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Griffin Jax’s favorite stats, Air Force days · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of times I've gone out there and my
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  Speaker 1: name doesn't get announced until I'm about to throw the
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  Speaker 1: first pitch. You know, it's almost like just like a reliever,
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  Speaker 1: we're forgotten about until you know.
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  Speaker 2: We're on the mountain.
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  Speaker 3: Twin super reliever Griffin Jack joining us right now on
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  Speaker 3: FT Griffin. Great to have you on. Thanks for waiting
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  Speaker 3: for a quick moment. Here has the off season going, man?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks guys for having me. It's been a good
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  Speaker 1: off season, you know, kind of went and down. I
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  Speaker 1: head to Florida here in a couple of weeks, but
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  Speaker 1: it's been a good one.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you based? Where are you based in the
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  Speaker 4: off season?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Where you're at?
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  Speaker 2: We live in Phoenix, which is unfortunate because I gotta
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  Speaker 2: go to Florida for spring.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's a great thing for you. Lucky love, very lucky,
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  Speaker 4: very lucky. You get to come to God's Gone Fort Myers,
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  Speaker 4: I know for misery.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a sushie spot there. Yeah, I don't remember
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  Speaker 3: the name, but there's a good one, good sushi spot.
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  Speaker 4: For there's one good sushi spot. Charis. You can hit
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  Speaker 4: that every other day. When's last time you were in
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  Speaker 4: four Myers. It's grown like amazingly.
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  Speaker 3: I've been in four Myers fifteen times in the last
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  Speaker 3: three years.
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  Speaker 4: It's gotten so much bigger. Actually, when I was there
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  Speaker 4: twenty five years ago, there was nothing. There was pots
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  Speaker 4: right by the stadium, the Chicken Wing bar.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, got pots. Fuh Yeah. It's done a lot
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  Speaker 2: different from twenty sixteen for sure.
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  Speaker 5: But Griffin, when you first came on, and people will
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  Speaker 5: have to rewind this, you were going like this right
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  Speaker 5: when first came on. Are you at that point in
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  Speaker 5: the off season where you're like, all right, man, like
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  Speaker 5: I'm starting to throw, like I'm kind of always giving
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  Speaker 5: myself a little soft tissue massage. Are you at that point?
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  Speaker 5: Are you like, I'm good, Like I don't need to
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  Speaker 5: I don't need to be hucking the rock right now.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm just at that point in life, just
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  Speaker 1: waking up and it's not feeling as good as it
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  Speaker 1: used to know, But whatever you gotta do to throw.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well it reliever. Listen, you're a reliever. Throws some
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  Speaker 4: tiger bomb on that thing had the orange sleeve and
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  Speaker 4: let's go baby.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got a good concoction.
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  Speaker 4: When you make your own yeah, that's what I want
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  Speaker 4: to make.
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  Speaker 2: You know how the training room has all the different
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  Speaker 2: sprays and creams.
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  Speaker 1: I basically just go down the line and whatever I see,
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  Speaker 1: I throw on the arm.
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  Speaker 4: Say that again, because it just shoulder. You do the
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  Speaker 4: whole arm, just shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: H whole arm, shoulder, shoulder to the wrist.
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  Speaker 4: Have you bottled it?
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  Speaker 5: Because I know some guys will go like a little
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  Speaker 5: anti inflammatory cream, a little light a cane, a little
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  Speaker 5: and bottle it, and so they always have their own.
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  Speaker 5: Or do you just go down? Do you just go
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  Speaker 5: down like a buffet and just take a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of each.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do the light of cane because I need
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  Speaker 1: to feel my arm. I don't like the feeling of
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  Speaker 1: or I guess the lack of feeling, uh, the numb
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  Speaker 1: I'm not good with. And I guess it just depends
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  Speaker 1: on where we are in the season. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: basically just starting. We got this thing called cookie cream
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  Speaker 1: and that's amazing. And then yeah, some anti flame toy
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  Speaker 1: cream for sure, and usually by the time I'm sweating
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  Speaker 1: and it gets activated, I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: Now do you go to the bullpen in like the
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  Speaker 4: fifth inning?
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  Speaker 2: A guy Duran and I go down to the fourth.
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  Speaker 4: What do you do? I I always want to know
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  Speaker 4: what the pitchers do the first three innings because what
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  Speaker 4: do you I mean, I'm out there grinding and you
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  Speaker 4: guys are in there in a massage chair watching TV,
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  Speaker 4: sipping you know, selzer water and having bond bonds. But
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  Speaker 4: we're out there grinding for the first three dings. Tell
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  Speaker 4: me what you do. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Part of it is sort of respect for the position
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  Speaker 1: players because they need to get their treatment, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pregame and and you know, before the game starts. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm waiting until they're all out until the first inning
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  Speaker 1: to sort of get my hands on with the trainer.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's some stretching, some rolling out, some
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  Speaker 1: extra activation stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Griffin had a good year.
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  Speaker 4: I had a great year.
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  Speaker 3: Left great And also how Dari pitches the Yeah he does,
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  Speaker 3: but how Dari Kratz He had ten staves last year. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: he did some closing as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah he's not he did. He's not the closer.
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  Speaker 5: He's not the clote Griffin, are you the closer for
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  Speaker 5: the Minnesota Twins?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: No, thank you, that's.
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  Speaker 4: It, thank you. I know he had saved anybody go ahead. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna wait because Mike thing is, Duran comes in,
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  Speaker 4: they have like this cool thing that comes on this
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  Speaker 4: they turn off the lights and everyone goes crazy. But
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  Speaker 4: for that time when Duran was out and Griffin was closing,
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  Speaker 4: did they have like airplanes fly over because of the
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  Speaker 4: Air Force thing. I mean they have like they were
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  Speaker 4: dropping bombs and stuff like what did they do a
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  Speaker 4: cool thing for it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I had a decent, you know show, But anything besides
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  Speaker 1: his is you know, child's play. I basically had like
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  Speaker 1: advertisements plane. But I'm warming up coming after him, so
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  Speaker 1: U Yeah, it's funny, like there could be a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games where he would throw the eighth and I
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  Speaker 1: might go out there for the ninth and you get
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  Speaker 1: his lights out fireworks show for the eighth and then
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  Speaker 1: I go out and it's just kind of yah.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a discussion.
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  Speaker 5: This discussion we had and AJ completely disagreed with me.
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  Speaker 5: I think all relievers should have their own display. Do
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  Speaker 5: you agree or disagree that you should have your own
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  Speaker 5: whatever you want, whatever it is that you would like.
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  Speaker 1: I think every reliever should have at least like a
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  Speaker 1: walkout song, and every stadium operator is different kind of
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  Speaker 1: just like with the pitch clock, Like there's plenty of
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  Speaker 1: times I've gone out there and my name doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: announced and tell I'm about.
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  Speaker 2: To throw the first pitch.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's just other stuff going on, promotions, games being
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  Speaker 1: played in the stands, like sometimes you know, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like a just like a reliever, we're forgotten about until
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  Speaker 1: you know we're.
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  Speaker 2: On the mountain.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so let me ask this then, So just to
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  Speaker 4: add to crafts, let's say your starter goes out and
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  Speaker 4: has a bad start. Right, you're still in the recliner
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  Speaker 4: in the third inning, Okay, but you got to bring
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  Speaker 4: in that long guy and you guys already down six
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  Speaker 4: or seven and nothing. Do you think that guy should
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  Speaker 4: haven't because he's a reliever. Should he have an entrance
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  Speaker 4: like here comes the guy to give me five minutinges
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  Speaker 4: im possibly gets into triple A after the game.
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  Speaker 1: No, not necessarily like a light show or any sort
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  Speaker 1: of show, but you know, maybe just like a.
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  Speaker 2: Song he likes.
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  Speaker 4: I can get on board with a song, but like
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  Speaker 4: the light show should be for the.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my thing though, is okay, for sure, I'm with you,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna sure, But I'm gonna meet in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Here there's a big difference between Duran's incredible entrance and oh,
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  Speaker 3: here comes the eighth inning guy who sometimes also is
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  Speaker 3: racking up saves two depending on the situation, and he's
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  Speaker 3: been lights out for us, right and should be this
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  Speaker 3: fierce intimidating entrance, And it's.
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  Speaker 4: Like, all right, let's play twins trivia? Is it a
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  Speaker 4: B or c oh?
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  Speaker 3: And Griffin Jackson's like, I think there should be a
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  Speaker 3: little something for you. You know that it might not
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  Speaker 3: touch the Durana entrance, but I do think they can.
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  Speaker 1: They threw some together at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and it definitely it makes me feel a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better for sure. But towards the beginning it was it
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  Speaker 1: was a little different.
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  Speaker 4: It should have been for Griffin Jackson because it's true
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  Speaker 4: or false. Griffin jacks hates the taste of water. True
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  Speaker 4: or false?
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  Speaker 2: Cut huh slander true?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, from last time, I'm telling you. I told him
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  Speaker 4: last time we had him on. They have a big
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  Speaker 4: thing that they told us about Griffin Jackson was he
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  Speaker 4: hates the taste of water. I asked him last time
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  Speaker 4: and he said no, he just got tired of it
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  Speaker 4: because he was in the Air Force and he just
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  Speaker 4: had to drink so much water he grew tired of it.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean that would be a true, great true
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  Speaker 4: or false question because I would to go with true,
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  Speaker 4: and Griffin just told me false.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's necessarily intimidating. But here's okay,
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  Speaker 3: I want to get nerdy on a stat question for
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  Speaker 3: one moment. Here, what's the what is the go to
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  Speaker 3: stat these days for relievers, not for indicators, but more
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  Speaker 3: to show productivity. I'm curious, like, is it strand percentage?
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  Speaker 3: Does e RA plus play which yours was insane this
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  Speaker 3: past season? You know, like, what's a stat that you
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  Speaker 3: look at because I think sometimes e RA for leavers
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  Speaker 3: can get you know, pretty wonky depending on what happened
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  Speaker 3: with you know, somebody that came in after you or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, ERA is one of those ones you
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  Speaker 1: kind of gotta like throw over your shoulder as a reliever,
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  Speaker 1: just because if you have one bad game or week like,
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  Speaker 1: your ERA can be torched. So fip's definitely important for
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  Speaker 1: that kind of like get you guys know, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of takes the randomness out of the game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, now, that stat strand percentage is huge.
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  Speaker 1: I think punch out rate K percentages is ginormous, Like
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  Speaker 1: you need to especially as a back end guy. You
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  Speaker 1: got to be punching guys out. Let's see what else
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  Speaker 1: is important. I mean with percentage, chase all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: that just kind of shows like how good your stuff
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  Speaker 1: is in the middle of the zone. And if they're
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  Speaker 1: missing strikes, if the swing of missing strikes, you know
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  Speaker 1: you've got good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: All right? What about holds? Because we've had we've had
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  Speaker 4: relievers come on here and say, well, if I'm not
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  Speaker 4: getting saves, I need holds. So is hold something that
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  Speaker 4: you look at and say, all right, I got a
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  Speaker 4: hold here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean for me because if I'm not getting saves,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, sort of like the next best thing.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you know, we all know that holds aren't
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  Speaker 1: as valuable as saves.
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  Speaker 4: True. True, that's what you paid. That's why you don't
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  Speaker 4: get an entrance in the closer? Does that's it?
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  Speaker 2: That's right, that's what I need.
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  Speaker 5: Need an entrance to get paid. It'll come up in arbitration.
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  Speaker 5: Why does this guy not have a cool song or
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  Speaker 5: cool entrance? We shouldn't pay him as much. That's what
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna hold they all right, So tell us, tell
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  Speaker 5: us what's going through your mind, the feelings that you
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  Speaker 5: had on September eleventh, with with your family, with the flyover,
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  Speaker 5: with everything that happened in that game. How cool was
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  Speaker 5: that for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was probably one of the most nervous
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  Speaker 1: games I've ever pitched him, just because I had so
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  Speaker 1: much family there.
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  Speaker 2: It was almost like my debut again. But I think
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  Speaker 2: I was just more nervous than my brother, who on
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  Speaker 2: that picture he's to my right, to the to the
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  Speaker 2: right of my wife.
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  Speaker 1: And just to experience that not only like as a fan,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, as a player on the field was
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  Speaker 1: really special. And then this video is my other brother,
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  Speaker 1: his twin, who flies a different plane but throughout the
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  Speaker 1: first pitch. So it was just a really surreal moment,
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  Speaker 1: big day for my family. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I'll ever experience something like that ever again on the field.
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  Speaker 4: So wait, are you the only loser brother that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: fly planes? I mean, what that.
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  Speaker 1: Was my That was my joke at one of my
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  Speaker 1: brother's weddings. I hadn't getten called up yet. And they're
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  Speaker 1: both badass pilots, and I'm like, I'm kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the runt of the family. Like I'm just a minor
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  Speaker 1: league pitcher at this point. So now I can say
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  Speaker 1: it's a little different. But uh, five six years ago,
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  Speaker 1: that was my that was my joke.
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  Speaker 4: Who's the cooler thing in the Air Force?
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  Speaker 2: Say that again?
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  Speaker 4: Who is a cooler job.
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  Speaker 2: Out of my two brothers?
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  Speaker 5: No between you you or your two brothers being a
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  Speaker 5: fighter pilot?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean if you ask those guys, they
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  Speaker 1: think they pilots are, you know, just as egotistical as
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  Speaker 1: Major League baseball players are. So they're kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the alpha dogs of the military. So they would definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Say them and I will agree, like what they do
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  Speaker 2: day in, day out, like is not for the week.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, you're deployed from your family for months
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  Speaker 1: sometimes years, like you're in danger zones, you're getting shot at,
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  Speaker 1: So it'd be wrong to.
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  Speaker 2: Not say that they got a harder job.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So two things, What did you do in the
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  Speaker 4: Air Force if you're not a pilot, what was your
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  Speaker 4: what was your role in the Air Force since you
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  Speaker 4: went to the Air Force Academy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I man, I had just a very unique upbringing
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  Speaker 1: in the military. So to make a long story short,
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  Speaker 1: when I went to the academy, the ruling was, anybody
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  Speaker 1: that gets drafted or professional contract gets a chance to
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  Speaker 1: go play pro and sort of delay their service. So
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  Speaker 1: that was the understanding that I had. It comes to
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  Speaker 1: the point where I get drafted, twins knew that I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to walk across the stage and I get told, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to do a minimum of two years service.
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  Speaker 1: So at that moment, I had no idea like what
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  Speaker 1: the future held if baseball is even gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: possibility after that, because you know, you guys know, taking
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  Speaker 1: two years off of regardless, like, it's just incredibly hard
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  Speaker 1: to come back after that.
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  Speaker 2: So for for.
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  Speaker 1: A minute of time after that, they had me doing
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  Speaker 1: like secretary stuff for my colonel. I was planning holiday parties.
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  Speaker 1: I was even p monitor for a little bit in
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  Speaker 1: my unit because I didn't have like a real Air
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  Speaker 1: Force job or a title, so they just didn't really
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  Speaker 1: know what to do with me. So they were kind
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  Speaker 1: of just throwing, you know, some BS.
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  Speaker 2: Jobs at me.
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  Speaker 1: And thankfully, like seven months later they told me that
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be released and be able to
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  Speaker 1: go play and resume pro bawl got it?
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  Speaker 5: Nice?
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  Speaker 4: Sor right? So, what are your brothers? What's your family's
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  Speaker 4: call signs? Sorry? Er, what's your family's call sign? What's
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  Speaker 4: your call sign going to be? I mean listen as
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  Speaker 4: a veteran of a Blue Angels flight, I mean they
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  Speaker 4: made a call sign for me. It was didn't pass
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  Speaker 4: out or didn't vomit? Yeah, So what are your brothers
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  Speaker 4: and your sister in law's call sign? And what would
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  Speaker 4: your call sign be?
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  Speaker 2: So I only know.
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  Speaker 1: One of my brother's call signs, and it's an acronym.
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  Speaker 1: I forget what it stands for. I mean what the
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  Speaker 1: letters are, but if it's the story behind it, like
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  Speaker 1: call signs have stories behind them. And his call sign,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is I can't remember, is basically because he
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  Speaker 1: adopted a dog when he was in Korea and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: who it's the same plane, the F thirty five Hers
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  Speaker 1: is her call signs Goldie because she peter pants and
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit in the air.
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  Speaker 5: All right, there's some wait does that does that fall
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  Speaker 5: under your Does that fall under your duties as p monitor?
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  Speaker 4: Somebody that peed their pants in the cockpit because you
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  Speaker 4: said you were No I was, did I hear you?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: I was basically CDT. You know, I was in the
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  Speaker 2: I was going in the bathroom with him, making sure like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's no there's no foul play here in your drug test. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You were that guy.
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  Speaker 1: You were that guy, the guy that was anything else
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  Speaker 1: for me to do. So they just they were giving
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  Speaker 1: me all the jobs that no one wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: I had to buy snacks for everybody I had. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was a rough seven eight months.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. You were the guy from CDT that
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  Speaker 4: would show up my house call you, Hey, are you home? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: all right, we'll be your house in thirty minutes. Hope
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  Speaker 4: you ate breakfast? Yes? Wow, yeah all right. Basically yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry for that.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's nicer to the test monitors than in MLB when
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  Speaker 3: they're coming to test because you know, you know the
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  Speaker 3: deal exactly. Well, that's a good way to finish. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: great to have you on. Really appreciate the time. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for waiting for us for a little bit. Obviously we
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  Speaker 3: got backed up, yes, but always great to have you man.
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  Speaker 2: This was fun, that's right. I appreciate you. Fella's talk
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  Speaker 2: soon