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Jameson Taillon talks Sammy Sosa @CubsCon, Japan Opening Day · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: What's her win over under total one hundred and five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ten or something like, they're gonna win a
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  Speaker 1: ton of games, but anyone can get beat on any
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  Speaker 1: given day.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. We've got clubs started.
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  Speaker 3: Jameson Tyne joining us right now, and he is fresh
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  Speaker 3: off of Cubs Convention too, so Jameson, great to.
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  Speaker 4: See one of those vans, like those twenty person vans.
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  Speaker 4: Like what that kind of car is?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, dude? How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't this what you have to do in the off season?
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  Speaker 1: You take calls from your cars and that what guys do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just doing what I see other guys do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know what kind of car that is,
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  Speaker 4: because that thing looks like one of those vans you
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  Speaker 4: see with like a whole team in the back.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, it's not that big, I swear. I'm just hanging
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  Speaker 5: out here at the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: The Coast Facility just finished a bullpen nice in Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I bought a place down here last year
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  Speaker 1: with my wife.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like you know, Arizona's just.
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  Speaker 1: So easy to get better, Like you never have to
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  Speaker 1: worry to find a catcher.
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  Speaker 5: Our facility is great.
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  Speaker 1: I have a really good pta and chiropractor down here,
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  Speaker 1: so it just kind of feels like the place to be.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see when Corbyn Byrne signed with Arizona ad
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  Speaker 3: and nowhere and Go. Yeah, that makes sense. It's pretty
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  Speaker 3: awesome if he just gets to chill here the whole
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  Speaker 3: time and the deals were close enough.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he gets to be in the same
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  Speaker 5: place year round. That's pretty nice. I can't blame him.
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  Speaker 2: Does anybody for that? Does it make you soft?
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  Speaker 6: Because April in Chicago is gonna be brutes magoods. You're
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  Speaker 6: gonna be like, save me for May. Maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe I'm just psycho. I kind of view
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  Speaker 1: it as like an advantage pitching in the cold.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I can just like psych myself up.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like pitching in the cold weather has usually
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  Speaker 1: been kind of kind to me.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously this year the wind was actually on the pitcher
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  Speaker 5: side all year at Wrigley.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like usually in April it's a good
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  Speaker 1: month to pitch at Wrigley, So hopefully that just stays consistent.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you, Yeah, as a pitcher, you went that win blowing.
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  Speaker 4: As a hitter man. It was those days when the
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  Speaker 4: wind was blown out. It was like, just flick a
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  Speaker 4: ball on the outfield, it's wo and then some dude's
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  Speaker 4: throwing it back at you. But so, did you go
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  Speaker 4: right from Cubs Cone right to Arizona? Was that part
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  Speaker 4: of like the Cubs deal? They're like, if you go
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  Speaker 4: to Cubs Cone, then you have to go. We have
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  Speaker 4: a charter plank for everybody right to Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get a charter plan, but there are a
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  Speaker 1: lot more guys down here now than before. I honestly
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  Speaker 1: think we probably have like half of our forty man
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  Speaker 1: here already, if not more. Yeah, it seems like that
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  Speaker 1: was kind of the topic of conversation at Cubs Gone.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, oh, where are you guys going after this?
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  Speaker 1: And everyone's like, I'm either going home for a week
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  Speaker 1: and then to Arizona or I'm going straight to Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, like, we open in Japan this year, so
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  Speaker 1: I think that's on a lot of guys' minds, like
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  Speaker 1: just getting down here and getting their bullpens going and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna ask you.
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  Speaker 6: You guys opened in Japan, How much different does that
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  Speaker 6: change the offseason. We talk all the time about how
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  Speaker 6: World Series playoff teams it changes your offseason, and fans
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  Speaker 6: give us a hard time. It's like, no, there's no way.
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  Speaker 6: They only played for two extra weeks, three extra weeks.
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  Speaker 6: How much is this beginning of the season in Japan
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  Speaker 6: changed for you? Specifically, it changes a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So as I've gotten older, I feel like the more
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  Speaker 1: time I take off throwing in the off season, my
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  Speaker 1: shoulder and stuff just takes a longer time building back up.
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  Speaker 1: So I've started, you know, I used to take two
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  Speaker 1: months off of throwing, and then it moved to one
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  Speaker 1: month and then a couple of weeks. This year, I
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  Speaker 1: took off like a week or two and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of kept the arm moving. Nothing crazy, but just like
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  Speaker 1: kept it moving so I don't have to so I
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  Speaker 1: can avoid kind of like the two or three week
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  Speaker 1: build up period where I'm just like I hope my
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  Speaker 1: shoulder stays attached to my body and I'm not really
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  Speaker 1: getting anything out of it. So this year I kind
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  Speaker 1: of got to skip that stage, which was nice. Other
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  Speaker 1: than that, like I've thrown three bullpens, which is pretty
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  Speaker 1: normal time of year, Like I'm not ten bullpens in
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  Speaker 1: I'm not facing hitters yet or anything.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, all right, so you guys get to go to
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  Speaker 4: Japan open against the Dodgers. Are you scared that nobody
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  Speaker 4: will beat the Dodgers this year? Do you think the
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers can go one hundred and sixty two and zero?
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  Speaker 4: So why are you guys wasting your time going to
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  Speaker 4: Japan to play against me?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a pretty sweet roster.
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  Speaker 1: They've got her there, there's no doubt, right, come on,
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  Speaker 1: I saw when they were recruiting Sasaki, Like who was
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  Speaker 1: at their meeting. It's like that's some serious star power obviously.
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  Speaker 1: But like you guys know how baseball is if you
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  Speaker 1: pitch well and play good defense, Like anyone can get
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  Speaker 1: beat on any given day, and that's what makes it
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  Speaker 1: a great sport obviously. Like I don't even know what's
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  Speaker 1: her win over under total one hundred and five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten or something, like they're gonna win a ton
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  Speaker 1: of games, but anyone can get beat on any given day.
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  Speaker 1: Just try to if I'm pitching against them, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: try to avoid the slug areas, make them beat you,
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  Speaker 1: like to the opposite field and hope that my defense
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  Speaker 1: behind me with a bunch of goals glove winners is
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  Speaker 1: ready for it that day.
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  Speaker 6: Wait, wait, you don't have to like come up with
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  Speaker 6: a new pitch or something to face the Dodgers, because
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  Speaker 6: we've been getting eviscerated that nobody can beat the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 6: It's not fair. Can you explain to people like your mindset?
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  Speaker 6: You said, you know, a basic scatteryport, but a mindset.
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  Speaker 6: Do you want to beat the Dodgers more than other teams?
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  Speaker 6: Or are you like, you know what, I want to
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  Speaker 6: go out and win every game I could possibly win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's really much ad it obviously, Like
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  Speaker 1: you guys know, you go to Dodgers Stadium, like I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone gets just excited to play there. I think
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  Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium is the same way Wrigley, maybe Fenway.
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  Speaker 5: Like, guys just get up to go play in those stadiums.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think something I have anything against the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers or anyone on that team. I think, obviously you
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  Speaker 1: want to pitch well and go up against the best, But.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to go in there and like reinvent
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  Speaker 5: the wheel.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, well that makes sense. The problem is
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  Speaker 4: you know, you said everyone got excited to go to Wrigley.
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  Speaker 4: I used to before they reinvented Wrigley and put the
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  Speaker 4: scoreboards and all that. I mean, it made it too modern.
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  Speaker 4: So you missed the days when they didn't even have
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  Speaker 4: walk up songs. And I remember we played there one
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  Speaker 4: time and Ryan Terio was leading off and they played
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  Speaker 4: a song and he was all excited and it was
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  Speaker 4: an organ song.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't even like the real song. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: why are you so excited?
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  Speaker 4: He goes first day we're allowed to have walk up
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  Speaker 4: songs in the history of the Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I'm like, what, It's an organ Like, nobody even
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  Speaker 2: knows what song it is.
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  Speaker 4: So listen, back in the old days, you know, Wriglely
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  Speaker 4: was a different animal than you know. You guys have
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  Speaker 4: the club Wrigly right now with your locker room. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it is sick. So let's calm it down here a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. But you mentioned the Rokie meeting. If the
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  Speaker 4: Cubs made it to the Final four. Let's say, who
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  Speaker 4: would be in the Cubs Rokie Meeting? Would you be there?
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  Speaker 4: But it'ld be you Dan's vy Nico. Who do you
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  Speaker 4: think would be the guys.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: If I put myself at that table, I would imagine
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  Speaker 1: we would have showda there or at least zoomed in
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  Speaker 1: or whatever facetimed in. Yeah, I mean, I think Ian
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  Speaker 1: Happ understands what it's like to play and Chicago and
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  Speaker 1: win in Chicago and stuff like that. You know what,
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs do a really good job up too. Is
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  Speaker 1: Like I was just at Cubs Gone and seeing all
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Jackets and the Hall of famers that are
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  Speaker 1: around all the time, Like why not bring Fergie Jenkins
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  Speaker 1: to a meeting like that or something, or Sutcliffe or
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  Speaker 1: carry Wood, Ryan Samberg, Like, we do a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: job of keeping those guys, you know, at an arms
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  Speaker 1: length or whatever, keeping them around, and like for me,
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  Speaker 1: I get starstruck every time I'm around them and hear
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  Speaker 1: their stories about playing at Wrigley and stuff. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and from what I've heard, the Cubs did a really
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  Speaker 1: nice job with our presentation and stuff. Obviously he picked
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and can't blame anyone for for going to
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I think we would have been a great
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  Speaker 1: landing spot. But yeah, I don't know who else we
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  Speaker 1: would have put at the table.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, first of all, I have to get on you
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  Speaker 4: because you just said Rick Cycliffe was a Hall of famer.
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  Speaker 4: Now he's a Hall of Fame talker. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: well deser, well deser. But I have to ask this
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  Speaker 4: before before we get something else about this. How many
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  Speaker 4: times have you heard sucklerff tell you the same story
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  Speaker 4: but it just gets changed just a little bit. I
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  Speaker 4: love Sut and I've been around subtle lot, but he
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  Speaker 4: tells the story and it just gets changed just a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. So SUTs like, I'm like, okay, so I
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  Speaker 4: got it, I got it.
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  Speaker 2: The fireworks.
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  Speaker 5: I I think he's a great storyteller. I need to go.
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  Speaker 1: He had an offer out on the table the other
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  Speaker 1: day to go watch the Chiefs Texans football game at
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  Speaker 1: Murphy's in Wrigleyville, and it was my anniversary, so I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go. But I was like, man, that'd be fun
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  Speaker 1: to sit around and drink some beer with sudd at
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  Speaker 1: at Murphy's.
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  Speaker 2: He said, he'll drink you. He will drink you under
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  Speaker 2: the table.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I don't doubt it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair. What is the what is the uh? Who?
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  Speaker 6: The whole list? Who were you most starstruck Now you've
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  Speaker 6: been around him for a few years when you first
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  Speaker 6: met him, because Ryan Sandberg was my was my manager
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  Speaker 6: in Triple A and then he became a coach in
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  Speaker 6: the big leagues and managing Elish for a little bit
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  Speaker 6: while I was there in Philly. But who was who
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  Speaker 6: was the guy that was? You were kind of like
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  Speaker 6: first time, WHOA, I didn't know he'd be hanging around.
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  Speaker 1: So when they announced Fergie at Cubs Con, they list
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  Speaker 1: off stats and obviously I think he threw like four
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  Speaker 1: or five thousand innings in the big leagues, but they
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  Speaker 1: announced he threw I think like two hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: complete games in the big leagues. And I've made two
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  Speaker 1: hundred starts in the big leagues, like two hundred starts period.
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  Speaker 1: And when they announced that, and then obviously like he
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  Speaker 1: comes down here and hangs out out with us in
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  Speaker 1: spring training and last year I was like riding the
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  Speaker 1: peloton in the coaches room and Fergy just sits down
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  Speaker 1: next to me and starts kind of just like shooting
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  Speaker 1: the ball. And that was one of those kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a little starstruck. Also, like I'll never forget that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And he likes watching my bullpens and stuff, which is
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  Speaker 1: super super cool.
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  Speaker 5: So I'll say, Fergy, okay, that's fair.
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  Speaker 6: Did you get to talk to Sosa this year? I
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  Speaker 6: think this is his first year that he made it
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  Speaker 6: to Cubs comp. How sick was that? Or was that
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  Speaker 6: not cool?
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  Speaker 5: That was sick?
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  Speaker 1: Two guys got that guy announced this year that were
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  Speaker 1: really special, Samberg and then Sosa. Sosa comes out running
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  Speaker 1: around the stage, dapping everyone up. Obviously like brings the energy.
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  Speaker 1: The fans were really excited to see him. But I
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  Speaker 1: was really impressed with and a lot of us were
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: talking amongst ourselves like we didn't know that He's still
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  Speaker 1: watched Cubs games pretty intently. So he's talking to like
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  Speaker 1: different guys like PCA. He's like, man, I love you
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  Speaker 1: know when you do this with your swing or when
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  Speaker 1: you go and catch a ball in this gap against
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  Speaker 1: this team in this stadium. I was watching, and for me,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, man, your cutterback door to lefties was really
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  Speaker 1: good this year.
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  Speaker 5: Make sure or last year, make sure you trust that
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  Speaker 5: going forward.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, dude, you actually watch and pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to what's going on, Like I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: super cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's about time for Sammy, right, It's about time.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I played against Sammy and Wrigley and
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  Speaker 4: I witnessed all that, so I mean it was about
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  Speaker 4: time for them to welcome him back.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the way he was was a shame, sure,
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  Speaker 4: but for him to finally be welcome back there was
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  Speaker 4: who was The other person was Sammy And someone else.
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  Speaker 2: Who went into the Hall of Fame this year direkly Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Derek another great guy.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome guy if you haven't been around except for he
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  Speaker 4: tried to fight Chris Young, which has to be the
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  Speaker 4: tallest fight in the history of Major.
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  Speaker 3: League base How tall is Derek Lee.
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  Speaker 5: Taller than me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like six six sixty seven.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, I've got a pretty good Chris Young story.
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  Speaker 1: I was in high A in twenty twelve and he
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  Speaker 1: was rehabbing with the Mets, and you guys all know
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  Speaker 1: the pirates back in the day, pitched in, dropped guys,
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  Speaker 1: brushed him off the plate. I was throwing in on
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  Speaker 1: a guy too much that day. I drilled a guy
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Young, and obviously, like, when you know there's
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  Speaker 1: big leaguers rehabbing, you don't you just want to like
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  Speaker 1: impress them and maybe get to talk to him the
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  Speaker 1: next day or whatever. And I drill a guy on
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  Speaker 1: his team. He's a rehabber and he's stopped top step
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  Speaker 1: scream at me. And then in free agency a couple
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: of years ago, I talked to the Rangers a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and me and see why.
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  Speaker 5: I had a pretty good laugh talking about that story.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, you know what, from the other side,
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  Speaker 1: I hated it, but it shows me what kind of
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  Speaker 1: teammate you are type thing.
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  Speaker 5: So we had a pretty funny moment.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, so you're saying you didn't sign with the Rangers
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  Speaker 4: because enable you drilled the guy and Chris Young?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what I got out of that is.
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  Speaker 1: That the Rangers because Jacob de Gram was a free
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  Speaker 1: agent and they got him.
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  Speaker 5: I think that.
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  Speaker 3: You got a little more.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been a good place. So he's been great.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great spot. It is, as much as it
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  Speaker 2: pains me to say that you have been great for the.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, Yes, that's true, Jamison. Do you think it's an
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  Speaker 3: advantage for someone like Chris Young when he's talking to
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  Speaker 3: player sometimes, like if he's working on recruiting and the
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  Speaker 3: offer is the same for a player, and he can
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: have the relatability there. We're starting to see a little
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: bit of a renaissance where more former players are getting
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  Speaker 3: higher up front office roles. Again, I mean, who else
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  Speaker 3: Craig Breslow is in that spot.
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  Speaker 2: There's one that buster Buster's the big one. Yeah, there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot actually at the top now and it wasn't the
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  Speaker 3: case maybe five six years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't say. I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: would impact me necessarily if you played or not. I
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  Speaker 1: do think what former players have is an advantage to
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  Speaker 1: know what players want, whether it's like open and honest
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  Speaker 1: communication or you know, like how to present information, how
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  Speaker 1: to be forward thinking and analytical while also having some
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  Speaker 1: empathy and understanding what it's like to be out there
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  Speaker 1: and you know, pitching and being alone in front of
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  Speaker 1: forty thousand people. Like I think what former players get
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  Speaker 1: is that like real nice understanding. And when the Cubs
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  Speaker 1: were presenting SUP to me as a free agent, like
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  Speaker 1: I did sit down with Craig Wrestlo and talk about
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  Speaker 1: just like a crazy sharp dude who also pitched and
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  Speaker 1: gets it, so that that was a nice like balance.
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  Speaker 6: I guess for me, did you see what Tom Ricketts
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  Speaker 6: said about how the team breaks even and they can't
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  Speaker 6: keep up with payroll and stuff with the the bigger,
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  Speaker 6: the bigger teams.
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  Speaker 5: I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw it. I I mean I was our
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  Speaker 1: player rep. I've been a player rep for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: so I am privy to like how owners try to
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  Speaker 1: present things and how the player side tries to present things.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, like, I know this is a boring answer,
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  Speaker 1: like I don't know what the books look like. I
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  Speaker 1: do know the Cubs run a great organization, in a
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  Speaker 1: great operation, and Wrigleyville is always popping, and Wrigley's always popping.
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  Speaker 1: But to act like we don't spend it all too
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  Speaker 1: like we do spend money, like Rickets has gone out,
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  Speaker 1: like they do get free agents. We do spend when
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  Speaker 1: it's the right player and stuff. So I'm not gonna
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: sit here and like bash what we're doing. That being said,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: there's a CBA coming up. So whenever I see quotes
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: from many from anyone around the league, I do kind
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: of think sometimes like, okay, from the player union.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: Side, how am I going to read into this?
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Are we posturing for the upcoming CBA stuff like that.
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: But you're sitting there halfway through the last two seasons,
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: you guys are right on the fringe. I know the
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: discussions in the clubhouse, who can we make the move
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: to go gay? You were with the pirates, we never
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: made any moves when when you know the organization, when
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: you were with the organization there. How tough is that
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: as a player to hear that, you know what, we're
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: not gonna quite go full tilt because you've think about
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: all the stuff you've talked about. You're already throwing bullpens,
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: you have big old red marks on your arms, you
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: have pep a physic.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: You know, you have all that.
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: You put so much into winning, doing as best you
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: can to hear comments like that, does that Does that
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: just deflate you a little bit? Or is that a
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: or is that just it's all part?
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta be honest, It doesn't do anything
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: for me, Like, I'm just gonna keep doing what I'm doing.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Honestly.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: When I was younger, I tried to play GM some
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: and try to do all that. And as I've gotten older,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: it's like, you know what, and when you're younger, you
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: always hear control what you can control, and it's like,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: well what does that mean? And then as you get older,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it's like I'm just going to focus on me and
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: stay in my lane. That being said, like last year,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: we didn't put ourselves in a great position to go
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: out and acquire people like we I felt like underperformed
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: going into the deadline and stuff like. I also look
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: in the mirror and say, like, what can we as
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: players do better?
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Could we have put ourselves in a better position?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Like last year we let the card or the Brewers
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: get out to a pretty big lead in our division,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: And that's on no one other than us, Like we
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: had the resources last year and we put way more
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: into our payroll than Milwaukee. They played great baseball, but
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: they also built like a really nice lead in the division.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: So it's like part of that's on us, Like it's
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: not like we forced their hand last year at least
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: mid season to go out and go crazy at the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: deadline or anything like that.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, last one before we let you go. You're in
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Arizona early obviously, So who's your golf?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: For some What are you doing?
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Are you going out with everybody on your team or
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: you going out to other players on other teams that
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: you know, because in Arizona there's somebody every time he
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: goes to the grocery store, to the gas station, you
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: run into somebody when spring training's going on. So are
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: you hanging out with your tea anywhere? It's unbelievable. Are
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: you playing golf with your guys? Are you playing golf
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: with guys on other teams?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: And what's your course of choice?
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I actually so I used I had the golf bug
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: years ago, and then I got my second Tommy John
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: surgery and I kind of cooled it on the golf.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna try to make enough money
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to whear when I'm done playing, I can go golf
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: whenever I want. But now I feel like I have
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: a responsibility to the Cubs for paying me to like
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: really take care of myself in my arm.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: So I know it's boring. I don't play much.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I did play once this offseason, and I played at
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: a course out here called Mountain Shadows. It's like a
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: nice part three and for me, that's perfect two and
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a half hours.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I don't have to hit driver. I don't feel as
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: risky plan I do.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Hear our guys talk about it all. It sounds like Justin
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Steele's got the golf bug. Pca Ian Happ's a really
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: nasty golfer on our team from what I understand. So
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I'll play like the Phoenician or Mountain Shadows. But I'm
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: gonna definitely play more when I'm done playing, and I'll
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: tell you I need I need lessons bad when I'm done.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: So so you're telling me there's a lot of players everywhere,
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Like you go to the grocery store, you go to
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: the movies, you see different people out and yet you
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: couldn't sid a catcher.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: That was that was down in Cabo, and honestly there's
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: probably baseball players down there too this time of year.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I just go to this tennis court
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: at the place we say and rip into the net.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: They actually have two tennis court stacks.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: So sometimes I'll long toss and then that's the end.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I'll just do pulldowns into that. People ask how many
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: takes that took. That was actually my second throw going
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: into that direction, just so happened to be lucky enough
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to get it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: That's cool.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: So what do you do? You game? Right, You're a gamer,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: So if you don't golf and you're in Arizona.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: There's no water. You can't go on a lake, so
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I guess you go to a pool. But you gotta
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: do something because you're newly weed. So I know your
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: guys are still in love. But after a while, you're
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: gonna need a hobby. So your hobby is gaming.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I've got some weird hobbies. So I actually collect some
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Pokemon cards. I played Fortnite. I like riding my bike.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I actually play some acoustic guitar, and I'm trying to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: pick that back up. I think that's probably gonna come
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: back this year. I've taken a hiatus, but I think
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna gonna pick that back up and.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Take some lessons. That's cool.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Well, I like that, isn't that bad for the elbow though,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: because like what where? Yeah?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually played a little bit during my second
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: TJ rehab, and my elbow has been in a good
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: spot knock on woods, So maybe that put me a
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: good spot.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, you got to do different things, like when you're
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: a kid, play different sports behind your head exactly right right,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the guitar.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't read anymore, so playing the guitar helps.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're reading music. If you're playing it like that,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I know we got to go.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: But are you excited about the new Fortnite? Didn't they
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: go back to the o G Fortnites? Are you excited
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: because you're a Fortnite guy? Right, so you're excited about that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: A Fortnite guy.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: We I was just talking about it with someone at
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the at the complex. Yeah, I'm pretty excited. I log
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: some hours, I'll play. Actually, I play with our pitching
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: coach a little bit.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: And we've got a few guys on the team that
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: are pretty good. That's awesome.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I like that, all right, Well, Jameson, this was great man.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: We got the full scope here, so I'm glad we
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: caught up obviously people up here and from your very
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: rave reviews from the crowd here that's listening on YouTube
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: and on Marquee and everywhere else. So thanks for joining us, dude.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: We'll be in Arizona, so we'll try and catch you
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: when we're out there.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Right, sounds good, see you then see you guys.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: That was great. Jameson's really good. Really, it was great.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: He was very honest about a lot of things.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: He gave us great answers everything, I mean everything we asked,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: and I find that funny. Now He's like, that's the
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: first guy I've ever heard say, well, I don't play
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: golf because I'm protecting my elbow.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: That's cool, that's great.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: It was a great answer, and he was honest about it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I'd rather play the guitar and play for But doesn't
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: he get carpal tunnel?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: But I don't know fort Fortnite.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it depends. You can play video games
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: hardcore or gracefully and still be just as effective.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: If that makes.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Jolie's just seeing. Was the greatest Fortnite player I've ever
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: seen in my life. He would come out late sometimes
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: to warm up before it starts. He was playing a final.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: You know, he's just in another final game. Best Fortnite
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: player I've ever seen.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Wow, is it like Tommy Kainlee he had I remember
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: going to his locker Yankee Stadium and he had like
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: a full setup in his locker.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Play Cainley played FIFA.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he had like his own monitor and
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: he has own station, like its own system right there.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: And is fun that year?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can play two on two that's fun.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: And eighteen Pane went out and bought everybody everybody's systems,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: so they all play in their lockers. So there's a
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: bunch of dudes just sitting playing Fortnite with the monitor
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: in their locker, and some of them just got really
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: good at and Julie was one of them.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Didn't They get in trouble one of those years the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Royals where they told them they were in their phones
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: too much playing games.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: The Royals, Yes, the Royals, that was. That was a
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: different game though, I'm talking about the Brewers in eighteen.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Everybody got in their lockers like they was talking about.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah Scots that much.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Thing now is all these guys have these portable systems
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: they carry with them. If you go on a team
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: playing all these guys have these cases and they're on
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: wheels and they are part of their luggage, and they
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: have TVs systems and all they do is take the
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: cover off and boom. They have a whole portable system
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: ready to go like or whatever game they're playing. It's
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: pretty crazy the things these guys have.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Now, hey, they can afford it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I remember Derek Collin when I was with the Rangers.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: He used to bring a TV and we'd played Tiger
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Woods and backer playing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: We might have made some wagers on him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: That's fun.