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Kevin Pillar announces retirement on FT, reveals Rangers missing link · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: A lot of guys weren't like enjoying that we were
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  Speaker 1: winning games. You know, a lot of people got caught
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: up in their own uh failures. It just kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt like there was a lot of panic setting in.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin polar Is here and styling by the.
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  Speaker 3: Way outy howdy. I gotta say something before we start.
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  Speaker 1: So one of you this morning you didn't see me
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  Speaker 1: coming back from the gym, and you are doing the.
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  Speaker 3: Show a disservice by wearing a full length.
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  Speaker 2: Oh not the cutoff action. One day, I just said
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  Speaker 2: one of you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to say who, you know?
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  Speaker 4: Who was to say, because if they had a cut
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  Speaker 4: off shirt or a shirt that was six sizes too small,
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  Speaker 4: it was Scott because that's normally what he wears.
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  Speaker 3: Jack from from him walking by. I was impressed though,
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  Speaker 3: in the show A disservice.
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  Speaker 5: Scott doesn't want a moon.
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  Speaker 4: Now long we've been trying to get into the shoe
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  Speaker 4: with no shirt on, he won't do it.
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  Speaker 6: Scott doesn't want a million subscribers because if he does
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  Speaker 6: a shirtless show, two hours of shirtless Scott, I couldn't
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  Speaker 6: say that too many times a million subscribers immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Would shows what you're doing in there. Show me what
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  Speaker 3: you're doing there. I'm in the.
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  Speaker 1: Gym and I've been working out my whole life, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I kind of got off the wagon for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit since since I've been home and I'm
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  Speaker 1: walking around the gym not knowing what to do.
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  Speaker 3: I should have came in a little earlier and watched you.
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  Speaker 2: That is the thing is you.
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  Speaker 7: You can transition then right, like you can do more
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  Speaker 7: of like the beach muscle workout kind of stuff, so
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  Speaker 7: that you're clearly doing right. But baseball players, of course,
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  Speaker 7: baseball players can't work out quite that way because you've
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  Speaker 7: got to make sure you're all flexible and stable, not
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  Speaker 7: too tight whatever. Actually, there's we've had that segment. There's
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  Speaker 7: a few guys that I think, don't worry about that.
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  Speaker 7: They get hurt a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Super Yeah, he's not missing Chapman's miss Tyler O'Neil, O'Neill
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  Speaker 1: missing John Carlow.
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  Speaker 2: That's my point is there's a balance there.
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  Speaker 6: So if you would have gone in and you would
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  Speaker 6: have seen like six configurations of biceps and triceps, I
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  Speaker 6: need to learn.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but there's no rules.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not competing in anything I'm just going there for
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  Speaker 7: a good time and looking feel good, and there's a
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  Speaker 7: guy scaring me next to me. It wasn't KP, but
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  Speaker 7: who who shouted out a couple of times, and I
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  Speaker 7: was like yelling at me, and he was singing in
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  Speaker 7: a very packed gym, singing at whatever it was.
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  Speaker 1: I was quite amazed, too, like the amount of people
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  Speaker 1: that go to a gym on vacation in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Vegas at seven in the morning.
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  Speaker 7: They have a lot of conventions and stuff, so there's
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  Speaker 7: some hard workers.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, how's life?
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  Speaker 3: Life was good?
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  Speaker 2: You were in the bigs and now you're chilling. You
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  Speaker 2: got anything for us?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, uh yeah, I guess I can officially
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  Speaker 1: say that I'm done playing. I wanted to be one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent sure because of things I went through last year.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of said it was gonna be my last year.
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  Speaker 1: And I got into the off season and my mindset
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  Speaker 1: kind of changed. I talked to a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: that are no long we're playing anymore, and they said,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: you know you, it's near impossible to kind of retire
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  Speaker 1: and then come back, right. So I wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that I was really done playing. And it started
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  Speaker 1: kind of eating at me a little bit. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of missed it. I didn't like the way the year ended.
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  Speaker 1: Last year for me, I had the thumb surgery in
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  Speaker 1: the off season. I went through that kind of tedious
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  Speaker 1: process of rehabing. It got cleared to start, you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing catch and hitting, and I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what if if I don't go back and try, I
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  Speaker 1: might have some regrets. And I'm very thankful that I
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  Speaker 1: went back and went to the spring training and you know,
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to play for the Rangers, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's unfortunate that it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my my season was cut short.
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  Speaker 1: I was defade and you know, but once you kind
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  Speaker 1: of get on the other side and you get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to be home and be dad and spend time,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, for a long time, I thought about
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  Speaker 1: other things that you know, I've wanted to do, and
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  Speaker 1: I had other interest in hobbies, and you finally get
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  Speaker 1: a chance to explore those and do those, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: you realize how stressful being a major league baseball player is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you you and I think for me, when
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  Speaker 1: I started to realize when I was away from the game,
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  Speaker 1: when I got to your faith that.
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  Speaker 3: I realized that as great as it is to.
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  Speaker 1: Be successful in the game and to have these highs
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  Speaker 1: and to hit these home runs, the things that you know,
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  Speaker 1: striking out or not being successful, we're going over your
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  Speaker 1: last ten, those things always outweighed the success I had
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  Speaker 1: in the game. Like I took the failure in the
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  Speaker 1: game way harder than I enjoyed the success. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to deal with the failure anymore. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty happy. I wake up every morning excited to be
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  Speaker 1: dad and just kind of see what the day brings.
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  Speaker 5: True. All right, so congratulations on a great crew. We
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  Speaker 5: made a little video for you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's see it.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get ready for this video.
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  Speaker 3: Yay, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: If that doesn't get you excited, me jumping out of
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  Speaker 5: a cake.
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  Speaker 2: And nothing, happy retirement and if you can tell me
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  Speaker 2: what EMU is.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's the place you were talking where Kratzy
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  Speaker 1: needs to donate money.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you. They don't even have a covered batting case.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's I heard that part. A couple of
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  Speaker 3: days ago.
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  Speaker 5: My son called him out for saying because he was
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  Speaker 5: listening to this.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, if you would have won that poker tournament. Could
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  Speaker 1: you have donated that money to your school?
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  Speaker 7: There's other great charities like yeah, yeah, he's got other
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  Speaker 7: big stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I would think they could use that money though, to
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  Speaker 4: cover the batting cage.
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  Speaker 5: Put a scoreboard. I don't know they have a scoreboard.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want?
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  Speaker 3: A video board? Maybe?
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  Speaker 7: Respectfully, I don't give a crap right now. KP just
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  Speaker 7: announced his retirement. So did you talk to your family?
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  Speaker 7: Did you want to announce it like this? Like take
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  Speaker 7: me more behind the scenes, also, just to how you
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  Speaker 7: know this season went early on, because.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never really thought about how I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: announce it, right, I mean, we talked a little bit
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  Speaker 1: last night, and I guess the only thing I was
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  Speaker 1: a little upset is I you know, not everyone gets
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  Speaker 1: kind of their fairy tale ending. You know, you play
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  Speaker 1: a long time, and you know, in my mind, I
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  Speaker 1: think about, you know, I remember where I was at
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  Speaker 1: when you know, Jeter had his final at bat I
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  Speaker 1: think about the Stephen boat where his kids were up
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  Speaker 1: in the you know, score booth and got to announce
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  Speaker 1: you know, his last event.
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  Speaker 3: He goes deep.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talked beyond the scenes. You know, not
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  Speaker 1: everyone knew it was gonna be your last game. You
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  Speaker 1: knew it was gonna be your last name. You had
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to have your you know, your kids, your
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  Speaker 1: your wife, your family, your parents, all these people that
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  Speaker 1: you know played a huge part in your baseball career
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  Speaker 1: to be there.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I wish I would have just got a
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  Speaker 3: chance to play one more time. You know, I would
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  Speaker 3: have loved to have been able to, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Call my wife and my kids and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're we're in Chicago at the time, Like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I need you here, my parents, my brother, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in my agent, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that you know, played a big part in my career.
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  Speaker 1: I would have liked to known it was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: my last game. But not everyone gets that opportunity, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of where I was on
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  Speaker 1: the fence last year, is I I watched a lot
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  Speaker 1: of my former teammates that were much better players than
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  Speaker 1: me maybe go a little bit too long, and I
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  Speaker 1: kind of wanted to go out on my own terms.
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  Speaker 1: I want I wanted at least one or two people
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  Speaker 1: to think, oh man, that guy could still play. But
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  Speaker 1: when it's when it's taken from you when you get DFA.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no one's sitting here thinking like he could
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  Speaker 1: still play. It's like he got cut. He's done. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if I would have retired last year, people there might
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  Speaker 1: have been a handful of people out there like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he probably could help a team still. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anyone's thinking that way. And maybe it's a bad
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  Speaker 1: way of looking at it, but that's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: it wanted to go out. But not everyone gets their
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  Speaker 6: Do you think teams realize what that means to players?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: I wish they did, you know, And maybe maybe they're
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: listening to this now and maybe that's something they would
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: factor in. But you know, I yeah, I mean I
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: heard you guys talking to Dexter too. I think there's
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: got to be a little bit more human side to it.
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: And I get the importance of you know, every game
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  Speaker 1: in the major leagues, the difference between one game and
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  Speaker 1: one win and one loss could cost you the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I made the team on opening day.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I wasn't I was good enough to
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  Speaker 1: make the team an opening day. I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: would have hurt the team by playing one more day
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think they could have, you know, allowed
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  Speaker 1: me to play one game. You know, they could have
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: had a conversation and just said, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: move on. We're gonna give you an up to play
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  Speaker 1: one more time. I would have loved that. But I
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  Speaker 1: also understand the business side of it, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough thing. It's a tough thing they have
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  Speaker 1: to do, but it would have been nice to play
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  Speaker 1: one more time.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone wants to play one more game. I mean, even
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  Speaker 4: no matter who you are, even anybody do get that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure if you haves Derek Jeter, he's like, I
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  Speaker 4: would like one more bad or one more The thing
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  Speaker 4: with what you said, I agree with you said. It'd
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  Speaker 4: be nice if everybody got that opportunity to know that.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, what's the line you would draw?
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: You know, certain guys Mickey and Mariano and those guys
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  Speaker 4: they announced its David Ortiz was my last year, and
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  Speaker 4: they went around and had their world tour and got
• 9:34
  Speaker 4: gifts and guitars and surfboards and all this stuff. What's
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, It's like, what's the line you draw?
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  Speaker 4: You have to be a possible future, all of Amber.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have to have ten years in the big
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  Speaker 4: league to get that right, because there's there's, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: there's so many guys that just they don't know. One
• 9:50
  Speaker 4: day they come in, they think they're doing all right,
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  Speaker 4: like you did. Yeah, and you're like, oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: you'r DFA And then you're like, you know what, I
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  Speaker 4: don't need to do this anymore. My family's good back home.
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  Speaker 4: So it's kind of a it's a fine line to what.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just a respecting. I think it's respecting.
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  Speaker 1: I give you respect the player and the respect his
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  Speaker 1: career and respect the you know, time that he's put
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: into the game, and.
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  Speaker 3: You feel like, uh, you know, we want to do
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  Speaker 3: that for him. I would be really appreciated from a
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  Speaker 3: lot of players. You know, there's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Of not every player though, it's not every player knows
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  Speaker 4: they're done. Yeah, like like you do, right, A lot
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  Speaker 4: of players are like, oh, I got dfit. I can
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  Speaker 4: still play, yeah, and I'm going to prove them wrong.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of three in this farewell game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and maybe there's that side of it
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not thinking about it. You know, they're defaying
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  Speaker 1: me and maybe they think I'm gonna, you know, lay
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: in somewhere else and finish out the year. But maybe
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: just out of the chance that it doesn't happen, it
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  Speaker 1: would have been nice. And you know, I've been able
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: to talk to some people and I thought it was
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: really crazy. He's like, I, I, you know, when I
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: got done, I got dafade. I don't even remember my
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: last hit, and like, I barely remember it. I have
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: to kind of go through like the roller decks because
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: I think it was Robbie Ray. I think I had
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: like a single, and then I came home and I
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  Speaker 1: went on the I L and when I came back
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  Speaker 1: from the ale, I think I pinched it one time.
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  Speaker 1: And it was just such a long gap in between
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  Speaker 1: when I played. And then then I got DFA and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, I think that was my last
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: base hit. I mean it was over. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: been like three months now, but you know it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't like quite like the story you told where
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: you know it was your final at bad and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's a it's a memory that you had and
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  Speaker 1: you got to share with your family. You know, mine
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like a meaningless leadoff single in like
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: the fourth inning or something. You know, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been nice to kind of know it was over and.
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  Speaker 2: But against the cy young winner. But yes, understandable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah I threw that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's not that's not bad.
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  Speaker 3: Just just in case I could still hit so with you.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously for me, you had a second half of your
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  Speaker 7: career here, but I think a lot about the first
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  Speaker 7: half in Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: So do you wish there was some connection there?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, obviously you can still go there now that
• 11:54
  Speaker 7: you announced your retirement, and at some point they'll probably
• 11:57
  Speaker 7: want you to throw a first pit do something.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and it's like give a little way into the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it would. I think it would be cool.
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  Speaker 3: I think it would be cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it'd be cool. Are you going to sign the
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  Speaker 5: one day contract?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm I'm glad I don't think so, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you should.
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  Speaker 1: If someone if someone called me today and was like, hey,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: would you want to do it?
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  Speaker 3: Like you mean?
• 12:17
  Speaker 5: Sure?
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  Speaker 1: I mean if it if it meant if I meant
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  Speaker 1: enough to them for them to want to reach out
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  Speaker 1: to me and do that, if I meant enough to
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  Speaker 1: that city, that organization, you know, why not.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm not going to pick up the phone.
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  Speaker 1: And be like, hey, before I announce my retirement, i'd
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: like to sign a one day contract.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad you did this the way you do this,
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: because we talked about this last night.
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  Speaker 3: The people you convinced me a little bit. But the
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: people you're an intimidating guy. The people that wait like.
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: Three years, they've waited like three years and they send
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  Speaker 4: a letter out that says, dear baseball, you were great
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: to me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm retiring, no kidding.
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: You haven't played for three years, Like it's so it's
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  Speaker 4: cool that you just and I haven't official, So maybe
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  Speaker 4: I should make my announcement.
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  Speaker 5: I'm retired. Guys, I haven't played for ten years.
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: I got to.
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  Speaker 3: Send a letter.
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: Like this is the way announce it. When you know
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: you're done, you're done. Don't don't don't sit around and
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  Speaker 4: think about it for two years and be like, you
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: know what got hump done? So awesome?
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm happy for you, Thank you, thank you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if, like you said, if opportunities presented something
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  Speaker 1: like that, you know, I think that would be great.
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, you played a long time, you played a
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: long time.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: I'm about to have a baby too, and it's kind
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: of a crazy thing that my next child that I
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: bring into this world is.
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: Gonna have no idea that I was ever a baseball player.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: So if that's something that could happen, maybe in like
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: two three years from now, you know, get an opportunity
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: to go back to.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: Toronto, maybe throw out a first pitch. I think that
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: would be a cool thing, you know.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: But I teach you up for this because I sent
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: you Yeah, no, no, no, we don't have it.
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: We don't have it, do you think no?
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: Because I didn't think we were allowed to like push
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: it through for it's a highlight of of his first
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: ever walk off.
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: Oh well, it's probably just because MLB is the most
• 13:56
  Speaker 7: restrictive sport on the planet.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: There's that.
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: But if you go back to Toronto, will you ask
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: me to be there to catch the first pitch? Since
• 14:06
  Speaker 6: without that first ever walk off, and you would never
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: be you without.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: You're definitely high on my list.
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: Me and kp Our lockers were next to each other
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: in Toronto, and the only reason our lockers were next
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: to each other is because they would send him.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Down or they would send me down.
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: The third catcher and we had a joke we were
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: the twenty fifth guy on the roster, and so for
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: him to do what he ended up doing in Toronto,
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: for me was like something that it was amazing because
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: it was legitimately, hey, you know, are they going to
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: send me down because they don't need a third catcher
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: for four days because Dickie's not pitching, or are they
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: going to send him down? And he was doing stuff
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: that was great for the team, but it was early
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: on the Alexanthropolis train and he saw he had options,
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: so he would just move him in and out to
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: get ten years after that, I saw that from the beginning.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: It's amazing.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, thank you. I want to ask you
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: guys too that you brought this up. You know, I
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: look at transactions a lot, you know, I read what's
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: going on, and I maybe I didn't watch as intently
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: when I was playing. I'd maybe like scroll through it
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: to kind of see what's going But it seems like
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: every day.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: There's hundreds of moves.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: And I know I ran the shuttle for a while,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: you ran the shuttle, but it always seemed like it
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: was like the same two guys. You know, it was
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: like you kind of knew, like in the fourth inning, like,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: oh man, the starter went out early, we're gonna use
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: a bullpen day.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: You're like, I hope it's him.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I hope it's not me, because one of us is leaving.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: But it was always like one or two guys. But
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: it seems like every day there's like ten fifteen moves.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: There's like guys opting out, you know, sending guys up
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: and down. I mean, is that something that's.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: Because they changed the rules.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because Ismael Rogers, Ismil Rodgers was gonna get sent
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: down or called back up because they used all their
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: innings and you or I were going to go back
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: and forth. You used to be able send a guy
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: seven times. Now it's you can only do five, which
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: sounds like a crazy numbers.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: It's a whole lot. That's once a month.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: Basically, it's crazy to be able to send that many times. So, yes,
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: you're seeing it exactly right.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I feel like rosters used
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to be constructed with like some flexibility, and there was
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: always kind of some expendable guys.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe you know, younger bullpen guy.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe you had like a you know, a younger utility guy,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: and you could kind of shuttle them up, but it
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: seems like every day there's like teams are making two
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: or three moves a day.
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• 17:41
  Speaker 7: ask you first. We'll go backwards, so let's start with
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: this year. What was it like to be part of
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: the Rangers? What was the experience like? Obviously a lot
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: of people want to know why the team isn't hitting.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean things, things.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Sometimes a little bit, your perception of a team can
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: be a little bit different than you actually.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Get into spring training and you're around the guys.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: And.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: It was a little bit different.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: You know, them coming off of winning a World Series
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: That was the team that I thought I was joining.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I never won a World Series, you.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Know, I went deep in the playoffs a couple of times.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I know, I can only imagine what it's like to
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: win a World Series. The off seasons different and you know,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: a year removed from that, you know, and that's what
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: they talked about. It was just a different offseason. They
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: struggled the year after winning the World Series. Guys didn't
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: know when to start training. You know, you're on these
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you're celebrating, You're on this tour forever, rightfully so, because
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: it's probably the greatest feeling in the world.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: But I was happy I went.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: You know, I had just moved my family to the
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Dallas area, so that was kind of a dream come true.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Even though it was sure to you know, live at home,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: take my kids to school in the morning, and then
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you know, feel like I was going to work. You know,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: it didn't feel like you know, I didn't have to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: rent a place that wasn't in a different place. My
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: kids got to live a normal life. They went to school,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: they had their activities, they had their sports. You know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: my family was there.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: It was great. I wish it would have lasted longer.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I wish I ild got a chance to you know,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: perform a little bit better and play a little bit better.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And you know, like I mentioned, go out of my
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: own terms. But no regrets.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: What are some of the things that you anticipated going
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: and that weren't there something that you could elaborate on
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: a little bit.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, uh, you know, you know, listening to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a dexter the other day, you know, I thought they
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: would be a little bit tighter as a group. I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: thought it would be like, you know, kind of like
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: my experience in Atlanta. That was probably one of the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: tightest groups since you know, I was in in Toronto.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: It's like everyone just you know, pulled on the same rope.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Everyone wanted to hang out, everyone want to do everything together,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: everyone one. You know, winning was the most important thing
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: every day. And uh do when I got in the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: clubhouse in Texas and there's a there's a lot of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: talent in there, and there's just a lot of individual
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: stuff going on. A lot of guys are doing their
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: own thing. You might not see people till the game
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: uh goes on until Yeah, guys are kind of just
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: doing their own thing, whether they have their own room
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and and there's not a knock against people that have
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: their own routines, right, Some people, you know have routines
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: where they do like training room and they do their
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: own stuff in the weight room. You know, they have
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: everything kind of timed out. You know, as you get
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: older in the game, you were in that right to
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: kind of like, this is how I go through my routine.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: No BP, Yeah, not a lot of VP, not a
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: lot of uh, you know, stretching together. And I just
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: felt like maybe for me just being kind of the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: outcast because a lot of the it's a lot of
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the same guys there that won the World Series, So
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: maybe I was kind of on the outside. I was
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: kind of looking more of a way to kind of,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you know, get in that inner circle and a lot
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of that times that comes through, you know, stretch and VP,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: where you know, you talk about things other than baseball,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you get to know guys a little bit more. And
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: that would even start like in spring training. But to me,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the reason there, I think a lot of guys just
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: got off to a bad start individually and the pitching
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: was so good and we were still winning. We they
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: were still winning games. I guess it was we at
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the time. They were still winning games. It just seemed
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: like it just the the winning didn't seem uh it
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: didn't a lot of guys weren't like enjoying that we
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: were winning games. You know, a lot of people got
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: caught up in their own uh failures, and just it
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: wasn't even it wasn't even like, uh, you know, we
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: had an aircraft. It wasn't like one guy was carrying
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the team, you know, they were driving all the It
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, we managed to get a couple
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: of guys on base and will come with a big hit.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: You'd win two to one, but they'd be one for
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: four everyone else, you know, you know, zero four.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: On the day.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And that just happened for you know, pretty much the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: first month this season, and then it just kind of
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: felt like there was a lot of panic setting in.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: You know, there was things that happen, you know, behind
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: closed walls. Things were getting taken away, things were being
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you know forced upon, you know, things were becoming mandatory.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: And then a lot of guys, a lot of guys
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: were trying to make up for a bad start. They
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: were trying to get it all back in one day,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: as opposed to being like I kept trying to remind guys.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I'm like, there was a point we were like thirteen
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: and six and we had like the worst batting average
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: in baseball. I'm like, collectively we have hit rock bottom
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: as an offense. But we were winning games like this
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: should motivate us, Like we should be thankful that our
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: pitching staff is so dominant and that we're finding ways
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to win games, and like, you know, day by day
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: going to get out of this. And it's just kind
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: of been that trend oh year. It's like guys are
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: trying to get above water, and it's a hard thing
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, I've been there too, you know.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: It's I think that's the hardest thing about baseball.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Baseball.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I've always said this, Baseball is the ultimate team sport.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: But it's also the ultimate individual sport.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You know, this is the only sport in the world
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: where you play by two different sets of rules.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: How you play in the regular season, how you play
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: in the postseason.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: If someone could figure out a way to run a team,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and maybe that's kind of what the Dodgers do because
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: they do have a lot of guys under contract where
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: they have other guys playing for stuff, they have guys
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: trying to play for the Hall of Fame. But when
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you have guys like financially secure and winning is the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: most important thing, you start playing by those set of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: rules that you do in the playoffs, because in the playoffs,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: winning is the only thing that matters.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: You played a long time. You play in a lot
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: of playoffs.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You've had games where you've had four hits in a
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: playoff game you lose and it's the worst feeling in
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the world. You've had games you get no hits but
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you win and it's the best feeling in the world.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: How do you kind of create that feeling for one
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two. I don't think you can. It's
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: really hard because at the end of the day, much
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: like I mentioned, with all the transactions going on, we
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: are individual contractors. Like you need to perform individually in
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: order for you to be successful, for you to take
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: care of your family. And that's I think that's the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: challenge with baseball is, you know, how do you how
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: do you still feel good as a young player? You know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and the Rangers, you have a lot of young players.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: They have guys coming up in arbitration. Obviously, they want
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to perform, they want to, you know, make money, they
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: want to take care of their families. You know, this
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: is our livelihood. You know, people may forget that at
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: some point, but this is how we take care of
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: our families, how we put food on the table, just
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: how we pay for, you know, living, That's how we
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: play for our kids to go to college. You do
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: want to perform, but the end of the day, winning
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: is also important. So how do you try to kind
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of blend those two. It's a hard thing.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the balance, right. I think we got time
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: for one more question with Kevin Pollar, who obviously will
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: join us again soon. Actually will definitely join us again soon.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: Rumor is maybe a little guest hosting action coming up,
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: but that'll that'll be a good you finished again, I think.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: So there are many going on.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're getting sent down for the day.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: He calls it getting fired, which I like, it's true.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: It's so true.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: You get fired from your.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people like will ask, like, you know where I'm
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: living now? Like, oh, you know why you're done playing?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: They're like, what's I'm like, I got fired.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: It's just a nice way of saying it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: It's fired when you get optioned to Major Baseball. Came
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: up with that word so that people are like, oh, wow,
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: he chose to go to Triple A. It wasn't my option.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I got optioned.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I got fired back to them, wasn't my option. Yeah,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: that's what sent me to Buffalo wasn't my option. It
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: was their option. It was their choice. Their choice wasn't
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: my option.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Well, what do you want to do? So what's the
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: plan you think? And I mean, obviously, you literally just
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: retired twenty minutes ago. But do you have things that
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: you want to do? Obviously, fan time.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, family time is important.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I have the property that I bond in Texas and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I got my lamas. I'm about to get some longhorns.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I just enjoy like fixing things and doing stuff and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: like taking care of my own property. I wish those
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: things made money and they paid the bills, so eventually
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I'll have to get back into the workforce, but I
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: enjoy stuff like this. I enjoy talking the game. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: think the game isn't a good place. I think it
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: could be in a better place. I think what you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: guys are doing on your show is great.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I love the.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Fact you guys say what you want, you have no agenda.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I think that needs to be talked about more. I
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: think having foreign players, the good, the bad, the ugly
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: things that happen in the game need to be kind
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: of talked about. The great things about the game need
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to be shared. So I look forward to doing.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: This and more.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: I love that DIY does not make you money, but
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: it does actually save you money.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: That's true. I'm more.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right now I'm in the saving the money phase
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: of life, not really making the money question.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I want to know, how does the guy from Los
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Angeles end up being a fake cowboy with the cowboy
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: head on?
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: A minute?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: You don't have enough time for me to discuss the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: fake cowboy.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: That's a longer discussion than a minute.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Trying embracing.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I'm embracing, I'm embracing racing. I don't quite I'm I'm
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: somewhere between a rancher, a farmer, and a cowboy. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: don't know what that is. Maybe just a landowner. You know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a guy that does projects, a guy that likes to
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: mow his own lawn.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Lamas and longhorns, that gets you some streak.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: That sounds like a sounds like a show. Next time,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: he's gonna have a rag on under the cowboy hat.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: Lamas and long long horns, that gets some string credit.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Long balls.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Lamas and long horns, yeah, except it hit two balls.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Okay, to be something about games, singles, stealing, running along.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Way that flows off the tongue.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: Thanks again man obviously, thanks for doing that here and
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: congrats again on retirement.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: M