00:00We were just talking about last night's Cubs and Diamondbacks game where Merrill Kelly was not
00:08having it last night. Well, you know, Merrill Kelly's been getting lit up like a Christmas
00:12tree. I mean, and the Diamondbacks, you got to score runs to win games. I don't know that
00:17blaming a third base coach for stealing signs and relaying it to his hitters
00:23is necessarily the most important thing here. But they were clearly not happy with the third
00:29base coach, Quentin Berry, who, according to Merrill Kelly and the Arizona Diamondbacks,
00:37he was basically stealing the signs and giving them and relaying those signs to the hitters in
00:43the box. Now, if that's the case, then change the signs, Tom. Like, what are we doing here
00:50that were any edge that you can get? I mean, nobody's banging on garbage cans here. Let's
00:57establish that right off the bat. But if you can't be crafty enough or figure out a way to
01:02avoid the third base coach from seeing what it is, the catcher is thrown down, then you deserve to
01:08lose and you deserve to get hit. I don't know what you're crying about. I really don't.
01:13I don't either. And this is, this is really just a part of the game where it's, it's move and
01:20counter move, move and counter move. How are you going to react to things? And the Diamondbacks
01:25saying, look, you know, stealing signs. Okay. It is what it is, but it has to be the guy on
01:29second
01:29base doing it, relaying it to the hitter. It can't be the third base coach. It can't be this. Like,
01:33well, ultimately, if you are doing something that allows the team to have an advantage,
01:38tipping pitches, showing the signs, whatever it might be, like that should be on you to adjust
01:42what you're doing and not to say, oh, don't steal the sign that, that I happen to be putting out
01:47there just because you happen to not be standing in a spot or you are in a spot. It just
01:51seems a little bit
01:52too. And like, focus on being better. And then you won't have to deal with any of this.
01:57Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you know, don't forget, I think coaches have been told, I thought this year
02:04to remain within that bracket in the coaches box member, because they were roaming all over the
02:09place. I get that. But it wasn't like he was up the left, like he was in the box where
02:15he was
02:15supposed to be. And if you are tip, especially the left handed hitters, if you can't cover or hide
02:23that you're throwing an off speed pitch to a left, again, that's that's on you. So the whole thing,
02:30and that's usually what happens when you get beat seven, nothing looking for any reason at all at a
02:35finger to point sign stealing is as old as the game figure it out.
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