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Dodgers RP Brock Stewart joins FT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Hey, here comes Brock Stewart of the Dodgers joining us
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Speaker 1: right now on FT Brock, We really appreciate the time.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. So how is a glorious off
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Speaker 1: season of celebrating for you and then resting and recovering
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Speaker 1: and now spring training is around the corner.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been good. First of all, thanks for having
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Speaker 2: me on, guys, but it's been good. You know, the
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Speaker 2: World Series backed back to be part of that little
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Speaker 2: part I was was pretty cool and the trade worked
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Speaker 2: out really well for me. I gotta World Series ring
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Speaker 2: and some playoff money out of it, but that's you know.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't a huge part of it, but just to
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Speaker 2: be around it and experience it, it was awesome. And
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Speaker 2: looking forward to having way more to do with the
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Speaker 2: three pet this next season for sure.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Now, have you, guys gotten into the conversations like a
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Speaker 1: team such as the Dodgers will do. Hey, we want
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Speaker 1: you to do your thing a little bit, but now
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Speaker 1: let's talk. This is what we really like about you,
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Speaker 1: this is why we traded for you, and this is
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Speaker 1: maybe one thing we would like to see you do differently,
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Speaker 1: whether it's mechanical or pitch usage. Any of that. Have
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Speaker 1: you guys had that conversation or is that more something?
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Speaker 1: Now you can kind of reset to your own thing
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Speaker 1: and then talk in spring training because you'll have plenty
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Speaker 1: of time there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we had.
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Speaker 2: We had meetings right when I got traded over, and
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Speaker 2: I had some familiarity because I was Dodger in the
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Speaker 2: past from sixteen to nine, up and down, Triple A,
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Speaker 2: the Big Leagues and all that. But I had some familiarity,
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Speaker 2: so they knew my stuff. You know everybody's They know
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Speaker 2: everybody's stuff. Everything's on true media and everything's recorded, every
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Speaker 2: pitch you throw and everything, so everybody knows everything, everything
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Speaker 2: about everybody. So the Dodgers knew what I had coming in,
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Speaker 2: and they knew that I was really good against right
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Speaker 2: handed hitters, and they wanted me to pretty much continue
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Speaker 2: what I was doing against righty's. But they did have
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Speaker 2: a couple of suggestions about lefties, maybe throwing the sweeper
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Speaker 2: to get ahead into the count. Just get me over
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Speaker 2: a little sweeper to get into account and then go
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Speaker 2: from there, because last year, in particular, I fared way
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Speaker 2: better against.
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Speaker 4: Rightis than I did lefties.
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Speaker 2: But no, the Dodgers had a great plan for me,
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Speaker 2: It's just unfortunate that I only was able to throw
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Speaker 2: four times for before my shoulder flare back up. But
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Speaker 2: like I said, just looking forward to helping out much
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Speaker 2: much more this twenty twenty sixth season.
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Speaker 3: All right, before I asked the question, because I was
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Speaker 3: going to ask you by your shoulder when you grew
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Speaker 3: up in normal Illinois, were you a Cubs or a
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Speaker 3: White Sox fan, because that's gonna dictate how the next
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Speaker 3: ten minutes your life goes.
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Speaker 2: Adrian, I'm glad you brought this up. I was actually
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Speaker 2: a White Sox fan, so uh, thank you? Okay, good, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: now we can be positive.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Now he can have a great passage.
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Speaker 2: What I think at that time, I was thirteen or
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Speaker 2: fourteen when you guys want it all and pretty cool
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Speaker 2: to be talking to talking to you now because I
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Speaker 2: mean back back when I was thirteen or fourteen, you
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Speaker 2: you were larger than life, and that whole team was
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Speaker 2: larger than life. That was really cool. And I actually
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Speaker 2: I went to Illinois State. Do you know which one
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Speaker 2: of your World Series teammates went to Illinois State?
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Speaker 4: Neil Cox Katzi. Yeah, yeah, he's a great guy.
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Speaker 3: He is a great gross great guy, great good should
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Speaker 3: have been him all day.
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Speaker 5: Hey day before I asked this question, Brock, like, don't
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Speaker 5: come on here and be you know, we don't need
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Speaker 5: to lie to be friends. Like this could be a
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Speaker 5: great interview. There's no such thing as you either had
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Speaker 5: a bunch of friends and you were a Cubs fan,
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Speaker 5: or you didn't have friends and you were a white
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Speaker 5: Sox fan. Isn't that how it goes in northern Illinois.
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Speaker 4: I think I had that.
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Speaker 2: I had he's some central just enough friends, and I
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Speaker 2: was a Sox fan. I was one of like so
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Speaker 2: my hometown let me to normal Illinois, right in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the state. So like, I would say, sixty
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Speaker 2: percent Cubs fans, thirty percent Cardinal fans, and then I
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Speaker 2: was one of the ten percent.
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Speaker 4: White Sox fans. And it might it might not even
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Speaker 4: be ten percent, but I was one of those small,
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Speaker 4: small percentage of white Sox fans.
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Speaker 3: By the way, yeah, I can live with Cardinals or
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Speaker 3: white Sox so normal, You're normal. The sixty percent of
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Speaker 3: the problem, okay. But by the way, crowds is just jealous,
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Speaker 3: because Brock, you had a fathead of me in your
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Speaker 3: room growing up, and crats never have that, So it's okay,
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Speaker 3: it's okay.
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Speaker 5: I always fathead.
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Speaker 4: I don't know about the fathead. I don't know about that.
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Speaker 3: It's always a head. Yeah you were you weren't that.
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Speaker 3: You weren't that coy Oh I had a fat I
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Speaker 3: have one. I had a fat head. I was the
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Speaker 3: White Sox fathead guy, which is kind of no. I
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Speaker 3: mean his in his mind, you aren't. That's fine, that's fine.
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Speaker 3: In your mind.
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Speaker 5: You were that cool.
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Speaker 3: I was.
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Speaker 2: I was also a fan of I mean, yeah, you
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Speaker 2: were great, AJ. But that's starting rotation, especially in the postseason.
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Speaker 2: That starting rotation was silly.
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Speaker 3: What they what they preaed, but they couldn't have done
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Speaker 3: it without the catcher, Brock. Don't ever forget.
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Speaker 4: That the game manager behind.
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Speaker 3: The dish exactly. All right, So let's get back to
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Speaker 3: you now that we're now the Cratch has done glazing me.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Cratch. How's your shoulder because you missed the
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Speaker 3: end of the year with the shoulder and you had surgery?
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Speaker 3: Am I am? I correct? Do you have surgery? Ye?
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Speaker 3: So how's the rehab it? Will you be ready for
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Speaker 3: spring or what's the prognosis for you going forward?
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Speaker 4: So the rehab's going well. It's a you know, it's
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Speaker 4: been mostly smooth. You know, there's some.
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Speaker 2: Days that it's kind of you got to knock the
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Speaker 2: cobwebs off when you play catch, and especially each step
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Speaker 2: up in intensity, I've had to deal with a little
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Speaker 2: bit of the cobwebs. But the recovery has been really good.
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Speaker 2: I'm able to play catch the next day. Everything's feeling clean,
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Speaker 2: feeling great going through certain ranges, which is not always
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Speaker 2: been the case. So yeah, I mean, I'm not exactly
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Speaker 2: sure when I'll be activated for the season.
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Speaker 4: I think I'll have.
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Speaker 2: To spend a little bit time on the injured list
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Speaker 2: just to start the year. I'm not off the mound yet,
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Speaker 2: so I think I'll get off the mound within the
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Speaker 2: next few weeks, once I get out to Arizona and
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Speaker 2: get some cleats on. I think at that point that
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Speaker 2: then we can, you know, they get eyes on me
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Speaker 2: and then see where I'm at and maybe think about
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Speaker 2: getting off the mound within another couple of weeks. But
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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm getting the vibes that there's no
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Speaker 2: rush with this. We want to make sure, we want
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Speaker 2: to make sure the shoulder is good to go for
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Speaker 2: the you know, the dog days of summer and then
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Speaker 2: leading into leading into the fall baseball when it gets
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Speaker 2: really fun. I think that's when they want me at
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Speaker 2: my best, and that's when I am expecting to be
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Speaker 2: at my best. So whatever it takes to get to
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Speaker 2: that point, it is what it is. I've dealt with
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Speaker 2: injuries before, so I'm familiar with this rehab process and.
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Speaker 4: Really take it day by day.
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Speaker 2: So every every day I go into tread athletics here
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Speaker 2: in Chars, then I go to my PT clinic down
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Speaker 2: the road and just do what I have to do.
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Speaker 2: Try to try to be better than I was the
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Speaker 2: day before and try to feel better than the day
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Speaker 2: day before. So yeah, I like where I'm at. There's
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Speaker 2: still a little bit of a road to go, but
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm out to one hundred and fifty one
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty feet throwing in the mid eighties, so
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Speaker 2: I think I'm I think I'm on the right path
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Speaker 2: to getting where I need to be to help the
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six Dodgers.
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Speaker 5: Can you confirm that they told you to take your time?
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Speaker 5: Because we hear all the time. We see, you know,
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Speaker 5: like this guy had this and we always just say.
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Speaker 5: It feels like the Dodgers are just they're playing for
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Speaker 5: the postseason, and to me, it's the smartest thing, Like
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Speaker 5: why try to just burn some dude out when he's
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Speaker 5: going to be elite in the postseason. So, can you
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Speaker 5: confirm that the Dodgers have said slow down, take your time.
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Speaker 5: The most important time of year is October.
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Speaker 2: They know that everybody knows that that the most important
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Speaker 2: time is late in the season, the playoff push and
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Speaker 2: then in the playoff. But no, I I can say
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Speaker 2: with a hundred percent honesty, they have not told me
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Speaker 2: to take it easy.
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Speaker 4: It's more so just the the.
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Speaker 2: Vibe I'm getting from the training staff and kind of
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Speaker 2: the throwing schedule that they're sending me. But no, I honestly,
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Speaker 2: they they have never said, you know, we're gonna we're
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Speaker 2: gonna hold you back until you're one hundred percent and
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Speaker 2: you know if that's you know, July or August, and
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Speaker 2: so be it. No, they have not said that. I'm
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Speaker 2: I'm fully anticipating being activated, you know, not too far
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Speaker 2: into the season, hopefully sometime I really don't know, but
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Speaker 2: around around the beginning of May. Maybe we will see,
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Speaker 2: you know, like I said, there's a long there's a
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Speaker 2: there's some road.
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Speaker 4: Left to go before I get activated.
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Speaker 2: So uh, like I said, just take it one day
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Speaker 2: at a time, and UH should be good.
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Speaker 3: By the way, you mentioned something you mentioned you're a
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Speaker 3: tread You don't work with, you don't work with Justin Nicolino.
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Speaker 3: Do you have a trick, because if you do, I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna tell you to stay far far away from him.
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Speaker 4: So I don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't work directly with him, but it was always
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Speaker 2: around and he's one of a kind. He's he's the man.
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Speaker 2: I've got to got to know him a little bit
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Speaker 2: this offseason, and I know he spent some time in
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Speaker 2: the big leagues. So yeah, just just to talk with him.
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Speaker 2: He's he's awesome and he's a character too.
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Speaker 3: He's ask him just do me a favor. Next time
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Speaker 3: you see him, just say, hey, tell me about the
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Speaker 3: time you went to Baker's Bay. Just just ask him
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Speaker 3: that and then just let him go for about two
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Speaker 3: hours on his experience when we went we went on vacation.
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Speaker 3: One time went on vacation, we went on a guy's
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Speaker 3: trip to play golf together, and just let him fill
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Speaker 3: you in on that. It'll take it's going to take
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Speaker 3: you a bit. It's a hilarious story, especially when we
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Speaker 3: returned home. They'll tell you what happened and you probably
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Speaker 3: won't believe it.
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Speaker 4: That's great.
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Speaker 2: So I'm not very confident in my ability to tell stories,
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Speaker 2: but I'll tell you what. I don't know him super well,
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Speaker 2: but that guy seems like he could tell a good story.
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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go. Ah, I'll see him tomorrow, so
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Speaker 4: I'll ask him tomorrow about it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, just call him Tiger Dick. Sorry, I know, just
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Speaker 3: say hey, Tiger Dick, A J says, Hi. I guarantee
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Speaker 3: you'll know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 4: All right, sounds good.
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Speaker 5: All right, Well, you have to tell the story about
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Speaker 5: when you got traded last year along with the cavalcade
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Speaker 5: of guy did they give Did they get a whole
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Speaker 5: bust together and ship you all to the airport at
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Speaker 5: the same time when they got rid of half your team?
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Speaker 4: No, but that would have made sense.
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Speaker 2: That was a you know, Dodgers aside, la aside, the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers aside. That was a really sad day because you know,
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Speaker 2: I got to be really close with all those guys
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Speaker 2: up in Minnesota, and there's so many good people in
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Speaker 2: that organization and in that city, and that you know
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Speaker 2: that a whole area Minnesota nice is a real thing.
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Speaker 2: Those people are the best. They deserve a winning team.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of unfortunate to see what transpired last year.
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Speaker 4: And then.
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Speaker 2: You know the issue with the president, Derek Falvin kind
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Speaker 2: of breaking up with the Twins here recently. You know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know what it's all about. I just know
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Speaker 2: that the Twins deserve a winning team. And like I said,
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Speaker 2: a lot of great people up there. But that that
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Speaker 2: day was crazy. I mean, I think I was one
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Speaker 2: of the first guys to go on that trade deadline
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Speaker 2: day and then kind of just you know, watching as
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Speaker 2: the day went. It was shocking. It was shocking. They
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Speaker 2: did a total fire sale. Pretty much everybody that was
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Speaker 2: you know, a rental, a free agent definitely was gone.
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Speaker 2: And then even some controllable guys like I get in
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Speaker 2: my case, you know, I'm thirty at the time, thirty
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Speaker 2: three now thirty four, battled with some injuries my whole career,
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Speaker 2: so maybe trade.
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Speaker 4: Me, get some value back for me.
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Speaker 2: But you know, some of the controllable guys were a
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Speaker 2: little head scratching, like Louis Barland going to Toronto. I
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Speaker 2: mean he was controller for four or five more seasons
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Speaker 2: and throws one hundred could have been their closer. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean there's reasons for everything. I don't know what's
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Speaker 2: going on with ownership in the Twins at the front
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Speaker 2: office or.
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Speaker 4: Anything like that, but.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a wild day for me and my Twins teammates.
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Speaker 2: But then when I learned that I was going to
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Speaker 2: LA where I had some familiarity, and that I was joining.
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Speaker 4: Quite possibly the best team ever, pretty cool. Yeah, pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: That side of it was awesome, and I was really
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Speaker 2: looking forward to getting out of there, out of Cleveland.
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Speaker 2: We were on the road in Cleveland, really looking forward
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Speaker 2: to getting out into LA is what I meant to say.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, only three or four times for him last year,
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Speaker 4: but looking forward to helping out a lot more.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of negative around the Twins with getting
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Speaker 5: rid of everybody ownership, not sure all that stuff. But
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Speaker 5: if you look at twenty four, twenty three actually and
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Speaker 5: twenty four maybe one of the most dominant bullpens that
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Speaker 5: I've seen that really didn't get to shine their light
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Speaker 5: brightly in huge, huge playoff games. What do they do
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Speaker 5: like part of the fact that they got rid of everybody.
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Speaker 5: It almost seems like the Twins are like, yeah, sure,
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Speaker 5: we'll find Brock Stewart from the injured list independent league,
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Speaker 5: and we'll go and turn them around into this elite
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Speaker 5: bullpen guy. You know, who heard of Louis Varland before?
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Speaker 3: Who?
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Speaker 5: You know, they really created this bullpen that kind of came.
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Speaker 3: Came out of nowhere.
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Speaker 5: What were they doing during that time and is it
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Speaker 5: something that they can continue to do to find that
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Speaker 5: massive value in bullpen guys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't really know what they did necessarily.
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Speaker 2: I joined as a minor league free agent with the
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Speaker 2: Twins back in the summer of twenty two, and right
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Speaker 2: off the bat, I could tell that the Twins were
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Speaker 2: very forward thinking when it comes to pitching and very analytical,
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Speaker 2: and you know, they wanted you to lean on your
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Speaker 2: strengths and they you know, they did that that really
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Speaker 2: well with the pitching staff and you know, the pitching
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Speaker 2: staff and the front office side of things, and then
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Speaker 2: like the player development side of things. Everybody was open
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Speaker 2: and honest with everybody, and it just seemed like a
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Speaker 2: well oiled machine when I got there, and I know,
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Speaker 2: I knew we had a lot of talent in the
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Speaker 2: bullpen and in the starting rotation, I mean, and on
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Speaker 2: that team. Honestly, if you look at the twenty three
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Speaker 2: to twenty five rosters for the Twins, I mean, pretty
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Speaker 2: good rosters. Never really put it together consistently, but I
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Speaker 2: mean last year, I remember, we were part of a
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Speaker 2: I think we won thirteen in a row early in
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Speaker 2: the season, So we definitely were always capable of playing
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Speaker 2: winning baseball. We just never really strung it together totally.
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Speaker 2: But no, like you said, there was a lot of
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Speaker 2: talent in the bullpen. You know, I really think we
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Speaker 2: have a lot of talent this Dodger's bullpen. But I'm
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Speaker 2: not sure if I'll be part of a bullpen that
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Speaker 2: had more talent than some of these Twins bullpens. And yeah, shoot,
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Speaker 2: what was it last year? Five of the guys, the
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Speaker 2: eight guys in the bullpen were traded.
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Speaker 5: All right, Well, then you have to ask the typical
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Speaker 5: Dodger player question, have you talked to Show Hey? Or
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Speaker 5: do you have to have more than five appearances to
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Speaker 5: have talked to Show Hey? And do you have any
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Speaker 5: good Show Hey stories?
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Speaker 4: Oh Man stories?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I just it's really intriguing
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Speaker 2: to watch him go about his business every day and
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Speaker 2: inspiring honestly because he I mean, I am a bullpen
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Speaker 2: middle reliever and I'll maybe pitch you know, every other game,
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Speaker 2: every third game. So but I'm I'm training, and my
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Speaker 2: my training takes you know, pretty much all day. Like
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Speaker 2: I have maybe an hour hour and a half of
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Speaker 2: downtime before the game starts, where I just chill. But
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Speaker 2: to see him train for both hitting and pitching is incredible,
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Speaker 2: and he has his routine down to like the minute,
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Speaker 2: and he knows what he has to do, and like
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Speaker 2: I said, it's really inspiring. I haven't spent a time,
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Speaker 2: you know, as much time as I want to around him,
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Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to this spring and then this season.
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Speaker 4: But so I don't have any crazy stories. I just
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Speaker 4: know he's a super good dude.
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Speaker 2: And when I came off the mound after my first
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Speaker 2: outing when I joined the team, he just looked.
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Speaker 4: At me nasty. I said, yeah, let's go, man. So
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Speaker 4: it's cool.
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Speaker 2: It's just cool to see that he's a great person,
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Speaker 2: you know, along with other guys Freddie MOOKI all those
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Speaker 2: guys you know that'll have all the money in the world.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people might think that they they're just
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Speaker 2: gonna cash it in and show up and yeah, I
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Speaker 2: guess this is what I do and just take home
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Speaker 2: a paycheck and just you know, get ready for the
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Speaker 2: game and go play. But no, they're the they're the
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Speaker 2: first some of the first guys there. They're the weight
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Speaker 2: room all the time. Like I said about show Hey,
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Speaker 2: and it's the same with Freddy and Muki and all
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Speaker 2: those guys, like they they get after it, which is
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Speaker 2: really inspiring because they could easily, you know, just kind
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Speaker 2: of cash it in and take it easy and know
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Speaker 2: that they're going to play every day and know that
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Speaker 2: they're going to have a paycheck coming in every uh
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Speaker 2: every other Friday. But no, some of those guys are
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Speaker 2: the hardest workers on the team, which is really really
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Speaker 2: cool to see. And show he's the man. I have
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Speaker 2: nothing but good things to say about show Hey.
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Speaker 3: Brock. What about your view? Oh a J? You got
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Speaker 3: or no? Yeah, sorry, Scott, cheez you want to talk
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Speaker 3: so much? Change you missed, You missed one day of
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Speaker 3: work and now you just want to cheez.
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Speaker 1: We have so we don't talk over each other too much.
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Speaker 1: And a J didn't say next.
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Speaker 4: So it's okay, it's okay, yeah, chat all.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, we do it.
15:49
Speaker 1: We do it every day on the show. But I
15:52
Speaker 1: guess matters right now, you've got a white Sox fan.
15:56
Speaker 4: You talk ship behind guys backs as you're talking at all.
16:01
Speaker 3: We I mean, I do not know has been there's
16:05
Speaker 3: been times where you're sitting next to a guest and
16:07
Speaker 3: when I come to spring training starting like next week,
16:10
Speaker 3: you'll see that. I'm like, hey, just reminder, guys, people
16:13
Speaker 3: can see my chat, so just careful what you're right, Okay,
16:18
Speaker 3: just be careful. If you did steroids nexting Tiger Dick, sorry,
16:23
Speaker 3: I apologize if you make sure it gives you some
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Speaker 3: ship tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: If you do steroids, I will put it in the
16:29
Speaker 5: thread so that you see it when you're sitting next
16:32
Speaker 5: to AJ. So spring training is coming up and any
16:35
Speaker 5: x p D guys, I'm just gonna be like, hey,
16:39
Speaker 5: j ask him about doing steroids.
16:43
Speaker 3: That's not true.
16:45
Speaker 2: You know it goes for you guys. See how it
16:47
Speaker 2: goes for you guys in the whole the whole show.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, not true, not true. Not good. Anyways, Now onto Yamamoto.
16:55
Speaker 3: I think Yamamoto might have been on something which called
16:57
Speaker 3: adrenaline this this postseason because the Dodgers are super careful
17:01
Speaker 3: with everybody and they all muddles like, Oh, I threw
17:03
Speaker 3: Game six, don't worry, guys, I'll come in and shove
17:05
Speaker 3: in Game seven the next day. To how impressive was
17:08
Speaker 3: that Because you mentioned, you know, you're a middle reliever
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Speaker 3: and you might pitch every other day. This guy started
17:13
Speaker 3: and then closed it out the next day.
17:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just I'm just thinking back to when I
17:17
Speaker 2: was a starter, you know, coming through the minor leagues.
17:19
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a bullpen guy. Now they're all failed starters,
17:22
Speaker 2: but when I was a starter, I just know how
17:25
Speaker 2: I felt after throwing six seven innings and the next
17:28
Speaker 2: day especially, I mean.
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Speaker 4: I it's unbelievable. It's unprecedented.
17:34
Speaker 2: I don't know if it'll ever happen again what he did,
17:37
Speaker 2: and not just to you know what, he throw eight
17:40
Speaker 2: innings Game six and then coming back for Game seven.
17:43
Speaker 2: It'd be different if he just went out for Game
17:45
Speaker 2: seven for like a hitter to finish an inning, but no,
17:48
Speaker 2: he pitched what was it two and a third or
17:49
Speaker 2: two and two thirds to finish that game seven. Truly incredible.
17:54
Speaker 2: Another guy that has all the money in the world
17:57
Speaker 2: but works so hard. I mean, you should his mobility routine,
18:01
Speaker 2: and I think there's been viral clips of him doing
18:03
Speaker 2: his mobility stuff where he's doing like headstands and handstands
18:05
Speaker 2: and back bends. He can contort his body like I'll
18:09
Speaker 2: never be able to. But no, he's a really hard worker.
18:12
Speaker 2: And what he did, I mean it should be national news.
18:17
Speaker 2: I say it all the time, but like show Hay's
18:18
Speaker 2: three homer game, the ten punchies and then Yamamoto what
18:21
Speaker 2: he did. I mean, this should be even if you
18:23
Speaker 2: don't like baseball, if you just you know, barely follow sports,
18:26
Speaker 2: like this should be front page headline news.
18:29
Speaker 4: What those guys did for us truly incredible.
18:33
Speaker 5: Where were you during that run? A lot of people
18:36
Speaker 5: know about where Shohey was during the World Series run?
18:38
Speaker 5: He was on the field, Guys that are injured, guys
18:41
Speaker 5: that are not active. Where were you and how did
18:44
Speaker 5: you feel like the Dodgers, Like was there a give
18:46
Speaker 5: and take in all of that?
18:50
Speaker 4: So I was with the team until the CS, and
18:53
Speaker 4: then I came home to Charlotte after the CS and
18:59
Speaker 4: everybody was super with it. I mean there's mental mental
19:02
Speaker 4: warfare on my side. I just didn't. I the last
19:04
Speaker 4: thing I wanted to be for the team was in
19:06
Speaker 4: the way. You know.
19:07
Speaker 2: I only pitched four times for him in August and
19:10
Speaker 2: then tried to come back at the end of the season,
19:12
Speaker 2: didn't work out, ended up getting surgery. So I was
19:14
Speaker 2: on the shelf, and I, you know, barely helped the team.
19:17
Speaker 4: So the last thing I wanted to do was be
19:19
Speaker 4: in the way and for PT.
19:21
Speaker 2: When the team was on the road and the Philly
19:24
Speaker 2: See Philly series and then the.
19:25
Speaker 4: Brewers series, I was going to. UH.
19:28
Speaker 2: I was going to a PT clinic in Beverly Hills,
19:30
Speaker 2: So that was like a kind of an hour, like
19:32
Speaker 2: an hour long drive work from where I was. So
19:35
Speaker 2: just because I wasn't traveling with the team, and just
19:37
Speaker 2: because I had to drive about an hour to Pete
19:39
Speaker 2: and I had kids that we wanted to get back
19:42
Speaker 2: to Charlotte and get into a they call it school,
19:44
Speaker 2: but it's basically daycare.
19:45
Speaker 4: It's called weekday school.
19:46
Speaker 2: But UH, I was just open and honest with the daughters,
19:49
Speaker 2: and UH they kind of let me do whatever I
19:51
Speaker 2: wanted to do, so they had no issues with me
19:54
Speaker 2: heading home, and it was kind of weird just watching
19:57
Speaker 2: the team, but like I said, I was barely part
19:59
Speaker 2: of it. So but I was big old cheerleader from
20:04
Speaker 2: my couch at home. But to be there with the
20:07
Speaker 2: team for the home games of the playoffs this past
20:09
Speaker 2: season was super cool, and it's a you know, I
20:13
Speaker 2: really want to be part of a three peat and
20:15
Speaker 2: I really want to have a lot more to do
20:16
Speaker 2: with it, and that then that's when I can really
20:19
Speaker 2: enjoy the celebrations, enjoy.
20:20
Speaker 4: The parade and all that. So no, I'm working each
20:23
Speaker 4: and every.
20:24
Speaker 2: Day to feel to feel what those guys felt after
20:27
Speaker 2: the last out of this game seven was made. I
20:29
Speaker 2: think that's what everybody dreams of, So in twenty twenty six,
20:33
Speaker 2: really looking forward to being a part of it. And
20:36
Speaker 2: you know, everybody knows we got a great team and
20:39
Speaker 2: could go for the three peat. So that's, you know,
20:41
Speaker 2: that's where my mind is going to be each and
20:42
Speaker 2: every day. I'm going to try to try to go
20:44
Speaker 2: to work and be better than I was the day
20:46
Speaker 2: before and help out the team and be able to
20:49
Speaker 2: be around the celebrations and you know feel like, you know,
20:52
Speaker 2: you really earned it.
20:53
Speaker 4: So I'm really looking forward to that.
20:56
Speaker 5: I was the reason I asked that was because I
20:58
Speaker 5: was pretty much in the same situation. I fired halfway
21:00
Speaker 5: through the year from the Royals. I was on the
21:03
Speaker 5: team Salvador Perez played all the time, so even if
21:05
Speaker 5: I was on the team, I probably wasn't going to
21:07
Speaker 5: do a whole lot anyway, and I watched this team.
21:11
Speaker 5: I watched the Royals win against the Mets from my couch.
21:15
Speaker 5: The rest of my family had watched pretty much the
21:16
Speaker 5: whole postseason, and they all went to bed in game
21:19
Speaker 5: I think it was Game five they beat the Mets,
21:22
Speaker 5: or Game six, I forget exactly what it was. So
21:25
Speaker 5: when they won, or even that whole Game seven, how
21:29
Speaker 5: stressful or and how much elation did you have when
21:33
Speaker 5: they won? Did you pop your own bottle of champagne?
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Speaker 2: No, no popping champagne. I think we did have some
21:42
Speaker 2: wine that night though. Game seven night, me and my wife.
21:45
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just watched for my couch. I actually
21:48
Speaker 2: Game seven, as the game got laid into the laid
21:51
Speaker 2: into the Game seven, I was looking at the MLB app,
21:54
Speaker 2: like the game day app, and it's actually like a
21:57
Speaker 2: minute ahead of the broadcast. And I'm not proud of
22:01
Speaker 2: myself for I'm not proud of myself for doing that,
22:03
Speaker 2: but it made it made it easier once whatever transpired
22:06
Speaker 2: on TV, I already knew it was going to happen,
22:09
Speaker 2: so I kind of made it easier that way. So
22:12
Speaker 2: I saw, you know, Alejandro Kurr grounds into double played
22:16
Speaker 2: in the game, and I just shot up off the couch,
22:19
Speaker 2: you know, threw my hands in the air, started jumping around,
22:21
Speaker 2: and then sure enough, like thirty seconds later, it happens
22:24
Speaker 2: on TV. I just had a big embrace with my wife,
22:26
Speaker 2: and maybe it got a little emotional. You know. I
22:29
Speaker 2: wasn't a part of it, but you know, just to
22:32
Speaker 2: play a small part of it, and I wasn't part
22:35
Speaker 2: of the postseason, but just to play a small part
22:37
Speaker 2: of the regular season and just to be around the
22:39
Speaker 2: team and just to see how they work every day
22:41
Speaker 2: and how special of a group it was was really
22:44
Speaker 2: really cool. But that game, I think it was Game
22:48
Speaker 2: three that went into fifteen sixteen, seventeen innings, whatever it was,
22:52
Speaker 2: I was so I was on the couch and then
22:53
Speaker 2: I was like, I gotta go lay down.
22:55
Speaker 4: So I went to my bed and I had my
22:56
Speaker 4: phone and I was watching YouTube TV. So I was
22:59
Speaker 4: watching the game on my phone in bed, and you know,
23:01
Speaker 4: the twelve inning or.
23:02
Speaker 2: Whatever rolls around, and I fall asleep, but you know,
23:05
Speaker 2: I fall asleep with my phone on my chest, still playing,
23:07
Speaker 2: still loud from the volume of the broadcast, and I
23:11
Speaker 2: wake up like like two hours later, and I pull
23:15
Speaker 2: up my phone and the game literally just ended. I'm
23:18
Speaker 2: seeing like the on field celebration from Freddy's homer just wild.
23:23
Speaker 2: I mean I'm on East Coast in Charlotte, so three
23:26
Speaker 2: hours ahead of that, and I mean that game went
23:28
Speaker 2: to after midnight on the West coast, so it was
23:31
Speaker 2: like three point thirty in the morning when I happened
23:33
Speaker 2: to wake up and look at my phone and saw
23:35
Speaker 2: him celebrating.
23:36
Speaker 3: Super cool.
23:37
Speaker 4: And then you know, of course, it took me two
23:39
Speaker 4: hours to get back to sleep, So the next day
23:41
Speaker 4: was rough, but no, super super cool to be a
23:44
Speaker 4: cheerleader and to see those guys have that success, because
23:48
Speaker 4: like I said, great group of guys. They work so hard.
23:52
Speaker 4: But yeah, uh, to be to be a part of
23:54
Speaker 4: a playoff push and hopefully a playoff run this season
23:57
Speaker 4: coming up will be awesome.
24:02
Speaker 3: I don't Oh yeah, okay, hey Brock, did you get
24:05
Speaker 3: any outs during the regular season. I just want to know,
24:07
Speaker 3: did you get any outs?
24:11
Speaker 4: I got some big outs with the Twins, and then
24:13
Speaker 4: yeah I got.
24:13
Speaker 3: No I'm talking about for the Dodgers. Did you make
24:15
Speaker 3: any outs with the dot Did you get any outs
24:17
Speaker 3: with the Dodge? I then, do you know what? You
24:21
Speaker 3: deserve it because you helped them get there. I don't
24:23
Speaker 3: care what anyone says. You helped them get there if
24:25
Speaker 3: you got one out. Hell, if you got made one
24:27
Speaker 3: appearance and got face to batter, you saved somebody from
24:30
Speaker 3: facing that batter. So you deserve it. So anyone that
24:32
Speaker 3: says you don't deserve it, screw them. They're wrong because
24:35
Speaker 3: you if you if you appeared on the field and
24:37
Speaker 3: did anything, it showed up one day talk to somebody.
24:40
Speaker 3: You deserve it. So hold your held up high. If
24:42
Speaker 3: anyone says all you didn't pitch in the playoffs, screw
24:45
Speaker 3: them because that's not true. You helped people get there
24:47
Speaker 3: whether and you were hurt, which is not your fault,
24:49
Speaker 3: So screw them. And then the second thing I want
24:52
Speaker 3: to know is, imagine you got to fall asleep, Okay
24:56
Speaker 3: after that game that ended like three in the morning.
24:58
Speaker 3: Now imagine if you're me and you have to do
25:00
Speaker 3: a postgame show at three in the morning after that
25:03
Speaker 3: game's end because your bosses are mean to make you
25:05
Speaker 3: stay up and stay up and then have to go
25:08
Speaker 3: on the air. So happy you got your sleepy, sleepy
25:11
Speaker 3: time in, but some of us had to stay up,
25:13
Speaker 3: watch the whole game and then discuss it.
25:16
Speaker 4: That's what coffee's for, right, I mean you can you're
25:18
Speaker 4: a grinder, age, you're a grinder. You're a catcher. You
25:20
Speaker 4: know your backstop. You guys are.
25:21
Speaker 3: Grinding, not a grinder. No, exactly, Yeah, why am I?
25:28
Speaker 3: First of all, Bro, what do you consider a grinder?
25:30
Speaker 3: Because Kratz says, oh, you only spent six years in
25:33
Speaker 3: the minor leagues, you're not a grinder.
25:39
Speaker 4: It's different for everybody. I consider ninety.
25:44
Speaker 3: Oh actually seven years, if we're going to get technical.
25:49
Speaker 2: I think it's different for everybody personally. I think you
25:51
Speaker 2: can tell if a guy's a grinder simply by watching
25:54
Speaker 2: him for like twenty thirty minutes about how he approaches
25:56
Speaker 2: each day and how he goes about his day.
25:58
Speaker 4: That's my this opinion. So under the fact that the
26:02
Speaker 4: fact that you pushed through and we're able to do
26:05
Speaker 4: that postgame show at four and am man, you're keep
26:07
Speaker 4: it up. You work like you and.
26:11
Speaker 3: Well I like you. You're to be a regular on
26:12
Speaker 3: the show now. Thank you. We just just signed you
26:15
Speaker 3: to it.
26:15
Speaker 4: Thank you perfect.
26:19
Speaker 3: Well.
26:19
Speaker 1: It's worked out great, Brock.
26:20
Speaker 4: Hope you enjoyed it.
26:21
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize the White Sox connection, so you
26:24
Speaker 1: made AJ's day. Thanks for joining us, and uh we'll
26:27
Speaker 1: see out in spring training.
26:30
Speaker 2: Awesome, see you guys soon. Thanks for having me on.
26:32
Speaker 2: Really appreciate it.