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Manager of the Year winners Pat Murphy & Stephen Vogt · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Even his last year he used to talk about like
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get him to do a bubblehead of
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  Speaker 1: a casket and I pop up in the casket, you know, get.
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  Speaker 2: Up, all right?
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  Speaker 3: An OL manager of the Year. Pat Murphy is here.
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  Speaker 3: Very good friend of the show too. We appreciate you
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  Speaker 3: always joining us, Murph. But does it feel cool to
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  Speaker 3: be here now on the show?
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  Speaker 2: Or here? I would say here, Yeah, it's it's a
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  Speaker 2: great honor, it really is.
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  Speaker 3: And go ahead, agent.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have this suit because it's plumb? Is it plum?
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  Speaker 2: Not sure what color, but it's kind of changes.
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  Speaker 4: With the the way the light hits you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And then after you get your award, just I got it.
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  Speaker 2: In the late seventies and still I still go with
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  Speaker 2: it still fits you. Yeah, that's the most impressive thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well there's alterations.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know if your ego swelled so much of
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  Speaker 4: your suit would fit.
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  Speaker 5: After you win the award, we'll find out if Pat,
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  Speaker 5: you waited a long time just to be a major
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  Speaker 5: league manager.
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  Speaker 2: When you and name Manager of the Year, what went
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  Speaker 2: through your mind? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I was grateful, really, I mean, like you know that
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  Speaker 1: nobody really measures what a manager can do.
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  Speaker 2: There's no numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I guess wins and losses in some cases, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't really measure what managers do or coaches do. But
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  Speaker 1: I never I wasn't in the waiting. I didn't dream
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  Speaker 1: about being a major league manager for my whole career.
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  Speaker 1: It was when I left college in twenty ten. That's
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  Speaker 1: when it became a reality, like, Okay, I'm starting over
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  Speaker 1: in the minor leagues. What do I have to do
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  Speaker 1: so to get here? And then have the good fortune
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  Speaker 1: of being around great people. Yeah, I just you just
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  Speaker 1: feel grateful. Who who are you most proud of that's
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  Speaker 1: here today?
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  Speaker 6: Because you have a lot of guests that are supporting you,
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  Speaker 6: and ultimately it shows all the people that you have
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  Speaker 6: interacted with affected positively in different in different aspects of
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  Speaker 6: your career.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, having my four kids all together when they
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  Speaker 1: arrange from thirty nine to five, that's a pretty big
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  Speaker 1: feat just getting them together. But I've got one particular
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  Speaker 1: friend that's on that's here, Graham Orsini, who's the athletic
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  Speaker 1: director at Arizona State now. But he started as a
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  Speaker 1: student for me, and we hired him as a freshman
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  Speaker 1: to work in the office, and then one thing led
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  Speaker 1: to another. He was good enough to make the team,
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  Speaker 1: but I told him you might make an impact doing this,
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  Speaker 1: and then he just worked his way up.
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  Speaker 2: By the end.
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  Speaker 1: We kept him on after he graduated, made him the
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  Speaker 1: director of operations, and he did so much more, and
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  Speaker 1: he went on to work with the Diamondbacks as vice president.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's back at a issue as the ad and
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  Speaker 1: doing well and doing great things.
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  Speaker 7: Who's the first person you called when you get the
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  Speaker 7: phone call your manager of the year, Who's the first
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  Speaker 7: person you call?
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  Speaker 1: First person I called was our coach Austin Jones for
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  Speaker 1: our TENU baseball and told him I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a few minutes late.
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  Speaker 2: That's the true coach.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're out there grinding.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not grinding, but I'm out there.
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  Speaker 7: Have you ever because I know when I coach, I
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  Speaker 7: had to quit because people thought they were coaching against me.
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  Speaker 1: I've lost some game, I've lost some games to some
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  Speaker 1: pretty excited people.
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  Speaker 7: You're right, I think when you do it, I beat
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  Speaker 7: the manager of the year in the National League.
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  Speaker 2: I've witnessed that.
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  Speaker 4: Do you wear do you wear your Brewers stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Your revalue?
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  Speaker 6: Never Arizona state, regal Arizona, Regalio, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I never wear a logo, it's even around your neck.
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  Speaker 1: Even I'll give out like checks or fines for anybody
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  Speaker 1: that wears even our owner one time or Brewer stuff
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  Speaker 1: on the plane, and I was like, are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to let everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Know you're the owner of the Brewers?
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  Speaker 6: You find Antonacio, you know, I would have I would
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  Speaker 6: have see how much that fine was because.
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  Speaker 2: It had to be it had it wasn't proportionate.
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  Speaker 7: On come on, I was gonna say, what, yeah, what
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  Speaker 7: do you find the owner of a team, because like
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  Speaker 7: if you.
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  Speaker 1: We have a thing, okay, we have a thing called
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  Speaker 1: the check game that we do about amongst staff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the check master. I happen to be. We've done
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  Speaker 2: it for nine years.
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  Speaker 1: And you just can't give anybody a check that steps
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  Speaker 1: out of line or tries to draw attention to themselves
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and it's half hearted, you know, like there's
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  Speaker 1: some made up ones.
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  Speaker 5: He gave it to Council once for something I wrote
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  Speaker 5: about Counsel who exactly Obviously Brewer has just lost a
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  Speaker 5: huge part of their organization. Bob Yuker, what are your memories,
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  Speaker 5: what stands out to you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, he's a great friend. And the privilege to get
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  Speaker 1: to know him, the privilege to know him in his
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  Speaker 1: true element, which was in the clubhouse. Cratsy knows he
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  Speaker 1: was there for that. He's just he's such an authentic guy.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't trying to impress you with what he had done.
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  Speaker 1: He cared about you. He cared about all the players,
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  Speaker 1: whether they were up for a long time or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, he's part of our fabric. It was one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest parts of my job, really really was.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, we're gonna miss him, but he's a legend.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think is gonna happen this year in
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  Speaker 3: terms of how the team and the franchise can honor him,
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  Speaker 3: He would want it in a unique way to write.
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  Speaker 2: He definitely would.
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  Speaker 1: He used to talk about even his last year, he
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  Speaker 1: used to talk about like I'm trying to get him
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  Speaker 1: to do a bubblehead of a casket and I pop
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  Speaker 1: up in the casket, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, get up. That's good. He's just so self deprecating,
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  Speaker 2: but just such a beautiful man.
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  Speaker 1: I just uh, I think that I think the organization
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  Speaker 1: has an opportunity to do something extremely special for a guy.
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  Speaker 1: That is, there's no one more important to what this
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  Speaker 1: guy has meant and what he represented. He had chances
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  Speaker 1: to move on, he had chances to do all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of things, and and just stayed with the Brewers through
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  Speaker 1: and through.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, you know what you could do to
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  Speaker 7: really honor you win the World Series this year?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna need your help a little bit too. What
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  Speaker 2: am I going to do?
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  Speaker 4: You hire me whatever you can do?
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  Speaker 2: You know, are you asking for a job?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, do you need to catch her? I can
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  Speaker 4: catch probably twenty games for you this year.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting hits.
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  Speaker 1: William will want to catch one for the.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a struggle to keep him up.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes the guys you don't hire are the best hire.
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  Speaker 6: Just remember that.
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  Speaker 2: That's when Chras asked me for a job. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Cratzy you told me, Remember that the best hires
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  Speaker 1: are the guys you don't hunt.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's his line. If you get the call, right,
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  Speaker 2: that's why.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure? Yes, Murph, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 3: stopping by for a little bit again. Congrats, Yes, thank
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  Speaker 3: you very much. Guys, appreciate you doing this. We've got
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  Speaker 3: American League Manager of the Year Steven vote with us. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: manager of the Cleveland Guardians voter, thanks for coming over
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  Speaker 3: here and saying hello to us, and also congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like you run into a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people that want you to be like still the fun
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  Speaker 3: loving play and you're like, hey, I'm a manager.
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  Speaker 8: Now I'm saying person. You know, so you just have
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  Speaker 8: to hold it together for longer periods of time. But uh, now,
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  Speaker 8: this is an awesome night. It's fun to be here
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  Speaker 8: and obviously honored to have won the award, and you know,
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  Speaker 8: I'm just excited for a great night and to get
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  Speaker 8: rolling here in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 4: Did it change anything? Did your life change?
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  Speaker 2: Not really? Not really.
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  Speaker 8: I mean it's a really cool award and I feel
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  Speaker 8: really honored to get it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's more of like an organizational award.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 8: I think you know, when you're a player and you
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  Speaker 8: earn you know, say an All Star or you know,
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  Speaker 8: something like that, it's like I went out.
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  Speaker 4: And did it, like I had to go play.
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  Speaker 2: I had to do it.
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  Speaker 8: As a manager, this is a byproduct.
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  Speaker 4: Of the way your players play.
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  Speaker 8: Coaches, coach organization does things, and so I really do
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  Speaker 8: feel like this is a tip of the cap for
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  Speaker 8: the whole Cleveland organization, not just for myself. And you
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  Speaker 8: know that it's it's a very different feeling being the
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  Speaker 8: manager rather than a player winning that award.
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  Speaker 5: Steven, Obviously, when you get to be named manager of
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  Speaker 5: the Cleveland Guardians, you're not thinking about to coming manager.
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  Speaker 5: When was the first time it hit you that this
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  Speaker 5: award might be a possibility.
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  Speaker 8: Well, for anybody who knows our bench coach associate manager
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  Speaker 8: now Craig Alburn, as he was telling me all year long,
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  Speaker 8: you know, joking with me, you know, well, when you're
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  Speaker 8: a Manager of the Year, you can do whatever you want, evidently,
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  Speaker 8: you know. So it was kind of people were talking
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  Speaker 8: about it, but to be honest, I didn't think about
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  Speaker 8: it really until this World Series was over and the
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  Speaker 8: awards started to like come up, And then when I
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  Speaker 8: saw I was a nominee, I was like, oh, it'd
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  Speaker 8: be really cool if I could win that. But you know,
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  Speaker 8: you don't think about that while you're going through the year.
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  Speaker 8: You're just trying to keep your head down, keep the
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  Speaker 8: guys rolling. And we were fortunate enough to have a
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  Speaker 8: really good season.
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  Speaker 2: What was the toughest part of keeping your head down?
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  Speaker 4: What was the.
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  Speaker 6: Toughest part, because you when we talked to your on
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  Speaker 6: the show before earlier this year, we talked about how
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  Speaker 6: you were kind of preparing to hopefully be a coach
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  Speaker 6: manager someday, maybe a GM, who knows.
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  Speaker 2: But what was the toughest part. I think the.
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  Speaker 8: Toughest part was just navigating each day. You know, you
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  Speaker 8: go through you go through a season as a player.
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  Speaker 8: When you get to the field, you know what you
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  Speaker 8: need to do in order to go be ready for
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  Speaker 8: the game. Then you go home at night, you go
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  Speaker 8: through your day. You do like the two or three checklists. Okay,
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  Speaker 8: I need to work on this, hitting this, this is
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  Speaker 8: my lift tomorrow. I know what I'm gonna do, and
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  Speaker 8: then you just go to bed. As a manager, you
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  Speaker 8: got seventy people that you go through the checklist right
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  Speaker 8: before you go to bed, and throughout the day, every
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  Speaker 8: single time somebody comes into the office, those are the
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  Speaker 8: most important five minutes of the day. So it's just
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  Speaker 8: the toughest part is being on and being there and
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  Speaker 8: navigating each day. And then you get to just go
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  Speaker 8: watch baseball and it's the best.
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  Speaker 7: So when you go to spring training, because you're going
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  Speaker 7: in like two weeks, are you walking in with this
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  Speaker 7: trophy above your head and saying, nobody talk to me
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  Speaker 7: unless it's spoken to because I have this award.
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  Speaker 8: Well if I apologize, because if you want moy plates
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  Speaker 8: in Washington State, they're gone. You know, you got to
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  Speaker 8: flex somehow. No, I'm just kidding, but no, this is
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  Speaker 8: a really cool accolade. I'm super honored. But it's over.
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  Speaker 8: It was last year, so we got to look forward
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  Speaker 8: to twenty twenty five and we've got a job to do.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know, can you do it again?
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  Speaker 2: No? He can't repeat. He cannot repeat.
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  Speaker 4: He's the only one here that can't repeat.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm not talking about for manage the year.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 7: As someone that is a fan of a team in
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  Speaker 7: the division, I mean, you know, White Sox, I think
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  Speaker 7: we can, you know, I think. You know, obviously, we
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  Speaker 7: made some changes and we've got some new personnel coming in.
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  Speaker 7: And anytime you lose someone like Andre Simonez and Josh Naylor,
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  Speaker 7: you know, they're tough guys to replace. But you know,
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  Speaker 7: with Carlos Santana coming in, we feel like we've got.
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  Speaker 8: A veteran first baseman that's going to be a good
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  Speaker 8: leader in that clubhouse, and we have a number of
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  Speaker 8: guys to play second base. And we bolstered our starting pitching,
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  Speaker 8: which is something that we really needed to do and
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  Speaker 8: I feel.
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  Speaker 2: Really good about it.
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  Speaker 8: And like I tell our guys, if you show up
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  Speaker 8: to Goodyear expecting anything other than to win the World Series,
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  Speaker 8: don't bother coming.
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  Speaker 2: That's our goal every single year.
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  Speaker 8: And if we win the division in order on our
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  Speaker 8: way to do that, that's great. But for us, it's
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  Speaker 8: it's about winning the World Series, and that's why we're
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  Speaker 8: going to show up.
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  Speaker 3: When you guys brought on Carlos Santana, did you send
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  Speaker 3: him a text like thanks man, thanks for making me
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  Speaker 3: feel you on.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, we we had Carlos Clark carrasco last year,
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  Speaker 8: which made me feel very young still. And then Alex Cobb,
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  Speaker 8: who was my first teammate in pro ball that I met,
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  Speaker 8: was pitching for us. So I always want to keep
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  Speaker 8: one old guy around to make sure I'm like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I remember guys, I played too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that way I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Have to talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: Travis Bazana just named one of the top ten prospects
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  Speaker 5: in the game.
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  Speaker 2: What do you know about him? How much you're looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to see him?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm excited to watch him play. You know, I
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  Speaker 8: met him around draft time. We brought him in for
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  Speaker 8: the physical and things like that, so I got a
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  Speaker 8: chance to chat with Travis. And Travis is a number like,
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  Speaker 8: one of many very very good prospects that we have
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  Speaker 8: in our organization. And anytime you're a one one pick,
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  Speaker 8: you know there is there's a lot of hype around you.
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  Speaker 8: And but Travis is a He's the kind of kid
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  Speaker 8: that can handle it, and he wants to challenge. He
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  Speaker 8: is so hungry to get better and so hungry to learn.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm really excited to interact with him a little
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  Speaker 8: bit in goodyear.
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  Speaker 6: Mandy Bell was on our show just the other day
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  Speaker 6: and she said, well, that the way that the front
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  Speaker 6: office has always done it is they kind of hide
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  Speaker 6: these prospects.
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  Speaker 2: So they hide him from Steven Vote.
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  Speaker 6: All you gotta do give a ring, maybe FaceTime with
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  Speaker 6: Antonetti or somebody and be like, hey, I'm manager of
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  Speaker 6: the year.
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  Speaker 2: Can we get a Fazana.
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  Speaker 6: Can we get him in big league camp as a
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  Speaker 6: big league camp in fight he's not there yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, houk the guy out.
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  Speaker 8: I if I made those decisions, you know I do
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  Speaker 8: have influence. But you know that's the thing too, is
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  Speaker 8: like we don't want to put Travis into a position
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  Speaker 8: that is gonna make him feel uncomfortable. He's We're gonna
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  Speaker 8: see a lot of them at spring training. He's gonna
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  Speaker 8: come over as a backup. He's gonna come over in
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  Speaker 8: depth camp to those corner things. But you know, for
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  Speaker 8: all of our minor league guys, we want to see
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  Speaker 8: as many of them as possible.
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  Speaker 4: And our front office does a great job.
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  Speaker 8: Our minor league coordinator Johnny McDonald does a great job
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  Speaker 8: of bringing us players that we we get to see you.
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  Speaker 4: And watch play and work.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm excited to see a number of our minor
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  Speaker 8: league players.
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  Speaker 4: So you're saying he's not gonna make the.
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  Speaker 8: Team, it's too early a j I mean, if he
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  Speaker 8: goes down, HiT's like five moms.
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  Speaker 2: There's gonna be some good discussions. It's gonna talk.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you need everybody loves they're great, So get
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  Speaker 6: get Big Christmas in the line up a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't even started yet. I think we did a
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  Speaker 2: lot of just fine last year. Yeah, I'll do that, kid.
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  Speaker 2: This is why we do this. Though.
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  Speaker 3: You sit here for Manager of the Year and you've
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  Speaker 3: got these two telling you, well, I loved everything except
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  Speaker 3: can you do this?
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 8: If there's anything I've learned, it's so easy to hit
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  Speaker 8: when you're managing, and it's even easier to manage when
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  Speaker 8: you don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we're really good at spending money for the teams
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  Speaker 1: special that's my favorite thing.
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  Speaker 4: Spending other people's money is the best.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy spent this off season. Yeah, most of
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  Speaker 3: it's deferred. But anyway, voter.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome to have you man.
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  Speaker 3: Congrats again and we'll.
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  Speaker 4: See obviously training too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me up.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate you.