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Manager AJ Hinch and Outfielder Kerry Carpenter join FT @Tigers camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: One of the few managers not on that front end,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is sitting next to me. The other
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  Speaker 1: Aj that we've had on the show, one of many,
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  Speaker 1: but one of the other as Aj hensch here is here.
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  Speaker 2: We're in Lakeland.
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  Speaker 1: We're at Tiger's camp, and we were just discussing how
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  Speaker 1: you had to put a covered field behind us so
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  Speaker 1: Joey Cora wouldn't get wet.
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  Speaker 3: We have a This facility is incredible. We do get
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  Speaker 3: a ton of work in. We do have the brand
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  Speaker 3: new turf field. It's go time that this summer pretty
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  Speaker 3: hot down here. So our young players love it, and
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  Speaker 3: Joey definitely probably uses it the most. He and George
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  Speaker 3: Lombard earlier work program. George has been gone with Team USA,
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  Speaker 3: Joey was gone for Puerto Rico. Our camp has changed
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  Speaker 3: fundamentally since Joey came back with Puerto Rico losing.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get on him about border and he tried
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  Speaker 2: to die like.
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  Speaker 4: The he did die.
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  Speaker 3: He did dye his hair. One his dye his hair
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  Speaker 3: turns out it you know, it looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not great.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a difference between I gotta be nicer to
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  Speaker 3: Joey than you do because he's on my staff. But
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  Speaker 3: we welcome these guys back from the w b C.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's good to get our cheam bats.
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch the game last night?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, the whole thing, the entire thing. What do
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  Speaker 3: you think it's electric? I mean, this is this environment
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  Speaker 3: for players is is really really special, and so I
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  Speaker 3: I loved it. I mean breaking down the game and
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  Speaker 3: all the different you know, momentum moves and and the
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  Speaker 3: base running and the the bigot bats and.
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  Speaker 4: No A B s at the end.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's like there's a lot that goes into
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  Speaker 3: that game, but the emotion that these guys are playing
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  Speaker 3: with is pretty special.
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  Speaker 2: Pitching tonight and he's not tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna be there.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's gonna throw a pen and get everybody
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  Speaker 3: all amped up and he's gonna throw.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not about me. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly why I only come on the show
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  Speaker 3: once or twice, because like usually I want Krats to
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  Speaker 3: do all the all the talking and I draw you
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  Speaker 3: for Central Florida.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 3: I such an emotional time for everybody. It's also preparation.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard, like it's hard to put it all together.
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  Speaker 3: And when we made these decisions in January, everybody was
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  Speaker 3: really excited and on board. I think the emotion of
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  Speaker 3: the moment really took over. Trek had a really, really
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  Speaker 3: hard time navigating it, but we stayed the.
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  Speaker 4: Course so that he's ready to go in San Diego.
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  Speaker 5: How hard is that to see him in the dugout
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  Speaker 5: and you go, all right, well, I was kind of
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  Speaker 5: part of the decision to not let him play because
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  Speaker 5: yesterday US wins and all of a sudden, the first
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  Speaker 5: second camera shot is Trek Scuoble and the first question
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  Speaker 5: is going to be Terrek Scooble. Obviously Holmes was in
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  Speaker 5: there too, But you part of that decision. Was it
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  Speaker 5: easy for you or was it hard for you?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard because it matters so much to the players,
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  Speaker 3: and you want to see these theatrical events. Who doesn't
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  Speaker 3: love the the matchups. I mean dating back to Otani
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  Speaker 3: and trout dating' you know, like last night seeing you
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  Speaker 3: know Mason Miller pitch and you're like, these are real
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  Speaker 3: matchups that you only get in perfect scenarios, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when everything's on the line.
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  Speaker 4: So I obviously love Team USA.
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  Speaker 3: I love the event as a manager, it's really hard
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  Speaker 3: to I mean Juliol Rodriguez gets hit. I mean the
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  Speaker 3: entire Mariners front office and coaching staff is like in
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  Speaker 3: straight panic mode. Likese got, Jose Al Tuovee got hurt
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 6: Like it.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna happen, whether it's in spring training or in
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  Speaker 3: the WBC. It hurts more when it's in an event
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  Speaker 3: that's not not your your group. So planning out wise
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  Speaker 3: is really hard, and I think you know, the the
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  Speaker 3: onus is on all of us to try to figure
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  Speaker 3: out the best time to do this event so we
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  Speaker 3: get this experience. I will tell you for pitchers Sevrino
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  Speaker 3: throwing one hundred at this point, watching Paul Skins navigate sixty,
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  Speaker 3: it's not the same where they normally would be in
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  Speaker 3: spring training. And we'll always have that problem when we
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  Speaker 3: have this event right now. And so until we figure
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  Speaker 3: out the safest time to do it, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have these dilemmas, and you're going to have these situations
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  Speaker 3: where it's not lined up perfectly and the timing didn't
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  Speaker 3: work the Like Arrek's belief in wanting to represent the
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  Speaker 3: country and wanting to play in this event, the fact
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  Speaker 3: he did one start in a free agent year is
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  Speaker 3: pretty remarkable, and here he is just getting beat up
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  Speaker 3: left and right.
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  Speaker 6: Great, people agree, That's all I was gonna say.
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  Speaker 5: Were we getting too greedy as US fans or baseball
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  Speaker 5: fans because he did make one start in a free
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  Speaker 5: agent year where he could possibly make four hundred million dollars?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think where Trek is wronged is like there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys that turned this down to not play
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  Speaker 3: at all, and so like, again, do you want credit
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  Speaker 3: for going and once start?
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  Speaker 4: Of course? Do you want did he have the most
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  Speaker 4: to risk?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, like this guy has and he cares the most,
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  Speaker 3: like he he wants to do right by everybody, and
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  Speaker 3: by him being transparent, I feel like he got a
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  Speaker 3: little bit propped up to to take a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a beating by by you know, the fans and
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  Speaker 3: the media and the and and the players had his
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  Speaker 3: back and we always had his back. And he's doing
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  Speaker 3: the best he can under the circumstances provided, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I do think, you know, we we think of this
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  Speaker 3: as the regular season matchups, and it's not because I
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  Speaker 3: you know, I talk to players coming out of this,
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  Speaker 3: I see players coming. I mean even we had Jamie
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  Speaker 3: Jones who was with with Team Korea, like he needed
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  Speaker 3: a full couple of days to come down from that
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  Speaker 3: to be able to go. And that's he's a you know,
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  Speaker 3: a role player for us on the bench who played
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of outfield. Has gone all over the world,
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  Speaker 3: traveling to Japan, traveling to Miami for a game, and
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  Speaker 3: it's not easy. I don't think people really care as
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  Speaker 3: much as they probably should. But I I trust that
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  Speaker 3: the players that you know will handle it accordingly given
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  Speaker 3: the schedule. Did you play any Olympics, Yeah, ninety six
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  Speaker 3: at Atlanta. We want a bronze medal. In ninety six,
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  Speaker 3: we were still the amateur team. We were coming out
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  Speaker 3: of college, so a lot of guys from there went
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  Speaker 3: to the went to the big leagues. We had like
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  Speaker 3: you know, ra A Dickey and Braden Looper and Travis
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  Speaker 3: Lee and Markcotte and Jack Jones, and we were we
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  Speaker 3: were had a really talented college team. But it was
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  Speaker 3: in July after our season, and eighteen to twenty one
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  Speaker 3: feels a little bit different than guys that are you know,
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  Speaker 3: that are that are signed to these contracts and are
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  Speaker 3: preparing for a major league sedon.
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  Speaker 2: You know what it's like.
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  Speaker 4: It's incredible, incredible. I mean it is, it's worthwhile.
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  Speaker 3: I mean when Tarreor called me in January asking about it,
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  Speaker 3: I was an immediate yes because that walking in that
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  Speaker 3: room is different.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an All.
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  Speaker 3: Star team, it's not a you know, it's not sort
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  Speaker 3: of a casual event, and it's a meaningful step to
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  Speaker 3: be one of the elites. Will Ves is there right
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  Speaker 3: now and will Vest three years ago, I'm sending him
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  Speaker 3: out to go to Triple A because of a bad spring.
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  Speaker 3: Three years later, he's closing out playoff games and he's
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  Speaker 3: going to Team USA. When you walk in that room,
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  Speaker 3: it matters, and I love it for these guys to
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  Speaker 3: experience it.
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  Speaker 5: One of your massive moves was another lefty that probably
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  Speaker 5: wanted to pitch into WBC was that conversation had with Framber.
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  Speaker 3: So Framber was, you know, a free agent pretty deep
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  Speaker 3: into the offseason and the timing of when the Dominicans
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: set their rockster and all the things that go into that.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't even with a team yet. And I think
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: you're seeing the same thing with Lozardo with the Phillies.
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  Speaker 3: These guys that are that are that are at a
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  Speaker 3: different point of their career. It's hard to commit to
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  Speaker 3: everything and do everything for everybody, and so Framber never
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  Speaker 3: mentioned it on the front end. You know, we talked
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  Speaker 3: a little bit about his entry into this team and
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  Speaker 3: and obviously getting him, getting him up and running on
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  Speaker 3: the first team that he hasn't played that's not the Astros.
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  Speaker 3: And so when when he got here and then he was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, up and running. We went to the Dominican
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  Speaker 3: for two games and I heard a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: conversation of them wishing that he was on that team.
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  Speaker 3: And it that's where callies again, you're not allowed to
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  Speaker 3: map it out to make it perfect.
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  Speaker 4: You're not allowed to.
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  Speaker 3: You would have prepared a little differently January and February,
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  Speaker 3: knowing what was ahead. We started him late in order
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: to give him a little bit of recovery from the
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  Speaker 3: volume that he's had over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: And then here we're gonna drop the most intense game
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  Speaker 3: like last night on his plate. That didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess off of that, and then my original
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  Speaker 5: question was different, But is he going to be ready
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  Speaker 5: for not opening day because Scooba is gonna be opening
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  Speaker 5: a but is he gonna be ready for his first start?
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  Speaker 5: And how has he assimilated himself into this clubhouse?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Frember pitched yesterday in pitch five innings, was incredible,
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  Speaker 3: getting ground balls like we know, he missed a few bats,
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  Speaker 3: like we know.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he.
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  Speaker 3: Is very ready for the season, and we used a
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  Speaker 3: couple extra bullpens, a couple extra live VP sessions to
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  Speaker 3: get his volume up. That's a little less intense than
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  Speaker 3: a game, but a little bit more than just throwing
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  Speaker 3: in the bullpen. So he's gonna pitch Game two right
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  Speaker 3: behind Trek. I was gonna announce it later this week,
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  Speaker 3: but he's lined up to pitch right behind Terrek and
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  Speaker 3: and go in game two. And that's a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: one two punch when you go and both guys can
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  Speaker 3: pitch deep into games, they get out. They do it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit differently, but pretty good start this season.
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  Speaker 2: How'd your recruiting pitch go to him?
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  Speaker 4: Was it pretty good together? I think the common bond
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  Speaker 4: is just.
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  Speaker 3: I saw this guy come from, you know, from where
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  Speaker 3: he was in his career late signed, had to work
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  Speaker 3: his way through.
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  Speaker 4: He's been doubted his whole life.
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  Speaker 3: He's a little bit been old for level as he
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  Speaker 3: worked his way up through the minor leagues and then
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  Speaker 3: I had him his first couple of years in the
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  Speaker 3: big leagues, and you know, the thing that that I
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  Speaker 3: wanted him to know is one we're about winning, and.
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  Speaker 4: Two there are high standards here.
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  Speaker 3: And of course we talked about his life, you know,
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  Speaker 3: his last couple of years with Houston. There is a
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  Speaker 3: common bond. You guys know this when you play for
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  Speaker 3: somebody and you have that immediate comfort level, both from
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  Speaker 3: manager to player and player to manager. I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: I wanted him to come here badly because he he
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  Speaker 3: can help you win that Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Franklin, it is yeah, yeah, hello track.
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  Speaker 6: It's like a it's like a squirrel. It's like a squirrel.
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  Speaker 6: Run high school.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my kids, high school coach, red coaches for.
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  Speaker 6: Like for like three minutes, stay focused. We have a J.
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  Speaker 6: Hinch On here.
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  Speaker 2: He might be a better manager. You never know. He
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  Speaker 2: almost won a state championship as an intern. Inch never
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  Speaker 2: did that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I've not won a high school Central Florida state championship.
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  Speaker 2: That's well, it's the whole stage.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just it's not like California where they only
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  Speaker 1: play like parts. We do the whole stage. Anyways, back
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  Speaker 1: to back to the Tigers, we mentioned from ber there's
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  Speaker 1: another guy that you were a little familiar.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, are you familiar with him in Verlander?
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  Speaker 1: When he comes in here, does he just automatically get
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  Speaker 1: the best locker and get everything because of his time
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  Speaker 1: with the Tigers from before.
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  Speaker 3: Now he got a different locker, same number. I told him,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I told him the day before, so
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  Speaker 3: I knew we were signing him for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: He was doing making some arrangements or whatever and getting Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he got to got to get his end of all
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  Speaker 3: out season stuff done. I was like, hey, I changed
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  Speaker 3: my number to thirty five from fourteen. I've been fourteen
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  Speaker 3: the last like whatever, ten twelve years. But I don't
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  Speaker 3: really care about the number thing. But my goal was
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  Speaker 3: to try to get a watch or something out of Verlander.
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  Speaker 3: And I tried at the last minute to say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I changed my number to thirty five, and he called
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  Speaker 3: me on it, which so it's true. I didn't get
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  Speaker 3: anything for it, but nothing. No, I didn't actually change
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  Speaker 3: my numbers.
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  Speaker 4: I should have.
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  Speaker 2: You should have.
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  Speaker 3: Actually the we gave him his number back, and there
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  Speaker 3: was something different about the Verlander jersey being up in
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  Speaker 3: the clubhouse and even watching him throw his bullpen like
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  Speaker 3: it didn't take me back as far as I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: here with the Tigers when he was. But he's the
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  Speaker 3: fan reaction the how he's handled his re entry into
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  Speaker 3: this organization. We're a completely different organization than he was
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  Speaker 3: here last and he's been awesome in the clubhouse around
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  Speaker 3: the young players. He and Errek developing a really good relationship.
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  Speaker 3: He's in between Terrek and Framber, which is probably great
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  Speaker 3: for both. Frambert's got a ton of familiarity with him
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  Speaker 3: from Houston. Errek has a ton of respect for someone
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  Speaker 3: you know who is has done all that he's done
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  Speaker 3: in the game.
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  Speaker 6: How many times have you heard him say? Whoa? This
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  Speaker 6: is different? Whoa? They didn't have this when I was
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  Speaker 6: coming up.
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  Speaker 4: You know. One of the things that he's he joked
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  Speaker 4: to them.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, you're actually approachable on the day you pitch,
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  Speaker 3: which I don't recognize that version that the thirty something
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  Speaker 3: version of Erlander was like, you know, headphones on, stay
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  Speaker 3: away from me. But he was joking in the training
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  Speaker 3: room the other day and he was having a grandle time.
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  Speaker 3: So spring training his perspective. He did say that spring
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  Speaker 3: training he did say, like, I actually think, you know, again,
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  Speaker 3: I as a manager, maybe I feel like I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: older in this job.
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  Speaker 4: And you've been around a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You see these guys go from like young players to
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  Speaker 3: getting married to having kids to that happened with JAV too,
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  Speaker 3: Like he got married, he has a couple of kids.
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  Speaker 3: Now his perspective on his career and what it means
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  Speaker 3: to put on a uniform, I think is is awesome
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  Speaker 3: because I think he values it way more now as
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  Speaker 3: he knows whatever is this. You know, whenever he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be done, he's going to be done, but he's
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  Speaker 3: going to appreciate things a lot more than maybe you
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  Speaker 3: do as a you know, a rising you know, first
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  Speaker 3: ballot Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's been incredible and like the resume speaks for itself.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I always say, like you want to know
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  Speaker 3: something about a player, look at the back of the
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  Speaker 3: baseball card.
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  Speaker 4: And his law.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Oh sorry, go ahead, craps.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I just have one more JV question. Can
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  Speaker 5: he be a distraction when you know you're signing a
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  Speaker 5: guy like that? Obviously everybody says in tangibles he's in
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  Speaker 5: between the locker of Scooble and Framber. But can he
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  Speaker 5: be a distraction that some managers aren't able to handle
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  Speaker 5: because of well JV back in Detroit all this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't think he's going to be a distraction.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that that that week was kind
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  Speaker 3: of crazy, right, So you had the talk of Tarrek coming,
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: you know, coming back, he went through his arbitration stuff,
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  Speaker 3: He's going to WBC.
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  Speaker 4: You have Bam Framberg, Damn Mam JV.
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  Speaker 3: And like all of a sudden, it became like a
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  Speaker 3: completely different clubhouse, you know. And and ironically as a manager,
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  Speaker 3: I was scrambling less about JV and more to other
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: guys who were in our camp, Drew Anderson, we had signed, Hey,
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: you're possibly moving too, the pen cater Montero, your your
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: role has changed. He's gonna he's gonna start for Venezuela tonight.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: So like there's there's like I go into manager mode.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: But that the overall like storm, so to speak, or
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: this big topic that came. Jv' has handled it with
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: a ton of cloud. He has not wanted to be
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: the center of attention and has not tried to pull
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: away from this team. This team is has been in
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: the playoffs the last two years. Like, that's the conversation
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: about what you know, what we're about. He didn't want
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: me to even talk about the nostalgia of coming back
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: in Detroit. He wants to talk about helping us win.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Did you make him do a rookie program when he
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: got when he came back. If he doesn't want the nostalgia,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you should have made him do like a rookie presentation.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Now, No, he's not a rookie, so it's hard to
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: make him do a rookie This is why Presentky hasn't
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: managed it.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: He doesn't. He has all these great ideas that he
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: would never do in that room.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: So I'm not a manager.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Of people that are actually managing and have to worry about. No,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: I don't have to worry about Jav doing a presentation.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: I just want to I'm just happy he comes to
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: my meeting every morning. Like shit do one Like back
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: when I was a rookie, the had somebody doing on
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: him on his birthday. But I left that one alone.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Like forty three is in number. You know, I've been there.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I know what it's like to have the number climb.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: So I left him.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Alone, okay, and position player wise, it's it's it's a
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: similar team to what you guys had last year. The
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: thing with you guys last year, especially in the postseason
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: that you know was a strikeouts. Is there a way
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: you guys can cut down on the strikeouts. We'll get
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: more contact.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: I hope, So, I hope.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: So although I would tell you, like you ever strike
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: out and say like, oh, I wasn't trying to hit
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: it like all of us when we swing and miss,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: we're trying to hit it, like the guys are actually
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: taking a pass at the ball to hit it. And
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: so you there's two ways to go about it. I
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: think you can address it and just say, hey, we
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: need more contact, like that doesn't make it easier to
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: hit some of these guys. You can also, you know,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: talk about what you need to do a little bit more.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Maybe we need to play the game a little bit more.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Maybe we do need to have a b hack a
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: little bit more. Maybe the game situation will dictate maybe
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: not empty in your tank and try and hit.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: The ball on the ballpark.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: But offense has changed over the years that there is
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: there is you know last night in the dr game,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: like you make contact in the game can change, but
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: it's tough sport man. The pitchers are getting really good
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: at at finding the holes. I think you're going to
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: find that the hitting the hitters start to adjust back
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: to a little bit more play the game mode as
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: opposed to trying to hit every ball five hundred feet.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Agreed? And what about McGonagall.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: He's awesome, he's been great. This camp are starting in
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: San Diego. And I don't know, I don't know. You
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: know these decisions you don't have, no, no, stop why
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not a manager, because I would just say it
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: not And if you didn't know, you wouldn't say it.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: You know, No, you don't, you don't. This is where
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: you're wrong. You're you have to.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Wait when you're gonna make you guys leave on Saturday,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: that's five days from now.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: You're gonna make that decision in three days from now.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: No, we have we have the off day in Arizona,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: we have two games against the Rockies. We have an
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: off day before San Diego. So decisions aren't made emotionally,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: like you're coming out at me about making it now
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: because you want to know. There's no benefit of making
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: the decision now. Gather more information, put a little bit
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: more in front of him.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: He's got to pack his stuff, he's gonna.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Have he's going, he's gonna go with us to Arizona
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: like there. He's gonna finish spring training regardless, and we're
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: gonna make the decision when we need to. I mean,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: there's nothing pressing outside of this question that would like
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: pause us to even care about making the decisions.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: So back off, dude, back Okay, Well, then I'll ask
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: you the next pressing question. How much are you going
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: to be glued to the screen when kaider Mantero takes
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: the mound? And how many pitchs? How many pitches is
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: your guy gonna be a throw tonight?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every pitch I'm gonna watch, and I did for
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Terrek and de Jesus, who's been incredible for Team Venezuela.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: He put him on the forty in the middle of
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: all this, he got on our forty. Man, he's still
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: exactly you get on the forty Like it's not that easy,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: but there there's you know there. I watch all these
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: glabor you know, is it bats against Yamamoto?
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: Was?
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: They were awesome?
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: So I'm glued to the TV as a fan I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: also as as their manager. But you know, right now,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Cater's at that like three inning, fifty pitch count, Mark,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to start the game. Omar and
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I are really close to their manager. I had him
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: in Houston, and you know he's gonna piece together the
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: game and Cater's gonna go first and to get out
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: of the gate hot. I mean, he's he's got nasty stuff.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: He was really good in the playoffs for us. This
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: one time through the order, three inning burst is a
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: perfect role for him, given the stuff that he has,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: and that's what I expect tonight.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Any thoughts on what Diro went through, which part about
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the whole misspoken and you know, I mean the lineup stuff.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Is the lineup like he Yeah, there's some people don't understand.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: He's given parameters. And you know this because I'm sure
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you and Scott Harris have called him and said, hey, Deiro, listen, man,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: like this guy can only do this and this and this,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and our relievers can only do this in this and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you called Omar and probably said, hesus, hey, this is
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: what he needs to do right to get ready for spring.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And they're fighting all this forget forget that far.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: He's super stressed about the Bregman Henderson's decision. I mean last,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: by the way, but let me tell you that's a
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: tough one.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: But you know what I'm talking about, the feelings of yes,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: second guessing you you say something because you're out there.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it kind of mirrors what we go through
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: every day. Like we know as managers, the criticism is
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: part of the gig. Like we are here to protect
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: the players, we're also here to take all the criticism
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: when things don't go your way, like whenever something happens
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: the other way would have obviously worked out, Like that's
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: that's the that's the what we live in for one
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: hundred and sixty two games plus the playoffs. I think
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: we're where the fans and most of us out outside
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: of that clubhouse don't know those parameters. They don't know
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: what their restrictions are, like you don't know, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: even restrictions. We think of them as holding guys back.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: It's also pushing guy like like there are guys that
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: can't pitch on this team because you can't promise them
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: four and five ups because it's not it's not a
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: spring training game. And so when you know, inheriting runners
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: or can Ken Mason Miller go three of five, like
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: that stuff's not cited by the manager, and so that
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: he is put in a really, really really tough spot.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: And and the nuances of this job you only really
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: get by being in the job.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: And so it's not d Ro's fault for.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Trying to navigate these things the best he can with
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: with a lot of unspoken things that are you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: that are on his plate that shouldn't be spoken about.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Like I don't think that everybody should know every restriction
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: or every situation or every you know, complaint box that
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: he gets from a manager because his guy's not playing,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: or his guy's hitting too low in the order, or
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: his guys you know, getting pinch hit for or whatever.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Like it's it's not an exact science in general. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: then in tenfold for for d Ro Timios.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Before before we let you go, I just want to say,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: can I give me a watch?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe you've given watches to every manager in the WBC,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: almost every manager in the big leagues.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Can I Can I get me a boss watch?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: No, I'll give Crats one. Maybe he can he can
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: give you one. Give Krats one.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I'll give Braun one. You got a little bit of
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: work to do here because my.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Name is better than fine. Yeah, Pelo got one.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Cratch one's in the mail for you, brother, appreciate too, Thanks, Thanks,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: good luck this year.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Here we are with Kerry Carpenter, the official owner of
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: George Kirby. I know we're not going to talk about that,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: but if you haven't seen his numbers against George Kirby,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: uh yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: It's like every swings of Homer.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: It seems to me either a homer or a strikeout.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: He's gotten me a couple of times too, so first
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: and bad in that game, he punched me out with
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: ninety nine at the top, so he's he's pretty dang good.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Then all I do was make you mad, so then
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: you're like, okay, I'll get him again.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, no, that was a fun one.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: And it's fun to battle guys like that because he's
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: so good and he pounds his own, so it's it's
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: it's fun.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. How's how's camp going here in Lakeland? So far?
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: For you?
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: It's good? Lakeland is paradise. Like we were talking, thank you,
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: I mean Hinch.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Hinch said, No one likes Central Florida off here now
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: here we are and we have two guys from central Florida. Exactly,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: how can you not love? It's like seventy degrees. I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: can I have a hoodie on just because I have
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: thin blood. Carrie has the Flee song or No, it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: just I've been getting warmed up. I'm all good to go.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly now.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: But camp's been good. It's been fun to get a
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: lot of at bats. They take care of us here,
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: so it's kind of crazy. We're getting ready to leave
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: this weekend, so it's coming quickly.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: What do you need? What does that mean? You get
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: a lot of at bats? Like, what do you need.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: As a pseudo established big leagueer slash budding superstar?
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: I like it. I think you hit the nail on
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: the head. I just need a lot of at bats. Personally,
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: I feel like the more at bats I get, the
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: more I figure it out. The more I mean, I
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: could take DEEPVP in the cage or on the field
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: all day and I'll.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Never really figure out if something's wrong. I can.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: I feel like I can manipulate the ball on VP,
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: but whenever it's it's the bullets are flying in the game.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I feel like that is what will expose me.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: And so just learning through at bats in the game
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: and getting a lot either in the games or on.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: The backfields doing lives. It's been good this spring.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: How many bests does it take you? How many best
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: would you like before the season starts.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: That's a good question.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: I don't know if I figure out a number, but
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: I would say twenty to thirty. And then I start
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: getting really comfortable, like I can start start understanding the
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: zone more again. I can start, you know, formulating a
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: real approach and like seeing the different arm angles that
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: guys are coming with. I think I would say I
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: would say twenty to thirty or more because it takes
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: me a little bit.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Do you are you a minor league get back guy?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Do you count those?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Inch comes you and says, hey, we need you to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: go get twelve at bats in the minor leagues?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: You count those?
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, and.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Then you're like one hundred of you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Team goes on the road, You go to Hinch and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you say, hey, Skip, I'd like to get some of the bats,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and then he runs you on four different fields and you
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: get about twenty at bats.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: I love doing that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: I personally take live at bats like it's a real game,
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: like I can, I can get up for for live
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: at bats. I know some people pictures especially, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: I can't necessarily get the adournaline going for those, but
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: I love it. I think it's for me. It's a
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: real at bats. So I love seeing the ball just
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: come out of a picture's hand.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Do you talk trash to say you take one of them? Deep?
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: No, I haven't yet, but but you gotta flip on him.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I haven't yet on that either.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: Some I mean, I'm not, you know, hitting homers every
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: at bat against god thing, But yeah, yeah, you're right,
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: you're right, But no, I don't. Sometimes they're like, you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: play and don't run the bases. That's kind of a
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: weird feeling. But no, it's been good.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Oh you dropped the I'm a big leaguer because you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: only have the one flap helmet.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Do you like I don't have to run the bases, Guys.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I don't do what I'm told. I just do what
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: i'm told.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, you don't.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Seem like somebody talks any trash ever. But if you
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: hit a live at bad against your teammates, is there
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: a little bit like that smile. You can't say I'm
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: sorry and have that smile that you have. But do
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: you talk a little bit against those against your own teammates.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: A little bit? I just like I can't bring.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: Myself to do it all the time because I would
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: feel so bad because they could punch me out easily
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: the next at bat.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: So I always I'm always careful with what I say.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: But uh, it's fun to kind of job back and forth,
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: you know, Like I've done it with Casey before. I've
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: hit a homer off the end, but he's struck me
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: out a couple of times. So he's fun to go
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: back and forth.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: What about if you get a hit you're facing Schooble,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: even if he tells you what's.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Coming and you hit just a rocket somewhere, you.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Just, yeah, I'm about it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: I'm might never let him forget about that one right now.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: I'm all for one with a pretty bad strike out
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: against Schooble.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: So in life, Yeah, that was this year, that was
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah, a little change up. Thought it was a heater
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: right down the middle and end up bouncing and I
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: saw it. So he's, uh, he's tough, and I'm glad,
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: you know, I'm glad he's on my team.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: So there's no such thing as a bad strike out.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: They're all equal one, Mike, you might think it looks bad,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: they're all they all look like exactly. They going the
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: same column. But I got a questions for you because
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: one of our people behind the scenes said, you have
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: your above way above league average in your third time
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: through seeing a pitcher.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: Is there something to that?
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Is there something that you're like, Man, if I just
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: see this guy a little bit more, if I could
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: get a little bit a few more at bats, and
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: is that something that can be solved for you off
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: of traject pregame.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, to answer the traject question first, I like to
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: do traject to see kind of pitch shapes if I
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: haven't seeing a guy before.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: But I I.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Don't know why, but I have a kind of a
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: photographic memory when it comes to seeing pitches and how
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: it comes out of the hand. And so I feel
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: like the more that I face a guy, I feel
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: like even if I'm over to or two strikeouts off
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: the guy and I get a guy the third time,
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: I still feel pretty confident because I just think the
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: more I see somebody, the more comfortable I get even
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: if he's had success before. So I really just I
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: like seeing guys more than once.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: I will admit.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: That's why you were an Eastern League Player of the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Month back in May two. By the way, I bet
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you never won that award.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: Not a chance.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: You got to go into the depths to find that.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: It's not as wikipedia. He also said he was good
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Golf Coast League player of the week.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did brag about that.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: That was like, that wasn't even a humble brag. That
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: was a big brag. Like few of us played in.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: The golf exactly exactly, so, I.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Mean some of us were seventeen so much for twenty one?
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: What league?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: But where you're at in your career, Kratzy, how can
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: this team get past where you guys have gone in
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years?
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: The ultimate goal obviously to win a World Series. Last year,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you guys beat the thing happened in September.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But then you get revenge.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: You beat Cleveland in the wildcard, then you go to
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Seattle and just have an epic series that.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't end the way y'all want it.
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  Speaker 1: How do you guys get to the next step, which
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  Speaker 1: is obviously LCS World Series eighty four, you know, restore
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  Speaker 1: the roar in eighty four.
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  Speaker 2: How do you get to that next level?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I think that everything we've done in the offseason,
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  Speaker 8: bringing in guys like Framber and JV again, but the
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: at least speaking from my experience with the offense, I
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  Speaker 8: think that we were so close that Game five, we're
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: hat runners on, we were threatening, and one hit goes
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  Speaker 8: our way or one at back goes our way.
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  Speaker 4: And we do make the LCS.
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  Speaker 8: And so I think realizing that we're we're not that
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  Speaker 8: far away. We've we've come so close, and it's just
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  Speaker 8: like little things on the margins that are gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 8: help us get there this time, and just believing that
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  Speaker 8: we can do it going out and trusting the work
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  Speaker 8: that we've put in in spring training. I mean it
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  Speaker 8: starts in February and going for eight months straight. It's like,
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  Speaker 8: I think this time around, if we have another opportunity
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  Speaker 8: and then Wildcard Series or DS, I think we've had
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  Speaker 8: the experience. Now, we've been in those those tough situations
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  Speaker 8: and we've come out on the losing end twice. But
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  Speaker 8: I think that everybody is more confident now than we've
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  Speaker 8: ever been.
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  Speaker 5: Can you take a confidence from the first half of
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  Speaker 5: the season offensively throughout the season, there's there's something like,
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  Speaker 5: did you guys run it too hot early and go
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  Speaker 5: who we got kind of gassed? Or was it something
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  Speaker 5: that you guys changed your approach or you didn't change
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  Speaker 5: your app There's so many different angles that we from
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  Speaker 5: the outside look at it and go, this is one
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  Speaker 5: of the better offenses in the game, and it didn't
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  Speaker 5: quite happen after the All.
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  Speaker 6: Star break anymore.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I can speak for myself in that regard, because, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: we had a ton of guys that were super hoth early.
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  Speaker 8: For me, I kind of was the opposite. I wasn't
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  Speaker 8: great the first half of the year, and then I
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: came off the I l at the end of July
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  Speaker 8: and and and had a better end too my my
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  Speaker 8: personal season. So it's it's something that you know, as
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: a team, we need to The best teams are are consistent,
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: they're good all year. They don't go through those prolonged
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  Speaker 8: slumps like we did in September.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, just pull you guys didn't hear the call.
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  Speaker 8: I thought I heard something, but but yeah, electric.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 8: And uh, but I think it's just a consistency, like
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: you're mentioning. Fine, I think as a as a team
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  Speaker 8: we need to find it. As individual players, we need
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: to find it. And so by going through that last
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  Speaker 8: year exposed us all and so I think that we
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: are better off for it, and we can make adjustments
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  Speaker 8: now that we've been through it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, before we let you go, Alan Tram While
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking to Alan Trump, who's awesome when
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: he was a coach that I had in the Fall
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: League and just obviously a Hall of Fame or Hall
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: of Fame person.
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  Speaker 2: Great guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned the eighty four team and the last team
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: for the Tigers to win the World What would it
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  Speaker 1: mean if you guys to the city of Detroit, if
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you guys were the team that could finally get him
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  Speaker 1: to stop talking about eighty four and talk about this
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: wave of Detroit Tigers.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we had like a forty year anniversary with the
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: eighty four team a couple of years ago, and they
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: were all like, all right, it's your turn. I need
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: to stop talking about us. But I think for the city,
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  Speaker 8: it's amazing. It's a great sports city. The fans are
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: so supportive. I mean even just the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 8: like the second half of twenty four and then all
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: of last year. It's it's been a completely different just
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  Speaker 8: vibe in the city with us doing well, the Piston's
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: doing well, the Lions and the Red Wings are doing well.
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  Speaker 8: So it's just like when the city rallies around us
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  Speaker 8: like that, I can't imagine what it's going to be
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  Speaker 8: like if we can make a run at it.
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  Speaker 4: And and win the World Series this year.
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  Speaker 8: I think it would be an unbelievable accomplishment. But for
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: the city, I just think they would they would wrap
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: they wrap their arms around the eighty fourteen forever. So
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  Speaker 8: it's like it would be cool for that to happen
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  Speaker 8: to us, to Schoogle, to Berlin, or to all the
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: guys that that really deserve one.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Well, they do a Kerry Carpenter Day if you guys win.
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  Speaker 1: In Eustace. They have a parade of if you down
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  Speaker 1: the street in Eustace.
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  Speaker 8: They haven't mentioned it yet, but I'm saying, if you
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: guys win, But I mean, I don't know if I'm
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: making that decision, but I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: I would say no, but maybe maybe.
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  Speaker 2: We'll that'd be a key to the city.
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  Speaker 8: This is growing, it's it's not as much of a
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: small town anymore. So I don't know how many people
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: know me around there, but it's uh, it's I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Last time I was there there was a sign that
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: said home of Kerry Caerverenter.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I believe you, no, but it'll
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: always be home, so it would be cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kerry, thank you very much, thanks for joining us
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  Speaker 1: to They have a great season.