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Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Friar Territory Here on the
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Speaker 1: Foul Territory Network. I'm Kyle Glazer. We have a very
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Speaker 1: very special show for you today. Dylan Ceiz will be
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Speaker 1: joining us for an exclusive interview talk about the Potters
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Speaker 1: early season success, what's been working for the rotation as
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Speaker 1: a whole, and the adjustment coming over from Chicago to
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Speaker 1: San Diego, and what have been the biggest difference is
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Speaker 1: coming over to the Potters organization. We're certainly looking forward
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Speaker 1: to having Dylan join us. The Potters are currently on
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Speaker 1: a fantastic run. They have won ten of their last fourteen.
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Speaker 1: They have won four of their last five series. As
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Speaker 1: they head into the Vetter Cup tonight, opening a three
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Speaker 1: game series against the Mariners at home, Potters are twenty
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Speaker 1: seven and fifteen, a little bit past the quarter pole
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Speaker 1: of the season. Once again, as we've talked about all year,
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Speaker 1: this is a team that is having a fantastic start
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Speaker 1: in every facet. There have been a little hiccups from
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Speaker 1: time to time. We saw the starting rotation go through
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Speaker 1: a little hiccup early in the season. Of course, we
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Speaker 1: saw the offense had that thirty innings scoreless streak when
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Speaker 1: a few key guys were hurt, and more recently the
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Speaker 1: bullpen went through a little bit of a tough stretch
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Speaker 1: where they blew leads in four seven games. But on
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Speaker 1: the whole, this Potters team has been excellent. Talk about
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Speaker 1: that seven to zero start, expanding that to fifteen and four.
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Speaker 1: Of course, they had that little stretch where all those
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Speaker 1: injuries hit their lineup where they did struggle, but they've
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Speaker 1: bounced right back. And now that Luis Rise is back,
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Speaker 1: now that Jackson Merril was back, now that Jake Cronerworth
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Speaker 1: is back, this is a team that's firing on all cylinders.
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Speaker 1: And of course you Darvish should be back soon. He
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Speaker 1: made his first rehab start for Triple A l Passo
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, looked like the same old U Darvish sat
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Speaker 1: ninety four, touched ninety seven, went four innings. Talking to
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Speaker 1: Mike Schulp before the game, the goal was for him
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Speaker 1: to get up to about four innings and or sixty
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Speaker 1: five pitches came in well under sixty five pitches. So
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Speaker 1: the velocity was there, the efficiency was there, the strike
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Speaker 1: throwing was there. U Darvish is on his way back,
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Speaker 1: and that's going to make this starting rotation that much stronger.
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Speaker 1: Entering today, the Potters have the second lowest ERA starters
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Speaker 1: in the National League. And again, that's been with you
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Speaker 1: darvishmissing the whole season. That's been with Joe muskro Of
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Speaker 1: being out for the entire year after having Tommy John surgery.
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Speaker 1: It's been Michael King, It's been Nick Pavetta. Dylan Cees's
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Speaker 1: last two starts has been excellent. Randy Vasquez has stepped up,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Kolok has yet to allow a run since coming
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Speaker 1: up and making his first start for the Padres a
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Speaker 1: few weeks ago, and of course, though in a complete
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Speaker 1: game shut up in Colorado in his second career start.
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Speaker 1: This rotation in many ways has been the bedrock of
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Speaker 1: the team. Again, the bullpen's been great, the offense has
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Speaker 1: certainly had some really really great moments as well, But
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Speaker 1: when you look at start to finish, what has been
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Speaker 1: the unit that has really been the strongest so far
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Speaker 1: this year. It is the starting rotation, And of course
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Speaker 1: Dylan Cees is a huge, huge, huge part of that.
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Speaker 1: We're very happy to have him join us today. Here
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Speaker 1: he is all right, where please be joined now by
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Speaker 1: Dylan Cees. Dylan thank you so much for joining us. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: the starting rotation as a whole has been fantastic this year.
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Speaker 1: What's been the key to your guys success as a unit?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me, man. I mean, I think
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Speaker 2: I think Pavetta and king Off is such a crazy
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Speaker 2: hot start. They've they've really done a lot of that
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Speaker 2: heavy listings. I mean, Randy's been great. He's filling up
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Speaker 2: the strike zone. He's getting five or six every time
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Speaker 2: he pitches. You know, I've been I've been pretty good
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Speaker 2: of late. So you know, I think honestly, just attacking
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Speaker 2: the zone and uh, you know, having a good game plan.
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Speaker 2: Rubin in the entire staff preps us very well, so
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Speaker 2: you know, we know, we know how we want to
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Speaker 2: attack everybody, and when we're executing, we're tough to handle.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I know you, Nick Pavetta and Michael Kane. Your lockers
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Speaker 1: are all right next to each other in the Peco
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Speaker 1: Park clubhouse. How much do you guys push each other
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Speaker 1: and compete with each other in kind of a friendly way.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those guys are are very competitive.
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Speaker 2: Whether it's like you know, gambling, golf, baseball, whatever, you know,
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Speaker 2: I think it's a healthy healthy mix of you know,
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Speaker 2: if you're if you're doing well, then they'll bring you down.
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Speaker 2: And if you're in a good way, you know, humble
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Speaker 2: you a little bit. And if if you're struggling, they'll
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Speaker 2: they'll help you and lift you up. So, uh, I
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Speaker 2: think as the whole art team really has has a
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Speaker 2: culture that's like that, which which I think aids in
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Speaker 2: in winning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. You mentioned Ruby Dieblo earlier.
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Speaker 1: He's renowned as one of the best pitching coaches in baseball.
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Speaker 1: This is your second year now with him. What makes
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Speaker 1: them unique or different from other pitching coaches.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, Yeah, it's funny. We actually talked about
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Speaker 3: this recently.
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Speaker 2: I think he's got a good knowledge of a lot
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Speaker 2: of different areas, and you know, he's able to kind
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Speaker 2: of pull from a lot of sources. And and pitching
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Speaker 2: really is, you know, problem solving, whether it's your body's
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Speaker 2: not producing things, is not right, or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: It's like, you know, there's there's twenty different areas you
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Speaker 2: can look at, so it's it's there's psychological components, there's
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Speaker 2: physical components, there's all kinds of things. So you know,
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Speaker 2: just being able to kind of the general idea of
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Speaker 2: you know, which areas started and which areas to really try, Uh,
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Speaker 2: makes makes a big difference. So yeah, I think he's
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Speaker 2: just got a good general sense of everything involving pitching.
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Speaker 2: And then he's not afraid to admit like, hey, I
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Speaker 2: don't know for sure, let's check this.
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Speaker 3: Let's do this. So he's yeah, he's he's definitely one
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Speaker 3: of the best.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. What was his message to you specifically when you
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Speaker 1: came to San Diego? What were been the main things
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Speaker 1: he's worked with you on.
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think, uh, you know, teaching the
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Speaker 2: sweeper and adding and experimenting with different pitch grips.
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Speaker 3: Is one thing.
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Speaker 2: Just always trying to get better in that sense of
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Speaker 2: like hey, let's see if we can add another pitch.
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Speaker 3: But for the most part, you know.
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Speaker 2: Helping with consistency and helping it because you know, there's
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Speaker 2: times where we get out of sync or you know,
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Speaker 2: we need to be told like hey, your your slider
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Speaker 2: or your curveballs better than you think it is. That's
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Speaker 2: up the usage things like that, So you know, it's
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Speaker 2: really just being essentially a mechanic. You know, he's he's
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Speaker 2: he's a mechanic. He we take the car in. He says,
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Speaker 2: you know, this needs to be fixed, it's to be changed,
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Speaker 2: and gets us back out there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned pitching coaches. Sometimes they need to be a mechanics.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they also need to be a psychologist. How much
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Speaker 1: of his conversations with you revolves more around the green
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Speaker 1: and the physical component versus the mental side of the game.
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Speaker 2: It seems like it just seems like in the game
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Speaker 2: of baseball, everything kind of blends into, you know, each other.
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Speaker 2: There's it's hard to kind of, you know, take the
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Speaker 2: physical component of it and then take the other aspects out.
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Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, we definitely talked about it all.
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Speaker 2: We talked about the psychologue, talk about you know, hey,
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Speaker 2: did you feel like, you know, it's very easy to
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Speaker 2: get for an example, if you're not throng strikes, it's
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Speaker 2: very easy back off on your aggression and start trying
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Speaker 2: to place the ball and start doing things like that,
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Speaker 2: And then you got to go like, hey, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're you're not getting swinging missus. Are you really even
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Speaker 2: stepping on it right now? And you're like, man, no,
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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to throw strikes. So there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of different components to it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. You know, coming over from Chicago, you'd been
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Speaker 1: in the White Sox organization since you were a minor
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Speaker 1: league and a ball you were traded over there from
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Speaker 1: the Cubs, came up through their system, had played for
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Speaker 1: them exclusively in the Major League. They've been the only
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Speaker 1: major league franchise you had known come over to San Diego.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes again, it can be different. You know, one way
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Speaker 1: an organization does things, you go to a new organization,
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Speaker 1: things can be completely different. What have been some of
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Speaker 1: the biggest changes you've observed just coming from the White
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Speaker 1: Sox organization to the Padres organization.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, you know, honestly, I don't really want
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Speaker 2: to be too compare oriented. I just I would rather
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Speaker 2: just talk about how great the Padres are. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, we come to the park every day and
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Speaker 2: there is a high, high level of commitment to winning
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Speaker 2: and excellence. There's you know, basically a lot of resources
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Speaker 2: to help us be our best version, and then there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of brain power and analytical power in going
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Speaker 2: into you know, maximizing. So at the end of the days,
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Speaker 2: it's you know, major league ballplayers. Yes, there's some that
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Speaker 2: are more talented than others and whatnot. But a lot
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Speaker 2: of it is just using the pieces correctly and maximizing
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Speaker 2: what you have and you know, things like that. So
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Speaker 2: I think the Padres do an amazing job at that.
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Speaker 2: They seem to always get the most out of out
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Speaker 2: of their guys. They keep us out there. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it really is a world class organization. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm very grateful for my time with the White Sox.
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Speaker 2: I was, you know, along a big period in my life,
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Speaker 2: a very transformational period, and I have a lot of
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Speaker 2: friends and people that I'm grateful for it from over there.
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Speaker 2: But I really do love it, love it here in
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Speaker 2: San Diego.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, in terms of off the fields, off I mean
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Speaker 1: adapting to you know, the living, you know, beach life,
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Speaker 1: sunshine all year round. I would imagine that helped ease
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Speaker 1: the transition.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, that was that was difficult, you know,
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Speaker 2: having having to experience perfect weather and sun every day.
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Speaker 3: It took me a minute get used to it.
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Speaker 2: But uh, it's it's you can't beat San Diego, man,
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Speaker 2: It's it's amazing here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: You know, you were traded last year right in the
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Speaker 1: middle of spring training and for the Padres they were
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Speaker 1: literally boarding the plane to Korea when the trade went through.
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Speaker 1: So normally whenever it trade happens, it's hectic. You have
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Speaker 1: to pick up your life, figure out where you're going
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Speaker 1: to live, deal with moving, all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: You had the added wrinkle of having to get to
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Speaker 1: Korea and find your passport. How hectic were those first
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Speaker 1: you know, twenty four to forty eight hours after learning
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Speaker 1: you've been traded.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's uh, it's a whirlwind of everything.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: The logistical side of it is is crazy, you know,
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Speaker 2: I mean, but the good thing is, like when you're
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Speaker 2: when you're at the at the major league level and
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Speaker 2: you've been traded, it's there's a lot of people that
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Speaker 2: are doing the and the brain power stuff for you.
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Speaker 3: Thankfully, because if I had to do.
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Speaker 2: That on my own, i probably went ended up in
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Speaker 2: Vietnam instead of Korea.
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Speaker 3: But there's a lot of people that really do the
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Speaker 3: logistics for you.
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Speaker 2: And you know, it's as simple as hey, you know,
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Speaker 2: what are you doing in the next two hours? Okay,
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Speaker 2: you've got to pack disco here, go here. So that's
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Speaker 2: between my agency and the padres and you know, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's I was well taken care of. But yeah, it
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Speaker 2: was you know, hey, jump on this thirteen hour flight.
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Speaker 2: Let's go meet the team and get everything rolling.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you flew commercial lap ass. Did they at
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Speaker 1: least put you in business class or were you in coach?
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Speaker 3: I think it was business class. It's hard to tell.
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Speaker 3: I mean it was.
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Speaker 2: I got my own little area where we had they
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Speaker 2: folded out of bed, I sorry, padding, they folded out padding.
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Speaker 3: It was like eighty five degrees on the plane, so
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Speaker 3: that was a little challenging.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to take my shirt off, but I was
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Speaker 2: like this, I'll probably get in trouble for that, so
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Speaker 2: I had to just sit there and sweat it out.
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Speaker 3: But it was worth it. It was. It was very
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Speaker 3: cool experience.
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Speaker 1: Did you get recognized at all by anyone on the
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Speaker 1: plane you'll flying with just bigular folks.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, not at all. Absolutely not able to
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Speaker 3: stay and cognitiout. Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 1: And obviously again this past offseason there were trade rumors
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Speaker 1: that those types of things are going to happen. Opening
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Speaker 1: d comes around, You're still a member of the Potter
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Speaker 1: Is that just does that give you like a sense
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Speaker 1: of peace, Like, okay, the rumors are done. I'm here now,
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, I know
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Speaker 2: it's it's baseball, and it's part of the business. And
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Speaker 2: you know, whether it's in spring training or halfway through
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Speaker 2: or whenever, I mean, it can always happen.
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Speaker 3: So I've always just kind of taken the.
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Speaker 2: Mindset that I'm going to focus on, you know, being
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Speaker 2: the best picture I can be, and just whatever happens
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Speaker 2: from there happens, you know, because that's really all I
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Speaker 2: want to I just want to be competent. I want
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Speaker 2: to provide value for the team. I want to be
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Speaker 2: somebody that can rely on. And at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, if I'm if I focus on just what
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Speaker 2: I've got going on, I think that's one of the
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Speaker 2: best things will happen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. And you mentioned your own performance. The first few starts,
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Speaker 1: we're a little up and down. You had an ERA
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Speaker 1: up near six after that start at Pittsburgh. Your last
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Speaker 1: two starts have been excellent too, of your best starts
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Speaker 1: of the year.
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Speaker 3: What's changed, Yeah, it's mostly mechanical adjustments. You know.
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Speaker 2: When for me, when I'm going poorly, I just don't
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Speaker 2: have a good feel for the ball. So you know,
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Speaker 2: it's hard to put it. I want, it's not it
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Speaker 2: doesn't move to how it's supposed to, and it's not sharp,
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Speaker 2: and I just have to sit and tinker and it
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Speaker 2: takes some time to figure out. But you know when
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Speaker 2: I when I do figure out and I do get
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Speaker 2: locked in, I'm I'm very hard to hit. So uh really,
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Speaker 2: just mechanical adjustments and it's frustrating. So you want to
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Speaker 2: snap your fingers and you know, every game matters, but yeah, mechanicals,
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Speaker 2: mechanical stuff.
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Speaker 1: Really, I'm saying your last start out against the Angels
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Speaker 1: went really really well. The Angel's rallied against the bullpen,
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Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis hit that walk off his first career walk
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Speaker 1: off home run. Just what was that moment like for
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Speaker 1: you on the team? You know that that huge moment there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's honestly shock. You knows this one.
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Speaker 2: You know, you think you think that guy would have
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Speaker 2: about ten or fifteen of them at this at this point,
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Speaker 2: but man, I mean it's just pure excitement, you know,
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Speaker 2: like he's who you want up there. You know, we
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Speaker 2: got we've got like six guys you want up there,
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Speaker 2: but he's you know, he's argably the best in the game,
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Speaker 2: one of the best, and he's clutched. He's built for
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Speaker 2: that moment, so you know when he does that, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's it's electric.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: You've played with some talented teams before you made the
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Speaker 1: postseason with the White Sox. Obviously, last year's Potter's team
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Speaker 1: ninety three wins, took the Dodgers to five games. This
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Speaker 1: team definitely seems to be one of those, again to
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Speaker 1: super talented. Everything's clicking. How does this team kind of
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Speaker 1: stack up for you with some of the other teams
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Speaker 1: you've been on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think this is the most fundamental
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Speaker 2: and clean baseball I've consistently seen. You know, last year's
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Speaker 2: team obviously was great. We were, especially the second half,
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Speaker 2: but just I mean, overall, it really feels like we
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Speaker 2: very rare shoot ourselves in the foot, and there's honestly
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Speaker 2: a lot of.
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Speaker 3: Games to be won that way.
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Speaker 2: You know, Baseball is one of those games where we
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Speaker 2: watch it it looks, you know, especially at a high level,
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Speaker 2: we make it look easy, but you know, it's it's
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Speaker 2: still a very challenging game, and one little mistake can
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Speaker 2: lead to two three runs, So you know, the fact
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Speaker 2: that for the most part we're able to limit that.
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Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things that really one
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Speaker 2: of the superpowers of this team for sure.
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Speaker 1: No question. I would imagine too for you on the mount,
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Speaker 1: it's a nice little security blanket in your mind. You
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Speaker 1: know that your defense is going to play clean behind you,
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Speaker 1: they're going to be there to pick you up. And
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Speaker 1: I would imagine it's just it's just is a nicer feeling.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, you know, I mean we've got
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Speaker 2: guys all over the field that play with effort, they
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Speaker 2: play with energy, and then they're good, you know, So
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Speaker 2: it's like, you know, not that I'd ever worry about
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Speaker 2: the other way, but it's, uh, you know, I definitely
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Speaker 2: when the balls put in play, I'm definitely expecting.
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Speaker 3: You know. Obviously, if it's a rocket, then it's like
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Speaker 3: that's probably hit.
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Speaker 2: But for the most part, is put in play, I'm
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Speaker 2: thinking someone's going to be there, you know, for sure.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, clean baseball, fundamentally sound baseball, a
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Speaker 1: lot of energy. How much of that is a function
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Speaker 1: of of Mike Shelton kind of his managerial style.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's definitely a big part.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's you know, in the truest sense, he's
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Speaker 2: the leader of that. He dictates culture. He isn't accountable,
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Speaker 2: but at the same time he's able to do in
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Speaker 2: a way where you feel cared about. And it's not
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Speaker 2: you know, it's not forced, it's not an authentic it's
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Speaker 2: it's it's a very authentic style of managing of creating culture.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, man, it's special. He's he's one of the best,
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Speaker 2: for sure. I mean, he's he's really great.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Dylan, Well, I know you guys have
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Speaker 1: a series against the Mariners to get to We really
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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time. Thank you so much for joining
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Speaker 1: me today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for having me. All right.
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Speaker 1: Once again, that was Dylan Cease kind enough to join
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Speaker 1: us before the Potters game against the Mariners tonight, and
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Speaker 1: a lot of really good stuff they're talking about again.
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Speaker 1: What makes Ruben nable special That ability to draw so
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Speaker 1: much information from so many different sources, just being able
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Speaker 1: again to talk to different players in different ways and
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Speaker 1: really just hit on all the things that go into pitching.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times coaches come up through one school
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Speaker 1: of thought or approach things the same way over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again, or aren't able to specialize, and
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Speaker 1: I think that is something that makes Rubin di Able
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Speaker 1: really really really unique. And it was a great Dylan
16:30
Speaker 1: to talk about it. And of course we've talked about
16:33
Speaker 1: all year. This Potter's team is playing clean, fundamental, energetic baseball.
16:38
Speaker 1: And it's not just us sensing it from the press
16:40
Speaker 1: box or from the stands or in the locker room.
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Speaker 1: The players are sensing it, they're feeling it, they're feeding
16:45
Speaker 1: off of it. And I thought it was really really
16:47
Speaker 1: you know, insightful for him to mention that they feel
16:50
Speaker 1: it and something that they are writing and it helps
16:52
Speaker 1: him on the mound. And a lot of it is
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Speaker 1: Mike Shild. We've talked about this a lot. Mike Shild
16:56
Speaker 1: definitely has a chip on his shoulder, you know, has
16:58
Speaker 1: an edge to him. Is a very very smart baseball mind.
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Speaker 1: I had a conversation with Jason Hayward prior to the
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Speaker 1: Potters game against the Angels on Wednesday. Just one things
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Speaker 1: he talked about that stands out about Mike Shill is,
17:10
Speaker 1: you know, Jason Hayward mentioned a He's attentive to everything,
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Speaker 1: and that's very, very hard to do as a manager
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Speaker 1: in today's game to be one hundred percent laser focused
17:18
Speaker 1: on everything happening all at once and being able to
17:21
Speaker 1: kind of take in that information and make a decision
17:24
Speaker 1: or judgment off of it because you have so many
17:25
Speaker 1: different things coming at you, and he has a really
17:28
Speaker 1: really unique ability to see everything all at once and
17:30
Speaker 1: take it in all at once. And on top of that,
17:33
Speaker 1: he just sets the right tone for the team, sets
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Speaker 1: the right energy for the team, and ultimately runs a
17:37
Speaker 1: clean clubhouse. And that's what you want for your manager.
17:39
Speaker 1: Mike Shill has been a big, big part of the Potters' success.
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Speaker 1: I've talked about this, you know, I've covered the team formally,
17:45
Speaker 1: you know, since twenty fifteen, was doing a little bit
17:47
Speaker 1: of work covering them prior to that as well, dating
17:49
Speaker 1: back to twenty thirteen.
17:50
Speaker 3: And I've been.
17:51
Speaker 1: In this clubhouse every year, gotten to know every Potterys
17:55
Speaker 1: team since then. Twenty twenty me weren't allowed in the clubhouse.
17:58
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, you see, every team every year has different identities,
18:02
Speaker 1: and one of the things that has really stood out
18:04
Speaker 1: to me about this year's team is there's a quiet confidence.
18:08
Speaker 1: I thought last year's Potter's team was one of the
18:11
Speaker 1: healthiest clubhouses. I had been in really, you know, in
18:16
Speaker 1: all thirty ballparks again being able to beat writer and
18:18
Speaker 1: then moving up being a national writer. I've had the
18:20
Speaker 1: good fortune of covering every team, being in every clubhouse,
18:23
Speaker 1: getting to no players you know, from all over the
18:25
Speaker 1: country and.
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Speaker 3: Really all over the world.
18:28
Speaker 1: And one of the things that the Potter's clubhouse last
18:30
Speaker 1: year was there was an energy and there was an
18:33
Speaker 1: enthusiasm and there was a positivity that hadn't really been
18:36
Speaker 1: there before. And I really give a lot of credit
18:38
Speaker 1: to Jerks and Pro Farm Jackson Merrill for bringing that in.
18:40
Speaker 1: They were really really the two guys who added that
18:43
Speaker 1: dynamic and it was an important one for the Potters
18:45
Speaker 1: last year. This year's clubhouse, again there's just that quiet confidence, Hey,
18:50
Speaker 1: we know what we're capable of. We're going to go out,
18:52
Speaker 1: we're going to play clean baseball, and if we lose,
18:55
Speaker 1: so be it will bounce back the next day. And
18:56
Speaker 1: that's really really healthy. A lot of teams say that,
18:58
Speaker 1: a lot of teams talk that way, but you can
19:01
Speaker 1: feel they don't really believe it. You can see it
19:03
Speaker 1: in their body language, you can hear it in their
19:05
Speaker 1: tone of voice. This is a Padres team. That's very,
19:08
Speaker 1: very authentic. They know they're good. They're gonna go out,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna play good baseball. More often than not, they're
19:14
Speaker 1: gonna win. In the days they don't, they can brush
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Speaker 1: it off. We saw them do that against the Angels,
19:18
Speaker 1: suffering that crushing loss on Monday night, bouncing back to
19:21
Speaker 1: when and walk off fashion on Tuesday, taking care of
19:24
Speaker 1: business on Wednesday, wrapping up a ten and four stretch
19:27
Speaker 1: heading into this series against the Mariners. Then they head
19:30
Speaker 1: on the road. They'll face the Blue Jays and the Braves.
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Speaker 1: So things are about to get a little bit tougher
19:34
Speaker 1: than they have been. But good teams take care of
19:36
Speaker 1: business against the bad teams. That's exactly what the Patters
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Speaker 1: have done. This has been another episode of Friar Territory
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