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Tommy Kahnle talks Tiger life, Yankees rejection, Changeups for days · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Aj Hitch is unbelievable. Manager. I've only known the guy
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  Speaker 1: for two weeks now, and I could tell he has
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  Speaker 1: one hell of an approach to this game.
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  Speaker 2: And all right, I have to make sure this is real.
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  Speaker 2: Is this Tommy Kinley the Detroit Tiger, not the New
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  Speaker 2: York Yankee. Some of our guys were like, no way,
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  Speaker 2: he always ends up a yank. I'm like, we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what's up here?
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  Speaker 1: We are? What's going on, guys? How's it going? It's good?
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  Speaker 1: How's Lakeland? First of all? What it's Lakeland like?
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  Speaker 3: Please tell please tell me about joke, the joker, marching
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  Speaker 3: flying Tiger.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Uh, Lakeland is way better than what it
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  Speaker 1: was when I was coming up in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. They did a lot of renovations. I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you that.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, have you been sometimes we've been to Hooters?
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  Speaker 3: How many times have you been to the Hooters right there?
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  Speaker 1: None? We're we're living in We're living in Tampa. So
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  Speaker 1: I make the trek, the forty forty five minute ride
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  Speaker 1: back and forth. Great, it's not much. No I can
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  Speaker 1: take you for the kids or for the kids here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I heard they told me Lakeland, not much not much
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  Speaker 1: out there, so it's actually kind of cool. So when
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  Speaker 1: when games are going on, AJ was telling me that
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  Speaker 1: when guy, the guys that live on this side, they
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  Speaker 1: so when we have games against you know, the Yankees, Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, he's letting those guys go get your work
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  Speaker 1: in at the stadium and then you can go home after.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're not throwing that day, essentially, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not pitching, so.
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  Speaker 4: Like you can go and get your work in when
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  Speaker 4: they play the Yankees, you can go to Steinbrenner, get
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  Speaker 4: your work in with the team, and then go back home.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that is so pro Look at AJ's face, AJ
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  Speaker 4: is so hey, Day's like, that's exactly how I.
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  Speaker 1: Would run a team.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, nobody would ever have to make a road trip
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  Speaker 3: if you have more than like one day in the
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  Speaker 3: big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to make a road trip in spring training.
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  Speaker 3: Although the one year I did when I played for
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  Speaker 3: the Red Sox, I made every road trip because I
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  Speaker 3: did what you did. I would drive home to Orlando,
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  Speaker 3: but then I would meet the team. It was easier
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  Speaker 3: for me to go to Clearwater, Tampa, dun Eden than
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  Speaker 3: it was to stay in four Myers and drive up
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  Speaker 3: and back so I could get nights at home. So
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  Speaker 3: I understand you're paying, Tommy. The only pain you're suffering
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  Speaker 3: through though, is I four traffic is a disaster. It
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  Speaker 3: took me three over three hours to get to Saint
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  Speaker 3: Pete from Orlando the other day.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, no, not good.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy, Tommy, what happened? Did the Yanks call and you
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  Speaker 2: were like, it's not you, No, they didn't call.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny when you guys, when I had that that episode,
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  Speaker 1: when what was the date? I remember this offseason? I knew, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: probably like a few weeks before that that they were out.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't really, you didn't tell. I wanted to keep
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  Speaker 1: it funny. It was funny because you guys are all like,
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  Speaker 1: you're going back, You're going back. I was like, that's
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  Speaker 1: not funny. That's not funny. That's not funny.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny to you, funny to you because you knew
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  Speaker 3: that the rest of us didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think Scott. I think Scott had it. Scott
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  Speaker 1: had he knew, he knew.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that it wasn't happening. But wait, what happened?
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  Speaker 2: So because is that normal? They called and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're going to get a better offer elsewhere, So see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty pretty much. I mean they they basically came
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  Speaker 1: back and before anything really started to pick up, they
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  Speaker 1: were kind of like, we don't think we can meet
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  Speaker 1: your your numbers. So I was like, all right, well
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  Speaker 1: did even I feel like they'd even try to be honest?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, good for you, you got a lot. But I got
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  Speaker 3: to ask you this. I mean, you have your eagle
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  Speaker 3: shirt on, which is tired, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Cray loving right, I totally God, I'm in
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  Speaker 1: have you warned that?
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  Speaker 3: Have you worn that every day? But besides that, I
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  Speaker 3: have a calendar. I don't have a I had a
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  Speaker 3: calendar here somewhere. I'll look on my phone. So what's
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  Speaker 3: the over under on when we should expect you traded
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  Speaker 3: back to the Yankees. I'm saying around July fourth? We
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  Speaker 3: can move the date up or down, because I mean,
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  Speaker 3: even when you signed with another team, you end up
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  Speaker 3: going back to the Yankees. So should we put like
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  Speaker 3: an over under on when you're gonna be traded back?
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  Speaker 1: I get you know, recent history says you know that
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  Speaker 1: I always end up back there. But this team's school man.
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  Speaker 1: I've had a great time. I've only been with him
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  Speaker 1: for a week. This is a fun team. They got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talent. I could see it. And aj
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  Speaker 1: Hitch is unbelievable manager. I've only known the guy for
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  Speaker 1: two weeks now, and he's I could tell he has
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  Speaker 1: one hel oft approach to this game and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's It shows why they went on one hell of
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  Speaker 1: a run last year and did some damage in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: I want to go back to the Yankees before we celebrate.
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  Speaker 4: You know the fact that the Eagles are Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: champs for the entire year and probably again next year
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  Speaker 4: because they're bringing a lot of the dudes back. But
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  Speaker 4: the whole like never gotten. Like I just never got
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  Speaker 4: any calls from teams, So I don't know what it's
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  Speaker 4: like for somebody to say, hey, we don't want you.
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  Speaker 4: Would you say you were their second best reliever last
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  Speaker 4: year for the Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I get I don't know, Well.
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  Speaker 4: How do they have How did they not have eight
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  Speaker 4: million dollars for you? In my opinion, I thought you
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  Speaker 4: were more in the two year range again, because you
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  Speaker 4: show that you can be out there and you show
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  Speaker 4: that you not only through significant innings, but you threw
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  Speaker 4: significant innings in the playoffs. Was there was there anything
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  Speaker 4: like pushback like are you sure? Did you hear how
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  Speaker 4: much I'm looking to get? Like they knew you were
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  Speaker 4: going to cost too much? Like wouldn't that make them say, well,
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  Speaker 4: actually he was super valuable, we should offer him that much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know, we were looking for a
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  Speaker 1: two year deal. It just seemed like the market was
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  Speaker 1: really slow. And I'm not gonna say I was a
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  Speaker 1: little antsy, I know, family wise, we were definitely you know,
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  Speaker 1: not looking to keep continued waiting. And the Tigers were
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  Speaker 1: actually one of the first teams right in it, and
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  Speaker 1: they seemed like they were super intrigued and super invested
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  Speaker 1: in me pretty early on. And they were one of
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  Speaker 1: the teams that actually wanted to offer early, early, early,
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  Speaker 1: and I was trying to hold them off, but eventually
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  Speaker 1: I just you know, there's stuff that I could have done.
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  Speaker 1: They were they seemed like a great group of guys.
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  Speaker 1: I had conversations, you know, with Scott and AJ a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the pitching coaches, and it just seemed that
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  Speaker 1: what they were doing was the right thing. And I
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  Speaker 1: loved how they finished the year. Last year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they were in the playoffs. They went, they made a
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  Speaker 1: deep run, they were one they're one game away from playing,
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  Speaker 1: uh the Yankees. You know me so and I know,
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  Speaker 1: uh we actually struggled when I was at the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: last year against the Tigers in two series. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good team. They're a well rounded group and
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, we're gonna do some damage this year. Tommy.
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  Speaker 3: And first of all, before I dig into this a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, I noticed you're not wearing your Notre Dame shirt.
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  Speaker 3: But that's too soon, probably, but you're not wearing your
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame shirt. But also on this show, we call
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  Speaker 3: aj Hinch Hinch because he's the other a J because
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  Speaker 3: obviously so we have to Sometimes you're saying, you're saying this,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm like, wait, you didn't call me.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, we didn't talk.
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  Speaker 3: On the phone, Scott, I know, but he keeps saying
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  Speaker 3: Asia like, oh wait, what did I do? But I
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  Speaker 3: got to ask you when you went over to the
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  Speaker 3: Tigers your first bullpen session, do you just go I'm
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  Speaker 3: to throw fifty seven straight change ups and then at
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  Speaker 3: the end, just dot one fastball and say that's it, guys,
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  Speaker 3: I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: No. Uh, I mean it was actually funny the first
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  Speaker 1: meeting we had as a pitchers and catchers. Uh, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: AJ Hitch called me out and goes, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we brought in this guy. He's throwing sixty one straight
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  Speaker 1: change ups in a postseason so uh, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: know what's coming and they still can't hit it. So
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  Speaker 1: it was it was cool that he called me out
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  Speaker 1: like that pretty early in the meetings. So, but uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: first bullpen. I think I definitely sprinkled them in there.
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  Speaker 1: I think only through like three or four though I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't want to give it away too early.
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  Speaker 4: You know, well, I want to go to your live
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  Speaker 4: live BP because coming to a new team, you said, ah,
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  Speaker 4: you know you watched these guys last year, you saw
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  Speaker 4: them in playoffs all this stuff. Did you dominate because
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of a two part thing depending on your answer,
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  Speaker 4: did you dominate the hitters that you faced in live BPS?
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  Speaker 1: So I haven't done live yet. I'm still in my bullpen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm the slow trajectory guy. Yeah you're you're You're
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  Speaker 1: just a vet. You don't Yeah, you're a vet.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna get five or six in in the games, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, when you do, when you do finally face
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  Speaker 4: some of your teammates, you know, you're Riley Green, your
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  Speaker 4: spencertorical sin, you're cold Keith. When you face these guys,
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  Speaker 4: if you since you're on a new team, if you
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  Speaker 4: dominate them, are you like, oh, great, these guys suck
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  Speaker 4: or because you're now, oh they're never gonna hit this year,
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  Speaker 4: or do you kind of like give them, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just not give them your best so that they can
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  Speaker 4: feel good about themselves or would you rather strike them
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  Speaker 4: out and be like I can hold that against you
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  Speaker 4: the entire year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with the I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to strike you out in lives, that's for sure,
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  Speaker 1: and then hold it up.
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  Speaker 4: But then they think they that they you think that
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  Speaker 4: they suck. Then for the rest of the year, and
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  Speaker 4: will you strike out g T You're one teammate that's
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  Speaker 4: coming over.
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  Speaker 1: That's if I face them, So I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna give me. We'll see if I if he's up, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I might try to throw some sliders. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 4: I would hit it, but I want to do I
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  Speaker 4: would hit a danger off of you, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: because you're only fastball. I can't hit a slider and
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  Speaker 4: you don't have a good slider. So there's that.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay. Yet it's better. Yeah, I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: you had a slider. It's not great. Come on, just
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  Speaker 1: be honest. It used to be way worth, way worth. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I've been getting a lot of good, good compliments the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years about it. We just don't prove
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  Speaker 1: it all, prove it, use it in the game. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think. I don't think Austin worked that way.
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  Speaker 4: He never he can't do this' it's a button now,
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  Speaker 4: he button's broken now. He was solely change up. That's
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  Speaker 4: all I'd ever hear in my head. Eventually it would
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  Speaker 4: drive me a little crazy. A couple of outings here
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  Speaker 4: and there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, didn't you tell him to just turn
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  Speaker 2: it off? And you guys can do something if you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna just suddenly throw a fastball. When you went through
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  Speaker 2: the sixty one straight, you had to hear change up
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  Speaker 2: in your ear every single.
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  Speaker 1: Everything, every time. It gets old pretty fast, didn't.
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't because you were getting everybody out did
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  Speaker 3: didn't get old at all.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't get old.
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  Speaker 3: Until show Hey missed a homer by about Like yah,
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  Speaker 3: the sixty before that weren't old at all because you
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  Speaker 3: were punching tickets, you were getting weak contact trust, but
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  Speaker 3: you were like another change up?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, here comes another out? Yes, please thank you Austin Dade.
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  Speaker 1: Bad location to show Hey, how hard is that? Back? Now?
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  Speaker 3: I know, but I want to know this, like like
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  Speaker 3: honest answer, because I've never really asked a picture this.
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  Speaker 3: But were you amazed that no hitter just went up
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  Speaker 3: there and said, I'm just selling out for change up?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some try I think they do, Yeah, they just
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  Speaker 1: they don't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it must be that because because they were
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  Speaker 3: asking me on this show, what, oh Canley Stone fifty
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  Speaker 3: straight changeups? And I was saying, like, at some point
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  Speaker 3: somebody's gonna sit on one and you're gonna make a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously it happened at the wrong time with Show Hey,
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  Speaker 3: but I just can't imagine. And then in my head
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  Speaker 3: I was like, but you don't want to be the
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  Speaker 3: one that he blows the ninety five by, because then
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  Speaker 3: you look like a fool, so you're always ready for that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, dude, if I'm hitting off Kanelee now,
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  Speaker 3: which you'd punch me out because I can't hit anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean I'm like, oh, eighty five change up,
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  Speaker 3: that's like my bat speed. Yes, sir, thank you all.
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  Speaker 3: I'll serve that to left.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's got to do something.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of things here since I came
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  Speaker 1: over because they were really like interested to see me
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  Speaker 1: up close throwing it, and after the first one, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the pitching coaches were like, we kind of
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  Speaker 1: see why hitters have a tough time in seeing it now.
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  Speaker 1: It's my arm speed has always been the same as
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  Speaker 1: my heater with it, so that's definitely one big obstacle
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  Speaker 1: I think hitters have to overcome is that arm speed
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  Speaker 1: of my changeup is the same as my fastball. So
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  Speaker 1: it's I could see why it's not as easy to
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  Speaker 1: pick up, especially I guess if I'm coming with ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't know if I got that anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: you give me some props in that one true would
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  Speaker 1: go four hundred and fifty feet.
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  Speaker 4: Don't even AJ would hit a dinger off of that
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  Speaker 4: Pooh change up of yours. All right, well know we
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  Speaker 4: gotta go. We gotta go to one of your one.
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  Speaker 4: We gotta go to one of your old All we
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  Speaker 4: need is one. Oh I need is one?
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  Speaker 1: Gotta go one of your old teammates, Stroman? Did you
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  Speaker 1: see what? Did you see?
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  Speaker 4: What was going on with Stroman not showing up to
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  Speaker 4: camp but he technically was allowed to not show up?
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  Speaker 4: How do you see that as? Okay, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: you were his teammate, Like, how do you view that
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  Speaker 4: if that was your teammate this like right now?
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  Speaker 1: And how do you view that as? Oh? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I know stro This is how I feel about it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So obviously being with Stroman last year, it uh, I
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  Speaker 1: almost I'm not surprised by it. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: the guy's a competitor. He definitely doesn't want to go
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  Speaker 1: to the bullpen. I mean, I don't blame him. You're
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  Speaker 1: you're paying this guy almost close to twenty million, and
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  Speaker 1: you want to put him in the bullpen. Kind of
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  Speaker 1: in my head, doesn't make any sense. But I know
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  Speaker 1: they got they got a few few starters there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they can battle it out. It's definitely a tough situation.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he showed up a couple of days after
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  Speaker 1: the report date. It's, uh, you look at it. You
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  Speaker 1: could look at it as a bad, bad way. And
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  Speaker 1: in terms of also you're you're not you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: not him. You don't know what's going on in his head.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough situation, I think for both sides. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know he wants to pitch, he wants to start.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's just who he is. I know it was
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  Speaker 1: tough for him maybe last year, you know, not being
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  Speaker 1: able to even you know, get into a game in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. He loves I know, he loves competition, like
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  Speaker 1: this guy is a gamer, and uh, I know that
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely tough to to see, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: friend and what he's going through. So it's a tricky
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  Speaker 1: situation obviously, and I hope for the best for him. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always gonna be on the player's side, so I know.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you said we don't have to show up,
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  Speaker 1: which is true. I've heard actually from a few sources,
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  Speaker 1: Zach GRANKI used to kind of wait until that last
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  Speaker 1: day to show up, so we don't have to report
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  Speaker 1: until a little like I think like the twenty second
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, well this is all voluntary.
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  Speaker 1: I think I found that out last year and I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: was like, wait a minute, what I've been doing this
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  Speaker 1: the whole time?
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  Speaker 4: Well, can you tell us any of those things? Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's like, wait a minute, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know it. I didn't know it until this year.
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  Speaker 1: So you learned it before I did.
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  Speaker 4: But what were the words that Strumman, because you said
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  Speaker 4: he's a friend in the playoffs last year, how do
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  Speaker 4: you know? Like obviously, you know, guys want to pitch,
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  Speaker 4: But did he come down to the bullpen with you
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  Speaker 4: guys when he was active? Did he say anything like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: I should be out there yo? Like how was what
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  Speaker 4: were some of the conversations that you had about not playing,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: not pitching in the postseason with me?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean we uh so he was down there
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: obviously with us in the postseason he was active. I
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: forget which series I know, I believe the DS. Maybe
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I've already forgot. I'm trying to put
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: last year behind me, But yeah, I feel like it's
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: just like, you know, if that was me, I would
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: definitely be a little you know, obviously upset, but obviously
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: he's also pulling for his teammates. He's always been a
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: team guy. I mean, I know there's been a lot
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: of things in the outside where people kind of maybe
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: he rubs you the wrong way, But I have no
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: issue with him. I love being his teammate. Last year,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I thought he was awesome. He he's a great dude.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: He takes care of the young guys. I mean, I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I got nothing but great things to say about Marcus.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: He was awesome, and it just sucked to see, like,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: you know, a guy like that who's played that long
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and just you know, we finally getting there and not
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: getting a chance. It kind of I feel like that
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: would weigh on me. And I know he definitely wants
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: to be there's my wife dropping stuff into this thing.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like, it's just it's it's tough. It's tough
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to be there and just watch it not and feel
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: like you're not helping the team. It just it definitely
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that's a sucky situation, all right.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I got one more for you on my side. The
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Tigers went hard after Alex Bregman. I mean, they made
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the biggest guarantee offer I loved what Harris said to
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the media, like, Hey, we want dudes that want to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: be here, the whole thing. So what did you think
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: about it? How come you weren't involved in the recruiting.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I felt like you could have helped. And now do
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you feel like it sparks up the Tigers Red Sox
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: rivalry a little bit this coming season? He chose Korra
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: instead of Hitch the old.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty crazy that it came down to, you know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox of the Tigers for Bregmant obviously having
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: both managers. So I thought that was pretty wild. You know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he ended up choosing Boston. I don't know reasons why,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: but you know, obviously all of us over here were
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: definitely very willing to have him over here. I don't
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: know who was possibly recruiting him or doing anything, but
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: obviously I would have loved to have Gregman here. All
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I've ever heard is a great clubhouse guy, obviously, tremendous
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: player on the field. Just want to go to glove
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: at third base, so I mean, he's always raked, So
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, just losing out on the guy like that
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: kind of sucks. But you know, you go back to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the wrong board, and I know the Tigers are very
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: comfortable with the situation at third. They got plenty of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: guys that are young kids, and you know, we got
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: some veterans. Hear its sprinkled in can help these kids
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: along the way.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: All right, Tommy, before we let you go over your
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: left shoulder? What what's your left shoulder? The one the
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: one the chord's on. Yeah, there's a Valentine's Day balloon.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Is the reason why your wife is dropping plates during
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: your interview is because that's all you got her for
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Valentine's Day was that deflated balloon.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And then it's up on the stealing all you caught
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: your wife. So actually that was a gift to my
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: daughter from Chad Green's wife.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, that I was gonna say. If it's from
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: a boy, it's too early.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: You need to go.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Find those parents and be like, listen, I don't know
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: if you see me in my tight pants, but I
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: have big quads.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: No, we're pretty we're pretty basic. On the Valentine's Day,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I got her a nice thing of flowers, big thing
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of chocolate, and she gets me, uh usually like some
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: kind of dessert and some sour patch kids. It's my favorite.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: There you go. Kids are delicious. But Bregman's oh for
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: three against you? So you don't you you're fine with
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: him not being a really wow, I did not know that. Yeah,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: you've dominated him. Threw him three sliders. You got him
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: out all three times. I did a slider. Go back
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: and watch I know that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I'll go back.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I'll go back and watch it. That slider is pooh.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It was probably a splinter that's stuck to your middle finger,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: and you're.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Just the you know what the best part about that
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: remind called a change up. I didn't know this and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: through a slider.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: This is why we have this is why we have
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: the ear piece. Now, okay, this is you are the reason.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: You are the bullpen guys that give me nightmares. Still
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: aj aj knows he's not even looking right now. He
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: knows that is the worst thing you can do to
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: a catcher. At least it was off speed pitch. Could
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: have been a fast way worse. True heaters, way worse.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: If I got to get a heater and I'm ready
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: looking for some off speed, that's when the umpire gets dotted.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Terrible, terrible go bird, this indible go bird.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, go birds, go ahead, you get last word
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and then we'll go to break Tommy. Whatever you want
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: to say about your birds on the way out.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Crats, you will love it. I bought a Jalen Hurts Jersey.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I did it. Wow, he's in you my daughter. I
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: also bought her my daughter of Jalen Hurts Jersey. It's
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: on the way.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: You are such a front runner, like twenty twenty three
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: you twenty twenty three, you would have it, would pick
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: a fight with you. Twenty twenty three of you would
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: see you in the stadium, would see you in the
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: stadium and go, hey, no, parks, isn't that good?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The only good ones are Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: That's it, That's what you would have said. I'm not
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: even on Josh out. I never liked it. So it's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: just Patrick, It's just it's just always stops. Pat Mahomes. Yeah,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and then we made them look like a child, So yes, yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: we did. Facts. Wait did you play? Did you? I
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: got asked, did you playing the super We did? Oh?
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: We did, Okay, I was just wondering because you know
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: we played. I didn't know we played. I don't know
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: if you had a mounts in your pocket or what.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: But we it's like when you were like this year
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: when you Tigers make the playoffs and all the fans
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: are like, we did it, and You're like, you ain't
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: throw no sliders.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Bro, look at my album. Look I threw all these sliders.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to start using the slider crats have
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: covered for you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: All the headlines, all the headlines. Tomorrow, you know, you
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: open up the athletic.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: We have Cody staven Egan later.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be like Tommy Kinley's secret weapon.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: By the way, By the way, I don't know if
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: we're coming to Tiger's camp, but I mean we're supposed to.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: We can we can set that up. I mean we
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: can set it up. I'm supposed to face Grayson on Monday.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna take him deep. I've come take you deep
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: and crowds can strike out off you. We can set
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: that up easy.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Tracking out four.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, stay tuned. Have I don't know what
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: our spring training schedule is, but maybe we'll see you
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: in Lakeland. Otherwise we'll catch you again in a few
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: weeks on here. Tommy, appreciate you man. This was great.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Thanks boys always basic, always always fun.