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Joey Votto on Riverfront Territory · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Are you NBC analyst? Peacock analyst used to
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  Speaker 1: play a little ball? Joey Vado, Joey, thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: How was you?
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  Speaker 1: You got nervous for your first big debut here on
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  Speaker 1: Peacock and NBC.
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  Speaker 3: I'd never heard my title.
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  Speaker 4: It's odd that it's odd that you're the first one,
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  Speaker 4: and that it's such a complicated titles.
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  Speaker 3: I wish it was something.
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  Speaker 4: A bit more simple, like major League first baseman or
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  Speaker 4: just first baseman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but such as the.
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  Speaker 4: Employee number nineteen. Think that's a good one. That's a
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  Speaker 4: good one. Am I nervous? I would say I think
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  Speaker 4: that the thing I really liked to do going into
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  Speaker 4: a baseball game is be be as prepared as possible
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  Speaker 4: and in such a way that would simplify the game.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm finding with this because I've never done this
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  Speaker 4: before and because my strengths I think are specific. But
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  Speaker 4: the game is vast, the demands of the game are vast.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know this.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know the history of the Philadelphia Phillies and
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  Speaker 4: the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about you know, the.
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  Speaker 4: Six game, when such and such faced off and all
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  Speaker 4: of these things that you bring into context when explaining
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  Speaker 4: a situation.
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  Speaker 3: I lack that. So I have a full.
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  Speaker 4: I have a like as much experience as you possibly
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  Speaker 4: can have in the game on the field and thinking
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  Speaker 4: about investing my entire life thinking about the game in
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  Speaker 4: ways that I can better, But I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a I don't have any.
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  Speaker 4: Experience whatsoever in terms of being able to give the fans,
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  Speaker 4: the people tuning in what they need. And I'm a
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  Speaker 4: little bit nervous going into the game in that way.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to try to prepare as well as I
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  Speaker 4: possibly can and to better know both teams, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if that'll I don't know if that'll carry over.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'll learn with repetitions.
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  Speaker 2: Were you nervous before you played?
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  Speaker 3: Not?
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  Speaker 4: In not only The only time I ever found that
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  Speaker 4: I was nervous was when I was when I was
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  Speaker 4: ill prepared, and I was almost never ill prepared, you know,
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  Speaker 4: They're the only time that I wouldn't be prepared would
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  Speaker 4: be like a situation where, for example, you know, they
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  Speaker 4: call up somebody and I didn't have video on that picture,
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  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden I'm looking at the report,
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  Speaker 4: but I wasn't able to the you know, scouting video
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  Speaker 4: to have a really good idea of where I fit in.
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  Speaker 4: And there would be occasions like that, and at bats
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  Speaker 4: goes so quickly that when when you're facing a new picture,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I was the mindset, I will give no outs,
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  Speaker 4: you know, even my even I will give no a
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  Speaker 4: bats away, new play appearances away.
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  Speaker 3: I refuse to do that.
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  Speaker 4: And the idea of facing a new picture with littlemited information.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I wasn't a strong minor league player because
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't able to tap into something that I think
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  Speaker 4: was a strength, and that was that was a preparation
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  Speaker 4: for each each each matchup.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was the something.
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  Speaker 4: It was the thing that I absolutely loved going into
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  Speaker 4: major league baseball. It was like, do you have all
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  Speaker 4: of this information, I know everything about every picture.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to be easy.
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  Speaker 4: I just have to match my strengths with their weaknesses,
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  Speaker 4: or match my strengths with with or I have to
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  Speaker 4: be prepared for their strength and just figure out a
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  Speaker 4: way to hedge you against it.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting because do you think he would have been
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  Speaker 1: as good a player if you would come along twenty
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  Speaker 1: years earlier, where you did not have that technology and
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  Speaker 1: that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I'm convinced of that. I'm convinced of that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I never once thought of myself as you know, I
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  Speaker 4: use a lot of hyperbole and just you know, I'm this,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not I'm such a great this, or I'm.
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  Speaker 3: The baddest this whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But in reality, you know, I recognize that that I
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of great things go my way, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, in the back third of my career.
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  Speaker 4: So the ball changed a little bit and I ended
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  Speaker 4: up getting a little bit of a boost from that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I had all the matchup stuff I had,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I hired private analytics people, I had the
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  Speaker 4: video from when I entered the league. There's a clear
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  Speaker 4: gap between the minor league baseball and the major league baseball.
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  Speaker 4: And I had maybe average power, maybe above average power.
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  Speaker 3: And so I got that little boose. I got that
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  Speaker 3: little boost when I entered the league.
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  Speaker 4: So all, you know, all these things ended up working
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Like, I know, because this is your guy, But like,
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  Speaker 1: what would Ted Williams have done with all this all
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  Speaker 1: that information?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: It goes to my commentary about it happened to work
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  Speaker 4: out well for me, and maybe maybe when Ted was
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  Speaker 4: playing it just worked out well for him. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you because I imagine there may
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  Speaker 4: have been guys that had significant hindrances that still put
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  Speaker 4: together a great career. I remember hearing about Willie May's
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  Speaker 4: moving to Candlestick from I Believe, New York, and they
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  Speaker 4: said that the wind was always blowing in from left field,
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  Speaker 4: and so he couldn't pull the ball successfully and get
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  Speaker 4: as many home runs and extra basist as as he
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  Speaker 4: probably should have. So he had to learn how to
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  Speaker 4: hit the ball the other way, or he had to
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  Speaker 4: maybe not learn, but he had to hit the ball
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  Speaker 4: the other way. There's a lot of things that a player,
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  Speaker 4: these historical great you know, there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 4: we don't know about them. We just see their stats,
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  Speaker 4: but there is a story to be told with all
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  Speaker 4: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what kind of You've always enjoyed that part, right,
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  Speaker 1: like the stories and figuring it out, And what is
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  Speaker 1: different in all that is that maybe one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that draws you to this this new role.
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  Speaker 3: I love great players.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if it's an egotistical thing or
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm individual minded. I love hearing about great stories.
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  Speaker 4: I love hearing about people overcoming difficult odds. I can't
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  Speaker 4: tell you how many times that I've played with players
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  Speaker 4: and I been in awe in the same uniform Reds
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  Speaker 4: uniform or All Star Game uniform, that I've been in
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  Speaker 4: awe with their story and hearing about what they had
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  Speaker 4: to overcome. And you know, whether it's Jim Abbott, who
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  Speaker 4: I watched don LB Network do an interview, or Jackie
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  Speaker 4: Robinson breaking the color barrier, or modern day show Ao
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  Speaker 4: Tani pitching and hitting. I love someone breaking the rules
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  Speaker 4: or even maybe not just the game's rules, but what
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  Speaker 4: they view as like their limitations.
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  Speaker 3: They're quote unquote glass ceiling.
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  Speaker 4: And so when it comes to the game, I can,
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  Speaker 4: of course speak to the matchup, and I can do
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  Speaker 4: the very best I can to articulate what we are
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  Speaker 4: seeing from my perspective. But I think that for example,
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday, when the Phillies in the Yankees face off,
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  Speaker 4: it's intriguing to me to hear about to tell the
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  Speaker 4: story about you know it, Like for example, Bryce Harper
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  Speaker 4: is in a position in his career where is he
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  Speaker 4: Is he going to start coasting towards a Hall of
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  Speaker 4: Fame induction or is he gonna fall flat, you know
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  Speaker 4: it is, And I.
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  Speaker 3: Think that's the most intriguing part about the game.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I had this conversation with a buddy, what
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  Speaker 4: would you rather have a great player for twenty years
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  Speaker 4: or one championship inside of twenty years? And I said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as someone that grew up watching Vince Carter
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  Speaker 4: in Toronto, who didn't produce barely a playoff run with
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  Speaker 4: Tracy McGrady, but Vince was the icon, I would rather
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  Speaker 4: watch a great player. And why because I saw Vince
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  Speaker 4: entertain us every day and lose by three points and finish,
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  Speaker 4: you know, five games under five hundred, and you have
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  Speaker 4: that peak moment like when the Raptors won those surrounding years.
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  Speaker 4: If you tune into a bummy game and you don't
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  Speaker 4: have someone like an Aaron Judge, like a Wan Soda,
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  Speaker 4: like a Vince Carter, like uh, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to think of other athletes that carry mediocre franchises.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I feel like there's something to tune
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  Speaker 4: in for. I you want, you want, you want to
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I mean like I remember you know when you you
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  Speaker 1: were there, Billy Hamilton, you would see something new all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Ellie de la Cruz, who see something new
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  Speaker 1: all the time at least a perfect Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Have you watched the Reds at all?
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  Speaker 3: I've caught some.
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  Speaker 4: I've caught a bit here and there, as far as
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  Speaker 4: some of the highlights.
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  Speaker 3: I like checking in with Ellie. I played with Spencer.
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  Speaker 4: There's a few guys that I play with that I
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  Speaker 4: like checking in checking in on. But I would say,
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  Speaker 4: generally speaking, no, I haven't. Uncle Joey goes to bed
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  Speaker 4: pretty early.
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  Speaker 1: What do you first remember the first time you saw
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  Speaker 1: Ellie or heard of him or or all these kind
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  Speaker 1: of things, because it was a guy that it was
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  Speaker 1: like this, like, hey, this guy could be pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: this guy could be pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Good, and then this guy is unreal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen a ton of prospects come through, and
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  Speaker 4: certainly those were tools. So I withheld my optimism, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I had my doubts. A longer guy, strikeout guy, error prone,
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  Speaker 4: guy in the field, reckless on the basis, reckless at
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  Speaker 4: the plate.
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  Speaker 3: But he just.
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  Speaker 4: He just kept putting together really good seasons. And that's undeniable.
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  Speaker 4: After certain point, that's undeniable. And then I was interested
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  Speaker 4: to see how is he going to carry over into
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  Speaker 4: the major leagues.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that.
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  Speaker 4: At least best tool probably is his combination of of
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  Speaker 4: drive and humility. He has that sort of he has
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  Speaker 4: that sort of f you mentality, I'm going to get
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  Speaker 4: this done.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I loved that he got told no.
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  Speaker 4: From the WBC and that he was angry about that
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  Speaker 4: and he thought, you know, I'm going to make you pay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to make you pay, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I I love that, you know, he hasn't signed a
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  Speaker 4: contract extension, and I'm I'm not going to speculate, but
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  Speaker 4: that's you know, you want to play for your home country,
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  Speaker 4: and especially as proud as the Dominican players are, they
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  Speaker 4: want to represent their country. So I'm not surprised he
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  Speaker 4: hasn't signed a contract extension sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: I love that he plays every day.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of those you know a lot of guys,
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  Speaker 4: especially speed guys, want to protect their speed as they
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  Speaker 4: should because a useful tool. And I played one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and sixty two games last year after after you know,
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  Speaker 4: stealing something like sixty bases.
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  Speaker 3: The year before.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the man is impressive because he has great character.
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  Speaker 4: He has great character, and teammates love him, coaches love him.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that every day when he gets done, he.
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  Speaker 4: Knows that he keep put in as much work as
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  Speaker 4: he possibly could to be a better version of himself.
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  Speaker 4: And he happens to be doing it in a Reds uniform.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's Barry would say it. He's the best
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  Speaker 4: shortstop since you know Barry, and Barry's the best shortstop
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  Speaker 4: in the in the team's history. So you know, Ellie's
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  Speaker 4: got a ways ways ways to go. Barry's one of
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  Speaker 4: the all time great players in the history of the game.
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  Speaker 4: Very underrated, but you know it's Ellie. It's you know,
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  Speaker 4: Ellie chasing down Barry Larkin.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's It's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I think that is one of the things that gets
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  Speaker 1: lost with Ellie is because the physical tools are so vast,
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  Speaker 1: just how smart a baseball player is, how driven he is.
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  Speaker 1: That that is that can be the separator sometimes and
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  Speaker 1: when you put that with those tools, like who knows
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  Speaker 1: what we.
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  Speaker 4: Could see, you have to stay on the field and
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  Speaker 4: get your game reps and oftentimes, sometimes not oftentimes, but
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  Speaker 4: sometimes players opt to take the day off or to
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  Speaker 4: not play through something or to and that that's where
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  Speaker 4: you miss out on that software update. I use that
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  Speaker 4: term all the time. You know, you just have to
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  Speaker 4: continue to update the software. And when you're older, things
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  Speaker 4: fall apart, you're slower, you don't recover as well. And
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  Speaker 4: if you don't have those reps when you're twenty five,
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  Speaker 4: in twenty eight and thirty two, when you're dinged up
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  Speaker 4: and someone didn't push you, maybe it's his maybe it's
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  Speaker 4: his family, or his community, or his friend group, or
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  Speaker 4: just someone on the coaching staff that's saying you're playing man.
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  Speaker 3: You have to learn how to play through things.
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  Speaker 4: You don't get the benefit of those early reps that
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  Speaker 4: teach you at thirty five and thirty eight.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to play that long, yeah, you can
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  Speaker 3: get through it.
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  Speaker 4: You just gotta you know, you just gotta put some
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  Speaker 4: duct tape on it and figure it.
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  Speaker 3: Figure it out. You can be competitive.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the thing I admire most about players, and
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  Speaker 4: Ellie is as much as as great of a representative
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  Speaker 4: as it gets. You know, the Reds fans are lucky,
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  Speaker 4: or Cincinnati is fans in general are fickle, So I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to generalize Cincinnati being a fickle fan base,
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  Speaker 4: because they're not. They're a great fan base. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not even saying this to to to you know,
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  Speaker 4: be supportive of a city and a fan base that
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  Speaker 4: was supportive of me. Generally speaking, I think Cincinnati's an
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  Speaker 4: excellent fan base. But we can be hard on our stars,
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  Speaker 4: and we can be hard on our high earners.
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  Speaker 3: And really, Ellie is Ellie's.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna make an incredible amount of money, but most importantly,
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  Speaker 4: he'll have earned He'll have earned it both through performance
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  Speaker 4: and through grit and repetition. And you know, I hope
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  Speaker 4: he stays a Red throughout the course of his career.
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  Speaker 4: But you know that's uh, now's the opportunity to take
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  Speaker 4: advantage of his prime if you're a Reds fan and
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  Speaker 4: really enjoy him.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's interesting because you have had like just these
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  Speaker 1: generational type talents. There's been almost a connection each time,
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  Speaker 1: right Like you overlap with Ellie, you overlap with Junior.
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  Speaker 1: Junior overlaps with Barry, Barry overlaps with you know, Concepcion
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  Speaker 1: and the and the tail of that big Red machine
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  Speaker 1: and Eric Davis. Of course, you have these generational talents going.
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  Speaker 2: Back to you know, a lifetime now.
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  Speaker 1: I always just find that fascinating that you can kind
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  Speaker 1: of go that there's been these long stretches of having
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  Speaker 1: that guy that you go to the ballpark for.
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  Speaker 2: I go to the ballpark to see Ken Grippy Jr.
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  Speaker 1: I go to the ballpark to see Joey Botto, I
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  Speaker 1: see the go to the ballpark to see Eli Dayala Cruz.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's pretty special.
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  Speaker 3: It is it is.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, if you were to ask Eric, and
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  Speaker 4: if you were to ask Barry, Eric was as as
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: talented as Barry, as talented as any player in the
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: in the league, and you would say the same thing
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: about Ellie. So it's it's it's it's it's a combination
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: of of luck and and and work. He's going to
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: have to be lucky to stay healthy, like we all do.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: He's going to have to work to stay healthy. It's
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: going to have to have a certain amount of grit
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: to play through, to play through seventy percent. He's already
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: shown that. So I think that there's a real chance
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: that that Ellie does continue that sort of passing the
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: baton from star to star, you know, and it's weird
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: for I would I'm not saying, I'm I mean whatever.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: It started a star sort of thing, and the Reds
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: fans deserve that. The Reds fans deserve that. So and
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: it's a great, great fan base. It's a great fan base.
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  Speaker 4: I look forward to a stretch where the team is
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: really well put together and they go five or eight
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: years and then all of a sudden, you know, where
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: the Cardinals of the division or where the Golden State
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Warriors of the league sort of thing, And that's going
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: to be that's the responsibility of the ownership in front
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  Speaker 4: office to really be disciplined and put together a good team.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if they're capable of doing that.
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  Speaker 1: You've kind of done some stuff in Benda Daytona and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: seen some of the minor leaguers.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: What have you done there?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Not much I lived, you know, I've got a place
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: not too far from it, and I pop by the
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: stadium every now and then. I'm not in the city
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: right now, but I love watching kids, specifically future major
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: league kids, get better. And they've got a few kids
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: that legitimately have a chance, and you know, it's a
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: I'm not a member of the coaching staff, I'm not
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: a member of the organization whatsoever, but they were nice
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: enough to let me through the gate and observe and
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: chat with the kids. And you know, I stayed out
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: of the way. I'm mostly observed. So they have a
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: good staff there.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Do they know who you are? The kids?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Really? Not really? I mean they've got they've got me
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: and and I.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Think eight other players up on the wall, you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: big Red Machine guys.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: But to be fair, you know, I didn't know. I
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: didn't know.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Who Dave Concepcion was, or Eric Davis was, or Barry
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Larkin was until I got some Cincinnati Reds reps. Until
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: you realize the context of how special these are guys are,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: and you know what and it is. You don't even
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: realize how special they are until you get done with
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: a thousand games or fifteen hundred games or two thousand
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: games played, to realize when you're playing at forty years old,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: how the heck did Barry play so well at forty?
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: How did he you know? How did Dave concepts you
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: do play all those games? How did Pete Rose play
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: all those games? How did Johnny Bench catch all those games?
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: How did you know Tony Perez? You know, it's just
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: you just asked those questions once you cross the path
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and you're like, ohly coow, that's a hard game. It's
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: just really hard to play at thirty five and thirty
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: you know, it's just a challenging, challenging game. And the
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: modern player has everything going for them in terms of
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: better hotels and better air travel and everything. And you
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: look back and they're flying commercial and they're staying and
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: you know they're eating you know, soup and peanut butter sandwiches.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: But back in the day at times, so it's you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: you just have a great deal of respect and intrigue
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: for what they went through.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: What did a year off from the game do for you?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Oh no, I I nothing.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I think one of the concerns you asked me at
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: the very beginning about how I whether I be nervous. Yeah,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I haven't been watching the game. Only only recently did
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I start. Only recently did I start watching the game,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: just to make sure I do. You know, I do
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: my job relatively well. And you know, when you step
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: away from the game, it changes quickly your year. It's
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: the same game, of course, but I think that there's
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: some nuances that change with time, new language, new tools
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: that people that didn't play use to be able to
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: articulate what they see that I haven't been paying attention.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I watched the game. It
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: looks identical, you know, it looks identical. Some nuances are different.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: But then also at the same time, styles change a
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: little bit. Styles change a little bit, you know what
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: people are chasing down. So I don't think it'll be
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: very very hard to catch up. But no, I haven't
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: been doing very much over the past year, a couple
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: of years for with regard to baseball.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Did it Did it help to take a little time
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: away from the game.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I didn't think.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you, No, I struggled with the
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: last five years.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I didn't want I wanted to retire when I was
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: about thirty five. To be honest with you, I was.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I was worn out. Playing hurt wasn't fun, you know.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I played almost my entire career with stuff, as a
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: lot of athletes do, and certainly the last three, four
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: or five years, I really didn't, you know, I wanted
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: to finish off my career because I viewed it as
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: a responsibility but to myself. But I just I just
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: wasn't having the fun and fun for me was playing well,
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: and I.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Didn't even feel like I was playing well anymore. So
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: it's tough.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: It's tough when you're used to getting reps in with
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: a certain style and your body won't even allow you
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: to do that, you know, the shoulder bicep thing. Really really,
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: it wasn't until I got done playing that I realized
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: how messed up my shoulder was. I mean, I'm out
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: here golfing and it's it's affecting my game, and you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking, how the heck.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Did I compete? Facing these guys? Is throwing a bazillion
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: you know? So, but she just tried to get it done.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: You're a golfer now.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: I stink. I'm no good. It's something to do. It's social.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: It's good.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: If you were the knickers and I can see the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: little hat and the knickers and the whole, the whole
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: get up.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: No, I've never done that, but I'm not against it.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: You know, if.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: If if my course calls calls for, if my course
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: calls for if we have a yeah.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: So.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: You know, this is how do you do? You?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: You kind of go around and you've you've experienced a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: lot of things. Do you ever get recognized anywhere?
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Sure, Yeah, depending on how far away I am from Cincinnati. Yeah,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: the farther away less.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: So I wanted to ask you real quick about the clock.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I love the clock. How did I do to come about?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's just an amazing thing.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know. I I've traveled a little bit
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: and you.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Stop by, you know, you stop by uh everywhere, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: everywhere I went to Pebble Beach, there's a clock.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, New York right now, there's a clock. You know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: everywhere has a clock.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: And you get to put the name something on top,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: and I'll kay, all these all these beautiful places have clocks.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: And so I thought, I think Cincinnati's I think it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: almost undertold in terms.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Of what it should be.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: And I just thought, you know, the fan base is
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: great city's great first major league team.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: We why can't we fit in with that? Why can't
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: we be special? Yeah?
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I've got one team, and I want the very best
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: for a pride of ownership sort of thing.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: And then on top of that, I don't know.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: You know, I I was lucky, lucky enough to be
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: able to support the community financially and with my time, and.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I just I just love the community. I love it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't want to live in Cincinnati because
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: I don't have a job there, and you know, I
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: don't have like a reason to work there, so you know,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: it's difficult. My personality is like I don't want to
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: be recognized all the time while I'm walking down the
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: street or getting a coffee. That's just not my nature.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: But I you know, if there was a job there,
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: I would live there. If there's a job and you
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: know boys Idaho, I would live there. But it's more
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: about my love for the city and how I want
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: to support it. And I hope, you know, I hope
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: for the rest of my life I can support the
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: city in my ways.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Would you ever want to coach or manage?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: No, there's I don't know. You know, this is I'll
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: be transparent. There's like a certain amount of.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: A willingness to give up your life that coaches have,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: like a full on dedication.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: This NBC responsibility is once a week, and I can
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: always say no, you know, I can always say no.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Whereas coaching, it's like you have to be there twelve
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: thirteen hours, fourteen hours a day and you're in these
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: hotels and busting, and if you're in the big leagues,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: it's planes and hotels and so no, I'm not motivated
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: to coach. I don't see a reason too, no.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: I figured, but I'd much rather if you were to,
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: if you were to ask me what I coach the
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: Boys and Girls club or an id RBI program, you know,
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: I would do that for free for fifty years.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I love It's the only thing.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: It's the only thing I miss about baseball being able
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: to support the community, Cincinnati community.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: It's the only thing like I miss.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: I missed going to the ballpark after a game and
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: seeing the kids and coaching and helping out in whatever
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: way I can. So yeah, as far as coaching, ah,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: that's all right.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Well well, Joe, I just want to thank you for
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: your time. I appreciate it and really looking forward to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: sing it this weekend. And I'm sure you will be fantastic.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I've told you that, and I have zero doubt that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you're you're going to be as great at that as
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you were as a player and Hall of Fame player,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: my vote at least you've got, so I appreciate it,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and thanks for joining us.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Good to see you, Trent. Good luck the rest of
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: the year. Oh yeah, at the dog I'm at the
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: dog park right now.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Nice new dog.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah she's good. She's a good girl. She gotta get
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: out and play. I gotta go spray her down. I'll
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: talk to you later, see you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Thanks Joey.