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Rockies OF Mickey Moniak joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I'm partial to guys who rebuilt their careers.
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  Speaker 2: Touch to him all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Thanky, you're so fun.
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  Speaker 2: Mickey moniac.
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  Speaker 1: To me, that's what we love about this game, to
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  Speaker 1: see guys just keep persevering.
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  Speaker 2: Due to the week.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's quite the introduction, Mackey. Maybe we should have
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  Speaker 4: Let I mean, you got Ken Rosenthal talking about you,
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  Speaker 4: dot highly mabe. I don't know that Kevin Pillar could
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  Speaker 4: have uh introduced you any better than Ken Rosenthal.
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  Speaker 5: Let's try it, KP. Why don't you introduce your guy here? No,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I could do it much better.
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  Speaker 6: But obviously good friend of mine, my fantasy football uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, partner and crime right here. But I guess
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  Speaker 6: I'll take the first question, Mickey. When you hear that,
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  Speaker 6: do you kind of see yourself as someone who's kind
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  Speaker 6: of reinvented himself or just someone that maybe it just
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  Speaker 6: took a little bit longer to get to where you've gotten.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think I don't know, dude, I
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  Speaker 3: think it a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 7: I think, you know, obviously, throughout this game, you're always
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  Speaker 7: you know, trying to get better, trying to evolve.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the game's always changing. So you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: change with it.
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  Speaker 7: But I mean, like anything, I tell people, you know,
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  Speaker 7: everyone's career is you know different.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's not going to have that straight line to success.
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  Speaker 7: And for me, it took you know a few years
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  Speaker 7: to really get comfortable playing in the big leagues. I
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  Speaker 7: was fortunate enough to, you know, debut at twenty two
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  Speaker 7: years old, so you know, I was lucky to have
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  Speaker 7: that time to to kind of figure it out. But yeah,
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  Speaker 7: I think it's a little bit of both. But it's
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  Speaker 7: just a journey man. Just got to keep going, Mickey.
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  Speaker 5: Before we get into your baseball, your career everything.
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  Speaker 4: When you you and KP say you're fantasy football is
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you guys are partners.
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  Speaker 5: Who gets the draft picks?
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  Speaker 4: Because I once did a fantasy draft in the Bob Beckdall,
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  Speaker 4: who's the PR director for the White Sox, was my
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  Speaker 4: kind of my partner, my draft pick. And I wrote
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  Speaker 4: an article once on ESPN and I got destroyed because
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  Speaker 4: I said, one of the most importannites of the baseball
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  Speaker 4: season is the fantasy football draft night. And I did
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  Speaker 4: and it went on on ESPN and I got annihilated. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't care about baseball that's not true, but it
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  Speaker 4: is one of the most important nights. And I also
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  Speaker 4: got a chance to take a shot at Bob for
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  Speaker 4: drafting Nate keating the kicker in like the fifth round,
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  Speaker 4: even though kickers don't usually go too late.
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  Speaker 5: So as have you and.
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  Speaker 4: KP ever had fights like like husband and wives over
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  Speaker 4: picks or trades during the season or has.
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  Speaker 7: He let you do that? We're pretty good partners man,
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  Speaker 7: I think, uh, we tend to We tend to agree
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  Speaker 7: quite a bit. You know, we'll bounce off off each other.
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  Speaker 7: We were talking yesterday. We got a trade in the works,
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  Speaker 7: even though you know the draft is until September. We're
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  Speaker 7: in a We're in a nice little keeper league. This
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  Speaker 7: is gonna be year three. Now. We went all in
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  Speaker 7: last year. Didn't work out, but you know, no regrets.
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  Speaker 7: Our team was stacked until the injury bug hit. So
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  Speaker 7: uh yeah, I mean it's uh, it's a it's a
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  Speaker 7: good partnership for sure. Now we're doing what we can
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  Speaker 7: all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, since you're a one one, most of the questions
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you about being a one one
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  Speaker 2: we're talking football. Do you as a one to one,
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  Speaker 2: because me as a twenty ninth round pick that got
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  Speaker 2: a thousand dollars. I'm jealous at what you get as
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  Speaker 2: a one to one pick and a signing bonus. But
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  Speaker 2: do you look at the NFL one one pick and go,
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  Speaker 2: holy smokes, I wish I could throw throwing the pigskin.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think they're getting what
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  Speaker 7: is it like thirty million dollars signing bonuses and you know,
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  Speaker 7: getting five year deals and stuff like that. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think, yeah, that'd be nice. That'd be cool to
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  Speaker 7: get when you're you know, eighteen years old. I don't think,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it might be it might be tough to
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  Speaker 7: give an eighteen year old kid that much money. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I got what I got in to. I look back
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  Speaker 7: and still think back to some dumb stuff I've done,
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  Speaker 7: so I think, uh yeah, looking at it, but you know, hey,
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  Speaker 7: we uh we don't have that salary cap.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, you know, in the long round, try
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  Speaker 3: to keep it that way. Nicky.
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  Speaker 6: What's what's changed for you since you've gone to Colorado?
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  Speaker 6: Is it just consistent opportunity, is it change of scenery?
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  Speaker 6: Is it working with someone within the Colorado's Rockies organization?
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  Speaker 6: What's what's really changed because these last year and a
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  Speaker 6: half has been you know, really really good for you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. I think it's just getting the opportunity, you know,
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  Speaker 7: getting over to Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: They believed in the day one.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I think just you know, having that belief
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  Speaker 7: from the organization and and you know, from the coaching staff, Uh,
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  Speaker 7: was huge for me. You know, I think just the city.
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  Speaker 7: You know, my wife's family's from Colorado, the comfortability there.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the guys on the team. You know, last
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  Speaker 7: year is obviously what it was, you know, not a
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  Speaker 7: not a fun year overall, but you know, the guys
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  Speaker 7: on the team kept pushing. We're young, Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Shaefe taken over. He was you know, huge, and and
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  Speaker 7: you know, making sure we're staying on track, making sure
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  Speaker 7: we're not taking this for granted and and learning from it.
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  Speaker 7: And you knowultimately, I think just the potential to build
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  Speaker 7: something special here. I think is you know something that
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  Speaker 7: excites me. And yeah, I think it's just been a
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  Speaker 7: perfect fit so far.
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  Speaker 2: First, like, try to bottle up what you're saying. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to let you be you. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like you write your name where you want to hit
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  Speaker 2: in the line up because fans don't understand what being
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  Speaker 2: you is. You came up through the Phillies organization, and
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  Speaker 2: I have some arguments of the people that they were
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  Speaker 2: running the organization when you got through there. But we
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  Speaker 2: won't make you drag them through the mud. I'll let
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  Speaker 2: you get off and I'll drag them through the mud.
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  Speaker 2: But what does that mean? What does that mean for
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  Speaker 2: a player? Because tons of teams are looking for value
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  Speaker 2: that you are giving, and a lot everybody had a
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  Speaker 2: shot at you and they didn't pick you up.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, you know, I think, I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 7: it's just you know, you go out there and early
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  Speaker 7: on in my career of Philly, I think it was
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  Speaker 7: you know, I was going into every game trying to
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  Speaker 7: go five for four, you know, just trying to get
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  Speaker 7: those five hits to you know, have the chance to
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  Speaker 7: play in the lineup the next day. And you know,
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  Speaker 7: at that time, you know, Philly was was built to win,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, they really didn't give me too much
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  Speaker 7: of a leash. And I understand that. I get the
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  Speaker 7: nature of the game, and there's a lot of money
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  Speaker 7: out in that field and in that organization at the time,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, I think you guys know, it's it's
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  Speaker 7: just about getting experienced, getting consistent at bats, and and
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  Speaker 7: just kind of learning. You know, the big leagues is tough,
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  Speaker 7: and it takes time to to kind of figure that out.
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  Speaker 7: And you know some guys that happens like that, and
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  Speaker 7: other guys, you know, it may take you know, a
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  Speaker 7: couple hundred at bats to to really get your footing.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's just you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, here in Colorado, you know, I'm going out there
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  Speaker 7: and I'm doing everything I can to help the team win.
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  Speaker 7: And you know, I know I'm gonna be in the
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  Speaker 7: lineup the next day and and uh, you know, gonna
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  Speaker 7: have a chance to do it again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: God bother, I'm a last minute guy. Sometimes you're a
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  Speaker 1: last minute guy where you all of a sudden see
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  Speaker 1: a night open up and you want to go grab
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  Speaker 1: some tickets, and you hadn't gotten them already, So you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see geek and you're gonna go look for
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  Speaker 1: a green dot and see where the good seats are
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  Speaker 1: and the good value is and have a little night
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  Speaker 1: with the fam.
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  Speaker 8: Right without a doubt. And I'm looking for some of
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  Speaker 8: They make it so easy for you to do. Even
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  Speaker 8: my son can do it if I ask them. Hey, Blikester,
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  Speaker 8: let's go man, get on there for us. Find us
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  Speaker 8: a couple of seats so we can watch even that
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  Speaker 4: NICKI, did you feel pressure from the Philly fans? Was
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  Speaker 4: Aerkratz one of the fans that was there booing you
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  Speaker 4: every day because he.
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  Speaker 5: Lives He's a big Phillies fan.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think he was in the stands And did
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  Speaker 4: you hear a specific taunt from Eric Kratz in the
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  Speaker 4: Philadelphia stands when you played there?
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  Speaker 3: I mean there was, there was a few of them. Crassy,
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  Speaker 3: were you there?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't me, I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 5: Because I thought it was like the PCA video.
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  Speaker 4: Crats was the guy you know down there by the
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  Speaker 4: by the front row out there.
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  Speaker 2: Screen that I know is not true because I never
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  Speaker 2: sit near the front row. I'd much rather sit in
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  Speaker 2: the second deck right behind home plate to be able
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  Speaker 2: to see the whole field. But anyway, go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I don't know. I don't know it was.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's a passionate fan base, you know. I
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  Speaker 7: think you know, they when you win, best fans in
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  Speaker 7: the world, and then if you're not doing well, they'll
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  Speaker 7: let you know. So, uh, Cratsy if you were there,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's all good, dude, Nick.
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  Speaker 6: What you know as a as a player that went
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  Speaker 6: into Colorado, there was always some challenges obviously the altitude
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  Speaker 6: and stuff.
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  Speaker 5: The recovery.
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  Speaker 6: Have you found it to be easier being a home
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  Speaker 6: player there and you get to spend some more time there,
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  Speaker 6: do you get acclimated to it a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: and what have you kind of had to do in
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  Speaker 6: terms of recovery or sleep or anything different.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a challenge, you know, I think I think
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  Speaker 7: being a home player there, you definitely get get the
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  Speaker 7: advantage for the most part, as far as you know,
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  Speaker 7: for most of the season, you're used to it. I
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  Speaker 7: remember the first series I played there, or first home
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  Speaker 7: stand I played there last year, and it didn't even
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  Speaker 7: it didn't hit me till about the sixth game of
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  Speaker 7: the homestand and you know, I think I scored from
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  Speaker 7: first on a double and I took me for innings
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  Speaker 7: to catch my breath, and I was like, Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 7: this is a little different. But then when you come back,
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  Speaker 7: it's you know, you get used to it. The sleep
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  Speaker 7: definitely not as good. You know. I think we talk
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  Speaker 7: about it in the clubhouse all the time, and it's like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, we got to use that as as home
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  Speaker 7: field advantage, you know, to the fullest extent in order
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  Speaker 7: for us to to be successful. And you know, we
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  Speaker 7: really got to take advantage of it, because I mean,
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  Speaker 7: like you guys, know, you guys rolling to Colorado and
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  Speaker 7: I did it as a visiting player, and I mean
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  Speaker 7: that first day, shagg and fly balls in the outfield,
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  Speaker 7: your gas, the balls flying over your head. You feel
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  Speaker 7: like you're getting good jumps, but you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 7: taken off. So you know, I think, uh, once you
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  Speaker 7: get into the month of August, it catches up to
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  Speaker 7: you a little bit, just like any you know, any year,
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  Speaker 7: but you know, maybe a little bit extra. But you know,
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  Speaker 7: once you get into September, you catch your second wind
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  Speaker 7: and and it's all good.
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  Speaker 4: But by the way, I got to say this, you're
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  Speaker 4: giving us position player is a bad name. I hit
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  Speaker 4: a triple. It took me three nings. That's what pitchers say, Mickey,
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  Speaker 4: not not position.
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  Speaker 7: But they're running the first base. They're running the first
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  Speaker 7: going from first to home, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So then you got to jug them, and then you
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  Speaker 4: got to jog all the way out to the outfield.
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  Speaker 4: I know KP already complained about how hard it was
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  Speaker 4: to play the outfield in Colorado.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't just sure the outfielder in general. The jog
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  Speaker 6: in and out just adds up. It's a lot of
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  Speaker 6: mileage on the bottom over the course of a season.
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  Speaker 5: You guys whole time and work on your swing.
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  Speaker 6: You literally make your time, put your gear on, walk
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  Speaker 6: out the home plate, sit on one knee. We're never
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  Speaker 6: going to win this argument.
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  Speaker 7: You got somebody else over there to you know, take
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  Speaker 7: the warm up pitchers for you if you need to
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  Speaker 7: catch your breathy.
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  Speaker 5: So many times you.
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  Speaker 4: Look out in the outfield have an outfielder like this
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  Speaker 4: working on their swing.
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  Speaker 7: Oh no, I've learned to keep your hand out of it.
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  Speaker 7: Just to the lower half. No, just the lower half,
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  Speaker 7: just hands out it. So you keep it a little,
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  Speaker 7: you keep it more low key ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if I had a dollar for every every
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  Speaker 4: time I saw that, I'd be rich as hell. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, you went from the Phillies, you went
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  Speaker 4: to the Angels, and now you're at the Rockies.
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  Speaker 5: What was it like? Because I know I talked to
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  Speaker 5: Phil Nevin about you.
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  Speaker 4: He absolutely loved working with you when he was the
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  Speaker 4: manager of the Angels. What were the Angels like? Because
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  Speaker 4: we talk about the Angels a lot and what's going
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  Speaker 4: on there? What what was it like playing for the Angels?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, first off, when I got traded there, I
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  Speaker 7: mean I'm an hour away from home.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up in San Diego, still live in San Diego.
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  Speaker 7: So it was cool to be able to to kind
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  Speaker 7: of have my family come up and you know, watch baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Is fired up about that? You know, it's fired up.
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  Speaker 7: To go get an opportunity to to kind of go play,
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  Speaker 7: and I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean playing for nev. Nev is the best I think.
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  Speaker 7: You know, one of my favorite managers I've had in
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  Speaker 7: this this sport. And you know, when he got let go,
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  Speaker 7: it was it was a sad day. I think we
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  Speaker 7: both shed a tear in his office. I went in
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  Speaker 7: there to kind of say, hey, see in spring training
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  Speaker 7: and you know that wasn't the case, and that was
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  Speaker 7: a tough day. So, you know, still so bummed about
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  Speaker 7: that one. But you know, it's just it's you got
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  Speaker 7: guys over there. You know, they got talent, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: I think it's, uh, it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 7: you know, KP, you're over there. Guys were getting hurt.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty twenty, it was like, you know, I think our
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  Speaker 7: whole lineup missed at least a month.
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  Speaker 3: You know, show Hey went down with the oblique, Mike with.
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  Speaker 7: The handmate, Tony had had his shin fractured, his shin, Drew,
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  Speaker 7: you go down, the whole thing. It was like a
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  Speaker 7: whole month. So twenty twenty three, I felt like we
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  Speaker 7: had a chance to really do something and you know,
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  Speaker 7: we're buyers at the deadline, and uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 7: obviously didn't work out due to I would say injury,
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  Speaker 7: but you know, for me being close to home was awesome.
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  Speaker 7: The fans they are great, you know, the the players,
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  Speaker 7: the guys over there, you know, a good group of guys.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, I don't know it. Unfortunately it came to
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  Speaker 7: an end, but you know, happy to be in Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be like every other person that you
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  Speaker 2: kind of know but don't really know. When talking about
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  Speaker 2: the Angels, what was it like to play with Mike
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  Speaker 2: and show hey, playing with Mike Trout and show hey,
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  Speaker 2: Tani And what was your feeling when you were coming
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  Speaker 2: there when you got you got traded there? Did you
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  Speaker 2: get or did you get claimed by the Angels?
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  Speaker 7: I should know traded traded?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, deadline at twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was twenty two, and then you went there.
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  Speaker 2: What was it like going there? Because that's the first
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  Speaker 2: team you ever changed to, And anytime I ever changed
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  Speaker 2: to a team that traded DFAD whatever it was, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, they got Christian yelliee. They got
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Brawn on this team. Dang, I'm going to the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's Judge's rookie year, like you think about that,
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  Speaker 2: So how was it, how was your like, Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: want to see these guys compared to the real life
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  Speaker 2: Mike and Showhey.
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  Speaker 3: Show, I mean, they're both just normal dudes, man.
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  Speaker 7: I think, like the biggest thing, you know, Mike is
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  Speaker 7: you know, one of the coolest dudes, nicest dudes. You know,
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  Speaker 7: you you talk to him, and you know, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: think he's you know, one of the greatest players of
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: our generation, just you know, by the way he goes
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: about his business and just the kind of person he is.
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: You know, if anything I needed, he was always there
• 15:02
  Speaker 7: to kind of, you know, bounce stuff off of and
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: then Show Hey. I mean, he's just he's a goofball dude.
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: He's he's messing around, believe it or not. For the
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: most part. I mean he's on his own schedule though
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: he's pitching, you know, once every when I got there,
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: he's pitching once every six days, and then also going
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: out and you know hitting It seemed like a homer
• 15:24
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• 15:27
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• 15:31
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• 15:34
  Speaker 7: be in there, you know, doing his whole routine down
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: to a science, and then go out there and do
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: what he does.
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  Speaker 6: Give me, give me your take on your current team.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Do you guys are you starting to see like the
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: pieces in place where the Rockies Maybe not this year,
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: but maybe next year. Do you guys believe that you
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: guys can go out and win a ton of games
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: and be kind of a threat uh in the al West?
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Absolutely? Absolutely? I think you know, it starts from from
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: up top, Dude, I think we got the right guy,
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: you know, at the managerial job. I think you know
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: Schaefe is when he took over. I remember, you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: coming into Colorado last year. I tell the story to
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: a lot of people. But the first day I was there,
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: just interacting with him, I you know, truly thought to myself,
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: I go, this guy needs to manage one day. And
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: you know, it was a month later. Obviously didn't see
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: it coming, didn't think it was gonna be that quick.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: But when he took over, you know, if if, if
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: you guys ever get a chance to talk to him,
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: and he's the man, he's you know, bought in, he's
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: in it with us. You know, you walk in the
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: clubhouse at twelve o'clock every day. He's you know, bench
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: Presston two twenty five for ten as a warm up.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: You know, he's in there. He's one of the boys,
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: good communicator. So I think when you got a guy
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: like that, it's uh, it's a it's a it's that's
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: the start. And then you know, obviously getting the right guys.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: We've got a lot of young talent in this clubhouse.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: You know, Depot in the front office has done a
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: good job bringing in some veteran guys too, you know,
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: kind of keep things steady in there, and you know,
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: kind of just teach guys, these young guys the ropes.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: I mean, we got Q who's been doing it for
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: fifteen years. We've got Lorenzen, Uh, you know, Tomos Sugano
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: has been huge for us. You know, we got Willie
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Castro coming in. We made some good trades picking up
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: Eddie and and stuff like that. So, I mean you're
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: seeing it on a daily basis. You know, we're obviously
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: in a better spot than we were last year. You know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: not hard to do, but I think just the games
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: we've been playing, even our losses, you know, you can
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: look at those and say you know, we were one
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: hit away here or one pitch away here from you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: almost you know, being close to five hundred. And we
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: talk about it all the time. And I think that's
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: just the start, and you know, it's baseball, and I'm
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: just going to continue to try to build on it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: But I think I got high hopes for for this
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: organization in the coming years, and you know, I'm just
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: excited to.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Be a part of it. Mickey.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Uh, By the way, h Deep Podesta has a bunch
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: of Foul Territory shirts. If you need one, you can
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: get them. I hand delivered them like four in spring training.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: So if you need one, uh, asking for one? Okay, perfect, Yeah,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: I'll go find him for sure.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Okay, good, good, good answer. All right.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I gotta know about the spider situation. Are you afraid
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: of spiders? Your wife kills the spiders in your house? Like,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: what's going on here?
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Right here? Just killed another spider? Oh, what's going on?
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: She's that's all that's fake news, dude. That is no,
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: she is not. She was probably home alone there. It
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: looks like, yeah, I think I was. Probably she probably
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: was back in San Diego by herself. Didn't then have
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: anybody else to do it, but no, she uh, I
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: was proud of her for that one. That's that's that
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: was probably one of the three she's killed in their
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: whole life.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: So and by the way, don't ever call your wife
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: a smoking hot cougar, because she is.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: She's she's got three months on me, you know what
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's one of those things.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: That's why she has.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, she's a killer. She's a killer. Somebody
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: somebody's gonna I mean, it's no, it's no cock. It's
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: no cock fighting with Edwin Diaz. But somebody's coming after
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: her for killing a spider. So just so you know,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: just so she's ready for that smoke.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she can handle it. She'll be all right, what.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Do you do? What do you do? What we haven't
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: had you on the show. You're you're freaking awesome. You're
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: a really nice guy. Seems like what do you do
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: in your free time? What what gets you to be like?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: All right, good, I can step away from the field
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: to do this.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: I mean, I got a dog, you know, he's he
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: takes up a lot of time. He's he's uh, he's
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: just a year old golden doodles. So you know.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I think in Colorado, we go.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: We live by a place called wash Park, and I
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: feel like any free time I get, I'm just taking
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: him for a walk around the park and and just
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: kind of relaxing, you know, growing up and seeing Diego Go,
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: drive by the beach, go hang out at the beach.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Just relax, man.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: I think, Uh, you know, this game, it's a high
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: stress game. Do it one hundred and sixty two times
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: a year, and and any chance you get to just
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: kind of turn the brain off and enjoy life is
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: uh That's just what I'm looking to do.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Does your dog ever look up at you and go,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: why are we at such a high elevation?
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Oh? I mean it's definitely when he runs up the stairs,
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: you know, he's I'll have oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: he's I mean he's just uh listen, if if there's
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: an intruder coming in the house, he's not doing much.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Let's put it that way.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: So he's uh no, he's the best. He's a good boy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Clearly what you clearly your wife will because we've we've
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: talked about this.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: She she's the real protection in the.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: House, not the dog exactly. Yeah, she'll uh you know,
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: give her one of these, and I go, Actually, my
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: screen says a little kid going like this to her dad. So, uh,
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: that's one of my favorites. She's definitely yeah, she's definitely
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: taking down the intruder.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So the reason I said you're a
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: nice guy, I have this picture from last summer. You
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: probably didn't even know it was me, but I have
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: this picture from last summer. You were very willing to
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: take a picture. That's Mick in the middle at Fenway.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Remember you remember this, Okay, So I asked you to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: take a picture, Okay, and all that it was. My
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: son's not in this picture, but it's all his. Uh,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: it's his baseball team. They were up and they were
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: up in Boston having a game. We got on the field.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. I had asked him. I had asked
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: the guys on the team. I was like, hey, ver
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Tech had come over. I was like, hey, you guys
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: want to meet Jason Vertek and they were like, I
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: don't know who that is. And then they said and
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: then Liam Liam Hendricks came over, who was rehabbing for
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox, said hey, you guys know the mate.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: You guys know Liam Hendricks, you know, they were like, ah,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I really don't know. It's about bunch of kids from Philly,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Northern Philly, and you came out to hit BP after
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: we watched all the Red Sox guys come through everybody
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and they were like whoa, They were like makeemoniac, Oh
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: my gosh. And so I asked you to come over
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: and you took a picture. So I really appreciate you
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: taking that picture, and it's cool that you remember it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: But I have another picture that I need you to
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: make sure. This is what I do as a veteran
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: guy to call you out. Do you see your toes there?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: That's me, your toes in the black shoes.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Listen, Hey, you guys are big.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're feeding these kids these days,
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: but you know, kids are throwing ninety five when they're
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: thirteen now and apparently you know six six two at
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: however old those your kids are. So look, I got
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: I got no defense for that. That's I gotta you know.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: It's either that or I'm you know, just sneaking my
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: head around the side. Then you don't know who the
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: hell is in the picture.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: For the people who are listening, people listening. It's a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: picture of Mickey standing behind all the sixteen year old
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: fifteen and sixteen year old boys and mix on his
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: toes so that he looks like he's the tallest in
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the group. I appreciate you coming over.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: I'm not even over look I'm still the chins, still
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: at the head level right there, and that's on the
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: tippy toes.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: There's some big boys. There's some big boys.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But that's awesome for anybody who doesn't know, coming over
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: during VP and taking pictures with fans is not mandated.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And you did it with a smile, and you made
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: their entire tournament. So I appreciate that. That's awesome. Best
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: of luck to those guys. They're doing all right, they're
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: still doing it. They're really good. I don't coach him.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'm just like it. I'm just like the dad that
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: gets to drive him around. So they don't need any coaching.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: They're all like. There's like four or five Division I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: guys out of there, so it's no Florida teams. But
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: for for Pennsylvania kids, they're they're a pretty good team.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Now, that's legit. That's awesome.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Made Mickey before we thank you for coming on. I
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: have to I have to ask you if you know this.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: You probably don't even know this story, but it's one
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: of my all time favorite stories. So my agent is
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: from San Diego and his kids went to LaCosta Canyon
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: with you, and they were telling him. They're like, there's
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: this kid at our school, Dad, you really should try
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: to get him. He's going to be a high draffic
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: and he says, ah, what are you guys talking about.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: I don't even know what you're talking about. And then
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: you went and their name were Courtney and Stephanie Hilliard.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember him or know him
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: or anything, but they were there at the same time.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: You were too probably too big league for him. They
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: played soccer. You were too big before him, so you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: no big deal. We get it, okay, But and then
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: you end up going one to one and he just says, man,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I totally should have listened to my daughters. I just
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: thought they were starstruck because you know, this kid, he's
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: at there high school and they know him. But that's
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: my one story that I knew about you before I
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: got to talk.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: To you today. So it was really nice to talk
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: to you.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: But so apparently you're not as big of a prick
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: as they said you were, because you know you didn't
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: you and speak to him, and now you don't even
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: remember them. So thanks for being a good guy.
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: They staid, if I get if I get a picture, Look,
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: I'm not good with names. Let's let's start there.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: So but if I see you know, I'm gooding with faces.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: So okay, I remember tell.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Don't send pictures of high school girls. Yeah, man, sorry, no, no, no,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying any picture.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: I don't want that killer after me.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: The flip side to that is, I mean your agent
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: probably saw me. I was probably one hundred and sixty pounds,
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: so I wouldn't have thought much either, you know what
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: I mean?
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: So you go go one to one, so I mean something.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: It was one of those looking up at thiscoreboard, you know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty five pound six one at it
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: a little about fifteen, wore the baggy jersey, one of
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: those six, So get hit a little bit. That's that's
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: about it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: It's working out for you. It's working out for you.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: Make it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much for joining us. You're an awesome guest.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Good job.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: KP.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Reeling them in for us. And remember, kids, when you're
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: you're shorter than the sixteen year olds in front of you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Stand on your tiptoes, get.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: On the tippy test. Okaype, we'll talk.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: We'll talk fantasy soon.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: Appreciate you guys. Yeah, this is awesome.