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Jeff Francoeur on ATL signing Suarez & Yaz, New manager Walt Weiss · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: The Braves signed two big names, mikeel Streemsky Robert Suarez.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me about what you think about what these
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  Speaker 1: two can bring to the table.
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  Speaker 2: I love both of these pickups.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a very good sign that the Braves
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  Speaker 1: are trying again to get back to where they need
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  Speaker 1: to be. We talked about it earlier, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's been the consensus around where you're at and all
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  Speaker 1: these pickups that they got, well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think the pieces are starting to take shape. And the
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  Speaker 2: fact that now all of a.
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  Speaker 3: Sudden you've got a Glacias and Suarez in the eight nine,
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  Speaker 3: you feel phenomenal about that. I mean, people forget this,
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  Speaker 3: they've called Lazias last first two to three months.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, the last three months his numbers were.
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  Speaker 3: As good as any closer in baseball, Like he figured
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  Speaker 3: it out and getting out a rough patch. So I
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  Speaker 3: love that, and I think also with that, you're able
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  Speaker 3: to keep Ranaldo Lopez in the rotation. It fills another
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  Speaker 3: rotation slot for you. You know, I thought, do they
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  Speaker 3: move them to the pen, But now that they have these,
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  Speaker 3: I think with the Stripsky, what you're seeing now is
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  Speaker 3: you're going to.
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  Speaker 2: Have in the outfield for outfielders, right, So you're.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna have Acuna, you're gonna have Profar, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: Michael Harris and you're gonna have him.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you're gonna see a rotating DH.
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  Speaker 3: Right, if Drake Baldwin doesn't play one day catching, you
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  Speaker 3: have the ability to DH com right. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think you're gonna see like a marcel A Zuna sign
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  Speaker 3: where they're just gonna get a guy to come in DH.
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  Speaker 2: I think look to keep Ron McCune. You're fully healthy.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably not about idea to DH of thirty games
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  Speaker 3: a year, right, keep him off his feet, give him
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  Speaker 3: the ability to rest on Sunday Day games.
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  Speaker 2: My big thing still is.
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  Speaker 3: I like the way this has played out. We gotta
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  Speaker 3: get a short stop, right, Like I'm just like, you
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  Speaker 3: have to.
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  Speaker 2: Have that guy up the middle.
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  Speaker 3: You think back to when the Braves have always been
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  Speaker 3: good rockfield for call, you know, Andrelton Simmons, Dansby Swanson, Right,
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  Speaker 3: there's always been an elite shortstop.
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  Speaker 2: There's always been a guy there that you trust.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think the last piece more than anything is, look,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have Strider.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna have Stale swelling Box coming back. You have
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  Speaker 2: Lopez some.
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  Speaker 3: Arms, would you would I like to see him out
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  Speaker 3: another arm, Yes, but I think you got to give
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  Speaker 3: a good solid shorge stop and if you do that
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  Speaker 3: with Austin Riley coming back this year, Maddals and Akune
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be healthy. Ozzy, I think had a better
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  Speaker 3: second half. Like you, You've got a team very capable
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  Speaker 3: of winning the out you.
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  Speaker 2: Want to put.
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  Speaker 4: Sue. I think they have a team of superstar players
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  Speaker 4: and maybe some people would be like, well, twenty three
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  Speaker 4: was just a aberration and all that, or twenty two,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry it was an aberration and where they all
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  Speaker 4: just did incredible and everything. I think they're elite level players.
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  Speaker 4: Are you okay with building a team that says, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: Matt Olsen, you always play one hundred and sixty two
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  Speaker 4: games at first base, Albie's when he's healthy, He's playing
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  Speaker 4: every single game at second base. Riley every single game.
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  Speaker 4: Acuna wants to play every single game. Hey, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: switch it up. Walt Weiss came in and he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: rotate the DH. Do you think the guys will be
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  Speaker 4: fine with that? And if they are fine with it,
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  Speaker 4: are they gonna be able to make that adjustment, because
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  Speaker 4: you know it's hard you play the outfield and then
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  Speaker 4: you go, oh, dh, okay, well what do I do
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  Speaker 4: all day? Do I hold my bat? Do I have
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  Speaker 4: my batting gloves on? Do I hit in the cage?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Look, first off, I'll tell you this, I love Walt Whise.
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  Speaker 3: He's a lot like in the fact that he's a
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  Speaker 3: players manager.
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  Speaker 2: But don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: Walt.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be a little more outspoken. He's gonna say
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  Speaker 3: some things to the players, and I think that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's okay to hold players accountable. It's to okayto ruffles
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  Speaker 3: some feathers sometimes. And I think when I look at
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  Speaker 3: Wall having those conversations at the starter spring training, right, guys,
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  Speaker 3: you can both agree like you've been told tough things
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  Speaker 3: by managers sometimes, whether it's hey, you're not gonna play
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  Speaker 3: against today because I don't like the matchup right, or
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  Speaker 3: you don't do But if you communicate these things, the
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  Speaker 3: players might not like it at first, but they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: respect it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Walt can come from a good place
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  Speaker 2: to that.
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  Speaker 3: He's got experience, he's done it, and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: said this from in the beginning, Like I think we
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  Speaker 3: can all agree. I probably the brains were looking at
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  Speaker 3: other managers first and wanting them and as until Walt, like,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to be the first, second, third choice,
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  Speaker 3: you got the job.
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  Speaker 2: Just show him you're the right choice at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this team's going to rally around wall
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  Speaker 2: I really do.
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  Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing is going to be keeping
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  Speaker 3: those guys on the field and keeping them healthy, because
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  Speaker 3: the Braves have something that not a lot of teams do.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen the Dodgers do it more. You're seeing less
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  Speaker 3: and less of the platoon and give me the guys
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  Speaker 3: that can go out there day in and day out
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  Speaker 3: and play. And I think that's good. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see the DH rotated. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's why they did that, Like unless you can get
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  Speaker 3: a shoreber or someone that's like a slam dunk DH
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  Speaker 3: keeping a Kunya off his feet for thirty games, while
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  Speaker 3: he might not like it at times, I think towards.
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  Speaker 2: The end of the season is going to pay huge dividends.
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  Speaker 4: I want to go to Walt White's position, shortstop. When
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  Speaker 4: you have a manager that played a certain position. You
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  Speaker 4: feel like he's gonna look for a certain type of shortstop.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it's gonna be a wall Wei's type
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  Speaker 4: of shortstop. Because they tried to fill in with Orlando
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  Speaker 4: Arcia and I know, Oh had a great All Star year. Defensively,
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  Speaker 4: he was awesome. They gave him that little two year extension.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't work out. Since Dansby sponson, it's been Orlando
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  Speaker 4: Arcia Kim for a few games. Last year they had
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  Speaker 4: Nick Allen Mahew Nick. I was trying to think of
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  Speaker 4: his last name. All I could think of was who
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  Speaker 4: he's a son in law of. What type of shortstop
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  Speaker 4: are they going to go after? Do you think they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get a Should they push for a bow who
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  Speaker 4: maybe is a little below defensive or should they get
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  Speaker 4: just a solid piece that they know is going to
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  Speaker 4: be consistent there defensively and a little bit offense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'll be honest with my answer that is,
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  Speaker 3: if you can go out another big time pitcher, I
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  Speaker 3: would rather have a little bit more of a defensive
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  Speaker 3: shortstop and get a top arm. If you look at it,
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  Speaker 3: it's like we have one move left right, like we
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  Speaker 3: got twenty five a year to depend on one dude.
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  Speaker 2: Then go get me that mishef.
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  Speaker 3: Go get me a winning player, a guy that can hit,
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  Speaker 3: a guy that's got swag, a guy that can handle
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  Speaker 3: the locker room. And I've said it like talking to
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  Speaker 3: you know, counsel in those guys last two years, like Dansby,
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  Speaker 3: they say, the one thing we love is he has
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  Speaker 3: taught these guys like, if you're a healthy post play
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  Speaker 3: every day. You know, if to hat to these guys
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  Speaker 3: like Bush and even Kyle Tucker until it got to
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  Speaker 3: the point he couldn't do it last year, but like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: if you're healthy, play every day, and you know that
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  Speaker 3: can infuse a lineup, It can infuse the team.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, again for.
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  Speaker 3: Me, if you're not going to get that extra starter,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever it is for ten, twelve, fifteen million,
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  Speaker 3: even for a year, like go get me a top
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  Speaker 3: short stop, give me, give me a chef, and maybe defensively, look,
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  Speaker 3: when you have Harrison center, you Stremski and Profar with
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  Speaker 3: a counya, you have an elite outfield, You have Olten
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  Speaker 3: and Riley on the corners who are outstanding, So you
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  Speaker 3: can get away to me with having a little less
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  Speaker 3: defense to shore. If you get someone that was the
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  Speaker 3: difference last year guys. Nick Allen was incredible. I mean
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  Speaker 3: I watched this guy to make every plate anywhere. The
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  Speaker 3: problem was that he wasn't hitting, and so all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden you needed offense from there and you didn't
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  Speaker 3: have it.
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  Speaker 2: So if you if.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Allen's on the twenty three Braves instead all those records, sure,
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  Speaker 3: bat ninth and whatever I get offensively is great, but
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  Speaker 3: when you don't have that, you have to have some offense.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to see the Braves get some offense from
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  Speaker 2: that short stop. Yeah, agreed.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick Allen, I, you know, not the toot his horned,
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  Speaker 1: but I played with him and USA ball and the
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  Speaker 1: dude fundamental defensive wise, absolutely one of the best I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen at this young man, absolutely incredibly. I want
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  Speaker 1: to go along the lines that out a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: like we talk about all these guys, you know, who
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  Speaker 1: they have, what they're bringing in, Who is the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: leader on this team, Who is the guy that that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna take all these new guys and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Braves way, you know, nicely in the
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  Speaker 1: right fashion, But who's that guy everybody's kind of gonna
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  Speaker 1: lean on now knowing, Hey, listen, you know we got
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  Speaker 1: this ship here, Let's let's do it our way.
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  Speaker 2: Who's that guy?
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to see the Austin Riley right, like you're
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  Speaker 3: from backwoods Mississippi, like your tough knows you play the
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  Speaker 3: game the right way. I don't know that necessarily that's his.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Forte and what he does. You know, Chris
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  Speaker 3: Sale on the pitch and side, of course, is as
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  Speaker 3: fire as anybody. I think he's been outstanding. But I
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  Speaker 3: think that's the thing. Last year you might have saw
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  Speaker 3: a lack of that in that clubhouse at times. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Dansby and Freddie Freeman or two of those guys that
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  Speaker 3: were able to command that respect, command the thing. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody's really stepped up to do that.
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  Speaker 3: And we talk about a lot right on my podcast.
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  Speaker 3: You all know when you were in locker rooms, culture
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  Speaker 3: is a big thing. My biggest thing is when you
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  Speaker 3: look at it from a standpoint, you have to have
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  Speaker 3: somebody to lead in that clubhouse when things go wrong,
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  Speaker 3: when you have the injuries you did last year, when
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  Speaker 3: you had some of this stuff happen.
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  Speaker 2: If you remember the Acuna incident earlier. Someone that can
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  Speaker 2: come and say.
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  Speaker 3: We're not letting this terrorists apart, and so I think
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  Speaker 3: that's something that's going to be interesting. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Stremsky, I've heard great things in the clubhouse about him,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think.
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  Speaker 2: Alex might be a little more aware of what you're hearing.
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  Speaker 3: We're seeing it with the Mets, right I think we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing David Searns trying to change the culture of what
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  Speaker 3: that is. I know in New York right now we
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  Speaker 3: can all agree. You know, Look, you play there too,
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  Speaker 3: you know what it's all about. Like the world's ending
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  Speaker 3: up there right now. But at the same time, give
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  Speaker 3: him a chance to see who he brings in and
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  Speaker 3: who if all of a sudden tomorrow, if I could
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  Speaker 3: have told you you give up Pete, Alonzo and Diaz
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  Speaker 3: would go somewhere, but you're gonna get treks Kougel, would y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Sign on the dotted line for that?
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  Speaker 4: For sure?
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  Speaker 2: I I would give me that guy. So you have
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  Speaker 2: to let this stuff play out. As much as the
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  Speaker 2: Winter meetings, I mean a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It still is the second week of December and we're
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  Speaker 3: three weeks away or three months away from spring training,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so I think you got to let this
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  Speaker 3: play out a little bit. But I do think you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna see Alex try to bring a couple guys in.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna blue guys.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to go along those terms, like you
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Mets and all what's going on. I
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  Speaker 1: said it before, the free agent still gotta want they
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: want to They have to want to go there, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, after they see everything they did
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  Speaker 1: with Pete guys leaving, they're moving this guy and that guy. Like,
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  Speaker 1: unless you're paying me the tippy topst dollar more than
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  Speaker 1: everybody else, I don't know. I would be like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think if you're dating films as good
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  Speaker 3: as Pine Alonso is, I think we all agree he
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  Speaker 3: has been incredible, But if you keep doing the same
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  Speaker 3: thing and it's not working, you can't get over the hump.
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  Speaker 3: I just think you have to find ways to improve
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  Speaker 3: your team. And that might not be what every fan
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  Speaker 3: wants to hear. Hey, why are we giving up him
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  Speaker 3: for this? But I think you have to get creatives.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I think with the Braves maybe is
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  Speaker 3: we've seen them add some of these guys sometimes and
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  Speaker 3: it's like when you go back Gratcy. You mentioned it
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  Speaker 3: in twenty too, it was the guys that no one
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  Speaker 3: expected at the trade deadline or in twenty one, Eddie Rosario, right,
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  Speaker 3: Horace Selaire, you know, guys that ended up making the
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  Speaker 3: difference for the Braves to win the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not always.
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  Speaker 3: And if you remember that year in twenty one, who
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  Speaker 3: was the big splash, it was a Dodgers. They got
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  Speaker 3: Trade Turner and they got Max Jersey, but it didn't work.
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  Speaker 3: And so my point is sometimes you have to change
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  Speaker 3: things a little bit and change the culture.
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  Speaker 2: And the way it's played.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you're seeing some of these teams maybe say,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, it hasn't worked, so we got to
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  Speaker 3: do something different. When to me, some of the best
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  Speaker 3: teams that we've seen in the playoffs, what do they
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  Speaker 3: have dominant back in bullpens where it is lockdown over
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: I go to the Royals back in the day. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you look at some of these teams, the Cubs like,
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  Speaker 3: that's what they did, And so I think you're seeing, aw,
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  Speaker 3: let's take a little bit of a different approach.
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  Speaker 4: In Atlanta, all right, last question. Your platform is called
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  Speaker 4: pureathlete dot Com. I have a serious question for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: do you wish you were more athletic before? Like, do
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  Speaker 4: you wish that you were more athletic?
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 3: All I know is I can send you highlight films
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  Speaker 3: from high school and we can we can finish this
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  Speaker 3: debate off.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, I'm not gonna have the mark.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna have the Mark de Rozga like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: streets name after me and Penn University. Okay, not going
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  Speaker 3: down the rows road here, like you don't watch for me.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, you know, I will say this, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: just saying, hey, Cratsey first ballot Georgia High School Football
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Famer with Herscha Wanger, Uh you know, Charlie Ward, Champ,
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  Speaker 3: Bailey Boss, Bailey Pill.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that, I'll just throw that out there
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 4: Got it, you just got you just got you just
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  Speaker 4: gotta put on Instagram as whatever. The whole trend is
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: you got to ask somebody if they're if they're if
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  Speaker 4: they're athletics.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, so I thought you would be like I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Joking around if you want to, why don't feel athletic.
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  Speaker 3: I got a hip replacement three weeks ago. Legitimately yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: I got a stop hip replacement on my left stop
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  Speaker 3: my left him.
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  Speaker 2: You're too young, crutch. Can you walk through you? How
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  Speaker 2: bad was front? It's showing you? How about a front
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  Speaker 2: foot hitre I was.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like Jesus, all those sliders, just chasing them and
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  Speaker 3: chasing them.
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  Speaker 2: Finally my hip just gave out. I'm going to need
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  Speaker 2: that too pretty soon, I promise. Friendship hip forty one
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  Speaker 2: years old. Hey, you blaming me.
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  Speaker 3: Alex Gordon got it two day, two weeks before I did.
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  Speaker 3: We went to Pinehurst in September and Gordo couldn't even
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  Speaker 3: finish playing the last round.
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  Speaker 2: He had a ride in the cart for the last
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  Speaker 2: nine holes.
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  Speaker 4: Gordo Gordeo got a hip replacement.
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  Speaker 2: That guy's like, he's like a Donis. Oh dude, That's
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: And then he had a tougher time, And my wife said, well,
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  Speaker 3: the good news is you're not as strong and muscular
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  Speaker 3: as Alex, so it's probably gonna go easier for you.
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  Speaker 2: They're not gonna have to work through all that muscle
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  Speaker 2: like they did with him. Yeah, your wife is not wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Alex definitely stronger and has a much nicer body than
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  Speaker 4: you do.
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  Speaker 2: But if you ever do get a hip replacement, I
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  Speaker 2: tell you get it. During Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 3: My God did because everybody came to us and I
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: stay on the counch and watch college and pro football
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  Speaker 3: for ten days NonStop.
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  Speaker 2: That's the time. That's the time.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway out, Oh you got something, Todd.
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  Speaker 1: I was saying, He's definitely sitting on a nice soft,
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  Speaker 1: cushioned seat or something. You got something underneath there, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you carry you bring it with you to your
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: kids games and stuff. You gotta PLoP up.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you, man, my softball girl, before I
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  Speaker 3: got it done, I was limping out to the mound,
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: and my softball girl, the coach twelve you travel to
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  Speaker 3: you and they're like.
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  Speaker 2: And you used to be a professional athlete.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh right, I heard he's got like a
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: heated seat button. He's got it all.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: So they just launched PA plus baseball membership platform with
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: hundreds of micro lessons from some of the baseball's best
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: minds to help players and coaches go further faster. Give
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: us the goods on that first Runchie and then we
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: of course knew that the Braids were going to make
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: all these moves in the past twelve hours, so we
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: line this up days ago and it just happened to
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: fall into our lap. But anyway, how you doing, man,
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: and yeah, give us the goods on the new platform.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about subscribing and value not
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: having a J on this show today? This show just
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: got way up, Like the value of this show just
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: went through the roof without AJ on it.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just like it is.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna see.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: It's good to be with y'all. Know.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: You know, I've been doing this podcast Career Athlete for
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: three years and we've done all sorts of sports, different things,
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: and it's like, you know, what's my bread and butter.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: What do we all know the most?
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: And it's baseball?
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: And so you know, coaching all my kids now, seeing
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: my older brother travel teams, it's like, how can you
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: come beside help these kids, help these parents navigate whether
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: your kids gonna be a first round pick right, or
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: where your kid wants to play D three in college
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: or just playing high school ball. Like we've talked to
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: some great guys, some great coaches in college, you know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: different different big time travel programs, and just trying to
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: help parents right figure out and navigate this crazy journey
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: that gets crazy and crazier every year with.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: More teams, more players. And I'll be honest, it's been
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun and it's been a huge help
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you something about this platform because
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I try and tell guys all the time, like, listen,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: travel ball it's fun and all, but at the same time,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: it's not the end all be all for eight year
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: old eight to twelve, eight or thirteen year old players.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: You see a lot of these kids playing for four, five,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: six different teams. I'm sure you guys hit up on
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: that a lot. Can you just go and just, you know,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the whole situation and how
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: travel ball.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: It's taken over.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, there's really good parts of it,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: but also it's it's a little difficult the same time.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I kind of feel in my heart and I'm like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I wish you would just literally and then a little
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: aau ball at the end, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're trying to make these specials collect teams
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Todd at eight, and I'm like, for what, who are
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: you impressing? Like there's no scouts, there's no And I
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: get the fun and you want to compete, you want
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: to teach these kids, but at the same time, like
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: it's promoting baseball year round, guys, and like you know, y'
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: all know as well as I do. You only have
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: so many bullets in your arms. And I think the
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: biggest thing that I've learned from this whole thing is
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: the specialization at an early age is causing massive injuries
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: as kids get older, Right, they're using the same body parts.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: They're never getting a break. And you know, we were lucky.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: We grew up where it was like you played football
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: in the fall, you played basketball the way you played
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: baseball in the spring, and into the summer a little bit,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: and then you took a break and now it is
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: But I get the parents part, right, Like if your
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: kids playing football and all of a sudden you have a.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Guy playing fallball the whole fall.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: You step back out on that field in February, your
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: kids behind, or at least that's how parents feel, right,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Like Johnny's doing better than Jimmy because he didn't play football.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: But I think we can all agree, right, we've all
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: played at the highest level.
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  Speaker 2: You played with great players.
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  Speaker 3: Eventually the best you're going to show out somehow.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: But that's not a twelve years old, right.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: That's as you get older and as you start to
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: think about that. And I just think we're trying to
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: find ways to get kids playing all these sports.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Figure out what you like. You don't have to play
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: fall baseball at eight years old, year round.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: And I think that's my biggest argument to these parents
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: is continue to let your kids play other sports until
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: it just can't happen.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: What's your favorite part of the Pure Athlete platform because
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: on it it has x big league guys ex college
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: or college coaches talking about college stuff, nutritionists. What's your
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: favorite part of the platform that you think is going
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to get the most the most used for all levels
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: of people who subscribe from literally all the way up
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: to college kids.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: You know, we did one with David Wright today, and
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: you know, he's one of my favorite teammates I've played,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: and I just love the narrative that he's going to
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: get where we got. Guys, you have to love the game,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: you have to be obsessed with the game. You have
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: to wake up and think about the game. I got
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: four kids. All my kids aren't going to think the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: same way I thought, right and be like, hey, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: want to miss the pool party during the summer to
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: go play in two baseball games. And I think the
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: biggest thing I want to tell these parents is Okay,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: if your kid doesn't want to do that.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It's okay. If your kid wants to just.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Be a good high school player and then go to
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: college and drink beer and you know, just live the
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: college life. There's nothing wrong with that too. And so
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: I think it's trying to tell these parents and even
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: if you do go all in and you play on
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: the highest level travel team, you're not guaranteed to play
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: in college. You're not guaranteed to get drafted and be
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: a first pick. And as David said, eventually comes down
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: to how bad does my kid want it? And I
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: think too many times us as parents think our kids
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: might want it more than they do.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: But it's like, are you really seeing the fruits of it?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Are you seeing your kid come home hitting off the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: tea for thirty minutes by themselves like we probably did,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: you know, Like, if they're not doing that, chances are
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: they don't love it as much as.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: You think you do.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Pure Athlete, Instagram, YouTube app, Pure Athlete Inc. You can
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: listen to this show that Frenchi's on two on Apple, Spotify,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: wherever you get your POD's plenty of big guests on there.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Like you said, good combo with David Wright as well.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Good stuff Frenchie, good catching up with you man.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, anytime AJ's not on, y'all give me a ring, man,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I love to join.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Y'all done every time we get Frenchie again.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: From now on we know when to get him.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Appreciate your men, have a good holidays.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, you'll be good.