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Hello, and welcome to Battles and
Murds, the Baseball Podcast with a British

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twist. I am your host again, Russell Eason. You are here again

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with me and Gave on the game
day of the next game against Columbia,

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and we are in the press box
giving you our thoughts on yesterday's game against

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Canada morning Gave. How are you
feeling. I'm feeling better than I was

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when I left the ground yesterday.
I felt quite deflated. But yeah,

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I'm feeling good. I'm raring to
go and I think that this is the

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one which GV are gonna win.
Well, that's positivity you want to hear.

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Yeah, I think yesterday was mostly
draining for a lot of people.

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It started off with high and ended
up with I think such a load that

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it was. It was a hard
game to go through. But we'll start

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I think off with the good points. That first three run inning was.

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I want to say that's British baseball
at least under this iteration of guys,

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the Bahamian players, the Caribbean guys
that we have, the way Drew Is

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instilled them. It was get on
base, it was steel, it was

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made chaos and they engineered the first
run a double steal, which I basically

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said in the press box out loud, they should just let Caperniac steal because

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or defensive indifference, because if they
throw, Chavez is gonna do something,

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and he did. Yeah, it
was fantastic that you actually predicted that,

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or you you suggested what Canada should
do. They should just let him go

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to a second And yeah, we
saw the first ever steal of home base,

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didn't we first ever steal of home
base in World Baseball Classic history and

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you picked it. Fantastic and you
know so it does show almost like the

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naivety of some of the teams in
this sort of competition that they must have

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realized. Naylor, I don't know
he should he should have known what was

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going to happen. But yeah,
anyway, lovely start for GiB and then

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sing followed up. Yeah they so
they tacked on a couple more in that

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innings, three zip up, as
we tweeted out, it was it was

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the dream start, like how Quantrell
didn't even make it out of the first

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inning. Like I really suggested in
yesterday's pod that he would be the toughest

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picture that they might face. Maybe
that was my guardians bias. Maybe that

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was a little bit harsh and Adam
Wainwright, but no, I thought he

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was going to be a very difficult
guy to go against. But he just

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didn't have it. And maybe when
he didn't have it, we should have

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realized that something was going to be
up. Because Akim Morris started for GiB

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and watched his first pitch go four
hundred feet behind him. Yeah, it

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was. That was fantastic start this
first time. Obviously, I've seen Edward

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Julian and I've read a lot about
him, and yeah, he just came

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out first pitch swing and it was
effortless. The guy is going to be

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a star. But it had a
lot of the London Series feel to it,

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didn't it, Because Yeah, Morris, he just couldn't find the strike

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zone and when he was pulled in
the first inning, I don't I don't

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know, it's it just it felt
like we can't blame the stadium in Stratford

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or the conditions or anything like we
did for the London series. But something

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was up yesterday. Yeah, whether
it's you can't talk about collective yips or

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something like that, that just seemed
to be maybe there was an energy from

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both of the players ning that they
needed to kind of do something that day,

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and there was a little bit of
trying to force it a little bit

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too much. There wasn't. I
don't know. There were too many bad

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calls for balls like GGB god against
the USA, So I don't think it

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was that kind of made misdifference.
I think later on in the game there

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was some bad stripe calls, I
think because the umpires expanded the zones more

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than people getting squeezed. But yeah, we were sat here. It was

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forty eight minutes for the first innings
GB we're five to three down, and

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then in the second innings they gotta
run back and you just felt okay,

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yeah, this is this is when
you know they were down against Spain in

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the qualifier, but you were like, no, this this team can hit.

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We saw them hit, so it
was like, okay, yeah,

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we can get this runs back.
We know we're going to get more than

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six runs in this game, on
more than five runs in this game,

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so we know we're gonna get back
in front if we could just shut up

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shop on the pitching wise, and
it just didn't happen. It was just

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we'd score one kind of would score
one, who scored one, Canada scored

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three. We scored three, Canada
scored six. And there are obviously some

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key moments kind of in that play, but without basically GB ever manning Jing

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to put a zero up on the
scoreboard. From the pitching perspective, it

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just meant that all the momentum that
they would get from a half inning of

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hitting was was dissipated, like immediately
afterwards. Yeah, I certainly there was

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a bit of the GB Spain vibe
about it, because you did feel that,

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yeah, maybe they would they they
weren't. I think even though Canada

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were they ten five up at one
stage, Um, he still felt,

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yeah, GB are in this.
And then when Harry comes on and yeah,

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that was the moment of his career
so far. Yeah, you know,

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as his dad said, you know, Harry announced himself that his arrival

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in the tournament. Yeah, I
think he'd had a he'd had a poor

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game like the day before, probably
for him, he'd struck out a couple

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of times, he didn't do too
well in his focus. A couple of

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the bats today and once he deposited
that one into the into the over the

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fence, and God, his God, his jew coronation maybe a bit a

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bit earlier, but yeah, it
was a moment and that was ten eight.

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Then there was yea ten and I
really fancied our chances then, but

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we just needed we needed someone to
be able to I don't know, it

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gets through some quick innings, gets
through some clean innings, but it just

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didn't happen. Yeah, there were
a few defensive mistakes. There were a

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few kind of like misplays, but
also I'm not I'm not trying to say

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as a reason why t be lost, but there was a bit of luck

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that went against them, like a
few of those infield hits just missed,

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or soft infield hits are just missed
an infielder. When Benoir came in and

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probably got the perfect groundball double playball, and it bounces off his foot and

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evades every single in It's just sometimes
when it's not your day, it's not

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your day. And then and then
that really seemed to affect him, didn't

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it. He he just didn't.
He seemed to lose his focus after that.

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I don't know if he just lost
his focus where he had been injured

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a little bit by the ricochet,
but you know, he's handy a youngster.

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But and this will be great experience
for him for future, But what

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do we do after it hit him
on the leg? We conceded five runs

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I think in that inning. Yeah, and just obviously walked in a few

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more badders and kind of left it
as as as it was. It's like,

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it's a tough way to kind of
finish a game. So yeah,

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there are there are and obviously I
think from then onwards, I think once

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they conceded the sixth in that inning
and Canada had a one two three for

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the first time at the top of
the fifth, I think that once that

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happened, I don't want to say
the heads like went down or kind of

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like they gave up, but I
definitely feel that there was kind of like

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a choice of like, this isn't
today as in our day, Like let's

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just kind of move on. This
seemed to be a definite, um lack

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of enthusiasm after we went so far
behind. The players showed it, the

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crowd I think felt it. Um
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little bit distort that the game had
gone from such a great start. There

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were a couple of pretty major incidents
talking points. We have to mention the

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first one being the desh knows still
yeah, and we're gonna I'm not gonna

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sit here and say that I think
it was like I still think it was

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safe. I've watched it multiple times
afterwards and all the TV options that we

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have, Like I don't want to
be coming across as the devil advocates or

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apologist, but we know that the
replay review guys have some different camera angles

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that we don't see in to us. But from from what we saw that

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he was hand was on the bag
by the time we saw any defamation of

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the glove. Now if you would
see it from the other angle, does

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the glove touch him before it deforms? Don't know because don't see that angle.

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So we just can't work out whether
for any reason. And I think

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from like speaking down to the GB
guys, are some of the coaches this

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morning, like they're all still of
the opinion that they don't know why it

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wasn't overturned either. So it's a
big moment I think obviously, like when

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you look at it, what comes
afterwards that you linking to just say,

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like it definitely did change like the
outcome of the games. You've lost the

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runner on third when that was one
or two run game at that moment,

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so it really makes a difference.
So what were your thoughts on that play

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A GAF, We've just been interrupted, so we had to stop the podcast

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and now completely lost track of where
we were. We're talking about them the

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stolen base. Yeah, yeah,
well I was down in the crowd then

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and there is a massive Angels fans, all probably Deshaan Knowles's family, and

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they're sitting just behind the GB fans, and the replay came up on the

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big screen. I don't think anyone, not even the most biased Canadian thought

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that the term the decision wasn't going
to be overturned. So I haven't seen

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the replays on the TV or social
media or anything, but yet the feeling

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in the crowd was that was an
incredible decision not to go out away.

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So that was the first kind of
bigger talking point. I feel like the

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second talking point for me was a
couple of bad bits of base running at

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key moments. Yeah, that was
that was extraordinary because we saw Donnelle Sweeney

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really clover of the ball and it
looked like it was going dead center,

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and it's hard to hit a home
run dead center. And we had seen

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one earlier in the day. But
yeah, it was going and it didn't

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quite make it. And then when
my eyes went back to the diamond,

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I could not believe that he was
only jogging up to first and it was

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Murray, wasn't it Murray. Murray
had decided not to put the burners on

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and it should have been a home
run standing up and Donnelle should have been

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I don't know at third, But
yeah, it was very disappointing. We

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didn't get one run from that.
It was an eight ten game at the

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time. That could have made the
difference. And it's surprised, surprising because

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it hasn't been a lack of hustle
from the players. The players have shown

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incredible hustle. That's what got them
here. And yeah, Murray, he

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acknowledged that it was his mistake,
but still it was. It was frustrating.

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Yeah, and once again it's just
like the little key things. Yeah,

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like we took about there was a
few mistakes with the nian field.

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There was obviously the pitching wasn't on
it. There was a couple of bad

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breaks when you from the hitting side
against them, So you can't make those

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sort of mistakes yourselves on top of
that, Like when I used to talk

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to Liam about like the TV and
how you used to talk about things.

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It's like small wins is how like
you can go about baseball like if you

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can't if you win on the small
wins and these are kind of things about

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like getting first a third one like
singles, kind of doing all of these

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other things, not giving up areas
kind of maybe even like hard hit outs

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and stuff. Isn't like those little
tangibles that you could talk about a game

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that isn't you might not see like
in a box score. Usually will win

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a game if you kind of win
the small winds kind of aspect. And

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so yeah, it was just it
was a little bit disappointing to see.

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Obviously Camp kind of pushed too much
against them from from a hitting perspective,

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like they did. They put eight
on the board and it could have been

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nine, it could have been ten. I think obviously what happened as the

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game got away from GB is I
think Canada got they got that zero,

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they got a little bit of their
mojo back and then seeing does it Ax

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would come out and it is what
is he in his forties quite feen about

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two or three weeks. Yeah,
coming out with the gray Beard pitching like

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I think better than I've seen him
pitching probably like five years, and you

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were just like, oh yeah,
like this is like a major league pitcher.

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And then Matt Brash, who was
some people might regard as just a

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middling reliever for Seattle, was then
just liked out to finish the game.

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Like it just shared the difference of
what was needed. I don't know if

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you could say that we could or
should have changed the game plan mid game,

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like they did a pretty standard thing
of Okay, the pitch the starting

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pitcher doesn't work, I'm gonna put
in like a mid or lever, gonna

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put in then McKenzie mills, who
will hope we'll go a little bit longer.

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Maybe it could have been a game
where it's actually, you know what,

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this is the time to put in
like Fananda or or put in Gibo

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in the middle of this game to
try and get a zero on the board

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and change the way that like the
game is playing. But I think Drew

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stuck to his kind of game plan, his idea, which means that they're

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still in a good position to go
out today. They've got Tyler as a

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starting They've still got probably two or
three of their best bullpen arms. I'm

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not even thrown yet. Today they'll
get Cooper back, Michael Peterson will will

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be honor full day's rest as well. So I think there's nothing to worry

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about from actually all of that usage
that they got yesterday, even though it

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was a lot. Sure, well, yeah, they've got some arms which

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haven't been used at all, haven't
they. So I'm looking forward to seeing

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visa. Do you think do you
think that Drew should change the team.

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Do you think he should ring the
changes in the infield because the imfield has

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been suspect or do you think he
should just stick to the game playing because

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that was a game plan that stock. Yeah. I think Drew has has

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taken an approach of he knows who
his probably top eight nine ten hitters are,

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and I think he's going to put
them on the field. We may

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see some slight shifting in positions,
but I think Drew Is and the whole

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team they've kind of decided like this
is how they're going to play the tournament.

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They're not going to think that one
bad outing, one bad game is

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going to change their opinions on these
players that they've watched for months, years,

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They've got thousands of hours, so
probably like watching what this team can

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do in certain positions. So I
think one bad day won't change that.

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I think we might see like a
few changes, but I wouldn't be surprised

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if you kind of see a lineup
that's fairly similar to yesterday. Right.

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We'll hope that you all enjoy this
pod and you will all get to where

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cheekily watched this game on a Monday
afternoon as it is in the UK,

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Well probably Monday evening. It's all
after work. You want it took me

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seven o'clock. What have I got? I've got it completely wrong. Well,

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we hope you're all watching this game. There is a chance that GB

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can do something today, so we're
all have our let's go GB caps on

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cheese once again, and please listen
to more about for Sinners