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Pete Fairbanks talks Rays run, Simpson’s run game, Attacking Judge · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Were we ahead in the account? Did we expand? Is
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  Speaker 1: it bad at ball luck, et cetera. There's a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot that goes into you know, us focusing on what
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  Speaker 1: we can control, and what we can control is our
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  Speaker 1: execution at throwing the ball over the plate.
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  Speaker 2: And there he is. Welcome back to the show, Pete Fairbanks.
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  Speaker 2: Always appreciate you taking the time out of your day
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  Speaker 2: to be with us. You guys are doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: One five in a row before losing last night to
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City. We won't talk about that one, but this
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  Speaker 2: is a raised team that always seems to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: In your estimation of what's worked so far, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, as I think I was starting to Ryan Bass yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: if you only give up three runs in a series,
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  Speaker 1: chances are you're going to at least win, you know, one,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two of those games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look when we're when we're playing well and we're preventing
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  Speaker 1: runs and we're getting the timely hits, you know, things
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  Speaker 1: have been working out. We've been We've had some guys
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  Speaker 1: that put together some really good at bats, and you
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  Speaker 1: know that just lends itself to success.
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  Speaker 3: Are you at the field right now?
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  Speaker 1: I am. I'm sitting in the what they would call
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  Speaker 1: the lounge nice pinpoint table behind me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, do you worry about microphones being put in different
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  Speaker 4: places because it's the Yankees facility, but you guys are
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  Speaker 4: using it. Do you guys like talking code? Do you
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  Speaker 4: guys have meetings outside in the heat?
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  Speaker 1: No? I think that we did a full sweep, kind
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  Speaker 1: of kind of like man from Uncle style. We got
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  Speaker 1: the bid like buzzer out and kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of went around and how many did you find?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and anything that we found, we'll just we'll
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  Speaker 1: just take up on our plane when we head up
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  Speaker 1: to ed up to New York on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Give it back to them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, just we'll just pass right, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of when the army hammers just like these belong to
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  Speaker 1: you and starts dropping all the bugs. We'll just.
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  Speaker 4: Do you do you have Do you have fomo? Or
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  Speaker 4: you feel like you're missing out on tropicana fields? Or
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  Speaker 4: are you like oy, we love this place.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's nice underneath. I'll say that. Come you know,
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  Speaker 1: first week of July, August, September rainy season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're definitely going to be having a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a fomo for a roof, But no, it's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been good so far. It's been fun to see
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  Speaker 1: it kind of a different crowd than we get over
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Pete and it's been Uh, it's been good.
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  Speaker 1: So for the what three weeks that we've been here?
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  Speaker 5: Do they have all the Yankee stuff covered? Because they
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  Speaker 5: had the big Yankee thing? What did they And by
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  Speaker 5: the way I've driven by there, I have not been
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  Speaker 5: to a game. I'm going to get to a game.
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  Speaker 5: But it says thank you Yankees and giant letters on
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  Speaker 5: the scoreboard. Like do you think they could have covered
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  Speaker 5: that up right? Like go raise ray Way?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, I mean they put it. Everything's pretty much covered.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we might have caused a
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  Speaker 1: fit if they had started covering up some of the
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  Speaker 1: monument stuff out front. But yeah, I mean underneath at
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  Speaker 1: least there's no big Yankees loado in the clubhouse and
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  Speaker 1: so that, uh, you know, that's about all that I need.
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  Speaker 5: You know, have you walked around though, this is what
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  Speaker 5: I want to have You walked around and asked anybody
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  Speaker 5: where is like Aaron Judge's locker, where is Volpi's locker?
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  Speaker 5: And then you're like man, I'm gonna do some damage.
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  Speaker 5: So when they come back in spring training and they
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  Speaker 5: remember me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I would feel bad if I if I
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  Speaker 1: vandalize this place in any capacity, because it is it
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  Speaker 1: is pretty nice. It is pretty nice.
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  Speaker 2: Pete, you had a lot of different adjustments that looks
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  Speaker 2: like that you made in the season or in the
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  Speaker 2: offseason rather. What was the biggest thing that you did
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  Speaker 2: to go into the two twenty five season that you
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  Speaker 2: wanted to make sure you avoided in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, my My biggest thing was kind of
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  Speaker 1: ramping up in a little bit more responsible manner. I
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  Speaker 1: used a pulse censor kind of for the first time
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  Speaker 1: this offseason, you know, to try and get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of objective feedback for growing volume, throwing intensity, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: And really just kind of tried to play out the
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  Speaker 1: on ramp a little bit longer and trying to really
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  Speaker 1: set myself up for a healthy season since I've been
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  Speaker 1: unable to manage that for the most part.
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  Speaker 4: How about this park do you guys go? Do you
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  Speaker 4: guys drive up? I know it's not Wrigly, but when
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  Speaker 4: you drive up to Wrigley, you look at the flags
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  Speaker 4: do you drive up and look at a certain flag
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  Speaker 4: and you go, oh boy, maybe I got a little
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  Speaker 4: itis today, Maybe I got a little wind itis today.
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  Speaker 1: No, because when we go out and throw on the
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  Speaker 1: backfield pre game, the wind's blown one way, and then
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  Speaker 1: at the first it's blown a different way, and then
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  Speaker 1: by the time the seventh, eighth, and ninth roll around,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's swirled again, and it's in another completely different manner.
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  Speaker 3: Pete, Pete.
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  Speaker 5: When you guys are there, are you've played what ninke?
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  Speaker 5: You play all your home games? Now you guys are
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  Speaker 5: gonna be home gamed out by like June, did you
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  Speaker 5: look forward to a roach of you? I know you
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  Speaker 5: have two young kids at home, so you when you
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  Speaker 5: guys went on the road, were you thinking, You're so man,
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  Speaker 5: I get to be by myself for three days.
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  Speaker 1: Not really, maybe maybe like the first day's nice, like
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  Speaker 1: you get to I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean it was only three days, so it wasn't like
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  Speaker 3: you were going for a week.
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  Speaker 1: But three days, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, all right, this is great for a day.
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  Speaker 1: And then the second day I was like, I've played
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  Speaker 1: so much Assassin's Creed that I like don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do with the rest of my morning, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's nice. I mean, the West Coast one
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  Speaker 1: was great. I was like, man, we got a week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna be bored for the first couple
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  Speaker 1: of days and I'll go find some stuff for the
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  Speaker 1: kids whatever. And then I woke up on their schedule
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  Speaker 1: on East Coast time for for the first six and
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  Speaker 1: that was not a great situation to be in.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have do you change your schedule for the year,
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  Speaker 4: you know, some guys families or do you see other
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  Speaker 4: guys changing their schedule for the year because you guys
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  Speaker 4: are so front loaded. Have you heard people talking about
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  Speaker 4: families are gonna like leave by July since nobody wants
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  Speaker 4: to be in Florida ever, but mostly in July, and
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  Speaker 4: you guys aren't going to be home.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I sort of worked out great for my
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  Speaker 1: family because is my son's in school right, so we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hit June July. He's gonna be on summer break.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a lot easier for them, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: get out to wherever we're headed. But I think everybody's
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  Speaker 1: still going to be down here. It's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, Tampa underrated city and there's only
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  Speaker 1: two of us that are getting to really enjoy our
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  Speaker 1: thirty minute commute from Saint Pete. So yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: maybe some people might might take you a few more
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  Speaker 1: trips home than they might have in the past, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll see.
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  Speaker 6: For the card collectors out there, you got to check
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  Speaker 6: out Arena Club. I've got to share room. AJ's got
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  Speaker 6: a showroom and it's become a place where you can
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  Speaker 6: basically do everything digitally and physically in the hobby.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely can get cards. They'll great them for you. They
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  Speaker 5: come in the plastic if you want to physically get them,
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  Speaker 5: so they don't show up like this card that's all
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  Speaker 5: bent that scott for some reason. They show up nice,
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  Speaker 5: like the exact same card. Look how perfect this one is.
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  Speaker 5: That's how Arena club sends them to you to leave
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  Speaker 5: it in case im for you so they don't get
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  Speaker 5: messed up in transit. So Arena Club's your one stop
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  Speaker 5: shop for any baseball card, football card, any card needs
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  Speaker 5: that you might have.
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  Speaker 6: And you should check out slab packs. You can rip
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  Speaker 6: a pack for hundreds of dollars or less and hit
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  Speaker 6: on a card that's worth tens of thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 6: I'll take those odds.
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  Speaker 1: Right now.
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  Speaker 6: You can get twenty percent off your first slab pack
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  Speaker 6: or your first card purchase by going to Arena club
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  Speaker 6: dot com slash foul. That's code foul once you get there.
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  Speaker 6: Arena Club dot Com slash foul, codefoul, Pete.
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  Speaker 2: Why do teams pitch to Judge? I really thought I
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  Speaker 2: would see a lot more forefingers go up when Aaron
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  Speaker 2: judges in the box, But it doesn't seem that way.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think people pitch to him as much
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  Speaker 2: as they are?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's April. I think that at least,
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  Speaker 1: you know, seasonally, it's got to be part of it, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, there's a lot of games to still
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  Speaker 1: be played, and I think that you know, people are
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  Speaker 1: willing to be more aggressive, but look, the guy can hit,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I also you know he can do
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  Speaker 1: his damage on you, right, But you also don't want
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  Speaker 1: to just start putting people on willy nilly, because that's
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  Speaker 1: how the you know you potential solo shot turns into
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  Speaker 1: a two run to a three run and you start
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  Speaker 1: seeing things kind of go sideways from there, as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to you know, if you have the ability to you
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  Speaker 1: know you're gonna you're gonna try and get your three
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  Speaker 1: outs regardless of who's coming up.
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  Speaker 4: Can you talk about that a little bit more because
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  Speaker 4: people don't understand that. People don't understand like, yes, Aaron
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  Speaker 4: Judge is hitting four hundred. Yes is whatever is OPS
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  Speaker 4: plus is a million? Like big league pitchers have a
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  Speaker 4: plan to get a guy out. It's not like, Wow,
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  Speaker 4: I made the best pitch in the world and he
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  Speaker 4: just hit it four hundred and fifty feet. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 4: might dunk one over the right field fence in stein Brenner,
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  Speaker 4: But can you hit on that how you guys just
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  Speaker 4: how you talk because I've been in I've been in
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  Speaker 4: Snyder's pictures me and how you guys talk about that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Can you expand on that a little bit more? And
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  Speaker 4: how pitches really shouldn't be or aren't afraid of big
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  Speaker 4: league hitters.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, especially us as a group, ours is really
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  Speaker 1: trying to separate our process from potential result. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: if we're hitting the stuff that we need to hit right,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's first pitch trikes, it's expanding with two, it's
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  Speaker 1: being the head after three pitches, et cetera. If we're
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  Speaker 1: able to separate, you know, what we do and really
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  Speaker 1: boil it down to strike out, don't walk people we contact,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, if we can chase that process, then
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of, you know, absolve yourself a little
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  Speaker 1: bit from the result and make it that much easier
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  Speaker 1: to you know, continue to reinvest in it being a
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  Speaker 1: process oriented thing for us. So we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: what we do right. And if we get victimized, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, an ambush, okay, well that only happens
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  Speaker 1: five percent the time, let's let's put that to the side.
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  Speaker 1: Were we ahead on the count, did we expand is
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  Speaker 1: it bad at balllock, et cetera. There's a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: that goes into you know, us focusing on what we
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  Speaker 1: can control, and what we can control is our execution
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  Speaker 1: at throwing the ball over the plate.
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  Speaker 4: Who is the most exciting young player that you're like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what he's hitting right now on your roster,
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  Speaker 4: on your roster he's hitting right now. I want to
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  Speaker 4: see what he does, whether it's Kevin Arrow's power or
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  Speaker 4: Christopher Morrell. I guess you're not a young guy. The
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  Speaker 4: fact that he's going to swing and like dance around
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  Speaker 4: the bases, is it Chandler Simpson? Just running in general
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  Speaker 4: like who is it? Miser is a clutch hit?
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  Speaker 1: Look, I think the easy answer would be Chandler Simpson,
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  Speaker 1: but he's got enough of media attention recently, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go Cameron Meisner is going to be my guy. Look,
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  Speaker 1: Simpson is great. He's the fastest human I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think and down. We've had a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys contribute, and that's been been fun to
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  Speaker 1: watch when when those people are getting their names called for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the first or second time, and then they're
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  Speaker 1: stepping up and meeting the bill. It has been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Do you look at the batter's box?
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  Speaker 4: I had a theory that if a pitcher and Mike
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  Speaker 4: Trout and I talked about if a pitcher wore Mike
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  Speaker 4: Trout's cleats, he's already stepping in the batter's box and
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  Speaker 4: be like, I'm one, Oh, I'm probably gonna hit.
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  Speaker 3: A dinger off you do you look?
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  Speaker 4: Do you look in the batter's box and go that
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  Speaker 4: hitter's got a torpedo bat. No chance he's getting a
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  Speaker 4: hit because he's trying to find a gimmick bat that's
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  Speaker 4: trying to fix his brutal swing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I had never seen one, and I saw I
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  Speaker 1: think Richie was carrying either Richie or Cab who was
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  Speaker 1: carrying them one around last night. And I guess, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if if our engineers and scientists are out there saying
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  Speaker 1: that it's better than I guess it's better potentially, but
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  Speaker 1: like it just it's like I'm trying to hit you'd
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  Speaker 1: be trying to hit something with a bowling pin. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe I just wasn't a good hitter, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I would not square a lot up. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's worked for some of the guys who have
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  Speaker 1: swapped to it. It's it's kind of definitely a very
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  Speaker 1: unique looking instrument. But I try to not pay too
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  Speaker 1: much mind to whatever bat people are swinging.
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  Speaker 2: How many beverages do you have during this interview? I
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  Speaker 2: see you with the coffee cup and the guts, all right,
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  Speaker 2: so stayin hydrated.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I was. I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was feeling a little fatigued on the way here,
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  Speaker 1: so I figured i'd get my second cup of coffee
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  Speaker 1: in and then you know, I had too much locker
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  Speaker 1: room coffee taste in my mouth, so I figured I
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  Speaker 1: try and wash it down with a little with a
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  Speaker 1: little water.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, Very good. If Chandler Simpson did a race
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  Speaker 2: running backwards, do you think you could beat him if
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  Speaker 2: you were running forward?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, probably not. I'm not very flight of foot by
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  Speaker 1: any by any matter. And he, like I said, it
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  Speaker 1: is probably the fastest human I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you should test that out maybe in
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  Speaker 2: the off season. Don't don't mess up your ye.
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  Speaker 1: That seems like a like a way to get me
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  Speaker 1: either scolded or hurt, And I'm not sure which one
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  Speaker 1: of those would be worse.
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  Speaker 3: You can't run. You can't run the ball to the play,
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  Speaker 3: tell on it.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: That's not that's not what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Very true. No, but I would I would need my hand.
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  Speaker 1: I do need that left hamstring. That one is important,
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  Speaker 1: even if I don't run on it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair, that's fair. Do we need to have
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  Speaker 4: more competitions like that? Or are players just so afraid
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  Speaker 4: and front offices so afraid of people getting hurt that were.
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  Speaker 3: Just like I would love to see.
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  Speaker 4: I would love to see the gimmicks pictures trying to
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  Speaker 4: do things that position players do.
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  Speaker 3: It's way more fun than a home run derby.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should bring back. I think we should
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  Speaker 1: have a picture's home run derby, if we should, If
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  Speaker 1: we have anything, I think that sounds that might be
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  Speaker 1: personally like like the best thing we could we could do,
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  Speaker 1: and we might have to of the fences in potentially,
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  Speaker 1: But oh, there's some there's some pictures are good at rotating,
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  Speaker 1: and if you're good at rotating, you can typically hit
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  Speaker 1: a baseball pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: All right, you're drinking coffee right now. Jose Alvarado has
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  Speaker 4: a tattoo of an espresso cup on his forearm if
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  Speaker 4: he if is have you ever seen anybody drink six
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  Speaker 4: cups of espresso or six shots of espresso more than
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  Speaker 4: more than Alvarado? You've seen anybody drink more than Jose Alvarado?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I well, we'll keep him nameless. But I
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  Speaker 1: did play with somebody that had to, uh had to
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  Speaker 1: become a healthy scratch because he had one too many
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  Speaker 1: cubanos down in Miami, cafeitos down in Miami.
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  Speaker 3: And what what did that look like? That look like
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  Speaker 3: just no blinking at all? Like you, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 3: on the mountain you don't blink on the mound, You're.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's listen. I know what he's talking about. He's
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  Speaker 2: talking about coffeetito. And if you have too much of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff, you're in you're in a J's toro toilet
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  Speaker 2: or whatever the heck that Japanese toilet is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a toto on a toto before and he loves it.
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  Speaker 1: I've not been on a toto, but we got some
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  Speaker 1: bidets in the trap, so I'm assuming it's pretty similar.
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  Speaker 2: And cardiac arrest too from espresso.
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  Speaker 1: That, yeah, we're going to go this nameless person, uh
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  Speaker 1: was more on the like thinking in his heart was
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  Speaker 1: going to beat through his chest. Then then then the
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: other side of thanks, Hey, ap uh.
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  Speaker 3: You went to University of Missouri, right. Have you seen
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  Speaker 3: their baseball? Have you seen their baseball team this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: What's their record in the SEC? Do you think? I
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  Speaker 3: think before the end of the year in the SEC, they've.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Got what six tries left or nine tries left? Mangum
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: assured me that if they played Mississippi State they could
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: beat them. But I have yet to see evidence to
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: the contrary.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: So Mangum, Mangum, I was just in Mississippi State a
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: couple weeks ago, and I went to two games of
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: the dude. By the way, if you don't know Mangum,
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: he's like a folk hero. There there was more Mangum
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: jersey legend. I'm like, they have all these other guys,
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: they could talk about it, and I'm like, why Mangum.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: He's the mayor kissing babies and shaking hands, the mayor
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: of Starkville.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, wow, I didn't realize.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: I knew, I mean, I knew he was a good player,
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: but I didn't realize that when I walked in there
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: there'd be more Mangum jerseys than Paul Marrow and Will
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Clark and some of these other Brent Rooker won the
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Triple Crown.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: The SEC they don't even talk about him.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: No, No, he's not the all time He's not the
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: all time SEC hit king. No where do I think
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: he was shaking hands and kissing babies to the extent
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: that Mangum probably was.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: They got a big They got a nice poster of
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: rook on there. They they give rook They give rookies due.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: When you talk about bad teams, do you guys in
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: the locker room ever look up and go, man, it's
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: gotta be How do you only win four games so
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: far this year for the Rockies or do you.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Say man of them against US?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I know that's what I was gonna get toast.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Look, I I choose to treat it as anybody can
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: beat you. As evidenced, anybody can beat you at any time,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: even if in the case of that second game against them,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I think we hit like twelve hundred mile an hour
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: balls directly at people. But that's why it's a great game.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: You can, you know, do everything right and never see
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a result for it. So you know that's part of it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: And the only team that I am, you know, pretty
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: down on right now my Missouri Tigers. Man, it's a
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: sad time. Between that and the abysmal, abysmal into DOAA
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: tournament performance, it's not a great not a great time.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And the Tiger fandom, well, at least.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: You have a baseball team at your university and at
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: least your basketball club made the tournament. So there we
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: have it. Pete Fairbanks a two three eight ERA over
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: twelve games. Ray is looking good. We appreciate your time,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: my friends, stay hydrated and we will talk to you soon.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Sounds good, Thanks for having me,