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Bud Black joins Friar Territory · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: The San Diego Patres have added Buddy Black and Will Myers.
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Speaker 1: Welcome the twenty fifteen I am Marty Caswell. That is
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Speaker 1: Kyle Glazer. We here on the Friar Territory Network, part
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Speaker 1: of Fowl Territory TV.
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Speaker 2: And that is.
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Speaker 1: Harry Buddy Black, Buddy, how are you today?
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Speaker 2: And my friend I am It's so good to see
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Speaker 2: you again.
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Speaker 1: I am shocked to see you back in this capacity,
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Speaker 1: but welcome back to San Diego.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you Marty, Hi Kyle, it's good to be back.
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Speaker 3: I'm excited, you know. I You know, when you spend
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Speaker 3: time in an organization, whether as a player, a coach,
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Speaker 3: a manager, you know, those organizations you know you have
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Speaker 3: an investment in, right, there's a there's a piece of
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Speaker 3: you that is part of them. And in coming back
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Speaker 3: here obviously managing this team for you know, eight plus seasons,
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Speaker 3: you know, a big part of me is a padre
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Speaker 3: and always will be. So to get reunited with with
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Speaker 3: the organization, it feels great. I think it's a good fit.
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Speaker 3: I've had great conversations with a j and Josh Stine
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Speaker 3: over the last couple of months, and you know, we
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Speaker 3: got together formally, you know, over the last couple of months,
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Speaker 3: and obviously it was announced yesterday. I mean over the
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Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, and it was announced yesterday. So
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Speaker 3: I'm excited to be back and help. And I think
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Speaker 3: that you know, anybody in professional baseball who has a
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Speaker 3: competitive spirit wants only one thing, and that's to get
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Speaker 3: into the playoffs, get to the World Series, and ultimately
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Speaker 3: win the World Series. So hopefully I can help and
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Speaker 3: support and aid our organization in that endeavor.
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Speaker 4: Buddy, it's a very small fraternity of managers who were
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Speaker 4: former big league pitchers. Of course, you're a central figure
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Speaker 4: in that fraternity. Craig Stamon is a new member. Yeap,
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Speaker 4: What advice or words of wisdom would you have for
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Speaker 4: Craig that are maybe specific to the picture of making
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Speaker 4: the transition to managing.
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Speaker 3: Well, I've been asked out a lot, you know, even
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Speaker 3: going back to my days when I transitioned from Anaheim
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Speaker 3: to San Diego as from pitching coach to manager. And
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Speaker 3: I spoke with Craig a couple of weeks ago, and
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Speaker 3: you know, I basically told them. Even hear this before
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Speaker 3: from other people offering advice to to leaders, be yourself.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think you have to be as genuine
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Speaker 3: and as authentic as possible. Major league players, you know,
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Speaker 3: have a knack to sniff out somebody who's not real.
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Speaker 3: And from everything I've been told about Craig, and even
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Speaker 3: in our conversation, I can tell that this guy's a
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Speaker 3: gym as well. Respect he's well liked. And if he
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Speaker 3: just goes out there and be and be Craig Stammon,
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Speaker 3: He's gonna be fine because I think he possesses the
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Speaker 3: leadership qualities. He possesses what it takes, you know, to
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Speaker 3: to lead a team. And I think that's been you know,
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Speaker 3: that's been validated. I think the last couple of years
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Speaker 3: that you know, he's come off the field and even
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Speaker 3: later in his career as a player, you know all
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Speaker 3: the things that I've heard, So again, he's gonna in
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Speaker 3: this day and age. You know, there's a there's a
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Speaker 3: big coaching staff. Coaching staff has coaching staff enlargement has
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Speaker 3: been real. He's got great coaches around him. He's going
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Speaker 3: to use them. I've told him to take advantage of
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Speaker 3: those guys. He's definitely going to relate to pitchers. Half
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Speaker 3: the team are pitchers, thirteen out of twenty six are
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Speaker 3: are our pitchers. But you know, his relaylationship with the
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Speaker 3: other thirteen guys I think will be solid because you know,
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Speaker 3: he was a player, and I think leadership, you know,
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Speaker 3: doesn't really reflect what position you played as a major
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Speaker 3: league it reflects what type of person you are in
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Speaker 3: that clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: All that being said, though, what's the biggest challenge he
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Speaker 1: is going to have? Not just I mean first not
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Speaker 1: just the first time manager, a first time coach in
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Speaker 1: major baseball.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think with with Craig, I think the
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Speaker 3: newness of all this will be the challenge. I mean,
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Speaker 3: every day there'll be something new for him to you know,
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Speaker 3: to handle. So uh but you know, for him, he's
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Speaker 3: been you know, in a role with the Padres where
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Speaker 3: he's been able to observe, you know, a lot of
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Speaker 3: different things from his perspective, the front office situation, field personnel,
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Speaker 3: interacting with players and and Craig's very astute and observant.
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Speaker 3: So he's taken this all in the last three or
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Speaker 3: four years since his retirement. Uh, but you still don't
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Speaker 3: know until you experience it. Uh, you know what it
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Speaker 3: takes to go through it, but you know it's a
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Speaker 3: it's a full day. I mean there's you know, there's
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Speaker 3: a you know, responsibility really from the time you wake up,
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Speaker 3: you know, coming from a lot of different angles, whether
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Speaker 3: front office, whether it could be ownership, whether it could
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Speaker 3: be the media, whether it could be the coaching staff,
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Speaker 3: whether it could be the players. You know, a lot
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Speaker 3: of different forces upon you. But uh, you've got to
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Speaker 3: be you got to be ready for it, right, You
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Speaker 3: got to be ready for anything. And so I think
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Speaker 3: the you know, the game of adjustments for a first
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Speaker 3: time managers is probably going to be as big as
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Speaker 3: challenge and be able to handle that tannel that on
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Speaker 3: a daily basis.
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Speaker 1: But you are the senior advisor to baseball ops. What
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Speaker 1: exactly does that job in tell and how do you
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Speaker 1: best describe how your relationship with AJ Proler has evolved
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Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with the relationship first. You know, I
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Speaker 3: got to know a j right when he came on
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Speaker 3: board in the in the early fall of twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 3: So the relationship started then. And you know, again the
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Speaker 3: first time general manager, he had a lot going on.
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Speaker 3: You know, I was managing the team, but he had
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Speaker 3: to get his feet on the ground first. So and
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Speaker 3: he had a you know, a front office to assemble.
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Speaker 3: He had to meet a ton of people. You know,
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Speaker 3: that is a you know, a general manager or president
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Speaker 3: of baseball operations. That's a huge job. So you know,
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Speaker 3: we obviously communicated, were in contact because that's the nature
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Speaker 3: of his position in my position, so you know, everything
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Speaker 3: was fine. And then when I got let go in May,
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Speaker 3: you know, things obviously changed for both of us. He
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Speaker 3: was still you know, coordinating everything he needed to do
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Speaker 3: as a as a general manager and in building up
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Speaker 3: the franchise. And then I moved on to Anaheim and
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Speaker 3: moved on to Colorado. But in the in the years
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Speaker 3: it followed, uh you know, we would our past would
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Speaker 3: cross whether it was at Petco or cors Field or
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Speaker 3: in the winter time, and the relationship was always very
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Speaker 3: professional and cordial. And and getting to know him like
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Speaker 3: I did early on, uh you know, I uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: I really respected and admired his work, ethic, his passion
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Speaker 3: for baseball, how much he loved it, how much he
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Speaker 3: loved talking players, how much he loved scouting. I mean
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Speaker 3: that was evident you know in the you know, in
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Speaker 3: the months that we were together. And then you know,
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Speaker 3: I was doing my thing in Colorado, he was doing
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Speaker 3: his thing here. I mean we were just you know,
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Speaker 3: two you know, two baseball guys in a in a
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Speaker 3: in an industry that is, you know, in a lot
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Speaker 3: of ways, a small fraternity of men and women. So
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Speaker 3: with as it unfolded over the last few months, you know,
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Speaker 3: talking baseball again and in the possibility of a comeback,
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Speaker 3: it was very natural. Are are our conversations, you know,
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Speaker 3: because we both share you know, common likes. We like
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Speaker 3: to win, we like to watch players, we like to
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Speaker 3: help players, and and ultimately you know, trying to get
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Speaker 3: this organization into the playoffs again and advance to the
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Speaker 3: World Series and ultimately win one. I mean that's that's
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Speaker 3: a common goal. But and for me to help that,
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Speaker 3: the role sort of entails, you know, sort of multifaceted things, right.
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Speaker 3: I think, you know, to dive into the minor league
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Speaker 3: system first, to you know, to see where the talent
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Speaker 3: is of our you know, one hundred and sixty five
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Speaker 3: minor league players, so all be into our system. I'll
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Speaker 3: be in spring training, you know, both watching the big
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Speaker 3: league team, but also on the lower fields, you know,
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Speaker 3: watching watching our group of young players and what we
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Speaker 3: have there, uh, you know, evaluating our major league team,
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Speaker 3: helping Craig and his staff and talking to players and uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, lending my support there. And as it relates
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Speaker 3: to the draft, there's probably a component there of watching
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Speaker 3: some amateur players along the way and helping our scouting
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Speaker 3: department if needed, you know, to watch high school players,
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Speaker 3: junior college players, college players as it relates to the draft.
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Speaker 3: So multi pronged probably job description, but it's all. It
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Speaker 3: all centers around the players and and what I can
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Speaker 3: do to to help Aj and his group, to help
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Speaker 3: player development and to help the scouting department.
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Speaker 4: But I want to circle back to your answer to
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Speaker 4: the previous question. We talked about Craig Staman and there's
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Speaker 4: going to be a learning curve. That's always true whenever
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Speaker 4: someone moves into position, but especially given that he has
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Speaker 4: never coached or managed at any professional level of baseball before.
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Speaker 4: How long of a learning curve from your experience will
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Speaker 4: it be. Do you expect to be signed that I'll
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Speaker 4: take months before he's kind of where he needs to be.
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Speaker 4: What what's the timeline you expect?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know that that depends I think, uh, And
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Speaker 3: I'll go back to even though this is a new
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Speaker 3: a new role for him, a new position and a
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Speaker 3: and a new obviously big responsibility. Your days as a
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Speaker 3: player sort of sets you up for this. Uh. I.
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Speaker 3: I can only suspect that Craig as he grew in
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Speaker 3: his career as a as a Washington National and a
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Speaker 3: San Diego Padre, he was well respected in the clubhouse
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Speaker 3: as a teammate. And there's a there's a natural leadership
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Speaker 3: quality to two guys who get this position. Uh. And
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Speaker 3: it's it's evident by those people around you, those people
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Speaker 3: who watch you, and those people who end up making
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Speaker 3: decisions on these on these hires. So I think Craig
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Speaker 3: had it naturally to, you know, to maybe be in
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Speaker 3: this role. And it started as a player. And I
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Speaker 3: think as he got older and he got into his
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Speaker 3: career and especially here in San Diego as a as
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Speaker 3: a pitcher with service time and into his and pitching
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Speaker 3: into his late thirties and players looking up to him
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Speaker 3: as you know, a mentor, it all started there, so uh.
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Speaker 3: And then transitioning to outside of being a player into
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Speaker 3: his role you know, with with padres, with AJ, with
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Speaker 3: player development and scouting. He learned a lot, but it
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Speaker 3: goes back to the natural ability of who he is
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Speaker 3: as a person, and uh, you know, some guys adapt
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Speaker 3: awful quick. Some guys it takes a little longer. I'm
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Speaker 3: not sure the timeline for Craig. I mean, all, you know,
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Speaker 3: all be you know, hopefully uh you know, be a
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Speaker 3: great sounding board for him to answer some questions. But uh,
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Speaker 3: there's too many people that I've spoken to who feel,
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Speaker 3: you know, this is a really good fit for him
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Speaker 3: in this position. So you know, time will tell. I know,
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Speaker 3: he's surrounded by some great coaches on the on the
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Speaker 3: major league staff. He's got the support of the front office.
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Speaker 3: They know him, They uh you know, vetted the process
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Speaker 3: to him be the manager. So I'm sure they feel
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Speaker 3: good about it. Uh. And now it's a it's a
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Speaker 3: really it's a collective thing, you know. Obviously he's got
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Speaker 3: to make you know, hard decisions in game pitching, moves, lineups,
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Speaker 3: but that will all be collaborated with the coaches. But again,
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Speaker 3: I think his uh you know, his natural ability to
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Speaker 3: uh you know, to lead into to be the person
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Speaker 3: that he is. Will we'll take forefront and all this, but.
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Speaker 1: Where former players Will Myers is also rejoined the Padres
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Speaker 1: as special assignment coach in player development. Is there anybody
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Speaker 1: else coming back from your twenty fifteen team as well
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Speaker 1: as Matt Kemp coming back to help in media relations?
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Speaker 3: Not that I'm aware of. You know, I just became
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Speaker 3: of Will just a few days ago, and I again,
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Speaker 3: I think, you know, just I haven't spoken with Will,
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Speaker 3: but you know, reading some of his quotes over the
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Speaker 3: last twenty four hours, it seems as though, you know,
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Speaker 3: he's excited to contribute and to and to work with players.
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Speaker 3: I think as a you know, as a as a
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Speaker 3: ball player, you you feel comfortable around players if you
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Speaker 3: have that ability. I think he does have that. You know.
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Speaker 3: I made a comment about some time in the in
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Speaker 3: the batting cage with some young players not known, not
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Speaker 3: knowing whether he would enjoy it, but I guess he did,
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Speaker 3: and it gave him some some fuel to, you know,
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Speaker 3: express an interest in coming back and helping. So, uh,
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Speaker 3: we'll see. But you know, uh, you know, Will's affable. Uh,
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Speaker 3: he's he's communicative. Uh, he likes to talk baseball and
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Speaker 3: there's a knowledge base there of hit of hitting. So
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Speaker 3: we'll see. But I'm I'm I'm excited to see Will
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Speaker 3: you know, along with you know, the list of other guys,
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Speaker 3: uh you know who uh you know who are are
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Speaker 3: helping the front office and player development, right Trevor, Uh
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Speaker 3: you know Trevor's brother, Glenn Hoffman, Mark Loretta, A. J Ellis,
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Speaker 3: Alan Craig, Scott Service. I mean there's a you know,
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Speaker 3: a wealth of experienced baseball guys that are here, are
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Speaker 3: here to help the players and here here to help
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Speaker 3: the organization. And uh, you know, the growth never stops.
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Speaker 3: It's always a process of trying to get better. And
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Speaker 3: I think the group that Aj is surrounded himself with
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Speaker 3: is a really really good group.
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Speaker 4: Budd you obviously were a central figure in this organization
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Speaker 4: from twenty thousand and seven un till twenty fifteen, eventually
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Speaker 4: moved over to become the Rockies manager. So seeing them
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Speaker 4: from the outside versus the inside, what was your impression
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Speaker 4: of this team, of this organization from the opposing dugout
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Speaker 4: during your time as the Rockies manager.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, you saw a building, That's the thing
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Speaker 3: that you know. I think we all saw all across baseball,
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Speaker 3: right from all of us in the industry, and I
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Speaker 3: was able to see it a little bit up closer. Right,
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Speaker 3: because being in the same division and even living here
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Speaker 3: in San Diego in the off season, you know, momentum
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Speaker 3: started and it just hasn't stopped. And that's you know,
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Speaker 3: a tribute to AJ and his staff and the new
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Speaker 3: ownership group that came in right around twenty fourteen when
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Speaker 3: I was when I was leaving that you know, it
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Speaker 3: just kept building and it was just a force that
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Speaker 3: you know, was in a way relentless, right. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that's that's how AG operates from you know, those first
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Speaker 3: slew of trades and the winner of twenty fourteen with
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Speaker 3: with Kemp and Norris and Shields and Myers and Kimberl
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Speaker 3: and Upton Man. I mean, wow, right right off the bat,
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Speaker 3: and then it just hasn't stopped, you know, from Hosmer
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Speaker 3: to Machado and others along the way, and his resourceful
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Speaker 3: resourcefulness out of the draft to really pick well, a
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Speaker 3: tribute to his scouts on the amateur side and the
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Speaker 3: pro side to acquire players through the draft and through
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Speaker 3: trades and then as needed, making evaluation of those players
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Speaker 3: and trading them off for you know, Sodo and Tanner,
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Speaker 3: Spot and others. I mean, it's just it's you know,
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Speaker 3: it's it's a he's been a force and you can
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Speaker 3: see a building. And I think it's been noticed nationwide
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Speaker 3: across the industry of baseball that the Padres are here,
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Speaker 3: They're for real, They're not And you know, a lot
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Speaker 3: of credit goes to, you know, the ownership backing AJ
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Speaker 3: and and AJ being who he is to just to
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Speaker 3: get after it and and it was all recognized by
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Speaker 3: all of us in the industry.
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Speaker 1: One thing about the San Diego Padres era under a J. Puller,
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Speaker 1: it is certainly never boring. Buddy Black, it is so.
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Speaker 2: Good to see you. I can't want to see you.
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Speaker 1: Whether it's gonna be at fan Festa Pecka Park, perhaps
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Speaker 1: will be in a San Diego Stea game at Via
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Speaker 1: House Arena, maybe it'll be in spring training.
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Speaker 2: But I am welcome back to San Diego. Really never left.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you guys. It's good to be back. It's
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Speaker 3: good to be uh back with familiar faces who you know,
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Speaker 3: love the Padres, who care you know. It's it's exciting
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Speaker 3: for me where I am and in my career and
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Speaker 3: you know, hopefully I can like I said eight and
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Speaker 3: help and support us get to where we want to go.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, good stuff with Buddy Black. Great catching
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Speaker 1: up with him. He is now the senior advisor to
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Speaker 1: Baseball OPS.
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Speaker 2: I had to.
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Speaker 1: Stop myself Kyle about twenty five times from excuse me
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Speaker 1: from referring to him as the Podres manager. I know,
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Speaker 1: I will slip up during the regular season, so we'll see.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the one question I wish I had
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Speaker 1: been to ask him, did this did the conversation, the
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Speaker 1: dialogue with Josh Stein and aj Peler happen after Mike
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Speaker 1: Schultzs resignation or before?
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Speaker 2: I'm just curious. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Look, I mean it's saying where you know, we've seen
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Speaker 4: some things and just conversations. Yeah, it was something that
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Speaker 4: kind of came about after Buddy, you know, things ended
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Speaker 4: with the Rockies. There are some I want to call
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Speaker 4: him rumors, but there was some thought, you know, even
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Speaker 4: toward the end of the regular season that you know,
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Speaker 4: the Podres could bring him back in some sort of
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Speaker 4: advisory capacity. So it did predate Mike Show a little bit.
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Speaker 4: But look, Buddy Black's a great baseball mind. I think
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Speaker 4: a lot of people look at some of the overall
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Speaker 4: records and make judgments, but it's not correct. I mean,
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Speaker 4: he was operating with the Potters team that had payrolls
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Speaker 4: in the forty million dollar range at times. Then he
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Speaker 4: went to the Rockies, an organization that we all know
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Speaker 4: about their issues, and even despite that, he was nationally
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Speaker 4: Manager of the Year at the Podres and twenty ten
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Speaker 4: had a great season there, took the Rockies to back
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Speaker 4: to back postseasons. So he's one of the most respected
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Speaker 4: individuals in the game, both for his baseball knowledge and
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Speaker 4: just who he is as a person. Having him back
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Speaker 4: in the Potterys organization is certainly going to be a boost, a.
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Speaker 2: Huge boon for Craig Stammon.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of Craig Stanman, earlier this week, the guys
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Speaker 1: from foul Territory TV had Craig Stanmon on the show
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Speaker 1: and he talked about a variety of topics. Is there
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Speaker 1: anything that jumped out at you in particular, because I
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Speaker 1: know it.
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Speaker 3: Did for me.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Craig Stamon definitely hit on a few topics that
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Speaker 4: were notable for me. First and foremost, he talked about
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Speaker 4: he's still in contact with Mike Shilt and we've talked
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Speaker 4: about the style of play, the standard Mike Shilt said,
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Speaker 4: and how that needs to be continued, and Craig Stammon
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Speaker 4: really established that, yes, he intends to do that. That
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Speaker 4: is very much something on his mind, which I think
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Speaker 4: is really important. He talked about Joe Musgrove not being
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Speaker 4: on any sort of coming off of Tommy John surgery,
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Speaker 4: which I thought was interesting and again, we'll see how
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Speaker 4: that goes as well.
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Speaker 3: And at this.
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Speaker 1: Point in his career, at this point in his career,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't going to be a limit on Musgrove.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and understandably too, because you have to keep in
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Speaker 4: mind Joe Musgrove has had extra rehab time a lot
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Speaker 4: of times with Tommy John surgeries. They say twelve to
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Speaker 4: eighteen months, actually thirteen to seventeen, but just with the
20:20
Speaker 4: timing of it and going into the off season, Joe
20:22
Speaker 4: Musgrove is going to be on the higher end of
20:24
Speaker 4: recovery time. So hopefully that makes a difference and just
20:27
Speaker 4: allows him to last a little bit longer. And he
20:30
Speaker 4: talked a little bit about Luisa Rise and just how
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Speaker 4: valuable he is and what a valuable member of the
20:34
Speaker 4: Potters he was. Look, we've talked about on the show
20:36
Speaker 4: and lots of places talk about Luisa Rise is very,
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Speaker 4: very very divisive. At the end of the day, he
20:42
Speaker 4: can hit. The hardest thing to do in Major League
20:45
Speaker 4: Baseball today is make consistent contact, and he does that
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Speaker 4: better than anyone else in baseball. I always think it's
20:51
Speaker 4: funny people post like the stat cast, you know, green
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Speaker 4: and red lines and showing him bottom of this, that
20:56
Speaker 4: and the other thing. It's like, yeah, but he's one
20:58
Speaker 4: hundredth percentile in the most important So we've talked about
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Speaker 4: he doesn't fit the Potters and their needs. He will
21:05
Speaker 4: fit a lot of teams. The Angel should have signed
21:07
Speaker 4: them already. I mean they need contact in the worst way.
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Speaker 4: And not to mention someone who actually can teach their
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Speaker 4: guys how to make contact, which Luisa Rys does. Staman
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Speaker 4: also talks about the impact Rise had on other guys.
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Speaker 4: So that was all out to me. What about you.
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Speaker 2: He's a great positive influence in that clipbhouse.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, I saw from his ig that
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Speaker 1: he's working out with Nelson Cruz get and getting some work.
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Speaker 2: The Rise thing was good, I know.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, just to set that up, I
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Speaker 1: don't think that he wasn't asked do you want him back?
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Speaker 2: Necessarily?
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Speaker 1: You know, he was asking, you know, what's the scouting
21:37
Speaker 1: report on Luisa Rise? What does he bring to a team.
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Speaker 1: So I know Padrey Fans's like, oh no, no, you can't
21:41
Speaker 1: have this guy back. We need some slug in for
21:43
Speaker 1: his base.
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Speaker 2: That was interesting, though.
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Speaker 1: The thing that seemed to really let people on fire
21:48
Speaker 1: was the idea that Craig Stammond's been in regular contact
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Speaker 1: with Mike Schultz. And this is what I'll say about that.
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Speaker 1: Number One, it's logical. He's not asking him to set
21:55
Speaker 1: his lineup. He's not asking him, you know, how to
21:57
Speaker 1: deal with the coaching staff. He's asking for his vice
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Speaker 1: the first time manager, you know, how do you prepare
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Speaker 1: for spring training? What are the things that you need
22:04
Speaker 1: to know? And whether you like Mike Schuld or you
22:06
Speaker 1: did not, or you're concerned about the rumors about you know,
22:08
Speaker 1: his relationships with the coaching staff and and previous.
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Speaker 2: For James, he he won.
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Speaker 1: He won with the Padres playoffs and back to back years, right,
22:17
Speaker 1: And the important thing is the players bought into him.
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Speaker 1: He was very well liked inside that locker room by
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Speaker 1: the players and he knew had to Forgeoe's relationships. So
22:27
Speaker 1: good on Craig Stammon.
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Speaker 4: Were people who on Earth is upset about this. This
22:32
Speaker 4: is very standard and he should be doing that talk.
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Speaker 2: You've been on social media? Have you heard of this
22:36
Speaker 2: thing called twitter or ax or whatever it's called.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's logical and what kind of
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Speaker 1: a woman think, Kyle? For what it tells me though
22:46
Speaker 1: about Craig Stalmmon is the guy wants to learn everything.
22:49
Speaker 1: He doesn't have a huge ego where you know what
22:51
Speaker 1: it's going to be about me, I'm leaving the ship now,
22:53
Speaker 1: it's my way. He is someone who's going to be
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Speaker 1: a sponge and taken as much information as he possibly
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Speaker 1: we can to give the Padre's just you know, the
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Speaker 1: biggest edge and himself.
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Speaker 4: Sorry everyone, this is standard. New manager comes in, there's
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Speaker 4: a very tight fraternity within the managerial ranks. This happens everywhere.
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Speaker 4: This is I am stunned. People got upset over this.
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Speaker 4: New manager comes in, talks to old manager to just hey,
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Speaker 4: pick his brain on you know, certain players, certain relationships,
23:27
Speaker 4: and especially a first time manager like Craig Stamon and
23:30
Speaker 4: a first time coach like Craig Stammon again has never
23:32
Speaker 4: coached or manage at any level of baseball, reaching out
23:35
Speaker 4: to Mike Schilt, who is one of the most respected
23:38
Speaker 4: and experienced baseball men in the industry right now, has
23:42
Speaker 4: held every role imaginable, climbed from rookie ball coaching staffs
23:45
Speaker 4: to a major league manager. That is a tremendous, tremendous
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Speaker 4: resource for information. Anyone who's upset about this, I'm sorry,
23:54
Speaker 4: Like this is this is so standard, and it's exactly
23:58
Speaker 4: what Craig Stamond should do, and the fact he is
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Speaker 4: doing it a shouldn't be surprising and b is a
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Speaker 4: really really, really good thing. If you're upset about this,
24:05
Speaker 4: you need to find other things in life to be
24:07
Speaker 4: upset about, because this is so similar. It's not one
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Speaker 4: of them.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I don't want Stammon asking Shult about
24:14
Speaker 1: is how to ask how to answer a question when
24:17
Speaker 1: your line up a second guest, or you talk about
24:20
Speaker 1: someone going into a slop. That's it, that's it, just
24:23
Speaker 1: it's all stuff great, the post game, the pre game,
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Speaker 1: Craig Stalmon, go ahead and do your thing.
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Speaker 4: And there's so many there's so many things that people
24:31
Speaker 4: don't think about. That's just kind of you know, routine. Hey,
24:34
Speaker 4: when in the day should I do this? What's the
24:37
Speaker 4: right time to do this. These are things that go
24:39
Speaker 4: a long way into having a functioning coach player relationship.
24:43
Speaker 4: That are pretty mundane, but if you've never done it before,
24:46
Speaker 4: you really need to understand how to do it, at
24:48
Speaker 4: least to the level expected of a big league manager.
24:51
Speaker 4: So again, this is a good thing. I'm shocked and
24:54
Speaker 4: just maybe I shouldn't be, because Twitter being what it is,
24:58
Speaker 4: I still call it Twitter. But yeah, I thought it
25:00
Speaker 4: was a really, really insightful interview. I encourage everyone to
25:03
Speaker 4: check it out on foul Territory and another Big Potter's interview.
25:06
Speaker 4: Mason Miller joined the show as well. He had some
25:08
Speaker 4: interesting things to say, particularly about his decision to remain
25:11
Speaker 4: a reliever and Marty. We talked about this, that's where
25:15
Speaker 4: he's best, that's where he's comfortable, and that's what he's
25:17
Speaker 4: going to do in twenty twenty six. I thought it
25:19
Speaker 4: was interesting. He noted he's not closing the door for
25:21
Speaker 4: future years, which is saying Stammon did as well, but
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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty six, this is the best role for
25:27
Speaker 4: him for the Padres and that's what they're going to
25:29
Speaker 4: roll with.
25:30
Speaker 1: It was good stuff you and I would encourage you
25:32
Speaker 1: to go back and find the entire interview with Mason Miller,
25:35
Speaker 1: who also talked about being teammates with Clayton Kershaw and
25:37
Speaker 1: the WBC. He is changing his walk up music. I
25:40
Speaker 1: think he's narrowed it down to two songs. It's not
25:43
Speaker 1: going to be nickelback that was so so so so
25:45
Speaker 1: last year. Actually it's actually longer than that.
25:48
Speaker 2: And what else. Oh, in one important part he thought
25:51
Speaker 2: about he talked about the edge.
25:52
Speaker 1: He thinks that the pictures are going to have having
25:54
Speaker 1: Craig Stanmon as a manager.
25:56
Speaker 2: So I encourage you find that entire interview on Foul
25:59
Speaker 2: Tara Tory TV.
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Speaker 1: Do not forget, by the way, Padres fans to like
26:04
Speaker 1: and subscribe to this show. We didn't have time today
26:06
Speaker 1: because we went along with Buddy Black, but send your
26:08
Speaker 1: questions and your Padres questions in for the next mail bag.
26:12
Speaker 1: One last thing, if I'm may Kyle, I was cleaning
26:14
Speaker 1: out my Tacoma it's a two thousand and six and
26:17
Speaker 1: I came across these miniature fridge bobblehead magnets, Khalila Green, Jake, Peeve,
26:26
Speaker 1: Buddy Black, the Blue Padres Man.
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Speaker 2: Things have changed since then.
26:32
Speaker 4: That is perfect. I was cleaning out my garage the
26:34
Speaker 4: other day and went through some old boxes and found
26:36
Speaker 4: a chase heavily bobblehead circa of like twenty twelve maybe,
26:40
Speaker 4: so yeah, no, there's there's always some goodies to be found.
26:43
Speaker 4: But that's perfect timing finding that little mini. So I
26:47
Speaker 4: don't remember those, I mean I was, you know, do
26:49
Speaker 4: I mine?
26:50
Speaker 1: We're still yeah, mine were still like they were still
26:52
Speaker 1: in the box. It was they were wrapped. They hadn't
26:54
Speaker 1: been opened yet. I don't remember this, but they are.
26:56
Speaker 1: They are fig fridge mannuts, fridge magnets.
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Speaker 3: They work.
26:59
Speaker 4: I'll say one, maybe see what you can get on either.
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Speaker 4: I feel like those are rare enough they might actually
27:04
Speaker 4: be worth something. You never know.
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Speaker 1: I agree. All right, Kyle, A lot of fun today.
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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Bud Black and the Padres. We really
27:11
Speaker 1: really enjoy the interview. Have a wonderful weekend. I'm already Caswell,
27:15
Speaker 1: that is Kyle Glazer. You are watching Friar Territory on
27:18
Speaker 1: the Foul Territory TV network. Have a wonderful weekend and
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Speaker 1: we will talk to you next week.