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White Sox manager Will Venable joins FT + IKF knocks Yankees, Mike Hazen apologizes to Ketel Marte · Foul Territory

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: White Sox manager Will Venable is back on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Will it's great to see you. You look great. You
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: look like you're getting younger, which actually, you know what
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: I do want to start there because most guys look
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: like they aged ten years after their first year on
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: the job.
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  Speaker 2: So what's your secret? How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Clean shave? That's true, he's clean shave and he has
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: a hat.
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  Speaker 4: On there you go, Yeah, hat a little shadow to
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  Speaker 4: cover it up, cover up the wrinkles.
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  Speaker 5: But no doing good.
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  Speaker 4: Good to see you guys, and yeah, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: excited to be around our young group.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 5: They keep me young.
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  Speaker 3: Can I see that hat? What can you? Can we
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  Speaker 3: get a can we get the one shot of Will?
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  Speaker 5: So?
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  Speaker 3: What the heck is on that hat?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: It's oh cactus with some flowers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. I was like, I was like trying to figure.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, is that fireworks from the scoreboard?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what the heck is that special era hat?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Are those in the new spring training hats?
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  Speaker 5: It must be yeah, new spring training hats for this year.
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  Speaker 2: They look.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta call Robert Jay Dog and get me one
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  Speaker 3: of those because I like it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, rubble hook you yep?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he better, he better take care of us for
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  Speaker 3: a long time. All Right.
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  Speaker 1: AJ is obviously gonna ask a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 2: He watches every White Sox game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna start with the headliner right away because
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  Speaker 1: I want as much as you can give me on
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  Speaker 1: Murakami coming to camp, what he's like, what you're seeing
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  Speaker 1: out there, Jesse Rodgers in camp. He was tweeting the
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  Speaker 1: other the other day, I think it was yesterday, like
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  Speaker 1: one ground ball goes buy him, he's going to retrieve it.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, dude, you can leave it, just like give
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  Speaker 1: us everything in your first you know whatever. It's been
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to forty eight hours with him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, I think the thing that sticks out
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  Speaker 4: is just the personality. You know, speaks a lot better.
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  Speaker 5: English, at least understands more English.
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  Speaker 4: And I certainly gave him credit for just a really
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  Speaker 4: personable guy, charismatic. They're just an energy about him. And
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  Speaker 4: I think the thing that really stands out too is
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  Speaker 4: you know, this guy's a winner.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 5: He just wants to win. He'll do whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 4: It's really come through in the conversations how he goes
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  Speaker 4: about his work. You know, he's very committed to improving
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  Speaker 4: on defense, which is something that you of course I
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  Speaker 4: love to hear. We love to hear as we value
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  Speaker 4: defense and know how much that means to us. So
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  Speaker 4: he's just been He's been great man and really just
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  Speaker 4: can't wait for pictures and catchers. I'm sorry for full
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  Speaker 4: squad to start so we can get him out there
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  Speaker 4: with everybody and really go to work.
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  Speaker 6: One of the videos we just showed was him fielding
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  Speaker 6: the ground ball at third Is there a world where
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  Speaker 6: you see something and what is that that you would
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  Speaker 6: need to see that he could get twenty games at
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  Speaker 6: third base if it gives your roster a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Depth, you know, I think we want to focus at
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  Speaker 4: first base, but he's somebody that obviously has played on
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  Speaker 4: the other side of the dominie. We want to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that that's still a club in his bag. He's
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  Speaker 4: someone again that is committed and is willing to put
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  Speaker 4: in the work to be proficient at both spots.
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  Speaker 5: So for us, we just want to support him to
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  Speaker 5: be better on defense and know that he can both
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  Speaker 5: at first base and third base.
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  Speaker 4: So I think most of the time you'll see him
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  Speaker 4: at first base, but want to keep him locked in
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  Speaker 4: the third base for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people thought he was going to
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  Speaker 3: be one hundred million dollar dollar guy and he ended
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  Speaker 3: up on the White Sox. Was the White Sox recruiting
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  Speaker 3: pitch to him, Hey, we'll put in a biday for you,
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  Speaker 3: and have you tried the bidet because if you haven't,
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you you need to go in there and
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  Speaker 3: try it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I lived in Japan for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: My dad played over there, So the bid day and
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  Speaker 4: the power of the bid dat I get. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think the bid day conversation happened after we signed him,
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  Speaker 4: so it wasn't part of the conversations in free agency.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, then what happened to him? You know, because
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  Speaker 3: everyone's like, he's one hundred million dollar guy, He's got
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  Speaker 3: a chance to hit thirty thirty plus homers every year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm super stoked at the White Sox on him because
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  Speaker 3: I think he adds that power back in the middle
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  Speaker 3: to go a Teal Montgomery and some of the other
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  Speaker 3: guys that you guys have coming. So how did the
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  Speaker 3: White Sox get him? What was the Were you in
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  Speaker 3: on the pitches? Were you in there saying, hey, I
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  Speaker 3: played in Japan. I know a little bit about the culture.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you speak a little bit of Japanese. You did
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  Speaker 3: go to you did go to Harvard, right.
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  Speaker 4: Princeton, But but no Japanese in my in my back pocket, No,
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  Speaker 4: not at all.
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  Speaker 5: Uh. And and really, you know, the.
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  Speaker 4: Process happened really fast, and I just jumped in on
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  Speaker 4: the tail end with a zoom call. Uh, just introduce
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  Speaker 4: myself and talk about the things that are important to
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  Speaker 4: our organization on the field level and the clubhouse level,
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  Speaker 4: just to give them as much insight as possible. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, that process again, was was really fast and
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  Speaker 4: not something that I was really a part of upfront
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  Speaker 4: until it got to that zoom call. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's just, you know, great that we were able
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  Speaker 4: to get them. We know that this guy's a special player,
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  Speaker 4: special talent, and you know, I couldn't tell you the
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  Speaker 4: first thing about free agent markets or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm just no, I'm happy we got them.
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  Speaker 6: Have you seen them hit live and in person yet?
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  Speaker 3: I have.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yes, it's electric, to say the least.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, at the same time, I think he's
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  Speaker 4: you know, taking it easy, almost really using VP to
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  Speaker 4: just fine tune some mechanics and just kind of get
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  Speaker 4: his feel out there. He hasn't really let it loose,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, even his nice and easy BP swings
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  Speaker 4: is coming off pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: Is there anything that you want to see in spring
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  Speaker 6: training because all the talk about his swing, obviously I
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  Speaker 6: wanted to ask you, like, I want to know where
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  Speaker 6: he's putting balls, like he's you know, he is he
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  Speaker 6: putting him over the scoreboard a camelback ranch, Like is
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  Speaker 6: there anything like that? But is there anything you need
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  Speaker 6: to see because all the rhetoric around him is strikeouts, strikeout, strikeouts.
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  Speaker 6: Just something you need to see in spring training because
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  Speaker 6: you can kind of get a facade of spring training
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  Speaker 6: when you know each Row first came over, he hit
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  Speaker 6: like one eighty in spring and everyone's like, this is
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  Speaker 6: going to be a bust.
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  Speaker 3: Well we know where that happened.
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  Speaker 6: So is there something you in your mind or your
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  Speaker 6: coaches are all saying, yeah, this, this looks good. It
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  Speaker 6: looks like the strikeouts will be to a minimum.
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  Speaker 4: I think you know, with him, you know what we
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  Speaker 4: found out and talking to him in his experience in
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  Speaker 4: Japan and maybe some of the ways that they train
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  Speaker 4: over there are a little different than what some of
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  Speaker 4: the things that we're doing here with some of the
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  Speaker 4: exposure to the high v low and different shapes and practice,
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  Speaker 4: and so you're kind of not getting ahead of ourselves
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  Speaker 4: and thinking about, you know, what this could look like
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  Speaker 4: down the road. We just want to help support him,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in his practice and make sure that you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's you know, feeling comfortable that that he's really engaging
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  Speaker 4: with our coaches and getting what he needs to just
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  Speaker 4: practice well and see how we respond from there. And again,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this guy is very driven to be at
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  Speaker 4: his best and feel really confident with with Derek Showman
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  Speaker 4: and Joel McKeith and and our hitting department that that
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  Speaker 4: we can support him and just through training, we hope
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  Speaker 4: to clean up some of the stuff, you know that
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  Speaker 4: that really can can help him be an elite hitter
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  Speaker 4: in this league.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you want to see out of this
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  Speaker 3: team and how do the young guy take that next step,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's Tel, whether it's Colson Montgomery, whether it's Kiro,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's my draw. You guys have so many young guys.
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  Speaker 3: You can even throw Mooney in there, right because he's
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  Speaker 3: a first year guy in the major leagues. How do
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  Speaker 3: they take that next step to become what White Sox
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  Speaker 3: will take you guys to the promised Land.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, we've been talking a lot about that,
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  Speaker 4: and certainly kind of the narrative around our team is
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  Speaker 4: after the second half and then a really good offseason,
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  Speaker 4: is that there's this momentum you know that you know,
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  Speaker 4: feel it, you know, and and that's great and love
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  Speaker 4: that and want to embrace it. But we know that
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  Speaker 4: if we want to continue that momentum, we really have
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  Speaker 4: to start at zero and build habits around the things
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  Speaker 4: that we know are going to help us win. And
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  Speaker 4: that's you know, things in the weight room, the things
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  Speaker 4: in the training room, are the things in our preparation,
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  Speaker 4: and then the really core details on the field that
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  Speaker 4: we just want to build really good habits around. And
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  Speaker 4: so we think that if that's our focus on a
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  Speaker 4: daily basis, you know, we're able to be able to
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  Speaker 4: create the momentum, were able to create an environment and
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  Speaker 4: some some routines and some daily habits in which our
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  Speaker 4: players can continue to take that next step and and
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  Speaker 4: really grow as a group and turn.
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  Speaker 5: Into the group that we think they can be.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 6: This one's from the chat Black Sheep as will what
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  Speaker 6: is Kiro's role going to be considering teals emergence as
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  Speaker 6: an everyday player.
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  Speaker 4: Well, lucky for the position, and you know as well
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  Speaker 4: as anybody that it's a very demanding position back there.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, yeah, we do consider a Teal and
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  Speaker 4: every day catcher, but an every day catcher is not
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  Speaker 4: catching every single day. And Edgar Carro is somebody that
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  Speaker 4: between the reps that he'll get behind the plate. We
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  Speaker 4: can use him as a DH love him against the lefties.
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  Speaker 4: Of course he can hit against righty two, but you
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  Speaker 4: know there's going to be passed to get both of
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  Speaker 4: those guys in the lineup. And certainly, you know, Edgar
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  Speaker 4: is someone that we value and we know that we're
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: better when he's on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's ask the questions. I have a couple of questions. Okay, well, no,
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  Speaker 3: I have a couple of questions. Well, I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: you know, Teo Kiro. They're both gonna get there bat
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  Speaker 3: So that that was kind of an easier question than
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  Speaker 3: the next one. Who's your opening day starter.
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  Speaker 5: Opening start?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have joked about that with the media guys
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  Speaker 4: here when we do our strum because of course that's
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  Speaker 4: the question that comes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, really and often.
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  Speaker 3: Murkin didn't ask because I know he wouldn't ask that
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  Speaker 3: Mark because he doesn't want to.
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  Speaker 5: Make bench it.
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  Speaker 4: Before we even started started Mark, I was busting Marks
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  Speaker 4: off talks about it.
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  Speaker 5: But he's great and he gets in. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: our process here.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna get going into these games and we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: line some things up. We're gonna talk as a group.
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  Speaker 4: We just haven't had those conversations yet, but certainly excited
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  Speaker 4: about our options and our rotation. It all work itself out, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And then I want to ask you about two props
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  Speaker 3: that have been names for the White Sox forever, and
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  Speaker 3: they're two big left handed prospects. Any chance either of
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  Speaker 3: them has a chance Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith possibly
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  Speaker 3: breaking with the team out of spring training.
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  Speaker 5: No, neither of them are going to break with our team.
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  Speaker 4: We've been direct with those guys about that and really
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  Speaker 4: just want to set them on their path to you know,
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  Speaker 4: get into their routine, get their build up going. But
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, they're going to the guys that
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  Speaker 4: help us this year. We know how important they are
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  Speaker 4: to our organization for our success this year and in
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  Speaker 4: the long term.
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  Speaker 5: These guys are two special guys.
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  Speaker 4: The way that they work, the people that they are,
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  Speaker 4: These are guys that are going to help us for
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  Speaker 4: years to come. So we want to just establish some
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  Speaker 4: some good habits up front here. Let them build up responsibly.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Hagen had the Fall League stint there, and
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  Speaker 4: so just want to make sure that these guys get
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  Speaker 4: into the season built up and healthy, knowing that these
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  Speaker 4: guys are knocking on the door and it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be real soon when they're in Chicago helping them.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, you said you already communicated that with them. Do
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  Speaker 6: you feel like you have more or less communication than
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  Speaker 6: your managers had when you were coming up to the
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  Speaker 6: big leagues as a prospect or just like up and
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  Speaker 6: down and all your experience through your career.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I do know that Buddy Black was a great communicator,
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  Speaker 4: and that was something that I really appreciated from him.
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  Speaker 4: His transparency and honesty really made an impact on me,
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  Speaker 4: and as somebody who you know, was always felt like
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  Speaker 4: I was struggling and trying to find a way to
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  Speaker 4: be better and always felt like I was a game
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  Speaker 4: away from getting sent down. I really appreciated his transparency
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  Speaker 4: and his honesty with me. So you know, had Dave Roberts,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as a coach and a manager, was the
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  Speaker 4: same kind of guy. And so for me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I understand the value as a player and what that means,
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  Speaker 4: and so I try and give these guys as much
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  Speaker 4: as we can and just you know, be transparent, be
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  Speaker 4: honest about their situation. You will provide clarity around their roles,
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  Speaker 4: and I think guys appreciate it. And you know, this
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: game is tough and there's a lot of opportunity to
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: think about different things in your mind can go a
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  Speaker 4: million different places. We just want to give these guys
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  Speaker 4: some honest feedback, some guardrails to keep.
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  Speaker 5: Them focused on the path and go out and do
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  Speaker 5: their thing.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I know we don't have the opening day starter yet,
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  Speaker 1: but what about the opening day closer, Sir Anthony Dominguez
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  Speaker 1: or are you a guy that's just gonna roll with
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  Speaker 1: the punches?
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  Speaker 2: Says?
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  Speaker 1: The ear goes on, will you name someone if someone emerges,
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  Speaker 1: And I mean sometimes a guy signs with the team
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  Speaker 1: so he can have that role.
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  Speaker 2: Just curious for your thoughts on that one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Sir Anthony is our closer and feel comfortable saying that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we signed him to the close games for us,
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  Speaker 4: so we expect him to be shutting things down in
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  Speaker 4: the ninth inning most of the time. I think there
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  Speaker 4: are gonna be unique situations. You know, we're playing the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees and judges coming up in the eighth and we
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  Speaker 4: got a one run lead, that that might be Sir
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  Speaker 4: Anthony's time to pitch a little sooner in the game.
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  Speaker 4: But we view him as a closer and just feel
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  Speaker 4: really good about what he provides at the back end,
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  Speaker 4: not only in his performance, but how that slots in,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Grant Taylor, Jordan Leisure and the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the guys back there that we depended on. Lates just
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  Speaker 4: a really nice job of kind of slotting guys into better.
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  Speaker 5: Roles for us.
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  Speaker 1: So well, I've been told me a time for two more.
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  Speaker 1: Aj is going to do one. I'll do the last
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  Speaker 1: one here. The White Sox actually picked up a ton
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: of players over the offseason, right Kunya, Austin Hayes number
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: of pitchers we mentioned to Minguez Hicks recently newcom So
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you the floor to just pick
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  Speaker 1: one guy, not asking me to pick a favor or anything,
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  Speaker 1: just one guy to give me either a scouting port
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  Speaker 1: or someone you spoke to already or someone you're excited
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  Speaker 1: to just highlight from the pickups of the offseason.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, I'm gonna go a little outside of
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  Speaker 5: the box here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Jared Kellenick with was a minor league
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  Speaker 4: free agent for US, but a young guy who's tooled up.
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  Speaker 5: This guy has just very.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: Physical you know, I don't think he's been given or
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: have the opportunity runway and to really be himself and
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: really excited that you know, we're going to create an
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: environment for him to unlock the potential of this dude.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: So I was certainly excited about all of our.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: Auditions, but when you think about upside and a guy
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: that you know, we really feel strongly we could tap
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: into something really excited about Jared.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: All Right, sounds good. I'm excited for the white tux
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: for the first time in a long time. Well, but
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: just do me one favor. Bob Beckdall doesn't arrive until
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: a week from today. You just say, how good does
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: he have it? He's the peer or he's the senior
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: pr director of Nothing but Bob. He he's not even
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: there and camp already started, So tell him when you
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: see him. It must be nice to show up whenever
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: you want.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I will. I'll give him a hard time.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: And you know, if it wasn't for you know, heart surgery,
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: I think Bob would would be here and.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Do his things.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: So that's the only way that we can keep Bob
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: away from spring Chain.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: We know how how much he wants to be. I mean,
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: apparently how old is that's a great question.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: How well, here's the thing now, Yeah, I mean it
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: went well. I think so when he comes to camp,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: if he's being a little nicer maybe, Yeah, things have changed.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: It's got a little more heart whatever your insert dad
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: joke there. We love you, Bob, uh will. Great to
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: have you on. What just kidding, aj aj love hates you. Well,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: he gets a lot of love on here. Well, great
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to have you on. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: for joining us, and we'll talk during the season.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: All right, Thanks guys, take care.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: This segment gets a huge boost when camp's opened back up,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: because you get quotes left and right for the rest
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: of the baseball season. Isaiah Hunner fileffa formerly a Blue
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Jays now of the Red Sox, said the Blue Jays
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: were glad the Red Sox lost in the playoffs last
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: year because they thought that the Yankees were an easier matchup.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Just telling it like it is.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I k Off, a former Yankee, as well a response
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: from Aaron Boone, manager of the New York Yankees. He
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: heard about it, and he said this morning, I guess
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: he was right. A little surprising to hear ikf say that,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: But whatever, that's fine. That's something you would say. It's real,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: like players do root for one situation or another because
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: they feel.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Like they But who does I can't play for now
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Red Sox. Oh he's gonna say the Red Sox were better.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Smart by him, very smart by him. Also, who did
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: they beat in the playoffs?
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Who did the Blue the Yankees?
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Oh? So once again smart?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: But okay, So then let me ask you this, since
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: we I just want your real take. Do you think
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: that it was smart and it was true or just
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: it was smart?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Do you think it was both?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I think the players might have actually been feeling that way.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Listen, what do we hear last year when the Dodgers
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: or last year after the Dodgers two years ago, Now
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers beat the Yankees. Oh, we knew we were
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: gonna beat him. Dah blah blah. Right, and then this year,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I kV is the first one we heard it. You
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: know that the Blue Jays didn't do that because they
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: didn't go on to win the World Series, so they
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: didn't get all the spoils. But also I cav was like,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: he's on the Red Sox and they beat the Yankees.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Smart played by him. He also played for the Yankees
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: at one point.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: For he's the new Steve Pierce playing around the Als.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: He didn't to raise yet though.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Now, I mean he's got the time, he's got a
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: few years last.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: That's a smart and it might be right according to
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: him World Series MVP Steve Pierce, Okay, Scott, let's just
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: make sure you let's make sure you say his name correctly.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: But was he wrong? No, Aaron Boone said he wasn't wrong.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Booney was like, I kind of know, I CAF. I
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: didn't really see this one coming from him, but they
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: were eight and five eight and five against him during
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: the season, the Blue Jays were so they felt like
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: they matched up. Well, what did the blue Jays do well?
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: They're starting pitching that pitches. They don't just huck the
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: rock up there and see what happens. They have starting
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: pitching that's able to hit locations, mix and match, I
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: think better than a lot of organizations, a lot of
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: starting rotations do. But I think the you know, I
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: think the Blue Jays did that very well. And that's
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: the best way to beat the beat the Yankees. If
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: you try to outstuff the Yankees when they're hitting, you're
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: gonna lose. You can't out stuff the Yankees, and my
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: consistently outstuffed the Yankees in my opinion. I mean, he
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: saw what happened to Louis Varlin home running. Basically he
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: was going to hit Aaron Judge and he kept it
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: fair down the down the left field line for that
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: home run.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: So yeah, he wasn't wrong.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Good for him. We love that.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: This is another good one Mike Hazen, who I think
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: is one of the better interviews in baseball. If you
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: can get office executive, yeah, sometimes tough to get, but
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: when you get him good and.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Got him laster and spring training. He was awesome.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: He was general manager the Diamondbacks for a while now
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: said he apologized to could Tell Marte for how public
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the trade rumors became this offseason. This coming from Nick Pokoro,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: who covers the team on the beat. The two recently
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: have had a number of conversations talking about Marte and Hazen,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: including going to dinner together, and Hazen feels good about
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: where things stand.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Good for him, good for my case. And mi Cason
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: has been through a lot. If you don't know Miksun's story,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: google it. He's been through a lot personally. He's had
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a nice run as GM. He's a great guy if
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: you get to talk to him, and him and Tory
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Levelo have been kind of like this since they got
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: They went to Arizona together from Boston. Good for Mike Cason.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: He just showed that there is a human element of
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: this game. And he's sorry to kit Tell Marte, so
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: good for Mike cas And I know that we take
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: shots and we say how we feel about a lot
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: of things, and it always a lot of people think
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: it's negative a lot, but that's just kind of the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: nature of the business that we're in to tell it,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: you know, because nobody wants to hear everything's hunky Dorian,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: it's butterflies and champagne every day, right. So but for
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Mike Cayson to come out and say this and to
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: do this, I love it. I think it's great. And
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I think there's more of this happens that people hear about.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: I think this is twofold.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: I think this was to talk about the Hey, sorry
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: you were in the trade rumors all that stuff, but
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: also there was a little bit of clubhouse stuff going on.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: We don't know the extent of it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: We know that could tell Marte, you know.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Was was missing because of the robbery of his house,
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: and like there was different things that were going on,
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: and you know, it's it's a it's an opportunity to
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: move on and grow from it, you hope, because he's
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: one of your superstars, and he is a superstar.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Year in and year out.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: That's why he would have brought in an absolute boat
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: of a trade prospects had somebody actually pulled the trigger.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: And good for Mike Hays And if you go back
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: and watch the interview that we had him, a lot
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: of what they taught. He talked about a lot of
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: what Tory Leavella talks about is that people first aspect
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: what does that mean? And to me, those are the
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: orgs that guys want to play for. Those are the
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: orgs that deal with issues that if they had an issue,
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: we could tell Marte. Hopefully now it's ironed out and
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: the dude can go out and get some more MVP votes.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: What if Mike Kazen threw out there what he was
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: looking for and wasn't quite getting it, but then a
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: team calls him, this is just like a no chance
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: now like a zero or is it no?
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: No? No? He went, so no, no, But he's just
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: saying I'm sorry, I got so public. He's not saying now.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Maybe he had a different conversation with Marte and said, hey,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: we're not trading you. But as far as we know,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: if someone blows them away, he's on the block, I.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Would think, because you can only trade him for a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: little bit more once.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Once he hits at ten to five, he can't go anywhere.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's had, he's going to rack up no trade
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: rights basically at the many season.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: It might even be April, April or May. Yeah, whatever
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: it is, you might be right.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: If it doesn't have it in spring training is not happening.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Then it's not happening.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: But you know, if a team loses a big player
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and then they're like screw it at the top pitching
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: prospect or whatever it was that he wanted.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he might still want it. He can still get
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: traded and it to me. To me, it looks like
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: it's what's a full season one hundred and eighty two
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: days or one hundred and seventy two days and it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: in April. Yeah, I mean, if it's one hundred and
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: seventy two days, he needs ten more days. But he
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: can still be traded. He just has to say yay
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: or nay to being traded. It's not like it's completely
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: off the table. It just he has to agree to it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, bet MGM. Future is ready for this. They have
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: a special for first time champions. So if you think
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: we will have a team winning a World Series for
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the first time in franchise history, it's plus five hundred.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: They group them all together. If you think no, it's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: minus seven hundred. Mariners, Padres, Brewers, Rays, Rockies.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: There are three teams in there that have a chance Seattle. Yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: there's one, just Seattle. Yeah, San Diego and Milwaukee have
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: no chance.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Not as they're currently constructed. Okay, not in the National League.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. And I love both those organizations, and I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: love both of those fan bases, and I love a
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: lot of the players they have on those teams. But
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: as they're currently constructed, no they don't. Seattle was real
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: close to going to the World Series last year for
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: the first time and they didn't. Then they gave up
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the homer. They Munas gave up the homer. Remember they so.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Seattle should be It wasn't even Munyos.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Munyas wasn't in the game. I apologize.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Sorry, No, Munos wasn't in.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Bizaro.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, gave up the home.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: But Maners should be better.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: To me, the Mariners are the one. But I'll still
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: take the Knoway it a lot?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot to so no for me.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Don't you get a five team special? There really a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: four team special? I mean, are the Rays going to win?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Not likely, Rockies have zero percent chance. The other three teams,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: like the Padres. Maybe everybody's healthy. There's an upticking power
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: from some of the guys who live back up to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the power. Uh, what's the word I'm looking for, potential attention. Yeah,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that's the word, Thank you Kratz. It's not like it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility. It's just that a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: lot of things would have to go wrong for a
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: lot of teams.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: What it's not, it's not. I'll take to know for
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: sure on that. But I would honestly just rather go
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: individual spots with Seattle and maybe a little bit less
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: with San Diego. I would agree with Aj that, you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: a lot would have to go right for San Diego,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Like they would have to really really make one other
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: big splash here, and I don't know that there's enough
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: time for that. But Aj Browner can do a lot.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: He can do a lot.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: He can things can change, especially at the trade deadline
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it did last year.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Still a really good bullpen.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I agreed. I just don't know they have enough to
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: beat the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Mets, the Cubs.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, trying to be a spring hopeful.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I know, Thanks Scott, I got you. Only one of
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: those teams can win, by the way, so you say
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: you get five chances. The Rockies ain't winning the World series.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: No they're not not.
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