Latest / Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast / Interview: Victor Scott II joins the show
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- 0:05Speaker 1: The Saint Louis Cardinals, fresh off a series win over
- 0:10Speaker 1: the New York Mets, a big series win. They sweep
- 0:13Speaker 1: the doubleheader on Sunday with a pair of one run
- 0:15Speaker 1: victories six' five In game one and five to four
- 0:18Speaker 1: In game.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Two lots to like about that.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Series we have a recap available for you On The
- 0:22Speaker 1: athletic where we break down three pivotal performances From michael,
- 0:26Speaker 1: McGreevey Jojo, romero and this guy right. Here how timely
- 0:30Speaker 1: is this? Episode welcome back To Cardinal. Territory i'm your,
- 0:32Speaker 1: Host katie wu Heny. AGO i asked you all to
- 0:35Speaker 1: drop in the comments any player or staff interviews you'd
- 0:38Speaker 1: like to see here On Cardinal, territory and the overwhelming
- 0:42Speaker 1: favorite Was Victor Scott.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Second so here he. Is we are a podcast of
- 0:47Speaker 2: the people, Here, vic welcome to the.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Show how are you, Hey i'm doing. Good i'm doing.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Good thank you for having.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Me of, course you know this is a again a
- 0:55Speaker 1: timely episode because you were all Over game two defense,
- 1:01Speaker 1: offense one OF i think the best complete games we've
- 1:03Speaker 1: seen from you so.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Far lots to talk.
- 1:05Speaker 1: ABOUT i know there are a ton of fan questions,
- 1:07Speaker 1: here BUT i want to break down WHAT i thought
- 1:10Speaker 1: was one of the best Catches i've ever seen in. Person,
- 1:13Speaker 1: now the cardinal rule up at the press box is no, cheering,
- 1:15Speaker 1: right no cheering from the, media but we are allowed
- 1:18Speaker 1: to have, reactions and very rarely does every rider in
- 1:21Speaker 1: the front row audibly gasp and have a reaction when
- 1:24Speaker 1: a play is.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Made all of us were stunned off the.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Bat we felt like that home run was, gone but
- 1:30Speaker 1: we watched you go back to the, track and it's
- 1:32Speaker 1: cool when you watch a player every day because you
- 1:35Speaker 1: kind of get a feel for when they know that
- 1:37Speaker 1: they can make a, play and you can kind of
- 1:38Speaker 1: see their body language as they're, tracking you're looking for the,
- 1:40Speaker 1: wall you're planted under the, ball and all of a
- 1:42Speaker 1: sudden they hell their breath, Like, oh.
- 1:44Speaker 3: He's going to do.
- 1:44Speaker 1: It and then you, did and we were. Speechless walk
- 1:48Speaker 1: us through that. Play that was so.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Exciting oh he's going to do. It that was literally
- 1:53Speaker 3: WHAT i was. Thinking, nah, YEAH i.
- 1:56Speaker 4: PLAY i played definitely ranks ranks up there for, me
- 2:00Speaker 4: either first or first or.
- 2:01Speaker 3: SECOND i, mean especially at this.
- 2:03Speaker 4: Level but off the, Bat i'm THINKING i got to
- 2:06Speaker 4: get to a spot That's, ultimately what's going through my
- 2:08Speaker 4: head there is JUST i have to be able to
- 2:11Speaker 4: get to a spot, here be able to put my
- 2:13Speaker 4: head down and run to this wall to make SURE
- 2:16Speaker 4: i have enough, space enough clearance to be able to.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Jump because the last thing outfielders want to do when
- 2:21Speaker 4: they have like a home run robbery attempt is get
- 2:23Speaker 4: to a wall and then.
- 2:24Speaker 3: Jump into the.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Wall SO i just wanted to make SURE i got
- 2:28Speaker 4: to that spot to be able to have enough clearance
- 2:30Speaker 4: to be able to jump without hitting the wall on
- 2:32Speaker 4: the upside of it or going.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Up so, yeah well mission.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Accomplished and we can't show a video on this, podcast
- 2:38Speaker 1: but all you need to do if you want to
- 2:39Speaker 1: see this catch At Victor scott made On sunday to
- 2:42Speaker 1: rob The mets seven hundred and fifty six million dollar,
- 2:45Speaker 1: man just go on social.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Media it's all over the.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Place and, rightfully so it was really cool to, see all, Right,
- 2:53Speaker 1: Victor when we were talking, yesterday you, mentioned and you
- 2:55Speaker 1: just mentioned now that that play.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Was either one or two for.
- 2:58Speaker 1: You can you think of or goes that life THAT
- 3:00Speaker 1: i was telling you? About can you think of your
- 3:03Speaker 1: top three favorite catches at the major league?
- 3:05Speaker 2: Level do any come to.
- 3:06Speaker 4: Mind i'll probably say. So IF i had a rank,
- 3:11Speaker 4: THEM i definitely say yesterday's was was number, one and
- 3:15Speaker 4: Then i'd have to go with the with the one
- 3:17Speaker 4: Against Jackson merrill last, year right into.
- 3:20Speaker 3: The, wall that was that was. Pretty that was that
- 3:23Speaker 3: was that was. Nice that was.
- 3:24Speaker 4: Nice and then the number three maybe maybe the ONE
- 3:30Speaker 4: i made probably earlier this year AND i did like
- 3:33Speaker 4: a little swimming.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Thing. YEP i don't. KNOW i don't ask me What
- 3:37Speaker 3: i'd be doing out. THERE i just have. Fun but
- 3:40Speaker 3: that's probably number three for.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Me but isn't that like the point one thing That
- 3:44Speaker 1: i've noticed about you this, year and we talked about it,
- 3:46Speaker 1: yesterday is you seem to be playing such an, assured
- 3:49Speaker 1: authentic version of, baseball like you were.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Going out there and you're playing.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Yourself you're, unapologetic like this is my style of baseball
- 3:56Speaker 1: AND i feel.
- 3:57Speaker 2: Comfortable enough to do, this and it looks like you're
- 3:59Speaker 2: just having a ton of.
- 4:00Speaker 4: Fun what goes into, That, YEAH a lot of it
- 4:04Speaker 4: is just like my upbringing and HOW i just kind
- 4:07Speaker 4: of grew up and play in the. Game was a
- 4:10Speaker 4: guy who who has, personality AND i want to be
- 4:12Speaker 4: able to show that on the field without doing too,
- 4:15Speaker 4: much of, course but WHEN i do do something, cool
- 4:17Speaker 4: it's it's it's fun to to kind of do SOMETHING
- 4:20Speaker 4: i don't, know like a facial reaction or just like
- 4:24Speaker 4: do like a little swim WHERE i don't. KNOW i
- 4:26Speaker 4: JUST i just like to have fun out there and play,
- 4:28Speaker 4: free to be able to to make plays for for the,
- 4:32Speaker 4: pictures to be able to steal basis.
- 4:34Speaker 3: On on on our offensive. Side that is a tongue twister,
- 4:40Speaker 3: THERE i.
- 4:41Speaker 4: Gotcha but but, yeah just being able to express myself
- 4:44Speaker 4: on the field and and have have a little fun with.
- 4:46Speaker 2: It, yeah we definitely see it when.
- 4:49Speaker 1: You we talked a lot With Allie marmo through the
- 4:52Speaker 1: spring and you as we started the season about how
- 4:56Speaker 1: you came into spring training in this season convicted in
- 4:59Speaker 1: your belief and you honestly worked your ass, off and
- 5:02Speaker 1: it was it was a parent from day, one how
- 5:05Speaker 1: much you believe in yourself and how much you were
- 5:06Speaker 1: committed to winning the center field. Job maybe not the
- 5:10Speaker 1: easiest spring because you were informed on the final day
- 5:12Speaker 1: of spring training that you had made the club and
- 5:14Speaker 1: you would be the starting center, fielder but for anyone
- 5:16Speaker 1: that was watching spring and this is with no disrespect
- 5:18Speaker 1: to anybody. Else it was clear that this was your
- 5:21Speaker 1: position and you had won this. Battle when we talked
- 5:24Speaker 1: To ali about this and when we talk to, you
- 5:25Speaker 1: you both have been very candid about the routine and
- 5:28Speaker 1: the preparation and that starts all the way back in
- 5:31Speaker 1: the off. Season yesterday when we were Talking alli after the,
- 5:34Speaker 1: game he mentioned that your routine starts way before you
- 5:36Speaker 1: get to the. Ballpark can you walk us through your
- 5:38Speaker 1: daily routine that helps you feel so locked?
- 5:40Speaker 3: In? Yeah, Yeah so for for, starters it honestly starts.
- 5:46Speaker 4: Like with my with my with, me my mom and Then,
- 5:50Speaker 4: god that's like the connection that we have. There so
- 5:52Speaker 4: like she'll send Me bible Versus i'll read them in
- 5:56Speaker 4: My bible BEFORE i come to the. Field so that
- 6:00Speaker 4: relationship THAT i have with my mom.
- 6:01Speaker 3: Is, IS i don't, know it's. Awesome it's awesome.
- 6:04Speaker 4: To be able to communicate with my mom like that
- 6:06Speaker 4: AND i get to talk to her every day through,
- 6:08Speaker 4: That SO i feel like that brings me, Peace it
- 6:11Speaker 4: brings me, calmness and it reassures me that that, Hey
- 6:15Speaker 4: i'm doing the right things And i'm able to go
- 6:16Speaker 4: out there today and, perform but no matter, WHAT i
- 6:20Speaker 4: still have this.
- 6:20Speaker 3: To lean back. On so that has been like my
- 6:23Speaker 3: rule number.
- 6:25Speaker 4: ONE i have to do, This it's non. NEGOTIABLE i
- 6:27Speaker 4: have to do that every single. Day so that has
- 6:29Speaker 4: helped me throughout this whole. Process also WHEN i get
- 6:33Speaker 4: to the field and that so like that work is
- 6:37Speaker 4: done AND i depending on like the, CITY i.
- 6:39Speaker 3: May go walk around or do, whatever but that has
- 6:43Speaker 3: to be.
- 6:43Speaker 4: Done like if it's not, DONE i feel wrong like,
- 6:46Speaker 4: IT i don't, know someth feels. Off but then THEN
- 6:50Speaker 4: i make SURE i go into the weight, room get
- 6:53Speaker 4: my body, prepped go over the, picture do my hitting,
- 6:57Speaker 4: routine talk To jay about their pictures and HOW i
- 7:02Speaker 4: can get better, jumps and do that also With pop as,
- 7:05Speaker 4: well and then go over some defensive things of HOW
- 7:09Speaker 4: i can get better out to better, jumps things of that,
- 7:11Speaker 4: nature learning the opposing team's hitters SO i can be
- 7:15Speaker 4: Sure i'm in the right positions and me and j
- 7:17Speaker 4: are in accordance with how we're moving the off. Guys
- 7:21Speaker 4: so we go over a lot of those things and
- 7:24Speaker 4: THEN bp comes. After, honestly after all those those studying
- 7:28Speaker 4: tactics are, DONE vp is. THERE i mean and then
- 7:31Speaker 4: it's you just kind of just kind of roll about
- 7:34Speaker 4: the rest of the. Day and then now Since i've
- 7:37Speaker 4: covered especially the first part of that, ROUTINE i feel
- 7:40Speaker 4: LIKE i can just go out there and play.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Free you Mentioned John, jay AND i know that's someone
- 7:44Speaker 1: that you've worked extensively with dating back to the off,
- 7:47Speaker 1: season and there are such similarities in your guys' game
- 7:51Speaker 1: when he was a player to where you are now
- 7:52Speaker 1: in terms of how you attack the. Day both, relentless
- 7:55Speaker 1: both very. Tenacious what is it About? JAY i, mean
- 7:59Speaker 1: you guys were locked in since he was hired that
- 8:01Speaker 1: you think has helped you unlock a new part to your.
- 8:04Speaker 4: Game, YEAH i mean he's very attentative to, detail and
- 8:07Speaker 4: he told me that early in, offseason, like if you
- 8:10Speaker 4: if you want this, job you're gonna have to be
- 8:11Speaker 4: a tentative to those.
- 8:13Speaker 3: Details you're gonna have to take charge in your.
- 8:14Speaker 4: Game so just from that point, on that's WHEN i
- 8:18Speaker 4: began to study a lot and take ownership of my
- 8:21Speaker 4: game and become more of a savant to learn and
- 8:25Speaker 4: be willing to take criticism and build from that. Criticism
- 8:30Speaker 4: but that that's kind of like the ongoing relationship that
- 8:33Speaker 4: we have like he can come to me about anything
- 8:35Speaker 4: and tell me, like, HEY i think on this play
- 8:37Speaker 4: you could have stretched another base, here OR i think
- 8:39Speaker 4: on this jump you could have done. This and it's
- 8:41Speaker 4: never like for, me it's never like a he doesn't
- 8:44Speaker 4: always talking about it's always like, yes, sir like, Okay
- 8:48Speaker 4: i'll work on, that And i'll come to him the next.
- 8:51Speaker 4: Day all, right how can we how can we better improve?
- 8:53Speaker 4: This how can we how can we make? This how
- 8:55Speaker 4: can we make this more? Efficient how can we make it?
- 8:57Speaker 2: Better it feels like you guys really established that trust early.
- 9:00Speaker 2: On is that fair to?
- 9:01Speaker 3: Say, yeah, yeah no, doubt that's.
- 9:03Speaker 2: AWESOME i Know John Jay Beloved, cardinal your.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Manager i'll read this quote from a story last. Night
- 9:09Speaker 1: this is what he said at the podium post. Game
- 9:11Speaker 1: we asked about your confidence and your play, Overall Olie marmal,
- 9:15Speaker 1: said there's.
- 9:15Speaker 2: A quiet confidence to.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Him he shows, up he has a really really good,
- 9:19Speaker 1: Routine he sticks to, it doesn't fear from. It the
- 9:21Speaker 1: work he's putting in is. Incredible there's a focus and
- 9:24Speaker 1: attention to detail to what he's doing on all sides
- 9:26Speaker 1: of the, ball base, running, defense. Offense he's speeding up
- 9:29Speaker 1: that development extremely. Well AND i think anyone that's watched
- 9:33Speaker 1: The cardinals this year would. Agree what do you think
- 9:35Speaker 1: has allowed your development from year one to year two
- 9:39Speaker 1: to really show like Who Victor scott the second is
- 9:42Speaker 1: as a baseball?
- 9:42Speaker 3: Player?
- 9:43Speaker 4: Yeah, YEAH i, know like at the end of at
- 9:47Speaker 4: the end of year ONE, A i wasn't pleased with
- 9:50Speaker 4: my performance AND i, KNEW i KNEW i had more
- 9:54Speaker 4: in the, tank but the only way to get that
- 9:55Speaker 4: out was going to be to feed up my. Development
- 9:59Speaker 4: so have BEING i had that cup of, COFFEE i
- 10:01Speaker 4: knew how certain things, worked AND i knew WHAT i
- 10:03Speaker 4: needed to go in the offseason to work on and
- 10:05Speaker 4: be attending like a tentative. Too SO i started hitting
- 10:08Speaker 4: with either just myself or with another. Person it Was
- 10:12Speaker 4: Taylor tremail in the off, seasons BUT i would hit
- 10:15Speaker 4: with my hitting coach back at, home Coach, mike and.
- 10:17Speaker 3: We would hit for an hour and thirty.
- 10:18Speaker 4: Minutes and he Knows Coach mike knows exactly like what
- 10:22Speaker 4: to look for in me because he's trained me SINCE
- 10:24Speaker 4: i was sixteen years. Old so we would just communicate
- 10:26Speaker 4: about things and go to the, classroom look over my
- 10:29Speaker 4: swing and be able to.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Break things down like.
- 10:31Speaker 4: That and THEN i was talking to my dad, too
- 10:34Speaker 4: and he has played a major role in this as my,
- 10:36Speaker 4: mom as my whole, family but especially my mom my.
- 10:38Speaker 3: Dad but my, dad he's a retired police.
- 10:41Speaker 4: Officer but he, said, hey, man whatever you, need whenever
- 10:44Speaker 4: you need me, There i'm. There SO i call him
- 10:46Speaker 4: after every TIME i come from the, Gym i'm, like, Hey,
- 10:50Speaker 4: DAD i need to. GO i need to go, outside,
- 10:51Speaker 4: MAN i need to go get fly balls and ground.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Balls and we'd be out there no matter the, weather
- 10:57Speaker 4: no matter the. Circumstances he'd be out there hitting me
- 11:00Speaker 4: fly balls and ground, balls whether it be in that's
- 11:02Speaker 4: like a super open area or on a turf field
- 11:06Speaker 4: somewhere because it was. Raining BUT i wanted to get
- 11:08Speaker 4: in every single element THAT i could THAT i would
- 11:10Speaker 4: be in the. Season SO i remember one, day, like
- 11:14Speaker 4: just to tell a short, story it was it's probably
- 11:16Speaker 4: like twenty eight, degrees it was, windy just not.
- 11:19Speaker 3: An idea today to be. Outside BUT i called.
- 11:21Speaker 4: HIM i, Said, dad, Like i'm going to be in
- 11:23Speaker 4: this during the season AND i NEED i need.
- 11:25Speaker 3: To get out there. Today so he was, like all, right,
- 11:28Speaker 3: Man I'm i'm coming on on the. Way i'm on the.
- 11:30Speaker 3: Way so he shows.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Up he's got like Michelin man, suit he's got on,
- 11:35Speaker 4: gloves had, everything and he's like just sitting like we're
- 11:40Speaker 4: at like my local or at the high SCHOOL i
- 11:42Speaker 4: went to at their, field and he's just pepper and
- 11:45Speaker 4: balls off of the tee and then well he'll hit
- 11:48Speaker 4: the whole. Buckets it's probably seventy balls in, there so
- 11:50Speaker 4: it's seventy additional routes That i'm. Getting but he never
- 11:54Speaker 4: minded that that like to put in that work with.
- 11:57Speaker 4: Me SO i feel like that that was a major
- 12:00Speaker 4: instrument in my off, season in my off. Season so
- 12:05Speaker 4: THEN i know this is really long, winded but oh
- 12:07Speaker 4: this is. Great, Then Like willie McGee last, year he told,
- 12:10Speaker 4: me he, said in order to speed up that development're
- 12:12Speaker 4: gonna have to study the. Game you're gonna have to
- 12:14Speaker 4: study old players as well as current. Players so begin
- 12:17Speaker 4: to do. That so he helped me out in that
- 12:19Speaker 4: in that aspect as, well just, noting, hey look this,
- 12:22Speaker 4: guy this is how he.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Did it back in the.
- 12:24Speaker 4: Day maybe take a page out of his book and
- 12:27Speaker 4: be able to implement that in your. Game so all those,
- 12:30Speaker 4: things but these things THAT i had to take ownership
- 12:32Speaker 4: of and say look myself in the in the, face
- 12:34Speaker 4: look myself in the, mirror and, Say, okay IF i
- 12:36Speaker 4: want to IF i want to write, down IF i
- 12:38Speaker 4: write down these goals AND i want to accomplish these,
- 12:40Speaker 4: Things i'm going to have to take ownership and this
- 12:42Speaker 4: stuff that is not ideal to, Do i'm going to
- 12:46Speaker 4: have to do.
- 12:46Speaker 3: It so that was kind of the.
- 12:48Speaker 4: Sacrifice THAT i made to myself and HOW i went.
- 12:51Speaker 3: About my off season to prepare myself for this.
- 12:53Speaker 1: SEASON i love how you speak about your parents there
- 12:56Speaker 1: and even think about how cool it. IS i, mean
- 12:58Speaker 1: you're five six years old and your dad'shitting off THE.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Tvu right and now.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Here you are a major league baseball player in your early,
- 13:04Speaker 1: twenties and.
- 13:06Speaker 2: It's still the.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Basics it's still hey, DAD i want to go to the,
- 13:08Speaker 1: PARK i want to, hit OR i want to go
- 13:09Speaker 1: track balls and your parents are still there to do.
- 13:12Speaker 1: That how important is your relationship with both your mom
- 13:15Speaker 1: and your dad to where you are right?
- 13:16Speaker 3: Now, YEAH i mean it's they.
- 13:18Speaker 4: Are when when when you kind of get into something
- 13:21Speaker 4: and you and you ask, yourself why AM i doing? This?
- 13:23Speaker 3: Why why DO i show up every, day why DO
- 13:26Speaker 3: i do? This for? Me they're my reason, why Like
- 13:29Speaker 3: god being number one.
- 13:32Speaker 4: And glory glorifying his, name but also my parents are
- 13:35Speaker 4: my reason WHY i do, this WHY i put forth
- 13:38Speaker 4: the effort every, day because it was many times that
- 13:41Speaker 4: AND i know everybody says, this but many times that
- 13:43Speaker 4: they've made a ton of sacrifices to get me to
- 13:46Speaker 4: WHERE i am.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Now so if it wasn't for my mom pushing.
- 13:49Speaker 4: Me through to graduate college because she's real realisticler about about.
- 13:55Speaker 3: Education she says like education is. Power she says that
- 13:58Speaker 3: all the.
- 13:58Speaker 4: Time but she made sure, like, hey you're finishing this,
- 14:03Speaker 4: Degree you're finishing what you.
- 14:04Speaker 3: Started so she helped me through.
- 14:07Speaker 4: That my dad always through, sports being able to call
- 14:10Speaker 4: me and sometimes sometimes he'll.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Call me and be, like, hey, man like you need
- 14:14Speaker 3: to do, this so you need to do, that And.
- 14:15Speaker 4: I'm, Like, god, damn but in some form of, fascy he's,
- 14:19Speaker 4: right so LIKE i at this, POINT i JUST i just, yes,
- 14:22Speaker 4: sir and we onto the next. Thing but but now
- 14:26Speaker 4: to sum it up though there they're my reason WHY
- 14:28Speaker 4: i love them so, much and they helped me out
- 14:32Speaker 4: with with anything anything THAT.
- 14:34Speaker 3: I need so kudos of.
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- 15:49Speaker 1: Right So i'll preface this with in my five years
- 15:52Speaker 1: covering The, Cardinals i've never once felt Like i've had
- 15:54Speaker 1: a bad, clubhouse.
- 15:56Speaker 2: RIGHT i feel like every year dating back to twenty,
- 15:58Speaker 2: one it's been super.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Professional the guy's been, great and, yeah at the end
- 16:02Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three a little rough just because things
- 16:05Speaker 1: weren't going, Great but even then the professionalism was. Awesome
- 16:08Speaker 1: twenty twenty FIVE i think might be my favorite clubhouse,
- 16:10Speaker 1: though because the energy is always, great a ton of
- 16:13Speaker 1: pros in that, room and even Though april there were
- 16:15Speaker 1: some highs and and, LOWS i felt like everyone was
- 16:18Speaker 1: super consistent and super.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Steady so why don't we let.
- 16:21Speaker 1: The viewers of the show in on a little bit
- 16:23Speaker 1: of the clubhouse. Chemistry i'm going to ask you a
- 16:25Speaker 1: couple of rapid fire questions about your.
- 16:26Speaker 2: Teammates feel free to come under the. Bus it's totally,
- 16:28Speaker 2: fine all.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Right the teammate you hang with outside of the field most,
- 16:35Speaker 1: often who is?
- 16:36Speaker 2: It and what do you guys?
- 16:37Speaker 3: DO i would have to, say, Either i'll go With.
- 16:43Speaker 3: JORDAN i hang out With jordan And.
- 16:45Speaker 4: MASON i, mean, well we'll, walk especially In, cincinnati but
- 16:49Speaker 4: we walk home after, games talk about, whatever and then
- 16:54Speaker 4: we'll be able to hang out. Afterwards RATHER i watched
- 16:58Speaker 4: them play video. Games we all play video games or
- 17:00Speaker 4: just just hanging.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Out the.
- 17:01Speaker 4: CAMARADERIE i feel like it's definitely definitely there with those two.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Guys san knew you were going to say video, games
- 17:07Speaker 1: which is the perfect segue to my next. Question are
- 17:09Speaker 1: you one of those players that brings your LIKE ps
- 17:11Speaker 1: five on the?
- 17:11Speaker 3: Road? YEAH i. DO i.
- 17:13Speaker 4: Do but but the thing about that IS i gotta
- 17:15Speaker 4: set limitations on. Myself so IF i have a day,
- 17:19Speaker 4: GAME i got to make sure That i'm off The
- 17:21Speaker 4: i'll play a couple of games.
- 17:22Speaker 3: Of fortnite or, whatever AND i gotta be off of.
- 17:25Speaker 4: It LIKE i have to make Sure i'm laying down
- 17:27Speaker 4: in the bed at a certain, time because If i'm, not,
- 17:29Speaker 4: like my brain just keeps going and never it ever quiets.
- 17:32Speaker 3: Down SO i have to make SURE.
- 17:33Speaker 4: I am am disciplined with those.
- 17:36Speaker 2: Things discipline With, Fortnite got? It?
- 17:38Speaker 1: Okay is there a game that you all play against each?
- 17:40Speaker 1: OTHER i don't know if it's the, show if it's TWO, K,
- 17:42Speaker 1: like is there one that you're like locked in on
- 17:45Speaker 1: against your other?
- 17:45Speaker 3: Teammates definitely, say definitely say the.
- 17:48Speaker 4: Show BUT i will say it is easier to hit
- 17:50Speaker 4: in real life than it is the. SHOW i know
- 17:52Speaker 4: it sounds crazy Unless i'm just terrible at the, show but,
- 17:55Speaker 4: LIKE i definitely think it's easier to hit in real
- 17:58Speaker 4: life that it is the.
- 17:59Speaker 3: SHOW i DON'T i don't.
- 18:00Speaker 1: KNOW i don't play a ton of video, games but
- 18:02Speaker 1: my brother AND i, like we'll play the show against each.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Other we haven't in a, minute AND i swear he
- 18:07Speaker 2: throws like a perfect game against me every, time And i'm,
- 18:08Speaker 2: LIKE i this.
- 18:09Speaker 3: BAD i.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Can't this has to be the. Game we'll put it
- 18:12Speaker 2: on like the easy.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Settings still, No i'm, Like i'm, Terrible SO i agree with.
- 18:17Speaker 1: YOU i think it's very hard to hit on the.
- 18:18Speaker 1: Show But i'm no video game. Expert Unless Super Smash.
- 18:21Speaker 1: Bros you do not want to see me on that.
- 18:23Speaker 1: Game who's the best and do you play as?
- 18:26Speaker 4: YOURSELF i have, BEFORE i have, before but Lately i've
- 18:30Speaker 4: been playing my career on that or not my, career
- 18:33Speaker 4: but road to The. Show, yeah, YEAH i Just i've
- 18:36Speaker 4: been messing around with that and trying to get trying
- 18:39Speaker 4: to get him.
- 18:39Speaker 3: Better but you're not getting not really getting.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Anywhere all the progress to the real, version the Major league,
- 18:47Speaker 1: version and the video game. Version, okay if you let's,
- 18:52Speaker 1: see do you have a favorite road city and then
- 18:56Speaker 1: for the stadiums you haven't played in, yet which one
- 18:58Speaker 1: are you looking forward to playing in the most.
- 19:01Speaker 3: Favorite road CITY i. LIKED i Like San.
- 19:03Speaker 4: Diego WHEN i went there last year The. Dodgers The
- 19:07Speaker 4: dodgers was pretty sick just to be in that in that.
- 19:10Speaker 4: Ballpark what's the City i'd probably say The rangers or The.
- 19:16Speaker 3: ASTROS i know both are In.
- 19:17Speaker 4: TEXAS i haven't been to The, astros BUT i played
- 19:20Speaker 4: Our big twelve championship was In, arlington So i've played
- 19:26Speaker 4: in there.
- 19:26Speaker 3: BEFORE i would like to play in there as a
- 19:28Speaker 3: as a big.
- 19:28Speaker 2: Legner got.
- 19:29Speaker 1: It, well we got that at the end Of, may,
- 19:31Speaker 1: Right we just got to get through this first first
- 19:33Speaker 1: of The pirates and then we have a free city.
- 19:35Speaker 2: Trip once we get through, that then then we can
- 19:38Speaker 2: focus on On.
- 19:39Speaker 1: Texas what's the citum that you've liked the most that
- 19:42Speaker 1: you played in outside Of.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Atlanta i'm sure that was such a crazy series for.
- 19:45Speaker 4: You, yeah, yeah you took my. Answer, Yeah i'd have
- 19:54Speaker 4: to Put atlanta at number, one just BECAUSE i played
- 19:57Speaker 4: in that park as a sixteen year old and like.
- 19:59Speaker 3: A, whatever like An All star.
- 20:01Speaker 4: Game it was a little string being of a, kid
- 20:04Speaker 4: BUT i played there and then had like my family
- 20:07Speaker 4: chairing for, Me so it was like kind of like
- 20:09Speaker 4: a full circle moment to have that that kind of
- 20:12Speaker 4: moment and then be there as a big leaguer as.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Well having my family chair for me.
- 20:16Speaker 4: Too so definitely definitely that part because of memories and
- 20:20Speaker 4: just BECAUSE i live very close to that.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Area and not only did you play there as a big,
- 20:24Speaker 1: leaguer you also went off that series two separate three hair.
- 20:27Speaker 1: Games it was fun to, watch and you had a
- 20:29Speaker 1: great fifty people or so at that, park.
- 20:32Speaker 4: Right, yeah there was a lot of a lot of,
- 20:35Speaker 4: people a lot of people there asking for tickets and
- 20:39Speaker 4: all sorts of.
- 20:39Speaker 3: Stuff BUT i loved him, THOUGH i love.
- 20:41Speaker 1: Him that's why you know you made it when you
- 20:43Speaker 1: got crowds of people LIKE i know, HIM i want
- 20:45Speaker 1: to watch him.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Play that's good to see.
- 20:49Speaker 1: You you guys have a lot of athletes on your,
- 20:52Speaker 1: squad specifically your, Pictures, Like i'm never worried on A PfP,
- 20:58Speaker 1: play no matter who it, is for the start from
- 21:00Speaker 1: the starters at, Least i'm never. WORRIED i feel like that's,
- 21:02Speaker 1: out that that out is gonna. Happen but if you
- 21:05Speaker 1: objectively the fastest person on the team had to raise
- 21:08Speaker 1: someone in a hundred yard, dash who's giving you the biggest?
- 21:11Speaker 4: Challenge let's, See i'll Probably. Mason mason's pretty, quick.
- 21:25Speaker 3: There's got some wheels on. Him, MAYBE i don't.
- 21:29Speaker 4: Know Probably, Mason Mason, MASON i. THINK i don't think
- 21:33Speaker 4: anybody else would will get there with.
- 21:36Speaker 3: Me But mason be right.
- 21:38Speaker 2: There, yeah he'll give you a, run but you're beating.
- 21:40Speaker 1: Him, yeah don't tell HIM i said.
- 21:44Speaker 2: That all, Right, well we'll get right back to.
- 21:47Speaker 1: IT a couple more things For Victor scott the, second but,
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- 22:23Speaker 2: Foul all, right so we're over a month into the.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Season april felt both like the longest month and also
- 22:31Speaker 1: the quickest month at the same.
- 22:32Speaker 2: TIME i think that might just be baseball in. General
- 22:34Speaker 2: now there are some highs.
- 22:35Speaker 1: From this, team some, lows but, honestly for where you
- 22:37Speaker 1: guys are out On may, fifth coming off a big,
- 22:39Speaker 1: series went over The, mets playing really well at.
- 22:42Speaker 2: HOME i think there's a lot to like about this.
- 22:44Speaker 2: Club what do you like about your?
- 22:45Speaker 3: TEAM i like the ability to be. RELENTLESS i feel
- 22:50Speaker 3: like is a good word for this.
- 22:52Speaker 4: UNIT i, mean everybody comes to the clubhouse and day
- 22:56Speaker 4: in and day, out does their, routine does whatever they
- 22:58Speaker 4: have to do in order to feel.
- 22:59Speaker 3: Prepared you can tell that it's it's what they.
- 23:02Speaker 4: Do like everybody individually has something that they need to
- 23:05Speaker 4: achieve before they go out and play to help them
- 23:07Speaker 4: feel a certain. Way and it seems to it seems
- 23:11Speaker 4: to happen nearly every single day that that that we show.
- 23:15Speaker 3: Up so definitely proud of.
- 23:17Speaker 4: This this team's like relentlessless, relentlessness and then the, energy
- 23:22Speaker 4: the energy that we can that we can.
- 23:24Speaker 1: Bring we talk a lot about your improvement and where
- 23:28Speaker 1: you are as a. Player is there a teammate of
- 23:30Speaker 1: yours that when you're watching them, play you're, Seeing, yeah.
- 23:33Speaker 2: He's figuring it out or he's getting. Better i'm really
- 23:34Speaker 2: encouraged by. This it doesn't have to be, one it
- 23:36Speaker 2: can be.
- 23:36Speaker 3: Multiple. Yeah, YEAH i mean. DEFINITELY i would have to
- 23:40Speaker 3: Say jordan for, sure because WE.
- 23:43Speaker 4: I work with him in the off season and we've
- 23:46Speaker 4: had conversations about like, mentality all those things to be
- 23:50Speaker 4: able to help ourselves increase development and help increase the
- 23:53Speaker 4: mental side of the game and things of that.
- 23:55Speaker 3: Nature But.
- 23:57Speaker 4: I've seen him handle the highs And i've seen him
- 23:59Speaker 4: handle the, lows AND i feel like he's he's remained
- 24:02Speaker 4: consistent through those things and never gotten too down on
- 24:04Speaker 4: himself when he is, low and never gotten too high
- 24:07Speaker 4: on himself when he is. Up SO i definitely feel
- 24:10Speaker 4: like definitely feel Like. JORDAN i would keep rattling rattling guys.
- 24:14Speaker 4: Too New bar has been an awesome, teammate definitely high,
- 24:20Speaker 4: energy brings the laughter as. Well he's just A he's
- 24:23Speaker 4: just a great. Guy just a great. Guy comes to
- 24:25Speaker 4: the field every. Day it is ready to, work is
- 24:27Speaker 4: ready to, be ready to showcase kind of the abilities
- 24:30Speaker 4: that he's been showcasing throughout his. Career, NOO a great
- 24:34Speaker 4: guy to look up to with routine and how persistent
- 24:37Speaker 4: and convicted he is in that. Routine, wilson same. Way
- 24:43Speaker 4: those are guys THAT i come to the come to
- 24:44Speaker 4: the ballpark and look at them and, Say, okay these
- 24:47Speaker 4: guys have been here for a, while this is how
- 24:49Speaker 4: they do.
- 24:50Speaker 3: It MAYBE i could take.
- 24:51Speaker 4: A few pages out of their book and, Say, okay
- 24:53Speaker 4: this is how they've done, it and they're here for this,
- 24:55Speaker 4: long then MAYBE i should be doing the same thing
- 24:58Speaker 4: within my routine to to have that conviction as.
- 25:00Speaker 3: WELL i love.
- 25:02Speaker 1: That one of my favorite little moments of the season
- 25:04Speaker 1: so far WAS i can't remember what series it, was
- 25:06Speaker 1: But flyball the rights, Center Jordan walker calls you. Off he's, like,
- 25:10Speaker 1: no this is, mine and you've give him this look
- 25:12Speaker 1: like you serious right, now and then you guys are.
- 25:14Speaker 1: LAUGHING i just thought that was so great For. JORDAN i,
- 25:16Speaker 1: mean his confidence out there is so much better.
- 25:18Speaker 3: Too.
- 25:22Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah so, uh like in, communication like we'll talk
- 25:28Speaker 4: before each, pitch LIKE i don't know if you guys
- 25:29Speaker 4: can see us see us a, lot but Like i'm,
- 25:31Speaker 4: Pointing i'm. DIRECTING i look like one of the one
- 25:35Speaker 4: of the guys who directs the airplanes and. Stuff i'm
- 25:37Speaker 4: just pointing. Everywhere but With, jaywalk like we like sometimes
- 25:43Speaker 4: like we'll we'll make like laughter Of jay sometimes because.
- 25:46Speaker 3: He's out, there like and if we don't look at.
- 25:48Speaker 4: Him for one, pitch like he's, Honest he's he's, honest
- 25:51Speaker 4: AND i love the account like always he's holding us
- 25:53Speaker 4: accountable AND i love.
- 25:54Speaker 3: That but like sometimes he just flip.
- 25:56Speaker 4: The signs and and and get us moving and Then
- 25:58Speaker 4: i'm looking at him And i'm looking At Jay.
- 26:00Speaker 3: Walking we're all moving out.
- 26:01Speaker 4: There but on this particular, PLAY i Told jaywalking THAT
- 26:04Speaker 4: i had that route and Then jaywalk like like.
- 26:07Speaker 3: Normally LIKE i don't, SCREAM i got. It it's a
- 26:10Speaker 3: lot for me to like process in my. MOUTH i don't,
- 26:12Speaker 3: know it's. Weird But jaywalk doesn't SCREAM i got it.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Either he just. Screams BUT i say, like, yeah he just.
- 26:20Speaker 3: Screams he just.
- 26:21Speaker 4: Like, ah AND i Like i'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah
- 26:24Speaker 4: like the whole. Time so he's he's running and out
- 26:27Speaker 4: LIKE i start with like my saying and he starts.
- 26:29Speaker 3: Calling i'm, like, wait, WAIT i THOUGHT i got Prom
- 26:36Speaker 3: like he calls me, off SO i let him have.
- 26:39Speaker 4: IT i just started looking at him AND i started
- 26:41Speaker 4: laughing because he turns Around he's.
- 26:42Speaker 3: Like, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
- 26:46Speaker 4: AND i just started laughing BECAUSE i just, thought, like oh,
- 26:48Speaker 4: man this is this is this is what baseball is
- 26:50Speaker 4: supposed to.
- 26:51Speaker 3: Be it's supposed to be.
- 26:51Speaker 4: Fun to be able to go out there with the
- 26:54Speaker 4: utmost confidence and say like and call me.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Off it's. Crazy BUT i LOVE i Love.
- 27:00Speaker 4: Offense AND i can't do nothing but but applaud him
- 27:02Speaker 4: for for the work that he's put in throughout, this
- 27:05Speaker 4: throughout this whole journey to be able to to get
- 27:08Speaker 4: out there every day and and go work on, something
- 27:11Speaker 4: SO i feel like he's done an excellent.
- 27:13Speaker 1: JOB i love that you guys have your little language
- 27:15Speaker 1: out in the outfield that only.
- 27:17Speaker 2: Makes sense to.
- 27:17Speaker 1: YOU i think that's something that just gets lost on
- 27:21Speaker 1: people like. You you work with the same outfielders every.
- 27:23Speaker 2: Day you know they're, there you know how they call,
- 27:27Speaker 2: for how they. Communicate how Does lars?
- 27:29Speaker 1: Communicate first of, ALL i feel LIKE i know because
- 27:30Speaker 1: he's so, LOUD i could probably hear him from the press.
- 27:32Speaker 2: Box but what's the style of? Communication And donnie?
- 27:35Speaker 3: Too? Yeah, YEAH i mean most of the time they
- 27:37Speaker 3: just they SAY i got. It they SAY i got.
- 27:39Speaker 4: It but The Lars lars is pretty funny because he'll
- 27:44Speaker 4: he'll like he's always like tongue, out always, out always hung.
- 27:48Speaker 3: OUT i don't know if that helps him steady his.
- 27:50Speaker 4: EYES i have no, idea but he's always tongue, out
- 27:53Speaker 4: so like every time he makes a, play LIKE i
- 27:55Speaker 4: just LIKE i either stick my tongue, out like looking
- 27:57Speaker 4: at him.
- 27:57Speaker 3: And i'm Like i'm, like, hey we got. One i'm
- 27:59Speaker 3: like he's, like, oh why why is your tongue only
- 28:03Speaker 3: out of your? Mouth? Bro Like, God but, nah he's
- 28:06Speaker 3: he's great, though he's. Great he's great out.
- 28:07Speaker 4: There he's he's a, confident he has always been a confident.
- 28:10Speaker 4: Outfitter but he's he's. Fun he's fun to play with
- 28:13Speaker 4: as well as well As. DONOVAN i, mean that guy's
- 28:15Speaker 4: got a got a gold glow for a. Reason so
- 28:17Speaker 4: he makes a lot of great plays.
- 28:19Speaker 3: Second, base left, field wherever you put him on that.
- 28:22Speaker 3: DIAMOND i feel like he's he's going to make a play.
- 28:24Speaker 3: SOMEWHERE i love.
- 28:26Speaker 1: That i'm gonna Be i'm gonna be looking for you
- 28:27Speaker 1: guys this series Against pittsburgh on how you all communicate
- 28:30Speaker 1: and see what that's. Like let me see IF i
- 28:31Speaker 1: can pick up on when you guys can can read
- 28:33Speaker 1: each other before we, go, though you know we have
- 28:35Speaker 1: we have to give the. Plug we have to give
- 28:37Speaker 1: the plug To. Argo you dropped an album last, month
- 28:42Speaker 1: RIGHT i feel like for those of you who do not,
- 28:44Speaker 1: know not only Is Victor scott the second one of
- 28:46Speaker 1: the most exciting center fielders in baseball right, now he's
- 28:48Speaker 1: also a certified, artist verified On. Spotify just dropped an,
- 28:52Speaker 1: album not your average. Rapper tell us about this, project
- 28:55Speaker 1: and you got to tell us your favorite.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Song you have to pick.
- 28:57Speaker 3: One, yeah SO i make music in the off, seasons
- 29:04Speaker 3: in off seasons, mostly but this PROJECT i call it
- 29:09Speaker 3: Not Your Average rapper because it just makes.
- 29:11Speaker 4: SENSE i don't know. That the title of it was
- 29:13Speaker 4: like not Your Average, rappers a pretty good. Title the
- 29:17Speaker 4: cover art for it was spot on because there's like
- 29:21Speaker 4: in a museum and then you just see like this
- 29:23Speaker 4: big painting that just says like not Your Average.
- 29:25Speaker 3: Rappers that stands.
- 29:26Speaker 4: Out but favorite song on this, PROJECT i got a
- 29:33Speaker 4: couple of, them But i'm gonna have to go with
- 29:36Speaker 4: maybe Maybe him.
- 29:39Speaker 3: Or pray For.
- 29:40Speaker 4: Flowers those two songs right there are count On you
- 29:44Speaker 4: is also a really nice, One but Either him Or
- 29:47Speaker 4: pray For Flowers him If i'm like pumped up And
- 29:49Speaker 4: i'm ready to, Go pray For flowers is just like
- 29:52Speaker 4: a good easy.
- 29:52Speaker 3: Listen all?
- 29:54Speaker 2: Right, so which one's your walk up?
- 29:56Speaker 3: Song? Again remind Me boxers of The. Poodles it's not
- 29:58Speaker 3: on his. ALBUM i released it right long, ago long.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Time.
- 30:02Speaker 3: Yeahs how cool.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Is it to walk out to your own? Song that's
- 30:05Speaker 2: that is big? Time that's big league for.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Sure yeah, yeah that, one that one in uh In sexy.
- 30:11Speaker 3: Read SO i just keep, HIM i just keep him
- 30:13Speaker 3: in rotation With Sexy. Red you should That's.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Lewis yeah, amazing all, Right yeah you can stream not
- 30:21Speaker 1: your averagerapper available On, Spotify Apple, music wherever you get your. Podcast.
- 30:25Speaker 1: Vic this has been a ton of. FUN i know
- 30:27Speaker 1: fans have been asking for you really since we launched this,
- 30:30Speaker 1: podcast so it means a lot to me that you
- 30:32Speaker 1: would make some time out of your very business schedule
- 30:34Speaker 1: to do.
- 30:35Speaker 2: This thank you again so.
- 30:36Speaker 3: Much, yeah no, doubt thank you for having me of.
- 30:38Speaker 1: Course uh quick Housekeeping Cardinals pirates three game home set
- 30:42Speaker 1: homestand before a three city road. Trip you'll see the
- 30:46Speaker 1: exact same pictures you saw when The cardinals plate In.
- 30:49Speaker 1: Pittsburgh you'll See Carmen litzinski today Against Matthew, Libertor Paul,
- 30:53Speaker 1: skeens who The cardinals have apparently figured, out go, figure
- 30:57Speaker 1: and then Uh Mitch. Keller the serious finale On, Wednesday
- 31:00Speaker 1: Bernie mae, LISTEN i will be back with you middle
- 31:03Speaker 1: of the week for a series recap. There thanks as
- 31:05Speaker 1: always for Watching Cardinal. Territory it's been super fun with you.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Guys should be a really exciting week of baseball And
- 31:10Speaker 1: Cardinal's land For Victor.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Scott the Second I'm Katie. Wu thanks as always for
- 31:14Speaker 2: watching