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Mookie Betts & Jo Adell on Ohtani and Trout, ABS Challenge Quiz, 3-HR Robbery Game | On Base, Ep. 47 · Bleacher Report

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Speaker 1: Have you challenged this year twice? I'm over two. I
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Speaker 1: banned myself. A hey, I may aim is a oj Adella.
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Speaker 1: You just made this up, dude, I'm going to get it.
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Speaker 1: I was having an hot of body experience. I was
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Speaker 1: fired up, man. I don't want somebody to get fired.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to season four. I'm on base. I'm your host,
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Speaker 2: Mookie Betsen. Today we have a twenty seventeen first round
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Speaker 2: pick Angels outfielder and the only man to rob three homers.
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Speaker 3: That's dope. Three homers in one game, especially Joe Adell.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for coming.
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Speaker 1: Brother, of course, brother, glad to be here. It's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Everything been good.
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Speaker 1: Everything's been good, man, staying the course. A lot of
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Speaker 1: ball left to play, a lot of ball up to play.
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Speaker 1: As you know, we got a new game this year.
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Speaker 1: I want to kind of get into and it's called
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Speaker 1: make the call. They're pitches right, and you got to guess.
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Speaker 1: You got to guess if it's a striker ball. If
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Speaker 1: you get it wrong, I have a bowl of questions
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Speaker 1: that we get to ask you if you get it right. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: don't have to answer any questions, all right.
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Speaker 2: I want to know about what did you think about
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Speaker 2: the ABS challenge system everything, you like it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's just definitely changing the game. There's
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Speaker 1: definitely a strategy behind you know, using it. You know,
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Speaker 1: I know for us, like we're trying to approach it
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Speaker 1: of you know, if we're in a situation where runners
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Speaker 1: in scoring position, that type of thing, that we try
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Speaker 1: to pull it out and use it. But there are
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Speaker 1: certain guys that are kind of banned right now from
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Speaker 1: using that. We've got to con if you're tapping and
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Speaker 1: it's over the middle of the play, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, and it's a repeat offender, you know, you
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Speaker 1: gotta yeah, you gotta gotta shut it down.
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Speaker 3: So have you challenged this year?
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Speaker 1: I have, So I've challenged I think twice. What's your
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Speaker 1: what's your percentage? I'm over to the band. I banned
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Speaker 1: myself a little bit. I'm trying to be careful with
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Speaker 1: it really, like the off speed, the off speed like
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Speaker 1: down in the zone that kind of clips the bottom.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of tough. So I've I've kind of put
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Speaker 1: myself on the back burner from using it for right now.
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Speaker 2: I actually haven't challenged any I do like it though,
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Speaker 2: because I think it's fair all the way around, you know,
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Speaker 2: for for both pictures and and hitters, and but I
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Speaker 2: haven't challenged any part of me is like I would
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Speaker 2: rather our pictures use it, especially getting leading to the game.
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Speaker 2: I did use one in my rehab assignment and I
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Speaker 2: got it right, So it did give me encourage me
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Speaker 2: got a little confidence with it. But yeah, we'll see
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Speaker 2: if I use them again. I rather people like show
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Speaker 2: hey and the pictures use it. You know, one percent
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Speaker 2: those are real game. And if you're not seeing it,
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Speaker 2: you got to be honest with yourself, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you're not, that's the thing.
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Speaker 1: If I'm not picking this guy up, I'm probably not
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Speaker 1: using it, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: You ready, Yeah, let's get it now. You're you're in.
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Speaker 3: Don't ask me. This is only you. Okay.
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Speaker 1: It's a tough angle right there too, I know you.
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Speaker 3: So now we get a little taste of their medicine.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be a ball. It's got to be
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Speaker 1: a ball that backed up a little bit, backed up,
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Speaker 1: a good bet.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, what y that's why you're banned. That's why
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Speaker 2: I'm out. I can't that's well, all right.
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Speaker 3: Question one. I thought that it was a ball.
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Speaker 1: To so didn't it look armside the whole way time?
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, you speak pig Latin. Have you ever needed
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Speaker 1: to use that for anything? And how did you learn it?
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Speaker 3: Pig Latin? I mean big Latin. I mean I heard
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Speaker 3: of that from when I was in like elementary school.
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Speaker 1: But no, it's basically saying like words backwards, but you
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Speaker 1: start with the vowel, so like whatever word you're saying,
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Speaker 1: you start with the vowel and then put the letters
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Speaker 1: before it at the end.
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Speaker 3: So where do they speak this?
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Speaker 1: My mom taught me. My mom was an English teacher
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Speaker 1: forever and there's been an education forever, and it's just
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Speaker 1: kind of like a family thing, so we would kind
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Speaker 1: of had our own hidden language.
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Speaker 3: So they don't speak.
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Speaker 2: This isn't like a real like in South America or
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Speaker 2: Europe or something.
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Speaker 1: No, it's claimed to have been at some point, like
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Speaker 1: kind of just like one of those one offs. People
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Speaker 1: just kind of could talk to each other communicate, but
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Speaker 1: it's nothing official.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So say, hey, my name is Joe Adell.
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Speaker 1: He hey, I may Aim is a Oja Adela. So
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Speaker 1: how about that? And do you speak pig Latin?
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Speaker 3: So it sounds like you just made this up.
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Speaker 1: I know it's crazy, but it sounds good though. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like I'm fluent with it.
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Speaker 3: Though it sounds like you're you're sick.
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Speaker 1: See, I could talk about you right now and you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't know what I'm saying. So I have like an advantage. Actually,
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Speaker 1: me and my mom and sister and a couple cousins
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Speaker 1: have done it before. We've talked about somebody in front
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Speaker 1: of them and they didn't had no idea.
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Speaker 2: Were they American? Because yes, I mean, this is unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: So okay, pitch too. That's got to be a ball down.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's see it.
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Speaker 1: What he didn't catch that?
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Speaker 3: Well? No, I don't try to make it his fallt.
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Speaker 1: Who has the worst walk up song on the team,
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Speaker 1: you know what? He keeps changing his but no one's
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Speaker 1: walk up sir.
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I'm not feeling it. He went with Yeah, he went
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Speaker 1: with some of the Fergie stuff, and you know, nothing
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Speaker 1: against Fergie, but I'm like, hey, man, you know we
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Speaker 1: gotta we got to back seat it, man.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so what's your walk up?
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Speaker 1: Too hard for the radio right now? So I just
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Speaker 1: did the from the New Drake and he dropped three
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Speaker 1: albums at three two days ago.
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Speaker 3: I haven't even heard. I don't even listen to music
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Speaker 3: much anymore.
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Speaker 1: No, I just got I just got through Iceman and
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Speaker 1: then like.
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Speaker 3: I that's that's that's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty good. I didn't get through all the rest.
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Speaker 3: Are you drake guy or you just like he made
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Speaker 3: a couple of songs.
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of just like, I ride the wave of
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Speaker 1: what everybody's listening to try to get in on it.
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Speaker 1: But I'm like an all music guy, so like I
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Speaker 1: don't know genre. Country, Yeah, I like everything, dance, electric
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Speaker 1: like everything. So nice. Okay, all right, pitch three, you
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Speaker 1: need to be starting to say I just need to
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Speaker 1: start saying, just strike. Can we play it again? It's
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Speaker 1: not gonna want.
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Speaker 3: To play it. I just go ahead and reachain in here.
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Speaker 1: That's a ball that's up, that's up arm side like
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Speaker 1: he put it away. Yes, yes, good for you. It's
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Speaker 1: like the odds. If I keep saying ball, it's eventually.
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Speaker 3: At some point. Yeah, he can't do all strikes.
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Speaker 2: So like, is there a theory that you have when
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Speaker 2: you're looking at these like or as you're up there.
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Speaker 1: The thing for me is I feel like with the
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Speaker 1: A B S. We've been better at the top of
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Speaker 1: the zone. The bottom part of the zone's top.
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Speaker 2: I feel like that there is like there is no top.
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Speaker 2: Like at the top is just it's a ball all
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Speaker 2: the time, you know, But at the bottom, like you said,
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Speaker 2: it just clips it.
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Speaker 1: Like sometimes I go back to the like the abs
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Speaker 1: if I don't challenge, like a pitch up called strike
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Speaker 1: and I go back and look at it, and I'm like, man,
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Speaker 1: that was.
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Speaker 3: Like nowhere near yeah, like a ball up.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that far up.
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Speaker 3: So all right, next pitch, you got one, right, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to go off.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're no, let's play it again. I worked
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Speaker 1: for me last time. Oh my gosh, I don't get
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Speaker 1: to do this in the game.
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Speaker 3: This is.
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Speaker 1: God that looks out done that What do you think? No, No,
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Speaker 1: you can't ask me. I know what it is. You
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Speaker 1: already know.
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Speaker 3: No, I have no idea, but I just can tell.
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Speaker 1: I feel like he caught that. No, that's a ball
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Speaker 1: out stop.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a strike.
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Speaker 1: Yes, come on, That's why I don't challenge. See, I
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Speaker 1: knew it had some of that arms side. I was
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Speaker 1: looking at it. I was like, no, that ran off.
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Speaker 3: We got one more. That's a strike. Let's see it.
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Speaker 1: You want to get him to play it three times?
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Speaker 2: That one you didn't, but it is okay, So Joe,
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Speaker 2: I think you should unban yourself.
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Speaker 3: Bro. You you did pretty good.
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Speaker 2: And really the statistics say it's like fifty to fifty anyway,
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Speaker 2: especially on a lot of these pitches.
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Speaker 1: So if you start challenging stuff over the heart, I'm
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Speaker 1: just glad we didn't have the umpire of you again. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that one was tough.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's switch gears a little bit. I want
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Speaker 2: to talk about your home run robberies. Bro, you had
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Speaker 2: that game rob those homers. What was going through your
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Speaker 2: mind as you were the first one? Should I say yeah,
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Speaker 2: because I remember being in the outfield is like you
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Speaker 2: hardly ever get a chance to rob a homer, and
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Speaker 2: you know, so you got to take advantage of that
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Speaker 2: situation because the chances you have in another one are
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Speaker 2: very slim.
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Speaker 1: So here you go. Yeah. So, I mean, Kyle really
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Speaker 1: hit this ball. I mean this was a this was
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Speaker 1: a line shot.
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Speaker 3: And two.
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Speaker 1: Like the thing that I love too is we were
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Speaker 1: positioned a little deeper, like throughout the entirety of this game.
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Speaker 1: Normly we're playing a tid bet Shalloh, but we played
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Speaker 1: you know, they have a bunch of hoole side lefties
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Speaker 1: that really can hit the ball with seattle, you know that.
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Speaker 1: But so I was back on this ball Eddy, and
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Speaker 1: then when he hit it, I just my first step
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Speaker 1: was great. I got back to the wall and really
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Speaker 1: I was just like, it's just time to get up,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It had a little bit
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Speaker 1: of top spin too. Yeah, it helped me a little
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Speaker 1: bit at the end. But yeah, just getting back and
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Speaker 1: just just going for it, trying to be aggressive.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So then let's go to the second one. Naylor
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Speaker 2: hit this one.
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Speaker 1: This was crazy. It was just like I was in
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Speaker 1: the same spot.
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Speaker 3: Little more hair under it though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a little more hang time on it.
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Speaker 2: What was that celebration? I was fired up, man, I was, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was. I was having body experience, you know at
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Speaker 2: this point.
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Speaker 3: I mean, because yeah, to do two in a in
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Speaker 3: a game like crazy.
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Speaker 1: Mike was looking at me like what am I watching
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Speaker 1: right now? You know what I mean? You get somebody
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Speaker 1: like that to look over there, you know, you got
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Speaker 1: it going on. So so then then you get another one. Bro,
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Speaker 1: but this one was crazy though. This one was crazy.
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Speaker 1: This one was wild. So I'm over here, I'm basically
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Speaker 1: I'm still playing back, so I'm playing deep, so really
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Speaker 1: I'm just running straight across point. But when I get
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Speaker 1: over there, this ball is like right in front of
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Speaker 1: the foul pole. So I'm like looking at the foul
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Speaker 1: pole and I'm like, just focus on the ball, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, don't don't worry about the foul pole.
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Speaker 1: And it sneaks back fair. I'm right there, and then
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Speaker 1: I just kind of like lean over and and bring
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Speaker 1: it back.
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Speaker 3: And were you scared to hurt yourself or you're like nah?
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Speaker 1: I was like, dude, I'm going to get it. We're
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Speaker 1: in a one to zero ball game. You know. We
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Speaker 1: got our closer on the mound. It's the ninth inning.
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Speaker 1: It's like, I'm going with it. And then obviously we
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Speaker 1: got the celebration right there at the end with the
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Speaker 1: fans in the stand.
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Speaker 3: You got a picture right there right The picture was.
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Speaker 1: Dope, legendary. Did you legendary? Stuff's crazy?
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Speaker 3: Did you did you need to sign that and then
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Speaker 3: hang it up in your house? Bro?
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Speaker 1: We actually so my fiance Jasman just got it. Framed.
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Speaker 1: We just blew it up, had it printed out. So
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Speaker 1: the lady that took it, she gave us multiple photos.
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Speaker 1: She was really cool about it, and we had her
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Speaker 1: on the field and did like a whole thing with it.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, we blew it up. And they actually I
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Speaker 1: think they said that they have like a local bar
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Speaker 1: that they own. And so she.
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Speaker 2: Brought to the field, had me sign it for and
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Speaker 2: I wrote a little note on there and everything, and
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Speaker 2: your mom was there too.
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Speaker 1: She was, yeah, so mom came in town, so we
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Speaker 1: gotta gotta do.
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Speaker 3: What does she say?
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Speaker 1: She was, without words, just fired up, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. And she's she's a very professional woman, but
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Speaker 1: to see her kind of get fired up, and then
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Speaker 1: Tory Tory.
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Speaker 2: Tory said that was one of the best defensive games
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Speaker 2: he had seen, and coming from him, I mean, you
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Speaker 2: got Trout looking at you like what's going on?
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Speaker 3: You got Toy looking at you like what's going on.
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Speaker 1: They were watching the post game just like watching me
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Speaker 1: talk on there, just in awe. And I was like, no, stop.
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Speaker 1: When these two are watching you and they're trying to
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Speaker 1: act like they've never seen something before, it's it's kind
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Speaker 1: of a crazy moment.
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Speaker 3: Has Tory helped you a lot in the outfield defensively.
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Speaker 1: Ton a time? Just really like when I first got up,
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Speaker 1: I struggled going back on the ball. So it's kind
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Speaker 1: of funny how I'm that's kind of like a superpower
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Speaker 1: of mind is going back now because it used to
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Speaker 1: be something I struggled with. So really just the mindset
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Speaker 1: of just going back and just after it, you know,
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Speaker 1: and he was one of the best that doing it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's Tori so pretty awesome.
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Speaker 2: Then you had another, uh you robbed another Homer in
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Speaker 2: in Cleveland, Like that was.
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Speaker 1: Like last crazy, crazy crazy?
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Speaker 3: What are the odds now You're now you're the guy?
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Speaker 2: I mean, shoot, So I want to I want to
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Speaker 2: switch switch a little bit and talk about some of
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Speaker 2: the the greats that you've been around, like Tory Show, Hey,
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Speaker 2: obviously Mike, what of what of those guys? Kind of
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Speaker 2: what is Mike meant to you? And what does he
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Speaker 2: taught you as far as playing the outfield really.
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Speaker 3: The whole game in general? One hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: I've obviously I've kind of outside of Mike, I'm like
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Speaker 1: the second longest tenured Angel now, so I've been around
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Speaker 1: you know, Mike now for a while, but really just
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Speaker 1: taught me the level of consistency of just your work
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Speaker 1: and show Hey was unbelievable too when he was with us,
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Speaker 1: and just being very meticulous about a routine and committing
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Speaker 1: to something because you know, like you're going to go
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Speaker 1: out there and there's just gonna be days where it
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Speaker 1: doesn't go your way and you don't have it going on.
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be weeks where it's like that, and so
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Speaker 1: it's really easy to want to switch something up and
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Speaker 1: change something or try to reinvent the wheel. And these
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Speaker 1: guys are just like, hey, like we know what works,
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Speaker 1: like you know who you are as a player. Just
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Speaker 1: commit to that process. So over the last five and
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Speaker 1: six years of you know, really being in the big
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Speaker 1: leagues and being around Mike and these guys, they just
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Speaker 1: show you that level of consistency and what they do
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Speaker 1: in their routine.
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Speaker 2: So have you balanced, because at some point you do
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Speaker 2: have to switch some things up just to keep up
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Speaker 2: with what's going on. How have you balanced being consistent
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Speaker 2: but also switching some things up and adding to your
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Speaker 2: repertoire of whatever it is, whether it's hitting, defense or whatever.
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Speaker 3: Have you balanced that.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent. I think. I think one of the
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Speaker 1: big things for me is when I'm getting a little
13:49
Speaker 1: out of whack, I'm trying to do too much. And
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Speaker 1: that's normally I'm trying to either if I'm slumping, I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to swing my way out of it, or you know,
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Speaker 1: if I'm not feeling too great, it's I'm not seeing
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Speaker 1: the ball or I'm chasing. And one thing that's always
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Speaker 1: the constant is to just go back on defense. And
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Speaker 1: that's like always, that's kind of how I've reverted back to.
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Speaker 1: Kind of getting back going at the plate is like
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Speaker 1: if I can go out and make a big play,
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Speaker 1: or go out and focus on trying to get it out.
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Speaker 1: If I'm getting out, somebody else is getting out, and
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Speaker 1: kind of trying to have that mindset. A lot of
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Speaker 1: times things will click back, but really just shorten up
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Speaker 1: and do what the game's asking for a lot of times,
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Speaker 1: he's getting me back.
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Speaker 3: Just play the game, not worry about all the extra things.
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Speaker 1: I don't be the hero. Just play it, you know,
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Speaker 1: and then you'll get back into that groove.
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Speaker 3: And then eventually we'll be the hero.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I do want to talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit about Show, Hey, and pitching. He's going crazy right now,
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Speaker 2: especially but in general, you saw him pitching all the time.
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Speaker 3: What you got on in pitching, bro.
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Speaker 1: The thing about Show that you know gets me going
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Speaker 1: is the fact that he'll come into spring training he'll say, hey,
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Speaker 1: like I want to do this, and most people come
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Speaker 1: in to spring training and they have all sorts of
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Speaker 1: ideas about what they're going to do, and he just
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Speaker 1: does it. It's like he came in. It's I remember
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Speaker 1: when he started messing around with the sweeper for the
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Speaker 1: first time a couple of years ago, and we were like,
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Speaker 1: it's like one of the best sweepers in the game,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's just it's crazy to see.
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Speaker 1: But really just his tenacity and focus when it comes
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Speaker 1: to getting it done and trying to find whatever he's
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Speaker 1: trying to do. It's like he finds a way to
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Speaker 1: get it done all the time. So he's been just
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Speaker 1: a force.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of sometimes not really fair, just because you know,
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Speaker 2: people say you can do whatever you put your mind to, right,
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Speaker 2: and it's it's true in a lot of situations, but
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Speaker 2: like in the big leagues, it's not. It's not really like,
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Speaker 2: you can't just say, oh, I'm going to throw a
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Speaker 2: sweeper and then be the best in league throws so.
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Speaker 1: One time in a bullpen and come out and then
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Speaker 1: go you.
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Speaker 2: Know, you know what I'm saying, Like that doesn't really
15:46
Speaker 2: work that way, and for him it does. I think
15:50
Speaker 2: he his rules to life are a little different than
15:54
Speaker 2: the rest of us, which is cool.
15:55
Speaker 3: I'm glad he's on our team. So but you had
16:00
Speaker 3: your chance, you had him.
16:02
Speaker 2: Sorry about it, but I do want to talk about
16:03
Speaker 2: and then him having obviously two of the best in
16:06
Speaker 2: the game. As far as Show and Trout, how did
16:09
Speaker 2: it go show Hay than Trout or Trout didn Show?
16:11
Speaker 3: Hey.
16:11
Speaker 1: I think for the most part it was a Show
16:13
Speaker 1: hate leading off and then Trout was second.
16:15
Speaker 2: How was that When you're in the lineup and you
16:18
Speaker 2: see Show hate Trout.
16:20
Speaker 1: Oh, well, I'll tell you right now. It's great. You
16:22
Speaker 1: know you're gonna get something good to head because those
16:23
Speaker 1: two dudes are going to wear them out, you know
16:25
Speaker 1: what I mean. You're hanging out behind that and you're like,
16:27
Speaker 1: I'm in good shape. But I mean it's it's special.
16:30
Speaker 1: And the crazy thing is about like Show too was
16:32
Speaker 1: like think about that he pitched, he would lead off
16:37
Speaker 1: right and work the count just like you would if
16:41
Speaker 1: you were any other position player, and then go out
16:44
Speaker 1: and throw seven innings with three hits and no runs.
16:48
Speaker 1: And we expected it. Yeah, I had to like wake myself.
16:52
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, like this is ridiculous. Sitting on the
16:54
Speaker 1: bench expecting a guy to go and do this in
16:56
Speaker 1: a major league game is insane.
16:57
Speaker 2: That's what I see now, is like, you know, if
17:02
Speaker 2: he doesn't get a hit or it doesn't maybe have
17:04
Speaker 2: a couple of bad games, it's like, well, what's wrong
17:07
Speaker 2: with show Hey? Well, I mean he did just go
17:09
Speaker 2: seven innings, you know, two hits, he does have a
17:12
Speaker 2: point seven e ra A. You know, you forget like
17:15
Speaker 2: all the other ways that he really affects the game.
17:18
Speaker 2: And so would you how would you rank that as
17:20
Speaker 2: far as like duos show Hey and Trout.
17:24
Speaker 3: I would say, for me, that's got to be like.
17:28
Speaker 2: I would say, probably top top three or four duos ever,
17:33
Speaker 2: you know, like back to back those two there there
17:37
Speaker 2: can't be that many more duos that are better than
17:42
Speaker 2: show Hey and Trout.
17:44
Speaker 1: Dude, it was it was silly like sitting back and
17:46
Speaker 1: watching it and then you get like it. For me,
17:47
Speaker 1: I was I got used to being a part of him,
17:50
Speaker 1: just like being out there and it's like this is
17:52
Speaker 1: wild And there was a time where pull Holes was
17:54
Speaker 1: out there. Oh yeah, you know too, you know what
17:56
Speaker 1: I mean? For us, it was just just having that
17:58
Speaker 1: that's about the starts it is. I mean, that's that's
18:01
Speaker 1: big time, you know what I mean, that's big time
18:03
Speaker 1: for sure.
18:04
Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty three, I know you probably remember
18:07
Speaker 2: watching the WBC and you saw show Hey and the
18:10
Speaker 2: mic showdown right this epic? Did you was there like
18:14
Speaker 2: a group chat or something going on when when that happened, Well.
18:17
Speaker 1: I think nobody knew what to say. I think that's
18:19
Speaker 1: kind of what the what the vibe was because we
18:22
Speaker 1: were all sitting watching the game and it was like, well,
18:24
Speaker 1: we can't say what a punch out, you know what
18:26
Speaker 1: I mean, because it's like, because it's Mike, are we
18:28
Speaker 1: going to get you know, we could get our bags packed,
18:31
Speaker 1: They're going to send us out of here. You know,
18:32
Speaker 1: we don't we don't want to talk about it, but
18:34
Speaker 1: I mean you want to talk about two of the
18:36
Speaker 1: best players that were just going like like a clash
18:38
Speaker 1: of titans. I mean, it was pretty unreal.
18:40
Speaker 3: Was it weird when they got back to camp?
18:43
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't think so.
18:44
Speaker 3: Everybody was cool.
18:45
Speaker 1: Everybody was cool and it was just talked about it
18:47
Speaker 1: all for sure. But it was good for baseball. Yeah,
18:49
Speaker 1: like that's what everybody got out of it was just
18:51
Speaker 1: the experience of seeing that. You're not going to see
18:54
Speaker 1: that every day, you know what I mean, like Mike
18:56
Speaker 1: wearing USA, you know, show hey with Japan like one
18:59
Speaker 1: on one, like that's that's what everybody came to see.
19:01
Speaker 3: So that was that was really amazing.
19:04
Speaker 2: And then when you know, being there, you kind of
19:07
Speaker 2: take it for granted because you don't even really pay
19:09
Speaker 2: attention to that. You're just playing the game, right obviously
19:12
Speaker 2: you know that the teammates, but you're not really paying
19:14
Speaker 2: attention to the to the.
19:16
Speaker 3: Whole thing, you know, like what just happened?
19:19
Speaker 2: You know, because things like that don't ever really happen,
19:22
Speaker 2: and so forth to happen and and whatnot.
19:25
Speaker 3: Looking back on it, like dang, that was kind of.
19:28
Speaker 1: You don't recognize them. You're in it, you're competing in it,
19:30
Speaker 1: and then you look back and go, wow, that the
19:31
Speaker 1: moment was huge.
19:32
Speaker 3: That was huge. Yeah, it was huge. Like you mentioned earlier,
19:35
Speaker 3: you have the second most time on the Angels. Is
19:37
Speaker 3: that weird for you?
19:39
Speaker 1: Really weird? Actually, you know it's it's.
19:42
Speaker 3: Because you have a that's a that's a different responsibility.
19:44
Speaker 2: You know, you're still like growing, ascending in the game yourself, right,
19:48
Speaker 2: and so now you're kind.
19:50
Speaker 3: Of responsible for some other people and right, and how
19:53
Speaker 3: how have you balance that? Well?
19:54
Speaker 1: It's kind of an interesting thing because you know, when
19:56
Speaker 1: I came up to the big leagues, it was you know,
20:00
Speaker 1: there were guys facilitating kind of like what I was
20:02
Speaker 1: going to do and kind of what my role is
20:05
Speaker 1: as a younger player. And it's almost like, now that's
20:08
Speaker 1: kind of my goal is to help facilitate what that
20:10
Speaker 1: is for some of the younger guys and guys that
20:12
Speaker 1: are fresh that are coming out to the big leagues
20:14
Speaker 1: for the first time. So I embrace it.
20:17
Speaker 3: You know.
20:17
Speaker 1: My experience when I got caught up was different because
20:19
Speaker 1: it was during COVID. Yeah, so I got caught up
20:21
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, so there was a lot of I
20:23
Speaker 1: want to say, like kind of like team separation just
20:26
Speaker 1: because of that time and the aura of it. But
20:29
Speaker 1: really just my goal is I just want to be
20:31
Speaker 1: a guy that anybody can come up to, just talk
20:35
Speaker 1: about anything, just be there, reaching out to everybody, wanting
20:39
Speaker 1: to kind of create that level of camaraderie within the
20:42
Speaker 1: young guys. If we can get guys to come up
20:45
Speaker 1: and you know this, but if we get guys come
20:46
Speaker 1: up from Triple A and feel like they're still in
20:48
Speaker 1: Triple A and that comfort level, that's just the better
20:52
Speaker 1: they're going to play.
20:53
Speaker 3: You know.
20:53
Speaker 1: We don't want anybody to make the moment bigger than
20:55
Speaker 1: what it has to be. It's going to be a
20:57
Speaker 1: big moment, you know, and it's already big, but we
21:00
Speaker 1: want them to kind of just be comfortable in who
21:01
Speaker 1: they are. And I think that that's kind of where
21:04
Speaker 1: my role is is facilitating that for the guys.
21:06
Speaker 2: How do you balance you know, teaching and showing the
21:09
Speaker 2: young guys certain things, but you're also kind of learning
21:13
Speaker 2: certain things yourself.
21:15
Speaker 1: I think just kind of ask the questions, you know,
21:17
Speaker 1: like if I'm seeing something, just like talk through something
21:19
Speaker 1: with somebody, I might get something out of it, you know,
21:22
Speaker 1: by talking through it, if somebody's going through something, or
21:24
Speaker 1: if I see something. But like I said, I'm learning
21:28
Speaker 1: from Mike. Mike's learning from other guys too, from different things,
21:32
Speaker 1: and we kind of just use each other to kind
21:34
Speaker 1: of just you know, pick each other's brains and kind
21:36
Speaker 1: of you know, get some info when we can. And really, though,
21:41
Speaker 1: the guys have been really good about it, Like we
21:43
Speaker 1: really had like a solid group as far as guys working,
21:46
Speaker 1: trying to figure things out, trying to learn things, you know,
21:50
Speaker 1: putting new things into play right away. We obviously have
21:55
Speaker 1: some work to do, but we collectively though like Mike's
21:59
Speaker 1: done a great job, and you know, I kind of
22:01
Speaker 1: look to kind of back that up.
22:03
Speaker 3: What does Mike really mean to you guys?
22:05
Speaker 2: You know, I mean obviously he's you know, the face
22:08
Speaker 2: of the Angels, right, I mean, one of the best
22:10
Speaker 2: players to ever play.
22:11
Speaker 3: So what is he What does he really mean to
22:13
Speaker 3: you guys in that clubhouse?
22:14
Speaker 1: I think for a guy like him, he's a very
22:18
Speaker 1: you know, follow my lead, watch as I go, and
22:21
Speaker 1: you know it's important kind of for me to guide
22:23
Speaker 1: that and say, hey, like if you want to know
22:25
Speaker 1: what it takes, you know, you need to watch this guy.
22:28
Speaker 1: You know, you need to come to the cage and
22:29
Speaker 1: watch him do his early work, you know, watch him
22:32
Speaker 1: do his work on the field and just kind of
22:34
Speaker 1: be a fly on the wall to kind of see
22:36
Speaker 1: what it takes. And the same thing when Show was
22:38
Speaker 1: here too, is like these guys were just they did
22:41
Speaker 1: the same thing at the same time every day, you know,
22:44
Speaker 1: and they were When you commit to something, you commit
22:46
Speaker 1: to a process and a routine, you find yourself in
22:50
Speaker 1: a space where you can really you know, you're going
22:53
Speaker 1: to find that level of consistency. And so, you know,
22:56
Speaker 1: we don't want guys coming in the cage and one
22:57
Speaker 1: day they got a toe tap, next day they had
22:59
Speaker 1: a leg kick. Yeah, you know, next day they're you know,
23:02
Speaker 1: switching bats. We want to show them, hey, this guy
23:04
Speaker 1: has you know, from Milville, New Jersey, swung the same
23:06
Speaker 1: bats since he was sixteen years old. It's had the
23:09
Speaker 1: same swing since he was you know, the same drill routine.
23:13
Speaker 1: What works works, you are who you are, and so
23:15
Speaker 1: we want to make sure that we, you know, promote
23:18
Speaker 1: that and that's what we get.
23:19
Speaker 2: And it's hard, it's hard when you're especially when you're
23:21
Speaker 2: going through it, to just stick with the same thing
23:24
Speaker 2: over and over again, because sometimes that becomes like the
23:26
Speaker 2: definition of insanity, right, and it's a good thing or
23:30
Speaker 2: a bad thing, right, because at some point when it's
23:32
Speaker 2: not working, you would think like, Okay, you can't keep
23:35
Speaker 2: doing the same thing because it's not working. But also,
23:39
Speaker 2: on the flip side, you need to keep doing the
23:41
Speaker 2: same thing because at some point it's going to work.
23:44
Speaker 2: So it's like that balance of figuring out what works
23:47
Speaker 2: and then just literally sticking to it no matter what
23:51
Speaker 2: you're going through.
23:51
Speaker 3: All right, So I want to go back to young Joe.
23:55
Speaker 3: Where are you from, bro?
23:56
Speaker 1: I'm originally from Louova, Kentucky. Yeah. So you.
24:02
Speaker 3: And Smitty?
24:04
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, me and Smitty.
24:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a there's an age difference.
24:07
Speaker 2: So you guys didn't really didn't know each other or
24:09
Speaker 2: grew up playing against each other.
24:10
Speaker 1: No, we didn't, but we were both. I was committed
24:12
Speaker 1: to Louisville, so I would go.
24:13
Speaker 3: And watch games all the time. So are you about
24:15
Speaker 3: the same age as Rushing? How old are you?
24:18
Speaker 1: I'm a couple of years older, I think, or maybe
24:20
Speaker 1: a year or two older than Russian.
24:21
Speaker 3: Because I went to school with him.
24:24
Speaker 1: Yes, I think I would have played with him for
24:26
Speaker 1: probably a year a year at louis or so.
24:28
Speaker 3: So from Louisville. You know, my family is from Louisville.
24:31
Speaker 2: My my my whole dad's side of the family is
24:34
Speaker 2: from Louisville. I used to go, I mean I still do,
24:37
Speaker 2: but shively, that's where my my grandma. Yeah, she used
24:42
Speaker 2: to live there. Yeah, she used to live there. I
24:44
Speaker 2: used to bowl everywhere. Executive Bowl was like a place
24:47
Speaker 2: I used to go to all the time. No, it's gone,
24:50
Speaker 2: you know, but yeah, man, little that's crazy. What's crazy
24:55
Speaker 2: is I used to be scared when I go. I
24:57
Speaker 2: went to Louisville because my family is older, and so
25:01
Speaker 2: they would watch First forty eight and like the whole
25:03
Speaker 2: season of the First forty eight it took place in Louisville, Kentucky.
25:07
Speaker 2: So I was, so, you grew up played ball in Louisville.
25:12
Speaker 3: What what? What sports did you play? So?
25:14
Speaker 1: When I was younger, I had an older sister who
25:16
Speaker 1: was a better athlete than me by far growing up,
25:19
Speaker 1: so I basically just followed in her footsteps. If it was,
25:21
Speaker 1: you know, time for swimming, we swam.
25:23
Speaker 3: You know.
25:23
Speaker 1: I played a little bit of soccer, basketball, just everything
25:26
Speaker 1: when I was younger, but really fell into baseball hard
25:28
Speaker 1: when I was probably eight or nine and just stuck
25:31
Speaker 1: all the way through.
25:32
Speaker 3: So you stopped playing soccer, basketball and everything else.
25:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I was about ten years old, I stopped
25:37
Speaker 1: and it was just baseball, just basebly.
25:40
Speaker 3: Full time baseball through high school and that was it.
25:43
Speaker 3: And used used to pitch, used to pitch.
25:45
Speaker 1: I was a primary pitcher, so I was a pitcher
25:47
Speaker 1: before I was a hitter. So Angels actually scouted me
25:50
Speaker 1: as a pitcher.
25:51
Speaker 3: Okay, so that how did that? That did that kind
25:53
Speaker 3: of happen.
25:54
Speaker 1: I was just wanted. I was had a good arm,
25:56
Speaker 1: you know, it was one of those guys that could
25:57
Speaker 1: throw it, you know, throw it hard, and they were like, oh,
26:00
Speaker 1: we want to you know, we want to take a look.
26:02
Speaker 1: But I loved hitting, you know, I loved hitting, and
26:04
Speaker 1: you know, I was playing center field at the time
26:06
Speaker 1: and loved it, and so.
26:08
Speaker 3: I just didn't want to pitch it all.
26:10
Speaker 1: No, I had that itch to pitch, you know what
26:12
Speaker 1: I mean. I wanted it. You know, every once in
26:14
Speaker 1: a while, I was like, hey, I wan't want to
26:15
Speaker 1: get back on the mound. But I stopped after my
26:17
Speaker 1: junior year of high school pitching. So I pitched all
26:20
Speaker 1: the way through.
26:21
Speaker 3: You started, or you you came in and closed, or
26:24
Speaker 3: you just did whatever.
26:25
Speaker 1: A little bit of both. So I would start and
26:27
Speaker 1: then if a couple of days had gone by and
26:29
Speaker 1: I felt good, I'd come in for relief. But man, like,
26:33
Speaker 1: my I remember my arm was killing me, just like
26:35
Speaker 1: I had that like that Terry's miner back here like
26:38
Speaker 1: behind the shoulder, and I was like, man like, this
26:40
Speaker 1: is this is tough. At the time hitting, I was
26:43
Speaker 1: taking like leaps and bounds you know, at the plate
26:45
Speaker 1: and really really wanted to continue, you know, to swing it.
26:48
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I miss it. Though sometimes I'm.
26:51
Speaker 3: Like, pitching, do you like to get back on there
26:53
Speaker 3: on the mound at all? No?
26:55
Speaker 1: I don't want somebody to get fired, you know.
26:57
Speaker 3: Okay, so you got drafted? Was all this to you?
27:00
Speaker 2: Like, because especially so for me, I'm from Nashville and
27:04
Speaker 2: didn't do a whole lot of traveling. And when I
27:08
Speaker 2: first got drafted, I went and that was my first
27:10
Speaker 2: time really being around like people speaking Spanish, you know,
27:14
Speaker 2: Dominicans and whatnot, and so it was a super cool
27:18
Speaker 2: but scary experience because I didn't really fit in there.
27:22
Speaker 2: I didn't really know, I didn't really have friends or anything.
27:25
Speaker 2: So how was that for you?
27:27
Speaker 1: I would definitely say that when I got to Arizona
27:29
Speaker 1: in the in the Arizona League was definitely a wake
27:31
Speaker 1: up call for sure. That was definitely. The language barrier
27:35
Speaker 1: was a lot.
27:36
Speaker 3: In fact, pig Latin didn't work.
27:38
Speaker 1: Pig Latin didn't work. It was me talking to myself
27:40
Speaker 1: at that point in the marriage, you know. But as
27:43
Speaker 1: I moved up and got into low A and high
27:46
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, there was a lot of you know,
27:48
Speaker 1: there was more fifty to fifty and then you know,
27:50
Speaker 1: by that time, the I guess the Spanish speakers were
27:54
Speaker 1: a little bit more fluent, you know, in English, and
27:56
Speaker 1: so it was a little better, easier to communicate. But
27:58
Speaker 1: it taught me that that's just what team is, you
28:00
Speaker 1: know what I mean that you got to find a
28:02
Speaker 1: way to communicate with your team, figure out what works
28:05
Speaker 1: for you. It definitely found my balance. But at first
28:09
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, and I make a mistake, you
28:10
Speaker 1: know what I mean, the wrong clubhouse, you know.
28:13
Speaker 2: So okay, So then debut and during COVID was that
28:17
Speaker 2: tough for you?
28:17
Speaker 1: Or?
28:18
Speaker 2: I mean obviously you know, you didn't have fans or
28:20
Speaker 2: anything and whatnot, So how was that for you?
28:23
Speaker 1: It was tough? Man, I'm not gonna lie because we
28:25
Speaker 1: played there were no official games. My first official game
28:29
Speaker 1: was in the big leagues, you know, because we had
28:31
Speaker 1: the alternate site going on in twenty twenty. So it
28:35
Speaker 1: was basically just inner squads. We were facing like old
28:38
Speaker 1: teammates from last year, and then we had the spit
28:41
Speaker 1: tasts and guys that didn't pass they had to go home.
28:44
Speaker 1: And so there were days where we had coaches play
28:47
Speaker 1: in the field oh wow, during intersquad games and we
28:50
Speaker 1: were trying to take them serious. And it was like
28:52
Speaker 1: I got my first base coach at shortstop, yeah, you
28:54
Speaker 1: know what I mean, and the pitching coaches, the umpire,
28:57
Speaker 1: that type of situation. And then in August I got
29:01
Speaker 1: called up, so I was flew into Seattle and played
29:05
Speaker 1: and that was just that was a wake up call
29:07
Speaker 1: for sure. It was like, wow, you know what I mean,
29:09
Speaker 1: I'm in the big leagues and running out there. We
29:11
Speaker 1: got Albert Poohols at first and running out there with
29:14
Speaker 1: Mike and center. I mean, it was like and this
29:17
Speaker 1: is your first game.
29:17
Speaker 3: Of the year, you know what I mean.
29:18
Speaker 1: So but it was a big Leagues and like, you know,
29:22
Speaker 1: we soaked up the experience. You know, I was glad
29:24
Speaker 1: that it was a sixty game sprint for sure, absolutely,
29:26
Speaker 1: but just glad to be out there and to have
29:29
Speaker 1: been a part of it, for sure.
29:30
Speaker 3: What was it like when you played your first game
29:33
Speaker 3: with fans, Well, it was actually the crazy thing was
29:39
Speaker 3: they eased are their way back in, right they did.
29:41
Speaker 1: It was It was kind of interesting because I debuted
29:45
Speaker 1: with fans in twenty one after I got called back
29:47
Speaker 1: up kind of halfway through the year, so I'd already
29:50
Speaker 1: kind of had the experience of like some fans being
29:52
Speaker 1: the stands, but not in the big leagues, right, And
29:54
Speaker 1: then I came back up in twenty one in Texas
29:58
Speaker 1: and we had fans, and you know, it was a
30:00
Speaker 1: good game that I came back up, and so it
30:02
Speaker 1: was a little interesting, but it was like a long
30:04
Speaker 1: time awaiting, you know, it felt like I actually debuted.
30:07
Speaker 3: In twenty one.
30:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember, I remember and not playing, and you
30:13
Speaker 2: remember they they made a bunch of signs and stuff
30:15
Speaker 2: they put in the outfield. I don't know if they
30:17
Speaker 2: did it with you guys, but for us, they made
30:19
Speaker 2: signs of like fake fans and uh.
30:22
Speaker 3: And I remember.
30:23
Speaker 2: As as the season went on, when they slowly started
30:26
Speaker 2: to add fans and I think it may have been
30:28
Speaker 2: during the playoffs.
30:29
Speaker 3: It was like a different adrenaline. It was a beautiful thing.
30:32
Speaker 2: Oh there's like twenty then seventy five percent, then full
30:36
Speaker 2: or whatever. So how was that for you? Like when
30:38
Speaker 2: fans started to come up, did you feel different.
30:41
Speaker 1: It's definitely an important factor, that little pap in your
30:43
Speaker 1: stuff that you get when you know that people out
30:45
Speaker 1: there and they're coming to see something. I think, you know,
30:48
Speaker 1: originally it was like I was in a simulation. Okay,
30:51
Speaker 1: just at the beginning, because it was like cardboard cutouts
30:54
Speaker 1: and then MLB the show music. It was like is
30:57
Speaker 1: this like is this real? Or is this me doing
30:59
Speaker 1: something in my backyard? You know, I didn't feel like
31:01
Speaker 1: the you know, the real thing and the obviously you're
31:02
Speaker 1: facing the competition, this is the real thing. But but yeah,
31:06
Speaker 1: once fans started to come back in, you started to
31:08
Speaker 1: feel it started to feel like how I envisioned the
31:11
Speaker 1: big leagues to be when I thought about what my
31:14
Speaker 1: debut would be and thought about playing every day and so.
31:16
Speaker 1: But getting through that though, that was I was a
31:19
Speaker 1: learning lesson I think for everybody, just just a crazy experience.
31:23
Speaker 1: But really, once twenty one hit, I was pretty excited
31:27
Speaker 1: to kind of get out there and get gone.
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Speaker 3: Now I do have a question, why do you wear
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Speaker 3: a glove under your glove?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy. So I didn't for a while,
31:38
Speaker 1: but it became a superstition because the game that I
31:40
Speaker 1: robbed three homers, I had a batting glove under glove. Yeah,
31:45
Speaker 1: but I don't know why, but I just happened to
31:47
Speaker 1: have one. And so now, but you put your glove on.
31:50
Speaker 2: So when you put your glove on, you knew that
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Speaker 2: there was a batting glove on, so you just disregarded it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think it was one of those things where
31:58
Speaker 1: I just didn't take it off and it just happened
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Speaker 1: to be on while I was out there. So I
32:02
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, like it seems to work.
32:05
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna gonna leave it on.
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Speaker 3: And now it's now.
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Speaker 1: Now it's now. It's like putting your socks on. Now
32:11
Speaker 1: you just see you gotta do it, you know.
32:13
Speaker 3: Now, Now, Joe Odell, you're strapping that glove on and then.
32:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm the badom glove. It's tight. I'm strapping that
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Speaker 1: thing on.
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Speaker 2: There's no there's something the same bed and glove you
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Speaker 2: hit with yes, So that's.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't come off. It doesn't come off.
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Speaker 3: So what happens if you like, when it's hot and
32:29
Speaker 3: it gets sweaty and everything.
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Speaker 1: Then you just it is what it is, you know.
32:32
Speaker 1: Then you just you just got to grind through it,
32:34
Speaker 1: you know, superstits.
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Speaker 2: Wow, there's no I mean, I wear a glove under
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Speaker 2: my glove when it's cold. But I feel like it's
32:43
Speaker 2: just a lot, you know, to wear the glove and
32:45
Speaker 2: it's hot and it gets sweaty, and then when he
32:48
Speaker 2: gets sweaty.
32:48
Speaker 1: How are you gonna hold onto the bat pine tar?
32:50
Speaker 1: I guess well I used the little the lizard skin.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I use the skin too, and with a little bit
32:56
Speaker 1: of a little bit of tar on there.
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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, but no, so.
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Speaker 2: Do you keep an extra pair close just in case
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Speaker 2: it you know, No, you're just rocking that glove no
33:05
Speaker 2: matter what.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, I got an extra pair and it gets
33:07
Speaker 1: if it gets bad, you know, if it's if I
33:09
Speaker 1: start slipping, because I'll let go of the bat and
33:11
Speaker 1: throw in the second dive, you know.
33:12
Speaker 3: So that's when that's when you got to switch close.
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Speaker 1: I got to switch it out. But I'm for sure
33:17
Speaker 1: putting that battle glove on and going out there. Actually,
33:19
Speaker 1: I've grown to like the field, you know, I love it.
33:22
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm really locked in there.
33:23
Speaker 3: So I feel like Jeter did it right. He had
33:25
Speaker 3: a bet and glove under his glab. I see, yeah, yeah,
33:27
Speaker 3: something to think about there it is.
33:29
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it, but I think it may be
33:30
Speaker 2: uh based something neat. Okay, So I want to before
33:35
Speaker 2: we close, I got a couple of things. I want
33:37
Speaker 2: to build a perfect all l A player. All right,
33:41
Speaker 2: So we got the power of the contact, the IQ,
33:44
Speaker 2: the field, the speed, those are the you know, the
33:47
Speaker 2: five things, and then the last but not least, the
33:50
Speaker 2: swag all l A players. So he's got to be
33:53
Speaker 2: on the Angels or the Dodgers.
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Speaker 3: Okay, All l A.
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Speaker 1: Okay, power.
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Speaker 3: Power. There's only two people. There's only two people.
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Speaker 1: You have to choose, right, showtime.
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Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, Okay, Contact.
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Speaker 1: Contact Damn. I'm trying to think who would contact contact?
34:24
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna choose one of
34:27
Speaker 1: my buddies. I'm gonna go Knowlan Shaunawll.
34:29
Speaker 3: Shaana Will.
34:30
Speaker 2: Okay, so we got show Hayes power with Shaana well's contact.
34:34
Speaker 1: What about IQ, I'm gonna go Mike Trout.
34:39
Speaker 3: Trout's IQ.
34:41
Speaker 2: Okay. I like how this is shaping up fielding, fielding. See,
34:49
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go you milk oh nice? Okay, okay, so
34:53
Speaker 2: fielding okay? What about speed.
34:57
Speaker 3: Speed?
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say a player, I've already said, I
35:03
Speaker 1: mean you still can you still can? I mean, show
35:09
Speaker 1: can move?
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Speaker 3: Man shows really fast.
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Speaker 1: He can move, and it's sneaky, sneaky. He's really fast,
35:14
Speaker 1: sneaky fast.
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Speaker 2: I may, I may would go Kim though, I signed
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Speaker 2: Kim he can move too.
35:19
Speaker 3: He's yeah.
35:20
Speaker 1: They both like, yeah, he just stritted out. You don't
35:24
Speaker 1: recognize how fast he's going. Let's go Kim though, Kim.
35:27
Speaker 1: I saw him yesterday and he was scooting a little bit.
35:29
Speaker 3: Yeah he runs. And what about the swag? Now we
35:31
Speaker 3: got the swag?
35:32
Speaker 2: I mean you wear a glove under your gloves, so
35:34
Speaker 2: you got all types of I'm going And before we close,
35:41
Speaker 2: I do I do a lot of these shows on
35:44
Speaker 2: the road, and uh, I wanted to try some ain'tel
35:48
Speaker 2: stadium food. And we have a I think we have
35:52
Speaker 2: a Korean hot corn dog. I'm not a corn dog guy.
35:55
Speaker 2: You a corn dog guy?
35:56
Speaker 1: You know what? You know what I will? I can
35:59
Speaker 1: do it, But are corn doll? I never had it?
36:01
Speaker 1: I never had that. So we're gonna we're gonna test
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Speaker 1: it out and see what we got. Okay, are those
36:08
Speaker 1: fries on it? I have no idea. They didn't walk
36:11
Speaker 1: me through the menu.
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Speaker 2: Potatoes on the outside with the corn dog on the inside.
36:17
Speaker 2: I'm scared you need any condiments or anything? Are you
36:20
Speaker 2: just gonna raw?
36:21
Speaker 1: Do you know? I'm just going I'm not a big
36:22
Speaker 1: condiment guy. I don't I don't love when they loaded
36:25
Speaker 1: down with everything. I don't love it.
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Speaker 3: All right, all right? M hm hm hm. Whosigg than expected?
36:37
Speaker 1: That's flavor to it.
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Speaker 3: I wonder where the Korean park comes from though.
36:41
Speaker 1: To well, it's like a kind of like a full
36:43
Speaker 1: like bun, like a sandwich.
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Speaker 3: What do you want to rate it?
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Speaker 1: That's like a that's a pretty upscale corn dog. That's
36:50
Speaker 1: not like your normal concession corn do? I probably give
36:53
Speaker 1: it probably eight?
36:54
Speaker 3: I was gonna say like a seven or eight? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I like that, all right? Angel Stadium? All right, well
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Speaker 4: I'll give you guys. He gives you an eight, I'm
37:04
Speaker 4: giving you seven. But it's still good. So anyways, Joe, thanks.
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Speaker 3: For coming on. Man.
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Speaker 2: You know it's been it's been dope to kind of
37:12
Speaker 2: see where you started. To see there's just big long
37:16
Speaker 2: kid that didn't really know how to play baseball yet
37:20
Speaker 2: you could tell like he's super talented, but he's got
37:22
Speaker 2: to figure out how to how to get it all together.
37:25
Speaker 2: And I remember talking to Chili because Chili was it
37:28
Speaker 2: wasn't Chili Chili, Yeah, And he was like, man, Joe,
37:33
Speaker 2: he's the next guy. He's the next guy. And I'm like, Chili,
37:37
Speaker 2: what are you talking about. I don't even know who
37:38
Speaker 2: Joe is. And then here you come up, and I
37:43
Speaker 2: see where your swings started and where your game started.
37:46
Speaker 2: Really and now to see where you are now, it's
37:48
Speaker 2: super dope, bro, and uh and especially be a brother
37:51
Speaker 2: in the game as well. So keep on doing a yourthing, man,
37:54
Speaker 2: and we got a long time together.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Movie.
37:57
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on, yes, sir, And that's a rap.
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Speaker 2: Thank you guys, and we'll see you next time on
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Speaker 2: on Base