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Interview: Michael McGreevy joins the show · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, Hello, and welcome back to Cardinal Territory. Longtime viewers
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  Speaker 1: and listeners know this about the podcast. This show is
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  Speaker 1: a pro Michael McGreevy show, So I thought, why not
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  Speaker 1: live up to our hype, to our reputation, and indeed
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  Speaker 1: bring him in. Michae McGreevey is our player interview guest
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  Speaker 1: of the week. Mike, Nice to see it, Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, thanks for having me, of course.
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  Speaker 1: So you're fresh off six shutout intings in Nashville. What
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  Speaker 1: two hits, five strikeouts? Yeah, I think so that memory,
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  Speaker 1: So another quality solid outing for you in Memphis. I
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  Speaker 1: know a wide majority of the Cardinals fan base we'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see most of your starts actually in Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 1: But when we start the show, we usually go like,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about business, let's talk about baseball first, And
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  Speaker 1: I thought this would be a good topic to discuss
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  Speaker 1: because in our conversations when I do see you, I
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  Speaker 1: thought you've handled this whole shuttle between the majors and
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  Speaker 1: the miners really well. And the conversation happened in spring
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  Speaker 1: training about the lack of depth in the organization and
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  Speaker 1: where the Cardinals wanted you to be and where they
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  Speaker 1: felt like they had to have you be. How was
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  Speaker 1: that explained to you and what was your understanding of
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  Speaker 1: the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So all throughout camp, I each day by day
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  Speaker 3: like as like you know, like the team got smaller
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  Speaker 3: and smaller with cuts and spring training and sending guys
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  Speaker 3: back down to Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like
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  Speaker 2: I might make it.
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  Speaker 3: I might make it, especially with ending the year last
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  Speaker 3: year in the big leagues for those last two weeks,
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  Speaker 3: which was great.
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  Speaker 2: It felt like of possibility.
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  Speaker 3: But then when you know, like you're the last guy
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  Speaker 3: hen go either way, and then they bring you to
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  Speaker 3: the office and hey, like you know, like like any
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  Speaker 3: other year, any other circumstances, you would make this team.
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  Speaker 3: You deserve to make this team, but like we need
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  Speaker 3: you down in Memphis, like to provide a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of depth. And you know that's it literally stinks because
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  Speaker 3: they're telling you they want you in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, like you understand, like you
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  Speaker 3: provide like a valuable like your a valuable.
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  Speaker 2: Asset if you are in Memphis at that time.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a little bit of a it's a crap feeling,
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  Speaker 3: but at the same time it makes you feel good
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  Speaker 3: at the same time that like, hey, like we need
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  Speaker 3: you here right now to help us in a way,
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  Speaker 3: in a way that impacts the team when you're not on.
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  Speaker 2: A big league field. So it's a little interesting.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little it's kind of a mental battle with
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  Speaker 3: how you have to deal with it. But at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, like at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 3: still just baseball, and like whether I'm in Memphis or
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  Speaker 3: Saint Louis, like I have to just like smile, like
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  Speaker 3: I get to play baseball today.
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  Speaker 1: You're righted a as a mental battle, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: one that I think a lot of players could have
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  Speaker 1: that kind of mindset that you do. I mean, when
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  Speaker 1: we've seen you for your various spots starts, it's been great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're very welcome in the clubhouse. Obviously, I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone knows that you should be there, whether that's
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  Speaker 1: the front office, the coaching staff, and your guys out
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis. But it's not easy to hear, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we want you here, but so sorry you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be here. What kind of like what kind of
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  Speaker 1: mental work did you have to go through to get
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  Speaker 1: to where you are now. Because each time I see you,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, in Saint Louis for a spot
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  Speaker 1: start against the Dodgers or calling up against the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox for doubleheader, like, it seems like you're just really
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  Speaker 1: assured of where you need to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very blessed to say I have a great
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  Speaker 3: support support system, family, coaches, loved ones, Like everybody that
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  Speaker 3: has been in my life and it's in my life
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  Speaker 3: has always just supported me through the ups and the downs.
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  Speaker 3: They've given me great mental lessons to, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: get through the hard times, like giving me cliches like
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  Speaker 3: the ball doesn't care how you feel, or like hey,
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  Speaker 3: like you're entitled it absolutely nothing, but you have to
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  Speaker 3: be grateful for everything, and just like thinking about those
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  Speaker 3: like things that I've been taught throughout my life just
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  Speaker 3: kind of get me through. And you know, like you
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  Speaker 3: get to the big leagues and say, all you're in
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  Speaker 3: heaven and then.
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  Speaker 2: You just kind of smile and enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: And then when you get back down, then you know,
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  Speaker 3: you could be sad about it for a day, but
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  Speaker 3: then it's just back to the business.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like the lessons that you learned from
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  Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty five. I mean, the amount of
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  Speaker 1: growth in four years for anyone is obviously a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: but for you, particularly coming in as a top you
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  Speaker 1: first round pick a lot of hype as a top prospect,
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  Speaker 1: you come in in twenty four, you dominate and now
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  Speaker 1: even you know, there have been maybe two innings and
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  Speaker 1: your five appearances in the majors where it didn't go well,
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  Speaker 1: but even after those two innings, you rebounded and you
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  Speaker 1: posted and you were able to settle down. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of growth have you made as a pitcher in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a huge change since I got drafted
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  Speaker 3: till now I feel like I'm a completely different pitcher.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's just the hard work that people don't
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  Speaker 3: really see in the off season. It's taking care of
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  Speaker 3: your bodies, taking care of the non cool things.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about chasing Velo.
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  Speaker 3: It's about, you know, just refining the mechanics, getting the
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  Speaker 3: muscle mass up, eating the right things in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: The off season, all that just builds up into how
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  Speaker 3: you perform on the field and what the fans do
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  Speaker 3: see and Ben just getting experienced, like it's awesome to
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  Speaker 3: see guys fly through the miners.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome to see the guys.
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  Speaker 3: That get drafted in twenty four and then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden they're making their big league debut in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five. Those are special players, and like not trying
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  Speaker 3: to take anything away from them, But the minor leagues
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  Speaker 3: are there for a reason, and while you know they're
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  Speaker 3: not the most fun place to be, they do offer
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  Speaker 3: you experience. They offer you great learning lessons. Whether you
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  Speaker 3: perform well or whether you perform badly in a stretch
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  Speaker 3: or two. It gives you experience so that when you
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  Speaker 3: do get to the big leagues, you're not figuring out
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  Speaker 3: how to deal with the loss for the first time
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  Speaker 3: in your career, or how to deal with a bad
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  Speaker 3: ending for the first time in your career. You're still
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  Speaker 3: you know how to do it because you have done
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  Speaker 3: it before.
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  Speaker 1: So things that you've done a lot of this year, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the drive, I think at a really good Instagram post yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: ten out of ten caption.
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  Speaker 2: Racking thank you fire Miles.
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  Speaker 1: That was good? Is that you or was that your girlfriend?
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  Speaker 2: No? That was me. That was me.
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  Speaker 3: I came up that with all by myself. I just
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  Speaker 3: had to make sure I got the pictures approved by
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  Speaker 3: my girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's you know, that's a good system. On
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  Speaker 1: the Instagram post we have on the caption, I was
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  Speaker 1: I was proud. When when you are being brought up
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  Speaker 1: and when you spot start, I mean it's very clear
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  Speaker 1: like this is the role that they saw you in.
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  Speaker 1: I think candidly they probably thought you were going to
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  Speaker 1: be up here a lot more consistently because knock on
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  Speaker 1: wood there they've been very very healthy this year and right,
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  Speaker 1: and then a sport where pitch, your health is not
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  Speaker 1: where it's at, and there are plenty of teams just
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  Speaker 1: being decimated by injury. That's a great thing, right, But
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  Speaker 1: for you, they've still found ways to bring you up
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  Speaker 1: because they do want to see you when you are
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  Speaker 1: one of their best arms and in a season about
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the next core, it's very clear they
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  Speaker 1: see you in it. So they reward you by giving
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  Speaker 1: you spot starts against the Dodgers or hey come in
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  Speaker 1: and throw five innings and relief against the Mets when
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  Speaker 1: they were going really well. How do you prepare for
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  Speaker 1: those spots starts? You know, knowing that you're probably going
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  Speaker 1: to be here just for the day, but not really sure.
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  Speaker 1: You're jumping from the miners to the majors and then
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  Speaker 1: you're getting some really quality hitters that you faced against
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  Speaker 1: and you continue to post, how do you prepare for that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's really no way to prepare for it, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: which I think is good at the same time, like
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  Speaker 3: there's good and bad.
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  Speaker 2: The bad unfortunately it's like, hey, you don't get a
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  Speaker 2: good routine.
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  Speaker 3: You don't really have your legs under you because you
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  Speaker 3: were traveling the day before. You probably didn't get to
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  Speaker 3: have a nice steak dinner that you made at your apartment.
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  Speaker 3: It's driving up, stopping at a fast food restaurant and
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  Speaker 3: getting up there.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, it's you don't have time
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  Speaker 2: to think. You just go.
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  Speaker 3: You stick to what you know, You stick to your strengths,
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  Speaker 3: and you try not to deviate from that, because if
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  Speaker 3: you spend too much time trying to game plan for
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  Speaker 3: Juan Soto, Shoho Tani and you're not all there because
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  Speaker 3: you haven't had a weak routine in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 3: you're just gonna kind of mentally exhaust yourself. And it's
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  Speaker 3: been funny, especially against the White Sox. I flew in
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  Speaker 3: I woke up in Memphis that day at five am.
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  Speaker 3: Flight was supposed to leave at seven thirty at Memphis,
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  Speaker 3: didn't leave till nine. Get to O'Hare at eleven hour
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  Speaker 3: traffic down to the south side, get to the field
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  Speaker 3: at twelve. Game start at one for that day.
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  Speaker 2: One game one.
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  Speaker 3: I blink and it's the sixth inning because Betty had
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  Speaker 3: a good game. And then I'm in the game at
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  Speaker 3: four forty five pitch against the White Sox and there's
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  Speaker 3: absolutely no time to prepare.
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  Speaker 2: I'm super tired. I want to take a nap.
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  Speaker 3: Because I woke up in Memphis that day and it's like, dude, just.
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  Speaker 2: Throw the sinker, throw the slider.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just try to get out and hopefully we'll give
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  Speaker 3: them five plus and we'll win this game. And it's
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  Speaker 3: funny situations like that, so you don't have time to
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  Speaker 3: think and you just trust your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And you did. You went through five cardinals, got the win,
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  Speaker 1: so it all works out. That's funny though, because you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear a pitcher sale the time and I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: my best stuff today or you know, and it's usually
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  Speaker 1: something like that where it's their routine is super messed
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  Speaker 1: up and you just kind of show up at the
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  Speaker 1: stadium and you're like, all right, we'll screw it, let's
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  Speaker 1: see what we got. And I think that's one of
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  Speaker 1: your strengths actually, to be able to just come in.
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  Speaker 1: You have such a mindset that that really handles this
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  Speaker 1: situation because it's weird, and I don't think anyone in
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  Speaker 1: the organization would argue that this is not a weird
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  Speaker 1: situation that they it's not ideal. I'm sure they've said
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  Speaker 1: it to you, but you've been able to keep a
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  Speaker 1: really level head and it's encouraging to see as we
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  Speaker 1: get into trade deadline month and maybe or maybe not,
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity opens for you at the rotation. It's just
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  Speaker 1: been cool to see your growth as not just a
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  Speaker 1: picture but as a person in regard. So yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: and this is our last like, well, it'll try to
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  Speaker 1: be our last baseball question. Because you have such a
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: fun personality, I want to really grill you about your teammates.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: What has been your favorite performance so far with the
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  Speaker 1: big league club and why.
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  Speaker 3: I would definitely have to say the last start in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco. That was my first time pitching back in
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  Speaker 3: California since college. So I had about fifty plus family
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  Speaker 3: and friends there and it was just really cool to
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  Speaker 3: see them all.
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  Speaker 2: After the game.
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  Speaker 3: When I was watching video again, I have my last
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  Speaker 3: strikeout from like the side view, I see like Pagro
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  Speaker 3: like catch the ball, and all of a sudden, I
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  Speaker 3: just see this guy in a white jersey just stand
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  Speaker 3: up immediately before and everybody else. I'm like, there's my dad,
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  Speaker 3: and like then you see like the other fifty people
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  Speaker 3: stand up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, ah, that's where they were sitting that day.
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  Speaker 3: So it just means it meant a lot to be
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  Speaker 3: able to pitch back in the home stay there, to
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  Speaker 3: have a game like that end the season after two
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  Speaker 3: just amazing weeks in the big leagues, despite how that
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  Speaker 3: year had started as well for me, just coming off
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  Speaker 3: to a very slow start, not thinking I was going
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  Speaker 3: to make my debut in twenty four and for it
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  Speaker 3: to end like that was just like kind of the
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  Speaker 3: cherry on top to a great year.
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  Speaker 1: Remind me, was that the final game of the season?
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  Speaker 2: It was, yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So what I do remember about that game is we
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  Speaker 1: talked to you after the start and you're, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hyped up. It's like a bittersweet feeling because everyone last day,
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  Speaker 1: but here you are all smiles and I ask you, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's what was you know, what stood out to you
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  Speaker 1: about this game? You know, great start to end the season,
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  Speaker 1: features looking good and you said that you were pretty
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  Speaker 1: amped up because the Giants did a flyover that day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was not expecting me to say that.
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  Speaker 2: About the flyover.
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  Speaker 3: I was still warming up in the bullpen during the anthem,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the Jets fly by, and like I
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  Speaker 3: look at Dusty and like that was so sick.
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  Speaker 2: He's like this kid? What is this kid? Like thirteen?
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  Speaker 2: Like he's like focus for Dusty.
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  Speaker 1: I can picture that face too. But you were super
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  Speaker 1: excited about it, for that's the first thing you said
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  Speaker 1: after that start. I was like, oh, that must have
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  Speaker 1: been a lot to him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: your teammates. And this is fun because we can do
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  Speaker 1: both Saint Louis and Memphis. We'll start with an easy
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: one because you are in the minor leagues and there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of weird transportation. It's beat writer travel. There's
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  Speaker 1: no charter like, for example, I didn't get into Chicago
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  Speaker 1: until eleven thirty last night because my flight was delayed
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  Speaker 1: three hours. So you know all of this very well.
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  Speaker 1: You do a lot of driving. You do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of road trips. If you have to create your ideal
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  Speaker 1: road trip car, okay, and it can be major league
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  Speaker 1: and minor league teammates. Who's in the car? Who are
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  Speaker 1: you road tripping with?
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  Speaker 2: You have four?
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  Speaker 3: Geez, that's tough, so like just like a minivan full
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  Speaker 3: of like four like four other guys. Okay, gosh, you
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  Speaker 3: could probably throw Gavin Collins in there. He's a good time.
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  Speaker 3: I put Andre Grenio in there as well. I'll go
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  Speaker 3: I'll go two more.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't put Quinn in there.
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  Speaker 3: He'd be boring talking about investment banking and how he
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  Speaker 3: should have been an investment banker. Dang it, who I
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  Speaker 3: put Darwin morero in there, our pitching coach, pitching coach,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, oh yeah, good times, and then probably Brody Moore. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but then if I put Brody Moore in there, I
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  Speaker 3: also have to put Jimmy Crooks in there as well.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe I'll maybe I'll just be a player only
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  Speaker 3: I'll kick Darwin out, Jimmy Crooks and Brody.
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  Speaker 2: Moore as well.
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  Speaker 1: You can have Darwin drive, yeah, exactly. So a funny
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  Speaker 1: story about Andre Gonno. We saw him make his debut
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. Just I love debuts. I get so emotional,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I'm like trying to be a professional,
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  Speaker 1: like don't cry for these guys, but inside in like
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  Speaker 1: crying of happiness. And he was just a media delight.
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  Speaker 1: It was so pure the emotion. I mean, he almost
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  Speaker 1: basically started tearing up before like talking about it again,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: and I was like, you're gonna start a chain reaction here.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: But he did mention that you guys are usually roommates correct.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah for the most part, sometimes just with how the.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Room situation works, loose up and who's not like, but yeah,
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: I've been roommates with Andre plenty of times in our
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: minor league career.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, so correct me if I'm wrong. When you got
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: your call up, he was your roommate, correct.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: For Thomas Conor.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrea was my first road roommate in low A.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: So like he because he played in the Cape, like
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: straight from the draft, they put him in Palm Beach immediately.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: I was like three weeks after the draft.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: They build me up a little bit, and then I
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: get put in low A and so in Fort Myers
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: and Dunneat and Andre Gernio is my first minor league
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: baseball road roommate and so him for me to be
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: in the room when he got the call from DJ,
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: I was like, no way, this is so cool.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: That's what it was. I knew there was like a
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: starting moment for you, but you got to you got
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: to hear the call.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and literally an hour and a half before, I'm
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: like geez man, like we're like we're talking about, like
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: you know what the future might hold. How he's pitching,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: like dude, Like you're pitching great, Like, dude, I want
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: to be surprised if you get called up soon, man,
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: like you deserve it. And we had a day game,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: so I'd take a nap, like before I was gonna
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: get some dinner later and then some kind of in
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: and out of sleep, and all of a sudden, I
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: just hear, hey b JA. I'm like, oh my god, like,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: oh my god, and like he like looks at me
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: like what I'm like, it's literally the call.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: It's the call, like.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: And then he's like, what what You're kidding, You're kidding,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Then I'm like, oh my gosh. I started freaking out.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's great, my Because he was telling that
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: story in Milwaukee and he was also mentioned that he
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: saw a number from Memphis, Soj's number saved.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: He was like, well, he should not have out of
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: himself like that.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I know he needs more media training.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you were like there too.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: You were twenty one.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: I was like that, Yeah you were.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I remember our first we were on the field and
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: you were great. You still are great. You still are
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: like a top three in the clubhouse, but you're more
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: polished now.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I was twenty one.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: No, now you're now, You're still authentic. This is what
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I really like about getting to know players, because I
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: can imagine it's really hard to all these cameras are on,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: especially after a start that doesn't go well, oh yeah,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: turned around, cameras in your face, all these people like
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: crowding your locker. Especially in Saint Louis there are a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: ton of like hoverers around and you're just like, okay,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: but you always do such a good job of just
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: talking and being in communicating and just being authentic. Do
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you is that does that come naturally? Do?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I like to think so My dad when like just
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: when I was younger, he'd always be like you always
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: pretended to be like an interviewer, like a reporter, like
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Michael McGreevy, you went two for three in your Litterle
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: League game to day, how'd you feel?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: So like we'd do a little fun.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Like, well, Dad, you know, I really saw that ball
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: way and so just stuff like that, I guess kind
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: of trains you a little bit. But hearing all the
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: cliches from movies like Bull Durham and stuff like that,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: like you try to sprinkle those in as much as
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: you can as well, and just you know, like the
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: people that get it, like, oh no, I get it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Miles. Michael was one time. He does this every now
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and then. He playstle games, but he did an entire
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: meet post game scrum with just cliches, and I was,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I was, I was like, are you kidding me right now?
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Those guys are fun. Do you have a favorite veteran
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: in the Saint Louis Clubhouse?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: You know, you could say all of them.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I feel if I don't touch on all of them,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: they're gonna next time I see them, they're like, oh,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: no love for me, but true. I think in my
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: minor league career, I mean unfortunately, because I've seen Steve
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: the most and with him rehabbing the last couple of years,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: and you know, thankfully he's up there being healthy now
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: and doing great. I really like talking with Steve a
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: whole bunch. He's always been super supportive, always just watching
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: my bullpens. He stays to watch my game sometimes when
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: he was rehabbing and we're all like, dude, go home,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: like you don't need to be here, and he just
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: watched all of us. I texted him the other day
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: after his ten years and stuff and got back to me,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: it's just guys like that are special, and like it's
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: guys like that make an impact on you, like starting
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: out in your career and to see how they've had
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: success and they like kind of give it right back
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: to you, like it's just awesome to see.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: That's awesome Matt's. Matt's is one of the good ones
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you have. You have a great clubhouse. I don't spend
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: actually I've got a Memphis at all this year, but
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: both Saint Louis and down there are just a bunch
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: of good guys. It's it's fun to be around you all,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and it's just fun to just see how the careers prosper.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I think this year specifically watching guys like Polante and Libby,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: they're both on the show together. They actually did a
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: really good job. I was so proud to see where
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: you all started because twenty one was my first year
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: in the organization, and to get to know you all
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: as you advanced through your careers. To see the success
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that Libby's having as a starter, to see Polante start
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to figure things out as well, and to know that
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: you're next in line, like that's really cool. I think
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: from my perspective, how much do you enjoy getting to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: be ideally the next core of this Cardinals team and
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: knowing just one how much of responsibility that is. But
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: also it's kind of an honor to be able to
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: be trusted this early in your career to help build
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: something back up in a town like Saint Louis.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean it's definitely big shoes to fill.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, you got rich baseball history in Saint Louis,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: so there's high expectations. But they're high expectations for a reason.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: And seeing the guys that I've come up with, people
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: ask me, oh, have.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: You ever played with Mason Win?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Like I played with Mason Win and Hia in twenty
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: twenty two, Like I've been with him in Peoria and
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: with Jordan, and like you add like a couple more guys.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: You get to Memphis and you see all these guys.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Like Ivan Herrera Libby, like guys that are going to
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: be like the next generation here in Saint Louis, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: you see like their best games when we're in the minors,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: You're like, oh, my gosh, Like this guy is insane,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Like this guy through his fuel, this guy hits bombs,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: and you just see, like you know, like while there
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: is like, oh, expectations are high, it's like, yeah, my
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: expectations would be high too if I saw what these
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: guys are doing in the minor leagues and when I
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: know they can do in the big league, so it's
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: super encouraging and just to have my name thrown in
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: that has just awesome to see as well.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Definitely, and I know I speak for myself, but also
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the majority of the best fans in baseball, they're very
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: excited to see you back again, hopefully soon. All right,
• 21:11
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• 22:19
  Speaker 1: All right, before we wrap it up here, because you
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: have well you're pitching today, but you have a game
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: in Nashville. I have a full off day in Chicago.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I can see the water right now.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Do you want it?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: You want to trade? Do you want to trade? I
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: get the off day. You have to go watch the
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: game in Nashville.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: This off day was like my reason to live when
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I was suffering through Pittsburgh. Okay, we were all suffering
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: through Pittsburgh, Okay we can say it. I just thought,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: just get to Thursday, get to the off day. Yes,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I'll be taking full advantage of that. But some things
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you might be like to do on your off day.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Oh great segue by me is I don't know if
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it's fair to qualify you as would you say you're
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a scratch golfer.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you're eighteen birdies, but you know you don't. You
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: don't finish your sometimes, you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Know, sometimes the eighteen birdies, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: track it on eighteen.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I definitely don't use eighteen birdies all the time, but
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: when I do, it's always when I play a terrible round,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I'm just.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Gonna keep this one of myself.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I don't need Katie to see my kind of shot
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: ten over today. But yeah, like I haven't been playing.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I got to play a good amount in spring. I
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: played once the day that the Battle of the Birds
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: happened in Memphis, and then like when I got called
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: up for that met series, I just put my golf
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: clubs in my Saint Louis apartment and because I just
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: don't want them sitting in the back of my truck
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: in Memphis.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Just din't.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I want to put all my extra stuff in my apartment.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I like to see the back of the back seats
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: of my truck and not have it just cluster with
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: all my extra stuff that I don't really use or wear.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So just put those away.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: But so I haven't been able to play a whole bunch,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: so I can't really say I'd be any good once
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I get out to the chorus the first time.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Soon.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Well, usually if you haven't played for a while, your
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: first round back are like kind of dialed in. I
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: think that's what's helpening. I hope happens to me training.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: But if you are creating your ideal like your ideal round,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: your ideal foursome, who are your which three are you taking?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: It can be for vibes, it can be for skill,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it can be whatever you want.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: There's there's a lot of different ways you can go.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Gavin Collins is a very golfer. Actually I actually played
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: with three of them that actually I played two times,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: once the Battle of the Birds by myself and another
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: day at Mira Michi Golf Course in Memphis. On one
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: other off day, it was Michael Factor, our tech guy,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Peter Mooney, and Gavin Collins, and all three of them
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: just kicked my butt like really insane like, and I
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: had to pitch the two days later and I was
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: just gassed. I was like, I'm calling after it was
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: super slow. They keep giving me crab. I'm like after nine,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I was like, guys, like, this isn't fun. I'm waiting
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: two hours for the force them in front of us
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: to hit ten putts.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I'm like, this is not fun. I'm going home.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: And they're like, all nine home Mic nine, Wow, he's
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: calling it today, And yeah, I'm over this. But three,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: all three of those guys are absolute sticks. And like
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I say, me and Gavin are about the same. And
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: then Michael Factor and Peter Mooney, like those guys can
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: swing it on the golf course and it was fun.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Michael Factor Almos hit a hole in one and I
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: was like, oh my gosh, these guys are dialed. So
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I love to do that again, but I need to
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: get my clubs again from Saint Louis, and hopefully when
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I do get the opportunity to get my clubs in
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Saint Louis, hopefully I don't have the opportunity to bring
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: them back to Memphis.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Next.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: There's that part when when you're back in Saint Louis,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it's for good. Hopefully, Yeah, you're going I don't know challenge.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I feel bad because Pedro catches a lot of un
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I'm very sure.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Me and Sianni still laugh about that video.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite things.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: That was unreal and like for me and Sianni to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: start out that day, we started off Birdie Birdie and
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Pedro had like a ten and that's all the people
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: saw on the video and Pedro actually turned it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Up like at the next couple holes. They just never
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: used the footage.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: No I would.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: They went like bogie parr, parr after the ten that
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: he had on the first hole.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: So me and Sanna just like, dude, it had one
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: opportunity Pedro and you're stunk.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: That is incredible. Poor Pedro. It's gonna be all right though.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: He's catch and hit. He doesn't need to hit the
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: golf ball.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Right, that's an off season thing for sure, exactly all right.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Mike McGreevey, thank you so much for doing this. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: know that you are a Cardinal's fan delight, and I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: really appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: uh to come on the show. Hopefully the next time
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: we talk it's you're back in Saint Louis. We'll keep
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: our fingers crossed for that. Is there anything you will
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: would like to say to our loyal listeners. You're a
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Cardinal Territory.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait to see you guys next time.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I'm above awesome. Yeah, it'll be great, hopefully again, sooner
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: rather than later. All right, Bernie and I are back,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: ideally Sunday. Apparently at Sunday night Baseball goes to show
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: you guys again. I'm only focused on the off day.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: We'll get to the CUB series on Friday morning, so
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: ideally Sunday night, maybe Monday morning, we'll see, but we
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: will have an episode recapping the CUB series and hopefully
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: goes a lot better than whatever we just watched in Pittsburgh.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: For Michael McGreevy, I'm Katie Woo. This is Cardinal Territory.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching