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Max Muncy on Astros tipping perks, knee injury, Kershaw’s milestone · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Dec position players running run up to the mountain and
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Speaker 1: calling the catcher out. It's a lot of times it's
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Speaker 1: because they're seeing something or hey, we think the you know,
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Speaker 1: the runner might have a timing aspect on you.
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Speaker 2: We got to change things up. Max. Great to have
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Speaker 2: you back on.
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Speaker 3: Always appreciate the time, especially obviously when you're trying to
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Speaker 3: come back as quick as possible. So dude, first off,
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Speaker 3: how are you feeling. How's the knee?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's it's uh surprisingly good.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be a slow process, but uh,
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Speaker 1: we avoided the major stuff, so I'm very thankful about that.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, like I said the other day,
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Speaker 1: I get to come back and play baseball this year,
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Speaker 1: and so it's me that's the biggest thing.
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Speaker 4: Dude.
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Speaker 5: All Right, we talked, We've talked a lot. Okay, but listen,
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Speaker 5: there's an old thing in baseball.
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Speaker 2: Bro.
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Speaker 5: If you roll around on the ground like that, you
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Speaker 5: better be stretchered off or dead. Okay, Like, you can't
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Speaker 5: just say I have a bruise, Oh I'm bruised. Like,
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Speaker 5: come on, Max, Like I was watching this and we
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Speaker 5: were texting, I was watching I'm like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 5: Maximuntzy just died on the field, like he's gonna have
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Speaker 5: to have his leg amputated. He's rolling around on the
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Speaker 5: ground and I'm like, okay, he's dead. Something's bad. And
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Speaker 5: then it came back a bruce. Max explained to the
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Speaker 5: people how bad a Bruce can hurt.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was on crutches, so I mean, obviously I
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Speaker 1: just do bad. Yeah, no, but just it's one of
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Speaker 1: those things where you get anything around your knee like that,
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Speaker 1: you automatically fear the worst, especially with that kind of impact.
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Speaker 2: You know, my whole whole leg kind of went num.
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Speaker 1: Immediately, so I obviously I thought something bad had happened.
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Speaker 1: But you know, we went down underneath, did X rays immediately.
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Speaker 1: You know, they did the you know ACL tests and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff where they're yanking on your knee, and
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Speaker 1: obviously I didn't feel great, but it didn't feel as
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Speaker 1: bad as what I thought it would have felt if
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Speaker 1: I had torn something. So I started feeling optimistic immediately.
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Speaker 1: Didn't get the scans till the next day, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was just kind of crappy situation that somehow, actlessly.
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Speaker 2: Nothing bad happened out of that except for just a bruise.
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Speaker 5: Let me just say this, we're very happy you're healthy.
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Speaker 5: I don't want people to think out there that I'm
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Speaker 5: getting on you.
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Speaker 2: I trust me.
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Speaker 5: I'm extremely happy that you are healthy. And this was
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Speaker 5: best case scenario. So I just have to make sure
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Speaker 5: that you know that. And then all the Twitter trolls
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Speaker 5: and all the people in the chat are like, he
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Speaker 5: wants Max wants you.
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Speaker 2: To be hurt.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, not at all. I'm very happy you're healthy.
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Speaker 5: It's just as you know, in baseball and in sports,
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Speaker 5: people get hurt and then once we find out they're
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Speaker 5: not worst case scenario.
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Speaker 2: People in baseball are like, oh, we laugh about it.
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Speaker 5: Not you know, not laughing at you being injured, but
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Speaker 5: we laugh about the way people you know, guy gets
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Speaker 5: to it in the elbow, they roll around the ground
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Speaker 5: like they're dead and then they get back up.
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Speaker 2: And that hurt, dude, I know it does. Trust me,
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Speaker 2: that hurts.
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Speaker 4: Not to rehash everything, but in those moments when you
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Speaker 4: hurt your knee, in that moment and you're sitting on
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Speaker 4: the table or are they're helping you off the field,
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Speaker 4: are what are some of the thoughts that go through
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Speaker 4: your head? I I one time I ever got hurt
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Speaker 4: and you had to wait till the next day to
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Speaker 4: get those that imaging. What are some of the thoughts
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Speaker 4: that go through your head?
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Speaker 2: Well, it was kind of a wide range. You know.
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Speaker 1: I'm down underneath getting the X rays and I hear
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Speaker 1: the stadium kind of go nuts. So my first real
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Speaker 1: emotion was, damn it, I missed kershaw Is three thousand.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to be out there for it. I wanted
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Speaker 1: to give him a big hug, and I missed it.
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Speaker 1: Like that was the first thing. As I'm laying there
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Speaker 1: on the ground, I'm like, man, I need to get
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Speaker 1: off this field otherwise cursh might kill me. He's trying
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Speaker 1: to get this strikeout. Like I'm holding up this game.
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Speaker 1: I got to get off this field somehow. And you know,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of the first thing that I was thinking about.
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Speaker 1: And then as I'm laying there in bed that night,
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Speaker 1: knowing I have to wait till tomorrow to get to
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Speaker 1: the next day to get the scans, I'm just replaying
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Speaker 1: everything in my head, you know, because the first thing
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Speaker 1: the doctors always ask you is did you feel pop?
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Speaker 2: Did you hear a pop?
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, laying there in bed, I'm like, man,
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Speaker 1: did I feel pop?
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Speaker 2: Like? Did I not? Like?
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Speaker 1: I don't don't know, And so you start just thinking
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Speaker 1: about everything. You get no sleep, and then you got
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Speaker 1: to drive over there and get the scans the next day.
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Speaker 1: And you know, thankfully, they get the results from that
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Speaker 1: back pretty quick. And so as I was heading to
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Speaker 1: the field, they'd called and said that, you know, structurally
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Speaker 1: everything was good. There was some damage in there, but
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Speaker 1: you know, all the ligaments were still intact.
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Speaker 2: That was the biggest thing.
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Speaker 1: And so for me, it was like that that night
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Speaker 1: laying in bed, you just replay everything in your head,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I start thinking back to twenty one
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Speaker 1: when my elbow had gone, and I was like, man,
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Speaker 1: I hope it's not the same thing, Like I can't
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Speaker 1: miss I can't miss the rest this year.
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Speaker 2: I just can't do that. No, you're raking too. You're raking.
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Speaker 5: You want to get back out there, got them glasses,
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Speaker 5: you're raking, so you want to play. You can't wait
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Speaker 5: to get back. But you mentioned Kershaw and you you
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Speaker 5: went down literally the hitter before he got this three
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Speaker 5: thousand strikeout. Two things on Kershaw's strikeouts, one after he
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Speaker 5: got his three thousand did he come in and check
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Speaker 5: on you or was he just all enthralled himself about
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Speaker 5: like I missed her three thousand? Now you know Max's down.
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Speaker 5: It's fine, but I got three thousand strikeouts. And then,
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Speaker 5: second of all, have you ever seen a team like
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Speaker 5: the White Sox completely change their approach to not be
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Speaker 5: three thousand and literally first pick swing, I'm just gonna
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Speaker 5: play Pepper. We're not going to strike out no matter what.
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Speaker 1: Well, so the first one, Yeah, Kersh came running up
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Speaker 1: and gave me a big hug. You know, I was
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Speaker 1: telling him congrats, and he was sitting there saying, dude,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: I'm so. I'm like, what are you sorry for? It's
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Speaker 2: not your fault.
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Speaker 1: He goes not, I let the guy get on second,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, and I was like, that's not your fault,
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Speaker 1: man like, but he came up and gave me a
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Speaker 1: big hug. Freddie came running up, give me a hug.
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Speaker 1: Show was looking for me. You know that that that
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Speaker 1: made me feel pretty good that the guys were coming
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Speaker 1: up to check on me, and you know, especially for
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Speaker 1: Kersh in that moment to come and come and give
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Speaker 1: me a hug. It was kind of like you know
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Speaker 1: that that was that was awesome. I wanted to give
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Speaker 1: him a hug on the field, congratulate him, but obviously
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Speaker 1: I wasn't out there. And then, you know, in terms
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Speaker 1: of the White Sox, it was yeah, they were they
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Speaker 1: were putting everything in play. It was uh, no one
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Speaker 1: wanted to be that guy. That's that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: I think that's something that teams know when you're going in,
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Speaker 1: you go, oh man, this guy's got a milestone coming up.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to be the one to you know,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to be in the you don't want
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Speaker 1: to be the guy in the record books on the
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Speaker 1: on the wrong end of it.
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Speaker 2: That's for sure.
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Speaker 5: I would expect nothing less on curseh by the way,
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Speaker 5: for him to run up and drop everything and give
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Speaker 5: you a hug, because that's just the kind of guy
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Speaker 5: he is.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's team first.
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Speaker 5: And then for you guys to come back and win
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Speaker 5: that game, I'm sure meant a lot to Curse. And
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Speaker 5: then he gets the Legends pick. What do you think
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Speaker 5: of the Legends pick for Curse to get to come
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Speaker 5: to Atlanta and be an All Star.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think it's awesome, you know, they did
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Speaker 1: it with Albert and uh Migie Cabrera several years ago,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's awesome that the commissioner can do that.
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Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing is when the commissioner
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Speaker 1: does that, it's not taking a spot away from anyone else,
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Speaker 1: and so I think that's where, you know, it's really cool,
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Speaker 1: like he's not taking a spot away to say, no,
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Speaker 1: I want to add this as a legend pick.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's just an extra spot that they add.
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Speaker 1: So I think that's the coolest thing ever, is that,
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Speaker 1: you know, the commissioner gets to say, hey, this guy's
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Speaker 1: been a legend in this game. He's accomplished so much,
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Speaker 1: I want to add him to the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: And it's just an extra spot. It's not it's not
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Speaker 1: taken away from someone else, because you know, there's always
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Speaker 1: the conversations of.
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Speaker 2: Who got snubbed, and.
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Speaker 1: You know, this isn't a case where oh, well they're
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Speaker 1: adding Kershaw, so they can't add this other guy. It's like, no,
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Speaker 1: he's just an extra spot added to it. And I
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Speaker 1: think it's really cool and it's a an amazing accomplishment.
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Speaker 1: It's eleven All Star games for him. That's a lot.
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Speaker 1: You know, they always they always do something on the
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Speaker 1: jerseys where they add like a you know stars or
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Speaker 1: or you know, numbers for how many All Star Games
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Speaker 1: you've been to. And so I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: really cool to see how Cursh's jersey turns out with
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Speaker 1: you know, that number of All Star Games on there.
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Speaker 4: There's could be so many stars as jersey is gonna
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Speaker 4: be heavier. Have you talked to him since he got
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Speaker 4: the Legends pick? Have you talked to him since.
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Speaker 1: Just a little bit because we had, you know, a
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Speaker 1: team meeting on Sunday and that was when Kursh found
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Speaker 1: out and the team flew out after the game and
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Speaker 1: I was I'm not with the team right now, so
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Speaker 1: I only had a little chance to talk to him,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I think he was surprised, and you know,
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Speaker 1: classic Kersh. He doesn't think he you know, he's he
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Speaker 1: doesn't think he's deserved it, with you know, not pitching
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Speaker 1: a whole lot this year.
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Speaker 2: But you know, at the end of the day, when
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Speaker 2: you're one of the.
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Speaker 1: Best pitchers in the history of the game, you've kind
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Speaker 1: of deserved everything that you that you get, and so
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Speaker 1: I think it's it's really cool for him to be
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Speaker 1: able to go there, and especially with some of the teammates.
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Speaker 4: But my question was gonna be, do you feel like
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Speaker 4: it maybe pressurizes him to quit, like retire after this
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Speaker 4: year because the other guy's got it in their last
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Speaker 4: season and how many years? Because to me, the dude
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Speaker 4: has never had a bad e R. Yes, I get
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Speaker 4: he's not throwing seven thirty two starts every year right now,
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Speaker 4: but when he's out there, he is an integral part
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Speaker 4: of your rotation. He could play for three or four
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Speaker 4: more years doing the same thing that he's doing. Is
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Speaker 4: he gonna get three or four more legendary picks? Legend picks?
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Speaker 1: Look, man, the guy's the ultimate competitor. I don't know
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Speaker 1: when he's going to decide to hang him up. That's
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Speaker 1: that's his choice, and you know he keeps it pretty
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Speaker 1: close to the chest, but he's the ultimate competitor.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what his stuff is, he's going to go.
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Speaker 2: He's going to find a way to go out.
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Speaker 1: There, give you, you know, five to seven innings and he's
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Speaker 1: going to navigate the game. And you know, he just
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Speaker 1: he has that drive and that fiery competitiveness to find
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Speaker 1: a way to get it done regardless of what his
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Speaker 1: stuff is. And you know, you I talked to some
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Speaker 1: of the guys on the other teams when they get
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Speaker 1: on base, and you know, you're kind of like, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, what's the what's the stuff like? And you
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Speaker 1: know they'll be like, man, fastball still really gets on you.
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Speaker 1: I keep getting blown up by it, and you know,
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Speaker 1: and obviously he's not throwing ninety five anymore, but he's
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Speaker 1: still got, you know, good stuff, and he finds a
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Speaker 1: way to navigate the game.
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Speaker 3: purchase Get after It Max. I want to go off
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Speaker 3: the weekend series against the Astros, which I'm sure the
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Speaker 3: team wants to wipe away as quickly as possible the sweep.
10:54
Speaker 3: But there's a lot of history here and I'm going
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Speaker 3: to bring up Orlherscheiser on the podcast, stirring the pod
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Speaker 3: a little bit, just to get the reaction. I'm sure
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Speaker 3: you guys all heard it and even had a good.
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Speaker 2: Laugh about it.
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Speaker 3: I'll say the quote he said this was from the
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Speaker 3: eighteen to one game in the opener of the series
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Speaker 3: or on the Dodgers broadcasts. Legendary Picture does a great
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Speaker 3: job quote. I don't want to open an old wounden.
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Speaker 3: But in some ways they're swinging at these breaking balls
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Speaker 3: like they know what is coming.
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Speaker 2: Your thoughts, Well, do I think they know what was coming? Yes?
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Speaker 2: I do?
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Speaker 1: Do I think they were cheating to get there? No,
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Speaker 1: I think they had a tip on the picture and
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Speaker 1: that's on us to clean that up. That's not cheating.
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Speaker 1: That's part of the game. Good teams are going to
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Speaker 1: do that. So yes, I do think they knew that
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Speaker 1: what were coming, but it wasn't because they were cheating.
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Speaker 1: Is because you know, our picture had a tip and
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Speaker 1: we've we've addressed it, we've cleaned it up hopefully, and
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Speaker 1: you know, that's one of those things where you just
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Speaker 1: have to always be careful about what you're what you're
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Speaker 1: doing out there. You don't want to give anything away
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Speaker 1: to the other team. And you know, that's something that
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Speaker 1: we take advantage of a lot of times, and you know,
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Speaker 1: you just you have to find a way to clean
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Speaker 1: that up. And that's not cheating. That's that's part of
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Speaker 1: the game. That's that's being a smart baseball player is
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Speaker 1: what that is. So do I think I do? I
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Speaker 1: think they knew what was coming. Yeah, but they weren't cheating.
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Speaker 3: When that's happening. How much chaos is there on the
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Speaker 3: team side that's getting you know, beat up by an
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Speaker 3: offense that might know that there's you know, a certain
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Speaker 3: pitch coming based off tipping. Like when something like that happens,
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Speaker 3: is there suddenly you know, the group behind the scenes
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Speaker 3: that obviously tries to look out for tips, that's trying
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Speaker 3: to make an in game adjustment with a pitcher or
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Speaker 3: hitters talking about it, because yes, clearly they were all
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Speaker 3: over everything. I don't know if they said they had
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Speaker 3: a tip, but they never will obviously until years later.
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Speaker 3: They'll probably come on foul territory and someone will give
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Speaker 3: it away. But what's going on during those moments?
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean the first thing you look at is,
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Speaker 1: you know, like the pitches they're hitting, you know, are
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Speaker 1: they just really bad pitches? You know, was the pitcher
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Speaker 1: just making really bad pitches? You look at their timing,
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Speaker 1: you know, there was there was no there was no
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Speaker 1: flinching on any of the pitches, and it was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: so you know, maybe the pitcher wasn't exactly executing his
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Speaker 1: you know, pitches how he wanted, but there was just
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Speaker 1: no flinching at all. And you know, they were on
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Speaker 1: everything timing wise, and this is the guy that was
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Speaker 1: throwing ninety seven ninety eight with a wicked, wicked slider,
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Speaker 1: you know, and we've seen them dominate a lot of teams,
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Speaker 1: and so for there's to be like no flinching that
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Speaker 1: kind of throws up a red flag that, okay, they
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Speaker 1: might have something on them.
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Speaker 2: We got to know. We had to find a way
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Speaker 2: to look at it.
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Speaker 1: And we have a lot of guys that are really
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Speaker 1: good at that stuff, and so just you know, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of a team effort. You just get a whole
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Speaker 1: group together, you start looking at things and you try
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Speaker 1: to address it.
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Speaker 4: Have you ever gone to the mound and found a
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Speaker 4: tip that one of your pitchers was doing during the
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Speaker 4: middle of the game. Because the reason I ask is
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Speaker 4: because Chase Sutley would always come in from second base
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Speaker 4: when we had no mound visit rules. He would just
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Speaker 4: come in. He'd be like, hey, come here, and you're tipping.
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Speaker 4: You're moving your glove like half an inch, like it's
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Speaker 4: o and you play with taste a little bit, you know,
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Speaker 4: like he sees something in everything and he's not wrong.
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Speaker 4: But have you ever seen it and helped one of
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Speaker 4: your pitchers, kurtail it before it ever gets before it
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Speaker 4: ever gets out of control.
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Speaker 1: You know, Chase was the best at it. He was amazing.
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Speaker 1: He could see things.
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Speaker 2: He could see things that really probably weren't there, but
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Speaker 2: he he could see it.
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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he he taught me a lot
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Speaker 1: about that kind of stuff. And that's uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: he taught a lot of us about that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, you know, there's there's a lot of times
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Speaker 1: when you know, if you see position players running and
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Speaker 1: run up to the mound and calling the catcher out,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of times it's because they're seeing something
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Speaker 1: or you know, hey, we think the you know, the
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Speaker 1: runner might have a timing aspect on you.
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Speaker 2: We got to change things up.
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Speaker 1: Or you know, you know the guy on seconds, you know,
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Speaker 1: looking in your glove, we got to clean that up.
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Speaker 1: And you know, there's just there's a lot of times
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Speaker 1: when you see that and you try to run out there,
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Speaker 1: and you know you're trying to win a game, and
14:52
Speaker 1: you know that that's stuff that can cost you a game.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Max, All Star Game is next week. Is there
14:58
Speaker 5: a bigger snub than Andy Paul And for not making
15:01
Speaker 5: it to the All Star Game just because I mean
15:04
Speaker 5: we mentioned Kersher getting the Legends pick, but I mean
15:06
Speaker 5: Andy Pas has had a great first half and is
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Speaker 5: very deserving.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Andy Pas is very deserving of the All Star pick,
15:13
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I I really wish he would
15:15
Speaker 1: get it. You know, there's still a couple of days
15:18
Speaker 1: until till the break, and you know, things happened and
15:21
Speaker 1: you know they might add guys or so I'm I'm
15:24
Speaker 1: still hoping that he gets the pick because.
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Speaker 2: I agree he's very deserving.
15:28
Speaker 1: You know, what he's done for us in this first
15:30
Speaker 1: half has been incredible. He's you know, we've we've been
15:33
Speaker 1: saying it for a while. He's a very good player.
15:37
Speaker 1: You know, last year he kind of had some struggles
15:39
Speaker 1: in center field, but that's because he was, you know,
15:41
Speaker 1: a corner outfielder, and he's made the adjustments and he's
15:43
Speaker 1: become a very good outfielder and probably one of the
15:46
Speaker 1: best arms in baseball without a doubt. You know, he
15:48
Speaker 1: just he throws rockets out there, and he's very accurate
15:51
Speaker 1: with it. Offensively, he's got incredible about the ball skills.
15:56
Speaker 2: He's got a good approach, he's.
15:58
Speaker 1: Got a lot of power in the bat, and you know,
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Speaker 1: he's he's he's he's a star in the making for sure.
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Speaker 4: When when I used to sit on the bench and
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Speaker 4: watch my teammates play games and guys would never go
16:08
Speaker 4: to like the minor leagues to rehab, I would always
16:11
Speaker 4: be like, Oh, this guy's rehabbing against the Marlins. Oh
16:14
Speaker 4: he's rehabbing it. Literally, Shani is rehabbing in the big leagues.
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Speaker 4: He's doing it on the mound. What are you seeing
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Speaker 4: from him? Not just on the field where he strikes
16:25
Speaker 4: out the side of a pretty decent lineup, but also
16:29
Speaker 4: all the extra stuff that he has to do to
16:33
Speaker 4: recover get ready for the game. Oh yeah, and you
16:36
Speaker 4: guys still need.
16:36
Speaker 2: Him to hit.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's he's, he's incredible. He's definitely a unicorn.
16:42
Speaker 1: You know, his his pitching rehab is it's tough. You're
16:46
Speaker 1: doing a lot every single day, and uh, you know
16:49
Speaker 1: that was that was part of the decision, I believe,
16:51
Speaker 1: to start having him do these rehabs in games, because
16:54
Speaker 1: when he was throwing the you know, the the SIMN
16:56
Speaker 1: games before the game, it was essentially like he was
16:58
Speaker 1: playing a doubleheader. And you know, he's kind of still
17:01
Speaker 1: doing that with all the stuff that he's doing to
17:03
Speaker 1: try to get ready.
17:03
Speaker 2: For the games.
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Speaker 1: And you know, from the pitching side, he looks fantastic.
17:07
Speaker 1: He's he's throwing hard. The off speed stuff looks nasty.
17:11
Speaker 1: The hitters are off balance on everything, and you know
17:14
Speaker 1: they're not they're not getting great swings off and it's
17:16
Speaker 1: just it's really incredible to watch. You're talking about a
17:19
Speaker 1: guy that is as good a hitter as anyone in
17:21
Speaker 1: baseball and now he's as good a pitcher as anyone
17:24
Speaker 1: in baseball, and like, it's just that's so rare to
17:26
Speaker 1: see that, and you know, we've never really seen that
17:30
Speaker 1: before and we probably won't ever see it again. It's
17:32
Speaker 1: just it's absolutely incredible.
17:34
Speaker 5: Hey, Max, I have some friends that are Dodger fans
17:38
Speaker 5: and there they want you MVP votes for you. Since
17:40
Speaker 5: you've gone down the Dodgers haven't won, so they're thinking
17:43
Speaker 5: that maybe, you know, contrary to Shohey and Mooky and
17:47
Speaker 5: Freddie and Will Smith and all these other guys, Max
17:49
Speaker 5: Munsey for all the grief over the years, they're like, oh, Max,
17:52
Speaker 5: you know, blah blah blah, but now you're gone. In
17:55
Speaker 5: the last four games have not gone so well, so
17:57
Speaker 5: maybe Max or MVP might be on their list.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know about that.
18:03
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I'm a cog in the machine that
18:05
Speaker 1: helps it run, you know, exactly how it's supposed to run.
18:09
Speaker 1: So that's that's how I've always viewed myself.
18:13
Speaker 4: Wait, Max, I got a quick one for you. No
18:16
Speaker 4: one's there, No one's in the locker room. Are you
18:19
Speaker 4: messing with anybody's stuff? Like do you untie some of
18:22
Speaker 4: like Mookie's shoelaces or like, or like tie them backwards
18:26
Speaker 4: to see if anybody notices? Or you not that bored?
18:29
Speaker 4: Are you just like no, I'm focused just baseball stuff,
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Speaker 4: no shenanigans.
18:34
Speaker 2: Well, we haven't gotten to that point yet, you know.
18:37
Speaker 1: Hopefully I can you know, rehab my my knee fairly quickly,
18:41
Speaker 1: and I won't get to that point. You know, last
18:43
Speaker 1: year with the Oblique, I felt like towards the end,
18:45
Speaker 1: I was starting to get get to that point where
18:47
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm start just throwing sunflower seeds and
18:49
Speaker 1: guys shoes when they put them on.
18:50
Speaker 2: See if it, you know, make them laugh a little bitter.
18:54
Speaker 1: But it's uh, yeah, I don't like messing with people'
18:57
Speaker 1: stuff because I know that I hate it when my
18:59
Speaker 1: stuff gets messed with, so I you know, I leave
19:01
Speaker 1: people stuff alone. You know, during the games might be
19:04
Speaker 1: a different story. You know, you try to mess with
19:06
Speaker 1: guys a little bit, maybe put a little gum on their.
19:07
Speaker 2: Hat or something like that. But the classic dugout jokes,
19:11
Speaker 2: love it, love it.
19:12
Speaker 3: Actually, that reminds me of last year. I think the
19:14
Speaker 3: record last year wasn't as shiny without Max in the
19:18
Speaker 3: lineup too. But we'll do the bragging for you.
19:20
Speaker 2: We'll do that. We'll handle that. Max. Great to have
19:22
Speaker 2: you all, man. I'll let you guys do that for me.
19:24
Speaker 2: I'm just a co cogging the machine.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're You're just a friendly neighborhood cogging the Dodgers
19:30
Speaker 3: Juggernaut lineup machine. So Max, keep heeling up quick as possible.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, dude, Yeah, thanks for having me on. Guys,