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Tigs Heating Up In Pivotal August · Tiger Territory: A Detroit Tigers Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And welcome into another episode of Tiger Territory, part of
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  Speaker 1: the Bottle Territory Network, a Tiger's podcast. I'm Karen stackleyan
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  Speaker 1: with me are a couple of guys that every weekend
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  Speaker 1: is player's weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, Tody Save, what's up, Fellas? How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good, baby ready, I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 5: Glad to have a Jackson on.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Not a bad meek. Not a bad road trip for
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  Speaker 5: the Tigers. You know, you take two series, you win
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  Speaker 5: three of the first four in Minnesota. Thought some of
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  Speaker 5: the at bats were better. Come of a mixed bag
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  Speaker 5: with your pitching performances, right, You saw even Scooble have
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  Speaker 5: to really not at all as best, but grind out
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  Speaker 5: seven innings. You know you got a big outing from
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  Speaker 5: Rafael Montero to help you win a game. Kyle Finigan
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  Speaker 5: continues to be good. Charlie Morton has been pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: Chris Paddock was really rough on Sunday. So I don't
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  Speaker 5: know that's where we're at. I think things are trending.
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  Speaker 5: Back up, Tigers are nine and seven so far this month.
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  Speaker 5: But that lead in the Ale Central that everyone was
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  Speaker 5: panicked about not long ago.
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  Speaker 2: Back up to eight and a half games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we we we were just talking before
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  Speaker 1: we you know, press record about August, and we probably
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  Speaker 1: should have recorded earlier. So we're gonna get back into
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  Speaker 1: into that discussion because it is kind of a fun
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  Speaker 1: topic to go over. So, like you said, nine and
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  Speaker 1: seven in the month of August, but you started out
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  Speaker 1: two and four, so obviously trending in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: And then specific to this Twins.
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  Speaker 1: Series, the way I would kind of look at it
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  Speaker 1: is like the Tigers are built to be a team
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  Speaker 1: that is going to win by three runs when you
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball over the first baseman's head, like they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna like they're gonna take there. They're gonna make more
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  Speaker 1: of the correct plays than you are and make less
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  Speaker 1: of the incorrect plays than you would. And that's more
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  Speaker 1: or less what we saw this weekend. And and now
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five games into the season, the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers have a seventy three and fifty two records. So
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  Speaker 1: we got ajax on, I went and looked this up.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty eleven Tigers sixty seven and fifty eight after
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  Speaker 1: one twenty five, the twenty twelve Tigers sixty seven and
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight after one twenty five, so a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a repeat there, and then the twenty thirteen Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: I love this seventy three and fifty two same the
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  Speaker 1: same record that the twenty twenty five squad has. So uh,
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  Speaker 1: overall things are okay, but the month of August can
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  Speaker 1: be a tri month. So let's let's just set up, Austin,
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  Speaker 1: if you could just tell us we as fans and
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  Speaker 1: media say like the phrase like the dog days of
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  Speaker 1: summer August, you know, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, is that just something that we say? Is that real?
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  Speaker 1: The dog days of summer, the August, you know element
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  Speaker 1: of it, Austin, Is that like a real thing or
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  Speaker 1: is that just something we make up?
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  Speaker 2: Guys who watch the game listen.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't want to speak for everybody, but
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  Speaker 4: for your boy, I felt it. Your boys felt it
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  Speaker 4: during these times right here, and I mean it's it's
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it sounds kind of cliche to
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  Speaker 4: say that you know your training right. Your training is
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  Speaker 4: what you know that's in the off season, and the
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  Speaker 4: things you do during the season are the things that
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  Speaker 4: you know. When you get to this point, you're not fresh,
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  Speaker 4: but you're also not broke down. I believe in that,
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  Speaker 4: like cause I felt that and I've experienced it during
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  Speaker 4: that during this month, and the body is broke down,
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  Speaker 4: the mind is starting to you know, like kind of
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  Speaker 4: weary a little bit. But everything again, the things that
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  Speaker 4: you trained for in the off season, These are those
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  Speaker 4: days that you trained for, right Like, you literally go
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  Speaker 4: into the off season not thinking about just I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to get a good start to the season, but how
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  Speaker 4: can I maintain you know, my my physical strength throughout
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  Speaker 4: the season. And obviously a lot of that is done
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  Speaker 4: in the off season to build the strength up, to
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  Speaker 4: build the body up to withstand one hundred and sixty two,
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  Speaker 4: but it's also about the things you do during the season,
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  Speaker 4: right Like, It's a lot of the training and getting
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  Speaker 4: there and getting your lips, getting your stretches, getting the
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  Speaker 4: things done you know, you know, with your trainers to
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  Speaker 4: essentially like keep you fresh or as fresh as as
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  Speaker 4: possible throughout a long season. So these days they're important,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that you know, from at least from
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  Speaker 4: my experience and playing, I think that these are the
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  Speaker 4: this is the month.
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  Speaker 3: Really they can make a breakup team.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this is a this is a month where
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  Speaker 4: a team can just get hot out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 4: you're looking at them in your division. This whole year
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  Speaker 4: is being a team, you know, that's you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: they're sticking around, but they're not close enough. And then
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  Speaker 4: this time right here is when they might catch fire.
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  Speaker 4: And you're surviving kind of like we talked about, just surviving,
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  Speaker 4: and you built up a really good cushion, a good
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  Speaker 4: little buffer, but you're not playing that same quality of baseball,
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  Speaker 4: that high intensity level of baseball that you were playing previously.
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  Speaker 3: And then a team gets hot.
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  Speaker 4: That's what can happen, you know in this uh you know,
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  Speaker 4: in this month of dog days, it's really a fight.
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  Speaker 3: Man. It's a grind. The whole season is grind, but
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  Speaker 3: this is.
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  Speaker 4: A time of the season where a team can really
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  Speaker 4: make a push.
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  Speaker 3: And really put some pressure on a division leader.
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  Speaker 4: And I actually love these days because that's what it was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, even if it wasn't even if we weren't
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  Speaker 4: in it, which we were in it a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the times, but it was always about spoiling it for
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  Speaker 4: somebody else. So that's what you got to look out for,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in these days right here, when you're the
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  Speaker 4: top dog. You got a team like, well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: make you earn it. And if you know as a team,
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  Speaker 4: if you know collectively you're not still on that same goal.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are getting tired, injuries, things like that that can
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  Speaker 4: make a big difference. Right now at this time, what
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  Speaker 4: team do you have going into the end of the season.
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  Speaker 4: You know, do you have your guys healthy as everybody
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  Speaker 4: on the same page going into the you know, for
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  Speaker 4: that playoff push. These days are tough, man, but I
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  Speaker 4: love them because it brings out the best of you
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  Speaker 4: as a player and.
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  Speaker 3: As a team.
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  Speaker 4: So it was always fun, but it is these are
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  Speaker 4: these are crucial times.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's time to lock it in and you know, rely
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  Speaker 4: on like I said, that training that you put yourself
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  Speaker 4: in the off season and also the things that you're
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  Speaker 4: doing during the season to maintain your body so you
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  Speaker 4: can get through it for those playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Austin, we were just talking off air about just looking
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  Speaker 5: at past champions and how did they perform in August.
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  Speaker 5: I went back a little further. The last World Series
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  Speaker 5: champion to play below five hundred in August was the
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  Speaker 5: twenty seventeen Astros. They actually had a really rough month.
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  Speaker 5: They went eleven and seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: No, they came back and went twenty and eight in September. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: But otherwise, I mean, granted, these are all good teams
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  Speaker 5: to begin.
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  Speaker 3: With, that's why we're talking about them. But exactly Red Sox.
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  Speaker 5: In eighteen, eighteen and nine, the Nationals in twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 5: nineteen and seven, twenty twenty one, Astros eighteen and eight,
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, Braves seventeen and eleven, Rangers in twenty
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  Speaker 5: three were fifteen and twelve. Not as dominant, but they're
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  Speaker 5: still playing above five hundred ball. And then last year's
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  Speaker 5: Dodgers went nineteen and eight. So maybe there's something about
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  Speaker 5: these teams having their metal tested a little bit. Recent
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  Speaker 5: champions have not really gone through it. They've continued playing,
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  Speaker 5: continued to play really good baseball even in August. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, also, like you know, variety of types of teams
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  Speaker 1: there too, which I find interesting because I mean, all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff that Austin was saying, like, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: does a twenty two year old at twenty four year
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  Speaker 1: old realize all that when they're you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: fresh in the game, or is that something that you
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  Speaker 1: got to learn with experience, Like I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: it does seem like also August. Oddly enough, I was
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  Speaker 1: just kind of going through my head. I was like
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  Speaker 1: April slash March, beginning of the season, everybody's excited May,
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  Speaker 1: especially for these northern teams, it's like, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: finally starting to get a little bit warm, Like that's exciting,
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  Speaker 1: and then June you're kind of figuring out everything. In
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  Speaker 1: July you have all Star break, that anticipation trade deadline,
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  Speaker 1: and August just kind of sits by itself, because obviously
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  Speaker 1: September speaks for itself, but August just kind of sits
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  Speaker 1: for its up.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of funny. I literally was just thinking through
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, like I don't know if anyone
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  Speaker 5: cares about the perspective of a writer, but they show
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  Speaker 5: us graphs of like how stories performed throughout the year,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, you see spikes around spring training and
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  Speaker 5: the start of the season, and then around the trade
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  Speaker 5: deadline there's a big spike. May and August are two
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  Speaker 5: months where like no one's really paying attention. You know,
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  Speaker 5: football is starting up, kids are back in school. You know,
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  Speaker 5: people aren't reading about the Tigers at quite the same clip.
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  Speaker 5: You know, for me, you know, you feel not as creative,
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  Speaker 5: maybe the stories aren't as good because you've got some
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  Speaker 5: big storylines coming in September, right, and you just came
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  Speaker 5: off the stress to the trade deadline, and it's like,
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  Speaker 5: well it's August. You know, what is there to say
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  Speaker 5: right now? Like we're just kind of waiting and seeing
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  Speaker 5: until he gets to September. Here, Like, I feel like
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  Speaker 5: everyone in the game feels different pieces Like this is
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  Speaker 5: when the season starts to feel long. For players referred
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  Speaker 5: to it as angry August. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 5: was a term. We'll start to lose their patience or
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  Speaker 5: right the year gets long.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you're I mean, you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 4: But this that's what that's when you can get you
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  Speaker 4: can get caught slipping, right, is when it's like, man,
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  Speaker 4: this is getting long.
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  Speaker 3: This is just a.
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  Speaker 4: Regular Tuesday game. That's the game that you gotta get.
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  Speaker 4: Because they're feeling that too, you know. On the other side,
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  Speaker 4: they're like, it's a regular Tuesday game and you might
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  Speaker 4: be playing against somebody who's just out of it and
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  Speaker 4: they're just trying to spoil your chances to get there right.
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  Speaker 4: But I honestly I loved it, you know, And I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if it was just a matter of the
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  Speaker 4: locker room that I played in that nobody ever got
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  Speaker 4: like that. It was like every game mattered and you
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  Speaker 4: and you felt.
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  Speaker 3: It, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure that and in locker room where you
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  Speaker 4: have a contending team, they they're going through that same thing, like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: let's don't, let's don't.
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  Speaker 3: Let's don't let this.
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  Speaker 4: Get us down, you know, because this is that weird
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  Speaker 4: time of the year where it's like it's like you,
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  Speaker 4: like you mentioned, it's getting long, it's kind of you know,
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  Speaker 4: like the same thing every day. That's when you got
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  Speaker 4: to put the foot down right there. That's when that's
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  Speaker 4: when you can really make a difference and separate yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Because again, you got a team in Cleveland over there
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of like they're playing some some different style
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  Speaker 4: ball right now. That's kind of like I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if like if the Tigers don't, like if they just
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  Speaker 4: have one of these weird spells where they just can't
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  Speaker 4: get it going, and then you got Cleveland over here,
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  Speaker 4: this what what are they eight and.
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  Speaker 3: A half nine?
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  Speaker 5: Not that long ago?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. If it got weird, it got real weird.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody started to get hold up, let's get let's button
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  Speaker 4: that top button and no more than you know, nah,
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  Speaker 4: we bucking them out. Now we're getting serious out of here.
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  Speaker 4: You know, nobody got chains on now we.
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  Speaker 3: But no.
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  Speaker 4: But seriously, that's that's like the things that can happen though.
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  Speaker 4: But that's again, like, that's what I love so much.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I love to to see because again, it
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  Speaker 4: brings the best out of the team. You know, guys
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  Speaker 4: are gonna guys are gonna go on slumps, pictures are gonna,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say struggle, but just kind of
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  Speaker 4: go through a little where they're not themselves or who
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  Speaker 4: we've been seeing, right, But you know, being able to
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  Speaker 4: go out there and grind out in that bat each
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  Speaker 4: and every day, especially right now, that's gonna determine who
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  Speaker 4: you who I feel like, who you are? Who are
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  Speaker 4: you right now when it's a regular Tuesday, when it's
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  Speaker 4: a regular Wednesday, and and nope, and it's not a
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  Speaker 4: lot of fans, Who are you.
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  Speaker 3: In those moments?
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  Speaker 4: Those are the moments that I feel like it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: gonna determine who you are at the end of the season,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because when those games then it's a little late,
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  Speaker 4: it's a little late to try to get that passion
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  Speaker 4: and all that.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, it's gotta be every game right now.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, if you don't have that right now,
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  Speaker 4: you could easily see something that you built throughout the
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  Speaker 4: whole season just get wiped away, Just get wiped away
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  Speaker 4: because everybody stopped caring. You know, at this time, you
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  Speaker 4: know they're they're they're not even in it. Well you
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  Speaker 4: just let a team come in here who is not
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  Speaker 4: even in it, come in here and sweep you or
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  Speaker 4: win the series. And now you got somebody behind you
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  Speaker 4: just chasing you. They're looking at that. They're looking at that.
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  Speaker 4: I know we're gonna talk about that. They're looking at that.
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  Speaker 4: I looked at that if we lost the game, I
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  Speaker 4: looked up there.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, dang it, they won.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's the truth, man, Like I looked at
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  Speaker 4: that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're gonna take a quick break. But
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, we'll get Austin to go a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more in depth about how much score and
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  Speaker 1: standing watching goes on at this time of year in
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming back here, as previously mentioned, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the Tigers maintaining a lead, a lead that is
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  Speaker 1: certainly shrunk from its peak, but now I would say
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  Speaker 1: is a relatively comfortable eight and a half game lead
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  Speaker 1: in the al Central over the Guardians. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: once it gets to five, I can tell you fans
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  Speaker 1: on social media are stressing about it a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: like from from a guy in the clubhouse, like, how
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  Speaker 1: how much of that is part of your cognitive like
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  Speaker 1: space over the course of a season, especially as things
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  Speaker 1: get get closer and later to the end there because
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  Speaker 1: I do, I'm just guessing. I feel like it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those things like it's important to note, but at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, it could you could let it each
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  Speaker 1: you up if you let it so, like you know
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  Speaker 1: how much standings and scoreboard watching goes on right now, Austin.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think, like you said, it's important to note,
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  Speaker 4: like we're not just out here green like right, we
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  Speaker 4: need just have here just like love. Like we lost
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  Speaker 4: that game, you better know what's going on around here,
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  Speaker 4: because I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Because you don't want.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to get yourself in a position where
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  Speaker 4: like we sat out here and we're just playing baseball
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  Speaker 4: and you know we're just controlling what we can control.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the truth.
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  Speaker 4: But while you're thinking about that and going through your
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  Speaker 4: duke to do day, this team over here in your
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  Speaker 4: division is playing really good baseball. So to me, that's
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  Speaker 4: more of like an incentive than like we got to
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  Speaker 4: get it together. So I look, because it kept driving me.
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  Speaker 4: It was something that I needed, right, Like I didn't
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  Speaker 4: want to like again just be green and just like
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: I'm just playing baseball. I needed that push at this time.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Give me something that's gonna feel me, Give me something.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Y'all are playing good all right? Bad like that just
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: means I need to step my game up and do
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: what I can do for my team to win. What
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: what am I capable of doing to help this team
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: to win each and every night? So it was it
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: was I think for me to watch and I think
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: a lot of guys do too, because at this point
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: in the season, you know, if you don't have like,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: what are we playing for? Yes, we want to win
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: every game, but when you had that motivation, knowing that
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: like dang, they already played, they already won, you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: it does something to you. It does something to the
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: psyche man, like when you go out there and you're
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: just you just play different. You know, whether that's you
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: need to play a little bit more reckless or a
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: little bit more free, or you might need to put
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: a little break on it and play a little bit
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: more caution, not go die for that ball, you know,
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: just recklessly and potentially let this be a triple right
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: now and with no oubt. So it means something to me,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: and I think it does for several other players too.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: And there might be the players that don't worry about
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: that stuff. Everybody's different. But I think for me it
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: helped me. It helped me at that time to really
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: lock it in, knowing that the team was closed, knowing
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: that they just won that game already. Out on the
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: East and West Coast, I don't know zones and all that,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: but but I would look up there and you know,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: you would see final and he'd be like, oh man,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: they've won that game.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Hey bro, we got to win this game.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Like, and you would you would notice it with guys
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: in the in the in the in the clubhouse and
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: down in the what about trying to think of the
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: down there, we're sitting in the place to get.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: About to play baseball. I don't even know what it's called.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: No more, got it out of there, baby, I got it.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: But you know, man, like it's been it's been too long.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: But no, but no, but but you you feel that
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: sense of urgency like and then it's like, yes, let's
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: get it. You know you you need that. And I
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: think guys, uh, it does something. It motivates them a
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: little bit to look up there and say, you know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: they they lost, let's win this game or they won,
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: we gotta win this game, you know what I mean.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: So I think it did something for for the teams
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: that I played with, because I would notice guys look
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: and they would talk about it, and you know, they
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: talk about it in the clubhouse. We talk about it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: And I think it did something to you know, the
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: focus level of guys where that batch change, the defensive changed,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: that the pitch has changed.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: So it was awesome. It was also gonna be a
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: part of that to see where.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Everybody can like elevate their level of focus at a
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: time when everybody was beat down.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Well, Cody, Uh, I mean one of the things that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: we're observing in real time is like how does this
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: team and this leadership kind of handle this situation? And
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: obviously AJ has been through every single aspect of this
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: as you know, in his baseball life, especially as a manager.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: But I'm but I'm just curious. I mean, I don't
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: know what do you think?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: You know, Aj?
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: A bit, like what do you think his message is
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: during this time two guys? Because is it still just
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the whole like when today's game thing, or like can
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: can that expand when the uh, the circumstances and what's
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: at stake is a little different.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: That that's an interesting question.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I know Aj every now and then we'll get a
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: little more animated behind closed doors. Then he likes to
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: let on not to say he's like, you know, throwing
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: tantrums or anything, but you know, he's not always just
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: the boiler played ants in front of the cameras, right,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Like he's a human and like he's a competitive, intense guy, too,
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: like he wants to win these games. But I do
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: think the whole like win today's game, focus on today
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: is a like that's real in terms of it being
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: a consistent part of his message, because that's something you
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: can always lean lean on. You can always go back
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: to when they lost twelve or thirteen. That's what he
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: was telling them, Hey, have a good day today. You
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: know execute you're a bat that a lot up. Like
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: all that stuff that we hear all the time, there's
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: a degree of reality to that too. I think the
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Tigers should bring in Austin though, for a little speech
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: about how to get through the dog days. Though that's
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: kind of you're right, like if you're four, maybe you're
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: not thinking of it with the perspective of someone who's
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: been there and been through it and now kind of
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: see can look back on the importance and how to
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: get through. I think maybe we need a little guest
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: speaker in the clubhouse, just for a little reminder that
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: that maybe you're not getting from, you know, from the
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: manager of the people who are in there every day.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I get them boys pumped up, and I won't shave.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I ain't gonna shave my head. I'm going to nurse
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: straight kimbo on these boys like they not ready for it. No,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: but I mean it was honestly, I I would be
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: all up for that though, Cody. But you know, I
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: don't know how much these guys would be looking looking
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: to me for advice.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: But you know I took in.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I took in so much when I played, and I
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: really made sure that I listened and I and I
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: paid attention to a lot you know what I mean.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: So I got an opportunity to really take a lot
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: in with from a lot of most likely Hall of
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Fame players, you know, hall of Fame guys. And I
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: really took that in on a on a daily and
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: made sure I made that a part of like you
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: know what I what I did, and yeah, man, like
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's something when you've never been there, you
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: never done it. But when you get to look around
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: or you get to hear from somebody who's been there,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: it kind of like, Okay, this is what I can expect.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: You know, obviously, you got to go through that own
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: your journey by yourself, but when you can kind of
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: hear from somebody who's been there and and you know
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: knows that, hey, I know you're tired right now. I
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: get it. But they're tired too, you know what I mean. Like,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: they're tired too, But what's the goal? What are we
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: trying to do? What are you trying to achieve? What
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: are you even playing.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: This game for? You know what I mean?
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Like those type of things right now is where you
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: got to look yourself in the mirror and say what
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: do I want? Do I want to do? I want
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: to achieve the greatness? Like do I want to get
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: to that that point in the season where you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: people like I can, I can become a household name
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: right now, you know what I mean? Like that guy
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: or that team, they're like, man, hey, they they were
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: really good all year.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: They hit a little you know, they hit a little.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Down trajectory a little bit, but then they picked it
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: up and then they were the team that we were
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: expecting and hoping them to be. They were that team.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: So hey, I'm ready for the speeches. Man, Like I
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: might get in there and say a whole bunch of nothing,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: but it's gonna be one thing I say though, that
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: they gonna be like, yeah, I'm back with him, all
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: that stuff. He said, I don't know nothing about that,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: but that one thing he said right there, Kimbo got
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: it with that Kimbo brother, I take that hat off.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: They're gonna see that cul de sac. They're gonna be like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: let's get it. I'm crowing.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I love doing this, man.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't think we'd get multiple Kimbo references on this podcast,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: but I'm not mad at it either. We're gonna take
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a quick break and then afterward we will ask Austin.
• 22:48
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming back here we witness today. Chris Paddock,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you know, not have himself a very nice outing. He
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: did kind of gut his way through five point two innings.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: He gave up nine hits, eight earned runs. He was
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: hit hard old day. He managed four strikeouts and three walks.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And this is only this is actually his second time
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: facing his former team, the Twins on August fifth, So
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: talk about the dog days right there on August fifth.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: He's tired of seeing his old boys.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: To four innings pitch with four earned runs. He gave
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: up six hits and then two home runs in that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: game as well, So so yeah, I would say he's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: probably tired of facing his former clubhousemates there and Austin.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: This is something that that that you can.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Relate to, like you were a trade deadline guy as
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: well You're obviously traded to the Tigers during the off season,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: so you had various opportunities to face, you know, former
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: teams in your career.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: So what is that like?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: What is that like when when you go to a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: new team, you got all this other stuff going on,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and then you go to the familiar conf against familiar
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: faces and and all that stuff going on.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: What is that Like?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I'm you know, I'm just being honest. I'm trying to
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: kill them. I'm trying to go I'm trying.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: To kill him.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: It's not you know what I mean, Like we can
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: try to be Yeah, you know, you go out and
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: you know, you see guys shaking hands and things, but
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: in your mind, you're like, I'm trying to kill y'all.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Like I don't even I'm not trying to you know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: sugarcoated and I don't know. Again, I don't know how
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: it is for other guys. I can only speak for myself.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: But you know, I like, I'm smiling, but it's like
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: it's a it's not a real smile like you might think,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: like I'm like this that I'm like, I'm trying to
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I'm really trying to beat out really bad, like I
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: really want to beat y'all bad, And you know, I
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: think that's just something else that that that you can
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: use for like EMO, right, like you you, and a
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: lot of times it's depending upon you know, how the
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: two sides departed. And but for me, I just think
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: that anytime you try to play a team that traded you,
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: you're trying to go at them. And you know, it
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: didn't always work out. I didn't always get the best
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: of him, but I was definitely trying to though.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I'm trying.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to, you know, kill the team that traded me,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: because it's like, Okay, well you thought that I wasn't
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: good enough to play for you, So I'm I'm gonna spoil.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna spoil something. I don't care what it is.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: I don't care if it's a catch, I don't care
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: if it's a blue single.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna make a difference somehow in this game to
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: make you be like, dang it, man right here, just trying.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: You just don't want us do it you right, I
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: don't want you to win. I don't want you to
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: win another game planning against me. I don't care. That's
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: just how I am, I'm built like that. You don't
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: want me, well I don't. I'm trying to. I'm trying
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: to get you every time.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Then, so fire out of Austin to that, like man's
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: man's high level sports. What are you doing if you're
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: not trying to kill him? And look at the standings
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: while you're doing it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm talking about.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Well did you feel how did you feel?
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: This is a little bit off, not necessarily Tigers related,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: but how did you feel about the Yankees?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Like, uh, you know, you know, because.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Obviously that was we talked about, how like, you know,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: your process of signing with them, and then you were
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: traded before you got a chance to uh to debut
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: wearing pinstripes. So like, how did you feel, you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: facing the Yankees? Obviously postseason elements there included.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Bro I tried to get them every I did, because
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I mean that that was something for me, like, you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: I always, you know, dreamt about being a Yankee getting
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: drafted by it, and that's that was a big reason
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: why I actually.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Chose to go play baseball.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I was like, man, get drafted by the Yankees, you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: I watched Dereck Cheeter and and uh, you know Williams.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I watched, I watched. I watched these guys. Everybody did.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: So, you know, growing going through the pro going through
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: the minor leagues and having the opportunity, you know, playing
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: that that farm system and really work my way up.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: You know, I wanted I envision myself in there, which
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: we all ship, right, you got to envision where you
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: want to be at.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: But when they traded me, I was like, I don't.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: I will never if I if I have something to
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: do with it, I will never let y'all get there again.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: And I feel like I had something to do with spoiling.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: A few of those you know, little tenures that they
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: they tried to go in, So I, you know, I
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: feel like I didn't do it by myself.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: It's I felt like my teammates felt what I was
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: trying to do. They was like, you don't like them.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: It's like, no, I don't want to suffer. I don't
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: ever want them to make make it to the World
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Series again. So no, I went at them hard. I'm
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: not gonna lie, And that's that's no joke. Like I
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I really tried to make it a point that when
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: I went at the Yankees, and I was trying to
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: get them so much that that I and listen, I
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: was just small, small little part, right, But don't get it,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: don't get it twisted. Though I could. I could move
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: some things around now, Cody Karen, I could do something,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: but you.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Know, it was so much to one time.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: I think I even told it, like when CC struck
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: me out one time, and this is just this might
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: be all in my head, I don't care, but this fine,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Well he struck me out and I told you he
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: was like this is my city.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I'm like saying that to me.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Like I'm just a small little you know what you
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: said it to me, Like I said like, oh yeah,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: like this is this is where I want to be.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Like CC was.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: I used to love playing against because I feel like
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: it brought, you know, the best out of me too,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: kind of elevated my my focus. Playing against a team
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: that you know, you you dreamt about being on. They
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: traded you anytime I got a chance to go at him,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: and I did. And you had some fun battles with them, though,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: because you always knew that they were gonna they were
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: gonna be in the mix. So I always knew that
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: I had an opportunity to try to keep them from
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: achieving their goal and.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Not letting them get another World Series. So it was fun.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: It's fun, and it also kept you know, kept me
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: fueled with fire and uh, you know, a team I
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: could always look at and say, I'm gonna make y'all
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: regret that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: So we're a gootain way off topic here, but I
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: think it's interesting. So much of this podcast has been
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: about the mentality you have to have as a player.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: With Ceci, you think he was yelling that at you,
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: you know, just to get himself going. He had invented
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: some story in his own like you didn't do anything
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: to him, but he was so locked up that maybe
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: his head, you know, he invented some reason to have
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: a data against Austin Jackson.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: And I I really think that I think he needed
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: because listen, I used to like do a little sneaky
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: stuff off CEC, like swing first pitch of the game
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: and get like a hit.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I know that, I know it irritated because he's like
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: this little.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Like I'm over here thinking about the people after you,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: and then you want to go do some sneaky stuff
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: like I ain't even I'm just trying to get you know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: first pitch of the game. Oh seriously, you're gonna swing
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: hit a devil on me like this, dude. So I
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: really felt like I used to do those little like
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: annoying things so much to him that in that moment
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: when he struck me out, I think that's hey, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: think you hit it on the head.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: At least that's what I think.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I choose to think that a Hall of Famer really
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: was focused on me that day.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: He said that he probably wasn't thinking about it at all, but.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: He probably he probably should have been focused on you,
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  Speaker 1: Austin because your career two ninety two hitter against the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yankees and including four round trippers.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: So hey, hey, hey, I ain't got a lot of
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: but I got him got I'm telling you no, It's
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: serious though, like we were talking about, like I was.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: I was serious man like it. I used to get
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: up for those games man like for real, because I
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: really wanted to prove a point. And I think a
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: lot of guys do that, not just not just me.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: I think a lot of guys. They want to prove
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: a point. Man like you if in your job, what
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: you do if they just ship you off somewhere like
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: you know, you're thinking you're doing everything you you can
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: do the tribute to that organization, that group, that business.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: You feel like you can really add value, but they
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: don't see it that way. You're gonna want to make
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: them see it. If you got the opportunity to show him,
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: you're gonna want to do it. It doesn't matter you like,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I don't care if I'm sick today. I want to
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: prove to them that they missed out on this. So
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: I did everything in my ability. God give them ability
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: to be able to try to try to make prove
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: a point, and I did.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I did. Sometimes I feel like I got I proved
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: that point.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, and just uh clearing out some some
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: stats that I wrote down earlier. Ajax was a two
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: sixty six hitter in sixteen games against the Tigers after
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: after his departure, and I guarantee you every one of those, uh,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: every one of those seventeen hits that you had. Every
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Tigers fan was like, all right, yeah, it's cool.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're good with that. Forget with that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: We're not trying to we're not trying to kill Kimbo
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: slice Jackson over there.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: I have become Kimbo after after they were more like
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Dave Chappelle. Probably you ain't worried about Dave.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Well let's let's let's wrap up here. On
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: on another light note.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: This past weekend was the Players Weekend where guys got
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: to wear special cleats, special bats. Uh So actually I'm
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: wearing right now if you're watching on YouTube, I got
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the Riley Green.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Uh Players Weekend had, you know, just for the occasion.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: So you know, how how cool is this, Ajax? What
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: what did you do? What would you do now?
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: For for these like you know, special things that the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: players get to do this weekend.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: I man, it's it's awesome. I think I love that there.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: You know, they give you, they give the players, like
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: they don't have enough of a platform to you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: express themselves.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: But I think it's cool. This is really cool for
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: the fans.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Just another thing for the fans and the players to
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: really kind of express themselves. And you know, when I
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: was playing, I feel like it was just so long ago.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: But you know, we we had custom cleats. I think
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: I had created some custom cleats and you know, had
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: a different color themed back. But what I see these
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: guys doing now, I'm like, that's that's crazy.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: You know, skittll cleats and chains, and I just think
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: I think it's cool, man.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: And I honestly, I probably I wasn't that type of
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: dude to you know, pull off that much swag. I
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: tried to keep it real simple. But me right now,
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I think I though on me about folk chains. I
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: think my bath would be you know it depending on
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: what I'm playing for. I'm like doing some city themed,
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: you know, like what's y'all's uh, I need to incorporate
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: all that in the back. I want you to see
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: it all in the back, and that bat might not
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: even touch the ball, I don't know, but you're.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Gonna see it on on the you.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Know you're gonna see it on TV. But the cleats
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: would be fresh. I would absolutely deck my cleats out.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: And I you know, I said I will Nike I
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: D because they ain't sending me no cleases that special,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: so I'm getting I'm getting the same. Everybody can get
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: the same colors. Ain't nothing, but I would. I would
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: definitely freak it out, man, And I would I would
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: uh out the change, man, like the change is getting crazy.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: I love how they're you know.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Uh, accessorizing everything with with with the change in the bit.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't think I could pull that off,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: but I would definitely travel players weekend though man like
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: I would, I would express myself in that way. So
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: I love that the guys are doing it. I think
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: it's really cool for you know, young players to kind
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: of see guys being you know, like, hey, we still
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: like things too. We're still obviously keeping the professional but
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: you know, they they like their their they're nice things,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: and I think it's as long as it's you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: one thing that I think that is important during this
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: time is to really still keep it like you know,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: we do all of this, but you know it's we
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: still go out and play the game right, that we
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: still go out and play the game hard. We still
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: play the game the right way and not let these
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: things that we do for the fans make them are
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: the younger players think that it's just about that. It's
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: just an expressive thing for for the players to be
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: able to you know, customize things look you know, look
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: cool and really you know, just make the game fun.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: That makes the game fun. I love having Ajax on
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: my jersey bro that was so cool and I still
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: got it.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I still have those.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Jerseys, and I think it was really cool to be
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: able to, you know, have your nickname on your jersey
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: and and things like that. And it's also you know,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: cool memorabilia for you. And I love this. I love
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: this time.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Man. I wish I could do it again.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: But now I'm trying to cecilize my little guy and
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, we might just go back to basics, though, Like,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: y'all get too much slag out here, y'all think y'all
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: you know these dudes, hey, Cody, Bro, they got they
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: got oven mitts, they got oven mins first.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: They won't even let you fly out here first. That's
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: the house. It's illegal even, that's just like, so, why
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: you gotta why do you have an oven min? Tell me? Please?
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Why you know what I'm saying? Why why do you
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: have a shipt guard up? None of y'all ever hit
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: off your shin when you do, trust me, you're gonna.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, what do you have an elbow pad for?
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: We have a coach throwing you balls right there, y'all
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: be crazy and I love him to death, bro, and
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: it's so funny. So like obviously you know, back on
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: what you're saying. I think it's this is really cool, man,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: you know, for for the players and also to you know,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: just fans. Man, to be able to see guys express themselves.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: And I wish i'd did a little bit. I wish
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I had taking a chance a little bit more, you know,
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I wish I would have. Hey, that's another just take
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: take the chance, man, because you don't want to look
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: back and be like, Man, I wish i'd wish I
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: did a little bit more, you know, I wish I
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: had express myself a little bit more.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: So I love what I see guys with wild stuff. Man.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: I'm like, do it. Do it for the dudes that
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: was too scared to do it. Man. So it's an
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: awesome time.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: I'll never forget Nick is going by Nicholas just so
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: he wouldn't have to come up with a nickname for players.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I love Nick man. That's that's dudes.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: He was something, he was something bro like, Hey, he
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: pulled the swag off through. I give him that. Nickas.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, you can't tell Nick he
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: ain't who he think he is. Right right now, nickas
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: who he think he is. And that's how it should be.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: You know, perfect, perfect, anything else boys before we jet
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: out of here.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: That's a fun episode.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: That was good, man. I enjoyed being on here with
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: you fellas Man.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: It seems like it's been a long time, so.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: No, thanks for having us.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: That was some good stuff.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: That was some stuff from the.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Mind of a player that you can't get just anywhere.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: So thanks Austin for joining us. Thanks Karen for some
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: excellent hosting, some excellent questions as well as always.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you guys can follow along on x Fromlyn
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• 39:53
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