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LAD P Justin Wrobleski joins DT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: The third year Dodger, two time World Series champion Justin
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Speaker 1: Rableski joining Dodgers territory. Justin, thanks so much, man.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate you being here.
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Speaker 1: I know you guys are you know, pulled in so
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Speaker 1: many different directions, but to have you on here is
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Speaker 1: a privilege. I appreciate you first and foremost. This has
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Speaker 1: been a pleasure to watch you pitch this season. How
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Speaker 1: would you assess your first big league season as a starter.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's you know, it's it's going. Uh,
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Speaker 3: it's going well.
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Speaker 4: I'm learning on the fly, you know, just kind of
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Speaker 4: as I've been doing the past couple of years. Is
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Speaker 4: just trying to trying to learn and trying to you know,
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Speaker 4: improve as I can. And uh, yeah, it's it's been
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Speaker 4: a lot of fun and I'm having a good time.
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Speaker 3: So I guess that that checks that box too.
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Speaker 5: So, uh, I'm not gonna say hater. They're they're entering
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Speaker 5: the season you get in that starting rotation. There are
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Speaker 5: some haters, there are some doubters about Justin Robleski's ability
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Speaker 5: as a starter. For me, I'm not saying I was
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Speaker 5: a hater or doubter. I just saw you dominate dudes
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Speaker 5: out of the bullpen, and I was like, I want
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Speaker 5: that guy there.
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Speaker 3: He's so damn.
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Speaker 5: Good at this. Like, how how good does it feel
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Speaker 5: to to know, like you you are succeeding in this
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Speaker 5: role you always hope you can do. Uh, that was
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Speaker 5: always the goal for you, to be a starter. I
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Speaker 5: don't know how much you know you tune out the
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Speaker 5: outside noise. I'm certain that's the only way to do
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Speaker 5: this job well. But at some point too, you also
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Speaker 5: need to be like, given one of these the people
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Speaker 5: who said, no, this guy needs to be in the bullpen,
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Speaker 5: how does it feel just to you know, know that
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Speaker 5: you can do this job so well?
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Speaker 3: No, it feels good.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, you know, I never you know,
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Speaker 4: I never doubted kind of my ability to succeed in
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Speaker 4: this role. I always felt like, you know, I have
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Speaker 4: I have the ability to have the I don't know,
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Speaker 4: like the work effort, like the workout, think and everything else.
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Speaker 4: Like I know that, you know, I was going to
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Speaker 4: find a way to succeed. And I think that was
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Speaker 4: regardless of role. I think, you know, I've had that
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Speaker 4: confidence in myself to to be able to go out
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Speaker 4: there and get out whenever I need to whether that's
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Speaker 4: in a bullpen capacity, whether it's as a starter, and
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Speaker 4: as you guys know, it's on this team. It's it's
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Speaker 4: not always you know, it's not easy to find your spot,
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Speaker 4: especially as a young guys. It's it's tough to kind
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Speaker 4: of figure out where you fit in. But at the
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Speaker 4: end of the day, you know, I felt like, you know,
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Speaker 4: if I was given the opportunity, if I was finally
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Speaker 4: given you know, a run of more than you know,
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Speaker 4: two or three starts in a row, that I could
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Speaker 4: I could figure this thing out and be a starter,
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Speaker 4: And you know, yeah, it feels good to kind of
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Speaker 4: be able to prove that, you know, when everyone's telling
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Speaker 4: you you can't do that and oh you don't have
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Speaker 4: the stuff, Oh you don't have this, you know, have that,
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Speaker 4: and uh yeah, it's it's it's kind of nice to
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Speaker 4: to to kind of show people like, hey, I can
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Speaker 4: do this and I am capable of it. But at
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Speaker 4: the same time, you know, it's always people are gonna
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Speaker 4: people are gonna say what they want regardless, and you
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Speaker 4: kind of got to tune it out and just kind
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Speaker 4: of stay in your own world and stay locked into
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Speaker 4: to what you know, you know gets gets you the
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Speaker 4: results that you want, whether that those are results are
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Speaker 4: coming right away or whether you know they're going to
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Speaker 4: come in the future. I think that's kind of the
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Speaker 4: big thing.
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Speaker 6: Bob, Well, you talked about it a little bit, but
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Speaker 6: coming into spring, we were kind of looking at the
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Speaker 6: starting rotation and thought, you know, maybe the Dodgers would
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Speaker 6: use a sixth starter, kind of a piggyback role, and
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Speaker 6: you seem to be the logical fit.
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Speaker 2: And then you said, I'm gonna take that opportunity and
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Speaker 2: run with it.
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Speaker 6: And now we can't picture the Dodgers rotation without you
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Speaker 6: as you were making that adjustment. Obviously, you've had this stuff,
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Speaker 6: You've had the experience, But what's different about pitching out
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Speaker 6: a relief and then pitching in rotation and how do
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Speaker 6: you use those skills that ultimately helped to become this
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Speaker 6: effective of a starter.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think a lot of it has
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Speaker 4: to do with the way you manage the game. You know,
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Speaker 4: last year you'd see me go into my card a
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Speaker 4: lot more, especially back half and in the playoffs, because
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Speaker 4: just the way you game plans a little different. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: as a as a bullpen guy, you're kind of going
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Speaker 4: out there and you know, you're just you're trying to
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Speaker 4: create as much miss as you can.
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Speaker 3: You're you're not worried about, you know.
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Speaker 4: How long can I go or how long can I
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Speaker 4: last in this game to save the guys behind me.
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Speaker 3: It's just like I need to you know, I'm coming.
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Speaker 4: And that was something I had to learn, is like
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Speaker 4: I'm coming in this game because I fit this lane
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Speaker 4: that is coming up in the order, and I need
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Speaker 4: to throw my best stuff and I need to, you know,
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Speaker 4: make these guys swing a miss and I needed to
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Speaker 4: get out of this inning. You know, however, whatever it takes.
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Speaker 4: And as a starter, it's definitely more of a there's
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Speaker 4: more of a chess match. You can tell, there's more
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Speaker 4: of a plan versus you just because obviously, like you know,
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Speaker 4: I've I've been on enough teams in Propol now and
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Speaker 4: being on our team and just kind of watching how
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Speaker 4: guys prepare, there's a lot more preparation for a starter
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Speaker 4: than there's for a reliever, just because obviously you're going
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Speaker 4: to have more bats off the starter, and I think
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Speaker 4: that's something you got to adjust to and realize. As
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Speaker 4: being a starter is the game plans a little different
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Speaker 4: and Also, the game plan is going to change sometimes,
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Speaker 4: Like certain guys are gonna hunt you in certain spots
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Speaker 4: and certain teams are going to look for certain things.
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Speaker 3: And that's just kind of the fun of being a.
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Speaker 4: Starter is trying to figure that out as fast as
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Speaker 4: you can and then exploit those those game plans that
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Speaker 4: they have against you. So there's a lot of different things,
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Speaker 4: you know, being a starter or reliever, But I think
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Speaker 4: the most the biggest difference is the game planning and
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Speaker 4: just kind of that chess match is being played, whereas
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Speaker 4: as a reliever, you're not playing that chess match as much.
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Speaker 4: You still are, but it's you know, you're not facing
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Speaker 4: the guy multiple times for the most part.
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Speaker 1: Justin when you talk about the game plan, I wonder
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Speaker 1: what your game plan is going to what is expected
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Speaker 1: to be a start for you tomorrow in Sacramento. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it is a bandbox, right of course. It's a very
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Speaker 1: unique park. This is a weird situation for the athletics.
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Speaker 1: Do you play the park, do you go with your strengths?
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Speaker 1: How will you approach that to keep the ball in
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Speaker 1: the yard because that is very difficult to do in Sacktown.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, what.
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Speaker 4: It's funny because in the major leagues, like, yeah, this
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Speaker 4: is you know, this is a park that you're that
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Speaker 4: is more hit or friendly, right, But at the same time,
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Speaker 4: you know, when I played here in the PCL, I
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Speaker 4: was like, thank god, we're going to sack, Like this
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Speaker 4: is one of the best places to pitch in the league.
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Speaker 4: So it's funny that kind of you know, the just
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Speaker 4: the way it's different. But yeah, I'm not you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to try to change based on what
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Speaker 4: the ballpark is. You know, maybe I'll give up some
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Speaker 4: cheap homers, maybe I won't. Maybe you know, I'll go
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Speaker 4: seven scoreless, maybe I'll go seven two rounds. Whatever, whatever
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Speaker 4: happens happens. At the same time, I think it's just
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Speaker 4: again worrying about what I can control and the things
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Speaker 4: that you know, matter within my process and making sure,
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Speaker 4: you know, I understand the hitters and kind of how
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Speaker 4: they are reacting, and yeah, just kind of going going
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Speaker 4: status quo for me, just trying to go out there
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Speaker 4: and get as deep in the game as I can,
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Speaker 4: and you know, wherever that may take may take me,
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Speaker 4: It'll take me.
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Speaker 5: Geek and yeah, you mentioned pitching deep in the game
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Speaker 5: seven innings, eight innings. Some people would call you old
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Speaker 5: school throwback. I don't know if you saw this. It's
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Speaker 5: the Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez had some high praise
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Speaker 5: for the kid there. It's a kid that's very unusual,
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Speaker 5: good character on the mound. It hits location like an
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Speaker 5: old timer, changes speed with each pitch. See the smile
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Speaker 5: on your face a little bit there, you know, Like
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Speaker 5: what does it mean to hear from Pedro Martinez, Like
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Speaker 5: the fact that he's watching you. He's impressed with what
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Speaker 5: you're doing. The same with the other guys in the rotation.
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Speaker 5: I mean last year pitching with Clayton Kershoff, future Hall
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Speaker 5: of Famer, learning from him, but getting in this day
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Speaker 5: and age of you know, obviously we'll probably talk about
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Speaker 5: it a little bit.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 5: The strikeout numbers for you probably aren't where you want
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Speaker 5: to be. But it doesn't matter. What you're doing, what
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Speaker 5: you need to do for the team, getting deep into games,
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Speaker 5: pitching every six days, getting out So that's that's your
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Speaker 5: fucking job, you know, and you're killing it. What does
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Speaker 5: it mean to see, you know, what what Pedro had
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Speaker 5: to say for you or about you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's super cool.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's super cool to see you know, anyone,
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Speaker 4: you know that that played at a high level saying
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Speaker 4: stuff like that. Let alone, you know a guy that
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Speaker 4: that's arguably one of the best pictures of all time,
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Speaker 4: are the best pictures of all time to certain people.
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Speaker 4: So I think, yeah, it's it's super cool to see that.
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Speaker 4: It was it was kind of funny to see that,
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Speaker 4: and yeah he said the whole shark thing, which is
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Speaker 4: which is funny. In the clubhouse right now, Meggie's Maggie's
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Speaker 4: eating up on that.
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Speaker 3: Which is pretty good. But yeah, it's it's pretty pretty
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Speaker 3: funny stuff.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I love it. It's really cool. You know,
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Speaker 4: Pedro's obviously what a great picture. And yeah, I've always
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Speaker 4: I've always thought his his kind of you know, post
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Speaker 4: pitching and and his you know, analysis and stuff is good.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, I like watching him over there on TVs.
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Speaker 4: So super cool, someone I really respect, and yeah, what
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Speaker 4: what a beast when he played man it was. I
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Speaker 4: still go and watch on his starts whenever I get
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Speaker 4: the chance, and whenever they pop up on my Instagram,
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Speaker 4: I'll see like a clip of a start and I'll
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Speaker 4: be like, all, let's go back and watch what he
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Speaker 4: was doing.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he was an absolute animal. Quick follow, quick follow
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Speaker 5: on this. So, I mean, we've we've grown up with
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Speaker 5: you being robo. Where are you robo versus shark? You're
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Speaker 5: saying that's kind of taking over the clubhouse there, and
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Speaker 5: of the second part, I want to know what you prefer? Uh.
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Speaker 5: And then also have you've seen this monstrosity that's that
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Speaker 5: that is justin Rableski the shark, So shout out Nike.
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Speaker 4: Yeah there, so that's like the that's like the brain
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Speaker 4: rod like shark. Right, that's the Trilileo trella law. Right,
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Speaker 4: that's that that one is with be on it. Which
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Speaker 4: that's interesting, good stuff. Shout out shout out Nick Frosso
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Speaker 4: And uh and okay, see he's my boy.
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Speaker 3: He's he's big on he's big on that stuff. That's funny.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, as far as.
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Speaker 4: Robo shark whatever, I mean, I think I think robos
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Speaker 4: probably more of the nickname that people are gonna know
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Speaker 4: me by if I had to take a guess, But yeah, whatever,
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Speaker 4: whatever people want to call me, I can't you know,
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Speaker 4: I can't control that. So but it's it has been funny,
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Speaker 4: just kind of see that whole thing, and yeah it's
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Speaker 4: good stuff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah it's funny.
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Speaker 6: I'm looking at what page Mark said about you, and
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Speaker 6: I think if anyone was called unusual, like if someone
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Speaker 6: called me unusual, I'd be like, well, that's not very nice.
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Speaker 2: I don't love that.
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Speaker 6: But for sure, to be called unusual, that's a pretty
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Speaker 6: you know, testament to how valued you are. Then for
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Speaker 6: Pager Martinez to say it, that's like the highest tier
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Speaker 6: of compliments. So I just love the picture language where
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Speaker 6: the more uncommon, the the insult is the actual like
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Speaker 6: better it is and a testament to you.
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Speaker 3: Uh. But that's what we're trying to do, is be unusual.
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Speaker 3: That's that's the whole goal. If you're unusual, that's usually
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Speaker 3: a pretty.
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Speaker 4: Good thing as a picture, unless you're unusual in terms
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Speaker 4: of you know, walking too many guys are giving up
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Speaker 4: too many homers.
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Speaker 3: That's r so you don't want to be. But other
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Speaker 3: than that, it's a good thing.
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Speaker 2: The weirder the better, especially for lefties.
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Speaker 6: But you mentioned with watching Pedro, is are there any
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Speaker 6: other pictures I know you've had so many already in
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Speaker 6: your early career that you could do watch in real time? Kershaw,
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Speaker 6: you have to show, Hey, once a week, I'm a
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Speaker 6: moto just a staff full of aces. But when you
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Speaker 6: were growing up or even now, were there specific pictures
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Speaker 6: that you were locked in and watching starts on?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think for me, I I grew
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Speaker 4: up a Cubs fan, so kind of anyone that was
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Speaker 4: good in that Cubs rotation, especially you know, watching an
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Speaker 4: area to do what he did for that period of time,
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Speaker 4: and he was a guy I like to watch. But really,
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Speaker 4: anyone like Hendrix Leicster, that whole rotation. Those are the
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Speaker 4: guys that I watched a bunch and but I still like,
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Speaker 4: wasn't like Super I don't know, I wasn't like, oh
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Speaker 4: I got to watch every day. That wasn't really how
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Speaker 4: I consume baseball. I just like to play it more
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Speaker 4: than you know. Yeah, I'd watch the Cubs, and as
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Speaker 4: I got older, like into high school, end of high school,
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Speaker 4: I started watching every game.
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Speaker 3: And but I think, you know, once I got.
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Speaker 4: Into college, that's kind of when I really started being like, Okay,
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Speaker 4: let's watch who's great right now, Let's watch who's really good.
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Speaker 3: And so I would watch Garrett Cole.
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Speaker 4: I would watch, you know, I think a guy that
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Speaker 4: I had circled, and I would watch every start was
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Speaker 4: de Grom, just like anyone during that era when he
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Speaker 4: was just like this guy's throwing one hundred every pitch,
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Speaker 4: like this is crazy, How's how's this? How's he doing this?
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Speaker 4: I'm sure the kids in college right now are watching
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Speaker 4: Miserowski kind of the same way. I mean, like what
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Speaker 4: is happening? But at the same time, yeah, that like,
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Speaker 4: those are my guys. Obviously, i'd watch Curse when I could.
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Speaker 4: It's just tough being on the East coast, you know,
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Speaker 4: to stay up till ten o'clock to watch watch a
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Speaker 4: Curse starts a little different, but whenever I could, I'd
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Speaker 4: watch Cursive starts and just kind of anyone who is
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Speaker 4: really good, sure's Heer just just all the guys Erlander,
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Speaker 4: like all those guys, just whoever was great, That's kind
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Speaker 4: of who I would watch. Whoever's really good and perform
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Speaker 4: at a high level.
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Speaker 3: That's what i'd watch. And I'd say I kind of
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Speaker 3: still do that to this day.
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Speaker 4: It's just kind of whenever I can tune into the
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Speaker 4: guys that are that are really good and see what
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Speaker 4: they're doing and see if I can adjust anything I'm
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Speaker 4: doing to kind of match match them and stay ahead
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Speaker 4: of the curve that way.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's I just like I like watching
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Speaker 3: people who are really good and seeing what I can
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Speaker 3: take from them.
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Speaker 1: You said that you don't care what people call you, uh,
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Speaker 1: in terms of nicknames you to me, I'm seeing a
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Speaker 1: little bit of Timothy Chalomay. If Justin Robleski, If Justin
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Speaker 1: Rableski wasn't dominating on the mound every fifth day or
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Speaker 1: sixth day, depending upon the count under for the Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers, what would you be doing? What takes your
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Speaker 1: mind off of baseball?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Well, that's two different questions.
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Speaker 4: I think as far as like what I would what
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Speaker 4: I would like to be doing, as far as and
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Speaker 4: then what's possible are two different things. I think if
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Speaker 4: I wasn't playing baseball, I probably would have tried to
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Speaker 4: pursue golf in some capacity, just because you know, golf
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Speaker 4: is something that my dad and I, you know, I
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Speaker 4: grew up playing. I played golf for I played baseball,
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Speaker 4: So you know, I think that'd be something I probably
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Speaker 4: would have I don't know, that's just kind of my personality.
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Speaker 4: Golf's kind of right up my alley and the fact that, like,
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Speaker 4: you can just practice it and grind and there's always
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Speaker 4: ways to try and get better and whatever. So that'd
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Speaker 4: probably be one thing if if I didn't have athletic ability,
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Speaker 4: I think it would be probably something within an engineering
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Speaker 4: field of some sort.
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Speaker 3: I don't know which one.
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Speaker 4: That's what I was doing my first year of college,
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Speaker 4: so I think that probably was where it would have
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Speaker 4: took me. But then obviously ended up going to junior college,
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Speaker 4: so that that went out the window after after that
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Speaker 4: freshman year. But yeah, i'd say probably probably something along
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Speaker 4: those lines.
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Speaker 1: It's funny too that you say that, because your path
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Speaker 1: in terms of your collegiate activity and playing baseball was
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Speaker 1: not linear by any stretch if I'm looking at this correctly,
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Speaker 1: justin Clemson, then Oklahoma State, State College of Florida in Bradenton.
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Speaker 1: So tell me how your path kind of evolved to
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Speaker 1: the point in which you were able to get to,
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Speaker 1: you know, the draft type of situation and get to
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Speaker 1: the professional ball. It's not it's certainly not an easy path.
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Speaker 3: No, not an easy path.
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Speaker 4: I had a lot of things, you know, quote unquote
15:37
Speaker 4: go wrong during my college career, and yeah, I struggled
15:41
Speaker 4: my freshman year pretty heavily. Pretty much got got cut
15:44
Speaker 4: after that year and that they kind of said, you know,
15:46
Speaker 4: you're not a fit here anymore. So like dang, And
15:49
Speaker 4: this was before the transfer portal and all that stuff.
15:51
Speaker 4: So I couldn't just you know, go to some other
15:53
Speaker 4: d one. I had to sit out a here if
15:55
Speaker 4: I did that. So I went to Junior college and
15:58
Speaker 4: you know, again shout out to College of Florida and
16:01
Speaker 4: Coach Hill and Coach Batson and you know Donnie the
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Speaker 4: pitching coach there.
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Speaker 3: They they really are great people.
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Speaker 4: They gave me a shot, just kind of went somewhere
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Speaker 4: where I was able to pitch, and you know, I
16:11
Speaker 4: was still hitting at the time, so kind of doing
16:13
Speaker 4: all that.
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Speaker 3: And then yeah, I ended up. You know, I got
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Speaker 3: I broke my jaw while I was there.
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Speaker 4: Like my first our first practice back in the spring,
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Speaker 4: so that that happened, and then you know, I come back.
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Speaker 4: I actually got got the wires out of my face,
16:27
Speaker 4: you know, a five five weeks mouth wire shot. And
16:30
Speaker 4: then on on the the last day of that I
16:32
Speaker 4: got the wires out. I remember, went and got some.
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Speaker 3: Chick fil A.
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Speaker 4: Couldn't eat it because I was on like liquid diet.
16:39
Speaker 4: I was on linquid diet for five weeks. I was like, oh,
16:41
Speaker 4: this is a great idea, let's just eat Chick fil A.
16:43
Speaker 4: And then I just like couldn't eat it.
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Speaker 3: Got to the yard. I started that game that day
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Speaker 3: on the mound pitch that day.
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Speaker 4: But I went from you know, like a ninety five
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Speaker 4: guy to like an eighty eight ninety one guy, and
16:54
Speaker 4: then Covid hits and then ended up, you know, losing
16:58
Speaker 4: the rest of that season kind of doing whatever, and
17:00
Speaker 4: then going to Oklahoma State finally feeling like I'm getting
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Speaker 4: back back on the saddle and feeling good and like,
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Speaker 4: all right, I can be a top five round draft
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Speaker 4: pick here if I just stay healthy. And then sure enough,
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Speaker 4: you know, tear my elbow you know, midway through that
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Speaker 4: year and it gets surgery and all that stuff, and
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Speaker 4: then the Dodgers. Dodgers drafted me in the eleven the
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Speaker 4: eleventh round, which at the time I was upset about.
17:22
Speaker 4: I was like, dang, like, you know, I wanted to
17:24
Speaker 4: be a higher round pick and and and everything. But
17:28
Speaker 4: you know, hindsight is is it's all worked out kind
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Speaker 4: of the way the way I way God wanted to
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Speaker 4: and it's all.
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Speaker 3: You know, everything happened for a reason. I think it
17:36
Speaker 3: all made me stronger.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, the Dodgers drafted me was so obviously one
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Speaker 4: of the greatest things that could have happened, just because
17:42
Speaker 4: you know, they do such a good job with with
17:43
Speaker 4: guys with that are coming off surgery and such a
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Speaker 4: good job with the rehab and everything else. And yeah,
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Speaker 4: thankfully came back and and I was able to have
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Speaker 4: a pretty smooth ride right up up to the top,
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Speaker 4: so hoping to hoping to keep it going.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, that's that's my story.
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Speaker 1: That's a good one.
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Speaker 3: It's a good one.
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Speaker 5: It's a great story. Appreciate you being open, honest, taking
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Speaker 5: some time with us. We want to get some more
18:06
Speaker 5: out of you. We obviously you know you got to
18:08
Speaker 5: get to the ballpark at some point soon. But I
18:10
Speaker 5: have a couple here to try to rapid fire.
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Speaker 4: One.
18:14
Speaker 5: I'll say, I hope Jerry Harrison Junior doesn't hear the
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Speaker 5: golf thing, because he's probably gonna start blowing you up
18:19
Speaker 5: with that.
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Speaker 8: Two.
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Speaker 5: Who has the better swing? Is it William Dill Smith
18:23
Speaker 5: or is it justin insert middle name, Michael Rubleski? Who
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Speaker 5: has the better golf?
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Speaker 4: Swing.
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Speaker 3: I think probably right now, will does. I got down
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Speaker 3: to like almost a scratch, and.
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Speaker 4: Then I've been kind of making some changes trying to
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Speaker 4: improve a little bit, and we're kind of in that
18:40
Speaker 4: like I'm gonna get worse for I get better phase.
18:43
Speaker 4: So I'm swinging it a right now, but not not
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Speaker 4: where I want to be, But yeah, I probably will
18:48
Speaker 4: right now if I guess I've actually I actually haven't
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Speaker 4: gotten to play with him yet because he's kind of
18:52
Speaker 4: had the injury stuff, so we haven't had the chance
18:53
Speaker 4: to get out there. But last year I didn't really
18:56
Speaker 4: bring my clubs much either, so this year it made.
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Speaker 3: It a point.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's also a different animal when you know you're
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Speaker 5: in the bullpen. You don't really have that freedom of
19:04
Speaker 5: every five or six days to know, all right, we're
19:06
Speaker 5: to this course. We're going to go to this course.
19:08
Speaker 5: So now you'll be locked in right the the other
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Speaker 5: part you're you're talking about the you know, obviously getting drafted,
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Speaker 5: the evolution coming up through the Dodger system. I'm always
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Speaker 5: kind of curious, like, who would you say you learned
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Speaker 5: the most from of the many people that make everybody
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Speaker 5: great in the Dodgers system, Who would you say, like
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Speaker 5: a coach maybe a teammate that made you the best
19:32
Speaker 5: version of yourself as you were coming up through the ORC.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's that's pretty that's a pretty hard
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Speaker 4: one because it's like there's there's so many people and
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Speaker 4: so many you know, great coaches and everything in this organization,
19:43
Speaker 4: but kind of two people that come to mine or
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Speaker 4: Rob Hill and David Anderson, those two, you know, really
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Speaker 4: have have you know, David was my pigeon coach in
19:52
Speaker 4: Hi A and then you know, last year he ended
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Speaker 4: up he was in Triple A as well, so I
19:57
Speaker 4: kind of got to to split some time with him
19:59
Speaker 4: and spend a lot of time with him. But he
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Speaker 4: he knows my throw really really well. You know, still
20:05
Speaker 4: kind of ask him questions every now and again. Him
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Speaker 4: and Rob just kind of trying to figure out, you know,
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Speaker 4: certain things like hey, when I was doing this, what
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Speaker 4: was the blah blah blah. So yeah, probably those two
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Speaker 4: and then obviously in the big leagues, you know, Mark
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Speaker 4: and Connor and Bartow they all have have had a
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Speaker 4: super huge impact on me. So yeah, I'd say, if
20:24
Speaker 4: I had to narrow it down, it's probably those all
20:26
Speaker 4: those people right there, but that you can't really put
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Speaker 4: it to one.
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Speaker 3: I think, you know, you could ask me about.
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Speaker 4: Any coach I've had in our system and they've had
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Speaker 4: some sort of impact on me and kind of helped
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Speaker 4: me in some way. So that's kind of the great
20:39
Speaker 4: part about our organization is is those kind of you know,
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Speaker 4: relationships and those people just because they've done a.
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Speaker 3: Great job and they will continue to do a great job.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure, all right, Robo A couple of starts to
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Speaker 2: go at home.
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Speaker 6: David basse Saft launched your twenty twenty six All Star campaigns,
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Speaker 6: so we are here to promote that further. You have
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Speaker 6: pitched fantastically in the first half. It's really been one
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Speaker 6: of the true I mean, there's several success stories, maybe
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Speaker 6: the Los Angeles Dodgers, the whole organization is that way.
21:07
Speaker 6: But to just see you come out and really take
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Speaker 6: this big step forward in your career, it'd be quite
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Speaker 6: an honor. If you were part of Dave Robert's staff
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Speaker 6: in Philadelphia in a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: What would be an All Star mean to you?
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Speaker 4: It'd mean a ton, you know. I it's something you
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Speaker 4: know you dream of as a kid. You know, something
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Speaker 4: when you're playing baseball. You want to be an All Star.
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Speaker 4: You want to be you know, someone that's considered one
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Speaker 4: of the best in the game. And I think, you know,
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Speaker 4: being an All Star would be huge to me. I'd
21:34
Speaker 4: really uh be something that would mean a lot. So hoping,
21:38
Speaker 4: hoping to do enough to get it done. But like
21:41
Speaker 4: I said before, like there's not I can't really you know,
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Speaker 4: control whether I'm selected or not and and all that stuff.
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Speaker 4: So it'd be really cool. But again, it's not something
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Speaker 4: that's like oh if I do. If I do, I'll
21:54
Speaker 4: freak out, and if I don't, I'll be really really sad.
21:56
Speaker 4: It's just kind of one of those things where I
21:58
Speaker 4: trust that, you know, if I can continue to kind
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Speaker 4: of stay on my path and do what I need
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Speaker 4: to do and.
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Speaker 3: Stuff like that will come.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, it's just but super exciting to kind of
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Speaker 4: even be in the in that conversation.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm hoping I can get it done.
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that you're like an officer and
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Speaker 1: a gentleman. I realize you're way too young to know
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Speaker 1: the movie, but you're so poised you wanted to be
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Speaker 1: an engineer if you didn't have any athletic talent, But
22:22
Speaker 1: here you are you do have athletic talent. Timothy shallomey
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Speaker 1: Oscar Award winning dude. But I also know that you
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Speaker 1: have the dog in you because when the Dodgers were
22:31
Speaker 1: in Toronto, there was a different justin Rubleski that had
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Speaker 1: them wall and on the mound, And I love that
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Speaker 1: about you. So how many personalities do you have? And
22:40
Speaker 1: tell us about that world series and just kind of
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Speaker 1: what goes through your mind, what happens to your DNA
22:46
Speaker 1: when you're in a moment like that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know, that's kind of something you
22:50
Speaker 4: have to That's also part of your development, figuring out,
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Speaker 4: you know, where you need to be on that kind
22:55
Speaker 4: of you know, mental mental scale in order to pitch well.
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Speaker 4: And as you guys obviously can tell, I need to
23:02
Speaker 4: be a little bit more revved up than uh, than
23:04
Speaker 4: than calm. I think, you know, Yosh is a guy
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Speaker 4: that needs to be a little calmer to kind of
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Speaker 4: pitch well, and I'm kind of the opposite of that.
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Speaker 4: So you kind of figure out who you are, and
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Speaker 4: it takes time. It takes you know, trial and error,
23:17
Speaker 4: it takes you know, sometimes you can be a little
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Speaker 4: too much. Sometimes you too, like not enough, so that's
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Speaker 4: part of it. But yeah, I think you know in
23:25
Speaker 4: those spots, and that's I'm just not a guy that's
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Speaker 4: ever gonna back down. I'm not, you know. When I'm
23:30
Speaker 4: out there, it's it's not I don't know there, it's
23:34
Speaker 4: a different guy. That's that's what I'll say. I think,
23:37
Speaker 4: you know, when I'm pitching, it's it's a different guy
23:39
Speaker 4: than than every day.
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Speaker 3: And I think, you know, you kind of have to
23:42
Speaker 3: be that way to to.
23:43
Speaker 4: Perform at a high level because obviously, if if I
23:46
Speaker 4: was that way in my normal life, I don't think
23:47
Speaker 4: a lot of people would like me. So you got
23:50
Speaker 4: to learn to turn it on and off. But that's
23:52
Speaker 4: that's kind of who I have to be when I'm
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Speaker 4: out there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm nothing if not a hard hitting journalist here,
23:57
Speaker 5: I'm not. But the question I would have to follow
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Speaker 5: that if if one hundred is replacement level, what was
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Speaker 5: your ex dog during that world series? And what's your
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Speaker 5: ex dog now?
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Speaker 3: Replacement level? I don't know, I don't see. Here's the thing.
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Speaker 3: Here's the thing. I don't live in an expected world.
24:17
Speaker 3: I live in a real world. So I'd like to
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Speaker 3: just use dog.
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Speaker 4: So you know, if I lived in an expected world,
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Speaker 4: everyone says that I wouldn't be very good sou But no,
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Speaker 4: in the real world, I'd say, you know, maybe.
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Speaker 3: I'd say, what's what's what's the standard deviation?
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Speaker 4: Like, what is it ten on the deviation? Maybe maybe two?
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Speaker 4: Maybe two dogs? Two dogs above replacement. That's that's I'm
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Speaker 4: trying to be at. That's that's where I liked to
24:46
Speaker 4: be at.
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Speaker 5: You know, I saw I saw m VP levels of
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Speaker 5: dog in that World series.
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Speaker 3: It's bare minimum.
24:52
Speaker 5: Man, We're talking like like a one eighty maybe weighted
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Speaker 5: runs weighted dog created. Plus I don't know, I'm making
24:58
Speaker 5: this as we go.
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Speaker 4: There's there's so many stats now that, like you know,
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Speaker 4: you can you can say anything.
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Speaker 3: And someone will believe it's a stat so it's really true.
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Speaker 3: Woo send us off.
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Speaker 6: All right, Well, Robo, I know you got to get going.
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Speaker 6: We have a first of three out in Sack. But
25:15
Speaker 6: hopefully you get to golf after a solid start tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: There actually are some good golf courses around the Sacramento
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Speaker 6: But no, thank you so much for the time.
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Speaker 2: It has been wonderful getting to know you a little
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Speaker 2: bit more. And with this interview.
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Speaker 6: Not only are you number one on the Dodgers Beat rankings,
25:29
Speaker 6: you're number one on Dodgers podcasters too, So keep up
25:31
Speaker 6: the good work.
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Speaker 2: We'll see you later. Things against the Time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, thank you guys,