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FT at Red Sox camp: Manager Alex Cora, Brennan Bernardino · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: You know, like I always said, man, it's it's like families, right,
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  Speaker 1: like you don't always agree with the wife, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we stay together.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it together. And uh, you know, the reds
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  Speaker 2: caring in a good place. There we go.
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  Speaker 3: We're back with Red Sox manager Alex Kor and of
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  Speaker 3: course my fellow University of Miami alone. But Alex, great
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  Speaker 3: to see you, man, Yeah, exactly, but great to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, I I don't know about that, Eric, not
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  Speaker 2: right now. But we're not We're not that good right now. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So just it's like, yeah, we'll talk about so a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years are gonad.
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  Speaker 1: We needed to play deepens at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: season last year, But we'll tike it out with the talent,
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  Speaker 1: right what it was the talent.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll focus on the good stuff. Then how you
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  Speaker 3: lik in this camp where you've got the young talent,
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  Speaker 3: You've got the off season moves bolstering the roster. It's
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  Speaker 3: going to cause what we like to call good problems
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  Speaker 3: right where you got to figure out how to play everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so far, so good. I think we
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  Speaker 1: talk about it towards the end of the season last year.
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  Speaker 1: As an organization, we needed to execute in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: and they did. The front office did an amazing job.
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  Speaker 1: Crochet Walker, Chapman, Wilson. We're healthy too. With Lucky's back,
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  Speaker 1: slad in his back and then and the hade the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You know, bringing Alex it means a lot to the team.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about leadership, we talk about ballplayers, right, we
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  Speaker 1: talk about Boston and bro Like it's amazing. I knew
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  Speaker 1: the kid, you know, in twenty seventeen, just watch him
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  Speaker 1: from Afar. I think he did an amazing job. Put
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  Speaker 1: everything behind right. The mistake we made, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all pay the price, but it seems like he
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  Speaker 1: took it kind of like, Okay, guys, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: show the world that we can do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know we can do it. He put everything in
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  Speaker 2: the past, and that's the type of leader you need,
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  Speaker 2: and it's been amazing for us.
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  Speaker 4: I stand on this, and I'm glad you talked about it.
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  Speaker 4: I talk about leaders of men, your name is always
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  Speaker 4: first to come up. I always say, Alex aj Carlos
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  Speaker 4: some of the most brilliant baseball minds I've been around.
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  Speaker 4: So you talk about adding a leader like Alex you
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  Speaker 4: talk about chatman, you guys have a ton of young talent, right,
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  Speaker 4: and and and ability. How has that been the pairing right,
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  Speaker 4: because you need both, You need a little bit of youth,
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of better leadership. Now more how much
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  Speaker 4: more comfortable you feel when you put those together? And
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  Speaker 4: it is there since ergency going into this year because
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  Speaker 4: it seems like a lot of focus when I'm watching
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  Speaker 4: guys walk around, a lot of intent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In the first meeting, as you guys know, uh, the
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  Speaker 1: managers are with oh it's World Series or bus you know,
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  Speaker 1: Rod Rod, This one was more like, hey, we have
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  Speaker 1: to be precise, we have to be on point.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be correct, you know. And the margins
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  Speaker 2: of the game, right, like it really is gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be a're just gonna play defense. Everybody's gonna gonna hit.
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  Speaker 1: But the little things. You know, you have to catch
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  Speaker 1: the baseball, you have to run the base as well. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you have to guys move over later in games. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta throw strikes. What happens when you throw strikes? Right,
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  Speaker 1: So it's been it's been on point.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: I love teams and you guys know how it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, chemistry and all that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but it's cool when they stay in the clubhouse and
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  Speaker 1: they talk baseball. And then it's been a point of
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  Speaker 1: emphasis from from the veterans and then the young guys.
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  Speaker 2: Man, it's it's it's it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Mix of super talent and all school baseball. We we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the three guys. Campbell, Anthony and Marcello took
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  Speaker 1: him out to dinner early and we were talking and
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  Speaker 1: they were like, hey, Barry Bonds, you know, talk to
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  Speaker 1: me about him, you know, Robbie Alomar, you know what
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  Speaker 1: was about. Yeah, And I was like, what, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you really want to talk those guys, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: it was refreshing for me. And I've never seen the
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  Speaker 1: group so young that everybody gravitates towards them. You know,
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  Speaker 1: usually they follow the veterans. It's still here around you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously they probably have a few stories, right, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're young, and uh but uh, it's been refreshing to
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  Speaker 1: talk baseball again, to to concentrating the things that are
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  Speaker 1: going to make us better. And you know, the goal
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  Speaker 1: here is to play meaningful games in September and see
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  Speaker 1: what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I got too.
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  Speaker 4: I want to stay there because I got two for
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  Speaker 4: you one because a lot of guys, and it's a lot,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Marcelo, you got a lot of these big prospects.
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  Speaker 4: But I've talked to a few guys who come through here.
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  Speaker 4: They continue to say, gampbell Man. It's something about them.
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  Speaker 4: It's difference, it's physical, it's I even heard somebody say
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  Speaker 4: a little hunter Pinces. It's like maybe a little quirky,
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  Speaker 4: but the pop, this handspeed, the actions.
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  Speaker 2: Are all there. Who's the most ready of those there?
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  Speaker 4: I know they still have some times who I'm asking
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  Speaker 4: like is there guy or is there a guy that
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  Speaker 4: you like?
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  Speaker 2: He's close? I'd spring training. They all close, Yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: all close. They all close. They are in a different way.
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  Speaker 1: You see Marcelo and he's been the one that people
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  Speaker 1: kind of forget about it, right because he's been hurt.
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  Speaker 1: But you see him play. He loves playing defense, which
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  Speaker 1: I love, you know, like he talks playing defense. And
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  Speaker 1: then the swing is smooth. You know, he can ride
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  Speaker 1: the wall to left center. He's a great bas runner. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: right in New York, third Bowl got the second their
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  Speaker 1: bowl got the third side fly with score, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so he throw back.
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  Speaker 2: And then Campbell. Uh, it's just physical.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: He's twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: And I had Sander here from eighteen till twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, right, twenty two, and Xander is physical.
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  Speaker 2: He's a strong kid. And this guy, he's as physical
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  Speaker 2: as Hender Bogart. Yeah, the swing guy. You know one
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  Speaker 2: hunter pins. Whatever you're doing is different.
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  Speaker 1: It's different. But he drives the ball. He's a good athlete.
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  Speaker 1: He can play in the outfit. He can play second
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  Speaker 1: and then Roman. That that's you know, he's twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: but he acts like you know, the way he he acts,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a thirty year old man. The conversations, yes, sir, no, sir,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, you're welcome, you know, very polite.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: There they hit a homer in Jupiter one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fourteen off the bat right, and everybody was like wow.
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  Speaker 1: Later in the game in field back we are by
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  Speaker 1: six man. A third listened to outs, pitched down his
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  Speaker 1: son and hit a ground ball. Boom, goes to the dougout.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I'll do that all day, all day. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, get it. There he gets that's all
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  Speaker 1: we need, you know, like probably another kid was going
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  Speaker 1: to try to impress me, let me hit another one
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen. He's like, no, he's down in
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  Speaker 1: son grundball. Get my mistake. So they they're very much
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  Speaker 1: sure they want to win. They've been following the right
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  Speaker 1: guys too.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The first first day, Alex was in in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: for lunch in the calf they spend one hour together
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  Speaker 1: just talking. You know, they've been great so far. And
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  Speaker 5: who you're gonna call up first, But who sent the
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  Speaker 5: first text when you signed Alex Bregman, Because I know
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  Speaker 5: there was a bunch of texts flying around and and
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  Speaker 5: and Braggy just was on here and said his other choice.
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  Speaker 5: He really thought he was going to Detroit. So did
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  Speaker 5: send you a hawk text? You coming in Hawking? Just
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  Speaker 5: taking that man?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't take that man Brouh Actually, uh so that
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  Speaker 1: that Wednesday, a lot of things change. It having very fast.
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  Speaker 1: I was having dinner with with some of the players,
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  Speaker 1: and I was getting calls from ownership and from from
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  Speaker 1: the front office. I got home at nine, went to
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  Speaker 1: bed at nine point thirty and at ten twenty something.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter Camilla, she just turned twenty two. She graduates
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  Speaker 1: from BC in May. She droves to Let's freaking go,
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  Speaker 1: and I swear to god, I was like, I hope
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  Speaker 1: this Texas for me. And when I look, I have
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  Speaker 1: ten Miss calls Breslow, mister Henry Sam Kennedy, Alex Bregman,
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  Speaker 1: Alex Bregman, Alex Bregman, John Henry Breslow Again. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, and I look and he calls me
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  Speaker 1: right away, Alex does and he's like, I signed with
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  Speaker 1: the freaking Red Sox. I'm like, what, because I gave up,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And he's like, yeah, I signed with the
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  Speaker 1: freaking Red Sox. And he showed me knocks with the
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  Speaker 1: with the hat of the Red Sox and he tells
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  Speaker 1: me that Reagan is going to go to Harvard. And
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  Speaker 1: you guys played this well. You guys did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: But happy for the organization. I know the kid, I
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  Speaker 1: know the player, you know. Like I told Bress the
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  Speaker 1: other day, I said, man, you know three years right.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, man, this guy has changed his you know,
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  Speaker 1: like very happy.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The other Corps was a little bit upset. Yeah, Joey
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  Speaker 2: Cora was a little.
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  Speaker 4: Bit We heard in Tiger's camp we already got to school. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they were a little tired about that.
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  Speaker 2: He's a good player. He's a good player, and they're
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  Speaker 2: they're in a good place.
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  Speaker 1: They have a good team. We're playing them today. What
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  Speaker 1: they did last year was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They probably have the best pitcher in baseball and they
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  Speaker 1: will pitch. So you know, yeah, of course everybody was
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  Speaker 1: behind trying to get Alex. You know, it just happened
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  Speaker 1: that we were lucky.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I think him and Scott did animation job throughout the
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  Speaker 1: the off season, but I truly believe he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: come here. You know, It's just I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 1: There's something about that kid, that Fameway Park and our
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  Speaker 1: fan base, the way they they they go, right, it seems.
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  Speaker 4: Like perfect right, Absolutely, he he gets pushed behind that
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  Speaker 4: type of atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: I think that he takes it.
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  Speaker 1: He makes whatever, right, Like I mean, the number two
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  Speaker 1: because he was the second pig, I used that right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean even today, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Like I want to play against Tigers, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: bro Chill Man, Chill, you gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a he's like a pit bull. He's always
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  Speaker 5: just looking. He's just going around looking at him. So
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  Speaker 5: he wants to bite somebody Like he's just like, we
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  Speaker 5: don't all have to we want to bite anybody. Did
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  Speaker 5: you did you when you went out to eat with
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  Speaker 5: the players that night? Did you tell him the calls like,
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  Speaker 5: hey guys, there might be a little something, might be
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  Speaker 5: something cooking, or did it all to yourself?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, they knew, they knew.
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  Speaker 1: There were two big rumors out there, right Uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know one of them was a trade ride and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know the other one was Alex And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody in camp knew about the situation.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, at one point, I remember, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I was like, nah, you know, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know how I knew, Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They were they were behind him. So Joey tells me
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  Speaker 1: everything everything, My brother tells me everything, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: oh no, breg Man, it's gonna be too much, too
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  Speaker 1: many years, this and that. And then for two weeks
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  Speaker 1: he didn't mention Alex at all, and like, this frigging
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  Speaker 1: guy things that I don't know him, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: there's something going out here, so I stay quiet too.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, cool, we're gonna play that game.
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  Speaker 2: I'll stay quiet. I stay quiet.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, did you have a cigar with with mister Henry
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  Speaker 5: or no? Because you saw the famous picture.
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  Speaker 2: But that was that was that was show. That was
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  Speaker 2: show man like that was right. Yeah. I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing how people portrayed FSG Family Sports Group. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're successful, man, They're really good. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: won four in the last twenty years, you know, overseas,
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  Speaker 1: although last week was a little bit tough, you know
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  Speaker 1: with the Champions League and the Carbo Cup, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but it seems like they're gonna win the Premier League. Liverpool,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you guys should go over there. That's
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  Speaker 1: an phil is amazing, amazing. I went there in November.
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  Speaker 1: I got to see Manchester City against the Reds and
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  Speaker 1: Real Madrid on the Champions League Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Bro amazing show show. But he's successful man. And when
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  Speaker 2: I sell the picture, I was like, yeah, do it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like hell, yeah, you know this guy. He
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  Speaker 2: cares up with the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: They love family, they love the area, and they promise
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be aggressive and I think they came through.
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  Speaker 4: This may be something you may or may not know,
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  Speaker 4: because we're getting towards the end of spring. When I
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  Speaker 4: look at this scene, I talk about being able to
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  Speaker 4: tilt the field. You've got everything. You've got guys with pop,
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  Speaker 4: you've got guys with speed. What's this team's identity or
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  Speaker 4: is it, like we say, getting that old school mentality,
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  Speaker 4: doing what you need to do to manufacturer run right?
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  Speaker 2: You take the homers when you get him. But like,
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  Speaker 2: is it too early to say what the identity is?
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  Speaker 2: It is too early. We still have to pitch and
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  Speaker 2: play good difference. We have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I think you got the three areas that we talk
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  Speaker 1: about in the game. If you don't play defense, you
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  Speaker 1: don't pitch, you're gonna be in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: So we have to do that. I think the defense
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 1: But since Rafi came back last week or this this
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  Speaker 1: past weekend, Duran Raffi, Alex Cassas, it feels like we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna score right away, you know, or we're gonna put
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  Speaker 1: pressure on the pitcher right away. And three different at bats,
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  Speaker 1: four different bats, actually, No, Bregman and Casas are very similar.
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  Speaker 2: They don't.
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  Speaker 1: They don't Chase. We're gonna let the big boy do
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  Speaker 1: his thing. Go, I mean, go hit forty, bro, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go hit forty and then Jaren he's gonna do the thing. Amazing,
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  Speaker 1: amazing the way he plays a game.
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  Speaker 2: I watched the to day.
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  Speaker 4: He had to pop up and he's on second base.
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  Speaker 4: You actually tried like slow down, right, he can't do it.
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  Speaker 4: But as a manager when he says that tone, like
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  Speaker 4: how how much easy it is it for you to go, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: if he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: It, he's doing everybody has to do it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he last year was amazing, impacting baseball, playing every day,
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  Speaker 1: playing great defense. He went from a below average defender
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  Speaker 1: to one of the best in the big leagues, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that that means a lot, you know. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's another guy like Alex you know, looking for whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Butterfly goes like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you you know, like green blue ray. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah there, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, honestly, if I have to pick something
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna do, I do believe we're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna squore it. Yeah, we will score it. It's huge, too, huge, amazing.
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  Speaker 5: You're communicative better than most managers out there because your
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  Speaker 5: ability to you know, reach different players, you had different
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  Speaker 5: aspects of your career. You're bilingual. So much has been
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  Speaker 5: talked to about the conversation or lack of conversations with
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  Speaker 5: RAFFI can you give us insight as players what those
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  Speaker 5: conversations that you actually had leading up to these signings
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  Speaker 5: and in spring training with him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, you just gotta be be honest.
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  Speaker 1: I know people are criticizing the timing, but I mean
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you gotta be very careful too with what you say
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  Speaker 1: because then if it doesn't happen, how people are gonna
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: take it?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: And uh, talking to him, I got I got here
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: very fifth because he was here three weeks early, you know,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: and there was a reason I came here, and it
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: was to see the kids and obviously be around him.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: And I was very honest. You know, there's a lot
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: of things going on.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: This might happen, you know, but then obviously the conversations
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: about the position, all that stuff.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: You know, it has happened throughout throughout camp.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And you know that bench over there, camp that that
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: that's that real man, that that bench over there, they're
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: gonna put the mic on in front of you. And
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: like I always said, you'd be as transparent as you want,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: you know. And he was very honest this year. He
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: was very honest last year, right Like he he said
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: that us as an organization, we have to do better,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: right like we have to go get the big boys,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and they came true, you know, and uh, yeah, the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: whole situation of the third base, the age will take
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: care of that. Uh, he's playing, he's smiling, which is
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: the most important thing. And uh, as you guys know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: and we played. Our jobs is to play.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Our job, you know, is not to agree with everything
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: that goes either.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: You know, like there's certain things that you're not gonna agree,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: but you know what, we're gonna show up the next day.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: We have to play.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: And uh and and he's doing that. He's put himself
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: in a great position. He didn't miss it the other
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: day off the wall, and uh, he'll do the job,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you know. And uh, I think he really likes what
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: we we did as an organization to add talent that
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: to that clubhouse. And uh, you know, like I always said, man,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: it's like families, right like you don't always agree with
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the wife, you know, and but you know what, at
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the end, we stay together. We we will do it together.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, the reds is got in in
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: a good place, you know. And I know people have
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: their opinions and you know for x or why reason.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: You know, they liked what we did, they don't like
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: what we what are we're doing?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: But it is what it is, man. We got to
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: show up the next day and keep working.
• 18:25
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• 18:32
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  Speaker 3: now with Brendan Bernardino sitting next to Cam, so let's
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I got my guy here. You know Crassy, he'll
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: appreciate this, and crassy he likes to not call me
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: a grinder, but I'm team grinder no matter what he says.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Don't worry about the draft status. My god, Brandon right here,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: he's a hater.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: He's a hater.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I was. I ended up being a grind Anyway, these
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: are the type of stories that I think are important
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to baseball. Scott right, the guys that are unsung heroes,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the guys that come up big, been a huge part
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: of this bullpen. Now we're going on the third season. Now,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: your story is so amazing. A guy who you know,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: when we envision ourselves getting drafted, we always have this plan, right,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: our plan, but that wasn't the plan.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Talk about being drafted by the Rids. Talk about how
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you how did you say?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Do you get traded to Mexico essentially and then coming back?
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: So I just want to talk about your journey, how
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: grateful you are to be here in camp, and how
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: much fun.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Has been this spring. Yeah, my journey. My journey's been
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: kind of unique to me.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: I did.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: I was a later round draft pick back in twenty fourteen.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: By twenty eighteen, I was released, signed again in camp
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: with the Indians, and then I was traded. Like after
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: a game, they called me in the office like, hey,
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: you've been like traded or kind of I'm not really sure,
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: but you're going to make Mexico And I'm like, can
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: you do that?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Like is that legal?
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: So I had to call my agent, but I am
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: a dual citizen and I did play against Krats in
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: the premiere twelve. So yeah, like I So, I ended
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: up in Mexico and it probably was one of the
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: best things that happened to me, as you know, like
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: the veterans that take care of you. That's kind of
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: like the best coaches you'll have sometimes. And I played
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: with some good veterans with Fernando Rodney and Hirasio Ramirez,
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: guys like that, and they helped me kind of understand
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: what I did well, and then that kind of shaped
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: me up to when the Mariners had signed me. It
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: was like, Okay, now I know what I do and
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: what makes me me, and I've been able to use
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: that here in Boston.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: So I want to just stay there.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: You talk about those veteran guys over in Mexico, my
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: ex teammate from them, the Rodney faced was the left
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: who was the lefty from al the Perez al the
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Perez was there, pitched forever in the big leagues.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Who did you get the most from?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Right when you came back you said, Okay, dang, this
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: guy said something that really up to me and you
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: took it and ran with it. And it's been benefiting
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: you now and the big leagues getting out. I don't
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: call you lefty specials. I say you're a guy that
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: can get lefties and righties out. So you know, who
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: was that guy over there?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: That guy?
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's hard to it's hard to pick one
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: because I've been blessed like people, people have reached out
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: and have helped me and or has seen something in
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: me and wanted to help me. And I would say
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: the Hirasio Ramire has helped me a ton because he
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: was a lefty. Oliver Perez helped me a ton being
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: a lefty. But Fernando helped me big time with the
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: mental part of the game. And he was like forty
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: four at the time, still throwing like ninety five ninety six.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Uh, just beating beating age, you know.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: And so I would say all three of those guys
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: were like the three main ones that I can think
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: of right now.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: That Ali p how many Miller lives did that man?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Drake didn't see anything. That's why they liked me. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: don't see nothing. Don't see that he was he was,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: he was a legend.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: We just had We just talked about a situation where
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: a prospect twenty three year old Kobe Mayo from the
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Orioles got sent down to Triple A. He got an opportunity,
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: he got mics in his face. How many times did
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: you get sent down, traded to Mexico? Whatever it was
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: that you are glad now that you didn't have a
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: mic in your face?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Happy? I'm happy you know that I didn't have a
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: mic in my face.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Some of the times in Mexico there's no mics, there's
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: no media, really nothing, and so now like it's just
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: a whole different ballgame for me. I'm kind of learning
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: how to how to do this on the run at
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: an older age. So it's it's been great.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Do you feel like you found the I know it's
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: the business right and you've been through a lot in
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: your journey and I know, just talking to you just
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: for a little bit, bro, just you came in. You
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: had the most the best energy, right, You just exude
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: good energy. You executed gratitude. Like how special is it
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: for you to have this opportunity? Do you feel like
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: you might have possibly found the home here in Boston,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: especially where they use you the last two seasons. Where
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: do you stand on that or you just kind of
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: keep your feet where they are and then just kind
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: of take the business as it is.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: You know, it is business, and I've seen it kind
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: of how my career has gone a business. I would
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: hope this is my home for for a long time.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: This is where I would love to be. And you know,
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: day by day we'll put yo I love s one
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: pitch at a time and see see where life takes me,
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: See where God takes me and my family.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: See if cratzy it's crazy there?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: What uh yeah, yeah, yeah, what what did what did
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: thirty years old at the big leagues not know about
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: the big leagues that you know now at thirty three?
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I got called up to the big leagues for the
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: first time when I was thirty and I was in
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: the Big leagues sitting like heg on some of these
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: dudes do it at twenty one, like like I still
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: had to learn stuff because we had a similar, similar
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: career path. Ex If I didn't get traded to Mexico,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: I got traded to the Blue Jays.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: That sucked, yeah, both out the country. You know, yeah,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I just I don't know. When I got to the
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: big leagues, I felt like.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: I felt like you know what I feel like I
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: belong here now, and I think part of the best
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: thing about me going to Mexico is if they would
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: have had called me up to the big Lees at
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: the time.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I don't know if I belonged.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I needed to get better. There was things I had
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: to work on.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: There was mental things that I had to like know like, Okay,
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: these are the pitches I'm going to and I can
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: really do this. I just don't think I was mature
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: enough to be honest with you, in the baseball field.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Outside of baseball felt mature, but like I mean, actually
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: I still feel immature in the outside of baseball, but
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: like I felt like I was ready when I got there,
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: So I would say I couldn't have done it at
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: twenty one or twenty two.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think i'd have been successful.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Hey, Brandon, I want to ask you about the Red
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Sox organization because you've been there a couple of years
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: now and what you've seen changed since Craig Breslo took over. Obviously,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: he loves you, he loves all lefties. I feel like
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: they're just drafting and trading and signing lefties left It's
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: it's crochet it's Chapman and just keep going down the line, right,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: There's so many of them, so many more just in
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: the past couple of years. But but what else, like
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: what are you seeing? I mean last year the pitching staff,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I know, you know, things didn't work out at the
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: end of the season the way everyone wanted it to.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: But the offense was there and the pitching started off
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: really strong. Some guys with breakouts. Is that because of
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: a new plan and a new strategy from the organization,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: I think I think we're really well researched organization. The
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: amount of work they put in to understand each pitcher individually,
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: what he does well, like what I do well, and
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: what we need to add going into the offseason or
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: during season, and pitch usage. It's a it's always learning aspect,
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: and they're always from from game to game like we're
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: looking at certain things and there's no stone left and
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: turned here. And I think that's been a huge help
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: with our organization on the pitching aspect.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: You talk about that a little bit deeper dive on
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: the individual and I know you talked about learning so
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: much in Mexico, but what have they gave you that
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: has helped you have so much success over here.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to give it I
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: only you know if you want to give it away.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: But what is it that you're like?
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: You know what, when I trust these things, when I
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: trust this process, usually I come out in a good spot.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well we added we added a cutter last year
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: that helped me out a ton, and then now we
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: added a change up to go against rioties and then
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: sticking with my bread and butter. Like it every year
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: here so far it's been you attack that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you. That's what I'm trying to do.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to be on at tag me twenty four
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: to seven, and they just helped me, like all right,
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: let's do this.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Let's do this. But this is your bread and butter,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: this makes you good, and then this is just icing
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: on top.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: So I'm just trying to compete with all these these
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: four different things I have, and I just feel like
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: they've done a great job explaining it to me in
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: like my language, you know, and they speak a bunch
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: of immature language.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my immature language. Yes, Okay. I always got to
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: ask all these guys. I want to ask one more guy.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: I gotta ask these guys being in camp, I mean
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Boston Historic nostalgic group, right organization. Who has really impressed you?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Like I always ask guys who has been like the
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: guy that you said, Man, this dude picture offensively young guy.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You're like, he's gonna be special. After seeing so many
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: different guys, we we gotta you know, we got a lot.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: We got a lot.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: I would say, right off the top of my head
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: for young young guys, I would say Rafaela, Yes, electric,
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: just electric athlete. Him going from centerfield to shortstop last year.
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: How many guys can do. Yeah, it's like he just
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: grew to belong on a baseball field, like he was
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: born for this. And I would I would say him,
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: but I could say anybody really know you said the worst.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: That's what I want to I want to hit the
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: guys that were just not thinking about you. Hear about
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: the you know, the young big three, the prospects. But
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: he was a guy that could tempt the field. He
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: can change the game and the heartbeat. So I love
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: hearing that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Well, this was.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Awesome, Really appreciate it. Brandon really enjoyed the combo. Super
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: inspiring to So keep doing your thing, man, Thank you
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: for joining us,