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Tarik Skubal talks sign-stealing, ump battles, following Skenes + August schedule strength review · Foul Territory

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Here comes Trek's School from the Tigers back on FT.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Good to see you, Trek. How's the season going for you, man?
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: It's going well, it's going well. Thanks for having me, yeah,
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: of course.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: So first off, just team wise, I mean, you guys
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: were off to a blazing start, went through a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a rough patch around the All Star break,
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  Speaker 1: and now I've picked things back up. Do you like,
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: you know, do you like looking behind you and saying, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got to make sure that we get
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to October in a good place where you get
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: a little heat from a team like Cleveland that's now
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: playing well. Or would you rather be in total cruise
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  Speaker 1: control mode where you're just prepping for October.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't really thought about either of
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  Speaker 2: those things. I think, you know, what our team needs
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  Speaker 2: to do is just focus on ourselves, and you know,
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: you know, me focus on myself when I'm at my best.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: You know, I like our team's odds of winning that day.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I haven't even really looked at the standings
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  Speaker 2: too much or kind of what's going around the league.
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  Speaker 2: I've kind of just been focused on what our team's
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  Speaker 2: doing and getting back to playing the baseball. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think that we all know we're capable of.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hey, Scoops.
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  Speaker 4: We It's always fun to watch you in action. Man,
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  Speaker 4: you know you're my guy. But one thing I've never
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  Speaker 4: asked you is when you're on, when you're you know,
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  Speaker 4: when you are you know, have that rhythm, you find
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  Speaker 4: that spot, Like, what does that feel like exactly out there?
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  Speaker 3: Like what does it feel like for you to be
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  Speaker 3: like locked in?
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  Speaker 4: Can you explain that to like the fans maybe just
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  Speaker 4: to give them a little insight of being in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me, when I'm at my best,
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty simple. When I'm out there, it's, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you hear the pitch com and the next thing that
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  Speaker 2: goes through your mind is kind of for me, I
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  Speaker 2: I have, you know, sights of where I want to
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  Speaker 2: start pitches, you know, depending on what the pitch com is.
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  Speaker 2: So you hear it, and then I look at where
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  Speaker 2: I want to throw the ball, and then I throw it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's It's It's really that simple when I
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  Speaker 2: when I'm rolling and I'm at my best. And I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of people are at their best when
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  Speaker 2: they keep the game simple. There's a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that can come okay things throughout a game, but when
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  Speaker 2: I'm at my best, it really is just pitch calm. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I got my sights on this. I'm gonna throw the
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  Speaker 2: hell out of this ball to that spot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So let me ask you, on the other hand, when
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  Speaker 4: you very rarely give up a run, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: I see looking on your face sometimes in disbelief, when
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  Speaker 4: you very rarely give up give up a run, how
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  Speaker 4: do you flesh it right for the guys who are
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  Speaker 4: the young guys are dombin out there? Like, how do
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  Speaker 4: you flushing to get right back on track and not
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  Speaker 4: you know, let that moment become too big for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think you know. I I immediately go and
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  Speaker 2: check my process, like was I one hundred percent bought
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  Speaker 2: in on throwing this pitch? Or was there any sort
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  Speaker 2: of hesitant you know, maybe I wanted to go somewhere else,
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  Speaker 2: or or I was worried about leaving the ball middle
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  Speaker 2: instead of trying to execute the ball away. So that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of what I do, is I just look back
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  Speaker 2: in my process, like, Okay, was I bought in on
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  Speaker 2: that pitch? Yes? Okay, onto the next one like who cares?
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  Speaker 2: If I wasn't bought into that pitch, then then that's
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  Speaker 2: when you to flip the switch and be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's get back to what makes me good. And that's
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  Speaker 2: just me buying in on every single throw. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's kind of how I judge judge outings. If
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  Speaker 2: I was really bought in on making my ninety two
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  Speaker 2: hundred throws that game, you know, and and if I was,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really care what the results are. If I wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: then there's some work that needs to be done.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, do you feel like more times than I? I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: do you feel like more times than I.
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  Speaker 3: When you do get beat?
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like it was that just not buying
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  Speaker 4: in that day? I mean, I know you're going to
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  Speaker 4: give credit when credit is due. Sometimes you just get beat,
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  Speaker 4: But do you feel like, hey, when when you do
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  Speaker 4: have those outings, it's like, damn, I just I just
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  Speaker 4: it was no conviction or it wasn't my usual conviction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think so. And that's
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  Speaker 2: when you have to look yourself in the mirror and
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  Speaker 2: be really honest with yourself.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's like hitting if if you want to
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  Speaker 2: get your A swing off, get your A swing off,
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  Speaker 2: don't get beat, you know on your B swing.
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think you know. I always want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to buy in it and be convicted with
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  Speaker 2: every single throw. And if if I am that day,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really care what the numbers are. If I'm
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  Speaker 2: not that day, those are the ones that kind of
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  Speaker 2: eat at you, and I'll keep you up at night
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  Speaker 2: and you probably won't sleep as well. At least, I
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  Speaker 2: don't you know when I'm when I want a couple
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  Speaker 2: throws back that I just wasn't bought in on.
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  Speaker 7: Derek. First of all, I know you check the scoreboard,
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  Speaker 7: so don't lie. It's cool. I checked the scoreboard and
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  Speaker 7: spring training, okay, So like it's cool.
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  Speaker 6: You're like, I don't pay you pay attention, and you'd
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  Speaker 6: rather have a twenty game lead.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Every team would like to have a twenty game league
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  Speaker 6: going to September, and you're like, WEE can cruise. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: so don't give me the standard. All right, now, I
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  Speaker 6: don't look at this. You look at the scoreboard, dude,
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  Speaker 6: I know you You're playing the White Sox the next
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  Speaker 6: three games.
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  Speaker 7: You look at it, and you go, we should win
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  Speaker 7: the next three.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 6: It's a big league team. But that's the way big
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  Speaker 6: league players operate. Okay, So I appreciate the politically correct answer,
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  Speaker 6: but it's cool, Okay, all right, now we were talking
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  Speaker 6: about this. I don't know if you heard this conversation
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  Speaker 6: before you came on about the Mets and their bullpen
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  Speaker 6: and how their starters don't go five innings. They go
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  Speaker 6: five and usually are out. Their bullpen has to cover
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  Speaker 6: twelve outs a lot of night. As a starting pitcher
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  Speaker 6: and as the ace and the Cy Young Award winner,
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  Speaker 6: how much pride do you starters take it trying to
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  Speaker 6: get to the seventh eight and if you can even
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  Speaker 6: finish a game, how much does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 6: And then how much does it affect the bullpen? If
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  Speaker 6: you Flaherty paddock, all you guys go seven, boom, boom
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  Speaker 6: seven seven eight seven. Your bullpen comes in and goes, man,
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  Speaker 6: we haven't pitched in a while. You're like, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 6: a good thing, because you'll be ready later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. I think as a pitcher
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  Speaker 2: you take a ton of pride and throwing innings and
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  Speaker 2: trying to log as many innings as you can. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the two hundred inning threshold is a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: than it's been in years past, but you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you can eat as many innings as you can, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, for me, I want to get there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I threw one hundred and ninety two last year in
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  Speaker 2: the regular season, and I want to get to two
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  Speaker 2: hundred innings. And to be able to do that, you
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  Speaker 2: got to be pretty efficient and you know, get three
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  Speaker 2: outs pretty quickly and get deep into games and you know,
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  Speaker 2: pitch ahead, getting count leverage, do all that stuff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I starts. You know, the game's kind of
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  Speaker 2: changed a little bit just because relievers are so good now,
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  Speaker 2: But I think as starters you have to take a
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  Speaker 2: ton of pride and going deep into ball games and
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  Speaker 2: making the manager's decision as hard as you as you can.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't want the manager to think that, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is the obvious decision to go to this guy
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  Speaker 2: in the eighth. It's like, no, I'm still better than
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  Speaker 2: the guy we're going to go to in the eighth today.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's something that I take a ton
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  Speaker 2: of pride in and I wish there was more emphasis
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  Speaker 2: on you know, innings pitched in today's game. But I
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  Speaker 2: also get it because the eight guys in the bullpen
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  Speaker 2: out is it's not the same that it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: ten fifteen years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Terrek, how closely do you follow Paul Skeins and his performance?
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  Speaker 1: When we met him in person last year at the
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  Speaker 1: Awards Center, which obviously you were there too, he talked
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  Speaker 1: about how he really was looking over the offseason at
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  Speaker 1: how you were thriving, how you were going deep into games.
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  Speaker 8: You know everything about what you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Last season, of course, right, so curious on the flip
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  Speaker 1: side of that, this year he is going super deep
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  Speaker 1: into starts. You know, they babe him a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like anyone else does heading into the major leagues. He
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  Speaker 1: only spent five minutes in the minors anyway, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: his strikeout numbers are still fine, but they're not as
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  Speaker 1: crazy as they were last year. And it looks like
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  Speaker 1: there is an emphasis on efficiency so that he can
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  Speaker 1: go seven plus as much as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I mean, one, he's he's a great pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the stuff that comes out of his hands
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  Speaker 2: is pretty special. He can do a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: with the baseball. You know, I feel like he's got
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  Speaker 2: like eight pitches and they're all pretty good, you know,
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  Speaker 2: elite shapes and stuff like that. So yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I watch what he does. It seems to me like
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  Speaker 2: he dominates every time out. So it kind of gets
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  Speaker 2: boring to watch. It's like does he ever get hit?
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  Speaker 2: Is he ever going to give up a hit? But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that that's what the really good ones do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think as a starting pitcher you kind
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  Speaker 2: of want to be a little bit boring because that
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  Speaker 2: means nothing's going on in the game. That means you're
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  Speaker 2: pitching well. So yeah, I mean, he's he's a great arm.
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  Speaker 2: What he's doing this year is phenomenal. Curious to kind
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  Speaker 2: of see what they do down the strets just to
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  Speaker 2: you know, with his career and you know, they want
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  Speaker 2: the longevity out of them. But yeah, I mean he's
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  Speaker 2: he's a great arm and you know, he's probably the
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  Speaker 2: cy young favorite in the National League this year for
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  Speaker 2: good reason.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Schools, I want to ask you this, man. I
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: know you're a very prison guy, but I also know
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  Speaker 4: that competitive competitive you are. How much do you allow
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: yourself to think about legacy and then you talk about
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  Speaker 4: the Tigers?
• 9:25
  Speaker 3: What you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 4: And how much a big postseason start or out and
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: could mean for that legacy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't, you know, I haven't really thought about
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  Speaker 2: that a ton for me. I mean, a legacy for
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  Speaker 2: me is to bring a championship to whatever you know,
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  Speaker 2: to the city I'm playing, and you know, and that's
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: that's the most important thing to me in sports is winning.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Individual accomplishments are are great, they're I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's great to get honored in that way, but
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: you know, winning a championship I think that that's when
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  Speaker 2: you talk about I think that that's the legacy that
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  Speaker 2: you want, is bringing a championship to the city, and
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: and that's kind of the goal. So however I do that,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, it doesn't really matter to me.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if I'm the one with the big
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  Speaker 2: start or if Jackson one or Casey or Paddock or Charlie. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it matters who has the big start.
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  Speaker 2: For me, just winning a championship is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing to me. And however I can
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  Speaker 2: help the team do that, I'm going to do it.
• 10:27
  Speaker 6: Are you tired of hearing? Nineteen eighty four? Yeah, in Detroit,
• 10:30
  Speaker 6: you're tired of hearing nineteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long time ago. It's a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: And I love when we have any of the eighty
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  Speaker 2: four guys around, you know, I love when they come
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  Speaker 2: back and hang out. But you know, twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: sounds a lot better. You know, sounds a lot more recent,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 7: To me, Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, eighty four team started out like twenty and
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  Speaker 6: two or thirty five and five or something.
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  Speaker 2: That was probably dominant championship of all time as the
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  Speaker 2: eighty four team. I think they had the like craziest
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  Speaker 2: lead in the post season, was dominant, best record in
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  Speaker 2: the baseball like they never lost that too. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably one of the most dominant championships in baseball history.
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  Speaker 7: It's good to know. You know your history. Now.
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  Speaker 6: The other day, you're I think it was your last start.
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  Speaker 6: You had a little shouting match with the umpire. You
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  Speaker 6: said some words. Your mom and dad probably aren't proud of.
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  Speaker 7: You about what I know. As a catcher, we can hide.
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  Speaker 6: We have a mask on so we can say things
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  Speaker 6: and no one really knows we're yelling at the umpire.
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  Speaker 6: But when you're trek schouble and they look out there
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  Speaker 6: and they see they show everything that you do and
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  Speaker 6: you're yelling these words.
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  Speaker 7: Do you apologize to the umpire afterwards?
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  Speaker 6: And have you ever gotten to the point where you're like,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to get ejected right here?
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  Speaker 2: It was close that game, It was close. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to get ejected in the first inning. Obviously,
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: that's that puts our team in a horrible spot. But
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: it wasn't the pitch right there that was just showed
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  Speaker 2: the pitch prior was a strike, and he balled it.
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  Speaker 2: And then he balled that one again. And the changeup
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  Speaker 2: that I threw the first pitch of that at bat
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  Speaker 2: was just a little bit down, So there was the
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  Speaker 2: sequence of events is probably what led to that outburst.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just like the one pitch, because I understand,
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  Speaker 2: like everyone's human. I get it, like I if I
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  Speaker 2: was an umpire, I miss pitches too. It's the human
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  Speaker 2: part of the game. But in the moment, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's the first inning. A lot of runs are scored
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  Speaker 2: in the first inning off starting pitching. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: the best hitters of all time in the box. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be in a three to zero count
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  Speaker 2: to him. You know, it should have been one two
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  Speaker 2: if the last two pitches were called strikes. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just probably lost it a little bit. Ended up
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: getting them out so it didn't matter. But I think
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  Speaker 2: every inning matters, every pitch matters, and that's probably what
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  Speaker 2: I was most frustrated with.
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  Speaker 6: All Right, so are you gonna be excited when you
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  Speaker 6: can do this next year? And it's what you said.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, don't forget who was hitting. Mike Trout
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  Speaker 6: was hitting. They're not gonna call the strike zone. There's
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  Speaker 6: certain players, and I know it's not supposed to do this,
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  Speaker 6: but every once in a while, umpire kind of when
• 13:00
  Speaker 6: certain guys come up to bat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and listen, that's part of the game. I love
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  Speaker 2: the game of baseball.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say that that's not part of
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  Speaker 2: the game. Or he's earned the right to have a
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  Speaker 2: smaller strike. So because he is Mike Trout, he's accomplished,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he is. He's about to shay just four
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  Speaker 2: hundred homer or whatever it was. I just didn't want
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  Speaker 2: it to come off me because I didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: watch the highlight, you know. So I'm like I want
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: to be in a three count to Mike Trout, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just probably shouldn't do that because I run the
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: risk of getting ejected early in the game. You know
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  Speaker 2: that that did never even crossed my mind. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I understand. I mean, it's the game of baseball. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't apologize because I didn't think I was wrong in
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  Speaker 2: that in that sense, but.
• 13:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, hey, school, Hey school, did you have a chance
• 13:48
  Speaker 9: to see the Cora and Suarez thing as far with
• 13:52
  Speaker 9: the iPad and the tips?
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: And I just want to ask you, you know, in
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: the game of baseball, and you know, I played with
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: you know, I went over to the Ashtros and seven
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: and it was a part of that team and and uh,
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: you know that whole deal.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: I also play with the Yanks.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: I play organizations that they try to figure out a
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: way to get competitive edges. I don't want to, you know,
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: get your take on it while you're still in the
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: game right now. How do you feel about it? As
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: a pitcher?
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I mean, I think if I was
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: a hitter and I had a tip at a runner
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: on second base, I'd want to know it. You know,
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm very much on it. As far as not
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: tipping my pitches. You know, in my bullpen work, I
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: have a there's a you know, one of our video
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: guys watches every single throw I'm making a bullpen watches
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: every throw I make in the game. And you know,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: we're very back and forth on tipping stuff or you know,
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: making sure I'm not tipping pitches. So I'm very much
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: it's part of the game. It's part of the baseball game.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: You know, if you don't want to do it, don't
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: tip your pitches, you know. I think that that's pretty simple,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: and and that is I think that's a competitive advantage.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: You know, you have guys at second base that can
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: relay signs and you know, get location or get which
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: pitch is coming. I think that that's I think it's
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: all fair game. The one I have a problem with
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: is the first base coach and the third base coach
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: that aren't in their box that they have. I don't
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: know why they have a box if they can't just
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: be in it, because sometimes they go way up the
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: line and way up the other line to see things
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: that you shouldn't be able to see when you're playing
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: the game of baseball. So that's the one I have
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: a problem with, and there's teams that do it. You know,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Boston's coach, you know, they've they've they've had they've had
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: me before in Boston, Cleveland has had me before, Sandy
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Alamart first base. But I'm very aware of what's going
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: on and when that kind of stuff starts to happen,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: and I think as a team, we're pretty aware of it.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: You know, we're watching and making sure nothing's going on.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: And you know, teams like to do the fake tip stuff.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: You know, Boston said they've liked to do the fake
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: tip stuff, and we just make sure that there's nothing
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: going on, you know. But as far as getting the
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: run signs from second base, and you know, if the
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: pitcher's doing something drastically different with their glove or you know,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: maybe they look down or something or look down twice,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: it's always fastball. Like I think that's fair game. I
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: think that's part of the game of baseball. But like
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: I said, the one I don't like is when the
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: first base and third base coaches go way down the
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: lines and are doing things that you know, if if
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: they want to do that, stay in the box. I
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: guess that's my opinion.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: On it all right, So so have you you say
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: that certain teams have had you. By the way, don't
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: ever go Hector Norris on Sandy Alomar. I know he's older,
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: but that dude is like a black belt and like
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: seven different things. So like, if you're gonna yell at one,
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: yell at their third base coach, don't yell at Sandy
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: because Sandy, Dandy, I don't know that you want to
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: get into that scrap of.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: So actually, I this morning, I say I've talked to
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: him about it. I go, hey, Sandy, I know what
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: you did last start. You know it's not gonna happen again.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think, I mean, that's just that's part
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: of the game of baseball. I think that that's I
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: think that's fair game and in in what they do.
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: Okay, that's fair.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: But now, do you guys is starting pitchers, do you
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: watch your guys when you're when you guys aren't on
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: your start day Because we used to have starters, We
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: used to have coaches that would watch every pitcher. We
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: had a camera that was locked in on every pitcher
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: from the home plate like the batter's view. Do you
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: guys watch Also to help because yes, one person. Because
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: here's the thing. We used to have coaches like I
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: played with Alex Sintron, who's the Astros hitting coach, and
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: he's like, oh, everybody tips.
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: And I played with Joey Kora.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: Everybody tips, and literally it would be like, oh, they're here,
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: and then one pitch they're I'm like, dude, I can't.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: I can't tell the difference in this and this.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: So do you guys watch for that stuff also on
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: the bench, because I think you're right, it's part of
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: the game, but it's also part of the game for
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: you to be able to catch it before the other
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: team does.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've watched when something doesn't look right, you know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: when guys are spitting on pitches that usually guys swing at,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you know, with our guys on the mound, or or
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: when I'm on the mound, I'll be watching and being like, Okay,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: that's a weird take. You know, Okay, that's that's a
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: weird take. Again. You know, I don't I don't give
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: hitters credit in that aspect. I don't think that they
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: take pitches all that well and they're like, oh, I
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: saw that really well. Even if if they think they
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: did I don't think they did. Uh. So you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: when when some type of weird stuff is going on,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: you know, I'll immediately get the iPad or get something
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: and watch and make sure nothing's going on. I think
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: our organization is great at that. Not only is our
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: you know, the video guy, but our pitching coaches are
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: pretty dialed in on it. And you can pull it up,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: you know, side by side on the iPad and you
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: can hell, you can get two or three iPads if
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: you want and compare some things and if there's adjustments
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: that need to be made in game. I think everyone
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: on our team is pretty comfortable doing that, because the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: last thing I want is the guy to know what
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: pitch is coming. I mean, I it's hard for me
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: to pick up tips, but if someone were to show
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: me something, it's just kind of getting rid of the
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: big ones, you know what I mean, Like the big
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the big tips that are very obvious, you know, if
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: they're really close. I don't think hitters are as comfortable
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: buying into those tips, but the pretty obvious ones, those
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: are the ones you try to want to get rid of.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: Great.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: I had to know early. I had to know way early,
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: because you know, if you do it once you pick
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: your leg up. It was too late for me, so
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: it had to be something early.
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• 20:00
  Speaker 6: All right, we had a conversation earlier I think it
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: was last year, and then I don't know if you
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: got you met Barry Barry Bonds at the at the
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: BBWAA Awards, but you said you would want to face him. Well,
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: I want to know how long would it take forget
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Barry Bonds because you don't want that smoke?
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: I told you that I knew laugh because.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: You know, you're like, oh, Barry, it's a win win
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: situation for me. I don't care. You know, it's it's
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: lose lose for him, greatest hitter of all time if
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: he gets out, Oh, how do you get out if
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: he gets the homer off me? I'm like, yeah, he's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: the greatest hiter of all time. I don't care.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: True, Okay, but let's go a little bit farther back.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Babe Ruth. A lot of discussion about Babe Ruth. He
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: swung like a fifty inch bat. How long do you
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: think it would take Babe Ruth to get a hit
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: off of you?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean. I think the game's greats would
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: always adjust to the era of baseball that we're in now.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I've actually had that conversation with Alan Trammell, like, hey, tram, like,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: the game is different than when you played. Obviously, with
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the guy's stuff. That's guys that's coming out of arms.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: And I was like, what do you think you know?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And in trams such a down to earth guy, you
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: could easily say, yeah, I'm a Hall of Famer, I'm
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: gonna you know, I'd rake off anybody, doesn't matter. But
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: he was like, no, it takes me a little bit
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: of adjusting to this. But you know, he's like, I'll
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: hold my own once I get adjusted to it. And
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I thought that was really cool coming from a Hall
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: of famer, Like, you know, a lot of guys that
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: are of that pedigree have a sense of pride attached
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: with which is totally acceptable. I get it, they're Hall
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: of famers. But he actually was like, it takes me
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: a little bit to get going, and then once I
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: got it, like it's you know, I'm a Hall of Famer,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be able to do what I do. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I was like, I love that answer. And that's probably
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: the same thing with Baby Ruth, Like I don't think
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Babe Ruth is going to be able to swing at
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: fifty inch bat off of me in and at bat
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you know, I just don't think it's gonna work. But
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: once he kind of gets up to date with kind
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: of modern baseball. I mean, I think he's gonna be
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: a game's great and it'd be you know, it'd be
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: a fun at bat for sure.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: All Right, I wanted a bat in spring training next year,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: I'm coming to Lakeland. I'm going to get in a
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: bat off you. You'll probably strike me out. It's a
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: it's a win win for me. I'm I'll be forty
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: nine years old and you probably watched me out. But
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: don't let me get a hit, because, oh, do not
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: let me get a hit.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I promise, Yeah, you're not gonna get a pitch to hit.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think what do you mean a pitch to hit.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I'm just not going to throw you a pitch to hit.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I just it's gonna probably be a lot of velocity,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: and just play that. You haven't swung a bat in
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a while.
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: Okay, all right, that's fair. Hey, I was a bad
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: ball hitter. I'm just telling you I was a bad
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: ball hitter.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Hey, he won't.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Hey, listen, you got to pitch to him, scoops, because
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: he listen, he won't be as bad as me. I
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: don't tell everybody that the one time that I you know,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: face you backfield, I hit a double loft, the wall,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Toledo on my re my, on my rehab stance.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: So I don't put it out there often. But you're
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: so humble. Listen.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I said, this is the one guy, one superstar aj
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: other than you that I can text until he text
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: me back immediately. But one thing I would have asked
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: you that you know again, when you first came into
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: the into the clubhouse, I'm like, who is this guy?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Trek Tark? I'm like, and I'm like, oh, he's a
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: he's a He's a white dude.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Who hows Like, what's the worst and funniest the pronunciation
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: you've heard of your name?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Like, I just want to hear it's the most The
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: most common is is tariek, which I don't really understand
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: how they get there, Like Tark makes more sense to me.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Treek has never really made sense to me. But yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: that's that's probably the most common is Treek. You know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And growing up, I don't think that people thought my
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: name and it'd be who I am? You know what
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I mean? So that's just it's all right, I get,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you know, I give I give my parents a tough
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: time a lot like Hey, why why Trek? You know why?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It's just whatever, But yeah, Treek is probably the most
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: common one.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: But but you know what, you had the handshake down,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: you know what?
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: And because I know what you mean a j we
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: used to play John Baker, white guy used to play
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: a game in the in the during the game right
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: to Lays, white guy, black name.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Davis Khalil Green K School. I thought he was going
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to be a brother, Like, you know, I love.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: It, Terk.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: What's what's your what's your ethnicity? What what's your background?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: White? I don't know, like like like.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: Your heritage where, like where's your family from?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Like where I think, you know, I think a little
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: bit in Europe. But the name is definitely not from
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: from Europe. The name is from like I don't My
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: mom told me the story one time. I don't really
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: know how true it is, but that's probably time for
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: a different different day. But uh yeah, I don't. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: don't really know the name because I mean, my brothers
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: are Tyler, Trey, Trent, and Will and I'm Trek, So
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I don't really get that, you know.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: But whatever, you didn't say Polish because then we'd have
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: you on team Poland and miss Lerowski going one two
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: and nobody E would want that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: We could win the Olympics with that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I'd rather play for.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's gonna get a USA phone call.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Sorry, AJ, sorry about it, Terry, good stuff, man, Great
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to have you back on Hope you had a good time.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Keep doing your thing. We'll catch
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you down the road.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Okay, yes, sir, Thank you. Guys.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: We're in mid August and the Athletic has a series
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: out on remaining schedules for contenders. I'm gonna cherry pick
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit because I don't care as much about
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the teams with decent division leads. But first off, there
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: are about seven weeks remaining in the season, and you've
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: got Phillys Mets still coming up soon. Red Sox, Yankees,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Dodgers Padres twice this month. A Jay's calling one of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: those games, but back to back weekends of Dodgers Padres Cubs,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Brewers are going to play five games in four days soon,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: so we've got some good ones. I'm gonna hop around
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to you guys a little bit. I want to go
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to the Mariners, so as we're doing this, they're a
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: half game back of the Astros. They're in a wild
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: card spot. Cam they're in the second wild card, they're
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: playoff odds. I think this they're using fangrafts ninety four
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: point eight percent.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: That is exceptional.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Strength of schedule remaining is just about fifty percent, So
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: just about five hundred ball clubs remaining five HT two,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: they're sixty six and fifty three coming up for them
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a series against the Orioles on the road. Then they're
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: on the road taking on the Mets and the Phillies.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Then they go back home for the A's and the Padres,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: and then take on the Guardians on the road to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: finish up the month. So what do we think of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: this next month for the Mariners coming up? They have
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: one series left against an AL West contender and that's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the Astros in mid in mid September. Otherwise, you know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you get a lot of a lot of East Coast
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: coming up here for them.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of a lot of high stakes games
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: coming up for that. When you're coming up in the Mariners,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: when you look at the schedule, and they're gonna be
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: battle tested.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: But I think the biggest thing.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: For them is they are you know equipped when you
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: talk about that starting rotation where you talk about the
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: bullpen and I love the where their offensive is playing
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: right now, They're gonna have to go in and earn it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: When you look at the Phillies and look at some
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: of those those teams and like you said, nobody no slouches, right,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: every series is gonna be competitive. So this is gonna
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: be big, especially when you talk about the Texas Rangers
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: kind of nipping at the heels of the Mariners and
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: the Astros as well. So each and every playoff now
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: say playoff series, Each and every series will be like
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: a playoff series when you talk about the Astros and
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: the teams that they are also facing, who are you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: have a hopes of making it into the playoffs and
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: you're gonna be fun.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a jan I'll give you the Astros side of this, right,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: If we think the Mariners are going to take down
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the Astros in the l West, and they're pretty much
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: neck and neck right now, they have the Astros at
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: ninety one percent playoff odds strength of schedule for them
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: over the next month is is a little easier right
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: at four to ninety six strength of schedule coming up,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: so they have them home against the Red Sox and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the Orioles. Then they're on the road against the Tigers,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: back on the road, still against the Orioles, and then
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: they finish up the month with the Rockies and the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Angels at home.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: I mean this sounds like a chance to win some games. Yeah,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: I mean, the Red Sox gonna be tough. They get Crochet.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: I know that. I understand that the oreol they should
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: be able to win that series. You would think the
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Tigers is gonna be tough, and it all depends on
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: who they match up with.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Then they get the Orioles for four.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: I'm at one of those games, by the way, so
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: and then they get the Rockies at home and the
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Angels for four at home. Listen, they this lines up
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: for them to at least try to keep up. And listen,
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: the Mirrors aren't gonna be nine to one every ten
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: games from now on, So the Mirror's going You know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: you can say whatever you want about the Mirrors, but
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: going east is a problem for a lot of West
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: Coast teams. The going east thing hurts a lot of
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: the West Coast teams. So do I think the Mirrors
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: can do it?
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah? But do I think this linees up nice for
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: the Astros. Absolutely, yes.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: The one thing for Houston is they don't have any
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: off days, so they'll have one this Thursday, then they
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: play ten in a row, then they stretch after that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: of thirteen in a row. But they are getting starting
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: pitching back right Christian Haab are coming back, like there
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: are some guys that were down that are coming back
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that should be able to eat some innings for them,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: so that should help. But that's the rest of August
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: schedule for the Astros. Should we look at the who
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: do you guys want the Yankees, the Red Sox or
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the Guardians next for this month? Which one do you
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: want to look at?
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I mean the Yankees are the look at let's go
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: look at look at the Boston Red Sox because again
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I know again they started off that series in San Diego.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: That first game was fun to watch. The Padres give
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: them a lot of credit for bouncing back, but I
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: like the way Boston is playing right now. As we
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: talked about all these moves that they did not make
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: the clubhouses saying something different, those dudes are having fun
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: right now. I'm watching I'm watching these guys play pretty
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: much every night and there's a buzz. There's a confidence
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: about them. I think a lot of that has to
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: do with Trevor's story looking back to his you know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: somewhat his old self, Alex Bregman as well Duran. Again,
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: these guys are just fun, explosive and explosive, and they
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: can tilt the field.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: What do we have on Boston?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: So they have a seventy four point three percent playoff
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: odds five oh one strength of schedule over the next
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: month here Astros on the road is the series coming
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: up here which starts tonight. Marlins at home. They're also
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: at home for the Oriols. And I'm keep in mind
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: with the Marlins, they're pesky, but they had a rough
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: five games just now against the Braids. Let's not act
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: like the Marlins are the hottest thing. I mean, they
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: had a really nice run. You can run into some
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: tough starters against them. But anyway, after the Orioles, then
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they're on the road for that big series late August
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. They staywn the road
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: for Baltimore again for four Baltimore is just an everyone's
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: right right now, and then they go back home at
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the end of the month to take on the Pirates.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: How does that sound, camp?
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: I mean for them, they should be excited about winning
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: some baseball games. Again, it's there to lose when you
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: look at that, and again you said it, you don't
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: play get any of these games on paper. If anything,
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I think you look at what the Yankees did and
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: when they went into Miami. You know, let's not have that,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: you know, lackadaisical mindset, right, take everything serious. But this
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: is this road is set up for success with them,
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: so it's up to them to take advantage of it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll give you the Rangers as well.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Hold up, hold up, listen, yeah, Picky, the Twins, the
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: White Sox, the Nationals, the Rays, James. I mean, I
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: know the Cardinals, I freeze. I know the Cardinals are
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: in it, right, but the Twins aren't in it, the
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Rays aren't in it, the Nationals aren't in it, and
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: the White Sox aren't in it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: So that's four.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: Guess they play the Red Sox Okay, Cardinals Okay, But
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: like this is set up for the Yankees to get
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: hot right here.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Boom.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: I mean, this should be their their their road where
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: they pick up some games if they're gonna do this.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: This is the road to hoe for.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Me, beside of mindset, right like, this is the time
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: that you saw I guess a quote from Pray beside
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: it like it's time to get pissed off, right Like,
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I do believe there's a sense of an AJ.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe you can touch on this.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I think sometimes of baseball we talk about like the
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: mittal and the mechanical, but there's a such thing as
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: in competing when you just can will yourself to just
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: when not losing, Like as the group come together collectively
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: say you know what, screw this. This is when we
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: really go ahead and really show how gil we are
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: and not lose against these teams that we're supposed to
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: take advantage of, right like, will yourself to victory down
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: this stretch.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I like it. I like that what AJ said.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, last one for me, I'll go over the Rangers,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: who are also obviously in a wildcard race. Here, they've
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: got the Diamondbacks at home, Blue Jays on the road
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: for three, four, on the road against Kansas City, then
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: they're back home for the Guardians and Angels, and on
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the road against the A's.
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: Doesn't matter, so they score runs. I don't care what
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: their schedules.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: If they don't score runs, I mean de gram dealt
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: on Saturday. The game I did didn't score Nathan Valdi
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: has a one three eight e r A. They don't
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: score runs, it don't matter. If they don't score runs,
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: it doesn't matter.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: So yeah, unless and until they figure out a way
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: to score more runs. I don't care who they play.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: They could play Cams San Diego's Padres Scalp team. Right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: They're scoring one two runs a game. Padres.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Two years, we might we might have.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: It's a two year problem. Two year problem for the
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Rangers is the offense, and that continues.
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: I'm with you. Yeah, it was a tough watch this weekend.