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AJ pops off on CF coach plea + New Royals HC Marcus Thames · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right, and there he is Marcus Tims kind enough
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  Speaker 1: to join the program here on foul Territory, the newest
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  Speaker 1: member of the coaching staff for the Kansas City Royals. Marcus,
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  Speaker 1: great to be with you. Thanks for taking the time.
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  Speaker 1: Why did this make sense for you? Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for you guys for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Why did the Royals assistant or second hitting coach? Not
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  Speaker 1: assistant but second hitting coach? Why did that make sense
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  Speaker 1: for you? Right now?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've been doing this long enough now and
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  Speaker 3: I am just willing to to help any organization try
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  Speaker 3: to win with my experiences and my expertise on the
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  Speaker 3: hitting side. Like I said, I've been doing it for
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  Speaker 3: a while. They have too me in place and just
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  Speaker 3: being able to assist him and to to help.
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  Speaker 2: The hitters to try to get better.
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  Speaker 4: Marcus, you been doing it for a while. Come on
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  Speaker 4: like you?
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  Speaker 5: I mean you There is I can go through on
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  Speaker 5: my rolodex of texts from you. I mean it is
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  Speaker 5: every year you get a new job at different places.
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  Speaker 5: What the heck is going on?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 5: Why why do you feel like the hitting coach position?
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  Speaker 5: Because we've asked other guys this, why do you feel
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  Speaker 5: like the hitting coach position is something that is so
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  Speaker 5: just well, you know what, team hit good, you're fired,
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  Speaker 5: Team hit bad, You're fired. Why do you feel like
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  Speaker 5: that is the case? And do you ever I know
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  Speaker 5: you get sick of it, but do you feel like
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  Speaker 5: there's an answer that's out there unless you're unless you're
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  Speaker 5: k Long or I'm trying to think who else sites
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  Speaker 5: are kept a job for a little while, but nobody knows.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's people who are like I hated Kevin
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  Speaker 5: Sitz as a hitting coach. I hated k Long as
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  Speaker 5: a hitting coach, Like is it because it's such an
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  Speaker 5: easy position to get rid of?
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  Speaker 2: Like what is it? You know, I'm trying to find
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  Speaker 2: find the root of it?
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  Speaker 3: Actually I have no idea, man, But I just I
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  Speaker 3: continue to just try to do my job and and
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  Speaker 3: and try to help help help players. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've had some situations where the manager was let go
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  Speaker 3: and I was part of the staff. You know, in Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: the manager let go, was let go, held me over
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  Speaker 3: to the next year, then I was let go again.
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  Speaker 3: But I keep getting jobs. Man, I guess I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: something right for somebody.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're doing a lot right for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. Let me ask you this, because you played
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  Speaker 1: ten years in the show, how has the position changed
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  Speaker 1: since you had hitting coaches to when you became one?
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  Speaker 1: The game is different now? How do you handle that
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  Speaker 1: that transition?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the game is different, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I go back to Yeah, like when I played, like
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  Speaker 3: there's only one hitting coach for thirteen guys or twelve
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  Speaker 3: guys or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 2: But now there's a lot of different different moving parts now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have a lot of the new things
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  Speaker 3: in the cages, a lot of the technology. Now you
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  Speaker 3: have two hitting coaches, in some cases you have three,
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  Speaker 3: just having the personnel in the cages with the with
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  Speaker 3: the hitting coaches to be able to evolve with the game,
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  Speaker 3: but to make sure you have somebody ready.
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  Speaker 2: For each each each each type hitter you have.
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  Speaker 4: Marcus, what's your philosophy on hitting?
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  Speaker 6: How do you blend analytics and and and the old school?
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  Speaker 4: Wait?
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  Speaker 6: What what's your what's your big thing that when you
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  Speaker 6: go into a job that you try to say to
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  Speaker 6: to the hitters.
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  Speaker 3: Number one thing for me, aj is it's getting to
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  Speaker 3: know my players. Crashing has been around me. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a cookie cutter. I think in this game. I've evolved
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  Speaker 3: over the years of just just making sure each player
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  Speaker 3: know their strengths and try to maximize their strengths. And
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  Speaker 3: I think when you do that, you can get the
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  Speaker 3: best out of a group of guys. So so as
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  Speaker 3: a philosophy, that terminology is thrown around a lot, But
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's just each guy is totally different, and
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  Speaker 3: I try to get the best out of each guy
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  Speaker 3: and what they bring to the table. And so when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to philosophy, man, that word is thrown around
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  Speaker 3: a lot, but I just try to make sure I'll
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  Speaker 3: get the best out of each guy.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen it. I've seen it, so I can, I can,
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  Speaker 5: I can. I can agree with that. But my question
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  Speaker 5: is I played in Kansas City. Kansas City is a
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  Speaker 5: different type of stadium. Can you take your same approach?
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  Speaker 5: Because all you talked about was just getting.
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  Speaker 4: To know the guys.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't you didn't say, well, you know what, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we got to get this dip, we got to get
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  Speaker 5: this in the slot, all this stuff you said, getting
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  Speaker 5: to know the guys. But don't you also feel like
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  Speaker 5: there's some preconceived ideas, Like you look at this line
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  Speaker 5: and you're like, Wow, these guys they didn't strike out
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  Speaker 5: at all. The Blue Jays they didn't strike out at all. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: there's a comparison there. You're like, Ah, you know what,
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  Speaker 5: you guys got to hit a few more dingers, and
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  Speaker 5: they say, have you hit in Kaufman in the last
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  Speaker 5: fourteen years? The ball does not travel? Like how much
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  Speaker 5: do you have to shift that because of where you're
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  Speaker 5: getting a job? Because you went to Chicago before you
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  Speaker 5: had zero you know, besides talkman, you didn't have many
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  Speaker 5: big league hitters, so you had to shift your approach
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  Speaker 5: on that too.
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  Speaker 3: I think just with you know, in the game of baseball,
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  Speaker 3: you have nine guys on the field, right, not everybody's
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  Speaker 3: the same. So so for me, it's it's like, Noah,
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  Speaker 3: Kaufman is a big ballpark. You know, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: your bobbers, You're gonna have guys that get on base.
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  Speaker 3: So we have to make sure we maximize each guy
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  Speaker 3: that's in that line up their strengths. And if you're
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  Speaker 3: not a guy who's gonna hit the ball out of
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  Speaker 3: the ballpark, you got to get on basics score runs
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  Speaker 3: for they're the guys. So it's all about blending that
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  Speaker 3: blending that together, and that's what you make a good,
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  Speaker 3: good lineup with a team like what.
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  Speaker 2: We have in Kansas City to put.
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  Speaker 4: Out there every night.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus, everybody has a guy now, right, So many of
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  Speaker 1: the guys that you are mentoring and coaching have their
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  Speaker 1: own private hitting coach. How do you manage that and
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  Speaker 1: how do you make sure that what you're saying is
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  Speaker 1: kind of getting in because they have a lot of information, right,
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  Speaker 1: how do you work that?
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  Speaker 3: Getting to know my guys Like if gods have a
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  Speaker 3: hitting guy a line I've always been been open. I'm
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  Speaker 3: open because at the end of the day, they're going
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  Speaker 3: to go listen to these guys. I've been doing this
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  Speaker 3: for a while and they're going to go listen to
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  Speaker 3: these guys. They have their hear So for me, I'll
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  Speaker 3: make sure I try to get out and go see
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  Speaker 3: the guys who they're working with and try to build
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  Speaker 3: a relationship with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's a two way street, right, if they're.
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  Speaker 3: Going to continue to listen to them, I got to
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  Speaker 3: get my ego out of the way and go see
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  Speaker 3: these guys. And then because I'm with them every single day,
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  Speaker 3: So so for me, I don't do myself, as with
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  Speaker 3: any justice by not going to see guys. So I
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  Speaker 3: like going to see who they're working with, so I
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  Speaker 3: can have a good feel for guys when they do come.
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  Speaker 2: Come to our come to our ballpark.
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  Speaker 5: Right when you look ahead, I mean you you've played,
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  Speaker 5: you've played, You've coached on so many teams. Do you
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  Speaker 5: ever look at it and go, yeah, sure, I'll go
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  Speaker 5: to the Royals. I want to see what Bobby with
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  Speaker 5: Junior is all about. Like I've seen it six times
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  Speaker 5: throughout the year. Are there any players in the league
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  Speaker 5: where you're like, I'm kind of impressed with that guy,
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  Speaker 5: and is Bobby with one of those guys Crassy?
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  Speaker 3: I always watched the best player on each team. I've
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  Speaker 3: always done it even when I was playing. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I was a role guy as a player, so every
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  Speaker 3: team that came in, I would always get out and
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  Speaker 3: see how those guys took VP, you know, watch their
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  Speaker 3: at bast So Bobby, Bobby's been great, man. I've been
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  Speaker 3: blessed to be around some of the best hitters in
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  Speaker 3: the game, and I don't take that lightly. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: still even though even those guys Crassy, they want to
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  Speaker 3: be coached, So I got to try to find whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is Bobby watch from me needs for me and
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  Speaker 3: just try to be able to extra set of os
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  Speaker 3: for him to try to get them better.
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  Speaker 1: If you were a pitcher, you say that you've been
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  Speaker 1: around the best guys in the game in terms of hitting.
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  Speaker 1: If you were a pitcher, who would you not want
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  Speaker 1: to face right now? That's active.
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  Speaker 2: You can't put me on a spot like that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even have to pick a Royal, pick some
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  Speaker 1: other team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just there's there's a lot of guys out there,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, you can go from top. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the top guys is just one of the m vps
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  Speaker 3: in both leagues. I've had both of those guys and
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  Speaker 3: and I've seen the work that they put in behind
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  Speaker 3: behind the you know, behind the closed doors. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's tough. I can't pick one guy because I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: they're listening and they'll get out. But I'm blessed to
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  Speaker 3: be able to be around some really good talented players.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, I'm gonna make you pick. I'm gonna make
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  Speaker 4: you pick, but I'm gonna make you pick a different one.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say it's show hey better than Aaron
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  Speaker 5: Judge at hitting. Should Cal have gotten more of a
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  Speaker 5: consideration than what he did for MVP He got thirteen
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  Speaker 5: of the thirty votes and your boy, a a Ron
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  Speaker 5: Judge got seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am Cal did a hell of a job.
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  Speaker 2: He did a really, really good job.
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  Speaker 3: But I just just mean knowing Aaron and what he
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  Speaker 3: brings to that team over in New York, I just
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  Speaker 3: think that I think they got it right. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I enjoyed watching Cal. I thought he did it one
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  Speaker 3: heck of a job. But I still thought Aaron Aaron
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  Speaker 3: asked him out because of the numbers he.
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  Speaker 7: Put up.
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  Speaker 5: All right, working with Connor Dawson. Did you know Connor
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  Speaker 5: at all before you got this job?
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  Speaker 2: Haven't? Haven't. Haven't met him yet. Just talked to him
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  Speaker 2: on the phone briefly, and I'm gonna get with him.
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  Speaker 3: Here in the next couple of days and we'll start
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  Speaker 3: picking each other's brain and see how we can we
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  Speaker 3: can help the hitting department down there.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think, because we just talked to Jase Tingler,
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  Speaker 5: who's going to be most likely a bench coach or
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  Speaker 5: some kind of crazy name for Tony V. Tell him
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  Speaker 5: a guy like Hunter Dawson's been around based bore, he's
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  Speaker 5: been around pro ball.
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  Speaker 4: What things is he going to run into today? He's
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  Speaker 4: gonna have a struggle with.
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  Speaker 5: At the big league level being the head guy without
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  Speaker 5: ever being the head guy. Because you've been both. You
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  Speaker 5: were you were you, You've been the assistant, you've been
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  Speaker 5: a second coach. But you know, whatever the name is,
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  Speaker 5: you've seen all the roles. What do you feel like
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  Speaker 5: somebody coming in it's never been the head hitting coach
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  Speaker 5: can struggle with that. You can help him nip that
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  Speaker 5: in the bud right away.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the experience in a dougout crass, it gets fast,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, watching the game, watching you know,
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  Speaker 3: reading players swings and stuff like that. But I'm just
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  Speaker 3: gonna be able to help him, you know, with the games,
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  Speaker 3: the speed of it. He's never done it. He's mentioned
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  Speaker 3: that to me. He's like, Marcus, I'm gonna use your
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  Speaker 3: experience to help me out. So that's what I'll be
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  Speaker 3: there for because it does get fast. Because as a
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  Speaker 3: head guy had an assistant, I got thrown out of
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  Speaker 3: the game and then all of.
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  Speaker 2: A sudden he's he's out in the dugout by himself.
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  Speaker 3: After the game he comes in, he's like, man, that
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  Speaker 3: was really fast, So just making sure he can help
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  Speaker 3: help him slow.
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  Speaker 4: The game down.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus, how do you challenge or how do you balance
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  Speaker 1: rather the duties that you're going to have. Obviously being
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  Speaker 1: the second hitting coach, you're gonna be working with Connor,
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be doing some things. But do you
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  Speaker 1: do it based on guy's approach, personality, similarities, who you
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  Speaker 1: know who needs the work at the time. How will
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  Speaker 1: you manage the workload? How does that work?
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  Speaker 2: We haven't really talked about it yet Atlanta, but we will.
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  Speaker 3: But it's got a bit process and we have to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that that we're buttoned up to make sure
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  Speaker 3: like once the guys get in there, we're ready to
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  Speaker 3: go and be able to give the guys what they need.
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  Speaker 4: Can you still hit? They're gonna let you.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna you're gonna get in there and show the
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  Speaker 5: boys because I've seen that, I've seen that swing. I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad the oblique stayed together. But can you still swing it?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're only forty eight. The gray on your
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  Speaker 5: chin looks like that feels like it might be a
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  Speaker 5: little bit more. But being a hitting coach, So I
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  Speaker 5: try to let the guys swing it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: But I got a bad hip now, so I can't
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  Speaker 3: can't do too much. I can't run, but my hands
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  Speaker 3: still work, so that never leaves me. But no, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just just now. I'm just here for the boys, man,
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  Speaker 3: and try to give them whatever they need to try
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  Speaker 3: to help them be the best players that.
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  Speaker 2: They can do.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus, so much of the game today, and you certainly
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  Speaker 1: know better than I is. You know, strikeout or home run,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's three, there's three possible outcomes, right, But the
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  Speaker 1: thing is, I wonder what your approach is. I know
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  Speaker 1: that JJ with the Royals obviously wants to you want
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  Speaker 1: to work on average for a team, but you also
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  Speaker 1: want to work on power. What is your philosophy in
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  Speaker 1: terms of you know, it's okay to strike out? A
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  Speaker 1: lot of it now is let's hit home runs. Like
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  Speaker 1: what's your philosophy around offense and how it should be?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody think it's okay to strike out. And I
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  Speaker 3: hear that a lot, and people say, and I have
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  Speaker 3: buddies that like, they don't care about striking out. I
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  Speaker 3: have an eight year old son. He doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: streak it out so that narrative is out there. And
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  Speaker 3: just for me, I think when gods talk about power,
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  Speaker 3: you have to know what part of the zone that
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  Speaker 3: you you perform well in and it's up to us
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  Speaker 3: to you some of the numbers, some of the metrics
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  Speaker 3: to make sure we give these guys the right information
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  Speaker 3: because you can't go up there and cover the whole play,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And that's the thing I think guys get
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  Speaker 3: in trouble with when you're trying to hunt for power,
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  Speaker 3: because I always say, if you chase power, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to chase pictures. So for me, it's all about letting
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  Speaker 3: my guys know what part of the zone they do
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  Speaker 3: damaging and what they don't, because you got to make
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  Speaker 3: sure you maximize what you do well. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's going to help moving forward. But when people say
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  Speaker 3: guys don't care about striking out, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think so because I did have Aaron Judge in New
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  Speaker 3: York and he hated striking out. And I know the
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  Speaker 3: numbers were open, but the numbers have started to come
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  Speaker 3: down over over quite the last few years. Have an experience.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, when people say guys don't care about
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  Speaker 3: striking out. I don't think that that's not fair because
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  Speaker 3: you've played this game. You don't like walking back to that, Doug,
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  Speaker 3: because it's a lonely good.
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  Speaker 5: Straight AJ says is we say it all the time
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  Speaker 5: on the show, striking out sucks.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody wants to strike out.
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  Speaker 5: But I know you've meld into the you know, the
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  Speaker 5: old school approach with the new school, and I know
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  Speaker 5: you got a little bit of a temper. Have you
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  Speaker 5: ever broken one of the iPads? When you see dudes
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  Speaker 5: using too many of them?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of make sure the guys watched
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  Speaker 3: the game, chrasy, you know me, I think sometimes that
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  Speaker 3: the iPad is a devil, but you know they have it,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna use it. I'm just I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 3: make sure you guys are using it the right way.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of like, yeah, you can look
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  Speaker 3: at it. You're like, as soon as I get it,
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  Speaker 3: if you look at it and your and your timing
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  Speaker 3: is off, don't even look at anything else because you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna go down a rabbit hole that you don't need to.
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  Speaker 2: So I think just using it the right way. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes the iPads.
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  Speaker 3: I've wanted to put a couple in the traps for.
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  Speaker 2: Marcus.
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  Speaker 1: You're still in this game for a good reason. Best
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  Speaker 1: of luck to you in the new position with the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals. Best of luck to the Royals. I'm
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  Speaker 1: moving forward into the twenty twenty six season. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. We appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you God for having it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I felt like I was one of the
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  Speaker 7: best defenders ever out there in center field, and I said,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I'm very confident in my defensive ability and
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  Speaker 7: put me up against anyone, and I want to see
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: if that could translate into coaching and knowing what I
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: know now is I'm very good at it, and uh,
• 14:21
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm the one that you would want in
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: front of your players coaching them up if I'm being honest,
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: and which I am. So here's what I would love
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: to do. I would love to maximize my potential and
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: I don't want to commit to one organization necessarily. I
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: want to see how many organizations out there would love
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: to have me around for like five days at a time. Ideally,
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: I would love to show up to spring training and
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: get stuff locked in where I'm showing up five days
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: at a time and treat me as if I'm employed
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: by you guys, because I'm going to give it my
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: all for the five days that I'm there, and I
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: know in that amount of time, I can go through
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: everything with the outfitters and get them routines, throwing program,
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: the way we go about drill's batting practice. All this
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: stuff is so crucial and so overlooked in so many ways.
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: And the way I went about these things or why
• 15:08
  Speaker 7: I had the product on the field throughout my whole career,
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: and I know other guys can achieve much more if
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: if we do the little things right on them backfields
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: and spring training when no one's watching and setting the
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: precedent early on so and then throughout the season. You know,
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: if I need to go visit Double A or your
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: Triple A or whoever, you know, just one of those things,
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: I will go work. I will go work for days
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: at a time whatever is needed during the season. This
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: past year I did three days and that was perfect.
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: And I just want to be viewed as like a
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: get right coach.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I love that. First of all, good for Kevin Kiermeyer
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: put himself out there. I can appreciate that a lot.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: The guy doesn't need to work and he wants to
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: continue to be in this game that we all love
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: so much. AJ I'll start with you, how many guys
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: out there want what Kevin Kiermeyer seems to want? Maybe
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: you know outfield guys that want to.
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: Work on their agent, a free agent coaching job where
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: you just bounce and do whatever you want.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Sign me up. No, we're commercial.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: We're a commercial right now, right, we're commercial?
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Right? What the fuck is he talking about?
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: Like I want to go to spring training and then
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: what what the fuck are we talking about?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to go from spring training and spring training. Yeah, sure,
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: show me your secrets, and then show me your secrets,
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: and then show me your secrets and then one day
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: maybe I'll be a coach on one team and I
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: can use all these secrets to help this Like what
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: are we talking about?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: We can just be like, hey, I want to go
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: to this spring training for five I want to go
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: to Arizona for two weeks and spend three teams. And I'm
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: gonna go to Florida for three days for two weeks.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: You know, I'll meet with four or five teams, and
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: then I like, what the sorry, what the fuck are
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: we talking about.