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Best of Chuck and Buck at Spring Training Day 4 2-19 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: Check a Box Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
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  Speaker 2: As we continue here from Mariner Spring Training twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us now on our set is outfielder dom can
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  Speaker 2: Zone is with us. Good to see you, man, Sure if.
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  Speaker 3: That's dom Ken's owner John Cena. The year it gets bigger?
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  Speaker 2: Do you get bigger or did you get bigger that
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  Speaker 2: one off season and just maintained it.
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  Speaker 4: I come in a little bit heavier every after every
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  Speaker 4: off season, and I lose probably about five ten pounds
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  Speaker 4: during the year, So just trying to maintain that body
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  Speaker 4: weight throughout the year is kind of tough. So could
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  Speaker 4: definitely come in a little bit heavier every spring training.
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  Speaker 2: You can pull a Michael Lorenzen and just do like curls,
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  Speaker 2: you know, show curls in between the innings and the dugout.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely get those in the off season for sure. That's
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  Speaker 4: the fun parts.
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  Speaker 3: That's abundantly clear. And now we're recognizing why you can
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  Speaker 3: hit the tape measure shots. Man, How was how was
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  Speaker 3: How was your off season overall, besides just getting yoked,
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  Speaker 3: it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I got I got engaged this off season,
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  Speaker 4: so that was that was definitely special. Just planning the wedding,
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  Speaker 4: being busy with that definitely a great moment for Britt
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  Speaker 4: and I and future family. So that was definitely special.
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  Speaker 4: And then it was it was pretty damn cold, so
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  Speaker 4: it's great to be out here.
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  Speaker 2: We talked to the pictures about their you know, their
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  Speaker 2: proposals this off season, George and Bryce, Did you top them?
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  Speaker 2: Was yours more romantic, more spectacular than theirs? Have you
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  Speaker 2: compared notes?
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  Speaker 5: We haven't quite compared notes yet.
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  Speaker 4: That's not guys don't always talk about that.
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  Speaker 5: I felt like I was pretty prepared.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I was pretty prepared, So it was
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  Speaker 4: it went really smoothly, just besides the fact that I
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  Speaker 4: had no clue where my photographer was. But luckily she
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  Speaker 4: was hiding in the bushes. I just didn't see her,
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  Speaker 4: so she did a very good job of keeping it secretive.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it went well nice.
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  Speaker 3: It must be something in the water. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if I want to drink this anymore. Everybody's either getting
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  Speaker 3: married or engaged. I have kids, I'm already married, I
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  Speaker 3: have two kids.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go ahead and just set this water down. So,
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  Speaker 3: other than it being freezing cold and obviously hitting the
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  Speaker 3: weight room, what was your main focus when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to getting ready? Because last year you had a good
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  Speaker 3: year when you finally got your opportunity up there, you
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  Speaker 3: had a good year. So what were you working on
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  Speaker 3: this year to get ready for this year?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's more just building off kind of what
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  Speaker 4: I was able to do last Year's just keeping my
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  Speaker 4: body healthy. That's always been I think that's an obstacle
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  Speaker 4: for obviously every single player, but me, especially with my legs.
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  Speaker 4: I've had some coin issues, had some hamstring and thigh issues,
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  Speaker 4: So just trying to get my legs in shape, and
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  Speaker 4: then just building off of last year, trying to stay
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  Speaker 4: through the middle of the field, talking to sites and
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  Speaker 4: mags about that type of stuff, stay on top of it.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, just sticking with that type of approach.
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  Speaker 2: Tom can zone on us on with us here on
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  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buck. Did you prove last year you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to take me out against left handers?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I feel comfortable against lefties. I think
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  Speaker 4: a big part of that was definitely just getting the
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  Speaker 4: consistent reps. So it's for any ballplayer when you're not
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  Speaker 4: when you're not doing something a lot, whether it's in
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  Speaker 4: the field, or facing lefties or facing right's, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 4: when're racking those consistent reps, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 4: little bit tougher. So when I was able to get
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  Speaker 4: the consistent reps, I just felt a little more comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's how any hitter feels.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, you're the dude that I want
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  Speaker 3: out there. You know, DH, and I want your bat
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  Speaker 3: in the lineup, just as the danger that you bring
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  Speaker 3: to the table when it comes down to DH and
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  Speaker 3: or playing in the outfield, do you care? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I some guys don't like DH and I love I
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  Speaker 3: love I love to sitting there eating seeds and then
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  Speaker 3: go raking. Now, on the flip side of it, if
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  Speaker 3: you don't do anything in your four times up there,
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  Speaker 3: you don't didn't get to really contribute, So it's a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more pressure.
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  Speaker 4: So a lot of people feel that way. Do you
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  Speaker 4: like DH in or no? Yeah, I loved it. I
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  Speaker 4: mean it's it's a lot easier on the body, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that was part of the reason that
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  Speaker 4: kept me healthy. But I still feel like I can
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  Speaker 4: improve defensively for sure. I like being out there. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's pretty fun with Hulio out there, So either or
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  Speaker 4: is definitely.
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  Speaker 5: Fine with me.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not one of those guys that as opposed
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  Speaker 4: to to d H and and if you do go
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  Speaker 4: over fort I'm not gonna, you know, beat yourself up
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  Speaker 4: over it and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the addition of ref Snyder, it kind of makes
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  Speaker 2: sense that you two will do some sort of platoon,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's d H or outfield, and then you got
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  Speaker 2: role Blazed back and you got Raylely back this year.
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  Speaker 2: Is it feeling kind of crowded in that outfield right now?
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: I think everybody understands their role and what we all
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  Speaker 4: need to do to, you know, win a World Series,
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  Speaker 4: and I think all four of us can help in
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  Speaker 4: different ways, in different aspects to make that possible. So
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  Speaker 4: I think all the additions have been great. Everybody understands
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  Speaker 4: their role and why they're here, and as long as
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  Speaker 4: we stick to that process, I think we're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: a really good year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you show them. You can play shortstop a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, or a lefty closer out of the pen.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you know? Made it show him
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  Speaker 2: a little show hey action out there.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I was that athletic, So I'm glad I
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  Speaker 4: got the bat. So hopefully, hopefully that sticks around a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe there's a stretching routine from intro. He's out there
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  Speaker 3: doing it right now. I don't think the guy's ever
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  Speaker 3: even thought about pulling a growing muscle doing all this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: He's a different animal.
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  Speaker 4: Different people are built differently, So yeah, I just definitely
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  Speaker 4: got to know yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean last year I think
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  Speaker 3: was a step. Obviously there was a big step. You
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  Speaker 3: guys were what eight outs from getting to the World Series,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you guys would have been competitive and
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  Speaker 3: quite possibly could have knocked off the Dodgers, just like
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  Speaker 3: the Blue Jays ended up coming close to it. Was
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  Speaker 3: that the way in which it felt for you after
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  Speaker 3: you get over the feeling of the season being over,
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  Speaker 3: did it feel more like a step in that in
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  Speaker 3: the direction you guys are wanting to go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, obviously we accomplished a lot last year,
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  Speaker 4: but at the same time you feel in the locker
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  Speaker 4: room after a tough Game seven like that, like we're
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  Speaker 4: right there and yeah, we we accomplished a lot, but
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  Speaker 4: it definitely some unfit business. And that's a team last
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  Speaker 4: year that definitely had had the power to win a
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  Speaker 4: World Series. So obviously when you when you don't accomplish that,
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  Speaker 4: it seems like a letdown. Again, winning the West was
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  Speaker 4: great and all and special moments for everyone. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I know myself personally, just being in that type of
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  Speaker 4: moment in front of those fans is something that you
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  Speaker 4: can only dream of. But when you're in that type
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  Speaker 4: of moment, you just want more.
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  Speaker 2: Dom can Zone is with us chucking box Sports Radio
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  Speaker 2: ninety three point three kJ R f M. I think
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  Speaker 2: one thing you've proven is that when you know you've
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  Speaker 2: got it, you got it. You you know you've got it,
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  Speaker 2: You're really good at them. You are like ten out
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  Speaker 2: of ten when you're there are no wall scrapersons that
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  Speaker 2: Dom Canzone's gonna watch. He watches when he knows it's gone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah, if you if you I feel
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  Speaker 5: like if I flush it.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's definitely it's got a pretty good chance to
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  Speaker 4: go almost one hundred percent. So yeah, unless I'm hitting
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  Speaker 4: it off the end or something and I know that
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  Speaker 4: I kind of launched it. I mean, you gotta that
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  Speaker 4: doesn't happen too often in life in general, So you
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  Speaker 4: got to appreciate those home runs and uh sometimes I
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  Speaker 4: mean without showing up the picture, just uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you work for that type of stuff and try to
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  Speaker 4: enjoy it as much as possible.
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  Speaker 2: When you do round third and you do the the
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  Speaker 2: third base coach, the you know, your your gesture, your
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  Speaker 2: little chef's kiss gesture. Do you look up in the
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  Speaker 2: crowd to see how many people are doing it along
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  Speaker 2: with you?
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  Speaker 5: No, but I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do love the music.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's uh, that's that's something my my parents
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  Speaker 4: do love, and my family and friends also love. So
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  Speaker 4: it's just a cool part that again you didn't think
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  Speaker 4: that was probably gonna happen in your life. So it's
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  Speaker 4: one of those things that you never take for granted.
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  Speaker 4: And again you don't know how many times it's it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen again, so you just try to enjoy every
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  Speaker 4: single moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the best feeling in the world. I I'm
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  Speaker 2: with you on that.
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  Speaker 3: You just said something about showing up the picture, not
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  Speaker 3: trying to show up the picture. I didn't even know
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  Speaker 3: is that that's still a thing, because I mean it
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  Speaker 3: was a thing back in a year old. But I
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  Speaker 3: mean nowadays that you know, everybody kind of pimps it
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  Speaker 3: and I'm all about you get it and you know
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  Speaker 3: it's gone, don't sprint one step. You know, there's a
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  Speaker 3: little subtle to the pimp in it, but you kind
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  Speaker 3: of had to be subtle back in the day. Nowadays,
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  Speaker 3: bat flipping's fine. The pictures they strike out, they basically
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  Speaker 3: have a.
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  Speaker 2: Seizure on the mound.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, I mean showing definitely part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Showing people up is kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Just that is just part of it is I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think as long as you're taking like a step
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  Speaker 4: or two towards first and not you know, just sitting
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  Speaker 4: there looking at it, I think it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the picture's mind as much, but I well,
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  Speaker 4: with the bat flips and stuff, I think that's fine
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  Speaker 4: as long as you're you know, a step or two
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  Speaker 4: towards first and not you know, just standing there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a big poppy one time down in Dominican
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  Speaker 3: hit a ball and it went mild. It was way
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  Speaker 3: out over trees and stuff out beyond the fence, and
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  Speaker 3: I watched it and then I turned around and he
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  Speaker 3: was still in the batter's box taking his gloves off.
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  Speaker 2: He took them both off.
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  Speaker 4: That's a that's a little different. That's big poppy. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think anybody's going after him. But for me, I'm
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  Speaker 4: I'm still only a six foot guy, so there's a
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  Speaker 4: big picture on them mine. I'm gonna make sure I
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  Speaker 4: get out of there a little bit, Just a tad
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  Speaker 4: bit quicker.
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  Speaker 2: Are you hitting clean up for Team Italy?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure. We're We definitely got a great squad
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  Speaker 4: and I'm excited for what we got. We got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of great guys returning, and again, just appreciative of
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  Speaker 4: them extending the offer to me. And it's super excited
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  Speaker 4: with the kind of the matchups we've got to being
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  Speaker 4: able to play Mexico and US is going to be
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a zoo So it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 4: great time and I'm excited to see the fans and
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  Speaker 4: just see how routed they come out.
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  Speaker 3: You thought about getting I don't know, cal like a
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  Speaker 3: gift card to Dave and Busters or something. Maybe may
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  Speaker 3: if you just let you know when one pitch is
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  Speaker 3: coming or no.
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  Speaker 4: Well no, so yeah, Gab already told me he's not
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  Speaker 4: gonna throw any heaters, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see what happens with that.
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  Speaker 4: And I know Cal loves the heater, so I know
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  Speaker 4: they're going to be bickering back and forth out there
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  Speaker 4: on that at BET So we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: YEA family excited about that. I mean, how how much
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  Speaker 2: of a part of your heritage is the Canzone family?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's mostly on my dad side.
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  Speaker 4: My mom's side is completely Spanish and then my dad's
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  Speaker 4: side is Italian, so.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, my dad's super excited.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be out for a couple of the
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  Speaker 4: exhibition games in Arizona. I think it's at the Cubs facility,
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  Speaker 4: so he'll he'll be there for that. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 4: if they're coming to Houston, but I know my fiance's
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  Speaker 4: family is going to be in Houston for some of
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  Speaker 4: the games, so it'll be a good time and I
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  Speaker 4: think everyone will enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you set goals?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it seems like most of the guys I
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  Speaker 3: talk to or we talk to you know, it's more
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  Speaker 3: about like I did every day, they just get one
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  Speaker 3: percent better. I'm just working on my approach and I'm
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  Speaker 3: all about approach and mentality. But it used to be
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  Speaker 3: a thing, but a lot of guys would set goals.
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  Speaker 3: I want to hit three hundred, or I want to
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  Speaker 3: you know, I want to hit thirty bombs, or I
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  Speaker 3: want to do this that, or do you set goals
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  Speaker 3: or is it just about the process?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's more about the process for me specifically.
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  Speaker 4: I know a lot of guys have kind of gone
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  Speaker 4: that route, just with again, how good, how good the.
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  Speaker 5: Pitching has developed.
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  Speaker 4: If you're trying to chase homer's not only the pitcher
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  Speaker 4: can see that, but the other the whole entire other
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  Speaker 4: side and the whole stadium can see that you're chasing homers.
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  Speaker 4: So it's it's really hard to kind of chase those
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  Speaker 4: type of power numbers, and it kind of it kind
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  Speaker 4: of just comes with sticking to the process and for
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  Speaker 4: me specifically, sticking to the middle of the field. And again,
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  Speaker 4: if I get it, I get it. But that's not
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  Speaker 4: what I'm trying to do. I'm not trying to hit
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  Speaker 4: home ers. I'm trying to hit line drives.
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  Speaker 2: Well, have a great year, take it easy on Team
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  Speaker 2: America in the WBC, and we can't wait to watch
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  Speaker 2: you play baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome, man, thank you us for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you joining us right here on chucking back
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't sure. There was some confusion. I thought maybe
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, I got a little more leg room
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  Speaker 2: morning to you. Here we are at our set, day
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  Speaker 2: number four of our five days covering Mariners spring training
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  Speaker 2: for you and the man himself, Dan Wilson, expected to
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  Speaker 2: join us here any moment now at our set. We
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  Speaker 2: cleared the runway for him to land, and so we'll
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  Speaker 2: be chatting with him, I'm sure momentarily here as the
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  Speaker 2: place is now going from picture day into practice. We
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  Speaker 2: actually have some guys doing some baseball activities right now
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  Speaker 2: as the pictures are wrapping up. You know Dan, you know,
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  Speaker 2: probably making sure sare is hair is perfect for picture day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: very vain that Dan Wilson. He probably thinks the song
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  Speaker 2: is about him. Yeah, he Vo most certainly does. He
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  Speaker 2: most certainly does.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if there's one thing I know about Dan,
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  Speaker 3: he is very concerned about his looks. So picture day
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  Speaker 3: probably real nervous. He's probably real nervous, like how do
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  Speaker 3: I look?
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  Speaker 2: Hey? Can you get my good side? A lot of
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  Speaker 2: that out of Dan littleside here. Yeah, But I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's got a lot of decisions to make too, obviously
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  Speaker 2: coming up on his plate, you know, not just decisions
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  Speaker 2: to make roster wise, but also he has some decisions
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  Speaker 2: to make on how I can't wait to ask him
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  Speaker 2: about the strategy for the challenge system and how he's
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  Speaker 2: going to let players operate with all of that. So
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  Speaker 2: always Baseball adjust things and we really don't know how
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  Speaker 2: they're going to play out. It's kind of fun. Like
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  Speaker 2: even the pitchclock. I wasn't sure how the pitch clock
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  Speaker 2: was going to affect the game and how pitchers went
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  Speaker 2: about it, or how managers went about it with their
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  Speaker 2: and and it really went off seamlessly. I'm not so
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  Speaker 2: sure what this challenge system has in store for us all,
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  Speaker 2: but it's one of the things, one of the many
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  Speaker 2: things we're gonna sit and chat with with Dan Wilson
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  Speaker 2: here today here live from spring training. And look who
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  Speaker 2: it is. It's a catching legend and now manager of
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  Speaker 2: your Seattle Mariners. Dan Wilson now joins us right here
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  Speaker 2: in Peoria. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning guys.
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  Speaker 2: How are you Are you running from another meeting? You're
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: having a lot of meetings, s Dan Wilson. It's that
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: time of year. I as you know, I was.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Just throwing you under the bus. I said it was
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: because the picture day, you were com.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Ltely off the air, so we apologize to our listeners.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: We apologize to Dan Wilson, who has joined us here
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: at our set. You missed the great Bucky joke about
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: how Dan's was a little bit late because he was
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: worried about his hair. It was a fantastic comedy exchange
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: between the two of you, really was it really was?
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I can make fun of people that
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: look better than me because it's it's making fun of myself.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: And you fit the bill there, skip, You fit the bill.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, let's get into some baseball stuff. We
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: were talking on your way over about the Challenge system
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and that's like first and foremost on my mind. How
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: are you going to utilize it this year?
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, definitely a different twist to the season,
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: so to speak. You know, but in some ways a
• 15:20
  Speaker 7: lot of guys, especially the younger ones that have come
• 15:22
  Speaker 7: up through the minor leagues, have seen it in Triple A,
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: so not totally unfamiliar. We had, you know, a run
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: with it last spring training, so our guys were able
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: to get some experience with it too, So it's it's
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: something that you know, we will talk about here as
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: games start tomorrow, you know, getting an idea of how
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: we want to approach it as a team and what
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: we want to you know, what we want to do
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: in terms of challenges.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: You get two challenges. And we've learned.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: Over the course of a couple of you know, you know,
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: conversations we've had about it. We've we've sort of garnered
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: some of the information around it, and you guys would be.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Surprised, of course if the catchers are the best at it,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: how about that?
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  Speaker 7: So but you know, we'll kind of see how it
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: all shakes out here in spring training and as we
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: get into games and we kind of see how it
• 16:14
  Speaker 7: works and see how it, you know, works with the
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: flow of the game and whatnot, then we'll begin to
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: develop some strategy around it.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I would imagine, yeah, just hey, Cal, one more thing.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: By the way, you're now in charge of that too.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: But then again, I mean, he's going to be the
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: one that's going to be the best back there with it.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess speaking of Cal, with all of
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: the things that that guy does, I mean last year historic,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll die on the hill that he's the MVP.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: But it is what it is time turn the page
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: and go go out there and do it again. But
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, what is it about this guy? Because beyond
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: just his baseball stuff, the between the years thing and
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: the fact that he's a leader, and I mean, it's
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: pretty pretty amazing. And I'm sure you're proud of him
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: because he is a catcher.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it is pretty phenomenal.
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: You know, I think, you know, seeing him play on
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: a daily basis, seeing what he did last year, pretty
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: phenomenal work. And and as I've said before, to do
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: what he does defensively, and then to stack on top
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: of that, you know, all the things he did for
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: us offensively. Uh, it's an incredible season, and I agree
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: as an MVP season. But you know, I think again,
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: as as we look forward to what's ahead of us
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: this year, a great season, and and you speak about
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: the leadership that's going to play large as we go
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  Speaker 7: forward here, and and he has so much respect throughout
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  Speaker 7: the game, obviously in our clubhouse, and and he is
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: a guy that all of that, you know, all that desire,
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: all the leadership that he has really comes out of this,
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: you know, strong intensity to win inside of him. And
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: and we've got a lot of guys in that clubhouse
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: that want to win, and that's what you need. And
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: and as we get down here to spring training now,
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: our focus turns to preparation and getting ready for the
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: season that's ahead of us. And and you know, I
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: think it's really important for us to understand that's what
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: we need to be focused on. That's what we can
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: control at this moment is our preparation. And and you know,
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  Speaker 7: once we get to the season March twenty six, we'll
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: be ready to roll.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson is whether it's right here on Chuck and
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Buck as we talk from spring training. Your first year,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: it was your first year as a manager, first full
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: season as a manager. What about the year kind of
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: caught you off guard that you feel like, Man, you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I got better by the end of the season, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep getting better at this as I now
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: get more comfortable in the role.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think I get asked this a lot,
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: and and my answer really is, you know, even from
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: when I took over in August of the year before
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: and never having been in this role before, you just
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: realize how quickly, very quickly, how important it is to
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: have tremendous people around.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: You, and what a group effort this really is.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: And you know, I can't be more thankful for the
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: staff that that we have at the big league level.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: It's a tremendous organization in terms of the staff that
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: it that it has, and the staff that you know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: continues to develop and do such a great job at
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: what they do, whether it's on the pitching side, whether
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: it's on the hitting side defensively, We've got so much
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: experience and and they've had a ton of success in
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: doing what they've done. So it's an incredible staff. You know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: you take it on into the minor leagues. And when
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: we got cut off, we were talking about, you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: being aligned organizationally. I think that's very important, and we
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: have a chance to do that down here in spring
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: training with some of the minor league staff as well,
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: who are tremendous people and tremendous baseball minds also. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: so it takes all of that, It takes a ton
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: of work. I give Jerry and Justin a ton of
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: credit to for for putting this all together and as
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: well as an incredible roster, and so you know, you
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: put all these things together and and you realize it
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: takes a lot of people to get it right, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm just grateful for the people that we
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: have around.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Us, Dan.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going to stick to that. I mean,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: we're going to get to a bunch of topics of
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the club that you actually manage and the individuals and whatnot.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: But I actually did want to ask one more along
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the lines of just you and kind of your managing style, right,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, when you end up getting the job to me,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking perfect blend of you know, you've been around
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: the game since you were done playing, and you've understood
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and picked up with all of the new you know,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: metrics and all of the different stuff that has changed
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: since back in the aughts when you and I were playing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: And yet so you kind of have the understanding of
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: the old school the understanding of the new school, and
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: we've always talked about the best way is to kind
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: of figure out a way to blend them. Would you
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: say that that is the I don't know them or
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the philosophy that you bring to the table, because you know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: there's obviously things that back when you were playing, you
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: just didn't take a starting pitture out when they're in
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: the fifth inning, You're like, Nope, they can go more.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: We'll just keep going. And yet you your data gives
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you a different information. So what is your philosophy as
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: far as I go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great question.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: And and I think you know, baseball, as you know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: is a game of adjustments, and so you're always adjusting, uh,
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: you know, one way or the other. I think, you know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: I think this is at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 7: is a people business and and uh, it comes down
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  Speaker 7: to people.
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  Speaker 2: And so when it is.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: With people, there's a lot of feel involved and there's
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: a lot of things that you have to do in
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: terms of that. But I do also think that in
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  Speaker 7: this the game today, there is information and that information
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  Speaker 7: can inform decisions. You know, not only about what's happening
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: in a game, but maybe someone's swing, or someone's delivery
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: on the mound, or their defensive stance, whatever it is,
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: there is information that can help. So you do have
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: to blend the two. And I think you're absolutely right,
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: and you know, what that balance looks like can be
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: completely different on a completely different situation.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: So you just have to weigh everything. You take it
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: all in.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: But I do think blending the two is important in
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: today's game, and you know, these players are smart and
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: they they are incredibly dialed into a lot of that information.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: So you can't just not speak it, and so you've
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  Speaker 7: got to understand it.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to know it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: But you also have to understand at the end of
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  Speaker 7: the day, as we've said, and we've talked about, like,
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: these are people and there's emotions involved and you've got
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: to have a handle on that as well, and so
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: being able to balance both of them as important.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Dan Wilson with us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: as our coverage of spring training continues. We were talking
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: about this earlier in the show, and it was really
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the first time we really sunk our teeth into it
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: as talk show hosts. Your outfield situation, I would imagine
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Julio's locked in Penn and center field, that's the obvious thing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: But how does the rest of this work? May have
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: a couple platoons between the outfield positions and the DH
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: is a rose arena going to spend some DH how
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: are you going to align it? Do you think?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: I mean I think in some ways this is this
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: is a luxury to have. We've got a lot of great.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: You know, players out in the outfield that that can
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: play outfield, that can swing the bat, that can DH
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: for you. So it's you know, it's gonna be a
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: mix and match as we go. You know, you look
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: at can Zone. Uh, you look at Ref Snyder who
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: we picked up, who's a tremendous bat. Luke rarely coming
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: back from from some injuries and he's ready to go.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Uh. Vic Roebliss also coming back from his injuries. He's
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: ready to go.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Randy and course and left that has been such a
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: solid anchor for us out there. You know, all these
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: guys are most of those guys, a big chunk of
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: them are going to the WBC, So you know they're
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: they're kind of ramping up here early on so that
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: they're ready to go a little bit earlier than everybody else.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: So but it's gonna be you know, it's gonna be
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: a mix and match as we look at that situation
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: going forward. And and uh but uh, I think the
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: good news is that you can't go wrong either way.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's just left handed bats, right handed to bats,
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: you know, and guys that can play this game know
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: how to hit.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: So we're in a good spot, I think in terms
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: of the outfield, and and we'll just kind of see
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: how it goes as as we get into it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: A full season of Josh Naylor, I think everybody in
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Adam's looking forward to that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: You got to be looking forward to that.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: The addition of Brendan Donovan, I think in us just
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: talking to him, getting to know him a little bit,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: it seems like he kind of is another guy fits
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: that gritty ballplayer mold kyl Rawly obviously there. I mean
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you you have a handful of guys now that if
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: that's the word bubble above their head, it's grit and
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: the way they play. Is this the grittiest uh team
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: that you can remember in Mariner history for a while.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you're right, this is this
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: is a team.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: And you got to love the term gamer and and
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: everybody kind of understands what that means. And and we
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: have some gamers on this club, no question, and uh uh,
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: you got to love to see that a lot of
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: grit and uh you know, I think that that looms
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: very large when you when you run into tough stretches
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: in the season, you've got to be able to reach
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: down and and push through those stretches, and you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: I think that's what some of these guys will bring
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: and and uh, you know, getting Brennan Donovan, uh, you know,
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: kind of completes that lineup. Obviously, losing Polo was a
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: tough was a tough blow, but you know, being able
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: to pick up you know, Brendan Donovan, Rob Refsnyder as well,
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: you know, a veteran presence and then a younger guy.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: Both of those guys very gritty and ready to play.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: So I think we're in a great spot. I think
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: this this roster really has come together very well. Again
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: cross credit to Jerry and Justin for doing such a
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: great job. But at the end of the day, I
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: really think it's about the team dynamic and and what
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: these guys feel in the clubhouse together. And it's such
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: a great nucleus of players, and getting these new guys
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: in and and bringing them into the fold has been
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: fairly seamless here so far. And those guys love playing together.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: They love you know, competing together and fighting together. And
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: that's what takes in one hundred and sixty two game season.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And I know they have their job and you have
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: their your job, but obviously, you know, Jerry's got opinions
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: on who should be playing and where, and Justin does
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: as well. And I'm sure you've got an opinion on
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: what kind of players you want on your roster. So
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: how much of it, how much did you throw in?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I need a guy like Donovan. I want those grit
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: players because that kind of feels like the type of
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: guy Dan Wilson would have wanted to play with.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, this is why we have meetings. See,
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: we got to come full circle here, right, It's not
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: all about make up, Okay, No, uh no, I think
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: you're you know, it's a it's a great point. And
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: uh yeah, I think uh again, there's communication here there.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: There's things that we talk about a lot, and you know,
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: the off season, Uh, we're able to do that and
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: and uh, you know, identify things that that we you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: we like to see in players. And again Mariner has
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: been able to go out and do that and execute
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: on that. And you know, getting Males early, getting ref Snyder,
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: in getting Brendan Donovan, in getting for Rare and in
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: the bullpen, just huge acquisitions for us and and sets
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: us up to a pretty good spot here going forward Donovan.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I mean all the mock up lineups that everybody's making
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: for you across the country has him leading off and
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: playing third base. Is that kind of where you are
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: with it? Or uh, you know without I mean, we
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: got we're just getting star in the process of having
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: camp battles. But a couple of these young kids gonna
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: possibly shake things up down here. Yeah, I mean, we're
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: looking at everything.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: I don't think we're gonna limit ourselves to any one
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: particular lineup at this moment. We're looking at a lot
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: of different scenarios. We've got a lot of different pieces.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: I think that's one of the things that sets our
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: team apart. We have some versatility, which is great.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: I think a guy like Donovan can complete your lineup,
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: no question about it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: And where that is we'll continue to look at throughout
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the spring.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: But we've got talented players up and down our lineup,
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: and and it's that's that's a real luxury to have
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: and that's the exciting part. And again with WBC on
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: the horizon, things are a little bit wonky as as
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: we go forward here in the first week or so, uh,
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: but you know, I'm excited to actually to see those guys.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Compete and play in the WBC.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: I think it'll be tremendous fun to watch those guys
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: and and back here in camp, there'll be a lot
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: of spots, you know, where guys are gonna be able
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: to have some opportunities to show what they can do
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: and and that's going to be exciting all So.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: What I mean, your main objective obviously is the guys
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: that you're going to be breaking camp with at twenty
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: six and yet yeah, there's some some stuff still in
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: flux when it comes to that. And then beyond that,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: even got guys the Ryan Sloan's and Kate Anderson's guys
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: that you you know, and you're getting to watch for
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: the first time or or you know a little bit
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: more than the first time.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: But I mean, how how.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Hard is it for you to just be kind of
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: focused on that when you're actually seeing even a larger
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: picture your forty man roster and beyond Yeah, and how
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: much talent there is there too, That's a.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Great question, you know, And I think, uh, you know,
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: that's what another great part about spring training is you
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: get it's kind of an organizational check and where you're
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: at and I'm here to say this is a healthy organization.
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: And we do have some incredible talent in the minor leagues,
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: guys that are knocking on the door and and you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: just wanting those opportunities that WBC will afford some of
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: those guys those opportunities in these games here at the
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: major league level, which is great to see. But yes,
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: we you know, again, putting rosters together, getting organizational depth
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: is super important. You know, the twenty six guys that
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: we go north with, uh is never the twenty six.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Guys that you end the season with. And in between.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: There, Uh, there are a lot of different moves and
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: things that need to happen, and and so you need everybody.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: You need that that depth.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: And this is where you get a chance to see
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: what that depth looks looks like and and I'm looking
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: forward to seeing that out on the field. We'll close
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: with this because you've brought it up now three times
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: the WBC, and I wanted to bring that up. I mean,
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: are you on the horn with the Rosa and all
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: the other managers, like this is how.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: You're going to use my players? And I don't want
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: to hear any pushback.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean I think there's there is a little
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: bit of that, sure, you know, I think it's important.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: I think that's that's the number one concern of any
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: manager that that you know, has players going to participate,
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: you know, is health and staying injury free and and
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: not pushing past the point of what they're ready for. Obviously,
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: we're going to do our best to prepare them to
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: be ready, but it also is quite an honor to
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: be able to participate in this and represent your own
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: country and and and these games are you know, from
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: what I understand, I've never experienced it myself, but uh,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: this is playoff type atmosphere, and anytime you can get
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: experience in that kind of a setting, I think as
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: a really positive thing. So uh, I get like I
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: said before, I'm looking forward to watching the games and
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: seeing these guys compete, and we just hope they all
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: come back and they're healthy and ready to go.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I know, you got to it's a job and meetings
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: and all of that stuff, but it's still gotta be
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun just to show up, play ball
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: for an entire year, hang out with your good buddy
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Edgar Martinez all year long. Jay Muneer is still in
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the organization, playing grab ass behind the behind the scenes.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, as much as it is just I'm the
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: boss of things around here, it's still got to be just.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: It's still got to tap into that Dan Wilson, I
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: want to play baseball for a living kid.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: Right, no doubt. I mean, this is a this is
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: a kid's game. And yeah, we all have fun. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: I always say that that's why you see grown men
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: jumping around the field after they win the World Series,
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: because that's what it feels like. It feels like you're
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: twelve years old again. And and uh, that's what this
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: game is all about.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: And it is fun.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: And and having uh, clearly the guys that that I
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: was here with as a player, having those guys around
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: the organization's tremendous. And Edgar, what he's done with the
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: offense here has been unbelievable. And it's just a it
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: is an honor, it's a privilege. I'm very grateful for
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: this opportunity and and uh, but you know, we're about
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: getting back to where we want to be and and
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: that starts down here.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I sure hope at the end of the year,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I'm calling you World Champ. Very the best of luck
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: to you. Thank you, thank you very much, gentlemen, thanks
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: for your patience. Sorry to break the machine earlier. That's
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: two years in a row. Wilson, Dan Wilson joining us
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: right here on Chuck and Buck. We'll continue from Peori
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  Speaker 2: and next Sports Radio ninety three point three k j
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  Speaker 2: R f M. It's talking about sports radio ninety three
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  Speaker 2: point three Kate j r FMZA or Spring training coverage
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: continues from Peoria, Arizona and joining us now on the
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: radio program. He is number twenty nine in the program.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Number one in your hearts. It is cow Rally joining
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: us here on Chuck and Buck. How are you doing great? Yeah?
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: Doing great? So Phil honor to be on here twice
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: and twice and was it less of a month?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you came on to talk about the Super Bowls.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Did you think you were going to get out of
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: this one?
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: Because yeah, I thought that was my one for the years.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Nope, no, no, I warned you. I warned you. I
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: tried not to harass you this week. I just kind
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: of figured you knew that we were going to want
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to have you on, and so you'd come to us
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: when the time was right.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: It was, it was it was inevitable to be To
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: be honest, it is so well.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: You know, there is a way that you could have
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: probably avoided this if you didn't turn into a absolute
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: superstar by hitting sixty dingers. Now, I don't think you
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: should go back and try to redact that from history, because.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: It's it's we'll make it. We're okay with that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Good is your How long? Much longer? Though? Is your
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: to do list? I do want to know how much
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: we're inconveniencing you by having you on, because you seem
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: like a man in demand since we arrived here.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah. No, Spring training is just, honestly, it's a crapshoot.
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: For the first week or two, you got physicals, you
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: got everybody showing up different parts of the world, different schedules.
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: You know, you're saying, hey, everybody for first time, everybody
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: five minutes here or five minutes there all I Meanwhile,
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: you're trying to get ready, you know, do stuff on
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: the field. You got media obligations, you got pictures, you
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: got brand stuff, you got all this stuff that you're
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: trying to get done. You want to get done super quick,
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: but can't really do it until everybody gets in and
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: so it's just it's just a lot. But you know,
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: they do a good job here of getting us in
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: and out and you know, trying to get everything done
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: within the first couple of days, which is huge.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Just I mean, obviously jumping through the hoops that you're
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: talking about, all the stuff that you gotta do, brand
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: stuff and taking pictures and photo shoots and all that
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: different kind of stuff. That's kind of the minutia that
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: you got to get done. And pretty soon that'll be over.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: But when you are getting into getting out there catching
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: bullpens or taking some VP and whatnot, I mean, how
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: is everything feeling at this point, just kind of getting
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: back in with the groove with all the guys.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's good. My body feels good, strong, I feel
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: like I'm in a good spot. You know, same thing
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: every all season getting you know, you're starting and you
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: you know, you work your way slowly, lifting, running, conditioning, stretching,
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: doing the whole thing and just trying to get your
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: body ready incorporating baseball, and I feel good. Arm feels good,
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: swing feels good. I've gotten some live abs in which
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: is good. You know, I had to start obviously a
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: little early for the WBC, so started about a week
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: or two earlier with everything, just to make sure that
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: my body was gonna be ready for that. And we're
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: on a good, good ramp process right now.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: So how excited are you for that part of your
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six to represent America and play for Team
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: USA in this tournament coming up?
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very excited. I mean, anytime you get to
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: put you know, your country across your chest, USA, you know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: you feel patriotic and get to do something that I've
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: never done before, and they'll be amazing, and it's something
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: bigger than just you know, yourself or or your team
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: or whatever it is. It's it's a whole country thing.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: So it's and it's makes me very proud, and I'm
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: looking forward to trying to win the whole thing as
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: well as getting to be in a locker room with
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: so many great talented players.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: What about facing Mariner pictures as a hitter.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: I know, it's funny. Maybe Muno's Bizaro, Yeah brash wasn't it.
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: He did back out, So I mean, you know, I
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: feel like I would know them pretty well. Yeah, you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: knowing them and then executing off of them is a
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: whole different animals, so they're pretty good. They're tough, tough
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: to hit.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, is there any part of you that's I mean,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: is anybody trying to hook you up with? Hey, here's
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: a gift card. I don't know, Applebee's or something so
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: that you give, Like is cam Zone asking, like you're
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: gonna let me know what's coming.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: I'm more of a chiliess guy. Chili Okay, there's no
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: Chili's up in this area.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: No.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: I got to let the people know though.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: If you want your baby back, baby back, baby back.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: I love a good two for twenty deals.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: You'd be talking to them when you're in the when
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: they're in the box, like, oh here comes here. I
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: wouldn't trust me.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: No. I love messing with guys, especially in spring training
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: because it's all your buddies and stuff. Right, You're like,
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: oh man, the fast, what's got to be coming here? Right?
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: Or you double cross him. You're like there's no way,
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: why would he shake to that bitch? And you get them,
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: get him thinking in their head, and that's great. They're
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: just like shut up, Like.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Now, Raley is never going to act like a superstar.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. I don't think Mom and Dad are
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: gonna let him do that, even though he is one.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: But you do have to upgrade your Applebee's Chili's game.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're making enough cash now that you could.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't know. I mean stick, that's right.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: I mean it's crazy. You know, sometimes the simplest things
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: are just the best. I mean that's a fact, you know.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: Get the two for twenty, get the side salad, get
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: the entre, maybe dessert for a drink from it.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: I'm still cheap.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: I'm still cheap at heart, and I can't take that
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: away from that.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Oh that's good. How much has it felt, though, like
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: your life has changed here in the offseason, I mean,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: coming off the year that you just had, I mean,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: obviously things got to be a little bit different in
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: your world. And what ways have they adjusted?
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, just you know, it's been a little more busy
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: in the sense of, you know, just more people asking
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: for time and and things. And it's important to obviously,
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: you know, do the things that are going to help
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: others and do make sure you're helping out with you know,
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: team community and yourself. But at the same time, you
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: can't spread yourself too thin and and do everything and
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: say yes to everything you gotta. There's a fine line
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: there because you know, at the end of the day,
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: you know they only like me because I play well.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: So you know that means I got a train and
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: I gotta do all the things that i've I've done
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: to get here. So that's always number one priority obviously,
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: and then the rest of it, you know, when it's
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: when it's convenient, you know, it's it's it's good and moderation.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: So I don't really want to ask this.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: I don't really want to bring this up just simply
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: because I know it puts you in a position where
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: you maybe feel like you got to give the diplomatic
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: answer and whatnot. But I just want to say just
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: flat out. I mean, I don't think it was I
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: think you were the m v P and I mean,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: playing it simple. I think it's you know, the sixty homers. Yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: awesome what you bring to the table on that side.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: But it's just as a former player, to imagine what
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: you go through behind the dish and then to hear
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: from your peers, your your pitchers, all the work you
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: put in to prepare to go back there and receive
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: and call games and whatnot to me is as awesome
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: as Aaron Judges' season was. Offensively, it's not even a
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: contest in my opinion. So I just wanted to put
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: that out there, let you know that. I mean, I
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: don't think that there's a lot of people in Seattle
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: that feel that way. And unfortunately, or fortunately, I guess
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: when now you go to cracking games, everybody's still gonna chant.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: No, people are great, No, thank you. You know it
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: was it was a fun year and we had a
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: good time and and obviously you're disappointed, right, I mean,
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: you don't. No one wants to lose, No one wants
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: to come in second. And you know, it is what
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: it is. Uh, I think I think just turning the
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: page and yeah, you know, I appreciate what the year,
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: what it was, and you know, I'm glad that it
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: happened and got to do some really awesome things and
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: we had a great team season as well, and and uh,
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: you know, go out there and and try to just
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: you know, do what I did last year, try to
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: repeat it and not try to do too much and
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: not try to do or I think that's the key is,
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: you know, I think the easy answer is to try
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: to go out there and hit more Homer to do
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: more offensively, when in reality it's just like no, just
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: be consistent, do the same things every day, help the
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: team win and take it one about a time and
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: from there you know you should be a good spot.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: So cal rally with us here on chucking buck in
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: the morning here from spring training, as we chat with
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: the Mariners catcher here again at spring training, an annual tradition.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: All right, So I got to get your two cents
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: on watching Adam Jude over there catch Ryan Divish right now,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: very similar picture to Andre's munos Ryan Divish, And I'm
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I guess you've heard about this right that he's going
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: to catch a full bullpen session of munios. What do
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: you think that's going to end up looking.
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: Like broken thumb? Probably I got a good doctor my thumb,
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: so I'll send him his way.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, of all guys to choose, I mean,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: it's Munyos the most difficult one for you to catch.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: Uh No, no, I would. I mean he definitely does artists, Yeah,
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, so that makes it very difficult. So but
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: Munyos can actually locate pretty well, so he does have
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: that going for him. But I don't know, I mean,
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: just watching a few of those, it wasn't too bad. Like, yeah,
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: the field.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Seventy sixty eight miles an hour.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe not even I asked him earlier today, I said, so,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: have you been working?
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Have you been working? I mean, get it on on
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: turning the machine up.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: He's like, oh, yeah, we turned it up yesterday and
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: I got in there and caught I said, how fast
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: ninety five?
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: He's like, oh, that's probably eighty eighty to eighty two.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: I'm like, that's not one hundred.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: You know, I think the four seam, you know, he'll
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: be it'll it'll pop him pretty good. It'd be fine.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: But if Muno's rips a two seamer sinker on him,
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: I think that might tear him up. That might be
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: the That might be the end of the U day
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: for him. So that and maybe maybe a slider in
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: the dirt, you know, yeah, you know, it's you know,
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: the straight ball. You know, eventually he could probably he's
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: probably athletic enough to catch up to it. But probably
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: once you get that thing diving and moving.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fun, yeah, yeah, exactly, it's good. Well, what how
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: the pitchers look this year? Anybody's standing out to you?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: At this point or is it just business as usual.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: You're so familiar with catching your especially your starters, that
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: I mean it's just like waking up and eating breakfast.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I've got to know these guys really well.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: I mean some of these guys have been catching for
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: the whole time I've been here. I mean, somebody mentions it.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: I think it's like eight six six to eight spring
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: trainings I've been in now and I've been catching, So
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: it's kind of Crazy've been catching some of these guys
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: that long. So you know, and I know these guys
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: really well. They're they're doing everything they need to do.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Everybody looks good. I mean, you know, we're just trying
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: to get everybody healthy, you know, healthy out of spring,
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: get your reps in, do what you need to do.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: We already know what each of these guys are capable of,
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: so it's really just about going out there, you know,
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: getting the innings that they need, getting it under their belt,
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: getting acclimated to the season, getting that consistent, those consistent
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: reps in, and taking that into a full full one
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: sixty two. And like I said, from there, I mean, uh,
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: you know you're gonna see some small tweaks that they're
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: probably adding. You know, each picture says there's there is
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: one there.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Is one major difference. They're all producing offspring. Uh So,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, how are you gonna keep that? How are
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: you gonna keep Logan on task? When he's thinking about,
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: you know, poopy diapers and what have you.
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: Someone tells me that he's not changing any diapers.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah's price too.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: I said, I think I've changed more diapers in my
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: day than you have from my little brother when he
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: was growing up. So I think his wife is the
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: Saint Avee. And and you know, something tells me that
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: she is handling a lot of the loads.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, and that's good with you. That's probably
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: the wise choice.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: Hey, if he's you know, if he's throwing the ball,
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: well then we won't argue with it. Yeah, but if
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: it's not, then we're definitely gonna put him on diperduty.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: So that's good.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, the last year you got to play what
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: sixty games or something probably with Naylor since he came over.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Gritty ballplayer.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just like what you call a ballplayer,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: the way that he goes about his business.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I think Brendan Donovan seems to me like another dude
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: like that. You're a guy like that.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: You can't be a catcher, I don't think, and without
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: having some grit. And yet there's just a way that
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: you go about playing the game that's the right way.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, how does it feel to continue to see
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: more and more guys? I mean, that's what you want
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: your squad to be, is just guys that go out there,
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: you know, up and down the lineup, that you just
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: feel like are gonna go to battle.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think in today's day and age,
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: you know, you see so many metrics, you see so
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: many ex avila velocity things like these, you know, things
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: that you can't quantify, you know, baseball. He plays talking
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: about savvy in the game, knowing how to run the bases,
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: how to hit with two strikes, do all these things.
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: That's what wins ball games. And that's why I look
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: at those two guys and what Naylor brought to the
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: team last year. You know, he's you know, it's not
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: the it's not the sexiest thing ever going on there.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: He's not hitting you know, forty hit forty home runs.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: He didn't have all these crazy, crazy long distances with
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: with ex of v those or homers. But the guy
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: uses all the field. He can hit the ball at park,
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: he can hit two strikes, he can hit for average,
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: he can do all these things. You run bases and
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: like that's what that's what winning baseball is. And and
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: implementing that to the rest of our team, you know,
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: that's that's a really big deal. And Donovan seems like
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: that same type of player can play multiple positions, run
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: the bases, do do winning things that are gonna help us,
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: you know, win those few extra games a year that
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: we know are so important to put us where we
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: need to go and and help us win a championship.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: So Naylor, giving you the desire to steal thirty bases, I.
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: Would love to steal thirty bases. I don't know. I
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: mean if I can't be that much slower than him, right,
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, I mean last year, so that but that's instinct.
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: You can't you can't measure instinct.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Ye, So same thing, you just got to go more.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So the legs get a little heavy there in
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: those last two months.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I don't think you stole many at the end
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: of the year, did you.
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: No, I I was, I was, I came out of
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: the gate ht, but then after that it was it
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: wasn't what it was, So let's catch your legs. I'm
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: sure you know about that.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the challenge system this year, how big of a
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: just your thoughts on it? I mean, how are you
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: gonna approach it? Do you get to say have all
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: the say with it or what? You know?
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: It's something that's gonna get talked about probably a little
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: more when we get into camps. So to me, my
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: first initial it's coming off at last year, you know, no,
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: like making the obvious ones, like all right, that's definitely
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: a strike challenge it. And then the thing you also
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: just gotta be smart, like you can't be taking risks
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: and the first inning with nobody on base and uh,
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: you know a one oh counts that's completely different than
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: seventh inning bases loaded, you know, three two count That's
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying. Yeah, it's completely different. So I think
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: it's all just context. It's game awareness, game situation understanding
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: that trying to save them towards the end. I don't know.
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: I've heard other teams talk about, oh you need it's
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: more valuable if you use it early on. You don't
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: want to be left with them. It's just that's the
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: analytics part of it, and I just don't know if
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: I agree with that, But.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: You know, we'll see how it plays out.
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: You know, I trust our guys, you know, I trust
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: our guys in the box. And you know, to me,
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: it's just like, if it's egregious, challenge it, if it's
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: borderline and it's not that import and part of the game,
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: then you know it is what it is. You gotta
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: you gotta take one for the team. You gotta be
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: a good, good team player. So that's kind of how
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna approach it.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: So yeah, from the picture catchers standpoint, though, Oh.
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Some I've heard, are you gonna get angry if WU
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: challenges and is wrong when you didn't want to challenge?
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I've so I've heard, I've heard different things.
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: People are like, you know, we don't let our pictures challenge.
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: Other people are like, you know, you know, if you
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: want a challenge, you can. To me, it's just about
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: emotion and ego. You can't let emotion, you can't let
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: ego get in the way just because you want to
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: strike out or just because you thought it was a strike,
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: but in reality, you know, you're challenging and it's the
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: fourth inning. It's not an important moment. You just it's
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: an ego because you want to strike out. It's just
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: like it's just an understanding situation and being very very
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: certain to me, especially early on in the game, so
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: you know, I won't say anything.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: They get it right, Yeah, yeah, well it just makes sense.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: Good you you're not the oneing off the mound after
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: just you know, unleashing a pitch. You're back there receiving it.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: It just makes more.
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: Sense trying to be objective. I'm trying to be you know,
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to you know. I think everybody's thinking that
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: way too. It's like it's such a team oriented facet
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: at the game now and it's gonna be interesting. So
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: I know it's smart.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: I think it's smart to let I mean, just okay,
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: everybody has free reign. You can do it, but you're
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: only gonna have a couple of mess ups before it's
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: gonna be.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Like you just let cow.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: If he thinks it's one and he understands the situation,
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: then he's going to do it.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: We'll just trust that you're gonna have it just another
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: thing on your plate.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: By the way, add that to the time you pulled
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: weight around here and you said picture.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we had that yes on Wednesday yesterday.
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: Then yeah, yesterday yesterday.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to leave it all to you
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: based on the intel that I received, and I think
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: they're okay with that, and I think that's probably what
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: should happen.
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: Frankly, Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I'm gonna hear it.
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna miss one or I'm not going to round
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: one and they're gonna come back and they're gonna say something,
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: and so it'll be. You just gotta be locked in.
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: You gotta be locked in for every pitch, you know,
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: just like a catcher. You should be you know, you
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: should be dialed in. And it's just more of a
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: reason that you have to be on your game every
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: single pitch and you can't take pitches off because you know, guys,
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: guys obviously you know we need wins, we need strikeouts,
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: we need walks. So yeah, it's just it's interesting.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: I just got well, I just gotta say one more
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: thing because I don't know, I know, we're getting closer
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: more yeah, we gotta let him go. But I you know,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: when I was coming up, I when I was coming up,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: I had times when I would see my mother be
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: asked what she was proudest about, and she would say
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: it was when I would go over and.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I'd sign autographs, or when I would talk to people.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: Uh, when I was being me, when I was being
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: the young man that she raised more than when she
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: got to see me jog around the bases and whatnot.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: So you know, we're you're you're getting ready to start
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: another season after just having a monstrous year and becoming
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: a really big deal and understandably so. But I just
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: want to give you kudos, dude, because it seems like
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: you haven't changed. You haven't and that's just something you know,
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: you might hope that you're not changing, and yet the
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: world's changing. You're hearing way more cow cow, cow cow
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: than you've ever heard before, and so you maybe feel
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: like you're having to turn things down that you maybe
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: wouldn't have five years ago when you're in the minor leagues.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: But I just want to give you kudos.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: It's as a just from one guy to another guy
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: that you don't seem to be changing.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Between years and that's that's commendable.
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, it's uh yeah, it
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: camus a little different these days.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: It wasn't that long ago. And uh, you know, nobody
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: was saying my name back here, so, uh, it wasn't.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I was just telling Alex it wasn't that long ago
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: where well I pointed a buck, I go, that's our
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: catching prospect right there. It's six foot four. Yeah, for
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: goodness sake. And we were like, you want to come on,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: and you're like you want to talk to me, and
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: you're a little shyer back then. Uh but uh, Bucky's right.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I mean you haven't changed your approach to all of this,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: and it's commendable.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so's embarrass We embarrass him just like we did
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: what six seven, eight years ago. We're embarrassing them a
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's probably didn't know my name back then.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: We did, we did. We love Cal before anybody else
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: loved calw We knew you were a big picture, not
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: going to make this bulletin board material. But what do
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: you think twenty twenty six brings to the for the
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners and Cal Rawley.
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we've you know, been asked this question a few times,
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: and you know, I don't think we're scared to say
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: World Series. We're not. I think in the past there's
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: been there's been this perception of you know, we're young,
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: we're we're hungry, we want you know, we want to
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: prove ourselves and and and you know, not that we
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: did per se last year, but you know, we we
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: made it too close to the end. And you know,
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: it's it's uh, it's commendable, but obviously that's not what
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: we want to do. And I think after leaving last
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: year with a bad taste in our mouth, you know, guys,
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: guys aren't afraid to say we want to win the
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: World Series. We want to you know, get to the
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: top of that mountain. And and you know, it's something
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: that you just gotta start putting out in the universe.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: It's one of those things where it's it's time time
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: to take that step forward and and to set those
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: expectations high. And we know, we know it's tough, we
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: know it's it's gonna be a long season, there's gonna
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: be a lot of ups and downs, but ultimately that's
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: the goal. We're trying to get to and and uh,
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: you know, we have to we have to be able
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: to accept that and and look at it in the
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: eye and then and then go for it. So that's
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: what we're trying to get to.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: We're not gonna drop an F bomb, right.
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, that's that's for the postseason.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Win the whole mother fluffing thing. That's right. A great year,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much appreciated. Right here, the one and
• 54:01
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• 54:04
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• 54:19
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• 54:22
  Speaker 2: We are here in Fioria, Arizona. Spring trading coverage continues. Man,
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: we're talking to all sorts of great Mariners. But man,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: this guy we've been trying to get on for years.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: He keeps s tucking us Bucky. He's the closer. He's
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: the nicest guy on the team. Yes, uh, and he's uh,
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: he's a cat lover. Andres Munnos is with us right
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: here on the show. How are you man? Good?
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: Really good? Any good things? We're saying so many good things.
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: Some of me, well, yes, I am happy to be
• 54:52
  Speaker 8: here a little bit cold, But we're good. We're a
• 54:55
  Speaker 8: good we're here.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: What happened? I mean, we're enjoining the Arizona sun, and
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: all of a sud we get a little rain shower.
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: Probably it's snowy in flat stuff.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, maybe maybe it was snowing back home in
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Seattle or or where I live in Seattle. It with
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: snow in my I got a picture today my kids
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: made a snowman while we were sitting here in the
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: sun for part of the day. I didn't want to
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: rub it in. Then I was in the sun while
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: they were making a snowman. But how is your off season?
• 55:21
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Everything good?
• 55:22
  Speaker 8: Everything good? Everybody. He's a good. Family is great and
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: we have I have a great time over there every
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: time that I go to Mexico, and Joey every moment
• 55:30
  Speaker 8: that I am there, and we just started to be
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: the most possible with our family because we don't have
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: a chance to they don't have a chance to be
• 55:40
  Speaker 8: here for a lot of times. So it's good to
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: be back here, and I prepare really good for this season.
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: So I'm happy to be here.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Where did you Where are you from? Sorry? Chuck, where
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: where are you? From in Mexico.
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: I live in a place called Los Mochis.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I played for the Yakis. Yeah in the day.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: What was I oh, two thousand, two thousand and five.
• 56:05
  Speaker 8: I wasn't a long time ago.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: How old were you in six thousand and five? Six? Okay? Yeah,
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Sonora State? That was nice.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: And then I played in Tabasco one year or two. Oh,
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: that is fo Yeah, that was their way down at
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: the bottom. Yes, like I felt like the flames from
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: the sun were hitting me, like I was too close
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: to the equator.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not built for that. You get to play for Mexico,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: you get to represent them here in a couple of
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: weeks outsided. Are you for that?
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: I am really excited. Of course. I am really happy
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: that they give me the call and they give me
• 56:38
  Speaker 8: the opportunity to be part of that, and hopefully I
• 56:42
  Speaker 8: will do my best overay there and try to be
• 56:45
  Speaker 8: try to put the Mexico flag on the top. And
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: that is a plan. I just go there and have
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: some fun and be able to represent my country.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: How fun has it been? Have you been talking talking
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: to trash?
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're too nice to probably do it, but
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: a cow or anybody because you guys are in the same.
• 57:02
  Speaker 8: Pool, right, No, no, oh, yes, we're in the same pool.
• 57:05
  Speaker 8: But I don't I don't talk to him, you know
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: about that, Olius he I would like to avoid fac him.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but maybe something nice, you say, something like hey, cow,
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: by the way, just so you know, if I face you,
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: I now have a split finger, you won't see it
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: until that.
• 57:22
  Speaker 8: Yes, I actually any of my bullpins. He hasn't catch
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: you any of them. That is a plan, so he can't.
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: He don't. Hopefully he forget about my stuff. And he's
• 57:35
  Speaker 8: bran new to him when I when he is on
• 57:37
  Speaker 8: the bucks, that's good. I don't think he's going to
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: catch any of my canes too, So.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I also don't think he's going to forget about yourself.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: So sorry to disappoint you. Andre's Muniosa is with us
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: right here on chucket bucket in the morning, the Closer
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: for your Seattle Mariners here at the spring training. And look,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: I've heard this story about how you're going to throw
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: a bullpen session the sports writer Adam Jude. So are
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: you a little nervous about that at all? That you
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: might hurt the poor fellaw.
• 58:11
  Speaker 8: He I think he's the one who has to be
• 58:13
  Speaker 8: like nervous. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's just like he came
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: with the idea. Yeah, I told you, Are you sure
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: about that? And I told you he told me yes.
• 58:25
  Speaker 8: So he's being practiced a little bit. They told me
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: that he's he's good. I think he's going to be
• 58:32
  Speaker 8: able to catch it really good.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 58:35
  Speaker 8: The plan is to just throw use five or six. Uh,
• 58:38
  Speaker 8: and if he feel comfortable catching it, he's going to
• 58:42
  Speaker 8: catch a footballpen. But he just told me to don't
• 58:45
  Speaker 8: throw the sinker.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't break his thumb. No. I talked to him today.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: I asked, so you've been practicing. He says yeah.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: I said, okay, how hard have you think? Oh, we
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: we got the velocity machine turned up yesterday. We were
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: so it was coming in pretty good. I'm like, how
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: hard and he's like, oh, probably like eighty five. I'm like, oh,
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: that's not hard. He didn't know that.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, that's not hard.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Eighty five. That's what people play catch at. Like, that's
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: not moons bringing it. Are you gonna rare back and
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: give him the hondo?
• 59:16
  Speaker 8: No? No, no, no, I don't.
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: I don't.
• 59:19
  Speaker 8: I don't think that. I I am full confidence and
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: just go there with somebody who I don't know how
• 59:25
  Speaker 8: he catch and just going throward the hardest that I can.
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: I can't do that, so.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: I think that's what he signed up for. Andrece H.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: I think you gotta give him your nastiest slider from
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: the sink.
• 59:38
  Speaker 8: I think I don't have enough information with that, but
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: I'm going to try to don't hurt him. But yes,
• 59:46
  Speaker 8: it's it's it's really cool that he is trying to
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: do that used to because he he.
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: Cried a lot.
• 59:52
  Speaker 8: He knows a lot about our team, but it's nothing
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: better to see what is in person, how that thing
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: looks like, and hopefully he don't get her or something.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 8: I'm sure they're going to protect him a little bit
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 8: and he's going to have the food year and all
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 8: those things, so I think he's going to be protecting
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: and he I think he having some advice from call too,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 8: so I think he should be good.
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  Speaker 2: I think he needs to sit behind a brick wall.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: Think he needs more than just gear.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: But I wish him the best.
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  Speaker 8: How you how you call the thing that you put
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 8: in your tombe just a brace? A brace? Yeah, I
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: told him they don't forget that thing you just put
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 8: it on. I don't want to I break something on
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  Speaker 8: your tongues.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Otherwise, when he's typing, he won't be able to use
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: that thumb every time space bar.
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  Speaker 2: It won't work. It won't work. I think it's almost
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: better that he does break his thumb. I do, because
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: then you've got a better story. How did you hurt
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: your thumb? Adam? I was catching Andre moon.
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  Speaker 8: Help and I know somebody who have that his story.
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  Speaker 8: My brother really I he catched my bullpens in the
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: off season, so I normally I don't throw sinkers to him,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: but he told me that he wanted to see one,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: and I threw him one and I almost broke his toumube.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: He his was like four months for recovery from that.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and a lot of treatment and all those things.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 8: So I I already told him that and used to
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: be prepared.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: When did you have When did you start throwing hard?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Like the first time you played baseball? Did you throw
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: harder than all the other kids?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: No? No, I was just normal, like average velocity. Then
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 8: when I was what's the point of my I didn't
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 8: want to like get full in baseball when I was thirteen.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: Then I stopped playing baseball for some things that happened
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 8: over there, like we have a tryout and they put
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 8: attention in other kids and they put me on the side.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 8: So I take that as an experience to like, okay,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 8: like I'm going to prove that you are grown. And
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 8: then I start to do three things during the day.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 8: I was doing swimming, track and field and baseball. So
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: I did that for six I was throwing like eighty
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 8: eighty one eighty two. I did that for three for
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 8: six months, six to eight months. Then when I came back,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 8: no rather gones, no anything. I used play catch, throw bullpens.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 8: Then when I went to the game in the first
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: pitch that I threw was ninety one or eight months later,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: just doing that whoa, And then I continue doing that
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: for basically my home whole mainor league career. When I
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: was seventeen one was the first time that I threw
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 8: one hundred and then every time that I went home,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 8: I continued with that workouts like swimming, track and field, baseball,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 8: and that is that is part of my routine now,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 8: like all the time when I go there, I was
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 8: a triple jumper, so every time that I go to Mexico.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 8: That is my training. That is the way that I
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: train like I trained like I.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Triple jump throw pictures for a living. Yes, interesting, what
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: your wife's attracted fields start to? What did? What was
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: her event?
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  Speaker 8: Eight hundred meters and fifteen hundred meters?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, swimming when you're doing your swimming. I was a
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: swimmer in high school, believe it or not. That was
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: like one hundred plus yeah, but but what was what
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: did just like freestyle like front crawl or front.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: And sprints or distance distance distance distance?
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 8: We use that more for Uh. I don't know what
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 8: I feel when I do the swimming, but feels like
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 8: I am working and I am relaxing at the same time.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: So and that is something that if you have things
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: in your mind, you're getting a pool and then you
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 8: start swimming and swimming and swimming and then you forget
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: about it, and that is really cool thing to do.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: Is I using more inter relaxing things like UH used
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: to relax to get get out of things on my
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 8: mind and and just use that.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: And you're getting in shape while you're doing it. Andre
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Smun our guest here, first time we've ever had him
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: why have you not been on more often? You're awesome?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: This has been great joining us here on the chalking box,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: so very close to making it to the World Series
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: last year. How painful was it to come up short
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: as a team? And then how much of a motivator
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: has that been to UH get this season started this year?
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 8: Obviously it was first of all, like we have to
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: thank God for how far we get and I don't
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: know he's used like at the same time, we were sad,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 8: but we were happy to see how far we can
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: we can get and how close we were to be
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 8: in the worse hereus and I feel like that help
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 8: us a motivation too, for us just to know that
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 8: we are able to do it and we are able
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 8: to be against the best of the best, and and
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 8: that gives us a lot of confidence. And the mentality
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 8: has changed to like we know that we are able
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: to do it. It's not that before we we weren't able
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 8: to or we we didn't have the mindset, the mentality,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: but we never experienced that. And now that we experience that,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 8: we we have a lot of confidence on ourselves. Okay,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 8: we we can do we can we can be there.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 8: UH this year and that is the mentality. As soon
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: as we got here, we all, we all, everybody got
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: so excited about it, and now we are excited to
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: be there again. So hopefully, uh, that is a plan
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 8: of everybody be there and and and and be the
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 8: best in baseball.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: I I gotta ask man, because I'm big on mentality.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: They just think between the years is where you become
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: different than like a minor league guy to a guy
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: that can get to the big leagues and now a
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: guy that can be an all star in the big
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: leagues is dominant in the big leagues. There's so much
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: about that that goes on between the years. And yet you, honestly,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: every time we've ever talked to you, just around here
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: or where, you are one of the nicest guys that
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: I've ever met as a professional athlete.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: Kudos to you. You were raised right.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: But there's got to be a switch that you turn
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: on when it's time they call your number and it's
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: time for you to go in there and close this
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: game out. Is there something like on purpose that you
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: do in your mind where it's I'm flipping into I'm
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: no longer Andres Munho is the nice guy. I'm coming
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: out here to shove it on you.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 8: Yes, I do it. I do it on purpose. Of
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 8: course he's us like I got for some reason, every
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 8: time that I get on the mound, I get so mad,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 8: I get like he's us like I I got that
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: feeling of oh I got that mentality of the hitter
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 8: did something to me before? Am I going to kill
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 8: him the time? Yes?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 8: And and uh, it's just having that mentality has helped
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 8: me a lot.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: Obviously.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 8: What's the point of my on my career where that
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 8: was too much? And then I start to lose the focus.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 8: And because I I was so angry that I was
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 8: enable to control all my emotions. But when you find
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 8: that between being aggressive and mad and all those things,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 8: and between being a nice guy and all those things,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 8: you you find the right spot and then you you
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 8: feel yes, you feel like you have you are in control,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 8: but you are aggressive too. And and when you find that,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 8: uh is where I've been feeling the best.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Who's who's impressed you in camp of the pictures so
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: far as any of the young kids or anybody looking
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: great out there that you've been able to see.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 8: For me, everybody is looking great.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: Everybody's looking great.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 8: Everybody is in good shape, and I am really excited
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: for everybody, and I hope the first thing is like,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 8: I hope everybody is healthy for the season, and and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 8: that is the most important thing. Like you, you can
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 8: ask for something else. As soon as everybody is healthy,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 8: everybody is able to do his best over there and
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 8: and and we're going to have good results.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: You really do love your cat, don't you.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yeah, yes, it is. We have a big love.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 8: Sometimes we feel like she hates us, but I know,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: I know that, I know that that is the way
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 8: that the cats are. Uh. And I think that I
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 8: told I say this before, but the way that they
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 8: are all the time, uh, they are always saying I
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: put that example a lot. I remember in IF one
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 8: place when they where they asked me about Matilda and
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 8: with the thing that I like about her is doesn't
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: matter how good I was in the game, I can
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 8: be like in closing the game in one wrong game
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 8: or something that a lot of pressure, and how happy
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: I am for being able to do that. And as
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 8: soon as I got to the apartment, she received me
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 8: the same. She doesn't change. And when I have a
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 8: bad outing, it's the same thing with for her, like
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 8: she's going to receive the same. She doesn't change. So
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 8: I take that as an example of you have to
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 8: be the same all the time. Those doesn't matter how
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 8: good you are or how bad the outing is going.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: UH.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 8: You have to maintain the same mentality. You have to
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 8: maintain the same.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Especially for a closing consistency, especially for yeah, yet flushing
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: that last bad outing and you don't have many of
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: them anymore. It's flushing that last bad outing and approaching
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: in the next one with the same killer mentality.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 8: And even when you have good outings, it's like you're
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 8: always going to learn something and it's always u time
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 8: to do adjustments to be able to get better. And
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 8: as soon as you Rulaiza these these years, like he's
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 8: become easier to just maintain that UH level, like.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: A consistent Yeah. Yeah, you are awesome man, Thank you
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: so much. I'm so glad we got to do this
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: with you today. So go out there and have a
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: great year. Take it a little easy on team USA
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: if you don't mind, UH, and then go kill it
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: for the Mariners.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 8: Say thank you.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Andre's munos joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: in the morning. My goodness was that enjoyable. I loved that. Yep.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: I mean we thought that he was the nicest guy.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: Now we know, Yeah, I mean unbelievably nice. And unless
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: I guess you are getting ready to face him, then
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: he wants to kill you.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: And I love that.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: And he did, uh, he did basically give Matilda a
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: lot of the credit for how he's learned to stay
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: even keel.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: You know, you never heard anybody credit their cat psychological approach.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm fifty and I played a lot of sports,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: and I learned from a lot of different people, and
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: never did I ever hear anyone say my cat, My
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: kitty cat is the one that I learned. Because it
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter good outing, bad outing, they receive.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: You the same.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: And he's like, that's how I gotta be. I'm like,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: it's gotto moto, gotto mato. Yes, it's the mojo from Matilda,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: Matilda mojo.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: It's a I mean, he's not wrong.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: Cats do kind of They act the same, regardless good,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: bad and different.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah matter, they act the same. He's got it figured out.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: And sometimes we think she hates us.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yes, you know what My favorite part of it was, though,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 9: is when Bucky started telling his story that he was
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 9: a swimmer and a lot of people don't buy that story.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: And he just interrupted, do you like right away and says,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: I believe you. I believe yeah, yeah, like this, you
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: might be lying to me right now, and uh, there's
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: a chance that you are. And I think a lot
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: of people might think you're lying about this right now.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: But I'm just going to tell you, you know what,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: I believe you.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: And it was like as genuine as you can hear, right,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: like if I say that to Hugh, yeah, I believe you, right,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: same exact words, but a different meaning he said. I said, yeah,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: I swam. That's in high school. I mean, believe it
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: or not. There was one hundred some pounds ago. I know,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: I believe you.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: It's supportive you, it's supportive, and yet also strikes that
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: you could very well be lying right now. Go ahead. Yeah.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I start doing that to people when they're telling me whoppers,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, you know, you know I was a deadlifter,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: Olympic deadlifter in Nepaul. I believe you.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: I believe you, yeah, yeah, yes, it's using it yea.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: It sends them home with a little thought of did
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: they believe maybe I should stop lying.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: Maybe I should stop with the bs. I was telling
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: the truth. It was a swimmer, we know that, and
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: yet I didn't gain eleven miles an hour and eight
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: months on my fastball. Yeah, although I do, I do
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: firmly believe that the swimming I did in high school
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: was why I had a good arm. And my good
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: arm is the only thing that got me basically to college.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: It got me from junior college to Elsie State. It
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: was the thing coming out. I mean, I think everybody
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: was like, well, I can hit a little bit, but
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: he's got a big He's got a big body and
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: a good arm. So the worst case snarios we throw
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: them on the bump. Well, little do they know. I
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: had no chance of throwing strike, So that wasn't gonna
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: work out that way. Thank god I learned how to hit.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you never had a chance to celebrate Picture's
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: Day with us. I didn't want to. That's good. I
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: didn't want to be a picture. I don't care how
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: much you dabbled with it. You're not that You're just
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: not that kind. That's the fallback option.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: That's when when you when you learn how to hit,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: you don't have to become a picture, You're.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: Not of that quality. No, the human too. Well, thanks
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: for Andres Munhos joining us at of course, in typical
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: Andres Munno's fashion, and because he is the nicest person
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: in the facility, he goes over and then just an
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: eight year old kid asks him, can you show me
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: this pitch? And he's over there just showing him all
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: of his pitching repertoire and all of his grips. That
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: is one guy to root for right there. Pretty easy
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: to root for. He might be one of my new faves.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: I think he might be.
• 1:14:24
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