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Inside look at how players mesh with a manager’s identity + Braves checkup w/Jesús Cano · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I think, wait, we're still doing injuries, aren't.
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  Speaker 1: We just know we switched it around. My bad, I'm stupid.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to David O'Brien's tweets. The retired
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves writer he was the guy that heyesus replaced
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  Speaker 1: in the athletic and what he has said recently about
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  Speaker 1: Walt White. So we're doubling up here with a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of Braves talk as we're going to go over
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  Speaker 1: what he said was a retired player, he said, a
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  Speaker 1: former star player telling him this week the teams almost
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  Speaker 1: always take on the character or personality of their manager,
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  Speaker 1: whether quickly or over time. He said, they almost always do.
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  Speaker 1: And I agree with that. And this was in reference
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  Speaker 1: to a fan talking about Walt White saying, it's been
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see the Walt Weiss era start like this.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't some fluke.
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  Speaker 1: Makes me wonder the kind of influence he had the
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  Speaker 1: fans didn't know about when he was bench coach, and
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  Speaker 1: how Bobby Cox still has some influence in the current team.
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  Speaker 1: The late great O'Brien said, tough, aggressive nobs never sought attention.
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  Speaker 1: The latter is why no one outside the clubhouse or
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  Speaker 1: the teams inner circle would have known about Walt and
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  Speaker 1: his influence never stepped on the manager's toes, but he
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  Speaker 1: was always there working building respect and relationships.
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  Speaker 2: So bigger combo here, AJ.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like teams can be chameleons based off
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  Speaker 1: of their managers?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think first of all, managers find guys that
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  Speaker 3: they like, and they want guys that they like and
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  Speaker 3: want to play a certain way. For the most part,
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  Speaker 3: if they can, they try to build their teams around
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  Speaker 3: their style. I look at Pat Murphy and say, Pat
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  Speaker 3: Murphy has a team made up of guys that I
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  Speaker 3: would think he likes. For the most part. They play
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  Speaker 3: the game the way he thinks they should be played.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what teams do, and that's why they can
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  Speaker 3: shift to their manager. You know, if you're the Braves
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  Speaker 3: and you have someone like Walt Weis who was already there,
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  Speaker 3: and he just moves up to the next spot and
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  Speaker 3: they continue to listen to him because he does have
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  Speaker 3: a voice, because he played, he's respected, he's around, he
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  Speaker 3: knows what they're there, what he's there for the players
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  Speaker 3: do Yes, I think it's a great thing. And this
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  Speaker 3: is not a knock on Brian Snicker at all. I
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  Speaker 3: mean Ryan Snicker was the same way as he learned
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  Speaker 3: from Bobby, and Walt learned from Bobby and Freddy Gonzalez
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  Speaker 3: before him learned from Bobby. It also helps and you
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  Speaker 3: have really good players. I mean, I remember back in
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  Speaker 3: the day, I had Tom Kelly and we had Ron
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  Speaker 3: garden Hier was a third base coach, and Ron garden
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  Speaker 3: Hier took over as manager, and everything seemed to see
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  Speaker 3: the stay the same except where Guardy went from third
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  Speaker 3: base coach to manager. We brought in some different people,
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  Speaker 3: which was fine and that was it, but we had
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  Speaker 3: the same personality. Guardy was a little bit looser than
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  Speaker 3: what t K was, but it was still the same
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  Speaker 3: because we knew what we were getting with Ron Gardenhier,
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  Speaker 3: which is what I think the players in Atlanta knew
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  Speaker 3: what they were getting in Walt Weiss and listen. I
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  Speaker 3: played for Ozzie Gean, who people would call crazy, but
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  Speaker 3: Ozzie also knew what he was doing and if you
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  Speaker 3: could if you could handle playing for Ozzie, you could
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  Speaker 3: pretty much handle playing for anybody. And as far as
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  Speaker 3: team's taking on his personality, I mean, we knew what
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  Speaker 3: we were getting us veteran guys knew what we were
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  Speaker 3: getting with Ozzie, and as long as Ozzie respected you,
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  Speaker 3: he would kind of leave you alone. It was the
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  Speaker 3: guys that he didn't feel we're doing things the right
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  Speaker 3: way that he would go after and then he would
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  Speaker 3: usually try and get rid of them, which he did
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  Speaker 3: for the most part. So yes, I agree with this
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent. Teams take on their personality of their manager.
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  Speaker 4: Also, I think there's I've been on teams too, that
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  Speaker 4: the manager's a boob, like he doesn't really know what's
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  Speaker 4: going on, and I think players rally around that like
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  Speaker 4: I think they rally around. But that's the rare case.
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  Speaker 4: What's happening here with Walt Weiss really the only thing
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  Speaker 4: because of how much I mean all those things, I
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  Speaker 4: forget all the characteristics that they just said about that
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  Speaker 4: O'Brien said about Walt Weiss. Those are all characteristics of
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  Speaker 4: somebody that you're like, Okay, the transition from bench coach,
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  Speaker 4: which is more of a laid back kind of role,
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  Speaker 4: still like very not disciplinarian, but very dotting eyes and
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  Speaker 4: crossing teams, worried about like the little things, just not
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  Speaker 4: in the forefront. That's that type of role, the transition
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  Speaker 4: to being a manager. The only issue is is is
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  Speaker 4: he the same guy? Is he going to be the
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  Speaker 4: same guy when he steps into the managerial role. It
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  Speaker 4: was a question for Pat Murphy when he went from
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  Speaker 4: the bench coach. It was like, you know, he's like happy, jolly, go,
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  Speaker 4: you know, go lucky type of bench coach, and he
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  Speaker 4: stayed the same person. If you show up the next
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  Speaker 4: year as a manager after being the bench coach and
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  Speaker 4: you're like, all of a sudden, you're just somebody completely different.
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  Speaker 4: You don't joke anymore, or he joke too much, and
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  Speaker 4: it's like, whoa, this is awkward. Players don't know how
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  Speaker 4: to handle that, especially a team like the Braves. They
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  Speaker 4: didn't change much about their team. They brought in Robert Suarez,
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  Speaker 4: they brought in Dubon, they brought in Dom Smith and
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  Speaker 4: Yaz but essentially the core of this.
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  Speaker 5: Team is the same. So you have to you have
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  Speaker 5: to know.
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  Speaker 4: And Alex Anthropolos deserves a lot of credit for making
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  Speaker 4: this higher or whatever it is, you know, elevating him
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  Speaker 4: to his new position that it was going to work
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  Speaker 4: because of his personality. Ultimately, that's what it is teams.
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  Speaker 4: Teams do take on their manager's personality, probably because of
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  Speaker 4: what AJ said, because if they don't like a guy,
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  Speaker 4: you don't play the way that a manager really feels
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  Speaker 4: like you should like their team should play. They get
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  Speaker 4: them out of there and they get somebody in that
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  Speaker 4: does play that way.
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  Speaker 1: The social media audience is not necessarily the majority in
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  Speaker 1: many cases, but I do feel the need to point
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  Speaker 1: this out. When Walt Weiss was announced as manager, there
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  Speaker 1: were many frustrated people or perhaps even braves fans that
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  Speaker 1: lashed out and now are everyone's favorite hermit crabs because
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  Speaker 1: they looked at last year and the team wasn't good
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  Speaker 1: or wasn't good enough to make a postseason. They're like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: Snicker's fault, he's not making the right decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Weiss's snicker. Ah, they're just going to run everything the same.
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  Speaker 2: Has that going.
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  Speaker 4: Probably choice if that's what they're doing, But I don't
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  Speaker 4: Maybe AJ disagrees. I don't think they're running it the same.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's Yes, there's the same players, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they're running it the same. Clearly, the
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  Speaker 4: players have ultimate end of the day, none of this.
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  Speaker 4: We don't even have a job. If it's just if
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  Speaker 4: you just realize the truth, players have to play better.
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  Speaker 4: But there is an environment that managers create. There is
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  Speaker 4: an environment that the bench coach creates, that the pitching
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  Speaker 4: coach create. Oh wait, did they get a pitching coach
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  Speaker 4: that was pretty decent from somewhere else?
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  Speaker 5: I forget exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe the team probably could use a pitching coach,
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  Speaker 4: just saying there's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: M hm, Hey, have you ever seen aja player really
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  Speaker 1: affected by a manager so much so that like they
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  Speaker 1: can't handle the situation and like they're too strict or
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  Speaker 1: they're too honest like Ozzie, or just they just say
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  Speaker 1: stuff and it affects them. It couldn't It doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to be Auzzy, but just have you ever seen an instance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously the player's name, where guys are just
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  Speaker 1: reacting so positive or negatively that it's affecting the way
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  Speaker 1: that they show up to work.
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  Speaker 7: Nick Swisher?
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever heard Nick Swisher and Ozziegan talk about
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  Speaker 3: each other? Nick Fisher went from the fullest energy guy
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  Speaker 3: you've ever seen to not having one lick of energy
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  Speaker 3: and not wanting to play. So yeah, I've seen it happen.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it happen on a bunch of different teams
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  Speaker 3: where the manager and the player don't get along and
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  Speaker 3: they just it doesn't work and they end up getting
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  Speaker 3: moved on. So yeah, I mean I saw Nick Swisher
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  Speaker 3: and Ozzie Gan. They went at it from day one
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  Speaker 3: and spring training till the end of the year, and
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  Speaker 3: Swisher ended up on the Yankees in two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: nine and they went on to win a World Series
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  Speaker 3: and now he's you know, the Yankees legend. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Nick Wisher and Ozzie Gan were so I mean oil
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  Speaker 3: and water, whatever you want to call them, and cats
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  Speaker 3: and dogs, and they went at it more than once,
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  Speaker 3: and it just didn't get along because they both wanted attention.
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  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, if you have
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  Speaker 3: to understand that, Ozzie's going to win the attention battle,
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  Speaker 3: and that was what he was good at. It Also
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  Speaker 3: it took a lot of attention off players, but at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, it could sometimes put you in bad spots.
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  Speaker 3: But if you understood that, and that's why, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Ozzie and I have always gotten along we still get
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  Speaker 3: along to this day. I love Ozzie like a family
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  Speaker 3: member of mine, but you have to understand what you
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  Speaker 3: were getting yourself into.
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  Speaker 7: But Nick Swisher is definitely the top of the list.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and this is only this is really only
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  Speaker 4: a question for star players because the role player guys,
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  Speaker 4: if you don't get along with the manager, it goes
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  Speaker 4: like this, you're done, like kick to the curb. They'll
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  Speaker 4: find somebody else. That's just the average player, just the
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  Speaker 4: replacement player like this is. And so part of the
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  Speaker 4: being a manager is you have to be able to say,
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  Speaker 4: I get it Swisher, because you brought it up. Is
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  Speaker 4: this level player. But if we're not going to get along,
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  Speaker 4: I'm the one.
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  Speaker 5: I'm the one.
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  Speaker 4: Steering the ship and I don't like what he's doing,
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  Speaker 4: how he does it, whatever, whatever they they argued about.
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  Speaker 4: That's the big that's the biggest thing. And if you're
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  Speaker 4: a player that wants attention and your manager wants attention,
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  Speaker 4: you're the player. Like there still has to be a
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  Speaker 4: respect level between player and coach that the manager, the
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  Speaker 4: bench coach, they are the respected figure. And it's not
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  Speaker 4: just well I'm the star, I should be I should
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  Speaker 4: be the one that gets all the attention. I should
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  Speaker 4: be the manager shouldn't take attention away. But ultimately the
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  Speaker 4: manager is the boss. That's the hefe.
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  Speaker 1: So aj if Especial talks all the time, and so
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  Speaker 1: does Ozzie.
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  Speaker 2: Was it bothering him?
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  Speaker 1: You think that Ozzy was dominating the conversation and you know,
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: maybe nitpicking or criticizing him or whatever it is, Like
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, looking from the outside and
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  Speaker 1: not knowing that situation at all, I'd be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: those two guys, you could probably just put him in
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  Speaker 1: a room and they'll just both keep talking at the
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  Speaker 1: same time and not even know that the other one's talking.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know. It's just kind of not that.
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  Speaker 1: I am surprised that they clashed, but it's an interesting
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  Speaker 1: one to me that from day one they don't get along.
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  Speaker 3: No really, I mean, Swisher didn't play very well and
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  Speaker 3: he got bench and he didn't like that Aussie benched
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  Speaker 3: him because I mean, the problem that Nick Fisher had
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  Speaker 3: when he came over is and I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: I've told this story before, but we were in spring
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  Speaker 3: training one year and we had uh Orlando Cabrera at shortstop.
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  Speaker 3: We had I think Wanya reb I think you know
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  Speaker 3: Creedi was there at third. We had Alexi Ramirez, we
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  Speaker 3: had Paul Kanerko, we had Jim Tolmy, we had Jermaine Die,
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  Speaker 3: we had Carlos Quinton, and we had I don't even
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  Speaker 3: horse centerfielder was that, you're uh, I forget who it
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to be Swisher, maybe Brian Anderson, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: And then you had me right and.
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  Speaker 3: The spring training Swisher was hitting eighth in the in
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  Speaker 3: the in the spring training game, and he comes up
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  Speaker 3: to us and we're all standing around and spring Training goes,
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm hitting eighth. He goes, I'll be
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  Speaker 3: hitting fourth by the end of May. And we're like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so you're going to take over for Jermaine Died, Jim Tomy,
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: Paul Knerico, Carlos Quinton, Joe Creedy. That's six that I
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  Speaker 3: came up with off the top of my head. Alexei Ramirez,
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  Speaker 3: who had a really good rookie year. There's seven me
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  Speaker 3: who had been there for a long time. There's eight
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  Speaker 3: and oh yeah, Orlando Cabrera is going to hit in
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  Speaker 3: the top four too. So there's nine guys, Swish, where
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  Speaker 3: do you fit in on this? You're not dhing because
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  Speaker 3: you're not. Jim Tomy's going to Dhu has five hundred homers.
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  Speaker 3: So that was kind of where it all started. And
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  Speaker 3: then when he didn't perform, it just made it. It
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  Speaker 3: just kind of grew war on people, but especially war
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  Speaker 3: on Ozzie because he had to hear it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Damn that team had bats games.
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  Speaker 3: We traded for Griffy in the middle of the year too,
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  Speaker 3: Let's not forget. So we had Griffy and I remember
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  Speaker 3: one time, this is this is such a funny story.
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  Speaker 3: Swisher hit his hundredth career homer and he goes back
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  Speaker 3: to the back of the plane and he's sitting there
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  Speaker 3: with Jim who had five hundred, Griffy who had six hundred,
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  Speaker 3: Canerko and Die I think had three or four hundred.
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  Speaker 7: They had three hundred at the dime each. Right.
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  Speaker 3: He goes back, he goes, hey, guys, let's all get
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  Speaker 3: a picture. And they all look at him like what
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  Speaker 3: are you doing? And he goes, you know, all those
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  Speaker 3: guys that have one hundred homers And it was again Griffy, Tody,
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  Speaker 3: Die Conergo and they're like, what, like, you have one
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  Speaker 3: hundred homers, we have three hundred, four hundred, five hundred,
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  Speaker 3: six hundred homers.
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  Speaker 2: The one hundred homer club safe geez.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: It feels like one of those.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like one of those like pie charts where
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  Speaker 4: it's like all the homers from everybody in his picture
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  Speaker 4: and it's like just a little sliver.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of those. There's a lot, there's some
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of Swisser stories. I like, Nick, So
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna come on here and
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  Speaker 3: say bad things. But I saw a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: happen that year that I was like, Wow, this is
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  Speaker 3: this is different than anything we've ever had here.
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  Speaker 4: Completely off topic. This is my time and I usually
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  Speaker 4: want to do it once a year. Please go look
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  Speaker 4: up Germaine dies baseball reference page. That's it. You brought
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  Speaker 4: him up. That was the last year he played. It
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  Speaker 4: should not have been the last year. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: him as a teammate, as a person. Anything people need
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: to know about Germaine died.
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  Speaker 5: That's it. That's it. That's my PSA.
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  Speaker 3: No he played, he played after that, he played till
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  Speaker 3: like twenty ten. I thought he was after two thousand and.
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  Speaker 5: Eight, No, not nine.
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  Speaker 7: Nine to nine.
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  Speaker 4: Nine was his last year when he should have gotten
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: a deal, and everybody was like, well, you know you
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: are getting older. But anyway, just look it up Baseball
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  Speaker 4: Reference it.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: The game tried to push him out, like a Brandon
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Belt situation. Someday we're going to go, hey, look at
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Brandon Belts last season. People wait, wait, nobody wanted a
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: one thirty five ops plus that was it, and yes,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: you got to get your value. But he, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my guesses he thought he should make whatever, make a
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  Speaker 1: number ten and teams are offering him too, and he's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. You know, different situation Fromank Anthony Rizzo, whose
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: kind of time was expired. There reporting live with Jesus Cano,
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  Speaker 1: newest Braves reporter, and he's covering them for the Athletic
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  Speaker 1: longtime friend of ours through Baseball America as well. You've
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  Speaker 1: heard him on our Hot sheet show there. Now he's
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: talking Braves.
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  Speaker 2: Hazeus.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on the job announcement a couple of weeks ago, and.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Welcome to covering the Atlanta Braves. What's it been like?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: What are you seeing with this team clicking on many
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: cylinders right now.
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you this, it's a lot different from
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: the complex sleep, which is what I was covering with
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: Baseball America. So to be in a big League park
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: almost every single day has been such a huge difference.
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: It's been a dream country and I'm just so thankful
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: for the athletic for giving me the opportunity, along with
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: Baseball America for helping me get to this point. But
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: with that being said, you know it's Brave's time, and
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: you know I've only been with the team. You know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: I was at the away series in line Los Angeles,
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: and I was here obviously, here through the home standing
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: through the end of the week, and on the road
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: for the rest of the year, which is crazy to say,
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: but at the end of the day, I think when
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: I look at what's going on in the clubhouse, the
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: chemistry is off the charts. I think that's what you
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: see from this team in the sense of how they're
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: going out, how they're playing. You know, they're the best
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: team in baseball right now. First team, the thirty first team,
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: the thirty wins. And I'm going to give you guys
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: this quiz right now, from the game notes that they have.
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: So the last three teams to have at least an
• 16:25
  Speaker 8: eighth game Division League by May thirteenth, or the twenty
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: seventeen Astros, the twenty sixteen Cubs, and the two thousand
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: and seven Red Sox.
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: What do all those teams have in common?
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: Well, serious, they were all World Series champs, and so
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: obviously it's a long season.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: There's still a lot to go on.
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: But it just shows to the way that the Braves
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: are playing right now and as successful as they are.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: And I asked Walt Weiss to postgame a couple of
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: days ago, this is also a resilient team because we
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: have to remember there've been you know, just injury pleck
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: throughout the entire year. Sean Murphy was on the IL,
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: comes back for a couple of days, goes back on there.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: Spencer Strider was on the afi io, he comes back,
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: and then boom, ronald A Kunya Junior goes on the
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: io with a hamstring injury. This team hasn't been at
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: whole health through the entire season, and yet they're able
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: to go out there and produce and just play like
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: the best team in baseball.
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: As the record reflects and.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: It's kind of scary to think what's going to happen
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: when this team looks healthy and just how even better
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: they're going to be able to play going forward.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Is there anything that you look at and you go, ah, well,
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: this is this is abnormal because even if you look
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: at guys like Bryce Elder, who yes, I get a
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: twenty four and twenty five, it wasn't it wasn't great
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: for him after he made the All Star team, but
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: he wasn't All Stars, so he has it in there.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Like do you feel like there's an area where you
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: can point to and go, oh, they're kind of playing
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: over their skis right now? Or is it all just
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: kind because you already mentioned the injuries. Is it just
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: kind of status quo and this is a team that
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: could easily hold this out for the rest of the season.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: You know, not the jingsum or anything like that. But
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: I think that definitely the possibility there is. Obviously, it's
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: a very long season. You don't know what could come.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: You don't know what could happen between now and you know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: at the end of September, right but I think with
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: the way they're going, also the way the rest of
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: the vision is played, isn't as strong. You know, there's
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: only maybe one team over five hundred and everybody else
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: is kind of staggering. I mean, the Nationals are in
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: second place, which you know, is kind of crazy to
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: think that they're ahead over the Phillies with everything going
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: on over there. But I mean, this team's in a
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: really good position to be able to make that run.
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: And something that you know, in the conversations that I've
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: had with players, you know, it's it's you see guys
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: consistently like Matt Olsen, like Drake Baldwin, and like Ozzy
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Albus has kind of had a career, you know, bounced
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: back season compared to last year. There's different players that
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: are stepping up every single time. You know, for the
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: past couple of games, it's been Mikus Strumsky. He had
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: his home run yesterday, had to go ahead hit Mauricio
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Dubond which crazy to me to think that the praise
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: were able to give Maurisio Devon straight up for Nick
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: Allen and I don't know what the Asters were thinking
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: in that. And then he comes over to Atlanta and
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: just becomes arguably probably a Swiss Army knife when it
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: comes to the team in the way that he's able
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: to play many positions. You can slot him in the infield,
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: you can slot him in the outfield, and he's gonna
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: go out there. He's going to put up a product
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: to that bad. He likes being the underdog, he likes
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: being slept on, And yesterday he came out with a
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: two out home run to you know, kind of give
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: a little bit of insurance run. There's guys throughout the
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: entire roster that just seem to be stepping up. You know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: Austin Riley's starting to come pick it back up. Everybody
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: is stepping up to the plate in this case.
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: And I think that's kind of what made this Grapes
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: team so special, is.
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: That nobody could have predicted this at the beginning of
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: the season, you know, and if they did the kind
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: of line because after the season they had last year,
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: the injuries that they went down, and now you see
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: all they're doing. Best team right now. The stats are
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: right there up to prove it first in a lot
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: of different categories. As you guys are able to see,
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: I think this is really sustainable going forward, especially when
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: you get guys like Ronald Acuna, jun your back in
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: the lineup too. I mean, he is you know, obviously,
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: we know what he's been able to do in the past.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: We know the energy and the spark he brings to
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: the team, and he brings to the lineup, and once
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: he's back and he gets things going, I think this
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: is going to be a really dangerous brains team. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: that's already saying that. You know, they have the best
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: record in baseball right now. It's just what's the one
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: thing you worry about? Is it picture health?
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Is it batter's falling falling off? What's the one thing
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: you think that the Braves cannot afford to have happened?
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Is it losing Chrysale for an extended period? Because everything
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: right now has gone right. I know they've had some injuries,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: but everyone who's been in the lineup has gone right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: So what's the one thing that could derail this Braves
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: team from just steamrolling everybody?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: I think it's really tough to think.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: I think it's maybe getting too confident and thinking of,
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: you know, putting into you know, knowing that you have
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: this big league and becoming too comfortable. And I feel
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: like it's a common saying in life in any profession
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: that once you feel too comfortable, that's when bad things
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: start to happen. On the injury standpoint, obviously, if you
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: lose somebody like Chrisale, who's like the anchor you know
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: of This'sdace, you know of the entire starting road tator,
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: you lose a guy like Matt Olsen or Drake Baldwin,
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: you know, you don't want that to happen. You don't
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: want any injuries to happen or anything like that. But
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: beyond that, I think it's the idea of just being comfortable.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: You know, you have a nine game lead right now,
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: you got through arguably a pretty tough stretch right now
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: playing with the Cubs. They're going for the sweep today.
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: They took two out of one at the Dodgers. You know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: they played a really good home road series where they
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: had a ten game road trip, three city road trip.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: You know, obviously took down for their first series loss
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: against the very good Priners team that has a really
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: good rotation. This team has gone through it all so
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: far in this season, and I think I think there
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: really isn't an area that there needs to be worried out. Besides,
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: maybe you know, an unfortunate injury that happens. But as
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: we can see, other guys are going to be able
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: to step up to the play, whether it's you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: Bryce Helder, whether it's Dubond, whether it's Yaz right now,
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: and maybe other players right now that just haven't mentioned
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: right now that are going to come out in the
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: future because everybody knows they have a role to play,
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: they have, you know, a plant willing to execute. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: also there's high expectations for this team every single year.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: That's what I've learned, you know, being down here in Atlanta,
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: you know, coming from Phoenix, where there wasn't as much
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: you know following, you know, with the baseball team because
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: it's such a transplant city here in Atlanta through the South.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: As I was making my driver right here, this is
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: truly break country. You see it everywhere you go. The
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Walmart down the street for me, has a huge Brave section.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: Everywhere I go, there's flags everywhere, and they want to
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: be able to meet those expectations for the fans that
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: just go out there every single day and watch and play,
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: and they feel that and they feed off a bit.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Do Braves fans come out to regular season games that
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: was a facetious question because I.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: Was a bombing failed. Did you see the attendance last night?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a facetious question. But my thing with
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: we always talk about the Dodgers. The Dodgers they start
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: running away with their division. The Braves are actually running
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: away with the division right now. You go back to
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty four when Sale was the cy Young Award
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: winner and he kind of ran away with it. People
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: remember the end of the season where he wasn't able
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: to make his last start because of his back. Is
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: there a case they're a scenario because they're looking at
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: it right now where they start skipping Sale starts? Would
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Sail even allow that because of the horse that he is?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: And is there even any backing to it where it's like, well,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: you know, if we skip a start in July, skip
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: two in August, two in September, we keep him healthier.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Or do you think the Braves aren't built like that
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: and Chris salees not built like that?
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: I think, for one, it's going to be really tough
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: to have Chris Sale, just what the competitor he is
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: is ask him to skip the start, right But you
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: look at the pitching that that the Braves have right now.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: I mean, you know, for for a rotation that heading
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: into the season had a lolid looming questions, there's been
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: a lot of guys that have been able to step up.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Of course Bryce Elder has been one of them.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: But last night we.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: Saw Grant Holmes, who had him pitch in like nine
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: or ten days, come off, make a spot start on Tuesday,
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: I believe, sorry about that on Tuesday and come in,
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: you know, and they also have guys throughout the entire
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: bulpen right now who can come in and start. You know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Martin Perez yesterday, for example, veteran who's been around the league,
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: has pitched in big games, has seen some of the
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: best hitters, comes in and pitches an inning and relief
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: and that's it. And he's still, you know, probably slated
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: to make a start down the road.
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: Is what why said.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: Just to be able to give that relief to they have,
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: you know, a very exciting pitcher. And Diddier went this,
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: who is just twenty years old. It's like I said yesterday,
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: like he's not even old enough to buy a beer
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: on the concourse or at the battery, but he's pitching
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: in major league games and doing a good job and
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: just being out there and learning on the fly. You know,
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: that's a tough ask to be able to do, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: so they have plenty of depth to be able to
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: do that where they're able to maybe preserve a couple
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: of their key guys down the road and give them
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: a little bit of help. So there definitely is leeway
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: right now to be able to do that if they
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: want it, to go out and execute that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Hey, sus wll Matt Olson never get a day off.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: We asked what waye He said no, But I mean
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: he's an eight hundred and twenty three consecutive games.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: He's not even.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: A third of the way to cal Ripken yet. Do
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: we think he'll get a day off or will he
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: make it?
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: You say a thousand?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Let's I mean, obviously injuries could derail this, which we're
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: hoping nothing happens.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: But well, he just.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Keep playing, keep playing, keep playing. At what point does
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: he say, you know what, guys, I'm gonna take.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: A day Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: I don't think there's any way where he takes a
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: day off. I mean, he's just a ascid to the
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: lineup and also defensively too.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: We got to remember he's a goal glove winner in
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: the past.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: And I think the fascinating thing about Matt Olsen is
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: when I was growing up in the Bay Area following
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: the A's, you know, I remember when he got drafted.
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: I remembered him watching him play in Stockton for the
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: Stockton Ports when he was starting in his minor league career.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: And to see the way he's ascended into the player
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: he has today, I think doesn't surprise me at all
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: and shouldn't surprise a lot of people because he's always
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: had that work euth that he's always had this like
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: quiet leadership to him where I think his presence in
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: the clubhouse is enough. And the way he goes about
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: his business in the cage on the field, and then
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: the production that he's able to replicate and go out
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: there every single way and do it, I think it means.
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: A lot to the clubhouse, you know.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: And I think I don't think there's any way where
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: he is voluntarily going to be like, nah, man, I'm
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: just finna chill today. You know, he's going to be
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: out there. He's going to go out there every day
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: and just put in the production. Especially, you know, it
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: doesn't matter if there's the cushion that they have right now.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: At the end of the day, you can have as
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: big as the cushion you have, but if you don't
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: win the last game of the season doesn't matter. And
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: I think for this team to be able to reach
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: that point, Olson's going to be an integral part of
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: that lineup.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Here's here's the thing.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: When Aj is on the show and there's a reporter
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: when he comes into town, he expects you to buy
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: him dinner or get him something for free. I know
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: you just start with the Braves and they don't have
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: the freeze running yet, but I think they're trying to
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: bring the freeze back.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Is that correct? You haven't seen them run?
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Ye?
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: Ran on Tuesday. I saw the freeze running perfect.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Perfect.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I need you and AJ wants you to get a
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: matchup where Aj gets to run against the freeze.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: Okay, do you guys have any insurance to cover that.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: I don't want any amstring injuries or anything to happen.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: He don't worry about. I got got it. I'll do
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: my best. I'll try to.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: I'm the new guy, though, so if I can't make
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: something happen, I don't know. But you know, if he
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: wants to go to a super fun down the street
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: at the Battery. I can make that happen, but I'll
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: try to pull some strings.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hit me, he's you can put on his resume.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: He's run the Sausage race. What else have you done?
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Aj you've run? What other mascot races have you run?
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: No, Kratz, you were the mascot. I'm not a mascot.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I played, but by the way, I also took the
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: tools down at one point.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: When I.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: So two bit the drill could win for the first
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: time all year, I tackled all the rest of them.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: So yeah, no, I enjoy mascot races. They're fun. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: want to be I want to do the hot Dog Race,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: and I also would like to do the President's Race
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: if I ever get to a National's Park again. But yeah,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't race the Freeze though, because first of all,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I know that I'm going to lose, and I don't
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: like to do things where I know I'm going to lose.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, my my tox and trade is when I saw
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: the Breeze make that run, I was like, huh, I
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: might have a chance to beat them, but we all
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: know that's not going to happen.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: No, No, there's like when like, hardly anybody that could
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: beat him, and most of them are pretty fast.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, didn't Frank Corr try it?
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Didn't, you know, he's lost a few times? Didn't Uh,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: didn't Frank Corror? Someone try it and they and I
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: thought they you them are lost. I thought it was
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: somebody someone on the Braves broadcast. Paul Burchett do that.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: I'd like to see Paul Bird tray at one time.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that would go. Paul Bird.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Is he fast? It's a picture, right, I mean, yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Pictures run a lot. Doesn't mean that they're fast. I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: mean some some are, but you know some are. There
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: were a few guys didn't like Max Freed used to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: pinch run or something. Just speaking of former Braves. I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: think he did it a few times headline.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Clarity did it. I think for what Flarity did
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: it for the Cardinals. I think a couple of times too.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a few guys. I mean, Lorenzo obviously
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: can move. He's a great athlete. Anyway, we're going off topic. Jesus,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: this was great. Congratulations again, great to catch up with you.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to more combos about the Braves. We'll catch
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you soon, man.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: Thanks so much.
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: I appreciate and just now that I'm here right now,
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: I know a lot of people say Cano because of Robinson.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: He's made my life very hard. My last name is
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: pronounced conno. I'm Mexican, so there's no accent over the oh,
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: so it's conne.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: We spent the whole year at Baseball America and I
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: never said anything. But when I got here, my mom said,
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: the first thing you got to do is make sure
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: they pronounce your last name the rightway. So it's kind
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: of you know, it's all good. I just wanted to
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: get that out there before I got an angry call
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: from my mom.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: You should have told me.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I would have said it last year on hot sheet
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: on Baseball America. Better late than ever, though we've we've
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: had this discussion. There are some players in baseball who
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: will come out years later. Right I'm forgetting any on
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the top of my head right now, AJ, But remember
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: there's been a few where they'll come out suddenly and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: be like, just so you know, it's pronounced like this.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I remember Ottavino got me one time in the postseason,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: got us because we were calling him Otavino.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: He didn't.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: He was Ottavino Aronado. They can't. The Rockies PR guy
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: was like, it's Ronado, not Aeronado, like or like a
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: pirate in the in the guy.
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: I put this on my Instagram.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: By the way, Uh the guy in Cleveland who was
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: the Pia guys, the only pe guy who came down
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and actually asked me how to say my last name?
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: And he passed away, so rip to Bob, but he
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: came He was the only guy who actually came down
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: and said, hey, how do you pronounce your last name?
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: I like to hear from the guys themselves, So legend
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: for that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: That's one big one other. Yeah, that is big time.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I'll always remember. I was like announcing news on MLB
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: back in the day on MLB Network and they were
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: deciding on Rue and Reu. I just remember super weird,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Like we were getting calls They're like, okay, go with
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Rue and then they were like, no way, actually it's for.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: You, go with for you. I was like, what is
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: going on? And so eventually it was Reu. But it
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: was weird.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: The one that gets me is is MOOKI or Mooky
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: because Ken is like I lean on Ken. If Ken
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: says somebody's name the right way, it's Mooky. He says Mooky.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: He says, that's like.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Some accent thing that's going on there. It's not that.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It's it's mooky. AJ helped me out on that one.
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: It's Mooky. I played with MOOKI it's Mooky.
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's I did.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: That's Chris Jiminez or Chris Jimenez. It's Chris jim And.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: As now this is becoming a nightmare. Which is an
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: inside park?
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: What park? What a debate that I spark right now?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, exactly. This is what happens, you know, when
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you do it two hours stri every day. So all right,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go so you can get back to work.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Aye, it was great to talk to you.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you.
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: Thanks you guys. Thank you