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Tim Anderson on his fresh start in Anaheim · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I put my life on the line for you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the organization, for this team to be able to
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to win, you know, try to you know,
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  Speaker 1: accomplish what the plan was.
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  Speaker 2: But you know we fell short.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go for the first time on foul territory.
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  Speaker 3: Tim Anderson joins us right now, probably a few weeks now.
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  Speaker 3: It's been since signing with the angel Tim has the
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  Speaker 3: off season going. Man, congrats on signing up with the Halos.
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  Speaker 3: And Ron Washington, how you been.
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  Speaker 4: I've been good.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I've been good though, you know overall
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  Speaker 1: just training. Uh, just been working out for real.
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  Speaker 5: Good to see you.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, it's about damn time, all right.
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  Speaker 6: I chased your ass for a year over a year
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  Speaker 6: that it's been like two years I've been chasing your ass.
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  Speaker 2: You Finally it took yeah, the first time me.
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  Speaker 6: Coming up to you in the clubhouse trying to get
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  Speaker 6: you to go, And it took Scott calling your age.
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  Speaker 1: Why you just say that the first time you presented
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  Speaker 1: to me, you wanted me to come over here weekly, right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no like once every month, once a month, once
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  Speaker 5: a month.
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  Speaker 4: You're a good guy, man, hear from you. People want
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  Speaker 4: to hear from you.
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  Speaker 1: There's still a lot of talking for me. So I
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  Speaker 1: kind of, you know, I kind of you know, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of turned away from it, but.
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  Speaker 4: I did what you did.
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  Speaker 2: But you did, you did do a good job. And
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  Speaker 2: that clip and that got me on here today, so
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, clip, I'm happy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy the clip. The clip he told you good
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  Speaker 2: luck reaching me.
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  Speaker 4: Two years people were like, man, when can we get
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  Speaker 4: T A on? We want t A seven on? Where's
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  Speaker 4: t A? And I'm like, try here today.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: We've got a lot of stuff we're gonna dig into
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  Speaker 6: with you. And I hope you get some laughs with us.
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  Speaker 4: And I hope we have fun.
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  Speaker 2: And let's do it.
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  Speaker 6: Do you want to come back at some point when
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  Speaker 6: you make the Angels and you're kicking ass and and Anaheim.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you, all right, So I got one to start.
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  Speaker 3: So take me through the process just now this offseason.
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  Speaker 3: How did you end up with the Angels? Who did
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  Speaker 3: you talk to me? Because I'm sure you had other
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  Speaker 3: offers to and you know, the Ron Washington connection is there, We've.
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  Speaker 5: Had there to go multiple times.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean he's maybe, if not the most respected
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  Speaker 3: coach in the game, he's top five.
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  Speaker 1: I mean just I mean that that right there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just being connected we're on and you know, just being
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  Speaker 1: able to have that glove. Uh, you know, having a
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  Speaker 1: chance to work with him and you know, being able
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  Speaker 1: to put uh to improve my glove. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the focus has really been, you know, trying to find
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  Speaker 1: a bat back and uh, you know that's what I've
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  Speaker 1: been working on. But I mean I got no leverage.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I had no leverage and I'm aware of that.
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  Speaker 1: So I did feel like the Angel was the best
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  Speaker 1: fit for me to you know, for me to be
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  Speaker 1: able to, you know, try to get back on tracking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to find myself again.
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  Speaker 6: Tha, did you know Wash before? Did you know Wash
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  Speaker 6: before you signed with the Angels? Because I played for Wash.
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  Speaker 6: He's awesome. You're gonna love him. E Why is awesome?
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  Speaker 6: Both Porter is awesome. I mean, Wash is awesome. So
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  Speaker 6: how much did you know of Wash before you signed
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  Speaker 6: over at Anaheim?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really know a whole lot. I mean we
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  Speaker 2: had a conversation I was supposed to have been given
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  Speaker 2: with him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the last like two or three off season,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't work out, you know, And and it
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  Speaker 1: was a chance that I was gonna sign that last year,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't work out as well. So I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of excited, you know, for to you know, come full circle.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I haven't heard anything but good
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  Speaker 1: stories about Ron and you know, the conversations that we've
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  Speaker 1: been having, and there's been nothing but good. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: the energy is good, advice is good. I'm just excited,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, to get back in baseball for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, wait, he has a team meeting. That's all IM
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  Speaker 4: gonna say.
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  Speaker 6: Wait on, he has a team meeting because he had
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  Speaker 6: some of the greatest team meetings that I ever was
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  Speaker 6: a part of. I can't say a lot of what
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  Speaker 6: he says on here because there was a lot of
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  Speaker 6: words we're not allowed to use on television.
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  Speaker 4: But he gets going and he is unbelievably funny.
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  Speaker 6: You try not to laugh because he's kind of yelling
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  Speaker 6: at you, but he's also getting you excited. And I
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  Speaker 6: just remember Ian Kinsler and I had lockers across from
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  Speaker 6: each other and he would get going.
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  Speaker 4: We just look at each.
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  Speaker 2: Other and we're like, please, don't relate. I can relate
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  Speaker 2: to show relate, Please don't laugh.
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  Speaker 6: All right, but then you mentioned the back what happened
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  Speaker 6: with the bat because you used to rake. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you were one of the best in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: What changed? Did something change?
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  Speaker 6: Did you change your mechanic, did you change your mental
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  Speaker 6: did you change something to your approach?
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  Speaker 4: Because you were unbelievable for about four years there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean just really just losing the field. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I went through a cuple injuries. I think the last
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  Speaker 1: injury that I went was you know, when I did
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  Speaker 1: the mcl uh. You know, as I came back to
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  Speaker 1: the field, was just different. I lost the field. I
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  Speaker 1: had a hand injury, and not to really you know,
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  Speaker 1: give you, you know, examples about the injury, but I
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  Speaker 1: just lost the field.
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  Speaker 2: And then we can speak on the mental side, you
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  Speaker 2: know as well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean not to really get, you know, too deep
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  Speaker 1: into my business, but I mean I think we understand
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. So you know, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: hard to play when you when you're in those situations
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I have you know, other personal you
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  Speaker 1: know things going on as well, so you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of hard to you know, uh, you know, be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to see clear when you got so much going on.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I kind of appreciate the moment that
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  Speaker 1: I have now, you know, stepping away from the game
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  Speaker 1: once I did get released. You know, now you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm back to square one. You know, I'm hungry, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited, you know, honestly, I'm just excited for real.
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  Speaker 4: How will you know you're back? How will you know?
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  Speaker 7: We talk about like, oh man, I've been struggling. I
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  Speaker 7: wasn't feeling this, you know, the mental game, other things.
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  Speaker 4: How do you know? How would tha?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can get on here and talk about this ship
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  Speaker 1: all day, about telling you what I done, did changes.
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  Speaker 2: I have made. You know how hungry I am, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I mean, all we have to do is just
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  Speaker 1: really you know, I think time, over time, it would
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  Speaker 1: you know, it would tell, you know, not just saying like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm helping to go do the craziest shit.
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  Speaker 1: Ever, but you know, over time, I think that would
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  Speaker 1: you know, tell if I'm back or not.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, for the most part, I've been feeling good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've been feeling you know, uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, excited. You know, I have been working, I've
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  Speaker 1: been obsessed with working. I think that you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: always been a nag on me. I'm always upsets with working.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been working.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, man, just you know, I'm excited to get
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  Speaker 2: back in there for sure, and by.
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  Speaker 4: The way, around the Angels network.
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  Speaker 6: So let's try to be careful with using the wash
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  Speaker 6: the wrong washing film words, because.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get.
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  Speaker 6: We'll get in trouble with the Ron Washington words. So
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  Speaker 6: let's try to watch thos. But I do have I
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  Speaker 6: have a serious question, and you can answer this any
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  Speaker 6: way you want to answer it.
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  Speaker 4: You and I are in a particular club together. Do
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  Speaker 4: you know what club that is? No?
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  Speaker 6: What club is that we both got freaking punch in
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  Speaker 6: the face on National TV?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, all right, so we've.
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  Speaker 6: Both been through it, all right, and now I've always
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  Speaker 6: wanted I've never heard you talk about it, and you
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  Speaker 6: don't have to talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: I've talked about when it happened with me openly. Right.
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  Speaker 6: There's I've signed a million pictures of me getting punched
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  Speaker 6: and people still bring it to me all the time
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  Speaker 6: and I laugh about it. Whatever, But did that have
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  Speaker 6: anything to do with anything that happen? Because you know,
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  Speaker 6: you can go one of two ways. It can take
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  Speaker 6: you down a bad psyche or it can take you
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  Speaker 6: to a good psyche.
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  Speaker 4: Like I laughed about it and moved on.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know because I've never really heard you talk
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  Speaker 6: about it, like.
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  Speaker 4: Did it affect you in any way?
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  Speaker 1: It's not really a whole I wouldn't even say it's
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  Speaker 1: really a whole lot to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I want to say I want to go
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  Speaker 2: as for a sign of pictures.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I understand, but uh, you know I was
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  Speaker 1: going through ship before that moment.
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  Speaker 2: You know that was that was probably you know created
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, you know the energy and the vibes to.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to you know, get it, tap into that energy.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, man, you know, moments happened. You know,
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  Speaker 1: moment's happened, and that's something that we got to live with.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that. But you know, I'm always looking forward.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can't really you know, I can't really
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  Speaker 1: change what happened. But I did understand. I understood a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things in that moment, throughout that situation, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand what what love was.
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  Speaker 2: I understood.
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  Speaker 1: You know, who really is your teammate, who really got
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  Speaker 1: your back, who really in your corner, So I could
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  Speaker 1: say I understand those in that moment for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I get it.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, I just I just know that, Like I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I've watched it. We had uh Tristan McKenzie on the
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  Speaker 6: other day and he was he was talking about the
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  Speaker 6: same thing because he was out there trying to break
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  Speaker 6: guys up, right, So I understand it, and I'm not
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  Speaker 6: trying to get on you.
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  Speaker 4: I just have never heard your side of.
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  Speaker 2: It, but always always know, I always know your energy
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  Speaker 2: towards me.
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  Speaker 1: So so that's why I made it open floor because
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  Speaker 1: I kind of knew out of all people.
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  Speaker 2: That you would be the guy that break it back up.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, I I love you. I'll tell you this. Listen.
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  Speaker 6: In twenty twenty one, one of my all time favorite moments,
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  Speaker 6: I was at Field of Dreams and I got to
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  Speaker 6: watch it. Well I didn't get to watch it, but
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  Speaker 6: I was there for the home run you hit, which
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  Speaker 6: is honestly one of my all time favorite baseball moments
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  Speaker 6: that I've ever seen. So then from you to go,
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  Speaker 6: not only you, but that whole team, I mean that
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  Speaker 6: whole twenty twenty one team is like what the heck
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  Speaker 6: happened to that team? I mean to brave you, right
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  Speaker 6: Mancata eloy you. It's like, damn, what happened to what
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  Speaker 6: happened to that Ora? Is that White Sox team that
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  Speaker 6: I was like, Damn, this team's gonna be good for
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  Speaker 6: like ten years.
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  Speaker 2: I can't answer for other guys, you know, I only
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  Speaker 2: could answer for, you know, the work that I put in,
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  Speaker 2: the energy that I put into those moments. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't really call it. I know what
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  Speaker 2: I did bring to the table, and shit, you talk
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  Speaker 2: about a guy I put my I put my life
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  Speaker 2: on the line for you know.
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  Speaker 1: For this organization, for this team to be able to
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to win, you know, try to you know,
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  Speaker 1: accomplish what the plan was.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we feel short and understood that.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm okay with I'm okay, totally okay with however
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  Speaker 1: it got to play, you know, because it's it's always
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  Speaker 1: about you know, reivening yourself in different seasons, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're in a different season right now, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: blessed and you know, I'm thankful for this opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: have this shot, to be able to you know, show
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  Speaker 1: you guys, you know, the better me, the newer.
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  Speaker 2: Me, and you know what I've been working on.
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  Speaker 4: What's your favorite big league moment?
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  Speaker 7: Because if for people who don't know, people who just
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  Speaker 7: joined the game, ta hasn't been doing it for a
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  Speaker 7: couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: You did, you did some things like we're.
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  Speaker 7: Talking about in times we're talking to also we're telling
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  Speaker 7: that walk off that at the at the Field of
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  Speaker 7: Dreams game. What's your favorite big league moment? And do
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  Speaker 7: you think there's a bigger one coming up?
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  Speaker 1: I would say the Field of Dreams, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for me probably making it to the big
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  Speaker 1: leagues because you know, it wasn't even supposed to work
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  Speaker 1: out like this, so you know, all the way up
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  Speaker 1: to any point up to the big leagues already because
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  Speaker 1: you know, this never was in my plan. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: for me to be able to, you know, do the
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  Speaker 1: things that I did, and for you to be able to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, talk about the.
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  Speaker 2: Complisher that I did do there, man, that's such a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: And and I'm doing something that you know, I did
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  Speaker 1: something that you know people don't do.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm very thankful for those moments.
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  Speaker 1: So but you know, just making to the big league,
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  Speaker 1: bro and just being able to you know, had an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very thankful for that for sure.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, by the way, you were a first
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  Speaker 6: round pick. I mean I'm just saying, you know, someone
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  Speaker 6: thought you had some talent somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: But but don't go about go ask about the years
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  Speaker 1: before that, before before I got on the radar to
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  Speaker 1: be a first round pick.
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  Speaker 2: Like nobody knew me, you know, baseball with my interests,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: All right, so let me ask you this. Let me
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  Speaker 6: ask you this question. You and Salvador Press had a moment,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and it was like the most fun. You
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  Speaker 6: were like the face of fun in baseball. Has that
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  Speaker 6: changed for you? I mean you were like that flipping
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  Speaker 6: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Like I mean, you and I know why you can't
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  Speaker 1: talk about something positive? You know why why you while
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  Speaker 1: you the moments that I have got into it with somebody?
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  Speaker 6: Can I finish if you and I would have been
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  Speaker 6: teammates who would have had a hell of a time
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  Speaker 6: because we would have had a lot of fun because
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  Speaker 6: I was a bat flipping dude just like you. I
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  Speaker 6: just want to know, are you going to continue to
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  Speaker 6: play with the same passion and fun that you have
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  Speaker 6: always played with when you get back to the big leagues,
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  Speaker 6: because I miss seeing you do that on television.
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  Speaker 4: I miss seeing the TA that was having fun.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see, you know, we'll see how well
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  Speaker 1: know how I feel, how the energy feels, you know, what's.
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  Speaker 2: The vibes giving? You know it's going, well, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going good? Am I gonna make the team? You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? So it's just we'll see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think it.
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  Speaker 7: Looks like to make the team, because that's that was
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  Speaker 7: my career, A j second third round like he played
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  Speaker 7: in nineteen years. There wasn't a spring ening. I wasn't
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  Speaker 7: trying to make a team. What do you think that
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  Speaker 7: looks like? Trying to make a team? You played in
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  Speaker 7: the first game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, dude, trips, I ain't got none, I got
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  Speaker 2: none to lose. So what do you mean? You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: But like, what does that? What does that look like?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, are you like when you when you come
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  Speaker 7: into camp, how does that look different than a normal
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  Speaker 7: year when you come into camp?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the last two camps has been kind of weird.
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  Speaker 1: I mean last year, obviously I did sign I had
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  Speaker 1: a spot.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: This year, I mean, I can't really tell you because
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been in the situation. So I mean the
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  Speaker 1: only thing on my mind is just go win a job.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean that's we're keeping the dust short and simple.
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  Speaker 4: Then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'm just trying to go out and win
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  Speaker 1: a job and be able to make the roster and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, be able to you know, hopefully get back
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  Speaker 1: on track.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know guys on the Angels.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know if you guys, but I haven't haven't
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  Speaker 2: talked to any guys. Some guys.
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  Speaker 5: What what do you know about them?
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously we know the face, right, you know
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  Speaker 3: the face you get with Trout, who obviously he's been
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: through his own things. But last year in April he
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: was like top three player in the sport as usual.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: I mean just from outside looking there, you know, just
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: from talking to people. I mean, the vibes, you know,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: the energy.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: You know. I'm looking to be be in a space
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: where I just really be low key. Man. I ain't
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: really trying to you know, I don't need too much attention.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: I just really want to just play my game. And
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: just let the game talk for itself. You know, uh,
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: you know, even coming over here on here is.
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: Really a reach.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: But I mean, like he said, they said, like I've
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: been asking to me and and obviously, I mean I
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: feel like it was a good opportunity for me to
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: come on here. But I just really just want to,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: you know, just go play and really see what happened.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: I want to learn from guys. I want to be
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: you know, coachable.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: Look I got I got I got nothing, you know,
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: I got nothing, bro.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Just I'm just coming in. I want to play, you know,
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: I just want to play, just see what happens. You know,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: I'm hungry, and I think we all know if if if,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: if that, if that staff can get me back to
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: where I need to be.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: And obviously a.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Lot a lot goals you know, within myself obviously to
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: put the work in and you know, to do what
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I gotta do. But if I can get back to
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: where I need to be there, we obtoually know that
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: that that would be a good spot. And I think
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: that'd be an exciting exciting player to see.
• 14:10
  Speaker 7: For sure, when you got your time off from the game,
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: when you were gone, when you got released, is there
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: a guy that if a game was on TV, that
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: you would stop and be like, I got to see
• 14:22
  Speaker 7: what he's doing. Like, is there a dude in the
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: game that you're like, this is like I want to
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: see his at bat. I want to see him pitch something.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: No, that's not even nothing against nobody, Like that's not
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: even nothing against no players or nothing, not that I
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: wouldn't but like I totally checked out, Like I wasn't
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: watching no sports.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Like I still haven't really watched sports.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: You know, I've been spending time with my family, spending
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: time my kids, uh, you know, been working.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: On the mental you know. The last thing that I really,
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: you know, wanted to watch was was you know baseball.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: That's fair. That's fair, all right?
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: When you talk to the Angels, where'd they say what
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: they say? Your best job position and wise was to
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: come in and make the team. Was it shortstop your
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: natural position? Was it like a utility guy? Was it
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: second base? Because Scott Brown's been clamoring for you to
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: go the Angels to play second base for a while
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: now or shortstop. He is the happiest all get out
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: that you're with the Angels.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Final you know, where wherever open and that you know
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: that happened to be safe and then I'm open to that.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just open man. I'm open man.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not here to you know, call those shots to
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: say this or you know, be no type of way like.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just open. You know, I'm open to
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: you know, whatever wherever I.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Can best fit and slide and slot and uh you know,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: perform my best and you know I'm over for that
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: Okay, good because you played in the WBC for Team USA,
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: Mark de Rosa and all those guys raved about you,
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: and you played second base. You did a hell of
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: a job. I mean, I think you wouldn't look horrible
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: playing a bunch of positions for the Angels. As long
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: as you hit the way Tim Anderson can hit, you're
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: gonna look good in that rad halo on your head.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. If I definitely get the bat the
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: back back.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Then you know, you know, I'm pretty sure that we
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: can find a position for sure.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Hey, t A, I remember, you know, we've had trod
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: on a few times and sometimes he'll sit there and
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: this is you know, one of the best players of
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: our generation, and he's done this twice on our show,
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: he'll go and he goes pitching now, Pitching now versus
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: ten years ago when I entered the league.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Ridiculous. You feel the same way like when you.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Entered the league versus now, Like it is just insanely different.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I lost.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I lost the wave of it, man, and everything got
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: some different. Guys was pitching down, then got start pitching up,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and then gotta start.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: You don't have a ride.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: So that played a lot into just you know, the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: way you train, and uh yeah, definitely, it definitely you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: it definitely changed for sure.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Do you use any of the tech so some of
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: the hitters we talked to say, you know, they'll use
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: like the trajected or or virtual.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Reality, any of that. I got. That's see, that's what
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I see. That's why I messed up.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: I started trying to learn too much about the game
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: and trying to learn how to learn trying to learn
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: how to hinge and trying to learn how to and it,
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: and it took away from being so simple and took
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: away my athleticism, so to the point where man, I don't.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I just want to just get back to just playing.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I want to keep it simple.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I had to go back and relearn the basic and
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of things felt like I feel like, you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: felt like when I was going good. So I just
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: been really just been uh you know, thirsty and hungry
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and uh, you know since with you know, chasing that.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Feel and not really worrying about you know, all.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: The rest of that stuff, just keeping it simple because
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't know about that stuff when I had those
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: good years. So when I started learning about it, man,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: it threw me off.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: T A.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: That is gold because we argue about this all the
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: time with people who come on here like.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I need to be done on me, I need to
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: be done. I need to be done.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: No, that's not like you know, you know as well
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: as anybody like you can say that, you can say
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: that was a smile, but you still got to be
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: a stun to win a batting champ batting championship in
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: the big leagues. So how long does that take to
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: un learn? Because people are always in your ear. They're
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: just like, hey, hey, you were almost there, you were
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: almost there. What about this?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Hey I'm on VP.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you think about even like through my years with
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the White Sox, like you know, my my language changed
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: over the course of years because I was you know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: we had different unit culture, a different manager, so a
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: lot of those things changed, and so I got thirsty
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and going to you know, trying to find, you know.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: A way to do more, which reality, I didn't need
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: to do more.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I could have just stayed where I was in the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: midst of having injuries, and so I just really lost
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the field, you know, I lost the field. I lost
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the basic on on how to hear you see my
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: lunch angle, you know, the last year, like I lost it,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: completely lost it, you know. So I really didn't know
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: exactly what so, you know, stepping away once I got released,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to you know, I didn't want to play,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't want to sign again because I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: would have probably messed up this opportunity, you know, and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: uh so I just really wanted to go back and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: relearn the basics. So I kind of lost the feel
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: for everything, honestly.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Damn.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Listen, you know how I know you were good and
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: you're still going to be good because you know what
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: number you first wore when you came over to the
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: White Sox twelve.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: So that's how I know you were a good player
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: all right, because I wasn't giving that junk.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Out just anybody, all right, I wasn't giving anybody.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Okayarning to me, I kind I kind of like you
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: now man said we'd had an interview. I kind of
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: like you we to talk more. At first. At first
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I felt a little way by, I felt the energy.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: But you know you're kind of cool though for sure. O.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll say this is my last one too, just
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: to ask you a question like off season chatter. So
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: this show has had almost six hundred player guest appearances,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: and I feel like sometimes the player voice wasn't you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: getting enough love.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: So so my last question to you.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Is do you feel like the league like and I'm
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: not saying the league office, I'm saying like MLB as
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: a sport and the players need to do anything to
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: kind of keep themselves more in the mix with the
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: young fan, right, because I I mean, we all see it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: The NFL is king.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: The NBA has so many different players that like go
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: on podcasts and shows and just are you know when
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: there's drama in baseball, we always joke, we're like, you
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: know what they say in the NBA they call that
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Tuesday because they have that stuff every few days, and
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I feel like it draws up fan interest. So, you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: as you're getting older and wiser, what do you see
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: with the way that the sport is being portrayed? Like
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: are we looked at as not cool enough?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it's not cool. I mean it looked at
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: not cool.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, you know, I don't know what
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: you know, what the game could do? You know, honestly,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I mean it's been going on for years.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about this from the time I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: came into the league at the time now and then
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: we're still asking this question. Damn what you know what
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: could be done?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: That's true, obviously nothing. We haven't. We haven't, we haven't,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you know, we haven't. We're still asked me the same question.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So therefore I don't know, you know, don't you know?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: So I can't. I can't.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I can't answer that question, you know, No, that's fair.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I mean our answer was to do this, you know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: like we're not rich off this. We're doing this because
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: we're going to bring all the players off on the
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: show and you know, get like more from them, right
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: and do it in a neutral way and becoming the
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: sport every day so wanted to get your take. But
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I'm with you. It's been talked about for
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: a long time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, No, this shows the show is good.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: You know good, you know. I like the energy on official.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: That was fun. That was cool.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: See, I was looking forward to getting TA on for
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: a while, Like you mentioned, at one point, we were like, yo,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: you should come on, you know, once a month. But
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I feel like the guys have to sit in the seat,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: spend fifteen minutes with us and see what's up.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: But I enjoyed it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: That was That was fun. That was fun, you know.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, listen, there was some uncomfortable moments there, but
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: you got to ask the questions because no one's.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Ever heard of them.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: No one's ever heard some of that stuff before. That's
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: listen and someone that's been through the same exact thing
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: he's been through. I mean, I don't know. I love
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: to you. I think he's great and I wish him
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: nothing but the best. Seriously, I hope he does great Nanah,
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Los Angeles, whatever the hell they calling it now.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: I hope he's MVP.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, trust me, I told Kratz when he signed
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: that contract. Here was the thing that bothered me back
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: when the whole quote controversy happened with FT right. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: just to give someone everyone a quick backstory, Cody Decker
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: is a baseball personality.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Used to play mostly in the minors. I don't remember.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: He maybe had a cup of coffee. Actually, yeah, the.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Biggs really good dude and does all sports. He's got
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: a show with Michelle Bile. He comes on the show
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: and he was like, I feel like ten minutess soon
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: would be a good fit there, And I think he
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: might have said at shortstop whatever, and okay, like Zach
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Netto's there.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: He was playing well.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I think he was a rookie at the time or
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: if not, like very few times few at bats in
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the big leagues and people lost their mind and I
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: like kind of came to his rescue and said, hey,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Ta would be a good fit here. He can play
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: second base, and fans were like, we don't need him,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: blah blah blah. Ta has struggled since. It just would
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: be full circle if he comes to the Angels. That's
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the spot where he clicks. And like he mentioned AJ,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: he's been trying to link up with the Angels. They've
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: been close, but it didn't happen.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: There is no better fit for him than Ron Washington
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: in that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Ron Washington will get his mind right, Ron Washingt will
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: get his glove right, and Ron Washington will get his
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: bat right.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Now, whether Ta.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Takes off, which I hope he does and we all
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: hope he does, I don't know, but listen, Ron Washington
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: will be the perfect fit because he'll have him, he'll
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: have him motivated, he'll have him inspired, and you'll have
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: him ready to play every single day. And that's what
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Ron Washington is great at man. He is a great
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: motivator and he's a great manager because he knows that
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: a lead man