Taking MLB’s Temperature at the All-Star Break
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Buster-only, we're sitting in a hotel lobby in Dallas, Texas, where the MLB All-Star game is coming up. |
| 0:07.0 | Let me ask you right off the top, forget about the game itself, but 2024, what is your biggest storyline you think of this Major League Baseball season? |
| 0:15.7 | It's the greatness of the players in the American League for me. |
| 0:18.9 | Like I just love the conversation we're going to have in the second half about whether or not |
| 0:23.0 | Aaron Judge can beat his own record. |
| 0:26.3 | High fly ball, left field and deep. |
| 0:29.8 | Hurst that back. |
| 0:30.7 | Track. |
| 0:31.3 | Whoa, see ya? See, we told you it's 3 1 yix the number 23 here you |
| 0:39.2 | can move that wall as far as you want out in left field. He'll still get over it. I love the conversation |
| 0:45.7 | we're going to have about the MVP race. I mean if Judge hit 65 home runs he's |
| 0:49.9 | going to win the award. But think about it, you have Gunner Henderson having this |
| 0:53.7 | phenomenal year for the Orioles, you have Bobby Witt Jr. You have Jose Ramirez leading |
| 0:57.8 | this Cleveland team. I just love that. I was saying earlier this season that I'm glad that I was not assigned |
| 1:04.7 | an MVP vote in the American League because I think it's going to be that difficult. |
| 1:08.6 | Individuals are one thing, teams are another. Who do you think squad-wise has has I don't want to say over achieved but |
| 1:16.3 | surpass their goals to this point of the season? Well the guardians certainly have a surprise |
| 1:27.9 | this right? They've been competitive every year since Terry Francona was hired to even vote this year and they check a lot of boxes. I think Kansas City is the team that probably has come the furthest. |
| 1:34.8 | You know, they won 56 games in all of 2023 and this year they'll |
| 1:40.7 | surpass that by the time we get to the fourth week of July, which is crazy. |
| 1:46.3 | So they've taken a big step forward as a team. |
| 1:49.3 | And I, you know, on the team side too, what I like is the idea that we're going to have teams that will go in |
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