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Speaker 1: So ESPN has five baseball writers I've only heard of

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in this group one Jeff Passing. No, it's bomb no no, no, no,

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no no, I stink correctly, it's not ESPN. These are

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all non ESPN people. Oh, Michael Schwab put this out.

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I don't know where you got it from, but these

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are five baseball writers. I mean he's an aggregator. I mean

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my I think Michae will be the first admit that

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he aggregates everything or most everything. I don't know where

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you got this from. So I don't know, but five

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baseball writers predicted where Alex Bregman was going to go.

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Uh and let me give you the people and maybe

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you can help me with who these friend people are.

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Gabe Lequez lock like locks l A c Q. Yes,

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I would a French yet GiB not here. I don't

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know who that is. Steve Gardner. Steve Gardner, isn't he

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a former GM or something like that? Scott Boke b

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o E c K Jesse yamtav the is this buddies

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of Michael Schwabs or what? I don't know what's going on?

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This looks and then Bob Nightingale Okay, these are USA

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today right now. Okay, So USA Baseball writers Jesse and

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yamtav says that Alex Bregman's going to the New York Mets,

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and the conversation maybe him going there and playing second base.

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M hm, he says the man he says, which the

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thought of Bregman playing second base brings the Mets into

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the conversation. Since the NL runners up have Mark Vientos

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now firmly in trench at third, The thirty year old

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bregmant is coming off the worst season of his career

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in his twenty twenty five employer may be largely determined

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by the trickle down effect of Soto's ownership. Courtship. Excuse me,

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Scott book b O E C K back whatever says that.

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Scott says, the Alex Bregman is going to sign with

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the Astros. It's hard to see Bregman, the face of

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the franchise, to part after nine years. But then again,

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Houston let All Stars shortstop Carl's koreawalk. So that's frail,

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very lukewarm endorsement on that one. Something called Steve Gardner says,

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Houston Astros is there any way? The Astros actually left

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Bragnan walk. Teammates and fans want him back. Plus he'd

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be crazy to leave Houston, where his medium pole power

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is tailor made for depositing home runs into the Crawford boxes,

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and left field does have a point. I mean, Bregman's

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made for right, for the left field offences. Right, He's

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name for the boxes, Gabe Law, says. Washington Nationals Jim

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Green Jim Crane gets pushed beyond the comfort level and

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lets another dynasty building asset walk from Houston. Bregman becomes

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the veteran glue for a promising corps that needs a

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north Star. And last, but not least, and probably the

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most recognizable of the five USA Today writers. By the way,

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USA Today's employing five baseball writers. That feels like a lot,

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don't you think. I mean, what's last time you had

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pulled a copy of the USA Today and read it

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at a hotel? Yeah, it's no, they don't even deliver

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feminine hotels anymore. But here's a Bob Nightingale, says Bragman

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has always loved the spotlight, dreaming of playing on the

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big stage, and what's bigger than New York New yonk

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Yankees he'll have both New York teams bidding for him,

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but the Yankees will be the ultimate winner. Okay, well

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he's the one I put the most stuck into because

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Bob Nightingale, while he's gotten some stuff wrong, he's pretty plugged.

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He probably has. First of all, he's plugged in more

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than the other four guys can bind. Second of all,

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his winning percentage is about seven fifty. Probably has an

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open line to Scott Boris, but not that Boris would

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link that to him. But but Scott Boris probably has

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leaks things to not before. But I don't think it's

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happening here necessarily. There's probably still a bidding and all that. No,

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but who would Scott He's gonna look at to somebody.

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I think he's absolutely right. And well, uh oh no.

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Maybe was the yamtav which which one said that it'll

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be after Sodo trickle down from Sodo. It's correct. So

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I think the team that signed soa top will come

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off the board, be at the Nationals, Yankees or Matts

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all listed on this list of possible suitors for Alex

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Bregman services, and then they will pivot, and I think

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Alex Bregman will be one of the kind of bridesmaids

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or whatever you want to call it. So, if you're Alex,

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you are waiting to find out or does the market

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make you wait? I think the market which I think

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teams are going to try this. They're going to swing

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at Soto first and then they'll pivot. So does that

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mean the teams that are currently in on Soto or

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at least think they have a chance, are the ones

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same oneses going after Bregman. Yeah, if you're willing to

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spend five hundred million dollars in Sodo, you wouldn't say,

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you know what, consolation prize hundred and eighty million on

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Alex Bregman. I think I think that I'll you know

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what though, Yeah, do you know what that does? Being

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in the same free agent class for Bregman, it really

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helps him because they're gonna be You're gonna be too

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many teams are going to say that Juan Soto is

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too rich for their blood and maybe we'll get better

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value at a lower dollar amount for Alex. That's genius actually,

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And you know what, Yeah, I'll gut feeling that now

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Bregman signs after Soto? Is that ply pretty chalk? If

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you want to give yourself credit for that one to

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the chalk, Yeah, chalk play you're not getting You're only

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getting forty cents on the dollar and return on that.

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But I think that's the way to go. But that

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plays out. Yeah, I think so too, because if you're Bregman,

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why would you because you're not You are not going

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to be going Wow, if Soto signs, there's no more

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money left for me. Is Bregman the second most highly

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sought after free agent in this offseason? Corbin Burns, I

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think is one, and I think Bregman is three. I'd

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have to go look at other people's recent rankings. But okay,

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I think we have to have our heart to heart

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with our audience and just now let's rip the band

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aid he go. I don't know, is there somewhere that

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Bregman goes that you just can't forgive him? Oh, people

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have Blake Snell ahead of him and as far as

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position players, so it's Soto and that's it. But also

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rookie Sasaki, the Japanese picture, supposed to be a twenty

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three year old phenom, also going to be highly sought after.

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But that's that's also a picture. You said, right, yeah, okay.

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So here's the question. Will we turn our stomachs if

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he goes to the Yankees. I want you all to

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think about that for a second. And then if you

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want to because you're an Astros fan and like to

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listen to the show, I want you to close your

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eyes as long as you're not driving ross close your

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eyes closed, and I want you to envision Alex Pragman

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in Yankee pinstripes. Yeah, you know what we are. We're therapist.

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How do you feel right now? Imagine Opening day Yankees

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versus Rays at New Yankee Stadium on sixty six WFN

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and having people in the outfield scream Alex Bragman. Alex

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Braggman in after booing him for years and years and

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years and called him a cheetah, stole a championship from us,

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Cheetah MF and cheetah speakin of Cheetahe's Jeetah. Open your

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eyes and call right now seven one three two one

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two five seven nighty. Just let me know what's in

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your raw emotions if I've said that Alex Bregman is

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wearing Yankee gear seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety