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Max Muncy’s inside look at Dodgers hitters meetings · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: We all know who those guys are, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what their their pitch mix felt like.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, he would just say things like that,
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  Speaker 2: and you're kind of like a but you've played way
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: too long.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, we've got Max Munty joining us, Dodger slugger back
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  Speaker 3: on foul territory. Max, how's life in mid May in
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  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball with the Dodgers?
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  Speaker 2: A man's good. We're winning. It's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: The boys are having fun and uh, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: trying to get some guys healthy, and you know, keep
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  Speaker 1: going forward.
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  Speaker 4: You need me, Max, It mean it, you need me.
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  Speaker 4: You need me. I'll see you next week. You need me, Max.
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  Speaker 4: What happened? What happened against Nola? Tell the people what
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  Speaker 4: happened when I saw you against Nola? Tell the people what.
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  Speaker 1: Happened was I had a really good game that had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with you whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: You were like, oh for forty against him, you got
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  Speaker 4: with three for three. What do you mean, Well, you.
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  Speaker 2: Come in the clubhouse all smug acting. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just another guy. You'll get him today, and.
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  Speaker 4: You did and you did. Though.
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  Speaker 5: The funny is I did not know your numbers about
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  Speaker 5: that until after I had had that conversation with you,
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  Speaker 5: and then I see Joe Davis and Eric Harross and
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  Speaker 5: they're like, you know, Max is like, oh for twenty
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  Speaker 5: seven off of them, and I'm like, he's got this today.
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  Speaker 5: So then every time he got a hit, I was
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  Speaker 5: just texting Monsie and they're like, damn, maybe you should
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  Speaker 5: be his hitting coach every every week, Like come in,
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  Speaker 5: just see Max and then go because I mean you
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  Speaker 5: knew you were coming on, so you knew you had
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  Speaker 5: to go deep last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly why Max. Max.
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  Speaker 6: Just tell him he's been retired too long to think
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  Speaker 6: he has all the answers, because when you're in the grind,
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  Speaker 6: some dude just comes in. He's like, hey, you got
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  Speaker 6: this guy, don't worry about it. Didn't even look at
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  Speaker 6: your numbers. Like him saying he didn't look at your
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  Speaker 6: numbers shows that he's not in the grind with you.
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  Speaker 2: Max.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think he's crossed over into that
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  Speaker 1: win though yet where you know, you guys know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Where the guys that played forget
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  Speaker 1: how hard it was to play, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he's crossed into that window just yet, but he's
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  Speaker 1: getting close.
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  Speaker 4: I listen, trust me, I know exactly how hard it is.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 5: It's harder to breathe right now than it is to hit, though,
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  Speaker 5: But I know exactly how hard it is.
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  Speaker 4: Trust me. I say all the.
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  Speaker 5: Time how hard it is to play baseball, and I
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  Speaker 5: have no regrets at all that I don't have to
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  Speaker 5: play anymore because guys throw away too hard and what
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  Speaker 5: you guys do is way too difficult for me.
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  Speaker 4: To do anymore.
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  Speaker 5: But I'll say this, sometimes you just need somebody to
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  Speaker 5: tell you that you're gonna have a good day.
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  Speaker 4: Just you're gonna have a good day.
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  Speaker 6: Mac.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, I don't even care what your numbers
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  Speaker 5: are because I said I thought you're gonna go deep.
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  Speaker 5: You were my pick to click to go deep, because
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  Speaker 5: I thought he'd flipped you a curveball and you were
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  Speaker 5: gonna hit it out.
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  Speaker 4: But you got three hits, so my work is done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you never know, especially especially at that ballpark. You
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  Speaker 2: never know.
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  Speaker 1: You get one up in the air, might go But
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  Speaker 1: I appreciated the support that day.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, on that note, real quick, we're gonna have Brett
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  Speaker 3: Boone on the show later.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Brett was not coaching.
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  Speaker 3: He was actually podcasting.
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  Speaker 4: He was doing he was hanging out a lot.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be on the show later. I heard him
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  Speaker 3: on another interview talking about how for example, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's obviously getting caught up. He said he loves the
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  Speaker 3: info that's provided, but it almost sounded like he thought
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  Speaker 3: some guys were overthinking things. So, for example, some guys
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  Speaker 3: are talking, he said, in the clubhouse about a picture's
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  Speaker 3: spin rate, and he's like, I mean, the dude's got
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  Speaker 3: a really good slider, Like we have to like he's
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  Speaker 3: they're talking numbers. So what do you observe when guys
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  Speaker 3: are breaking down how.
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  Speaker 7: A picture looks? Like how much is too much? And
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  Speaker 7: sometimes should someone just.
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  Speaker 3: Be like, yo, watch out sliders nasty versus he's got
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  Speaker 3: x y z RPMs on this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we don't ever really focus too much
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  Speaker 1: on the spin rate. You know, obviously it's something that
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  Speaker 1: you notice if it jumps off the chart, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of you think about it. But we more focus on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what the numbers are trying to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: What's the vert telling you, what's the horizontal telling you?
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  Speaker 1: For us, that means more. So, you know, if this
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  Speaker 1: guy's throwing a fastball and he's got twenty vert, well
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  Speaker 1: you got to be a little bit more direct to it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to make sure you're thinking above the ball.
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  Speaker 2: The ball is going to seem like it's rising.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we kind of pay attention to that information
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  Speaker 1: just in terms of how we're going to form our approach.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes it does seem like guys look at those
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  Speaker 1: numbers and it scares them away a little bit. That's
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  Speaker 1: why we don't necessarily focus on the spin rate. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's you know, throwing a slider with three thousand rpm.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't matter what how how much is
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  Speaker 1: it moving? What's it going to feel like in the box?
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  Speaker 1: And that's more what we try to talk to each
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  Speaker 1: other about. You know, how does it feel Does the
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  Speaker 1: cutter feel like a slider? Does the slider feel like
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  Speaker 1: a curveball? You know what's the what window is? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what lane is it coming out of? How
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  Speaker 1: is it tunneling? And you know, we try to formulate
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  Speaker 1: our approaches based on that. And you know, last night
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  Speaker 1: you go to it for an example, we uh, we
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  Speaker 1: had a little bit of trouble with the starter last night.
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  Speaker 2: I know we had a couple of home runs, but
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  Speaker 2: we had a little bit of trouble because.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the reports and he's a fastball, cutter guy,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, for the lefties, it's pretty simple approach.
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  Speaker 1: You want to push it out over and you know
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  Speaker 1: you want to get him up. You don't want it
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  Speaker 1: to bore in on you. Well, last night he went
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  Speaker 1: majority change up against us, and that's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a tough pitch to handle when you're the whole
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  Speaker 1: lane you're looking for is up and out over.
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  Speaker 5: So that's that was my question. Is that what you
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  Speaker 5: do as a Is this a team wide approach? Is
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  Speaker 5: this an individual approach to the hitting coaches come to
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  Speaker 5: you guys and say this is your attack against this
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  Speaker 5: pitcher or is it a team wide thing where they say,
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  Speaker 5: because not every hitter, is it different?
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  Speaker 4: Do you Freddy Show?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, you know, obviously Mookie hits right handed, but you
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  Speaker 5: guys are all different and have different approaches and different
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  Speaker 5: things you want to look for. So is this a
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  Speaker 5: team wide approach or is this individualized for each one
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  Speaker 5: of you guys?
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  Speaker 2: It's a it's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one thing we've always done really well in
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  Speaker 1: our hitters meeting is, you know the hitting coaches, they
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  Speaker 1: they give the report on the guy. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: they give little tidbits here and there, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: they think works, and then they pretty much force every
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  Speaker 1: guy to say what their approach is going to be
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  Speaker 1: that day. And you know, that way, you don't just
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  Speaker 1: go into the meeting, you know, blank mind. You have
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  Speaker 1: to have done your homework. You have to know what
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for. And if you say something, other guys
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  Speaker 1: might chime in and be like, hey, I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't think.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it just it's it's uh that way, everyone's
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  Speaker 1: kind of, you know, on the same page with it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a little bit of a team wide and
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit of depending on who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, Freddie, like he's got the same approach
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  Speaker 1: every single day, but he might look in different areas,
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  Speaker 1: but he's still trying to do the same thing every
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  Speaker 1: single day. You know, certain guys like the ball closer
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  Speaker 1: to them, certain guys like the ball farther away. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And you know you're going to take that into account.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you do damage versus where does this guy
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  Speaker 1: throw it? And you know that's just kind of a
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  Speaker 1: you know, spot of where you're looking.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so the last one on this for me. How
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  Speaker 5: long you faced Hoglan yesterday and you said he was
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  Speaker 5: mostly fastball cutter. Well, then he starts throwing change ups.
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  Speaker 5: How long does it take you guys to adjust one
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  Speaker 5: time through? You know, I mean, show Hey took him
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  Speaker 5: deep lead off, so apparently he's like, I'm not doing
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  Speaker 5: that game plan anymore. I'm gonna have to throw something else.
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  Speaker 5: But how long does it take you as a team
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  Speaker 5: to adjust? You have to get at bats or do
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  Speaker 5: you guys huddle, not huddle, but talk to each other
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  Speaker 5: on the bench and say, hey, man, he's not really
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  Speaker 5: throwing cutters, he's throwing change ups.
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  Speaker 1: Well that is funny because show Hey hit the homer
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  Speaker 1: on a cutter, and I don't know that he.
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  Speaker 2: Threw another one the rest of the day to left.
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  Speaker 5: East blame Show Hey scared him away from it, Show Hey,
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  Speaker 5: so blame you should know you should go up Show
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  Speaker 5: and say, Show Hey, I hit a homer, but you
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  Speaker 5: cost me my other three of bats because you made
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  Speaker 5: him not throw any more.
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  Speaker 4: Cutters, and I was looking for cutters.
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  Speaker 1: No, you know, the guy last night as an outlier
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  Speaker 1: just because he's got you know, so few starts in
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  Speaker 1: the big leagues usually kind of tell you know, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you hit a ball hard, this guy's gonna run from
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  Speaker 1: that pitch, or this guy's clearly trying to change what
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  Speaker 1: he does.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to tell when you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have enough information on a guy to know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. You know, maybe he threw to a different
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  Speaker 1: catcher his first start versus what he.
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  Speaker 2: Is, who he's doing to last night.
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  Speaker 1: You just you never know that kind of stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, with him being a young rookie, it's just
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  Speaker 1: there's not enough information. And that's why sometimes guys that
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  Speaker 1: are making their debuts and they've only got a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of time, they're tough because you don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: which way they're gonna run.
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  Speaker 2: When when stuff starts getting tough out there.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like this is why teams that have
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  Speaker 6: continuity in their lineup, And I think you guys have
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  Speaker 6: kind of had more continuity in the last three years
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  Speaker 6: instead of like platoon, platoon, platoon, but that continuity where
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  Speaker 6: it's like, you know, how each guy is going to
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  Speaker 6: talk about a certain type of pitch and then how
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  Speaker 6: to implement it.
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  Speaker 2: Into your approach.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's you can call it
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  Speaker 1: a language barrier, but you know, you're in baseball. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've seen it before where guys have come
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  Speaker 1: over into the organization and you know, we start talking
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  Speaker 1: about how a pitch moves and you say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a certain couple of words, and the guy kind of
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  Speaker 1: looks at you with a blank face, like I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard that before. And you know, it's a term that
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  Speaker 1: you use every single day. So you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: when you have the same group of guys for a
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  Speaker 1: while and you just you understand what everyone's thinking.
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  Speaker 2: And also you can understand how it feels to certain players.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if Freddie tells me a certain pitch feels
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  Speaker 1: a certain way, I know exactly what he means because
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  Speaker 1: I know how he's tying that into his account and
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  Speaker 1: you know, with his swing and his approach, and so
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  Speaker 1: I can understand exactly what he means when he tells me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the fastball feels this way or the slider
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  Speaker 1: feels this way, and you know, and even show when
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  Speaker 1: show tells me things. I can understand what he's understand
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  Speaker 1: what he's trying to say now, just because I've been
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  Speaker 1: around him enough.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, that is freaking awesome information. I love.
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  Speaker 6: I love that people are hearing this because this is
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  Speaker 6: like the next level. This is makes good teams great.
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  Speaker 6: Is there anybody that on the team now or that
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  Speaker 6: you play with before that just gave awful information but
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  Speaker 6: was still just an elite hitter, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: Where the dude's like, you know what I do? I
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  Speaker 6: just look in and then they throw like like Hunter Pence.
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  Speaker 6: Hunter Pence will go up and he go, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 6: looking Slider and a dude through ninety nine let her
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  Speaker 6: high and he just tomahawked it and he's like, ah,
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  Speaker 6: you know it just looked like a good pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna throw Albert out there. You know, Albert
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  Speaker 2: didn't give bad information. He gave great information.
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  Speaker 1: But Albert was funny because anytime he'd face a guy,
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  Speaker 1: he would kind of sit there in the meeting and
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  Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you know this, this guy reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of Maddix. And you know it's like Albert, no one
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  Speaker 1: here has played against Maddox No one knows what that
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  Speaker 1: feels like, you know anybout all? This guy reminds me
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  Speaker 1: of Glavin, and it's like, no one knows you know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what you like. We all know who those guys are,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't know what their their pitch mix felt like.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, he would just say things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and you're kind of like Albert, you've played way too long.
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  Speaker 5: Man, Hey, hey, take it easy. Some of us face
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  Speaker 5: Max and Glavin. All right, So take it easy there, Max,
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  Speaker 5: some of us face those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Check the statics. Okay, check my mad e statics.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, all right, I want to know, like, because this
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  Speaker 5: reminds me of my crats. And I have kids in
• 12:19
  Speaker 5: high school, right, and they'll come back after every bat
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  Speaker 5: and they'll be like, this dude's flat.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna rake him. This dude's flat.
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  Speaker 5: Every guy is like the same, right, Oh, this guy's
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  Speaker 5: got nothing, he's flat, We're gonna kill him. It's intriguing
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  Speaker 5: to me that you guys are actually having different conversations
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  Speaker 5: about this.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: I love it so like Otani is he like man
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  Speaker 5: when I face Sagano back in Tokyo, Like man, this
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  Speaker 5: he reminds me, or Kim says some guy in Korea.
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  Speaker 5: Are you guys like, man, we never faced that, dude.
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  Speaker 4: Is it the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: No, they don't say that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for for us, we're really good about you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I was just talking about, we don't really care
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  Speaker 1: much about spin rate. But you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you have to take that into account that if a
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  Speaker 1: guy does have a high spin rate, the ball is
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  Speaker 1: going to feel a certain way. And you know, again
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  Speaker 1: it just goes back to after the first to bat through,
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  Speaker 1: guys talk to each other and you know, hey, what
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  Speaker 1: do you see out of the slider? What'd you see
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  Speaker 1: out of the fastball? What'd you see out of the
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  Speaker 1: sinker or the change up? You know, how did they feel?
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  Speaker 1: And it's you know, okay, you know these pitches came
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  Speaker 1: out of this lane, you could recognize them, whereas this
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  Speaker 1: pitch came out a different lane.
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  Speaker 2: You saw it instantly.
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  Speaker 1: It just feels slow or you know, hey it feels
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  Speaker 1: hard with a good down action.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I just there's a lot of language that we use
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  Speaker 1: to talk to each other, and it's a it's it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things where I feel like if you
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  Speaker 1: put a mic on Us. Regular people would hear it
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  Speaker 1: and be like, I have no idea what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 6: So true, so true. I have a two part question
• 13:48
  Speaker 6: on Pete Rose. First of all, forty and fifty six hits.
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  Speaker 6: Does that number even like, does that even compute in
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  Speaker 6: the sense of like an active big leaguer thinking about
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  Speaker 6: somebody getting four and fifty six hits.
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  Speaker 1: No, that number just sounds astronomical to me, because I
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  Speaker 1: you know, we can bring Freddy back up. You know,
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Freddy's Freddie's chasing three thousand, and he's still a couple
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: hundred away from it. And I feel like Freddie gets
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: a thousand hits every single year. And you know, when
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: you talk about he's trying to get three thousand, you
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: talk about a guy that had, you know, twelve hundred
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: more than that. It's just it's just an insane number
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: to really think about, all right.
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: So the last one for Pete he cheated, he gambled
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: on baseball. Do you feel like that's something that is
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: irreprehensible unforgivable in the game because of what it does
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: to the integrity of the game.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: That's a tricky question that I mean, the simple answer
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: is yes, But you know, you dive in you have
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: to dive into it a little bit more. You know,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: he was banned for life, obviously, and you because of
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: the way the rules are stated, that's that was the fitting,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: you know, punishment for it. You know, should he have
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: been banned from the Hall of Fame?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: That I don't know.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, you talked about a guy
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: who has a number of hits that most people can't
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: even you know, fathom.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: It's I've been thinking.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot the last couple of days,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: ever since the news came out that you know, he
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: got lifted from the permanently ineligible list. It's a it's
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: a really tricky question. I don't know that I have
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: a good answer for it. You know, but the rules
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: of the rules, you break the rules. It's it's you know,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: it's pretty simple.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Well give me a yes or not?
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: What you vote for him? I'm gonna know I'm thumbs down,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: So you go, you yes or no?
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: What I vote for him? Yeah, I probably I'd probably
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: vote for him.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Sucker, sucker, yes or no. I'm just kidding. I'm just
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: everyone has their opinion.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: No, this is no dude, seriously, like, I respect everyone's opinion.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Everyone has opinions on this, and it's why it's one
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: of the most polarizing uh things in all of baseball
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: right now, is because of just some people say yes
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: and people say no. And listen, I understand exactly why
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Max and people say yes, and I have my opinions
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: on why they say no. So no, it was all
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: good fun, but I want to go to something a
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: little more positive for you and for me. We haven't
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: had you on since the Wrigley Field thing happened on
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: the bus. Okay, I just want to give you props
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: for this. I don't know how the hell you didn't
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: get back off that bus and just go grab the
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: guy or yell at the guy that was heckling you
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: when you got on the bus, because you have way
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: more self control than me. Because I would have at
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: least stepped back and said something and then ran up
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: on the bus. You just kind of stopped and looked
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: your looks at it all and went away. So to you, Max,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: nothing but respect, buddy.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think everyone that's in the situation obviously wants
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: to say something. For me, my biggest thing was the
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: language that the guy was using. The amount of kids
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that are out there. Uh, you know, I I just
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: wanted to I just wanted to talk to the guy
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: and be like, hey, hate me all you want, say
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, but like, let's keep it
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit clean here, man. Like there's all these
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: kids that are trying to look up to these players
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and they're hearing this kind of language being used, and
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: it was you know, it sucks, obviously, but it's you know,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: say what you want to say, but let's keep it
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Clean, you know.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And like that was my biggest thing, is I'm looking
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: at all these kids having the this this look on
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: their face of like, oh my gosh, you know, they
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: they almost looked a little a little scared and terrified.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And you know, that was the biggest thing for me
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: is we're as as players and athletes, we're trying to
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: set models and examples for kids, and it's you know,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: they shouldn't have to be subjective to that, even though
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: we are, and it's it's just a sad reality of
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: human nature out there.
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well said, I agree, good on you though, seriously,
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: Like yeah, and when I say that, I mean that,
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: I mean that's sincerely, like good on you for for
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: being the bigger man in this situation and not not
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: firing back because I know it takes a lot.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of appreciate that.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, mostly smart, but some bad eggs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Max, thank you, appreciate a man. Good catching up, great
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: baseball talk.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys, appreciate it.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Hey, stay hot till next Saturday. Okay, just stay hot
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: till next Saturday to coach up. Then I don't have
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: to coach you up, exactly, I don't.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I don't need to hear any more eating tips.
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: So yeah, when AJ steps up in a week, what
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: he's saying to you, I can only imagine.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: No, Yeah, we have the report back if he is.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: If he's hot, it's Mets, Dodgers, Dodgers of the Mets.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: If he's hot, listen.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: He's gonna be like, Hey, that's guy.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, don't swing at the forkball, Max, don't swing at
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: the ghost fork.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's easier said than done.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: You know I'm aware of trust me, I'm aware. Thanks.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll have to have you come out whenever I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: face Lis Luis Castillo, then you can give me some
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: real hitting and tips.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, you're worse thannywhere against Nola.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I'll let you look those up yourself.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: I don't want to say, oh, okay, okay, we've got
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: a break, we'll look it up now.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Thanks Max, all right, I gotta see it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: That was one of the best interviews I've ever had
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: we've ever had on here as far as inside the clubhouse,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: dugout and what goes into getting ready for a game
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: like that was a baseball, you know, fun baseball interview
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: about him and other hitters talking and what people talk
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: about in.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Real life situation.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: She's right, if you went into that clubhouse and just said,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: here's the thing, and if someone that didn't know what
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: you were talking.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: About, they'd be like, what the hell are these guys
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: talking about?
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: But everyone that knows in that area knows like exactly
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: what they're saying.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: And that was awesome of Max to kind of let
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: us in a little bit.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Agreed, that's what really happens in a hitters meeting.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: That was really good.
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: They're like, you have to have some homework, and then
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: they talk about.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: It and you talk and you talked to teams. Man,
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: I hated our hitting coaches meetings. The hitting coaches shouldn't
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: be the one giving the meetings. It should be the
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: players bouncing stuff off each other, and some guys are like, yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: it didn't start working out until we started using, you know,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: helping each other. It was like duh, we're the ones
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: in the box, Like that's who needs to help. He's
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: just telling you, hey, throw sixty five percent sliders. Okay,
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: good information. What does it look like? Does he throw
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: two different sliders? All that stuff goes into it can
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: get a hit in the big leagues.