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Fan favorite Jose Martinez joins the show! What has he been up to? · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to another edition of Cardinal Territory.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Hayes, and this week we have a very special
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  Speaker 1: edition of Cardinal Territory because we reunite with an old
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  Speaker 1: friend spent parts of four seasons with the Cardinals, and
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal fans will remember twenty eighteen, this guy hit eighteen
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he hit seventeen homers while batting three oh five.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty pretty, pretty good. Of course it's Jose Martinez. Jose, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for coming into Cardinal Territory.
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  Speaker 2: Jim.
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  Speaker 3: It's always good to get back to you and h
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  Speaker 3: this way. And they all all the Cardinal fans, they
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  Speaker 3: always gonna have in my heart, so very special.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for thee for the invite.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're going to be very happy about
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  Speaker 1: seeing you again. We should mention. Uh, we're talking as
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  Speaker 1: you are in Venezuela. But how are you? What what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in your world?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's it's a lot of stuff happening. Actually, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's been it's been after my retirement. It's been a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff that I'm actually doing it. I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: doing some podcasts on some social media stuff and and
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually working as a hitting coach here here in
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  Speaker 3: uh In, Venezuela, with a with a new league that
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  Speaker 3: is coming up. It's getting a lot of chances to
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  Speaker 3: those players that they are away from baseball for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: So actually for them.
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  Speaker 3: Is very good to uh to actually doing something or
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  Speaker 3: even even maintain that, or or actually trying to get
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  Speaker 3: back in business, feeling pretty good learning the process. It's
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  Speaker 3: always been like that out in my life. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: actually enjoying life.
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  Speaker 1: And I also see you're doing media stuff. I saw
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  Speaker 1: on your social media you're holding a microphone, So tell
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  Speaker 1: me about that, because I think that's really cool because
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  Speaker 1: I remember interviewing you for the pregame show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's something that I came up. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Actually I met some guys that uh that I told
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  Speaker 3: me that you might you might, you might be gonna
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  Speaker 3: be pretty good at it. And I didn't know nothing
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  Speaker 3: about TV. Actually actually been hanging out with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good guys and the good people that knows how
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  Speaker 3: to do it like you and a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: and and you came out of nowhere. I think, uh
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  Speaker 3: I had people that are knows uh In ben In
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  Speaker 3: ben In in that TV stuff for a long time,
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  Speaker 3: and and they helped me a lot, and they make
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  Speaker 3: me feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, baseball has always been something.
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  Speaker 3: That, uh that I love that I play attention during
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  Speaker 3: my career and actually before that. So I think I'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna say it's been easy, but it's a process
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  Speaker 3: that actually is there and and I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Actually enjoying it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, uh, your many new people, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a new way to actually see baseball.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you that I remember you were always
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  Speaker 1: camera friendly, like you were never intimidated by the camera,
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  Speaker 1: and you have personality. I mean, that's those are the
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  Speaker 1: two biggest obstacles. So I would think that you're natural
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  Speaker 1: for for television and sportscasting.
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  Speaker 2: I think is that I think you're right on undred percent.
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  Speaker 3: I actually enjoyed, uh, just having fun and being natural,
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  Speaker 3: being normal, being humble too, and and and that's been
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  Speaker 3: that's been that's been me for my whole life. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: I think enjoying all the stuff that is there for.
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  Speaker 2: Me is been a key for me.
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  Speaker 3: And I in my is either in my professional career
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  Speaker 3: a baseball player and now I'm actually trying to just
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  Speaker 3: being busy and all the opportunities that is out there. So,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, I think it's been fun. Actually it's
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  Speaker 3: a process. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 3: I'm the best at it, but I know how some
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  Speaker 3: people that be there for me to help me out.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, like it seems like your whole
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  Speaker 1: adult life has been a journey. Ten years. You battled
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  Speaker 1: in the minor leagues and playing overseas before you got
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  Speaker 1: to the big leagues and Cardinal fans remember what you
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  Speaker 1: did when you got there. But tell me what that
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  Speaker 1: was like. Every level it seemed to hit. I remember
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  Speaker 1: one year in the mind, I think you set a
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  Speaker 1: record hitting three eighty four some I mean you never
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  Speaker 1: got a sniff. What was that like battling through that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's it was. It was a process.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I was in that team that my father was
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  Speaker 3: a big leaguer, my family, I have family members that
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  Speaker 3: I was baseball players too, and just carrying carrying over
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  Speaker 3: this name of my Martinez. It was hard in the beginning,
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  Speaker 3: but and then I just just make a separation.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I'm gonna I'm not I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I can say, like that and
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  Speaker 3: actually separate that was my father and.
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  Speaker 2: What he did to what I has. I have to
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  Speaker 2: accomplish for me and make my own name.
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  Speaker 3: And and it was it was a journey. It was
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  Speaker 3: opened down, it was injuries, it was it was it's
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  Speaker 3: the process.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty difficult.
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  Speaker 3: But I think I have to I have to thank
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  Speaker 3: God for that kind of process that I got me
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  Speaker 3: here right now that I learned about the process, I
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  Speaker 3: learned about people, about the game, how hard it is,
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  Speaker 3: how hard it can be sometimes, and mental game, mental
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  Speaker 3: game it was. It was unbelievable too because all those
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  Speaker 3: times actually sometimes I have to stay for one month
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  Speaker 3: or two months by myself in the complex just doing
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  Speaker 3: rehalb me and the trainer and and in that kind
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  Speaker 3: of process again got me the next year to like
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  Speaker 3: more strong, strong, not even not even physicals use mentally.
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  Speaker 3: So I was trying to do my best every single
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  Speaker 3: year whatever opportunity was there, especially that year that he mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: uh that it wasn't even on the rust and in
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  Speaker 3: spring training and it was a pair that I was
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  Speaker 3: playing one time every four four days, and then I
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  Speaker 3: find out I just broke broke the record by the
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  Speaker 3: end of the year, and when everybody and I thought
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  Speaker 3: that was gonna get the change, I didn't get it.
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  Speaker 3: So those kind of things that happens that you cannot control.
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  Speaker 3: But I always mentioned that one guy that that got
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  Speaker 3: me words that I'm never gonna forget, Like I think
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  Speaker 3: this year it was Casey Casey catchment. I think this
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  Speaker 3: year is gonna get you whatever you're gonna, You're gonna,
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  Speaker 3: you wanna.
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  Speaker 2: You wanna be.
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  Speaker 3: So I just went back to Venezuela and trying to
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  Speaker 3: start over, and and it happened. I think the next
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  Speaker 3: year Karen has got me out of out of free
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  Speaker 3: agency or when I was DFA by the Royals, and
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the rest is history.
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  Speaker 2: By help by Mike Shield. That the first team.
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  Speaker 3: That I told me that I know what you can do,
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  Speaker 3: go out and trying to be a good team and
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  Speaker 3: like a good team that we know you you are
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  Speaker 3: and and soon and also I was there playing in
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  Speaker 3: the big leagues we know, with a basic organization in
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  Speaker 3: the in.
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  Speaker 2: The world.
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  Speaker 1: And posting good numbers. To take me back to that
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  Speaker 1: first game with the Cardinals, right, like, what was that
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  Speaker 1: like after you battled and battled and battled to get
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  Speaker 1: to that point and there you are in a big
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  Speaker 1: league uniform, playing in front of a lot of folks
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  Speaker 1: who are Rabbit baseball fans.
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  Speaker 2: He was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think from now, even though those years are
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  Speaker 3: been through, have been passed, I feel the same talk
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just because I worked so hard.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's so most stuff happened to me to make
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  Speaker 3: me quit. Actually and use it was always somebody or
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  Speaker 3: someone that it wasn't the phone, and it was my
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  Speaker 3: mom always like good things gonna happen. Keep working, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: keep your mental, keep your mental, your mind, your mind strong.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, and but that day I.
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  Speaker 3: Used what was I was working to the to the
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  Speaker 3: to the field and leaving all the process that actually
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  Speaker 3: enjoyed a thousand percent.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't sleep that night. I actually I walked through.
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  Speaker 3: The Roman Roberto Clemente Bridge, and I took so much
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  Speaker 3: pictures and stuff that that actually was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: But I was first bad.
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  Speaker 3: It was like I couldn't I couldn't believe because it
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  Speaker 3: was so much stuff that happened to me that I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't believe I was there. But over that I met
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  Speaker 3: I think the best teammates on the word Yaddy Way no,
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  Speaker 3: Carlos Gyro Munoz. It was so much good players that
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  Speaker 3: it was in that cluehouse by that time that it
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  Speaker 3: made me better and trying to trying to always every
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  Speaker 3: day trying to learn about about that level, about the
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  Speaker 3: process and stuff. So I was lucky to God that
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  Speaker 3: in that time with those kind of players that it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't that clowhouse.
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  Speaker 1: For Cardinal fans love their players. There's no question there's
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  Speaker 1: certain guys that they latch onto for some reason. And
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  Speaker 1: you were a fan favorite. What are your feelings about
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal fans and the way they embraced you.
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  Speaker 3: I think, uh, they they make me better. Actually, they
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  Speaker 3: make me have fun. They gave me that opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: be me, to to interact with them on some ways.
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  Speaker 3: I was actually chatting with every at it by by Instagram,
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  Speaker 3: when I was going to the to the stores and everything.
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  Speaker 3: I was there talking to them like I know them
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  Speaker 3: from a long time. So that kind of fan.
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  Speaker 2: Base get you because they make me.
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  Speaker 3: They make you feel comfortable even though it's a battle
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  Speaker 3: that you're gonna go out there and perform. For sure,
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  Speaker 3: a hundred percent, I felt like they was they always
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  Speaker 3: was there. The support was there all the bad times,
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  Speaker 3: even though even though they don't believe it, it was
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  Speaker 3: tough times sometimes and they was there giving me, giving
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  Speaker 3: me that that how do you say, like family stuff? Like,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they was there more than nobody. So
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  Speaker 3: even every time I was in that lineup, of course
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it for me, for my family, but
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  Speaker 3: I feel like there was my family too, because it
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  Speaker 3: was so much love, so much, so much good energy
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  Speaker 3: and positive things that it made me better to do uh,
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  Speaker 3: to do a work heart every day for them.
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  Speaker 1: If you think back to your time as a cardinal,
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  Speaker 1: was there one moment that sticks with you when you
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  Speaker 1: think about that time, Maybe that's the moment you think
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  Speaker 1: about more than others.
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  Speaker 3: There was two moments actually, that moment that I hit
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  Speaker 3: my first home run and then I actually didn't make
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  Speaker 3: a play and we lost about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's one.
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  Speaker 3: That's one moment that I always always got, not gonna forget,
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  Speaker 3: because there's there's moments, especially in baseball, that you actually
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  Speaker 3: can enjoy and feel comfortable about it and then soon
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  Speaker 3: enough everything can change.
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  Speaker 2: And that gave me a good, good lesson. So after that,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I was on top of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Said I hit my.
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  Speaker 3: Home, first home in the leagues, blah blah blah, and
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  Speaker 3: they sooner knows everything changed and it was we all
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  Speaker 3: the media actually what happened in that play because we
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  Speaker 3: lost that game, and and it was a process and
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: the second and the second uh uh, it was that
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  Speaker 3: time when we clinch, when we clinch against against the Braves.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I remember when Mike Shield told me to
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  Speaker 3: gave gave that speech that I always remember, and and
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  Speaker 3: we with that clue house, with all those veteran guys
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  Speaker 3: and the feudals, hall of famers, me talking to everybody, uh,
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  Speaker 3: saying that we can't actually get to the World Series
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  Speaker 3: and win it. It was amazing for me. It was
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  Speaker 3: kind of those moments that you never forget.
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  Speaker 1: There is such a baseball tradition in your country in Venezuela,
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  Speaker 1: all the all the great names that that have played there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, like one, I'm an old guy, so I
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  Speaker 1: think Louis Aparicio, Santana Cabrera. I mean, there's a ton
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  Speaker 1: of them. What's the baseball culture like in your country? Like,
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  Speaker 1: are you when you walk around do people stop you
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  Speaker 1: and ask you for autographs? What tell me about what
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  Speaker 1: it's like being you there.
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  Speaker 2: Is It's kinda like Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 3: It's that passion for baseball, is that passion for the player,
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  Speaker 3: for history you like you mentioned they become Session and
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  Speaker 3: Louis a Parisio, Mariior Dons, Miguel Cabrera. There's so much
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  Speaker 3: players that that you always mentioned, and you think that
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  Speaker 3: they're from Venezuela, and they they actually glorious, they hall
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  Speaker 3: of famous here. Whatever happens. So for me, I always
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  Speaker 3: go out there and they always stop me. They always
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  Speaker 3: talk to me, especially right here when I when I'm
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  Speaker 3: working right now.
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  Speaker 2: In Marakai.
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  Speaker 3: That after I got it for the team that my
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  Speaker 3: father always played, I felt like I start over and
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  Speaker 3: start from zero and and and these fans right here,
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  Speaker 3: they they gave they gave me, and they showed me
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  Speaker 3: so much love and and and and support that it
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  Speaker 3: was amazing. Every time, every every everywhere I go, I
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  Speaker 3: always like talk to him like like like it's normal,
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  Speaker 3: like people here respect you. People people here even though
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  Speaker 3: if if I'm Jose Martinez is someone that actually didn't
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  Speaker 3: get to the big list or something, people here, uh
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  Speaker 3: play attention to that and and and support all the stuff,
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  Speaker 3: especially right now that that we want the world baseball
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  Speaker 3: classes man, and it's been it's been amazing. Actually we
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  Speaker 3: actually step out from all the expectations and stuff and
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  Speaker 3: and it was a great time from our country and
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  Speaker 3: and we enjoy I think, uh, I think that that
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  Speaker 3: process of baseball is.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be better. Yeah. By you.
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  Speaker 1: Jose Martinez after a quick timeout.
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  Speaker 1: So earlier you mentioned your dad, Carlos, major league player.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what impact did he have on you
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  Speaker 1: to get you to where you are now, to being
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  Speaker 1: a former Major leaguer yourself, and also the pressure that
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  Speaker 1: that came along with that.
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  Speaker 3: Actually it's it's it's a pressure being a son of
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  Speaker 3: a big leaguer, being a son at a someone.
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  Speaker 2: That everybody respects.
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  Speaker 3: Even even I felt like it was hard. Next to him,
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  Speaker 3: he always wanted the.
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  Speaker 2: Best for me. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes he was talking with a scousor and stuff that
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  Speaker 3: he's not going to play baseball, he's going to go
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  Speaker 3: to school or whatever, and I wanted a chance to
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: us to play. But by now and on, year by year,
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  Speaker 3: I realized that he was right about it because he
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  Speaker 3: knew that this blood is because of him. And I
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: always gonna gonna be ambodying about my fuderal and what
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to do in life, so especially in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: He knew I was I was gonna follow his steps.
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  Speaker 2: So it was hard.
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  Speaker 3: He passes away in in in the process was a
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  Speaker 3: little easier, but all the expectations was.
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  Speaker 2: That they were they were really, really high.
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  Speaker 3: So like I said before, I had to separate that
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  Speaker 3: because he was he was an amazing player man out
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  Speaker 3: of Venezuela. They were saying that he was best tools
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  Speaker 3: in so many years, and I never seen so much
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  Speaker 3: good tools out of the player from my from nobody else.
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  Speaker 2: It was like after that, the people that.
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  Speaker 3: Always met or tell him that was he You father
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  Speaker 3: did this for me, You fight, did this for for
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  Speaker 3: for for me in this situation, and it was it
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  Speaker 3: was a challenge, but I think I didn't went good
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  Speaker 3: because it never started working.
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  Speaker 1: Aside from being the son of Carlos, I'm sure he
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  Speaker 1: passed along a lot of knowledge to you. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: about what you learned from him as a youngster that
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  Speaker 1: kind of shaped your your career.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, my my pops was wasn't that kind of father
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  Speaker 3: that I always tells you something. I think the way
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  Speaker 3: he did it, he was just showing you the character
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  Speaker 3: and all the stuff that you do actually can actually
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  Speaker 3: take this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm going to the field with him.
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  Speaker 3: He's talking with another player and I'm there listening and
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: he's telling them adises and I'm there listening. So he
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  Speaker 3: showed me this because that's the way he did it
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  Speaker 3: when when he was on his time. So I think
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  Speaker 3: what was the best time for me and all the
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  Speaker 3: players or the.
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  Speaker 2: People that helped.
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  Speaker 3: Soon enough, I actually play with them or against them
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  Speaker 3: or there was they were my coaches and stuff. So
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  Speaker 3: it was some conversation that they actually told me. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: my father to father one time told me this and
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: So I was actually okay, cool, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a good thing that those kind of players
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  Speaker 3: that my father helped bout actually was a big, big
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  Speaker 3: time helper for me too. So I think that's the
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  Speaker 3: way it was with him.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you have a son and a daughter. I
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: hear that the son is a pretty good baseball player.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what kind of dad you are. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: what what you're like around the house with your kids.
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  Speaker 3: I think a support, I mean that kind of support
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  Speaker 3: or whatever they want to do, I'm gonna be there.
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  Speaker 3: I think if my son or my daughter wants to
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  Speaker 3: be uh, my daughter wants to be a lawyer. I'm
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: gonna try to support because she wants to be a lawyer,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: is my my my son doaughn't want to doesn't want
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  Speaker 3: to be a baseball player. I want to be there
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  Speaker 3: for whatever he wants to do. I think as soon
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  Speaker 3: as I'm on the field with him or working out
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  Speaker 3: with him.
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  Speaker 2: Remind me that that kind of process. I didn't get
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: that kind of process as much. That's as he's living
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  Speaker 2: with me.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to teach him the stuff besides baseball,
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  Speaker 3: besides the normal stuff, because you learn more the from
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  Speaker 3: the outsides, like how life it is, how things are
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  Speaker 3: in the world. So you have to play attention with
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  Speaker 3: that first always. Of course, I want to I want
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  Speaker 3: him to to to to.
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  Speaker 2: Make make it to the big leads. I want him
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  Speaker 2: to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: But it's going to be a long and hard, hard
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  Speaker 3: and complicated process.
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  Speaker 2: And and I just wanna try.
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  Speaker 3: To tell them that you have to use be you
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  Speaker 3: and and thrust the process and and and enjoy whatever
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  Speaker 3: you want to do in life. Because some some some parents.
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  Speaker 2: Or fathers or or or whatever, they're.
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  Speaker 3: Just trying to force stuff just because they want to
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  Speaker 3: do or whatever they want to do. For me, I
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  Speaker 3: just want him to have fun, and he's doing it
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  Speaker 3: and he does it every single time. I think I
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  Speaker 3: never seen my son getting mad about a strike out,
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  Speaker 3: a strikeout or something. He just has fun and I
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  Speaker 3: think he's I think his joy, he just he just
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  Speaker 3: brings so much joy so for his teammates and and
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  Speaker 3: the people that are watching play. That is amazing. That
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  Speaker 3: makes me not make me happy. I don't care if
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: we strike out four times. I don't care if it
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: doesn't do well. Sometimes I just want him to go
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to the process that is so difficult and hard that
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: being a baseball player. The first thing I told just
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: half from first and then trying to.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Get his after.
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  Speaker 3: So so that's one thing I always I always tell.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: You know, when I hear you talk about your kids
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, you strike me as someone who should be coaching.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: That's not to say you can't be certainly a better
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: reporter than I am. That's most people that are in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the business. But you mentioned some about possibly being a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: hitting coach or somewhere. Is that in your future? Do
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you think what do you what do you think the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: future holds for you.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm I'm one guy that I don't I
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: don't I don't like to wait for the future. I
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: like to be ready for whatever opportunity. Of course, I
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: love being around baseball. I would love to keep keep this.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Uh I'm gonna say, keep keep myself in this in
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: this area, you know.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: And I love to to just relay this knowledge that
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: so much good players like Yady like way no.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Like I mentioned, they gave me a bat that time,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: So I like, I learned so much about the game
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: that I feel like I have to I have to
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: throw it out. So that was that is happening right now.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: And I'm actually doing hitting coaching stuff here. And and
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: it's a young team that actually was the perfect perfect
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: fit for me because it just some some young players
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: that probably don't take uh their job serious. So I
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: always tell them in a pretty good way that you
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: have to do stuff better to get better or different.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: It's stuff different to get better. You here for a reason.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: You probably didn't make it. You probably got released because
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: of something. But I don't care about that. I think
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: you got to show up with a work ethic and
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: you're trying to get better every day.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: And compete. I always tell them to compete.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Out there, and and they actually doing it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: It's gave me.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: It gave me goosebumps because every time I watch them,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: how to how to do business and how they compete
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: is something that I always always wanted to feel, you know,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: something that you can relate and get back and some
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: success success, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, and and.
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  Speaker 3: If if it's some some way there to to be
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: uh in the organization that he gave me the chance
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: to coach, I was gonna be hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: And now we accepted with all my heart. So whatever
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: it is, like.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: You said, if something out there for me an opportunity,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I always gonna take it up. About this, but I
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: wanted I wanted to get to get in the in
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: the line of professional baseball as as a coach.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: But let's see what's going on in.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: The feuder you mentioned Yadi. So Yadi during home games
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: is in the dugout with the Cardinals as an advisor.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: He wants to manage in the big leagues. What do
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you think of the idea of Yadi being a big
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: league manager.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I think it's uh. I'm waiting for that. Actually, I
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know why he's taking so much.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I think, Uh, I've been watching him. It's been winning
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: whatever he goes like always, and I'm always happy for.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Him because it's someone is someone that he always want
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: to win.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: He always wanted to win, don't matter what's the situation,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: don't matter if the ads is against them, He always.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: There to to compete and win.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And and I think he's going to be amazing manager.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Especially I've been watching him too and follow him everywhere
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: everywhere he goes. So I'm actually pretty happy for him
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: and proud because even though just because his career, Molina
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: is who who's not going to be proud of him,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: But I think as a as a friend, as a friend,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: he's been he's been doing so much good stuff in
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: baseball and Advisor and managing and taking people together to
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: actually be good or be enough to actually compete out
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: there is amazing.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: And so those those are the persons.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: That I know, A big find of Hassigegeon, a big
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: fan of of a lot of managers. But I think
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I'm fine on him already and how he he control
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the stuff and how he manages, how he's character.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I'm managing the team. I think he's going to be amazing.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Last thing before we let you go, I mentioned you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: were very popular with the fans. You were the guy
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: that made fun of me for driving a stock cheap,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: which I still do stock cheap because I'm an old man.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get not to say it's a
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: newer one. I always get a newer it's black.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Oh black, blue color, but blue color okay?
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: But but nice tires, but no lights, no flash.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: It's stock So come on, come on man.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: All right, here's my question. We hope to see it
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis at some point back at the stadium
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: so fans can say Hi. But there's gonna be fans
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: watching this, so I'm gonna give you a chance. What
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: would you say to the Cardinal fans that are watching
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: now to show them that you appreciate how they appreciated you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: For all Cardinal fans, I think you treat.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: My family, you treat my friends, you treat me as
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: one of you guys, and I always gonna be grateful
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: for that, because you gave me the energy. You gave
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: me the confidence to go out there and compete every
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: day for you guys. I think whatever I win, my
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: family and everything, it was class sacked. So I hope
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: to go back and side Lewis sometimes and and and
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: be out there and that atm Affair, that it was
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: an amazing around that stadium, around the Bopa village is
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: an energy that no one can actually match. So I
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: want to tell you guys. I miss you guys so much,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: and I hope for sure to see you soon.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. We hope we see in Saint Louis at
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: some point. But it was great catching up with you
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and uh and thanks for making time for us today.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks Jim, and I think you have to put some
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: rents on you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Jip, please never never, my friend Jose Martinez. That's gonna
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: do it for this episode. We'll see it for the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: next edition. Hopefully that one won't suck.