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FT at Orioles camp: Charlie Morton, Grayson Rodriguez · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I think it's a picture. You have a right to
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  Speaker 1: be upset about that. The batfloots and stuff in general
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  Speaker 1: are cool because there's nothing I love seeing more than
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  Speaker 1: a lead off homer from Gunner Henderson to start the game.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go with Grayson Rodriguez a J.
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  Speaker 3: We got you.
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  Speaker 2: We got Grayson, So this is all you because we
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  Speaker 2: had fans writing in, when can I see this matchup?
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  Speaker 2: Matchup for now?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: The matchup for now? Just has to be a one
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  Speaker 2: on one interview, So go for it.
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  Speaker 5: So here's here's the problem I have. Right, Like, when
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna talk this much trash to somebody, you can't
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  Speaker 5: have any excuses about, oh I pitched yesterday, or I
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  Speaker 5: did this right?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 5: No, Like, if you got to throw left handed, fine,
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  Speaker 5: I mean everyone said I couldn't hit lefties, so I
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  Speaker 5: mean you should have thrown left handed.
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  Speaker 3: I'd punch you out if I threw left handed.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so, maybe even more so than the right.
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  Speaker 5: Are you like Luke? You darbish? You can throw with
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  Speaker 5: both hand?
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  Speaker 3: No? Not really? I play ping pong both hands ping pong?
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  Speaker 5: What is up with you?
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  Speaker 3: Know?
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  Speaker 5: The your orioles are so young. You got ping pong,
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  Speaker 5: Mario kart, fishing pool. Do you guys ever concentrate on baseball?
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Not really, but yeah, we're just here to hang out.
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  Speaker 1: It's supposedly it's it is what it seems like.
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  Speaker 5: Huh, but you know what, that's what spring training honestly, No,
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  Speaker 5: that's what spring training is for. Is for having fun,
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  Speaker 5: getting to hang out with your teammates away from baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Because the season starts, it's all goes Oh yeah, for
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  Speaker 5: off the fishing, the pool time. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely
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  Speaker 5: during the season, all that stuff calms down. Noah, but
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  Speaker 5: we do get all we get all of our work
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  Speaker 5: in here. Most of the stuff we like hanging We
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  Speaker 5: like hanging out, you know, outside of the field. I
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  Speaker 5: think that's one thing that you know, and maybe not
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  Speaker 5: a lot of other clubs do, is spend a lot
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  Speaker 5: of time outside the field together.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of where all that comes into play.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we do have a pool table in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room that gets used quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah most of the time. What about Baltimore, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Baltimore too. Yeah, yeah, a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of a lot of pool games going on, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: most of the time in the clubhouse is spent getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for the game.
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  Speaker 5: That's as it should be. And once the season starts,
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  Speaker 5: youre getting paid. You're not getting paid to play pool.
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  Speaker 5: You're getting paid to play baseball, all right, So tell
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  Speaker 5: me about what Adley was just here? You saw him,
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  Speaker 5: you were sitting right over there. Yeah, so he obviously
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  Speaker 5: took you deep the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah so through lives the other day.
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  Speaker 5: What was coming?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I think he's caught me long enough that
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe he knows what's coming.
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  Speaker 3: At least that's what I come on now.
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, but facing him lives the other day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course he wants to be the first battery up there,
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, what else is the picture supposed doing
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  Speaker 1: to live?
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  Speaker 3: Then get up there and you can start throwing junk,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: The first batter. I mean, you know, I got to
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  Speaker 1: get into the strike zone and everything. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: fell down on him. One oh, he hit a homer. Cool, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you need to run the bases. No, And then uh
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  Speaker 1: see two days ago another live he's the first one
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  Speaker 1: in the box again, same thing, fell down one oh.
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  Speaker 3: I mean what am I gonna start throwing him? Curls
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  Speaker 3: and change ups. No, I'm gonna go right after him
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  Speaker 3: with a heater and he hit another homer on me.
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  Speaker 5: So bat flip like that dude from Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: He gronk spike the bat? He did, but I saw
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  Speaker 3: it in the video and I'm like, really, dude, come
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  Speaker 3: on now. But I mean, the good news is he's
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  Speaker 3: the only one that's getting you know, good contact off
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  Speaker 3: of me so far. So my spirits are still high
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  Speaker 3: throwing the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, if Adley's ever on the other team
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  Speaker 1: is me, we may have a problem. So I may
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  Speaker 1: not have a choice but to pitch where he's at. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I did say to the other day. I
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  Speaker 1: told our hitting coach Kody Ashley and some of the
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  Speaker 1: other guys, I'm like, dude, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Just gonna start hitting guys. If I know you and
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  Speaker 3: you're in the box, I'm just gonna hit you, and
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  Speaker 3: that's just how we're gonna get it done.
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  Speaker 5: I like it. I like it, but it still makes
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  Speaker 5: me laugh. Pictures you guys never forget. So did you
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  Speaker 5: see the bat flip the other day from the Rockies?
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  Speaker 6: Guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. I saw.
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  Speaker 5: How do you think about that? Because I listen, I'm
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  Speaker 5: a bat flip guy, but that was maybe just I know,
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  Speaker 5: he apologized, but you only apologize because he's like, man,
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  Speaker 5: I kind of look dumb doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean obviously if it was me out there,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know what i'd think about it the
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  Speaker 1: bat come flying at me, because it did it almost
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  Speaker 1: landing on the mountain, right. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a picture. You have a right to
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  Speaker 1: be upset about that. The bat flips and stuff in
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  Speaker 1: general are cool because there's nothing I love seeing more
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  Speaker 1: than a lead off homer from Gunner Henderson to start
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  Speaker 1: the game and he just you know, won arms the
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  Speaker 1: bat to the dugout. Or flashback to last year Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Holiday hitting the Grand Slam against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 1: I'm standing in the tunnel in the dugout, kind of
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  Speaker 1: behind the manager and the bench coach, watching the game.
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  Speaker 1: I see Jackson swinging Bam. I can't see the ballfly
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  Speaker 1: because like I'm standing in the steps, like in the tunnel,
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  Speaker 1: and then I just see the bat just come sliding
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  Speaker 1: literally to the dugout fence. And I mean that was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good batflip. He threw the heck out of
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  Speaker 1: that one. Wait, but I like seeing that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: You were being a bad teaming right out there rooting
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  Speaker 5: for your guys on the bench.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean I'm in the I'm locked.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pitching, so I'm standing in the tunnel checking to
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  Speaker 1: see how many outs we have. There's probably one or
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  Speaker 1: two outs, I think, and uh yeah, Jackson hit that
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  Speaker 1: ball and then just launches the bat of the dugout.
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  Speaker 3: So that was pretty cool. I think the baflops are
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  Speaker 3: definitely a good part of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, listen, I'm all forward, you know, except for
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  Speaker 5: if you you're down ten to nothing you hit a
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  Speaker 5: solo home.
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  Speaker 3: Run, yeah, it's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 5: But if it's a big home if you hit a
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  Speaker 5: big home run to whatever you want.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: If you punch me out in a big situation, you're
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  Speaker 5: probably gonna yell at me and fist pump yeah, and
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  Speaker 5: I'll be like, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna get you
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  Speaker 5: back somehow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah for sure. I mean, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: You can see me when I pitch, like I start
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  Speaker 1: screaming and stuff, which you know, I mean, I'm having
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  Speaker 1: fun out there.
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  Speaker 5: When what's your schedule? When do you pitch on the
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  Speaker 5: in the game I believe.
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  Speaker 3: On Thursday against Man Am I am I allowed to
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  Speaker 3: tell you this stuff?
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  Speaker 5: Well, who do you play on Thursday? I can look?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we played the Blue Jay the Blue Jays Omer Row.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I've got like just hundred two
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  Speaker 1: years of service. Now, I don't know if that's like
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  Speaker 1: vet you know status yet or not?
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  Speaker 5: But uh, do you have great pants in your locker?
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  Speaker 5: Do you have orange fans in your locker?
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  Speaker 3: I don't have them in my locker yet.
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  Speaker 5: Now will you travel though to face a team in
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  Speaker 5: your division?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Probably I have been the years past. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I expect you. Well, I mean you got to look.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we still got Zach Eflin, and we've got
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Morton, and you know, Dean obviously has a lot
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  Speaker 1: more service time than I do.
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  Speaker 3: So there is other starters that you know are going
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  Speaker 3: to earn those home.
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  Speaker 1: Starts, probably over me, just because simply I do not
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  Speaker 1: have over two years. But yeah, so I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: every home start I can get for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, last thing before because we have to get to
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  Speaker 5: your managers. He chooses where he starts. If you make
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  Speaker 5: him late, he's gonna make you go on every road trip, right,
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  Speaker 5: But I know you're a big hunter. We've obviously seen
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  Speaker 5: your trophy round when you do interviews with us during
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  Speaker 5: this your during the off season.
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  Speaker 4: Ye.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you know there's hunting around here, like high fence game,
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  Speaker 5: wild game.
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  Speaker 3: Have you gone yet or have you thought?
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  Speaker 5: No, I haven't because they have like the exotic stuff around,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I haven't thought about hunting and Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously I know there's turkey hunting.
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  Speaker 5: It's uh, you go about two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so, but I think the fishing kind of comes.
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  Speaker 1: That's top priority to hear this, you know, going out
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  Speaker 1: you know forty five minutes. Yeah, no, not too far.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, johna find an off day when gotten fish
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: You're a picture. Every day is an off day.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, man, I'm I'm putting in work all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't matter, Like I said, you have
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  Speaker 1: to Does he make to find the work?
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  Speaker 5: Does Hider make you stay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: We have we have the inning structure. Yeah, he's telling me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying for nine so I might want.
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  Speaker 3: To get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so yeah, there's no there's definitely an inning
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  Speaker 1: tier list, uh, based on the service time and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So it's definitely definitely helps guys out for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well we appreciate it. Thank you very
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  Speaker 5: Maybe next time, listen, I'm willing to I'm took me
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  Speaker 5: three and a half hours to get down here today,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm willing if I'm in the area to you know,
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  Speaker 5: next thing, we gotta throw a bullpen. Yeah, just let
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  Speaker 5: me know if I get one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm just gonna hit you. So you think
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  Speaker 3: you're the first guy to do that, No, might be
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  Speaker 3: the last. You better watch out.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate your grays and good to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Dude, Grizzled, grizzled better and Charlie Morton. You know how
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  Speaker 5: Grizzled is. He's like Jim Leland. He came out here
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  Speaker 5: with spikes on on the concrete. The noise I didn't
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  Speaker 5: miss when from playing is spikes on concrete. All the
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  Speaker 5: pictures wearing their spikes on concreas vision players in spring training.
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  Speaker 5: We're rocking plastics and a lot of pictures have gone
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  Speaker 5: to plastics, but you came out here in full spikes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we have a we have an obligation at twelve
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  Speaker 4: forty eastern here. So I wanted to be prepared for that.
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  Speaker 4: We have a meeting, and I wanted to be I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to be their own time, that's all, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I wanted to be ready to throw if I
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  Speaker 4: need to here with.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think you're throwing outside until so you're checking
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  Speaker 6: out the indoor mounts. Now, think about how hard it's
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  Speaker 6: gonna sound like you throw if you're throwing in the
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  Speaker 6: batting cage. Like I said, wowow, get your confidence built up.
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  Speaker 6: It would have used to not anymore. It doesn't know,
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  Speaker 6: So what's different now? I know?
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  Speaker 4: I know I'm part throwing because they got the track
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  Speaker 4: man and everything.
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  Speaker 6: Oh so you don't even have to question because Chuck
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  Speaker 6: and I we he got traded over to the Pirates
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  Speaker 6: in two thousand and nine or ten, I forget nine,
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  Speaker 6: and I got to catch his first triple A start.
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  Speaker 6: It went so well they called him up to the
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  Speaker 6: big leagues. And he's been in the big leagues pretty
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  Speaker 6: much ever since, especially when his hamstring stays attached to
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  Speaker 6: his leg and all that stuff. But to tell you
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  Speaker 6: how long that's been, my son was three years old
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  Speaker 6: that year. My son is now eighteen. He's right there,
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  Speaker 6: and you've been doing it in the show for that long.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it flew by. I don't know what happened's at
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  Speaker 4: some point it flipped like time used to go by
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  Speaker 4: really really slowly, and I felt I didn't really look
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  Speaker 4: forward to going to the park. I just I was
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  Speaker 4: down on myself and but solely, but surely I got
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to figure it out. And that was the
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  Speaker 4: biggest thing for me. Is a lot of luck, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people, the right people believing in me, give
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  Speaker 4: me a chance. Who well, Neil, for one, Neil Huntington,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I mean kept giving me a shot. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the guys in Pittsburgh kept giving me a shot. And then,
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  Speaker 4: like you mentioned, the hamstring and the Phillies gave me
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  Speaker 4: a shot in sixteen and my hamstring came off, and
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  Speaker 4: then the Astros gave me a shot, you know. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that was the first time I actually felt
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  Speaker 4: like like I earned, like I really earned my way
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  Speaker 4: on a team.
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  Speaker 6: But I and to preface that, in nine when you
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  Speaker 6: came over, I had faced you the year before in
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  Speaker 6: Triple A with the Braves in Gwinnett. I mean I'm
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  Speaker 6: not Gwinnette in Richmond. Yeah, and I remember saying, up
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  Speaker 6: until that point, the only more dominant at bet more
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  Speaker 6: dominated I felt, and then at bat was justin Verlander.
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  Speaker 6: And I told you that when you got traded over
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  Speaker 6: go bro, you dominated me. You dominated me that entire game.
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  Speaker 6: And do you remember what your answer was or what
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  Speaker 6: your answer would have been in two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 6: not directly to me, because I can tell you, and
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  Speaker 6: it never I'll never forget it because it changed how
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  Speaker 6: I think about pictures.
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  Speaker 4: You don't need to lie to me.
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  Speaker 6: No, you said I probably got lucky, and I remember
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  Speaker 6: thinking this dude was an absolute beast on the mound
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  Speaker 6: and he dominated me. I thought he was a beast,
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  Speaker 6: and you go, ugh, I probably got lucky. And if
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  Speaker 6: it wasn't anything against you, it was more me saying
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  Speaker 6: I was giving you too much credit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, agreed, Yeah, I mean I think that that was
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  Speaker 4: the narrative. Like it was. It was like I'd throw
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  Speaker 4: a bullpen, or I'd go out for first inning and
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  Speaker 4: have a have a really good inning, or I'd throw
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  Speaker 4: a bullpen and I'd have I remember Leo Mazzoni watched
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  Speaker 4: me in a bullpen when I was in a ball
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  Speaker 4: and he's back. They're getting all excited watching the ball
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  Speaker 4: come out of my hand, and I'm like, man, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm pretty good, I guess. But I just never
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  Speaker 4: truly believed it. And then it took like actually being
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  Speaker 4: dominant to believe it in the big leagues, not just
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  Speaker 4: being like okay or decent or having a couple of
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  Speaker 4: good starts. It actually took me having some sustained success
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  Speaker 4: and me understanding why I was having success. So I've
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  Speaker 4: learned a lot from that. I mean, I've learned a
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  Speaker 4: lot from the successes and failures.
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  Speaker 5: But I have two for you one three for six
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  Speaker 5: off you sorry about the cratz. I mostly got lucky
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  Speaker 5: that day. Okay, did we lose our feet here?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 5: There we go three for six two doubles too. By
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  Speaker 5: the way, two doubles steak, so that works out to
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  Speaker 5: a thirteen ops. I'm just saying. But that was when
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  Speaker 5: you threw like Roy Holliday, and then you just completely
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  Speaker 5: can that and you went to your own thing. First
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  Speaker 5: of all, why did you want to throw like Roy Hall?
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  Speaker 5: Because you were like a Roy Holiday clone the same motion.
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  Speaker 5: And then all of a sudden you go. I think
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  Speaker 5: you went to the Astros and they're like, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna have you throw four steamers in curveball, right
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  Speaker 5: instead of you were trying to throw like sinker cutter curveball.
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  Speaker 5: Why Roy Holliday, Obviously I know why he's a Hall
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  Speaker 5: of Famer, But what led you to become pitch like
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  Speaker 5: him and then what led you away from that to
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  Speaker 5: become your own person?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think everybody has their own favorite player, right,
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  Speaker 4: And like I think everybody has their own idea of
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  Speaker 4: what they would want to be if they could pick right, like,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you're younger, And I think Roy for me
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  Speaker 4: was that, especially when I was younger in my professional career,
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  Speaker 4: because as a kid, I wanted to be smoltz Er.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be you know, I remember watching Clemens
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  Speaker 4: and Pettitt in New York. But then when I got
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  Speaker 4: to see how tough it was to be a big
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  Speaker 4: leaguer and I got to see how tough it was
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  Speaker 4: to be a pro, That's when I started paying attention
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  Speaker 4: to Roy, and I I just admired him from across
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  Speaker 4: the way just as a as a pup, right, and
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  Speaker 4: then Ray Sierridge and Jim Benedict. They pulled me inside
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  Speaker 4: and spring after I had a twelve yard the year before.
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  Speaker 4: I think I finished with a seven and a half,
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  Speaker 4: but I got sent down in May with a twelve
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  Speaker 4: and they were like, hey, we got an idea for you.
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  Speaker 4: We want you to keep your head still and work
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: your arm around your body, drop your slot. And they
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: showed me a video of Roy and I remember just
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: being in the bullpen and like playing catch and just
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: kind of like remembering what I saw in his body
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: and how it was moving and the arm was moving.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: I started messing around with his little tuck. Because I
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: was just messing around. I was like, I did it,
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: and I was like, oh man, that feels actually, like
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: this is great. And I went out for my first
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: outing in spring and the ball was just just diving,
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: Like my sinker was just completely different, and I'm getting
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: balls on the ground. And I threw two complete games
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: in the first half of the season, and I just
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: remember being a completely different picture. So it was like
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: it wasn't necessarily like me trying to be Roy Halliday.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: It was me trying to find a version of me
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: that had no options left. Was coming off a seven
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: and a half. You know, I had I had a
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: career whatever six cra in the big leagues, and I'm
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: just trying to get you know, I got an opportunity
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: to get into the getting the arbitration. The following year,
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: I'd had some bad news with my left hip before
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: the season started. I knew I was probably gonna have
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: hip surgery within the next year, and I'm coming in
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: the spring, and I'm like, man, i gotta do something.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: And luckily Ray and Benny they had something for me.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: And I had a kind of a north star in
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Royalitay to kind of like look at and emulate. The
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: following year, I stopped kind of doing what he was
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: doing and trying to figure out some of the things
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: of my delivery, and I blew out my elbow and
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: so like. After twenty twelve, that was the last time
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: I was doing the Halliday talk. But certainly that gave
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: me an opportunity. That advice and watching the way he worked,
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: that gave me a real opportunity to have a big
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: lead career that I look back and I'm pretty proud of.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: You should be you should be proud of it.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: I'm right, I'm doing all right? What is it like,
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: what was this off season like for you?
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: What other teams or what other offers did you have
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: out there and how much? Because before when I talked
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: to you, I forget where it was. You were like
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: kind of like it I'm close to home, like this
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: is and then you went to a couple of other teams.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: So what was this off season like and what did
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: what other teams were interested?
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: The same, I mean it was the same. The priorities
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: were the same, if not more. It was I need
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: to be preferably a two hour less flight from home,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: and I need to I need to be able to
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: stay in my own bed and spring training, and obviously,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: like you want to be, you want to be with
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: a group of guys that are good dudes, talented, have
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: a chance to win. And I think in the Orioles,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: I know French of our pitching coach, I knew our
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: head strength guy from Houston, I knew our head trainer
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: from Houston. I knew and played with a couple of
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: the guys. And obviously the level of talent on this
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: team is exciting. So while while I'm like one of
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: the last guys that wants to bounce from team to
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: team and have to know new get to know new people,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: and kind of let go of the connections that I've made.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I just felt like walking away. And my wife and
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I a my kids, like we talked a lot about it,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: and that we thought a lot about it, and at
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: the end of the day, in my heart, I just
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: wasn't ready to shut it down with an opportunity like
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: this on the table.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't either. I wouldn't either. All Right, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: got to ask you a story. We're gonna go back
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: to a little a fun time for your twenty seventeen
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: when you, guys, wont with the Astros okay, game seven
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: of the CS, Right, you started Game seven of the
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: CS against the Yankees or seventeen you were on the
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Yankee team that year, and then mccullor's came in behind
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: you and through fifty seven straight caar balls. Yeah, and
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: then it gets to Game seven in the World Series,
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: mcculor starts, you come in and finish it. Have you
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: ever heard why aj Hinch made the change? Has he
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: ever told you? Have you ever asked him why he
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: made that change?
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: The change?
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Why he flip flopped you guys, and that for that particular.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Game I started game four, Okay, so I was on
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: three days rest going into game seven. Okay, that's the
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: only reason that he gave you. Yeah, I just remember
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: AJ coming up to me, and I remember being out
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: to breakfast with my family that day Game seven the
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: World Series in LA and I remember seeing Lance walking
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: around with his wife and I'm looking at him. I
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: was like, that, dude's about to start game seven the
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: World Series. Like and for me that that being in
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: the play because I had pitched in the playoffs since
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: thirteen with the Pirates. I started Game four of the
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Division Series against the Cardinals at home. But I never
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I never really envisioned myself being on a World Series team.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: It just seems so surreal. So I'm still sitting there,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at Lance. I'm like, dude, this dude's about
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: to start game seven the World Series, Like what is
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: going through his mind right now? And AJ, I remember
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: came up to me at the park because I'm like
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: care free.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I think as a picture you have a right to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: be upset about that. The batlosts and stuff in general
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: are cool because there's nothing I love seeing more than
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: a lead off homer from Gunnar Henderson to start the game.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: All right, here I go with Grace and Rodriguez. AJ,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: we got you, we got Grayson. So this is all
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: you because we had fans writing in, When can I
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: see the matchup? Matchup for now? What the matchup for now?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Just has to be a one on one interview, So
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: So here's here's the problem I have, right, Like, when
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: you're gonna talk this much trash to somebody, you can't
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: have any excuses about oh I pitched yesterday, or I
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: did this, or I like no, Like, if you got
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: to throw left handed, fine, I mean everyone said I
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: couldn't hit lefties, so I mean you should have thrown
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: left handed.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I'd punch you out if I threw left handed.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Oh I don't.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I don't think so, maybe even more so than the right.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Are you like lud you darbish? You can throw with
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: both hands?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: No, not really? I play ping pong both hands?
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Ping pong? What is that with? You know the your
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: orioles are so young? You got ping pong? Mario kart
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: fishing pool. Do you guys ever concentrate on baseball?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I mean not really, but yeah, we're just here to
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: hang out. It's totally. It's it's what it seems like.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Hunh, But you know what, that's what spring training honestly, No,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: that's what spring training is for, is for having fun,
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: getting to hang out with your teammates away from baseball.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Because the season starts, it's all goes oh yeah, sh
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: off the fish, the pool time.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely during the season, all that stuff
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: calms down now. But we do get all we get
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: all of our work in here, most of the stuff
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: we like hanging We like hanging out, you know, outside
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: of the field. I think that's one thing that you know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and maybe not a lot of other clubs do, is
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time outside the field together. So
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: that's kind of where all that comes into play. But yeah,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: we do have a pool table in the locker room
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that gets used quite a bit.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah most of the time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: What about Baltimore, Yeah, yeah, in Baltimore too, Yeah, yeah,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of pool games going on.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, most of the time in the clubhouse.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Is spent getting ready for the game.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: That's as it should be. And once the season starts're
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: getting paid. You're not getting paid to play pool. You're
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: getting paid to play baseball, right, all right, So tell
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: me about what Adley was just here. You saw him,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: you were sitting right over there. Yeah, so he obviously
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: took you deep the other day. Yeah so through lives
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: the other day was coming.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: No, but I think he's caught me long enough that,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe he knows what's coming.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: At least that's what I come on.