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Cardinals Hall of Fame voting opens! Matt Holliday & Lance Lynn react! · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to a brand new edition of
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal Territory. Jim Hayes with Matt Holliday and Lance Lynn
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  Speaker 1: get there. Now, gentlemen, the twenty twenty six Cardinal Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame ballot is out. There are four nominees, four
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  Speaker 1: names on the ballot, and it's Albert, it's Yachti, It's
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  Speaker 1: Brian Jordan, It's George Hendrick.
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  Speaker 2: Jordan and Silent George were great players, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: their year. Guys, I don't even know the.
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  Speaker 1: Rules of how this works, Like there's committees and a
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  Speaker 1: fan vote. I don't think any of that comes into
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  Speaker 1: play this year. It's Yati and Albert going into the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal Hall of Fame together, and the other guys are
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  Speaker 1: just gonna have to wait to Matt, do I have
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  Speaker 1: that wrong?
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  Speaker 2: That's how this is going, right.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine it going any other way. Two of
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  Speaker 3: the great cardinals of all time. I mean this is
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  Speaker 3: going to be probably I would say, the most attended,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest hyped. I imagine that the weekend or the
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  Speaker 3: whenever this happens, that it'll probably be, you know, the biggest,
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  Speaker 3: probably the biggest draw they have all year, I would guess.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's yeah, I mean, it's this is
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  Speaker 3: this is exciting obviously, like I said, beloved fan favorites,
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  Speaker 3: incredible players, Cardinals. So yeah, I mean, I look, no
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  Speaker 3: disrespect to the other two, but uh, these are these
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  Speaker 3: are two guys that might end up with statues.
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  Speaker 2: Out in front of Bush Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: I probably think they will. Lance it's kind of nice
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  Speaker 1: that they're gonna go in together again. Whatever the rules are,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know, throw them out. It's nice to see
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  Speaker 1: those guys do it together. They went out together, go
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  Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame together.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a I don't know
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  Speaker 4: the rules either. I don't know how many people are
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  Speaker 4: allowed to get in per year, but those who are
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  Speaker 4: on the ballot, the rules should be that those two
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  Speaker 4: get in automatically. And if you want to have a third,
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  Speaker 4: just so it's you know that you can have a vote.
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  Speaker 4: I guess you could do it that way this year.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, like Matt just said, it will, it might.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a maybe. They will most definitely be the
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  Speaker 4: most attended series of the year when they when those
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  Speaker 4: two get inducted, and it's the Hall of Fame weekend,
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  Speaker 4: There's there's no doubt about it. That's pretty much the
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  Speaker 4: only thing Cardinals fans have to look forward to this
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  Speaker 4: year is is the week when they get inducted in
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  Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame and all of the all of
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  Speaker 4: the you know, the red coach are they're doing their thing.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it'll be it'll be a cool time for
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  Speaker 4: Cardinals fans for them, and like Matt said, statues out
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  Speaker 4: in front, I think are the the next things after
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  Speaker 4: this for them. I mean, their careers were awesome, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's amazing that they get to go in
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  Speaker 4: together and hopefully it's the same thing when they go
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  Speaker 4: into Cooperstown together.
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  Speaker 1: And the Cardinals will field the team with some young
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  Speaker 1: guys who hope to get there one day, so the excitement.
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  Speaker 2: Dream big, right, Matt, Yeah, dream.
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  Speaker 5: Big, try it, yeah, I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So Matt, you you have a red jacket, what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: And the whole Hall of Fame weekend being out of
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  Speaker 2: the ballot getting and what's that way?
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  Speaker 3: I think, particularly with an organization like the Cardinals, to
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  Speaker 3: be considered for the Hall of Fame and then to
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  Speaker 3: get voted in to the Cardinals Hall of Fame is uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like it's probably one of the you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's a huge honor exciting. So to get a
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  Speaker 3: chance to be part of that fraternity is uh is
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  Speaker 3: something that I'm really proud of and h to get
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  Speaker 3: a chance to come back and and and put that
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  Speaker 3: jacket on and watch those guys go in and just
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  Speaker 3: like I said, you know, just sit around before opening
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  Speaker 3: day in that room where we kind of wait to
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  Speaker 3: do the the uh the car parade, and and you
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  Speaker 3: just kind of look around the room. It's a it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool as a baseball somebody was raised in baseball
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  Speaker 3: and a big, big baseball fan too be part of
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  Speaker 3: that fraternity and and uh, and then Albert and YACHTI
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  Speaker 3: be in it, and then you know, eventually Wayo and
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  Speaker 3: and some other guys and maybe Lance Lynn and Karp
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  Speaker 3: and you know, these guys that were were teammates of mine.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a really cool fraternity to be part of.
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  Speaker 1: And he mentioned Lance Lynn. Let's get this guy in
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  Speaker 1: the battle. His numbers as a Saint Louis Cardinal, we're
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  Speaker 1: really good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at just the number, two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: six games, three point four to three ERA World Series
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  Speaker 1: champions seventy nine fifty one over a strikeout per inning
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  Speaker 1: in his Cardinal career, an All Star again that World
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  Speaker 1: Series championship, Lance what would that mean to you to
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  Speaker 1: get your name on the ballot. And once it's on
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  Speaker 1: the ballot, between me and Holiday and Kyle Gibson out
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  Speaker 1: there lobbying, you were chewing.
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  Speaker 2: But what would that mean to you?
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  Speaker 4: No, Like Matt said, the fraternity, I mean the opening
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  Speaker 4: day in Saint Louis, seeing all the Cardinals Hall of
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  Speaker 4: Famers there and seeing the everything. You know, that's when
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  Speaker 4: you play the game and you do those things. You
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  Speaker 4: look up to those guys and those are the guys
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  Speaker 4: that help you, help drive you to be the best
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  Speaker 4: you can in Saint Louis and a part of my
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  Speaker 4: time there is you leaned a lot on those guys
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  Speaker 4: when you were coming up, and they were always in
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  Speaker 4: spring training, you know, we always got to talk to
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  Speaker 4: you know lou Brock and and and Gibby and everybody,
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  Speaker 4: and they were always so great to talk to. Uh
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  Speaker 4: So to even have a or even to be kind
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  Speaker 4: of spoken in the Cardinal Hall of Fame with people
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  Speaker 4: like that is awesome. And like Matt said, there's so
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  Speaker 4: many great teammates I had that are in so to
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  Speaker 4: be would even to be, you know, nominated, would be
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  Speaker 4: an honor. And if I were to get in one day,
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  Speaker 4: that would be an honor too. So you know, you
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  Speaker 4: play the game to win and to do the best
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  Speaker 4: you can for your team, and then at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day you look up and hopefully you play
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  Speaker 4: good enough to to be, you know, recognized for something,
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  Speaker 4: and you know that'd be a cool thing to be
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  Speaker 4: recognized for.
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  Speaker 2: I think we should make that happen. I think we
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  Speaker 2: can make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: I want to ask you, two more years, tell me
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  Speaker 4: even allowed, right, say what I got, Like two more years?
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  Speaker 4: Tell them even allowed to be on the ballot, right,
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  Speaker 4: because yeah, it's like every three years retired or something
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, But I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 1: The guys who made the worlds I am next day,
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  Speaker 1: they don't even know the rules.
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  Speaker 2: The guys that are on the pan.
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  Speaker 4: It's well, it's why did these guys YACHTI and al
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  Speaker 4: We're not just get put in the day they retired.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Three's three years? Yeah, so we got a minute.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, my hope is Matt Carpenter and I can
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  Speaker 4: go in together because we retired the same year. That
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  Speaker 4: would be cool.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna start a campaign and Holidays gonna
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  Speaker 1: finance it. Okay, he's gonna put some dark money behind it,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna buy get that wb DM on it.
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  Speaker 1: Both you guys played with YACHTI and Albert, and since
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  Speaker 1: they're on the ballot and they're getting in, I just want.
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  Speaker 2: To get your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Matt, you're playing with those guys, you talk about, guys
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  Speaker 1: who probably will end up with statues, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: front of Boys Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: At some point.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about those guys that you think made
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  Speaker 1: them special? Each I know we're different, but what made
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  Speaker 1: them special?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think when you talk about the level of
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  Speaker 3: Claire you're talking to, there's a whole bunch of things
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  Speaker 3: that made him special, you know. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: obviously you have to have the talent. Both were tremendously
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  Speaker 3: talented or are tremendously talented people. But then you know,
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  Speaker 3: then then comes the work ethic and the competitive spirit
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  Speaker 3: and the preparation. You have to have all those things
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  Speaker 3: to achieve the things that they've achieved in the game.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not it's not easy to say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Albert had just incredible power or hit skill
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  Speaker 3: or YACHTI was just you know, he came from a
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  Speaker 3: great family that was amazing, you know, it had great
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  Speaker 3: hands to catch. I mean, these guys were like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: generational type players, first ballot Hall of famers, So it
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  Speaker 3: encompasses a lot to be achieved the things that they achieved.
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  Speaker 3: So they did, you know, like I said, special talent,
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  Speaker 3: special work ethics, special preparation, and then you know, just
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  Speaker 3: the the ability to go out and and compete day
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  Speaker 3: in and day out, and and uh and and and
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  Speaker 3: post and go out there and and produce. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's not one thing, it's not two things.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of things. When you when you have
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  Speaker 3: the careers that those two have.
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  Speaker 1: How about you lance to you what stood out about
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  Speaker 1: those two guys that made them who they are?
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  Speaker 4: Has played well Obviously, in this game, you gotta be
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  Speaker 4: able to show up every day and play, and their
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  Speaker 4: ability to do that was was amazing. Uh, even the
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  Speaker 4: older they got, you know, they were they were always
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  Speaker 4: you know, pretty much available, which is amazing. I'd say,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you had all the talent, you had, all
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  Speaker 4: the work ethic and all that, but their ability to
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  Speaker 4: see the game, slow the game down, really know what
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  Speaker 4: they're good at and how to make sure that that
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  Speaker 4: comes to them was it was amazing. Like they would
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  Speaker 4: manipulate the game and at bats and like they would
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  Speaker 4: just I feel like they were teasing people to do
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  Speaker 4: what they wanted to do, and then when they did it,
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  Speaker 4: they didn't they never missed or they never like it
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  Speaker 4: felt like they never missed, you know, you know they
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  Speaker 4: never had a thousand, but like they never when they
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  Speaker 4: pictures made mistakes. When base runners you know, tried YACHTI
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  Speaker 4: it's like, hey, nice try, I'm not going to miss
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  Speaker 4: the mistake. You know, great players are great, but like
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  Speaker 4: the greatest of all time, whenever you make a mistake,
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  Speaker 4: they made you pay. And it felt like that's what
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  Speaker 4: they do because they were always prepared for it and
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  Speaker 4: they it was like the game was they were waiting
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  Speaker 4: for you to screw up so they could just win
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  Speaker 4: and beat you. And they loved doing it too, So
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of fun seeing them want to be
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  Speaker 4: great and being great and bringing everybody along with them too,
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  Speaker 4: which is something that I know everybody talked about. They
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  Speaker 4: were great at bringing everyone along and wanting everyone to
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  Speaker 4: be a part of what they were doing, and it
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  Speaker 4: was a lot easier for them than probably than everyone else,
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  Speaker 4: but they really tried to make sure that they included
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  Speaker 4: everyone too, which was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: As you advanced in your cardinal career, lance, was it
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  Speaker 1: more difficult to shake off Yaty?
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  Speaker 2: How did that relationship go? What was that like having
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  Speaker 2: Yati behind a flate?
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  Speaker 4: I think as it went on, it was kind of
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  Speaker 4: crazy because Yachty loved breaking balls. He loved to call
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  Speaker 4: breaking balls. But as the older we got and the
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  Speaker 4: more we started understanding each other, it was there was
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  Speaker 4: times at the end we didn't even need to shake off.
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  Speaker 4: I could just stand there and not shake off and
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  Speaker 4: throw another pitch and he would. He knew what I
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  Speaker 4: was going to and it's pretty simple, that's going to
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  Speaker 4: something hard, So it didn't really matter, and he was
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  Speaker 4: going to be able to frame it. But our ability
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  Speaker 4: early on I think was our hardest time, because it
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  Speaker 4: was he had to learn my mentality. I had to
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  Speaker 4: learn kind of the nuances of pitching in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 4: Coming up in the minor leagues and through life, I
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  Speaker 4: just overpower people with my fastball, and in the big
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  Speaker 4: leagues I eventually learned how to do that, but I
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  Speaker 4: had to have other ways to do it. And he
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  Speaker 4: taught me those things to be able to sink it
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  Speaker 4: and cut it, and when to use it on the
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  Speaker 4: sides of the plate, and way to set up hitters.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, that was the thing that he really
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  Speaker 4: taught me along the way, And I think he enjoyed
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  Speaker 4: catching me in the sense of it was kind of easy.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go, let's go right after him, and we
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  Speaker 4: don't have to try to trick anybody, and and it
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  Speaker 4: was kind of fun as we got going later in
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  Speaker 4: my career.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Matt, you're a great hitter, And I know hitters
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  Speaker 1: always help each other out saying hey, maybe try this.
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  Speaker 1: Is there ever a time you're like, hey, Albert, I
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  Speaker 1: see her. Maybe fel fell into a pattern.
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  Speaker 2: Of doing this.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like like trading inside tidbits with with
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Albert.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think, you know, always talking hitting
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, I think he just bounce bounce things off
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  Speaker 3: each other. So yeah, I mean, I don't think there's
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  Speaker 3: ever a time where you look at a hitter like
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  Speaker 3: Albert and be like, hey, Albert, you're you're coming off
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  Speaker 3: the ball like you just I mean, he he knows himself,
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  Speaker 3: so just talking about hitting or approach or you know,
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  Speaker 3: if if I was scuffling a little bit, maybe just
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  Speaker 3: ask him to watch my video or you know, watch
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  Speaker 3: me in the cage. So I think that's part of
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting a chance to play with somebody like Albert,
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  Speaker 3: you you want to utilize it, and honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just getting to play with them for you know, the
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  Speaker 3: two and a half years when I got traded over there,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, man, I'm gonna get to play with
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  Speaker 3: this guy, you know for like seven or eight years,
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  Speaker 3: and and you know, I can't wait to So I
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  Speaker 3: was a little bummed, you know, when he when he
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  Speaker 3: signed with the Angels, but it was a great you know,
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  Speaker 3: two and a half to two plus years of getting
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  Speaker 3: a chance to watch him and pick his brain and
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  Speaker 3: talk hitting with him, and the same with Yati, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just talking the game and like like Lance was alluding
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  Speaker 3: to earlier, these guys were are are just incredible students
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  Speaker 3: of the game. And that's why you know, both of
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  Speaker 3: them are you know, managing certain things and and people
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  Speaker 3: want them, uh to be part of their organization is
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  Speaker 3: because of how they think and how their brain works
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  Speaker 3: inside the game. So yeah, always getting a chance to
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  Speaker 3: pick their brains and talk talkball, whether it's hitting mechanics
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  Speaker 3: or approach, or what pictures are trying to do or
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  Speaker 3: you know what Yachtie sees from behind the plate and
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff was some of the most fun times
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