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Connor Joe Joins Friar Territory! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Friar Territory. Here
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  Speaker 1: on the Foul Territory Network, I'm Kyle Glazer. We have
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  Speaker 1: a very special guest for you today, Connor Joe, san
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  Speaker 1: Diego native, Powei High School alum, University of San Diego alum,
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  Speaker 1: and now San Diego Padre. Connor, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: It's me Kyle excited.
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  Speaker 1: So I have to ask San Diego native, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: went to Poway University of San Diego, what was it
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  Speaker 1: like for you pulling on the Potter's uniform for the
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  Speaker 1: first time. You know, we're in that uniform of your
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  Speaker 1: hometown team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was special. I was really excited for the
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  Speaker 2: moment I got to do that, And you know, the
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  Speaker 2: off season whole process took a while, and but at
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  Speaker 2: the end we got things done. Really happy with coming
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  Speaker 2: to the Padres and the opportunity they had presented with
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  Speaker 2: me and a chance to join a competitive team. So
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  Speaker 2: to put that jersey on for the first time is
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  Speaker 2: come true.
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  Speaker 1: Growing up, how often were you going to Padres games?
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  Speaker 1: What was your fandom like.
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  Speaker 2: All the time? Yeah? I remember my dad and I
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  Speaker 2: going to Qualcombe Stadium to watch the Padres. Then my
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  Speaker 2: dad and mom I think at auction won like a
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes pass, so we actually got like a
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  Speaker 2: tour from Bruce Bochie at Qualcom Stadium. He was like
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  Speaker 2: flipping to me in the cage. I remember that, and
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  Speaker 2: then we went through the clubhouse and out onto the
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  Speaker 2: field for BP. So I remember early days of Qualcom.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the very first game of Peco Park I
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  Speaker 2: was there, which was actually wasn't the Padres, it was
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  Speaker 2: San Diego State. So yeah, I was Padres fan through
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  Speaker 2: and through growing up. Who was your favorite player? Oh? Man,
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  Speaker 2: I have a bunch of them, right, like Trevor Hoffman,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Gwynn, I really like Steve Finley. Let me think
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  Speaker 2: Phil Nevin, can Cominettie Yeah, Clil Green.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, not closed and favorite? You know obviously once
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  Speaker 1: you you know you've got to live out every kid's
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  Speaker 1: dream in a lot of ways. You're a fan, you
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  Speaker 1: love going to the games, and then you actually had
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  Speaker 1: the talent to you know, become a professional player yourself,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going through at Powaway and then USD. When
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  Speaker 1: did it kind of hit you like you know this,
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  Speaker 1: you know this dream is gonna come true?
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  Speaker 2: For me as far as being a professional player, you mean, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe like a little bit naive in high
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  Speaker 2: school and maybe I thought it was a little better
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  Speaker 2: than I was. Didn't get drafted out of high school,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously I knew I had the opportunity to go
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  Speaker 2: to University San Diego, and so I landed at University
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  Speaker 2: San Diego with Rich Hill Jay Johnson, two great names
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  Speaker 2: in the college baseball world. Grew as a player, grew
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  Speaker 2: as a person there, and it was really like after
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  Speaker 2: my sophomore year, went out to the Cape and that's
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  Speaker 2: really where I got like a lot of traction. Right
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  Speaker 2: scouts were approaching me, talking to me, saying they want
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  Speaker 2: to set up, you know, meetings of that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it was really in the Cape where
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  Speaker 2: I the whole dream became more of a reality or
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  Speaker 2: more insights. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know, got drafted supplemental first round pick
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  Speaker 1: of the Pirates Major Way, A couple of different clubs,
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  Speaker 1: got traded a few times, but eventually Major Major League
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  Speaker 1: gave you of all places in Peco Park for the
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  Speaker 1: Giants playing left field.
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  Speaker 2: What was that experience like, Yeah, when people ask me,
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  Speaker 2: it's like things happened for a reason. Right Like I
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  Speaker 2: got real fied by the Cincinnati Reds in camp. They
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  Speaker 2: had made a couple of trades for outfielders quig in
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  Speaker 2: Matt Camp and wasn't didn't see like a way to
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  Speaker 2: make their roster, And it came down to the crunch
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  Speaker 2: time and the last week I actually got traded to
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  Speaker 2: the Giants, and this is you know, I've seen the
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  Speaker 2: whole schedule for the Reds and whatever, and it so
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  Speaker 2: happened that I made the team with the Giants, and
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  Speaker 2: they said we're gonna get on the plane, and Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Bochie of all people, was able to tell me that
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  Speaker 2: I was going to make my debut at Peco Park.
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  Speaker 2: So the manager that I grew up watching at Qualcom
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  Speaker 2: Stadium and took a tour with, was going to be
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  Speaker 2: my manager for my debut in San Diego of all places.
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  Speaker 2: Just full circle moment. So to be able to make
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  Speaker 2: my debut in front of my family and my friends
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  Speaker 2: at the ballpark that I grew up going to was
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  Speaker 2: really special. And then too, now sign with the Padres
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  Speaker 2: and be going there for opening days is going to
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  Speaker 2: be really special to It's It's just everything happens for
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  Speaker 2: a reason. I truly believe that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So take me through this offseason. You mentioned, you
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  Speaker 1: know it took a little bit, you signed a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. What was the process like in terms of
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  Speaker 1: other teams you were negotiating with. How did it all
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  Speaker 1: play out for you to end up with the Padres.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at the beginning of a lot of teams called
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  Speaker 2: with interest, and then it just went in waves like there.
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  Speaker 2: The talks would get going and a peace would fall
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  Speaker 2: as far as a free agent would sign, and then
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  Speaker 2: stuff would percolate and then it would kind of dissipate.
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  Speaker 2: So it was really like about riding the wave of
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  Speaker 2: But my agent, John Boggs, did a great job and
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  Speaker 2: he kept me in tune and every conversation that he
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  Speaker 2: had with the team I would know about. So it
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  Speaker 2: was constant conversation. The Padres had shown interest from the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: so we were talking throughout the off season. But I
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  Speaker 2: guess the whole process of developing an offer took longer
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  Speaker 2: than we expected or we thought, and that kind of
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  Speaker 2: happened with all the teams that were involved. As we
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  Speaker 2: got towards the finish line closer to spring training, we
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  Speaker 2: were presented with a couple offers, final offers, and so
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  Speaker 2: talking with my family, talking with Boggsy about opportunities, we
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  Speaker 2: really tried to keep the bias out of it. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm a San Diego kid playing from my hometown team.
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  Speaker 2: I knew was a dream for me my whole life.
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  Speaker 2: But really at this point in my career, we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to pick the best opportunity for me to get at bats,
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  Speaker 2: to to help a team to to compete. So when
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  Speaker 2: we were making our final decision, we truly felt like
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  Speaker 2: this was the place we tried. We truly felt like
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  Speaker 2: this was the best opportunity for me as a player.
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  Speaker 2: They could help me develop and continue to put together
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  Speaker 2: consistent season and to play for a competitive team that was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a pitch was away from getting to the
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  Speaker 2: World Series. Means a lot to me. I've you know,
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  Speaker 2: want to play for a competitive team and I get
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  Speaker 2: that here and then the final piece of that is
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  Speaker 2: coming home and being able to put on the Padres
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  Speaker 2: jersey is uh special and it really really did it
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: What other teams did you have? Offers from a couple
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  Speaker 1: of other teams, like right, like, I'm uh, it's that
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  Speaker 1: was in the past, right, Like, I'm focused on the
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  Speaker 1: Padres and I'm really excited to be with the Padres.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, you know coming from you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: with Colorado, You're with Pittsburgh, you were watching the Podas
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  Speaker 1: rise kind of from afar. What was your perception of
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  Speaker 1: the club just seeing them go from look, as we
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  Speaker 1: know last decade was not very successful to then you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing against them and seeing the star Laydon team that
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  Speaker 1: they'd built up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, ever since I've been playing them, which has
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  Speaker 2: been the last three four years, they've been a really
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  Speaker 2: good team. Yeah, And every time my team has come
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  Speaker 2: into Pecho Park, the energy and the atmosphere is electric.
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  Speaker 2: I think just go back to like being really excited
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  Speaker 2: to play at Peco Park and go home and see
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  Speaker 2: my family and friends, and then just get into game
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  Speaker 2: time and be like, man, this is exhausting playing these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Like the energy every pitch right like they're on you.
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  Speaker 2: They put pressure on you. So it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a I'm really happy to be here, I'll say that,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that the energy in the stadium is electric.
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  Speaker 2: The team is unbelievable. Like in the clubhouse, in their's
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  Speaker 2: bunch of superstars, and that's incredible to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of and to get to know these guys. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a great group of guys, extreme talent. They love to
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  Speaker 2: have a great time off the field, and they love
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  Speaker 2: to hang out in the clubhouse and have a good
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  Speaker 2: time and laugh. But as I'm seeing these first two
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  Speaker 2: weeks of spring training, it's it's a serious camp. They
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  Speaker 2: take the drills seriously. We're working as a team. Communication
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  Speaker 2: is extremely important on the field, you know. The Big
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  Speaker 2: Talker camp is like the first three seconds after a
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  Speaker 2: pitch is all about communication, checking in. So it's really
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  Speaker 2: impressive to watch these guys work and I'm just enjoying
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  Speaker 2: learning from them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Gully. We're joined now by Heath Bell. Heath obviously, Connor,
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  Speaker 1: you grew up watching Heath. I want to ask, what
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  Speaker 1: are your memories of watching Heath Bell come in and close.
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  Speaker 2: Out games, run in from the bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just ran in and got up, So that's
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  Speaker 3: why I'm making my night. That an't appearance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I remember Heath running in from the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the All Star Game was it Arizona? Where you
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  Speaker 2: did a slide in the infield dirt?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Talk to sound of all about that. It was fun,
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  Speaker 3: fun times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Connor obviously mentioned, you know, coming into the new camp
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  Speaker 1: getting to know these guys, what has been sort of
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  Speaker 1: the relationship building? Like are you guys called Team Dinners
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  Speaker 1: playing golf? You know, how how's that been? You know,
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  Speaker 1: gain to know a new new group of guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not just yet right Like in camp, everyone's trying
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  Speaker 2: to get sorted. I was focused on getting my family
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  Speaker 2: moved into our place and everyone situated. But the conversation
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  Speaker 2: when we're off the field in the clubhouse is being great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you get to know a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: by eating lunch, right, eating lunch, talking to guys, getting
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  Speaker 2: to know them, family, they have, where they're from. So
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  Speaker 2: really enjoying that part of it, and I look forward
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  Speaker 2: to the other stuff that you mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: So Connor, I got a question for you. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 3: old are your kids?
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  Speaker 2: I have a two year old daughter?
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  Speaker 3: Two year old? Okay, yeah, that's that's not that it's
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  Speaker 3: fun I have. I got two girls and two boys.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a go kart track I think is still nearby.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't allowed to go after they found out, but
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  Speaker 3: I secretly still still kept going, Yeah, that's it. There's
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  Speaker 3: good times in Peoria. You know, you just find them
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  Speaker 3: and you got to keep it low key, and if
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  Speaker 3: you can bring some of your teammates makes it even better.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I would say, hit that go kart
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  Speaker 3: track up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my daughter might not hit the height requirement,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe take some of my teammates for sure, that'd
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  Speaker 2: be fun.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, maybe you're and your wife get a babysitter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I took my wife once. She said she hated it,
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  Speaker 3: but I took it.
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  Speaker 2: So you really enjoyed go karting.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoy having fun, and you know, I try to
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of things. I would find mint your
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  Speaker 3: golf places and just stop and play. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I love the game of baseball, where if I had
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  Speaker 3: nothing to do, like on an off day and I
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  Speaker 3: saw a little league guys go on and playing, I
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  Speaker 3: would go and watch them and then just laugh and
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  Speaker 3: hear how parents would yell and scream and coaches this
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  Speaker 3: and that, and just being like, man, they're just out
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  Speaker 3: there having fun. So you know, I'm predicting you to
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  Speaker 3: come to San Diego and do really well and kind
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  Speaker 3: of get your career jumped off and started kind of
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  Speaker 3: like mine was. Where you're kind of the hometown, you're happy,
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  Speaker 3: you're comfortable, and just go kick some butt. That's kind
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  Speaker 3: of my prediction this year. So I'm rooting for you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. That means a lot. Heath.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Connor, you talk about, you know, coming
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  Speaker 1: into San Diego, what were some of the conversations you
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  Speaker 1: have at the club about the role they see you
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  Speaker 1: filling in terms of positions, Like, what do they talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about the role they see you filling this year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think someone that can compliment this lineup the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity as far as that bats could come in multiple positions,
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  Speaker 2: right like first base, outfield, And that's something that I've
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  Speaker 2: done my whole career. I've bounced around any to inning, outfield, infield,
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  Speaker 2: and then all so like game to games. So that's
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  Speaker 2: something that I'm prepared to do. I get myself right
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  Speaker 2: in the off season to do that. So you know, really,
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  Speaker 2: wherever they asked me, wherever Silty asked me to be
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  Speaker 2: a part of the team and help them win a
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  Speaker 2: ball game that night, and I'm happy to do it.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. So, like I said, I predict that you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be a huge part of this team. And
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  Speaker 3: if it was up to you, where would you want
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  Speaker 3: to What would you your position be? Would you want
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  Speaker 3: to be that utility guy that plays every day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in different positions, or would you like to be the
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  Speaker 3: outfield or sit a fly the left field position or
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  Speaker 3: the first base position. Do you want to like cause, like,
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  Speaker 3: eventually I wanted to when I came over here, I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to play, and where the Mets wasn't led me
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  Speaker 3: play all the time, so I wanted to play, But
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  Speaker 3: secretly I wanted to be a setup closer. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I knew we had Trevor Hoffman, so I wasn't going
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  Speaker 3: to take his job. But I was like, man, if
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  Speaker 3: he retires one day, probably like ten years from now,
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  Speaker 3: I can go from That would be so cool. And
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  Speaker 3: it ended up happening that way somewhat to Milwaukee a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years later. But secretly, where do you want
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  Speaker 3: to be? Do you want to be the first basement
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  Speaker 3: of the Padres, the left field of the Padres, or
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  Speaker 3: that utility guy that just plays every day but I'm
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  Speaker 3: in a new position every day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a great question. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think as an athlete, and you would know heath like competitor,
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  Speaker 2: we all want to be on the field. We all
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  Speaker 2: want to you know, contribute to the team that every night.
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  Speaker 2: And as I've played in the big leagues, I've owned
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  Speaker 2: that utility role, right like I've I've owned bouncing around
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  Speaker 2: to different positions and contributing that way. So I see
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  Speaker 2: myself as that, right, like a guy that can bounce
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  Speaker 2: around to different positions, different corners, and whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: taking guys days off their feet where they're going to
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  Speaker 2: d H and filling in there, but contributing. And I
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  Speaker 2: do want to be on the field every night in
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  Speaker 2: some capacity, whether it's off the bench, it's just I
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  Speaker 2: do see myself as that utility guy and a guy
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  Speaker 2: that can help in many different ways.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember Joe m who's that mick Ewing. It's
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  Speaker 3: kind of the Mets back in the day. I did not,
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  Speaker 3: he was the guy he pretty much played every he
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  Speaker 3: played six times a week, but.
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  Speaker 2: He was in the same position, that's right exactly.
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  Speaker 3: That was before the DH. So yeah, so you know.
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  Speaker 2: That that's a great way to get at bats, that's
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  Speaker 2: a great way to impact the game every night. Like
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  Speaker 2: you know, there are guys that play a specific position,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the game is going towards guys that
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  Speaker 2: are able to bounce around and help clubs in that way.
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  Speaker 1: That's so Connor. I know you have you have a
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  Speaker 1: spring training and got to get to you. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: get your at here in a in a quick second.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of you know this club, and you've been
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of different organizations. You know also colord On, Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: the Majors, you know, Atlanta, Dodgers, you know, Giants, all
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of clubs. What sticks out to you about
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  Speaker 1: you know, this club, this environment, and maybe how it
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  Speaker 1: compares to some of the others you've been in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's really clear that there's one goal
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  Speaker 2: amongst every single person in that club US, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the winner World Series. And I think that's easy to say,
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  Speaker 2: but for me personally, realistically, that might have not have
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  Speaker 2: been the common goal amongst everyone. Right, Like there's probably
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  Speaker 2: in past clubs there's guys that their goal is to
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  Speaker 2: break the big league camp, right, break with the big
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  Speaker 2: league club. There's one goal in this clubous and that's
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  Speaker 2: a parent, right like with the Pirates, I experienced streaks
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  Speaker 2: of winning and we were good at points of this season.
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  Speaker 2: I think with this club and a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: coming back from last year, they were very close to
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  Speaker 2: beating the Dodgers in that series and getting into the
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  Speaker 2: World Series. And I think they're going to build off that.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Silty made it very apparent that that
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  Speaker 2: was last year and they're not. That's not their identity.
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  Speaker 2: We're here and we're going to create our own identity.
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  Speaker 2: But we're building off of that. And so there's one goal,
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  Speaker 2: and that's to win the World Series, which is really
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  Speaker 2: special to me and really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I might run on the field if you guys
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  Speaker 3: want World Series.
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  Speaker 2: I would love that. I think everyone would love that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a problem. I know a lot of cops.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, I think you got the best hair
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  Speaker 3: in camp so far.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I've got my son that I got one, my fifteen
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  Speaker 3: year old boy, and he's got long hair too. I
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  Speaker 3: had long hair. I met my wife and then she
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  Speaker 3: told me to cut it.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Berever' stair is pretty good, though.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you know, yeah, this is.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Sor right.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Well, Connor, we know you got a game to get
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: out to. Thank you so much for joining us. We
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. I know we look forward to watching you
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: this season.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Great talking to you guys. I appreciate it. Great
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: avenue man, Yeah, take care too.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: All right. Once again, that was Connor Joe Heath.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: It's great to have a hometown guy on the club.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, he's someone that I think a
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: lot of people are going to be rooting for very
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: very passionately this year.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to do really well. I mean,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: he's got the attitude of, you know, hey, I'm here
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: to help out. That's what I want to help. I mean,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think secretly he wants to be the left
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: fielder or the first baseman. I think secret you know,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: he kind of said it, but he didn't really say
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: it because I kind of put him on the point,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: and you know, he's not going to be like I
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: don't want to be left field and Heyward, get out
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: of here, get on my space. But I think what
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: he's saying is if you can remember a Joe mc
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: ewan back in the day, he was a utility guy.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of other utility guys out there and
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: they pretty much play five six days a week and
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: now at the DH, maybe even more. But when they
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: sit on the bench and it's not their day to play,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: they're almost like they're the number one pitch hitter or
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: to come in when the pitchers used to double switch.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: And I feel like that's the type of guy he is,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: that he's the caliber that he could be the first
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: baseman the DH, play maybe a corner or play different
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: outfield positions, and you know, he's not gonna like, you know, hey,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I'm doing really well, you know, and I'll play every
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: day and if I have an off day where I go,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: oh for four, don't worry about it. You know, I'll
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: sit the bench. I got no problem because I'm going
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: to get that pitch hit, you know, the next day.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: So I'm rooting for him because he's kind of the
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: hometown guy and he's kind of he finally like come
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: home after you know, moving around. But I'd really like
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to see him establish himself so he can be a
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: padre for the next three to four to five years.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: That's what I would love to see Connor do. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I think he's got potential of doing it. And I
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: think he's got the mindset to do it. I just
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: you know, he's got to go out there and play
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: and put it on the field. But that that's what
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I would love for him to do and kind of
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: maybe finish his career in San Diego, you know, play
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: five years here and be that utility guy. So that's
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: what I would love to see.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think everyone would love to see that for sure.
• 18:46
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  Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back to Friar Territory here on the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Foul Territory Network. I'm Coyle Glazer alongside Heath Bell. Great
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: interview with Connor, Joe earlier and an as you mentioned,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: hometown kid coming back to San Diego but potentially Look,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: he's in his thirties. I think everyone would love to
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: see him be successful and finish out his career here.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You were born in Oceanside. Now, you went to high
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: school and junior college up in Orange County, but for
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: all tents and purposes, you are a San Diego County native.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: What did it mean to you to come back and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: play for the team you know where you were born.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Essentially, it was like coming home. So here's the thing
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: is I'm you know kind of you know, high school
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and college was Orange County, but all my relatives who
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: lived in San Diego. My grandma was in San Diego,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: so I was constantly going there. And then when I
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: got my license on me and my buddies went to
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: San Diego to Jack Murphy and to watch the Padres,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and you know, we went there more often than like
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: to Anaheim to the Angels and La. I had a
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: good friend that was a La Dodger fan, and I
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: didn't know why, but he ended He's like, we got
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: season tickets, not every day, every game, but you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: it was like with a couple of their families. But
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: it was like in Nosebleed. It was like where you
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: park up top behind home plate and then you walk
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: through the steps and it's like two steps down there's
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: the seats. I'm like, they look like ants, you know,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: but quote comm or Jack Murphy or quote Calm. You
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: could go out there early and you know, run around
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: the outfield look for home run balls during batting practice,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: that's what I really remember. So when I got traded
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: from the Mets, even though I was living in Florida
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: at the time, it got off the plane, I just
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: felt like I was home. I just felt like, Okay,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: now I can just I can go and be me
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: and and just blossom. And I kind of feel like
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: that's the same thing, you know, Connor's gonna do. So
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: that's it's just a gut feeling for me where I
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: think he's gonna just blossom because he's gonna be just comfortable. Yeah,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: he wants to do it for the hometown. He wants
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: to do it for you know, friends and family, but
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: he just, you know, he's I don't think he's really
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: ever gotten a legit shot to be the guy, you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: the utility guy. You know, maybe a little spurred here
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: with Pittsburgh and there, but I think in San Diego
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: that's what we're looking for him to do is be utility. Like, Hey,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: let's be that guy. You know, you're kind of that's
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: who we're looking for you to be. And if he
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: can do that, maybe he can stay here for a
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: couple more years, you know, and be that guy. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: that's where I'm I'm really excited for Connor and his
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: family and his friends just to be here and to
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: have fun and you know, go out there and play
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: like and show everybody that he's a big league ballplayer,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: like everybody, that he deserves to be, you know, one
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: of the best utility guys in the league or at
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: least out West. So where everybody would be like, wait,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: what happened to Connor when he went to San Diego. Well,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: he got a chance, they believed in him. It's kind
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: of the same thing that happened to me, and he
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: can blossom and you know become you know, that utility
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: star that we hope he can be.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely again, I think that's the outcome everyone
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: would love to see, both from a you know, on
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: fild performance perspective as well as just a human perspective. Right, Connor,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, San Diego born and raised Powi High School,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you know, University of San Diego, grew up going to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Potter's games, and of course Connor had testicular cancer metastasized
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: into his lung, beat that and came back to become
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a big league baseball player. So I mean this is
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: someone that is very very easy to root for on
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: multiple levels. And you know, I think too. One of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the things that'll be cool is you mentioned coming home
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and this actually, this thing I've always wondered is playing
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in front of all your friends and family. Does that
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: add more pressure to you or is it more relaxing.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: It seems for you with more relaxing. And I think
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: it's just more exciting, that's all it is. It's just
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: more exciting.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: You know. It's it's irritating when they ask for tickets,
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: but it's more exciting because like you know, you know, guys,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: if you're listening family members to Connor and friends, Connor's
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: got to pay for those tickets. They're not free. So
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: you know, don't hit them up too much. You know,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: hit them up like one time or you know, two times,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: but don't hit him up like every weekend or whatnot.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: And don't get offended if he says no. But I
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: think it's just it's it's exciting. It's fun when he's
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: gonna go out and get a hit, or he's gonna
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: hit a home run, or he's gonna hit a double
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: or help the team win. Guys are gonna just be
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: you know, his phone's gonna be blowing up about like, dude,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: so awesome, watch any of this and that, and it's
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: just gonna bring a smile to your face. Or like
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: he's gonna have people call him or shoot him at
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: text now, I guess leave messages and be like hey,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I remember when you did this at Powway. We're in college,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: you're doing it here, or I remember you know, your
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: high school days. I'm so awesome. It's so so awesome
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: to watch you play all the time this and that. Man,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: you're such a great guy, and it just brings a
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: sense of smile and happiness to you that you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: you're just you know, you're putting smiles on everybody's face
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: and you you're doing it what you told people in
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: high school, you told people in college what you were
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: going to do, and now you're doing it in front
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: of them, and I think it's just a it's a
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: good time. It's a it's it's kind of like, you know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: you're kind of probably you're kind of like, yeah, I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: kind of the guy, but I'm still me. You know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I'm not you know, they may treat you a little different,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: but you're still you, and you know you probably he'll
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: probably tell family members and friends. Hey, dude, I'm still Connor,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: still the regular guy that you know. You know, I'm
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: just playing for the hometown team. So yeah, I think
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: he's going to do really well. I really do.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: No, absolutely, Again, it's someone that the signing. Again, it
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: made sense once they decided that they were going to
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: go with more of the platoon, low cost signings. You know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: at least in left field, Jason Hayward and then Connor.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Joe and Connor's had some success against left handed pitching.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And again that posistical versatility, that ability to play first, third, left, right,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you know, the four corners, so to speak. He even
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: caught back in the day. I wouldn't be surprised to see.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: You know, he's the emergency catcher. You know, remember when
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Phil Nevin was the emergency catcher in like two thousand
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and six or seven.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I remember him donning the gear and it was, oh, yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: maybe maybe Connor could play every position in one.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Game college style.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just play every position one game, let's see it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I think he's the only one of the only guys
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: that could probably do it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: He certainly bounced around a lot in his career in
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: terms of you know, you asked him where you want
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to see him play, you know that utility spot. Where
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: do you see him fitting in most? Because I think
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: for me it is more that again, he's the right
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: handed bat playing left field and probably first base when
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Hayward or Arrise you know, need a day offer, the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: matchup is his best. I can see that left field
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: first base combination where he most likely is going to be.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I personally see him as being the left fielder and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: then Hayward getting hot on the DH and then they'll
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: portune a little bit. But I think Connor's going to
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: be in the outfit a little bit more, and then
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: when he doesn't get hot, maybe they'll put him at
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: first a little bit and hit off the bench. That's
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: what I think. I think he's going to win the
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: left field's job just because Hayward, I think, is going
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: to be a little bit more DH ish, just because
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: to keep him a little bit more healthy than jogging
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: out there, even though he's a great defensive player. And
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I think he'll be out there and he's gonna want
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: to play, but the game has kind of changed a
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: little bit, and Heyward's, you know, a veteran and he's
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: a smart guy where he's gonna be like, you know
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: what if I can just hit and help the team
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: run the bases and I don't have to go out there,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: and you know, it saves my legs to be, you know,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: have a little bit more power or you know, stretching
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: out that double, you know, the single into a double
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: or whatnot. I could. That's where I kind of see
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: him just because he's a little bit more, you know, younger,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and I don't want to say spunkier, but out of
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: the word I'm going with. You know, Heyward, You're awesome.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: You know, I pitched against you. I was always feared against.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: I was scared to pitch against you because you were
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: really good. But we all get older, man, we all
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: we get a wiser, but we get older, so we
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: just we slow down a little bit. But that's where
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: I kind of see a they them put tuning a
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: little bit, but Hayward to be the outfield slash DH,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: but I see him to be a little bit more DH,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: and Connor to be a little bit more of the
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: outfield and then you never know, you may play right
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: field tatist needs a break or whatnot, and then maybe
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: first base just to move him over a little bit.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: So yeah, you never know what the padres because I mean, gosh,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: first base, second base, outfield, third, you never know where
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: somebody's going to be every day. So you know, I
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: think for him, he just wants to be in the lineup,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: you know, five six times a week, and then he'd
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: be perfectly fine with that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think what's you know, encouraging too, is
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you know, last year in Pittsburgh wasn't wasn't his best year,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: but the year before he had some success. And it's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: important that his success wasn't just when he was a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: member of the Rockies, you know, playing in course field.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: We saw how some success in Pittsburgh.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: And I think what a successful year for Connor Joe
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: would look like this year is similar to what those
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: numbers were two years ago. You know about two fifty
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: seven to fifty ops, you know, eleven homers, forty plus
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: RBIs and you know about four hundred AB's. I mean
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: something like that. I think if Connor Joe goes out
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and hits again called two fifty, twelve to fifteen homers,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: drives in forty to fifty runs, getting four to fifty
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: at bats, that's a really good season for him, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that that's where he will make a huge impact for
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the Potters because they don't need him to be, you know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a superstar playing every day. They just need him to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: fill in and be productive in his opportunities.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: No, I definitely see him as a two fifty to
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: two seventy hitter, hitting about ten home runs, you know,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: maybe forty to sixty RBIs, maybe stealing a few bags,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: playing good defense, not making many airs or any airs really,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: and just being that guy, you know, coming off the bench,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: being that left fielder so there's left fields, not a hold.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: But we don't need him to hit three hundred. We
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: don't need him to hit thirty home runs. We just
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: need him to go out and be the guy he
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: knows he can be. And I really think that's anywhere
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: from two fifty to two seventy, you know, bad average,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: hitting around ten home runs, maybe fifteen tops or you know,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: seven or eight home runs, and you know, driving in
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: forty to fifty sixty RBIs. I think that would be
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: a stellar job for him.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I see him the same exact way. You know, I
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: don't think they need him to be a profar, you know,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: they don't need him to hit home runs. They don't
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: need him to do, you know, Bonify superstar, but the
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: hometown knows the best player. Like Kim wasn't the superstar
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: the last couple of years for the San Diego Padres,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: but he was the hometown. Everybody loved him. He was
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: just to have that energy, and I think Connor's got that,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: you know. And then with him the being the hometown
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: guy that's been around, having the hair flow and just
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: you know, the little excitement and I think that part
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: will you know stride and you know, you know, he
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: looks a little bit like you know Kim what.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: You know, he's got the hair, He's got the San
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Diego surfer bro hair going. So I think there's no
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: question he'll be a fan favorite.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Well it's just you know, it's like, you know, my
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: wife is Chinese and my kids look more like me
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: than like mom, and Mom is a little upset with that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: But uh, you know when she looked at him and
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: was like hey, and I don't know, I don't know
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: if Connor has any Asian in him or whatnot, but
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: she was like, yeah, another Asian guy.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: You know, She's just looking at you know, their look
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: up and I'm like, well, you know, he's the hometown kid.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: You went to Powi High School in San Diego, and
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: she goes, Oh, I didn't know that because I had
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: some boys. I had some kids go to Powi High
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: School when I lived out there. So it's I'm just
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: really excited for him. And the one thing I really
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: liked what he did say is everybody wants to win
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the World Series. Not everybody's trying to win the job.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: And I remember in twenty ten, we had a lot
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: of guys we finished the year and it was in
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: twenty ten. Oh wait, it wasn't no, it was was
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: it nine? It was nine getting to twenty ten and
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: it was September. It was the end of the year,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: and everybody's like. The reporters came and asked the players
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: like Kyle Blanks and Will Venable, so do you think
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have a chance to win that make the
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: team next year? And they were like, we want to
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: win next year. I don't know, I don't care about
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: what making the team. We're gonna win. I said, I
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: want to win, and that attitude took over, and you know,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: in twenty ten, we missed it. The last game with
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the Giants, those pesky Giants, but we almost had it
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: in the next year with really nobody's and this year
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: we have a lot of somebody. So I think last year,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: with the coaching we have and the leadership that we
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: have and the players we have, we were so close.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: If we just kind of build off of that, last
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: year is last year. But this year we build off
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: and we have the mindset that we can do it.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Maybe we won't get into a funk mid season and
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: then the All Star break takeoff. Maybe we'll just be
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: steady strong the whole year and just say, hey, we're
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: gonna be our team. We're gonna be the San Diego Padres,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: and we're gonna win ball games. We're not thinking about
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: beating the Dodgers, We're not thinking about beating the Giants
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: or anybody else. We're just gonna go bet the San
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Diego Padres and win and at the end of the
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: year we're gonna be in the playoffs. And you never
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: know what's going to happen in the playoffs. I mean,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: in theory, yeah, you always got to go through the Dodgers,
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: just like out East, you gotta go through the Yankees.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: But that's just the way it is.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, we're about five days into spring training now.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I have to say, watching this team at all, before
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: spring training got started, you and I were talking about,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you know, right now, they probably looked like a third
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: place team in the NLS, just because look, the Dodgers,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks are a really good team
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: that added Corbyn Burns. I think we both kind of
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: seen the Potters, as you know, an eighty six type
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: win team, third place, compete for a wild card spot.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: As some additions have rolled in as the games have
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: gotten underway. Just watching this team again, you don't want
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to go too crazy over anything. Spring training. Has your
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: assessment changed at all? Are you feeling more optimistic? Where
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: are you.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: At right now?
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be more optimistic the more guys that
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I talked to out there and see where their mindset,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: because you know, if we if we're going to be
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: a team, you know, we didn't really go out and
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: get a bunch of good you know, stars or whatnot,
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: and we lost to you know, a few guys or whatnot.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: But we didn't really lose a bunch of guys besides
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: maybe Joe Musgrove, you know of like Bonafly, Oh we
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: really got hurt. Yeah, we lost Kim, but you know
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Kim was hurt for most of the year. We lost
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: that one hurts. But you know, Profar had an unbelievable year.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Nobody expected him to have a year like that. So
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: you know, we're we're not looking to fill that void
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: we're looking for We're not looking for Heyward to have
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: an unbelievable year or Connor to have an unbelievable year.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: If we go out there and just if the boys
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: go out there and think, hey, we're gonna win with
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: the guys that we have because we're gonna all help
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: each other out. You know, say Connor and Heyward, they're
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: not competing against left field. They're just happy to help
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: get the team to win. You know, Connor goes out
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: and gets two hits and he wins. He plays the
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: next day and maybe his first two two bats doesn't
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: get a hit, and then Heyward gets a hit. Then
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Connor will be like, Okay, you know, Heyward, you go
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: play tomorrow because you kind of got the hot hand.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: So you're always feeding off each other instead of well, man,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I hit the ball hard, but you know, come on,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't want to get pitched hit for,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: you know, because secretly guys think of that stuff, and
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: because they want to play, or they're hitting the ball good,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: but they're just hitting it right out people. But if
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: they're number one goal is to win every day and
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: they're rooting for the guys next to them, even if
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: it's the guy that's playing over them, then there's a
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: team that's you can win and you can beat teams
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: that you're not supposed to beat because you're not in
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: competition with your teammates. You're all trying to win because
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: you know, if Hayward goes oh for three and just
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: doesn't have that day, or they switch pitchers or whatnot,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: and they put Connor in to face the lefty, Hayward's
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: not gonna be like, man, I could hit left he's
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: you know, but he'd be like, come on, Connor, pick
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: you know, go pick me up today. You know, you
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: be that guy to get righty's. And they're all cheering
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: for each other and all rooting for each other. That
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: becomes a good team. And I'm starting to get the
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: feeling that's how they're feeling right now. But it's early
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: in spring, you know, they've only played what four games,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: you know today will be five. So by the second
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: or third week, you'll kind of see are they doing that?
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: And you really see it the first the second week
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: of the season. Are they doing that? And that's when
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be like really excited if I start
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: seeing that, and where everybody starts rooting on each other
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: and it's not that fake heah, good job getting to hit,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: you know, and secretly like, man, no, I could hit
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: right e's, I can hit lefties. You know this and that.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's where my you know my, that's where
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at guys right now and kind of looking
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: at them in the dugout. How are they walking off
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the field, How are they walking on the field? This
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and that? You know, there's a lot more. It's like
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: baseball is a chess game. You know, there's there's a
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: game within the game, and if you're all playing the
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: same game, you're gonna win and you're gonna beat people
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: that you shouldn't be and that's how you win championships.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: And you know, like and trust me, Connor, I'm I'm
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: going to go tackle him because I told him, I said,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I'm going to jump on the field. If there's a
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: you know, I'll be it. If Padre is in the
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: World Series, I'll be in the stands somewhere, and if
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: they win, you know Chip or Gym or one of
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: the security guys that I know still works there, I'll
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: tell them what I'm doing and I'll be where they are,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: so I'll say you'd be the first one to tackle
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: me or whatever. But I'm going for Connor. That would
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: be great.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and hey, I'll be in the press box
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: like I always am.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: So if that's you, we.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Can do an interview from jail. Be great because you
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: got to go to jail. And if we win the
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: World Series this year, we'll do an interview. We'll do
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: a little you know, Padre territory and you know jail.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: My first time going to jail.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: From the underground holding at Peco Park.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: That yeah there, yeah, you me and everybody will be like,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: what are you doing? I told you I was going
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: to do it.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: So well, we hope that all happens. For a number
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: of reasons. One Potter's won the World Series would be cool,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: but just for that alone, I would I've never done
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: a jail house interview before. I've been a reporter for
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: a decade. I've never done a jail house interview. So
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: if this is the closest I come to it.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I'll take it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it won't be the first time me in hand handcuffs,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: but yeah, definitely. There's a lot of different reasons for that.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: But it's a family show.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Well, well, yeah, it's you know, I was I in
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: high school. I didn't hang out with the best kids,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: and you know, I kind of cleaned my act a
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: little bit, but I never went to jail. So I
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: was in there misney Land actually once that's a different day,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: different story, and I and I wasn't I didn't even
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: do anything. I was just in the wrong split in
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: the wrong time.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: So wait, no, okay, so we got how did you
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: end up in handcuffs at Disneyland?
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Okay, So I was at Disneyland with a friend and
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: two people, like or two or three people ran past
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: us and we were just and then we were walking
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: and we sat down. They ran past us and was like,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: what what's going on? And cops were like Disneyland or
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: whatever was chasing them and they're like you two stay here,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: and me and my buddy looked at each other and like,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: are they talking? Is he talking to us? And the
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: next guy followed stopped right next to us and said
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: don't move, and and the guy at the radio and said, yeah,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: hold them. So he put us in handcuffs and handcuffs
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: us together so we couldn't go anywhere, and we're like what.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: And then when the other guy came back, yeah, you buddy,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: you're your buddies took off. We didn't catch them, and
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: I was like what And I kind of went ballistic
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: and here's my ida and here's my Disneyland pass. I said,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: we're not a part of them. But it was like
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: for an hour arguing with them, and they finally let
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: us go. But apparently we just, you know, we're in
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: the wrong place the wrong time. So they it was
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: only an hour before Disnelang was closing, but they we
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: kind of agreed to leave, but they walked us out.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: But I'm like, yeah, it was just in the wrong place,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: the wrong time. But you know, I didn't like win off.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: I just I was very adamant, as this is my name,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: here's my address, here's this, like because they thought they
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: we were going to be lying to them or not
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: tell them and I was being honest and kind of
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: direct to him. It was like I answered every single
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: question super fast and probably with an attitude, but but
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: it was because it was you know, it was like
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: we literally were walking. We would go to sit down,
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: and these guys like run past us, you know, kind
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: of like hitchy and run past he's not hidden us,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: but you know, kind of like get out of the
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: way or whatever. And we sat there and guys just
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: like stay here, and we're like what And we were tired.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: So we were just sitting there, like and another guy
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: came over and goes, are these the two guys on
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: the radio? You know? And and they we heard yeah,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: and you started getting mad at us, and you were,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: you know, putting you under arrest, Like what did what?
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: What did we do? And we didn't do anything, so anyway,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: we didn't anyway, maybe had to be there, I don't know,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: it was it was me in high school, so good times.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I still like Disney Wayne still the happiest place on
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Earth unless you're in San Diego playing a game, and
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: when against the Dodgers, then that might be the happiest
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: place on Earth.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Having been there in twenty twenty two when the Potters
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: beat the Dodgers. Covering that series, that was the most
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: ear splitting I've ever heard Peco Park. I remember when
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Josh Hayter struck out Freddy Freeman for the final out,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: the explosion, just the crowd noise actually like pierced my
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: ear a little bit, like it hurt again. I was
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: there covering it, and that was one of the most
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: incredible nights of my professional career, just the comeback, the
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: way it went down. And yeah, there's no question that
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: when the Potters were rolling, San Diego gets behind them,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: and especially with some hometown kids. You mentioned Connor Joe,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: you know Tyler Wade from Marietta. Yes it's Riverside County,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: but Marietta more or less is an extension of San Diego.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: You have from Tijuana again, you know, came up to
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Peco Park a lot. So I think that's what's cool
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: too about this team is you have a lot of
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: guys who you know, absously they want to win, they
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: have aspirations and for something, there's that extra edge, there's
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: there's a personal edge to it. When you're from the area,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: you know what it means to you know, win in
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: San Diego and there's certainly you know, that element in
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: This year, and the Padres don't have the mystique of
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: what they used to have for years. Guys would come up,
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: get really good and then trade them. You know, like
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: what ten fifteen years ago, Tatis, everybody be waiting for
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: him to get traded, Jackson Merrow, same thing. You know,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: they'd be waiting for those guys to get traded. You know,
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: they never have a superstar like Manny come in, you know,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: are you Darvish? Or they just have guys at the
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: end of their careers come here. So it just it's
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: a different atmosphere, a different you know culture with the
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Padres now, and it's what the Padres, the fans and
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: San Diego's always wanted the Padres to be. It's just, uh,
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: it just you know, it gets me a little jealous
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: because I'm in. I want to play. You know, this
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: is the time that is a little tough for me
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: because I'm like, I'm old now. But I'm like, man,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: what if I trained, could I still throw? Who knows?
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I still think I can, but marn probably fall off.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Well, if nothing else, what we need to do is
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: because you You've always said this. You never got a
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: bubblehead and that is a crime. So I think the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Podres we need to start this now, get on the
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: bandwagon of Podres. It's to a Heath Bell bibblehead. I mean,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: so many teams do bibbleheads of players.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Who are no longer there.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I mean I've got, you know, just from covering games.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: I've got like a Sandy Kofax bibblehead. I've got a
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Dave Winfield bibblehead. They teams all the times do bibbleheads
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: of retired players. I think it's time that Padres give
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Heath Bell a retro bobblehead.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Well that would be awesome, great, all.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Right, Well with that, it's been another episode of Friar
• 43:40
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• 43:42
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• 43:46
  Speaker 1: We would love to hear from you for Heath Bell.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Glazer. Thanks for watching and listening. We'll see
• 43:52
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• 43:53
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  Speaker 2: To