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Trevor May's torpedo take, Brad Lord's hardware store to MLB story · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I don't want to have to work a job in
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  Speaker 1: the next all seasons. So it really just kind of
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  Speaker 1: fuels you to be like, you know, I'm more work
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  Speaker 1: harder every day and try to achieve the goal of
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  Speaker 1: being in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 4: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 5: However, they're finding that the benefits of getting that momentum
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  Speaker 5: going in the bat far do not outweigh the hitting
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  Speaker 5: it on the barrel at all. And guys like this
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  Speaker 5: is Jazz Chisholm, another guy's Anthony Bolpi, and another guy
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  Speaker 5: is Austin Wells, all using this bat because they have
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  Speaker 5: a tendency to hit the ball closer to themselves a lot.
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  Speaker 5: They're being jammed, guys are throwing it in on them
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  Speaker 5: and they're hitting really soft pop ups or they're hitting
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  Speaker 5: ground balls. That's the biggest reason, frankly, like the difference
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  Speaker 5: between forcing someone to hit off the end all the
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  Speaker 5: time or hit it closer to your hands. When you're
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  Speaker 5: closer to your hands, it's on the ground a lot
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  Speaker 5: more than it is when it's on the end, and
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  Speaker 5: you don't want to hit the ball on the ground.
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  Speaker 5: All the time like that is not what you want.
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  Speaker 5: But even if you hit it hard, that's the one
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  Speaker 5: thing that really negates hitting the ball hard is hitting
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  Speaker 5: it on the ground. So we're trying to get the
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  Speaker 5: ball in line driver higher. Obviously, home runs. It's Yankee Stadium,
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  Speaker 5: it's built for home runs. All this kind of makes sense,
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  Speaker 5: so they moved this barrel.
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  Speaker 4: Really well done by Trevor. It's a great show. It's
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  Speaker 4: May Day. It is not easy to carry a show
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  Speaker 4: on your own, and Trevor does it really well. You
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  Speaker 4: can catch the first hour every Monday on the foul
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  Speaker 4: Territory YouTube channel. In an hour or two on Trevor
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  Speaker 4: May's YouTube channel, the show is live. You can ask questions.
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  Speaker 4: He's super interested. Trevor's really smart and gives you that
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  Speaker 4: picture take so very smart. Yes he is. I'll give
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  Speaker 4: you one more picture take on the torpedo bats before
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  Speaker 4: Todd Father weighs in. Matt Strom tweeted yesterday we might
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  Speaker 4: get him on the show this week too, but he said,
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  Speaker 4: let them use whatever bat they Want's just allow pitchers
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  Speaker 4: to use whatever hitters have in the on deck circle
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  Speaker 4: and not check us like we are criminals. Every time
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  Speaker 4: we walk on or off the field. I'm just a pitcher,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm assuming better grip. Better grip helps to swing harder.
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  Speaker 6: I understand what he's saying, but I would say better
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  Speaker 6: grip helps you to stay on the bat. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: don't have anything wrong with what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 6: Let the pictures do whatever they want, which is fine,
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  Speaker 6: but there's there's gotta be you know, if they have
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  Speaker 6: tack on the ball, like they can manipulate exactly where
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  Speaker 6: the ball goes. I think this is coming from a
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  Speaker 6: little frustration over the bats.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't understand people use it. Your Carlos Stanton
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  Speaker 6: used it in the playoffs last year. Like there's nobody
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  Speaker 6: said anything about it, Like I don't nobody knew that.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody knew either. But at the same time we're making
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  Speaker 6: this big deal. It's legal of what they're doing each team.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not your point of the end, but every team
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  Speaker 6: and player that's using this bat, it's legal. It's very legal.
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  Speaker 6: And are they hitting home runs because of it? Maybe
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  Speaker 6: it's helping them hit it a little better. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 6: they don't get Jim. But at the same time, pitchers
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  Speaker 6: are getting better and better each year, so you know,
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  Speaker 6: why not try and you know, different bat or do
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  Speaker 6: different stamps. There's something to try and help them out
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  Speaker 6: as well. I think this is coming from frustration, but
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  Speaker 6: I don't have a problem with what he's saying. I
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  Speaker 6: just think, you know, maybe assuming if you have better
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  Speaker 6: grip for me. Better grip for me was so I
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  Speaker 6: could hold on to the bat. That doesn't mean I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna swing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well sometimes your bat went flying, and then so
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  Speaker 4: with the baseball, which is fine. But you know the
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers tweet we sent out yesterday from the broadcast they
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  Speaker 4: talked about it is literally they're all ordering them, so
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  Speaker 4: our tweets head as if they weren't good enough. The
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers are about to get their shipment of torpedo bats.
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  Speaker 4: This isn't a Yankees thing like we've talked about. Any
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  Speaker 4: player can have one. It's not like the Yankees have
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  Speaker 4: some proprietary info or their own bat company. Every player
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  Speaker 4: is gonna have the opportunity to use these bats. And
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  Speaker 4: did you like the part that Trevor said to help
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  Speaker 4: explain how this could change things. Krats is not getting
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  Speaker 4: jammed as much leading to those ground ball blah. That's
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  Speaker 4: not as fun to watch. I'm like, cool, more fly
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  Speaker 4: balls leads to more home runs, so we might see that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess no, it's not gonna change. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had, I wish I had all the different kinds. Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You see a bunch of different bats hanging behind me.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many differences in the bats. This is just
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  Speaker 2: another difference. It's just getting super blown out of proportion. Look,
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  Speaker 2: you can see like, okay, you can see right here
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Lao. Then we have Eric Hosmer, Then we have
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  Speaker 2: Christian Yelich. Then we have John Carlos Stanton. Then we
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  Speaker 2: have the Todd Vava. Like, all these bats are completely different.
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  Speaker 2: The barrel is a lot longer, the barrel is shorter,
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  Speaker 2: it's a skinnier barrel over here with Yelly. It's like
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  Speaker 2: there's so many there's so many different things that are changed.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like if you're not trying somebody else's bat,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably an All Star or an MVP. And judges
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  Speaker 2: Judge's situation like I'm picking Todd's tooth pick up, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm gonna try it out. I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 2: it out, even though he's a tiny guy. You know
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  Speaker 2: he's not using the biggest bat in the world.
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  Speaker 6: Look at the length behind you. I got the longest.
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  Speaker 6: I got the longest length. Okay, you talk about length.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, what is this is? The baseball says thirty five?
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  Speaker 6: Right, that's a thirty five inch bat.
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  Speaker 2: Take it off.
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  Speaker 6: Take it off.
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  Speaker 2: You can go up to forty I'm up to forty two.
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  Speaker 2: So you did Why didn't you do it?
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  Speaker 6: Because I'm not baby Ruth? All right, I'm not that strong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not that strong. Exactly what I said.
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  Speaker 6: They're blowing You're right, they're blown. They're blown it up.
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  Speaker 6: They're blowing this thing up. I just think, honestly, it's
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  Speaker 6: it's not cheating. It's it's a different variation of a
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  Speaker 6: baseball bat. I thirteens different than two seventy ones and
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  Speaker 6: P seventy two's ce two forty threes. Some people use
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  Speaker 6: smaller bats, some people use longer bats, different variations. It
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  Speaker 6: is getting blown up. It's a pretty cool thing that
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  Speaker 6: they got going on. They made the barrel bigger Barry Bonds.
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  Speaker 6: What do you use a thirty two inch bat? But
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  Speaker 6: his barrel was monstrous. Nobody said anything about that.
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  Speaker 4: about baseball, like five out of three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 4: five days a year, start explaining the intricacies of the
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  Speaker 4: sport and the specs on a bat. You know who
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  Speaker 4: you are out there, and hey, anybody can talk about
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  Speaker 4: a sport. I'm not criticizing that. It's just funny when
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  Speaker 4: you get some deep dives from the networks or the
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  Speaker 4: other media companies out there that don't cover the game
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  Speaker 4: that frequently and you start to see the takes and
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  Speaker 4: they're like, oh god, it's getting into it back and forth.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, gosh, they used the wrong lingo and everything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it sounds really, really weird.
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  Speaker 2: It's cringe it.
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  Speaker 4: The MLB is letting the Yankees do whatever they.
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  Speaker 6: Want, and every player, every team is doing It doesn't
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  Speaker 6: mean every player, but all teams are doing right.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's gonna have an opportunity. And let me ask you this,
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  Speaker 4: because obviously the bat companies are having a field day
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  Speaker 4: and good for them, like get let them get some
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  Speaker 4: pub They work their tails off to make bats, especially nowadays,
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  Speaker 4: for the players to be suitable for their standards to
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  Speaker 4: use in a Major League game. What percentage of players
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  Speaker 4: do you think will have and use a torpedo bat
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  Speaker 4: within the next month, And then also give me what
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  Speaker 4: percentage you think we'll use the torpedo bat in games
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  Speaker 4: regularly by September. Who wants to go first?
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  Speaker 6: Listen. I don't think it's gonna change as much. I think,
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  Speaker 6: you know, if you're a guy that's uh, guy gets
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  Speaker 6: on base all the time, and why would you want
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  Speaker 6: to you know, like a Louis Race even though he
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  Speaker 6: struggle a little bit, Why would you want to change
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  Speaker 6: something when you've been swinging with the same bat your
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  Speaker 6: whole life. You know what I mean. You're you're at
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  Speaker 6: a time in your career where home runs aren't necessarily
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  Speaker 6: you like, they're not looking for you to hit a
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  Speaker 6: home run now. If you're looking for a guy that's
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  Speaker 6: on the tail end of his career, they usually averages
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  Speaker 6: twenty five to thirty homers, and you're you know, you're
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  Speaker 6: at a pace right now where you're like, man, I
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  Speaker 6: need to get paid a little more. Yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: try this this bad out because all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 6: now I can get rid of getting jam If I'm
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  Speaker 6: a guy like myself that can get jammed all the time,
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna try this bad out. It just depends on
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  Speaker 6: what type of hitter you are. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 6: necessarily gonna skyrocket, but you're going to see you know,
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  Speaker 6: some guys use it. You can't just jump in to
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  Speaker 6: a game all of a sudden and be like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: I'm using this and think I'm gonna hit better. You know,
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  Speaker 6: your swing path might be different. You know, so guys
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  Speaker 6: are gonna try and batting practice and you know, I
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  Speaker 6: think it might jump up twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a percentage after I give you this story.
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  Speaker 2: I used to play with Carlos Ruis Chuoch. He had
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  Speaker 2: his He had his Chuch model. I don't have it
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  Speaker 2: around here. I wish I did, but maybe I'll bring
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  Speaker 2: it tomorrow. He had his model that he used, he said.
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  Speaker 2: He said one time he goes, hey, do you know
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  Speaker 2: what I do? Sometimes? Bobby? He said. He says, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I get a hit and I say, you know what
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  Speaker 2: this bet it doesn't have any more hits anymore. Now
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  Speaker 2: I have to use a white guy bat, he said.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe some guy's swinging really hard. I have to use
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  Speaker 2: a Latin guy's bat. So maybe I use Raoul Labanyas
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  Speaker 2: because he's like white guy and Latin guy all in one.
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  Speaker 2: So guys switch him during the games. What percentage I
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  Speaker 2: bet fifty percent of guys will have them ordered and
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  Speaker 2: have torpedo bats with their names on them. If you didn't,
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  Speaker 2: then you have a contract with a company that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make them. You just want to have them just to
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  Speaker 2: try him out. So even more than fifty percent are
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  Speaker 2: going to try I am out, and I guarantee you
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  Speaker 2: seventy five percent of those dudes are gonna look at
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  Speaker 2: it and go I hate the feel of this. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to get jammed. I'm gonna try to stay
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  Speaker 2: inside the ball longer, you know what. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: the feel of it. So will ten percent be using
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  Speaker 2: it in a month? Sure, But I've been with those
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  Speaker 2: ten percent. Dudes are gonna be switching it during the game.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna go over. You think Raffie Devers right now
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  Speaker 2: is using the same bat all nineteen at bets. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so.
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  Speaker 6: No, and I baseball players are very fickle, and they're
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  Speaker 6: very routine oriented, and they're not gonna want to change much,
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  Speaker 6: especially if they're doing well. But again, Cratzy, I think
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  Speaker 6: is a good point. I think guys are gonna order
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  Speaker 6: it and be like, oh, I gotta at least try
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  Speaker 6: this out. So we'll see what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to give it a shot, and then
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  Speaker 4: if you don't like, you don't like it. But right
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  Speaker 4: now it's less than one percent, so even getting a
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  Speaker 4: ten percent okay, then then now this is a part
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  Speaker 4: of our sport. For certain guys, it'll click. Hey, we're
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  Speaker 4: excited to have Brad Lord joining us right now from
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  Speaker 4: the Washington Nationals. Brad, great to have you on. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you for hanging on for a few minutes. We thought
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  Speaker 4: this obviously was super important. Congratulations on making the big leagues,
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  Speaker 4: making your debut the other day, and of course I
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  Speaker 4: want to get into the backstory because it is very unique.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm doing great. First of all, thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys for having me on. Can't can't wait to
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  Speaker 1: get into it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do it. Yeah, right off, jump go ahead, Brad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh no, I was just going to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's making my debut this past Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: It was, you know, just a dream come true, a
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  Speaker 1: huge flood of emotions and adrenaline and it's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun so far.
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  Speaker 4: So let's start with the backstory. Because you are unique
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  Speaker 4: because of a prior job. Give us the lowdown on
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  Speaker 4: that and how much coverage. You know, it's gotten you
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  Speaker 4: in a good way for people in the baseball world
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  Speaker 4: to have hope even when the path is not the
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  Speaker 4: easiest to get to where you are now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, kind of going into the off season,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I got a lot of free time
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  Speaker 1: in my hand, on my hands obviously, and I was
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  Speaker 1: like looking for some places to apply and there was
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  Speaker 1: a home depot right beside my apartment. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's let's apply there. And got the job
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  Speaker 1: and got got put in the garden section, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun, get to help out
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  Speaker 1: a lot of customers. And once Christmas time came around,
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  Speaker 1: I was I was working in the Christmas tree tent.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it smells really good and you get to
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  Speaker 1: help people pick out Christmas trees.
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  Speaker 2: So so it was more of a less out of necessity,
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  Speaker 2: more out of get yourself off the get yourself off
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  Speaker 2: the couch kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's still out of necessity too, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: still got bills to pay, so I had to do something.
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  Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you this. It kind of
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  Speaker 6: spanned towards me because they know I'm the working man
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  Speaker 6: around here. I get this, especially around the house. How
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  Speaker 6: come every time when I go to home deep, I
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  Speaker 6: get nervous and sweating inside. I don't know, it's the
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  Speaker 6: weirdest thing. Like, I get so nervous. There's so much
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  Speaker 6: stuff in there, and I need help every time I
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  Speaker 6: go because I have no clue what I'm doing. So
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  Speaker 6: can you like give me some advice next time I
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  Speaker 6: go in there? Do I need to look on the
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  Speaker 6: app first? What's what's something I can do if I'm
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  Speaker 6: looking for you know, sectional carpetry, to you know, mulch,
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  Speaker 6: to you know, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you first off, if you're not alone.
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  Speaker 1: My first couple of days there I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: nervous and sweat and trying to find everything. But the
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  Speaker 1: easiest thing to do is, you know, as soon as
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  Speaker 1: you walk in if you're looking for something, just ask
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  Speaker 1: the first associate.
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  Speaker 3: You see. That's the easiest thing that I found.
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  Speaker 1: And when customers would come in and ask me that
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  Speaker 1: I could I can pour them to the to the
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  Speaker 1: right spot.
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  Speaker 2: Did you keep your vest? And do you think you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to wear it? When you guys do rookie
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  Speaker 2: dress up later this year.
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  Speaker 1: No, I actually did not get to keep my vest
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  Speaker 1: from working in the Christmas tree tent. It was covered
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  Speaker 1: in tree sap, so I was this thing's pretty nasty,
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  Speaker 1: so I just threw it away. I didn't expect it
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  Speaker 1: to get this much traction.
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  Speaker 6: What what did your teammates say about the whole home
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  Speaker 6: depot thing? Were they running with it? Were they're having
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  Speaker 6: fun with you're talking to me about that?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were definitely, you know, having fun with it,
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  Speaker 1: asking me, you know, if had any pictures or anything,
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  Speaker 1: or just like little little jokes here and there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they were definitely having a lot of fun with it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you're an eighteenth rounder and people don't know eighteenth rounders.
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  Speaker 2: They don't get a ton to sign. Do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you're the only dude in the clubhouse, especially in
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  Speaker 2: Big league camp clubhouse, who had to get a job
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  Speaker 2: in the off season.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely not.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot of these guys too in the
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  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, they've had to growing through the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, in the minor leagues right now, we
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  Speaker 1: have it better than what they used to, so you know,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: they they've all been through the same thing.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: So what do you guys? So what do you guys
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: talk about? Do you guys do do you Is there
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: anybody that had a worst job because you seem like
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: you liked the job? I mean Christmas tree farm? Like
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: who's mad when they're coming to buy a Christmas tree?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: So like, I feel like it's a happy place to work,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: But like, who had did somebody have a worse job
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: that you were? Like, good night, I'm glad I got.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: All I had was tree saf on my vest.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: No really specific jobs, you know, guys have said. A
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: couple of guys have said, you know, they've worked at
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: some grocery stores and stuff like that, or you know,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: vallet and cars. So you know, not really any specifics
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that jump out, but you know, we've all kind of
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: worked worked some similar jobs.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: RD. The reason I'm bringing us up is because I'm
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: trying to tell Todd what it's like because he's never
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: actually had a real job. He's All Star, an All Star,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: first rounder, all that stuff, so he's never had to
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: grind it through the minor leagues by like getting a job.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: But since you did grind it through the minor leagues,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: you're not a grinder, but that's a whole nother story.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: You grind it in a little bit through the minor
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: leagues for a few years. Oh yeah, Profar, Just Profar
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: just came out, you know, with an eighty game suspension.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: You were really close to making the big leagues. And
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna ask every player guest from now until
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the end of the week, do you see why somebody
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: would take steroids to be able to make the big leagues?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Like in your case, you were trying to make the
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: big leagues or stay in the big leagues, or stay
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: in the big leagues and get a huge contract. Do
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: you see it from a guy who's kind of on
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the fringe of something.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, not really, you know, I mean just you know,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: kind of like the threat of it, because it's like
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: we all know like if we take steroids, like you're
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you're done. You know that that ruins your reputation, and so,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like there's not really a need
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: or an urgency to do anything.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Okay, but you throw a billion miles an hour. Let's
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: say let's say somebody came to you and said, hey, right,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: if you take if you take steroids, you're gonna gain
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: two inches of vertical vertical break on your fastball, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: you're gonna able to throw one hundred and five consistently
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and recover, so you'll be able to get eighty appearances?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Is that more intriguing?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I still I still couldn't go for it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Good for you. Good for you because you make you
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: make the decision ahead of time that you're like, you
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: know what, I'm not gonna do that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Brian, I'm gonna spin it back to
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: the field. So when you're, you know, working in the
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: off season, do you visualize what you just went through?
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Is there? You know it? Time when you're feeling like,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know this, This path is tough, and I
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: got to pick up a second job to pay the bills,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: and you know, somebody's asking me for something in the
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: garden section that doesn't even exist. But really, I'll show everyone.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be on a big league mound for the
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Washington Nationals coming up soon, Like, tell me what goes on,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: because obviously those are long shifts and hours, like what's
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: stewing in your brain as you're going through a workday
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: like that, hustling to make it?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I mean definitely, like I have a lot of downtime,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you know, later in the night when there's not as
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: many people in the stores, so I have a lot
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: of time to think and use it as like motivation,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: as like, all right, you know, I don't want to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: have to work a job in the next all seasons.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So it's really just kind of fuels you to be like,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm more work harder every day and try
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to try to achieve the goal of being in the
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: big leagues.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: How do you stay now? How do you stay in
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the big leagues? Because I'm sure you've thrown all the
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: heavy balls you've you've gun sling baseballs to try to
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: road as hard as you possibly can. How do you
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: stay because you were just you were just a starter
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: in the minor leagues. If I'm correct, I think he
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: had a few appearances that weren't starts, but mostly starts.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was mostly starts. I feel like the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: name of the game is just staying healthy. If I
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: can stay healthy and you know, stay on the field,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: that gives me the best chance to stay.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Is there is there a guy right now that when
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: you were first coming up, that you were looking that
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: like took you by the wing a little bit and said,
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: hey man, let me let me talk to you. Let
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: me let's go over the ins and outs here and
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: making you or helping you get prepared for the big leagues.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Is there a guy on the squad right now that
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: you know you appreciate right now as you're moving forward.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of guys, you know,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the whole team has you know, really welcomed me with
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: open arms. Any questions I've had, they they have answered
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: him right away. You know, all the veteran guys, you
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: got Trevor Williams, uh, Kyle Finn again, you know, Jake
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Irving all been really helpful and you know, just kind
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: of being with me along this and getting me used
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to the lifestyle.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: What happened when that phone ring, When the phone rang
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: out in the bullpen, you had the how hard? How
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: how hard was your chest beating?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Oh it was, you know, just being there an opening
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: day by the ceremony. You know, my heart's pumping the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: whole time, especially once that phone ring, just expecting expecting
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: them to hear my or call my name, and you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I was just when they finally said a name. It
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: it's it's just a flood of emotions. It's very hard
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to describe. You get a lot of adrenaline and then
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you're just you know, kind of in like tunnel vision,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: ready to get on the mountain.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: So how many times did the phone ring before it
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: was your call? I didn't, I didn't see when you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: came in the game, But how many times were like?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Was there other relievers or were you the first reliever up?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: No?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So I didn't come in until this last Sunday at
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: home against the Phillies. So I got hot actually a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: few times before that Thursday and then the Saturday game.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I'd got hot a couple of times during those games,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: so I kind of kind of, you know, I could
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: got used to the adrenaline spike, but there was still nothing,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: nothing to compare it to than when I got on
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the mound.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: But did it help? But did that adrenaline spike help?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I would say, so.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: You know my stuff. You know, I gain gained a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: few one or two miles an hour on the fastball.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: But then also too, you know, I didn't I didn't
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: have a very good outing. You know, I wasn't throwing strikes,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: so you know, I quite didn't quite you know, harness
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: that adrenaline in the right way. So, you know, I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: wish it could have went better, but oh well, we
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: got we got the next outing in the belt.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: It's okay, You'll be fine. You'll you'll the ball was
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: coming out hot. That's good. That adrenaline will still be there.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: You'll just learn to channel it and it'll be like
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a superpower. Take us. Take us to the time when Davy,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: when Davey told you, Davey Martinez, your manager told you
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: you were going north with the club.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: So I had been in DC a few days because
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I came up for the exhibition game. I ended up
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: getting rained out, so I didn't find out until Wednesday. Wednesday,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: like like at noon, you know, I show up to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the field and get dressed and pulls me in the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: office with all the coaches, and first thing he tells me,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you know, he's like, hey, we need another starter. You're
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna send you down to Triple A. And
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: so I was just kind of like, okay, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: let's just roll with the punches, let's go, let's go
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: get it. And then he's like, I hope you just
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I hope you know, I'm kidding. Every every word I
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: said was not true. You made the squad, you know.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Then just I kind of blacked out, just speechless. I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: didn't know what to say.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Wait, wait, he pulled an April Fool's joke on you
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: in March.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Career on the night in early for Foolish check.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: That's not that's that's not cool. But I like, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: like I like the joke.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: It's a good joke to look back on. Yeah, yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: it is fun.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You had the range, you had the range of emotions.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Now last one for me. Now you're in the big leagues.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: You just faced pretty decent, star studded lineup. Is there
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: anybody in the big leagues where you're like, if I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: face him, like, whoa, that'll be like cool, like extra special.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Not that you're intimidated buy him or you think that
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: dude is gonna hit a thinger off you, but that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: like whoa, I get to face this guy.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know, nobody really sticks out, you know, I
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: try not to try not to think about, you know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: necessarily the name of the person in the box, but
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you know, looking back at it, it's kind of kind
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of cool when you say, okay, yeah, faced all the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: you know, some of these stars stars in the MLB
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I've watched for a while.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: After the game is kind of cool looking back.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: At that Cratz, He's like, yeah, everyone's kind of trash.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: It's all about to dominate.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: That's what you have to he that's the mentality, right,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: that's what you want. A lot of relievers are like that.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: They're like, yeah, he's crap. I'm gonna take him down.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: So you're you're clearly a nice guy. You've got a great,
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: humble story to to get to where you are. But
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: it's awesome to follow, man. So that thank you for
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: joining us soon after the debut. We'll catch you down
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: the line, but good luck. Keep crushing it out there.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, thank you. Thank you guys for
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: having me. I'll take care