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Jays RP Jeff Hoffman: ALCS time in Toronto, Kerkering’s error · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Here comes Blue Jay's closer, Jeff Hoffman, joining us right
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  Speaker 1: now on FT Jeff, thanks for joining us busy times,
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  Speaker 1: and congrats on cracking the alcs. How has life been
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  Speaker 1: over the last forty eight hours to celebrate slash prepare.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little bit of recovery.
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  Speaker 3: We uh we got after a little bit on the
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  Speaker 3: on the flight home and the celebration and everything. So
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  Speaker 3: we got a good day of rest yesterday and back
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  Speaker 3: to workouts later today.
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  Speaker 4: Would you wish the flight was longer? Based on the
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  Speaker 4: good time that you guys were having. Sometimes the good
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  Speaker 4: times those flights like can we like, can we circle
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  Speaker 4: a little bit? I don't need no turbulence or nothing,
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  Speaker 4: but can we circle a little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Those are the ones where you kind of hope that
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  Speaker 3: there's like a delay on the tarmac or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we uh we.
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  Speaker 3: We only had a quick one, but we got the
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  Speaker 3: most out of it and to get back to work tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you kind of answered my question. I saw you,
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  Speaker 5: you know, forty eight hours ago, and you were kind
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  Speaker 5: of right at that tipping point of like you were
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  Speaker 5: still there, You're still coherent, but you came out saw
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  Speaker 5: your family. I know you went back inside, So I imagine
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  Speaker 5: you guys were getting after it. But I guess my
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  Speaker 5: question to you is, obviously you played in an amazing
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  Speaker 5: place in Philadelphia. I was on the other end of
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  Speaker 5: losing to you guys when I was the Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 5: I know how crazy that fan base can be, on
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  Speaker 5: how exciting they were. Take me back to Game one
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  Speaker 5: in Toronto. What that experience was like with the fans.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, unbelievable, from the anthems all the way through the end.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's the amazing you know, feeling what you
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  Speaker 3: feel when you play in Toronto. It's definitely a lively
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  Speaker 3: group and they all they all really kind of show
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  Speaker 3: their true colors and it's it's amazing to see and
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  Speaker 3: we feel the support every single night. And yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: come to play just like we do.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like the fans have kind of grown
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  Speaker 4: with this team? I mean, you weren't here the other years,
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  Speaker 4: but throughout this season, like when it start getting nice
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  Speaker 4: and they start opening the roof, that's when you guys
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  Speaker 4: started to kind of start playing better. And all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden, now it's packed every single Friday night, stupid
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  Speaker 4: day game, Saturday, stupid day game, Sunday. Do you feel
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  Speaker 4: like they've grown with you guys, and then like that
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  Speaker 4: crescendo to the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean as as the summer went on, we definitely
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  Speaker 3: saw that it seemed like every single night was a sellout. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we definitely you know, feed off that, and uh, it
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  Speaker 3: makes it fun to come to work and to go
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  Speaker 3: out and put put out a good product on the field.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what we are as a group, great product.
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  Speaker 3: And and we play together and we played a win
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  Speaker 3: every single night, and and we definitely feed off the
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  Speaker 3: the energy.
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  Speaker 2: Of the crowds.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I was gonna ask you. Playing against you in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 5: had always felt like that team was really really tight,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm sure they were, but I get a sense
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  Speaker 5: that this is probably another level of tightness what we're
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  Speaker 5: experiencing with Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean I I say it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is what it feels like.
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  Speaker 3: This is what it's supposed to feel like to play
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  Speaker 3: on a good team.
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  Speaker 2: This, Uh, you know, we're good because we're tight.
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  Speaker 3: We're you know, everybody spending the maximum amount of time
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  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse every single day, which is which is
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  Speaker 3: awesome to see, you know, even when we have down time,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's together. So uh, we we really matched together well
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  Speaker 3: as a group. And you know, if it feels it
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  Speaker 3: feels like we have you know what it takes to
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  Speaker 3: to do it all right.
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  Speaker 4: The post is a time when everything's amped up. When
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  Speaker 4: you close the game out and you looked over at
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  Speaker 4: the at the Yankees side of the dugout. How much
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  Speaker 4: of that is an emotion that comes out in the moment,
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  Speaker 4: And how much of that because then we saw that
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  Speaker 4: you guys played New York, New York after after my
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  Speaker 4: guy Schneider's speech, how much of that is like pre
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  Speaker 4: planned and talked about and give you emotion to win
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  Speaker 4: these huge games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's it's pure emotion, you know. I
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  Speaker 3: think it would be the same no matter who was
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  Speaker 3: on the other side. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: you're the team that gets to move on and keep
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  Speaker 3: playing and that that, you know, means everything to us.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean all the New York, New York stuff, that's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's all great, But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: I was just us kind of letting loose and you know,
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  Speaker 3: enjoying the moment.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, after that night, we kind of set
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  Speaker 2: our sights forward to next.
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  Speaker 4: All right, you got the last out of that game,
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  Speaker 4: and I have to I have to remember back to
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  Speaker 4: like catching the last out, or like meeting my pitcher
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  Speaker 4: part way, and I watched Kirk come out to you
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  Speaker 4: and you guys pounded whatever you guys did. If there's
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  Speaker 4: a moment when or when looking ahead when you close
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  Speaker 4: out the next series, do you feel like you could
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  Speaker 4: catch him if he jumps into your arms or do
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  Speaker 4: you want to jump into his arms and make him
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  Speaker 4: catch you.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, I want him doing the jump in. I got him,
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  Speaker 2: I got him.
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  Speaker 3: We're uh, we're really looking forward to that. And I
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  Speaker 3: hope there's a I hope there's the opportunity to do that,
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  Speaker 3: and uh yeah, I'll have to. Uh, I have to
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  Speaker 3: make sure I'm I'm getting primed up for that one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I want to just kind of go back in time.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays a couple of
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  Speaker 5: different stops, kind of just take me through this kind
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  Speaker 5: of full circle moment that you've had to be drafted
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  Speaker 5: by the Blue Jays in the first round, be traded,
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  Speaker 5: go on a couple other places throughout your career. Now
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  Speaker 5: coming back home to Toronto and now closing out games to
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  Speaker 5: allow your team to advance to the next round.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an amazing uh full circle when you think
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  Speaker 3: about it. You know, everything obviously happens for a reason
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  Speaker 3: and everything's gonna be uh hopefully good at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day. But yeah, going through that time, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: obviously at that time, the Blue Jays were good, and
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  Speaker 3: I was really excited to be a part of that
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  Speaker 3: organ the organization at that time, and to see them
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  Speaker 3: go on and and you know, make some noise in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs. That year was was tough. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I I look back on that time as you know,
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  Speaker 3: that was you know, my development as a player, and
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  Speaker 3: I went and learned a lot of things, trying to
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  Speaker 3: pitch at high altitude and then moving on and trying
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  Speaker 3: to pitch in a small ballpark in Cincinnati and making
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  Speaker 3: my way to filling all that good stuff. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: none of that have happened if I didn't get traded
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  Speaker 3: out of here in the first place. And yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: really excited at that. We get this opportunity to bring
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  Speaker 3: something special back to the city of Toronto and back
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  Speaker 3: to Canada, and yeah, we have a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse that are really excited to do that too.
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  Speaker 3: So we come to play every night with that in mind,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, we feel like we got a really
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  Speaker 3: good shot.
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  Speaker 4: Later on, we're going to ask you about picking up teammates,
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  Speaker 4: obviously with the kirkhating thing, but I want to first
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  Speaker 4: ask you about picking up your teammate Louis Varlin. The
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  Speaker 4: home run that he gave up as pictures as bullpen
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  Speaker 4: guys who have elite, ridiculous stuff, you've seen this guy
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  Speaker 4: the entire year. He's in your division, and for him
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  Speaker 4: to do that, what is y'all's reaction in the moment
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  Speaker 4: in the bullpen? Like whoa, how did you keep that fair?
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  Speaker 4: Or like afterwards when you guys were all talking, and
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  Speaker 4: does that change how you guys throw to a guy
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  Speaker 4: like that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think everybody, you know, everybody who
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  Speaker 3: has eyes saw that that was, you know, not a
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  Speaker 3: bad pitch.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think the underlying uh information that you get if
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  Speaker 3: you watch the whole series is we've kind of been
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  Speaker 3: doing that to him, uh, the entire series, pounding them
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  Speaker 3: in And obviously we knew we had we had the sliders.
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  Speaker 3: If you know if if we needed to get to
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  Speaker 3: that point, and I mean when you when you throw
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  Speaker 3: so many of the same location, same pitch to this
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  Speaker 3: to a guy like that, he is gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 3: make the adjustment.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes him in the world.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it was just one of those things where
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  Speaker 3: it was bad timing for him to actually get to one.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, one hundred mile an hour fastball, you know,
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  Speaker 3: three balls in off the plate is is never really
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  Speaker 3: gonna hurt you except when it does. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: we kind of all, you know, told Louis that you know,
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  Speaker 3: that was just a blip in the radar and to
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  Speaker 3: go out the next day and and do exactly what
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  Speaker 3: he does, and he did that for US.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, speaking of stuff, you've always had the stuff. I
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  Speaker 5: stew in the box against you two years ago and
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  Speaker 5: knew you had closer stuff. Was there someone in that
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  Speaker 5: Philly bullpen when you were there that kind of almost
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  Speaker 5: kind of groomed you to get in that mindset of
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  Speaker 5: being able to close out games? And then what did
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  Speaker 5: you learn about yourself? You know, going from a seventh
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  Speaker 5: eighth inning guy to now having to be the guy
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  Speaker 5: at the back end of the bullpen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, uh, you know, Matt Strap was a
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  Speaker 3: big influence on me through my time in Philadelphia. I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my mentality, uh got some tweaking, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I kind of learned a little bit better how to
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  Speaker 3: go about life in the bullpen, and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just kind of kept the ball rolling and and tried
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  Speaker 3: to kind of stay right where I was get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better each day. And yeah, and then this
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  Speaker 3: year getting the full time job kind of you know,
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  Speaker 3: I learned obviously the good and the bad, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't as good as I wanted to be this
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  Speaker 3: year as as a from like a total total seasons perspective,
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  Speaker 3: I want to be a lot more consistent moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I learned a lot of things from Matt
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  Speaker 3: that I'll take with me kind of moving forward and
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, hopefully you know, put together more
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  Speaker 3: consistent outings moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Oh, Ryan Kirkran, I'm assuming you saw the
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  Speaker 4: play last night as a as a bullpen mat of his.
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  Speaker 4: What's your thought when you saw the play, what's your
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  Speaker 4: aftermath of it? And what's your feeling when you see
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  Speaker 4: that play yourself thinking about that play and how you
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  Speaker 4: would have handled it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've practiced that play hundreds of times spring train,
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  Speaker 3: throughout the season, and you know, he got an in
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  Speaker 3: between hot bobbled it and uh then at that time
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  Speaker 3: kind of felt like, I don't know, maybe he had
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  Speaker 3: a better shot at at the guy at home than
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  Speaker 3: he did.
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  Speaker 2: Uh turn and thrown the first.
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  Speaker 3: That play happens quick and kind of have to have
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  Speaker 3: your mind up beforehand. Uh what you're gonna do if
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  Speaker 3: there's a babble or something like that. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: a really you know, tough, tough way to go. And
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  Speaker 3: I love Orion, He's one of my one of my
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  Speaker 3: good buddies. And yeah, at some point I'll reach out
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  Speaker 3: to him and and see how he's doing. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's gonna be a great relief pitcher for a
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  Speaker 3: long time and and he's gonna be a really valuable
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  Speaker 3: player for a long time. And I think he's got
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  Speaker 3: a great head on his shoulders and he'll be able
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  Speaker 3: to kind of move past this at some point.
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  Speaker 4: What about Nick Castios And I say this because you
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  Speaker 4: were teammates with him. There's a video of him running,
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  Speaker 4: sprinting as hard as he can to the mound to
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  Speaker 4: be there for a Ryan Kirkring. Can you attest to
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  Speaker 4: that side of Nick Costianos? After about three days after
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  Speaker 4: he got eviscerated by Philly media for what he said
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  Speaker 4: about Philly fans.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Nick, Uh, Nick's a great person when it comes
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  Speaker 3: down to it, And uh, that's you know, kind of
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  Speaker 3: how I try to look at my teammates. I don't
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  Speaker 3: look at him as baseball players. I look a look
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  Speaker 3: at him as people. And there's a lot of good
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  Speaker 3: people in baseball and Nix one of them. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: I know exactly, you know what Nick was thinking in
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  Speaker 3: that moment, and it's on a human level, it's not
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  Speaker 3: you know, on a baseball level. And yeah, he did
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  Speaker 3: exactly what I would expect a lot of guys to do,
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  Speaker 3: and it's to put a hand, put your arm around
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  Speaker 3: a guy that's you know, a young kid, and and
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  Speaker 3: kind of thrown into the fire, zoomed through the system
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  Speaker 3: kind of a lot like you Savage, where you know,
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  Speaker 3: he was in low A at the start of the
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  Speaker 3: year and then all of a sudden he's pitching in
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  Speaker 3: the postseason later that year. Obviously, orian's a year, a
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  Speaker 3: year or two past that point now, but yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: Nick being a leader, being a veteran guy, and a
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  Speaker 3: guy that you want in your corner.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I want to ask about a current teammate in
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  Speaker 1: Vladdy Junior. So what did you witness from him in
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  Speaker 1: this last series? Aside from the great performance the tears
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  Speaker 1: on the field afterward, there's always the big storyline with
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  Speaker 1: you know, how he's got something extra against the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that? Did you feel that? Did you
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  Speaker 2: hear that.
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  Speaker 3: Vladdy Vladdie shows up to play every single night the
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  Speaker 3: same way, no matter who's on the other side. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly the history about him, him and
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees, but I know that he does. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he likes to play well against good teams and in
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  Speaker 3: big spots, and that's you know, kind of why he
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  Speaker 3: is who he is. He's, uh, he's the face of
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  Speaker 3: our franchise, and it's actually amazing to see guys like
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  Speaker 3: that step up in big moments and to kind of
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  Speaker 3: carry carry the team a little bit. Obviously, I know
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  Speaker 3: our offenses is outrageous right now, but Vlady is such
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  Speaker 3: a huge part of that right in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, once again, great great person, Uh, extremely hard worker,
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  Speaker 3: and he loves to win. He wants to win and
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  Speaker 3: uh and we all feel that and we try to
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  Speaker 3: try to follow suit, all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, aren't you glad that you're wearing blue and not orange? Sometimes?
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  Speaker 4: Aren't you glad that you didn't pass your physical Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: A little bit, A little bit, I'd be on the
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  Speaker 2: couch right now.
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  Speaker 4: You'd been golfing, you be on the couch. And isn't that?
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that something? That's that It makes it a little
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  Speaker 4: bit sweeter, not vindicated, not that you're you're playing. You
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  Speaker 4: told us in spring training. You're like, ah, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: there's a little bit more And I can see that
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  Speaker 4: maybe pushing you. Am I right or wrong?
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to play well against them?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit more. Uh, But at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, I'm happy with uh. Without obviously how
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  Speaker 3: everything turned out. I feel like I I you know,
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  Speaker 3: me and my family ended up in a in an
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable place, an unbelievable organization that's top notch from from
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  Speaker 3: top to bottom.
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  Speaker 2: They take care of us really well.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, who doesn't want to play meaningful
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  Speaker 3: baseball in October? You know I I I've been on
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  Speaker 3: the other side. I've been going home and you know,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of September and and this is much better,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, we're excited about our opportunity and we're looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to the next series.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, last one Baseballly question for you. Two thoughts, one
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  Speaker 1: on pitching side, one on hitting side. We had Eric
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  Speaker 1: Chavis on with us yesterday, former hitting coach for the Mets,
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  Speaker 1: and he was like, teams are gonna have to be
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  Speaker 1: more like the Jays. The pitching is just too nasty.
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  Speaker 1: You need more contact in your game. Of course, still
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  Speaker 1: need pop, but there's got to be a shift back
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  Speaker 1: to a little bit more contact. Do you agree after
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  Speaker 1: witnessing what you've seen so far from the Jays this
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  Speaker 1: season and on the pitching side, do you think that
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  Speaker 1: every I don't want to say young pitcher, because you
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  Speaker 1: gotta wait until the arms develop, but do you think
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: that most pitchers should learn a splitter? Based on what
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: we've seen from you, from Trey, from Kevin and others.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean I get to witness firsthand what
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: our offense does every night, and we don't. We don't
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: win in one way, we went in you know, countless ways.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, it's it's you're gonna have more success,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I believe, uh, you know, clogging up the base pass,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: especially late in the season in October and stuff like that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: You can't always depend on, you know, a guy hitting
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: a two or a three run homer and kind of
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: leading the way.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Uh. And we we don't depend on that.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: We you know, we hit singles, we hit doubles, we
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: we hit situationally. We got guys who understand the game
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: and who understand what you're trying to do and what
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: you're trying to accomplish. And that's why we are so
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: proficient as an offense.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I believe.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, I you know, we we fink
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: we match up with Milwaukee mid season and they it
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: literally looked like we were looking in a mirror, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that's like, those are the hardest
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: teams to beat because they they just keep coming at
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: you and you know, two out RBIs and and.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Oh two to oh two to three two walk.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Home and clogging up the bases and and just kind
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: of making stuff happen. And then on the splitter front,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: obviously like it's it's a really good pitch. It's a
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: it's a great pitch because you can maintain your arm
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: speed and your hand speed and and really tunnel it
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: well off your fastball. And you see that with with
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Trey and and how much separation he creates, and how
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: similar the ball looks coming out of his hand, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, ones on the on
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: home plate and and ones at the top of the zone,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: you know, kind of blown by you. So, uh, it's
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: a great pitch if you have the arsenal that can
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: hold it. I'm not going to tell everybody to go
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: out there and do it, because it's not gonna it's
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: not going to be right for everyone. But if you
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: are a guy where that pitch can tunnel well with
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: your other ones, then absolutely it's it's gonna be one
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: of the best pitches moving forward.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: It's fun pitch to watch. Your team's super fun to watch.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Jet thanks for joining us, but we appreciate the stop by.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Good luck the next round. Man, oh, thank you. Thanks
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: for having me.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Guys,