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Speaker 1: All right, let's spend ten minutes with Brian bogus Sevic. Brian,

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I'm gonna be brutally honest with you. I did not

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watch the pre or postgame shows last night. Were you

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on them?

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Speaker 2: I was not?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't feel nearly as bad. Then maybe that's it.

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Maybe a game. What is your winning win loss record

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when you're doing the pre and postgame shows, because at

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this point three singles ain't gonna cut it in Northern California.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're at the point to where we

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just start searching for anything. If it's me working late,

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I guess I have to do my part. But I

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if that might be as good of an answer as anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just really exasperated is in the term, because look,

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this has been a team that has really struggled offensively

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for much of the season, much of the because of

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the inconsistents in the lineup. But how do you balance?

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Don't change who you are, be the same type of

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player you are. But at the same time, Bogie, you're

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down to a week, you're trying to hold on to

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some sort of postseason aspirations, and you mustard not much

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of an offense yesterday against a very mid Oakland lineup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's kind of been the story of the

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second half or second two thirds or whatever it comes

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out to be. Is just I mean, the offense looking

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not it's the least dangerous that the offense has felt

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in some time. And you know, we've seen very short

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spurts where it looks like they're putting it together, but

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on the whole, it just seems like opposing pitchers, regardless

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of who we're facing, you know, in the division, out

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of the division, it just seems like the league had

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generally accepted a plan where you know, they know how

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they want to go out and attack this lineup, and

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there aren't, you know, adjustments being made, and it's just,

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you know, it's you're getting beat by what looks like

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an inferior matchup on paper.

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, This is a tough one.

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Is there any defeatist mode up and down that lineup?

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Is that this season wasn't meant to be? I mean,

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you still largely control your own destiny. I know you're

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now down a game in the WALLD card, but has

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that started the sink in a little bit? Can you

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see it? Or is that is it still for you

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and I and Ross here, we're eighteen or miles away

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from that team. We can't make that kind of decision

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our assessment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I don't think so. I mean, I think

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you've got you've got guys in the clubhouse. You know,

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as long as as long as they're mathematically still in it,

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that they have a chance and nobody's gonna you know,

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go and kind of you know, give up before it's over.

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But I also think that they they you know, you

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have to have a little bit of realist in you

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and realize just you know, for an extended period of time,

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it's been a struggle. Certainly offensively, there's been fige with

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the number I saw the other day as like one

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hundred and forty eight or one hundred and forty nine

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different lineup combination, So that just speaks to how how

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many guys have been in and out of the lineup,

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whether it be injury or performance wise. So yeah, it's

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definitely probably set in that you know, this is not

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nothing's going to click and all of a sudden we're

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going to be an offensive juggernaut. I think everybody certainly

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realizes that. But you also have enough guys in that

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lineup who you know we're looking at looking at what

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is now a five day season. There you can get

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a couple guys hot in five days and then they

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can carry a lineup and you can score enough runs

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to get yourself in. It's certainly not out of the

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realm of possibility.

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Speaker 1: Brian bogasvok with us here on seven to ninety and

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hopefully this is not our last appearance of the season.

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But Bogey, we're going to look at a macro view

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of this team in Christian Walker. Obviously a lot of

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folks were excited about the replacement at first base. This

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team has been looking for that solid offensive production, maybe

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since the last few years of Yearly Guriel. Obviously the

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Jose Brave situation did not work out. He never was

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going to be a two ity five hittery here, But

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it just feels like there have been two or three

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games where like, oh, he's going to turn the corner

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and then it's a one for eleven or it's a

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two for nineteen. When you look at a macro stance

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of him. What went wrong for Christian Walker this season?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think first and foremost, he got into a situation,

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you know when you're when you're a hitter and you

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start off slow, you're always kind of doing the math

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in your head of Okay, you know, I started off

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and I'm hitting two hundred after fifty at bats, so

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I need to do whatever over my next one hundred

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and fifty to get it leveled out. And he got

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to a point to where he was so far underwater

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it was never going to get back to where he

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wanted it to be or where he expected it to be.

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And that can be a really frustrating thing because you know,

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you're sitting all of a sudden, you know, three hundred

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at bats in, four hundred bats in, and you've got

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a lot of season left, and it's already kind of

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feel like, all right, this is this is a season

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that's a failure, and it's just never gotten to the

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point to where it looks like he's been comfortable with himself.

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more consistent, and you think, all right, this is the

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guy that we expected to see, and then it goes away.

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I think a lot of you know, the biggest thing

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from a whatever the mechanical standpoint or whatever, is just

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the inconsistency, the hitting fastballs and especially elevated fastballs, and

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it seems like a hole that got exposed and never

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got closed up. So I think that's probably the one

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thing that you can look tough and say, hey, that's

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that's what needs to be fixed moving forward. But I

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think just from a seasonal standpoint, it just felt like

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it got so far away from him early that just

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from a mental standpoint, it felt like almost a lost

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season before the season was over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned the high fastballs, and I mean, it

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feels like anybody who is watching these games Christian Walker

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has to know what the hitting coaches know it, everybody

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knows it. What and you mentioned like, so what what

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can be done?

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Speaker 1: Is that? How can that get fixed?

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Speaker 2: Well? You can. You can look at it two different ways.

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You can look at it from a mechanical standpoint, right

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find find what's caused extra length in your swing or

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a drop off in bat speed. Are you muscling up

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swinging too hard, are you getting long in the back

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and you're not getting the barrel out front and try

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to close it up and then be able to attack

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that pitch. Or you can look at it from an

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approach standpoint and say, you know, if I can't hit it,

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I got to lay off of it, and then you

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just try to make that an area that you're not

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going to go after pitches until you have to with

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two strikes. But that also changes the fact that you

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have to then be more aggressive and overly aggressive two

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pitches further down in the zone or off speed pitches

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in the middle of the zone earlier in you're at

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bat so you can try to attack it one or

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the other or a combination of both. But you know,

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if you can't hit it, you got to not swing

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Speaker 3: And you mentioned now, Brian Bogas have a cool this

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here on Sports Talk seven nine. You mentioned just seeming

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a lack of offensive adjusts because you're right, the walker

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four seamer, we're seeing Yaner Diaz still swinging at everything

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out of the zone, same thing for Josel two va.

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lot of talk and we've been talking about it basically

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add nausea in the last couple of weeks Brian about

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the hitting coaches and the offense has been bad, and

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Alex Intron and Troy Snicker the offensive have been successful

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with him there. But is it a situation where these

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guys are are not making the proper adjustments for the lineup.

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Speaker 2: I don't think though. I mean, hitting coaches are very

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involved in game planning, but you know, game planning has

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to do yes with the pitchers that you're facing and

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how you want to, you know, combat what they're throwing

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at you. But you also have to make a game

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plan that's tailored to hitters that you have. And the

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fact of the matter is is that they have a

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disproportionate amount of very aggressive hitters. And if you're going

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to ask those guys to go up there and try

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to be something that they're not, you're not doing anybody

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any favors. And you know, use Altuve as an example.

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He's always been an overly aggressive hitter. He's always swung

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a pitches out of his zone at times. But when

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you have him being bracketed in a lineup by Alex

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Bregman and Michael Brantley, you can live with that and

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it doesn't show up as well. But when you have

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a lineup that as you go further down, there's a

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lot of aggressive hitters. Jeremy Paine is a very aggressive hitter.

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Yan Or Diaz is a very aggressive hitter, and then

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you get down to the bottom of the order, and

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now you're talking about young guys that are just trying

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to survive or just find their footing. You can't ask

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them to be the ones that go out there and

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just drag out at bats and fight pitchers down to

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two strikes. So it just seems like there's a little

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bit of an imbalance in terms of style of hitter,

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and that's something that you know, you can't really work

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around what you don't have.

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Speaker 1: Last question, Bogie, if you are Joe Espata and you

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are down to five games left of the season, and

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part of what a clubhouse has to be is it

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has to be even keeled for one point sixty two.

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But clearly this has been a different kind of clubhouse

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the last couple of months because there's so many guys

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going in and out of there. How does he treat

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the pregame rituals, the film study, the pregame visits, the

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talk to the guys at the hotel during the week thing.

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Knowing that if you can put something together here against

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two subpar teams, you got a better than fifty fifty

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chance of making the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think from a pre game, before

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the game, routine stuff. Everything is generally the same. Everybody

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knows what that stake, everybody knows where you're at in

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the season. I think where it does change is in game.

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There's no longer long leashes for anything. There's no longer

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you know, feelings to be accounted for when you're making moves.

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If a guy looks like he doesn't have it coming

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out of the bullpen, you get somebody going immediately and

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it's going to be three batters and the next guy's

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coming in. So I think in terms of getting ready

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for the game, you know, you trust that you have

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guys who know how to get ready. You have guys

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who've gone deep into the posting, and you have guys

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who know what it takes to win. They'll be to

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get themselves ready. But when it comes to managing the game,

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that's where it's different, and that's where more of a

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sense of urgency and maybe a little bit of risk

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taking is going to come into play.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully, my friend, we are visiting next Wednesday. Thank you

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for the time as always, all right, I hope so guy,

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Thanks Brian Bogasvic and he's with us from our good

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friends at Space City Home Network not working this series.

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We need him for Anaheim Rossi