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Corbin Carroll and Alex Call join FT live @Playmakers Classic · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right car.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're.
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  Speaker 1: Comparing hammet bums.
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  Speaker 2: They got the sigsag, I got the straight line, You
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  Speaker 2: got the straight line. Yeah, okay, that's fair. Oh are
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  Speaker 2: you good? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, good to see you. I'm sorry about the
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  Speaker 1: hammet injury, but better now.
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  Speaker 3: Just swinging like it's a random swing. Popped it right off,
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  Speaker 3: no warning, right, no, nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Not one swing and you're like, took one swing and
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  Speaker 2: was was down for the count. It's awful. Yeah, it hurt.
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  Speaker 2: I've never had more pain in my life. And when
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  Speaker 2: I did that, really okay, my hand was like stuck.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't move. I was like, yeah, come's wrong here, guys.
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  Speaker 2: I was stuck. It hurt pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: But once they took it out, it was immediately yeah,
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  Speaker 3: totally good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I've never told this story to everybody. So after
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  Speaker 4: they did mine, yeah, they they messed up the timing
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  Speaker 4: of mine, so the stitches got overgrown by uh was
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  Speaker 4: over I go back in to get the stitches out
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  Speaker 4: with it. I was supposed to go in like four
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  Speaker 4: or five days before, and so they're digging them out
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  Speaker 4: and I'll never get I was at a TA, don't
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  Speaker 4: do this.
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  Speaker 2: I was. It was early in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: I'm at the table and the nurses digging in there
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  Speaker 4: and I didn't eat breakfast and I've never hurt so
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  Speaker 4: bad in my life. When she was pulling him out
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  Speaker 4: and I looked at her and I'm like, I didn't eat.
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel so good. Next thing, I know, I
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  Speaker 2: woke up on the floor.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, no all I remember, and the nurse said,
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  Speaker 4: I was like this and I have put my head
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  Speaker 4: on my hands and I just went, say first into
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  Speaker 4: the table.
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  Speaker 2: I woke them on the floor. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember.
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  Speaker 4: It's like I'm face first right into the table.
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  Speaker 2: So don't do that. Eat before you.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, still still doing what I can.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm I'm trying to be ready to go
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  Speaker 3: as soon as possible, so I gotta stay stay ready
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  Speaker 3: and uh yeah, just just do what I can right now.
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  Speaker 2: I love that everybody looks what are you looking at? Everyone?
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  Speaker 2: And then it's our rundown of or what's happening? So cool?
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's like, yeah, hike Corman from Okay. Then they give
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  Speaker 4: you some stats about what you did.
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  Speaker 2: So cool? What they give you timeline?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm gonna get the stitches out here next
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  Speaker 3: couple of days, I think, I think Monday's the day
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  Speaker 3: and then uh strengthened it up for a little bit
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  Speaker 3: and then start hitting. I think that's that's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know better than me, but everyone says when you
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  Speaker 3: start hitting, you know, there could be a little little
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  Speaker 3: little saying.
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  Speaker 2: To it, and Okay, that's that's that's that's great advice.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I'm just trying trying to trying to
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  Speaker 3: be ready to go out there with the fellas and
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  Speaker 3: be ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm kind of targeting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to stay for spring training games, toy making.
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  Speaker 3: I think his rule is pre are past this day.
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  Speaker 3: So technically I'm our one now technically, so you can leave.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, but us you have any contracts, So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I stayed last year. I stayed. It's nice, WBC.
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  Speaker 1: I'm bummed for you. I'm sorry that you can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't lie. I definitely definitely bombed. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it'd have been very cool.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of those A couple of those guys played
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  Speaker 3: on the A T and U USA team with so
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  Speaker 3: that'd been unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: The full full circle moment.
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  Speaker 3: To play with those guys again, and then shar An
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  Speaker 3: outfield with you know, Aaron Judge boxed in.
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  Speaker 2: But it is what it is. We'll uh, we'll keep
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  Speaker 2: moving forward. Next one. Yeah, hopefully we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about some positive stuff. Guys. Obviously get
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  Speaker 1: Meryl Kelly back, Zach Allen's back. We were just talking
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  Speaker 1: to Bryce Jarvis earlier, had a lot of great things
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  Speaker 1: to say about you as a teammate. Excited about this season.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine you guys have a good club.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of talent, uh, some of which is
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  Speaker 3: in the training room right now.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll return mid season.
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  Speaker 3: But I think, uh, I think honestly, the just the
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  Speaker 3: first month we have schedule wise is is.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be a challenge.
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  Speaker 3: And as long as we rise to that challenge, have
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  Speaker 3: some of these guys rolling back mid season, I think
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  Speaker 3: will be a good spot.
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  Speaker 2: What about Nolan Nolan's awesome man. Yeah Nolan, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Has he done anything or said anything to you that
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  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't hit with him in our hitting lab for
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  Speaker 3: like maybe one of the first few days he was
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  Speaker 3: he was there and I was like, how do we
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  Speaker 3: how do.
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  Speaker 2: We get this guy for this little money? Like this
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  Speaker 2: guy's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I'm just I'm really excited to see the
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  Speaker 3: kind of year he's gonna have and and just be
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  Speaker 3: his teammate too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's a good guy. He's uh lives and breathes and
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  Speaker 1: dies baseball and like he just absolutely absolutely loves it.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking earlier about Tory Lavello. What's it been like
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  Speaker 1: just having him as a manager. I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys appreciate, you know, how communicative he is and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of how he goes about his business. What
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  Speaker 1: have you learned from him?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Toy has been great. You know, nothing nothing but
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  Speaker 3: good things to say about my experience with him.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He's been our leader as long as I've been there,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I couldn't couldn't want anyone else leading
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  Speaker 3: our charge. I feel like he uh has good feel
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  Speaker 3: with when the right time to say something is and
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  Speaker 3: if other at other times. Just lets the uh the
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  Speaker 3: players lead ourselves and let's let's the vet's kinda do
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  Speaker 3: their thing too.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I got to ask us when you do come back,
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  Speaker 2: which stance are you going with?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you got you got going for the for the Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're that one worked okay, so we're gonna roll with
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  Speaker 3: that one for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you change? Why not change?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You were banging.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, You're like, I'm gonna completely try something different.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing with that one and was
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  Speaker 3: like I was trying to keep finding a way to
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  Speaker 3: keep my hands from coming with me. I've got I've
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  Speaker 3: got definitely a little bit of a bigger forward move
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  Speaker 3: and I fin yeah, but but the hands would kind
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  Speaker 3: of creep with me sometimes, and so I was just
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  Speaker 3: trying to find a way to keep them back a
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  Speaker 3: little longer.
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  Speaker 2: As I was making my forward move, and I was
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  Speaker 2: watching some old like videos from when I.
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  Speaker 3: Was fourteen years old and and saw and so I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, like that that might work, Like let's
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  Speaker 3: let's try that out.
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  Speaker 2: And just felt felt felt great, and then you enroll
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 1: How often do you tinker?
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  Speaker 2: Tinker? If you went back to fourteen? U sure, tinker?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say I would say if you ask Mike,
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  Speaker 3: I would I wouldn't want to ask my.
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  Speaker 2: Coaches that If I think I'm a tinker. I I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm a worker, but I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 2: a tinker.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair enough, because you do have a big
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  Speaker 4: for redmove. Yeah, but you're also a smaller guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: because of that forward movie generate unbelievable power. Definitely, there's
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  Speaker 4: give and take with that, right for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think Uh, I think as players, we always look
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  Speaker 3: at something that someone else does or like an opposite
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  Speaker 3: of us, and.
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  Speaker 2: We're like, man like, I wish I was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more like.
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  Speaker 3: That, and I would just say that, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: some ways my extremes definitely are to my benefit, but
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  Speaker 3: just making sure that they don't hinder me in some
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  Speaker 3: way and just just always looking to get a little better.
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  Speaker 4: How excited were you and Cautel didn't get traded with
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  Speaker 4: it when they came back and said we're not training him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was That was an interesting off season.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Like, As as a teammate, it's like, man like, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like there's a real chances guy's not here. It's
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  Speaker 3: been training, but you know, you at the same time
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  Speaker 3: you understand like, isn't doing this job. I think Katel
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  Speaker 3: treated it. The situation was with about as much class
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  Speaker 3: as you can came in was what was ready to
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  Speaker 3: work from day one, you know, no no heart feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of understood it by you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he uh, he is. He's a great person, he's
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  Speaker 3: a great teammate, and we we need him on our team.
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  Speaker 2: Why why Yeah, I mean have you seen that guy hit?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's something else besides that though, because you
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  Speaker 1: could have a guy that can hit, but he might
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  Speaker 1: not be a good dude in the clubhouse. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: just seems like an all around guy that you want around.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's fair. I would just say I think that
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  Speaker 3: I think that the the growth and like growing up
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  Speaker 3: that he's done, and and then now seeing like his
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  Speaker 3: kids running around the clubhouse, it's like, it's pretty cool
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  Speaker 3: to see because not that long ago, like he was
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  Speaker 3: what a twenty one year old kid just just trying
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  Speaker 3: to find his way, and and now now he now he's.
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  Speaker 2: There right like he's he's he knows who he is and.
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  Speaker 3: As a player, as a person, and then now seeing
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  Speaker 3: his little kids running around their kid king it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's it's awesome. You ever take a day off, a
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  Speaker 3: day off? Yeah, because do you take the off season
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  Speaker 3: off I take. I take every Sunday off in the
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  Speaker 3: off season, and then I take a week after the season.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of my that's it my routine because you
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  Speaker 2: got hurt and next day you're out there with the
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  Speaker 2: weighted ball doing stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, I think I think right now
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  Speaker 3: where like whole period where I can't do like a
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  Speaker 3: good amount of high intensity stuff. I think trying to
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  Speaker 3: mix and a good bit of low intensity stuff every day.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to I'm trying to still have someone of
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  Speaker 3: a spring training and and not just get to the
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  Speaker 3: season and then ask you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, you're in a lot of my program now. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about that. I don't know, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: just just again just trying to be ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: How's your mom? She's good, I asked, just because you
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  Speaker 1: guys seem.
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  Speaker 3: So close, Yeah, very very close with my family dad.
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  Speaker 3: Dad retired and in January, so yeah, he was, are
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  Speaker 3: they gonna follow.
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  Speaker 4: You around every Are they gonna go one, all, all
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  Speaker 4: one sixty two with you this year?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they were ready to go check out some USA baseball,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, now that's wiped out, they're gonna come
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  Speaker 3: down here and hang for like a month.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be that'll be really nice.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have anything to do with calling Romans to
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  Speaker 1: let him know that he got the spot or any
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  Speaker 1: part of that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, Yeah, just said said good luck in the
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  Speaker 3: group chat. And are you still in the group chat?
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  Speaker 2: I left on my own. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I got my own, thank you, but yeah, I just
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  Speaker 3: just said good luck going it all and got there.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that the group chat was already had some
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  Speaker 1: good vibes in terms of, you know, just getting ready.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, guy, guys, weren't guys weren't too happy with the
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  Speaker 3: hotel choices?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Really too happy?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah we got we got a we got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of long time big leaders, we got some showed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. But I'm at my hotel in Houston for when
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  Speaker 4: USA opens up. They're not going to be at that hotel.
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  Speaker 4: What you're saying, Yeah, we're not going to where that is.
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  Speaker 4: But you don't have a Yeah, I'll just give you.
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  Speaker 1: So we're all at an airbnb. This one's staying at
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  Speaker 1: a hotel because he's too he's too cool for us,
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  Speaker 1: he's too good for.
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  Speaker 2: Forty almost fifty years old. I was in a bedroom
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  Speaker 2: RB and B bet sometimes Yeah, much much hearing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure with a bathroom like I did last
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  Speaker 4: year with the guy eating his fingernails over there, look
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  Speaker 4: at him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You wouldn't want to.
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  Speaker 1: Did you had twenty seven alarms that would go last year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Man?
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: Before we let you go, I have to ask this
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  Speaker 4: about just kind of everything that's happening in baseball Playmaker's plassic.
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  Speaker 4: Why are you here because you you're a big supporter,
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  Speaker 4: You've had you on before for this event. What's the
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  Speaker 4: thing that this means so much for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think honestly the driving factor is Amy and the
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  Speaker 3: job that she that she does. I think, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I just developed a good relationship with her really uh
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  Speaker 3: appreciate her reviews around around philanthropy and and the impact
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  Speaker 3: that they're trying to make and in the classroom with
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  Speaker 3: on the baseball field. It just, uh it aligns with
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  Speaker 3: with with my beliefs about you know, what's important and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just as a player trying to try and do my
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: part of of of supporting and showing up.
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  Speaker 4: And you were the Clemente Dominie last year. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: that was a huge honor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think between the players trust and the work that
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  Speaker 3: they do, and then the work that the Dbacks do.
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  Speaker 3: Like people don't realize how how generous are our owner
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  Speaker 3: is off the field. I mean they've given away a
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  Speaker 3: hundred million dollars and we're celebrating that this year in
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  Speaker 3: spring training with with our dinner. Uh it's it's it's
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm very fortunate to uh to give.
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  Speaker 7: To Yeah, I think I think mostly Uh when I
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  Speaker 7: when I started out, it was kind of like, I
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  Speaker 7: want to do everything and see what I'm passionate about,
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  Speaker 7: and it just it just came out to kids and giving.
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  Speaker 3: Giving kids opportunities with with with with sports, educational opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: And then I got I got two little cats too,
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  Speaker 3: So I love it. Uh, Yeah, we wet there's an
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  Speaker 3: organization out here lost our home where we've we've got
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  Speaker 3: a bit.
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  Speaker 4: With making How many guys are so passionate about things
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  Speaker 4: off the field. Everyone again, everyone thinks, oh baseball players,
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  Speaker 4: they're always we people do a lot of things off
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  Speaker 4: the field and help the communities a lot in their lives.
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  Speaker 4: It's great, Yeah, for sure. Yeah, everyone's got to do
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  Speaker 4: their parts so.
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  Speaker 1: Good health.
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  Speaker 2: Can't shake your hands, thank you for.
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  Speaker 1: For best elect the share we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, Thank you guys.
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  Speaker 1: So are you cooking or are you fixing stuff in
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  Speaker 1: the house today? What are we doing?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: We brought our girl out? Are one month old?
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  Speaker 1: You did?
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  Speaker 2: You're not here? My dad, mom and dad and night out.
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  Speaker 8: Wow, so our old our sons with the babysitter and
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  Speaker 8: then mom and dad are out.
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  Speaker 2: So you have the youth is with you? Yes, my
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: wife just went to.
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  Speaker 1: Feed Okay, congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good how our thanks? Oh you look tired? Are
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  Speaker 2: you are right? I look tired. There's a one month old.
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  Speaker 1: I know, That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, we're slightly tired. Yeah, you know spring
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  Speaker 8: training six am. You know their tel you know two
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  Speaker 8: thirty whatever, And uh, it is what it is, It's
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: what we love.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Well, we welcome Alex call to the show out of
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: course the Los Angeles we're live the whole time. So
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: even like when you guys are coming in and out,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: it's awkward for our friends at home, but good to
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: be with you. I know that position players. Obviously full
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: squad just got here, but you've been there for a.
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: While, right, I mean yeah, I mean I live I
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: live in good Year out here in Phoenix and uh
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: so it's great to be back asy spring training.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, huge for our family and uh, you know, ready
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: to go for the year.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: You live in the playing graveyard. Uh, you just pick one.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: Tonight we're going to sleep and spirit. Tomorrow's Delta United.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Is that that exactly what we do? I mean that
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: would be an amazing line.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: You set up the crib and then they played every night. Yeah,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: what you have every night? It's perfect. It's perfect.
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: But yeah, no, we live in uh we live down
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: by the mountains way for everything. It's still nice camp.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Like everyone's talking about the three peet like going in
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: that clubhouse again.
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: Everybody's excited. I mean, how can you not be. You
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: don't get really too many opportunities at this and.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Uh well if you're own Dodgers, you apparently get one
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: every year. So welcome to the club.
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: Hey, you gotta win the first two and then you know,
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: so they it's just an amazing organization.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: It's been so much fun to be a part of. Uh.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when you found out you're getting traded, what I
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: mean like I'm on the Nats.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, by the way, where am I going?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, I'm going to l a no, yeah, it was.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: It was. It was a little shocking, you know.
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: I got the call and they were like, you're going
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: to the Dodgers, and I was like, they want they
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: want the Dodgers want me, like they have the best
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: team ever, and uh, it was, it was. It was
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: really flattered, honestly, and UH couldn't be more excited to
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: get over there and start working with all the guys.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: And you know guys I grew up watching enjoying, uh,
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: seeing their careers and all that stuff. So just an
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: amazing opportunity to you know, name your storyline. Let Kershaw
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: go out on top. Uh, you know, watch show hey dominate.
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: You know, it is what it is, you know, and
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: I got to be a part of it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: It's like the perfect Dodge.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: There's a great picture of you, by the way, You're
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: like the perfect Dodger player, right, you have a specific role.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: You get on base, you take your walk, they bring
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: in the lefty. Here it comes Alex call to get
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Is it bad?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Right, that's it. It's it takes the pressure off of me.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: It's like they were like, we want you to come
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: and do exactly what you do, right it out take
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: good at bats, you know, and lengthen out the lineup.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: You don't have to do anything else other than what
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: you already do. You don't have to be sure here
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: tan you We're not expecting to be short. So it's
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: like you don't pitch, I don't pitch, I don't hit
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: sixty and uh you know what else, you're.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Not faster than you're not bad.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, So I just had to be Alex Call,
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: which is what they wanted. So it was it was
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: fun to just go out there and be me.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Daca addressed the team yesterday and I know that he
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: had Kyle speak, uh and also Edwin Diaz. What were
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the messages to you guys.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean they were just saying, hey, we were
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: here because we want to win and uh we Uh.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: The Dodgers have established the culture of winning, treating players right,
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: treating families right, doing the little things right, and it
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: all adds up excellence. And so it doesn't surprise you
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: when you finally get to come in the doors and
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: experience it firsthand. Uh, It's truly uh true, especially put
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: on the uniform. And I mean, and then the fans
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: are so passionate. I mean, we're out here in az
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: and they're all lined up going crazy for us. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: you know, on top of that, obviously the parades and
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: just being way more recognized around. It's super fun and
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: really appreciative of them.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Where do you want to play? Where do you like
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: playing the best?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Where do you want to play? Sorry? I left? Center, right?
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Which one's your favorite? I love center?
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: I mean it's it's so much easier to like see
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: the ball and get the jump. Like I was out
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: there today taking reps and it's like, oh, the pitch
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: is going this way, his swing's taking them that way,
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: and you're off, you know, And that's how you catch
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: the balls with out of the twenty five percent pets.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Probably if you're still stagnant at the pitch in contact,
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: you're not going to catch those balls. You're not going
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: to catch the sixty percent probability catches. You have to
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: be moving. You have to be moving before the ball
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: is hit and it starts by you know, obviously taking
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: your reps and your reads, but then really locking in
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: on okay, where is this pitch moving and taking an
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: educated guest to get you that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You don't have a pitch come in your hat to
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: hear the pitch.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: In cider field usually Yeah, okay, so you can cheat
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: left right field not as much, but in center and
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: center you can't.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: So you just get all the information and uh so
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: it's a lot and and you're the captain. So it's
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: like my ball. You know, Andy pa has runs over
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: catches it over key K. You know it's his ball.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just Kek wouldn't catching that ball even knew. Talking
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: about is like I just lost the world. I dropped
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the ball. Yeah, I don't know. I mean when I
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: saw Kek's back there, I wasn't even watching Andy. We're
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: talking about it today.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: I wasn't even watching Andy, like I was watching key
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: K and I saw his back turn, and I'm like,
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: that is not a high probability posture like back turn
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: running like this, you can make the catch, not high probability.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's not like if you're going like this
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: and reeling it in. So then Andy comes out of
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: nowhere catches it and and then you're like.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, like you know, m cki.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Kay's reaction was one of the great He's like on
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: the ground like we just lost.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And then he realizes that biz is he like jumps
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: up like he made the cat.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: I know it's it's all time, all time World Series,
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: you know, all time moments right there.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Do you relive it in your minds?
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: You know, I certainly certainly running out on the field
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: and tackling Yama, celebrating with all the guys. I mean,
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: that lives forever in your mind.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: You know. I haven't.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Uh, I'll say this the year we won, you don't.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: You have to almost go back and watch the recap.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: They used to have DVDs when when we won in
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: two thousand and five, so it's a little bit different now,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: you know, you can just download probably the games on
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: MLB app or whatever.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but go, I remember watching it even years later. Man,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I forgot that happened. And I forgot because when you're
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: in it, you're in it. Yeah, well, probably don't forget
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: the drop, third strike, running the first.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: No, but you still but you forget. You forget other
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: things that happened in the in the whole thing, right,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: So you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, like that
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: game in June, I forgot we had that happen, right, yeah, yeah,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: earlier game in the playoffs. You could go back and say, oh,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: when uh the guy mess per messed up the you know,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I know that's a big deal, but never led up
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: to that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Right, the ball, the ball four?
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the ball four right, things like that, Like,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: oh man, I forget because when you're in it, you're
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: in it, and then all of a sudden you look
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: back and you're like, man, that was pretty awesome. So
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: I'll say this, if you guys get if you get
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: to go to another one, yeah, and you guys win
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: another one.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: I always this is one of the few regrets I
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: ever had. I never got to go back and got
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: to win another one. But if you do, I always
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: tell people I would love the opportunity just to sit
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: back and enjoy it a little bit.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying like it didn't enjoy it, but
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: just look around a little bit and take it all
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: in a little bit more because it happened so fast.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you're like, ship, it's over. We won great.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: But oh man, I wish I would have thought about
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: it a little. Yeah. I hear what you're saying.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: And I felt like I did the best I could,
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: you know, like in the moment and and then the afterwards.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: I mean, the Lakers game, Kings game, parade you were
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: doing that, you know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: It was it was just so much fun. You just
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: soaking it in World Series champ like so much fun.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I think you'll get with obviously. I know you'd love
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to have Tommy start the season with you guys, but
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: he's not ready for opening day. More opportunity you think
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to start for you in the outfield.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, whatever they have for me,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I'll be ready. I feel great.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: You know, I've I've it was pretty banged up at
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: the end of the year, but that's how it is
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: for everybody, and so you just kind of take it
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: as it is and then take your rest of the
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: off season, do what you need to do, get back
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: ready for spring.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: So one feels pretty excited that he got a selfie
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: with Otani. He almost was like, very nervous. It was
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: just a picture. So what's the effect been like for
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you just witnessing this entire thing? Look at this guy,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he was gentleman, so nervous asking him.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: To Yeah, he's uh, he's he's amazing. I mean, I've
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I've seen story or I've seen down in the tunnel
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: getting ready for his bat and he's you know, oh,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: for three and he's like, come on, new something, new something,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and he hits a home. You know, it's like it's
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: that easy.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Like you know, but he's so down to earth,
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: so humble and so respectful.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: He Uh, he's been super fun to be around and
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: learn from him.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I have to ask this because I I didn't know
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: that you were a first of all white extraffics. Yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: because but you grew up in Burnsville, Minnesota.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: So I was born in Burnsville, but I was raising
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: River Falls, Wisconsin, Western Wisconsin Twins fan. Yes, I have
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: my poster in your room.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I fat head.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I did not have your fat head. But you know
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: what I called you, And you can ask my dad.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: As was the hitting machine. Yes, yes, that is. We
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: get him a life contract. I'm not exaggerating.
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: I loved As he was the hitting machine the Twins,
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: the early two thousands Twins.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you were young. It was super far. We had
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: say baseball if you do you hear that rumor?
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know, So there's a there's a so in
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: two thousand and two, Uh, they wanted to contract the Twins.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But see like we had to get a conference
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: call every day.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, during the off season. Us in the Expos. We're
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: getting rid of the Expos. We got to have an
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: American League team. We picked the Twins. We'll get rid
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: of them. Well, then we go out and we killed everybody.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: We won the division. The big argument was, oh, the
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Twins can't compete. We went out and smashed everybody that
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: here in. So then there was a big ESPN thing
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: with me and Mkavid Tory, Hunter and Jack Jones.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: The team that say baseball. So we stayed baseball.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Nice, You're all welcome.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Everyone other, thank you, thank you getting machine.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: But you were drafted by the White Sox. Trade of
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: the Guardians. Yeah, trade of the Nationals DFA, We've all
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: been there. It happens, DFA. Your first big league hit
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: was against the White Tanner Banks my roommate and Hi.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So then oh yeah, I mean I love Tanner. Uh
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: you had a great year with the Phillages. He had
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a great year. I'm so proud of him.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: I mean just remembering being back in Winston Salem grinding
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: it out together, and you know, we weren't really like
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: super you know, prospects or anything. So it was like
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: just to see him continue to have a great career.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: It's super awesome, but I still got my first time.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I think you could say the same about you. Yeah, serious, champion,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: what's Players Trust? Is this your first first.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Event like this or yeah?
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: I mean I've been an ambassador for uh this is
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: my second year now. I was in Florida last year
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: so didn't get to make it, but yeah, super happy
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: to be here tonight and having a great time.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: How important is it for you guys to be involved?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I guess as much as you want to be. And
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: what's going on with the you know, the union that
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that protects you guys.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's important, uh, you know obviously with
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: giving back to the communities and you know, just appreciating
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: the fans and everything that they do to support us
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: and for this great game, and you.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Know, the work they do here is great.
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: I mean I put on a camp in river Falls
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: last year with helping the Players Trust to uh, you.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Know, just get back to my community and say, hey,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: this is where I'm from. This is a part of
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: who I am, and uh, super grateful for for all
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: of of.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Who I am because we're you know, the river Falls
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: community is It's in my blood. So super awesome to
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: be able to do a part be a part of that.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys follow Alex on the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: social media platforms, but he cooks. He's also a di
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I wire. So what have you made? So you did,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like the framing around like pictures.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: In your house?
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we had a blank wall in the
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: hallway and we did not we did.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: We can't have that. So it's been a long long enough.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: He took some nice family photos this off season, something
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I wanted to do, and uh so take those pictures,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: but then dress them up a little bit more nice
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: molding around him, put him on the wall, put a
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: little uh light, hard wired Scott Scoon's lighting. Did all this.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I did all this just to help my father in
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: law and we made it and check it out. It's
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: good work. I'll give you my card.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, trust me, I'll do I'll do a lot
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: of stuff around my house. The one thing I don't
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: mess with is electricity. Yeah yeah, I'm I am like,
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: definitely to mess with the electrics.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Definitely have to ask for outside help on that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: But actually, uh, you get the hang of it, and
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: actually being shocked isn't the worst thing in the week.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I did get you depends on if you're on how
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: high the ladder? Yeah, on the ground. Yeah. So anyway,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: a little bit cook, a little bit, cook.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: A little bit, yeah, I uh, you know, give me
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: a recipe, execute it, and I'm a good direction follower
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: and then there's some nuance to it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But yeah, been uh been on a cook a few dishes.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, people, people have a part time
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: leaving baseball. Players can do anything except play baseball.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: See, this is why we want to get to know
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: these guys, because you guys are people before your players.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, anything we should have We're in Dodgers camp on Friday.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: We'll see you on Friday. Yeah, so anything Alana needs
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: to ask Dave Roberts.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know. I I mean, I guess play
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: your name. Okay, certainly, I think the best question would be,
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: is you know who's who's gonna get in the way
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: of the Dodgers, you know, because I think the answer
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: is we're gonna go out there and do our thing
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: and we're gonna take care of business.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: One day at a time.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask Dave why he's cutting back on drinking wine.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: That's what I really want to know. He's cutting back.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: She's got he's getting old. Helena the same age.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, he's a little older than.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Well, my wife, she's called me eight times one month.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see guys on Friday. The definitely, Yeah, I got.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you made my life. I don't know about the
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: rest of this, but thank you.