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FT at Red Sox camp: Alex Bregman, Liam Hendriks · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Been able to feel that for the last eight years
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  Speaker 1: of my career playing in the postseason, which is nice,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like guys rise to the occasion in
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  Speaker 1: those situations.
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  Speaker 2: It's about territory.
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  Speaker 3: Live from Red Sox gam I'm gonna pretty much just
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  Speaker 3: step aside because we've got two dudes that know our
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  Speaker 3: first guest really well. So maybe and crats on today
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  Speaker 3: with Alex Bragman Camp. Why don't you entrail your boy?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to you know this guy, gold Glove.
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  Speaker 4: I said it before, one of the best, if not
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  Speaker 4: the best third basement in the game, and the numbers
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  Speaker 4: speak for itself. Playoff legend, this dude when it's time
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  Speaker 4: to show up and show and show out. My boy
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  Speaker 4: is always on time when you need him. So Alex
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  Speaker 4: Bregman newly Red Sox, excited to have you on, my boy.
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  Speaker 4: How you feeling new camp, new digs. You look good
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  Speaker 4: in red and blue. All I got to say it.
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  Speaker 5: Dog, Thanks Bro.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling good, excited to excited to get this season kicked off.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a great vibe in camp right now.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I think we got like maybe eight days left
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  Speaker 1: and then we are seven days left. Then we had
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  Speaker 1: to Mexico for two days and then open the year
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. So everything's trending in the right direction. Guys
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  Speaker 1: are feeling good. We've been pretty healthy overall as a
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  Speaker 1: as a team, so looking forward to a good year.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know Alex is happy to have you
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  Speaker 4: back or be back with you. I tell people all
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  Speaker 4: the time, some of the most incredible baseball minds I've
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  Speaker 4: been around, Alex Korra, Alex Bregman, aj Hinch. Some of
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  Speaker 4: these guys know the game, they pay attention to the detail.
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  Speaker 4: But like you said, eight days out from camp, I
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  Speaker 4: want you to just tell me before we get going,
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  Speaker 4: give me your most memorable opening day. While I got
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  Speaker 4: my boy, Cratz and y'all here, please, you talked about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I wasn't even in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we actually I went and played in the exhibition
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  Speaker 1: games in Houston and Kratz just we're watching on TV
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  Speaker 1: and Corpus I think, and Crats just runs out and
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  Speaker 1: trips falls on his face. We didn't know what was
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  Speaker 1: going on, and it was like trending on social media
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  Speaker 1: and we were like won the world just going on crazy.
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  Speaker 5: You want to explain what happened?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I got I got a little extra cash,
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  Speaker 6: so I got paid two grand to do it.
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  Speaker 7: You might as well.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't have I didn't have this big payday coming
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  Speaker 6: like you had, you know, first round or big big
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  Speaker 6: baller coming out of the you know, getting that getting
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  Speaker 6: their cash, getting that cash while you're.
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  Speaker 7: In college already. So I had to I had to
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  Speaker 7: put money on the table. I had to put food
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  Speaker 7: on the table for the kids.
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  Speaker 6: But my question to you, because we were kind of
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  Speaker 6: talking about this before, now that you now that you
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  Speaker 6: got that newly minted contract, you've made your cash in
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  Speaker 6: your career.
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  Speaker 7: How much would you have paid me?
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  Speaker 6: Because Scott Feldman and Luke gregorson Luke Gregerson both gave.
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  Speaker 7: Me a g to do it. So what's bred in.
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  Speaker 5: Another g as well?
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  Speaker 7: I like that and I'll take it. I'll take it.
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  Speaker 5: Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, So new Digs, new team. A lot has been
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  Speaker 4: talked about about positions change. You're a guy that came
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  Speaker 4: up a short stop. I know, even when you played
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  Speaker 4: third for Houston ash Ros. You move, you moved because
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  Speaker 4: you know, got a guy close Korea. What's your outlook
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  Speaker 4: on this camp? You know, I think when I look
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  Speaker 4: at the roster. Look at the pitching depth.
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  Speaker 8: You were the piece that.
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  Speaker 4: They needed, right you show up the defense. Uh, you're
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  Speaker 4: incredible controlling the zone in the box. What are you
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  Speaker 4: looking forward to the most being the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: I think obviously after getting to know all these guys,
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  Speaker 1: just going out and competing. Obviously I've admired guys like
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  Speaker 1: Raffi and Jaron playing against them and Trevor as well.
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  Speaker 1: And first, when it comes to a position, I'll play wherever,
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  Speaker 1: wherever they want me to play, I'll play. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to contribute and try and help this team win
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  Speaker 1: ball games. And I think, I think what excites me
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  Speaker 1: the most about this team so far is just how
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  Speaker 1: locked in everybody is. Everybody's focused. There's a confidence here
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  Speaker 1: in these first four weeks or so off camp that
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  Speaker 1: guys are ready to win. We believe that we have
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  Speaker 1: a good team that's ready to go and compete at
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  Speaker 1: the highest level in this game.
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  Speaker 6: Back back when you guys first started breaking into the playoffs,
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  Speaker 6: you said famously, I'm stick of putting sunscreen on to
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  Speaker 6: play these playoff games. Now, I absolutely loved what you
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  Speaker 6: said because one it had swag, one it had confidence,
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  Speaker 6: but it also was like, bro, stop putting this at
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  Speaker 6: the eleven thirty start for a playoff game. Now you're
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  Speaker 6: in an environment, and you guys created an environment where
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  Speaker 6: you guys played the played the late games, and you
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  Speaker 6: guys were the marquee matchup. Now you're in an environment where,
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  Speaker 6: no matter what you do, if you guys go oh
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  Speaker 6: in one sixty two or one sixty two and oh
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  Speaker 6: and win the World Series, this is.
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  Speaker 7: A big pressure cooker. Do you feel the difference from
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  Speaker 7: your first four weeks justin spring.
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  Speaker 1: Training, I'd say, I'd say obviously, playing like you said,
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  Speaker 1: playing in the playing in the postseason for the first
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  Speaker 1: seven eight years of my career. Obviously, when you get
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  Speaker 1: to the postseason, there is a there is a great
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  Speaker 1: pressure that you feel. And I feel like I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it'll be that way every game here, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like guys play play to the best of their
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  Speaker 1: abilities in those situations. I feel like a Tuesday game
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  Speaker 1: and in April will be packed and rocking or yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like the pressure there is here
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  Speaker 1: is awesome, and I feel like we've been able to
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  Speaker 1: feel that for the last eight years of my career
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  Speaker 1: playing in the postseason, which is nice. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like guys rise to the occasion in those situations.
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  Speaker 4: I want to ask you, new team, new Digs was
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  Speaker 4: a little weird walking to here, you know, on a
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  Speaker 4: new day.
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  Speaker 5: Just be honest, right, it was very weird. It was
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  Speaker 5: very weird.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you you get a custom him to you
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  Speaker 1: get a customed to doing the same thing for the
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  Speaker 1: first eight, nine nine seasons, and then it's like whoa
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  Speaker 1: completely new complex, new faces. You're trying to learn everybody's name,
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  Speaker 1: but players in here, the coaches, the staff, the front office.
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  Speaker 1: Has been great. Been getting to know everybody, and it's
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  Speaker 1: been fun.
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  Speaker 5: It's honestly, it's been fun.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're a guy that you don't go in
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  Speaker 4: the past. Have you went any way missed out on
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  Speaker 4: watching Jose trying to conquer left field?
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  Speaker 5: Of course? I mean he.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about just then, unbelievable teammate, guy who you want
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and compete next to every single day.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously I loved every single second of being his teammate.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's been fun watching him. I saw him
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  Speaker 1: run one down in the gap yesterday in left field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in spring training, they like Peene always used
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  Speaker 1: to say that he was faster than Jose, and whenever
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  Speaker 1: Jose wanted to, he go in the race at the time.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to watch him track some balls down
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  Speaker 1: out there. Just hopefully they're not mind.
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  Speaker 6: Wait, you're talking about pain. You're always talking about speed.
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  Speaker 6: We were at camp last week or two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 6: He said he's gonna steal fifty bags. You said, come on,
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  Speaker 6: you gotta give me. You gotta be honest. Yes or no.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not looking in the middle.
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  Speaker 5: Yes or no, I'll give him. Yes, I'll give him.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, come on, man, this is a lot of bags.
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  Speaker 7: You know how tired you get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to get I'm trying to get four.
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  Speaker 1: I think I had three last year. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: add one more to the total.
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  Speaker 3: way to rip open a pack and get a really
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  Speaker 3: good card. AJ But also if you're not into the card,
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  Speaker 3: like I know you pulled a Bob Gibson card recently,
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  Speaker 3: you can get an offer of ninety percent of the
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  Speaker 3: estimated value and just accept it. On the spot and
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  Speaker 3: give it right back and maybe try again with another
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  Speaker 3: slap pack.
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  Speaker 9: I ain't getting rid of my Bob Gibson autographed card.
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  Speaker 9: Bob Gibson ain't card signing cards anytime soon, so I'm
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  Speaker 9: keeping this one. It gets graded for you. There's no mess.
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  Speaker 9: The only thing I wish they had Bubblegum. Can they
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  Speaker 9: virtually send me some bubble Gump stuff? Other than that,
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  Speaker 9: it's awesome. You can buy sell cards, they grate them
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  Speaker 9: cards if you want them, So I'm all for this.
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  Speaker 9: This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those cards are in your showroom in the app,
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  Speaker 8: Crancy, you got it.
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  Speaker 4: You got one for them own. I want to ask
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  Speaker 4: you about free agency because you know, going into it,
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  Speaker 4: I went through it never been a player you were,
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  Speaker 4: Was it what you expected, or I mean just being
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  Speaker 4: real because me personally thought, you, you know, you should
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  Speaker 4: have got everything you thought you deserve.
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  Speaker 8: How was it for you?
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  Speaker 5: Actually it was kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, met with a met with a lot of teams,
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  Speaker 1: and then honestly, everything just happened in like the last
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 5: It was like it was kind of rapid fire.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we thought we were going somewhere else the
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  Speaker 1: entire time, and then in like the last thirty minutes, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we talked to Boston and it got the.
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  Speaker 5: Deal got done. But no, I think, uh, it was
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  Speaker 5: definitely different than I expected. But it was. It was
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  Speaker 5: a it was a good process.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm super thankful to be here.
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  Speaker 7: Where Where did you think you were going? I mean
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  Speaker 7: you just you said it.
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  Speaker 1: We we thought we thought we were going to be
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit the entire time, honestly, and then at the
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  Speaker 1: at the last second, Boston kind of came in.
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  Speaker 7: What how how much is how much did AJ influence that?
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  Speaker 6: Obviously everybody talks about money and development to win all
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  Speaker 6: that stuff. What is your relationship with Aj Hitch and
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  Speaker 6: how much and how much was that?
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  Speaker 7: Were those conversations being.
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  Speaker 5: Had no it's a it's a great relationship.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's an amazing manager, great guy. We talk
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  Speaker 1: all the time, and we were talking all off season
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  Speaker 1: and he was obviously they had a really good team
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  Speaker 1: last year. They got a really team good team again,
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  Speaker 1: uh this year, and Uh, I wanted to be in
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  Speaker 1: a position in a place that we felt like we
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  Speaker 1: could win, and I kind of it kind of was
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  Speaker 1: between Houston, Boston, Detroit in Chicago, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: all four of those organizations were winning organizations. Had great
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  Speaker 1: conversations with all of them, and ultimately, UH, super excited
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  Speaker 1: to be here and to be to be playing in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of I can already feel the energy from
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  Speaker 1: the city, from the fans. Uh here in spring training,
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  Speaker 1: it's been it's been awesome. I mean this place has
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  Speaker 1: been uh sold out, So it's uh it's it's been
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  Speaker 1: fun and and honestly, yeah, it's been good.
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  Speaker 7: Ye do you have a thing, do you have a
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  Speaker 7: thing that you do? Vets?
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  Speaker 6: You know, some vets buy suits for guys, some guys,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they like they purchased some for a young
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  Speaker 6: guy when they get those contracts for the team. Is
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  Speaker 6: there like an Alex Bregman's on the team, like we're
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  Speaker 6: gonna get some sick or like you do.
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  Speaker 1: For dudes when I was when I was coming up,
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  Speaker 1: some of the Vets got me suits. So I kind
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  Speaker 1: of did the same thing for some of our guys here.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I feel like you try and you try
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  Speaker 1: and take care of take care of some of the
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  Speaker 1: younger players and let them know that we're all on
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  Speaker 1: the same level here. We're all trying to win baseball games.
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  Speaker 1: We're a team. There's everyone is everyone's pushing towards that
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  Speaker 1: same and I feel like throughout my career, guys have
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  Speaker 1: done that for me and done that for our clubhouse,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like it creates a really good culture
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  Speaker 1: and everybody pulling on the same end of the rope.
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  Speaker 3: Alex, I know you did this in Houston all the time,
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  Speaker 3: helping young hitters and helping pitchers as well, and it
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  Speaker 3: kind of came after them, sure because you were there
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  Speaker 3: for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Right, How do you bring that to Boston when you're new?
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  Speaker 8: You know?
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  Speaker 3: How does it kind of happen organically or do you
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  Speaker 3: guys know about your reputation to be helpful with things
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  Speaker 3: off the field, Almost like a coach vibe at times.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think you just start having conversations with people,
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  Speaker 1: You get to know what drives them, what they do well,
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  Speaker 1: and you just start there. You just start by having
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  Speaker 1: conversations and talking baseball. And I feel like the communication
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  Speaker 1: and the baseball talk here has been in a great
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  Speaker 1: spot since day one of spring training. And obviously everyone
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  Speaker 1: here is focused on us winning, but also putting together
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  Speaker 1: great seasons individually and and and figuring out ways to
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  Speaker 1: get better. And I feel like the best way to
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  Speaker 1: do that is talking with your teammates and maybe a
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  Speaker 1: teammates sees something that you don't see. And I feel
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  Speaker 1: like everyone should be helping one another. And it's I
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  Speaker 1: think it just really starts as simple as just conversations.
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  Speaker 6: All right, take us back to Corpus Christy here when
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  Speaker 6: you guys were in double A. Here's here's the video, Like,
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  Speaker 6: did you cry for me when this happens?
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know what happened. I thought that was I
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  Speaker 5: thought that was real. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you did that on purpose of the time.
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  Speaker 1: And then obviously I texted. I texted Jake uh Moriznik
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  Speaker 1: after it. He said that it was it was planned so,
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  Speaker 1: and it.
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  Speaker 6: Was against my and it was against my team the
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  Speaker 6: year before we won the World Series, the Royals, that's
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  Speaker 6: who we were playing and opening are the home opener.
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  Speaker 7: Half of them thought it was real, half of them
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  Speaker 7: thought it was fake. So I sold it.
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  Speaker 4: You got the hat, tipto, that's the that's the key.
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  Speaker 4: They acknowledged it.
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  Speaker 5: We were laughing. That was good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Alex. Awesome to have you on man.
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  Speaker 3: Congrats on on the new contract with the team and
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  Speaker 3: all that, and good luck this season. We'll catch you
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  Speaker 3: during the year.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 5: VP candidate this year. Let's go, my boy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: All right, this is always a treat. We've got Liam
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  Speaker 3: Hendricks joining us right now from Red Sox camp. Liam,
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  Speaker 3: great to see you. How you doing, man, I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: all right, guys. How about you guys?
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  Speaker 5: Good?
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  Speaker 2: Good? Are you pumped for the season.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: I actually get to play this year, so it's exciting
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  Speaker 10: more than the last couple of years, which has been fantastic.
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  Speaker 10: And look, I mean, we've we've got a great team here.
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  Speaker 10: We've got a good group of guys. We've got more important,
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  Speaker 10: we've had a group group on the field, but more importantly,
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  Speaker 10: we had a really good group in the clubhouse. And
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  Speaker 10: so we've got a bunch of guys who have who
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  Speaker 10: have won before, and they got some they got some
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  Speaker 10: egos on them, which in a good sense of the
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  Speaker 10: ego would So we're we got Bregman, and we've got
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  Speaker 10: guys like Buella, We've got Chat and we've got Wilson.
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  Speaker 10: We've uh, we've added some dudes, and it's an exciting time.
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  Speaker 6: You you basically you never went to college, and I used
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  Speaker 6: to give you a hard time about that because you're
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  Speaker 6: you're a high school mate. You just red shirted. You
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  Speaker 6: exactly did what all these kids are doing. You red
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  Speaker 6: shirted last year. Are you sick of practicing?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, less running than redshirting, I here, but yeah, I'm yeah,
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  Speaker 10: I'm annoyed at it because obviously, you know, like you've
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  Speaker 10: been that guy who never gets to play all the time,
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  Speaker 10: and so it's.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, it sucks.
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  Speaker 10: I mean yeah, oh, like yo job was just catching
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  Speaker 10: pens most of the time and then every now and
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  Speaker 10: then getting in at bat.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 10: But I still remember the bat you had off a
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  Speaker 10: roll this in Cincinnati. I think he threw you like
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  Speaker 10: seven straight off speed pitches. The one hatery three, you
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  Speaker 10: hit a double off the wall. Okay, Like he's Chapman's league,
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  Speaker 10: he's Chapman's own, he's rabbit, he's funny.
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  Speaker 8: I want to stay on that.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about erall this and you know the moves
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  Speaker 4: that this team has made. When you look, you get
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  Speaker 4: to go out and play with your friends this year.
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  Speaker 4: How excited are you to know that they got to
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  Speaker 4: see you two at the end of the game if
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  Speaker 4: they want to do anything.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, I'm vulnerable too at the back end.
• 16:10
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean whatever the whatever way it works out
• 16:13
  Speaker 10: at the end, it's yeah, we've got a We've got
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: a really good bullpend. We've got a very old bullpen
• 16:16
  Speaker 10: right now, especially if we've got some of the non
• 16:18
  Speaker 10: roster guys make the team as well. Between Otto, myself, Chapman, Wilson,
• 16:24
  Speaker 10: Matt Moule, uh Foma, we've we have to be laying
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: the leg in thirty or old bullpen faces.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: So, but I want to touch on that real quick.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: I just I should sit out a tweet I said,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I don't think that people know how much depth is here.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: When you look at a pitch and you talk about
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Matt Moore, you talk about film Who's Coming Back. Can
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: you just touch on how important to have that veteran
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: kind of presence in the locker room is along with
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: this youthful roster that they have.
• 16:47
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, we've got some young guys coming up
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: that have got some special arms, but we've got those
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: veteran guys that are gonna teach them how to be
• 16:53
  Speaker 10: in the big legs. And that's one thing that everyone
• 16:55
  Speaker 10: looks to, that youth movement and all that sort of stuff,
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: But you need those old guys in there. You need
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: those guys that have the experiences, the ins and outs
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: of baseball, the trials and tribulations to teach these guys.
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: You know what, if you get kicked on the teeth,
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: you're gonna be able to bounce back. Don't just fall
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: into a hole and then all of a sudden it's
• 17:10
  Speaker 10: a month and a half later and you're still struggling. Yes,
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: you'll be able to bounce back. And that's what I
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: think is a huge defining factor. But we've got we've
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: got a bunch of guys and we're testing that limit
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: right now. We've got a couple or a few starters
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: down right now than we expected to do at the
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: side of the off season. So we're testing that depth
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: right now. And look, this is what we've done. We've
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: we've acquired some moms, We've got some guys that can throw.
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: And when you look at the guys that have come
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: out and what this stuff has been so far on
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: spring training, it's it's pretty special.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: You think you think competition in spring training is necessary?
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: Like how many innings have you thrown?
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: You do you do?
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: You have five innings? Like what are they seeing.
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: In five innings? Two good ones and three real shitty ones?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: So so what are they saying, like, like is it
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: needed for competition? Like do you need to have competition?
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Because to me, you kind of set some guys up
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: for injury. It's like, Okay, I'm competing. I gotta rip it,
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: and maybe I'm not ready to rip it on March third,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: like I should be on April third.
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: That sounds like their off season programming wasn't working. I
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: think that HP competition. I mean, you're gonna come in
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: and you gotta win a job. You don't get to
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: come in unless you're on an established guy. You don't
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: get to come in and like, oh, just play it
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: for the thing. You're kind of you're gonna come in
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: and win a job. You gotta put your best foot forward,
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: and if you're not ready to do that on March third,
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: then that's on you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I love that, Okay, So having you here, I love
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: the mentality. I think we need to have more veteran
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: guys in clubhouses so we can have that winning mentality.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: With that winning mentality, I'm curious is there a sense
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: of urgency here because it feels like you talk about
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: the intent When I look at guys, guys are walking
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: around with intent.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Full look in their eye.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Is it because of what they were did accomplish, how
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: close they came to, you know, doing something special.
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: Last year, Yeah, we had a bunch of guys take
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: a giant lake forward as far as statistics and just
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: having the full year up. Last year, we had a
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: couple of guys take a step back, and we had
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: some guys really good to have a good first half
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: and tail off in the second half. So there's a
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: lot of guys with some chips on their shoulders about
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: trying to prove that they deserve to be here and
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: they deserve to be in the conversation as part of
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: the best guys in the league. Mixed that in with
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: having a guy like Bregman who is just constantly looking
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: at when ames about when it doesn't matter how it
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: goes about, it doesn't matter how it gets there. That's
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: all he cares about is winning. And uh yeah, you
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: bring those guys in all of a sudden, it's like
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: you get a little bit more pepping your staff, you
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: get a little bit more in the tank, and uh yeah,
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: it's an exciting time. It's but we'll see how it goes.
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: Like obviously there's I wouldn't say urgency, but it's just
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: like the expectation to be better than we were last
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: year and have it and we will also got pissed
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: off some of those projections have us last in the East,
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: which this year. Yeah, I mean I just read that somewhere.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: Maybe it was a spoof one, whatever it is. But
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: look at the end of the day, no matter what
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: the projection is, if it doesn't have us win the Alas,
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: it's not good enough for us.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: They might they might have had that to be at
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: the end of the last season. Y'all made some moves,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: You got some guys coming back. My thing is we
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: talk about this all time, and you're the perfect person
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: to ask closers. Music, lights, all that show. Your three
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: time All Star. You are Liam Hendrix, the closer. You're
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: no longer Liam Hendricks, the guy who they threw in
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: the Eric Kratz trade in twenty fourteen. I think it's
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: the Danny Valenci No no, no, no, no no, it was
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: the Eric Kratz trade. Let's let's leave it at that.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Do you, as a if you come in in eighth
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: inning as an established big league closer, should you have
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: the lights and music to help sell the game, not
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: just you to help get people pumped up.
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: It's a good question in my eyes. I like it
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: because it's like fan engagement. As you said, I I
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: love fan engagem, whether it be the booing, whether it
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: be the cheering, whether it be anything. But you add
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: that little extra element. But also it's weird if you
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: do it. It's sometimes we'd if you do in the
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: eighth like Chicago, the White looks they did it like
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: not just for the ninth, they did it every now
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: and then, in like in between innings and all these
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: sorts of things. So yeah, it's it's always been relegated
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: to the ninth inning guy for a little bit. But
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: as you said, with established guys, who knows at the
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: end of day it shouldn't matter what goes on. But
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: in my eyes, it's just like, whatever's gonna help me
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: get three outs and that's all I care about. Well,
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: however many they ask you to because you know, but
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: these days I may start is going to go full.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: So I love asking better and guys in the camp
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: facts we got to change that too. As matter of fact,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: how do we get is there any way to get
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: back to what it used to be allowing guys to
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: you know, take control or read the room. Hey, this
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: guy's cruising. Is there any way we get back to
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: that or what can we do to change that?
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: Pay guys to getting of a two hundred innings, Uh,
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: it's like anything else. It's like, oh, you worried about offense? Yeah, youah,
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: pay you guys for getting a single. Pay guys for
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: getting hitting three hundred. Pay guys for doing that rather
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: than just the ops and the forty plus or anything
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: like that. Yeah, two hundreds great and forty plus we
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: feel in love with exactly. Do you know how the
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: hottest guy to face the guy that goes the other way.
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: So if you want to put the put pressure on
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: some pitches, do that way. As far as start is going, Uh,
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: it's gonna be tough because there's there's not much way
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: you can do too many things without racing the injury profile.
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: And that's one thing you gotta earlier to be huginz off,
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: whether it be oh you get to take away the
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: d H which is just a stupid idea, all those things,
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: so it's it's yeah, I haven't really thought too much
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: into it other than just yelling at Ustota to uh,
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: to just whip it out and let's figure this thing
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: out and go six or seven one time. I like it,
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: But but we got some guys that are some animals
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: and that they want to go eight nine, which is
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: like a ton of hawk. Guy he's he's gonna be
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: an inigxetter and that's what he prides himself onar you'd
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: in the pride backing those guys about throwing more innings.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: So I wanted to ask you.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I love it coming to camp asking the veteran guys,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: because we've seen a lot who's impressed you, whether it's
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: offensively uh pitching, who's the guy, you're going to do
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: If we get this guy right, we could do some
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: special things and it's always going to be more than one.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: But who's that guy that you're like, dude, this this
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: guy he be a dude.
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean we've got we've got a bunch of
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: established guys. I obviously, uh look at the pitches more
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: so than anything. And uh for me looking at a
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: guy like Richard Fitz and Quinn Priest to coming in
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: this stuff is like taking exponential leaps forward.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: I mean it's it's incredible.
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: Like I've played catch with Fits a couple of times
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: in the offseason and it's like a cut ride thing
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: and then all of a sudden you look up and
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: it said ninety eight the other day.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: I'm like, yeah, I'm a little.
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: Bit long in the tooth for this stuff because ninety
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: eight was like peak August July form, not March forman
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: spring training. So yeah, it's I think those are the
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: guind of guys because they're gonna be the They're gonna
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: be the X factor for us, especially when we're testing
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: our started depth. Is if those guys can come out
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: and do what they need to do, we're gonna be
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: just fine, and uh we can we can hold the storm,
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: whether the storm until we get our guys back. But
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: those are the two that are gonna really hold this
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: thing together if we need to.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: In your career, who's the hardest guy to play catch with?
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Because I see guys now, especially towards the end of
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: my career seventeen eighteen. In that time, a team like
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: guys would play catch against each other, not with each other.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Who's just ribbon balls at each other. And you guys
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: aren't the best athletes.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: I mean yeah, I mean we Uh the fact that
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: pitchers don't have thumb guys when we play catch with
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: each other is kind of weird. Uh, but look, yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: what's like me when I throw my knuckle puck?
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Like you caught? Did you ever catch Dickie? Oh?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's yeah, that's how I got rid of the
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Blue Jays.
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so you called Dicky And then like I dabbled
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: with the knuckle puck every now and then, and I
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: I got told I wasn't allowing to throw out the
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: pitches anymore because I hit one guy in the face
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: and one guy in the chest and h then they
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: banned me from that. Uh so uh yeah, we're always
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: trying to compete in each other. The worst guys I
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: faced are the ones that randomly cut a ball when
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: they were sinker guy. So when you've got a guy
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: like like Aaron Bama is like one of the nastiest
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: pictures you'll ever see in your life. He's like a
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: side on lefty that throws foam and does all this
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: and then he will just randomly cut a ball and
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: you're like, I, yeah, I luckily ow.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: My teeth of fake and I can just get it replaced.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: You definitely, you definitely have the nice grill after mark.
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: If you have seen me when I look like I
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: grew up chewing rocks, I mean, uh, I gaps all
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: over the place.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: We glowed up. We got to glow up.
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: But they still do for real and not time like
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: some of these people who play on the West Coast
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: team that they got some big old chips.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I won't elbows.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Already know chee cheek lay anyway, So the person or
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: the people who picked you guys to pick to finish last,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: it was Pakoda. It was a Pakoda picking. So I
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: don't even know if that's a real person, if it's
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: just the.
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: Like I AI year out, I'm I'm out on them people.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, that's fair, because.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: That's what I'm gonna get in trouble.
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: They're gonna put some a I crap of me saying
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: something stupid, which I probably did say something is similar,
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: and then I get canceled.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, that's okay.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: This a guy who played at Oakland Coliseum. A lot
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: of people have their opinions about it. I love playing
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: at the places where they were a nostalgia, where.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: There was history.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: How do you feel about having to play possibly in
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: two minor league parks this year or if you were
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: on those big league teams?
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Does that affect you?
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I know, we go out and play.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: We got to compete, but.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Or is it just like this is bers and we
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: do what we got to do to keep moving forward.
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: Look, at the end of the day, you take it
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: for what it is. There's nothing you can do to
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: change it. So I worry about it. Yeah, I'm more
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: pissed at the coliseums, not around, because I mean that's
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: where I kind of re established who I was, or
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: established who I was.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: That's where I went through some very hard times.
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: It's very good times and I'm pissed at that place,
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: not around because you think about it. I think about
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: it more from all the workers that are there, all
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: the workers that aren't going to be able to get
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: the Sacramento because they're in the Bay Area.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: All the workers that are now out.
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: Of jobs because of a political dispute between an ownership
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: and a city, and no one being able to like
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: everyone being kind of too firm on their stance or
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: not willing to sacrifice something to get something else. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: at the end of the days, it's a sad day
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: for Oakland Baseball, it's a sad day for Oakland in general.
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: And regardless of where we're going, it's it's just sucks
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: that it's not there anymore.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you man. Well Liam,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: awesome to happy always good to see you. Enjoyed the combo.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: We'll see you during the season.
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: I appreciate you, guys, Thank you, and thank you. The
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: name of the name of your show, foul Territory. Pretty
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: name it like there's no foul Territory Sacramento is.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: That was a lot of.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: A lot.
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: When I'm on I don't want the Foul tourtell I
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: want the punch outs.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: But we could do foul territory from the coliseum and
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: the foul ground and not even be anywhere near play.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's how mid game. It's still be good
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: to go exactly exactly. It will be missed, Liam, good
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: to see you. Man enjoyed the combo.
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: Thank you, appreciate you guys, thanks for having us