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Mason Miller joins Friar Territory + Casey Schmitt on Splash Hit · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: The closer for the San Diego Padres who is joining
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  Speaker 1: us even though we have a taipo in his name.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay. We'll blame Marty on that one. We'll clean
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  Speaker 1: it up and post.
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  Speaker 3: Mason.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining for our territory.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 3: How are you. I'm good, I'm good. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I figured to name the hotel Mason.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Ask her, are you guys, are you guys still staying
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  Speaker 1: in that haunted hotel in Milwaukee or what?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? They allegedly allegedly?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you guys believe it that? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: guys not so much believe in that?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Depends on what you ask told me.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard it's only the one side of the hotel,
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  Speaker 4: So come on the side.
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  Speaker 5: On the side, who's on who's on the haunted, who's
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  Speaker 5: on the other side the office?
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  Speaker 3: All the guys are sweets or I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Actually know, but I think it's the order. It's like
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  Speaker 4: two sets of elevators.
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  Speaker 1: Who I'm staying in that hotel?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Okay, good, I'm glad. I'm glad.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mason, Thank you for doing this. We do really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And as excited as we are to talk
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  Speaker 1: about you your on field success, pitching everything that you
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  Speaker 1: got going on in your universe, you're talking to a
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  Speaker 1: couple of Star Wars nerds here, So we are going
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  Speaker 1: to start with your opportunity to appear in a commercial
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  Speaker 1: for the Mandalorian with Brogan. Can you tell us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit the backstory about how this happened for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of came out of nowhere MLBU.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously it was doing this, this partnership with it, and
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  Speaker 4: for some reason they wanted me me to be the guy.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously it's it's pretty awesome to get a chance to
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  Speaker 4: do something like that, and you know, the production of
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  Speaker 4: it was on a kind of a different level than
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  Speaker 4: anything I've ever done so easy. Yes, I've seen Star Wars,
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  Speaker 4: but I can't say that I fall in the bucket
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  Speaker 4: of like an avid Star Wars fan because I know
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  Speaker 4: that that comes with a lot of extra territory of
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  Speaker 4: knowing what is going on with.
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  Speaker 3: The story and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I won't pretend to be that into it, but I
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  Speaker 4: have seen it, so it's not like not like I
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  Speaker 4: don't know it at all, but out of respect to
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  Speaker 4: people like yourselves that really really take it, really take
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  Speaker 4: it to another level. I didn't claim I didn't claim
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  Speaker 4: my type of fandom.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a second, Wait a second, are you saying out
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  Speaker 5: of respect to all you nerves out there, because that's
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  Speaker 5: what you're that's what you're saying right now. You're calling
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  Speaker 5: out the nerds. I think you think now that I'm
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  Speaker 5: a nerd because I happen to have, you know, a
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  Speaker 5: baby Yoda picture at my disposal, which I do.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I didn't use the word nerd because
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  Speaker 4: I was being very considerate.
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  Speaker 3: But they say the same thing. They say the same
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  Speaker 3: thing about big baseball fans or anybody like that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's like, I'm respecting that that that fandom,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I'm not going to claim to have
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  Speaker 4: the same I guess you know, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: claim that I go to two games a year and
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  Speaker 4: I know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: How many takes?
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  Speaker 5: How many takes did it did it take for that
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  Speaker 5: for that spot, that's a great.
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  Speaker 3: Spot for We were there for about an hour.
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  Speaker 4: And we did we filmed a bunch of stuff, but
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  Speaker 4: obviously it was pretty short commercial so it's pretty quick
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  Speaker 4: as far as uh the actual uh stuff getting shown.
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  Speaker 4: It was funny though, because it was like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: let's do one more, and then it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: one more for safety, all right, one more, And I
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  Speaker 4: feel like that's just what they say. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if they say that to actors too, where it's like
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  Speaker 4: they want you to think that like this is your
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  Speaker 4: last takes. You're like, all right, I'm just gonna nail
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  Speaker 4: this one, and then they're like they hit you with
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  Speaker 4: one more, you know. So I think there was some
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  Speaker 4: strategy to that, But it was good that the production
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  Speaker 4: was was amazing and I showed up and we were
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  Speaker 4: shooting in like probably six minutes after I got there,
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  Speaker 4: so it was really efficient. So hats off to that
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  Speaker 4: team that was there doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to say that was UCSD. At first
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was USD, and then upon further inspection,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like it was the Triitons right up there
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  Speaker 1: in Laoya.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, up in La Joya, about twenty minutes
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  Speaker 4: or so from the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And you had your line was the force was strong
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  Speaker 1: with that one, and then you tapped up Grogu. How
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  Speaker 1: did you feel like you performed and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if this was your acting debut or not. Maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: been in some commercials and other junctures in your career,
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  Speaker 1: but how did you How did you do as an actor?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think not to this scale?
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  Speaker 4: They had me run through a bunch of different lines
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  Speaker 4: like this is this is the way. Obviously the force
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  Speaker 4: was strong with that one. The force is strong with you,
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, that's what they went with. Ultimately, Grogu was
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  Speaker 4: they had like four different people controlling like one person
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  Speaker 4: was controlling his arms with like a I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: like the.
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  Speaker 3: Thing you see with like a remote control car pretty much.
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  Speaker 4: So the four of them were like one would move
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  Speaker 4: the head, one move the arms would move the body
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  Speaker 4: like it was a very very intricate thing. They actually
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  Speaker 4: almost canceled the shoot that day because baby Grogu couldn't
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  Speaker 4: make it. It's what they said, See, he had another
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  Speaker 4: he had another commitment the day before, and he has
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  Speaker 4: rules about how much he can travel.
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  Speaker 1: So this is amazing behind the scenes stuff that we're
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  Speaker 1: getting from Mason miller Man. That is phenomenal. Who was
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  Speaker 1: this poor Podrey person that you struck out at the plan?
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to see if it was somebody that
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  Speaker 1: I would recognize. But I'm just guessing this was probably
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  Speaker 1: an extra that they pulled off the street.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they had.
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  Speaker 4: They had several extras, the Defenders, the Catcher. They all
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  Speaker 4: had brand like brand news like the catcher and a
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  Speaker 4: brand new glove. And I was just I was only
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  Speaker 4: throwing at like fifty sixty percent, so it wasn't anything crazy,
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  Speaker 4: But I felt bad because he was back there trying
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  Speaker 4: to catch the ball with church glove that barely was
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  Speaker 4: able to sweeze. But they did a good job. They
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  Speaker 4: and they were upfront about it, like we just need
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  Speaker 4: the like bones of it, like you're you're throwing motion,
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  Speaker 4: but we're going to do the edit with the ball
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  Speaker 4: and everything, so don't worry about where it goes or
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  Speaker 4: anything like that.
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  Speaker 6: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 5: That was that was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It really was such a such a good spot.
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  Speaker 5: And I know that I know that you know, you
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  Speaker 5: have your entry in music, you have corn, you have
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  Speaker 5: that fantastic walk out, But if you were to change it,
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  Speaker 5: you couldn't go wrong with maybe too nerdy for you,
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  Speaker 5: but you could not go wrong with a Star Wars
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  Speaker 5: theme that that a.
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  Speaker 3: Star Wars weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Star Wars.
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  Speaker 7: Weekend, I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Marty's already angling for the marketing job.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, by the way, speaking of the
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  Speaker 5: marketing job, Mason, you've had quite a stretch recently. You
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  Speaker 5: have you have the bobblehead, you got the scrape bobblehead
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  Speaker 5: from last the last homestand you have a deal with
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  Speaker 5: dex Com. Wait here it is. And the reason why
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  Speaker 5: I have this as big as my my brother in law,
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  Speaker 5: Jack actually designed the G seven, the device that you
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  Speaker 5: that you wear right now. So congratulations, and all these
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  Speaker 5: deals and all the marketing that you've accomplished. So that's
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  Speaker 5: a that's pretty cool. That's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's a good balance to you know, like fun
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  Speaker 4: stuff and dex Com is obviously.
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  Speaker 3: Something that I care a lot about and I'm really.
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  Speaker 4: Looking forward to working with them hopefully as long as
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  Speaker 4: I'm in San Diego and beyond, just because that's something
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  Speaker 4: that affects me so much day to day.
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  Speaker 3: That's an easy yes.
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  Speaker 4: And then uh, something something to the likes of the
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  Speaker 4: Star Wars commercial. It's like, yeah, that's pretty awesome life,
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  Speaker 4: Let's go for it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's amazing as well. And speaking of since before,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into some of the baseball stuff, or maybe not,
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the things you know that Marty's talking
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  Speaker 1: about there with textcom and you know when I was
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  Speaker 1: preparing for this, Mason, is I think everybody by now
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  Speaker 1: knows your story. Everybody in San Diego knows your story
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  Speaker 1: about being diagnosed with diabetes when you're twenty and how
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  Speaker 1: it really and literally changed your career. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things I think I didn't realize is I came across
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  Speaker 1: a story about how young diabetics are finding a champion
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  Speaker 1: in Mason Miller, and I don't know that I realized
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  Speaker 1: that you have young fans correct me if I'm wrong
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  Speaker 1: here pretty much every stop along the way for you
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  Speaker 1: as a home player, as a visiting player, fans young
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  Speaker 1: fans in particular, who show up who have been diagnosed
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  Speaker 1: with early diabetes, who do see a champion in you
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  Speaker 1: and do want to meet you, not just because you
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball one hundred and five miles per hour
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  Speaker 1: and you're in a commercial, but because you're an inspiration
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  Speaker 1: to them. I wonder if you could talk to us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about those experiences when they pop up
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  Speaker 1: for you, not only in San Diego but in other
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  Speaker 1: places when you're playing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's an easy yes for me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's not a huge lift on my end
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  Speaker 4: in the PR department of all those guys. I mean
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  Speaker 4: even when I was with the A's, the PR team
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  Speaker 4: helped me so much with kind of starting to do this,
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  Speaker 4: and then the Padres have also been awesome.
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  Speaker 3: With it too.
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  Speaker 4: Just bring a kid down on the field for batting,
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  Speaker 4: get them batting practice passed, they can watch some batting practice.
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  Speaker 4: I'll talk to them for like ten or fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's like it's a cool baseball experience in
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  Speaker 4: and of itself. And usually these kids are baseball fans
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  Speaker 4: to a certain degree also, so they get that level
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  Speaker 4: of things that like that's not something that every kid
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  Speaker 4: gets to do. But also having the chance to talk
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  Speaker 4: to me. I mean I was twenty years old when
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  Speaker 4: I got diagnosed, but I still remember searching like type
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  Speaker 4: one diabetic athletes on Google and seeing guys like Mark
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  Speaker 4: Andrews pop up, who has also done a bunch with
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  Speaker 4: dex Com and you know, Dexcomb's kind of just allowing
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  Speaker 4: me to expand the reach of it. You know, We've
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  Speaker 4: met at a Warrior Day at Petco and had had
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  Speaker 4: eight kids there. So you know, I've tried to do
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  Speaker 4: it as much as I can anytime that it comes
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  Speaker 4: up on my radar, and like, I'll see a kid
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow here in Milwaukee, and.
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  Speaker 3: I tell the kids.
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  Speaker 4: It's as cool for me because you know, I get
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  Speaker 4: I get to be that person that you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was kind of looking for, and it was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit different because I wasn't their age, but in the
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  Speaker 4: same light, you know, you I saw that there were
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  Speaker 4: athletes playing sports with type one, and at that point,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't even about playing professional baseball. It's just about
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  Speaker 4: playing sports in general and seeing that they have the
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  Speaker 4: level of success they do. There's no reason that you know,
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  Speaker 4: I can't figure it out and do it as well.
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  Speaker 4: I think the biggest key is just that it was
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  Speaker 4: always we're all different, and you know, it's an imperfect
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  Speaker 4: level of care.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like here's the roadmap and you know you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be great.
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  Speaker 4: It's adjustments and learning and uh, you know, havingt cover
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  Speaker 4: conversations too. I think it just gives you so much
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  Speaker 4: more confidence.
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  Speaker 3: They're like.
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  Speaker 4: To be okay with not being perfect, I guess, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And it's difficult for a lot of kids because sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's their parents doing everything and then they have to
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  Speaker 4: transition to doing it all themselves. So it's almost like
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  Speaker 4: two whammys of getting diagnosed. I guess, like they have
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  Speaker 4: no idea what's going on when they're five years old,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, once they get a little older and
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  Speaker 4: they have to start taking over stuff, and there's probably
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of disdain for it, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think it does put the parents in a tough
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  Speaker 4: place because they just want to care for their kids.
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  Speaker 4: But it also is like kind of a nuisance to
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  Speaker 4: the kid too. Sometimes they don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 4: They just want to eat candy like everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: I think J Color is the one.
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  Speaker 5: The J Color is the athlete that comes to mind
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  Speaker 5: when I think about some high profile athletes that dealt
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  Speaker 5: with dealt with diabetes. Mason, what's the what's the what's
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  Speaker 5: the question? The most common question that you give from kids.
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  Speaker 4: Some kids come take some kids comes loaded up with questions,
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  Speaker 4: and some kids don't have They get super shy, and
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  Speaker 4: usually it's I just try and ask them what it's like,
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  Speaker 4: what they like to do. Probably the one that gets
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  Speaker 4: the best answers, in my opinion, is like what your
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  Speaker 4: ask them what their least favorite part about having diabetes
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  Speaker 4: is and what their favorite part is. And usually the
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  Speaker 4: least favorite parts like I have to leave class at
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  Speaker 4: school to go to the nurse's office, or.
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  Speaker 3: Just waking up the middle of the night with.
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  Speaker 4: The low or something to that nature, and favorite favorite
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  Speaker 4: parts kind of range. I think that question catches a
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  Speaker 4: lot of them off guard.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what is what is your favorite part of And.
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  Speaker 4: I, at least of my favorite part is that I
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  Speaker 4: get to I get to meet with them and you know,
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  Speaker 4: be an inspiration to them. Might good for you, Matt,
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  Speaker 4: I tell them, it might not, it might not look
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  Speaker 4: the same, but you know, someday you'll have the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to do this for somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I just tell him, like, I hope that you would
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  Speaker 4: do that because I don't know how much this means
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  Speaker 4: to you. But it could it could be huge. It
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  Speaker 4: could it could be bigger, it could be not. But
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  Speaker 4: take the time or take the opportunity to talk to
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  Speaker 4: somebody about it, if you ever get that chance.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you threw a hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour or the first time that you were
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  Speaker 1: clock throwing a hundred.
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  Speaker 3: A A C L.
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  Speaker 4: After I got drafted with the a's that's that's fall.
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  Speaker 4: I might have done it in college, but we didn't
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  Speaker 4: have like radar and technology and all that stuff. That's
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  Speaker 4: normal and broke ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, now it's so normal for you. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember, though, like the first time you're like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: that's a hundred. That's trouble digits on the board there,
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  Speaker 1: My goodness, Do you remember the reaction when you did it?
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, you knew you were probably doing it anyway,
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  Speaker 1: but to see it officially, document went back.
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  Speaker 4: I went back and watched it on the on the computer,
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  Speaker 4: so I have a picture of like the track man
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  Speaker 4: log or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's like, so you're throwing hard, if you're
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  Speaker 4: throwing like ninety ninety five, and then it's like you'd
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  Speaker 4: be like, I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Hit one hundred. I want to see three digits.
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  Speaker 1: And do you take a peek at the board? I
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  Speaker 1: mean at home or when you're on the road. I
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  Speaker 1: mean sometimes, you know, these road board operators will mess
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  Speaker 1: around a little bit with some of it. We've learned
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  Speaker 1: throughout the years. But do you look over the shoulder
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  Speaker 1: and take a peek to see what it looks like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's there's some stadiums where it's not super convenient,
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  Speaker 4: and there's other ones like Milwaukee where it's on the
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: facade right behind home plate. So I mean, you're a human,
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: so you're not going to miss that one.
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: I should I should know this.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: But how many times have have you been involved in
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: an ABS challenge yet this season?
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Several.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I think the majority of them have gone my way,
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: though Freddy's got me. Freddie and Camp you've gotten me
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: a couple of pitches, and then I think we've also
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: challenged and late in the game and we have both
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: or one of our challenges left, and Freddie will challenged
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: something that's close that we're both like, that's probably a fall,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: and usually that one is. But he's gotten some for me,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: and I don't think there's been a like.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Real bad one that ha's hurt me.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: I guess one was close against the Cardinals, the last
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: ipe against weather Hold, the one oh pitch, he challenge
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: weatherhold challenge it and it barely caught the inside corner.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: So that was.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: A big pitch to go one to one instead too.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: How much do you trust yourself on the challenges or
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: you're leaving it to You're leaving it to your catchers.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I think I have a pretty good idea, but I
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: don't really have any interest in challenging just I feel
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: like it's like, if I feel pretty good about it,
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I think that the catcher is also going to feel
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: pretty good about it. And I've told him that that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm trusting you. You a ton of pitches
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: every single day. You've seen where umpires are missing pitches.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm coming into the game and like, visually,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I feel like I have a pretty good idea of it,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: but uh yeah, I don't want to.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Pull the trigger on that and lose the guy's a challenge.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: But see, Yeah, I don't think a pottery picture has
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: challenged yet. Yeah, I don't think a pottery picture is challenged.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Walker challenged one the other day. I think that was
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the first one.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's such like a new system.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It's such a weird thing to try to get to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: get used to as a matter of personal preference, do
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you care? I mean, is it is it more enjoyable
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: for Mason Miller to to to strike somebody out swinging
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: or looking?
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: Mmm?
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I don't really care if they count the same to me.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I think swinging is as they're both goods. Like I
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: executed a chase, picture executed a you know, I set
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: set up the path to get to a strikeout looking.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I don't strike out that many guys looking, But I
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: feel like I don't really discriminate on strikeouts. They're all
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: they're all my favorite.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: That is such a great answer.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I do wonder like if it's more satisfying to watch
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a guy just like ah to give up on or
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: just go, hey, listen, I got no chance, So I
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: ain't swinging anyway. Like so you know, I'm just gonna
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: leave it up to the umpire here right because I'm done.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I'm toast.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I got no chance in the situation. See, I want
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: them swinging, ridiculous, twist themselves into the ground.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's usually the way that goes. Anyways.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: That's the more clear too, Swinging over looking, Like it's
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: probably like eighty five percent swinging at this point, maybe
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: like four four of my four my thirty eight, I
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: can think of four four looking five looking.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, so maybe a little bit more than that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Mason, just a couple of quickies before we let you go,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: because I know you had to get you a coffee person.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Uh not not as big as the next guy, but
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: I'll probably get something. Yeah, like if I go get breakfast,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: I'll get a coffee. I'm not big on like I'm
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: gonna go to a coffee shop and just get a coffee.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, So Michael King. When I spoke to Michael
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: King a little while ago, he said that, you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: before he takes the mound, you know, he has to
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: to psych himself up, right, he has to get mad
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: at something. He'll invent being a reason to be angry
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: and use that fire. How do you get fired up
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: before you know you're about to go ahead and take
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: the mound? And I was telling Darren before you came on,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: you're like the most chill person I have ever met
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: in sports. Like this, Darren, the way Mason is right now,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: this is how he is pregame, this is how he
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: is postgame. You're just You're just super even keeled all
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: the time, how do you go ahead and flip that
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: switch when you pitch.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I think that's what competition brings out on you. I mean,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I do have the luxury of, like the game kind
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: of builds to the point of when I get to play,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: so you know, seventh inning, eighth inning, I feel like
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: the adrenaline starts going, and you know, I just start
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: moving around the bullpen and throwing and just get the
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: opportunity to play.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Is kind of like all the energy I need.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like I definitely have more more
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: emotion on the mound than I do like normally, But
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: I do think that like the even keel attitude is
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: also what allows me to have a lot of the
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: success I do because I don't you know, get too high.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Like my mound presence on Saturday with the bases loaded
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: was pretty similar to how it was with nobody on
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: and striking three guys out. You know, like that's something
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: that that I try to do because I look at
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: that as something that I can control. You know, I'm
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: not you know, starting to panic or letting things speed
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: up on me when when guys are on base, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm not like overly confident. I guess with
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: nobody on basis like I'm still executing, like I could
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: get hurt here. You know, I'm gonna be fine with
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: my pitches. I'm going to be in the zone, but
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm also going to respect the hitter in
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: the box and know that we're playing a close game
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: here at the end.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: You know, every single pitch matters. Mason.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: My final question on the way out, Marty and I
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: once did an interview with Houston Street a million years ago,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and when Houston Street was closing for the potrace, he
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: wore the number sixteen. I don't know if it's a
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: superstition or if it's a routine, right, routine. We're not superstitious,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: We're routine oriented, as Trevor Hopman said, but he used
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: to set the alarm or or arrange for wake up
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: calls based on the number sixteen. So like nine oh seven, right,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: like nine seven sixteen ten o six sixteenth. Do you
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: have anything any routines or superstitions if you prefer Is
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: there anything whether it's on the field, off the field, preparation,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: game day, is there anything in your universe that you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: would you would put in that kind of category. As
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Houston Street for us.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I would say not till I get to the ballpark. No,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: I don't have like an alarm system or anything like that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know that. To this question, I always just said,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: like left suck first, But that's just more have it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I think I don't like I do that if I'm
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I'm me sitting here and going out or if I'm
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: going out to the field, like left socks first, right sock,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: left shoe, right shoe?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: About it?
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I mean I thought I thought the same. I had
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: the same I had the same pair of socks for
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: pretty much my whole scoreless streak.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Then I threw them out when I was done.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Did you wash them the same pair of socks?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they get they get washed. Yeah, I'm not.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not some animal.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: And you tossed them.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, people want to pay good money for that.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Man, they had they had a hole in them, so
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: they were like on their last legs.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Anyways.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, I'm aware of certain things that
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: have been the same for a while, But what are
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: you gonna do? You know, that's kind of like it's
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: done that. I've done that with cleats in the past. Too,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: like if I, like, if I gave up runs out
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: to take my cleats off after and just throw them out,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: but I've stopped doing that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: So you should have sent those socks to the Padres
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Hall of Fame. There's a hall of fame out there
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: in the western Middle supply buildings.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Nobody sent them to Clay Meredith.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Sent, we sent, we sent walleeball.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: So maybe I think we're seeing if they want to
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: come to UH any of these East Coast trips and
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: then maybe meet up for a game on the field
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: or something.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a cool video that they said that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: That was awesome with them to do.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Mason, congratulations to you and your wife. I'm sorry you're
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: expecting your first your first, your first baby, so huge
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: congratulation to the expanding Mason Miller family.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: That's freaking awesome.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Love it you have your own baby, Yoda come in.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I love it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for doing this, Mason. We appreciate it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it too.
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: It's another episode of splash Shit Territory. We've been trying
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: this for ten minutes to get the tech right. But
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: we got a special guest today, so nice for you
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: to join us.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: He's in his.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: Hotel room in La I'm in my hotel room in La.
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: Susan Sluster's in her hotel room in La. Casey Schmidt
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: joins the show casey Man, thanks for making time.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, thanks for having me.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I don't even know where to start.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: I don't even really know where to start right now.
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: I guess we will start with a little fun. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: guess you've been moving all around. You're a utility guy now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: I mean you're playing first and second and third, haven't
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: really got the shortstop yet. I saw you shaggy with
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: fly balls in the outfield the other day.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: I mean, how are you doing all this?
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: And you're a DH and raking, so you've got so
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: many things going on every day and you're still so
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: successful so far this year, Like, how are you managing
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: all of this and how are you succeeding?
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I think it's uh.
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: I think it's just taken a couple of years of
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: experience of doing it. But yeah, but I think from
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: what I found is just keeping it as simple as
• 25:08
  Speaker 11: possible and you know, not.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Not overcook it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 11: You know. I think, you know, before I would maybe
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: overcook things a little bit, you know, with kind of
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: just the moving around. But I think just keeping it
• 25:21
  Speaker 11: as simple as I can is just really helped me
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: a lot, helped me out a lot.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a that's a great attitude to have.
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: Do you mind if I share the funny story we
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: talked about on the bench the other day with your glove,
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: because I think it's awesome.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: So, yeah, you were telling me that all of a sudden,
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: the giant said we want your shag in the outfield.
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: You panicked a little bit and you ordered a glove
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: on Amazon. One of the best stories I've ever heard.
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: Could you share that with us right now?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah? So I ordered, I ordered too. I ordered one
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: with my agent, and then I ordered one.
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: On Amazon just I could have, you know, two, so
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: I could see which one I would like better. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: then it turned it out the one that I would
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: on Amazon. I ordered it to be it was a
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: left handed glove on accident.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was.
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it was kind of was a little bit of
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: a mix up, but uh, but we were I returned it,
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: so we're good target.
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah, go ahead, season, Yeah, Casey, I mean you're you're
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: multi talented, but you're not ambidextrous yet, but maybe.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: You could work on it. Maybe you could work on that.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be an off season.
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: How are things going to the outfield? Do you feel
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: comfortable there? Like, could you play there in a pinch?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: You know, I played there, and it's obviously it's obviously different,
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: but I played there my first first two years of
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: high school. I had some experience playing left right center,
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: So it's it's it's it's foreign, but you know, it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: just taking a little bit of reps, just kind of
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: get to get me back in the the move of things.
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: You know, obviously the balls go a lot higher, but uh, yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: I mean I'm feeling good out there.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: It's uh, it's feeling more comfortable every single day.
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: I've been making sure i'm you know, out there with
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: with Jason and uh just just doing things to be
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: out there, and uh, I just just get as.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Get as comfortable as I can be out there.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Do you be sick to see you play right one
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: game and just see the.
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: Cannon unleashed, like, let it eat on a medium fly
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: ball and.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: A sack fly I want to see that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see if I got the opportunity for that one.
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: Do you order any other stuff off the internet? Like
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: do you order all your equipment off the internet?
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: Some sometimes this this last this, this this offseason, I
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: found uh, I found some some really like cool like
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: Nike cleats that were orange that were from like the
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: last year's model.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: And I really liked the last year's model.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: So I found like three or four pairs on eBay
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: and I just I just I just got I got
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: him and I started him in my room and now I'm.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Using them for the season.
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: Very resourceful.
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think we've determined that Casey Schmid is addicted
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: to Amazon and eBay uh in the show yet. But
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: hey man, didn't Ernie Clements for the Blue Jays get
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: his glove off eBay and he said it's the best
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: glove you ever had, something like that.
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: I remember, Yeah, I heard that story during the during
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: the world too. Yeah, I remember them talking about that
• 28:28
  Speaker 11: on the broadcast.
• 28:31
  Speaker 10: A see talk about d H and you know that's
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: not an easy thing to do, especially for a younger
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: guy that's you know, can play any position, play at
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: a high level in your routine. And how you've kind
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: of embraced this thing because you talk to guys oft DH.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Some will say you don't feel like you're part of
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: the game.
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: It's like four pinch hits, Like what's your routine and
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: how have you adapted so well to being a designated hitter?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: I mean the first time I did it, I was,
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: or the firston I did it this year. We were
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: in I think we're in Baltimore, and you know, I've
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: told this story a couple of times where the cage,
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: you know how far like the cage is from you know,
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: the the actual like clubhouse and like the dug out
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: of the tunnel, right, So there I was.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: That was the first one I was doing it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: So I was like in my head, I'm like, okay,
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna go to the cage, get loose every single time,
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: and then get ready for my bat.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: Well, it turns out I was getting ready to hit
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: and you know, the inning are the inning end, and
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: so I was like, okay, I got I got time
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: to go to the cage. So I go to the
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: cage and by the time I got there, it was
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: like already like.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: One out in the inning, and I was like, well,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: that's that's not good.
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: So I took a couple of swings off the tee
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: and I was like, okay, this was like this.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Is this and then I go, I gotta go. I'm
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: watching on TV.
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: There's two awesome like and I'm leading off the inning,
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: so I'm like sprinting back. So I'm sprinting back to
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: the dugout and by the time I got by the
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: time I got there, it was already the third out
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: and I'm like already putting my stuff on it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: I'm like breathing.
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: I'm like like out of breath, like going up there
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: to to hit, and yeah, I was, and so I
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: ended up I am getting a double and I'm getting
• 30:06
  Speaker 11: a hit and then I was like, okay, I can't
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: do that again.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: That was just that was just way too That was
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: too much exercise.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: It was funny because me and Drew like we were
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: running like we were like running to the like to
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: the cage, and it was it was so far. But yeah,
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: then after that, we just we ended up just putting
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: a t and then a net in the locker room.
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: And so from from that point, I was just like, Okay,
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: I'm just gonna do more up swings and the tea
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: in the locker just keep it as simple as possible.
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: And I just did that, and it's just had it
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: had some success with him. It's just they're just keeping
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: it simple and over you know, not overcooking it, just
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: going up there and just hitting off the tee and
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: just keeping it as simple as possible. And uh yeah,
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: Now I just kind of just been doing that when
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: I d H just going there, hit hits them off
• 30:53
  Speaker 11: the tee, you know, keep them, keep them off the
• 30:56
  Speaker 11: low liners.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I just go from There's.
• 30:59
  Speaker 12: So funny, Casey, because you went you'd been their pregame
• 31:04
  Speaker 12: that first day in Baltimore.
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: I think you'd been out that way and you went
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: walking past me.
• 31:08
  Speaker 12: I was waiting to go get in and talk to
• 31:09
  Speaker 12: Craig albernast in Baltimore, and you were like, it's so far,
• 31:14
  Speaker 12: so far, and I was kind of gave you like
• 31:17
  Speaker 12: a poor baby, are you gonna be okay?
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: I didn't realize that was going to be like a
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: formative moment for you. pH Yeah, I was.
• 31:26
  Speaker 11: I came back and I was like in the middle
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: of the game and I was like I was, I
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: was literally out of breath.
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: For everybody watching this in Baltimore, there's a bunch of
• 31:37
  Speaker 10: steps that go down to the clubhouse.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Then there's the clubhouse. Then you go outside the.
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: Clubhouse into the tunnel into the hallway that you enter
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: the clubhouse.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: And that's where the cages.
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: So that's a long way for Casey to get all
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: the way through the clubhouse down the stairs.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: So it is a hike, and it sounds like.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: The whole entire thing.
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah, the other out of the stadium. So it's a
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: long way before we get to the ball club. Casey out.
• 32:05
  Speaker 10: I want to ask you, do you think of yourself
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: as a utility player or you know, because you're just
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: trying to help the team win right now, or do
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: you see yourself someday being a gold Glove quality third
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: basement Because that play you made at Mookie Betts last night, Dude,
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: that was one hundred and six off the bat and
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: you just went to your left backhand boom feed a
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: second double play on a really fast runner. I think
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: you could be a gold glove third basement. Do you
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: see that in your future or do you just whatever
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: it takes right now?
• 32:32
  Speaker 11: I mean, obviously it's it's whatever it takes, you know.
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: I just I just want to be out there as
• 32:37
  Speaker 11: much as I can. And you know, the way that
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: I think about it is, you know, wherever, wherever I'm
• 32:42
  Speaker 11: at that day, that's I want to be the best
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: version of that. You know, whether I'm at you know,
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: left field and will be the best left field or today,
• 32:48
  Speaker 11: whether I'm at second wing to be the best second
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: basement today, at first at best you know, first baseman today, and.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Just just just go about it that way.
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: And you know, I think I've I've spent a lot
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: of time just over over thing, a lot of a
• 33:01
  Speaker 11: lot of stuff, you know, throughout my beout the beginning
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: of my career. So I think just just going out
• 33:06
  Speaker 11: and just keeping it, keeping it simple, yeah, not not
• 33:11
  Speaker 11: looking too far in the future, not looking you know,
• 33:13
  Speaker 11: in the past, but just kind of just staying stay
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: eating keel.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Katie.
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: I used to have a theory and this was in
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: my head that I played second, short and third center,
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: left and right that I wanted if a fan came
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: to the ballpark that day, say there's a good second basement,
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: not there's a utility player second basement.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: Her, boy, that guy's really a good center fielder.
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: So that was like the trick I played in my
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: mind where I got my work in every day at
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: that position, and I didn't want fans that saw me
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: for the first time to ever think I was a
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: utility player.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Mmmm.
• 33:45
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I just yeah, that's kind of how I think
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: about it. It's just wherever, wherever I'm out that day, that's.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: What i'm That's what it is, that's what that's that's
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: that's who I am today.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you're doing a great job at it. Talk
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: about the ball club right now.
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: I mean a couple of great wins in Los Angeles,
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: the twelve NUM one walk off at home, the vibes
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: in the clubhouse. You guys seem to be playing with
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: a lot more energy, a lot more excitement, a.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: Lot more enthusiasm.
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: You fist pumping at first the other night when you
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: Tomahawk could base hit the left center field Jung, who's
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: screaming on second base last night after his double.
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: It seems like you guys.
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: Are starting to take on the personality or manager a
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: little bit. Did he say something or has this thing changed?
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: But you guys are playing some really good baseball.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:25
  Speaker 11: I think I think it's just been you know, we
• 34:26
  Speaker 11: were just waiting for that that one, that one moment
• 34:29
  Speaker 11: to kind of just just to to get everything going.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And I think the last series is is.
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: Kind of what what got us there, and I think
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: we just we just could just continue to build off
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: of that, and you.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Know, it's it's just been a it's been a it's
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: been a good vibe.
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: You know, we've we've all were all really we're really
• 34:47
  Speaker 11: tight group, and you know, we all love being around
• 34:50
  Speaker 11: each other, and we're all rooting for each other, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 11: we're all just we're all having a lot of fun
• 34:53
  Speaker 11: and you know, just just keeping it just keeping it
• 34:56
  Speaker 11: as as simple I keep saying simple, But that's that's
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: kind of that. The main thing is just to go
• 35:02
  Speaker 11: out and have fun and be competitive and just just
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: to play hard.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: And that's that's what we're doing right now. And you
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: know it, like I.
• 35:09
  Speaker 11: Said, it felt like it it kind of started with
• 35:11
  Speaker 11: that last series with that walk off that Hey SU's hit,
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: and it's kind of just brought us all all in
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: and now now do you feel like we're starting to
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: kind of find ourselves.
• 35:23
  Speaker 12: It's funny, Casey, because you guys had that terrible road
• 35:26
  Speaker 12: trip obviously and losing his doubleheader in Philly, and then
• 35:30
  Speaker 12: you know not great games in Tampa, and I remember thinking,
• 35:35
  Speaker 12: and I might have even written like this, this seems
• 35:38
  Speaker 12: this almost feels like one of those this is rock bottom.
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: We're going to look back and remember this after things
• 35:44
  Speaker 12: turn around.
• 35:46
  Speaker 9: Did did it kind of feel like? That's to you guys?
• 35:49
  Speaker 12: Like all right now we really you know that? Then
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: there was booing at home on Saturday night. Willia Domas
• 35:54
  Speaker 12: said something to the effect like, you know what, I
• 35:56
  Speaker 12: have not heard that from home fans ever, and.
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: He's like, I understand why they did it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 12: He's like I deserved it, Like we haven't been playing well,
• 36:04
  Speaker 12: and you felt like that kind of kicked him into gear.
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: How did you feel about all of that?
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think you know, going back to that Philly series,
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: you know it was it was obviously, you know, it
• 36:16
  Speaker 11: was tough. You know, there's the games were so close,
• 36:18
  Speaker 11: and you know, we just we just didn't get the
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: big hit, and you know they ended up getting the
• 36:23
  Speaker 11: big hit. But yeah, yeah, the booing at home, you know,
• 36:27
  Speaker 11: that's obviously not something you want to you want to hear,
• 36:30
  Speaker 11: but I think that's, you know, it's it's you know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: got us going a little bit because you know, we
• 36:34
  Speaker 11: we we want to go out and we want to
• 36:36
  Speaker 11: put on a show for those fans, and we want
• 36:37
  Speaker 11: to win for them, and you know, we're doing everything
• 36:40
  Speaker 11: we can. And yeah, we feel like right now we're
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: in we're in a good spot where we're kind of
• 36:46
  Speaker 11: finding who who our identity.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: We know, we feel like we know who we are.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: Are you in there tonight again?
• 36:52
  Speaker 11: So Tony, No, not tonight. I'll probably be in there
• 36:55
  Speaker 11: a little a little later, you will.
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: You'll be somewhere a little bit later or maybe a
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: big pinch hit late in the game. You talk about
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: you guys loving each other. Your outfield really loves each
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: other after a win. That was they're real close, and
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: that was I thought it was hilarious. But apparently Major
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: League Baseball didn't think of it as hilarious. But they
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: talked to you guys yesterday, say you got to clean.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: It up a little bit.
• 37:23
  Speaker 11: I mean, from from what I know, it's from the
• 37:27
  Speaker 11: rule is three pumps.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: That's that's why. That's that's what I've known, That's what
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I've heard.
• 37:36
  Speaker 11: I mean, it happened to to recoder.
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: Carolina watched the video this morning on the group chat.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: You know, I was dying.
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: There's a there's a video with this comedian and I'm
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: drawing a blank on his name where he scores touchdowns
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: and it's a parody thing and it's.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: A it's a key and peel sketch.
• 37:55
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, if you do.
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: Three pumps, it's a penalty. And anyway, we're getting deep
• 38:01
  Speaker 10: in the weeds right now. But yeah, I liked the
• 38:04
  Speaker 10: bout last night.
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: That was cool.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: I think it'd be cool. You know how the Mariners
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: do the thing where they.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Do the kicks.
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: I think it'd be cool if you guys all got
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: together after the game.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: Up a little bit.
• 38:16
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they're gonna they're starting to take like classes, so
• 38:20
  Speaker 11: they're gonna start doing some good stuff.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: That's good stuff. So you got one more for Casey,
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: so we can let them. Let them go.
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, it's the Dodger series.
• 38:31
  Speaker 12: I feel like, you know, a little remiss just to
• 38:33
  Speaker 12: not you mentioned Otani, but uh, you know, they're they're
• 38:37
  Speaker 12: a little bit down now. Tony Vaitello has talked about
• 38:40
  Speaker 12: the importance just of winning divisions and games. How do
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: you guys look at these series especially you know, you
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: guys get off to a rough start, but now you're
• 38:47
  Speaker 12: playing well. Is there a sense like the Dodgers games
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: do mean a little bit more, either just.
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: Because of the division or because it's the Dodgers.
• 38:55
  Speaker 12: Or you know, the the Dalton rushing is added a
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: little more spice. It feels like sort of to this
• 39:00
  Speaker 12: series too, the Dodgers.
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: Are they still special?
• 39:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I I think I think the big
• 39:07
  Speaker 11: thing is is you don't want to look into the
• 39:09
  Speaker 11: other dugout and you know, be like, Oh, it's it's
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: this team, or oh it's you know, it's that team.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: You want to play to the level that you're capable
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: of playing in.
• 39:18
  Speaker 11: I feel like for us, you know, we're we're playing
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: with we're playing at the level that we want to
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: play at, and you know, it doesn't matter who's who's in.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: That other dugout. We want to we want to go
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: in there and we want to we want to get
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: that game.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Well, I got one more take me in the dugout.
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: When hasted a second home run last night, were you
• 39:34
  Speaker 10: guys losing your minds?
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're I mean we're freaking out.
• 39:38
  Speaker 11: I mean, I mean I I called the first one.
• 39:40
  Speaker 11: You can you can ask Hunter, you can ask Tang,
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: you can ask them. I said I said, I have
• 39:45
  Speaker 11: a host homer right here, and you hit and it
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: was literally two pitches later he swings and I looked
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: at him, went, yeah, I.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Told you called it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: I didn't.
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: I didn't.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: This The second one was good, but man, he almost
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: had that third one.
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: He almost had three.
• 40:00
  Speaker 11: I mean, I mean a hundred and eight to center.
• 40:03
  Speaker 11: That's that's gotta go.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: Late in the game.
• 40:06
  Speaker 10: You know, you played enough games at Dodger Stadium. When
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: it gets cold, it's late, the ball goes nowhere. You
• 40:10
  Speaker 10: got to hit your taters early. When you hit your
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: Grand Slam last year? Was it that was earlier in
• 40:15
  Speaker 10: the game, wasn't it.
• 40:18
  Speaker 11: I want to say it was probably like the fifth
• 40:23
  Speaker 11: or sixth.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Man, it was like my second at bat or something.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's really enough.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
• 40:30
  Speaker 11: Case I thought that one was gone, the one to center,
• 40:34
  Speaker 11: I did too.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: I was.
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: I was laughing during the broadcast in the middle of
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: John Miller's call because I thought he had his third
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: and we were saying, if you got two, you're playing
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: with house money.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: You gotta try for three. And that was for two strikes.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: That was his two strike approach, and he almost went deep.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: That was awesome.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Gosh, that would have been great. But yeah, two homers
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: is pretty cool.
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: It is well, it's pretty cool that you came on
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: here today. Case.
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: We really appreciate it. Man, I'll see you at the
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: yard and a little bit. It's great job. You're killing it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 10: Keep it up, keep keep it simple, baby, Seaball. Hit ball,
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: catch ball, throwball, keep it simple. You're doing a great job.
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: We appreciate you coming on.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you having me, of course, thank you, all right,