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Rumors are swirling about Wander
Franco and what he did or did not do.

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He's on administrative leave now.

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Where does this leave
the Tampa Bay Rays boom.

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Not winning a World series. They're toast.

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It was already cemented that there's
probably four teams in the AL that are

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World Series caliber. That number's
probably down to three now.

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Leaving the Orioles Rangers and Astros
to fight for the pennant and to be honest

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with you with how the Orioles are kind
of run and how they've competed against

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both the Rangers and Astros this
season. This is the A L Ss versus all.

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I could see the rays having better shot
against one of those two from the west.

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Then I do the Orioles without
Wander. Franco for whatever reason,

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they're not going to be able to compete
with the two in the AL West and they

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were always going to fade with their hot
start and this has come crashing down a

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lot harder than I think a lot of us
expected Are the raised to little playoff

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team. Yeah, probably a
one and done Wild card.

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Good points raised there.

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Maybe Blum has something good to say.

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Dj, do you agree or disagree?

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I actually disagree with fair for
one. I think if fair is one club,

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which I think could withstand a
loss like this and make a mistake,

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it's a pretty significant loss and
most likely he will never play in Major

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League baseball again, if accusations
are against him prove to be true,

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I don't think we can judge what
they're going to do. What is Franco?

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I know he's a great prospect.
He's a great player. Yeah,

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make no mistake about it for
sure. But he's not a world beater.

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He's not a top five M V P candidate.
He is a great player, make no mistake.

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But I think they can with stand with their
pitching, their managerial instincts.

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I just think this is a club which
can still make a run in Mitch,

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but in the playoffs this season but.

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Wrong.

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We're already this far out from the
playoffs and you got to be hitting your

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best. September. They started
higher on our tanking.

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They're getting bad at the wrong time of
year and I'm not sure they have enough

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time to correct it.

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I actually think the rays are
going to withstand this blow.

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And DJ, you win.

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What's up? Let's.

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