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Brian McCann talks Big Dumper, Shift sucks, HOF catcher shade · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got seven time All Star and viral eagle
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  Speaker 1: Man at the pro Brian mccannon with us right now,
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  Speaker 1: so on TV's across the country and on YouTube, all
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  Speaker 1: over all of our platforms. For one minute, we were like,
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  Speaker 1: let's just turn around and look at one shot.
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  Speaker 2: The only shot we honestly, the one shot we looked
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  Speaker 2: at all day.
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  Speaker 3: I heard you, I was, I was teeing off and
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  Speaker 3: heard you said, let's see what be back? That was
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  Speaker 3: on eighteen and I bladed it. I didn't hit the
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  Speaker 3: shot I was. I was looking to him and I
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  Speaker 3: thought I was long, and then I must have. I
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  Speaker 3: called it a groove, a groove low, and I got
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  Speaker 3: lucky there.
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  Speaker 1: Were you were you like, oh man, eight day is annoying,
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  Speaker 1: and now I gotta hit this. It's in my head clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it was, it worked exactly. Devil on your shoulder
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  Speaker 1: was a positive vibe.
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  Speaker 3: I was looking to put it on the green and
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  Speaker 3: two putt. These greens are no joke fast, yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: you got to no down grain into the grain. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know any of that. So like I'm putting blonde.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: At the country clubs, you guys play in Atlanta with
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  Speaker 5: frenchie hero.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have they don't have grain. They have a
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  Speaker 2: butler that comes out and makes the green all the time. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: poor me. Yeah, what was you?
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  Speaker 4: B Mac and Jeff Frankcore putting to their heart's delight.
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  Speaker 4: They love it. Jeff, can you come out and play? No,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna stay inside and play my xbox.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't played with Jeff and and in two month
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  Speaker 3: three months.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's been at thirty eight the whole time in
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  Speaker 5: his problem beach house in Pensacola.
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  Speaker 3: He's got he's got four kids under twelve. He's he's
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  Speaker 3: running around.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: So how's life for you?
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 6: What are you up to?
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  Speaker 3: Playing a lot of golf? YEP, I could tell yeah,
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  Speaker 3: coaching my kids. I got a son and a daughter.
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  Speaker 3: My daughter does cheer, so I'm going to practice and uh,
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  Speaker 3: baseball ended, and now my son's into basketball, so we
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  Speaker 3: flip flipped h between baseball and basketball. I coached the
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  Speaker 3: baseball team, so it's Uh, I'm enjoying retirement.
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  Speaker 5: You have to go to the cheerleading events because people
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  Speaker 5: that I know that have had daughters that have been cheerleaders. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so you go to the cheerlead event all day for
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  Speaker 5: three minutes.
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  Speaker 2: You just sit there.
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  Speaker 5: You sit there from eight am to eight pm and
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  Speaker 5: they do three minutes like one pm, and then you
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  Speaker 5: have to stay.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, what do you do to kill time?
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  Speaker 3: Sit in my car?
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  Speaker 6: You're like, what, what's what's the kill time for? Brian Mcan?
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  Speaker 1: Is it like just doom scrolling on the phone, listen
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  Speaker 1: to a podcast, rip music, Take a nap.
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  Speaker 3: I take take a nap. I take my sprinter van.
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  Speaker 3: So we went to five locations outside of our city,
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  Speaker 3: Like we went to Louisville, Kentucky, Biloxi, Orlando, and I
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  Speaker 3: get in the sprinter van and take a nap in between.
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  Speaker 3: But it's it's crazy. I mean, it's a it's a huge,
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  Speaker 3: huge business. I didn't know it existed.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, uh are you watching ball? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Do you hear it from Braves fans? Like what's going
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  Speaker 6: on this year?
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  Speaker 3: They got hit with the injury bugger really and and
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  Speaker 3: and they've had some guys go down in big, big
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  Speaker 3: spots and they just haven't really been able to to
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  Speaker 3: to stay consistent or get consistent.
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  Speaker 6: I've got one for you.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been on some radio shows in Atlanta and
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  Speaker 1: one time I guess I've some fans off because I'm
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  Speaker 1: like Braves fans, you're jaded lately. The teams in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs every year. You keep your players for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: Freddy's different story, but you've kept a lot of your players.
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  Speaker 1: You won a World Series in the last five years. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they most fans would take that.
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  Speaker 3: But they have a great core stuff to build off of.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they you know, Michael Harris has gotten really hot.
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  Speaker 3: That gives them an extra bat to lengthen it out.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's kind of what they've been missing, is
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  Speaker 3: a couple of bats to lengthen the lineup out where Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you got to have production from the bottom
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  Speaker 3: of your order.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 3: You can't rely on the same two or three four
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  Speaker 3: guys every night.
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  Speaker 2: Snick coming back, you play, you play, and both. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He was my double a manager and he's the one
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  Speaker 3: that told me I was getting called up, and he
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  Speaker 3: he told me to come to his room. And when
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  Speaker 3: when I was getting called up, no shirt on, Harry
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  Speaker 3: Chess and He's like, get over here, hug, just some
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  Speaker 3: just some shorts on. So it was like that's a
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  Speaker 3: memory that I that I take. I'll take to the
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  Speaker 3: grave and you know, you get the biggest news of
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  Speaker 3: your life from one of the best guys I know.
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  Speaker 2: So he's my favorite.
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  Speaker 6: That's cool. Have you been watching cal Riley this year?
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: What the fifty, bro, he's got fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even wrap my head around it.
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  Speaker 2: And he you know, you had a lot of homers,
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  Speaker 2: but fifties way more.
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  Speaker 3: I hit twenty two. He's I mean, this is like
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  Speaker 3: he had that in April or May like it was.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy what he's doing. I went to the All
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  Speaker 3: Star homer in Derby and he is so in sync.
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  Speaker 3: His whole body is just working perfectly together and like
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  Speaker 3: he's not missing. I can't fathom it. You ever do
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  Speaker 3: you fathom it?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I know, fifty homers plus homers as a
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  Speaker 5: catchers because most of the time, first of all, catchers
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  Speaker 5: don't get that many of beasts to get to fifty,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he has d h a little bit, but
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  Speaker 5: to hit fifty in whatever, one hundred, he's hitting a
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  Speaker 5: homer in like almost every other game.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Especially I told someone like, I'm anxious to see August
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  Speaker 3: in September because that's no I know, that's the crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's when August like fifteenth would come around,
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, uhh, I don't feel the same, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then you just grind down through September.
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  Speaker 5: Look at Will Smith in LA right the last three years,
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  Speaker 5: his second half numbers have just plummeted.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard. It's hard to keep yourself up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeahs do didn't get that get enough credit for how
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  Speaker 3: tough it is to carry a staff.
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  Speaker 2: And I think crowds will agree with us too, because
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  Speaker 2: obviously he called.
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  Speaker 5: But when they do, like the ops plus and the
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  Speaker 5: ops against the whole league, it should just be a catcher,
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  Speaker 5: big staff. For me, I agree, because you can't explain
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  Speaker 5: to people how hard it is what a catcher does
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  Speaker 5: compared to you know, you look out there and in
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  Speaker 5: French he's out there working on his batting stance and
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  Speaker 5: you're a backtor chasing balls around.
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  Speaker 2: Try hoping that you know, you don't have to chase
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  Speaker 2: balls at the backstop the whole time. Hitting came second.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you if you could, if if John Smoltz,
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  Speaker 3: if you couldn't, couldn't work with him, you're not catching
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  Speaker 3: Game one in the playoffs and that, so you had
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that was locked down and then whatever
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  Speaker 3: you got offensively was was a bonus.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but how much is that heat in Atlanta? Bug?
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  Speaker 6: You too?
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  Speaker 4: You talk about August fifteenth. I remember one series in
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  Speaker 4: August we played against you and d Ross. David Ross
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  Speaker 4: was there and he caught the day game and you
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  Speaker 4: caught the previous three games, and I played the night
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  Speaker 4: game and then day game because Choos was out, and
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  Speaker 4: both of you said the same thing. David Roscos he goes,
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  Speaker 4: oh man, he goes, I'm too old to play these
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  Speaker 4: day games. They gotta let that young guy McCann play.
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  Speaker 4: And the night before you go, man, I can't be
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  Speaker 4: playing all these games in a row. It's too hot
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  Speaker 4: down here. So how bad is that?
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  Speaker 3: It was a grind? It was a grind. But when
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  Speaker 3: Dave Ross was there, he was my favorite backup neo
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  Speaker 3: that I ever had. He taught me so much about
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  Speaker 3: the game and we hung out late night all the
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  Speaker 3: time and talked about the game and how to maneuver
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  Speaker 3: pitchers through games, and he's one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: it is the Grail, which is the best card in
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  Speaker 1: the pack and worth the most. There are some other
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  Speaker 1: cards that we're chasing, and you can see the entire
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  Speaker 1: lineup so that you know what you're in the running for.
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  Speaker 1: There's the Yamamoto signed card. Now let's open up our
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  Speaker 1: pack and.
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  Speaker 6: See how we do.
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  Speaker 1: We have ourselves a really cool graphic and then a
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Should we sell it
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  Speaker 1: right back to them for sixteen or should we keep it?
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  Speaker 2: You should give it to me, I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Keep good answer, Fine, I will give it to you.
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times we'll bring on a former player
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  Speaker 1: and be like, actually, we just did that recently with
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  Speaker 1: someone like, Oh, do you like the way this rule
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  Speaker 1: is now or this part of the game is now?
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  Speaker 6: Can't shift anymore? I go, do you watch baseball now?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 6: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: I mean my average went from two eighty five to
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  Speaker 3: two forty two thirty five quick And then it was
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  Speaker 3: hard to change your what you've done your whole life
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  Speaker 3: and the cutter. I felt like I had to cover
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  Speaker 3: that first and I couldn't go the other way with it.
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  Speaker 3: And if I had that approach, I was going to
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  Speaker 3: hit twelve to fifteen home runs. Chipper pulled me in
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  Speaker 3: his room one night and goes, hey, look what type
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  Speaker 3: of hitter do you want to be? You want to
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  Speaker 3: try to hit three hundred with fifteen or you want
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  Speaker 3: to try to do to eighty with like twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, I'll try to eighty with twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't leave to the opposite field left center.
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  Speaker 3: My best ball would go to the track. So I had
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  Speaker 3: to figure out and I was like, I could take
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  Speaker 3: that same pitch and pull that for a homer.
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  Speaker 2: So I sacrificed average for power.
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  Speaker 6: They would just create this vacuum.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when that first started, I was not pretty for
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  Speaker 1: the fan experience.
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  Speaker 3: And then in New York it's so short and right
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  Speaker 3: field it looks like there's four out infielders over there,
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  Speaker 3: so there was no there was not many hits over there.
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  Speaker 6: For me, it was crazy.
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  Speaker 4: So would you So do you think Royce Lewis just
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  Speaker 4: said the other day, he was like, ah, I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to I don't want to change mid season because
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  Speaker 4: I'm giving up thirty games of arbitration numbers. And it
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  Speaker 4: was kind of, you know, kind of a moment where
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  Speaker 4: he said the truth, but it was hard to hear
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  Speaker 4: a player say that. Would you have had to have change?
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  Speaker 4: Would you have been able to change if the shift
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  Speaker 4: was implemented early in your career, say year two before
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  Speaker 4: you had a contract.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When I first came up, my first two three years,
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  Speaker 3: I was left center, left center, left center, and my
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  Speaker 3: average was was better. And then as I as I
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  Speaker 3: tried to, you know, leave the Dopps away, it wasn't happening.
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  Speaker 3: And I would have just stayed to left center, and
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  Speaker 3: it probably would I probably would have been a better
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  Speaker 3: player if I would have done that.
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  Speaker 2: I got I got to pool happy.
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  Speaker 3: And if I could go back, I tell people, if
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  Speaker 3: I could go back, I would I would do it.
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  Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman does, I would have hit every ball in
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  Speaker 3: VP and in the cage to left center field and
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  Speaker 3: then try to pull in the game. But it would
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  Speaker 3: have kept my front shoulder tucked in a little better.
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  Speaker 3: But when I was in New York, I was literally
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  Speaker 3: I tried to hit a home run on the upper
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  Speaker 3: deck every every.
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  Speaker 1: Bud in May Right, you get all right, Hey, the
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  Speaker 1: Braves are split and playing time with their catchers pretty evenly.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's the future in the sport? Related
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  Speaker 1: to what you're saying, a lot of guys can't hang
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  Speaker 1: through the whole season, and then the playoff numbers recently
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  Speaker 1: post catchers are brutal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like to see them go back to our
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  Speaker 3: days of one hundred and thirty games. If you're an
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  Speaker 3: elite guy, when you look around the league, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's the position is you know, it's in a good
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  Speaker 3: spot at the top, and it's it's a tough one,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And I think that the framing has become
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  Speaker 3: such a big, a big part of the game, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, so split in time, Like I'd like to
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  Speaker 3: see guys catch catch more. If you're a frontline guy.
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  Speaker 6: Can most of them handle it? Though?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone, So, yeah, you guys did it, but a JD.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're around the clubhouse every week. You think
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  Speaker 1: most guys can handle it and want to.
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  Speaker 5: And most guys haven't been brought up to do it,
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  Speaker 5: right the cross shacking it said, they haven't been brought.
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  Speaker 2: Up to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I think one hundred and twenty twenty games of years
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  Speaker 3: is a good number for for a frontline guy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just hard. Now it's one hundred. Now that
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  Speaker 5: you get you guys can say, oh it's a hundred,
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna get tired.
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  Speaker 3: But I just and if you can really hit now
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  Speaker 3: that now that we didn't have a DH, so like
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  Speaker 3: I was always coming to pinch it on the eighth.
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  Speaker 3: But if they had a if they had a if
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  Speaker 3: we had the d H, I would have probably I
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  Speaker 3: would probably played one hundred and sixty two games, I think,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I would have caught it.
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  Speaker 2: I was, eh, how bad was it?
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  Speaker 5: When was there anything worse than you know? You you
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  Speaker 5: caught a lot, I caught a lot. You'd be losing
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  Speaker 5: and in the manager be like, b Mac, I need
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  Speaker 5: you to come in an eight, try to get it,
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  Speaker 5: and then you got to catch the night.
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  Speaker 2: You're just like, oh whatever.
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  Speaker 6: My day off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it's a mental like when you go
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  Speaker 3: in and you go you know, you don't get the knock.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, all right, They're like, but you got to get.
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  Speaker 3: Your your mind. It's more for your mind. Yeah, all
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  Speaker 3: days are more for like us just sitting back. But
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  Speaker 3: that was David Ross.
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  Speaker 2: He's like that.
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  Speaker 3: He said it all the time. My goal is to
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  Speaker 3: make sure you get a full off day. And he
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  Speaker 3: was the best. He was the best.
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  Speaker 4: I'm impressed that your beard still looks exactly the same
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  Speaker 4: and you haven't put on a pound since you've been
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  Speaker 4: done playing. That's all I have to say. And I've
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  Speaker 4: just been watching. I've just been looking at the screen.
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  Speaker 4: Some people age. You haven't aged a bit. I thought
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  Speaker 4: you looked like you were forty years old when you
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  Speaker 4: were twenty six.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what the crazy part if you go
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  Speaker 3: back and look when I was in New York when
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  Speaker 3: I had to shave, I looked like I was fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: So I got an ace in the hole when I
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  Speaker 3: get older, when this comes off. I look like I'm
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, twenty three. Yeah, you like we get older,
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  Speaker 3: But I got a little gray, I got some gray.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm holder for a while and then you blitz everyone
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  Speaker 1: with the clean shave, like, hey, I just went backwards
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  Speaker 1: ten fifteen years you got.
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  Speaker 3: I got ace in the hole for m Yeah, down
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  Speaker 3: the road.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I got two more questions for you. One
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 5: You were on the ballot last year, right, yeah, how
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  Speaker 5: many votes did you get?
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  Speaker 2: I know he wasn't five us. Yeah, it wasn't enough
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  Speaker 2: to I don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: For a catcher and you played in the same air,
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  Speaker 5: close to the same area, you're a little bit behind me.
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  Speaker 2: But seven All.
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  Speaker 5: Stars, six Silver Sluggers, World Series champion. And this is
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  Speaker 5: kind of a personal thing too. Why are catchers so undervalued?
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  Speaker 5: Like you look at Jorge Basadi, you look at you,
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  Speaker 5: you look at some of the great catchers that we
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  Speaker 5: played against in or around. Yeah, and they get two
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  Speaker 5: percent pen votes, twelve votes? Why why is that a thing?
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  Speaker 5: Why don't they they to me they need to compare
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  Speaker 5: catchers to catchers in every era, right, yes, because they'd say, oh, well,
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: dada da, he didn't do this and his ops plus
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: was this.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: But also you only you played less games.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: You were getting the crap beat out of you behind
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: the play all these things that they look at your
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: wars down, your wars down because you don't play as
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: many games.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for me, I think what we did thirty years
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: down the road is going to look way better than
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: it does now because of what you just said.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: There's not a lot of guys that are playing the games.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: It up the numbers that were put that we put,
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: you know that we were able to put up. So
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: I think down the road, when guys look at the game,
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: I think it'll change the way they look at it.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: But I think right now, uh, you know, you're just
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: in that era of you know, there's not there's how
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: many how many catchers are in the Hall of Fame.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Not many. There's like what, I don't that third basement
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: like yeah.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just it, it doesn't get the uh,
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: I'm with you.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: Every they should all it should all be just compared
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: to us, to the catching position, not not first base.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: And twenty twenty twenty game has been around a long time,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: twenty it's the second fewest third base third base.
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: It's crazy crazy. What was your other one? Oh?
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Mine's on golf? Can I ask a golf question?
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: Okay, First of all, they want to know easier to
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: catch small Tutson Tanaka.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Who was the easiest? See who was the easiest guy?
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: The easiest? Yeah, not the toughest. We can name a
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: million guys are tough.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Out of those, as you just mentioned. I never caught man.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: He never came, never was he was.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: He didn't leave your glove. Yeah, he literally, Like the
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: sinker ballers were tough. The lefties for me were the hardest.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: The cutters in and holding that I don't I did.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: I worked better to the right than the left. So
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: like to hold that cutter, you know, anything coming this way,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: I did well, But anything going that way, like my
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: hiffs didn't work. To block that slider down this way.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Cec was hard for me to catch. But I just
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: those sinker ballers when you don't get that bottom of
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: the zone, you don't stick it, and you get that
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: look and you're like, all right, dude, my bad, I'll
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: get it. But you know, Honey would get that thing.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: He threw a one seamer that just you'd have to
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: get under it and and.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Really really fight. Hey here, I got a question for you.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Do you think if you caught on a knee your
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: whole career you would have played longer?
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I played nineteen. I don't know, I know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: do you think? But I think I think it would
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: have been different. I don't know. If people ask.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Body would have heard him, I think I would have
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: I could have played a couple more years.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: If I probably could have stole a couple more years
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: at the end. Yeah, you know, but I don't know.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You never know. It's easy to say that.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: But also, dude, they're so exposed, Like the lower there's
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: so much more body exposed. Like I always tried to
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: like hide behind my shine guards too, right, I was
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: always like, all right, let me seek it. So I'm
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: trying to hide behind my chest protector, my shine guards,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: so the ball would hit something that was protected.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nowadays everything is out.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: My last year in Atlanta, I work with South Asano
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: all spring training, so like to do the knee. And
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: then I was calling a game in spring training and
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm more worried about my setup than like, yeah,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: getting the reaction of the hitter, and you know, so
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I was just like, I can't do it.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: All right, can you win this thing golf? You make
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the eagle? No, I can't win it. How many points
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: twenty eight? That's good.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I'm looking to get top twenty five. That was my goal,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: top twenty finished with all these great golfers, like, I'll
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: be very happy.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: With how much have you improved? Okay?
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: Because yeah, we played together golf. What it's been almost
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: it had been ten years, but it's been seven or
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: eight years.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: And I played with you and it was yeah, it
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: wasn't great. It wasn't great.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, the big you played, the big high was
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Skippy your cat.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: You remember, Oh yeah?
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: And now now I look and I see you making
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: eagles on eighteen.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: My driver's gotten better every You never hit driver, You
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: always hit three one. I know. So I'm hitting my
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: driver now, that's like my best club in my back.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: I don't hit it far, but I it's I love it.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: My kids go to school and I go, ready, is
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: it true?
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Frenchy told me that you just go as soon as
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: your kids leave. You have a simulator in your house.
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: You just go downstairs and you just hit balls in
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: the simulator all day long.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: No, I go to the court, but yeah, I'm on
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: the simulator when i'm I go on the similar when
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: when I'm struggling, Oh, like when I when I'm but
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I'm at the course a lot.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: Simulator at night, right is that more of a night bench?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: She said, he goes there any anytime he has two minutes.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: B Max down there whacking balls in the simulator.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: I am, oh, that's it's one minute. You can go
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: down there and you.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Can turn it on and let's go exactly.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Well, be Max, thanks for joining us, Thanks for being
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: part of the experience for us here calling one.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I can't, we can't another shot.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: Did you get it on?
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Did you get it on the camera?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we have care. So there was
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: a drone watch.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: There was a drone too. Yeah, there were cameras on you.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: It's almost like you were back in the big leagues,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: like ninth. They didn't clutch moment. Everyone's watching for one
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: second and I worked out I had looked put it
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: together like it's it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I was like, no, it rolled night. It was nice.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: It was nice. One hop little was perfect right right.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It took some time yeah, you didn't think it was
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: going in and then it dropped down.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: It was nice.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I know it was gonna be closed, I just didn't
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: know how closed.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Beautiful, beautiful, Thanks Fratzy, good seeing
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: You, Good seeing you too, Kate,