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Torii Hunter joins Halo Territory · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, hey Angel fans, and welcome back to Halo territory.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mike dgi Giovanna, joined by my regular co host,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Trumbo, and as you can see, we have a
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  Speaker 1: very special guest with us today, Tory Hunter, former Angels outfielder,
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  Speaker 1: current special assistant to the Angels General manager. Tory Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the show. How are you doing on this morning
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  Speaker 1: of the Angels home opener tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, thank you guys for having me.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to be with my old teammate, Mark Trumbo.
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  Speaker 3: Mike d.
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  Speaker 2: G Ivanni, Man, you've always reported the news correctly.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Well, I appreciate it that. Thank God for
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  Speaker 3: having me on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this morning I woke up ready to go open
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  Speaker 2: a day. I'm talking to you guys starting off, and
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  Speaker 2: then we go to Angel Stadium and take care of
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  Speaker 2: business there hopefully all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Tori, you were nine time Gold Glove winner, nicknamed
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  Speaker 1: spider Man for your ability to scale walls and take
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  Speaker 1: home run balls back. I'm gonna put you on the
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  Speaker 1: spot right at the top here. What were your top
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  Speaker 1: three catches of your career?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Top three, I would definitely have to put just the
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  Speaker 2: moment of the All Star Game in two thousand and two.
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  Speaker 3: The guy that's hitting the ball is Barry Bonds, and
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  Speaker 3: this is my first All Star Game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm twenty five years old, and to be able to
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  Speaker 2: take away a home run on a big stage like
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  Speaker 2: that from one of the greatest hitters that ever played
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  Speaker 2: the game, if not the best hitter they have played
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 3: For me, a twenty five year old.
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  Speaker 2: Kid from Pombla, Farkansas, to take a home run away
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  Speaker 2: from Barry Bonds, definitely probably my number one. Probably not
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  Speaker 2: my best catch, but it was my greatest moment. And
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  Speaker 2: I was a Corlos League with the White Sox. Hit
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  Speaker 2: a ball in the Metro Dome and I jumped over
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  Speaker 2: that baggie fence out there at center field and stretched
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  Speaker 2: out and caught the ball. The next day, I was
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  Speaker 2: so sore, I felt like I couldn't play, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: trump bla, I don't come out of the game. And
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  Speaker 2: and then number three, I would say with the Angels
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  Speaker 2: on Mother's Day, I made a catch on Mother's Day
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  Speaker 2: against the Royals, and I was able to catch that ball,
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  Speaker 2: and I was so pumped up and so hyped that
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  Speaker 2: I almost passed out.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Of course there was some great catches, and then there
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  Speaker 1: was always the one that got away. Game two of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen alc Yes, you're playing right field for
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers. You're in Fenway Park, Detroit, as a
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  Speaker 1: five to one lead in the eighth inning, You're about
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  Speaker 1: to go up two games to none on the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: and upsteps Big Poppy. David Ortiz take us through that sequence.
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  Speaker 3: Too, man. You know what's crazy is a story behind that.
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  Speaker 2: Ortez and I went to Capitol Grille to night before
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  Speaker 2: and just we sitting up talking. We're sitting up popping
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  Speaker 2: and uh he says, hey, I got jaque Ben WASH's pitches.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, snap, right. So I went back to
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  Speaker 2: the stadium the next day. The day of that game.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, then, why you got to you gotta
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  Speaker 2: change it up on Big Poppy. He said, he has
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  Speaker 2: your pitches. And then while I was like, man, I
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  Speaker 2: forget that I always get him out, I'm like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god. So now Sirseley comes out of the game
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  Speaker 2: and the eighth inning and it just struck out the side.
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  Speaker 2: We thought he was gonna go back out there, but
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  Speaker 2: I saw Ben Waugh running running to the mail. When
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  Speaker 2: I went back out there in the night, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, I'm thinking, like, I hope he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: throw a change him because he knows it. It was
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  Speaker 2: an eighty eight mile hour change up and Dave Ortiez
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  Speaker 2: hit the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my.
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  Speaker 2: God, I'm running after this ball, swearing kissed off. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe this guy through this pitch. So it's
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  Speaker 2: now it's hit and it's in the lights, and I
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  Speaker 2: felt the wall and I'm like, forget this. It's the Alcs.
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  Speaker 2: I've never been to the World Series. That's in my life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm half a down this bild today. I knew I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna die, but I came back to life after
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  Speaker 2: I got older, when I woke up on the other side,
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  Speaker 2: I came back to life.
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  Speaker 3: So and then the cop, you know, he was right there.
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  Speaker 2: He was supposed to be protecting his servant, but but no,
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  Speaker 2: he was so far away. Man, he had no shot
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  Speaker 2: to help with me. So, uh, it was just a
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  Speaker 2: It was a great effort, great moment for the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: great moment for Big Poppy, one of my one of
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  Speaker 2: my best friends in the game. Uh, but that's that's
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  Speaker 2: all our effort. And I was thirty eight years old.
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  Speaker 1: Does that play still kind of keep you up at
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  Speaker 1: night or show up in your dreams?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? No, that play doesn't show up in my dreams
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  Speaker 3: at all. That pitch does.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because uh artis struck out three times a game.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't hit the ball at all.
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  Speaker 2: And then he stepped up right there, and and the
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  Speaker 2: night before he told me that's all I can remember.
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  Speaker 2: This guy had his pitches and and trust me, first
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  Speaker 2: pitch eighty eight mile. Now he throws ninety eight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So how you sit on that on the first pitch?
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  Speaker 3: Am I? Right? Trum hole?
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  Speaker 4: Well you don't, you don't. And now tee, you see
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  Speaker 4: what I have to deal with. I mean, you caught,
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  Speaker 4: you call almost fifty five hundred balls in your career.
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  Speaker 4: That's fourteenth in history. And this man wants to talk
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  Speaker 4: about the one you didn't catch, right, Well, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: tell you earlier.
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  Speaker 1: How how iconic was this photo? The two v's the
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  Speaker 1: cop And unfortunately jump down to did you did you
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  Speaker 1: ever talk to that cop or autograph a picture for him?
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever got you two ever hook up? After
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  Speaker 1: that crazy photo?
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  Speaker 2: I know him before that, Oh really the spoken worst
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  Speaker 2: of it. Oh yeah, he's a great guy. He had
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  Speaker 2: no shot. I cracked a joke afterwards, and I said, man,
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  Speaker 2: he's supposed to be protecting and server. I think people
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  Speaker 2: got kind of serious. I'm like, I was joking. He's
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  Speaker 2: like twenty yards away from the wall.
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  Speaker 3: Help me. I was already dead.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, one of the one of the rare
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  Speaker 4: great guys in uh Boston, at least when you're on
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  Speaker 4: the visiting team.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, all right, all right, I got a question.
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  Speaker 5: I got a question.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little more serious current, but can you can
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  Speaker 4: you kind of take us.
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  Speaker 5: Through what your day to day role looks like.
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  Speaker 4: With the Angels right now as a special assistant to
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  Speaker 4: a GM Perrymnasium.
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  Speaker 3: Uh well, I mean I'm there. I'm like a shall
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  Speaker 3: lamb monk.
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  Speaker 2: And you you you you walk in the clubhouse, you
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  Speaker 2: get there when they're there, and and I just I
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  Speaker 2: try to be present. You know, you got guys that
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  Speaker 2: have things going on off the field. You got guys
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  Speaker 2: they have things with with finance, with relationships with their family,
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  Speaker 2: but also with in baseball. They give it, I give
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  Speaker 2: them a different perspective on on different things and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: how to hit, you know, running a basis preparing themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So I just try to be available for all the
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  Speaker 2: guys and then if Perry needs an extra eye on
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  Speaker 2: evaluate something or someone. I actually I'm there for them.
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  Speaker 2: They ask questions, but I try to be available when
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  Speaker 2: I'm here and be at the stadium as much as
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  Speaker 2: I can so they can see me and be and
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  Speaker 2: be present for those guys.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's invaluable. I think that you know, I've
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  Speaker 4: kind of wondered too, what is that you know, special assistant?
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  Speaker 4: You see that title and it's not always totally clear,
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  Speaker 4: but it sounds like you're doing it all, which is
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  Speaker 4: cool and really helpful for these guys. One question that
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  Speaker 4: you know, I've been out of the game for five
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  Speaker 4: or six years now. Things have changed a lot. Can
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  Speaker 4: you talk about like what the day to day work
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  Speaker 4: looks like that the guys are doing compared to you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe when you played. I don't see as many guys
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  Speaker 4: out there hitting batting practice. Some teams rarely do it apparently,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm wondering when when guys are working on their
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  Speaker 4: defense and other things. I mean, I know what we
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  Speaker 4: were used to, but it seems different to me now,
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  Speaker 4: is it is that true?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? I feel like it was.
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  Speaker 2: I think this year with Kurt Suzuki coming in, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they really tried to put more emphasis on defense.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The guys are out with Brady Anderson as the hitting coast. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know he's gonna have him out there early hitting.
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  Speaker 2: I saw trout. You know, he's there at eight in
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  Speaker 2: the morning on the field hitting you know, extra and
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  Speaker 2: some guys will go out with him so he can
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  Speaker 2: catch it, get a break and uh.
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  Speaker 3: And the results is shown.
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  Speaker 2: Uh in this early part of the season and in
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  Speaker 2: spring training he was actually hitting the ball, going back
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  Speaker 2: to hitting line drives and and getting his fist to hit. H.
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  Speaker 3: I think he stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Hitting off the machine and and uh and started going
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  Speaker 2: with live arm and uh and and and we definitely
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  Speaker 2: see some results.
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  Speaker 3: So Uh, these guys do work.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they still have a lot of injuries in
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And and you got all this technology. You guys got
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  Speaker 2: workout programs, nutritionists, besides therapists.
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  Speaker 3: They got everything they need. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: they got more injuries.
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  Speaker 2: And so I don't understand that, but I think it's
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  Speaker 2: they get a lot of days off, they don't have
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  Speaker 2: the like when you're working out, you bench pressed two
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  Speaker 2: hundred pounds, but if you do it enough and then
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  Speaker 2: you max out, then you can bench press two twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Then you can bench spress to forty.
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  Speaker 2: I think these guys got to push themselves to play
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  Speaker 2: every day as much as they can if you have
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity, and then that actually your mind will overtake
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  Speaker 2: the body and say, hey, you got to go out
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  Speaker 2: and perform, and it heels itself.
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  Speaker 3: So if you keep you know, baby, and.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of these guys giving them days off because
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  Speaker 2: they don't feel right or whatever it may be, and
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  Speaker 2: they don't know how to push through those walls and uh,
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  Speaker 2: and then you.
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  Speaker 3: Get a lot of injuries that way.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Trout back in center field this year after toying
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  Speaker 1: with right field for a little bit. You played center
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  Speaker 1: field most of your pretty much all of your career.
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  Speaker 1: In a late career switch to right field, what is it?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Trout's talked about people have talked about this being easier
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  Speaker 1: on your body moving the right field, but is it
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  Speaker 1: really easy on your body? Is there any big difference?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's less running, especially if the dead guide is
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  Speaker 2: on the first base.
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  Speaker 3: You shoult you have the fright all the way across
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  Speaker 3: the field.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, there are some quick bursts in
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  Speaker 2: right field, some balls have a little seak, some got
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  Speaker 2: some balls have a cut and you really have to
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  Speaker 2: really get after it for about five to ten steps.
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  Speaker 3: In center field, you go after and you can stay
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  Speaker 3: as smooth as possible.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I think Trout is talking about playing
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  Speaker 2: center field. Actually, it's less on your body because you're
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  Speaker 2: able to glide to the ball and uh and without
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  Speaker 2: that quick burst and uh with with Trout having leg
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  Speaker 2: injuries and to his lower body, I definitely think that
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  Speaker 2: center field and you know what, mentally him playing center
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  Speaker 2: field and be able to be that kid again.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's thirty four years old, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think yeah, and uh, just to be in center field
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  Speaker 2: and be that kid again.
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  Speaker 3: He still can run, he still can go after the ball. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It actually probably would help him in his total game.
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  Speaker 2: So allow him to go and be that kid again
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  Speaker 2: and be the Trout that his mind tells him to be.
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  Speaker 3: He then his body will follow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of backing up bases and
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  Speaker 4: things in the corners too, that that people don't always
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  Speaker 4: account for you know, right field. You're counted on to
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  Speaker 4: bust it, you know, all the players to first base.
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  Speaker 4: Whether everybody does that, you know, you can judge for yourself.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, you know, I yeah, played a lot of
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  Speaker 4: right field. Couldn't hold your duck, but uh, you know
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  Speaker 4: I would I like to. Uh, but you know I
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  Speaker 4: never had the speed remote you know. Part of this
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  Speaker 4: is is you have to have the speed center field.
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  Speaker 3: You were fast, Yeah, you were really, That's what I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell my daughter. But you get down the line. You
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  Speaker 3: were my teammate for two years, so.
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  Speaker 4: I know maybe, well I appreciate that, even if you're
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  Speaker 4: being nice, okay, so truthful. Well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: I know it means a lot. Another thing that means
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  Speaker 4: a lot, I think probably to you. Joe Adell credited
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  Speaker 4: you with really helping him out, improving his approach at
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  Speaker 4: the plate, improving his defense, especially in right field. I
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  Speaker 4: mean I watched well now I watch every game, and
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  Speaker 4: he made some tremendous strides and it really seems like
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  Speaker 4: it came outter the work you guys did. And I
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  Speaker 4: know from you know, doing some coaching and hitting, especially
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  Speaker 4: with hitters. Last few years when you're not playing, kind
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  Speaker 4: of the next best thing is getting credit, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it's not the credit, but you know, somebody's showing
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  Speaker 4: appreciation for the work you put into help them. And
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  Speaker 4: that was really neat to see. Maybe if you if
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  Speaker 4: did anything click with Joe that you can talk about,
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  Speaker 4: was it more mental?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe? Yeah, I definitely think it was more mental. I
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  Speaker 3: think he's maturing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, He's he's listening to more wisdom and uh, and
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  Speaker 2: he's able to separate, you know, what works for him
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  Speaker 2: and what doesn't work for him, so you can give
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  Speaker 2: him a lot of options and whatever doesn't work, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's mature enough to throw it out the window and
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  Speaker 2: and keep the things that does. And I think that's uh,
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  Speaker 2: just maturation over time. He's uh, he's starting to gather
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  Speaker 2: the right information. He's starting to shoot the ball the
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  Speaker 2: other way a little more, uh, so he could cover
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  Speaker 2: the whole field. This guy has tremendous a tremendous amount
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  Speaker 2: of pop, you know, maybe the highest exit velocity on
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  Speaker 2: the team, uh, majority of the time. And uh and
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  Speaker 2: the ball that flies out to right center field, he has.
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  Speaker 3: More power than most people.
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  Speaker 2: I know, maybe not you, Trumbo, but this guy has
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  Speaker 2: some thump and right.
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  Speaker 6: He's got he's got some and uh and defensively, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the last two or three years we're in the outfield,
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  Speaker 6: all he wants to do is get better defensively, hitting, hitting,
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  Speaker 6: And it's like it has its ebbs and flows.
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  Speaker 3: It's up and down, and defense should never slump.
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  Speaker 2: And I told him, you want to play a long
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  Speaker 2: time play defense because if he can be relied upon
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  Speaker 2: on defense. When you're struggling at the plate and you're
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  Speaker 2: not good at defense, then.
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  Speaker 3: You're not good at all of the team. But when you.
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  Speaker 2: Struggling at the plate and you actually saved rids on defense,
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  Speaker 2: you actually can keep yourself in the game. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: making good plays on defense can carry over to your offense. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he wants to get better defensively, and you can see
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  Speaker 2: the improvement in the last two or three years.
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  Speaker 1: Joe ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, Mike, Uh, you don't get enough credit for your
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  Speaker 4: throwing arm. I think you know, everyone talks about your
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  Speaker 4: you know, the the acrobatic plays, the you know, Robin
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  Speaker 4: home runs, But I mean you have literally the most
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  Speaker 4: accurate throwing arm that I played. I mean I played
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  Speaker 4: first base, so part of the time you're counted on
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  Speaker 4: to cutballs that have you know, side spend, not online.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes you're gonna cut them if the runner might be
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  Speaker 4: safe at home and the batter runner is going to
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  Speaker 4: just run into that silly out. But with you, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I cut I can't remember cutting anything.
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  Speaker 4: They were always right on the money, perfect one hop
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  Speaker 4: never overthrew the cutoff man either, which really speaks to
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  Speaker 4: like fundamentally sound baseball. And you know, it pains me
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  Speaker 4: to see these outfielders throw these, you know, grenades, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying the angel players, but around the league,
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  Speaker 4: it just like, and that's been as an outfielder that
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  Speaker 4: is in your control, but you were I just wanted
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  Speaker 4: to point that out that you're throwing arm just doesn't
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  Speaker 4: get enough credit because strong and accurate.
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably the one of the last guys that actually
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  Speaker 2: took infield at six fifteen before the game started, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And they kind of took that out of baseball. So
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  Speaker 2: we had to throw with Tom Kelly with the Twins.
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  Speaker 2: If you missed the cutoff man, he would take you
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  Speaker 2: all field in front of all the people and say
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  Speaker 2: get off the field.
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  Speaker 3: You're not ready, right, so we always to take that feeling.
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  Speaker 2: It was a serious thing, and so we have to
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  Speaker 2: be fundamentally sound. With the Twins, Kirby Puckett was one
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  Speaker 2: of the guys say, I need you to be accurate.
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  Speaker 2: You got a strong arm, but be more accurate. And
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: my only way you can be more accurate is one
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: hop the base. So I learned to throw hard and
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: one hop the base, which keeps it accurate. So when
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the ball bounce it it only bounces a small disbursement
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: and you can make the player, you know me, trying
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: to throw the ball all the way to the bass.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: It's one hundred and ten percent, which doesn't exist. And
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: actually you're throwing it. You're off, but your arm looks good.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: It's for show, but you you're not getting any dope.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: You're not getting making any money. So if you're not
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: throwing anybody out because they have to reach up and
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: come back down, that's too much time for them to
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: be safe.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: So one thing I teach when I'm in the.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Outfield with the guys the last three years with the
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Angels is hey, one hop the base and not try
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: to throw the ball all the way. So we're doing
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: that from the minor leagues all the way to the
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: major leagues.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Be more accurate.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: You're you'll be more accurate if you can just one
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: hop that base with with your strength.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: One follow up on Joe Tory. You know he has
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: struggled at bit moving to center field, and he's a
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: lot better for right Fielder's a guy he's played both,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: so well, how would you sort of coach this guy
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: up right now and when he has to go up,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you know, shift over to center field.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Joe's a big guy, ju You know, people don't understand.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Joe's about six', three you, know and and he's, jacked
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: and AND i think he's just a big body. Kid
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: center field is a place where if you need to
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Give trout a.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Rest you can put him in center. Field he can
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: hold it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: DOWN i don't think he's a true center, fielder BUT
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: i think he can hold it down Right.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Phield it just seemed like that's a better.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Fit his arm is strong enough to throw guys, Out
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: he's able to get to the.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: BALL i think he's more comfortable in right.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Field and sometimes where guy's, comfortable you got to allow
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: him to play over.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: There he's not hurting the team playing at right.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: FIELD i would even try to stick them in center
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: field for as a mainstay at.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: All switching gears a little. Bit you interviewed for the
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: man managerial job with The angels last. Fall how do
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: you feel about that, process how it played out and
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the outcome and are you still interested in becoming a
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: major league?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Manager? Uh, WELL.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed the process the last two years with
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: With perry And, uh we sat, down we had great.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Conversations some of the things that you, KNOW i would,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: do some of the THINGS i wouldn't, change some of
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: the PEOPLE i would, change some of.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: The GUYS i will, keep you. Know AND i gave
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: my my honest.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Opinion and uh and and we we we had great.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Conversation it's just you, know it didn't work out and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: uh for some. Reason and and, Uh i'm not sad about.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: IT i stayed in the. ORGANIZATION i love the. Organization
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: it's something THAT i really want to, do is uh
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: be a part of. It and uh and when the
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: opportunity became presented itself to be a, manager possible, manager you,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: KNOW i, said you know, what If i'm gonna do,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Anything i'll. MANAGE i don't know IF i want to
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: coach full. Time but IF i can manage and create
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the team that THAT i can, see you, know AND
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: i can see that wins and give them the fundamentals
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: that they need to go perform on a day to day.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Basis Like Mark, trumbull the it's the small.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Things even in business right, now it's the small things
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: in the business, service you, Know, uh the customer experience
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: and all these different, things those small things that people
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: forget about because they're looking at the big. Thing the you,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: KNOW i definitely think that's what keep customers coming. Back in,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: baseball if you fundamentally, sound you can fill the, ball
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: turn the double, plays throw the guys, out be more
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: accurate at the, plate have good two strike, approach battle
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: what the, Plate, uh try to do less to get.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: More you do all these little.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Things that's what actually wins game because when you get
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: to the, playoffs that's what. Matters during the, season if
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: you're hitting bombs and you're doing all those, things it
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter because you're gonna face a one to two
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and the three. Starter if you don't have if you're
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: not fundamentally, sound you're not gonna.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: WIN i don't care what you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Say SO i think if you teach that droughout the,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: SEASON i think that. Works and that's something THAT i
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: wanted to bring to The, angels bring back to The
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: angels BECAUSE i GOT i think we got to a
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: point four or five years ago where we had launch
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: angle guys swinging for the. Fence you, know defense was.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Terrible i'm telling you, now five years AGO i could
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: not stand watching The. Angels, wow now they actually get.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: There they're actually getting. There they turned the. Corner no
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: one really talks about that stuff. Anymore we talk, About,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: hey the small, things play the.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Games the.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Controllables that's What kirchuzuki always talks, about the controllable control
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: of the things that you could control and throw out
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the other things that you.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Can't you do have a lot of business interest In,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: texas but if another opportunity to interview for manager's job comes,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: up you're going to pursue.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: IT i don't, KNOW i don't. KNOW i really love
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: What i'm doing right.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Now, uh that opportunity came and to try to take
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: advantage of. It it even came up with the twins as,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: well and, uh and and that didn't work out as.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Well but AND i understand that you know you have a.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Catcher catchers they seem to be uh more of a manager.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Manager But i'm a baseball. GUY i got a PhD
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: in this. Game trumpo got a PhD in this. GAME
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: i know how to play this, game AND i know
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: THAT i need a short stop the second base of
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the third. BASEMENT i need everybody around. Me you build
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: a team around. You that's what they. DO a pitcher,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: coach a bitch, coach a formal manager to help you
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: go through the. Process IF i build a team around,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: me doesn't matter what what you throw at, ME i.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: GOT i got a great team and a team THAT
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: i trust uh as as my. Staff so THAT'S i
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: think a lot of guys can be, managers you. Know
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: BUT i think it's just.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: A notion that people think that catches are. BETTER i don't.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Know, no you're right about.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: That they got.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: It it's like a built in you, know this guy's
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: got you, know got the got the goods or.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Something i've interviewed.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: For a couple things, too more on the hitting, side
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: but you know it didn't get. Them you don't know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Why like you, know you come away and who knows
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: what what somebody is looking for So, dji thanks for
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: the Hot tomali questions there that was?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Hot that was so? Hot?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay all, right all, RIGHT i gotta.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: EVERYTHING i just said was. Great now you acting the hot.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: QUICK i always love WHEN i asked you a question
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and you, say that's a Hot. Tomali that's whom you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Know is a good. Question all?
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Right not so not so Hot? Tomali not so?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Hot here we. Go uh.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah So i'm watching the other Day Matt. Chapman he
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: has some direct words for his first, Baseman Casey. SCHMID
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: i don't know if you saw it or, not but
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: it's a pretty direct. Feedback he felt like the play
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: should have been. Made in, ADDITION i also read a
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: pretty cool article the other day on The dodgers Where
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Dave roberts was talking how important it was to Get
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Clayton cursaw's buy in early, on at least as the team.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Leader Kurse aby and you, Know i'm unequivocal leader of The,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: dodgers and if he bought, in the other guys would buy.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: In so you've talked About Kirby puckett being a big
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: mentor to you and, showcasing you, know his, leadership AND
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: i didn't know, Him SO i don't know if you
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: know WHAT i saw from you was you, know close
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: to what he did or, not but you you were
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: one of a. Kind you know you're not going to
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: be able to replicate that as far as, LEADERSHIP i,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: mean hundreds of guys have benefited from having you on their.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Team and you, Know i've never seen anybody as good
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: as it then. You BUT i guess my question is
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: in this in this current, game THE a word analytics
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: and and a lot of teams going. YOUNGER i, mean
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: guys are getting big deals that are in DOUBLE a right.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Now it seems to be a. THING i, mean is
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: leadership as important as it's always been in the. GAME
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: i think it. IS i see playoff teams they have
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: a pretty clear leader usually if.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Not more than.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: One and what do you what are your thoughts on.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: THAT i definitely think that you have to have wisdom
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: on your.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: SQUAD i, mean every business, model EVERY uh team that
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: you know about that that is one or or gone
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to the next, level they've always had wisdom amongst them
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: AND uh AND i think just having a great you
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: just can't have the wisdom without the talent as. Well
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: so you got to have some talent with your. Wisdom
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: so you got to prove that you can go out
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: there and play every. Day and, uh they got to
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: watch you fail and see how you, react and if
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you can bounce, back and the quicker you bounce, back
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: they it builds up that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Leadership and, uh you, know most leaders don't say that they're.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Leaders they let other people say that they're leaders and
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and and in this game, TODAY i think it can't
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: be analyzed and you can't evaluate, it so they don't
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that leadership is like the last quality that they're looking
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: for because of analytics and. Data that's what they're looking more,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: at what what you're not doing and what you can. Do,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: uh but as far as, leadership it's like the last
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: quality that they're looking. For and, uh BUT i think
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: it should be something that You i'll take character THAT
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: i can teach you all the fundamentals and teach you the.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Game if you in the professional ram in minor leagues
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: and you come to the major, leagues if you've got
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: great character and great leadership, SKILLS i can teach you
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: how to hit and how to play the game the right.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Way.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Uh SO i would definitely take the character or the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: leadership skills, first and THEN i can teach you whether
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: it's in business and whether this in in this, game
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: BECAUSE i think if you got great, character that that
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: shows that you know you're gonna represent me off the.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Field and, uh for.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: The, angels it's it shows that you're gonna treat people
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: with love and respect around you and you're gonna make
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: people around you. Better and that's what good leaders. Do
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: they make you better even when they're going through rough.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Times, tory how is your perspective on the game changed
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: since you, retired especially watching it now from the front office.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Side? Oh, MAN i tell you.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: What one thing that the, abs the a bs is
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: kind of it's cool because now they're getting it. Right
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: but the abs also When i'm watching it doesn't allow
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the players to.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Swing they're thinking.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: That they're supposed to be, balls and that's not how
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: a game should be. Played you should be ready to
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: hit no matter. What AND i think they're getting more
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: lax because if it's even an inch off the, plate
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: they're like tapping their. Head i'm, like you should haven't
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: swinging at. That it's can to protect the, play you,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Know and so it's kind of like it's kind of
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: like a push and pull good and. Bad you, know
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of good in. It you, know we
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: all KNEW Cd butler was, bad but now we really SEE.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: C so you get some guys.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Exposed but at the same, time it's not about. That
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: it's really showing those guys. Up i'm be honest with.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: YOU i like a lot of the umpires as as. People,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: uh but it's really showing those guys up a.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Lot and.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Uh but at the same, TIME i think it's heard
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the hitter because they're not aggressive.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Enough there there's two.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Lacks they if it's, close they're taking pitches down the
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: middle thinking that they're going to get a. Walk i've
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: never seen so many backward backward k's in my life.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: This.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Year it seems to, me it seems kind of, awkward
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: to be, Honest AND i know the umpires are not
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: happy at.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: All i'm not.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Sure and maybe there was a memo that went out
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: talking about you, know how they're trying to actually judge
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: these pitches and some of these you know that are
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: so borderline their, strikes but you know they're they're barely
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: in the. Box and you, know guys are getting a
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: lot of flak for either challenging the wrong ones or
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: not challenging other ones that you, know, confusion and we'll
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: have to see as it. GOES i think it's brand,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: new so you, Know i'm all for, accuracy but with this,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: One i'm not seeing it. Yet If i'm being, honest
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: it doesn't feel like the game THAT i. Knew and nobody,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: gives you, know whatever about my opinion of WHAT i
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: want to, watch BUT i don't. KNOW i do say,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: thinking and there's been a lot of storylines about. It
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: if that's what they're looking, for you got, it all?
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Right all, right my last question for, today but it's
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: it's my personal. Thing and you were a career two
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: seventy seven hitter over seventeen. Years the average twenty one
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: homers eighty two. RBIs BUT i vividly remember you talking
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: about that you could count On Tory hunter to hit two,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: eighty to hit twenty home round and driving eighty eighty.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Runs and If i'm, MISTAKEN i, Apologize BUT i feel
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: like you said, that you, know and that was but
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: you were saying that that's what you held yourself too every,
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: year and you were dependable and teams could count on
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: that at least from, you if not more the batting.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: AVERAGE i think that you, know you do the best you.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: CAN i always wanted to hit to. EIGHTY i never got,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: there BUT i wanted to do, it AND i wasn't.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Satisfied yeah, Whatever, no, no, no it's it's part of
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: the part of the, deal had the home. Runs BUT
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: i thought it was AND i still think it's very.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Important do you think it's still important to try and
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: hit for high batting.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: AVERAGE i think it's very important to hit for high bat.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Average if you've got a high bat average and you
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: got runners in scoring, POSITION i want you at the.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: PLATE i don't want the guy.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: That swings and whales at you know, it rarely hits
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the ball. Consistently IF i IF i can have a
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: riot at the plate every time with the runs and
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: scoring position the ninth, DATING i Want Louise riots at
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the plate because he's gonna make contact and giving me
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: a chance to jump up and. Down and SO i
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: still think that trying to make contact and trying to
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: get that average up is very.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Important AND i think with.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: The you know that spell in five years, ago six years,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: ago when we got into that launch launch angle and
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the exit velocity and all these different. THINGS i think
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the average suffered a, lot but guys are getting paid for.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: That so if guys are getting paid for, that and
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: these players see that they're getting paid for, this but
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: hitting two forty two thirty with forty home runs and
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: sixty RBIs is they getting paid for?
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: That why WOULDN'T i try to do?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: It SO i can't fault the players on. THAT i
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: fought the, philosophy AND i think that philosophy is starting
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to change and come.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: BACK i think you saw With Milwaukee brewers who.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Went out, there they hit and, ran and they bunted the,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Ball they played the game the right way and end
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: up making themselves a playoff contending. Team and uh, SO
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: i think you're going to see a lot of teams change.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: That you saw it on the, playoffs the way they
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: played the game With Blue, jays and it was all
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the little things that actually hurt them and on both.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Sides but H i definitely think that you, know when
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: you when you talk about the small things hidden for
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: average is a thing THAT i will want it to
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: plate opposed to trying to wait for a home. RUN
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: i want to see. ACTION i want to see, movement
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: And i'm pretty sure the faces want to see the
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: same thing as.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Well a lot of hits on the ground. TOO i,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: mean it's it like the ground ball hit kind of you,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: know it's not as popular and, whatever but that's how
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: you keep your bat average up is getting those ground ball.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Hits you, know you hit them, hard sometimes you.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Don't hit them.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Hard they all, count especially and you Mentioned joe using
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: the whole. Field there's there's a lot of hits over
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: there in that, coorehole you. Know but but it's not
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: going to happen with a swing that's trying to hit
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: the left field foul, pole you, know if that's your.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Goal so SO i think that that's kind of What
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  Speaker 4: i'm getting. At and and you talked about, it said
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: are better than, me but it is, IMPORTANT i, think
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: and hopefully it is coming back. Around AND i like
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: Watching Stephen, KAAN i like Watching. Ariyahs these guys have
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: nothing in common with, me but they you, know it's, like,
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  Speaker 4: MAN i like, THAT i like. That look at that punch.
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  Speaker 4: Single that's. COOL i think it's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: That big, hit with that big hit with runners and score.
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  Speaker 2: Position you want that guy to, play you, know for.
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  Speaker 2: Me it was a two, seventy two eighty hitter that you,
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  Speaker 2: Say but, MAN i was a.
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  Speaker 3: Hybrid you.
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  Speaker 2: KNOW i was a guy who led off the first
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  Speaker 2: couple of, years SO i, was you, know sending. Tables
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  Speaker 2: and then they, say this guy has the mentality to hit, third,
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  Speaker 2: fourth and.
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  Speaker 3: Fifth it doesn't matter where he. Goes he has some.
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  Speaker 3: Mentality he's ready to.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Go so he put me fourth and, fifth you, know
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  Speaker 2: with the, twins AND i AND i hit Behind David.
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  Speaker 2: ORTIZ i was his protection for a long, time and
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: so NOW i didn't have an. Identity so when you
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: see me at two, eighty two seventy and then, twenty
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: and IF i wanted to swing like these, GUYS i
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: probably would have hit thirty and, forty BUT i would
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  Speaker 2: have my would have.
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  Speaker 3: Suffered. Right but IF i IF i, say you know,
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  Speaker 3: WHAT i don't want to hit, TWENTY i want to.
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  Speaker 2: Just GIVE i could have hit three, hundred you, Know
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  Speaker 2: AND i did it a couple of times in my
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  Speaker 2: later and later in my.
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  Speaker 3: Career Uh so IT'S i was a, hybrid AND i was.
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  Speaker 4: CONFUSED i wouldn't say you were very talented because it's
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: hard to do. Both and With detroit you know you
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: were hitting in the top of they were If i'm not,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: mistaken With detroit and and hit it for a higher
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  Speaker 4: average AND i don't want to say set on the,
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  Speaker 4: table but maybe a little.
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  Speaker 3: Bit, yeah and.
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  Speaker 4: That the big boppers behind. You, YEAH i, KNOW i,
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Know yeah he.
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  Speaker 3: Did, yeah he didn't look.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Confused the night you hit three bombs In anaheim and
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: had a chance for. Four oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: That that, day that DAY i was on.
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  Speaker 3: Something i'm telling, YOU i would have hit.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Thirty all, right, te we're gonna close the. Show they not, Hot.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: TOMALI i don't know if you, remember but about fifteen
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: years ago you were one of the GUYS i interviewed
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: for a STORY i wrote about players and their special
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: relationships with their. Gloves and you said you would name your.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Gloves what would you name your? Gloves how would you name?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Them and what would prompt you to switch? Gloves maybe
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: when one of them was acting up a little?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Bit, well, well you know when the glove was WHEN
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  Speaker 2: i first meet my. Glove oh, man this sounds really,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: bad but WHEN i first meet my, GLOVE i GIVE
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: i give them a warm bath in a, microwave RIGHT
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: i put. IT i dipped them in the asana of
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: the jacuzzie and a warm. Jacuzzi THEN i put them
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: in a, microwave and THEN i massage her for a long,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: time my, glove and massage it for a long, time
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: right to actually mold and make, it make her the
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: WAY i want to and. Uh and THEN i go
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  Speaker 2: out AND i perform with the, glove and the glove
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  Speaker 2: does what is going to.
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  Speaker 3: DO i always celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: IT i put it on a pedestal on the top
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  Speaker 2: of my locker and let people see the gold on.
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  Speaker 7: It and WHEN i make an, error IF i make an,
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  Speaker 7: ERROR i actually put it back in a microwaves and
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: donate it to.
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  Speaker 3: Charity so you didn't donate many?
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  Speaker 5: GLOVES i.
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  Speaker 2: DIDN'T i didn't donate a lot of, gloves But i'm
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: pretty SURE i donated about twelve.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Fifteen and didn't you have names for? Them and how
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: would you name your?
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Gloves, well you KNOW i have SUSIE.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Q you, KNOW i don't. KNOW i always liked that.
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  Speaker 2: NAME i heard it maybe in the. Story it was SUSIE.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Q SO i named my first glove SUSAN. Q AND
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: i always tell guys go get SUSAN. Q they'd be,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: like who is?
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: That and then some of my clubhouse guys are the.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Twins they always. Knew AND i Got SUSAN. Q you
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: want me to take her?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Up SO i love that name AND i that was
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: my first, Glove SUSAN. C i had one, Name, bertha Big.
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  Speaker 2: Bertha it sounds. Strong you don't want to mess with Big.
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  Speaker 5: Bertha, No i'd like. TO i WISH i could have
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  Speaker 5: borrowed Big. BERTHA i think that's WHAT i was. MISSING
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  Speaker 5: i think that's That's i'm.
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  Speaker 3: FIGURING i figured out WHY i.
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  Speaker 5: WAS i was limited out. THERE i didn't Have Big.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Bertha if, memory.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: There was also A cocoa and A delicious in there
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  Speaker 1: as AS i.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Recalled, Hey cocoa And delicious was good as. Well but
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: those that's another. Story that's what a.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Lot of how do you know all this?
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Stuff?
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  Speaker 5: Mite?
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  Speaker 4: Well AND i are that was. It that was a fun,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: story fun. Story that was all the. Record, hey can
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: can you clarify one? Thing AND i might be late
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: to the party On trout's. GLOVE I i don't see
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: a trapeze, currently is? Okay all? RIGHT i wasn't. Crazy
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: MAYBE i think it was this. Year if it was last, year,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: well you, know wasn't playing a ton of d last.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Year but but that's a big to. Me you used
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: the trapeze your whole, CAREER i. Believe and he has this.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: POINT i seen an h web out there or.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Something, YEAH i mean he's catching the ball and he
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: looks good out there to, ME i don't. THINK i
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: don't know what you guys, think BUT i think he
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: looks good out. There he's making the play and and,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: uh and he seems.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Comfortable so, no in the wind the other, day but that's.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: That that was The. Chicago the wind was blowing like.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Crazy it was. Nuts it was.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Nuts but he looks great and he's, happy he's, smiling
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: he's stealing. Bases it looks like A mike trout of,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: uh you, know years. Ago so if he keeps it, up,
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: man the teams be.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Great. Yeah and, yeah it's. Good you can.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Tell you can tell it's good for he's having fun
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: and that's that's what you want to. See we're having.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Fun we've been told our podcast lacks. Energy it's not
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: gonna lack of energy. Today it's not gonna. Lie AND
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: i THINK.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: I found the. Solution, no, no it, won't thank.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: You very, Much tory can you come back three times next?
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Week not a, budget, mane not.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: A, budget and my chickie AND i gotta wait for
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: it to go.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: Through we need to show you what.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: But, yeah we.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Better we better close this show right there on a high.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Note Tory, hunter Former angels, outfielder now special assistant to The,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: gym thank you for joining us. Today we really appreciate
• 38:31
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• 38:34
  Speaker 1: be it For Halo territory and we'll see you out
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: there this. Weekend, Tory we'll see you next.
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  Speaker 3: Time thank, you, guys