00:00thing for him we'll learn more about it today hopefully tomorrow feel bad for moody um eight
00:05eight eight nine five seven nine five seven zero the phone lines are open in the text line as well
00:08same number to call or text um giants playing team usa today in some spring training joe because
00:14you know world baseball classic is approaching so it's a pretty cool day in baseball you'll see a
00:19lot of these countries a lot of these top dogs you know japan uh dominican republic puerto rico
00:24obviously i mentioned united states they're gonna be playing some major league teams and rosters
00:27and just so happens the giants are gonna be playing team usa today um some great stuff we
00:33got willie adamas all right i'm gonna give you the giants lineup then i'll give you team usa
00:36got willie adamas matt chapman patrick bailey don't don't love that lineup
00:45bericoto bericoto all right brennan mccray costs will brennan yep christian costs eldridge
00:55price oliva what's his first name what's oliva's first name is it oliva there you go oliva oliva
01:01whatever hauser is the pitcher today is that you feel good about the chance i saw hauser last year
01:06yeah we'll see i mean all i know is that um he didn't like that lineup at all well i
01:12mean pat
01:12bailey what is he bad third fourth that's a very spring training line yeah yeah um you want team
01:18usa now but they're going up again sure bobby witt is he at shortstop he is told you first base
01:25bryce harper right field aaron judge dh may the schwalbs be with you kyle schwarber alex
01:33bregman at third cal raleigh catching so gunner's not at third okay um anthony at left field byron
01:41buxton yeah roman anthony for those that don't know uh byron buxton center fielder uh tarang i
01:48just love that last name uh is that bryce right uh for the brewers yes uh second baseman and skeins
01:54paul skeins may have heard of him he's pitching today it's pretty it's pretty good pat bailey home
02:00run off uh skeins in the first inning you guys want to take that bet no no one here what
02:08come on
02:09we're having fun guys come on no one's having fun right now i wonder if bryce uh harper is going
02:14to
02:14be asked about what he said on the pat mcafee show oh you mean this okay so phillies or giants
02:20yeah
02:20anybody else in play uh it was like san diego and a couple other teams but it came down to
02:25phillies
02:25giants giants giants are like a very respected organization oh 100 yeah no doubt yeah judge was
02:30arson judge yeah yeah he had a heart attack yeah arson judge yeah it was it was close the thing
02:36that
02:36killed me was bocci was retiring yeah so i mean he's the greatest he's the massive head yeah the biggest
02:43yeah he does have a big head i hear that again and i i'm just that bum john hayman it
02:49just it makes
02:49me hate him so much what the hayman from the new york daily post i can't even believe you said
02:57that
02:57who wait what was that bottles was that from a wfan arson judge um was xavier what who what's his
03:04name
03:05uh keith mcpherson keith mcpherson not the other okay and he like he went at john hayman because of
03:12like things he's gotten wrong in the past is that what it was he called john hayman a mouthpiece for
03:17scott boris yes which he is which he is i can't even believe you said that i can't even believe
03:22you said that well it's true and it's it's industry known arson judge i despise will he ever live that
03:29down arson judge not right there's a couple of of baseball people that gatekeep that i just i i
03:37despise and he's at the top of my list bob nightingale you like him bob's just i don't think it's
03:43gonna
03:44happen i don't know we'll see oh i'm excited for the world baseball bryce harper bryce harper bryce
03:54harper everyone does this like the woulda coulda shoulda of bryce harper being a giant
03:57right and he's the one that got away let me ask you a different question
04:05had he came to the giants would farhan still be here
04:11had he come to the giants would farhan zaidi still be here no because i don't think one player in
04:18baseball automatically makes your team like just look at mike trout would there have been a domino
04:24effect of other people wanting to join the team because of him being here possibly or the adverse
04:31where the domino effect of you pay him all this money maybe you don't go out and get other pieces
04:35that's a good point so that's a good point i i actually don't think i just think farhan
04:41i don't know what he was as a gm here he couldn't land the big fish that's like one of
04:45the i think one
04:45of the biggest knocks on no correct so if he did like land bryce harper here see but this is
04:51the other
04:51thing the only reason he would have stayed here is with bruce bocci and we know farhan didn't want to
04:56keep up play the game i'm trying to play it's hard to like no i hear you i don't think
05:01just
05:01getting bryce harper to answer your question automatically makes this like a winning team
05:05an organization it helps but it's not the end i'll be i'll look at christian yelich of the
05:09milwaukee brewers has he been a great uh philly has he been a great philly you think they regret
05:15that signing no i don't think the phillies regret that they've gone to a world series and i think he
05:19was the first of many guys to choose to go to philadelphia now his numbers wouldn't be as good in
05:24our
05:24ballpark but he's averaged almost 35 home runs this is through 160 game season like 30 plus home
05:31runs close to 100 rbis i mean his his numbers in philly have been tremendous so really good 285
05:39batting average they've gotten the best years out of him 26 through 32 those have been some of his
05:45best years they had the tommy john last year where he's now switched positions he's playing a little
05:49more first base the last couple of years um i never loved the 13 year deals to begin with that's
05:56kind of like the business of baseball but but the cap number the hit on how much it is per
06:01year isn't
06:02that bad um i also want to say this if you did land bryce harper if farhan was able to
06:09land him
06:10that is a name in jersey that you would see all across oh he'd be one of the most popular
06:14bay
06:15area athletes period i just don't know if it translates to like a winning organization just
06:19with that one move you get what i'm saying no i i how do you feel about it like how
06:23had they signed
06:23him would farhan still be here that's the question you asked bryce harper there's no doubt about it
06:28wanted him bad um i don't know where they'd be at as an organization today i think about this all
06:36the
06:36time like would posey have retired right away i don't know it would have been the best player to bat
06:41in front or behind posey in his career interesting thought okay the other part of this is well now
06:45you're let's say you have a similar 2021 season well now you could build on that because there's
06:51actually carry over the year after um would they have been more willing to deal or sign other people
06:59to long-term contracts because of the financial commitment i see your your side is like oh maybe
07:04you don't have extra money to spend because covid really crushed their finances there's no doubt
07:08about it so did losing 85 games in 2019 for sure that really cratered in a lot of their momentum
07:13um would they have been more willing to move off of joey bart or luciano prior because you had a
07:19win
07:19now guy maybe maybe would you have signed kevin gosman or carlos rodon you know i i don't know like
07:27those are the things i think of but i do think 2021 in particular maybe posey stays another year or
07:34two
07:34maybe maybe you do have a different free agent want to land here maybe because you have bryce
07:39maybe judge realistically thinks about coming here i i don't know could you imagine could you imagine
07:45that i think farhan's probably still here though really yeah wow yeah so maybe one one or two more
07:51years maybe it was a blessing that they didn't get price maybe i mean because but again how we view
07:57farhan now is through the lens of he couldn't land the big one exactly so so i'm saying view farhan's
08:02might be different i also didn't think farhan was the worst who ever done it i just think he was
08:07good enough well i just didn't think because it's like a different you know the problem i have with
08:11farhan joe isn't that he didn't land the big fish that happens is that i was promised to get a
08:16really
08:16good farm system and it wasn't really good i was promised to get a lot of good draft agreed i
08:20thought
08:20we were gonna have the oakland a's model of getting all these young awesome draft picks but the
08:26difference between the oakland a's and the san francisco giants was the giants had money and that you
08:30could sign these players for like you know good deals and keep the josh donaldsons of the worlds
08:35and get the yohannes cesspitus of the world right would the giants would have been way more relevant
08:40the last five years with harper oh yeah yeah i mean he's that's what you're hoping bryce eldridge
08:47you
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