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Phillies slugger Otto Kemp's undrafted path to MLB, Bunt play FTW · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be pissed that you didn't like his thurn
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  Speaker 1: inting hot dogs that he has out there in the
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  Speaker 1: spread table.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's not that I didn't like it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say there's a little bit more money that
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  Speaker 3: can be spent on some food up here.
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  Speaker 4: Auto Camp joining us right now on Foul Territory at
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  Speaker 4: the Ballpark. Love It otto great to have you on.
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  Speaker 4: Congrats on the call up to the show. How's the
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  Speaker 4: week going for you?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: It's been good, it's been this is what you live for, man,
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  Speaker 3: it's been a really cool week.
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  Speaker 2: It's been chaotic, but I wouldn't want it any other way.
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  Speaker 4: I can see Krats getting emotional because there's a guy
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  Speaker 4: on the box and the screen right above you who
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  Speaker 4: definitely knows what it's like to wait for your turn
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  Speaker 4: and to not get all of the attention.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Krats, tell him what you experienced.
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  Speaker 1: I can see everybody, everybody from Point Loma is always
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  Speaker 1: going to make the big leagues. Okay, that's it. Like
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  Speaker 1: nobody even like for me, obviously, Auto Congrats. I texted
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  Speaker 1: you congrats, actually talked before when you were in when
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  Speaker 1: you were under the tutelage of the great Adam Lynde.
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  Speaker 2: You remember you remember that como?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Last year, I remember it. It was almost a year ago
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  Speaker 3: from now. Yeah, yep, yeah, And I remember we got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of similarities.
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  Speaker 2: There, yep.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're obviously way more athletic, and I took
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  Speaker 1: till I was thirty to make the big leagues. But
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  Speaker 1: what was the big What was the big change for you?
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  Speaker 1: Because you went from an undrafted free agent in twenty
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  Speaker 1: two to less than three years now you're in the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues and you were smashing in Triple A. You
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  Speaker 1: crushed it ever since the day we talked, like, I've
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  Speaker 1: been paying attention and I'm like, wow, like this dude's
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it. What was the biggest change for you
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  Speaker 1: to be able to say, Okay, now I can go
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  Speaker 1: and succeed in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I think it. I think it took
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  Speaker 2: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Coming from Division two school, you don't really face like
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  Speaker 3: your your Friday Saturday guys aren't the same as the
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  Speaker 3: Division one Friday Saturday guys. And I only got one
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  Speaker 3: year summer ball in while I was playing in college,
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  Speaker 3: so I didn't really know exactly what that competition looked
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  Speaker 3: like for your Friday night SEC guys or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the biggest thing was just kind of
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  Speaker 3: catching up on like mentally catching up to know that
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  Speaker 3: I can, I can succeed against those guys. It is
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  Speaker 3: a tick faster, but I think once I learned that,
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  Speaker 3: like I can just be myself and try and get
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  Speaker 3: to get to just be myself on the field, but
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  Speaker 3: also slow it down a little bit. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: once I slowed down and kind of made it a
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  Speaker 3: thing to just try and be the same person I've
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  Speaker 3: been my whole life, that's kind of when it just
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  Speaker 3: started to click a little bit more on high A
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  Speaker 3: last year. Obviously, I had Lindy with me helping me,
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  Speaker 3: and he's just really good at helping me keep things simple.
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  Speaker 3: So that's kind of just like just building, you know
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  Speaker 3: how it goes, you build off of you build from
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  Speaker 3: year to year specifically, but from one that just taking
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  Speaker 3: it one day at a time, So I would say
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  Speaker 3: double A last.
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  Speaker 2: Year was when it really clicked a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: We made some swing adjustments, just kind of cut down
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  Speaker 3: some movement a little bit, and then it was like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, now I feel like I.
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  Speaker 2: Can catch up to some heaters.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hitting off speed better than I have been, putting
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  Speaker 3: a little bit better swings on the ball, hitting it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit harder. So then it was like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: now I got myself, I got the swing that I
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  Speaker 3: believe in, and now we go and now we compete.
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  Speaker 3: So once that kind of clicked is when and everything
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  Speaker 3: kind of started to fall into place, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I assume Anthony contreres Ac, your manager in TRIPAA, was
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  Speaker 1: the one that told you when you got called up,
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  Speaker 1: who was the first person you called?
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  Speaker 3: I called my parents first first person they called. My
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  Speaker 3: wife was with me. Ac came to the hotel with
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  Speaker 3: Lindy and Tank and so we all got to have
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  Speaker 3: a moment together to celebrate and obviously say thank you
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  Speaker 3: to them for all they've done. And then I got
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  Speaker 3: to call my parents, and unfortunately I had to call them.
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  Speaker 3: It was like eleven thirty that night. They're back in California,
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  Speaker 3: so they're on West Coast time, but I had to
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  Speaker 3: call them like four times, so I think they kind
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  Speaker 3: of got the message once I rung him a couple
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  Speaker 3: of times that they needed to answer, which doesn't normally happen.
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  Speaker 3: So I wasn't able to really keep it a secret
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  Speaker 3: from them. I think they knew right when they right
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  Speaker 3: when they picked up. But awesome to celebrate with them.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a long journey to get here, all right.
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  Speaker 6: So you're in Philly. You're in Philly, you got Schwarber, Castillanos, Turner, JT. Wheeler,
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  Speaker 6: Nola's injured. But then Bryce, Bryce isn't there? Is it
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  Speaker 6: different without Bryce around there? And does Bryce pick up
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  Speaker 6: the phone and call you on a daily basis? They
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  Speaker 6: auto this we should be looking for.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we're still He's still here, He's still with us,
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  Speaker 3: He's still okay, he's behind all of us still. So
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been in the lineup with him obviously yet,
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  Speaker 3: but so I don't necessarily know what that's like in
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  Speaker 3: the whole energy with him playing, but having him here
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  Speaker 3: is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He's been super helpful as far is.
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  Speaker 6: He brutal being on it?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes superstars are the worst when they're not playing. Are
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys, like the guys who know him better.
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't know him real well, but are
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys who know him like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: Bryce is brute?
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  Speaker 6: He needs to get in the lineup now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think he would probably classify himself as that,
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  Speaker 3: but I wouldn't say that he's he's a good team
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  Speaker 3: guy when he's when he's back there, he's helping us out.
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  Speaker 3: He's uh, he's good. He's good and observant. He's giving
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  Speaker 3: me some tips thus far, so uh, it's all I
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  Speaker 3: can ask for. He's been super accepting with me, so
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  Speaker 3: grateful for that. But I think he's ready to get
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  Speaker 3: back out there.
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  Speaker 1: Otto, I got a quick question for you. Obviously we
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  Speaker 1: can't stay in the field, but I just saw some
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  Speaker 1: stats go up on the board. Is somebody doing a live,
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  Speaker 1: live atting practice?
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  Speaker 3: Sess here, No one's doing live batting practice, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: show you this is the field.
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  Speaker 1: No, just up on the board. It just it just
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  Speaker 1: clicked back. It's always such a it's always such a
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  Speaker 1: cool view. But it just showed some velo. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: right now behind you, the little the little stat ribbon
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  Speaker 1: showed up, and I thought somebody was doing a I
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  Speaker 1: thought somebody was doing a live like.
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  Speaker 6: It's just cutter eighty nine.
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  Speaker 2: He lives today.
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  Speaker 3: Probably the last pitch of the game last week, where
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days ago what was.
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  Speaker 6: Your first at bat? Like? What was your first at bat? Like?
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  Speaker 1: What was going through your mind? Can you like, can
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  Speaker 1: you recreate in a sense of like, man, I remember
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  Speaker 1: this at bat in summer ball, or like a big
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  Speaker 1: at bat and a certain time, what was your first
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  Speaker 1: big league at bat?
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  Speaker 2: Like first big league at bat?
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  Speaker 3: I would like to say it was a lot more
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't I got. I got done playing about less
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  Speaker 3: than twenty four hours before that, so we were in
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  Speaker 3: Charlotte in North Carolina, so I was able to fly
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  Speaker 3: up and it really felt like I still had the
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  Speaker 3: same feels going from the night before. So I did
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  Speaker 3: take a time out before we had two quick outs.
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  Speaker 3: So it's partially because I wanted to slow it down
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  Speaker 3: for our starter, but also just to take in the moment.
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  Speaker 3: I called the time out. I faced teenie that at bat,
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  Speaker 3: which I grew up in California, so as an Angels
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  Speaker 3: fan growing up, it's pretty cool for that to be
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  Speaker 3: the first at bat. But just called time out, tried
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  Speaker 3: to soak it in for a second and then get
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  Speaker 3: back to competing just right from the beginning and try
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  Speaker 3: not to change anything and just be the same person
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  Speaker 3: that I was that got me here, but it was
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's talk about your bunt. Do you bun
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  Speaker 6: a lot? Did you bun triple a a lot? Did
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  Speaker 6: you bunt? I mean, did you think? Like, man, my
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  Speaker 6: first big moment is the big League would be that
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  Speaker 6: I bunted, and then I forgot that I had to
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  Speaker 6: go touch second base because I was still excited when
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  Speaker 6: the next guy got the hit that I was like,
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  Speaker 6: oh man, I, oh wait, I do have to touch it,
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  Speaker 6: and your teammates are like, otto, go to second Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, fun fact, that was the first month I've
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  Speaker 3: had in pro ball. I grew up, I played in
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  Speaker 3: college in San Diego, so we use it. We bunted
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  Speaker 3: a lot, so luckily, uh luckily, I had some good
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  Speaker 3: practice on that. We do bu every we did bunch
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  Speaker 3: every day on the field, so I'm pretty comfortable with it.
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  Speaker 3: Just haven't pulled it out yet in pro bol. So
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  Speaker 3: that was cool to get that one down. Definitely special,
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  Speaker 3: and I had my college coach in the in the stands,
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  Speaker 3: so it was kind of a circle moment. And then yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that walk off, I just got so excited. Man, this
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  Speaker 3: place is buzzing. This This crowd is awesome. When Marshi
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  Speaker 3: hit that, I was so excited I forgot and luckily
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  Speaker 3: Paco yelling at me from first base.
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  Speaker 2: Go touch second, go touch second.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was a little bit scary once I
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  Speaker 3: heard that, but once we uh, once I got there,
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  Speaker 3: it was just like, this is surreal. This is what
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  Speaker 3: you play for. Such a cool moment, such a cool
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  Speaker 3: home debut.
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  Speaker 6: Would marsh have been mad at you if they would
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  Speaker 6: have picked the ball up tillars the second and got
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  Speaker 6: you forced out and instead of you getting him getting
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  Speaker 6: a hit, he got a field or choice. Would he
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  Speaker 6: have been mad at you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I would have been mad at myself. I
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  Speaker 3: would assume he'd be mad at me too. I think
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  Speaker 3: it should be a double too, But in the scorebuck,
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  Speaker 3: it's still just a not It's just a single.
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  Speaker 2: Not a double.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't even go to second.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get to.
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  Speaker 6: Second, so it can't be a double.
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  Speaker 3: Fair fair, But yeah, it was. That was a mistake
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  Speaker 3: that I won't be making again. Let's just say that
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  Speaker 3: I'll always remember to touch second.
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  Speaker 1: Now, who was the most Who's the most intimidating guy
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  Speaker 1: to come into that clubhouse? And you go cause for me,
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  Speaker 1: you get I got caught when I got caught up
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  Speaker 1: with the Phillies and eleven. I mean I was thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: Like I was a grown man already. I wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: kid like you, but like Roy Hollidays in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: and You're like, I don't know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: ruin that guys that guy's day, who's like where you're
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  Speaker 1: still kind of like, I don't know if he likes me.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, well, Bryce, Bryce would have been my answer,
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  Speaker 3: but he came up to me pretty quickly and just said,
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  Speaker 3: you just said congrats.
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  Speaker 2: And if you need anything, you let me know.
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  Speaker 3: But I would say, also Wheeler Wheeler and Nola Man,
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  Speaker 3: they're pitching some big baseball games. They a lot of
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  Speaker 3: respect for what they've done on the baseball field so
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  Speaker 3: as well, so I would say they're a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more quiet on the other on the quiet side too,
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  Speaker 3: so a little bit harder to crack him. So I
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  Speaker 3: would say, like just knowing that I fun fact, my
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  Speaker 3: first ground ball at cit since Bank, I cut Trey
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  Speaker 3: off to try and go field a high chopper off
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  Speaker 3: the bat and went off my glove. Wheelers on the
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  Speaker 3: mounta and I'm like, gosh, dang, I'm I'm a little
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  Speaker 3: little kid over at first at third base, and Wheelers
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  Speaker 3: probably just shaking his head like, man, what are we
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  Speaker 3: doing here? So that was a little bit of like
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  Speaker 3: the welcome story to uh to Zach. But luckily he
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  Speaker 3: got his thousand career strikeout that day, got to congratulate
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  Speaker 3: him and talked to him a little bit after that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, so there's been there's been some moments as
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  Speaker 3: we go that that have been, oh gosh, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if this guy likes.
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  Speaker 2: Me or not.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, we'll we'll, we'll
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  Speaker 3: move past it. We'll we'll get there as time goes on.
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  Speaker 6: Were you in big league spring training this year? Have
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  Speaker 6: you been in big league so you know the guys,
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's like when you got in the clubs,
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  Speaker 6: they were like, who's this freaking guy we've never heard of?
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  Speaker 6: Like they like, it's this weird guy with the mustache, right, like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to know him as much as he
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  Speaker 2: can during spring training. Yeah. Okay, So then when.
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  Speaker 6: You were buying Wheeler, When you were buying Wheeler and
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  Speaker 6: you made that play, were you just thinking like, man,
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  Speaker 6: if he gives up runs right here. I'm totally going back.
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  Speaker 2: To wester Lee High Valley. I'm totally going back to
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  Speaker 2: the High Valley undred percent. I'm pretty sure I heard.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody say that from the from one of the rows
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  Speaker 3: close to us.
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  Speaker 2: I'm welcome, here we go. I love it. Man keeps
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  Speaker 2: you old accountable.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So I have a question related to Lee High Valley
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  Speaker 4: in the minor leagues in general.
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  Speaker 5: So actually a two parter.
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  Speaker 4: Number one, how different is I guess facing pitching and
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  Speaker 4: just the game itself from the miners to the show,
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  Speaker 4: Because I know you don't have, you know, ten years
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  Speaker 4: ago or whatever to compare it to, but many that
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  Speaker 4: have been around the sport for a while say that
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  Speaker 4: the jump is larger than ever. So that on the
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  Speaker 4: on the gameplay side, and then the second part more
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  Speaker 4: fun is what's the best bougie difference that you experienced
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  Speaker 4: being a big leader that you're personally really enjoying.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I would say, first wise, base baseball, I'd say
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  Speaker 3: everything is just a tick quicker.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think from what I've experienced in Triple A, it.
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  Speaker 3: Seemed like everybody was ninety to ninety five ish and
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  Speaker 3: then here you'll get your obviously occasional ninety five pluses,
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  Speaker 3: but it seems like pretty much everything here is four
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  Speaker 3: to four to eight, four to one hundred, So just
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  Speaker 3: kind of a tick faster.
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  Speaker 2: Guys know how to run.
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  Speaker 3: Hold, pulled runners on better, more experience everywhere around the
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  Speaker 3: diamonds just sharper baseball.
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  Speaker 2: So I would say that's the That's what I've seen.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest difference is not much in the stuff like
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  Speaker 3: the fastballs and whatnot, just a little bit quicker, and
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  Speaker 3: then I would say, bougie difference. It's got to be
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  Speaker 3: the It's got to be the food. The spread is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You get so many resources, so I've been enjoying.
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  Speaker 2: That we're eating good up here. So I've been enjoying
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  Speaker 2: that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, are you throwing shade to Jay
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  Speaker 1: Ross Jason Ross?
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  Speaker 6: Like I mean Jay Ross?
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  Speaker 1: Jay Ross is Canadian, but he still listens to the show,
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  Speaker 1: and he's gonna be pissed that you didn't like his
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  Speaker 1: his third inning hot dogs that he has out there
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  Speaker 1: in the spread table.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's not that I didn't like it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say there's a little bit more money that
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  Speaker 3: can be spent on some food up here.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, I got that. I got that, all right?
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  Speaker 1: What is what is your song gonna be when you
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  Speaker 1: Because you had a big league off day yesterday, but
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  Speaker 1: you haven't been on a big league road trip yet.
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  Speaker 1: So what did you do on your big league off
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  Speaker 1: day yesterday? And when you get on your first big
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  Speaker 1: league road trip? Do you have a song that you're
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  Speaker 1: ready to sing on the bus.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: I've heard about that, I've been warned about that.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Luckily, yesterday we we got to move, Me and my
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: wife got to move, take all of our stuff out
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: of our apartment and move.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: For the day.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: But so that was what we spent our first big
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: league off day doing. We haven't been able to celebrate,
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: but we'll get there. We'll get to We'll get to
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: go out to dinner at some point here soon. But
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: the karaoke song man, me and my wife really liked
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: the song. Shoot, I don't know what, I don't know
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: who the artist is, but we've been trying.
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: To Pepper, Salt and pepper, come on, I mean I
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: might listen, come on that one before your time, before
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: your time, But listen, salt and pepper with it A
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: pie and pepper. Hey, salt and pepper go. Yeah, let's god,
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: your wife's not gonna be on the bus.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be No, she's not.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: But but we we've been practicing, we've we've been waiting
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: for this moment.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Do you know when that song came out?
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: That's like that was before. By the way, I have
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: to admit you have the best birthday I've ever seen. Nine. Yeah,
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: she came back. Sett I hope it like nine oh
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: nine or nine. It can't be nine ninety nine, so
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: it would be like nine nine nine.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Come on nine o nine, so we better be number nine.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Now Bobby's wearing number nine, so I'm gonna have to
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: figure out n.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: Nine.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Wait, so you were born nine nine ninety nine and
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: you were born at nine o nine.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, that is crazy.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: That's awesome. That's like my daughter is nine five oh
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: five and she was born at nine oh five.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's good.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: It's not as good as the nine nine ninety nine.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: He's all nine.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: He needs to be You need to be like zero
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: nine ninety nine something. Figure Bob till Bobby kick rocks. Dude,
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: you weren't born on nine nine.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: He just wants me to pay.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: He's rich.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Tell him, yeah, he's richer than you. That's not fair.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: Hopefully go zero, shed goes zero nine zero nine. Now
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: we don't have to pay.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: That's allowed.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, fellow payment plan. If you stay in the banks
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: for X amount of time, you're happy to, you know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: get him a lot or take him to dinner.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: I'll let you get to arbitration first. Yeah.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Every nine days I'm here, Bobby, I'll give you nine
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: more dollars.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, dollar a day.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I got a question for you, Bobby Dickerson. We're just
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: talking about him and infield coaching stuff, like he's he's
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: a very unheralded guru of infield. I feel like other
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: infield coaches like put their stuff out there. Bobby's very
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: much about you know, like bury your head in there
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: all the stuff. Do you feel like he was able
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: to teach you anything or do you feel like it's
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: all like coming together like super tough. Like I'm a
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: third baseman. I don't want to play first because Bryce
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: is gonna come back and then he's gonna want to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: play first. Like is there stuff that Bobby worked with
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you that was like, oh man, it's so much easier
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: or is it just like drinking from a fire hose.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I would say at first it felt a little bit
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: like drinking from a fire hose. But we got a
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: little bit of time. I got out to Florida a
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: little bit early, so I got to work with him
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: during spring training and so we kind of had a
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: good foundation for the year. So at first there was
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: a lot of info, but especially with bouncing around from
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: position to position. But now that we've kind of had
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: a couple months to work through some of that stuff
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: and and talk through it, it's it. It actually has
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: simplified the game a lot more for me. He's really
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: big on just catching the ball, catch it and throw
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: it to your buddy, So it has really with me
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: playing a couple of different positions, it has simplified it
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: for me in a sense. He's been able to help
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: me with some good stuff with like just having routines
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: for certain positions and what I need to do to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: get myself ready to play first, second, third, left, whatever
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: So he's been super helpful with that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I would say it was a little bit drinking out
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: of a fire hose at first, but he's good at
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: sticking with you and uh, just kind of grinding through
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: that stuff. It's just a little bit different, of a
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: little bit different a.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Thought trying to get me to slow down just a
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: So I love that. I love that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: By the way, you have another teammate in Taiwan Walker.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: He's got ninety nine, so you could you couldn't.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Zero nine is words out. I'm telling you zero nine.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Tell me you don't have to ask anybody's number, You
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: don't have to pay anybody just to zero. Just go
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: the go to the clubhouse guy today and say, I
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: don't know.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Not aloud, why yes he is?
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Why zero nine?
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Why not?
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Who has zero nine?
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Someone had double zero, didn't they?
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: But I don't know. I don't think you can put
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: a zero in front.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Of nine nine. But if he went nine nine nine,
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: that'd be awesome.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: But I don't know, I don't I think it will
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: probably tell.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: You a lot that way.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: He's like my birthday, a little more dirt and his
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: spikes and then then he'll just.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: My problem is is if you wait too long and
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: then you blow up, then MLB won't let you switch
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: numbers because they'll say, oh, you got to buy all
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: the camp jerseys running around, right, So that's that's why
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: you got it. You gotta start at young.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, wait, last time. I know we hung up
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: on this at the finish line. But did you wear
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: nine in the minors?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I wore it on a couple. I wore it on
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: in clear Water, low wagay, But that was it. Yeah,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: that was it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: So I feel like that number nine nine. Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I tried to stick with like multiples of nine, but
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: it's just not the same.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: So no, unless it's nine hundred and ninety nine, that's
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: a multiple nine or zero ninety nine.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: But if you put zero plus nine, these are just
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: not realistic things.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It's nobody's tried it yet.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: How do we know they're not allowed? No one's tried
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: it yet. I just the NFL just switched all their
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: numbers where quarterbacks can wear ninety n I'm true, So
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: why can't baseball do?
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: That's something you would do? You know?
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Ten years into the show, I feel like Otto is gonna,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: you know, play out the season and then we'll talk.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to save him money. Trying to save him
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Money's true.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I appreciate it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Well, Ada, awesome story.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: We looked back, so we we were at the Jersey
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Shore Game on May thirty, first for the Blue Cloths.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: So it's been almost exactly a year. Really cool to
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: talk to you in this moment. Keep doing your thing.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: We're watching, we're excited, we're rooting for you. And thanks
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: for stopping by.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you, guys, thanks for having me.