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Austin Riley & Mookie Betts on What Makes Freddie Freeman a Leader · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to On Base.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Mookie Betts, and today we have two-time All-Star,
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  Speaker 2: two-time Silver Slugger, 2021 World Series Champion, and Braves third baseman,
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  Speaker 2: Austin Riley.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? How you doing, brother? I'm good. Appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: having me. You know what?
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  Speaker 2: You know you're special because we're in the studio today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we usually have a hotel room, but for you,
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  Speaker 2: we're here in the MLB studio, so hopefully you you
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  Speaker 2: got to make this a good one okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try my best no promises um.
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  Speaker 2: Okay so bro to start off we uh first of
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  Speaker 2: all do you like the abs challenge system first of
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  Speaker 2: all you don't like it so why don't you like
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  Speaker 2: it personally i don't like it because you know this
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  Speaker 2: game's already as hard as it is right and i'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to hit 100 yeah with you know three different
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  Speaker 2: fastballs four seam two seam now cutters and sweeping sliders
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just trying to make contact.
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  Speaker 3: And now all of a sudden I got to play
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  Speaker 3: umpire a little bit. And, you know, especially like big situation,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had one not long ago. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: I think in Minnesota, it was strike three, runner on
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  Speaker 3: first and second. Should have, it was a ball, should
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  Speaker 3: have challenged it. And now it's like, I got to
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  Speaker 3: answer to the media after the game. It's like, man,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I get like, you know, the whole concept
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  Speaker 3: of it is like the big misses, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: when it's, 0.2 inches off the plate and I didn't call,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever it may be. Um, so yeah, I mean, I,
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  Speaker 3: I get the whole standpoint of like, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: big misses, but from just the, the human element of
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  Speaker 3: the game, um, I, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest fan. I, I, I definitely understand that. Well, you,
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  Speaker 2: you know how many challenges you have this year?
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  Speaker 3: It's probably, I'm going to say four, five, five.
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  Speaker 1: You're one for five. Not very good. It's not. It's okay, though.
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  Speaker 1: But we play this game. It's called Make the Call.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we'll show is pitches. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: guess if it's a ball or strike. You're one for
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  Speaker 2: five this year in your challenges. And so if you
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  Speaker 2: go one for five here.
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  Speaker 1: You won't. You'll be in last. I'll be in last place.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be in last place.
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  Speaker 2: So three for five has been the best. We've had
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of guys at three for five. And then
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  Speaker 2: two for five, you'll be. battling for last so two
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  Speaker 2: five so i gotta get three right so you gotta
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  Speaker 2: get three at least at least three right okay all
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  Speaker 2: right so if you miss gotta answer a question if i.
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  Speaker 1: Miss again okay yep all right let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a strike strike yeah that was pretty quick okay
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  Speaker 2: so nice it's a good start one for one okay
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  Speaker 2: that's a tough one you uh a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: say in and out is not as hard as up
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  Speaker 2: and down.
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  Speaker 3: In and out's not as– see, for me, in and
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  Speaker 3: out's harder than up and down.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. There you go. Got lucky. That may be
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  Speaker 1: why you're one for five in challenges, bro. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Next one. You got to remember this pitch. That's a ball.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the pitch? I actually remember it getting over challenged. Cheater. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh. Okay. I'm paying attention. All right. All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. I'm glad you remember that. Point one. Point one. See,
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  Speaker 1: that's the one. The human eye can't see that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can't see that. That's all. Everybody's guessing at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so next one. You're two for two, bro. Strike.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be a strike. Got to be. Right?
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  Speaker 1: But because it's so obvious that it's a strike. It's
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  Speaker 1: probably a ball. It may be a ball. But you
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  Speaker 1: call it strike, though, right? Yeah, strike.
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  Speaker 2: Three for three. I think this is the best start
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  Speaker 2: we've had so far. This is the best start. I
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  Speaker 2: could do that in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I know, right? But you can't do both. You can't.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to be able to hit and like
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  Speaker 2: to your point, you know. But you'll know the one
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  Speaker 2: that's two inches, two, three inches off.
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  Speaker 1: I know that one. Yeah. But the one that's close,
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  Speaker 1: like to your point, I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: There's been one time I challenged a high pitch and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, dang, I know it's a strike.
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  Speaker 2: And it was like two inches above your own. And
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  Speaker 2: so I get exactly what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Next one. Ooh, I'm going ball.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want you to be great, bro. That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take three. It's already a win for me.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So I'm picking it and I'm reading it.
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  Speaker 1: You're answering the question. And answering it. All right.
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  Speaker 3: What is the craziest game you've ever been a part of? Ooh,
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  Speaker 3: that's a tough one. Craziest games probably was a game.
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  Speaker 3: five of the world series um you know we had
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  Speaker 3: to win one more um and Duvall ended up like
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like first or second inning he
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  Speaker 3: hits a opposite field grand slam and it was like
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  Speaker 3: the loudest couldn't even hear yourself think and I was
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  Speaker 3: like I was like this is this is it like
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  Speaker 3: we're doing this and I ended up not we ended
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  Speaker 3: up they ended up coming back and and uh and
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  Speaker 3: beating us but it's like That whole, like, just, like,
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  Speaker 3: rollercoaster of emotions of just Grand Slam.
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  Speaker 1: Like, second inning.
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  Speaker 3: We go up four or five, whatever it may have
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  Speaker 3: been at the time. You just kind of was like,
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  Speaker 3: it's happening. And, you know, they ended up coming back
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  Speaker 3: and pushing the game six.
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  Speaker 1: But that was nuts.
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  Speaker 2: That's, like, when you go through emotions like that, that's
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  Speaker 2: got to be hard. Like, to get that high emotionally
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  Speaker 2: and then to finish the rest of the game and then.
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  Speaker 2: i don't know tell me about it like is that
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  Speaker 2: is that hard.
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  Speaker 3: I mean yeah i mean you you know you've obviously
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  Speaker 3: won multiple world series you've been a part of a
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  Speaker 3: world series run and and just like you said every
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  Speaker 3: every moment to just like it seems like everything when
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  Speaker 3: you're getting a cup of water when you're getting like
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  Speaker 3: it's like everything's like magnified and and just like the
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  Speaker 3: the energy there so it's like to hit it i
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  Speaker 3: mean and one to hit a grand slam in the
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  Speaker 3: world series i mean that's that's pretty sick and and
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  Speaker 3: i remember being on third base and and not being
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  Speaker 3: able to hear yourself think or anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like you said.
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  Speaker 3: And then they ended up coming back and beating us
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  Speaker 3: that game. So it was just like, you know, after
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  Speaker 3: the game, you're like, you're so, you know, mentally tired.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just like exhausting and all great at the
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  Speaker 3: same time.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, it's hard to explain.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like.
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  Speaker 2: You're tired, but then you can't really go to sleep because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got the adrenaline going and then, You
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  Speaker 2: got to get ready for the game the next day.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just a lot. Oh, it's a lot. It
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  Speaker 1: becomes a lot. It's worth it, though. It is worth it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so we got one more. All right, come on. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go for the win right here. I'm going ball. Down. Down, right?
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  Speaker 1: I think so. Oh, wow. Austin Riley, top of the leaderboard.
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  Speaker 1: Four for five.
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  Speaker 3: Come now.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to you, bro. That's what I'm talking about, bro.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Trust your gut. Yes. Remember that.
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  Speaker 1: It's really what it comes down to. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's like how many times have I been like, even
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  Speaker 3: like pitches that I'm like, ah, it's like my initial
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  Speaker 3: reaction was like challenge it. I ended up not and
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  Speaker 3: ended up being I should have challenged it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, trust your God. Well, in this game, you
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  Speaker 1: got to try it. Try it today and see, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys have been playing great. What's been a
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  Speaker 2: huge part of you guys turning it around?
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously last year was one of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just a year you try to forget. And we had,
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  Speaker 3: you know, brought a lot of guys back. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we made some ads. I think just.
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  Speaker 1: Guys are having, you know, more years that they're used to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Ozzie's having a great year. Mike's having an
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable year. Oli's doing his thing. And, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, the ads that we've made, you know, Dubon
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  Speaker 3: has been absolutely huge for us.
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  Speaker 1: He's a baller. Baller.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of a kind. You know, Dom right at
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  Speaker 3: the beginning was great. You know, like I said, I
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  Speaker 3: think we're just kind of getting back to what we're
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  Speaker 3: capable of doing, and guys are having years that they're
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  Speaker 3: supposed to have. And, you know, from a pitching standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pitchers are doing their job. I know there's
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  Speaker 3: been a lot of talk of, you know, we should
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  Speaker 3: have added and this, that, and the other. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's all great and speculation and talk. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: guys are going out there and doing their job from
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  Speaker 3: a pitching standpoint. So I think, you know, we're getting–
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  Speaker 3: Timely hits. You know, there's been ebbs and flows of
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  Speaker 3: the year. You know that. We're going to have that.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just, you know, a group of guys
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  Speaker 3: that have one common goal. They want to win. They're
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  Speaker 3: not selfish. They don't care what their roles are. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, it's been a fun year
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  Speaker 3: so far.
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  Speaker 1: And I was talking to Bryce.
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  Speaker 2: I had him on the show, and he kind of mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I had asked him who he thought the
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  Speaker 2: biggest rival would be. for them yeah and i he's
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  Speaker 2: he mentioned that you you guys play the the heat
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  Speaker 2: most heated games mets are probably their biggest rival right
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  Speaker 2: but uh you guys played the the most heated games
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  Speaker 2: going back and forth would you agree with.
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  Speaker 3: That i agree i think like first off when i
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  Speaker 3: came in is like you know it's probably the mets
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  Speaker 3: and i think historically it's it's been the mets you
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  Speaker 3: know you think about like i think chipper named one
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  Speaker 3: of his kids after the met stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Like um.
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  Speaker 3: But here, you know, especially after 21, 22, 23, like
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  Speaker 3: those postseason games that we had and here recently trying to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they won the division the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: I think historically it's the Mets, but here recently, the last,
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  Speaker 3: you know, three, four, five years, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely been the Phillies.
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  Speaker 2: And what is it about them? Is it just like
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  Speaker 2: you know that they're going to come in? They got
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  Speaker 2: a really good ball team. Yeah, really good ball club.
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  Speaker 2: They're a really good team, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: It's gotten close here recently in the division, and I
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  Speaker 3: think there's something about them playing– in Philly in a
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  Speaker 3: postseason game, going to that stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Um, it's, it's hostile. Yeah. It's hostile. My wife, my
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  Speaker 1: wife won't go back. Oh really? No, no, she will not.
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  Speaker 3: It's, it's, um, and I, you know, personally, I love
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  Speaker 3: playing there because it is hostile. They do not like
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  Speaker 3: us whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Um, that's what makes it fun.
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  Speaker 3: 100%. You, you want to play those games. So, um, I, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I definitely agree with him.
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  Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and then for you personally, you've been, uh, you've
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  Speaker 2: had a good August. They call you, uh, August Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that? I did not. August Austin.
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  Speaker 3: I guess if you look at my numbers, they're not
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  Speaker 3: bad throughout my career in August.
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  Speaker 1: I guess so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I guess that's a good nickname
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  Speaker 2: to have, you know, whatever it is, what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you were talking to Chipper back in
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  Speaker 2: July earlier this year during BP and you have him
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  Speaker 2: around and I'm sure a bunch of other people, but
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  Speaker 2: Chipper in specific, like what has he done for you
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  Speaker 2: or you know, is he just someone you kind of
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  Speaker 2: talk to, you call when you're going through something, do
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  Speaker 2: you ask him questions?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. Okay, so what do you,
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  Speaker 1: he's always there?
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  Speaker 3: He's there, you know, once a home, you know, once
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  Speaker 3: a home series, you know, he pops in and out, and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for me, the biggest thing that I've, like,
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  Speaker 3: gained from him is just the approach and mental side
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  Speaker 3: of the game, that chess match that, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: was so good at, and Nowadays, like I said, everybody's
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  Speaker 3: throwing 100. It's a four seam, it's a two seam,
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  Speaker 3: it's a cutter. You've got guys coming out of the
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  Speaker 3: pen that are throwing three different fastballs. How do I
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  Speaker 3: game plan for that? I think he's been really good
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  Speaker 3: at that. I naturally have a slide in my load.
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  Speaker 1: Him being able to.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to slow feet, lower body stuff, trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: my head as still as possible. Um, that's, that's what
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  Speaker 3: I've really valued, you know, you know, learning stuff from him. Um, and,
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  Speaker 3: and like from a hitting standpoint, um, I say he's,
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  Speaker 3: he's one of the best to ever do it.
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  Speaker 2: Has he ever brought up like how much the game
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  Speaker 2: has changed from when he played to now?
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  Speaker 1: So how do you balance that? Because somebody like Chipper, right? Awesome. Yeah. Great.
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  Speaker 2: You name it, he's done it. And then you put
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  Speaker 2: it into today's game. Like, do you, does the things
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  Speaker 2: that he say that worked for him then work now?
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: Just because I think it's just more about, like, keeping
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  Speaker 3: it simple. And I think that's what you have to do,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in today's game is keep it simple. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think he talks a lot about just, like, keeping
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  Speaker 3: the swing and the move short and quick. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that that's really valuable. So, yeah, I think so. And,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, he'll say it's like the game's changed. Um,
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot, you know, it's a lot harder now,
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  Speaker 3: I think. And, and, um, but yeah, I think just
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  Speaker 3: like from a simplicity standpoint of how he talks about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, your moves and, and how to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: attack a hit or pitcher is, is, is, is similar
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And then having Acuna back, what's it been like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: having him back? I know he was out for a
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  Speaker 2: little while. Like what, when he comes back, what does
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  Speaker 2: he bring? to the lineup, to the field, to everything
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  Speaker 2: for you guys?
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  Speaker 1: A lot.
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  Speaker 3: Um, you know, it's tough to replace a Ronald. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I've said that multiple times. It's just what he can do. Um,
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  Speaker 3: not only just like presence in the box, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for a pitcher, just, you know, have him at the
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  Speaker 3: top of the lineup. You know, if he gets on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a walk, he gets on base next, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's on second and, and, um, you know, he can
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  Speaker 3: flip a, he can flip a game really quick. Not,
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  Speaker 3: not with just one swing of a bat. Um, With
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  Speaker 3: his speed, with his arm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We just saw him do it in Milwaukee. That
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  Speaker 1: was nasty. Yeah, it was gross.
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  Speaker 2: And Lara, he's really fast. Like, that play. I mean, look, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's a really fast runner.
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  Speaker 1: So I had a really good view of this because it's, like,
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  Speaker 1: angled of me at third. So I was like, please go.
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  Speaker 1: Please go.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, he's going to throw a bullet right here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it was. It was sick. That's like a
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  Speaker 1: flat-footed throw right on the money.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a long– and I'll tell you this. His
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  Speaker 3: ball's coming– because I'll be the first to tell you,
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  Speaker 3: I've missed a lot of balls from him at third
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  Speaker 3: because it's a different animal.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 1: When he comes out. Even last night. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was last night.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a ball so hard to catch because it's coming.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a little tail on it. It's
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  Speaker 1: just– He spins it really good.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just hard to– To your point, we
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  Speaker 2: had a perfect view of that throw yesterday, and it just, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you're short now. It's like those balls that are
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  Speaker 3: coming in hot, short hops.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a challenging throw. It's hard to catch. And then
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about another teammate, Olsen, you know,
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  Speaker 2: since he's. He's came over. He's made a big difference. Well,
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  Speaker 2: not a big difference, but a huge impact, should I say.
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  Speaker 2: He's having another great season, you know, hitting a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of homers, getting hits and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: Like, what has he added since he's come over? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just I think.
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  Speaker 3: The perfect explanation of just, like, consistency. I mean, he's obviously,
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: you know, has over 900 games consistently played.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: It just, you know, he shows up every day. You know,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: his routines is really, really impressive. You know, he's a
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: student of the game. You know, he's in the computer watching,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: you know, pitchers trying to get an edge. And, yeah,
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, just the production, I mean, for itself. I mean,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: he's going to hit 30 homers. He's going to drive
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: in close to 100 ribbies, if not more. I mean,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: it's just– from a you know just taking it from
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: a manager standpoint knowing that you can plug him in
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: every day knowing you know what you're going to get
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: i think that's one of the most valuable things in
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: in our in our.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Game today have you learned taking anything from him um
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: as far as seeing how consistent he is and what
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: he and how he works like have you been.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah i think i think i tried i tried to
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: i try to take something from from everybody it just
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: and you know for him it's just how he approached
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: the game every day and just, you know, he's going
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: to go through his ebbs and flows. And I think
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: the really good hitters, when you look at, you know,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: what they do on a daily basis, whether they're, you know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: 10 for 10 or 0 for 10, it's like they
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: stay the same. And he's really good at that. And
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: like I said, I try to model that, you know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: try not to change, you know, it's crazy. It's like
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: when things are off, it's normally not as far as
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: you think it is. And it's like understanding how to
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: keep that, that focus and, and not forget that. Um,
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I think, like I said, I think he's really, really
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: good at that.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: What does he do to, to play that many, like
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: that many games in a row? Like, is there, does
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: he drink coffee or, you know, what is it, what
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: is it like to, to show.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Up for 900 games in a row? Uh, is it,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: is there a secret that you see or anything?
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: No, I think he takes really good care of his
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: body and, and, um, You know, he always talks about,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I play for the tie, whatever it may be. And,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: you know, I think he understands how to, you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: he's obviously done it a long time, so I think
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: he's got a routine. And, yeah, you know, a lot
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: of it's a mindset. It's just like understanding, it's like, hey,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I'm showing up every day. I'm not going to feel 100%.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: There's going to be days where I feel 80%, 75%.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: But knowing, you know, at that point, I think he
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: has an idea of how, he can still be productive.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Um, so I think, like I said, a lot of
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: it's mindset.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: What do you do on the days that you, when
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you feel, you know, 75, 80%, you got in at
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: two in the morning.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: What do you do those days? You know, for me, it's, it's, um,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: a lot of just recovery stuff. I try to, you know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: especially when we're on the road, um, try to lay
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: around and stay in bed as long as possible. Um,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I got two boys at the house and, and, uh,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: at home at, you know, you try to be as
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: present there as possible. But like I said, certain times,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: you know, whether it's, getting in the recovery boots, you know,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: maybe a 20-minute nap right before the game.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Those are a beauty.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the 20-minute naps are key sometimes. You know, I
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: was talking to Mizorowski on here, and he said he
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: never feels good. So it's weird to hear that Olsen
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: plays 900 games and– I mean, obviously, he doesn't feel
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: good all the time, but you have to feel good.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: A lot to play that many games. Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: But then Mizorowski says he feels like 75%. All the time?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: He does 104?
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: We just faced him. I was like, it's not fair.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's like.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: How do you not feel good and you're bumping 104? Yeah,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. But it is what it is.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Another pitcher, Chris Sale, obviously, since he's come over, he's
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: been dominant. I got to play with Sale, and I
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: know how much of.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: A beautiful person he is. Oh, he's great.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: You know, he brings everything to the clubhouse, especially, you know,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: not on the diamond, but in the clubhouse.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: He's hanging out. He's talking.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: But I really love him because when he's pitching, you
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: can't tell.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: No.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: He's the same person all the time. And I really
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: enjoy that about pitchers. But obviously he's having another great season.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: What's it like having him from your perspective?
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I'll say that I.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Was scared of him when he first came up.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Because, you know, you hear the stories. And he's told them, like,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: as far as, like, in Chicago where he cuts the jerseys.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: And so I was like, I was like, I'm going
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to be my P's and Q's. I'm going to just
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: kind of stay.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: In my lane.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: But he's like, man, he's the complete opposite. He's like
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: the best teammate. And like you said, it's like, Obviously
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: what he does, he's a bulldog on the mound. It's like,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: you know, he he um you want him in the
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: game in big moments and and obviously you know for
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: me he's a he's a hall of famer no doubt
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: um but you know i think the the biggest thing
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: is just like you said when the days he's not
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: pitching he's engaged with with teammates and you know he's
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: he's you can talk to him even like on his
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: start days you know some pictures you don't you don't
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: talk to you don't look at um you know he's
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: he's out there you know he's still having a good
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: time on his start days and And, um, just like
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I said, an unbelievable human, um, great teammate, you know, he's,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: he's hilarious in his own way. Um, and it's just,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: you know, he's been a, he's been a treat to,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: to play with for sure.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And then you got Strider back this year. I'm showing
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: that helps a ton. Yeah. What's he like?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: I've never, I've never gotten to really talk to him.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: So Strider's kind of, you know, he's obviously, you know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: injured right now and, and, you know, hopefully we get
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: him back at some point, but, um, He's kind of
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: that other end of the spectrum.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: He's on the other side. Yeah, he's very routine-oriented, very
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: P's and Q's. So would you go talk to him
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: before the game or no? I would maybe say early.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It depends on what time it is.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: When he first gets there, yeah, I'll ask him a question,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: but then it's kind of like it seems like you know,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: after he, you know, eats his lunch, he's, you know, he's,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: he's locked in and just kind of like, Hey, let.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Him do his thing. Yeah. Just a wave. Like, Hey, Hey,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: throw him the ball. Hey, go get them pal.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Uh, but like you said, it's like some people, you know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: operate different and that's how he gets going. And, and, uh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: you know, another great teammate as well. So, um, you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: everybody has their, their way of getting going.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: All right. And then, uh, Walt Weiss, tell me about him.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a new skipper this year and, um,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: He's kind of taken you guys through not playing well
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to playing well. How has he been through the whole process?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: He's been unbelievable. He's been just great, really. Whenever they
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: were going through that whole deal of who was going
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: to be our manager, if we were going to stay in-house,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: that's who I wanted. I've obviously been with him my
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: whole career when he was with the bench coach.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But just super knowledgeable of the game.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: He's kind of got that nice blend of of old
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: school a little bit, but also understands the new school
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: of the game and, and how to just like mesh
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: that and how to, you know, I had a really
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: good conversation because obviously, you know, had a, you know, not,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: not a very good year and, and had a really
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: good conversation with him early on about a month or
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: so ago of just like, you know, chasing, kind of
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: chasing old fields of 21, 22, 23. And, and, you know,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: he gave me some advice of, you know, he, he
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: did that in his career and, and how you can
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: kind of run down a rabbit hole and how it
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: can spiral and, And so it kind of changed my
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: perspective on, on hitting a little bit of just, you know,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: my body's changed.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I've had a wrist injury.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I've had a lower abdominal injury and, you know, my,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: like I said, my body's changed. So it's like trying to,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: trying to not learn my swing, but just like understanding
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: that old feels and old cues, you know, they may
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: not work now. It's like how to, how to find,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: find what works for me. And that's been, that's been,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: like I said, something from, from him has been huge
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: for me. And there's just no panic. I mean, the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: man's got cauliflower here. It's like, you don't want to
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: mess with him.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Speaking of cauliflower, you know he does, he taekwondo.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's, I mean, you saw the brawl we had
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: with the Angels.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: He probably, he was all in on that. Oh, yeah.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, just an unbelievable perfection of
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: form tackle right here.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And I got snipered. from the top deck.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah i fell did you okay so you're in the
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: middle of that like and when you go down like
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: what are you thinking did you get stepped on at.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: All yeah so i think it was mateo and i
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: talked to mateo i was like man i was like
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: immediately i was like man my buddies are gonna absolutely
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: ride me on this.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Um oh he pushed you down yeah um.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: But now i i you know I played with Solaire,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: so he's like a big teddy bear.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, really? Oh, yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: So this was like, was not expecting that whatsoever. And then,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: like I said, Walt just, you know, forearm tackling.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, you just, you don't mess with Walt.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, so do you think, like, if there was a
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: big league manager fight or whatever, like, he would have
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to be one of the favorites, right?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, cause he did. He's my one, one. If
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you're a black belt in Taekwondo.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, have you seen his forearms?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: He's got like two baseballs right here.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: He works out all the time. Yeah. He's in the
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: gym every day. He's in the gym every day.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: When we first get there, he's in the gym getting,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: getting after it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: So, uh, good for him. Yeah. Right.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about the vibes
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: in the clubhouse. I know like, like we mentioned earlier, uh,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Dubon is a beautiful human. Um, And I know he
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: kind of, can you tell me about Doobie's Disco?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Doobie's Disco?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Doobie's Disco. Do you know about, like, I guess he
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: came in in the clubhouse.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: He had music. He had sage. He had a disco ball, lights,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so can
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you tell me? He's all about the vibes. Vibes. He's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a big vibes guy. Big vibes guy.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: You know, he's very engaged. And, yeah, he came in
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: one day. You know, he carries around this big, he
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: carries it on the bus too. Like this big speaker.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: That's about this big. That's got wheels on it. And he,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: he lugs that thing around. Uh, so does Dom Smith.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: So we got one at the front of the bus,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: one of the back.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Of the bus. Oh, you got two. Yeah. Are they connected? Uh, no, no.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: So you got two different music. Sometimes. Yeah.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: We try to, we try to, you know, one at
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: a time, but you know, um, but no, like I said, just, um,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: unbelievable vibes. He's, uh, he's, he's, He's a beauty.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all you can really say.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: He's a beauty.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I do want to ask about Ella's Fellas. Ella's Fellas? Okay.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, tell me about Ella. Like, that's you guys? Like,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you guys love Ella Langley?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Ella Langley.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: She's good. I don't want to get in trouble with
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: my wife. Oh, well, I mean, like, the music. Yeah,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the music's great.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: You know, all his walk-up songs. One of his walk-up
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: songs is Ella.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. And she was played. She had a concert here.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And you guys all went? We were on the road. Oh,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you were on the road. Our wives went. Okay, of course.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: So they got to enjoy it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: But no, I think there was a shirt that was
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: made that said Ellis Fellows.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: We wore it around, but nothing crazy.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Do you guys have another artist like that that you
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: always listen to?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: No, we bounce it around. You have to. Money Mike's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: on the aux. Oh, he's on the aux. Yeah, so
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: he's on the aux in the clubhouse. It's not Doobie.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Doobie's on the bus, he will, like in the back.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: But in the clubhouse, it's Money Mike.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Money Mike. And he's got it dialed in. He's dialed in.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: He's dialed in. He looks like he would have it
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: dialed in. He had to get.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: The voice going. Whatever genre you want, he's got it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: He's good at it. Okay, and then I know.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: You guys have like a player of the game situation
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: where I guess after the game you had to make
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a putt.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, make a putt. Okay, so tell me how did
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that start? So that's Ole's idea. Okay. And it was
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: just like one of those things where, you know, after
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: games we just weren't doing anything.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: It was like, hey, good job. And Ole was like, man,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: we got to get the boys together. So we got
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: a big chain. We got like a coat that says
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: player of the game and one end of the clubhouse
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: to the other end.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: How long of a putt is this? gotta be like
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a 40 yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: It's probably close to 40 foot um and you know
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: pick the you know maybe one maybe two maybe three
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: depending on the situation of the game uh everybody gets
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: a putt and if you make it you may or
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: may not get some cash for.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: It so do you have to everybody has to put
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: in to the pot or like how does that work.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: How does the pot work so Ole supplies it oh
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: just Ole supplies yeah and then if.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You miss you uh you gotta put 20 in.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: So it's a nice little fun game so what's the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: biggest pot that's been won so far.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Shoot, it's been a couple grand. A couple grand. Nice.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And have you made a putt? Oh, yeah. Don't ask
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: all that about it. Oh, okay. Well, no, I want
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to ask you about it. Okay, so tell me about it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: You got in. You were feeling good. You got over
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the putt. Tell me about it, bro. Yeah, I mean,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you're locked in. Everybody's lined up watching. Oh, yeah, everybody's
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: lined up watching it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: And our clubhouse is a little right-to-left breaker. I've learned
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: that over the few putts. And, yeah, I think I
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: made two or.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Three in a row. Oh, did you? And I was like, bro,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: come on, you got to stop making them. That's hilarious.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: So has anybody else made any?
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Like when Acuna putts? Because I'm assuming he's not a golfer.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Just assuming. You know, not to throw shade, but like,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: you know, love Ronnie, love Ozzie.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've hit some chairs. No, they're nowhere near it. Yeah,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: it's a little tough. Okay.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: You know, if you play golf, you typically.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Are going to be close. For sure.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: And, you know, we've had some guys just absolutely blow
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: it by. You know, it's all fun and games. Yeah,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: for sure, for sure. And if you really make a
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: bad putt, you might get booed a little bit. All right,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: but at least you're going to play the game. All right,
• 29:26
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• 29:49
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• 29:53
  Speaker 5: the other day that talked about your stat line with
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: the Red Sox and your stat line with the Dodgers
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: through 794 games. The stat lines are pretty similar. Which
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: version of yourself do you think is the better overall player?
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a great question, John from Connecticut.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I don't really know. I mean, you know, I feel
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: like I'm, Two different people. When I was at the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Red Sox, I was much younger, so I was way
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: more dynamic. Hit leadoff, so... You know, I was running
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: ceiling bases, doing a whole bunch of other stuff. And now,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: the game is just... My game is just completely different.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I would probably have to say... The better overall would
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: probably have to be... As a Red Sox, I would
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: probably say. I was... just still.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: A more basis more dynamic um than now i feel
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: like i've been um pretty good as a dodger too
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: but i guess with it being so close um you
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: know they're pretty consistent which i try and hang my
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: hat on it's being consistent right just like olsen we
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: all want to be consistent because it's it's the name
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: of the game yeah that's what the game is you
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: know so uh but yeah i would say probably as
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: a red sock do we have another question.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Hey, what's going on, Mookie? This is Brian. Wanted to
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: ask you, if you were MLB commissioner for a day
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: and you were able to change three different things in
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: anything for today's game, what would they be and why?
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Go Dodgers.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: You got to help me with this one. I already
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: got one whenever you're ready. Oh, go. You pop it off.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Change it back to seven-inning doubleheaders. Oh, seven-inning doubleheaders was huge.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: So huge. Oh, man, I remember that. They were great. Yeah,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: they were great. Nobody really minded playing doubleheaders. No, you were, like, honestly, like,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: kind of begging for some doubleheaders. Yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: It's, like, it's different than 0 for 8 or 0
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: for 9.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Than 0 for 6. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: And as I said, we play every day. It's, like,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: seven innings is a lot better. It's crazy, two innings,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: but it makes a world of a difference.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: It makes a world of a difference. Just a seven-inning game.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I mean that. Touch me. Yeah. Okay. So that's one.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I wholeheartedly agree with that.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I think I would go with the, uh, I think
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I would go with like the break, the all-star break
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: being a week.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I think I would want that to be a week,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Just to, cause it's long enough to like, as soon
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: as your brain starts to get into rest mode, you're
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: right back, right back to it. So, um, you gotta, um,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: confuse yourself. And now, um, I don't know what the
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: last one would be. I would say, you don't have
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: any more?
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got another one. All right, let's go. I'm
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: saying the getaway days. Oh, yeah. No later than like
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: 3 o'clock. No, no, no. It's got to be a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: day game.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Because we have, yeah. Two hour delays. There's another one.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: We just get a bunch of rain here, so.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I don't know what that is. We don't
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: have rain. So, yeah.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: But I definitely understand that, the delays and whatnot. But
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: for sure, the night games to get away. Because there's
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: so many times you'll get in at 2 and 3
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: in the morning.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: No doubt. And then have to.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: You're changing time zones, didn't have to play that day.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: And it's not really that day that it affects you.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: It's really the next couple days.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: For sure. So I would definitely say, yeah, those three
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: are good. I like it. It's good to get some stuff,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: some good stuff. You may have yourself a job at
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the front office.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I want that one.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I want to talk a little bit about the World Series,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: your World Series runs. Being a World Series champion, like
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: when you walk around, Like, does that, does that feel good?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: People talk and bring it up all the time.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, they, they do.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: And, and it's, it's the ultimate goal. I mean, it's
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: what you play the game with. I mean, I think
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: back in, you know, my little self, you know, in
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: the backyard, it's like three, two, two outs, bottom of
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: the ninth world series. It's like, you know, it's, you
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: dream of it as a little kid and, and to
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: be able to, to win one, um, you know, nobody
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: can ever take that from you forever.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It's like your wheelchair, your world series champion forever.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: What do you think, um, you know, through that whole
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: run was like the, the, the main thing that you
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: guys did or something that happened that helped, um, propel you.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Guys through the whole thing. Man, if you, if you remember,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: we were, we weren't very, we were not in a
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: good spot, like leading up into August. Yeah. You were
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: 51 and 52. Yeah.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: And it's just, we got hot at the right time. Um,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: and you know, Rosario, Solaire, the acquisitions that we got
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: at the trade deadline and Duvall and, and, um, yeah,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, we just had some key guys get hot
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: at the right time. Um, and, and ultimately that's what,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: what it's about in the, in the playoffs.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And jock shoot the pearls. I mean, the pearls.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like I said, I think we, we had some
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: guys get hot at the right time and got some,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: some big key hits and, and pitched, um, really well
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: at the right time I mean that's about you know
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: I think you can hang your can you hang your
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: hat on that that run for us.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: And you named all the guys that came but you
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: guys had Freddie yeah Ozzie Dansby and yourself in the
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: infield and like you guys were rocking and rolling really
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: really all year but like at the right time you
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: guys were rocking and rolling that's got to be you
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: know you've played obviously you know for the Braves and
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: whatnot and you've had different infielders but that's gotta be
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: one of the best infields you've ever.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: That, that, that core, like I said, with Freddie, Ozzie, Dansby, me, um, yeah,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: that's a really, really good infield at the, at the time. And, and, um,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you know, I, I think about like, you know, it
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: seems like everybody had big key hits, you know, Freddie,
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: you know, against Milwaukee, the Homer, um, against Hader. It's,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: you know, Dansby, Homer, you know, back-to-back Homers, him and, um,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: you know, Solaire against, against Houston.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Um, Yeah, I had a couple big key hits. Ozzie
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: had a couple big key hits.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just an overall team effort that just
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: got hot.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: That's how you win. I mean, and, you know, what's
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: crazy is that's when Acuna got hurt. And when he
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: got hurt, like, what was it like? Because, you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: from the outside, it was like, oh.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: That's punching the gut.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Like, when Acuna's hurt, like, they're not– not that they're
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: not good, but that's– You can't replace that.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I said, you can't replace. You can't replace Ronnie.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But you didn't. How
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: did that feel, should I say, when he went down?
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, like it was yesterday in Miami when
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: he went down. And, you know, I felt like we
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: were starting to kind of get where we wanted to be.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: And then you take that blow. It's, like I said,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: it's a gut punch. And, you know, you start kind
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: of questioning, you know, how things are going to, you know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: play out.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: And, you know, you kind of go back to it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: It's like jock.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Solaire, Eddie, Rosario, it's like those guys stepped up huge
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: for us in the outfield. And Duvall, like I said,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: it's just stepping up.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it is.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: You know what's crazy is thinking about it now, like
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: it took, you know, four different guys to have big
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: moments and were– that was the way to replace Acuna.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? It takes four people to
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: replace one guy. But, I mean, again, to your point,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: you know, it's always going to be a team effort,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: and it's always going to be, you know, something like that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: You remember Solaris Homer, the over the tracks?
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Do you know how far it went? I don't remember
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: how far it went. I remember watching this, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I was like, good gosh. They said 440. I think
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: that's got to be 500.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely with StatCast and some homers that I've
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: seen hit over the years, I'm like, there's no way.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: It didn't go further.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I remember watching that homer, and I think I knew,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I'm like, they're getting too many big hits at the
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: right time. You could watch in really any game, you
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: could say like, oh, man, they got a two-out hit
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: in the third inning.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: They got another one out or whatever in the fifth inning.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Like, they're probably going to win this game because they're
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: winning all the moments.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. You guys won a lot of moments.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I do want to say again, I think I've said
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: it on air, you know, about Matzik, Tyler Matzik.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: And, you know, because he played a huge part in–
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: He gave his career that year pretty much. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: which was unreal.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Unreal.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Real. Yeah, I know that inning you're talking about.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: That inning, it was.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't even just that inning because it
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: was throughout the whole playoffs and everything. He did it
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: all for that whole year, really.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: But, like, I don't know what he did or what
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: came on him, but dude, that was unreal what he did.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Did he ever say anything? I don't know if it
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: was just.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Because, I mean, I think he was He had sat, like, 94, 95, like,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: throughout the season, and I think he was, like, pumping, like... 98, 99.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: But it was– It's like invisible.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: And he's through fastballs. Yeah.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: And you knew it was coming. We see some guys
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: like that today. It's like, you know what's coming. It's like,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: I still can't hit it. I still can't hit it.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: It was, like I said, he pretty much– gave his
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: career for that run right there.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Did he ever talk about it or talk about what
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: he did? Not like in a boasting, you know, whatever way,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: but like, you know, that was really cool or, man,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: that was awesome what I did. Not really.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Like I said, pretty humble guy. He just wanted the
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: ball and went out there and did it. And like
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: I said, to me, really that inning alone right there
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: was one of the bigger– moments in that run.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: As you were going through that inning and you saw
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: it kind of unfolding and you saw, like, okay, they
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: can't hit it, what were you– because.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Being on the other side. Was it runner on third?
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Runner on second and third?
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Something like that.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: It was something like– yeah, it was second and third,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I think. And, you know, as an infielder, I know, like, okay,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: they can't see this. They're not hitting this. And very
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: rarely do you ever really see– somebody throwing a pitch that.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Nobody can hit.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Like at some point, you know, maybe a guy didn't
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: hit it, but then the next guy, you know, he's
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: going to foul off or do whatever.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Like we weren't touching it, you know? So like, what
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: were you, what was going through your mind? For me,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, you kind of play it by outs.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: It's like, all right, we just got to figure out
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: a way to get like a pop-up or a strikeout
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: and then field, keep this here. And then it's like, bam, strikeout.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: It's like, okay, let's just get us one more. It's like,
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: so you're just like, You're self-talking, pumping me up, trying
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: to pump him up without saying anything. And then, like
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: I said, it happens again, and then he does it again. Really,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: it's like, I can't believe it happened.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Not that. There's other ways.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Usually you get a punchy, and then you may get
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: a handful fly or something.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Three punchies. Man, that was awesome. It was crazy.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: And, honestly, like, being on the other side, you know,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: on the side, obviously, that it happened to, at the time,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: it sucked. But I can definitely take a step back
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: and say, like.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Dude, that was awesome. Like, that was not me to
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: be here. Yeah, like you said, you kind of appreciate
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the moments. Yeah, you did, for sure, for sure.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: In that game.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: And then I want to go a little bit on
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: the– in 2020, we had a battle in the CS
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: in– first of all, the bubble, did you enjoy the bubble?
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Uh, no.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Cause I'm like, I have like ADD. I can't sit still.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: It's like, I'm confined in this, this bubble. Um, yeah,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: it drove me nuts.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: It wasn't, it wasn't a whole lot of fun, but, uh,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you gotta do what you gotta do. That's right.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: I remember what was weird was we were playing against
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: each other, but then we were staying with each other
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: at the, at the hotel.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: So it was like, So you see, you know, you
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: just face the guy who just struck me out, and
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I see him next day getting coffee.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, I don't really want to talk to you
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: right now, but, you know, as a dude, as a
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: part of it, you know, we're going to talk and
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: do whatever we need to do. I remember so much
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: about that battle.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I thought we were going to lose. You guys, I mean.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: What did we get? We went up three. I think
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: it was 3-1, and I'm like, golly. You guys were rolling. Yeah.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: How did you feel? How did you guys feel, you know,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: through the bubble at that time? It was tough.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: Like I said, going up 3-1 against you guys, it's
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: like I said, one of those things that's like, man,
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: we just got to win one more.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: One more. One more. And that one more is so hard.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: So hard. It's so hard.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Because in those moments, it's like I talked about earlier,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: it's like everything is magnified. Everything has like, everything has
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: pressure on it. And, you know, I was, shoot, I
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: was 23, um, at the time and I was playing,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: I think left field some, um, had a misplay out there.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: I had a base running error that kind of big
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: call that cost us, um, you know, got doubled off.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, you look back.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: At those moments and it's like, it has a lot
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: of learning experience and, and, you know, it helped me.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Later, later on.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: But, you know, I think about it's like Mark Akis,
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: that was his last year. It was like, you know,
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: you know, he played the game so long and, And,
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: you know, you want to win for those guys that
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: have put all that time in. And it's like, you know,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: some of those mental errors that I had, it's like,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: you know, you kick.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Yourself a little bit. But, yeah, it was a crazy experience.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: You know, kudos to you all for going after it.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Was that your first game seven?
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: How were you going into that game seven? Because I
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: remember going into that game seven, and I'm like, whew. Like,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: you know, it's easy to say– You know, it's just
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: game seven. You know, it's another game, whatever. But it's
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: like it's different.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: When you have to win. Like you have to win.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: You have to win today. No doubt.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: And there's nine innings. There's 27 outs. Like you cannot
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: mess up at all. Like, you know, so having that
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: pressure was– I was nervous.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. You know, so like for you. Definitely nervous.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I think it's natural, but it's– like you said, it's
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: like if I don't win this game, I'm going home.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: And so it's like you said, I think just the
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: added pressure of of trying to get that knock, do
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: too much. And you know how it goes. It's like,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: you know, you got to stay inside yourself. And, you know,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: we didn't get those timely hits and, you know, ultimately
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: went home. But like I said, a lot of pressure.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Like I said, it's all part of it. And, you know,
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: learning curve, learning experience, and you just try to take
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: that and grow from it.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I want to talk a little bit about, um,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: playing with Freddie. We've both gotten to play with Freddie.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: He was probably your first example of someone that shows
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: up and plays every day. For sure. What did you learn,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: you know, from Freddie that you, that applies to you now?
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: You know, just the, like I said, kind of similar to,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: to Olsen, just the consistency. Um, you know, I was,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: I was, you know, just coming up and, and obviously,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: you know, playing, playing with him early on. It's, it's, um, Yeah,
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I caught myself not wanting to disappoint him. It's like,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? It's like he was the guy.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: He was the face of the franchise. And coming up,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: it's like, man, I just wanted to do right by it,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: make sure I did right by him. But at the
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: same time, it's like he was always there. He was
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: a great teammate. And just being able to learn from him,
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: it's just like– you know, trying to, you know, that
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: was like my first real experience I talked about earlier.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: It's like seeing the consistency in, in, um, in a
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: cage routine of just like how it's almost like stubbornness
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: of just like, you know, whether you're going well or
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: going not, he's like, I'm staying the same. Um, and
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I remember actually I was struggling a little bit. I
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: can't remember what year it was. Um, but I'd, I'd
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: played well. And then I'd kind of gone through a
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: cold streak and snit was going to give me a day. And,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Freddie's like, come here, Austin. So we went to Snit's office.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, gosh, what's going on? And Freddie
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: vouched for me. He's like, he needs to be playing today.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: He's like, he's our guy. He needs to be playing
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: every day. And, of course, we didn't win that battle.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: I got the day off. But, you know, like I said,
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: having a guy like Freddie in your corner and pulling
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: for you, you know, that means a lot to me.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, I mean, yeah, I think it
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: is stubbornness. Like as far as he's so stubborn to
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: his– routine like he will not change it for anything
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: whether it doesn't matter what he went through last night
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: right now earlier today like.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: It's the same it's the same i think that's a
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: big reason why he's 300 hitter.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah for so long you know and you know even
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: now i learned from him you know just watching him
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: and talking to him and yeah i mean there's i
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: haven't really had much of an ink that kind of
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: example you know I've had a lot of different examples
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: but that kind of example um it's it's much appreciated
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: you know and so I really feel like that's something
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: that I can uh that can take home and then
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: seeing him play first base you know I hadn't really
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: uh played infield at all and so all I really
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: know is Freddie and so I see how good he is.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Over there I mean you just if you throw it
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: anywhere in the vicinity. I've been spoiled. I've had Freddie.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: I've had Matt.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: It's like catch the ball, throw it over there, and
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: it's going to be caught.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: It's going to be caught. It doesn't matter. That's such
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: a good feeling. You know what? And honestly, I feel
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: like that makes you make better throws. Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: There's no pressure.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: It's like I said, all I've got to do is
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: catch it and get rid of it, and nine times
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: out of ten, it's going to be an out.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: It's going to be an out.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: It's like now you're able to slow everything down a
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: little bit, and I've been spoiled for sure.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Before I let you go, I want to go to,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: we're both from the South. Yeah. Right. And I want
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: to play this game called Southern or Not. Okay. All right.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: So we're going to have some phrases up here and
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: we got to guess if they are. You playing this too? Yeah,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I'm playing. I'm playing. I feel like I kind of
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: lost my, you still have your accent. Yeah. My accent
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: is mine.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: I think especially when i go home in the off
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: season it kind of grows.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Real bad.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Don't piss down my back don't piss down my back
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: and tell me it's raining it's got to be southern
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: i think.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: That's southern that's got to be southern yeah yeah that's
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: for sure Don't lie to me about something that's obviously happening.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I haven't said that, but like. I've never even heard
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: of it. I mean, but I get it. And because
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: we get it, it's Southern. Exactly. Exactly. Busier than a
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: one-eyed cat watching two mouse holes. No, I don't think
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: that's Southern. No, that's just a. Somebody made that up.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: That's just a saying. Yeah. Somebody. There's no way that's Southern. What?
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Very busy. Very busy. Must be from like Arkansas or something. Yeah,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: that's deep south. I'm not from the deep south. I'm
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: just regular south. Yeah. Okay. A couple more. He took
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the horse's saddle and wore it himself. Took the horse's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: saddle and wore it himself. Starting to question my southerness. Yeah,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm a southern anymore. I don't
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: think so. Yeah, I'm going no. I'm going to go no.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: No.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Fake. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Okay. Two more.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go see a man about a dog.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go see a man about a dog.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I ain't never heard that before.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: I'm saying no. I'm saying let's go fake. For real.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: What you say when you're leaving but don't want to
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: tell people where you're going.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go see a man about a dog.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: You talk to these southern people. Yeah.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Where are these people? Who are these Southern people that
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: you talking to?
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: God. Okay. One more. Let's see. Last one.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: He's milking a cow with his hands tied. I just
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: visually thought of that.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right? And I don't know. Go a bunch of
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: different ways with this. I'm going to go. Oh, man.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: You know what? Yeah. I mean, you throw cow in there.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Let's go Southern. I think so. It's so off the wall.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going real. Fake. Oh, of course. You're going real. What?
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: It's fake. Okay. Well, it is what it is. Before
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I let you go, man, I do a food review
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: of each city.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: We've had the best thing, which was the Puerto Rican-inspired
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: hot dog from the Pirates.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: That was the best? Fire.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Fire?
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: It was great. Really? And it was cold, too. So
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine when it's hot, fire.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: So if you want to go to Pittsburgh, whenever you
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: go to Pittsburgh, if.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: You like hot dogs. What was it called again?
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: The Puerto Rican inspired hot dog. I don't remember what
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: all was on it, but it was, it was good.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: It was nails. It was nails. And I don't even,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big hot dog guy.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not, but I'll have to try it here.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, they rap about it, sing about it.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Um, we're going to go with, uh, the magic city
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: lemon pepper wings, you know, have you had those before?
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Yeah.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: I think everybody, I mean, but, uh, so we're going
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: to go with them and, uh, We got to give
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: a food review.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Alright, let's try the Wangs. You want to get you one?
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Magic City Wings. This is a really good wing. I'm
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a big wing guy, so yeah. What would you give this?
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, for it to be Hot at 11 o'clock
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: in the morning. What was Magic City doing? Yeah. And?
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: I'm giving it a nine. I'll give it a nine, too.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: That's pretty. I think the Magic City Lemon Purple Wings,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: those hit. We'll have to get those for some lunch today. Mm-hmm.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I think I'm going to give it a nine, too.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Those are really good. So if you're in Atlanta.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Let me show you Swing by Magic City to go
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: get you some wings.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: And take you some cash, too.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: So, anyways, brother, thanks for coming on, man. I know
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: we have our Doolin' Dodger. Shout out to the Doolin'
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Dodgers out there. And then I'm just really getting able
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: to see you. You know, I actually knew about you
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: before you came up to the big leagues.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Doolin'? He.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Told me about it. He was like, hey, Austin's coming up.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Make sure when you see him, you talk to him,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: take care of him.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, Timmy. What not. Yeah, oh, Timmy, yeah.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: So it's just been awesome to see from the other side,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: see where you started, see where you're going now.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. See where you're headed. And I wish nothing
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: but the best for you, bro. You as well. Appreciate it.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Keep on doing your thing. And we got a long
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: time together. That's right. So I wish nothing but success again.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: And thanks for coming on, bro. Yeah, thanks for having me.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys for watching and we'll catch you guys
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Next time on On Bass.