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Cedric Mullins joins FT + Ryan O'Hearn joins Bucco Territory · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this guy knows the AL East very well. Cedric
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  Speaker 1: Mullens joining us right now and newly signed with the
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  Speaker 1: Rays this offseason. Cedric, great to have you on the
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  Speaker 1: show here. We appreciate the time. How's the off season,
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  Speaker 1: especially the process of signing. Actually a while ago you
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to wait to find out where your spring
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  Speaker 1: training home was going to be, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we knocked that out pretty soon.
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  Speaker 3: So of course the family was excited, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: for the opportunity all on Temple. Like you said, staying
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  Speaker 3: in the AL East. Always fun playing out there. It's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a less.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like, so take me through it? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how did you have a lot of conversations with other teams?
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  Speaker 1: Were there multiple offers thrown your way? How did you
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  Speaker 1: end up with the Rays? What did they say that
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  Speaker 1: kind of got the job done for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really about opportunity and planning time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, had conversations with a couple of the teams
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  Speaker 3: just might not have been the right fit for what
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  Speaker 3: I was looking for at the time. Uh, Tampa definitely
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  Speaker 3: presented that semi and just really being able to be myself,
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  Speaker 3: playing my game, you know, go back to certain things
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  Speaker 3: I've always done really well and take advantage.
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  Speaker 4: I need you to put yourself in your shoes. But
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  Speaker 4: a year ago, had the Rais made the same exact
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  Speaker 4: offer and you had to play outside in Florida for
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  Speaker 4: the entire season, would you still you have been like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to sweat that much.
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  Speaker 5: Would it have changed your decision? Yeah, it possibly could have.
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  Speaker 5: I saw what that schedule looked like for him. It
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  Speaker 5: was it was tough. Hey they went through it for
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  Speaker 5: Shore last.
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  Speaker 4: Year, and is that and is that something that when
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  Speaker 4: you go into it, you're like, do you need to
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  Speaker 4: talk to the Rais like, hey, we got the roof
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  Speaker 4: up right, Like is that something? Or do they come
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  Speaker 4: to you and like, hey we're gonna offer you this
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  Speaker 4: and the umbrella is up.
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  Speaker 6: You don't have to worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that actually kind of front of the conversation. It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of funny. I did ask them. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, what's uh, what's going on with the with
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  Speaker 3: the homefield stadium? They said, oh, we'll be back together,
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  Speaker 3: ready to go. So that was a quick little chuckle
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  Speaker 3: between us. But you know, again, like I said, a
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  Speaker 3: you know, a really good organization that has brought, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the best of a lot of guys coming through, and
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  Speaker 3: I've been able to see that over the years, so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just trying to replicate what I've been able
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  Speaker 3: to do in some really successful years coming up.
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  Speaker 7: Cedric, You've been in the Al East for most of
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  Speaker 7: your career. You went from the obviously to the Mets
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  Speaker 7: for a little short period here. What was it like though,
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  Speaker 7: when you with the Orioles your whole career and then
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  Speaker 7: they called you in and said said, we're sorry, we
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  Speaker 7: love you, we're not having the year we expected, and
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  Speaker 7: you're going to the New York Mets.
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  Speaker 6: How does it hit you?
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  Speaker 7: Because I always say the first time you get traded,
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  Speaker 7: the first time you switch teams is by far the hardest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely different.
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  Speaker 3: I've been with the Orioles since being drafted back in
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifteen, so that's ten years with the same organization.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it it hit pretty hard, you know, being.
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  Speaker 3: Just having to uplift your entire life, especially out of
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  Speaker 3: New York where things can get hectic just on a
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  Speaker 3: day to day basis. So it was definitely a lot
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  Speaker 3: of changes and adjustments that had to be made. Along with,
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  Speaker 3: you know, trying to perform at your best.
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  Speaker 4: Did you feel like you had to be somebody else?
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  Speaker 4: Anybody could be like, well, you're a big league vet,
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  Speaker 4: like you just had to be who you are. But
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  Speaker 4: as many times as I moved, AJ moved quite a few,
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  Speaker 4: but not as many as me. But you guys were
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  Speaker 4: impact players. Did you feel like you had to be
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  Speaker 4: somebody or not? Because at the time you moved, like
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  Speaker 4: stuff starts barking a little bit, like it's not like
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  Speaker 4: you start the beginning of the off season You're like, huh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm fresh to go put my best foot forward. Did
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  Speaker 4: you have to feel like or do you feel like
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  Speaker 4: you had to be somebody that you weren't in that
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  Speaker 4: moment when you went to the Mets.
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  Speaker 3: In some instances, yeah, you know, there were a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of talented guys where I didn't feel like I had to,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Try to come in and be something that I completely wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was really just trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: compliment with the team already had, and that might have
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  Speaker 3: put little pressure on me just to try to do
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  Speaker 3: a little too much for what was already a good
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  Speaker 3: team that you know, just kind of fell off at the.
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  Speaker 1: End, Cedric, I know at some point there was some
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  Speaker 1: hamstring barking. I think, right, was that a factor, do
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  Speaker 1: you think in your mind? And no, players didn't like
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  Speaker 1: to use that and also tell me if I'm off,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm trying to think back last year already feels
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  Speaker 1: like five years ago. But was that a factor at
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  Speaker 1: all for you? At some point during the season.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of early.
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  Speaker 3: I forget what months specifically, but I was still with
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  Speaker 3: the Rods at the time and it was a ten
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  Speaker 3: day stint.
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  Speaker 2: You know, something just kind of tweaked in.
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  Speaker 3: There might have been more of a crampy type feeling,
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  Speaker 3: but outside of that, you know, the legs felt pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: It was just a matter of fine opportunities to run.
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  Speaker 3: And that's you know, that's why I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: just being being more aggressive, continuing to be more aggressive
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  Speaker 3: on the base pass, continuing to try to do damage
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about the end of that season, talk about how
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  Speaker 4: it was going for you guys in the clubhouse. You
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  Speaker 4: come in from the outside and you're like, okay, Like
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  Speaker 4: I get to watch Juan Soto, Brandon Neimo, I get
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  Speaker 4: to watch Pete Alonzo every single day. Did you know
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  Speaker 4: that the pitching was where it was when you got
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  Speaker 4: there or was it something where you were there for
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  Speaker 4: a week and you're like, we got to score like
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  Speaker 4: seven runs to win this game. Not dissimilar to where
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  Speaker 4: you were in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't really know kind of where pitching was
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  Speaker 3: at at that point. Like you said, after a week,
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  Speaker 3: two weeks, it feels pretty evident pitching was struggling. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we had to try to come back late in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of games, and you know, when it comes in
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  Speaker 3: waves like that, it's tough. It's tough to battle back,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's and every once in a while it
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  Speaker 3: would have those moments where you know, our arms were
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  Speaker 3: dominating and the offense was struggling to get it going.
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  Speaker 3: And when you just have that roller coaster back and forth,
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  Speaker 3: it's tough to get momentum going for especially a playoff.
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  Speaker 7: Run Cedric Quick went wrong in Baltimore. You guys made
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  Speaker 7: the playoffs twenty three, twenty four, where everyone's like the Orioles,
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  Speaker 7: the Orioles, the Orioles. What happened last year? I mean,
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  Speaker 7: Brandon Hyde gets fired, right, They just it was like
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  Speaker 7: every it was like a perfect storm of everything went wrong.
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  Speaker 6: Did you have a feeling.
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  Speaker 7: Of anything that changed in the clubhouse or among the
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  Speaker 7: team because it just didn't work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And amongst the group there, I don't think there
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  Speaker 3: were too many guys that were coming off as negative
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  Speaker 3: coming to the field every single day.
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  Speaker 2: We had a positive attitude.
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  Speaker 3: We were, you know, really just trying to find a
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  Speaker 3: way to piece together us some wins, to create momentum.
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  Speaker 3: And during spring training we came across a lot of
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  Speaker 3: injuries that for especially on the pitching side, for guys
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  Speaker 3: that we were expecting to have really strong years and
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  Speaker 3: they got cut before they even began just because of injuries.
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  Speaker 3: And that kind of put a lot of pressure on
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  Speaker 3: everyone else to try to pick up some slack, whether
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  Speaker 3: it be offense, whether it be pitching, whether it be
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  Speaker 3: guys that got picked up just from the expectations of
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  Speaker 3: us going out there and dominating.
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  Speaker 2: But it hit us. It hit is hard, all right.
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  Speaker 4: You were there through the lean years to the years
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  Speaker 4: when they started calling up all these prospects. We just
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  Speaker 4: talked to Baseball JJ Cooper of Baseball America. You saw it,
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  Speaker 4: you saw it firsthand, and now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: you see I'll take you to Adlie Rushman comes up,
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  Speaker 4: Gunnar Henderson comes up, and you're starting to see these guys.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever sit there and say, man, I would
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  Speaker 4: love it if they would like trade some of these
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  Speaker 4: dudes I don't know, to add to the pieces that
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  Speaker 4: would then push us over the edge, push us to
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  Speaker 4: the point where we're now, year in and year out, a
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  Speaker 4: World Series contending team with these young superstar prospects.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at a situation like that and you
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  Speaker 3: think we're coming up on our window. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: don't know how long that's actually going to be, but
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  Speaker 3: it's here, it's here, it's here, it's right now. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, for example, like when we had Corbyn Burns
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  Speaker 3: dominated that year, couldn't get him back. The question was
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  Speaker 3: how do you replace that? You know, that's that was
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  Speaker 3: up to the front office try to figure that out.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, certain decisions might be questioned in hindsight,
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  Speaker 3: but you know they made their decisions at the time,
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  Speaker 3: and you know you sit there and you say, regardless
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  Speaker 3: of what they have going on, I need to continue
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  Speaker 3: to perform at you know what I believe to be
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  Speaker 3: my peak to give us the best chance in every
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  Speaker 3: single day regardless.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, you had a thirty thirty season. Louise Robert
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  Speaker 4: just got traded to the Mets. Everybody talks about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty one, Cedric Mowns did this, back
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three, Louis Robert did this. How hard
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  Speaker 4: is it to try to recapture that season because Louise
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  Speaker 4: Robert's going to try to do that as he's about
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  Speaker 4: to go to free agency, And how hard is it
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  Speaker 4: to say, Okay, I may never do that again.
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  Speaker 6: If all I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to do is chase that season and not be
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  Speaker 4: the best I can be today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely felt that after that season. I was
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  Speaker 2: chasing that.
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  Speaker 3: I was chasing that and for me to know myself
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  Speaker 3: as not being the most powerful guy.
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  Speaker 2: Out there on the field.
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  Speaker 3: I do know I have some pop, but I remember
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  Speaker 3: that season and I had home runs and bunches like
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  Speaker 3: it was almost abnormal feeling that year, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: but the swing was just clicking and good things were
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  Speaker 3: happening when I was, you know, just being myself, stand
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  Speaker 3: short to the ball, using all fields and then the
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  Speaker 3: power will coming to play when there was a mistake made,
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  Speaker 3: so just getting back to that athleticism that I had
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  Speaker 3: in that swing is really what I'm aimed for for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this season and beyond it was it just
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  Speaker 3: felt like things kind of got out of hand in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how I was looking at metrics and how
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  Speaker 3: I wanted the swing to look and things of that nature,
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  Speaker 3: and it took away from what made that season great.
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  Speaker 7: Said, You're now on the rais and they have a
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  Speaker 7: thing there that they do with the Rais Way. Now
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  Speaker 7: you got to play against the Raiser your entire career.
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  Speaker 7: Are you excited to see what they figured out that
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  Speaker 7: no other organization has figured out, because you know, it
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  Speaker 7: seems like everyone that goes there just miraculously becomes like
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  Speaker 7: a ten war player. So I can't wait for you
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  Speaker 7: to come back on at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 7: after you have an unbelievable year and say, well, the
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  Speaker 7: Raise Way was blake.
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  Speaker 3: I said he when I come back, I probably won't
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  Speaker 3: give out their secrets. I need to hang onto those.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, it's it's I'm excited. Yeah, just like you said,
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  Speaker 3: every time we face them, their pitching gave me trouble,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna sit there and ask to their face,
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  Speaker 3: what did you do to me, like they had an
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  Speaker 3: approach that was very successful, and you know, of course
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  Speaker 3: I'd have my successes here and there, but they were
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  Speaker 3: pretty consistent and they were mixing and uh mashing me
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  Speaker 3: up in different ways. So it wasn't like I was
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  Speaker 3: facing the same guy every time from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 3: They had a good they had good arms, So it
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  Speaker 3: was just a matter of me trying to make my adjustments.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm sorry for what's going on the show
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  Speaker 3: with them.
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  Speaker 7: Again, you played against the Rays of your entire career,
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  Speaker 7: being in the Alds for almost all your career. Every
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  Speaker 7: year people overlook the Rays. You're now on the Rays.
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  Speaker 7: The Blue Jays almost won the world to the Yankees
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  Speaker 7: are the Yankees. The Red Sox are the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 7: and you came from the Orioles. You know what they
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  Speaker 7: have there and what they have coming. How did the
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  Speaker 7: Rays finish this year? I mean, what, what's your outlook?
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  Speaker 7: Because again, you know this division so well, and every
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  Speaker 7: year we're like, oh, the Jay's the Rays, or the
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  Speaker 7: Jay's the Red Sox, the Yankees, the Raish, they're the Rays, right,
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  Speaker 7: they always figure it out. So how confident are you
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  Speaker 7: that this year again the Rays can figure it out.
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  Speaker 7: How nice is it gonna be when you go back
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  Speaker 7: to Baltimore and you get a standing ovation then you
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  Speaker 7: get a hit to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be a fun moment. Yeah, to that point,
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  Speaker 3: just facing Tampa a year after year after year, they
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  Speaker 3: find a way to compete, and I think that's really
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  Speaker 3: where the grit and where they you know, go on
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  Speaker 3: the standings each year.
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  Speaker 2: That's where it comes from.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they picked guys that no one across the
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  Speaker 3: league would know, but they go out there and compete
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  Speaker 3: the tail off every single day and put results together.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's really what it's all about. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can have your big name guys, but from a
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  Speaker 3: team aspect, they find a way to really click and
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  Speaker 3: Jail and Mesh work really well together out there every
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  Speaker 3: single day.
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  Speaker 2: Cedric, this was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for stopping by during the offseason here. We
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  Speaker 1: should be able to catch you during spring training too,
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  Speaker 1: as we're putting our schedule together. So congrats on the
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  Speaker 1: deal and we'll see you then.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Fails, looking forward to seeing y'all.
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  Speaker 8: What's up everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Buco Territory.
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  Speaker 8: Presented by the Foul Territory Network. I am your host
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  Speaker 8: Noah Hiles and joining me as always are my wonderful
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  Speaker 8: co host Josh Harrison aka j Hay and platinum Key
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  Speaker 8: aka Mark. And as you can see, we have another
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  Speaker 8: guest on the show. This one comes in the form
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  Speaker 8: of a big free agent signing the Pirates made this offseason.
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  Speaker 8: New left handed power bat, Ryan O'Hearn joins the show.
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  Speaker 7: Ryan.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome on to Bucko Territory.
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  Speaker 6: Man. What's up, fellows, Thanks for having me, Thanks for
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  Speaker 6: copping on.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome. So, Ryan, Pirates fans are obviously really excited to
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  Speaker 8: see you take the field on the North Shore this spring.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I've seen you do a couple of interviews already.
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  Speaker 8: Hopefully we can give a couple of different questions that
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  Speaker 8: you haven't been asked and dig into everything that is
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  Speaker 8: Ryan o'hean what makes you? And we're gonna get started
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  Speaker 8: right now with one of the biggest diehard Pirate fans
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  Speaker 8: that I know, Mark aka platinum Key Brian. If you're
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  Speaker 8: on Twitter at all, Ryan, I recommend giving him a foul.
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  Speaker 8: He is like the king of Pirate social media. He
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  Speaker 8: just posts clip after clip after clip, just nothing but
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  Speaker 8: Pirates highlights. He's going to be the one to start
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  Speaker 8: this interview, So go ahead, Mark, kick it off.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, Ryan, thank you so much for hopping on. I
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  Speaker 9: just want to say Pirates fans are extremely excited.
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  Speaker 8: Man.
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  Speaker 9: I absolutely love the confidence, the belief in this club
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  Speaker 9: and just the way that you express your goals for
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  Speaker 9: this team moving forward. It's refreshing to hear someone committed
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  Speaker 9: to winning and believing that this is a baseball club
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  Speaker 9: that can do that, that can be competitive. So my
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  Speaker 9: first question is what goals do you have for your
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  Speaker 9: time in Pittsburgh, for you, for the team, whatever.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you know, you can talk a big game,
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  Speaker 10: but we still got to go play the games. But I,
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  Speaker 10: you know, I believe that what's the point of joining
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  Speaker 10: something if you don't think that you can succeed there,
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  Speaker 10: you know. And I've spoke on it quite a bit
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  Speaker 10: about the roster and kind of looking at what the
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  Speaker 10: Pirates already had coming into the offseason and what they've added,
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  Speaker 10: and you know, I'm a believer in the team that
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  Speaker 10: we could go out and surprise people. And you know,
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  Speaker 10: I've said it a lot, but it really does start
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  Speaker 10: with pitching in my opinion, and you know, you got
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  Speaker 10: the best picture on earth to start, and then you
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  Speaker 10: know you got great young arms with great stuff behind him,
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  Speaker 10: and so I think that's a great place to start.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, trying to decide where I wanted to
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  Speaker 6: play next.
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  Speaker 10: Year or well this upcoming year, you know, that definitely
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  Speaker 10: was stood out to me.
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  Speaker 6: And as far as goals for the season, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I think I have no problem with stating.
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  Speaker 10: Like, hey, I want to make the playoffs, Like why
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  Speaker 10: why why play a season if you don't, if you're
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  Speaker 10: not trying to make the playoffs, or if that isn't
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  Speaker 10: a goal, you know, I think obviously you got to
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  Speaker 10: take it one day at a time. It's a long season,
• 15:30
  Speaker 10: and you may have a bad you know, stretch at
• 15:33
  Speaker 10: some point, but I think the best teams find their
• 15:37
  Speaker 10: way out of that and find a way to get
• 15:40
  Speaker 10: that that good mojo going and the good vibes. And
• 15:44
  Speaker 10: you know, as much as you want to talk about
• 15:45
  Speaker 10: goals right now here in January, we got to be
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: that one day at a time mindset, doing whatever we
• 15:51
  Speaker 10: can to find a way to win a.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: Ball game every day.
• 15:53
  Speaker 10: And then, uh, you know, hopefully we'll look back and
• 15:56
  Speaker 10: we'll be right on the custom of it at the end.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Of the year. Exactly. Love it.
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: Are you going to be at Pirates Fats coming up
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: here next weekend? I know fans are excited to maybe
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: get a chance to see you, hear from you, maybe
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: meet you briefly.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll be there. I'll leave in Friday morning.
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: Excellent, Absolutely, love it. So I was going through your
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: game logs. I noticed you had a home run against
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: the Pirates in twenty eighteen. That was off of Stephen Brault,
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: but led me to my next question. I noticed that
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: you hit an m or you hit a home run
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: in your MLB debut, right, yeah, James Shields, Yeah, j
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: oh wow, all right, yeah, can you just walk in, James,
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: What was it like being called up to the show?
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: What was that day like for you?
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 16:40
  Speaker 10: Man, it was awesome. You know, obviously dream come true,
• 16:44
  Speaker 10: you work. I was an eighth round pick, never made
• 16:48
  Speaker 10: it on a super high on any prospect list, I mean,
• 16:52
  Speaker 10: and then you know, I spent four years in the
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: minor leagues, got a chance to get called up in
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: July of twenty eighteen.
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: My parents made it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: Brother's sister had a family there hit that homer off
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: of James Shields and you know something I'll remember forever.
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: That's awesome. Then my final question, so I have to
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: change hats. Oh that's awesome. Change hats here real quick
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: to ask you a question now we go. I'm a
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: fellow diehardy Packers fan. We were talking before. I hear
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: you're also an owner, owned a couple of shows, family
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: with season tickets. When was the last time you were
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: at Lamba?
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: So week eighteen of last season, I went to Lambo
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: with my dad and brother in law and a couple
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: uncles and we watch the Packers play the Bears in
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: about minus seven with the wind chill, and it was
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: they lost, which you know, you never phone lose into
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: the Bears. But anytime you get a chance to go
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: to Lambo and watching package play is pretty cool. So yeah,
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: definitely a Packer fan. I know we're struggling a little
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: bit right now, but hey, yeah, we'll get him next year.
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: Awesome, appreciate it. Thank you again for having jumping on here.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: All right, So Ryan, I'll take over now a lot
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: of people obviously are familiar with what you achieved in
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Baltimore and in the back end of last year with
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: San Diego. But I want to ask about your time
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: in Kansas City because it wasn't the easiest start to
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: your major league career, right, it was some negative war seasons,
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: you got optioned. I'm sure you know during that time,
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: there were a lot of difficult lonely drives back to Omaha. Right,
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: Can you just take us back to that time and
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: maybe tell us the moment that those hard times Oh
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: sorry about that. Yeah, Can you just take us back
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: to that time and just kind of tell us how
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: those hard times really shaped you into the ballplayer that
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: you are now.
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you said there was a lot of hard times
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: in and some down years in Kansas City. Uh, you
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: know where I was just trying to fight to stay
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: on a major league roster, and you know I credit
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: a lot of those the difficult years is you know,
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: I really appreciate getting to play now because it's been
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: taken away from me before. And you know, when someone
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: tells you, hey, like you're not on the team anymore,
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: you go on Triple A whatever, and after that happens
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: a few times, like you know, it's you realize how
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: hard it is to stick in the major leagues, and
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: I learned a lot of lessons on the bench in
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: Kansas City.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: I got to watch a lot of baseball, that's.
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: For sure, and learn from coaches and and kind of
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: figured out how to stay sharp as best as I could,
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: and that like pinch hitter role. And then you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: maybe you get one a b a night, one start
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: a week. Uh, you know, whatever it may be, you
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: learn to embrace your role. You try to be the
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: best teammates that you possibly can and just make the
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: most of it. And yeah, so I think those times
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: in Kansas City definitely shaped me in ways and kind
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: of prepped me for my next opportunity to get regular
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: playing time.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: And when I got to Baltimore, I was like ready
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: to go.
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: So I think when I was on the bench a lot,
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: like I took advantage of that time and I tried
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: to get better as best as I could without playing
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: in that many games. And you know, I think a
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: year after years of that and learning from hitting coaches
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: in the off season, and then by the time I
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: got to I got to Baltimore in twenty three and
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: I got a chance to play quite a bit. I
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: was just ready to rock, and it seemed like, so,
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: you know, I definitely credit those down years in Kansas
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: City because without those times, I don't I don't have
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: the same resilience. Probably I don't have some.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Of the skills that I have now.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: And definitely on the mental side of it, being able
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: to stay, you know, locked into the game, not give up,
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: you know, just overcome some tough times I think have
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: really benefited me in the last few years.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: You talked about embracing your role. What type of role
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: do you hope to have for this Pirates team.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: Oh, I want to hit in the middle lineup. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: want to drive in runs. I want to play wherever
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: they need me on any given night. I know how
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: baseball is nowadays. There's a lot of different lineups and
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: guys rotate and they keep that DH spot moving and so,
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: you know, whatever they need me defensively, I'll be ready
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: to go.
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: And then as far as hitting, I want.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: To I want to play every day, you know, I
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: want to face left these righties. I want to hit
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: the middle lineup and drive in runs. I don't want
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: to strike out. You don't want to hit some balls
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: in the river. I want to do whatever we got
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: to do to help the team.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Win.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: Have there been any conversations about where they anticipate you
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: playing the bulk of your innings this year?
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I'm not super specific.
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: This just kind of told me like a similar role
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: to I've had what I've had the last few years,
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: which has been you know, first base, DH, you know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: right field whenever they need me. But you know, I'm
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: in I'm thirty two, but I'm in pretty good shape.
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: I feel like I can go out and play wherever
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: they need me.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: And then my last question for you is I was
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: doing a little recon. I was talking to Andy from
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: the Baltimore Banner who says hello, and he was telling
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: me about, uh, your cool bat you had for the
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: All Star Game and and what it kind of meant,
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: how it was a little bit bigger than just you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: about yourself, and it's a cool baseball story. Just wanted
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: to give you the opportunity to kind of tell that
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: story a little bit and what what it signified.
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah, So at the All Star Game, I used a
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: bat signed by all the players on the newtown Edgemont
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: Challenger team.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Which is a group of.
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: Guys that are you know, they have some disabilities, but
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: they love the game of baseball, and I've made an
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: appointment to go up and see him every offseason and
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: you know, go to their practice. My agent coaches them,
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: works with them. He's very close with a lot of
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: the families. And I've come to love the boys over
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: the years. They've made out, made it out to games
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: in Philly to see me play. They came out to
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: Baltimore last year. So when it came to the All
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: Star Game, they all signed it back for me and
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: you know, made this awesome video and you know it
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: made it really special that I could wrap those boys
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: and give them some love on on the biggest stage
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: at the All Star Game. But a lot of love
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: for those boys. Man, the Challenger Angels. They're great people.
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: They really do bright in the day. Like anytime I
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: get a chance to see him, my face hurts from
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: smiling when I would go to leave, just because they
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: like they bring great energy and you can tell how
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: much they love baseball, and you know, just human angels
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: is what I call them. So definitely they got a
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: special place in my heart.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: All right here we go.
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: First off, welcome again Ryan as Noah and you know
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: my boy Platinum Key said welcome, appreciate you coming on
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: the show, and I just got a couple of questions
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: for you. I feel like I've learned a lot just
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: listening to Noah. Noah and Mark asked you a couple
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: of questions. But my first question is going to be
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: kind of piggybacking off of what Noah asked you about
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: your role on this team. Obviously, you said you want
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: to hit in the middle of the lineup, you want
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: to drive in, run his face, right face lefties. Listen
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: to your story very very very similar to mine to
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: where I was on that express back and forth between
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: Triple A in the major leagues, you know, three years
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: before I got a chance to play every day, just
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: wanting that opportunity and listening you speak. You know, you
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: speak with a lot of confidence because you've been through
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: the ringer. So I wanted to ask about your role,
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: not that it is part of your role, but do
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: you foresee with this being a younger offensive team, that
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: you can kind of take on a little bit of
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: that leadership role to kind of help these guys make
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: you know, some of those adjustments that you know, as
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: you said, you learned a lot on the bench. You
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: learn from hitting coaches. I saw myself, you know, learn
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: a lot of those moments, and whether I wanted to
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: or realize it or not, I think I was able
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: to give a lot of information to guys that otherwise
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: may have not been through what I had been through.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: I mean, I'm not going to roll up in there
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: like giving speeches like hey, I'm a guy listening to
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: me talk, But you know, I'm I'm want to help
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: out and you know, build relationships with all the guys
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: as much as possible. If I feel like something needs
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: to be said, I have no problem saying it. Like
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: you said, we've uh, you know, seen a lot of
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: baseball and you've kind of seen how you know, good
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: leaders work and how maybe not so good leaders work.
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: And you know, if I feel like I'm there's something
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: that needs to be said, like I said, I'll say it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: I don't really consider myself like the most vocal leader,
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: but you know, there's a time and a place and
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: anything that I can pass along to these guys and
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: then I'm all for it and like and I want
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: to learn from them as well.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: You know, it's you never stop learning in this game.
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: It's not like I've got to a point where it's like,
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: all right, I figured everything out, because that's completely false,
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: you know, but I think good players, especially at good
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: offenses and meetings and things like that, everybody talks, you know,
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: because maybe some guy in the room has had success
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: off a pitcher that I just can't figure him out,
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: and you know, like to be able to bounce that
• 25:58
  Speaker 10: off each other and you know, figure out a way
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: that you can go get this guy as a team
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: is everything seems like the best offenses I've been on
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: are you know, they talk.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: To each other.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: So yeah, if I can assume some type of leadership
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: role like that's awesome. If not, like you know, I'm
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: just gonna roll up in there and be myself and
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: really looking forward to get to know the guys and
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: see what they're all about.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: Know, for sure, I totally understand everything you're saying. And sometimes,
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: as you say, you're not the most vocal guy and
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: you don't have to be everything that you said. I'm
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: sure it's gonna show on the field because you said,
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: wherever they want you to play, wherever they want to
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: line you up, you ready to go, And trust me
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: from somebody that played in Pittsburgh, that's that's something that's
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: already gonna have the fans, you know, rooting for you,
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: and I've played against you and I know what you bring.
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: So that's something that I'm excited to see and to
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: hear you speak about. But we also know baseball is
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: a game of adjustments, man, And just like you are
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: mentioning you've played for a few different organizations, I have
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: as well. You know, being traded, going through free agency,
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: there's a lot of things that go on behind the
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: scenes that you know, to the naked eye or to
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: the everyday fan might not notice, but to us it
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: means everything because we're big on routines. And what do
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: you think has been your biggest adjustment changing from organization
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: to organization?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Is it the coaching?
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Is it?
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: You know, getting with a hitting coach, knowing how to
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: you know, say oh oh, I need to do first
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: base or outfield like that was one of my biggest
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: adjustments was knowing that I am specific to I like
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: to go in a cage at a certain time before
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: the game, and I'm getting there. So when I got
• 27:34
  Speaker 11: traded and I signed, you know, I kind of had
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: to find my footing with guys that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Were already there.
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: What would you say has been some of your most challenging,
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: you know obstacles when you say going from you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 11: Kansas City to Baltimore to San Diego and obviously now
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: here Pittsburgh but a little different territory. But you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: they all are saying, you know you're changing different places.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.
• 27:57
  Speaker 10: I mean, you know, I'm moving from organs organizations tough
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: because you know it's like you go from one place
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: where you know everybody's name and the whole building to
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: somewhere different and you're the new.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: Guy and you got to adjust.
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: But uh, I mean, in my experience, for the most part,
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: like all baseball players seem to be the same, you know,
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: like you got your gamblers, you got you know, you
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: got your whatever it may be. Like guys, they tend
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: to fall in the same categories. You find your boys,
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: the ones you hang out with on the road, like
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: all of that. So and then at the same time,
• 28:27
  Speaker 10: you know, you got your coaches, like who's my guy?
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: Who am I gonna work with in the cage every day?
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: Which strand coach will I kind of like line up
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: with my day and all that, you know, So I
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: have things that I do throughout the day that you
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: can do anywhere. And I think you just at that,
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: you know, you know what to do, you know how
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: to get yourself ready to do your work, and you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: you make relationships along the way. And then I'll say
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: one thing when I try. When I got traded to
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: San Diego last year, it's like you only get two
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: months with the group, and it's like, I don't know
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: if I'm going to be here after this.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: Season or not, but uh, you know, you try.
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: I try to learn somebody's name, like every week, somebody
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: in the in the building, somebody knew every week, just
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: because you know, just treat people with respect, man, treat
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: people right, learn their names, learn about them. And I
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: think ultimately that's going to translate the more comfortable you
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: feel somewhere, the more people you get to know, the
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: better you're gonna feel and then play out on the field.
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: So I get two years, uh you know, as it
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: stands right now, I get two years with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: I can't wait to get up in there and learn
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: everybody's name, learn about them. I'm excited I get a
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: spring training to kind of break that in because we
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: all know how important spring training is you know you
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: that's where you really make your your bonds to start
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: the season and you get to know these guys. And
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: so I'm looking forward to that and I'm looking forward
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: to Pirates Fast as well. There's gonna be a ton
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: of guys out there, so it'll be cool to get
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: to know them a little bit. Hopefully we can grab
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: dinner or something. But yeah, for me, and like you know, man,
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: it's all about relationships. The more comfortable you feel, the
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: better you get to know everybody. That kind of stuff
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: translates out on the field.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Uh.
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: And another thing that I'm gonna piggyback just to go
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: with adjustments and a lot of people already know, but
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: you recently have a big adjustment. You know, you just
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: had a brand new baby girl, So adjustments are also
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: gonna be made on the road. And uh, these are
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: things that you know a lot of people you know,
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: yes they know you had your kid, but it's also
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: an adjustment for you, your wife, you know, baby girl. And
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: just one of those things where what do you think
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: the biggest adjustment is gonna be? Obviously we know sleep,
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: but is it gonna be you know, is it gonna
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: be sleep. Is it gonna be being away from them?
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: Because I know for me, I can miss sleep. You know,
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  Speaker 11: I felt like I played better when my family was there,
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  Speaker 11: So that was one of the biggest adjustments. So what
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  Speaker 11: do you think is the biggest adjustment possibly this season?
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  Speaker 11: You know, adjusting to life with you know, a new
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  Speaker 11: kid or being away from that kid, missing those moments because.
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  Speaker 2: These are these are real life things that happen.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean you know that there's it's uh, that's
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  Speaker 10: something I haven't experienced yet. And you know, going on
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  Speaker 10: the road and being away from your family definitely just
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  Speaker 10: got harder for me because I got this baby at home.
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  Speaker 10: But you know, and that's gonna it's gonna be tough,
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  Speaker 10: there's no doubt about it. But you know, luckily, man,
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  Speaker 10: I have a great wife and uh, she's she can
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  Speaker 10: hold down the fort. I got in laws, I got
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  Speaker 10: my parents come to town and.
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  Speaker 6: Help out quite a bit. We got a great support system.
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  Speaker 6: So that's definitely gonna help.
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  Speaker 10: And my wife's like I said, my wife's great. She
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  Speaker 10: gets it, she knows the business. She's been with me
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  Speaker 10: for years. Man, We've gone through this, uh these seasons
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  Speaker 10: together where it's like I gotta go on the road,
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  Speaker 10: she stays home, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 6: So it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be an adjustment
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  Speaker 6: for sure.
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  Speaker 10: But you know, I've seen guys go through it, and
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  Speaker 10: I know it wears on them, and uh so I'm
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  Speaker 10: gonna just deal with it the best that I can.
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  Speaker 10: You know, there's nothing else that we can do, and
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  Speaker 10: hopefully I'll be still playing by the time Harper is
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  Speaker 10: old enough to come.
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  Speaker 6: And and uh come on the road and all that.
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  Speaker 11: Oh yeah, speak that at two eggs distance for sure.
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  Speaker 11: But yeah, the support system is definitely big. And before
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  Speaker 11: we get out of here, I'm gonna ask you one
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  Speaker 11: more question, because, as I said, routine, all these things
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  Speaker 11: kind of tie into each other. I'm a very picky eater,
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  Speaker 11: so switching team to team, you know you're gonna have
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  Speaker 11: certain staples and cities of food that you should eat
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  Speaker 11: and should not eat different clubhouses. And my question was,
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  Speaker 11: honestly gonna be are you like a superstitious person as
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  Speaker 11: far as what you eat before the game, Because me
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  Speaker 11: being very picky, I would every team I went to,
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  Speaker 11: I needed a smoothie before the game with no banana,
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  Speaker 11: any fruit but no banana and I would do like
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  Speaker 11: a peanut butter and jelly or something like. I couldn't
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  Speaker 11: eat much before games where I got some teammates, it's like, nah,
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  Speaker 11: I need that grilled chicken with you know, rice and
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  Speaker 11: this or that. So do you have anything that you
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  Speaker 11: have to eat or you just kind of go with
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  Speaker 11: the flow.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going with the flow for the most part.
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  Speaker 10: Like I don't want to I want to eat something
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  Speaker 10: that's gonna feel like, you know, it's gonna stick to
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  Speaker 10: my ribs, like I'm gonna I don't want to feel
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  Speaker 10: like I'm hungry at all during the game, and like
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  Speaker 10: I like to snack a little bit during the game.
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  Speaker 10: But no, nothing like that. Where did this superstition come from?
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  Speaker 10: By the way, did you eat something else?
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  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't like no, it wasn't a superstition.
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  Speaker 11: I just could never eat before games just because I
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  Speaker 11: wasn't hungry and it would take me like an hour.
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  Speaker 11: I was a very hot energy guy, so you know,
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  Speaker 11: once the game was ready, you know, I'm like I'm
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  Speaker 11: ready to play, you know, and it's like now I
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  Speaker 11: don't want nothing. You know, if I wouldn't playing, I
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  Speaker 11: think I would eat more. But when I wouldn't playing,
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  Speaker 11: I was like, let me get a smoothie and then
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  Speaker 11: I would eat after the game. But you know, everybody's
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: different and it wasn't necessarily a superstition. But I know
• 33:32
  Speaker 11: some dudes that are like, oh, I went four for
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  Speaker 11: four because I had, you know, baking eggs and pancakes
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  Speaker 11: for breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: I'mna do the same thing to morrow. I'm like, na,
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  Speaker 2: you just hit good.
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  Speaker 6: Pictures, bro.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, dude, I mean honestly, like for me, it's day games,
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  Speaker 10: like day games.
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  Speaker 6: If I show up and I'm like.
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  Speaker 10: Donut, sausage, egg and cheese, some like just not eating
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  Speaker 10: super healthy in the morning, like second inning, I'm like dying.
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  Speaker 10: I feel like if I show up, like you gotta
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: make that decision right when you get to the yard, Like.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna do it, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 10: Like I'm gonna have a couple eggs with no bacon.
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  Speaker 10: I'm gonna have like a green juice and like something healthy.
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  Speaker 10: Then it's like, damn, all right, I started my day
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  Speaker 10: with good decisions. I'm gonna go to the gym. I'm
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: gonna go do my pool workout, like I'm gonna get
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: it ready. To go and then you're thinking yourself in
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: the sixth inning, you know what I mean, Like I
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: feel good today, but there are those days where I
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: show up in that sausage jake and cheese is looking
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: like next thing. I know, I got an old fashioned
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  Speaker 10: doughnut in my mouth, and I'm like, damn it, this
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: is gonna be a grind today. But every now I
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: just try to eat stuff that makes me feel good.
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  Speaker 11: You know, everything's good in moderation. But yeah, that's all
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  Speaker 11: I pretty much got for you. Best of luck this year, man,
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  Speaker 11: And more than anything, you know, I just wish health
• 34:46
  Speaker 11: to people that are playing. You know, a guy that
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: played for thirteen years, you know, play with a lot
• 34:51
  Speaker 11: of guys that didn't get to play as long, that
• 34:53
  Speaker 11: didn't have as many injuries or more. I just like
• 34:56
  Speaker 11: to wish people good health because I know if you're healthy,
• 34:58
  Speaker 11: you're gonna do what you do.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 11: And I'm exc I have to see you where the
• 35:01
  Speaker 11: we're the black and yellow and put on for the
• 35:03
  Speaker 11: four one two. That's the area code of Pittsburgh if
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: you didn't know.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Josh, thank you so much, man. I always
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: enjoy watching you play, competing against you so I.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate having you on the show.
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  Speaker 6: For sure.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that stands for all of us that Ryan,
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  Speaker 8: thanks so much for coming on, and thank you for
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: you know that that last answer that was that's valid
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: even for us who cover baseball. You know, you go
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: down press dining, you see the suits and everything. It's like,
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: oh man, I'm gonna have to grind through writing this
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: game story trainings.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if I got it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gonna have bad.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: Questions in the postgame pressers now because I like crap
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  Speaker 8: during the game.
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  Speaker 7: So now, but in all seriousness, thank you for coming on.
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  Speaker 6: On behalf of Mark.
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  Speaker 8: Aka Platinum Key, j Hey aka Josh Harrison, Ryan o'hearne,
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