00:00i am surprised that you trade devers and play better and score more runs i am surprised that
00:06you get through the deadline where you don't do much and you continue to play well and are
00:09solidly in the playoffs and then don't make the playoffs that would surprise me yep yep they they
00:15made themselves worse on made themselves worse on paper with devers but somehow got better on the
00:20field they had another lame-ass deadline but continued to win and be firmly in the playoffs
00:24and now with three weeks to go they're going to gag on it then i go back and blame the deadline
00:29well that's kind of silly so chris the other thing with baio silly but the other thing with baio is
00:34baio's been in the big leagues now for four years losing to better teams i blame the deadline losing
00:38to the a's and the diamondbacks and some of these teams i i don't blame the deadline they have enough
00:42to beat those teams sorry mess no that's okay no no they don't no no hold on they don't have enough
00:46to beat those teams but you have a narrow margin for error based on the way you built the roster
00:51and then you get injuries if you take out a bray you who's arguably your team mvp and roman anthony
00:56who's a top three batter if you take those guys out no you don't have enough look at the lineup
01:01that they're running out there i mean you've been fortunate that romey gonzalez has been this good for
01:06this long but like nate eaton some of these other guys you have like a triple a caliber lineup you're
01:11running out there after like the first three guys i i i completely disagree with the idea that you
01:16quote unquote have enough without some of your best players out there you don't that's all the more
01:22reason you should have done more at the deadline just because you didn't do those things that the
01:26devers trade and at the deadline and you got away with them doesn't mean like felger you sound like
01:32the people that talk about 2014 with logan mankins and are like well you know they won they won the
01:36super bowl you know those first four weeks where they couldn't block a paper bag didn't matter at
01:41all but you know what if they hadn't traded logan mankins they wouldn't have won the super bowl
01:45it was because they traded him and they had those first four weeks where they couldn't block a paper bag
01:50that they actually won sometimes you win in spite of what you've done not because of it yeah they've
01:55lost two or three to pittsburgh the diamondbacks and the a's all of whom have losing records if i
02:00tallied up their records it'd be at the bottom of the league they have enough talent to beat those
02:05teams the teams get the orioles the orioles have a losing record but they've been playing better of
02:09late i mean sometimes it's when you catch a team i'm not totally excusing the losses i'm just saying
02:14i i don't understand how you can't look at it and say going back like oh man you know that
02:19that opportunity to buttress your team and make your team better and make sure you have enough
02:24to the finish line you know it's like having a car like the car's going along great and you're
02:29looking at it and you're saying i probably should get some gas but you know what i think i can make
02:33it and then you don't get you don't put any gas in the car and then you say oh geez the car broke
02:37down and the car's fault the car should that was smooth road the car should have been great on
02:41smooth road well you didn't put enough gas in it to get to the finish line like that's your fault
02:46that's not the car's fault i'm not big i'm making excuses for players and managers who are
02:51underperforming
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