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00:00Whether you want to call it a pizza party or a team meeting, I would be very, very wary of that.
00:05But I do think the biggest thing here is that last night was an example of they have some things to fix, and they've got to fix them in a hurry.
00:14I mean, this is one of the things besides the uniform talk or the jersey talk with Sam Kennedy.
00:19He said, listen, we're 500.
00:22No one expected to be at this 500 team.
00:24We're mediocre.
00:25We've got to figure it out.
00:26Well, it's late May.
00:27Yes, you do have to figure it out.
00:30And I'm about to publish something on EI.com, just going through the things they have to figure out, including, by the way, the Garrett Crochet thing.
00:39I don't know if you guys want me to rant on that.
00:41I'm happy to.
00:42Rant away.
00:43Yeah, well, so I think that, number one, okay, I get it that Garrett Crochet, as we sit here right now, has thrown the most pitches in all of baseball.
00:53I get it that you're coming off the first full year as a starter where you only threw just over 140 innings.
00:59You knew that you would have to be careful.
01:01Everybody understood that you have to be careful.
01:04And I think the Cora thing, listen, Cora's the ones that implemented it, that took him out of the game.
01:10But if you listen to Cora before the game, he actually references people, quote, smarter than him, talking about this Crochet, the protection of Crochet.
01:20This is before the game last night.
01:22This game that we thought he was going to pitch 13 innings and pull a Jack Morris, right, to save the bullpen.
01:28So, before the game, he's referencing this.
01:32So, to me, what that speaks to is this, I'll say, this baseball science department, this analytic department, which they're saying, this is the game, this is the time where we have to draw back on Garrett Crochet because this is what our models say.
01:49All right, here's the thing, baseball science department.
01:52This is what I would say.
01:54I would say the science suggests that was not the game to do it.
01:57The science suggests that you do it in another time, in another way, but not in this time where you're probably talking about 15 more pitches, as I think you guys mentioned before.
02:09A time where you're desperately at a very important time to hold on to the momentum that you got from the previous couple times.
02:17And there's going to be other avenues.