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Joey Bart and new Bucco Ryan O’Hearn join FT @Pirates Camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, one of the guys in that video is here
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  Speaker 1: with me now, Joey Bart, catcher and ex teammate of
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  Speaker 1: Eric Kratz. I believe for what a day or two?
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  Speaker 1: How many days were you guys teammates there?
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  Speaker 2: Kratzy?
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  Speaker 3: Four seconds? He wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, what do you say about forty eight hours?
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  Speaker 2: He said? Four seconds? Four seconds? I feel what did
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  Speaker 2: you come in like the last day of camp?
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  Speaker 3: It was yeah, I went to I went to the
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  Speaker 3: last day of camp, the exhibition games, and then the
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  Speaker 3: season started and you got fired right after that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I couldn't remember. I know it would long,
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  Speaker 4: but I remember you being there.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, who was a greater giant? Me, Joey or you? Kratzy?
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  Speaker 2: Who who was? Who? Who is the best giant of
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  Speaker 2: the three of us?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm gonna say, because you brought it up,
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  Speaker 3: it's you, because we wanted always to revert.
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  Speaker 2: Back to you.
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  Speaker 3: But that was the year that I had three hundred
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  Speaker 3: for three different teams. I had a hundred for the Giants,
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  Speaker 3: I had a hundred for the Rays, and I had
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  Speaker 3: one hundred for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I didn't mean it like that, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: like Giants. Fans love me, so I figured that they
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  Speaker 1: brought you actually might win this one.
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  Speaker 2: Grat three of us.
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  Speaker 3: You look at my stats, it was not It was
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  Speaker 3: not good. Joey Bart. Joey Bart was he was the
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  Speaker 3: next coming. But you know what, now he's a pirate.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's a pirate eye patch or a wooden leg.
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  Speaker 2: What was that journey like for you?
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  Speaker 1: Because you were super high pick coming out of college, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then you go there with all the hype and
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  Speaker 1: you have Buster there, so you're kind of like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have to follow him. What's it like
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  Speaker 1: then now to come to Pittsburgh kind of get a
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  Speaker 1: fresh start and really take.
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  Speaker 2: Off, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think in baseball that was just kind of a
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  Speaker 4: you know, kind of a transitional kind of crazy time,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I feel like I got
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  Speaker 4: I got into my first season and next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was in the big leagues, and next thing you know,
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  Speaker 4: Buster came back, I was back in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like it was kind of it was
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  Speaker 4: kind of flip floped. I kind of got to the
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  Speaker 4: big leagues with you know, I think it was probably
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  Speaker 4: like two hundred and fifty year not even three hundred,
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  Speaker 4: you know, minor league get that.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like I.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of my development in a way was kind of
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  Speaker 4: a little different than most, you know, and obviously the
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  Speaker 4: season being canceled, and but you know there was there's
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  Speaker 4: some a lot of good, cool things to learn there and.
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  Speaker 2: I learned a ton of things.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of good people in San Francisco, man
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  Speaker 4: all around, and you know, I think everybody has their
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  Speaker 4: own kind of way, and uh, everybody finds their spot,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, and just really battling and
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  Speaker 4: every day trying to get better and you know, provide
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  Speaker 4: the most as a player. And that's kind of where
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  Speaker 4: it's become here in Pittsburgh. And you know, I've been
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  Speaker 4: I've been enjoying it over here.
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  Speaker 3: What's the one piece of advice that you can give
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  Speaker 3: to somebody who didn't spend a lot of time in
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  Speaker 3: the big in the minor leagues and then gets thrust
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  Speaker 3: into a team like you for the like you guys
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  Speaker 3: for the Pirates that's trying to win. Because when you
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  Speaker 3: got called up to the Giants, they weren't like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, we're in a rebuild. We're gonna try
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  Speaker 3: to win.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, that franchise wants to win. That's what's awesome
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  Speaker 4: about the Giants and fan base. Everybody over there is great,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I think, especially kind of my first full
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  Speaker 4: go there in twenty two, coming off that twenty one season,
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  Speaker 4: that one hundred and seven win season, the expectations were high,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, we came out of the gates pretty
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  Speaker 4: well there and kind of hit a stall, but we
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  Speaker 4: were very competitive. Obviously a lot of good players, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of good talent over there, and as you see
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  Speaker 4: some of the guys, some of my buddies over there
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  Speaker 4: still there, Logan Web, guys like that, really came into
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  Speaker 4: their own and really figured it out, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean, And you know it's it's it's definitely a
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  Speaker 4: cool place.
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  Speaker 5: First base and obviously catching, what's that been like for you?
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  Speaker 5: Obviously trying to get the majority of playing time behind
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  Speaker 5: the plate, but kind of still making your way there
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  Speaker 5: with the with the buckoes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's just trying to find ways to
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  Speaker 4: get as many at bats as possible is really what
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  Speaker 4: it comes down to, especially left handed to bats.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's something to my strength.
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  Speaker 4: So if we can if we can get you know,
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  Speaker 4: get me out there more against lefties or just really
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  Speaker 4: on the field. Optimize at bats is really the goal?
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  Speaker 2: What uh?
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of O'Neil Cruse, I just saw him in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room in there. Is he the biggest dude you've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen in your life. Man, he's absolutely my cheer.
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  Speaker 1: And he called him an avatar the way he looks
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  Speaker 1: like an avatar, just because of his body and the
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  Speaker 1: way he looks and how athletic he is.
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  Speaker 2: It's insane. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: This guy's When I came over here, this guy's hitting
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  Speaker 4: balls like one hundred and twenty something miles an hour,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody's walking around the dugout like it's normal, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like over here trying.
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  Speaker 2: To understand what's going on, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Then you see him throw balls one hundred miles an
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  Speaker 4: hour from the outfield, steel bases it. You know, when
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  Speaker 4: everybody in the stadium knows he's running, he's gone and
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  Speaker 4: off and safe and dude, this guy's this guy's got it.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's really come in this spring too, locked in,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see him play. Obviously, he he
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  Speaker 4: I was actually just messing with him.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't give him a ton of playing time.
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  Speaker 4: But when he did, Man, when they did over there,
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  Speaker 4: he was they hit two homers, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, man, they couldn't get you out there, but
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  Speaker 4: he's locked in and he's ready to go. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: who you gonna pig out Julio Soto? Yeah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: platis is out there. That teams stacked. Man, So it's
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  Speaker 4: good to see him.
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  Speaker 1: Ufully, you said to USA too, you just walk by him,
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  Speaker 1: just gonna go to us.
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  Speaker 4: No, Man, I think they're kind of you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: probably probably I would be very disappointed, obviously, but I
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  Speaker 4: just kind of picked him up and said, man, you
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  Speaker 4: guys killed it. You look good, and I'm excited to
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  Speaker 4: see Cruzy do his thing.
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  Speaker 3: Here brings me, brings me to the point that we
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  Speaker 3: used to play the game, like if you could switch
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  Speaker 3: with somebody in the big leagues. Obviously you're talking about O'Neil.
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  Speaker 3: Cruz could hit the ball one hundred and twenty miles
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  Speaker 3: an hour, you can throw it one hundred miles an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a dude that you've seen in the big
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  Speaker 3: leagues and you're like, I kind of wish like I
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  Speaker 3: could be him for like one year and just playing out,
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  Speaker 3: not talking about the money, not just playing the game
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  Speaker 3: of baseball in that guy's shoes for an entire season.
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  Speaker 4: Man, that's a good question, you know. Growing up, for me,
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  Speaker 4: it was Brian McCann. You know where I'm from, being
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  Speaker 4: from Atlanta, I always you know, B Mack was Gosh,
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna live not far from me now, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: just being a catcher, being a hitter, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just being kind of the full package there
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  Speaker 4: for a while.
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  Speaker 2: That was a guy that always kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of looked up to big league, you know when you
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  Speaker 4: see him. I haven't seen him in a while. Man,
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  Speaker 4: it's been a while.
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  Speaker 2: If you walked up to B Mack, would he know
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  Speaker 2: who you are? I would hope.
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  Speaker 4: So, I know he's still tapped into the game. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: he's you know, he's on the staff there with the WBC.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, man, be Mack.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard so many cool stories and you know, so
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  Speaker 4: many obviously watched a ton of ton of his career
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  Speaker 4: and I actually used to hit with his brother, you know,
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  Speaker 4: coming in you know, I think it was probably my
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  Speaker 4: soft year, sophomore year at college, I was. I was
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  Speaker 4: messing around hitting with his brother a little bit, trying
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  Speaker 4: to pick up on some things. So that's just kind
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  Speaker 4: of like a legendary name where I'm from, Joey.
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  Speaker 5: Why is Paul Skeins as good as advertised? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you've been around him now a couple of years. He's,
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  Speaker 5: in my opinion, the face of baseball when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to pitching. Perhaps he and Trek Scooble on the American
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  Speaker 5: League side. But what makes him just must watch TV.
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  Speaker 4: I think he just knows he's the best. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what it comes down to. He just
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  Speaker 4: knows he I mean, I was talking to my agent
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  Speaker 4: the other day before I guess two days ago at
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  Speaker 4: dinner and before he pitched against the against the dr
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  Speaker 4: I was like, man, this guy's gonna lock it down.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've never seen him not rise the occasion.
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  Speaker 4: He's the ultimate escape artist when guys get on get
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  Speaker 4: on base. You know, we're always laughing about it in
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  Speaker 4: the dugout once whenever he gets into it jam the
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  Speaker 4: moment never gets there, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: He's always ready for it and he gets himself out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, I think you can look at the
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  Speaker 4: substance obviously of what he's done, and you could probably
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  Speaker 4: say it's really never been done before. And the way
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  Speaker 4: he attacks every day is on a whole other level
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  Speaker 4: and is really my mindset mentality is elite, and that's
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  Speaker 4: why you know he does what he does.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen emotion out of him? Because there's
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  Speaker 3: so many memes of him, like getting his awards and
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  Speaker 3: he's like the nonchalant final boss. But you talk about confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Usually I think of guys that have confidence as there's
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  Speaker 3: a don't show any emotion because they're just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's what I want to do. But have you ever
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  Speaker 3: seen emotion out of him?
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  Speaker 4: The most emotion I've seen out of him, I think
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  Speaker 4: was what everybody was posting the other night after they
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  Speaker 4: won the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, I think you know, he we.
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  Speaker 4: Have fun together obviously, you know he's locked in trying
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  Speaker 4: to get him to have as much fun as he can,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, other than just dominating at
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  Speaker 4: all times. But I would say that's the most emotion
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  Speaker 4: I've seen out of him for sure. When he's here, man,
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  Speaker 4: it's just business all day, every day. Obviously, he's a
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  Speaker 4: great dude, brings a lot of you know, brings a
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  Speaker 4: lot to the clubhouse as well. But you know, when
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  Speaker 4: he gets on there, when it's it's day. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you better watch out because he's coming.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you've seen the meme where he was
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: looking at Bobby Witt smiling and they cut it against
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  Speaker 1: when he was in his Rookie of the Year and
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: they're like Bobby Witt versus.
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  Speaker 4: I actually have not seen that, but I mean you're talking,
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  Speaker 4: you know, one A, one B with those two players there.
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  Speaker 2: Does he have fun? Does schemes have fun?
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  Speaker 1: Because I mean you mentioned all business like, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: it's so when you see him smile, you are just.
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  Speaker 2: Na he has fun. Man.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think I think he's from when he
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: first came up to the big league till now, I've
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  Speaker 4: been able to see that he's having I mean he has.
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  Speaker 2: He has He's tired of answering Paul Skiing questions. Not
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  Speaker 2: really everybody asked me. I mean he's not He's not
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  Speaker 2: huge out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so every it's like, show hey, anyone anything on
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  Speaker 1: schemes is kind of the same way Scooble.
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  Speaker 2: He throws him foo out there a little more. Skeins
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  Speaker 2: is just so business oriented. Yeah. You never hear him
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  Speaker 2: talk that much.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he doesn't. Man, I think I think that's just
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  Speaker 4: who he is, and I like that about him. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I think it would be weird if he changed and
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden trying to take over the spotlight.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he already does that with what he does,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 4: But nah, yes, fun man, we have a blast together
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  Speaker 4: and uh in the clubhouse and you know, on the
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  Speaker 4: road trips and stuff. We always try to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: go out to dinners and you know, have buy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he chips in. I have to pay
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  Speaker 2: now because you're our guys, so now you have to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're you know, we had some guys last year
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  Speaker 4: that actually wouldn't let anybody pay, which are great teammates,
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  Speaker 4: but there were some times there was like, all right, man,
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  Speaker 4: you can't. You can't eat this bill anymore. Let someone
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  Speaker 4: else pick it up. At least we'll split it a
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  Speaker 4: couple of ways. Okay, you went to Georgia Tech. You're
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  Speaker 4: from the Atlanta area. What is it about Georgia Tech
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  Speaker 4: and catchers? They've had a long from bear attach to you.
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  Speaker 4: They have a really good catcher this year. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if you've seen a really good catcher. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: what is it about Georgia Tech and catchers? It's made
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  Speaker 4: it such a great place to go. You know, that's
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  Speaker 4: a you know we're actually talking about this. Yeah, Eric Patterson,
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: former tech legend. Man, he's our Triple A manager here
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  Speaker 4: and it will be in Indianapolis. And everybody asked that question.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we have an answer, honestly. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I think they do a good job of recruiting. But
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, I you know, the kid they
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  Speaker 4: have now they're Lackey was kind of an under the
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  Speaker 4: radar guy. I think he got an offer like at
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  Speaker 4: the very end of his high school career, I think
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  Speaker 4: is what he told me, and he's kind of just
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  Speaker 4: taken off with it.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know if there's you know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: really know if there's an answer to that question other
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  Speaker 4: than like it's just kind of like the tradition there
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  Speaker 4: and it just kind of time repeats itself and a
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  Speaker 4: new guy shows up that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen Drew Burris?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I've seen that guy. He's got it, man,
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  Speaker 4: he's got it. He's a little guy, but he doesn't
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  Speaker 4: play like a little guy, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I think I had a scout tell me he's just
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  Speaker 4: got bad intentions at the plate, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: that's exactly what I see.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're good. They're supposed to be good this year.
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  Speaker 1: They are good so far.
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  Speaker 4: They went into Clemson, which is something we've always struggled
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  Speaker 4: with when I was there to beat him in Clemson,
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  Speaker 4: and I think they won two out of three and
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  Speaker 4: it played ball. So I'm excited for what Ramsey and
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  Speaker 4: those guys have going on down here.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the answer is Georgia Tech's a
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  Speaker 1: really smart school. Yeah, so you got to have smart people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Catchers are the smartest guys in the field. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just a natural thing. That's your answer.
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  Speaker 2: That's yea.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you that you're saying, Hey, catchers
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  Speaker 1: are the smartest. We are smart schools, so we have
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  Speaker 1: to have smart guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I mean I can't argue there. Okay, Well, Jody,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: From one legend of the Giants to another, and another
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  Speaker 1: on the screen on the right, thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you have a great year, continue success and
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  Speaker 1: go pirates here.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go man. I appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Hello podcast listeners. First of all, We love you and
• 13:37
  Speaker 6: thank you for listening to our show all the time.
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: Real talk, we dealt with some Wi Fi gremlins. So
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  Speaker 6: let's pick up our conversation with new pirate Ryan O'Hearn
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  Speaker 6: at Bucco's camp.
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  Speaker 1: What uh, what's life like? You mostly played first base
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  Speaker 1: DH in your career, right field, right field?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Is that different? It's definitely different.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's been fun to actually get to be
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  Speaker 7: a full time outfielder. Like I'm doing the outfield drills,
• 14:04
  Speaker 7: I'm shagging every day, I'm like practicing throwing, you know,
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: from right field.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: So it's been fun to like.
• 14:10
  Speaker 7: Dive into a full time because in the past it's
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: been like, hey, you're first baseman, but like, hey today
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: you're gonna play right and to first base. So to
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: be able to like full on get after it and
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: be a right fielder, my mind's been fun.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: And I know it's gonna be a lot of work.
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: I know it's gonna be a lot of running, but
• 14:26
  Speaker 7: you know, I feel like I'm as prepared for it
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: as I can be.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Are you tired from all the running? Uh? The first base?
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Do they get some grounders? You take it? Got you
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: flip a couple here and there.
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: Now there's definitely some more ground to cover, that's a fact.
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: But no, I'm not too tired. I feel good. I'm
• 14:40
  Speaker 7: excited about it. Yeah, some days it's really chill and
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: then some days it's really not chill.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: So it just depends on the day.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: All right, O'Neil Cruz has been gone, Your center fielder
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: has been gone. Have you gotten to play out there
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: yet with him in center field?
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: H yes, I think maybe like three or four times
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: before he h and did the WBC.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: But you know, obviously that guy's tooled up out of
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: his mind.
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna kind of be peeking at him, stay out
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: of his way, let him do his thing. I mean,
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: I promise you I can't throw the ball one hundred
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: and five from the outfield, and I'm probably half as
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: fast as he is. So I'm gonna just stay in
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: my lane, take care of the balls that I should catch,
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: and then go let him be superman.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: That's what That's what I was gonna ask, like, are
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: you gonna like, are you gonna look over and like
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: if he moves, you're gonna be like, Hi, you got this?
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: And will there be a ball in the right center
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: gap where you're both getting there at the same time
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, Neil, I got this one. I'll
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: throw it in or are you just gonna get it
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: and flip it to him? Be like here you go
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: take it, and then he just fires that.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: John maybe a little bit of both. I mean, I'm
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: definitely gonna be peaking at him.
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: Running into him in the outfield is probably like the
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: last thing that I want to do. I don't know
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: if you've seen it, but he's looks like he's at
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: it about twenty five pounds of muscle and h he's
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: a monster.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: So I don't want to run to that guy.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I always joked here here last year and he walked
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: by in mc cutcheons here and he goes, you've seen
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: that guy.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks like an avatar. The avatar, that's what
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: he looks. He does.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: It's it's just unbelievable close Now he's a freeing absolutely
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: how just in shape and what he looks like. It's
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: like he takes three steps jogging and he covers like
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: what it takes some like ten steps for me.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: So it's easier for him though, cover the whole outfield.
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: If I had legs that long and I had an
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: arm that could, you know, throw balls like that, I'd.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Be pretty exciting. You hit a ball one hundred and
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: twenty like he does.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: Absolutely not, And I'm not going to try to because
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: then I'll just roll over and it'll be the end
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: of the inning.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Is plenty of How much more important.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Is communication in the outfield than it perhaps it is
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: in the infield? Is it more important?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You tell me definitely coming from first base.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: There's not a whole lot of communication at first base,
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: maybe like that tween your ball between first and second,
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: But you know, definitely in the outfield, I think it's
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: a lot more like being able to take your eyes
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: off the fly ball, peak at your center field er
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: and see where you're at. And I think, you know,
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: as we get going into this thing, we'll get used to, uh,
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: you know, we'll get some some tweer balls between him
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: and I and we'll get that communication figured out. But
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: so far it's been great. Man O'Neil's been awesome. He's
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: you know, easy to talk to, he wants, he's loud,
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: He you know, calls the ball, communicates, So you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: I feel pretty good about it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: What is the What was the conversation like, because normally
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: you're like, okay, somebody doesn't play a lot of outfield,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: you're gonna go to left. But for people who don't
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: know PNC is left field is like playing center field.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Did they even come up to you and go, do
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: you want to try to play left? Or were they like, no,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: you're not playing left, You're playing the shorter porch and right.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: Well, I actually asked to be in right because I'm
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: just for whatever reason, I've been on that side of
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: the diamond like my entire career, so it just feels
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: more comfortable in right field than it hasn't left. And
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: you know, when I was in Baltimore, it was kind
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: of the same thing, shorter porch and right, so I
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: played more in right field. So it kind of works
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: out in that way where PNC shorter porch and right.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: And I'm already comfortable on that side of the diamond anyway,
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: So I asked initially, you know, obviously it's like, hey,
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: if you need me to play left, i'll play left,
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: but I'm a little bit more comfortable and right.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: At this point, what hand do you throw it? My
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: left hand? Oh, do you know where you can play
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: on the field if you're left handed. Yes, I have
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: a good space. Yes, try to keep you guys. We
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: try to keep you guys on that. No one has
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: ever asked me to play shortstops? Yes, what if they?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: What if DK said, do you know bry Ponto Griff
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: is down today? We really need a short stup? Do
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you think you could cover it?
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: It would definitely be worthwhile watching. I don't know if
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: immatically play third a game, dimatically play third?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: He can do it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: I've seen the video of him making that play the
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: chopper slow chopper at third.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: I don't think that it would look very pretty, but
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: I could probably get some outs if you not, if it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Was hit hard enough, if you knock it down and
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: then pick it up a panic.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: No, I'm smooth, jazz over there, I come through stag
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: it make the throne the deal?
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Did you guys rally? Not rally, that's probably not the
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: right word. But did you lobby for Cutch coming back?
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: I know, I know that's above your pay grade. I'm
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: not trying to put you in a bad spot, but
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: is it a little strange being at camp wearing a
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Pirates hoodie without Andrew mccutching around.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think that's definitely, you know, a
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: tough subject because just because of what Couch has meant.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: To the organization and the fans here for so long.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: You know, With that being said, it's I just got here,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Like I'm not making any demands or like telling them
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: who I think they should sign, Like you said, that's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: above my pay grade.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: But you know, obviously, you.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Know, the there's traces of what Cutch has meant to this
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: organization over the last few years, and it's obvious.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: You know, guys still talk about him and how great
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: he was in the clubhouse and uh, the kind of
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: guy and player he is. So nothing respect for Cutch
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: and you know he's not on our team, so you know,
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: respect for what he's done in the organization over the years.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: But the twenty twenty six Pirates are gonna going to
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: move forward without him, and uh, you know, I'm pretty
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: excited about the group that.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: We have there.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Can you hit a ball into the river? I'm gonna
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: try definitely here in the game. We'll see.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: I mean, I think I need to try and VP
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: to see like how much effort it takes to get
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: it out there, but I never hit a ball on
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: Utah Street, which still bugs me. So I want to
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: get a ball in the river at some point, even
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: on a hop.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I don't care. I just want to see the video
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: and be hitting the ball and then watching.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It go in the river and hit one in the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: bay in San Francisco, and that's probably cooler. I think,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: so kind of cool when I was.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: A giant, the idea of people sitting in a canoe
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: waiting for it to happen, and then it happens, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: then they jump off the canoe into the freezing day
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: to get your baseball.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: It's like it was a little different when I played,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: though I had buried there. So he hit them all
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the time. Deal for all the people, they weren't waiting
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: for you. They were not expecting me to be the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: guy to hit one, So it is pretty odd. I
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: wonder you think they were disappointed when they got the ball.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: One.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Have you talked, I mean you talk Connor Griffin's guy
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of the Talk of Camp. Yeah, have you discussed with
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: him if he makes a team, what it's going to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: be like on opening days? Because you're, honestly, you're a
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: veteran on this team. You're you're an older guy on
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: this team. Go around and talk to a young guy
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like Connor.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I try to talk to him as
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: much as possible.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: He's been great. Man.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: He reminds me of you know, I've had the pleasure
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: of getting to play with Bobby Witt, Gunner Jackson, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: all these guys that are so highly touted, and he's
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: no different.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Man. He's super mature.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: I can't believe he's nineteen because he looks like a
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: grown man, and he's mature as they as they come.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: So I've been really impressed with him. Even when he
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: makes out so.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: He hit him all one hundred five miles an Houries
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: making every play on defense.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: He's been awesome to watch and I'm.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Excited to play with him, whether that's on Opening Day
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: or whenever they decide to bring him up.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be really good for our team.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: What is what is the most impressive superpower? Speed, maturity, size, power,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: arm strength? What is his most impressive superpower?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: Man, probably, I mean all of the baseball attributes just
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: seem to come like so easy for him. So I'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: gonna say the maturity, because you know, It's like if
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: you watch him take batting practice, like the power is crazy,
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: watch him run, the speed is crazy. His defense is
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: so good. It's like all of that is just so natural.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: But when you take that whole package as a player
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: and you pair it with the fact that he's like
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: really mature, like he doesn't you know, if he gets
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: out or gets fooled or whatever, it just seems like
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: it doesn't really phase him, you know. And I think
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: that's for a lot of guys that takes time for
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: that to come. But for him, you know, seems like
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: he's right there mentally, He's right where he needs to be.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: And you know, and I'm sure that you know, win
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: some points from the front office making their decision.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I wanted to bring him.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Up Ryan Patrick O'Hearn happy Saint Patrick's stay. Is this
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: a big deal in your life?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yes, yes.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: My dad is like a stoked for this day every year,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: like this is this is his Christmas?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure he's had a few green beers already.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he's looking for some corn, beef and cabbage.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I love. Yeah, he's he already asked me like.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: If there's a pub around here, that sells kill Kenny Kenny,
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: it's like his favorite.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's here and yesterday yesterday again there's Benigans around here.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think Benigans is still over, but yeah, it's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a big deal in our family birthday.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he turned seventy yesterday. Yeah, it's a big spring
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: training in big a couple of days for him. So
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: soon as this game's over, I'm gonna.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Go hang out with him, have a couple of.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Couples, couple of green beers. All right, last question, super random.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: You're in Bradenton. Have you smelled them burning the orange rinds?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Because there's like some kind of like orange oranges factory
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: production thing behind the stadium. Have you smelled that? Usually
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: on Tuesdays is when they burn it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Have they done that? I haven't smelled any burning oranges.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know what he's talking about. I feel like
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: there's a school behind the field.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know what he's talking left right now there's
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: no one left, but there's there's something like back in
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: right field, back past where they put the new the
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: new additions on. Anyway, haven't But next Tuesday, I want
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: to be outside sniffing or ill.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You know what day it is today, Tuesday, Tuesday.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I don't smell nothingrats. Yeah, making that.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Out because Kratz is a hater on Florida. He's trying
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to make people think it. And by the way, the
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: only thing that smells good around here they have They
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: have like a Hamburger smash Burger. I smell that and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it's like one of the best burgers in the state.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And it's a food truck right outside. It's not even
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: in the stadium, it's outside. If you haven't tried it
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: when you come to Brainton and Pirate City or I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: guess this isn't really Pirate City. You got a trial
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: one of those before we let you go. One thing
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you're looking forward to in Pittsburgh and you can't be
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a Primanny Brothers sandwich.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: You know what I'm looking forward to is opening day
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: at home because I played an opening Obviously that's a
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: cop out answer, but like just to see the fans, man,
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: just to get in the stadium full of fans, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: you know, I want to hit a get a big
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: hit and just hear the crowd, because you know, there's
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: nothing like that, and especially being on a new team,
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: everyone talks about how great the fans are here, especially
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: when the team's good. I think the team is going
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: to be good, and I'm excited to see how the
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: fans support us.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Get your first bucko blast. Oh yes, I excited for that. Yeah,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: that's yes, very excited for Ryan heard, one of the
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: newest members of the Pittsburgh Fires. Thank you for joining us,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: all right, thanks for having to be right back