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Pete Alonso & Mookie Betts on Mets Wild Offseason, Juan Soto Signing w_ New York _ On Base, Ep. 36 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to on Base Live in your Bleacher Report app.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Mookie Betts, and today we have a
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  Speaker 1: four time All Star, twenty nineteen NL Rookie of the Year,
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  Speaker 1: and a two time Home Run Derby winner, Pete polar
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  Speaker 1: Bearra Alonzo. Thanks for coming on, bro. Hell yeah, look
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  Speaker 1: Florida this you know. I'm really excited to have you
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  Speaker 1: on here and get to talk to you because I
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  Speaker 1: got we got to play on the WBC together and
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  Speaker 1: I really got to kind of see a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of your personality and whatnot and so but we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into that for sure in a little bit. I want
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  Speaker 1: to start off a playing a game called on base,
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  Speaker 1: off base. Whether you're in or out, you'll you'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, warming up with a sledgehammer is the
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  Speaker 1: best way to warm up, I believe you.
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  Speaker 2: On base.
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  Speaker 1: So I seen so it was I don't know, like
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  Speaker 1: the seventh inning, I don't and I've seen the Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Neimo holding this sledgehammer, And the first in my head
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  Speaker 1: was what is this?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: And so why well.
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  Speaker 2: So I uh so this off season, like I did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of sledgehammer work.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so this started from you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Oh okay, so he just well, okay, okay, storytime, storytime.
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  Speaker 2: So basically I was just doing some drills in the
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  Speaker 2: off season, like, uh, do you do heavy bet heavy
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  Speaker 2: bet work stuff like that. Okay, So sledgehammer it's the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, but it like really emphasizes it where you
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  Speaker 2: have to really be connected. You have to really kind
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  Speaker 2: of be firing for certain things in your body to
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  Speaker 2: grab and things move fluidly in the swing. And if
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  Speaker 2: you if you swing it and things aren't connected or
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  Speaker 2: you're not swinging it right, uh, then then it's gonna hurt.
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  Speaker 2: So it forces your body to stay in the proper
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  Speaker 2: stay in the proper like hold the proper positions while
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  Speaker 2: you're while you're moving through your swing.
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  Speaker 1: So and so and so.
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  Speaker 2: Like the boys, I brought a sledgehammer spring training, and
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  Speaker 2: like I'm hitting balls off the tee, hitting.
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  Speaker 1: Front tops with with the sledge hammer, and then people
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  Speaker 1: are yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like that, Like it helps you get
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  Speaker 2: in that get in that position, in that body position
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  Speaker 2: with your core and your legs, so you can really
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  Speaker 2: increase like everything being in sync.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody uses it, or just a couple of couple
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  Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, but it made the on deck back.
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  Speaker 1: So that means enough people use it to make it
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  Speaker 1: to the on deck made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's made the cage bag every year and now
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  Speaker 2: it got promoted to.
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  Speaker 1: The deck back. Okay, so what about this The team
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  Speaker 1: should play more classic rock to get hyped.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I me personally, like I I like classic rock,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like I'm certain some people do, but I
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  Speaker 2: I would say, I'm I'm off base.
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  Speaker 1: You're off base, so well, okay, so but I know
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  Speaker 1: you you like classic rock for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But I know, like a lot of people, like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people love like their bad bunny and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a bad bunny guy that you look like
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  Speaker 1: a bad bunny guy. I don't mind bad by Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everybody's the bagne, but you can't not.
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  Speaker 2: Like Yeah, So like I feel like if I were
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  Speaker 2: to turn I mean especially, a lot of guys would
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  Speaker 2: hate it. I mean it's like they turn this, turn
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  Speaker 2: this gringo music off. So like like they're fine with
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  Speaker 2: like technos, but they would hate that.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, definitely down, So we're off based on that. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what about this one? You should always use a flash,
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  Speaker 1: like when you're walking in the dark. I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I don't want to say anything.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm on base. I have to be
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  Speaker 1: on base now, you know, I really did. You know
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  Speaker 1: how many times people like stub their toe on the
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  Speaker 1: wall or on the bed or or whatever, and you
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  Speaker 1: never think anything about it. You know it.
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  Speaker 2: Impact, But now it impacts and like man, like.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and it really sucked. It really sucked. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just you know, I remember the seconds,
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  Speaker 1: like right when you hit your toe and you know
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't doesn't start hurting yet, and then the pain comes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta.
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  Speaker 1: So I knew I got it on a good one.
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  Speaker 1: What what do you have any like weird injuries or
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  Speaker 1: something that's nothing like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm so back in college my sophomore year, we
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  Speaker 2: had these like self feeding pitching machines. So before got dumble,
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  Speaker 2: class went went to the field. We had a game.
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  Speaker 2: This was a Tuesday game against USF. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna take some swings kind of early,
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  Speaker 2: just kind of get my feels in, get my swings
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  Speaker 2: in before before we start doing our pregame stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: there was a cutball in the in the hopper and
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  Speaker 2: the machine. Yeah, so you know when you feed like
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  Speaker 2: a like a cut baseball into the machine and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: moving all over this. Yeah, so this machine threw a
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  Speaker 2: sinker from hell and this thing was gonna was gonna
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  Speaker 2: hit me. So I just try and follow it off
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  Speaker 2: just so to protect myself. Hits off, home plate comes up,
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  Speaker 2: bashes me in the nose, and I have to wear
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  Speaker 2: a softball helmet for the rest for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the year. And also I got to wear the softball
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  Speaker 2: pitcher's mask and I'm like catching pop ups. I had
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  Speaker 2: to take the man. Yeah. So yeah, twenty fifteen, there's
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  Speaker 2: some there's some videos of me wearing a softball mask.
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  Speaker 1: Like how could you see? And everything?
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  Speaker 2: I raked with it, but anymore, it was like a
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  Speaker 2: cone of shame, you know, like a dog when a
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  Speaker 2: dog like, yes, it's not good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what about this? The Tampa Bay Lightning will be
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  Speaker 1: the next Tampa team to win a championship.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely on base with that.
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  Speaker 1: You're on base, big hockey guy. Yeah, I love the Bolts,
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  Speaker 1: so you and from what I'm not a hockey guy,
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  Speaker 1: but from what I've seen, Tampa is usually pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Is that Yes, they've been super consistent. They got they
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  Speaker 2: got great, great talent. I think you go to the
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  Speaker 2: games every once in a while. I do. Brandon point
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  Speaker 2: and uh, Nikita Kuchirov. Obviously those that duo is is really.
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  Speaker 1: Said their name, that's their names. So you you're friends
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  Speaker 1: with them.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know Pointed really well. But my best
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  Speaker 2: hockey buddy, I would say, is Patty Maroon. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know Patty Maroon the big rig. So you did you
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  Speaker 2: grow up playing hockey? I did not?
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  Speaker 1: Just okay, okay, nice, okay, So uh, let's switch gears
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  Speaker 1: the Mets. I've had a couple of guys on here,
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  Speaker 1: and to my understanding, you got you all have nicknames
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Yours is the polar Bear. The polar Bear. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: for those who don't know where did this originate?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Todd Fraser. Todd Fraser, Yes, Todd Fraser, Yes. And
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  Speaker 2: he's just he just he's just kind of Todd's a
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  Speaker 2: guy like kind of just a loudmouth from Jersey. So
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  Speaker 2: we were in twenty nineteen. This was my second big
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  Speaker 2: league camp. I was between two, I would say in
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  Speaker 2: my mind at the time, like two ultra veterans. Robbie
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  Speaker 2: Cano was on one side, and then it was me,
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  Speaker 2: and then it was Todd Fraser saw sandwich between these
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  Speaker 2: two guys, and I'm just like trying to mine my
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  Speaker 2: my business only speak when spoken to that. And then
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  Speaker 2: Todd every day he's just go full force right at you,
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  Speaker 2: and he's just just said it and then just yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just and you you actually liked it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great, great nick nick could be a
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  Speaker 2: ton of a ton of other other names, or you
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  Speaker 2: could be a bad nickname, and that there's nothing worse
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  Speaker 2: than when a bad nicknamesticks. So I'm very unfortunate. I'm
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  Speaker 2: very lucky, Todd, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So does Subtle have a nickname? Yet?
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  Speaker 2: Everyone calls him Pacheco? Where Okay, that's his I think
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  Speaker 2: that's his. Uh, it's a family name from his from
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  Speaker 2: his mother's sides. But that's like he's either Juan Juanito Pachecko. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so Pa checko with a B P. Doesn't matter. You
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  Speaker 2: just say it but checko, but checko, Okay, gotcha, got you?
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha? And so if I say that to him, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's probably over the line because I'm not on his team.
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  Speaker 1: No over Well, no, it's fine. Okay, I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 1: it today. We'll see, all right. So, in the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of teams being really good, obviously you guys are playoff teams.
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  Speaker 1: You added one Soto and now you guys have a
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote big three with you Frankie Soto and really
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  Speaker 1: all you guys are very your playoff baseball team, so
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  Speaker 1: you know for sure, but being with those, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Met's Big three with you guys, how is that? Like,
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  Speaker 1: how has that been?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Do you do you feel any pressure with that? Or
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  Speaker 1: do you just like, how is it? How do you
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  Speaker 1: guys play off each other?
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome because like playing with these guys, it's like
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  Speaker 2: the thing that I love about wand and I love
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  Speaker 2: about Francisco. Those guys come ready to strap it on
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and the way they post up, the
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  Speaker 2: way they're consistent in their routines, they're the same cats
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  Speaker 2: every single day, good, yea good or bad exactly, they're
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  Speaker 2: still at the still in the cage. At the same time,
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  Speaker 2: they're still in the weight room or in the training
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  Speaker 2: room getting treatment, whatever they're doing. They are ridiculously committed
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  Speaker 2: to their routine. They're committed to their process, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a reason why like those guys like and it's not
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  Speaker 2: just those guys, it's it's our team, it's our whole
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  Speaker 2: it's our whole squad. And I think like from top
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  Speaker 2: to bottom when you get a full group, and you
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  Speaker 2: guys are kind of that way too. I from I
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  Speaker 2: feel like you guys are ridiculously consistent. That's why I
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  Speaker 2: feel like past two like you can just see like
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  Speaker 2: like every time, every time, like good teams play, it's
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  Speaker 2: just knockout, drag out because both guys or both sides
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  Speaker 2: are so committed in their process and in the way they.
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  Speaker 1: Can make you play good baseball. And so I know
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  Speaker 1: Soto's kind of started off slow or whatever, and all
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  Speaker 1: the allegations and all this stuff, and I'm not here
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  Speaker 1: to talk about none of that. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: put I want to hear your perspective on the guy
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  Speaker 1: you saw every day, not the baseball, because the baseball
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the baseball He's won Soto. Everything
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  Speaker 1: is going to shake out how it's supposed to shake out,
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  Speaker 1: oh for sure, But the guy every day, I would know.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know about that because that that guy
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  Speaker 1: is special and.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why the reason why he's I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's a twenty six year old kid, but he's committed
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  Speaker 2: to his routine. He's committed to his process. But the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, the kid eats, sleeps, and drinks ball.
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  Speaker 2: Like he just is so committed to baseball, committed to
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  Speaker 2: the game, committed to his craft, like like he like
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  Speaker 2: one is like so dedicated to his craft, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why he's like I mean, people think of him, he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's like a super veteran, but really he's just a
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  Speaker 2: twenty six year old that great he's been in the league.
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  Speaker 2: This is his seventh, like seventh full year, eighth season,
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  Speaker 2: and what he's been able to do and accomplish, it's
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  Speaker 2: like it's because he's he's been so dedicated and such
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  Speaker 2: routine oriented and he's owned it and that's why you
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  Speaker 2: get the results on the field exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the other side, you start off hot,
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  Speaker 1: been playing hot, been playing great, been playing normal, polar
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  Speaker 1: bear baseball. What I believe that you believe you can
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  Speaker 1: always do what has been different or has clicked or
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  Speaker 1: whatever for you this year so far.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like for me, I just want to feel
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  Speaker 2: like myself pitched to pitch a bat to a bat,
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  Speaker 2: and to be able to harness that and hold onto
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  Speaker 2: that with like my mechanics, I don't really want to
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  Speaker 2: for me, I just want to be able to no
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  Speaker 2: matter what the release window is, whatever the visual whatever
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  Speaker 2: the visual thing the pitcher is trying to create or
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  Speaker 2: pitch shape or sequence as trying to do, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter if I hold on to my If I hold
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  Speaker 2: on to my mechanics and I'm able to see the
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  Speaker 2: ball in my go area, then it doesn't matter. Then
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  Speaker 2: then I'm walked in. We're going, and I'm consistent at
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  Speaker 2: back to a bat, pitch to pitch, and in game
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  Speaker 2: to game, hold on to the fields, hold on to
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  Speaker 2: the visuals.
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  Speaker 1: And don't deviate in the Sledgehamer House.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, it's not the it's not like the
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  Speaker 2: magic pill, but it's just one of this, but it
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  Speaker 2: is one of the things that that does kind of
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  Speaker 2: help lock in some fields for me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I want to go back to to baby Pete, like,
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  Speaker 1: what what did you did you play other sports growing up?
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  Speaker 1: What else did you do?
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  Speaker 2: I played, I played football, I played lacrosse. Lacrosse. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was a lax bro.
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  Speaker 1: That is that what it's called? Lax? Yeah, lax. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So we got football, lacrosse.
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  Speaker 2: I played basketball for a year or for two years,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that good at it? And I played soccer for
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  Speaker 2: the middle school team. So yeah, so you played yeah,
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  Speaker 2: super active. I mean I love, I loved playing sports.
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  Speaker 1: What was which one was your favorite one?
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  Speaker 2: I mean baseball?
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  Speaker 1: But if I had to say baseball because he played baseball.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's it really was. But my my close second
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  Speaker 2: was was was football?
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  Speaker 1: And you were you were good at football.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I the best best I was was a
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  Speaker 2: was a JV JV linebacker. That was about it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but you loved it though I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's great.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean you're from Florida too, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that a lot of a lot of talent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I started getting recruiting letters for baseball as
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  Speaker 2: a freshman, and I had no recruiting letters for being
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  Speaker 2: a on JV.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like so and so in high school? Like
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  Speaker 1: was it was it difficult to change sports and stuff? No,
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  Speaker 1: it was easy for you.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy because like I just love to play. Like
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  Speaker 2: for me, like I loved playing lacrosse, I love playing football,
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  Speaker 2: I love playing baseball, So for me, it's like just
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  Speaker 2: out there competing.
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  Speaker 1: And so what did you work out?
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  Speaker 2: I mean you work out.
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  Speaker 1: I guess football.
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  Speaker 2: Football, yeah, you have to, and then baseball you really,
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're playing I think we only played like
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  Speaker 2: three games, three games a week, so and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: the off season, so you had time to work out.
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  Speaker 1: And so then you get recruited and where did you
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  Speaker 1: Where was your dream school that you wanted to go to.
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  Speaker 2: Originally for the longest time, I wanted to go to
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  Speaker 2: u n C.
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  Speaker 1: The Guitar Hill, and you ended up going to I
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  Speaker 1: ended up.
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  Speaker 2: Going to so tell you how this worked out? So
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to you and see and then
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  Speaker 2: they're like, well we got somebody like we had our
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  Speaker 2: first basement and then kind of switched over to like
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  Speaker 2: some interest from Stanford. And then they're like, we actually
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  Speaker 2: flew out there.
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  Speaker 1: For Stanford, so that means you did like real good
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  Speaker 1: in school.
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  Speaker 2: I did, well, yeah, nice, So it's funny we actually
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  Speaker 2: went out there for a visit, did the tour and
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  Speaker 2: then just to get like just to be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: see how the season goes.
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  Speaker 1: So that was fun, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then and then I had I had two offers
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  Speaker 2: on the same day after this one showcase after my
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  Speaker 2: junior year, so it was Miami and Florida.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, oh nice, so you're gonna stay at home.
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  Speaker 2: So I And for me, I was uncommitted after my
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  Speaker 2: junior year baseball, so and went to I think it
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  Speaker 2: was the East Coast Did you do the East Coast Pro?
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  Speaker 2: So it was East Coast Pro, had a great, great showcase,
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  Speaker 2: had a great game, and then Miami and Florida came
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  Speaker 2: on the same day, and it's like, well, Florida, It's
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  Speaker 2: like those are if you can just get on the
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  Speaker 2: field at Florida and play, then you're gonna give yourself
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  Speaker 2: a chance to go to the next level. So for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's like best opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Miami wasn't like that.
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  Speaker 2: I they I don't. I for me, like they weren't
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  Speaker 2: going to the World Series Series as much. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they had really good players.
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  Speaker 1: But the pedigree of Florida it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So for me, like I chose UF because it's like,
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  Speaker 2: is it the is the easiest environment. No, it's a
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  Speaker 2: challenge to get on the field. Uh, it's a challenge.
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  Speaker 2: You got to earn playing time because dude, ore inner squads.
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  Speaker 2: They were nice, they were Yeah, you gotta fight. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta fight for playing time every every single every single
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  Speaker 2: time you start that one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: And so you go to Florida and how was it?
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  Speaker 1: How was your experience?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: No, it's I mean again, it is very I mean
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: you're there to you're there to to go to school
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: and and and win baseball games. That's it.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: And darty every.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Once in a while when when you're allowed to. But yeah,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: and definitely saturdays in the swamp were like the only
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: times we're allowed to darty and the swamp.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, that's right. I mean that makes sense.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So so and did you could you have played football there?
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: You think?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Or no? Hell no? No?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, so tell me about a football game, Like did
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you go to football games?
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: And I know, yeah, it's sick, sick. So it depends
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: on what time the game starts. If it's like primetime
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: seven o'clock game, you got all day, all day.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: To darty all day to all day and then and
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: then everybody's at the game that night.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Everyone rockets. And I mean seven o'clock games at the swamp.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's really an incredible experience.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: You can fill it through the TV too.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think the twelve o'clock games, it's like
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: kind of just like it's kind of tough. Yeah, you
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: just wake up and it's just like gang yep.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's to ear.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, So then you get drafted, Uh, tell me take
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: me through that experience or process or whatever as you're
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: going through the draft and whatnot.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, my junior year, I was just like
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I gotta I was just on a mission to not
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I mean draft, getting drafted was important, but the previous
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: year we were I think we so University of Virginia
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: knocked us out in the semifinals at the College World Series.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: And once you get a taste of like that playoff baseball,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: then like you get it, you get addicted to it.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: And for us it's like we were I mean, we
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: had six guys drafted on the first day, but it's
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: like we had the talent we were supposed to win.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Then my junior we end up not winning. We ended
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: up going getting to the World Series, but then going
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: two games in a queue and sat on our way home,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: which was disappointing. But the whole year, it's like, we
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: got to get back, we got to finish what we
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: what we started. Because to be able to hoist up
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: that trophy and play for a championship, I mean that
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: was really important. And then obviously along the way you
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: have success, and then the draft stuff took care of
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: took care of itself.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: How was your minor league experience with the fun or
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: was it like a grind?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: It was? I mean it was great. I mean, I
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: for me, I'm very blessed that I was able to perform.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I think I spent two and a half seasons, only
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: two and a half seasons did the fall league. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: had the luxury of being a college guy, so they
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: were like, okay, have success, we'll move you along a
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: little bit, which was nice.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: So who who who did you play when college? Like,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: were there any any guys in the that you played?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Dane Dunning he's with Texas, Harrison Bader, y'all are.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: On the same team, Oh yeah, nice a J Puck.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And then we had a guy named Buddy Reed went
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: in the second round. Buddy Yeah, logan short first day guy.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Ah, y'all playing on the same team of yeah, kind of.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Uh and then I in junior year, Brady Singer, John Johnny, India,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Alex Fayato.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So when you go when you go see these guys
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: on the road, do y'all go to eat lunch or
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: anything together?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Not a whole lot, because I mean guys like for me,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: like families, wives and stuff like that. So it's like
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: families first, but we always always see each other kind of.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Do y'all have like a little sign or something that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: y'all did that you know, you know, you know, like
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you know how Gator Trump?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: No, No, nothing like that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll figure it out.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It's a but a lot of guys that go through there. Oh,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: shout out Jack Cocking Florida Gatoray.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: So so you claim him because he went to Florida too.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And he went to and we went to the same
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: high school.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Oh so, y'all, y'all really are cool, which I ain't
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: met yet. No, we've this is you already know them.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Oh so y'all are real cool y'all at homeboys? Yes,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: good for you, Good for you. So well, I've heard
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: he's really good. Obviously he well he's the number one
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: prospect right Yeah, so I'm sure he's got a lot
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: of pressure on him, but he's so talented.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, he'll be fine.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll be fine. He'll be fine. Plus he's got
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you as a friend. So yes, So as you come
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: up with in the meds and now you've been are
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you are you one of the longest you got to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: be one of the longest tenured guys out there.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's three guys. So it's Nim's, Brandon Nemo,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil. He's he lets me know every day that
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: he has two months more of big league service time.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, he lets.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Me know every day. And and me, so me and Jeff,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Jeff has over seven years. This is my seventh year NIMS.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I think this is your I mean, he's he got
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: called up in sixteen.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: He got to be a ten.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: He's close to close to ten. Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So and and I want to I want to
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: go through last year's playoffs and really through the end
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of the season, because you guys really got started playing
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: well and you get into the playoffs and like there's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: no real adversity, didn't really matter because y'all just kept playing.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: We were playing for our lives from like first on.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And oh, so that's so you just got used to it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So oh okay, all right, So do you think that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: That is yeah, we'refore Yeah, our team was forged by
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: adversity and because I mean we came from eleven games
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: under five hundred, eleven games back in the division or
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: from a wild coach eleven games under five hundred, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: like we were too talented and and we had all
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the pieces, and it's like, we need to go and
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: for us to be able to accomplish something, we need
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to go. And thankfully we were able to make it
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: happen day by day.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: What do you think changed or I'm don't know, Yeah, yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: would think changed for you guys?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I think uh, I mean obviously being eleven games under
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you have and and with the talent you look at
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: around at each other and it's like, man, we need
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: to be better.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: That what that's not that that's not really like a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: talk though, Like is that just understand.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: There's a uh so it actually happened. Uh you remember
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: you were actually there? Remember the glove toss? Mmm? Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: glove toss in the stands? Yeah, what was going here?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Let me let's flip here, flip the script, flip here,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: give me the pillow. So what was going through your mind.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: When you saw so when he walked off, he walked off,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and we saw a dude throw his gloves in the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: stands untucked to jersey, tucked to jersey, first throw the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: glove in the stands the walk off. I was like,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you know what, there's no way they can beat us,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: There's there's a look at this, there's no way, look
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: at this. This is this is the wildest thing I've
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: ever seen. And I love it. I love I loved it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I loved it because he did not He did not
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: give a damn and you hardly ever like for a person,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: for a guy to get to that mental head space.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Did you in the stands, bro.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Did you have to put your job back of your life?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, we all did because it was like it was
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: like a slow motion uh just movie. Just this is unbelievable.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Never seen it and never seen never seen in the show.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And that was probably one of the best things for
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you guys.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a it was kind of like a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: after after that game. It was like a very it
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: was like a team. I wasn't there because Paxson drilled
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: me with the heater in the hand. I was I
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: was in the MRIM and but everyone else, all the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: other boys were where they're having to come to Jesus moment.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean. That's because that was the only
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: option you had after that, for sure, you know what
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like that was one or two ways. Yes,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and I will never forget that. And yeah, I mean,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I mean he's you know, obviously shout out, shout out
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to him for firing you guys up and you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and doing what it would needed to be done. But whatever.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So I want to talk a little more about you
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and and something that's personal to you, and that's home runs.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Do you know how many home career home runs you have?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Uh? Two thirty something?
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And how many do you want to hit? Like I'm
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: at like a goal that you said, you know.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I just want to for me,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I want to play. I want to play through my
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: age forty season.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, so age forty season. If you hit forty a year,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I think forty a years is real for you. I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: don't even know how many what the math is on that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, ideally like it'd be great to play and
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: then whatever it ends up being, it ends.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Up being because like you don't worry about it, Okay, yeah, because.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: For me, like you got to capitalize on a pitch
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: over the middle of the dish, Yeah that's it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: But don't you want you don't want to be a
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: homer though? I mean, I mean, yeah, you you love
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: home run, so I want to I want to know
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: more about it because then I mean I love homers,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah I do, But like, like I not enough to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: do the home run Derby and win it twice, you
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like, and you're going to keep
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: doing the home run derby too? Maybe would you? Would you?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Just that's your your event though, right? You love it?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I yeah, it's because like as a kid, it's like
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: one of the things that it was. It's always I
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: always wanted to do it, and it's like and for me,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I think like doing that it's like every once in
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: a while you have those like moments as a ballplayer.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: For me, it's like eight year old eight year old
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: me would have been really really really proud and really
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: stoked to do this, you know what I'm saying.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And so tell me about that, Tell me about the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: home run Derby and what and why you feel like
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you're so good at it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I for me, I think it's as much as it
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: is a like Homer thing, it's it's also like an
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: endurance and it's an endurance competition because you gotta you gotta,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: you gotta outlast three rounds of pretty much swinging is
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: like taking taking really hard swings.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And you feel like you do that better than everybody.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know because I I mean again, like if
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I if I was like five for five, then.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're sometimes, but I mean you just
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: feel like you know because I remember you. I remember
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a while ago you said you were the best home
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: run hitter I in MVP and not MBP.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Well, I know I believe, like yeah, like
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I I think for me, I just want to be consistent.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I think for me, like in that in that event,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: like I feel like I I truly it's one of
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: those things where I don't know.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I just you have the advantage you do. I can
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: always pick you.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I always feel like, you know, what, if Pete just starts,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: it's always over.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just one it's like one click, one rhythm,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: and then once it starts.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It doesn't stop, right, you know so, and I did it.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I did the home run every one time. And it
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: makes perfect sense what you mean by the endurance. And
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you got to really be able to just barely swing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: And you guys use a heavy bat too.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Right, it's thirty four to thirty two.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I mean that's not that bad.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen some guys they use like thirty threes
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and thirty fours, yeah, to help to get over. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: there's no way I can do that, No way. So
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I want to switch a little bit to your personal life.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Bro.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: You you and your wife. Uh, you guys are expecting, yes, right,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and congratulations, thank you. So when does she do?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Uh, she's due, she's due later on. Yeah, there you go.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Uh she's due. She's gonna be due later on. She's
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: in week twenty twenty three right now. So you don't
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: know what she's doing. No I do.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I just oh, you don't want to say it? Yeah, okay,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: all right, So she's due later on.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It's it's just gonna be it's gonna be kind of
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: a tough. We don't well, we're gonna have to trip. No,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have So I'll put it this way. We're
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: gonna have to thread a needle. That's that's okay.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, there's only one way to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: do it. You just gotta do it, you know what
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Gotta do what you gotta do.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So, and it's a little boy. Yes, so are you
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: do you do you want a girl eventually? Eventually? Yes?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: But you you wanted a boy first.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, whether it's first or whatever, Like.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I wanted my I have to and I wanted my
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: boy first because I wanted him to protect his little
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: his little sister. Because I did want a girl and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: got him back. Well, I feel like that's what it
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: is though. Well, I feel like the it's for you.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like your your daughter. She's gonna run. Yeah,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, and so it'll be fine.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, it works for him, it's gonna be awesome
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: when seeing their relationship is a wonderful thing.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Really, when they get older, that's when that's when that's
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: when the yeah, yeah he's not Yeah, you're younger, you're
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: not baby brother, you're younger brother.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yea, it'll be cool. Yeah you and it's dope having
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a son. And I'm really excited for you because you're
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: gonna have a little boy. You're this dude. This little
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: dude is gonna watch every move you make.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I'm excited, but I for me, I just
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: can't wait to see, like what his personality is going
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to be, like, see his personality, kind of see him
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: like I want to see how he is like as
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: an independent, seemed to start to think for himself. Like
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I'm really excited for that, to see what what he becomes,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: you know, like how he how he becomes, and you know.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: What's crazy is like you're really responsible for that. So
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: it makes it tough. It's there, it is what it is.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Good luck. You know, I canna get any sleep. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: my advice to you is just like I almost don't
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: even try. Like when you wake up and he wakes up,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: just get up dog because you're not going to go
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: back to sleep.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So the harder you fight it, the worse it gets.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Such is a ride with whatever whatever happens. So I
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: want to go to this off season. You signed a
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: two year to stay with New York with the Mets.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: What is it about being a met that you just
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: love and you've been through You've been through some dark
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: times with the Mets and now obviously the SO side
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: going through.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Free agency, this was the this was the thing. So
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I wanted to go be an environment where it was
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: we are we are going for it. We are trying
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: to win baseball games. We are competing, and we're trying
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: to hold up the trophy at the end of the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: end of the year. Check you check that box? Uh
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: for me? Am I gonna get obviously at bats and
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: stuff like that, like check out. And then at that
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: point when I when I signed, like, okay, like are
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: we trying to win? Yes, but you have like what
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: about the personnel? How am I gonna fit with the personnel?
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Am I gonna like? Are we going to have like dudes?
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Right cause you can't just be one man band like
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: trying to trying to take on trying to take on
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: the league. Can't do that. It's not it's not sustainable
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: that way. So obviously we sign we signed Soto early
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: in the off season, and then you go through a
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: couple of other signings. You sign Clay Holmes, aj mentor
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Sean and Iya and it's like, Okay, we got a
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: couple guys that were a part of that group that
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: are coming Ryan Stanick some some good some good arms,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: electric arms. So I'm like, okay, this is this is legit.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: So and then we get obviously Frankie Montas, Okay, another
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: good arm. So we needed because I feel like against
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: y'all in the playoffs, it's like we we shot every
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: bullet we had. Yeah, yeah, we shot every we we
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: emptied the clip. You guys, you guys.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: We were good. Man, we were good.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: But you guys had you guys weathered the storm. But
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: like for us, it's like, Okay, looking back on it,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: it's like if we would have had some of these pieces,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I feel like we would have been better set.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Up easily because it's a different team. Like the guys
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: that you that's just a different team.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: So check check check check and have the We have
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: the familiarity, which is great because they know me, I
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: know them, I know what I'm going to get. It's
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: not a different environment and and for me, like it's
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: playing for I mean, that organization is really special because
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: they've believed in me when I was a twenty year
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: old year old kid uh to get drafted. They believed
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: in me when I was a twenty four year old
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: kid like making a roster out of opening day. It's like, hey,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: like they they kept me. They obviously, like they kept
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: believing me, and he didn't move me, they didn't trade
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: me or whatever. And then it's like, okay, we'll come
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: back in free agency. So we we appreciate that. But
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: all those boxes, like it's okay, I love playing for
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the Mets, but like when you get to free agency,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: you have to have a kind of a checklist. You
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: can't just go into it necessarily blindly. And for me,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I was very fortunate, very educated, and for me, I
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: was very convicted, and I know what my direction and
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: where I want to go in my crow. I want
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: to hold the trophy. I know you were able to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: you were to do it what twice with with uh
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: with obviously La and then and then Boston. So that's
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: three it's three rings for you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I know, it's it's it's pretty neat, pretty neat, but
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, you you to your point, like all those boxes,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: it just takes boxes. And then sometimes throughout those years, bro,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: it's just destiny, like you'll you'll see, Yeah, you know,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: it's hard to explain. I can't explain that just right.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: It just happens, and you'll see it. You'll see it
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: when it when it happens. But but it starts with
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the checklist that you just talked about. Those guys, you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and so you guys are playing great man and you
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: know you're gonna be You're gonna be real. You guys
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: are going to be really good. I do got a
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: question your your folks, your grandpa he he went to Nyu.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: He did. Yeah, so so growing up so he was
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: he grew up in Spain. Uh So during like the
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: weird times of like the Spanish regime. So the Nazis
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: like came into Spain. So great Grandpa got them out,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: moved in New York and so then he became of age.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: He enlisted in the US Army and fought World War Two.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: He was in North Africa, did a campaign in Italy,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: and we found all this out. He never talked about it,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: but after he passed, we found his his medals.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, okay, okay, I bet that's super dope.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. And then he went to n Yu used
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the g I Bill went to n y U.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And your dad is and then was your dad.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Your dad was born and my dad was born and
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: my dad was born in Queens.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Where it was Queen's closer to you guys, or or
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know anything about anything.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: We're so technically City Field is in Queens.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Dad he was born right there.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he got to leave the but growing growing
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: up like in New York, like working there, it's like, uh,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: he he had vivid memories of being in Brooklyn, like
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I think, and listening to uh, listening to games like
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the Dodgy games on the radio. So he he was
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: he was a Dodgy. He was a Dodger. He was
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: a Dodger. Guy, was a Dodger guy.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Was it that he was a Dodger guy? Okay, got
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: you got you? Got you? So so like playing for
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: New York does that does that mean anything?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: No? One that it's that gravitational poll or that destiny,
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: that kind of that that you're talking about. Where it's
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: like my so on my on my dad's side, that's
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: where my that's where my family, that's where my family was.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: My dad was born there, like they eventually moved out,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: they moved to Ohio, but my dad was born there
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: and all my dad's sisters were were born there. I
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: met my grandma there, so she was actually a receptionist.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know how to type. I need a type papers.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's good, okay, And I want to talk
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: that that's really that's really neat. That's really really neat.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: But I do want to talk about like your secret
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: sauce and like secret sauce seeing and I remember you
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: said it was chocolate milk, chocolate milk and squats, squats.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: What why is it chocolate milk and squats, Like why
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: that's not even like really that much of a secret.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: No, it's I mean for me, I think I get
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of my powers, like derived from my my legs,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: my lower half, my balance, so and squats. You need
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: to use your obviously, use your legs, use your core.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, there it is.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Dude, that that that the beard is throwing me off.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: That's so that was. That was Wow, that.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Was like young and sexy peak. That was you was
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: trying to be cute with the beard.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, well that's uh yeah, that was that was yeah
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: That's back when beards were like in you know, beards
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: were the thing in baseball at one point.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I mean they still kind of they still they still are,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: but like, but now I feel like the facial it's
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: like everyone's got a mustache.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, that's just kind of a game. Or they
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: let this just go crazy like Mountain Man. Yeah, you
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, which is cool, I get it.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: You know, Base always the believers with like the big
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Mountain Man. It's always.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I'm not sure why. So do
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: you participate in no shape November?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: No?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me neither. No if I let mine go. So
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I do want to ask a couple. I gotta I
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: gotta get a little game to play. It's called Secret Sauce.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And uh, you're not going to get any of these right, Okay,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: but I want to play, Okay, and you just got
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to tell me the athlete who you think it is.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: It could be any This is why it could be
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: any sport. The the the search results start, okay, Okay.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: So this athlete throws up before every game, every NFL game,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: so you know it's the NFL. He throws up before
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: every NFL game. We're just giving people the Secret Sauce.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: We're bringing it. Yeah, there's no way you're going to
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: get this right. He throws up before every game.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Can I ask offense or defense?
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Offense?
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Offense? I feel like this is like either a running
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: back or a wide receiver. I feel like it's not
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: a quarterback.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So do you want to guess?
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: No, I don't want to tell.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: All right, So Josh Allen, Josh Allen throws up before everything.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Doesn't that hurt?
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Like? That?
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Can't feel good? I mean, Josh, I'm questioning you a
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: little bit throwing up before games. Now, I know you
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: cod and you what do? What do? What you gotta do?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: But man, oh good? Okay, all right.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: So the next one, this athlete, I would say, didn't
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: didn't wash their socks throughout then throughout entire tennis tournaments.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: So you know it's a tennis player. This athlete did
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: not wash their socks throughout entire tennis tournaments. I don't
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: know how true this is. I don't want to spread rumors.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Is the old school or newer?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: She?
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: She? She is?
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: No nice try though. I mean, I'm just glad that
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: she tried. No Serena, Serena, Serena Serena. You know, like again,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: this is all allegations, same socks, same socks. I mean,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I get it because baseball, we wear a lot of
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the same clothes, but we wash it. You know what
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like tennis doesn't have clubbies, they may not
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: have plubbies. That's that's probably one of the is. She
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: probably is like you know what in her locker. You know,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna wash it. So I'm just gonna hang it
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: out up. It'll be dry by tomorrow and it'll be fine.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: And these are my lucky size. Everybody has their lucky
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: socks or their lucky drawers or whatever that I've been
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: playing well and I'm not gonna change draws. I don't
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: care how many holes that are in these draws.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Well, and then until like I obviously like for me,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: it's like I got lucky ones and then I get
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: scraped up on my knees.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Oh so then so if do you keep wearing them,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: wearing them until the luck runs out or what?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Hell? Yeah?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, a year. Yeah.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: I think that's that's universal.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's all sports is a thing. Like we
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: all are a little We're not super We're just stitious. Okay,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: so this athlete wore his college shorts under his uniform
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: for every NBA game. No, you're not gonna get this
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: one either. Actually you may. You may just look up
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and get this one NBA game out of shorts.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Kevin Garnett.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: No, I thought you just look at Michael Jordan's Michael. Yeah.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I actually have heard this before, but I didn't believe it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: But now that it's on it made it to the iPad.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: It's true. Oh, it's true. Okay, we'll finished the last one.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: This athlete he ate chicken before every game.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Randy Johnson.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Wade Box. That's that. That's the same. Did you look
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: over here and see I can't? I mean that that
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: was a great, great guess.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So, oh, dug, I should know this. Wade Box played
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: high school.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Wade Box.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Chicken Man. I'm, I'm, I'm.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: That was his nickname.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: That's his Twitter thing, his chicken Man. Chicken Man. Yeah.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, so his secret sauce is chicken. So does the
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: back to I want to go back to your secret
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: secret sauce? Do you have a certain amount of squats?
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: No? I mean, honestly, it's just you just do it
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: to feel good. Do it to feel good where you
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: feel powerful but not fatigued.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, and chocolate milk. Okay, if you lack toast,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: then what I don't know. Then you're just screwed. You
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: just not can get it. Look at you in there.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: So uh pete, Uh, you know, obviously we got a
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: game today, so I'm I'm let you ride, man, but
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: thanks for coming on.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Hey. I hope you go. I hope you go four
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: for four, four singles and then no RB I.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, thank you. No steaks though, that kind of sucks,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: but we're trying to win.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I hope you do.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: You gotta win. You know what, I hope don't. You
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: don't hit singles. That's the problem. You hit four singles.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: There's no way you're hitting four singles.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Because I watched the line drive that went by me
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: yesterday and I saw how hard that was.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was, dude. It's only ninety nine, I promise
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: when you said, when you said something about it, you're like, oh,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: it's like you hit that really hard on you did. No,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: it's only ninety nine.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: It was only ninety nine, but you your your ass
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: was out ninety nine.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: You could reach for it.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: I did reach for it exactly ninety nine exactly. So uh,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: you know what, I hope the same. I'll let you
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: hit a double, though, but you can't get the steak
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: on the double.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: That stinks. Okay, you just want one double, I give you.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: No, that's one double that counts as two knocks, So
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: a double. See that's the thing. You don't hit singles,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: But you know what, I hope you hit an ass
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: out single over the second.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Basement, soggy, broken by, and.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: You know what, just for the sake of it, I'll
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: give you one steak. I can't give you four hits though,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: because I don't believe that four hits are going to
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: stay in the yard. Not all four, but a double
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: and a single and this single is going to be
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the steak. Just that's it. That's all I can give
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you three.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's fine.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: That's all I can give you.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Gentlemen's agreement.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, bro. But anyways, yeah, thanks for coming
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: on the show Man again and I'm glad I got
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: to know you a little bit. And uh the I
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: love the passion and all the energy you bring to
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: the game. It's infectious and so the Mets are the
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Mets are lucky to have you. And uh again, I'll
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: see you later on bro. Yeah see seven, seven ten,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: all right, guys, thanks for watching the show and we'll
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: catch you next time.