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Logan O’Hoppe talks Angels cell phone ban & breakout pitchers, Rowdy Tellez on making the M’s · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: I mentioned Jack before kahanowitze. He expects me the most.
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Speaker 1: That sinker is unbelievable and it's pretty similar to sorrianas
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Speaker 1: as well. Sorry, Sinkers, lights out, All.
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Speaker 2: Right, Logan on Hoppy straining us right now, Angels Catcher,
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Speaker 2: we're getting ready for the start of the season. We
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Speaker 2: got to start with this because this topic.
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Speaker 3: Wait what oh wait oh sorry no cell phones? Sorry sorry, Logan, sorry,
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Speaker 3: no cell phones.
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Speaker 4: Tell us about it, dude. How you doing.
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Speaker 1: I'm good, thank you, Good to see you guys. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I figured this is gonna be the first question to
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Speaker 1: come up.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it has to be, right, I mean, come on,
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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I'm getting destroyed by Angel fans online
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Speaker 3: because they hate me, first of all, and second of
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Speaker 3: all just because uh uh you know I beat them,
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Speaker 3: and so they online they're like, you can't speak on
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Speaker 3: the Angels because we all hate you. So I want
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Speaker 3: to hear from you. What's it like, because I've never
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Speaker 3: heard of this in any clubhouse I've ever in crowds.
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Speaker 5: I'm sure I'll agree with me that you know.
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Speaker 3: Teams have said like no, you know, cut the cards
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Speaker 3: out of it a certain time, or cut the video
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Speaker 3: games out at six point fifteen for a seven o'clock game.
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Speaker 3: But I've never heard of a manager come and say, dude,
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Speaker 3: we're taking away his so phones.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, first off, I think yeah, for sure, it came
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Speaker 1: out three weeks later than when it was actually applied
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Speaker 1: the rule, so you guys are all behind on it.
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Speaker 1: We've been loving it. It's been great. It's a decision
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Speaker 1: that we came up with as a group too, and
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Speaker 1: watched is the one that came and delivered the message
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Speaker 1: to us, and I think that's something that was lost
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Speaker 1: in the mix. I mean, we've we've had such good
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Speaker 1: conversation with one another and gotten closer. I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: that's all credit to that rule, but it has been
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Speaker 1: awesome in that clubhouse and we all have gotten tighter.
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Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, I think that this
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Speaker 1: is just another thing to give people to look at
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Speaker 1: the angels and be like, oh, look at what they're
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Speaker 1: doing to roll their eyes. And that's the frustrating part
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Speaker 1: about it, you know, because we are doing the right
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Speaker 1: things in there, and it's been awesome so far, and
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Speaker 1: I know I enjoy my time going to the field
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Speaker 1: and every day that ends up sex, I want to
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Speaker 1: get back and go to the next one.
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Speaker 6: Was there anybody any of the players that you said
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Speaker 6: you did as a group, any of the players who
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Speaker 6: were like, I kind of want to do this because
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Speaker 6: I've been saying it for years that I'd love to
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Speaker 6: have phones out of the clubhouse. They disagreed on the
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Speaker 6: show here, but I just never saw it actually be implemented.
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Speaker 6: So was there anybody that totally was like, I guess
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Speaker 6: it's like, no, I got to check my Instagram followers
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Speaker 6: after every game.
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Speaker 1: There was not one dude that was not on board
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Speaker 1: with it. The rules, we just can't have it in
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Speaker 1: the clubhouse. You want to walk outside and shoot off
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Speaker 1: a text, that's totally fine, even with different things. If
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Speaker 1: you got to shoot off a quick text to a
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Speaker 1: coach or something like, We're not it's not as strict
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Speaker 1: as some people may think.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's just we want to promote conversation and really not
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Speaker 1: just have guys sitting on the phone and we're trying
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Speaker 1: to talk to one another, you know. And and it's
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Speaker 1: been awesome so far. So everyone's been on board, everyone's
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Speaker 1: bought in, and we got a good thing going in
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Speaker 1: that room.
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Speaker 2: How was it before this right in comparison, like from
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Speaker 2: what you've observed, and you you can go back anytime
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Speaker 2: in life, but I mean, you're someone in this age
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Speaker 2: where you've grown up and phones have been such a
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Speaker 2: big part of every life, and not just for phone
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Speaker 2: calls and texts obviously social media side. So can you
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Speaker 2: kind of walk me through your experience with teammates and
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Speaker 2: phones and how it's been either positive or negative depending
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Speaker 2: on you know, how much guys are into their phones.
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Speaker 1: I never noticed an issue with any phones. I do
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Speaker 1: know that this year we're closer than we have been
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Speaker 1: in the past. It's not to say that guys weren't
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Speaker 1: close and didn't hang out and go to dinners in
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Speaker 1: the past, because we did all that, But this year
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Speaker 1: we're just a lot tighter. And it's a lot of
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Speaker 1: fun because it's it's happening so organically, Like it's not
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Speaker 1: just that we put this role in place and now
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden we're closer. That's not it at all.
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Speaker 1: It's it's been really awesome then, a lot better than
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Speaker 1: the years passed as far as how much closer we've
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Speaker 1: all been and enjoy the guys, And I think I
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Speaker 1: could speak for everyone else that we've all enjoyed our
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Speaker 1: time together.
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Speaker 3: I love this. I mean, I know I said it,
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Speaker 3: but I kind of do love this. I love that
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Speaker 3: you guys are trying something different. And the Angels, obviously
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Speaker 3: we know, haven't been the greatest team for lost. You're
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Speaker 3: trying something different, and good for Wash, Good for you
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Speaker 3: guys for doing this. How good can the Angels be?
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Speaker 3: Let's get onto, let's get onto real talk here. How
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Speaker 3: good can the Angels be? How good can the Angels be?
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Speaker 4: In that?
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Speaker 3: In the al West, in the al what's your Where
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Speaker 3: are the Angels going?
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Speaker 1: A huge key in my head is now we have
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Speaker 1: even more guys that have been there and done it.
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Speaker 1: We got Trot, we got Kyle, we have Kenley. Georgie's
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Speaker 1: in there now too. We got so many guys that
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Speaker 1: have been there and done it, and we're constantly asking
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Speaker 1: them what it's like, what it takes. And we talk
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Speaker 1: about where we want to be, but we're not I
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Speaker 1: try to find the right way to describe this. We
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Speaker 1: talk about where we want to be, but we're not
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Speaker 1: so wrapped up and doing that that it takes us
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Speaker 1: out of right now. So we've been doing a good
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Speaker 1: job of controlling the moment and winning day by day
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Speaker 1: and really dominating everything we can. And I know we're
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Speaker 1: excited to get going and play some real games. I
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Speaker 1: know last night in LA it feels like a real
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Speaker 1: game because you're in that environment and these games are
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Speaker 1: sick and it's a good little way to to prep
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Speaker 1: for the year going forward. But we are excited to
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Speaker 1: get to play some meaningful games.
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Speaker 6: Can you pinpoint one thing that you've learned from Travis
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Speaker 6: Darnaut that you were like, I wish I had known
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Speaker 6: that two years ago.
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Speaker 1: That it's okay to let your personality out in professional settings.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a huge lesson, and that's something that
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Speaker 1: I didn't do so well early on in my career.
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Speaker 1: And then, I mean, anyone that knows Trapp knows that
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Speaker 1: he's the same guy on the field off the field
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Speaker 1: in separate conversation. So that's a huge lesson that he's
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Speaker 1: taught me, along with the many that I've learned so far.
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Speaker 1: But I love having them around.
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Speaker 6: Man.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to know has he introduced you to
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Speaker 3: his brother yet? Have you met Chase yet? Because that
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Speaker 3: dude is a bundle of personality. When I played him
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Speaker 3: in Atlanta used to do. He used to do pregame
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Speaker 3: concerts in the center field before he would come play
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Speaker 3: for us, and we're like, listen, Chase, this ain't gonna work.
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Speaker 3: So he had to make a decision between baseball and singing. Okay,
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Speaker 3: So has he introduced you to Chase yet?
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Speaker 1: I have not met Chase yet. I know Travis probably
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Speaker 1: got some family i'd assume coming to the games here
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Speaker 1: at home in the next few weeks. But I met
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Speaker 1: him yet, hope too soon.
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Speaker 2: Can you elaborate on the personality side? So how were
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Speaker 2: you and how do you feel like you will be
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Speaker 2: after learning that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, coming up in the minor leagues especially, I always
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Speaker 1: had a picture of what a perfect big laer looked like,
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Speaker 1: you know, like you want to be this stoic, buttoned
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Speaker 1: up pro and I do like to enjoy myself and
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Speaker 1: have some fun around around guys and excuse me around.
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Speaker 1: But he's back home and whatever it may be. So
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Speaker 1: not chasing that void anymore has really helped. It was
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Speaker 1: super taxing in the years past, now that I can
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Speaker 1: look at it from the outside looking in, But now
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Speaker 1: I just feel like a much much better version of
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Speaker 1: myself and that's the same if I'm home all Long
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Speaker 1: Island in the off season or playing in the middle
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Speaker 1: of June or July. You know, so it's pretty liberating
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Speaker 1: and it's felt pretty good so far.
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Speaker 6: Well, we see a difference, like we in fans or well,
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Speaker 6: just your teammates in the clubhouse, and then when you're
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Speaker 6: out in the field you'll just be but no standard
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Speaker 6: look little happy.
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Speaker 1: No. I don't know the answer to that, to be
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Speaker 1: honest with you, I think it's more internally between my
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Speaker 1: ears that I feel the difference. I don't feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm chasing something I can't catch anymore. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know the perfect answer to that, but I know internally
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Speaker 1: it feels much different, and I've enjoyed the game a
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Speaker 1: lot more because of it.
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Speaker 5: By the way, I gotta be cooursect go's I want to.
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Speaker 3: I gotta say, Logan, you should have played with me
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Speaker 3: because I would have told you to be yourself a
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Speaker 3: long time ago. Be what you are as somebody that
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Speaker 3: was you know, called a lot of names.
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Speaker 5: I was what I was.
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Speaker 3: You know what, That's fine because the world needs a
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Speaker 3: lot of different people in this world to make it
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Speaker 3: go around.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: You have Scott, you have actually have Logan, you have
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Speaker 3: me right we're all different, but it takes us all
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Speaker 3: and especially in a clubhouse, you need different people to
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Speaker 3: make you want to come in there.
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Speaker 5: Every day.
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Speaker 3: You talk about being closer, you know what, So what,
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Speaker 3: You're fine, be yourself. You know you want to flip
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Speaker 3: your bat on a home run, flip your bat? You
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Speaker 3: want to you want to run around the bases, you know,
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Speaker 3: like Mike Trout and try to do everything perfect because
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Speaker 3: he's unbelievable and he's perfect in everything. Right, be Mike Trout,
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Speaker 3: But he's Mike Trout. I'm not Mike Trout. I can't
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Speaker 3: play like him. He's way better than I ever was.
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Speaker 3: So I agree, be yourself, enjoy it, and then have
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Speaker 3: the best time because you only get to do this
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Speaker 3: for a short time. So if you walk away and
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Speaker 3: you say, man, I wish I would have had more fun,
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Speaker 3: You're gonna look back.
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Speaker 5: And say, oh, what did I miss? I don't do
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Speaker 5: that always. I'm gonna take you.
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Speaker 3: Give you his advice when you walk away whenever that
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Speaker 3: day is just make sure you had the best time
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Speaker 3: you could ever have, because you only get you're gonna
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Speaker 3: be They say this all the time. I know the
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Speaker 3: Players Association being around Tony Clark's line, I'm gonna steal it.
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Speaker 3: You're you're an ex player a lot longer than you
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Speaker 3: are a current player. So for those whatever years you're playing, dude, enjoy,
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Speaker 3: enjoy the crap out of it, and be yourself. Well,
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Speaker 3: you know what, if people get mad, screw them for yourself,
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Speaker 3: because you know what, someone else will like what you're saying,
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Speaker 3: So who cares.
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Speaker 1: No doubt. I appreciate that. I've had a lot of
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Speaker 1: coaches tell me things like that in years past, and
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Speaker 1: I always thought I was doing it, you know, and
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Speaker 1: then we go back to trav I saw how Trapp
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Speaker 1: did and I was like, all right, that's what that
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Speaker 1: looks like. So I appreciate that and definitely gonna keep
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Speaker 1: working on that going forward.
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Speaker 2: Let's get into your pitching staff. Tell me what you like,
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Speaker 2: what have you seen? Maybe if you want to focus
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Speaker 2: on a guy or two that you've worked a lot
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Speaker 2: with or who looks different, or someone new that's entering
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Speaker 2: the mix here, what do you got?
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Speaker 4: What are you catching?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's awesome. It's such a mixed bag too,
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Speaker 1: you know, like we don't we have a lot of
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Speaker 1: guys that aren't the same you know, tis the crafty lefty,
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Speaker 1: and Kyle has been doing it on the right side forever.
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Speaker 1: And then he got Soriano and Jack that I'm just
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Speaker 1: throwing bowling balls, you know, and then everybody in the
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Speaker 1: bullpen too. It's it's just such a mixed bag and
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Speaker 1: it's so fun to work with them. I mentioned Jack
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Speaker 1: before Kahanowitz. He excites me the most. That sinker is
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Speaker 1: unbelievable and it's pretty similar to Soriano's as well. Sorry
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Speaker 1: sinkers lights out. I mean he showed that last night
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Speaker 1: against the Daughters early. But yeah, Jack excites me because
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Speaker 1: he goes about his work the right way and he's
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Speaker 1: so into it, and he's and he's really excited to
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Speaker 1: be here and and dominate. So looking forward to catching
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Speaker 1: him a ton.
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Speaker 6: One more exhibition game, two more, two more exhibition games.
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Speaker 6: How are you gonna figure out how to catch you
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Speaker 6: and Anderson? Like the guy just got there? Is that
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Speaker 6: a process that is tough to do for a catcher,
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Speaker 6: especially starting catcher. Backups can go I'll just go down
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Speaker 6: there and you know, warm them up a couple of games,
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Speaker 6: and then you figure it out.
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Speaker 1: I got an easy cop out to this question. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna lean on trave again. Tray worked one in Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna pick Trams Brandon and then go
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Speaker 1: about it that way.
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Speaker 7: That's good.
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Speaker 5: That's a smart See, this is a smart guy's Long
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Speaker 5: Island guys. Yes, Long Island guys are smart crad we know,
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Speaker 5: we know what we're doing.
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Speaker 6: We know what we're doing Long Island. Don't do that
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Speaker 6: to his town. Don't take me, don't don't nap. Don't
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Speaker 6: kidnap Chicago, don't kidnap Long Island. You're an old guy. Okay.
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Speaker 6: You live in the landlocked area of Orlando. You don't
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Speaker 6: have a beach. You have that is the only place
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Speaker 6: that you can claim. Okay, that is it? Not his
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Speaker 6: Strong Island?
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Speaker 3: Continue with he goes Okay, by the way, uh, we
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Speaker 3: have Sea World in Universal too.
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Speaker 5: Don't forget those. Uh but logan, what was the guy's name?
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Speaker 6: He said?
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Speaker 5: What was his name? Say his name? The sinker guy.
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Speaker 6: Jack?
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Speaker 1: So his last name my butcher all the time. A
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Speaker 1: man just said it wrong too, Kah.
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Speaker 5: What is it? Oh? So he got a good pole. See,
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Speaker 5: we got a good Polish guy there.
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Speaker 6: See.
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Speaker 5: So he's gonna be good.
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Speaker 3: I know he's I don't even know what he throws,
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Speaker 3: but I know he's gonna be good because he's a polllock,
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Speaker 3: so he's definitely gonna be good. But you talk about personalities,
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's some white Sox dudes on there. T
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Speaker 3: A has a personality, Mankatta has a personality, Solaire has
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Speaker 3: a personality.
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Speaker 5: Where hell these guys.
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Speaker 3: Fit in spring training so far this year.
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Speaker 1: They've been awesome. They fitting great. Tha has been so
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Speaker 1: much fun to be around. He's got a smile in
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Speaker 1: his space every day and he works his butt off.
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Speaker 1: And same thing with Yo Mancatta. He's been great having
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Speaker 1: him around. Two these guys work hard. Man and then Claire.
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Speaker 1: I mean, anyone watches him, Hey, you just kind of
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Speaker 1: stop what you're doing and watch, and if you got
13:29
Speaker 1: to ear plugs around you put him in. But those
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Speaker 1: two guys are unbelievable. They fit in perfect and it's
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Speaker 1: been a joy coming to the park with them and
13:38
Speaker 1: excited again to play some meaningful games with them in
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Speaker 1: the next couple weeks.
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Speaker 6: All right, tell us last night, tell us what it
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Speaker 6: was like to see your teammate be the bat boy
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Speaker 6: and call a dinger. I mean, he kinda he kind
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Speaker 6: of got trout pumped up there, but he actually he
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Speaker 6: said it some or maybe you said after I was
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Speaker 6: watching the video, he said, you kind of look like
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Speaker 6: a bat boy.
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Speaker 1: That's my guy, man, that is my guy. It was awesome.
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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't remember that he was doing it
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Speaker 1: that day. So I went to tap him up and
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Speaker 1: I was like, like, what clubhouse guy is this? And
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Speaker 1: I looked a little closer. He's winning a sunglass. So
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Speaker 1: I was like, get out of here. This is unbelievable.
14:17
Speaker 1: So I milked it as much as I could, for sure,
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Speaker 1: But that's my guy, man, and I love Zach.
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Speaker 6: Hey.
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Speaker 3: By the way, you guys really want to get him.
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Speaker 3: You should have made him go on the road to
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Speaker 3: do it. You should have made him go like to
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Speaker 3: surprise because I get home like, ah, I probably gotta stay.
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Speaker 5: For Do you have to do the whole game? Or
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Speaker 5: do you only do like five innings and have to quit?
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Speaker 1: He went until I think when Mike was done, because
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Speaker 1: Mike was the one that put that rule in. I'm
14:43
Speaker 1: not sure entirely. I wasn't in on the fantasy football.
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Speaker 1: I know it's probably another topic of conversation another day,
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Speaker 1: but but yeah, as far as I know, that was
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Speaker 1: the rule. But I'm sure Mikey will come up with
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Speaker 1: something or maybe even netto Will if he wins next year.
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Speaker 1: Who's to say.
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Speaker 6: I think it was a college football bet. It was
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Speaker 6: a college football bet. Do you have any idea what
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Speaker 6: what Mike was gonna have to pay if he won it?
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Speaker 6: Because I know Mike's not being a bad boy. Maybe
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Speaker 6: Mike's got an extra cash that he was going to
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Speaker 6: give out.
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Speaker 1: I think you know what, You're right on it. It
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Speaker 1: was college football. That's how out of the football talks
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Speaker 1: in the clubhouse I am. There was a college football
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Speaker 1: bet with Miami, and I know I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: give details, but I know that Mike did have to
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Speaker 1: pay a little bit to Zach if he had won.
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Speaker 1: But Mike never loses bets, and it drives everyone crazy,
15:31
Speaker 1: Like I. I mean, I've been on other sports, obviously,
15:35
Speaker 1: we'll put that out there, other sports with Mike and
15:39
Speaker 1: and it's never worked out well for me, and I
15:41
Speaker 1: don't know if I'll be doing it much again in
15:43
Speaker 1: the future.
15:43
Speaker 3: So they're friendly wagers. They're friendly wagers on things that
15:48
Speaker 3: are not baseball related, and it's all fun. It's no money,
15:52
Speaker 3: excuge a hands, just being bad boy or you know,
15:54
Speaker 3: buying dinner or whatever it is. It's fine, we all
15:57
Speaker 3: did it. Listen, it's coming from the guy. I once
15:59
Speaker 3: put a hundred dollars in a guy's locker I to
16:01
Speaker 3: him via a homer off. The might put one hundred
16:02
Speaker 3: dollars a lot.
16:03
Speaker 6: I don't care.
16:03
Speaker 5: Whatever, It's fine. We all do these things, okay, especially
16:06
Speaker 5: in spring training.
16:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you guys know that the season is
16:10
Speaker 1: long enough where the last thing you want to add
16:12
Speaker 1: to your plate is more baseball. So we're going to
16:15
Speaker 1: hockey or whatever it else it may be. But uh,
16:18
Speaker 1: but yeah, we have a good time in there.
16:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would bet if I'm betting with Mike Trout
16:22
Speaker 6: right now, Like, I'll do this if I lose, you
16:26
Speaker 6: have to give me a membership to your course. If
16:29
Speaker 6: if you lose, I mean that's that's like the go too, sorry, Mike,
16:32
Speaker 6: Like you don't have a course and expect baseball players
16:34
Speaker 6: who get everything for free to not one on it
16:38
Speaker 6: just just it.
16:40
Speaker 1: That course is sick.
16:41
Speaker 7: By the way.
16:41
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have seen pictures or
16:43
Speaker 1: been down, but wah, yeah, it's sick.
16:46
Speaker 3: All right, Logan, when are else Long Island guys going?
16:48
Speaker 3: When are we gonna go? When's it open so I
16:50
Speaker 3: can get in? Just call you?
16:51
Speaker 1: I mean, damn hopefully when I beat the dude in
16:53
Speaker 1: fantasy football, then maybe we'll get around there. But sure
16:57
Speaker 1: we'll be down there sooner rather than later.
17:00
Speaker 2: There you go, well, Logan, awesome to catch up. Next
17:03
Speaker 2: time we talk to you will be during this season.
17:04
Speaker 2: So have a great opening day and start to the year,
17:07
Speaker 2: and appreciate the time.
17:08
Speaker 4: Is always good to see you, man. We're excited to
17:09
Speaker 4: see what the squad looks like.
17:11
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys.
17:12
Speaker 4: Thanks always a treat.
17:15
Speaker 2: Oh, the camera quality looks really good too, Raddy tells
17:18
Speaker 2: with us right now, that's Major League Wi FI at
17:20
Speaker 2: Mariners camp.
17:20
Speaker 4: Dude, good to see you having fun.
17:24
Speaker 8: Yeah, I am. By the way, your shirt's a little tight.
17:27
Speaker 8: You should probably go up the size me or prats. No,
17:32
Speaker 8: crafts looks good. Aj you look into that's a good point.
17:35
Speaker 8: I listened to your shirt comment, Scott, you just you're
17:39
Speaker 8: trying way too hard. I get it that it's a
17:41
Speaker 8: kid's large and you want to fit in, but it's
17:43
Speaker 8: it's a little it's a little snug.
17:45
Speaker 4: It's a men's medium.
17:47
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go out on a limb if there's any
17:50
Speaker 6: four of us who are going in a shirtless show day.
17:55
Speaker 6: Scott he's going shirtless, and so if his shirt is
17:58
Speaker 6: smallest of all of us, it's fair like he's he's
18:02
Speaker 6: worked at it. He's worked at it. I'm just saying
18:04
Speaker 6: right here, it.
18:05
Speaker 8: Might be I might be just jealous. More so, maybe
18:07
Speaker 8: it's just a jealousy comment.
18:10
Speaker 6: I mean, you look great this year. You lost all
18:12
Speaker 6: that way. Now your numbers look good. Like maybe maybe
18:16
Speaker 6: you're just maybe you're like looking at Scott's shirt and
18:19
Speaker 6: being like going to the equipment guy, Hey, can I
18:22
Speaker 6: get my opening day shirt a large? Please?
18:25
Speaker 7: No? No, no, I don't need a slim fit.
18:27
Speaker 8: I still need some space to move, Okay, I still
18:32
Speaker 8: but yeah, it's it's been a good camp.
18:35
Speaker 7: It's been fun. You know. We take off today.
18:38
Speaker 8: So and just me personally, Arizona springs better than ben
18:43
Speaker 8: Florida spring, which is call spata spade.
18:48
Speaker 5: So does that mean you made the team? That's what
18:50
Speaker 5: I want to know. Did you make the team? Have
18:51
Speaker 5: they told you? If you leave today, doesn't that mean
18:54
Speaker 5: you made the.
18:54
Speaker 8: Team probably gotta go find out here in a second,
18:57
Speaker 8: they're probably gonna call me mid show right here.
18:58
Speaker 7: And tell me I have to go in the office.
19:00
Speaker 3: Would get the shoulder We're going to get the shoulder
19:03
Speaker 3: tap while we're talking to you? Is is Dan Wilson
19:05
Speaker 3: in a shoulder tab you?
19:07
Speaker 7: Yeah?
19:07
Speaker 8: I don't have a I didn't have the little red
19:09
Speaker 8: posted note in my locker, and my little snake wasn't
19:11
Speaker 8: you know when I was doing my JOBU, I didn't
19:14
Speaker 8: show up, So hopefully that means something good.
19:17
Speaker 5: Well, that's awesome, congrats. Tell me what it was like
19:19
Speaker 5: this offseason?
19:20
Speaker 3: That's what I want to know, because we obviously love
19:22
Speaker 3: you on the show and you're great on the show,
19:24
Speaker 3: and we were worried about you. So what was it
19:27
Speaker 3: like this offseason when all you had was in our
19:29
Speaker 3: eyes and you went in on a minor league deal
19:31
Speaker 3: and had to fight to make the team.
19:36
Speaker 8: Obviously it was an ideal, but I had a few offers,
19:39
Speaker 8: and I mean nothing really came to the Super Bowl,
19:42
Speaker 8: which was that was pretty nerve wracking. I would say
19:45
Speaker 8: if I had hair, I would have lost it, or
19:47
Speaker 8: maybe it just started growing back. But I end up
19:52
Speaker 8: just driving out to Arizona. I was like, you normally
19:54
Speaker 8: go to Arizona. That was where my best offers were.
19:58
Speaker 8: And about half way through I got pulled over going
20:02
Speaker 8: way too fast and at the time I was agreeing
20:05
Speaker 8: to terms with the Mariners, so maybe that was a
20:08
Speaker 8: good sign. And I didn't even get a ticket, so
20:10
Speaker 8: it was pretty coola.
20:12
Speaker 6: Anyway, how did you get out of the ticket? Screw
20:14
Speaker 6: the baseball stuff? How did you get out of the
20:16
Speaker 6: ticket while you were on the phone? And what state
20:19
Speaker 6: is allowing a superstar like Rolly to let us off
20:21
Speaker 6: the hook?
20:22
Speaker 7: Okay, at the risk of getting canceled.
20:26
Speaker 8: I was almost to El Paso and I had my
20:28
Speaker 8: Team Mexico back in my car and I rolled my
20:31
Speaker 8: window down and he saw it.
20:34
Speaker 7: We did, and I was like yes.
20:37
Speaker 8: Then we got to talking and he was like, what's
20:39
Speaker 8: in the cooler in the back and I was like, oh,
20:41
Speaker 8: it's a bunch of deer meat. And I was like,
20:43
Speaker 8: do you want any and I was like, wait, I'm
20:44
Speaker 8: not bribing you. Like, no, I'm not bribing you. I
20:46
Speaker 8: promise I got a lot back there if you want them, and.
20:50
Speaker 7: He was like no, I'm good.
20:51
Speaker 8: Thank you though, but he was like I'm just saying,
20:52
Speaker 8: you know, you're getting closer to the l pass of
20:55
Speaker 8: the border stuff.
20:55
Speaker 7: There's gonna be more people. I'll just be careful. And
20:57
Speaker 7: I was like, all right, thanks.
20:59
Speaker 6: How fast were you going.
21:03
Speaker 7: Speeding? It was eighty.
21:05
Speaker 6: And they pulled you over.
21:08
Speaker 7: I was going well above that.
21:10
Speaker 6: Were you going above how hard Paul schemes throughout throws?
21:15
Speaker 7: Or about maybe more of a splinker from the fretball?
21:22
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, that's fair.
21:23
Speaker 7: Maybe I'm gonna be honest. I'm probably it's probably like
21:27
Speaker 7: I was going like ninety ninety one.
21:31
Speaker 3: So apparently team the Team Mexico bag in deer meat
21:33
Speaker 3: has more pull than the Chicago White Sox full uniform
21:37
Speaker 3: in spring training because I got pulled over full uniform
21:40
Speaker 3: going to a game to Goodyear and the guy gave
21:42
Speaker 3: me a ticket on iten, maybe get out of.
21:44
Speaker 5: The car full uniform.
21:46
Speaker 3: Ozzie Keen and Joey cor calling me, you're gonna be
21:48
Speaker 3: late to the game, and I'm like, look, guys, I'm
21:50
Speaker 3: getting a ticket. They're like, no way, they're gonna give
21:51
Speaker 3: you a ticket. Full uniform. Had my White Sox bag
21:55
Speaker 3: in the back. That guy didn't care. I was going
21:57
Speaker 3: like seventy and because you're pretty five. No, no, this
22:02
Speaker 3: is regular hair. Because I have here, I can bleach it.
22:04
Speaker 5: See.
22:06
Speaker 8: But I'm saying, see, I'm just trying to ask. I was,
22:08
Speaker 8: I was trying to get down to it. You know,
22:10
Speaker 8: I was gonna give you a compliment, But then you
22:11
Speaker 8: start throwing out stuff like that, and it's just love
22:13
Speaker 8: blow after love blow, and I'm not doing it anymore.
22:16
Speaker 5: I asked a legit question.
22:17
Speaker 3: The Team Mexico bag and deer me had more pull
22:20
Speaker 3: than my White Sox uniform did.
22:21
Speaker 5: So that is a compliment.
22:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, because it's the White Sox.
22:25
Speaker 5: Well, I didn't say that, and they probably.
22:29
Speaker 7: Knew who you were.
22:30
Speaker 8: You probably handed them your player card. They just didn't
22:32
Speaker 8: have cameras back then on their chest and you probably
22:34
Speaker 8: said it's a J. Pierzenski from the from the White Sox,
22:40
Speaker 8: and I said, I don't even know who that is.
22:41
Speaker 8: It must be a were number ninety six. They thought
22:43
Speaker 8: you're a back half player, and you know, we're just
22:45
Speaker 8: gonna double this fine.
22:48
Speaker 3: I paid it proudly and it and it got a
22:50
Speaker 3: great story, so I'm all for it.
22:52
Speaker 5: I love the great stories. I'm about a great story.
22:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, they don't print on new anymore.
22:56
Speaker 6: So are you are you so so you're going to
23:00
Speaker 6: these next games? Do you guys playing exhibition games where
23:03
Speaker 6: you guys are going out right out of Arizona?
23:06
Speaker 7: No, I don't think so. I did find out though,
23:10
Speaker 7: if I make team we.
23:12
Speaker 8: Play the Little League games, Little League World Series games,
23:16
Speaker 8: that'd be pretty cool?
23:18
Speaker 6: Is that? I mean? Is that? Is that fair? Like?
23:22
Speaker 6: I don't think I think you're gonna get a hit
23:23
Speaker 6: against one of the Little leaguers because those guys aren't
23:26
Speaker 6: as good as you.
23:28
Speaker 7: Yeah, but they throw hard from forty five feet?
23:31
Speaker 6: Do you think you could hit a Little leaguer from
23:34
Speaker 6: forty five feet? I mean the dudes that are in
23:36
Speaker 6: the Little League World Series some are pumping cheese.
23:40
Speaker 8: Yeah, I you know what I think though, I think
23:44
Speaker 8: it would just maybe be a two strike, get the
23:46
Speaker 8: head down, you know, head out, and.
23:47
Speaker 7: Flip one over there.
23:48
Speaker 8: But I think if I flip one over there, that's
23:50
Speaker 8: two hundred feet and I might have a chance. I
23:51
Speaker 8: could probably be pretty good.
23:53
Speaker 7: You know. It was that guy's name, that Dannie al Monte.
23:56
Speaker 6: Not much.
23:58
Speaker 8: He was like nineteen as a twelve year old, Like,
24:00
Speaker 8: I think I can pull that off. I'll just shape
24:01
Speaker 8: my face and no I don't have hair never mind, No,
24:05
Speaker 8: it won't work.
24:06
Speaker 6: It won't work.
24:07
Speaker 7: I thought I could.
24:08
Speaker 4: Here's the most famous Daniel Monte little league player. I
24:11
Speaker 4: mean because of the Wow, that's true.
24:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, I forgot what about what about money gas.
24:19
Speaker 6: Money Davis?
24:20
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's true. I forgot about her comes up though,
24:25
Speaker 2: because of the the scandal. Anyway, all right, in all seriousness, rowdy,
24:30
Speaker 2: So you sign with the Mariners. Okay, you get to camp.
24:33
Speaker 2: Things are going well? Is there communication along the way
24:38
Speaker 2: here the last few weeks, Hey, things are going well.
24:41
Speaker 2: Looks like you're going to make the team. Or is
24:43
Speaker 2: it just you go out, you play and we'll talk
24:45
Speaker 2: at the end of spring training.
24:48
Speaker 8: There's been a little communication, you know, like kind of
24:51
Speaker 8: just keep it up, keep doing what you're doing.
24:54
Speaker 7: We like what we're seeing. You know.
24:56
Speaker 8: I kind of came into camp with you got to
24:59
Speaker 8: keep the head down and and go, you know, like,
25:02
Speaker 8: but that that part has been fun to be a
25:05
Speaker 8: part of this clubhouse, even even though you know, I'm
25:08
Speaker 8: an outsider. Just being a part of this clubhouse and
25:10
Speaker 8: how tight knit they are, like you can see why
25:12
Speaker 8: they're such a good team. But you know, they welcome
25:15
Speaker 8: me with open arms, and I'm just excited that I
25:18
Speaker 8: get I get the chance to come out there and
25:20
Speaker 8: play with those guys. You know, it's been really fun.
25:23
Speaker 8: It has been, but it is a is a great
25:25
Speaker 8: group of guys, great staff.
25:27
Speaker 7: Dan is awesome, you know, very very knowledgeable, played the
25:31
Speaker 7: game for a long time. You know, those are the
25:34
Speaker 7: things that bring comfort to a clubhouse too. When you
25:37
Speaker 7: have a guy like that.
25:39
Speaker 2: Give us the lowdown on the personalities because you're probably
25:42
Speaker 2: making some new friends, and then also reuniting with Randy
25:45
Speaker 2: rose Arena, right.
25:46
Speaker 4: You know him.
25:48
Speaker 8: Yeah, our our conversations are pretty stellar. It's more like
25:52
Speaker 8: Kipaso and.
25:55
Speaker 7: And you know, but it's been there.
26:00
Speaker 8: Julio has a very bright personality, always smiling. You know,
26:08
Speaker 8: I've never been around a lot of these guys, so
26:09
Speaker 8: it's it's been cool. Vic Victor Robols, He's got a
26:15
Speaker 8: very very good person out He's very high energy.
26:18
Speaker 7: Another guy that's always happy, you know.
26:21
Speaker 8: And then you got JP who I we committed to
26:23
Speaker 8: college together and we've done each other for a long time.
26:27
Speaker 7: Miles Master Boney is another one that I played against
26:29
Speaker 7: growing up.
26:31
Speaker 8: But other than that, man, I don't have a lot
26:33
Speaker 8: of guys that I'd come across, so all this is
26:37
Speaker 8: just new to me. Cal does like to have his
26:40
Speaker 8: poker nights, so I attend those. He's got probably one
26:45
Speaker 8: of the coolest poker tables. It's it's got his it's
26:48
Speaker 8: got his name with his signature in the middle, on
26:50
Speaker 8: the top of his gold glove, on the bottom of
26:52
Speaker 8: his platinum glove. And so I I went over there
26:55
Speaker 8: and I was like, hey, man, I know we were gonna
26:58
Speaker 8: play some poker, but we need a new table.
26:59
Speaker 7: He can't just it in everybody's face. You know, you're
27:02
Speaker 7: you're that good.
27:04
Speaker 6: So do you lose your money in poker when you
27:06
Speaker 6: play against him?
27:12
Speaker 8: You know, you go over there with so much money
27:13
Speaker 8: because you know, it's just so just I think I do,
27:17
Speaker 8: And be honest, yeah, I'm not very good at poker.
27:21
Speaker 7: I'm like one of you that.
27:23
Speaker 6: Yeah.
27:24
Speaker 8: Have you seen like the family guy one where they're like, Peter,
27:26
Speaker 8: you have a really good poker face and then he's
27:29
Speaker 8: like gets good cards and he pulls a sign and
27:30
Speaker 8: says I have really good cards, and like he has
27:32
Speaker 8: a band marching around. That's like me, are you really
27:34
Speaker 8: good cards? Just smile and I'm like, oh yeah, all
27:36
Speaker 8: in They're like okay, I'm like, why.
27:42
Speaker 6: Did you hit really well? Did you? Did you hit
27:45
Speaker 6: really well in spring training? Because your live VP was
27:48
Speaker 6: against this pitching staff? And does it make it a
27:51
Speaker 6: lot easier to not have to pitch to face this
27:54
Speaker 6: pitching staff?
27:56
Speaker 8: Uh well, oh well, let's backtrack there. I didn't have
28:00
Speaker 8: live AB's. My first live AB was in a game
28:04
Speaker 8: and because I signed late, and uh yes, I'm gonna answer.
28:09
Speaker 7: The second one.
28:10
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm there's a chance I'm gonna have a better
28:12
Speaker 8: year just because I don't have to face the Mariners
28:15
Speaker 8: that this staff is absolutely absurd. Watching them and playing
28:20
Speaker 8: behind them in the spring has been.
28:23
Speaker 7: Like a treat.
28:24
Speaker 8: It's like you're kind of just standing there and you're like, oh, hey,
28:29
Speaker 8: you didn't check somebody out.
28:30
Speaker 7: Hold on, we got we can make a play out here.
28:33
Speaker 7: It's it's pretty nice.
28:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be quick games. You're gonna have all
28:38
Speaker 6: quick games. But do you go into do you go
28:40
Speaker 6: into spring training when you got to make a team,
28:42
Speaker 6: Because I've always I've always said, if you swing in
28:46
Speaker 6: the first two pitches of an at bat in spring training,
28:48
Speaker 6: you're probably gonna hit four hundred. Do you go into
28:51
Speaker 6: spring training with a different approach because you got to
28:55
Speaker 6: make the team and you ain't winning it on sprint
28:57
Speaker 6: speed or anything like that, so it's got to be
28:59
Speaker 6: all that back.
29:03
Speaker 7: First off, I scored from second on a single this spring,
29:06
Speaker 7: so my sprints beat is up.
29:08
Speaker 8: But uh yeah, I swung at the first picture camp.
29:10
Speaker 8: I tell you I didn't hit four hundred, but I
29:12
Speaker 8: swung at the first picture camp and the second one,
29:15
Speaker 8: and then I took.
29:16
Speaker 7: The third one for short three. Uh that was welcome.
29:21
Speaker 7: That was a nice welcome to camp.
29:23
Speaker 8: But uh yeah, hold on, hold on, I yeah, I
29:27
Speaker 8: can go first to third. Now, the first to homes.
29:32
Speaker 8: That's a stretch. We need somebody to trip and fall.
29:34
Speaker 8: We need a weird ricochet, we need San Francisco and
29:36
Speaker 8: that might even be a stretch too.
29:37
Speaker 7: But I can move.
29:39
Speaker 8: I'll tell you that, you get the big diesel truck rolling,
29:43
Speaker 8: there's no pulling the Jake brakes on that.
29:45
Speaker 7: We just gotta go.
29:47
Speaker 6: I'm saying AJ beats you in the race right now.
29:51
Speaker 7: He isn't even on the screen anymore. Oh there is.
29:55
Speaker 6: I quit.
29:57
Speaker 7: I don't think I don't think he could.
30:01
Speaker 6: Even that it's a even that it's a debate means
30:03
Speaker 6: he would beat you. But it's okay. AJ couldn't hit
30:06
Speaker 6: AJ couldn't have it at nine hundred ops in spring
30:10
Speaker 6: training right now.
30:14
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything. No, don't know.
30:16
Speaker 8: First off, you couldn't even have them when you played,
30:18
Speaker 8: except don't. I was gonna be nice and then you
30:24
Speaker 8: opened your mouth and that was it.
30:26
Speaker 5: I didn't say anything. I just said, well, you.
30:28
Speaker 7: Never know, And what does that mean you opened your mouth?
30:32
Speaker 5: Never know? Just never know? And I know I could
30:34
Speaker 5: beat you in a race, especially if it's over sixty yards.
30:37
Speaker 7: Sixty yards mm hmm, that's a sixty yards. I don't
30:41
Speaker 7: hang around one.
30:42
Speaker 5: Of those that's first to home. If we have to
30:44
Speaker 5: go like ninety yards, that's like first to home.
30:46
Speaker 8: Really I didn't know that good but know, but I'm
30:53
Speaker 8: not you know, I'm not gonna entertain that.
30:55
Speaker 7: You know you can have it, you can win? There
30:57
Speaker 7: you go, you win?
31:00
Speaker 6: Are you gonna hear first year? Yep? Are the Mariners
31:05
Speaker 6: gonna win this year? Because there's so much behind this team,
31:09
Speaker 6: like and ever, and the narrative is outside of the clubhouse.
31:14
Speaker 6: Didn't go out and get anybody. Justin Turner even said,
31:17
Speaker 6: didn't go out and get anybody. He didn't make that
31:20
Speaker 6: big splash to have a historic rotation and bullpen. Are
31:24
Speaker 6: you guys gonna win this year? Is there confidence or
31:26
Speaker 6: is it? Hey? You know what, We're gonna go out
31:28
Speaker 6: and try our best.
31:31
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think that we're gonna win.
31:35
Speaker 4: Again.
31:36
Speaker 8: We had a really good spring train. I don't think
31:37
Speaker 8: anybody scored more runs than us in spring.
31:40
Speaker 7: You know, we we have good baths. We have guys
31:42
Speaker 7: that have put up thirty homer seasons. We have guys that.
31:46
Speaker 8: Can do a lot of different things. I think everybody
31:48
Speaker 8: here understands who they are as a player. We have
31:50
Speaker 8: depth in our lineup. We have speed at the top,
31:52
Speaker 8: speed at the bottom, power in the middle, guys that
31:54
Speaker 8: can make good contact, great defense, and obviously the pitching
31:59
Speaker 8: staff and real So I think, you know, everything's gonna
32:03
Speaker 8: fall into place and we win.
32:05
Speaker 7: I think I think we do win the division.
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Speaker 8: I think we go even to the playoffs, and you know,
32:09
Speaker 8: everybody wants to win a World Series, So everybody's pulling
32:12
Speaker 8: at the same end of the rope.
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Speaker 3: Hey, hey, rowdy, now that you're in the ballpark that's
32:17
Speaker 3: impossible to hit homers in because everyone says it's impossible.
32:19
Speaker 3: And hit homers in and you have a new hitting
32:21
Speaker 3: coach and Kevin Sitzer, who once told me he hates
32:23
Speaker 3: home runs.
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Speaker 5: Is this the perfect marriage.
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Speaker 8: It might be he might just get me to just
32:31
Speaker 8: hit rockets in the gap and have forty doubles. But
32:36
Speaker 8: I've really liked working with him and Mags. They've been
32:39
Speaker 8: awesome because they are so different. Sites is such a
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Speaker 8: mental approach, learn what's going on, and Mags is more
32:49
Speaker 8: of the physical side where he looks at the swing
32:51
Speaker 8: and things like that. So they are like Yin and Yang.
32:54
Speaker 8: But they work so well together. I mean, they've been
32:56
Speaker 8: together for years. But you know, we've done a lot
32:59
Speaker 8: of things camp that almost make me feel like what
33:03
Speaker 8: I did when I was younger, kind of like just
33:05
Speaker 8: trusting again. That's the big thing with SITES is the
33:07
Speaker 8: mental game. Getting everybody to trust what they they can
33:10
Speaker 8: do best and believe in themselves. Not to mention, we
33:14
Speaker 8: have Edgar Martinez working with us, so you can have
33:17
Speaker 8: a Hall of Famer and a guy that hit.
33:18
Speaker 7: Three point thirty every year. Can't really really not listening
33:24
Speaker 7: to a guy like that.
33:25
Speaker 6: I heard it's a cage rat too, Edgar. Yeah, talking
33:28
Speaker 6: to someone.
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Speaker 7: Always talking baseball. It's one of the most approachable, easy
33:36
Speaker 7: people to talk to.
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Speaker 8: I mean, it's just like opening up the encyclopedia of
33:40
Speaker 8: hitting just listening to him. I mean, I can't tell
33:43
Speaker 8: you many times I just sat there and listening and
33:44
Speaker 8: talk to somebody else like, wow, I never would have
33:47
Speaker 8: thought of that.
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Speaker 7: That's cool.
33:51
Speaker 2: Can you give us one example on your way out here,
33:55
Speaker 2: one thing that you picked up from him?
33:58
Speaker 7: Just to with runners in scoring position? He said, he
34:02
Speaker 7: made the game easier for himself.
34:04
Speaker 8: All he wanted to do was hit balls up the middle,
34:07
Speaker 8: he said, more time than not. Like ground balls were fine.
34:10
Speaker 8: He goes, he just didn't want to hit a fly
34:11
Speaker 8: ball in the infield. And I asked him, I said,
34:14
Speaker 8: what was.
34:14
Speaker 7: Like, why not?
34:15
Speaker 8: Like why didn't you want to just put it in
34:16
Speaker 8: the air with you know, a runner on third lesson two?
34:19
Speaker 7: And he was like, because you do that, you have
34:21
Speaker 7: more room for error.
34:22
Speaker 8: I said, as a guy that wants to hit fly balls,
34:24
Speaker 8: I said, that's that's different, Like I would rather hit
34:28
Speaker 8: a fly ball than you know, hit a groundball. And
34:30
Speaker 8: he was like, well, go in the game today and
34:32
Speaker 8: try it. So all we had runners on first and
34:35
Speaker 8: third and first pitch was a slider and I just
34:38
Speaker 8: was like, all, I'm just gonna hit a ground ball
34:39
Speaker 8: up the middle and ended up hitting the ball in
34:40
Speaker 8: the left center for a double.
34:41
Speaker 7: And I was like, okay.
34:43
Speaker 8: And it wasn't like a hard push to hit, but
34:46
Speaker 8: it wasn't an easy pitch. And I kind of came
34:48
Speaker 8: back in. He goes, if you're not trying to hit
34:50
Speaker 8: a fly ball, he goes, you're going to hit a
34:51
Speaker 8: fly ball, and I was like all right, and he goes,
34:53
Speaker 8: simplicity in your swing. He goes, you're too strong, and
34:56
Speaker 8: I was like, yeah, okay. And then the next tibout
34:59
Speaker 8: I hit an omer. I was like, this guy might
35:01
Speaker 8: know something a thing or two. You know, it might
35:02
Speaker 8: have been good.
35:05
Speaker 4: That's cool, That's that's good.
35:08
Speaker 6: I like that.
35:09
Speaker 5: I'm just proud that rowdy.
35:10
Speaker 3: Listen to somebody that's I'm proud of everybody.
35:13
Speaker 8: But I honestly can say, from deep down, I respect you,
35:19
Speaker 8: but I've never really liked you.
35:21
Speaker 7: Even when I asked for your autograph a kid and
35:23
Speaker 7: he said.
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Speaker 5: No, Well, I knew it was coming. It was foreshadowing, and.
35:31
Speaker 7: I can't understand that made me the player I am today.
35:34
Speaker 7: That's why you know. I look at people, I'm like,
35:37
Speaker 7: you know what I am going to sign for that person.
35:39
Speaker 7: I don't want to be an a.
35:39
Speaker 5: J here for your kid.
35:43
Speaker 8: And that was that you only made that, You only
35:47
Speaker 8: made me better. It's not a negative. I just knew
35:51
Speaker 8: I didn't want to bleached hair. By the way, I
35:53
Speaker 8: had bleached hair, not because of you, but I had.
35:56
Speaker 8: I bleached my hair one not recently, but I.
36:00
Speaker 4: Was gonna say not now.
36:01
Speaker 7: Yeah, we have a lot of guys in here with
36:03
Speaker 7: bleach hair.
36:03
Speaker 8: I was thinking of getting in the bleach tattoo on
36:05
Speaker 8: top and see what two people think when I walked through.
36:07
Speaker 3: But you should get the advisor with the bleachair hanging
36:10
Speaker 3: other sides the fake bleacher.
36:13
Speaker 7: Oh, I might do that. I did that one day.
36:17
Speaker 8: I put on the Rastafari in a wig and one
36:20
Speaker 8: of the off seasons, and I said, maybe I could
36:23
Speaker 8: pull this off. But then I started running around and
36:26
Speaker 8: I was out of breath and it was hot, and
36:27
Speaker 8: I was like, you know what, I don't need hair.
36:31
Speaker 4: It is hot, yes, you know, No, I don't. I'm
36:36
Speaker 4: saying you know his vibe.
36:38
Speaker 6: I know his vibe, but yeah, I'm not I'm not
36:40
Speaker 6: as good looking as him because his bank account's gonna
36:42
Speaker 6: be way bigger than mine this year, so that makes
36:44
Speaker 6: that makes him better.
36:45
Speaker 4: That's true. Well, Roddy, good.
36:47
Speaker 8: To talk to you say something stupid, agent, I know
36:50
Speaker 8: you're trying to think of something over there.
36:52
Speaker 3: No, I was gonna say congratulations, I'm making the team.
36:54
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you. And by the way, so for
36:57
Speaker 3: all the crap you talk about me, who axt you
37:00
Speaker 3: when you sign? So i'd give you the finger, but
37:03
Speaker 3: we're on television.
37:04
Speaker 8: I can't, so you know it's you know what's crazy
37:06
Speaker 8: is I didn't even have your numbers save and I
37:07
Speaker 8: knew immediately who it was.
37:11
Speaker 5: But I text you second and I'm happy for you.
37:14
Speaker 8: And I was like, what does this guy want because
37:17
Speaker 8: you know, I mind just says I message under it,
37:19
Speaker 8: and I said, there's no way this guy wants something
37:21
Speaker 8: from me right now.
37:23
Speaker 5: I wanted to wish you well and hope you hope
37:25
Speaker 5: you made the team.
37:26
Speaker 8: I wanted, yeah, you were being a good guy. Dude,
37:30
Speaker 8: You're changing in front of my eyes, and I'm proud
37:32
Speaker 8: that I've done this to you.
37:37
Speaker 2: He just wants me to be happy, Ratty, and you
37:38
Speaker 2: look happy right now, so you do. We'll catch it
37:42
Speaker 2: during the year. Okay, enjoy the meeting, tell him thank you,
37:46
Speaker 2: and then I'll have a better shirt size for you
37:49
Speaker 2: next time we chat as well.
37:50
Speaker 7: Okay, I think you should go smaller.
37:52
Speaker 8: I think you should get one of the paint on
37:53
Speaker 8: shirts like that you just get painted on for a show.
37:57
Speaker 2: I do like the smaller idea for next time, to
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Speaker 2: really like really trol and bring it.
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Speaker 4: So all right, fine deal, I'll work on it.
38:04
Speaker 2: I don't know about the body paint that that requires
38:07
Speaker 2: something else.
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Speaker 6: Video yourself getting called up, Video yourself getting called up,
38:11
Speaker 6: and send it to us and we'll put it on
38:13
Speaker 6: the show later today. Yes, everyone else the team's video.
38:17
Speaker 6: Screw that video yourself. Take your phone in just like
38:19
Speaker 6: this and be like, yes, what did you want to say?
38:23
Speaker 6: Do it?
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Speaker 7: Yeah? Do it?
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Speaker 1: It?
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Speaker 4: Would it would? Teams do it?
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Speaker 8: So if you can, Yeah, okay, teams do it. I'm
38:32
Speaker 8: thirty now. We don't have time for choppish game.
38:37
Speaker 5: Always have time.
38:38
Speaker 8: For Yeah, yeah, I'm an adult.
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Speaker 7: Route it.
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Speaker 4: Well, well, good luck, You'll let us know how it
38:47
Speaker 4: goes next time.
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Speaker 7: All right, well, I appreciate it. Guys, thank you