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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of the Payton Tolle debate?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring, boring, boring.
You're gonna get bored by baseball.
Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you, you, you.
Still have grown men running around tight hands.
It's Mookie Betts. It's Daniel Bard. It's Steve Aoki. It's Eric Saltzlamacchia. This is Brock Holtz. Hey, this is John Lester. Baseball isn't boring. Baseball isn't boring.
Welcome to Baseball Isn't Boring. Here's your host, Rob Rattler. Welcome back, everybody. Baseball Isn't Boring show live from JetBlue Park, the broadcast booth. Cooper Boardman alongside for the big broadcast at 1 o'clock. Part of the six-hour baseball extravaganza here. But we start things off with maybe the best hour of radio that ever has been done.
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about the current state of baseball?
Would you guys agree with that?
I think it's better than last week.
No, it's progressively getting better. It's like when someone says, are you in the best shape of your life? I say, well, every day I wake up, I'm in the best shape of my life.
Fair. Yeah, always improving.
You're right. Always improving. It's hard. It's sort of like you reach full muscle capacity. And you can't really get any bigger, but you can only maintain. I feel like that's what we're doing now. We can only maintain. This show has reached full Muscle Pass. I'm a shade under 250. What was that, Tron? What did I say? I'm a shade under 250. Did I say that?
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Chapter 3: What are the opinions on whether Payton Tolle should be a starter or reliever?
I don't think so. I don't know. It says your name next to it.
Anyway.
That was pre-Awaken 180, by the way. Well, speaking of somebody who looks fantastic. Best shape of my life. Hey, guys, guess what? Ian Brown's here. Yay. Let's go. Downtown. Downtown. What's up, guys? Downtown. Ian Brown. Ian Brown. So we have Ian Brown. Plenty sexy.
It always plays 100%.
Chapter 4: What insights do the guests provide on player development?
It does.
That's 1,000. Play it again. Play it one more time. Plenty sexy. Plenty sexy. That was Gordo from earlier in the show. All right, I like it. So he came out, and that's a great segue, which was, so Ian, ianbrownofmlb.com, doing an excellent job, never looked better, eating very healthy, I've never seen him, barely drinking, it's the whole thing. Who am I anyway? I mean, it's what's going on.
So I asked these fellas at the beginning, top of mind stories, whether it was a top of mind story, And they were like, they said, so Gordo's was the fifth starter competition for fifth starter, which I said, that's the least sexiest topic that I could think of. But Gordo's playing for the tie because what is he?
Wasn't ready for it. I'm plenty sexy. It was a nice little alley-oop.
Uncontested. And then Sammy said that Brian Baio, which was a little sexier. It was a little bit sexier.
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Chapter 5: How does the WBC impact player performance and development?
I came in – well, Tom, I'm not even going to mention producer Tom's was like infield defense. It's like if you want the opposite of something that's like interesting, it's that. And I had brought up the Jaron Duran stuff, like does this matter that he's hitting the crap out of the ball all over the place, which that is absolutely a very, very sexy topic. So top of mind, Ian Brown.
Top of mind, I just want to see how this puzzle is going to go with Meyer and Durbin to see who's going to be a second.
That's a good one.
You guys should learn from Ian. I want to see what this is going to look like because I think Alex Cora is sort of openly just trying to use his eyes to see which looks better. He's going with the other alignment today. Meyer will be a third. Durbin will be a second.
But you don't want to wait too long on this because Trevor Story needs to know who his double play partner is, and that's going to be – You talk about improving the infield defense. Foremost among that is making sure you have two guys who are working together well around the bag. So I think they need to settle. I would say they'll probably settle this within the next week or so.
If we're going to put up a poll, where will these guys be? Ian Brown, where are you voting?
I'm going to say Durbin at third and Meyer at second just because Cora really seems to like Durbin at third. And Meyer and Story, they're friends.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of a potential salary cap on team strategy?
They've spent a couple years together. I'm sure they have some good chemistry there. They've been trying to build that. So that's the way I think it's going. But if something leads Alex to think otherwise, then he'll go the other way. Gordo, what do you think?
I think it's going to be what Ian just said. To me, I would put it the other way if it were up to me, but I think Cora's going to have Durbin at third, Meyer at second.
All right, Sammy, what do you got?
I think it's going to be Durbin at third, Meyer at second, but I'm not as confident in that as I was before Romy Gonzalez got hurt because I figured that second base platoon would be really simple and easy for Cora to use, but now without Romy, I'm less confident in the take, but I'm not abandoning it yet.
You got IKF to be the right-hand batter.
Or Izzy.
I don't say IKF.
You see, Ian gave me a ration of crap today after a Cora. We had the media session with Cora. And I asked, I said, what's the plan in terms of playing Izzy at first base going forward? And I had like four people come up to me after and said, who are you talking about? What are you talking about? And I said, because, and Ian's like, oh, a nickname. I said, the guy wants to be called Izzy.
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Chapter 7: What are the predictions for the Red Sox roster this season?
So I'm going to call him Izzy. Is that wrong? Is that wrong of me?
No, it's just I think the confusion was that Cora was talking about Caleb Durbin, and all of a sudden this question came out of nowhere about Izzy, and nobody really heard what you said. So I think that we were just like, wait, Durbin's going to play first?
I said Izzy. Yeah. It's basically like saying, is Robert Farnsworth Bradford going to play third? It's the same thing. It's Izzy. It's what the guy wants to be called.
Is this a humble brag, Bradfo? Like you know his nickname? Was that what that was?
That was on the podcast. What is a humble brag? It's just like I asked the guy a question and he answered it.
You accused Brian Abraham of that, saying he worked with the Blue Jays like 10 minutes ago.
That is a sick brag. He just randomly said, I work for the Blue Jays.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts do the hosts share about the future of the team?
I'm telling you what the guy likes to be called. Sick brag.
He's like that with Izzy. All the years I've known David Ortiz, never called him Poppy. Never. I never called him Poppy.
Never.
Joe Haggerty used to like to do that.
What's up, Papi? I never called him Papi. I never called Papelbon Pap. No, I'm not a nickname guy.
What do you call Pap to his face? Jonathan. You call him Jonathan? See, I would do a Pap. I don't know.
Maybe you have evolved into Pap. Not while he was playing, though. Never when he was playing. He just doesn't look like a Jonathan.
Jonathan is so weak.
By the way, Pedroia, never Petey. Like, never. That's fair. Never, never, never, never.
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