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Tarik Skubal Joins Tiger Territory · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network, Detroit Tiger's podcast. I'm Kieren Steckley
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  Speaker 1: with me as always his Cody Stavenhagen and joining us
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  Speaker 1: for the first time a man who's trophy case just
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit more full. He is the reigning
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four cy Young winner, Tarif School. Well, Trek,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing I'm good. How are you guys? Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for having means.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing great. I mean we're recording this not too
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  Speaker 1: long after you officially received the award, So I guess
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  Speaker 1: I do have a little bit of a question. You
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  Speaker 1: get named the winner, if we're being honest, probably kind
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  Speaker 1: of knew that this was happening for a while. But
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  Speaker 1: then you actually have the award and it's got your
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  Speaker 1: name on it and you're giving an acceptance speech. Does
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  Speaker 1: it feel more real or what's that like to kind
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  Speaker 1: of have this elongated process of receiving what's really the
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  Speaker 1: greatest individual accolade a pitcher can receive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I that was my one.
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  Speaker 3: Not problem. Maybe complaint is the right word. Is you win?
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  Speaker 3: You win them? Of ever twentieth, right, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: get my hands on an award until what's the date, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, five days ago, January fifth or whatever day
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  Speaker 3: it was. I'm like, that's a I mean, I would
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  Speaker 3: have loved to spend some time with it for three
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  Speaker 3: months and then you go to Lakeland, and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to bring it to Lakeland. You know, I'll probably
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  Speaker 3: keep it somewhere and then probably have it up in Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: But I would have liked to enjoy it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's right behind me right there. I would have liked
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  Speaker 3: to enjoy it a little bit, you know, longer, when
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is the office where I don't really
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  Speaker 3: do much business stuff. It's more video games. So I
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  Speaker 3: would have loved, you know, be able to play some
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  Speaker 3: video games and then you know, whenever whatever I die
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  Speaker 3: or whatever, we just look back and just kind of
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  Speaker 3: see the award.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that was my one complaint, But it was
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  Speaker 2: it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Getting the physical award definitely made it feel a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more real, you know, rather than just being named one,
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, getting the actual thing was was
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  Speaker 3: really cool.
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  Speaker 4: There are a couple of stories of people Heisman Trophy
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  Speaker 4: winners trying to get the Heisman Trophy through airport security.
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  Speaker 4: The cy Young Award fit in the suitcase or like,
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  Speaker 4: how do you they mail it to you?
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  Speaker 5: How do you get that thing home?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So I didn't. I uh, I brought no carry
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  Speaker 2: on to New York.
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  Speaker 3: I checked on my luggage, so I was like, this
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  Speaker 3: isn't going underneath the plane. So I actually gave it
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  Speaker 3: to my agent, and then my agent packed it up
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  Speaker 3: and shipped it out to me and did the whole
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  Speaker 3: like two authentication. You got to show the idea and
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  Speaker 3: then you got to sign for it and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, all right here, we're doing this. This is
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  Speaker 3: not getting lost, this is going to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So he shipped to.
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  Speaker 3: Me so that way I can enjoy it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for the next couple of days before I head down
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  Speaker 3: to Lakeland.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was I didn't take it back with me.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really want to. Airports are a little sketchy
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  Speaker 2: that way.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you never knew if you lose luggage, and
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  Speaker 3: sometimes you know, you get the little tsa check your
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  Speaker 3: bag or whatever, and I'm like, they check that bag
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  Speaker 3: and take it.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole ceremony was streamed on the Foul Territory
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  Speaker 1: YouTube page, So if you guys haven't seen it, you
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  Speaker 1: can go watch it and go watch Trek's speech, which
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  Speaker 1: was great and really reflective and kind of showed like
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  Speaker 1: another side of you that if you just watch watched
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  Speaker 1: Terrek in between the lines, it's you know a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. But before before all that, I just got
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  Speaker 1: to ask, like, you know, it's the best of the best.
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  Speaker 1: There's you know, there's all that. You know, you're about
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  Speaker 1: to get this award, lifelong achievements, you know, all these
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  Speaker 1: things I'm sure are going through your head. But then
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  Speaker 1: also you're sitting next to Tracy Morgan. Yeah, like just
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  Speaker 1: like talk about just kind of weird things happening all
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  Speaker 1: at once. What was that like to kind of go
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  Speaker 1: through everything and then you know, you sit down, you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's Saturday Night Live thirty. Wrong, it's Tracy Warrior. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: That was that was cool? If I mean, first off,
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  Speaker 3: pretty funny. His speech was pretty funny too, But you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's a funny guy. He was he was cracking jokes
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  Speaker 3: up there. He's interesting though, he's interesting. Sitting with him
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  Speaker 3: for dinner, it gets a little interesting at times, but
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  Speaker 3: it was it was fun. It was fun, it was
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  Speaker 3: it was a cool experience for sure. And he was
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  Speaker 3: trying to tell me to get on you know, Saturday
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  Speaker 3: Night Live. I'm like, dude, I don't think i'm your guy,
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm not. I don't really know if I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to go act and then do that. He goes, no,
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  Speaker 3: that's the like, that's the best thing you can do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't. I don't think I'm your guy,
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  Speaker 3: but I appreciate the confidence, like you may think i'm that,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And then uh, once I got my award,
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  Speaker 3: I sat down with it, he goes, you want to
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  Speaker 3: see young.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I didn't realize you were that good.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, well, I guess. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's that's kind of why I'm here. That's why I'm
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  Speaker 5: sitting up here. But it was cool. It was cool,
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  Speaker 5: you know, sitting next to him.
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  Speaker 3: I forget the lady on my right, I forget her name,
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  Speaker 3: but she was like male. She'd been in the industry
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  Speaker 3: for you know, thirty forty years or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: like first female and clubhouses and stuff, and Susan Waldman, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's her name. Yeah, and she was. Her stories were great.
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  Speaker 3: Her stories were really really cool, and she I mean,
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  Speaker 3: she knows everyone there like everyone was like the interaction.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you must be someone very important.
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  Speaker 3: I've never really crossed the aggy yet, but you must
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  Speaker 3: be someone really important. And then as the night went on,
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  Speaker 3: I realized that, and I was like, that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yeah I didn't. I didn't know that. Sitting there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, next to her. She didn't act like that.
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  Speaker 2: She acted just like I had known her for forever,
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  Speaker 2: but she was that was that was cool.
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  Speaker 5: Where I was seated was really cool. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Well, most people watching this or listening are probably familiar
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  Speaker 4: with your journey and your story, but you brought it
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  Speaker 4: up a little bit again when you received the cy
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  Speaker 4: Young Award, and I think the question now is kind
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  Speaker 4: of like, how do you make sure success doesn't change
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  Speaker 4: the ethos of who you are? Have you thought about
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  Speaker 4: that much this offseason? And how do you kind of
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  Speaker 4: keep the underdog mentality going forward?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I don't think that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure it's like an underdog, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: type of thing where you've been counted out. But I
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  Speaker 3: mean there's definitely been adversity in my career, but I
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  Speaker 3: think it's just even more motivation.
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  Speaker 5: Is like, I'm glad.
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  Speaker 3: I you know, I'm very grateful to win a cy
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  Speaker 3: Young Award, and that's an extremely you know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: huge honor and I and all that, and I totally
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  Speaker 3: understand that. But the hunger for me always comes from
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  Speaker 3: winning games and winning championships. I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you get a ring on your finger. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: probably the only award that's more important than the one
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  Speaker 3: I got behind me, you know, So I think that
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  Speaker 3: the hunger stays there. You know, I don't think that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what we were able to accomplish as a
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  Speaker 3: team last year was was great. But there's only one
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  Speaker 3: happy team at the end of every season, and the
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  Speaker 3: goal is to be that happy team.
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  Speaker 1: So the you know, the thing about receiving that honor
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  Speaker 1: when you did, and kind of like the steps that
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  Speaker 1: your career has taken, is that like there's I imagine
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  Speaker 1: there's a way that you have always kind of viewed yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, all right, I was you mentioned not wanting
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  Speaker 1: to or not not wanting to, but not thinking you
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  Speaker 1: were going to be a pro prospect. Then you are
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  Speaker 1: a pro prospect, and it's gets to the bigs, and
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  Speaker 1: it's get your feet wet, and it's you know, established
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  Speaker 1: yourself and then now it's like Cy Young, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: actually a pretty linear progression, which is not which is
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  Speaker 1: which is not that common in baseball, as everybody knows.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm kind of curious, you know, kind of along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of what you said previously there, but like
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  Speaker 1: how do you view yourself now? Like how do you
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  Speaker 1: view yourself now that you have you know, that accolade
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  Speaker 1: behind you, but also knowing that there's still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of career left for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm I'm the same guy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to let an award define who I
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  Speaker 3: am or you know, change who I am clubhouse, change
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  Speaker 3: from as a teammate, change my work ethic.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: If anything, the award kind of adds a target on
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  Speaker 3: your back a little bit. You know. It's like just
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  Speaker 3: like when I'm going against guys that went MVPs, Like
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  Speaker 3: I know who's won an MVP in every single lineup,
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  Speaker 3: or who's a silver slugger or you know, you know
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  Speaker 3: guys around the league.
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  Speaker 5: Right, So it's like.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to match that with even with even more
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  Speaker 3: energy and more competitiveness and and more you know, behind
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  Speaker 3: the scenes work that that comes with it. So I
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  Speaker 3: think that that's that's also a cool part of it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is being able to continue to build on that.
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  Speaker 3: And and as much as it was a cool year
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  Speaker 3: last year, like it going to this year. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think there's gonna be one guy that cares that sending
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  Speaker 3: in the box, that cares about what I did last year.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I just I just don't believe in that. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to try and do the same thing they
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're going to try and get hits and
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  Speaker 3: and run the ball around the yard and score runs
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  Speaker 3: and try to win a game. And me saying, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I want to say, young, I don't think that does
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  Speaker 3: anything for me. So it's like, I'm going to continue
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  Speaker 3: to go to work and worry about my craft and
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  Speaker 3: try to get better each and every day, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just be healthy for another season. And if I'm healthy
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  Speaker 3: and I'm taking them ound every fifth day, I like
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  Speaker 3: our odds of winning those games.
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  Speaker 4: All right pitching questions. I know, I know you like
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  Speaker 4: to get into the weeds at this stuff a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone likes to talk about the change up and the
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  Speaker 4: slider's sexy, and it's cool when you hit triple digits.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the most underrated maybe tweaked to your
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  Speaker 4: game last year was really upping your sinker usage, especially
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  Speaker 4: against lefties. How intentional was that? How important was that
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  Speaker 4: for you last season?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? It was huge.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the sinker up and end to righty's two
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  Speaker 3: was a big pitch for me. You know, freeze pitch
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  Speaker 3: or just get some uncomfortable takes and you can kind
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  Speaker 3: of expand the zone into where it opens up change
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  Speaker 3: ups away.
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  Speaker 5: But sinkers to lefties just worked.
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  Speaker 3: So I I mean, I we would game play and
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  Speaker 3: be like, this is the pitch to this, you know
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  Speaker 3: guy whatever, and we get in the game and I'm
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  Speaker 3: throwing sinkers and they're they're not really hitting it around
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  Speaker 3: and I'm getting a lot of positive results. It's on
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  Speaker 3: the ground, And it wasn't really uh that that wasn't
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  Speaker 3: one of my goals going into the season. You know
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  Speaker 3: when you when you go over playing an attack of how
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get guys out, And because the goal
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  Speaker 3: was to start striking out lefties at a higher clip
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  Speaker 3: and twenty three I didn't really strike out a ton
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  Speaker 3: of lefties. They didn't do damage, but there wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: ton of swing and miss. So I was trying to
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  Speaker 3: generate more miss there and then and part of that
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  Speaker 3: was reducing syncer usage.
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  Speaker 5: And then when we got into.
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  Speaker 3: The season, the sinker was really effective and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: why would I change you know, I'm not gonna I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to change it. And then nor do I
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  Speaker 3: get a ton of lefties anyways, you know, there's not
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  Speaker 3: there's not a lot of lefties in lineups for me.
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  Speaker 3: And the lefties that are staying in there are show
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  Speaker 3: Hey Harper's Shorebers, Freddie Freeman's you know those guys that
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  Speaker 3: are dogs. So yeah, yeah, I think, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's a good pitch. There's a lot of positive stuff
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  Speaker 3: that happens, you know, when they hit it, if they
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  Speaker 3: put it in play, it's typically on the ground. And
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  Speaker 3: with those lefties that are when they're really good lefties,
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  Speaker 3: they're the guys that run the ball out of the
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  Speaker 3: yard consistently. So if I can just keep them in
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  Speaker 3: the yard, I think that's a win even if they
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  Speaker 3: get a single, you know, Jordan Alvarez, Kyle Tucker. If
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  Speaker 3: I'm living into those guys to singles, that's a good
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  Speaker 3: day for me, you know, for for me to keep
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  Speaker 3: them in the yard and get to the next at
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  Speaker 3: bat without the run score changing. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: that that was kind of the thought process behind it.
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  Speaker 3: There's just a lot of positive stuff and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: you start mixing in change ups and then I become
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  Speaker 3: a more complete pitcher to left handed get bats, and
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  Speaker 3: it was just a good mix, you know, all the
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  Speaker 3: way around of reading swings and that's you know, obviously
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  Speaker 3: the credit goes to Jake there. I just kind of
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  Speaker 3: there's not a ton of shaking going on. I said
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  Speaker 3: it all year, so it's it's up. It's not like
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  Speaker 3: it's on him if I do well or bad, but
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  Speaker 3: he's yeah, he kind of does all that for me
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  Speaker 3: to where I'm just kind of throwing the pitch. And
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  Speaker 3: then once you get confidence in a pitch, I think
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  Speaker 3: it plays even up. And yeah, I think it's just
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  Speaker 3: kind of a snowball effect to having a lot of
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  Speaker 3: positive results related question.
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  Speaker 4: But twenty twenty one you've talked about, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: homers you gave up, but even then you profiled is
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more of a fly ball pitcher. And
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  Speaker 4: then beginning in twenty twenty two, there's a pretty distinct
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  Speaker 4: change where you started really getting guys on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: The ground ball rate went up a lot. What would
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  Speaker 4: you attribute that to, because that's not something you see
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  Speaker 4: a lot that big.
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  Speaker 5: Of a change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I stopped throwing forcing fastballs in two zero counts
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  Speaker 3: and two to one counts and three one counts.
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  Speaker 5: And that'll do it one zero counts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just for whatever reason, I had to see
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  Speaker 3: thirty five of them leave the yard before I made
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  Speaker 3: an adjustment, just because I mean, I loved my heater
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  Speaker 3: in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 5: It worked for me.
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  Speaker 3: I threw it eighty percent of the time and nobody
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  Speaker 3: hit it. And then you get to the big leagues
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  Speaker 3: and everybody can hit ninety five ninety six from the
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  Speaker 3: left side. It doesn't It doesn't, you know, phase them
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  Speaker 3: as much as it does in the minor leagues. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the caliber of player is different too, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: kind of had to learn the hard way of being
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  Speaker 3: a more complete pitcher and throwing sliders and throwing change
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  Speaker 3: ups and counts and commanding command not just throwing sliders,
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  Speaker 3: but commanding it to my arm side and then to
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  Speaker 3: my glove side, and throwing curveballs to kind of play
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  Speaker 3: the slow, fast game. So there's just been a lot
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  Speaker 3: of development in me as a pitcher, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: terms of just pitch usage, and like, yeah, my usage
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  Speaker 3: might not change, you know, I'm still probably throwing fifty
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  Speaker 3: five to sixty percent fastballs, but I'm throwing them in
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  Speaker 3: different counts and that that.
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  Speaker 5: Is the biggest difference, I think.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you're not just laying in a two
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  Speaker 3: zero heater to a guy that can run the ball
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  Speaker 3: out of the yard, and that's pretty much every big
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: league wh runs the ball of the yard on two
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: oh fastballs, you know, I think that's you just don't
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: see it a ton, right, And then you know, you
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: pick and choose your counts and when you want to
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: do it. You know, you see tendencies and guys swings
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: and then may be sitting soft in those counts because
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the percentages are so much off speed and then you
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: can sneak a heater by them, and that's what makes
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: that's pitching, right, that's pitching, is like I think that's
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: the beauty in the game, is just being able to
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: throw pitches in certain counts of you know, go against
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: odds and then you then you bring the whole chess
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: match into it and and that's fun. But yeah, that's
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: long winded question, but that's what I got.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: That was great. That was complicated and yet simple, which
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: is one of the things that I love about baseball.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: And uh and the game has gotten smarter over the years.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Obviously the lazy term is analytics, but we know there's
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: there's a lot more into it than just what that
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: term is. I'm curious, you know, season to season, I'm
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: sure you're getting stuff from the team and the coaches,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: you know, information about this and a lot of that
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: stuff that you just laid out, but you also have
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: like your own team, and you talked about the resources
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: that you know, the Bord's Corps kind of allowed you
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: to have, you know, in your cy Young speech. So
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of I'm curious about process on how
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you kind of just take in all this information and
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: then be able to like exercise it and then execute
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: it year to year.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So you know, right at the end of every
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, first off, I take running notes of every
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: start I've had, you know, since twenty eighteen. So I
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: keep running, you know, notes of of good bad, no
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: matter what. And I think it's important as an athlete,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: you know, to look yourself in the mirror and be
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: like this was a good day or this was a
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: bad or like mentally was this a good day? Mentally
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: was this a bad day? And being okay with bad
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: days and like understanding that it happens. So I know,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I have lists, and then at the end of every season,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I'll get with Fete lundy Wan and we'll you know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: our whole pitching department, and we'll go over a plan
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: of what I thought I did well, what I thought
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I didn't do well, And I basically say, tell me
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: what you guys got for me, you know, and I
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: want to know, honest I don't tell me like don't
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: pump smoke. I want to If I'm going to get better,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I need to, you know, I need to be coached
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: and be coachable. So I'll do all those things and
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: we'll create a plan of what we want to do
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: in the off season, and a lot of it is
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: just like being consistent, right, you know, I think if
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I'm being consistent in my routine and my preparation.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: And my thought process, and.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: You know, mentally, where I'm at physically, where I'm at
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: when I'm on the mound, things become very simple for me,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: and it's just about going out and executing pitches and
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: there's not a ton of noise going on in my
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: head and and for me, simple is better. And when
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I know I'm preparing and doing all the stuff that
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I need to do between starts and in an off season,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: the game becomes simple for me. And that's when I'm
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: at my best. So I think that that's that's kind
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: of how I process information. And after twenty one, when
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I got done with that season, I think my list was,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: you know, very long, I was, and it was it
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: was a very long list of stuff that I thought
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I needed to get better at. And he basically tested
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: me back. Couldn't agree more, and then you just kind
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: of put your head down and.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Go to work.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of the game, you know. I
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: think it rewards those who who want it and work
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: for it, and maybe not always in the moment, but
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: I think in the long run it it always does.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Serrik, you mentioned Boris. One of the things I think
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: it's hard not to respect about Scott and the Boris
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: corp Is. They have their own scouting operation. You were
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: obviously not that heralded for a long time. Your profile
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: was writhing right before your TJ in college. But I
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: think if I had to guess, Boris Corp identified you
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: almost before some pro teams. How did you become a
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Bori's client?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: How?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so they.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: After my freshman year of college, I had I had
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: a good successful season as a freshman in college.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Pitched well veloc.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: He wasn't great, you know, I would be up to
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: like ninety ninety one maybe, but I pitched kind of
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: like eighty six to eighty nine and had a successful season.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And then that summer I basically told myself, I need
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: to start throwing harder. So if I'm gonna start throwing
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: a harnder, I need to get stronger, worked out really hard.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: You know, had a great fall, was throwing really hard,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: you know, ninety four ninety five, a couple of ninety
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: six's had another good winter, and then spring came around,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: and I felt great, you know, I put in a
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: ton of work and my arm felt great, velosity was great,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: and I had a start against My first start was
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: against Saint Mary's. I was supposed to go Friday, actually
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: against Corburn Burns, but I like tweaked my lat probably
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: a week prior, maybe two weeks prior, and they're like, hey,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: we're just going to have you go Sunday. Anyways, So
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I went Sunday and I pitched really well. You know,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: my velocity was I was pretty much ninety four to
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: ninety seven and struck out a ton of guys and
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: it was I mean, it was a good a day
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: for me. And that's kind of when my name blew up.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: And then I went to another had a couple more starts,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and then uh Boris Scott himself and I think Champ
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: and uh maybe Fee they came out to see irv
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Irvine start and because that's like right down the road,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: and I and I went and uh pitched and and
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: I was there and I pitched well again and my
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: velocity was great, and met with them after the game,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: met with them the next day and uh, funny enough,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I actually, uh I think the next I think after
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: that season ended, maybe on Thanksgiving, our Christmas time. I
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: actually told him I'm not I'm gonna go somewhere else.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys, but I'm gonna go with some
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: different representation. And that was before you could have an
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: agent in college, you know I had. They were called advisors,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: which I.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Thought was stupid whatever.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Uh, but yeah, I actually told him I'm going to
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: go somewhere else. And they're like, give us one more meeting.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Who are you going to select? And I was like okay.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I told him who I was going with, and they're
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: like okay, and they flew out to my hometown the
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: next day, got on a plane to Vegas, drove an
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: hour and a half to my hometown, sat in my house,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: and basically presented every number of everything they've done compared
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to the agent I was going to go with.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Because you just kind of hear the rumors right of.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Of Boris and your naive to the what's what's actually truth?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: You kind of hear the oh, it's a meat market.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: He doesn't you don't really ever talk to him. No,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: he doesn't really value his clients. He only values the superstars,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: which couldn't be farther.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: From the truth. But yeah, he basically set.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Me down every single number of draft arbitration, free agent contracts, contracts,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: like everything right, and the numbers weren't particularly close, and
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I was like, well, that's good information.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: And obviously there's a lot of entry that they're.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Coming to my hometown and you know, on a whim,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: like literally the next day they're there and sat through
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: a four hour meeting, I think, and.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, then the rest is history. Been with them ever since.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: I had a feeling there's gonna be a good backstory there.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: I didn't know.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they brought out the big guns for you then.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: A little yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I mean I told him no, and I don't think
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: he's used to that, so I think that's like a
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: big gun brought out.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it was. It was. That was really cool.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: And then our relationship has grown, you know, ever since then,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: and it's it's been good.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Since we're on the topic, we got to at least
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: addressed a little bit. Flash forward a few years. You've
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: been had to deal with some trade speculation. Now you're
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: getting asked questions about long term future extension, and you've
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: mostly said I'm going to let my agent handle that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I think, let's put words in your mouth. But how
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: have you kind of learned to deal with the rumors
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: and the outside noise and the business aspect of the
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: game as that continues to pop up for you?
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's the media doing their job, right. I mean,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: that's their job is to report and report to fans
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: and get you know, news out there of stuff that's
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: going on. But as a player, you have no say
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: in it. There's not a ton that I can say,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: or I don't think, you know, in the situation that
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I'm currently in with extension stuff.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Or whatever you want to talk about, I don't.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Think it does any good for me to publicly talk
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: about what's going on. I just don't think it's good
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: for anybody, for the organization, for my agency.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: It just creates a.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Lot more drama and a lot of more headlines that
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be involved in.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I want to be involved in the headlines of you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: clinching a playoff or you know, make going on a
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: wind streak or you know, stuff like that. Those are
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: the headlines that I want to be involved in. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: those are the conversations that I'd love to have with
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: media is when it's about the team, but when it
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: starts to get about me, I just I'm not a
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: big fan of it. So that's kind of why I
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: answer the way I do. But yeah, I try to
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: keep those things private. It's not good, you know. I
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's fair to if those things get
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: a little public, then it just puts more on my
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: plate of Now my family's calling me, Hey, is this true?
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Is this true? Is this? Fans asked? Is this true?
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Is this is just I'd rather kind of handle that
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: in house, and then I know people don't want to
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: hear that, but that'll probably be my answer for I
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: look forward to fielding these questions a ton, you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Know, it's just beginning. Yeah, right, I'll.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Answer it once and I'll answer it again and again
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and it will probably be the same answer. But yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: that's just kind of how I think I want to
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: operate and keep it professional. Obviously, the business side of
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: the game is the business side, right, It's not the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: side you really want to be involved in any ways.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: You want to be inside on the on the baseball
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: side of the game, But it's a it's a big
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: part of the game, and I understand.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: That, but.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: I always leave it, you know as this, like I
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: love playing in Detroit. It it's the business will take
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: care of itself.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: And then yeah, well, speaking of you know, handling your business.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: So we've we've just talked to Parker Meadows and Austin
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Jackson is a part of our podcast, and so they've
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: kind of given us the position player perspective on starting
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: pitchers locking in day of start and so, you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Austin had a really funny story about Berlander, basically saying like,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you know, like, look, you're gonna say hi to me
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: if I'm going to be out running my butt in
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the outfield trying to get these fly balls. Uh, so
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you know he has he had a good, good humor
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: about it. I'm just curious, what is your luck in
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: process on a day of a start and then afterward, like,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: because obviously everybody sees your intensity, what's your unwinded process,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you know, once you come out of the game.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so on days I pitch, I used to do the.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: You know, in twenty one and twenty two, do the
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: whole headphone thing and like don't talk to me because
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that's like what I thought was the way to do it,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: and everyone had to do it, so I did that,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: but I just I felt like it created way more
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: stress and anxiety than needed to be, you know, because
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: like the music's going, but like you're not really listening
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: to music, your brain has at least I was, My
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: brain's just like firing off stuff while I'm listening to music.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: It's not like the numbing effect that I think people
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: use it for. So that's something I changed in twenty three.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: It was like, I'm I'm done doing that. I'm gonna
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: have fun, I'm gonna enjoy my day.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: It's a game.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go compete my ass off, you know, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: then when it's time to lock in, that's probably you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: an hour and a half before the game, maybe an
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: hour before the game. Then I'm pretty you know, dialed
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: in on what I'm doing. But as far as other things,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I want to keep it light and loose, and you know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: with the guys that we have in the clubhouse, I
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: want them to feed off the energy that I have.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So if I'm in a very positive mood and I'm
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: having a good time and I'm cracking jokes, I think
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: everyone else kind of loosens up a little bit and
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: gets to play the game pretty free. And I think
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: that's important, especially with a young team that we have.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: You know, I think that everybody feeds off each other.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I I think a lot of the you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: don't talk to me stuff for me personally doesn't work.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, I'm not doing that anymore. I'm just
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: gonna be who I am, and that's who I am.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna interact with the guys in the
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: clubhouse and and have a good time and enjoy the day.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: And but when it's time to go, it's time to go,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: you know, and I'm gonna go compete. And I think
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I'm a pretty good competitor in terms of doing that,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and and you know that that focus that comes with it.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: And then as far as winding down post start, good
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: or bad start, that's kind of why. I mean, there's
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: obviously some physical stuff and you know, and benefits of
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: working out on the day you pitch. So I'll go
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: and work out right after the game, and good or bad,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: I usually get a lot of that energy out to
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: where I become just I can kind of decompress again,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and that's kind of my decompresses me going and working out,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: and you know, one, I enjoy working out. I enjoy
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: that grind, so it gets me in a good spot.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: And then I do, you know, my shoulder program. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: then typically by the time I'm done talking to media
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: or stuff like that, I'm I'm pretty much done. And
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: then I'll go get a cold tub for you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: four minutes or whatever, and that usually calms me down.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: And then I'm you know, by the time I get home,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I try to be just a dad and then be
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: a dad to my son and try not to take
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: any baggage from the field home and all that stuff.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's what a day looks.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Like for me. I mean, I think, you know, Cody's been.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Around enough starts for me where it's not it's pretty
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I'm I think I'm probably a lot different.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Than most starters. On the day they go is it
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: star days?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: You get donuts?
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Where do the donuts come into play?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: That's just every day game, every day game, you know,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I try to get try to bring in donuts. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: I mean our team one, they like donuts, they eat them.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: And uh to it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: It tends to work out for us offensively, that's kind
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: of why I started bringing in donuts. And I started,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: you know, the circle donuts were for pictures, and then
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I would bring in you know, the long John style
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: ones and those are for hitters. So like, I don't
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: want hitters eating circle donuts, eating you know, the ones
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: with ones, because that's what we want to score, you know.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: And yeah, it was, uh, it was fun. But now
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I'm the donut guy and that's uh, that's fine. I
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: think it's it's cool going and picking up donuts and
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and they know who you are and they expect phone
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: calls from you the night before and stuff, and then
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: you walk in it's already set up, pay and get
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: out of there.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's uh, I enjoy that.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: It's fun.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Go to Apple Fritter Donuts shop right yeah, yeah, right
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: down the road from me. Yeah, they don't sponsor us,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: but hey they always could, you know.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: They can, Yeah, they should. I mean they sponn they
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: should sponsor the Tigers on day games. I mean, yeah,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: we already have the order set up and you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: we call in.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: My wife will call and she'd like, yes, orders for Jessica.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: They go, okay, we got it, don't worry and and
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: they literally have the order already, you don't have to
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: say it words and yeah, it's it's cool.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: So Terrek, there's uh. I have kind of like a question.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: It's really personal for me, Like I am a Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Reference fiend. Like I'm on there probably twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: a day. In my sleep, I'm still in on Baseball Reference.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just love It's not it's not it's not,
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  Speaker 1: but I just I just love the deep dives. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I could, I could spend all I sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: spend all day there on your page. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: it right now. There is no nickname for you. List
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  Speaker 1: is now there's there's all kinds of bad nicknames for
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  Speaker 1: other guys. And I don't necessarily want to out people,
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  Speaker 1: but there are some that I don't really think should
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  Speaker 1: have the stature of being a Baseball Reference nickname. You
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  Speaker 1: are nickname list. So I for a while now, I've
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  Speaker 1: been pounding the table for Scary Terry. It was my
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  Speaker 1: idea for your nickname, and I want to get it
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  Speaker 1: on Baseball Reference. That would be like I would put
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  Speaker 1: that on my gravestone if I came up with the
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  Speaker 1: nickname and got on Baseballence. So some people don't like it,
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  Speaker 1: some people do like it. It's you.
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  Speaker 4: We saw a couple of year coaches start putting that
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  Speaker 4: out on social media.
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  Speaker 1: It thumbs up her thumbs down on Scary Terry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. I think.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I mean, everyone calls me Scoob or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: Scooby Doo. That's kind of like the obvious one there.
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  Speaker 3: But my iPhone, I'm actually my iPhone's name is Scary Terry.
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  Speaker 3: So whenever I came back to my car, it says, like,
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  Speaker 3: scary Terry. So that's my my iPhone's.
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  Speaker 5: Name is that.
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  Speaker 3: It's cool until you have to get I dropped a
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  Speaker 3: message from Chris Hale's wife and she's like, do you
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  Speaker 3: have your drop on? And it was a picture of
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  Speaker 3: me and Chris, and I'm like, yeah, I do, and
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  Speaker 3: she clicks on it and goes, Scary Terry.
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  Speaker 5: I go, that is so embarrassed. I'm so but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously the show that it comes from and the guy
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  Speaker 3: that it is, I get why there's maybe a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of controversy there, but I like it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin the Wide Reshoever, for the Commanders. He's Scary
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  Speaker 3: Terry too, And yeah, I think it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I think it works for me.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I don't know his his baseball reference like
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  Speaker 3: Wikipedia where you can just like go edit it.
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  Speaker 1: No, they do it all themselves.
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  Speaker 2: I bet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know Pitching with Pitching Ninja does a highlight
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  Speaker 1: of yours. I tag baseball reference Scary Terry. I put
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  Speaker 1: in the groundwork. This is a grassroots cause that I
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  Speaker 1: have here. And so now I can say endorsed by
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  Speaker 1: Ark Schooble's iPhone, so that will be added to these.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you ever see that on the you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm talking about, the drop, if you ever scary.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that's me, I mean unless someone else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's uh yeah, that's my air drop for
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  Speaker 3: my phone name.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess it works for this too.
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  Speaker 3: So wherever we got to talk to you to get
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  Speaker 3: it on there, I mean by all means go in.
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  Speaker 5: You go oh hey.
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  Speaker 4: As we're starting to wrap up here, I'm about to
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  Speaker 4: pack a lot into one question, so we don't keep
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  Speaker 4: you forever. But you gave a little Alex Bregman plug
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  Speaker 4: at the awards ceremony. I'm curious how much of you
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  Speaker 4: kind of follows what the team is doing in the
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  Speaker 4: off season, almost like a fan or like you're just
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  Speaker 4: looking to see your roster upgraded. And then you guys
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  Speaker 4: just signed Tommy Kinley, dude who threw sixty one changeups
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  Speaker 4: in a row. What do you know about him?
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  Speaker 5: What do you like about him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean obviously excited to have him. You know,
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  Speaker 3: in our bullpen, he's been great for a lot of years.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of swing and miss. He's pretty much
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's not a platoon. He's not going to
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  Speaker 3: go in and face righties. He gets righty's and left
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  Speaker 3: he's out equal amounts. So that's obviously a huge plus
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  Speaker 3: bringing him in any leverage and you know, when you
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  Speaker 3: need to punch out, you know he can get that
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  Speaker 3: for you. So I'm obviously excited to have him on
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  Speaker 3: the team. But as far as free agent stuff, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I I see it probably at the same time one
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  Speaker 3: else sees it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there's people who are the ones.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know how that works, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how who becomes the first.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and there's a reason I'm not good at it, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I'm like, I don't know who how it
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  Speaker 3: gets you know, released or whatever. You know, you think
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  Speaker 3: about the Otani like flight to Toronto thing like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how that stuff gets formulated and sent out,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, I probably see it at the same time
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  Speaker 3: you guys, And I'm just as excited as as fans are.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when it comes to signing players that obviously
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  Speaker 3: upgrade and upgrade our roster. You know, if you want
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  Speaker 3: to win, it takes a lot of talent and you
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  Speaker 3: need a lot of good players to do it, and
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  Speaker 3: you probably need more than you think you need, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to win. So yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't want to sit as a player.
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  Speaker 3: I'm never going to try and play GM or or
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  Speaker 3: do anything like that of what we need or what
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  Speaker 3: we want to do. My job is to go play.
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  Speaker 3: And whoever we got in the clubhouse, you know, those
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  Speaker 3: are the guys you go to war with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: every season. You know, once can't break and you got
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  Speaker 3: your twenty six or it's twenty six, right, twenty six guys, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You got your twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: And those are the guys that really matter and are
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  Speaker 3: really important. And obviously there's guys that are going to
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  Speaker 3: come up and help you along the way. But whoever
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  Speaker 3: was in that clubhouse, That's that's kind of where I
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  Speaker 3: keep my focus.
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  Speaker 4: We are almost to a new season, which means we're
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  Speaker 4: running out of time to reflect on last year and
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  Speaker 4: how fun it was. So I got one one video
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  Speaker 4: I want to show you, and I want to see
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  Speaker 4: what you remember, if anything.
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to hit it hardest tonight here in the
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  Speaker 1: met flop out me?
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  Speaker 2: Me? I don't explain tomorrow me.
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  Speaker 4: You always want to win, rank me legendary.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a great clip. I'm afraid I
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  Speaker 3: don't think I did go the hardest that night. I
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  Speaker 3: think there were some guys that I will keep out
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  Speaker 3: of it, you know, But yeah, I think there were
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  Speaker 3: some guys that outperformed me that night.
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  Speaker 5: That was a ton of fun.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still convinced that if we didn't go into a
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  Speaker 3: rain delay the next day, we would have won that game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because the rain delay, I think that's when
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  Speaker 3: you know the hangover set in, and that's kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of but yeah, if we would have played at one
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  Speaker 5: like we.
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  Speaker 3: Were supposed to, I think we would have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: put on a performance just because everyone's minds were just
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  Speaker 3: kind of gone.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, it was that was a ton of fun.
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  Speaker 3: That was a ton of fun. And I mean that's
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  Speaker 3: what it's all about, you know, those games. I think,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what makes baseball beautiful is every time
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  Speaker 3: you win, you celebrate like that. And I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like that doesn't happen in any other sport. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's not a champagne shower for every time you do,
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  Speaker 3: you know, win the division, clinch, playoffs, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, win the first round, win the second round.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't think any other sports doing it like
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  Speaker 3: that like baseball does.
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  Speaker 5: And and that's always a ton of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Eric, I know I speak for Tiger fans everywhere
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  Speaker 1: that hope there's multiple celebrations to be had this coming season.
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  Speaker 1: We want to thank you for taking the time with
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  Speaker 1: us right here on the home stretch before it's Lakeland
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  Speaker 1: time and then, you know, seasons seasons basically here already,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the off season gets shorter and shorter, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, so I want to thank you for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time with us here, Derek, And if you want
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  Speaker 1: great day.