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Michael Massey's CRAZY George Brett story · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I go back, look at my phone and uh, I
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  Speaker 1: have a text for my number I don't recognize.
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  Speaker 2: And the first sentence is, hey, this is George.
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  Speaker 3: Brett Mike Massey on very soon. Good work by AJ.
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  Speaker 3: Oh there he is, he's right now, there is Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Great to have you on.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Crow.
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  Speaker 4: Crowds does this all the time, so I just wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To Yeah, we have something in common.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. How how was some time with AJ
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  Speaker 3: this past weekend? How was your experience?
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  Speaker 1: I I really enjoyed it. I think I like spending
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  Speaker 1: time with gene Honda a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: More though AJ. But you know, it was. It was cool.
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  Speaker 1: I told him I was a huge fan of the
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five White Sox teams. So I said,
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  Speaker 1: if Scott would have been there would have been my
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  Speaker 1: childhood dream.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, well, Scottie pots I mean listen, he is dream
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  Speaker 4: he dreaming. He's dreaming. He's much more dreamy than all
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  Speaker 4: of us combined.
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  Speaker 1: He wore the socks up, he had the EyeBlack. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I do it to this day. I wear the
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  Speaker 1: eye black. Scottie pods Man.
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  Speaker 4: Now all you need is all you need is a
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  Speaker 4: thumb of a hand protector that's like twelve inches long,
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  Speaker 4: because he was the first one to ever have one.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was before they had the standard of amts.
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  Speaker 4: He had one that literally was like this much farther
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  Speaker 4: and he was like it was a cast.
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  Speaker 2: He was ahead of the times, he was ahead of replay.
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  Speaker 1: He knew that if he got that thing in there,
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  Speaker 1: he'd be called safe.
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  Speaker 3: That's good, that's well placed. So is that he modeled
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  Speaker 3: your game after that. When you were a kid, at
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  Speaker 3: least we were like, I want to be like Scott Potts.
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  Speaker 1: Henek I tried to hit more homers than Scottie POD's,
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  Speaker 1: but definitely, yeah, I enjoyed, honestly, that whole team. I
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  Speaker 1: just I loved watching you guys play, and like the
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  Speaker 1: the intensity and the fire that you guys had and
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  Speaker 1: that Ossie had as a manager was just so fun
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  Speaker 1: to watch and try to model my game after.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, hits way more homers than Pods
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  Speaker 4: went the whole year in two thousand and five, didn't
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  Speaker 4: hit until the playoffs the whole season and then it
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  Speaker 4: was a big playoffs. One of them, one of them
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  Speaker 4: was a walk off in the World Series. Think about
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  Speaker 4: that guy who hit a homer all year.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't part of his game.
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  Speaker 4: He could hit homers, though he could if he wanted,
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't that good. But and by the way, the
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  Speaker 4: fact the fact that Mike said Geen Honda was a
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  Speaker 4: bigger deal than me, does not hurt my feelings at all,
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  Speaker 4: because if you don't know Geene Honda the announcer for
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  Speaker 4: every every major sporting event in the world, and if
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  Speaker 4: you've never hung out with gen Honda, he's a clown,
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  Speaker 4: full on clown in a good way. No, no, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I love him to death, but he is. He is
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  Speaker 4: one of my favorite people on earth. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm probably I'm proudly Michael.
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  Speaker 1: It was so fun to get to know him when
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  Speaker 1: like every game I'd go to my brother and I
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  Speaker 1: like we'd be like, gosh, that guy's there again. Like
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  Speaker 1: we'd go to an Illinois football game, he'd be announced.
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  Speaker 1: He'd go to a White Sox game here, if you
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  Speaker 1: go to a black Hawks game here.
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  Speaker 2: Like what what does this guy like? He doesn't sleep?
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  Speaker 4: So did the when you got drafted by the Royals,
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  Speaker 4: did like the twelve ten to twelve year old you was?
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  Speaker 4: Was he mad at you? Because when I got drafted
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  Speaker 4: by the Blue Jays, they had beaten the Phillies, my
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  Speaker 4: Phillies in thirteen in the World Series, and I was like, golly,
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to get drafted so bad, and the Blue
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  Speaker 4: Jays drafted me like the one team that I hate.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the first thing I thought of was my entire
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  Speaker 1: childhood just hearing Hawk Harrels and every time there'd be
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  Speaker 1: a Blue Pit from Kansas City, just go, hey, here's
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  Speaker 1: another Kansas City special. So that was that was literally
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that went through my head. But no,
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  Speaker 1: I was actually I was just listening to the interview
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  Speaker 1: you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Had before and talking about Carter with.
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  Speaker 1: His back issues, and I had a ton of back
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  Speaker 1: issues out of college. So honestly, I was just I
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  Speaker 1: was grateful that one of the thirty teens decided to
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  Speaker 1: take a chance on me.
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  Speaker 4: You trust me. Crouch he's living up to it because
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  Speaker 4: apparently all I heard on Sunday night was how he
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  Speaker 4: destroys the White Sox and so he had would you
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  Speaker 4: have fourteen homers and twelve homer against the White Sox
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  Speaker 4: in thirteen games or something crazy this year? So he's
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  Speaker 4: he's living out his fantasy in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: There was a stretch like really, not that I'm deep
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  Speaker 1: into my career, but early, really early on, I had
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  Speaker 1: like half of my career homers against them, and I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell you why. I just I love going back
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  Speaker 1: home and playing there, and I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: just got like an extra shot of focus or or whatnot,
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  Speaker 1: but I wasn't. I wasn't complaining about.
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  Speaker 4: It or the team stinks one of the two. Sorry
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  Speaker 4: I said it. I didn't say that was Aircrats said
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  Speaker 4: that with an assist. AJ texted me that that's what
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  Speaker 4: he texted me, so I was reading.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and fairness, it's not like you're giving bulletin
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  Speaker 3: board material. They had the worst record of all time,
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  Speaker 3: Like that's just facts, and to spin it to your team, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: the Royals had a really crappy record two seasons ago
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  Speaker 3: and then they turned it around. There was some type
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  Speaker 3: of history in Bob, I think first team to go
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  Speaker 3: one hundred plus losses and then make the playoffs the
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  Speaker 3: following year, which your manager, and I actually believe him,
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  Speaker 3: claimed he didn't even know that until he was told
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  Speaker 3: at some point in the playoffs. So how do you
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  Speaker 3: do it for White Sox fans, how do you do it?
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  Speaker 3: Royle's like, you're one of the few that can tell
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  Speaker 3: us how it's done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a lot of it. Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: It is just a testament to our coaching staff. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, Q and Paul Hoover, Vance Wilson are hitting
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  Speaker 1: guys Joe Dillon, Alex Zuwalt, Keoni Durn.
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  Speaker 2: Just their ability. I feel like it really started at
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  Speaker 2: the end of that year where we lost one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and six games and twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like most teams maybe cash it in in
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  Speaker 1: September when you have a record like that, and Q
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  Speaker 1: did an unbelievable job of He came in beginning of
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  Speaker 1: September and he was like, Hey, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: let this month go to waste. Like his big saying
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  Speaker 1: was today, like don't wait to make changes in the offseason,
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  Speaker 1: don't wait to make them next year, Like we have
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  Speaker 1: a month.
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  Speaker 2: Of games left.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't mean anything as far as getting to
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs and going to the World Series, but we
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  Speaker 1: can make adjustments and make sure don't be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to carry a momentum into into twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like that's really where it started, and
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  Speaker 1: then we came into spring training and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: everyone everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Believed in that clubhouse. I know it sounds cliche, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know, bringing in some of the veterans that we
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  Speaker 1: did with with Waka Lugo, Will Smith, Adam Frazier, those
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  Speaker 1: guys were huge for us and really changing our mentality.
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  Speaker 1: And I really feel like all tip was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of belief, you know, a little bit of belief
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  Speaker 1: from us, And yeah, I mean it just it played
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  Speaker 1: out well. We stayed healthy for the most part of
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff stayed healthy, and you know, alls it takes
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  Speaker 1: is once we kind of found out like, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: we could do this thing, which I feel like was
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  Speaker 1: probably mid May where we really started to catch the
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  Speaker 1: fire and from.
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  Speaker 2: There the rest is history. I just I saw the
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  Speaker 2: picture of George Bretta.
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  Speaker 1: There with my wife and I we were celebrating in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: It was a good picture.
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  Speaker 4: Was your wife and the wife in the clubhouse spraying
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  Speaker 4: champagne with everybody. I saw her with the butdwives are there.
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  Speaker 2: He was in their spray champagne.
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  Speaker 1: That that is actually another reason why I think we're
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  Speaker 1: able to turn it around. From a culture perspective, like
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  Speaker 1: and I've never been a part of another organization, but
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  Speaker 1: the way that Kansas City treats families like my parents
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  Speaker 1: were in when we went in Baltimore, all the parents
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  Speaker 1: were allowed in and obviously we had our moment with
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  Speaker 1: the team where it was just us, but then like
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  Speaker 1: literally five minutes after, Kansas City let our families come
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  Speaker 1: in and celebrate with us. And just the culture that
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  Speaker 1: that those guys have built there is awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And I saw George Brett in New York. I was
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  Speaker 4: in New York doing the Mets Phillies and you guys
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  Speaker 4: were in the same hotel as we were. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: just gonna say George Brett was about as excited as
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  Speaker 4: I've ever seen him. We're gonna use that term for
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  Speaker 4: what George Brett was, but he was not a sad person.
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  Speaker 4: And I and I had to finally just say, like George,
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  Speaker 4: I gotta go to bed, man. It's like two in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, and he was he was going strong.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 1: If you give me a chance to tell you George
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  Speaker 1: Bread's story, I could. I can tell you one for
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  Speaker 1: sure that would do I as.
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  Speaker 4: Long as it's as long as it's you know, allowed
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  Speaker 4: to be told. Okay, then go ahead. We have all
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  Speaker 4: the time in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's a So this goes back to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three in April. It's my first full season in
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  Speaker 1: the big leagues. I had like a second half call
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  Speaker 1: up in twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably April thirtieth.
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  Speaker 1: We're in Minnesota and I'm hitting about a buck thirty
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  Speaker 1: and I think my strikeout to walk ratio is thirty
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  Speaker 1: strikeouts with one pitch violation.
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  Speaker 2: Walk I had the day before. It was three.
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  Speaker 1: It was a three to two count and the clock
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  Speaker 1: ran out, so I got my first walk of the year.
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  Speaker 1: And again we were struggling. We win the game in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: we're celebrating. I think my teammates gave me Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Game because I took a walk. So I just
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  Speaker 1: got done given a speech to the team. I go
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  Speaker 1: back look at my phone and I have a text
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  Speaker 1: from a number I don't recognize, and the first sentence is, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is George Brett. And he just goes on like
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  Speaker 1: George normally does, and he speaks his mind and tells
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  Speaker 1: me what he thinks of my my April performance, and
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  Speaker 1: really beat around the bush like he always does. Made
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  Speaker 1: a nice soft landing didn't fire me up at all.
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  Speaker 2: And so that night I go first.
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  Speaker 1: Thing I do, actually is I take the message and
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  Speaker 1: I send it to my family group chat. I'm like, guys,
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  Speaker 1: check this out, Like George Brett is texting me about
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  Speaker 1: how bad I'm playing, Like this is sick, like my dad,
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  Speaker 1: Like my dad was a George Brett. That was his
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  Speaker 1: fair player growing up. So like my first reaction, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: this is sick. George Brett's texting me. I didn't care
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  Speaker 1: what he's saying. And I didn't realize that like the
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  Speaker 1: number at the top, I hadn't had George's number so
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  Speaker 1: that the phone number was up there. And so again,
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  Speaker 1: long story short, we go to that night the Minnesota Wild.
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  Speaker 2: They're home.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing the Dallas Stars, uh in the NHL playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So I go with a couple of teammates. I get
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  Speaker 1: a call from our travel coordinator, who's one of the
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  Speaker 1: best guys in the world, and phones ringing. I'm like, great, here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting sent down. I'm hid one thirty. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: team struggling. So I go take his call in the concourse.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like he's like, hey man, I'm so I'm
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  Speaker 2: so sorry about about what happened. I'm like, what do
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  Speaker 2: you what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, I saw, I saw you know what
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  Speaker 1: George said you And you know he got after you
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  Speaker 1: pretty good.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: You know, told you got to start hit the ball
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  Speaker 2: the left center.
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: You gotta stop swinging at sliders in the dirt.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I even saw that. He said you should
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: be in you should be in Trip A. The way
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: you're playing right now actually was Double A. He said
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: you should be in Double A and uh. And he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'm the one I gave Georgia number
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  Speaker 1: and I thought he was just going to send you
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  Speaker 1: a text to like fire you up and get you going.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I asked him, I said, hey, what'd
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  Speaker 1: you send him? And he sent me the text verbatim
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  Speaker 1: like what he's saying you And I'm like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I got.
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  Speaker 2: To call him.
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  Speaker 1: So so I went from being released to our travel
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  Speaker 1: coordinator apologizing for him given George Brett my number, but
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  Speaker 1: my dad I find out, like two days later, my
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  Speaker 1: dad called George Brett and told him like, hey, George,
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  Speaker 1: you know he played like the tough guy on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, man, if it's best if we don't
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  Speaker 1: ever meet, Like I saw a text you sent to
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  Speaker 1: my son, and it's best if we don't meet. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, my dad called George Brett on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and basically told him he was going to fight him
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  Speaker 1: the next time he saw him, and I the most
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing thing for me, and my teammates are arassing me.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: Either're like, hey, your dad's calling George Brett.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's just it's a really interesting thing because
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  Speaker 1: George and I are unbelievable friends. Now he actually went
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  Speaker 1: we won in Baltimore. None of the parents were allowed
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  Speaker 1: in for like the champagne shower with the team. George
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  Speaker 1: went out and grabbed my dad and brought him into
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  Speaker 1: the clubhouse. And now they you know, he FaceTime my
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  Speaker 1: dad and my and just I love George and I've
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  Speaker 1: gotten to know him really well.
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  Speaker 2: But it is a it is an interesting story how
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  Speaker 2: we met.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, okay, first of all, I don't even know
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  Speaker 4: where to start with this. George Brett text you fine
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  Speaker 4: double A. He didn't even go triple A on you.
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  Speaker 4: He went double as you should be in double A,
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  Speaker 4: which wow, Okay, George did you. I would have fired
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  Speaker 4: back like, hey, George, do you need some pine tar?
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  Speaker 4: You know, like I don't know, like uh smidmallnair, Georgie,
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  Speaker 4: I mean George. Uh then my then your dad calls
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  Speaker 4: him and it's like, George, we're gonna fight. So your
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: dad challenge George Brett will fight, which is also amazing. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's so many levels of this story.
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  Speaker 3: But now their best friends.
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  Speaker 4: I know that the traveling secretary called you and apologized
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: sorry the travel coordinator for giving. So it would be
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  Speaker 4: like if the White Sox travel guy and I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to think of like I don't know, Frank Thomas or
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: somebody from the White Sox, like hey, I need AJ's number.
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  Speaker 4: The travel Guy's not gonna be like no, right. But
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  Speaker 4: then I love the fact that he sent him the
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  Speaker 4: text and he's like, oh man, I'm so sorry, like
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  Speaker 4: he beaded you, so he treated you like a little child.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, Mike, just just just no. But it's
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  Speaker 4: such a that's unbelievable story. I love the.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Emotions I had in like a three day span between
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  Speaker 1: one just trying to get a hit in the Big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: two George Brett telling me I should be in double
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  Speaker 1: A three the travel coordinator calling me out a hockey game,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm gonna get sent down, but then
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  Speaker 1: he ends up apologizing. And then four I find out
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  Speaker 1: my dad called Hall of Famer George Brett and said
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: he was going to fight him the next time he
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  Speaker 1: saw him.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good week.
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  Speaker 4: Did you sure did you respond like I did you?
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  Speaker 4: Did you send? Did you send George like a thanks
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  Speaker 4: or I appreciate it or like piss off nerd? No?
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  Speaker 2: So I did. I him a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, George, we're not all Hall of famers,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, I can't just it's not that.
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  Speaker 2: Easy for me to just poke the ball but left
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  Speaker 2: center like you could. And then we kind of went back.
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  Speaker 1: And forth and it was a funny interaction, but George's
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  Speaker 1: and I tell the story because of how close I
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  Speaker 1: am with George now, and I think anybody that knows
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  Speaker 1: George Brett, like I at the time, I just didn't
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  Speaker 1: really understand, like nothing he said was wrong, Like I
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: was playing horrendous but knowing, like now that I know George,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: it's like that was so character like he just he
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't beat her on the bush. He tells you how
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  Speaker 1: it is and and like if you don't like it,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: take a hike, and like I kind of respected and
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  Speaker 1: that's why I think we're such good friends now.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: But it was it was a it was a time
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Did you tell Dobby that he is never ever getting
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: another tip for your entire career with the Royals?
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  Speaker 2: No? That? And did he he? Uh, yeah, I'm glad,
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: you know he was the one that was wrong, but
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: he yeah, yeah, he's the greatest guys ever.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: And I, like I said, I literally thought he was
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  Speaker 1: calling me to like, hey, man, here's your here's your
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: flight arrangement back to Omaha or in George as George said,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: northwest Arkansas.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: And I was fully prepared for it. But no, he was.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: He was super cool about the whole thing. But uh,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: it was it was funny.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Did you did you have to go to your dad
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: so the first time, let's say the next time, I
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: don't know when the next time your dad was in town,
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: But did you have to make sure that there was
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: like a referee there in case something did break out
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: with like you know, measured gloves and you had scales
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: so they could weigh in and we could do the
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: tape before they threw down that strong.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: They definitely would not have been in the same weight class.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: That's for sure. My dad's got a nice, nice gut.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I saw him.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: I saw, yeah, he like like he's from Chicago.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: He likes a nice beef sandwich and some pizza and
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: uh so the the weight class, yeah, I definite would
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: have a bit of a difference there. But no, I
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: would have loved to see it. Like you're gonna talk,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you know, let's let's settle it out.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: All right. Well, thin crust or deep dish. Let's let's
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: get to the real nuts and bollets of the Chicago
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: lifestyle here.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I mean if I said thin crust, I'd be thrown
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: out of Chicago tomorrow.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: What.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: No, you wouldn't. No, I mean you're from Chicago. No, No,
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Chicago person likes deep dish. Where'd you have it, Tavern
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: style thin crust? Let's go all day.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I will actually, honestly, if Sicilian cut is an option
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: which is in the middle of thin crust and deep dish,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: that's that's my sweet spot.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Okay, So you like the Detroit kind of style, the
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: squares and like that kind of pizza.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you got the cut is the cut,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: but the crust is like you Barroccos.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: When you're here.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: No, I never had that one.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: That's uh yeah, Barroccos, Palermo's.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Those are some like old schools, Southside good good piece
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: to joints.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even call it a restaurant. It's a joy.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Mike, Mike, tell him, tell him you're actually from Chicago.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: A J's fake Chicago. He's not real Chicago. He's just
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: like a He's like a permanent visitor that you just
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: can't get rid of.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: He's he's grandfathered in. He's great. I'll give him that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: He's grandfathered in.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: That's right, forever, forever, as long as long as the
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: trophies are.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, one more one more baseball question on
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: the way out here, because the what.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: I said, why we're having so much fun talking to pizza.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm hungry and I can't eat for an hour.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Are you gonna are you gonna potentially play multiple positions
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: this coming season? What's the deal? Obviously India has added
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: you guys, got a little extra player for the offense.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: So what's the story like when that happens, how are
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: you preparing And did they call you about it?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a that's a great question. I I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know percent yet. I know we've had some
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: conversations about definitely working out in left field, just to
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: get comfortable.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: And have that in my back pocket. You know.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Q definitely likes to make a lot of roster moves
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in the game, whether it's you know, double switches.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Or pinch hitting, defensive replacement.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: So right now, if and and it goes back to
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: my back injury in the past two where for me,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: defense is usually harder than hitting. So even if I'm
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: in a little bit of a back flare up, I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: can always hit. So like last year when I came back,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I would d age a little bit. But having Salvy
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and Vinnie, you know, I'm just most of the time
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to win that battle with actually all
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the time, I'm not going to win that battle with
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: those two. So and and basically the only position I
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: play second base, So being able to be a little
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: bit more versatile and in spring training maybe pop out
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to the outfield and uh, you know, just learn how
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to to take some different angles out there, catch some
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: fly balls, and you know, just to give the team
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: some more versatility. You know, I feel like we're I'm
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: excited to have to have Jonathan India come in and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you know, he's a great hitter, heard he's a great teammate.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: So the the more good players we could have, the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Petter record we're going to have, and the better chance
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to win, which is pretty much all
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: anybody cares about, you know, I.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Feel like at that level.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I'll pop out there, get some work,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and you know, as far as the day to day goes,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure. But as long as
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I'm in the lineup when I have a chance to hit,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: that's all that matters to me.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Michael. Recently, you went to an Illinois football game and
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: you got to play. You got to the air what
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: do you call what do you call that thing?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Annoying noise?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: They're trying too hard for that one. It's like an
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: air horn, is what they call it. I think.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: So the is it like an air raid siren? And
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: looks like you're tired after playing that thing?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Well, the so the they put it on like a.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Cabinet that like is on wheels, So you try to crank,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: and that the thing is old, so it doesn't crank
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: very easily.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: So you really got to crank it. And before I
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: go up, before I go.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Out there, the guy's like, hey, make sure you keep
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: your foot on the back so that it doesn't slide
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: out from under you. So I'm like, great, thanks for
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the advice. In front of sixty thousand people. I'm gonna
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: crank this airborn and this thing's gonna slide out and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna fall. So I got my leg like wrapped
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: around the back, which they don't show, and then I'm
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: trying to crank it, so it starts tilting.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: To the left a little bit. But yeah, I don't
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure what they're doing with that one.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: But is that there? Is that? There? Are you? Is
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: it true that you are for faking injuries as a
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: football team? Is that true that I heard all Ali
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: and I fans are for faking injuries? Oh?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: So this is the Brett Beilamah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, did you see that? He came over to Shane
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Bieber and was like, you want some of this cock?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: I'll come get you some of that cock over there.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That was sick.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I I was actually watching that game, and there was
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a clip they showed be them over he was just
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: laughing on the sideline like I'd never watched a South Carolina.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Game with that crazy uh.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Moody he walk over and gave it his
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: like the substitution sign, which is what they kept doing,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: like they kept waiting to run the play clock down. No,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: we're not We're not for faking injuries. We're just for
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: playing the game. You'd be smart if you're not. You're
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: not cheating, you're not trying.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's problem chaming.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: That's like, what are we talking about?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: But they played the game Cocks in a bowl game
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Illinois did, and there was this whole the two coaches
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: were about to fight. I kind of heard of it
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: because the Illinois the South Carolina guy was accusing him
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: of faking injury. So the coach went over there and
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: basically got in his face while one of his players
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: is on their sideline and was like what what and
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: he gave like the substitution sign in his face, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: then it turned into Shenanigan.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: How about if a player goes down, he's got to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: be out for the game or out for a quarter
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: or whatever. That's the only way to avoid the faking.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go, all right, good talk Michael awesome on, dude,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: really really enjoyed it. We'll get you during the season.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm on it. Thanks thanks for having me on. Guys.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you were great.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: It was great.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Michael Mass was awesome. So this is why we do this, Okay,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: We try and bring on as many players as possible
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: because truly, I don't know how each player is going
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: to be. You just you can't know all whatever thousand
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: players that touch the majors.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Each year are that George brhtt story legendary. His dad
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: wanted to fight George Brett. We're gonna throw hands.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: There's so many layers. What if that was you? What
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: if that was you and you got a text when
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: you're a young player a few years.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Brett, I would have been like what do I do?
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I would have gone to somebody and be like, what
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: do I do with this? How do I? I would
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: have probably been at the hockey game that night. I
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: would have been like analyzing what I what I write
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: back to him?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Would you have?
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: It just would have been constant bubbles because I would
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: have been like, dude, delete delete.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: You wanted to do your really bad wanted to.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Do, but you in order to say something like that
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: to George, you have to kind of be established, of course,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: so Michael wouldn't establish it, so he couldn't really fire
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: that back and be like, oh, I know, Tim McClellan,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: do you want me to get some pine tarlur George?
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: I would have been wrecked. I've been wrecked. There's no
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: way like if you know, you're already struggling, so you're
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: already in your own head and then the franchise icon
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: takes time out, whether sober or not. When he texted you,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: took time out to text you and berate you all
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: the things that he was already going on in your head.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: You're like, damn, I'm never gonna last here.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I would have said, real talk, Can we go out for.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Drinks and and talk this out? And let's not forget
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: he had to go get his number. It wasn't like
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: George had his number and they had talked before. He
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: had to get his number from the travel guy, which
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: means so he put thought into this, but before he
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: did this, it wasn't like a spur of the moment
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: thing because he had to text somebody wait for the
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: text back load his number, text him to Shenanigans. I'm
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: texting Dobby right now. I can't believe you get Passie's
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: number to George story anywhere.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I think that's that's a story that's probably been told
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: around town, but not publicly, and and it's great. That's
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: the kind of stories that we live for with this
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: kind of show. That's hilarious.