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Jim Penders Postgame - Maine · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Mike Chris Baynell joined by Jim Pender's up here in
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  Speaker 1: our broadcast booth. And this one you took advantage of
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  Speaker 1: nine walks. I mean, when when the other team has
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  Speaker 1: given you free passes, you got to take advantage, and
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  Speaker 1: tonight you did that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they I thought our guys were patient at the plate.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't getting a ton of stuff to hit. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we only had eight hits, you know, but when they
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  Speaker 2: give you nine, you know, it's like giving you twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven bases. So I'm sorry, math's a little off seventeen bases,
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  Speaker 2: but took it. You know, we were able to score
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  Speaker 2: on what they gave us. I mean, I thought Biller's
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  Speaker 2: at bat in the first was huge. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: have Tyler bounces out uncharacteristically in a big spot early there.
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  Speaker 2: We get three straight walks and he doesn't get his
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  Speaker 2: best swing off, and you know, there's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of momentum in the other dugout all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: It's like, okay, we got through three four without anything
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  Speaker 2: on the board and three walks, and then and then
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  Speaker 2: Biller goes down two and then fights to stay in
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  Speaker 2: the count, lays off some tough pitches and walks, and
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  Speaker 2: that was that kind of broke the ice. And then
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  Speaker 2: Dougherty with a big knock to follow that up, and
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  Speaker 2: then it was off to the rate. After that, I
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  Speaker 2: thought we did a really nice job offensively, and then
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  Speaker 2: it made some nice plays defensively too. Biller had a
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  Speaker 2: nice one the outfield, Daniels had a really nice diving play,
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  Speaker 2: Tyler had a nice uh three six double play. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some good things. And Budvar was on a
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  Speaker 2: strict pitch count today. And Shaw picked up his buddy
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  Speaker 2: from Manhattan College and ate a lot of innings. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't have his best stuff, but we just needed all
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  Speaker 2: those innings eating and he did exactly what we needed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Shaw was a little up and down. He gave
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  Speaker 1: up four runs, four hits, he walked three. But it
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  Speaker 1: looked like to me, you were gonna leave him in there.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna make You're gonna work it out because this
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  Speaker 1: is the deal. We lead, keep the lead, let's get
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  Speaker 1: something fixed or whatever. You know, I'm thinking in your
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  Speaker 1: mind what you might be thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't want to show them anybody else either.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had a decent lead. If they could
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had Hutchinson ready, but you know, we
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  Speaker 2: just we really wanted to just stay with the one
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  Speaker 2: guy if we could, if we could get away with it,
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  Speaker 2: and then the opportunity presented itself, you know, when we
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  Speaker 2: don't get the mercy role in the bottom of the eighth,
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  Speaker 2: the ten run role and it stays nine runs. You
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  Speaker 2: got two guys that haven't been in a game in
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  Speaker 2: a long time, and I thought, there's stuff looked great.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Evan Hamburger's slider looked good. He was downhill
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  Speaker 2: through an eighty nine mile hour fastball. You know, got
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  Speaker 2: a good result. And I thought cam Cam looked really
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  Speaker 2: good too. Mayor at his stuff working. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we may need those guys at Prasco and beyond, so
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  Speaker 2: it was good to see them get back on the beam.
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  Speaker 1: How much confidence does that give you as the as
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  Speaker 1: the head coach when you see a couple of guys
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  Speaker 1: mug even just get an out or two who you
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen in a three or four weeks, can you
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  Speaker 1: can you get a positive feeling from that and then
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  Speaker 1: take that with you next week if you need it.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, Yeah, it's more important that they had the positive feeling, right,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you want to simulate. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: to simulate a nine run lead. You know, in their minds,
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  Speaker 2: it's got to be a tie score there or we're
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  Speaker 2: down one or up one and do the job and
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  Speaker 2: so that you can be better prepared for the next
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  Speaker 2: time you pay, which probably not gonna be a nine
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  Speaker 2: run lead, and we're gonna need you to do something
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more special. So but I thought they
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  Speaker 2: both looked like they can look, and we haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: those two guys look like they can look in a
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  Speaker 2: long long time. So that was that was important. Josh
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  Speaker 2: came to me in the seventh or eighth and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking this this and you know what, Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: do it. Let's do it. Let's get shot off the
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  Speaker 2: mount in the ninth and if we have that big
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  Speaker 2: a lead, let's you know, we can we can play
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  Speaker 2: a little bit and see if they can get get
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  Speaker 2: a couple of guys out.
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  Speaker 1: And how much better is the bottom of the third order. Again,
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  Speaker 1: when you got Grant MacArthur hitting seventh, does your DH
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  Speaker 1: he gets a couple of knocks, knocks in a run.
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  Speaker 1: Connor Land got a nice ground ball up the middle.
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  Speaker 1: It has scored a run on the seventh plus that
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  Speaker 1: sack fly and the first hit thing. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: really lengthens this lineup. But you got six three hundred
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  Speaker 1: hitters there in a row, and then the bottom third
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  Speaker 1: delivering a little bit for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so MacArthur. You know, he's got ten homers,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean, for it's a luxury to have a
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  Speaker 2: seven hitter. And I'm looking at our averages on the board,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, those are those are as high as
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  Speaker 2: they've been all year. I mean, it's pretty it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's got some The lineup certainly has some length.
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  Speaker 2: We also have guys in the bench. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: got bow Root, who's you know, hitting over three hundred
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  Speaker 2: that I can't get in there, you know, but I
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  Speaker 2: love having It's a luxury because he's he's so good
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  Speaker 2: off the bench too, and he can run. And so
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  Speaker 2: we got some good answers. I think offensively gonna you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully have a good day tomorrow with throwing strikes. And
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  Speaker 2: they have a very good starting pitching, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: we did a nice job getting to their starter tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But we're gonna have another test tomorrow and hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 2: have a good crowd tomorrow night on a Friday, last
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  Speaker 2: Friday night in stores.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, midweather was great, great baseball weather. One final thing
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  Speaker 1: on biller. At one point I was looking at his numbers.
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  Speaker 1: He was hitting about two oh nine at one point
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  Speaker 1: in the season, he would not hit it. And then
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  Speaker 1: he has been hitting much better over the last twenty
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  Speaker 1: games or so. What are you seeing with him?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got to be confident now in what
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  Speaker 2: he's doing. Yeah, I thought he was kind of cutting
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  Speaker 2: himself off early in the season, but it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: how his swing works anyway. It really wasn't a mechanical,
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  Speaker 2: mechanical thing. I think he was really getting in his
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  Speaker 2: own way. He's such a people pleaser. He's such a
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  Speaker 2: good young person and just a great personality. Really cares
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  Speaker 2: about others. He's a great teammate, and I think he
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  Speaker 2: was just so caught up in what everybody else was thinking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like he was putting too much weight on
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  Speaker 2: his shoulders and and we moved him down in the order.
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  Speaker 2: Was like, man, this guy should be hitting a lot
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  Speaker 2: better than he is. And finally he just kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuck with He always works, but I think he just
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  Speaker 2: you know, these guys come in. They come here like
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get drafted, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do If you start thinking about that stuff, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to get in the way. And I think he's just
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  Speaker 2: playing for for himself now. He's not worried about anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: He's he if this is it, if this is his
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  Speaker 2: last time playing baseball, he doesn't want to have any regrets.
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  Speaker 2: And the irony is, you know, he's he's starting to
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  Speaker 2: draw some attention of scouts as a result. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's funny when you focus on what you can control,
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  Speaker 2: what you're capable of, and uh, he's showing that he's
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  Speaker 2: capable of an awful lot. He's a lot of fun
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  Speaker 2: to watch. I mean, boy, that that line drive Homer
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  Speaker 2: was special too. I mean that was that was another
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  Speaker 2: moment swing. I thought, you know, they scored whatever it
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  Speaker 2: was three on or Menzila, the RBI and the two
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  Speaker 2: RBIs and Shaw's walking a couple of people, the momentum
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  Speaker 2: shifting to their dugout. They get two quick outs, two
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  Speaker 2: of our best hitters, and and Daniels and Minnick and
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  Speaker 2: then boom, you know, Biller puts up a solo shot
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  Speaker 2: and at least we answer with something in that inning.
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  Speaker 2: So he got the game ball tonight. I just think
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  Speaker 2: it was impressive what he was able to do in
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  Speaker 2: those and just in those two at bats and in
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  Speaker 2: the catch in the outfield. But he's a good baseball player,
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  Speaker 2: really good, and we're really glad he's here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun to watch. He really is that California thing.
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  Speaker 1: The basketball team did that pretty well last couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: Joey kal Katera coming in and win a national championship.
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  Speaker 1: And now I got Sam Biller, who knows, who knows what
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  Speaker 1: these Cali guys can do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they seem to fit in really well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's we haven't had a bad one yet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean really, they fit in great. And they're really
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  Speaker 2: good baseball players, you know. They they they are playing
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  Speaker 2: outside since their little kid a year round in many cases,
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  Speaker 2: and they have the actions. They have the mental cuity
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  Speaker 2: for it too. They really have good feel for when
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  Speaker 2: to bunt, when not to bunt. What you know, what
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  Speaker 2: the situation is, they just play. They play a lot
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  Speaker 2: more baseball than we do out here at a younger age.
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  Speaker 2: So they've they've they've really been a you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking back twenty years now. We've been very successful bringing
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  Speaker 2: in guys from the West coast. Yeah, Graham MacArthur's another one. Right,
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  Speaker 2: all right, coach, you appreciate it. Tomorrow, let's go get them.
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  Speaker 2: You got it, Thanks, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: That's Jimpenders.