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Grayson Rodriguez on Camden Yards shrinking, Dodgers shop til drop? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: As a pitcher. You obviously got to look at it
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  Speaker 1: both ways. Yeah, I mean you might give up another
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  Speaker 1: homer or two, but also you know, with our guys
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  Speaker 1: in our lineup, that's going to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more run support you're gonna get every night.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go Grayson Rodriguez's bag with us on FT.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you, dude, and happy almost spring training
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  Speaker 2: to you. I've been looking forward to having you back
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  Speaker 2: on because last time we had you freaking hilarious telling
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  Speaker 2: us about your text at Corbyn Burns. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: was so lonely. It's like no one wanted him, so
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  Speaker 2: I really desperately right off the top here. Need to
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  Speaker 2: hear your interactions with him post signing, because I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: you were able to give him some love about getting paid,
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  Speaker 2: but also it's so rude that he divorced you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So after he signed and the contract details and
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  Speaker 1: stuff came out, I texted him and I was like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: can I buy your bass boat? And he was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sell it. And I was like, nah, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: you're about to go buy you a new one, and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, you're right. So if he does sell me,
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  Speaker 1: the bass boat. He now has an excuse to go
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  Speaker 1: get a new one. The only the only thing we
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  Speaker 1: had to figure out is how to get it from
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix to Texas. So you know, that might be a
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  Speaker 1: little hiccup in the plan there, but uh, yeah, congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to him. So that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Also, dude, you're rolling hold on a little Dude, Grayson,
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  Speaker 3: you're rich. You can you can take a little puddle
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  Speaker 3: jumper over to Phoenix, rent a car and just trailer
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  Speaker 3: that thing right back to your house. What do you mean,
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  Speaker 3: or hire somebody to drive that thing? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to worry about how to get it.
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  Speaker 3: That's like the least of your problems I think should
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  Speaker 3: be that thing should be when you pull up the
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  Speaker 3: Sarasota for spring training. That thing should be in the
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  Speaker 3: ed Smith Stadium parking lot waiting for you.
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  Speaker 1: No. So the good thing about ed Smith is we
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  Speaker 1: do have a fishing pond behind field. For so if
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  Speaker 1: I do have a boat at spring training, it will
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  Speaker 1: be in the water behind field. For uh, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: trolling around, you know, kind of after after the camp
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  Speaker 1: ends that day for sure. So maybe you could catch
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  Speaker 1: fish with me. But we got to watch out for
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  Speaker 1: some Ryan mount Castle homers coming on the wall at.
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  Speaker 3: Us, off of you, off of you, of you.
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  Speaker 1: Not off me, Nope, nope.
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  Speaker 2: But actually, you know that actually leads me to another questions.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we've talked about this part, but
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  Speaker 2: is there anybody that had a better off season than
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Mountcastle reading the news about the walls ticking in
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  Speaker 2: a little bit for him?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, I think all the all of the
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  Speaker 1: right handed hitters in our lineup, I think have been
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  Speaker 1: sleeping pretty well this offseason. They're really itching to get
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  Speaker 1: back in there, you know, March April, whenever I think
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  Speaker 1: our first home game is. But yeah, seeing that will
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  Speaker 1: be kind of cool because obviously our team will hit
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  Speaker 1: a lot more homers this year, or will like to
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  Speaker 1: think that. So uh, it'll definitely be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: kind of how the new wall plays. I know that
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  Speaker 1: old wall was huge, so it definitely robbed a lot
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  Speaker 1: of homers.
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  Speaker 3: Were you mad? Were you mad they brought the wall in?
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  Speaker 3: Because if a pitcher as a picture, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 3: keep that mountain way out there as far as I
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  Speaker 3: can levefield. But now they're like, oh it went for
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  Speaker 3: one year. We didn't like it. No, we need more homers,
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  Speaker 3: so we're bringing it back in. If I was a pitcher,
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  Speaker 3: i'd be a little mad.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know it was. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be brought in enough to where it's really gonna
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  Speaker 1: matter a whole lot. As a pitcher, you obviously got
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  Speaker 1: to look at it both ways. Yeah, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: might give up another homer or two, but also you know,
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  Speaker 1: with our guys in our lineup, that's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more run support you're gonna get every night now.
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  Speaker 1: Thankfully me, I think, I you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the numbers on this, but last year our lineup had
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  Speaker 1: to have hit the most amount of homers and runs
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  Speaker 1: and everything while I was pitching. So this year, if
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  Speaker 1: that increases, you know, that's that's awesome that I like
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  Speaker 1: the wall. They move it in a little bit further
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  Speaker 1: in if they want to as well.
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  Speaker 4: When you look at Corbyn Burns contract hit on that again,
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  Speaker 4: you sit there and you look at yourself. Do you
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  Speaker 4: allow yourself to look at like two hundred and ten
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  Speaker 4: million dollars and what that is or is that just
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  Speaker 4: so outside of your scope of the amount of money
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  Speaker 4: that you could make later on in your career.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, obviously it's a lot of money. I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody you know dreams about making that kind of
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  Speaker 1: money playing baseball. But I mean for me, like right now,
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  Speaker 1: like obviously free agency still you know, ways off. So
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  Speaker 1: it's just kind of about you know, focusing on you know,
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming season, which you know, I'm still not in
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  Speaker 1: an RB yet, so really just going out there and
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  Speaker 1: trying to throw the baseball, you know, put up some
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  Speaker 1: good games. I mean yeah, really not looking at the
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  Speaker 1: free agency contract contracts yet, but that definitely is impressive
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  Speaker 1: for sure. So it kind of makes you dream and
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  Speaker 1: makes you work a little bit harder in the weight
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  Speaker 1: room and you know doing the not so fun things
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  Speaker 1: of baseball for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Does it make you want to sign an extension with
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  Speaker 4: the Orioles and stay and maybe forfeit some of those
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  Speaker 4: two hundred and ten million but still get some of
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  Speaker 4: it now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if that opportunity presents itself, definitely look
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  Speaker 1: at it. You know, I have no problem with Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: love the love the fans, uh love Maryland, So definitely
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  Speaker 1: get to do a little bit of hunting in Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: which is super cool. But yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if that opportunity presents itself, will definitely definitely uh, I'll
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  Speaker 1: definitely think about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I love about Maryland is when you
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  Speaker 3: used to send me cool things like crab cakes. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't gotten to shipman in like two months, so I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what's going on with Jimmy's, but like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna need some more crab cakes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, well, I'm almost out of crabcakes as well.
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  Speaker 1: The only problem is we're going to Florida Monday, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to get them shipped there. Maybe another box
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  Speaker 1: to show up, depending on if Kratz is an Orioles
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  Speaker 1: fan this year or not. You know, so Kratz is
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  Speaker 1: like Kratz is like my public enemy number one right now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was watching the show earlier and he
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  Speaker 1: almost put me to sleep. But you know we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: so whoa, whoa, whoa, Kratzy gets some crab cakes this year.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know what.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know why when I when I picked
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  Speaker 4: my team to win the American League East, it was
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  Speaker 4: the Orioles that it put you to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: But I just conversate with me.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, it was after that. It was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nothing against any of our sponsors, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Kratzy was talking about roses. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: got on the show to you know, talk ball and
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  Speaker 1: listen to some of that and listening to talk about
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  Speaker 1: some flowers.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, that's love. Love is more,
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  Speaker 3: is more, bigger than baseball. Okay, yea more bigger than baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Uh really, love, we need to be talking about the
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  Speaker 1: love for the game. Come on, for the love of
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  Speaker 1: the game. Isn't ball does not stop?
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  Speaker 3: So nope, nope, it stops.
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  Speaker 4: That's how you That's how you got all those deers
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  Speaker 4: to run through your wall in the back.
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  Speaker 3: Of your in the back of your right there.
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  Speaker 4: Because they got like you have love, You have love,
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  Speaker 4: you have love for other things. I showed love to
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  Speaker 4: my wife. You're going down to spring training. Baseball is
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  Speaker 4: trying to take away the day of love from you.
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  Speaker 4: You're you're heading out. You're like, oh I am, I
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  Speaker 4: am ready. I'm so focused. I don't need love in
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  Speaker 4: my life. Yeah right, you need it, You need it
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  Speaker 4: all and it comes to you with one hundred flowers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I ordered my wife's Valentine's gift today though, So
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  Speaker 1: that's done, that's taking care of you.
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  Speaker 3: Go, but what do you think about He hasn't been
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  Speaker 3: married long enough to have to send the flowers yet,
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  Speaker 3: Like he hasn't gotten there's still newly weeds, right, he
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been married long enough to worry. He's like, man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just just gonna send my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's it's one thirty Central time, so we've been
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  Speaker 1: married for like twenty five minutes now, I think, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just over a year.
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  Speaker 2: Just over What do you well, Grayson, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think or really, more importantly, what does your wife think about?
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  Speaker 1: Pictures?
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  Speaker 2: Anders always reporting around Valentine's Day?
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  Speaker 1: I mean we always go out to eat, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I always try to take her on a date. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, she doesn't mind it. She loves
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  Speaker 1: going to Florida because she gets to go to the beach,
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  Speaker 1: does all that stuff that I don't necessarily like. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she has a fun time. A lot of our friends
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  Speaker 1: and family always come to spring training, which is super
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  Speaker 1: cool getting to see them and stuff. And you obviously
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  Speaker 1: spring training everything's kind of done in the morning. You
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  Speaker 1: get the afternoons and the evenings off and relax a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and you know, practice some baseball while you're
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  Speaker 1: at it.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 4: I like it all right, last one for me before
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  Speaker 4: we get to the quick hitter questions. You saw Corbyn
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  Speaker 4: signed in Arizona. You love Texas. You spend as much
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  Speaker 4: of the off season as you can in Texas. Would
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  Speaker 4: you love to spend your entire season, spring training, whole season,
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  Speaker 4: just time on the road at home? Or is it
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  Speaker 4: good to get away to help you to focus on
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  Speaker 4: the things you need to focus on in baseball?
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  Speaker 1: No? I mean, obviously I love Texas. Love you know,
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  Speaker 1: born and raised, small town Acadochias. You know, the best
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  Speaker 1: part about being a baseball player is the off season
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  Speaker 1: is hunting season. Summers here are not enjoyable. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you might as well climb in an oven and it's
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna be cooler in the oven than it is
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  Speaker 1: outside the doors here, you know, in July and August. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I don't know how we
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  Speaker 1: did it. You know, growing up, like in the summer
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  Speaker 1: playing all the baseball and stuff like dang, it was hot.
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  Speaker 1: Like obviously being in Maryland, it gets humid and it's warm,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the summer. But I mean, dude, playing
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the Northeast and playing in some other states,
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  Speaker 1: going to California, Seattle, I mean, dude, the weather is
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal in the summer. Like growing up listening to all
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  Speaker 1: these country songs, you know, they're talking about how they
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  Speaker 1: love summer nights and summer days, blah blah blah whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, dude, not see what they're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: because it is hotter than heck down here. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: definitely playing baseball up there in the summer is nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. But I'm kind of glad
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  Speaker 1: that now I don't have to experience the summers here
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  Speaker 1: at home in Texas anymore. I get to go somewhere
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit cooler.
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  Speaker 3: Nice. All right, Well, I have sad news for you.
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  Speaker 3: I have Well, I have two questions for you. One,
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  Speaker 3: what's your go to spot in sarasoas and you're in Saraso.
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  Speaker 3: And then after that, I have a sad story that
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to tell you, the kind of bring
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  Speaker 3: the move down a little bit. So answer answer that
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  Speaker 3: one first, and then we'll go sad story.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, uh Fresh Kitchen is really good. It's it's good
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  Speaker 1: little healthy spot. And then me and d L. Hall
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  Speaker 1: he found a pizza place downtown, El Panaficio. I believe
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  Speaker 1: they've got some phenomenal pizza. That's a good little cheap
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  Speaker 1: meal spot too, because the pizzas are huge, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like the folks that work in there are Italian, I
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  Speaker 1: mean like Italian son and uh, their pieces are their
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  Speaker 1: pieces are great.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right now the sad news, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to try that out because I'm being Sarasota next weekend
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  Speaker 3: but Bradenton, so not really Sarasota, close enough. But so
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  Speaker 3: on February twenty fourth, Aeric Kratz is coming to Orioles Camp.
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  Speaker 3: The sad news is I won't be there, which is
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  Speaker 3: actually good news for you because I was gonna take
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  Speaker 3: you deep. So are you.
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 5: You check it out? Yeah you didn't have Yep, yep,
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  Speaker 5: you check it out. Dude, This was this way. You
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  Speaker 5: could have changed the schedule to be there and instead
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  Speaker 5: you're not, so that's your fault.
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  Speaker 1: Will go grab some pizza, okay, I love by.
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  Speaker 3: Nope, I couldn't have changed the schedule because the schedule
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  Speaker 3: was made without my knowledge, and so therefore I did
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  Speaker 3: not get the opportunity to be He lives so far away,
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  Speaker 3: so far away.
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  Speaker 1: So you're you're kind of you're kind of at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the food chain and people that are on
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  Speaker 1: the show, if you didn't have any kind of any.
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  Speaker 3: Why can I be there? First of all, what can
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  Speaker 3: I be there? February twenty fourth, Because I'm not anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just looked at my son's schedule. What day of
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  Speaker 3: the week. That can't be the right date? Hold up,
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  Speaker 3: hold on Marks, Mark, Now see we can blame Mark
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  Speaker 3: Weener for this, because this is some bull crebble.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Executive producer who I can see is typing
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  Speaker 2: in our text page break.
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  Speaker 3: Monday twenty fourth. I'm in town, that panic, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because I want to take you bake out, I mean
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  Speaker 3: your fire hair you have right now and all. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean I'm there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in all right, type faster Mark, because we're on
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  Speaker 2: television and on a show. He's typing about your schedule,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not seeing what he's typing.
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  Speaker 1: So bottom of the food chain, Mark Mark, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Out of town. Uh oh, breaking news. AJ will be
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  Speaker 2: in Sarasota to face grace as riveting as it is
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  Speaker 2: for AJ to go through his calendar. We will do
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  Speaker 2: that post show and then we'll get back to you
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  Speaker 2: that appreciate.
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  Speaker 3: You anyways, Kratz and I will be in Sarasota. How
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  Speaker 3: about that? Now, you make sure you schedule outside.
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  Speaker 1: You see the panic on his face, Yes, yeah he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was freaking out, freaking out. He composure, lost all composure.
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  Speaker 2: Grayson, one more topic of the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: and then Krats will hit you with some fun quick
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: hitter questions. Got to get your take on why you're
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: playing this season when the Dodgers already won the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Fans are complaining, They're like, why you even play the season?
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  Speaker 2: Oh your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot that can go wrong in a season,
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say. You know, obviously, hopefully all
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  Speaker 1: those guys stay healthy. You know, obviously they're loaded on paper,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, baseball is a tough game. There's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games, and you know, according to
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  Speaker 1: my math, that's a lot of games, So a lot
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  Speaker 1: can happen. And obviously, obviously they're in the National League,
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  Speaker 1: so we're gonna face them once, probably a three game series.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't looked at the schedule yet. Those three games,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we're gonna want to win them. I think we'll
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  Speaker 1: play them in Baltimore. But you know, we wouldn't face
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  Speaker 1: them again until the World Series. And you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at my math again, you only got to
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  Speaker 1: win four games, so a lot can happen in a
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  Speaker 1: seven game series. So we'll just leave it at that.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know, Yeah, I don't know if you can,
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  Speaker 1: you could, you can have them slide it into that
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  Speaker 1: number one spot, but just look at the freaking college Sville.
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  Speaker 1: I'll playoff this year. You hadn't seed seven and eight
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  Speaker 1: playing in the National Championship, so you never know what
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  Speaker 1: could happen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you play the games, all right. My baseball is
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  Speaker 4: a questions quick ones for you. We already kind of
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  Speaker 4: went over it, so you can say a j but
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  Speaker 4: I don't think that's your answer. Maybe historical batter that
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  Speaker 4: you would love to face anybody, anybody that played in
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  Speaker 4: the history of.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball, probably Mickey Mantle. I was on Instagram today and
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  Speaker 1: I think they had just tops had released that they
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: were doing, like the one of one cards. It was
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  Speaker 1: like a show Heo Tawny autograph with Mike Trout and
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  Speaker 1: then the show Heyo Towny autograph with a Mickey Mantle autograph,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh heck. I was like, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be an expensive card, and I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: got me thinking about Mickey Mannel, you know, obviously being
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  Speaker 1: a three time MVP, or at least a three time MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly sure how many he won. Don't quote me
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  Speaker 1: on that, but uh yeah, definitely facing him I think
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  Speaker 1: would be pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: What umpire has the best strike three call? Do you
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  Speaker 4: notice that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm kind of I'm kind of more.
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  Speaker 1: You know. A perfect umpire to me is somebody who
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: makes a paul really quick and doesn't waste a lot
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: of time, because as soon as I throw the ball,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: before it even gets to home plate, I want to
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: know if it's a ballers, right, So yeah, I don't
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: know whoever who has a quick call though.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: For sure, Kay okay, something something to look for this
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: season before.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: He goes, Before he goes, we got to ask him
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: about his biblehood, right?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Have you seen this first of all orange pants on
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: you is not going to be a great look. Let's
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: just say that.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Just not listen. Listen, I'm a handsome looking sucker, a
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: j You better watch out, you know you like. Yeah,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: So a lot of my buddies like to joke and
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: say that I have a grande cabasa. So they say
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that the head is the head is proportionate on bibble heads.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: But it's cool. It's a bibblehead, you know, talking with
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the Orioles, folks that do the giveaways and stuff. I
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: love retro uniforms. I love retro looks, so that was
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: kind of a look that we wanted to go for.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: You know, obviously Jim Palmer and the boys way back
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: then wearing the all orange uniforms I thought was pretty cool.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: So yeah, go with that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I love the orange pants look. It's fire and it'll
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: stand out.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: It looks. They look good on certain people. I'm saying
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: in real life now, bible Head's cool. But so this,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I just want to confirm the Orioles are not wearing
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: all orange this year. Every time you pitch, I don't know.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I can't confirm or deny.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: People.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: We'll find out a month from now FT at spring
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: training in Sarasota.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Oh man, I've never get my home run trot ready.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but listen, I like me and you are very
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: similar or because you know, we don't make a lot
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: of those important decisions, you know when it comes to uh,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you know, our employers.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: So that's there. I'm there. I'm there, kid, I'm there.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: You're talking.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: That's a nice mit.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Looks looks pretty fresh.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I never played. They all just they all just
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: stay they all stay fresh.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't get it right out there in the dirt,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and you gave us a detailed description of what the
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: ball loves smells like.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I can't. I can't, but it smells like rich mahogany.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Dude, have y'all ever noticed that brand new big league
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: baseball's smell like dill pickles? Am I the only one
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that thinks that?
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Are you pregnant?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I'm the only person that's probably never smelled a new baseball,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: But I'll take your word for it.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, Like if you open you know, because you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: minor league balls come in plastic packaging, you know, like
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: little league, high school type stuff, but then the big
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: league balls come wrapped in the tissue paper. You know,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: it's like super fancy. Once you rip that tissue paper off,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: it smells like pickles. So the next time you get
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that opportunity to do that, smell it. Let me know
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: what it smells like.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: We'll do it. We'll do it February twenty fourth. We're
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: gonna ask Pickle.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: That's a question. That's a question I've been asking folks
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: recently because I got to figure out if I'm the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: only one that does that.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Or not, or at least yeah, I think that I
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: can't confirm or deny, but I know what I'm doing
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: next time, I open up a fresh set of baseballs.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: So done, ye Grayson, We're gonna see you in a
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: few weeks. Dude, you got the party, you got the COMBA.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Good to catch up man. Show you in Sarasota for
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: the big showdown.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Alrighty in the weeds.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna let everyone know what's going on in
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the ft world. We're gonna take you behind the scenes.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Trevor May was supposed to join us today. He was
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: on the meeting, he was prompt we were texting, and
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: then a good ten minutes maybe before the show gave
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: him a good ten minutes to just shut the power
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: out in the state of Washington. If you live in
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the state of Washington and you have power, let us know,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: because apparently many people don't excuse me anyway.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Trevor, Trevor, we love you, Trevor. But he said he
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: lived in a building like Trevor, we can't get your house,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: like we can't get your house with a generator. He
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: made money, Trevor.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: No, he lives in the house.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: No, he said, Lord. He said he had to check
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: his landlord in the whole building was out. So I
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: don't know if that means unless he has unless he
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: has a lot of people living in his house, or
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: is he a studio Maybe he has his own studio.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Pro he might. He might. So I was watching his
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: show may Day two days ago. He has like this
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: fancy jib camera that he uses at times because he
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: kind of runs it like like daily show kind of
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: status where he'll like do the news and you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: crumple the papers.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Well, if he comes back, we'll talk to him about it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: The point of me bring this up.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I didn't know that. Did it changed his name? May Day?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: M hm.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: He's got he's got like five shows, so that's one
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he didn't.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: He didn't. Crats Pizza, Piece of Krats Territory coming to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the FT network uh next month. Anyway, The reason I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: brought this up was because I cueued up this article
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: for him. It was written by Mike Petriello from MLB
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: dot Com, friend of the show but also friend of Trevor.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: They do those stat cast broadcasts together, and the article
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: now will have to be talked about without him, and
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: if we do get Trevor someday we can have him
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: chime in. So I'll read it the whole article, not
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: just kidding. Why is it so hard to hit at
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Seattle's T Mobile Field? A deep dive on how the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: best pictures park in baseball creates strikeouts, limits damage, makes
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: it hard to evaluate pictures and hitters, and why it's
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: about more than just the batter's eye. And in the article,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: it basically says that Seattle is the most extreme park
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: in baseball. Course Field boosts offense by ten percent. T
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Mobile Park suppressed offense by eleven percent. I feel like
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: this has been a hot topic for a while. Trevor
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: might have a nerdier take on it. I'm gonna give
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you a fan take that I've actually been hearing more
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: and more frequently. AJ, Why don't we just adjust the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: ballpark dimensions a little bit? Other teams do it. If
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: there's so much complaining about it, and it's not just
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: about the batter's eye, why don't we bring some damn
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: fences in.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say this. I know I'm not a
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: right hand to hit her, but I loved it in Seattle.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I was trying to find my numbers. I don't know
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: where I can find them, but man, did I feel
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: like I had a good time in Seattle. I loved
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: it in Seattle. I'm my first career home run in
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Seattle in that ballpark. I hit home runs off Felix
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Fernandez and people like that in Seattle. So perfect game,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Phil Humber through in Seattle. Maybe that's why they couldn't
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: get a hit or anybody on base that day. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: don't know, but I loved it in Seattle. So I
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: don't know what the problem was now. Maybe things have changed.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I wish they still had to hit it here cafe
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: out and right field, because that was like bullseye and
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: batting practice.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: What wait, Okay, hold up, hold up crats. See to me,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: that was a Meggie take, like, how do you hit
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: the ball? Oh, it's just you know, you hit it,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: you square it up, you sit in the box and
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: you hit it. Like AJ, you can't do the Sorry,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I'm a really good hitter.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Thing.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I didn't say that. I never said that because there
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: was places I see but you are.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Tonto, I get that. But the REALI We've got a
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: big body of statistical evidence that says this park is
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: suppressing offense. And it's not just for the home team,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: right the home team has its own issues. And yes,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: we could come up with a few bats that would
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: really help the cause here, but there are a lot
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: road bat struggling. So is there a solution to level
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: it out a little bit? Or do we just let
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: this park ride as this massive, massive extreme pitchers park. Kratz,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: would you like to spend a few million bucks of
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: John Stanton, the owner's money to bring in the fences?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Normally I'd say yes, Normally I'm trying to spend other
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: people's money. No, why not make the adjustment. It's not
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: about why bring the fences in so they hit a
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: few more homers, Like is Colorado that much better because
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: it's a huge because it's a you know, the fences
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: are short based on how the ball travels, like, oh.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It's homely so many homers.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: No, it's because of the size out there. It's because
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: of the amount of space that outfielders have to cover.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: You can't like a stadium unless there is truly something
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: wrong with the batter's eye. A stadium does not cause strikeouts.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Can the thin air in Colorado make sliders not slide
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: as much or sinkers not sink as much? Absolutely they can.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: But in Seattle, I have a hard time believing that
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: moving the fences is going to create this like awesome
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: hitters park. Like the team didn't hit the ball very often.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: They struck out at record paces the last three seasons,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I know, the last two seasons for sure, since we've
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: been on FT them boys have been striking out. So
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: to me, you can play on the moon, or you
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: can play in a little league park. If you don't
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: make contact, it ain't the stadium.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Then what's the solution. You're just gonna says.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: In I don't think there they did. Where did they
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: move them in right field? Because the bullpen's always been
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: where it's at. It's that like it's flush right up
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: against the fence there and they're you know, it's basically
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: fans bullpen fence. It's kind of a unique. I love
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: the uniqueness. I don't like the four hundred per center
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: three seventy to the gap three point thirty like the
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Japanese stadiums. I don't like the uniform. I like the
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: higher fence someplace to me, what's the answer. Yeah, you
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: gotta figure it out. We're gonna talk about it with
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: the Phillies later. Like they can't hit in the playoffs.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: You gotta figure it out. You gotta learn to make
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: adjustments in different places. And you say, oh, well, everybody
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: strikes out, like in the article talks about how the
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: opposing team strikes out there.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: We'll take a look at that pitching staff. The pitching staff.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: You ask anybody any team, they do not want to
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: go in and face them. They do not want to
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: go into that park and face that rotation with that bullpen.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: The word that one.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Guy used, a really good player that's been on here
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: was suffocating. The pitching staff is suffocating. So it's going
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: to bring strikeouts up for the opposing team. And the
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: manners do their best to make sure the strikeouts are
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: up for their team.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we maybe we'll have Mike on at some point
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: to talk about this, because he went over a number
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: of different factors. Yes, he brought up the whole batter's
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: eye and actually the history of it and now there's
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: been you know, decades of history of certain players complaining.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Definitely not Prazinski. But he also talked about how it's
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: one of the colder average temperatures, so that's going to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: hurt your home run factor a little bit. Okay, the
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: strikeout part is still crazy though, the amount of strikeouts
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: that are produced there versus you know, on the road
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: for the Mariners, and even the same thing you're starting pitchers.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Well, to me, I would started looking at the lights,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: not the fence, Like the fence just solves one thing,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Like it's gonna make batting averages go down and home
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: runs go up? Are the lights bad?
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Is there?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Something is the angle of the lights? You know, I'm
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: just hypothesizing things like if it truly is caused, they
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: can take everything out of it. Pictures, bad pictures, good hitters,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: bad hitters, and it's causing more strikeouts, then there has
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: to be something, and to me it would be more
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: visual batter's eye lights, where the sun sets, how it's
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: coming in across you know, through the open, open roof
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: or the partially open roof.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Who knows anything like that.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: So apparently they did do a little bit of tweaking
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: with the fences at some point. I can't click the
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: article to figure it all out. But what if they
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: just keep doing that until something changes?
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: How about build your team around what your your ballpark
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: is Contact two thousand and one, two thousand and one,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: they didn't have a problemhen They won one hundred and
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: sixteen games and went like eighty and one in safegfield,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: and Brett Boone was hitting homers, Mike Cameron was hitting homers,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Edgar Martinez, Eachie Row, John Olerude, that whole team. They
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: didn't have a problem. I don't know what's changed the
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: ball The walls actually probably gotten more juice than it
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: was back then, right, maybe yep, I don't know. I
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: just I don't know. I feel like it's a I
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: don't know, I just don't like the ballpark. Excuse figure
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: it out. You got to figure it out somehow. If
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: you're the Mariners, you got to find a way to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: figure it out. I know it sucks, but figure it out.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Giganicant kidsas city is gigantic, and they figured it out.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: They won a World Series. They figured it out. They
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: were like, we need dudes that can catch the ball.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: We need dudes to put the ball in play and
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: can run. Okay, but what happens You get a couple
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: guys that can hit some homers every once in a while,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: and the rest of the dudes are contact, speed, play defense,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: cover the whole outfield because it's gigantic. And they figured
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: it out. And now they're starting to figure it out
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: again because they kind of went back to that route
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Yeah, you got to have a couple
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: of homers homer guys, but the rest just put guys
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: put in play with pressure and make other teams adjust
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: to you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: The Mariners claimed it to do that last year. Remember
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: that was their big push. Their whole campaign last offseason
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: was we need to get more contact in our lineup.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: And they got a few players that were better in
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: their career contact wise, and then their strikeout rates skyrock.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Get hit.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I mean Jorge Blanco didn't strike out. He went there
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: whoa through the roof. I don't know.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: He struck out the most of his career ever with
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: the least amount of fat bats that he's had.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: So maybe it's not the park. Maybe it's the approach.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Oh that's why they brought Kevin Seitzer because he hates homers.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: So he's the perfect hitting coach in Seattle.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, he likes him. He understands that the approach
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: ain't it. And I think it's too much like saying, oh,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: we're gonna move the fences in It feels like, you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: a helicopter parenting, like, oh, well, guys can't hit through
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: the shift. We're gonna get rid of the shift. Like
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: some guys make the adjustment. Some guys can make the
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: adjustment in Seattle.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I don't want.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: But you have as an organization, you have to make
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: the decision of who's good at making the adjustment or
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: who should I don't want cow Raley pushed balls to
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: the left side when he's hitting left handed, unless there's
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: dudes on third base. I want hit his dingers like
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Carai has no problem hitting dingers there from both sides
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: of the plate. He's like, oh left handed, I'll do
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: it right handed too, So he's an elite guy that
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: can do that. Victor Roblaze, go get your singles, Go
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: get your singles, run around in the outfield, catch some pilotas.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why they signed him up. They felt like
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: he was a fit, and so they're going to try
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to presumably bring in more people like that.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Well, what did you What did Barry Bond say? We
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: ran the Barry Bond's interview. What did he say when
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: he was joking around with me? What did he say?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: What was my job?
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Practice?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: No? What was my job? Other guy's jobs to get
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: on bass so he could drive him in. He's like,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: my job wasn't my job? I did my job to
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: get on bas You were supposed to drive me in
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: if I was in front of you. The guys in
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: front of me were supposed to get on bass for
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: me so I could drive them in. Right, So you
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: got to know what your job is. Every one of
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: every guy in the world a forty home run hitter.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: We try to make every guy right now sometimes into
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: forty home run hitters, and that's why every guy strikes
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: out two hundred times. You get a five eight, one
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty pound flee trying to hit thirty homers,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: they hit eight, and they hit one ninety seven. But
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: they're like, hey, you have those eight, right, So I mean,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: maybe it's an approach thing, and maybe certain people need
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: not to try to hit home runs on every swing.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: There needs to be different types of players. Luisa Rise
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: comes to mind, right'll he get his job? What's his job?
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Hit singles, get on base and be a pest. And
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: he's a hell of a pest because he hits three
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: hundred wins, batting titles and gets on base.