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Parker Meadows Joins Tiger Territory · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And Welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network Detroit Tigers Podcast. I'm Karen Steckley.
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  Speaker 1: We got Cody Stavid Hagen, we got Austin Jackson, and
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  Speaker 1: we are joined special guest Parker Meadows the Baby Giraffe himself. Parker,
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  Speaker 1: how's it going. Hey, we're doing this late January. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for taking some time. As what I imagine it is
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the home stretch here before the season starts.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing? How you been?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 4: I like that Baby Giraffe nickname gave me. That's actually
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  Speaker 4: I played Call of Duty a lot. That's my username
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  Speaker 4: on Call of Duty, so I like the search.
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  Speaker 1: No I'm explaining, I just.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good though. I'm good though, I'm you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was getting down the crunch time. I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 4: go to Lakeland, so feeling good. Can't complain.
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  Speaker 5: All right, you got me?
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  Speaker 2: You got me.
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  Speaker 5: Wondering who's the first person who ever called you baby Giraffe?
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  Speaker 4: I had my best friend, I think it was my
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  Speaker 4: freshman year of high school. My best friend, I think
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  Speaker 4: he saw me. He was a po he saw me
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  Speaker 4: track down the ball. And he was like, dude, you
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  Speaker 4: have like a baby giraffe like lambs. Are you look
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  Speaker 4: so weird out there running around like you don't know
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  Speaker 4: how to run?
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, he gave me that, and it just.
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  Speaker 1: How tall were you then?
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  Speaker 3: Ninth grade?
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  Speaker 4: I was probably close to six foot. I was skinny
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  Speaker 4: though I was man I ate. I tried to eat
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  Speaker 4: so much. I just couldn't gain any weight. It was
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  Speaker 4: it was a struggle to gain weight. And then finally
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  Speaker 4: it didn't take till like probably after my first year.
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  Speaker 3: Of pro ball when I when I started to fill
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  Speaker 3: out a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: So it was so frustrating being always being the skinny guy.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get a little grossburt? Because how tall were you?
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  Speaker 2: How tell you now?
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  Speaker 3: Six five? I had a little one. It was kind
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  Speaker 3: of gradual.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't like an overnight thing like you basketball players getting.
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  Speaker 3: But it was bad.
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  Speaker 2: I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was always the tallest dude like in my in
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  Speaker 3: my class or whatever. But it was it was a
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  Speaker 3: gradual grossfert.
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  Speaker 2: Did you did you now? Did you hoop? No? Did
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  Speaker 2: you what the sports? Did you play? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I hooped a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I played uh so I played rec basketball because I
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  Speaker 4: didn't want to take it.
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  Speaker 3: Too serious because they kind of it kind of ran
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  Speaker 3: into the baseball season a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: So I played right with all my buddies and we
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  Speaker 4: actually got technical fouls for dunking in there. So I
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  Speaker 4: think I led the league and technical fouls because we
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  Speaker 4: played at like a middle school gym.
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  Speaker 3: But no, it was those are the glory days, man.
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  Speaker 3: I missed. I missed the hoop and days.
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  Speaker 6: That's where athleticism comes from, though, bro, Like, because you
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  Speaker 6: you have the athletic now, that's what I'm trying to
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  Speaker 6: figure out where this this athleticism coming from.
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  Speaker 2: Like this dude must have hooped. I'd have been throwing
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  Speaker 2: you oops all day. Bro.
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  Speaker 3: We were yeah, played a little football too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: My dad just he liked to keep me in all
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  Speaker 4: keep me involved in all the sports. But I think
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  Speaker 4: that definitely helped with athleticism for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Oh so that that actually brings me to a good
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  Speaker 6: point because I played all sports when I was younger too.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm always having this debate with like.
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  Speaker 6: Other players and coaches and parents you know, about you know,
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  Speaker 6: letting their child play multi sports, multi sports, multi sports.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I know I did that, and I
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  Speaker 2: felt like it helped with my athletic development.
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  Speaker 6: Is that something that you kind of felt, you know,
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  Speaker 6: kind of helped you, you know, with your with your
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  Speaker 6: athletic development coming up?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I think it kind of hits
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  Speaker 4: all attributes. Like you know, with football, you kind of
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  Speaker 4: get the hardcore intensity. You don't really get that with
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  Speaker 4: baseball all the time. You know, basketball is like stammina
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  Speaker 4: some IQ in there, So you kind of hit everything
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  Speaker 4: that you need, right, So my dad was big on
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  Speaker 4: that and I think it. But you know, everybody's different.
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  Speaker 4: You got people like you know, Bryce Harper, who I
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  Speaker 4: guess only played baseball and that obviously worked out for him.
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  Speaker 4: So I think everybody's a little different for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if if people were wanting to know if Parker
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  Speaker 1: Meadows and kream Aldul Jabbar had anything in common getting
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  Speaker 1: fouls for dunks back in there, back in their youth.
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  Speaker 1: Now now we've got that established here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can you can compare us. I guess.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, man, hey, so I wanted to Oh my bad. No,
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to ask you though, because you know, centerfielder
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  Speaker 6: of the center fielder, man, I think that you know,
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  Speaker 6: I love talking to other center fielders just kind of
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  Speaker 6: you know, picking their brain, getting getting that mindset of
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  Speaker 6: of of what you know, my my guys are thinking
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  Speaker 6: out there in center field.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we talked about you, according to m LB,
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  Speaker 2: playing playing.
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  Speaker 6: Deeper like your you know, your depth to play like
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  Speaker 6: the second highest in center fielders. Uh, do you feel
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  Speaker 6: more comfortable playing deep?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I do. I feel like I'm good at coming in
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  Speaker 3: on balls.
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  Speaker 4: My jumps are usually a little better, uh, coming in
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  Speaker 4: on balls, So you know that's just I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's just something I've always been better at. And
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  Speaker 4: obviously balls over the head I feel like I'm still
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  Speaker 4: good at. But for some reason, I just get those jumps,
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  Speaker 4: I guess. You know, sometimes when that ball has the
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  Speaker 4: arc on it, it's it's tough to read whether it's
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, in or back, you know, because they
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  Speaker 4: got to get jammed or whatever. But those line drives
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  Speaker 4: usually they'll fall in front of you and they're easier
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  Speaker 4: for me to read off the bat.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, bro, you said it too, because like I feel
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  Speaker 6: like when I played one, it was four twenty. But
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  Speaker 6: like all Major League ball, bro, everything, everybody's like, ah've
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  Speaker 6: been Detroit was so big. I'm like all of these
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  Speaker 6: parts are big while y'all playing like everything is different.
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  Speaker 2: It is different, though it is different.
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  Speaker 6: But I always felt like, you know, I would you know,
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  Speaker 6: I was better coming in on the ball and you know,
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  Speaker 6: like just if a balls hit over your head, it's
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  Speaker 6: just react, you just reacting and running back and just
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  Speaker 6: being an athlete at that point, but you know the
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  Speaker 6: ball's coming in.
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  Speaker 2: I always felt like I would rather just.
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  Speaker 6: Give up, you know, a blue single as as opposed
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  Speaker 6: to you know me at least being able to cut
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  Speaker 6: down a ball in the gap.
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  Speaker 4: You said it, man, Yeah, I completely agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a single is a lot better than a
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  Speaker 4: triple or double in the gap. But for me, what
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  Speaker 4: I've worked on, like going back on balls is kind
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  Speaker 4: of taking my eye off of it and put my
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  Speaker 4: like seeing the ball, put my head down and try to.
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  Speaker 3: Beat it to the spot.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel like I've gotten a lot better at that.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously that comes with repetitions and stuff. But George Lombard,
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  Speaker 4: our bench coach and outfield coach, He's helped me a
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  Speaker 4: massive amount on all aspects of playing the outfield.
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  Speaker 3: So credit to him.
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  Speaker 5: For either of you guys, was there like you hear
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  Speaker 5: about how big Camerica is, and you're getting asked about
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  Speaker 5: it from the day you're drafted. But was there ever
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  Speaker 5: a moment where you're before a game, in a game
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  Speaker 5: and you're thinking like, oh, wow, no, it's a really
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  Speaker 5: long way back there.
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  Speaker 4: I think for me as a hitter, like hit you
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  Speaker 4: hit the ball to right center, it's like you're automatically
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  Speaker 4: thinking triple at least at least for me. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I know for you, definitely you're thinking home run probably,
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean I was just off the bat.
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  Speaker 4: It's so deep, like even the gaps are like four
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  Speaker 4: hundred and ten feet, which is crazy. I don't I
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  Speaker 4: don't really think you get that anywhere else where. Both
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  Speaker 4: gaps are that deep, especially when it was four twenty
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  Speaker 4: out there. I know they brought it in. I asked
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  Speaker 4: them to bring it in and they did. They did
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  Speaker 4: that for me, so.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's it's big man.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how much of a difference was that, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much like that really once it Once
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  Speaker 1: it was brought in like it, it wasn't really talked
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  Speaker 1: about as much. But as a guy who played in
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  Speaker 1: both and and Austin, you can you know relay this
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  Speaker 1: to having just done the four to twenty aspect of it? Like,
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  Speaker 1: how much different? What was that ten feet?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 1: How how big of a difference is ten feet?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of a way I would phrase it.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, you taking that one or me, Well, I'm good,
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  Speaker 6: I'll chime in after you.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think it's a big difference, at least
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  Speaker 4: as a defender. I think I think, yeah, it's ten
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  Speaker 4: feats a lot. And I don't know, Ajax, if you
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  Speaker 4: want to harp on that, but yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a good amount of feet.
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  Speaker 3: Ten feet. That's pretty that's pretty far, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I agree with you in percent.
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  Speaker 6: It's like it's like knowing you have that that extra
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  Speaker 6: space back there, and you know, knowing that like you
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  Speaker 6: kind of you got to feel for balls that have
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  Speaker 6: the you know, potential to go out because you know
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  Speaker 6: you're doing You've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: All these reps and BP you've been You've.
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  Speaker 6: Seen all the different flights, how far malls are hit,
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  Speaker 6: and uh, you know when I need to check for
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  Speaker 6: that wall and when I just feel comfortable that I
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  Speaker 6: can keep running knowing that this ball isn't getting out,
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  Speaker 6: So that extra ten feet, I mean it makes a
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  Speaker 6: big difference. You know, it made a big difference for
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  Speaker 6: me because I had no fear of that wall coming up.
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  Speaker 6: You know when the ball was hit, well, then I've
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  Speaker 6: seen that ball so many times in BP. You know
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  Speaker 6: the balls that are you know where you're about to
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  Speaker 6: have to feel for the wall, but for the majority
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  Speaker 6: like those balls hitting the gap. So I just feel
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  Speaker 6: like I keep running at full speed with no fear
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  Speaker 6: of all this wall is coming up.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you said it, man, And like BP has been
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  Speaker 4: huge for me too, Like just knowing where that wall is,
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  Speaker 4: I can honestly count, not that I count my steps,
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  Speaker 4: but it's just like a feel thing when.
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  Speaker 3: You hit when you hit the warning track, you know
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  Speaker 3: how many steps you have?
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  Speaker 4: More steps you have to get to that wall, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: just get get into the all these new stadiums is tough,
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  Speaker 4: but you gotta you gotta take BP serious and then
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  Speaker 4: track down those balls in the gap.
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  Speaker 5: Man, Parker, you obviously made so many highlight catches last season.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying to pull highlights for this show and
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  Speaker 5: it was kind of hard, like I couldn't choose which
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  Speaker 5: ones you know, but you had a high bar to
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  Speaker 5: live up to, do you know, Austin, I don't know
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  Speaker 5: how much you care about defensive metrics, but Austin is
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  Speaker 5: worth twenty six defensive runs saved in twenty eleven. That's
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  Speaker 5: the most Entiger's history by anyone on any position. And
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  Speaker 5: he didn't win the gold Bluff.
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  Speaker 3: Rob that's crazy. The twenty six is a lot.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot. It's a lot for the viewers. Parker
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  Speaker 5: was I believe five last year in a little over
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  Speaker 5: five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Now you you gonna get there.
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  Speaker 6: You're gonna get there, Bro, Like I don't just I
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  Speaker 6: don't give out compliments just to give him out just
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  Speaker 6: because you you know you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, you can go get it now. I watched you, brother,
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  Speaker 2: like I I don't. I don't see there's no other
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  Speaker 2: where there's.
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  Speaker 6: Any reason why you you can't win a go Glove
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  Speaker 6: two or three or at least at the very least, Bro,
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  Speaker 6: at the very least, I mean top three every year
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  Speaker 6: that you play, because you got that type of ability
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  Speaker 6: right like you You just have a presence out there
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  Speaker 6: in the alpha man, the way you just glide around
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  Speaker 6: the outfiel And it's it's special to watch, especially at
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  Speaker 6: your height, your size, man, and the way you move.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's impressive to watch. But I wanted to to
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  Speaker 6: kind of switch gears a little bit talk about your
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  Speaker 6: offense because I know you had got sent down I believe, right,
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  Speaker 6: and then you you came up and got hurt and
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  Speaker 6: then had to go back down.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes it's an injury you can kind of be a
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  Speaker 6: blessing in disguise because you get a chance to one go,
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  Speaker 6: you know, physically work on your body and you know,
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  Speaker 6: get the you know, correct those imbouances in your body,
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  Speaker 6: but also just for you know, a mental break to
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  Speaker 6: just kind of reset and you know, go work on
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  Speaker 6: some things. But when you went down, I think you
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  Speaker 6: came back up the final stretch of the season. I
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  Speaker 6: guess the last two months and you hit two ninety
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  Speaker 6: six three forty on base five hundred plug in, Bro.
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  Speaker 2: Those aren't those that ain't like.
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  Speaker 3: Two weeks three weeks numbers right now?
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  Speaker 2: Bro? Put in some work, Bro.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm just I'm wondering, like, like it fueled you?
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  Speaker 6: I can I mean, when you it's in the proof
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  Speaker 6: is in the putting right here. The numbers is what matters.
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  Speaker 6: So it's like that fueled you, or that that gave
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  Speaker 6: you like that little chip on your shoulder, Like, nah, bro,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not staying down here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't belong here.
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  Speaker 6: So I just I'm curious to know, like what what
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  Speaker 6: mechanical or mental changes or both did you make in
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  Speaker 6: your time in Toledo.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like you said, like when I debuted
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  Speaker 4: in twenty three, I had a short stint there.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of like I told myself that I did belong.
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  Speaker 4: I was able to compete a little bit, get my
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  Speaker 4: feet wet, and then coming into the season, I had
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  Speaker 4: high expectations for myself and you know, started really slow.
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  Speaker 4: But for me having an older brother come up and
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  Speaker 4: watching him play and go through struggles, it's a roller coaster,
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  Speaker 4: and for me, I feel like I had that advantage
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  Speaker 4: as far as the mental aspect of knowing that and
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna have your highs and lows and it's not
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  Speaker 4: how you start, it's how you finished. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: when I got sitted down, obviously I was very frustrated,
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  Speaker 4: but I was able to to keep that positive mindset
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  Speaker 4: and and just put my head down and keep working
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  Speaker 4: and and that's what baseball is. It's the game of adjustments,
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  Speaker 4: and the consistency, consistency spart part is the hardest part.
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  Speaker 4: So just trying to get that consistency and find the groove.
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  Speaker 4: And I was able to do that and in Triple
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  Speaker 4: A and and credit the you know, Scott Harris and
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  Speaker 4: and AG and all those guys for allowing me to
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  Speaker 4: do that. You know that it's not that they lost
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  Speaker 4: faith in me or trust. You know, they they sent
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  Speaker 4: me down knowing that I would be back and just
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  Speaker 4: you know, kind of take a deep breath and relax
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  Speaker 4: a little bit when I'm down there, and I was
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  Speaker 4: able to do that, catch a groove, have a good time.
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  Speaker 4: The group down there was incredible, man, it was fun.
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  Speaker 4: The staff, you know, they made it fun and and
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  Speaker 4: it allowed me to just be myself and play my
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  Speaker 4: game and then uh yeah, coming you know, having a
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  Speaker 4: good stint and Triple A, you know, finding my groove
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  Speaker 4: and then come back up and then getting hurt. That
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  Speaker 4: was that was the most frustrating part because I'm like, dang,
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  Speaker 4: like I'm in such a groove and and now this
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  Speaker 4: this happens. But you know, back back to just the
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  Speaker 4: mental mindset. It's like, you know, a small setback for
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  Speaker 4: a major comeback. So I just I just thought, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like again, put my head down. Rehab was tough, you know,
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  Speaker 4: going going through those long days and rehab sucks. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the RPT dunky and helped out a lot,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, just just you know, going through every day, man,
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  Speaker 4: like just every day is a new day, and just
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  Speaker 4: having fun with it. You know, I have fun with
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: the failure. I have fun with the you know, the
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  Speaker 4: positive side of things. So like I said, man, just
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  Speaker 4: having a having a brother and watch him go through
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  Speaker 4: the ups and downs has helped.
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  Speaker 3: Me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I can say watching you guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: once you did come back, that obviously correlated a lot
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  Speaker 1: with with the playoff run right, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch, and it seemed like you
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  Speaker 1: guys were having a lot of fun on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm kind of curious, like, what was it like
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  Speaker 1: going through that stretch where you know, you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: prove like that you belong in the eyes of others
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  Speaker 1: even though you have your confidence. But also it's not
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  Speaker 1: like you're playing low stakes games like these games like
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  Speaker 1: all mattered, you know what I mean. So it's not
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: like it's like whatever, it's a random septem game and
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna remember it. Like that stretch, everything was crucial
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: and you're having to develop on the fly. Like I said,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: well basically in a pennant race for the last like
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: two months. I'm kind of curious what that was like
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to kind of go through both of those things at
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: the same time.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's a good question for me.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Like I said, the core of the team was so young,
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: so it was honestly like we were just out there
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: just just having fun. Man Like, really we didn't really
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: think about anything outside of you know, the fit, like
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: the outside noise.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: We didn't really think about that stuff. We were going
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: in a.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Lot of those guys that came up were from Toledo,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: so we had already had you know, that fun stint
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: there and then you know, coming up and reuniting again.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Kind of I think helped the chemistry on the team.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: And we were one of these games and we were
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: just like we didn't even know how or what we
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: were doing, Like we were just having fun honestly, you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: we would come in every day in the clubhouse and
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: just just talk about whatever. Like the the focus wasn't
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: you know, oh, let's win a division. The focus was
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: let's just win today and see where that takes us.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: So and credit to AJ. I mean AJ was the
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: same same manager, same guy every single day, even in
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. Man, you know, the same same speeches, same preparation,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: all that stuff. So shout out to AJ and and
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: everybody you know, the just the young core and and
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: the vets man.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: It was.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: It was fun.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna let's play your attuch in Seattle because that
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: was right before you guys got going. It was a
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: huge moment, but at the time, I don't think any
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: of us knew how big. You know, it would be
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: in the grand scheme of the season where it turns
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: out every single game mattered. So let's see the play again,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: and Parker Austin, I want to know what you think
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: about it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: High fly ball, deep center field metals, Parker Meadows saves
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: a home run from Raleigh.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Fully space never gets old there by the way.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Man, that's awesome. That's what we're talking about those alleys
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: man earlier.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: So I love Man. First of all.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: I love that because one I love how you you
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: the emotion after though, Like that's one thing I wish
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: that I would have showed bore like I don't do
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: that a lot, man, Yes, but you know what I mean,
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: sometimes you gotta let it eat a little bit, you
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: know what.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, like, hey, you can't control.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: It, Yeah, it just come out, see me. I would
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: try to hold it in it. No, let it go,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: bro like let it, let me let it, you know
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: what I mean.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: But I like that though, But it's super cool to
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: watch that because like, you know, that's the ball off
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: the bat.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I know you like this is probably like I gotta
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: get back here. I play.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: I play in Seattle. I know that I feel very well,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: loved playing. But there was some balls hit sometimes like
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: over my head where it was they were just automatically gone.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: So the fact that you you know, stayed with it,
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: got back there, did got got up too.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Like my man was, hey you.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: You you elbows over the rim on that now, Like
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: that's just impressive.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Man. I'm just saying that.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: That's the athleticism though that I feel like that, you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: center fielders have to have, like you. I mean, obviously
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: we're all athletes out there, but the athleticism you have
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: to have to go to time a ball to hit
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: out and and to to get over the fence and
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: catch it, no matter how.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: High it could be.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Higher you might have to, uh, you know, put your
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: your cleat in the in the fence to get a
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: little extra boost.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You didn't need none of that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: It's like you just reacted, man, and it was It's
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: that's that's impressive, man, super cool to watch.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, especially the situation of the game too.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I knew I had to I knew how to try
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: to make a play on it, and it was hit
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: so high and I was able to, you know, like
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I was talking about earlier, I put my head down
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: and kind of see where the wall was and just
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: time it up.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: But yeah, man, that was That was a cool moment
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: The best feeling in the outfield, Sorry, Cody, is that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the best feeling in the outfield to rob a home run?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Is there anything that compares?
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: No?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I think that's yeah. You can't. You can't meet that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Speaking of athleticism, I found this one last night. This
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: is AJAX twenty thirteen in Toronto.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: In Cibia, batting just two nineteen.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Has power though and the.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: Scottis this one the year to left in the field,
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Jackson going beat track cut god boy, Oh I's chuckson.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah you got up that that wall was that's a
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: that's a high wall.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: But you see, there was no there was no you know, showmanship.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: After that, it was like, yep.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: Just business as usual, like hey man, hey charge let
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: it go, you know.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, it's fine, I do this all the time. No, man,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you know you got to throw it in, do something.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: You're saying he doesn't show emotion, but I don't know
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: if that's true. Was first seriously.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Back to bout years of fifteen home run ships it
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: out to center field and meadows.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Dude, but little a little pump there, Yeah, a little
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: flex on him.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, man, I need to get if I'm going
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: to show emotion, I need to get better on it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: You straight? You good? Brother? You good? I like it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: I like, you know, I think it's just something that
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: I just never really felt comfortable doing it because I
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: was like, okay, you know, I still got to go
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: out here and play, and if I start showing all
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: this crazy emotion and then I dropped one or you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: almost yeah.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: So I was like, just say, there's a catch, give it,
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: let's running, let's hit and get off of me, move around,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: let's go.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Like, don't show too much more, just go Yeah, that's.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: That's super cool, man, I do have So you know,
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: I was I read in an article about uh Aj
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: you know he was he was speaking very highly of you, man,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: and he was uh saying that you were just you know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: he's just scratching the surface like that. That sticks with
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: me because I think you in two seasons, I think
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: you played maybe one hundred and nineteen games, So not
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: like a large sample size, right, but I think there's
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: enough there to to show that like you have ability.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: You are a big league player, man, Like you have
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: that ability to get there and stay and be you know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: really the future for the Detroit Tigers.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Where do you think that? Like, what bring what do
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: you what do you bring to the table man for
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the Tigers?
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Like, I feel like I see your value, But what's
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: the value that you think that you bring?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Man, I want to do everything I can to help
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: the team within man, whether it's scoring runs, making good
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: plays in the outfield, you know, ceiling bases, all the above. Man,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: I want to help the team in all aspects. And
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm That's something I'm working on every single day.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: And I'm so excited for this year and what we're
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: gonna do because, like you said, man, last year as
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: a team, we we kind of set that floor I
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: think for the fans and and and now sky's the
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: limit for us. So like I said, I'm I'm I'm
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: ready to get that there out there and go to
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: war for the for the boys.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're a game changer, man, That's what you That's
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: that's the that's the beauty of being a game changer.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Like when when we're not hitting, then nobody's hitting. That's
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: like some of the best advice I ever got.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: I think Tory Hunter told me that one day. He
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: was like, Hey, if I'm if I'm not hitting, nobody's hitting.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I was talking about.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: He was like, if some if I'm not hitting that
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: day and they hit the ball, to.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Me, it's an out.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I like them.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: It's just like the mentality every time was like, if
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: I'm not hitting today, then there's gonna be no hits.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Not if you hit at the center, and so like that,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: that is like what you're capable of doing. Not only
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: like with your bad with your glove, but with your
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: legs as well. Man, Like what you're able to do
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: on the base pass, I think is I mean that
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: that really takes the team to another level because not
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: only do you have power, not only can you you know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: hit for average contact, not only can you go get
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: it in the alphab but once you get on the bases, man,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: that's what changes the game right there. I think your
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: IQ on the basis, your ability to take that extra
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: base and just being aggressive man, and you got them strides, bro,
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Like you know, first to third is just that's that's
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: just an easy day at the park.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: You know, like they got to.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Pay attention to you when you when you're on the basis,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: And that's the beauty of being in a game changer, man.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: You can change the game in so many different ways.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: And uh, I mean, I mean, honestly speaking, that's that's
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: what this team needs, especially a young, a young core
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: group that really.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Has the you know, y'all showed y'allself last year. I don't.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: I mean, like you said in the clubhouse, it wasn't
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: even about hey, let's go win the division.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: It was just like day to day let's go out
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: here have fun.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Bro, Like, listen, let's enjoy you know, our time together,
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: because you're around those guys more basically than you around
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: your family, you know what I mean. So those are
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: your boys, man, those guys in that clubhouse. So y'all, yeah,
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: I mean I see y'all having that mindset like, hey,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: let's let's take it a step further.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: I don't even know if we knew we could do
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: what we just did. Let's why not let's take it
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: a step.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Further, right, Yeah, And funny story about the being aggressive
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: on the base pass. We're in Seattle, and I think
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: that we were. I think we're like dead last and
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: going first to third and when the bow was hit.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: To the outfield, and so we had a team meeting
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: led by Joey Korra, and basically he was just MF
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: and us.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Like the meet the whole meeting, like, you know, we're
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: the worst team in baseball, this is terrible, we got
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: to do better.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: So we had that meeting and ever since then, I
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: think we led all of baseball and first the third,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: like we were just so aggressive, and that just goes
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: like that's why.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: That's a big part of why we.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Were winning games and scoring runs, like just just being
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: at putting that pressure on the outfield. And you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: as an outfielder, if you got a fast runner on first,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: there's a little bit of pressure on it, like to
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: field it cleanly and get the ball in. So when
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: the whole team is doing that, as an outfielder, you
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: can't help but to not think about, oh, this guy's
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: about to go first to third on me, you know,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: let me rush through this or whatever. So that was
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: that was a big reason on a lot of our success.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: As a as a base runner parker, how how much
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: does it play into your confidence? You the team that,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: like Joey himself is an aggressive sender like that. That
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: was a talking point at various times throughout last season.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: My mindset is aggression feeds aggression. You know, I'd rather
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: be more, rather be aggressive than passive. But some people
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily feel that way. But you know, you your teammates, especially,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you know, guys that like to get after it on
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the base pass, Like what does that do for you?
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Knowing that, like if it's close, he's gonna send me
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and and I gotta be on my horse.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: It helps a lot. Man, There's usually there's no hesitation.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: When you're around the third I know sometimes like you
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: kind of have to wait to see, like what he's
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: gonna do.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: If is he gonna hold me, he's gonna send me, No,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: he's sending you. Uh So the.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Aggression like it just it just adds a whole new
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: aspect to your team of like it, it really is
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: hard to from the outfield to make an accurate throw
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: at home home late so and I know Joey realizes
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: that and just being able to do that, man, is
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: is is fun. And and if he makes a good
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: throw at home or wherever it is, you got a
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: tip the cap and move on. That's not gonna stop
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: us from doing it. So yeah, man, Joey, Joey's aggressive
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: over there for sure.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of truth to everything Austin
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: said about what you bring to the table. Parker. The
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: number still kind of amazes me. Tigers were fifty four
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: and twenty eight in games you played last season. Fifty
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: four eight. That's pretty crazy. And you're really productive in
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: those wins eight thirty seven ops. So next time May
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: tried to tried to give you the day off, I
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: would just maybe like slip him all over mind.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: No, I try whatever AJ does, man, I trust it
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: can do whatever.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Man, it's it's gonna be good for the team.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Mastermind. He's a masked behind mastermind, behind the chaos. Man, y'all.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I like what you said though.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: About you know, him having core, having that meeting and
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: because sometimes I feel like you need to, you know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: for lack of better worlders have like permission to fail,
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: like let like let us be aggressive.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: And I think that he saw that and was like,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: you guys are trying to be too.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Cautious, you know what I mean, Like, let's let's put
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: there like you You've been saying it this whole time.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: It is hard when you have a team full of
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: guys that all buy into the same, you know, type
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: of play, you know what I'm saying, Like when when
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: guys are aggressive, when guys all are going up there
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: with the game plan, when on defense everybody's locked down,
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: Like when when you're allowed to go out there and
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: just play like, oh.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Man, I got to get hit.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: No, you just go up there and and do the
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: things that we that you've been working on in the
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: person that you've always been on the base pass being
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: having that freedom to take that extra bag, knowing that, hey,
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: he has to come up Phildy cleanly make a good throw.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: If he gets me, it's fine.
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: But with the speed that you guys have, that's something
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: that I mean that that's part of y'all's y'all's team game,
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: and that's and that's gonna be something that I feel
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: like is gonna really take y'all to the next level.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: If y'all continue to keep doing that, it's gonna be
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: exciting to watch. Man where you know where this team goes? Man,
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: So I want to know what is that locker room like?
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: What type of dude is Parker Meadows in the locker room?
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: I was a straight clown, bro, so so what Parker
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: Meadows like in the In the.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Clubhouse, I'm a little bit of a clown too.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: I don't like to take everything too serious, but I'm
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: usually the quiet guy that kind of observes the room
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: and sees what the vibes are like. And once I
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: recognize the vibes, all kind of fall into place with
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: So I'm pretty aware of what's going on. But I'm
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: pretty good at ping pong. We play ping pong a
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: lot I'm up there on the leaderboard for ping pong.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Others will probably disagree, but yeah, man, I don't know.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I like to have fun. I like to try to
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: keep everybody loose and and just have a good time.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Who's the serious guy in there? Who who's taking a
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: little too serious in there?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: At times? You ain't throwing them under the bus? Okay?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I have a funny story, all right, shout out to
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Alex Fayo. So when he was starting in Toledo. Uh,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: you know, Fade is like the most outgoing person ever,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: and you know he's just so goofy, I'll talkative all
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: the time. And one day he was starting in Toledo
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: and he kind of has his headphones in sitting at
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: the table and I kind of like tap him, like, bro,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: are you are you good?
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Like what's wrong?
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: And he like looks at me and he's like he
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: just puts his headphone back on, and I forget who
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: it was.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Somebody tapped me. He's like, oh he's starting. He started.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what what does it? That doesn't mean it?
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  Speaker 4: So like it was just funny because these teachers man
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  Speaker 4: on start day, they locked they're locked in.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's like they're completely especially he's a completely different person,
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  Speaker 4: which I get it. You know, it's it's a it's
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  Speaker 4: a tough, tough task.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. So h no, that was just funny
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  Speaker 3: shout out to fight, though I.
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  Speaker 5: Would not have guessed ever being serious like that.
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  Speaker 3: I know that's what I saw it for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, what is he all right?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what's going on?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Austin had to shambles a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 5: ago talking about very lander on the start days.
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  Speaker 6: So oh, I get it, brother, I listen, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: get it. Like you said, I get it. You know
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  Speaker 6: you're one time. But hey, look I'm I'm out here
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  Speaker 6: and center field catching the ball. So you better say
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  Speaker 6: how or give me a little little handshake or something
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  Speaker 6: like just yeah, real quick, let me know.
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  Speaker 2: Were on the same page. But I get it, man,
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  Speaker 2: that's funny.
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  Speaker 3: It's good times.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Well, why don't we kind of wrap up here a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: little bit with something non baseball relative. But I think
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Austin can check some some veteran advice on Parker. Here,
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  Speaker 1: Parker recently married. Congratulations to you and your family. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Austin, he's got a couple of kids, like
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  Speaker 1: he's married to what any Austin, can you give some
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  Speaker 1: advice to Parker on being a husband and a ballplayer.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think I think we should should end
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  Speaker 1: by helping Parker out here.
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  Speaker 6: Well, park what I'm gonna tell you, my man, it's just, uh,
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  Speaker 6: be be available, you know, be available, be a good listener,
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  Speaker 6: you know, And I think that that'll go a long ways.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: You know, It's it's a learning curve, right, I mean
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  Speaker 6: it's it's you're married. It's a different uh, it's a
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  Speaker 6: different ball game. But at the same time, you with
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  Speaker 6: somebody you love and that you cherish, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 6: go to and make all these special memories and you
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  Speaker 6: know somebody that that is gonna be there for you
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  Speaker 6: when you know you're going through those tough times. Man,
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Like I brought the game home a lot. And it
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  Speaker 6: takes a special person to sit there and listen to
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  Speaker 6: somebody talk about going zero for four with four punchies,
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  Speaker 6: like nobody wants to hear that, Like do you are
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: you hungry?
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  Speaker 2: Or what?
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  Speaker 6: Let's go watch a show, because nobody got time for
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: you to talk about every single act bad not Yo.
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  Speaker 6: You got that person, man, lean on that person. Y'all
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  Speaker 6: lean on each other. Man, y'all enjoy each other. Man,
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  Speaker 6: try not to argue. It happens couples. I'm not Hey, listen,
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: I'm not a marital expert. I'm still learning myself.
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  Speaker 2: Brother.
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  Speaker 6: So but that's awesome. You got somebody there with you, man,
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  Speaker 6: so you're not alone. I hate it being alone, you know.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: So it was always cool to have, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 6: my wife there and now we got two beautiful kids. Man,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: but hey, focus on focus on on the game now
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  Speaker 6: too that you know, like, don't bring home to the field.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. In the car, you're saying.
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  Speaker 6: You might listen to some crazy just to get it out,
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: and then hey, well did you get out of the car.
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  Speaker 2: It's business. It's business. I gotta let that go.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, man, yeah, no, shout out to my wife,
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  Speaker 4: my wife, Hayle. I appreciate the advice, sir, but shout
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  Speaker 4: out to my wife.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: She's she's been there through the think in the finn man.
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  Speaker 4: So like you said, she's a great listener. So that's
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: why I married her. So she's she's she's a trooper, man.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: So it's nice.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, good job, all right, We it did On that note,
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  Speaker 5: but Parker, thank you very much for the time. This
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  Speaker 5: was fun.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: Enjoye h here in the perspective for between you and Austin.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you guys for having me man, I had, I
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: had a fun time.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you Parker. I gotta say, I'm not sure
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: if this was the best Tigers podcast ever produced, but
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I think it was the one with the most range.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: So thank you Parker, Thank you Austin, Thank you Cody
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  Speaker 1: h This was a lot of fun. You can follow
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  Speaker 1: us on exportly known as Twitter at Tiger Territory Underscore.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: He's at Cody stable Hagen. I'm at Kieran Underscore Steckley.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel if you
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  Speaker 1: and Parker Meadows. I'm Kieren Steckley. Everybody, have a great day.