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Pete Alonso joins FT + Burger’s emotional HR, Witt's SB goals, Perez calls White Sox...contenders?? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: They get out the clubhouse quick when they win, and
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  Speaker 1: then when we lose, we sit around and we soaking,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that clubhouse needs to develop a culture.
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  Speaker 2: Right Hell FGM, we're at Matt's Cam Ron Mabon Kratz,
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  Speaker 2: Pete Kratz take it away for a sac intro the
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  Speaker 2: big Man to start the show.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who needs an intro? Who needs an intro
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  Speaker 3: less than Pete Alonzo the home run derby champion. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited he's on because Todd's not on, Like I figured,
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  Speaker 3: you only came home when Todd was on with us.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean you guys. You guys do a great job.
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  Speaker 4: It's always a fun time. And also it's it's nice
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  Speaker 4: uh and also Cam's a former teammate as well, so
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  Speaker 4: it's it's good having former teammates on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't I didn't know that. That's my bad.
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  Speaker 3: That's my cam my cam teammate status. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: because he played for too many teams, so I didn't
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  Speaker 3: realize that, So my bad, Cam. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, it's good left.
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  Speaker 3: Never left, So I guess is that welcome back never left?
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  Speaker 3: Just feel like it was. It's a welcome back. When
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  Speaker 3: you come back in the clubhouse and the guys see
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  Speaker 3: you or they text you when when the contract went down.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's just uh, I mean, this group of guys
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  Speaker 4: is great. I mean there's constant dialogue throughout the entire offseason.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's good to have that from uh, not
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  Speaker 4: just like teammates that I've had for a couple of years,
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  Speaker 4: but teammates that I've had my entire time of my
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  Speaker 4: tenure here, So from guys new and old. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: really it's really good to have that consistent dialogue, not
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  Speaker 4: just from teammates but coaches and staff as well. So
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  Speaker 4: to have that respect, rapport and connection over the years,
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  Speaker 4: it means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Pete, I want to ask you, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: you guys just talking about that and this process is
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  Speaker 1: going on, do you have the same locker? You know,
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  Speaker 1: did you clean everything out just in case you might
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  Speaker 1: have came back or you know, are we back in
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  Speaker 1: the same digs as usual?
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  Speaker 4: No, same same locker and and uh, as I've far yeah,
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  Speaker 4: as far as I know, same lockermates and everything. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Jeff and I we've been lockermates, I mean pretty much
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  Speaker 4: since twenty eighteen and uh or no twenty seventeen. Uh
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  Speaker 4: from from a ball on. So, as far as I know,
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  Speaker 4: we got the same locker. We're lockermates this year and
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  Speaker 4: uh yeah, pretty much same spot in the clubhouse. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know about New York just yet, but I think
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  Speaker 4: I'm thinking I'll still have my same spot.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to push do you want to push
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  Speaker 3: Jeff out? Do you want to push Jeff out? Hangout? Sorry?
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  Speaker 4: No, just my guy, just my guy, even even when
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  Speaker 4: he's not getting hits. No, he's because he admitted on here.
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  Speaker 3: He gets he gets a little pissed when he's not
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  Speaker 3: hit it all.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he gets mad, but everyone gets mad when they're not.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, good good, good good.
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  Speaker 4: But all you need to do is just say, hey, Jeff,
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  Speaker 4: here's an angry orchard, and uh and and go go
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  Speaker 4: play nine rounds tomorrow and then the next day he'll
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  Speaker 4: go three for four with with two doubles.
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  Speaker 3: Love it, love it.
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  Speaker 5: Hey real quick, P. So I want to ask you
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  Speaker 5: about that.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about guys like, yeah, who I love he's
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  Speaker 1: a grinder And of course you guys you know, acquired
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  Speaker 1: Juan Soto this offseason, and as that was going on.
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  Speaker 5: I was a guy that you know.
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  Speaker 1: Felt like you were extremely undervalue value production. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I look at things from ceiling and floors, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody looked at last year as a down
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  Speaker 1: here for pet Alonzo, where I looked at it as
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  Speaker 1: Pete's floor. You know, if that speaks floor, that's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty nice floor. When you talk about adding you back
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  Speaker 1: to the fold and back in the mix, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I asked, I asked Cratzy, you know, how was the
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  Speaker 1: vibe around camp? But I would ask you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you come back in there, I think all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, even adding one solo, now you add Pete
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  Speaker 1: Alonzo with Juan Soto, how are you feeling it? How
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  Speaker 1: are the vibes around camp? And you know, the confidence
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  Speaker 1: within the guys.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, vibes are great. I mean I think that
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  Speaker 4: adding one is huge because I mean, playing against him
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  Speaker 4: for the past six years, I mean, the dudes a
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  Speaker 4: ball are like we all know that. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 4: a game two, game changing type player, and uh, playing
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  Speaker 4: against him for for the past six seasons, it's like
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  Speaker 4: you're just tired of You're tired of seeing him hit
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  Speaker 4: that have that game winning hit or the making that
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  Speaker 4: that big play in the field. I mean, you're you're
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  Speaker 4: you're tired of seeing it because I mean, he's just
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  Speaker 4: that good on a night in a night out basis.
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  Speaker 4: So for us to have him on our side, man,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's such a huge help. I mean, obviously adding
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  Speaker 4: him is a huge U is a huge thing. But
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  Speaker 4: adding like some some key components like Sean and Iya Back,
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  Speaker 4: I mean that guy is a great, great clubhouse guy.
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  Speaker 4: Adding some some starters. I think, uh, Clay Holmes, I
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  Speaker 4: mean having I mean having him go deep into games
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  Speaker 4: with his uh, with his reports while I was gonna
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  Speaker 4: be insane. Did you did you catch him at all
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  Speaker 4: when you were with the Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, And I missed him with the Pirates too. I
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  Speaker 3: like we just like we went parallel. He kept following
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  Speaker 3: me by.
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  Speaker 4: Right, I got you.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get to.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean and other guys that we've other guys
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  Speaker 4: that we've made off obviously, and young guys too that
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  Speaker 4: have had some great contributions at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Of last year.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean I think that for us, like with
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  Speaker 4: the group that we had in the New Editions, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's get We're gonna have some good things cooking
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  Speaker 4: this year because you have a good mix of experienced
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  Speaker 4: guys and young and hungry guys and all the new
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  Speaker 4: all the new guys are mixing well with the people
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  Speaker 4: that were here last year. So it's been a great
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  Speaker 4: camp so far. I mean, vibes have been have been great,
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  Speaker 4: and everyone understands their assignment.
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  Speaker 3: I can attest to that. I can attest to the
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  Speaker 3: vibes because we've been I've hit four camps before. This
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  Speaker 3: is the fifth one this week. Your vibes are they're
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  Speaker 3: real careful orioles vibes are pretty good too. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: just saying, and that was a rainy day. This is
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  Speaker 3: a nice day. So anyway, right, what's the one thing?
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  Speaker 3: Because you you get a different view. Some outfitters never
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  Speaker 3: get a close view of Wan Soto. Want Soto comes
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  Speaker 3: the first base, which you did often, Yes, being in
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  Speaker 3: the NL East. Yes, what's the one first thing? One
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  Speaker 3: thing that you're like, now you're a team of mine,
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of like, WHOA Like some dudes they get
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  Speaker 3: in your locker room and you're like, dang, that dude
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  Speaker 3: is taller, this dude works harder. Is there something with
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  Speaker 3: one that you're like, I didn't know that in the
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  Speaker 3: short stint that you've known him.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, it's just been it's been a a short few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: But the thing, it's didn't really discover anything new. It's
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  Speaker 4: just confirmed everything. I mean, just his consistency, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: routine work, ethic, just intensity and day to day work.
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  Speaker 4: Like his consistency. That's why he's so dang good. Like
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's I mean people wonder why or wonder how,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's the consistency and the routine. It's the consistency
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  Speaker 4: and the whether it be in the training room or
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  Speaker 4: the or the gym, the cage or the backfield doing
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  Speaker 4: defensive work or footwork or what have you. But just
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  Speaker 4: consistency and that that stuff, Like you kind of know
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  Speaker 4: that he's doing that stuff because it shows up in
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  Speaker 4: the game so often. I mean, you can't do the
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  Speaker 4: little things behind the scenes and not show out. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the game's too fast and people are too good. So
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  Speaker 4: it just reconfirmed everything is the consistency. That's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: You talk about consistency, you know you have guys like
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  Speaker 1: yourself who have been extremely consistent.
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  Speaker 5: You got Frankie.
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  Speaker 1: Lindor, you've got Jeff McNeil. Uh, you've got your core
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  Speaker 1: pieces right. But offensively, I want to stay on the offense.
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  Speaker 1: We know what you know, Juan Soto's gonna do. Who
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  Speaker 1: in your eyes is a guy that you want to
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  Speaker 1: see or you or in your eyes you go if
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  Speaker 1: this guy can get it right, if he can figure
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  Speaker 1: it out, man, nobody's thinking about what he could do
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  Speaker 1: for our lineup.
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  Speaker 5: Is it Is it a Brett Bady? Is it a
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  Speaker 5: a Kunya? Like?
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  Speaker 1: Like, who's who's a guy in camp that we're not
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  Speaker 1: talking about that you that you're going If this dude
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  Speaker 1: can figure it out, we will be even better than expected.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the best way I could describe it, it's not
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  Speaker 4: necessarily uh figuring it out. I would just say, find uh,
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  Speaker 4: find who they are and hold on to it for
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  Speaker 4: as long as they can, like I think, I think
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  Speaker 4: like for certain guys that think I'll be I think
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  Speaker 4: Alvi Viento's Beatty Acuna, all those younger guys. But again,
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  Speaker 4: I honestly I think uh. I mean, we talked about
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  Speaker 4: it earlier in the show but I think, uh, I
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  Speaker 4: think Jeff. I think Jeff is going to have an
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  Speaker 4: unbelievable year this year, just like the amount of tension
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  Speaker 4: of detail work he's put in with his with his
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  Speaker 4: swinging and defensively, and there's gonna be a lot of
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  Speaker 4: other guys that are gonna make some really really big
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  Speaker 4: impacts for us as well. But also another guy, uh
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  Speaker 4: Louis Torrence. His swing has look absolutely fantastic. I think
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna make a tremendous impact for us as well.
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  Speaker 4: I think our our two, our two catchers are going
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  Speaker 4: to make a huge, huge impact this year. I mean
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  Speaker 4: having catchers that rake is huge and those guys, those
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  Speaker 4: guys are gonna surprise a lot of people this year
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  Speaker 4: with their bats.
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell us what went on with that last
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  Speaker 3: meeting that finally pushed you over to sign back with
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  Speaker 3: I think it was did you guys have dinner?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's just no, we we met. It was a
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  Speaker 4: my obviously Scott and uh, David and and Steve and I,
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  Speaker 4: so we just I guess previously I never really got
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  Speaker 4: like a look behind the behind the curtain or necessarily
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  Speaker 4: a full understanding of the like I guess the the
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  Speaker 4: in depth philosophies, the vision for the future, because for me,
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  Speaker 4: like I, when you go through and play for an organization,
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  Speaker 4: once you get called up, you're yes, you you're a player.
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  Speaker 4: Like you get little nuggets here and there, but you
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  Speaker 4: don't get necessarily the full picture of the full playbook.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it was just discussing everything, the full
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  Speaker 4: vision over over the next not just this year, but
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  Speaker 4: the next couple of years. And I think having that vision,
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  Speaker 4: having that knowledge and and just the I guess kind
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  Speaker 4: of like the the philosophies, the fabric of the organization,
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  Speaker 4: the consistency from from top to bottom, whether it's uh, staff, players,
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  Speaker 4: gameplay philosophies, certain things like that. I mean, uh, not
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  Speaker 4: gonna go too far in depth with that, but I
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  Speaker 4: just wanted to have a like a mastery of understanding
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  Speaker 4: of it all and to get on the same page
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  Speaker 4: as as David and obviously Steve and I have had
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  Speaker 4: rapport and relationship before, but to get that in depth
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  Speaker 4: conversation with David and just visions for the future, I
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  Speaker 4: think that was the super important for me. And again
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm very yeah stoked to be back, and I
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  Speaker 4: think we're going to do great things. I mean you
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  Speaker 4: look at the lineup. I mean this year it's I
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  Speaker 4: mean where you go from the depth of pitching, the
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  Speaker 4: bench guys and and just every day guys like our
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  Speaker 4: I think this guy's limit for us, So I really
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  Speaker 4: do What did you order?
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  Speaker 3: What did everybody order? Like, we want to be in
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  Speaker 3: those meetings because we're never going to be good enough
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  Speaker 3: to have a meeting where they talk about that like owners.
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  Speaker 3: Owners barely knew my name, like the what the depth
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  Speaker 3: of the organization is going to be, So we got
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  Speaker 3: to at least know a little like what did.
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  Speaker 4: You Well, it wasn't it was in we had there
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  Speaker 4: was potential order food, but it was like there was coffee, water, tea,
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  Speaker 4: and like a couple of sodas in case anyone wanted,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I have to have to have a variety
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  Speaker 4: of drinks for a meeting. But but it was it
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  Speaker 4: was pretty much a It was about a three hour
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  Speaker 4: meeting of just like just dialogue, so three hours with
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  Speaker 4: no meal. I mean, they everyone came prepared. It was
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  Speaker 4: it was strictly business. They were after the meeting. They
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  Speaker 4: were welcome to stay. But of course Steve and David
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  Speaker 4: are busy people, and and they could be hungry.
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  Speaker 3: I know they're not as big as you, but you
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  Speaker 3: can't go three hour You had to have at least
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  Speaker 3: a little snack.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, nothing. Not thinking when it comes to business,
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  Speaker 4: it's business time. It's business time. Okay, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So what do you talk Do you talk to
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  Speaker 3: Mendy about where you want to hit behind Wan? Where
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  Speaker 3: you want to hit in front of one? Be like Wan?
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  Speaker 3: I like, look, I could hit in front of wand
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  Speaker 3: let wand drive me in.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, whatever Mendy wants to do. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: his it's his team. And for me, like I've I've
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  Speaker 4: hit the middle of the order my whole career, and
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  Speaker 4: as so long as I'm in the middle of the order,
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm and I'm swinging at good pitches and having
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  Speaker 4: good at bats. I mean, good things are going to
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  Speaker 4: happen over the course of the year. So wherever wherever
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  Speaker 4: Many decides to write me.
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  Speaker 5: In speaking of that, that leads me right into it.
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  Speaker 1: Pete talking about Mendy at opportunity to play under Many
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  Speaker 1: when he was the bench coach.
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  Speaker 5: For the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, I don't want to say stole a great
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  Speaker 1: player from the Yankees and one Soto. But I also
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  Speaker 1: think Mendy's you know, his personality, his character. Had quite
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  Speaker 1: a few managers now right in your early career. What
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  Speaker 1: makes him different? Because I believe that he is a
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  Speaker 1: leader of men. I believe that he takes time get
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  Speaker 1: to know individuals. But can you speak on from your
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  Speaker 1: experience having previous managers, what makes Carlos different?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess there's one overarching common thing of all
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  Speaker 4: the manager I've had. It's their their hunger and their
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  Speaker 4: appetite for the game and wanting to win on a
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  Speaker 4: consistent basis and checks that box. But the one thing
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  Speaker 4: that Mendy has done a great job at is communicating
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  Speaker 4: with guys. And I think just the he he believes
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  Speaker 4: in his guys, And what I think he's done a
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  Speaker 4: really good job at was stay the course because New
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  Speaker 4: York obviously like with the media and liked our zero
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  Speaker 4: to five star and we had our our like really
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  Speaker 4: bad rough patch, I mean going from eleven games under
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  Speaker 4: five hundred and then having our run in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: What he did on a day and then that day
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  Speaker 4: out basis was he he was accountable. I mean he
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  Speaker 4: he preaches on accountability every day and he I mean
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  Speaker 4: he wore it, and he was accountable for from kind
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  Speaker 4: of like everything that was going on earlier in the year,
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  Speaker 4: and he was just hell bent on getting better and
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  Speaker 4: believing in his staff, believing in what we had going on,
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  Speaker 4: even though things weren't going our way. So his his
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  Speaker 4: relentlessness and and his accountability, I think we're the keys
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  Speaker 4: to our success last year because that that trickles down
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  Speaker 4: from uh from the top and Uh, I think I
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  Speaker 4: think that was he was definitely at the forefront of
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  Speaker 4: the accountability aspect and the and the enduring and during
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  Speaker 4: the storm and and and trusting in our guys.
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  Speaker 3: Last one from me playoffs last year, At what point
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  Speaker 3: did you believe you guys are gonna win the World Series?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the when you go from I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 4: to Atlanta that that day where everyone else was was
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  Speaker 4: done with baseball and we had to fly back from
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  Speaker 4: the so we had it felt like a game one
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  Speaker 4: sixty three, but so we finished up in Milwaukee. Then
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  Speaker 4: we had to go to Atlanta and play the last
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  Speaker 4: two two games of the season when everyone else is done.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that was I mean it felt like that game,
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  Speaker 4: that first game of the doubleheader, from going up early
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: then us, I mean it was just like this Seesaw game,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: and then after we tied up, Iggy ties it up,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Francisco hits that bomb. I think the next ending after
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: after they retake the league. I think that moment that
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: kind of carried our momentum into the postseason. It's like, wow,
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: like this is this is magic. Like this, you couldn't
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: write a better script for us, like getting in when
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: it wasn't even the last day of the season, like
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: we extended the season one extra day. I think, like
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: us winning that game, it's like we won the tie
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: break and then I just the way how it all happened.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: It was just like such a surreal feeling, like like
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: being able to Champagne shower and then going to going
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: straight to Milwaukee from there, I mean, it was just
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Seesaw cease and then just felt like the momentum just
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: kept tipping on our side at the last, at the last.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: And so I think that Atlanta, that Atlanta series, after
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: we won that first game in the doubleheader, I think
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: it's like, wow, this is this is the start of
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: something magic, and we and we believed it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: And now you get to do do it again.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: We gotta earn it. We got to earn that right.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing like postseason baseball, but you gotta
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: there's a reason why there's one hundred and sixty two games,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: and you got to earn that right to go get
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: there and play that fun baseball at the end.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Of the year.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Pete, Yeah, appreciate you.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Thanks thanks Fellas.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: F T.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Great read to you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: Pete.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: You're the man, all right, f T. Let's charge the
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: damn Mount Krat's good to see you. Let's go over
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: a few things from yesterday. This one will tug at
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: your heart strings.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Jake Berger Homer yesterday with his four month old daughter
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: penelopees hospital band. She went underwent successful open heart surgery
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: earlier this week. So we're thinking about the Burger family
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and young Penelope.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: But also.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: You guys are one of f you that can speak
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: about this crats whether you've experienced any type of hardship
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: and then had to play ball or been around any
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: of that, how do you put it into words? Because
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: the average human tries to take off from work or
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: does something else to be able to counter this and
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: in baseball, I don't really get that much of a
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: break from spring training through the end of your year.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I mean the most I think you can take off
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: without it being like a true personal leave. The whole
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: deal is I think three days during paternity leave is
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: what you're allowed.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: There's definitely family emergency type of stuff, but sure like
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: you go through the same thing. But people forget I think,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: is you go through the same things that everybody else
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: goes through. Death in the family. My grandfather died right
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: before Game one of the World Series, my only time
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: ever in the World Series. I remember one time I
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: got a call in the middle of a game that
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: my daughter fell and hit her rib and was getting
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: sent to the emergency room. I got. I got pulled
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: out of a spring training game because my son back
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: in two thousand and nine No. Twenty ten, was being
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: rushed to the emergency room at a hospital. And all
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: this stuff is happening when you're not there. When you're
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: not there, like, yes, people can be at work and
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: it might take you forty five minutes to drive home
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: from work, but all this stuff is happening when you're
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: in another city or or you might even be in
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: your home city where you're playing, but it's still another city.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Like Milwaukee is not where I lived, Kansas City is
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: not where I live, So all that stuff, like think
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: of it. We go through the same things and then
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: the next day you have to go out and perform
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: at the highest level. The picture never says, Okay, we're
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: going to ease off a little bit because Jake's daughter
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: just had open heart surgery, like and like it's it's
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: it's hard to explain unless you've been in that exact situation,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: but you'd still you still have to perform. There's know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: your teammates feel for you, the manager feels for you,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: but they can't they can't take away what is going
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: on inside your heart and your chest in your mind,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: and that's what you have to fight through as a player, unfortunately.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and to just add to e K's point, you know,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I felt so many different emotions when I heard the story.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: You know, one my heart went out, you know to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Jake is you know we are you know, Eric and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: myself are fathers and we have kids and I have
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: a daughter, and.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: You know, I thought about how cut.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Throat the business is, right, and a part of me
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: thought about it from a standpoint of just like Krats
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: kind of looted to not only does he have a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: heavy heart, but this is how these guys provide for
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: their families. And Jake Berger is a guy who you know,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: essentially is you know, I call him a grinder, and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that means a guy who he has to go out
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to fight for a position, right, And you know, with
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: this going on, you know, with a heavy heart, he
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: knows at the same time he probably has to get
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: because there's somebody else who you know again who we
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: may feel for what's going on, but somebody's always trying
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to take your position. So I had so many different emotions.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I also thought, how amazing of a wife. You know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: does he have to say, good babe, go back to camp, right,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: because I don't think that's just a Jake Berger decision.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I think when you're married, you have a family. These
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: are things that you consult with, you know, with your spouse.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: You know, should I go back, should I say screw it?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Should I take whatever comes my way and stay with
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you guys? But I think you know a testament to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: her strength for probably encouraging him to get back to working.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: And lastly, you know a lot of people do things.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Outside of work or outside of their normal activities to
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: kind of give them a sense of peace. And for
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of athletes, you know, whether it's football, whether
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it's basketball. For me, you know, playing baseball was you know,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the place where I felt most at peace when my
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: world was the most chaotic. So I think also to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: him getting back and playing baseball was a part of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: him helping him cope with what is going on, because
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you know, most guys that played this game, they we
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: play it because we love it. The money is great,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: but we started playing it because we had a passion
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: for it. So I think also too, it was a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: way for him to just breathe for a second and
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: be able to cope with what's going on right now.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, incredible, incredible. It's not just coming back just
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to come back and play. And obviously it's spring training
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: so whatever. I mean, he's a veteran, he's got a spot.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: But to come back and then hit a homer, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: there's a lot going on. But anyway, thinking about the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: fam most importantly, So let's try and get to a
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: couple of other highlights here. Bobby wit junior, first stinger
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: of spring training, just getting in the flow. That's all crazy.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Getting to be an MVP. Yeah, only a runner up
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Cam.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know that meet.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: You know, your your wife tells you to take that
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: meet out the freezer, and you forget.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: He's just throwing out spring training. It's all. He just thought.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: He's thrown out. He's gonna be just fine.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Come on, Cam, you ain't got no steaks in the freezer.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: You don't freeze out.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: You're only eating state.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But you know, every once in a while, man, you
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: buy a bulk and you got to throw some in
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the freezer.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Man, you know it happens. Bobby Wittter thawing out like that,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: that meat in the freezer. He's good. I'm excited. I'm
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: excited break what the Royals continue to do.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Well, there's one part of Bobby wits game. Wait, there's
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: one part here. I just remember this that I think
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: he spoke about yesterday. You know, when you're that good
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: and then you're trying to figure out how you can improve.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I didn't look at the stat but it did come
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: to mind. So he brought something up that I think
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you guys will find interesting. So Cam, he basically said,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing here, he shouldn't be caught stealing as often
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: as he is because he's so damn fast. Thirty one
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: stolen bags last year, caught twelve times. A year before that,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: forty nine stolen bags actually led in caught stealing that
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: year fifteen, And I think the percentage actually was technically worse.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Last year actually stole thirty one backs and got caught
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: twelve times. So if we want a nitpick and find
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: something wrong with a top five player in our sport,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: he pointed it out, you gotta love that, right, He's like, damn,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I'm too fast to be.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Caught this often. Let's fix that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Absolutely we can actually focus on in spring training and
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: be like, all right, let me talk to the analytic staff.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Let me talk to the coaching staff, and be like,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: here's my goal. Forty plus bags, five caught stealing or less.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Go, So I'll toot my own horn.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: The best I ever, you know, best best I ever
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: had was forty forty forty for forty four, but also
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: had guy named Dave Roberts and a guy named Ricky Rizria.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: And when you talk about analytic departments, right, these were
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: my analytic based running coaches. And one thing they did
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: extremely well. Is they would take me into the video
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: room and we would watch pickoffs the first when guys
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: go home, when they come set. Like how guys sometimes
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: even when they come set, they come up different when
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they're gonna pick or go to home. So even now
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: when you add this clock in and to play in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: guy's brains, yes, we're getting used to it, but every
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: once in a while the game can still speed up
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: on guys. I think Bobby Wett needs to go in
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that video room. His analytics department needs to take a second.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Whoever the guy is in there and he needs to go, Hey,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: give me every slide step, every pick, the first, every
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: pitch the home where he can start to find these tendencies.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It's real, especially now with this clock. I know guys
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: are getting your routines when they go home when they pick.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So I think just being a little bit more of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: a student of the game and the other thing when
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I watched Bobby with I believe he could get a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: little bit more on his lead. I do think there's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: another step out there that he can get and I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: think he'll.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Continue to get better.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: But he's absolutely right, he's too fast to get thrown
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: out that much. And again, accountability is where it starts.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you just gotta go too. Rusty Koontz was the
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: epic base running coach slash first base coach for the
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: fourteen or fourteen and fifteen team with the Royals, and
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: he stowed a lot of coaches just little stuff like
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Cam was talking about. People were like, well, what is
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Cam talking about? What Cam's talking about is dudes tipping
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: if they're picking over And if you can get that read,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I can get a stolen base like and I was
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: slow as dirt. So you sit there and you go
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Bobby Wit. Bobby Witt increases his efficiency. But sometimes when
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: you try to increase your efficiency, you become like, I
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: don't know if I can quite make it. But learning
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: that little stuff that I'm sure he's been taught, but
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: now like seeing it on his own, that's how you
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: up that efficiency. And you get thrown out less and
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: you still take you actually take more chances.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, like sometimes I get conflicted on
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to tail and with secrets I'm to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: you know, allow out there right, I can tell it all.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: So also too, this is important. It's not always about
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the player. I had a guy named Ron Renicky. Ron
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Rennicky was the best third base coach I ever had, Cratzy,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and he would help me when I got the first base.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: He had this little tip where he would stand off
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the back of the picture and whatever he saw, he
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: would just look to the outfield, and I knew that
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I knew the guy was going home. So he was like,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: whenever you see me, look to the outfield, and it
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: might be late, stay on me. But because you can
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: see you're watching the picture and you can see that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: third base coach right off the back of him, he's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: riding your peripheral.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: I mean I must have reled off.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Twenty to twenty five in a row, right, like that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: little cat and mouse game, whether the catcher was tipping
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: when something was coming home or what. He had something
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: where I literally knew every time I stole, and it
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: was like twenty four in a row. He probably can
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: look it up something crazy in seventeen where it was
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: just like I knew the pitcher was going home. So again,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: it's not just it's always it's about the people around
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you as well as the point. You know, Bobby Witt
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: is a great athlete, but sometimes it's coaches, you might
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: get do a little bit more to help your team out.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: HM, Cam you said it, and I called a team
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: out last year about Hey, you know what, some coaches
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: are gonna have to pick some stuff up when veterans leave.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: This is the kind of stuff that, like you have
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: to pick up. This is the kind of stuff I
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: do that what you just talked about. I do that
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: with my high school team. You can't do it with everybody.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: But you're talking about let's say a left he's a left,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: he's looking at you. Well, that lefty comes set up here,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you can see if this dude's you know, gripping that
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: big curveball. You can see different stuff. Now if the dudes,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: if it's a righty and he's looking directly at the
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: third base coach every time he comes set in the middle.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: You can't see that from first, but you can see
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: it because he's looking directly you and you just I
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: had I had a manager in triple A because he's
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: a third base coach. You're just doing open hand. You're
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: just doing open hand. He's like, I'll just bend down,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: and he's like, trust me. There has to be a
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: trust there because you're not seeing it yourself. There has
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: to be trust, and that, to me is what puts
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: players into All Star categories, puts teams into playoffs, puts
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: playoff teams into the World Series. That little stuff from coaches.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, you know what trust is.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Cam's stealing twenty something bases in a row, and Cam like,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: whatever you do, Ron, I'm running if you tell me
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: to run at this point, that's that's all I had.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: Dam you know what that is? He checked. I'm gonna
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: keep doing it until I get caught, right.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I think I rolled off like four against the Astros,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: against Berdlander in one game or something, and they were
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: like what.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: I reader get a second base on what? They're like, what? What?
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: What do we do?
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: What do we got? What are you doing?
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: Like that?
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: I just wanted to.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: Wait, I have that. I have that article.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: It says Cam Aben complete rare feet four steals and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: when first game back, Wait, is this it first came
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: back from Yeah?
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: I think I think Spray m c L. Yeah, the
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Sprain m c L. Four bags?
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: You were you were you were parking in the handicaps
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: and stealing four bags. You came back ready. I had my.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Sticker, I had my sticker. I was parking closed. I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: told him I had to save it for the game.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I needed to park close. But not But again it's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's again, but I give credit when credit is due.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: It's about the resources. Sometimes sometimes you look at, okay,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: what can this player get? You know, again, I say
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Ronald Coune when he reeled off all of those bags,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: who was his first base coach?
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: One of the best they ever do it?
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Tp?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, you know, no, I think it
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: was I think it was ey. I think Eric Young
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: was over there.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Oh that's right, that's right, that's right, you're right, you're right.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: But again, but you know what I mean, Like like
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I remember playing with Eric Young Jr. He's like, yeah,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: my dad is like if the guys turn comes setting
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: his foot his turn just slightly, or if it's fitting
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: slightly open, or if this guy put you know, you know,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: come set three times with his front foot, like this
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: is coming from the stuff that his dad taught him.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: And then you look at what the braves have done,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: even what they did while he was there, or look
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: at wherever he's went. They've stole a ton of bases
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: because guys, they're looking at different things. It's not just
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: always on the players. Sometimes you need some extra eyes
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to go. Hey, you got when this guy, when this wrote,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: ro Oswald had a little birdie. They called it a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: birdie roy Oswah. When he came straight up. When he
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: came straight up, he would he would go home and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: he would pick and then when he went down and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he would go like a little birdie like this little motion.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: He would go home every time. So just understanding that
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: of doing your homework, those little things can make, you know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: make a lot of guys more efficient.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ellie Scotty, this is why fantasy level is going up.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Fantasy value for Bobby, Fantasy value for Ellie. If Ellie
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: doc was saying it last year, Dave Roberts said, last
• 31:59
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  Speaker 1: I know some teams are probably gonna be calling me
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  Speaker 2: That's plus two sixty for me for a home run.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a bummer. He was kind of filling in
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  Speaker 2: for the Jose Glacias role. Glacias has been pretty public
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea what's going on there, But tough
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  Speaker 2: Obviously he wasn't a starter more towards the end of
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  Speaker 2: which in my mind is basically impossible. The clutchness that
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  Speaker 2: he delivered last year for that team cannot be described.
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  Speaker 2: It is etched in my memory the amount of time
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  Speaker 2: they needed a big a B and he delivered.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: And not to mention defensively, he's his glove.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: He's a wizard. I mean the guy you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: Andrew and Simmons. Some of the guys I played with
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  Speaker 1: that were elite. He's right there amongst the top. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Kraft for his glove is elite. And again, uh
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  Speaker 1: and this is no no of a slight to Nick Madrigal.
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  Speaker 1: He's not to my in my as the player that
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  Speaker 1: Jose is, I wish him a speedy recovery. But again
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  Speaker 1: this this was definitely more of an insurance piece. You know,
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  Speaker 1: something happened, you know, I don't I don't think there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this is as big as maybe some
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  Speaker 1: might be making it out to be. That's my nice
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  Speaker 7: Okay, yep, that's fair. All right.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Two more quick ones that I want to throw out there.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone has a Chicago connection here. Madrigal was a Cub
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  Speaker 2: This is Andrew Bennan Tende's report on an injury not
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  Speaker 2: great out four.
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  Speaker 7: To six weeks.
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  Speaker 2: One of the few White Sox players who could you
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  Speaker 2: know who projects to be above average or at least
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: slightly four to six weeks non displaced fracture of his
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: right hand hit by a pitch and Nico hern Horner
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  Speaker 2: will not go to Japan for that Tokyo series to
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  Speaker 2: open up the season. He's still recovering from flexor tendon surgery,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: so he's gonna stay back to rehab and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go back from breaking one moment.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to do a.
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  Speaker 2: PSA the two games in Tokyo between the Dodgers and
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs do count. I saw some replies on the
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  Speaker 2: injury like good get them ready for the season. Who
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  Speaker 2: cares about those games? And then other people were like.
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  Speaker 7: No, those games are the season, Like.
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  Speaker 1: Pizza, you don't want to be going back somewhere to
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I have two that really come to mind.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, Juan Pierre made a big made a
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  Speaker 3: we're going to show or if it's the Mike Schmidt card.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, you told me Mike Schmidt before the shows.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, we had talked about too, and like like
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  Speaker 3: just to see a Mike Schmidt card, like that guy
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  Speaker 3: was my hero growing up, Like it was my dad
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  Speaker 3: and Mike Schmidt, Like I played third base, so it
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  Speaker 3: was like one of those things where in Philly he
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  Speaker 3: was the man. And then in spring training in twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 3: we got to work out, like we got to work
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  Speaker 3: out together lift weights with Mike Schmidt and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: he's just super casual about it too. It's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was just me and him post game and he
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  Speaker 3: was like telling me all this stuff about how the
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, like this is the greatest thing ever.
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  Speaker 3: Like ten to maybe like eight to fifteen year old
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  Speaker 3: But an impact. It made me see that superstars are
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  Speaker 3: like real people. And this was like halfway through my
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  Speaker 3: professional career. So to be able to meet and then
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  Speaker 3: hang out and lift and still be able to keep
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  Speaker 3: in contact with Mike Smith, that was legit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that that's sweet. I wish I would have thought
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  Speaker 5: about this question a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: But we talked about when it was asked spring training influences,
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  Speaker 1: and I named two guys as far as my first
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  Speaker 1: spring trainings went, and I named Placido Polanco and Magleo
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  Speaker 1: or Doniez, and uh, those two dudes, man, were just
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  Speaker 1: extremely helpful, just always open armed, uh, willing to give me,
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  Speaker 1: give me advice. Hey, young young bugs, show up early,
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  Speaker 1: be late, get your drill work in, be seen and
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  Speaker 1: not heard. And then Magleo always made sure I was
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  Speaker 1: fitted with BG's wood. You know, as far as going
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  Speaker 1: into my first big league season, I went to low
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  Speaker 1: A with all the best Maglio or Douniez would and
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  Speaker 1: bat so he was instrumental. And then and then when
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  Speaker 1: I was finally got caught up to the big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: he also bought me like four or five suits.
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  Speaker 5: So, uh, those are memories that I would never forget.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why I tried to be the veteran guy
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  Speaker 1: that I was, that you know, looked out for the
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  Speaker 1: younger guys, allowed them to be themselves.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they never really hate me or made me
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  Speaker 5: feel like I couldn't be myself.
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  Speaker 1: So that was huge because I think when guys can
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  Speaker 1: be themselves, they're the best version of themselves. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's important that you know the veteran guys are
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  Speaker 1: are understanding and open to taking those young guys under
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  Speaker 1: their wing and showing them the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 7: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 6: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 7: That's what he said. All right, that's what he said.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Martin Perez, who's a good dude, good fella, Kratz, good interview,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: always very open about giving his time, but also very optimistic.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: So I want to get the player perspective here, Kratz.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: You can start it off. I'll give you the quote
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: and then you just let me know if this is
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: okay to say because you want to have faith that
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: things are going to go well, or if you should
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: just sugarcoat it because it's tough. I mean, we even
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: spoke to what aj Hinch at the awards event a
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: month ago, and he was.
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: Like, the Twins are good.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: You know, obviously we're going to be good, the Royals,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: the Guardians, and then he's like, so anyway, and everyone
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: talks about the White Sox that way. So Martin Perez,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: new signing for the White Sox, said this yesterday quote,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: people think we're not contenders, but we're going to be contenders.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: We're here for a reason.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of names, superstars. What we've
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: got is what we've got. And then he continued and
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: this is our buddy Chuck Garfine, who cover the White
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Sox with these quotes, this from Martin Perez. The follow up,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: you have to go out and compete with players that
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  Speaker 2: we have. That is one thing I'm trying to tell
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  Speaker 2: my teammates. Nobody believes in us. The first person who
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  Speaker 2: has to believe is us. If we believe, we're going
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: to be fine. Let's just get back to the contender's word.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Do you put that out there, or do you try
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: and sugarcoated if you're on that team, because there is
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: a zero percent chance they're going to be a playoff contender.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Zero percent. But as a player, if I thought zero
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: percent was my chance of making the big leagues, you
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: know what would have happened. You never make the big leagues.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Not everybody's a superstar. So as a player, you're optimistically
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: you're just you're optimistically naive. Maybe you just think you
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: are as we got Maybe we just keep getting just
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: bangers of guests, another guest coming in. But you have
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: to be positive. You have to be positive. If you're
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: not positive about what you can do, like you're kind
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: of wasting your time and it's gonna be a long season.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I have no problem with him saying this doesn't mean
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: he's right. I just know he's not gonna be right.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: They're not gonna be contenders, but they're gonna get after
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: it a little bit.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: Well, well, let me just say this. Where there's delusion,
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: there's hope. So Hey, you know what I'm saying.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: I think a hope of mentality is a good mentality.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: But I think most importantly is the White Sox need
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to develop a culture of winning. And what I mean
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: by developing a culture of winning, I think about my
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: first few seasons. It took me like eight or nine
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: seasons before I even made it to the playoffs. Then
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I remember going to the astros, and I remember even
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: after when even after when I was ready to go
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: to the shower, like coming in quick.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: It was just what I had got used to.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: And Carlos Bilt try and said, hey man, hey, slow down,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: take a second to sit down, and he waited for
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: everybody to come in the clubhouse. And what we did
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: was we acknowledged the guys that really stepped up. Was
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: it the bullpen guy? Was it the closer? Did the
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: star to give us a outstanding start? Did somebody get
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: a go over? And we got to run in. We
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: took a second to appreciate what it took to win
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: that night. And what's getting lost in our game is guys,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: are you know they they get out the clubhouse quick
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: when they win, and then when we lose, we sit
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: around and we soak in. And I think that clubhouse
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: needs to develop a culture, right you know, whoever the
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: veteran is in that lead in that clubhouse, send out
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: a text message text group.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: Hey, let's kick their ass today, guys.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Let's show the world that we're not to be messed with,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: that we're gonna compete like some veteran guy. Needs to
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: start that winning culture mentality, and that's where you start.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: And then we put all the meat stuff aside. Hey, today,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: let's find a way to win, because if we win,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna point fingers about who's playing terrible. So I
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: think that's what they need to do and it needs
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: to start. Now, what did we do to win this
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: game today, and let's appreciate it. Let's talk about it.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: And that's just not come to the locker room and
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: leave immediately and be worried about what's going on outside.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Let's take a minute to value how hard it was.
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: To win a major league baseball game.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Let's just show you on the way out here the
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: spring training calendar for next week. So next week we're
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: in Florida. Still, week after we're in Arizona. Week after
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: that we're back in Florida and cam we'll be on
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: that spring training tour. But next week you've got Perzinski
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: on the road. I know he's hitting Dunedin Blue Jay's
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: camp on Monday, and here it is Tuesday.
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: Nats camp in Palm Beach.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Wednesday, they're basically next door neighbors, the Astros and the
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Nats at spring training, So Astros Wednesday so we can
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  Speaker 2: steal hose all two days infield glove Thursday, Phillies Camp
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: AJ will be there saying ha hatakratz. And then Friday,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: raise Camp FT fam, thank you, appreciate you, see you Monday,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: thanks to the Mets, rushed it