Nick Ashbourne
speaker
14,142 appearances
58 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 13 Sep
Nick Ashbourne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the Kansas City Royals, but he plays in this game because they're just not gonna do the night game, day game thing with the catcher.
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It's fairly typical at this point.
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I understand it.
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I understand that baseball's not the most physically taxing sport in all of the world, but it's a long term grind and these are sort of the rules that teams live by.
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Yeah,
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And he'll show up in the game even if he's not starting it.
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Like John Schneider has shown that he's willing to make moves even fairly early in a game, right?
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If he gets the right matchup in the fourth or fifth inning, he's willing to flip that platoon.
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It's something the Blue Jays believe in and it's probably something they should be doing, considering they don't have that many hitters performing at a star level.
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So you're really hunting matchups wherever you can with your expanded September roster and that's something
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What you're describing is a big champagne problem.
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Like there's no there's no certainty that they are gonna make the playoffs at all.
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That's sort of in the coin flip realm, I think.
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If you looked at playoff odds, probably dropped a little bit today based on some of the results.
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Teams in this position that are just battling for their lives trying to grab the last wildcard spot or if they're in a you know a soft division where getting the division is their only way into the playoffs, however that looks.
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Yeah, they're fighting tooth and nail.
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That's probably what's gonna be the case for the Blue Jays.
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I would be very surprised if they reach that red series and they have just cleared from the entire pack.
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Like that would take a he a heck of a run here.
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It's not impossible.
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