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Braves DH Dominic Smith joins FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Tom Smith is the Braves on FT Live right now. Tom,
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  Speaker 1: great to have you on the show. Really really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the time and it's been awesome to watch you. So
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  Speaker 1: I've been following your story for a while, we all have,
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  Speaker 1: and you're having a great year.
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  Speaker 2: How fun is this for you?
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  Speaker 3: And welcome?
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  Speaker 4: Oh thank you guys for having me on the show.
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  Speaker 4: You know, obviously been keeping up with you guys, big fans,
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  Speaker 4: so to finally be on here is really cool and
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  Speaker 4: obviously you know, being able to be a part of
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  Speaker 4: this Braves team franchise, the history of this franchise speaks
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  Speaker 4: for yourself and just me playing in this division getting
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  Speaker 4: beat up on them by them, I would say, like
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  Speaker 4: I said, it's just full circle moment being over here
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  Speaker 4: and actually playing some real meaningful baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Tom, Are you excited because I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 5: Cincee on Saturday and last time I did a Braves game,
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  Speaker 5: do you know what you did?
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  Speaker 3: I do?
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  Speaker 4: You actually told me what I did? So I think
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  Speaker 4: I need to have more than just one of these games.
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  Speaker 4: You need to come every game.
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  Speaker 5: You hit the walk off Grand Slam and the opening
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  Speaker 5: weekend for the or as Adam Wainwright said, all the
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  Speaker 5: people in South Georgia call you bomb Smith at the
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  Speaker 5: walk off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's a good nickname.
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  Speaker 5: It is a good nickname, right, But yeah, so I'm
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  Speaker 5: expecting something. You can't hit a walk off Grand Slam
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  Speaker 5: in Cincinnati, but I'm gonna need something out of you.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna have to tell Walt that you got to
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  Speaker 5: play and you're gonna have to do something otherwise. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to come to Cincinnati
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  Speaker 5: in the middle the end of May and sweat my
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  Speaker 5: ass off watching you guys.
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  Speaker 3: No, we definitely need you in there. Don't worry. I'll
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  Speaker 3: talk to Skip.
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  Speaker 4: I'll remind him about everything that that went down. So
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  Speaker 4: hopefully it's not a problem getting me in there.
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  Speaker 6: Before we before we get into your year, like this
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  Speaker 6: is the best time, Like not superstition, but what would
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  Speaker 6: you like what would you where would you cut? Where
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  Speaker 6: would you draw the line if you said, every time
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  Speaker 6: AJ showed up to your field, he had to give
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  Speaker 6: you a hug and hang out with you after the game.
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  Speaker 6: How many like how many hits is at a minimum of?
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  Speaker 6: Like do you would you cut the line? Would you
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  Speaker 6: be like AJ is annoying me? Like ten days of
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  Speaker 6: hits or would you do the whole the whole season?
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  Speaker 4: Right, Whost even Whost seasons paid for his travel, pay
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  Speaker 4: for his hotel, pay for the full the full nine
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  Speaker 4: whatever he needs if he wants to play around the golf,
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  Speaker 4: I'll cover that, you know. So, Hey, you gotta do
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  Speaker 4: for the team and for the for for yourself.
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  Speaker 7: So would you let him be your roommate on the
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  Speaker 7: road in the Big League hotel?
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to be a roommate.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: No answer is no, because I ain't being no one's
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  Speaker 5: roommates old, I got forever in the show. I don't
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  Speaker 5: need no roommate, trust me, Mark Airbnbs, I ain't doing
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  Speaker 5: that either.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know my fiance would allow that.
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  Speaker 2: So, but.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have to sacrifice for a week. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta do what you gotta do for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of days.
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  Speaker 5: You know, listen, Dom, I'll do a lot of stuff,
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  Speaker 5: but I ain't getting a roommate. Sorry, sorry, I do
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  Speaker 5: a lot off.
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  Speaker 3: We could get the connecting rooms.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I get a room as long as as long
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  Speaker 5: as I got my own bathroom and there's a door
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  Speaker 5: between us and I don't have like Michael beer sleeping
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  Speaker 5: next to me, sitting fifty alarms like that. Then I'm
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  Speaker 5: good as long as I have I need some space, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: personal space.
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  Speaker 2: You've got that.
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  Speaker 3: I got you.
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  Speaker 1: So so Dom's let's dig into bits, like what do
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  Speaker 1: you have for us this year? I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: you've been asked this probably a million times, but but
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  Speaker 1: what for you individually?
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  Speaker 2: And then what for you with this team?
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  Speaker 3: Feels good?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll start with the team first. When I got
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  Speaker 4: here in spring training, I just noticed how selfless this
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  Speaker 4: group was. I just noticed, like this superstars, Like they
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  Speaker 4: don't have an ego. They just want to win. They
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  Speaker 4: want to get after business. And a lot of guys
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  Speaker 4: in his locker room was pretty much not satisfied with
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  Speaker 4: the way last year ended. And they're just very professional
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  Speaker 4: and they're very detail oriented. And I think the main
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  Speaker 4: thing is the main thing, and that's went involved game
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  Speaker 4: to getting back to the playoffs and obviously trying to
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  Speaker 4: compete for a world series.
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  Speaker 3: So this team is very just.
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  Speaker 4: Like prepared, I want to say, and they know just
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  Speaker 4: what they want to do. And then for myself, like
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  Speaker 4: I told you know, KP, one of you guys colleagues
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  Speaker 4: on the show, a few years ago when I played
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  Speaker 4: here in Boston, actually I got what you know, Pete
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  Speaker 4: the hitting coach, Foster, and he really just kind of
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  Speaker 4: broke down my swing a lot, and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: it was just going back to the basics, going back
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  Speaker 4: to stuff I did in high school, and he pulled
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  Speaker 4: up some of my high school video and he just
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  Speaker 4: asked me why I stopped doing this, and I kind
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  Speaker 4: of laughed and said, well, you know, the coaches said
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  Speaker 4: this wouldn't work, and he said, come on, this has
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  Speaker 4: definitely worked. This is how you swing, this is how
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  Speaker 4: you create power, and this is how you are. This
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  Speaker 4: is what you grew up doing. You're a handsy hitter.
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  Speaker 4: You create power with your barrel turn. And we just
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  Speaker 4: really dove into that and getting back to just me
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  Speaker 4: being an athletic in a box, and from there on
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  Speaker 4: it just really clicked. And from there now, I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I can just be myself in a box, compete
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  Speaker 4: at a high level, and I just have that confidence.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's the biggest thing is when you
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  Speaker 4: go into the box, one you want to just be
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  Speaker 4: able to compete and have confidence, but also understand that
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  Speaker 4: you're in a good place with your mechanics, So just
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  Speaker 4: diving into all that being in a good spot in
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  Speaker 4: this team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're so I don't want to say we're great,
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  Speaker 3: but it's a good team to be on.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We set each other up.
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  Speaker 4: Every time I look up, I feel like there's ducks
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  Speaker 4: on a pond or they're working a picture down. So
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  Speaker 4: it's a lot of credit to the guys before me
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  Speaker 4: in this lineup too.
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  Speaker 2: Bother, I'm a last minute guy.
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  Speaker 7: Did you laugh? Did you laugh at him when he
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  Speaker 7: started bringing up high.
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  Speaker 6: School video from io Sirah?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Sir, birl Sarah high School? Yes, sir, he'd brought
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  Speaker 4: up that high school. I'm looking at him like I
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  Speaker 4: was a different player, one hundred and eighty pounds. I'm
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  Speaker 4: standing straight up highlight kick and he's like, dude, this
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  Speaker 4: is you. And for me, I really laughed because I
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  Speaker 4: remember those days.
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  Speaker 3: I remember.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say how easy the game was,
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  Speaker 4: but I remember that the game just it just kind
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  Speaker 4: of flowed for me when I was athletic in a
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  Speaker 4: box and I was able to make better swing decisions
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  Speaker 4: and uh, like I said, we handled that out. Obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's not as drastic, it's a little bit more simplified.
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  Speaker 4: But me just getting back to using the whole field,
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  Speaker 4: not trying to be a pool homer guy.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's kind of what I grew up. I grew up.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like a throwback player, you know. I really
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  Speaker 3: grew up on hitting for average and and just hitting
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  Speaker 3: the ball all over the park.
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  Speaker 6: So what what is the what is what is it
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  Speaker 6: like truly coming home? You said you used to get
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  Speaker 6: beat up on by the Braves when you played in
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  Speaker 6: the Division. You watched them from afar, But you went
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  Speaker 6: to high school in Georgia, like you're you're back home?
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  Speaker 7: Did you?
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  Speaker 2: Did you? Did you know?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I went to high school in l What.
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  Speaker 7: Did I say, Georgia? I read c A.
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  Speaker 6: It's my bad California. So you're not you got no
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  Speaker 6: connection to Atlanta? You'd rather be No, I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just kidding, Harris. Did you did you get the introduction?
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  Speaker 6: Not introduction, but did you get welcomed into Atlanta like
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  Speaker 6: you thought you would?
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  Speaker 7: Or were you like you know what, I'm not one
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  Speaker 7: of these big time guys.
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  Speaker 6: I'm kind of a feeling at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 6: year with out that big Grand Slam that you hit
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  Speaker 6: for AJ, do you feel like you would have been
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  Speaker 6: welcomed into this city like you have.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I honestly, you know think so.
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  Speaker 4: Like I told you, guys just started back in Spring Granning,
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  Speaker 4: when I went into the clubhouse, everybody gave me a
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  Speaker 4: hug like I was on the team and I was
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  Speaker 4: the NRI guys. So it just speaks the values of
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  Speaker 4: the culture that they set here. These guys really just
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  Speaker 4: love each other. They love coming to the ballpark. Everybody's
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  Speaker 4: here early. They're talking about the game, they're talking about
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  Speaker 4: scaling reports, they're hanging out after the game and just
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  Speaker 4: talking baseball. And like I said, I think that they
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  Speaker 4: know what they want to do, what we want to accomplish,
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  Speaker 4: So we're just very focused on that. And to see,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, so many of these great players on
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  Speaker 4: my team have no egos, whether it's on the pitching staff,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's on the offensive side. They welcome everybody and
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  Speaker 4: like family and they just want each other to see
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  Speaker 4: each other succeed.
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  Speaker 3: And you feel that, and I think that's the reason
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  Speaker 3: why where we're at right now.
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  Speaker 5: While we're on how do you say a junior pariser,
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  Speaker 5: isn't it Jay Sarah? Doesn't it go by Jay Sarah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well Jay Sarah is the one in Orange County. I
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  Speaker 4: went to the one, and oh, so there's.
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  Speaker 5: Two different ones. That's why I was confused.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I went to the one in
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  Speaker 3: the inner City.
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  Speaker 4: They had like Robert Woods and the Dority Jackson and
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  Speaker 4: uh like Marquise Lee, like we're more football heavy school.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of baseball players came out of there. But
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  Speaker 4: our school was in the inner City. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to say I wish I went to the Jay Sarah,
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  Speaker 4: but I know Jay Sarah definitely had uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: more more funding, I would say so.
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  Speaker 5: But also, but you guys had you guys should have
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  Speaker 5: got some money from one of your you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: Scott might even know who your most famous alumni is.
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  Speaker 5: The was famous alumni from your high school?
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  Speaker 3: From my high school?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or from no, from your high school.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it probably has to be like Robert Woods. I
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  Speaker 3: would say, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, well, Montel Jordan.
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  Speaker 7: This is how come on, man, come on, walk out song,
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  Speaker 7: walk out.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to show some love. I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to show some love, appreciate I mean, for real, the
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  Speaker 4: legend that he is. You're right, I'm not bad. I
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  Speaker 4: gotta put some respect on his name.
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  Speaker 3: I'm bad.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that song is still on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: Also deep, he went deep into the I like that
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  Speaker 3: you got.
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  Speaker 2: Out of sports for a moment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we gotta get we gotta get high school love
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  Speaker 5: up in here. You know, he's no DJ Khaled, but
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  Speaker 5: like we had my high school or you know, Louis Fonsie,
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  Speaker 5: but he's close.
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  Speaker 2: He probably don't know who he is, though, I guarantee you.
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  Speaker 7: All the kids song.
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  Speaker 5: That song is everywhere still.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, come on wedding.
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  Speaker 5: What I want to know is what's your being a
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  Speaker 5: first rounder? I know, I know I wasn't a first
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  Speaker 5: round pick, but the first rounder is awesome, right, But
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  Speaker 5: then you're a first rounder with the Mets. Does that
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  Speaker 5: come with the expectations that sometimes are hard to live
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  Speaker 5: up to? Unless I mean, I don't know how you mean.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I would say David right, but even him,
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  Speaker 5: people say, oh, well, he got hurt and he never
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  Speaker 5: fulfilled everything he was supposed to be. Is it something
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  Speaker 5: different about being a first rounder with a team like
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  Speaker 5: the Mets.
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  Speaker 3: I would say yes and no.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously you have the media and the fan base that
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  Speaker 4: is very passionate and they just want to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: see every player they drivet become a superstar and when
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  Speaker 4: Everyworld Series, so the expectations are very high, and that
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  Speaker 4: just comes with the territory. I had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: great veterans who you know, helped me navigate through all
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  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, and me being from la I
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  Speaker 4: think that kind of helped me not really feed into
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  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. I understand that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they pay their harder money and they just want to
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  Speaker 4: see a good product on the field, and that's what
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  Speaker 4: you have to understand. So they want guys who play hard,
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  Speaker 4: who don't make excuses, and who play well. And baseball
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  Speaker 4: is a tough game, you know, it's kind of impossible
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  Speaker 4: to do good every game. So I just kind of
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  Speaker 4: equated like the year when Judge went MVP and then
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  Speaker 4: he went into the postseason and all the Yankee fans
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  Speaker 4: kind of, you know, booed him and talk crap about him,
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  Speaker 4: and it's like, this guy was just the best player
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  Speaker 4: in the game all year, and now he had two
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  Speaker 4: bad weeks and you guys hate him like it's just
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it makes no sense, but like I said,
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  Speaker 4: it comes with the territory, and I understand it.
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  Speaker 3: I love that fan base.
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  Speaker 4: They gave me a chance to go and start my
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  Speaker 4: career and flurish and learn so much about myself about
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  Speaker 4: just professional baseball and just being professional too, and I
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  Speaker 4: can't thank them enough.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, and like I.
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  Speaker 4: Tell people this all the time, I feel like you
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  Speaker 4: rather go to the ball park and have that expectation
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  Speaker 4: then the opposite when you go to a ball park
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  Speaker 4: and it's ten thousand fans or one thousand fans and
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  Speaker 4: nobody's talking mess. So I think as athletes, that's something
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  Speaker 4: that from a young kid, we want to play meaningful games.
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  Speaker 3: We want to play games that matter.
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  Speaker 4: And when you play for that fan base like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know they care, they're passionate, so they just want
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  Speaker 4: to see the best.
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  Speaker 6: Let's say today you was on the twenty seventeen Mets
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  Speaker 6: and twenty two year old you strolled into the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 7: What would you tell them?
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  Speaker 4: I probably wouldn't say anything. You know back then, you
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  Speaker 4: know when you when you when you're young, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: you just kind of you know, try to find your
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  Speaker 4: place and fit in with the group, and you try
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  Speaker 4: not to make too much noise. You know, nowadays it's
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  Speaker 4: a it's a new era, so they're obviously empowering the
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  Speaker 4: young player to be themselves, to lead, and you see
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  Speaker 4: the game they is amazing. The game is pretty elite
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  Speaker 4: like on off that sits whether it's on offensive society,
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  Speaker 4: you see guys hitting crazy stuff, doing crazy things. And
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  Speaker 4: then on the pitching side, I mean it's unbelievable how
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  Speaker 4: they can spin the ball and tunnel pitches, and I
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  Speaker 4: think the game is then a great spot. And you
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  Speaker 4: know these young players are coming up and they're doing
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  Speaker 4: a great job handling themselves and just put on the
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  Speaker 4: show for the fans.
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  Speaker 2: AJ gave me a line on Blue Chew.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, twenty seventeen was your first season and we're
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: almost ten years from that mark. So what's crazy to
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: me is, like you mentioned how much the game has changed, Right,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: the stuff gets better, there's rule changes. The topic of
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the day for us has been the way that teams
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: are looking for tips or any kind of signs. Right,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: You're obviously not seeing signs from the catcher for the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: most part. It's electronic. So so just on that topic,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you know, we went over Avenue Rebay and it turned
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: into Ali Marmal talking about how the Brewers and Cardinals
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: were getting into it last night in this series, saying, hey,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: you're taking stuff from the dugout. So I just want
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: to get your big picture take on how much that's changed.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: And you know, AJ and Kratz say they're surprised they
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: were playing when you you know, we're entering the league
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: that now people will just like give away signs at
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: second base and not care and they're not worried about
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: getting hit. So wanted to get your whole take on
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: how that's changed and how how much it's a part
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: of the game that we don't even necessarily talk about
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: right now or talk about enough, like is it an
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: everyday thing?
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say when I first came into the
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: league in seventeen, we were very behind. We were very
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: behind on you know, sign stealing or relaying signs or
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: finding out tips and just seeing the evolution like you said,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: over the last few years. I think every team is
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: trying to do something to gain an advantage.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: And this game is hard.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: You know, guy that are throwing a hundred with nasty spin,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. So if you try and to
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: do what you can to help your teammates on the field.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's fair game obviously, if you are
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: blatantly showing stuff up and you can't do it as
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: discreetly as you should be. I think that's also the
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: game within the game, because you know, I know, sometimes
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: teams don't even have sign and they're trying to just
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: get into the pitcher's mind, psychology, psychologically and really mess
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: him up so he can make a mistake for the hitter.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: So it's a lot of different game within the game.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: And if you kind of teeter on that edge, you
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: open yourself up to, you know, whatever happens with that,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: and if that's being hit by a pitch or you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: you gotta charge them out or whatever the case may be.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: That's always been a part of our game.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: So I think that.
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  Speaker 4: For me to just see how much every team is
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: really trying to find the edge that way, it's pretty interesting.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: And I don't think it's going to change. I think
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: teams are always going to try to find a way
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: and this is going to be a part of it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: And if guys I don't want to throw at guys,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: that's on them. If they do, then that's on them.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: So I think it's it's really just up to kind
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: of the players, you know, if they want to police it,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: if they don't want to police it. They think it's
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: you know, within the game right now, there's really no
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: rules about it. And I think it's just it's really
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: like the Wild I West right now.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I like it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: By the way.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: I know you need to be out, but I don't care.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Tell your PR. Tell Frank Franco and their PR staff.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: I got one more question, so they can they can
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: yell at me on Saturday. I don't know if it's there.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: I was in Boston with you.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Time.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, so here's my question for you. You
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: got old man Chris Sale with this grave Santa Claus
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: looking beer on your team. If someone was stealing Chris
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Sales signs, would.
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  Speaker 7: He say something?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: He'd just be like, oh, okay, don't worry about it, guys.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: You just stand back there and jump around and do
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: all these pointing and all this crazy stuff. For Chrissel,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: even at his advanced age of however old he is,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: you could tell him I said all this stuff because
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: he's bad at texting me back that. What what do
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: you think Chris Sale would do if that was him
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: out there on the mound and Dom Smith was jumping
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: around second base going slider slider slider.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: To be honest, I think Chris Sale would punch the
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: batter and then he would walk him down and talk
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: mess and cuts out, you know, the guy on second
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: on the way off the field, you know.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I don't think he's gonna
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: step off and like cause a big scene. I think
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: he's gonnack it in and really focus on striking out
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: that hitter and then just letting you know, like you
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: could know what's coming, you still can't hit me. So no,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: And it's funny like you know, hanging out with Chris,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: you know, being his teammate and just seeing just his mentality,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: like he's really convicted and everything he throws and his
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: mindset is so strong. I don't even think stuff like
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: that would even bother him. Like he's so focused on
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: like making his pitch, and if he makes his pitch,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: he really feels like nobody can hit it. And I
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: think when he when he does that, you know, guys
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: have a hard time. So I'll ask him though, I'll
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: definitely ask him.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Tell he's changed.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I will he's changed.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well he caught his debut.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: He's gotten softer over his sixteen years.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: I'll let him know. I let him know. He's gonna
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: see you on the Friday.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: So oh yeah, he'll see me. Don't worry, he'll see
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: me in hear me, don't you worry?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Well this was great. Well we'll let you go do
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: your thing.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Hey, Dom, one more thing. So if you don't play
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: on Saturday, can we at least get you in game
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: to do an interview?
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Und I got you. Guys, Okay, thank you because we.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Have at times sometimes a lot of guys won't say yes.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: But really during the game, pay me my money.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Come on, No they don't know. Come on, man, that
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: got m money at Fox. Man, we're lucky. We got
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: microphones at Fox.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: We're like the we like to we're like, we're like.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: He was an n R T guy, I.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: Said in a sool Georgie's from l A. He's he's
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: an n R guy And he said money, Come on Fox,
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: pay up.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: We're recruiting here. Uh. Dom, appreciate it, man, great to
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: have you on. You'll you'll get more.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: A j On the weekend and thanks for joining us
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and we'll get you back some time.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you, fels love it show, keep going. Appreciate you
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: all having me on