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FT at White Sox camp: Will Venable, Martin Perez, Korey Lee · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: But for us starting, it's one it's about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: creating an environment with these guys are happy to come
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  Speaker 1: to every day and that we have a positive environment
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  Speaker 1: that we're supporting our guys to be at our best.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we've got new White Sox skipper Will Benable
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  Speaker 2: with us right now. So well, I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: right to AJ's favorite question in camp. What was the
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  Speaker 2: speech to the boys?
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  Speaker 1: The speech to the boys, you know, it wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: motivational at all. You know, we just went through some
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  Speaker 1: of the clubhouse expectations, some of the expectations for out
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  Speaker 1: on the field, and then just talk through how we're
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  Speaker 1: going to use spring training to prepare for the season.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have a no pet?
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  Speaker 4: I did have a noped.
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  Speaker 5: Is that because to remember all the new names that
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  Speaker 5: you had to introduce of everybody or for your speech?
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  Speaker 4: That was for the speech. We didn't do the traditional intros.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: We tried to get in and out of there.
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  Speaker 1: I think between all the things we had to do
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  Speaker 1: was about thirteen minutes.
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  Speaker 4: So want to be did you went to the.
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  Speaker 3: Ivy League or don't they you just speech up speaker
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  Speaker 3: out of the notepad.
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  Speaker 1: I had to make sure man, Okay, yeah, I had
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  Speaker 1: to make sure I didn't mess this one.
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  Speaker 4: You got one shot, right, right, that's right.
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  Speaker 6: What what are some of those expectations that you can
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  Speaker 6: share with us that you're changing or just what you're
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  Speaker 6: bringing in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we talked about just little stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just like what we're gonna wear on the field, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how how we're going to spend our time, our expectations
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  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, for how we're going to treat each
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  Speaker 1: other and the clubhouse staff, and then just start talking
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  Speaker 1: about our vision for winning, you know, and the different
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  Speaker 1: things on a baseball field that we know contribute to
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  Speaker 1: winning baseball.
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  Speaker 6: Did you come up with these on your own or
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  Speaker 6: is it all just regurgitated from all your different stops.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you pick and choose the important things,
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  Speaker 1: the things that you know help winning and help having
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  Speaker 1: the kind of culture that you want to have. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, definitely seiling things along the way, and
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  Speaker 1: also collaborating with our staff now understanding our group and
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  Speaker 1: who we have and and the things that are important
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  Speaker 1: to the Chicago White Sox.
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  Speaker 5: Where do you start? I mean that and you know,
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty one losses last year. Where do
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  Speaker 5: you start what's the number one thing that you want
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  Speaker 5: to see from day one of camp to day opening
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  Speaker 5: day to the end of Game one sixty two.
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  Speaker 1: For you guys, well, certainly going out there and competing
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  Speaker 1: and playing hard every day.
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  Speaker 4: But for us starting it's it's one.
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  Speaker 1: It's about, you know, creating an environment where these guys
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  Speaker 1: are are happy to come to every day, and then
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  Speaker 1: we have a positive environment that we're supporting our guys
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  Speaker 1: to be at our best, and then also that we're
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  Speaker 1: focusing on the things that we know make a difference
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  Speaker 1: in winning baseball, and that's kind of a process where
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  Speaker 1: we're highlighting those things, we're presenting them to players, and
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  Speaker 1: then we're going out and training it and then ultimately
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  Speaker 1: holding them accountable to those things as well.
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  Speaker 5: It's weird because Bob Beckdall told me that the mood
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  Speaker 5: and camp is much worse this year than it was
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  Speaker 5: last year. So I don't know, I don't, I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I find that hard to believe because I see you smile,
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  Speaker 5: and I walk in there, everyone's smiling and happy, and
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  Speaker 5: so was Bob just wrong?
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  Speaker 4: Bob?
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  Speaker 1: You know what, Bob's got his opinions it must have
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  Speaker 1: been a really good camp for Bob.
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  Speaker 4: Last year. I felt like it was going good for Bob.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, we need he might need to
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  Speaker 1: come to the office and have a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Without yes, please send him down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, by the way, an international show. It's white
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  Speaker 2: tux pr For everyone that is unaware of Bob, he's
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  Speaker 2: a legend and they're kidding. But anyway, well, give me
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  Speaker 2: some names. Maybe not actually Aj is not we are, Well,
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  Speaker 2: give me some names. Who should we be watching the
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  Speaker 2: next couple weeks in camp And obviously that could spill
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  Speaker 2: into the season where we're like, hey, this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a guy for the White Sox for the
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  Speaker 2: next whatever five to ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it starts with Miguel Vargas. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a really important piece for us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see him a lot of third base, maybe some
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  Speaker 1: first base. You know, a young guy that you know
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  Speaker 1: has broken through the league but it really hasn't had
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  Speaker 1: that opportunity to establish himself yet. And we really believe
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  Speaker 1: in him and his abilities and just you know, gonna
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  Speaker 1: give him a runway.
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  Speaker 4: So he's somebody to watch for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Chase Mydrath is another guy we got in the Crochet trade,
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  Speaker 1: you know that you know, we'll see how it shakes
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  Speaker 1: up as far as opening day stuff, but he's somebody
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  Speaker 1: that we know is gonna help at some point. And
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  Speaker 1: as a really dynamic player, you know, really really good
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  Speaker 1: at bats, a really good approach, and just a fun
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  Speaker 1: guy to watch play baseball.
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  Speaker 6: As you guys are building this team from you know,
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  Speaker 6: kind of a groundwork approach, is it more important as
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  Speaker 6: an organization to develop super versatile players like you even
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  Speaker 6: talked about micguil Vargas and be like he's gonna play
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  Speaker 6: third and maybe some first There's been an era that's
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  Speaker 6: kind of lost where teams are like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 6: our shortstop, this is our third basement. Do you guys
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  Speaker 6: want to build a team of versatility and then you
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  Speaker 6: just have to do all the mixing and matching, or
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  Speaker 6: do you want, like dudes, to solidify Miguel Vargas as
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  Speaker 6: a third baseman for the White Sox for the next
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  Speaker 6: ten years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, probably a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I think to to you know,
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  Speaker 1: win a baseball game, you know, you have to depend
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  Speaker 1: on guys playing different positions, and you you know, you
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  Speaker 1: love that versatility. At the same time, you know, probably
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  Speaker 1: a lot of value in developing a guy to be
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  Speaker 1: your your corner cornerstone third baseman, you know, and there's
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  Speaker 1: certainly value to that. So yeah, in a perfect world
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  Speaker 1: you have everyday guys that are out there and can
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  Speaker 1: play one hundred and sixty two games. But until you
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  Speaker 1: get there, you know, having defensive versatility and guys who
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  Speaker 1: you can mix and matches really impactful.
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  Speaker 6: Another young guy in camp that hit a very famous
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  Speaker 6: home run something I've never seen, the Kyle Teal home
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  Speaker 6: run against Roki Sasaki. I'm assuming you saw the video.
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  Speaker 6: They sent it to you and made you smile. I've
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  Speaker 6: never seen another organization. I know you guys share the fields,
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  Speaker 6: come and take live at bats against another team's pitchers
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  Speaker 6: or another team's hitters.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a first for me too.
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  Speaker 1: It worked out, you know that where there wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: full B game where they didn't have the position players
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't have the pitchers, but there was a
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  Speaker 1: need to uh to provide some hitters and we had
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  Speaker 1: some hitters that need some of bats. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: worked out. Never seen it before either, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was good and we had a good experience over there.
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  Speaker 5: What's Will Venerable style? What's your style for the White
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  Speaker 5: Sox that you want to see because you know, I
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  Speaker 5: played for Ozzie and I played for Robin when I
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  Speaker 5: was here, and I played for different managers and you've
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  Speaker 5: played in worked under different managers. Ozzie was more of
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  Speaker 5: a I want to contact with some home runs and
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  Speaker 5: I want to put pressure and bunt and run and
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  Speaker 5: all that stuff. And then I played for some guys
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  Speaker 5: who were like, let's just see you guys hit it
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  Speaker 5: over the fence. So what what what is your ideal?
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  Speaker 5: And I know you're gonna say we want both, but
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  Speaker 5: are do you lean more towards one way or the other?
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  Speaker 1: I think naturally just the kind of player I was
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  Speaker 1: and the teams that I played on, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: able to pressure the defense, being able to to play defense,
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  Speaker 1: uh to pitch well, obviously we know that that leads
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  Speaker 1: to wins.
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  Speaker 4: But I do like to do stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I was an aggressive base runner and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate hitting runs and buns and doing all those things.
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  Speaker 1: And ultimately, you know, it's my job to figure out,
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  Speaker 1: you know what our group, you know, is going to
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  Speaker 1: need to do to win a game, right, and and
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  Speaker 1: that can look different ways on different days. And so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think our style is going to change,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it has to to find whatever we
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  Speaker 1: have to do to win a game that day.
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  Speaker 6: Are you the first straight build manager that we've ever
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  Speaker 6: seen in the big leagues? Because you're rocking the straight
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  Speaker 6: bill and I know that's your style. I don't know,
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  Speaker 6: I can't recall a manager that's done. It's Skip Schumacher
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  Speaker 6: a little so Cowboy might have might have tried it,
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  Speaker 6: but it never never is that straight? Are you the first?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm the first. Someone mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: the other day. I really haven't thought about it. It's just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I put a hat on and never thought
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  Speaker 1: about in it. But yeah, if I'm the first, hey,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll take it.
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  Speaker 3: What's a successful year for you this year?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think we have to uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to win games, right, you have to continue
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  Speaker 1: to to win and uh, you know, create momentum for
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  Speaker 1: this organization and that's important and wins and losses. I
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  Speaker 1: also think, you know, there's a ton of things internally
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be building that you know, we
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  Speaker 1: want to accomplish to make sure that we have success
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  Speaker 1: in the long term and the short term, and then
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  Speaker 1: we have to develop our players. You know, that's something
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  Speaker 1: that uh, you know, we're going to be judged on too.
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  Speaker 1: So there's gonna be a lot of stuff. But you
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  Speaker 1: know there's uh yeah, there's there's a lot of factors.
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  Speaker 5: As a White Sox fan and and the White Sox
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  Speaker 5: fans watching and listening to this, what's a realistic timeline
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  Speaker 5: for competitive I know you're gonna say we want to
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  Speaker 5: be competitive this year, but I'm talking competitive for a
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  Speaker 5: playoff run? Is it twenty six, twenty seven? We're we're
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  Speaker 5: we're in your mind and an ideal word of all
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  Speaker 5: these prospects work out. When is what is the year
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  Speaker 5: that you say, man, like we can really go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean soon, you know, I know that's not
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  Speaker 1: an answer, but but uh, you know, I think like
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  Speaker 1: focusing on the present and the things that we have
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  Speaker 1: to do, uh foundationally to to build here. Uh, that's
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  Speaker 1: where the focus is, you know, and however long that
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  Speaker 1: process takes, it takes. And I know that you know,
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  Speaker 1: the city, these fans and and this organization, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: deserves a winner and that that's that's on the horizon.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to, you know, grind and build to
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  Speaker 1: get there.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we're rooting for you.
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  Speaker 6: Have you been warned about Aj when you came in?
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  Speaker 6: Did you? Were you warned that Aj Prazinski is bad news?
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  Speaker 1: I did not get that warning warned.
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  Speaker 4: We've known each other for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy.
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  Speaker 4: He's not like like we just met today. It's like
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  Speaker 4: we just met today.
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  Speaker 6: This is different. Now, it doesn't matter. You already took
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  Speaker 6: a shot at Bob, So I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: He's not gonna apologize for being the White Sox number
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  Speaker 2: one fan.
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  Speaker 7: That's that's just who he is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, really appreciate it. We're rooting for you.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you during the season.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Thanks guys Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: new Chicago White Sox pitcher. Martin, great to have you. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're a veteran. You've bounced around the league a bit.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like to be with this team compared to
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  Speaker 2: some prior spots.
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  Speaker 8: I'm happy to be here, man.
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  Speaker 9: I know you know a lot of things happened last year,
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  Speaker 9: but this is a new year, and I think we're
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  Speaker 9: just getting ready for the season and doing no better,
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  Speaker 9: better job than last year.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, I just gotta say this, we played
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  Speaker 5: together in twenty thirteen. Now it's just funny when you
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  Speaker 5: see guy and he's the veteran guy, he's a ten
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  Speaker 5: plus years in the league.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's got.
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  Speaker 5: Gray hair and the beard. I mean, I remember this
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  Speaker 5: guy couldn't even grow a beard. Yeah, and you're out
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  Speaker 5: there chucking for us.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean a long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 8: Bet I'm just study to thirty three years old, not
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  Speaker 8: at old.
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  Speaker 5: You came up at like twenty one. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 5: always tell people I call your debut, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: your debut. It just felt like your debut because you
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  Speaker 5: were so much younger than me.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I remember those days.
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  Speaker 9: You help me a lot, and you told me a
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  Speaker 9: lot of things and how to do, uh you know,
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  Speaker 9: how to pitch, how we need to set up you know,
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  Speaker 9: hitters for for any pitches. And I think was a
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  Speaker 9: great opportunity for me to play with you and and
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  Speaker 9: a lot of better than guys.
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  Speaker 3: And you had Beltray and.
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  Speaker 5: Lolland yes, you had a lot of guys around.
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  Speaker 3: Punch would come around a lot too. So I hope
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  Speaker 3: you listen to and a lot you have to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, Uh, Martine. So then tell me now what
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  Speaker 2: you see in this camp and how you can be
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  Speaker 2: the Pierceinsky of White Sox camp.
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  Speaker 9: We have a lot of talent, man, I think, Uh,
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  Speaker 9: like I said, we're gonna have you know, the field
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  Speaker 9: that I have, the feelings that I have is.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be a good year.
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  Speaker 8: Man. I mean we also are getting ready for the season.
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  Speaker 9: We're building our arms to you know, have a you know,
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  Speaker 9: trying to go deep in the game. And you know,
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  Speaker 9: I've been talking a lot with the beachers, just started pitchers,
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  Speaker 9: and you know, we have to have goals and during
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  Speaker 9: the season, I mean, we've got to go out there
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  Speaker 9: every time and go more than a fire or sixteen
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  Speaker 9: and to give a chance to to the poop and
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  Speaker 9: to rest.
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  Speaker 8: I think that is one of the biggest kids in
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  Speaker 8: Big Leap.
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  Speaker 9: But uh, you know, everybody's getting ready and we're doing
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  Speaker 9: a good job, and I think everybody's in the same page.
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  Speaker 6: Is that any more exhausting to kind of take on
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  Speaker 6: a leadership role like you still got to get ready
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  Speaker 6: to pitch. You still got to go out every five days,
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  Speaker 6: earn your spot, keep your spot, elevate your value. You're
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  Speaker 6: only thirty two, ship, dude. They're signing six year deals
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  Speaker 6: at thirty two years old, Like you're not ancient, like
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  Speaker 6: AJ talks to you about.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 9: I just you know, I just when I sign here,
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  Speaker 9: the first team that I just have on mine is
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  Speaker 9: trying to help my pitchers to be in a good
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  Speaker 9: position to go our turn and compete because like I said,
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  Speaker 9: we we we have a lot of responsibility this year
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  Speaker 9: in Chicago because I know the fans the big wedding
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  Speaker 9: for for a good season, and I think this is
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  Speaker 9: gonna be a great season for us. We have new manager,
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  Speaker 9: uh and uh you know, I played with him, he
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  Speaker 9: was on my bench coach to two times, and and.
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  Speaker 8: I think the way that he communicate with us is
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  Speaker 8: really good.
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  Speaker 9: And when you have that kind of things as a manager,
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  Speaker 9: mean sense, then we're gonna be good and and we're
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  Speaker 9: gonna do you know a special thing for for this team.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's time for Chicago to turn the page
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  Speaker 9: and start you know good, Uh, a new history.
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  Speaker 6: What do you here in the off season, the last
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  Speaker 6: few seasons the Pirates and the White team, and then
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  Speaker 6: you get traded to good teams. What do you hear
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  Speaker 6: from the teams? Like to me, I think you are
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  Speaker 6: a are you peace to a winning team? And I'm
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  Speaker 6: not saying the teams you're on aren't winning. I'm saying
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  Speaker 6: that why are teams not calling you and being like
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  Speaker 6: our team for Rest Easy lot As are number three
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know what I was looking for.
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 15:17
  Speaker 9: The only thing that I know is just still can
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: get you know, people out and I know with all
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: the kind of stuff and with the below city and stuff,
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: and they maybe don't need my you know, my.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Job, and but uh I was.
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: I was positive season.
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: I was in Venezuela doing all my stuff and when
• 15:36
  Speaker 9: I got a phone call from uh this organization, I
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: told my agent I want to be there because I'm
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: want to be part of something good and and I think, uh,
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: you know, we just like I said, we're just getting
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: ready for for the uh you know, good job, and
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: and we're in a good position to to go out
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: there and you know do uh good things for these team.
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: And I trust my teammates, I trust my coaches, and
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: I think it's going to be good year for us.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: By the way, you're never a velocity guy. You're always
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: a cutter, change up guys.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, your velocity is still the same as when you
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: were twenty one twenty two. Yes, so you're never don't
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: don't change, keep doing what you're doing, soft contact, cutters
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: and change ups away.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: You'll be fine.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: You said some things not long ago about the White
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Sox team, like we're going to be better than people think.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Is it because of the prospects you've seen? Is it
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: because of the team you have and what gives you
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: that confidence in Will and Chris Getz and the rest
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: of the organization.
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: I think it's because the way that I see how
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: they however, that's being prepared. You know, I got here
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: early doing their stuff. We're going outside. We uh do
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: all the jat that we have to do. We do
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: all the.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: Little teams and and and.
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: I think when when you're doing that and you have
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: a good feeling with your teammates and and they feel
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: good when they're talking to you, when they look good
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: around you, I mean says, then everything good, something is
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: gonna happen. Uh.
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: And And how.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: They finished last year was was amazing. I think that
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: is a good Uh. They put that thing in a
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: good position at.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: The end of the season, and that was one of
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: the reasons that I signed here.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: You said you went back and trained in Venezuela all
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: off season. Not everybody does that. Can you hit on
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: what makes your decision to go back there? And do
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: you look at the guys that don't go back there
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: and you say, come on, guys, like all of us
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: guys need to come back together and build something awesome.
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I just I just do that because I still
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: live there and uh, you know, we have a lot
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: of you know, kids over there.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: I have academy trying.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: To mister Martin for academy.
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: Yes nice?
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: How can I never get an invite to come over.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: To go there?
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: And I think, uh, you know, Latin guys that needed
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: more education. That's one of the biggest teams that I
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: I want to do in my academy, trying to educate
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: them to to you know, not do stupid things outside
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: the field, and how they need to be prepared to
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: get to the big ley level.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: Because it's not too hard for me.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: And you know, I was doing everything what the coaches
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: told me to do, and was was, you know, was
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: not like a long process.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: For me to get to the big lead. And I
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: want to, you know, tell them what they need to do, how.
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: You need to talk to the people when you need
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: to talk, how you need to respect the people here.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: And that is one thing that I've been doing for
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: two years. And I'm happy to have that academy there
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: and help life to sign.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: How many kids you have, I.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Got five right now.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah, And you know, I think we have great talent
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: there and I'm just trying to talk to them a
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: lot because we all.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: Have the talent.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: What age are we talking, fourteen thirteen? You know, how
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: do you get more kids?
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: You can get more kids, but when you have a
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: lot of kids, you don't have a chance to talk
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: to all the kids.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: It's better when you have a small group.
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: You're gonna have a chance to speak with everybody and
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: then you can help them at the same time, because
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: when you have a lot of guys, you know, I
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: have to do my job before I go to the academy,
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: and then sometimes I don't have the time.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: To see the guys.
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: So with couple of kids, you can you can talk
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: to them as a group two hours a day. And
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: they're gonna learn. And that is one thing that keep
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: but me to be in this level. And I know
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: I have that talent. I just to teaching the bigger
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: You have the talent to teach guys and teach kids.
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: How is this process in the beginning?
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: Does Major League Baseball need to do better for Latin players,
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Dominican Venezuela and everything.
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: I think so, because it's not way.
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: Then you sign a guy who's thirteen years old and
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: you give them four millions, I mean because as soon
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: they got here, they think they're gonna be in the
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: big league quick.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: And it's not a way, you know.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: And and that's why I always speak with my with
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: my friends over there in Venezuela, and then we gotta
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: do we gotta do the things right because they're.
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: Just kids men, and and and you know, we are.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: Too careful because we do something wrong and and and
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: at some point you gotta pay for that because like
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: I said, they're just skared and and just I think
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: a big majorly based So they got to do a
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: better job in Latin America because what they're doing now
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: is not acceptable for me.
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: And uh, you know that's why.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: You can you guys seeing a lot of release because
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: they don't have that age to be or to be
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: part of a professional baseball team.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: And that's one thing that wants to stop.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: There's no money in Venezuela. You guys have made a
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: lot of money. Yeah, but.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: What's different times?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, twenty years ago was not the same
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: like right now.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: It's they're making like kind of business and they just
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: wanna like agents over there. They just want to make
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: money and they don't care.
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: About the kids. It's not a way man.
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: I mean, I think when you sign, when when you
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: sign a guy with a professional team, they need more
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: help when they start playing a professional baseball than when
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: they would. They're not they're not sign really like if
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: you during the process you just need aroudos, need help
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: from from your group, like from your academy. But as
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: soon you sign, it's a different process because first of all,
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: the language is hard for us, and then sometimes you
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: don't understand and you don't do what the coach is
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: telling to you. And I'm teaching the guys, I have
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: an English teacher to trying to teach them English too,
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: and trying to be prepared a little bit more and
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: and you know at some point they're gonna they're gonna
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: have a chance of plenty.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Big Martine, We really appreciate the time. That conversation. We'd
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: love to.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Get that needs to be heard. Yeah, needs heard.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I already heard.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, Corey Lee sitting down next to you,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: AJ Prazinski.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: Corey, great to have you on the show. Thanks for
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: the time. And how is camp? Yeah, of course, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: how is camp?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And obviously it's no secret this team lost a lot
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: of games last year, but but how do you push forward?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And what is kind of the team motto when you're
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: coming off a year like that?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a it's a new year of baseball.
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: It's another opportunity for us just to to learn as
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: a group, to learn as an individual player.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: And like you said, a lot of ups and downs
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: But I think we have a really really good group
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: of strong minded guys that come in here this year
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: and you get the job done. We we we've learned
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: from our mistakes, We've we've talked about it, we've we've
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: sat in meetings about it, and now it's just time
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: to go do it. And I think it's a really,
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: really good team to have on on our side of things,
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: and we're we're excited to get back to baseball.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Now, where's the start.
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: It's just starting from the from the ground up. I
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: think it starts with communication coming from the coaching staff.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I think, uh, we're really really good at that point.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: Will is really really black and white. Walker's really really
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: black and white. And it's just knowing what you're gonna
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: get every single day. And obviously I know what I'm
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: going to bring every single day, so it's also nice
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: just to kind of get their perspective and know what
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: they're going to bring every day for us.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: So I'm a huge Walker mckinvin fan. What is he
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: brought in this What are we like two and a
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: half weeks into spring training? What is he brought different
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: that you didn't see last year here?
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: I just think the determination to win, just coming in
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: here and really really wanting to make an impact this year,
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: not looking years down the road. I think we're looking
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: forward to to twenty twenty five and and just setting
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: setting a new stone and setting a new standard for
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: for the Chicago White Sox game.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: What is Will brought? What is Will as a new manager?
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: You obviously played for Pedro last year. What's the difference.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: I forget the difference. What is Will brought? I want
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: to hear about Will because he's the manager here now.
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: It's tough to get a read on him sometimes. Obviously,
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: right now, early in camp, I think he's doing really
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: really good job of just evaluating what he has. And
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: then obviously I think it's gonna be a different I
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: can answer that question differently in season because I think
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: he's going to open up more and and be more
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: vocal for us. But right now, really really level headed
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: and you could talk to him about anything. He's He's
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: communicative with us about what we're doing on the field,
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: what we're doing in practice, and why it's important. I
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: think that's that that why aspect is really really important
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: on on why we're doing this, what's it gonna affect
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: in the game, what's it gonna affect in season. So
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: just the transparency with with the coaching staff right now
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: is is fantastic.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Do you and do you and Andrew? Because you guys,
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: we're gonna get dig into you and Andrew being roommates
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: a little bit. Do you and him go say we
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: went to we went to cal I know you're an
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: ivy leaguer, but we're just as smart as you will.
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: No, I'm gonna give him the credit there. The Princeton's
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: really really impressive. And I know cal was was extremely hard,
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: but but.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: You went to class.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, as much as I could, but as much
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: as I could, but just the just.
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: The willingness to learn from him, and and I'm the
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: first conversation that I had with him was that I
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: looked up to him when he was playing in San
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: Diego and and just seeing the type of player that
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: he was and then seeing the type of person that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: He is now as a manager is incredible.
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: So someone someone to look up to, someone to hold
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: you accountable and just make you the best baseball player
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: that you can be.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: We're gonna hit on cal Real quick here, because aj
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: son and my son are both going to college to
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: be a catcher. How much school did you actually go
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: to during the season?
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: In in season? Tried to go as much as I could.
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: That's that's gonna be the answer. There obviously a lot
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: of priorities junior year to make this a real time
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: job that I kind of had to sit down and realize, Hey,
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: this is what you're gonna have to put into it
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: to make it to the big leagues or to get drafted.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: And I think that was kind of on my mind
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: a lot of the junior year, and not.
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: Over prioritizing baseball over over athletics, because he still had
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: to be eligible to go play, but it was just
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: a whole mindset change of like.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: All right, this is what I'm gonna do for my job.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: This is how I'm gonna approach it in the next
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: year is hopefully and it paid off that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Way, right Who was a Who was a better roommate
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: you were Andrew Vaughn.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Vaughn was a clean one.
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: He was the one to hold us accountable, to kind
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: of keep us calm a little bit, but he was.
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: He was outstanding from freshman year sophomore year. I moved
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: out junior year got a little bit better a spot.
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: But sophomore year we were kind of in the slums
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: and in a nice Berke Berkeley apartment.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: So that was fun, all right.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: So he told us, well, interview, We're gonna run his
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: interview later. We talked to him earlier. He said that
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: when you got traded, you had to tell him. He
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: didn't know. So were you mad at him for not
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: paying attention to what's happening and finding here you having
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: to call him, and he said you called him and said, oh,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: we're gonna be teammates, and he was like, wait what.
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: I think he had a little bit of a news before,
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: and I don't think he could share it with me.
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: I think they kind of did their research on me
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: obviously coming over as a catcher.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I think you need to do a little bit more
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: homework on that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: So I think they talked to him, and then yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: he was the first call as soon as I got drafted,
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: and I said, hey, man, we got to be teammates again,
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: and can't ask for a better, better teammate and a
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: better person, and just kind of made me made me
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: feel at home. A.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. He's the guy. I mean, you know, he's
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: the guy that you look up to. Exactly.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: He was your roommate, he was cleaning up your stuff,
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: and now you've got to look up to him, respect him.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I obviously got to give him some credit.
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: He's he's done fantastic job ever since he's he's debuted,
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: and he's had success that others can't even have. In
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: in a couple of years. So he's a he's a
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: smart guy to bounce ideas off of. He's a smart
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: guy just.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: To hang out with.
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: And he's a he's a really really good person to
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: have in our clubhouse.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Corey, I want to take you back to a moment
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: last year from a fan perspective that I'm genuinely curious about.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I can't hit a baseball, right, I'm a host. So
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: at one point, I think it was in May, you
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: guys were facing the Orioles Bratish had a really strong start,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: and you know it was a couple managers ago, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Pedro o'fohle said, you guys were flat and it was
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: unacceptable the whole deal. You know, now that it's some
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: time removed, can you take me more inside if that
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: is really the case for a team or if it's
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: more like, hey, sometimes you're facing a number one or
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a number two starter. So I just wanted to get
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: more insight on on, you know, from the fan perspective,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: what that really means, because it didn't look like you
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: guys weren't running the bases or you know, playing d
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: or anything like that.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: It looked like you just had to stick out it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I'm a I'm a catcher, so I
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: see pictures at their best a lot of the time.
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: So I'm I'm all in favor of giving pictures some
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: credit obviously when they need it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: And that day, dude heat he had all this stuff.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: He was working hard.
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: It's not like we weren't going up there with a
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: good plan to try to execute. And it was just
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: obviously tipic cat one day, and and he had.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: A good job.
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: And obviously the after the fact on what was said,
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: it was it was nothing, nothing bad.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: It was just the the.
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: Opinions that that we have didn't fall with the opinions
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: that he had. And I think you see it differently
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: as a player, and you see it differently as a fan,
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: you see it differently as a as a coach, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: obviously as a manager, and I think it was it
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: was communicated the wrong way.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I think we see things
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: a little bit different.
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: When we're out there in the box and and when
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: I'm behind the plate. Obviously, so a little bit of miscommunication.
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: But at the same time, you know what they get
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: paid to They drive nice cars, they got nice houses,
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: and and sometimes they're they're on their their their a
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: game that day.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: How good is conflict? My opinion is conflict in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: big leagues is really good because it's people questioning other people,
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: like hey, keeping keeping a standard and keeping each other accountable.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: Did you guys have good conflict last year?
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think we we learned a lot from it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: Everyone was on the same page in the locker room
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: as players, and I think that's the most important thing
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: that we can just carry out on the field. Everyone's communicating,
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: everyone's holding each other accountable.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Obviously, last year a.
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: Lot of up and down, and I think the group
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: that we had now is learned from that and we're
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: able to pick that apart and go into this year
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: with a healthy mindset. And we've learned from the failure,
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: we've learned from success, and now we have to put
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: it together for a one sixty two and have a
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: great one sixty.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Two this year. What do you need to improve personally?
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: Got to improve on just catching. I think catching is
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: the main aspect of this game, especially handling and pitching
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: staff handling twelve thirteen, fourteen, up to twenty pitchers in
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: a year. Just knowing these guys, knowing the in and out,
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: knowing how to communicate with them. I think that goes
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: a big part in my game. I think I could
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: talk to anybody. I think I can. I can get
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: through to a lot of people. But it's just the
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: consistency matter of checking in with my pitching staff, knowing
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: what they're doing, knowing what they're working on, knowing what
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: their strengths are, knowing what they did in the past,
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: previous start if it was really really good. Just continuing
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: to hammer that oath and just being being a sponge man.
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: I think that's the biggest thing that you could be
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: as a catcher is is you're a You're another staff
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: at the of the coaching staff, you're your staff at
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: the pitching staff. You're also a hitter, you're also an infielder.
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: You're doing all these things and I love doing it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: That's that's part of my job. That's part of my
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: daily routine is checking in with all these guys and
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: and making sure that we're all on the same page.
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: And I'm kind of that bridge between everybody and just
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: continuing to to be Corey.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Do you find other positions when you look at them,
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: You're like, that seems like a boring position. All the
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: stuff you just said, is exactly what I loved about catching. Also,
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: I sucked at hitting, so I guess that's why I
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: had to love all that stuff. But like, do you
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: look at an outfielder who's like working on a swing
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: in the middle of pitches and go, hey, you guys
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: must be bored this entire game.
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I can't do that whenever it's obviously spring training
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: with but I'm like dhing or if i'm if I'm
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: coming into the back end.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah I get, I get, I get to hit
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: a little bit sometimes.
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah, just trying to get the A b's and this
• 32:05
  Speaker 10: is just trying to stay locked in into the game.
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: But going off of just being in another position, I
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: would not want my career to be any other way.
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: Being a catcher is what I hold myself to. I
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: hold myself to a really really high standard. My brother
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: was a catcher. I looked up to you as a catcher.
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: I looked up to you as a catcher. It was
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: it was just really really cool to see the old
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: style catching and just kind of converting it into this
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: new era of of the of the position. So credit
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: to you guys for for doing a great job before me.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: You work on receiving with Walker does he does he
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: help you with that stuff? He does?
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, we're hammering out every day.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: Just know everything he teaches you, I taught him, so
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: essentially it's me teaching you. But I don't have to
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: go out to nasty, nasty, dirty Arizona. So make sure
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: he knows I told you that I.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Will really that to him.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Who who I got to ask this because I don't
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: know the engines. Who's gonna be your other catcher?
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: Sure that is, Uh, that's up to them to make
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: that decision. I'm still working for a job. I think
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: we're all coming in here working for a job and
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: the best person to win it. I think we're we're
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: all doing our thing. We're all coming in with the
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: same mindset, and we're we're really really young, healthy, strong,
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: talented catching core. So it's a lot of good things
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: to look forward to in in the White Sox organization.
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: We have a lot of catching depth, we have a
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: lot of catching coaches. We're we're hammering the receiving right now.
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: We're hammering the throwing, hammering the communication, and it's all
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: the right.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Things in good place. Oh yeah, all the all the
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: pitch coms.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's getting I'm getting the handle of it.
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: We changed it up a little bit this year, and
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: I think it's good for the game. It makes it
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: a little bit easier. No one's stealing signs now, I
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: don't got to worry about that. So we've got a
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: lot of good things going on in the catching.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: So you mean you go sit back there and go, man,
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: what we just changed the signs? What are they again? Yeah,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: and you have to call time out. You forget what
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: you call.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: I'm playing a video game now with on my knees.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: So it's it's it's a good time.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Have you have you have you guys ever in I
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: don't know, because you got all the catchers are all
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: they cover up their knee right. Have have you ever
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: noticed anyone you could see what button a press? And
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: if you guys, have you ever tried to figure it out?
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: I've tried to.
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: Whenever I'm on the bench or whatever, I try to
• 34:24
  Speaker 10: sneak in there. I try to pick the catcher all
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: the time. I know what he's trying to do because
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: I've done the same thing. But that's kind of my
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: job whenever I'm not playing, is to is to pick
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: the catcher. Pick the pitcher, pick the defense. All the
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: defense has pitch calms in their ears, so if a
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: slider's coming, they're all probably going to shift the other
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: side because it's the poll side.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: So you can see that.
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: And just using using the the game to your advantage
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: now and I think it's it's going deeper now and
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: starting to see trends on the PitchCom stuff, so it's smart. Yeah,
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: just trying to cal education right there. That much credit,
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: but just trying to learn, just trying to be a
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: sponge of this game.
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: We have an intern looking into this, but give me
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: the you're over under. The over under is set at
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: eleven and a half of pictures of AJ in your
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: spring training site, the entire site pictures of AJ. Set
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: it over under eleven and a half.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go under.
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: He's kind of hiding sometimes, so I don't I don't
• 35:22
  Speaker 10: see him too much, but uh, I'll go on.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: I'll go on the under on that side of things.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I don't see him in front of the camera too much.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: There's one right there.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: I know there's at least two right here that I
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: know of, because you know, he doesn't go to the
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: minor league side, there's there's a there's a couple like
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: you gotta kind of look in the bathrooms and there's
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: you know, in the urinals to find a couple of them.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: So he doesn't get he doesn't get down.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: You didn't go to the minor league side either. Who
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: are you talking to?
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: I went down I went down there twice. I've been
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: there twice already this week. It was my first time
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: walking past the door. There's like a door that separates
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: him and I never went down there when I played.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: And then Monday I went down there to see some people,
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: and then today I went down there to see some people.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: So I'm in there twice.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I could see a Jay Yeah, talking to the minor leaguers, like, hey,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the minor leagues is like for
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the White Sox, so you know, it's like, I mean, I.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Was like five years in when I came over.
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: It wasn't like.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: I got traded over.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: I came on my own.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I was a free agent.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get help in fifth grade, so my
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: dad's like, I skipped fifth so I can't help you
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: with this particular grade. Cool anyway, Corey, this was awesome
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: thanks for the time man, good to see you.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: Good luck this year, Okay.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Keep on going