in the right direction.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What was those pieces that started moving us the needle into the right direction there?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think the funny thing was, as we came out of, we came on a spring training, and I think we were all overly impressed by that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody was hitting everything, and most guys were way overperforming, even based on spring training numbers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you expect a little cool down, and I think they just sort of stayed cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we started to see a little bit a little bit better and more depth into our starting pitching, getting a little farther into the games, you know, as arms get warmer, you know, they were tinkering a lot with with a couple of different positions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Santander was going back and forth between, you know, being hurt not being hurt and.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a few other guys that were sort of the feeling the early, you know, stages of the season, injuries and woes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I felt like things kind of leveled off and when they did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We really started to see what we would end up seeing, you know, in the latter part of the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I can remember a few episodes, you know, sort of the start of the year where we kind of joked about two bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just can't catch lightning in a bottle, you know, and take that right through to the end of the year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when I look back, it's sort of that second part of the season and then I look at sort of how September, you know, the August wasn't great, but then, you know, how September, that's what happened, they flipped that switch and they were just able to put the pedal down and continue to play baseball, the only thing I could comparatively, the two things I could compare to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that would be the UNLV running rebels from the 80s, the basketball team, where they didn't care how many baskets you got, they were going to outscore you, they were just going to run the floor and outscore you, or the in comparison, the oilers of the 80s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Again, who left Grant Fierre back there to die every single night and they'd score 8 or 9, and it didn't matter, they just went.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what the Jay started doing was they started being like, you know, we've got enough to win every game, whether it's long balls or or grinding and and I mean, I think that served them really well down into the end of the season.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I keep thinking about early in the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Everything, everybody was thinking cause been burrowas.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember Bowen Francis had one game early in the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was April.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He threw that six hitting one run game, stopped the bleeding.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like, okay, the way we really knew who he was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Here he is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that was one of the starts of like this is the maybe the first brick to this unbelievable year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And let's let's call us Veda Spade, like if there is an MVP from this season for the J is that turn this whole season around and turn it into what it is it's George springer there is the and I would challenge anyone to argue me on on that he was the absolute rudder all year long I mean the guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now and I have to I'd have to not only calm it because I'm not in Toronto, so I don't see this as much But I have to calm into the fact that the city of Toronto Recognize this and has had him everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's everywhere right now and I mean for it Once he got one more year on his deal and he'll have more than likely right off into the sunset or the jazzo give him a Sweetheart for one more year or something after that

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[SPEAKER_01]: but the band together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, one of the, if we're going to talk bold predictions coming up later, I don't want to, I know I read ahead sometimes, Craig, but my bold prediction is a George springer might even be better than he was last year next year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have to find with my other more than Josh Donaldson, I believe, are flirting with what

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[SPEAKER_03]: He might have some more protection in this line up this year too, so we'll see, yeah, we got hopefully somebody finally healthy that we'll talk about later in the show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So on that note, Liz, I want to go back to when I came up from my first visit and you and I left the ballpark and we're going to go, when the summary of our conversation was, oh my god, we suck again.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So about a week after I left Toronto, the Yankees came to town and we trouts them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that was the turning point of the season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: because it was about July, I think I came up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But anyways, on that note, was that the point that where you finally started to see as you were in the ballpark where this team turned it around and started running in the right direction.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, they're assigned support, but I think there's a general kind of pivot that everybody kind of acknowledges.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was there.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It was the sweeping the aches.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I was ever there for every game.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I watched it happen and I remember thinking, if they could just split it, if we could just take two, tie for the division, I'd be happy.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And then they got the third one and I was like,

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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, now the fourth game I remember I was sitting and I was like we could you can actually do this we could sweep the we could sweep the anchor to take first place And and we did and that's when the New York media turned on us, but they can break right off But like that's the thing is is this team

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, anybody who says that they thought we were going to go all the way to the World Series last year is a liar.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, we will be in the middle lower pack of the AL East.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I think that will be a little bit above 500 level team.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But the thing with the jazes, there was never a moment as Jason was saying where we were firing.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We always had good hitting, shitty pitching.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, are we pitching well and we weren't.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Remember that season, where I was two seasons ago?

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[SPEAKER_05]: three seasons ago where we couldn't score a run, where we would like to be down by one and they just couldn't do it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and so it's nice to see it was nice to see the bats get going and, you know, the pitching be the excellent.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But let's not forget, so baseball is a long, dirty grind, 162 games.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And let's not forget, like, there was a point where the atoms were going to, they got it, they've got momentum.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But then there was that lovely skid right from the end of the season where a bullpen was terrible.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I was like, I don't even know.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And then the bullpen actually got fine again.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's the thing with baseball.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It does these kind of swirves and cracks.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And you got to see how it expands over the whole 162

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[SPEAKER_05]: But Dan, does it ever hurt when you're in it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: And does it ever feel awesome when you're in it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: But I think that I think that team was a team of destiny and hopefully that would be better next year.

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[SPEAKER_05]: They'll be able to close you down next year.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But

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[SPEAKER_05]: That they're they're they come back out of to you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I remember watching a game against the Orioles and they were down for in the night that I thought well, that's it and I was mad and then they came back and they won the game And I almost died from heart attack anyway.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I can't remember the question but the team was was good some bit of hurt anyway

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So guys, I got a question.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, they've had all this sort of plays of the year stuff and you're on review and all this other stuff.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's just Dodgers hitting this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Does anybody has anybody watched it and thought to themselves, you know, one inch at home and, you know, like, like I'm watching that play at home and I'm just like, I'm like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, just baseball gods, just flip it hard for your selected.

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[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, this thing is like, I don't live there.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't live in that time.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We didn't win the game, and that's where baseball is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, baseball, man.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We'd love to blow up like 17 baseballers on base.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so we need to do ourselves any favors with baseball gods did take three of three odd things against us.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I think it just didn't happen.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It just didn't happen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's baseball.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Like it just didn't happen.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes it does happen.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Mostly it doesn't happen.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But sometimes and we won games like that too.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's don't forget.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We've been on the other side of that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And so some just didn't happen for us.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And it wasn't our time.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It felt like it was going to be.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And it nearly was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I, I, I want to piggyback off that Jason coach is sometimes you have these games where the kids look at you and it's a hard loss and they want this massive speech they want to inspiration speech and and it it's just hey we didn't do it today pack it up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's be here tomorrow or hey it was great year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we did our best.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We did it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We did it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We came as far as we could.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like that's it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can do that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to change that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So training in this world.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that was one of my favorite things by one of my high school or college coaches was he just basically said, well, we screwed that one up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Good thing we're playing again tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, how practicebringer there was a mural at like set one business put it in their front of there on their window on the way to the sky down like right near it and as it was it was George Sprayer and it has had angel wings and it said on the dings of an angel.

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[SPEAKER_04]: very young.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But what I also like about him is everybody's so focused on vlady.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And vlady needs that assistant captain ask type person.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Spring is the best person for it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He is a world series winner.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He is a marketing old person.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He just did a tremendous amount of things with make a wish.

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[SPEAKER_02]: downtown at jackassers in Toronto.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's doing a lot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's doing a, I mean, glad he's doing baseball camps for kids.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, a lot of that, blue days are doing things, but it can't just be on the back of Ladi.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And they have so much talent on this and being the other person that's on the other side of the pond here on the south side of Lake Ontario.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ernie Clement is everywhere here in Rochester.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's everywhere but this show and apparently he's gotten about five or six of my business cards at this point.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, already, if you're listening, we would love to have you and talk baseball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was a lot of Blue J stands here in Toronto.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I would like to even just have you know, the live event that I've been trying to put together, too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But on that whole thing, it's you to your point, Darrell.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that extra piece just takes the load off of Vlad.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we can focus on baseball just that more.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It spreads the love and they have so much talent.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The last two times I've been on here, I was saying, Adam's a barge is my favorite, but after the world series being over, they just look at Clement.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If there was a jersey, I was going to get, it'd be an early Clement jersey.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But we also haven't locked up until 2029.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a lot of that's one thing people don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And we got him for nothing, essentially, from the A's at one point, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And flavor claim.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, and the other thing is,

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[SPEAKER_02]: doing everything we ask him to do from different positions as well, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's one thing that anybody who's listening has to let that sink in, not just at second base, but I think he let all a majorly baseball with the most defensive run saved as a stat.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's a goldball finalist.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So he's, he's great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to give this story because I don't know if you've three of seen this specifically, but

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ernie Clement grew up here in Rochester as you walk out more well aware of he is a die hard like oh my god level buffalo bills fan the day after the world series ended he drove back here to Rochester so he could watch the bills game in his favorite bar here in town and just.

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[SPEAKER_03]: be that guy, be the normal guy again.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So he got invited to the Buffalo Bell Stadium to go tour the ball, New Arena and everything.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a great video about it in earlier in the video there like so who you want to meet and you know who you're going to maybe like you know kind of like nerd out about because oh QB1 Josh Allen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So of course later in the video he meets Josh Allen there like oh are you like

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, flustered or anything like that, and it goes, how can I be?

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, look at this guy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's Josh.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just so humble.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And every day, I loved every bit of it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was, I would highly recommend anybody looking at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're so similar to each other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The two guys are so similar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So humble.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, it's, it's one of the things I'm hoping that the J certainly do take advantage of this year is Ernie is an unbelievable marketing piece for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the every guy, you know, every guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and and Josh Allen, I mean, he's very similar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They did like that one of my favorite videos is Josh Allen hitting home runs at that softball tournament and the fence is brought in like 50 feet for 60 feet from the regular fence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's hitting them over the the stadium and out onto the highway and they're like, No one's ever hit anything out there before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like bouncing off the highway the softballs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like turning around and not doing this and he's got his beers gone by his foot like you know and I just it's it's it's so good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This generation is getting early Clement to be their John McDonald they're very calm.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But to that point, there is a definite skill jump.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, because you can see or any can do it on both sides of the ball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Jeff, our John McDonnell was all the fans.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Boomerick, Kawasaki, found the base to be the best utility player on the bench, you know, but it was all those pieces or implement.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They have a wonderful star on that same vein that is going to be just good, I think, as well, because he's going to grind every little thing out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's pretty, anyway, here's the records of the postseason.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm sure that doesn't help right doesn't here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So moving along.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to talk into the playoffs here before we, you know, use the second half of the hour here to goof around and talk about the current.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We did make the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_03]: that we end up where we did and playing seven games against them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We watched the Yankees and the Red Sox beat each other up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The Cleveland Guardians didn't really show up against, you know, the Tigers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But in general, this postseason, watching all the baseball that you all watched, was this not one of the best postseason's regardless of your Blue J fan and that you ever had chance to watch?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 100% without it out and it's the amount of I think the telltale sign for that is the amount of people that I know and and and we saw this everywhere that are not baseball fans that were glued to this series and as it got more intense I mean we we had two game sevens they you don't get two game sevens very often no matter what

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[SPEAKER_02]: What I like as a story line is that you still have two countries and we only have one team in this country and when when you when you look at the marketing you have all the media in the US and Canada focusing on baseball we're typically in October the hype is around hockey and hockey getting ready and basketball to a degree to you know as much hockey.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The latest championship in Toronto was the Toronto Raptors, and it was all focused on the BlueJace, and it became nostalgic.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And people were remembering the times that they had, whether there's that exhibition stadium or early Skydome, or they were bringing out their retro hats and shirts and people who hadn't watched baseball were talking baseball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was so lovely to see that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was so nice to have people once again talking baseball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And

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[SPEAKER_02]: They felt there was just something about this team, everybody latched on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: People were finding different memes, people were sending things through social media.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was just becoming the hype.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that the pendulum will swing once again as we get closer to spring training starting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so after we get all through that we get the last little gas of wonderful things to happen for the blue jays and that is trade is savage and I read the most crazy thing on the planet that because obviously everybody is doing through all these deep dive stats and everything of 2025 doing the highlight stuff that Jason mentioned and everything like that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The stat that I saw is that he started his season in front of 327 people on attendance, and it would 35 million people watching.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then that's where the playoff start for the Donald Luchics because you really think about it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: His first two three starts were really quasi playoff appearances.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I was so happy to be there for the one.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He was there for one.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was so good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: it rolled right through and he continued doing all that throughout the whole post season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Even that last second start you had in the world series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, but he still did what exactly what he needed to do.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He kept the game and go in and the blue jays in it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, and now again, let me start from him.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yep, right as a rookie I was that it's first start in the first game against the Yankees in the LDS So it was the game.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and oh my god.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I was so scared.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I was so scared for trey and he had some rocky first innings And then he settled in and the thing about trey is every time he pitches he looks like he's gonna cry go to bed and And he did it man like

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[SPEAKER_05]: that the composure and you know the I guess the fortitude of doing that and it was amazing and I hope you know this is a thing that the test we all know is next year when they figure out tray and then tray's got to adjust them and how that's going to go and I hope it goes well you know I don't know how I mean I'm sure you can make adjustments for his delivery but I don't know we'll see any any comments on that one?

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be an interesting one to figure out because it's the weirdest arm angle.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And Jason, you all like this one.

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[SPEAKER_03]: As I was watching video, that just always manages to pop back up on Twitter of Tony Guinn, top teaching hitting.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And he's trying to tell people to look for the logo on the cap.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Don't look for the arm angle.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Look for the logo on the cap as soon as the picture goes to go like this and starts moving the head toward the plate.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That means the hand is not far behind.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That was his way to get started.

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[SPEAKER_03]: where you're going with trius acid, you're gonna see that thing coming toward your hand, and that's gonna magically just come like this out from where I decided it's not coming anywhere else.

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[SPEAKER_03]: a very, very awkward article.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I also think that the the bludges are playing some five D chess because I think before he pitches one of the last pictures you're going to see some of our two new side arm throwers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that that's going to be some unique puzzle pieces to set him up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Even though he's going to be starting you never know the day before who they're going to see and and you know he'll obviously start day one of some.

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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, road trip or homestand and that of a first team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But even if they do figure him up to a degree, there's also going to be the people coming in behind him and if they can maneuver away where a guy's throw it over the top of them, people are coming from below three quarters, it's going to set them up nicely.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when they made those moves, a both on one day or a day or two, I was blowing them out like this front office is playing phenomenal 5D chest right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the other thing too that I think and everyone has to be okay with this because I think that we've been burned the last couple of years with Bowden Francis and, you know, like, where we're expecting the exact same thing Manoa to to happen again, and my hope is that they, I mean, I feel like trays a bit of a different doc like I mean,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Paul schemes is the only one that sort of reminds me very similar of a guy who, you know, we came into the majors, they were like, okay, you know, he's pretty darn good, but just wait for the sophomore slump and he was like, I'm going to take your sophomore slump and cram it up your ass.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like, just he had no interest in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I think Tray is going to be the same.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like he's just going to come out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like you said, you're like, they're going to finger him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, guys are going to hit him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to have bad outings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just hope that the Blue Jays fans media all the rest of it are okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That if he has having a bad outing and they bring him out and throw in one of those messed up arm angle guys, they're doing that for a reason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not doing it because, you know, somebody's picking up on on the height of the ball and they're able to to put good wood on it fine great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's switch to somebody who's throwing it four inches from the ground and see if they

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[SPEAKER_01]: I also feel like the jays have made some pretty start strong moves to make sure that their pitching lineup tip to tail is quite good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we can never account for injury or any of that other stuff, but I feel like going into the regular season we're going to start to see some games where at the end of it, they'll be like, well, you know, the blue jays just pitched the hell out of whoever that team was like, you know, they had no idea where the weather was coming or going or underhand or overhand, I mean, it's

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to think that that trace of it just like our screens and I also think about two blue jays that hitters couldn't figure out Dave Steven Roy Halliday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe maybe the hitters can't figure them out as possible, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's, I mean, if he can learn that the finnative cutter from his

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, look how much better Royality was at that one all start game with Mary out of Rivera and his cutter.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He had a front door cutter and a back door cutter after that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if he could just try to find Rivera for that, they did find them for that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They did find them for that, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm just saying and just like how good Roy Halliday was against the Yankees.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you'll know why they find them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Too funny.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you guys are watching, but did you guys see that the Florida Panthers pulled up to the the winter classic outdoor game all dressed up in Miami vise.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, no, police for Aries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You got it, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think so.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So where to be playing hockey in Miami to begin with, let alone, you know, I'll go have some fun with it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, just need some fuel call on to that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so we talked to Reyes Savage.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously the BlueJays, you know, get through the first rounds and everything, get all the way to the world series after, you know, beating up on the Yankees and the best interview in Major League Baseball.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Yankees!

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[SPEAKER_03]: at still rings through my ears like perfectly with no problems of repurposed memory and it's going to be like that for years now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So what were your guys favorite moments from the play us in the world series and I want to talk about good things before we change up.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just going to go for us because yesterday, okay, guys, yes, sometimes, okay, you know what you're teenager and you have maybe this is a girl thing and you have a good cry tape and you know, you put on your

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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, Chanel Conner, and you have a good cry.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But my cry tape is now the George Springer Game 7 ALCS 3 Run Digger.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's like anytime, like I watch it, and I just have a good cry, and I just, I feel all the feels in my heart.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I watch it yesterday, and it's the best, it's the best band.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I remember watching it, I was in yellow and I've, for work.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I thought it's not going to go and then it went and the whole hotel I was saying it started shaking and I remember that and I remember springer and I remember the sadness of the stupid mariners faces and that that for me was the moment one of the biggest moments of the year.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I hold that with me and I had a thing when, you know, when the J's lost and gave seven people were like, oh, what a bust of a season and I thought, I can't, no, it's not.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We had at least beautiful moments along the way these, these high fives, these, you know, big moments, these dirty comeback wins, and for me that, that, like, because the thing of the team, sometimes they just felt so flat, they felt really flat until they didn't.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And that was a game where the J's just felt flat until they didn't.

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[SPEAKER_05]: uh and uh yeah anyway that for me was the the big role of season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Darrell let's go next.

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[SPEAKER_02]: For 32 years I've watched back to back on VHS and then on DVD and then on YouTube.

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[SPEAKER_02]: 32 years I know back to back better than anybody.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can tell you just right from like seeing the scene, spring training all the way through.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That when the j's figure out and come out with their version of the

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[SPEAKER_02]: But there's one specific highlight for me where I'm like, well, that was just the best to me what I love is that the city and this country came together for one team and I didn't see in 2019 when the Raptors won and the leaves are a whole different story.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But there were just

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[SPEAKER_02]: fair weather and bandwagon and true hardcore fans all together, and it was so lovely to see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that is something that I will never forget.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just for two and a half, three weeks, there was a time where I was also in Austin, game one or game two, and there were so many people wearing Jay's jerseys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because people just, they're from BC or they're from Saskatchewan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But for that

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[SPEAKER_02]: that's what it's all about.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I'll always take away.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I went to games with my wife and our friends and our kids and they were all amazing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And where I was for the Springer home run and all the games and the world series and having friends over and all our fantastic moments.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But to we're building now, this is like the j's in 91 or the j's in 89.

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[SPEAKER_02]: or the jays in 90 or the jays even 85 when they just tasted it, I think that they're just onto something fantastic now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And this is just building.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be brick by brick.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what that's what excited me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well done, Jason.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What you got?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Try top in that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously, Vladis first advanced against the Yankees.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, how do you beat that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You just absolutely demolishes a ball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and you could see their fate like as soon as that happened, you could see their faces and they were like, shit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he, I mean, just Vladie in that series all together was just, I mean, it was every time he came up, they were scared to death.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Every one of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it didn't matter if who it was, come on the mound, they were, they were freely frightened of him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then my other favorite,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, you got to give it to them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The guy gets ripped left right and center about the way he looks and all of the rest of that stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, for a guy like Kirk to hit as well as he did and just mash and then, you know, my favorite part of it is when Springer did hit that home run and, and Kirkty,

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[SPEAKER_01]: flies out of the top of the stairs, and he's just like spit flying out of his mouth and and then on the flip side of that is the when Clement and Joey Laura for feet I'm gonna turn around to the crowd and they have that perfect kind of the outside of the dugout like what is going on here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just I mean there's too many to name but I mean you know it was so much fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What about you, Craig?

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh

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[SPEAKER_03]: So my favorite and this is just because it just it was the punch that we needed and so the world series goes back to LA Davis Schneier is batting lead off they aren't ready for Davis Schneier nobody was ready for Davis Schneier I didn't even know Davis Schneier was ready for Davis Schneier, but his dad was he was watching and he had that camera go and then that was ready to go

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not only does he go yard, 10 seconds later, bloody, one, two, that was the, we're not going down without a fight moment, and that was the part that I think just summarized all the stuff that we got to watch throughout the whole season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: as John Blue J's fans and I could not get enough of that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I even immortalized that with a couple of pops now parts right here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I also have to say, Yemen has had a such a huge spring training and then really struggled all year long and then when he flipped the switch in that mariner series and they basically couldn't throw to him anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was bunting and just hammering balls out of the stadium and the first one that goes he rounds first and calmly double waves out to the outfield like he hit 60 of him that year and like if it was me and I hadn't hit a home running about five months I'd come right out of my skin, but he's just like

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[SPEAKER_05]: To build off Darrell's comment about the back-to-back VHS.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I was walking with my brother to game seven The world series and I was like, and you know, there's like people playing drums in the street and I was like It's like we're in the back-to-back VHS This is what I'm gonna do the crowd shots and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I was like this could be us, man.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We could be in that anyway

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I thought she was going to go completely different way with she was going to be walking down the road there And it's like a bootlegger selling VHS copies of it or something like that and it's an old man Oh my god, it's just like a crudger because I had it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We all had it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I watched it over and I was a kid And I was like it feels like it feels like we could be in this.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, and they always have like people screaming or signs You're like, I love you, Kelly, grew where this could be this

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[SPEAKER_03]: could be us.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So let's talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It could be us as we say, have wonderful, wonderful friends.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Why not us?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Why not go from our buddy and Baltimore, Esteban?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Good to see you in the chat.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Great to have y'all.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 151 of you currently in the chat on what I can see you at the one screen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Everything else is very with new stuff that can keep talking about.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So anyways, this season, we haven't built in something.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We have Dylan Seas, all of a sudden in this

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[SPEAKER_03]: we, as you mentioned, grabbed Taylor or a Tyler and a couple other weird arms in the ball pack that will open to be able to keep things moving here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This team is the same team for the most part minus one key person at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna get hopefully a fresh Anthony Santander that hit 30 home runs again.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We are as the countdown just said 38 days away from pictures and catchers reporting for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Dean Florida.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What are you guys excited about seeing so far with what we either had already in the kitchen or what we stockpiled up so far?

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[SPEAKER_03]: They're all let you go first to your guests.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is unfinished business.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the story line.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what we're going with.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's unfinished business until the final out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We haven't brought up Boba Shet yet.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a hole and there's a gap there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Anthony Santander, what version of he, are we, I'm just not negative.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is just, based on what are you going to get?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't know what you're going to get, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I like to pickups that we've had so far.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to see some more filters.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we had to, we had to look at pitching, which they've done.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's still more moves to go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But the other thing that I'd like to BlueJace to look at is the,

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[SPEAKER_02]: fantastic free agent pool that is still out there that is not yet been picked up, which I'm shocked over, which is, which is crazy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But nonetheless, I'm excited to just get this year going.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that there's hype momentum when the boys get together.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's going to be some synergy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I still curious what they're going to do with some of our vets or the vets that are our free agents.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Are they going to get invite to spring training?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they start to your

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I, I, there's every plan I'm excited to see and I'm, I'm really excited to see where we'll be around Canada today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's, that's what I'm most excited.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's, to me, it's going to be like a after the All-Star break as we enter the second half of the season.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see what it's like.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, Liz, how about you go next?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, sorry.

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[SPEAKER_05]: What was the question again?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, this isn't that I'm excited about all the guys.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I forgot we're on the team For example, like tight friends, he's still a team.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I can't have he's still on the team Heinemons on the team.

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[SPEAKER_05]: There's all these guys.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I forgot we're on the team.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So I'm excited to see what happens with them

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited, listen man.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited for opening day.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited to see them raise the banner.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited to check beers in my five.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited for the day-to-day grind of baseball.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, what's going to happen?

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But it definitely, so I'm just going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, and I think that's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I, you know, I really invest myself in the daily baseball situation.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, going down to games hanging out with your friends.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But I think for me, it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to see.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Do we lose Liz?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, we've got a lot of things going to happen with this new combination of guys, right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: So what does healthy sound hunt there look like?

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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, man.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Be cool to show it up though.

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[SPEAKER_05]: What is, do we have both, is both still around?

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[SPEAKER_05]: probably maybe, don't see, that's lost.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So it's just like, see, is, is, is, is, is yummy healthy this year.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's seeing to our guys are who is going to be out there and hoping to all hell that, sometimes their produces, that's what I'm looking forward to.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And like, also, the things you think are going to happen or never the things that happen.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm also, I like, I also got, I'm really excited to like, it's what I dig in post all stir brick, right?

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's like when you can see that the trajectories, the lines and I hope, you know, I just hope we went series.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I believe it went as many series as we can in however ways we got it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: See it all, got a win the series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's all it is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So Jason, how about you, my friend?

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[SPEAKER_03]: But you look forward to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think mine is a little more, mine is pretty deep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am most looking forward to the postseason again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like we're going to get there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there is a lot of unfinished business.

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[SPEAKER_01]: with letting some of the series get a little long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I feel like, I feel like this year was just a glimpse into what the next three years is going to look like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm super happy with the way the teams put together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really hoping that they can nail this boba-shet contract.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be frank with you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I could go either way on Kyle Tucker, you know, as long as he doesn't end up in the AL East, I don't really care.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, you know, or if the Dodgers, I mean, if the Dodgers get him, I mean, it's, you know, it's it's goofy territory, but I mean, I feel like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You want to win with a team you brought and we're adding on small pieces, but I don't want to see them got you know, do a gut job to try and make sure that we do win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And let's be clear, Bulbashet needs to move over to second base and let's get them signed and let's let them finish what the two of them start, what what what Vladian both started and everybody's, you know, sort of got behind and

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I think that's what I'm most looking for, too, is the reality of that potentially happening.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So what I'm looking forward to is a plethora of strikeouts, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like God loves strikeouts.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Look at what we did last year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we were piecing together a starting rotation.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We have right now on paper, Jose Boreos is our fifth starter.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's assuming that for some reason he doesn't get traded before because of whatever happened at the end of their last season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The falling out there or whatever it might be.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But right now, you're going to have Gostman who strikes out people.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to have Dylan sees who is a, you know, Greek god of strikeouts that you're going to now have.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Then you're going to have him followed up with your savage.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, okay, gosh, there's going to be a lot going on in this starting rotation.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I also think Ricky Tydman made make the rotation this year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, who knows.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There is a very good chance of that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I love Tydman.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I love Tydman.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He was, he, you talk about the path that you savage took.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He was not doing an accelerated path through the minor league system the year before he got hurt, but it was moving pretty quickly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And he had to, unfortunately, have the Tommy John surgery miss all of last year professionally.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But that's in that put a chip on your shoulder when you knew you were this close and you were getting there that you're going to come in the spring training and just be like,

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm healthy, let's go and have to mention, Darrell, he's a lefty.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's only having another guy that could be a lefty that just throws smoke.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All of these guys this year have unfinished bit that he even has unfinished business.

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[SPEAKER_05]: This time, it's personal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They all have a story to finish this right this year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that Liz is nailed the tagline for this season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What's the name of this personal?

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[SPEAKER_05]: It is.

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[SPEAKER_05]: First of all, Toronto Blue Jigs, revenge of, let's go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Revenge of the nerds.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, please don't let the nerds in the calculator.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So take over the baseball Jason.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not again.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go back again.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, Darrell, I got before we get too far.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I got one of our friends that's in the chat here is wondering where the hell you got your hat from.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I guess I'll let you do your shameless self promoting this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Really before we do our new resolutions.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mid January.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's called the 1838 hat from Jay Birdie.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can pick it up at Jay Birdie dot CA.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be our newest hat is part of our beach folk collection.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's we're coming with a ton of new hats and shirts this year, but this is our first.

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[SPEAKER_02]: new shirt.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's got a beautiful tag on the insights as a beach full authentic beach full collection.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's also being able mid January promotions just started for it today on on our social media.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we're super excited for it to our first five panel hat and I love it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think we're just going to stick with the five panels for now with a lot of our new stuff.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's in style.

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[SPEAKER_02]: no lie, people are going, that's a nice hat, I go get a tie.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Isn't that a nice hat?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think we need, I think we need to get our body up here with a true, true, row baseball UK because he's hoping you're ready to ship it to the UK.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we've shipped, here's, we've shipped to UK.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There is a strong blue J assembly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've had them on this go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I could not believe it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So on our Instagram, we've got tons tons a few hundred people from the UK I had no idea and a one person one guy sent me a story that there was a school that didn't assembly at one point all where

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[SPEAKER_02]: Ireland, we've, we've shipped many places.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we're at, there's BlueG fans, there's baseball fans, there's Canadian baseball fans all around the world.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so yeah, we can certainly send it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You just gotta be patient.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It takes about two weeks to get to you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There is that I we had a couple giveaways that we've sent from this show that I don't know if they still have arrived And I think I shipped them about a year ago And I got confirmation we won't make sure arrives.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's something we'll make sure to arrives.

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[SPEAKER_02]: UPS is a friend of ours.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There you go, bud Thanks so, but yeah

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, like I said, that was just too fun that he was in the comments and or she for that matter and uh, just want to make sure I, you got a chance to talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, that's good stuff.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But on that note, I wanted to end the fun here with blue jays, new years resolutions.

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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you guys want them to do?

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[SPEAKER_03]: What would be a goal that the blue jays need to do outside of obviously running it back.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That one's just too obvious.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We already know we want that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm going to go backward around the other way around the corner here, Jason, if you were going to give a New Year's resolution to the Toronto Blue Jays, who are you thinking and what do you think they need to be doing?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the biggest thing this year is I think they need to trust the starters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The resolution should be let a guy get a little deeper so that when we do get into the dog days those middle guys haven't had as much road put on the as much road put on the tires as they did get this season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can trust a guy and we've got we saw it as the season going on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our starting pitchers are good enough that even if they give up a few, they'll, they'll, they'll, you know, bridge the dam and then allow you to come back if you can hit the ball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we, we all know that we can do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that would be my resolution.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We to trust your arms, trust your starting arms and let them get a little deeper into the games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Darrell, what do you think and for the blue days goals for some players or front office?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it might be?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm happy with a lot of things that they're doing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It could be just as simple as repeat and some of those things.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Is there something that stands out?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I would like to see us get some stronger backups to be honest with you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's no disrespect to who

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[SPEAKER_02]: World Series champion and if

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[SPEAKER_02]: Our top guys go down, I want our next guys ready to go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if that means that there's seasoned veterans with one or two years left, that's fine.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm also, my true wish this year is that there's no strike in 2027.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, that's to be quite honest with you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if that means getting some vets to clog the lineup up because some of our starters go down, I'm fine with that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I just get worried with our B lineup sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's interesting you say that too, because I don't know if you've all seen the very, very minor moves that the Toronto Blue Jays have made over the last, I'll say, a couple of days, week or so here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They signed Nick N. Wright and Josh Winkeowski to two-year minor league deals each.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Those two gentlemen are hurt currently, but Josh Winkeowski was a former Toronto Blue Jays fifth round draft pick, high school that they wanted.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He ended up going to college and playing and signed with the Red Sox eventually instead.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But somebody they've been after for basically four or five years that they now get the chance to, you know, re establish in their own player development center, same thing with Nick and Wright, who in 30 in which last year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, they're both pictures.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't see this much here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and like a super fast guy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they're doing some really crazy.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sneaking villain moves, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a different different brand of baseball that it was 10 20 years ago.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I do like that they're thinking that to your point, the 5B 40 chest to be able to keep things moving like that because if those guys come back healthy and right we had a 30 innings last year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It would the Cleveland Guardians and he had a 2.0 ERA.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's pretty aggressive.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I like that too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, and when Kowski has a chance of being a real comeback, he said, was he the one that I was reading that had a melanoma too, that has gotten better and all that, and he's actually, you know, getting better and moving things along, and he's doing very, very good in his, you know, getting back every day stuff and playing baseball, but that's a great story to get behind right there too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but anyway, Liz, new year's resolution for the trial with you guys, what you got.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, listen, man.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We tied with the Yankees last year, and we won the AL because we won more games than them.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I don't want that, I'm done with that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I want us to dominate, I want us to dominate, I want us to win, with a few games lead, we've not many.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And so I want us to dominate all year, consistently.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't want to deal with the Yankees any more of tired of bullshit.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I just, I don't want the season to be such a deal,

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[SPEAKER_05]: I wanted to be a resounding.

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[SPEAKER_05]: We got it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: So that is my my wish, which goes back to everything you said rolled up in there.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It goes back to winning series.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It goes back to having good pitching and also hitting the ball.

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[SPEAKER_05]: But like that's what I want to see this year.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I want to see a total fucking season, a domination.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There it is, utter domination.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And though it's just hilarious too, because if you think back to the back of the back thing, the Blue Jays weren't dominating either

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[SPEAKER_03]: things weren't exactly clicking perfectly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then you had the right pieces of Ricky Henderson here, you know, whatever you were there, all over the year, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you take it up a step, that's stuff, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So very, very cool.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a great idea.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And in the midst of these things, what I've been thinking and the blue jays is it continue with the same mantra that day pumpkins has been pushing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: put the ball in play.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The blue jays are the perennial team that is debuted.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Why this is the best way to be playing baseball again.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They need to double down on that fashion.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And they, they all shouldn't even be thinking about this anymore, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, great and spring training is like, oh, yeah, maybe that sounds great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But now they've seen it in win.

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[SPEAKER_03]: they know it gets them to the world series.

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[SPEAKER_03]: They put the ball in place and crazy things can happen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think there's some silly players in free agency that they can actually use to build on that, especially some of these things with Boba Chat, Kyle Tucker and whatnot continue to be the weirdest offseason for big free agents that I can recall in recent history.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's great hitters like Luis O'Reyes that just put the ball in fricking play that would play into this mantra perfectly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The guy is a perennial 300 hitter.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not a lot of crazy, but he gets a lot of RB eyes that align up like this with the blue jays if he can just get on base and hit the ball and play.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Gonna look a lot better than the 50 day hands in San Diego this past year.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's all I'm thinking.

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[SPEAKER_03]: and you can play second, first, third, wherever, and play around like some of these other guys, but if you got another guy like Ernie Clement, that's just gonna put the ball in play.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Some good things could happen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Truth, so.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Good deal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So is there any other topics that any of you would like to just talk out in the last five minutes or so here before we have the wander off?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Can the cheese get 100 wins?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Can the jays get 100 wins?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's possible to get the right pitching.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 90s.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 90s.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Next.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is the soul in on it now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, game on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, why not?

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[SPEAKER_05]: If I can shoot low, I'm going to shoot high.

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's going to be where I was going to be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anything else?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I just, I, I, I, I, I, I think it's, I think it needs to be said that after the amount of time we've spent doing this, I feel like this is the most exciting positive, yeah, I feel like this is the most positive I've been at this part of the year looking at next year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely the most tensed I've started this when we were a fresh person and the one thing I hope is because that run was so much fun and like my kids like you know Like we were all into it everyone was into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to you know I can see now why it's so contained just to be a Dodgers fan because they're always in it They always have playoff baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're always gonna chance to win it and

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like I said earlier, I feel like the next three years we've got a chance to win it every year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no bad teams in the MLB except for the A's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, everyone else has a pretty good chance to win it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like the Dodgers and the Jays and what the Rockies, the Rockies are bad too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or my sense of the Rockies are worse than the A's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What about those white socks?

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they're spending money on some of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's going to have an E's on that one.

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[SPEAKER_03]: White socks, he says agree.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, white socks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: good deal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, but on that note, though, that where you're going to, in the next 24 hours, probably here about where is Kazuma, you, Ocomata starts too, because he's still on the Blue Jays radar.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The Blue Jays are a little bit old.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a ton of advertising at a boxing event in Japan, if you saw.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We did talk that out on this show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was a fun one.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's to be able to go, who the who thought of this?

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Do that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Why aren't you doing that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a market.

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[SPEAKER_03]: the doctor's in the morning like anybody.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So speaking of money and freebies and give away isn't stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If you all don't recall, we tried to give this away to one of you a couple weeks ago and it actually went unclamed.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I gave everybody the two weeks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I got you normally knew.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is still going to be a freebie.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I think in circulation.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It is good.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a bottle cap, I guess, but yes, we'll put it in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like fallout, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's on a bottle cap, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So on that note, head over a TikTok hit the follow button as literally the entry for you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And right now you have a 1436 chance to be able to be the winner of this bottle cap.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I will ship it right from here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It'll be all nice and pretty.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It might come with a few other gifts too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So make sure you head over to our TikTok channel and hit the, you know, follow button.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll be talking soon.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully, there's a winner.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But on that note, also, Darrell, if you want to give everybody the wonderful fun that is the, you know, promo code that we have.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Always happy to deliver that to everybody.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We are totally excited for 2026 to be part of this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We will have a hot amount of soon, which is going to be great.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it will truly be a step back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll be talking amongst the three of you guys about what the look and feel is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that all of your fans will be super stoked, very nostalgic as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I have to get one people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're saving the good one for the for the Jeep or watching podcast.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, that's that's nice.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's I think it's going to be a wonderful design.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, this was an incredible year for us and I'm always a pleasure to be here and talk and baseball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That is for sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, especially Canadian baseball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I bet you don't know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: damn right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So on that note, just to wrap it up, Darrell will be back in a couple of weeks.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to join us on the 14th when our friends Zach Loots is going to be on the show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He had to duck out last visit.

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[SPEAKER_03]: He where you're going to talk.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Actually, you've sporked that night specifically.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So we're going to have a couple of coaches in the house.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You also have Liz and I because why not?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So on that note, and then next week, Liz,

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[SPEAKER_03]: You, your friend is going to be on the show.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, my friend, my friend from Babes Babes Media, my friend Jonathan, she is a content creator, a diehard Yankees fan, so she was a kid, overall awesome, awesome girl, gonna talk some AL east action with us.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're going to literally go ride the night.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what it's gonna happen tonight.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So on that note, Blue Jay's fans, thank you very, very much for tuning in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We greatly appreciate you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we will talk to you soon.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We will back to our normal Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Eastern after tonight.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So have a great weekend, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll see you on Wednesday.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Cheers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Back to you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Back to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Go, Jews, Go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Woo!