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Paul Sewald on Cleveland's recruiting moves, Vegas A's v. Raiders · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Be back to the best version of myself that I
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  Speaker 1: can be, and that's really that's what they want, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I want, that's what anybody wants, and so I
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  Speaker 1: just think it's a great opportunity for me in a
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  Speaker 1: great spot.
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  Speaker 2: New Cleveland Guard Paul, see you all joining us right
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  Speaker 2: now on FT Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Great to have you on, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations on the fresh contract, tell us everything.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Just really excited to uh to get to good Year
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  Speaker 1: and and get to work and uh it's a team
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  Speaker 1: that was a couple of games away from the World
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  Speaker 1: Series and I'm hoping to uh to get back to
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  Speaker 1: that spot and try and win a couple more.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, give me more though, Like tell me when Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: got involved, when you got the deal done, what you
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  Speaker 2: did to celebrate, right, like, run through anything that you
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  Speaker 2: know at the time when you're going through the process,
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  Speaker 2: you can't share. But now you're here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it happened. It felt like it happened really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: It was uh, it was kind of like almost they
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  Speaker 1: contacted us and then we signed about a week later.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, that kind of was a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a shock and didn't realize how quickly he it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be it was Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I got to give a ton of credit to voter.
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  Speaker 1: Voter kind of got it done for for them and
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  Speaker 1: for me, And I can't wait to spend some more
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  Speaker 1: time with him and tease him a little bit, mister
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  Speaker 1: Manager of the Year. So it was kind of like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we you know, I don't know anything about the Guardians,
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  Speaker 1: let's meet.
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  Speaker 3: We did a zoom call.
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  Speaker 1: And from there it's felt like all right, like let's
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  Speaker 1: get to work on on a contract. And it felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was a great opportunity, and so we kind
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  Speaker 1: of I celebrated mostly by celebrating, uh, celebrating my daughter's
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  Speaker 1: first birthday with all of our family, which so was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Like we had people from out of town and we
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  Speaker 1: got to share the news with them before it broke,
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  Speaker 1: and so we're pretty excited about it.
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  Speaker 4: You could have shared the news with us before it broke,
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  Speaker 4: I mean just saying, like the boys, the boys had
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  Speaker 4: been here since the beginning. You could have told us.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I was under strict rules. I wasn't allowed
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  Speaker 1: to tell anybody from Tom Moons, the team, from everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You got to pass the physical before I say anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want a Jeff Hoffman thing where it's like
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  Speaker 1: like everybody knew and then you just don't know. So
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  Speaker 1: didn't want anything, didn't want anything to upset anybody in charge.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so did they tell you something? Did they tell
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  Speaker 4: you something in that zoom where you like, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we saw your ground ball rate was here, your fly
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  Speaker 4: ball rate was this, Hey we can improve on this.
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  Speaker 4: Or was it just like, hey, we got a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of great dudes, we have a young team. You're probably
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  Speaker 4: gonna throw the third or the fourth inning because our
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  Speaker 4: bullpen is ridiculous. How did they sell it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So I think it was just like our conversations with
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  Speaker 1: the pitching coaches and with the front office in twenty
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  Speaker 1: one when I got to do this as a minor
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  Speaker 1: league free agent, you know, kind of me with a
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  Speaker 1: couple of teams, and I had a conversation with Seattle
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like, Okay, that feels home, that feels
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  Speaker 1: like the right situation, and it turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: a great decision. And I felt that same thing here
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  Speaker 1: with Cleveland. I just left the zoom feeling like, I
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  Speaker 1: think this is gonna be an amazing situation for me.
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  Speaker 1: Let's try to get the most money we can because
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  Speaker 1: I I'm I've already made my decision, like and let's
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  Speaker 1: go for it.
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  Speaker 3: So just I just think they have a great.
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  Speaker 1: Pitching development and a great group that are going to
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  Speaker 1: keep me in line and get me back to the
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  Speaker 1: best version of myself that I can be. And that's
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  Speaker 1: really that's what they want, That's what I want, That's
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  Speaker 1: what anybody wants, and so I just think it's a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity for me in a great spot.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, before I ask you, how much Steven Vode influence
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  Speaker 5: your signing and how much you behind the scenes because
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  Speaker 5: he was with you in Seattle as a bullpen coach.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, he's a bullpen coach in twenty three with us.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I want to know you're a good Year right now,
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  Speaker 5: aren't you? Aren't you at the You're in the parking
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  Speaker 5: lot of Goodyear looks like it.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I'm still I'm still in Vegas. We're still
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas. So we'll leave a couple couple weeks from today.
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  Speaker 1: We got to have to try and figure out where
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  Speaker 1: we're living in Phoenix, where we're living in Cleveland, like
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  Speaker 1: where we're sitting our girls to school, Like, there's some
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  Speaker 1: logistic craziness that when you sign in in late January,
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  Speaker 1: you got a couple of things you got to take
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  Speaker 1: care of before you before I head down it.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll be we'll be there in two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Give it a couple of days before we uh, before
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  Speaker 1: we get started, and then I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, nice, Now, explain to me how many times you
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  Speaker 5: text and called Stephen Vote and said listen voter, because
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  Speaker 5: we just had him on this week on Saturday Night,
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  Speaker 5: mister manager of the Year. I know you were just
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  Speaker 5: my bullpen coach voter. You know, I'd look real nice
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  Speaker 5: for seven million in the Guardians coming out through on
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  Speaker 5: that slider in.
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  Speaker 4: That I fastball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a ton of credit to him.
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  Speaker 1: He because he's such a great guy and everyone that
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  Speaker 1: knows him knows that, and he had such a successful year.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he has more of an ear to the
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  Speaker 1: front office than than I ever expected. And he essentially
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  Speaker 1: went to them and he's like, look, this is a
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  Speaker 1: veteran reliever that we need to make sure can keep
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  Speaker 1: our young superstars, you know, on the right path.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, I was kind, I was very surprised.
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  Speaker 1: I just never thought Cleveland, of all teams, would need me,
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  Speaker 1: as they were the best bullpen in baseball last year.
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  Speaker 3: But they made it.
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  Speaker 1: They made it very clear that they want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that a strength continues to be a strength, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to be a part of that. And I've
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  Speaker 1: been a part of really good pitching teams, and it
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  Speaker 1: seems when you're just a part of a group that everyone's.
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  Speaker 3: Pitching well, you just join in and you just continue
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  Speaker 3: to pitch well.
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  Speaker 1: So it just I just want to be in a
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  Speaker 1: great addition, and you know, I just am excited to
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  Speaker 1: watch a bunch of really really good pitchers around me
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  Speaker 1: and and it'll make my job a lot easier when
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  Speaker 1: we're winning games three to one all the time.
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  Speaker 3: So it was good.
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  Speaker 1: He texted me and kind of said, look, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we really want you and I have the zoom call,
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  Speaker 1: and then I called him myself and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: was like, look like, I really want to just talk
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  Speaker 1: to you first, face to face and man, man, and
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you've been through this and so it was
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  Speaker 1: really cool. When we got the deal done, they let
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  Speaker 1: me call him to tell him that I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: sign with them, So that was pretty fun.
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  Speaker 4: So there was no like five superstars that came to
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  Speaker 4: your meeting, Like when Roki Sasaki was going to different teams, nobody,
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  Speaker 4: nobody would have shown up. But if if there was
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  Speaker 4: any superstars there, who wouldn't have been and who would
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  Speaker 4: you needed to have hear from from Cleveland to get
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  Speaker 4: the deal done.
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  Speaker 1: As long as I don't have to face Hosey Rumirez, like,
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  Speaker 1: that's enough of a selling point for me.
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  Speaker 3: He's just I can't wait to get to watch him
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  Speaker 3: for one sixty two.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched him, you know, from the opposite side of
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  Speaker 1: the field plenty, and you just hold your breath when
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  Speaker 1: it's his turn to come up that inning. And he's
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  Speaker 1: just an absolute superstar and I can't wait to get
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  Speaker 1: to watch him. He just he looks so humble and
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  Speaker 1: so like quiet about how great he is.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm just excited to be on his team.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh, it'll be exciting to pitch in front
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  Speaker 1: of the best closer in baseball, So that'll be fun.
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  Speaker 4: It happened so fast, those are your words? Does that
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  Speaker 4: mean there was nothing else going on? Because we talk
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  Speaker 4: all the time about free agents, like Hey, what are
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  Speaker 4: you hearing? What are you hear? Actually, I'm here now
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  Speaker 4: the way Jack Flaherty's like they've told me to see
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  Speaker 4: what's up. It's like, what's up? Who cares? What's up? Like?
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  Speaker 4: Are you making an offer? Did you have anything or
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  Speaker 4: was there other things that were going on for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? No, it felt like that.
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  Speaker 1: It just felt like Mike, you can go to the
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  Speaker 1: winter meetings and he's I'm like, I'm like for the
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  Speaker 1: call after and he's like, I don't really have anything
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  Speaker 1: for you. And then we just we kind of talked
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  Speaker 1: like weekly, and he just he was just kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, like a couple of teams have asked
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  Speaker 1: for your medical codes or you know, they've asked what
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for, and I'm not, and it's just a
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  Speaker 1: game of poker, and they want you to tell you
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  Speaker 1: what you're looking for, and you want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they, you know, show that they're actually truly interested,
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  Speaker 1: because you don't want to you don't want to block
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  Speaker 1: people off.
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  Speaker 3: And so it just really wasn't anything through like through
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  Speaker 3: the new year.
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  Speaker 1: We come out of the New year, and it just
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like, I don't I don't really have
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  Speaker 1: anything for you, and we're just sitting around. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's frustrating. It's just as you know, a j I
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  Speaker 1: know you you told me before this this is how
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  Speaker 1: it was going to go, and you called it spot
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  Speaker 1: on and so yeah, you know, you go into free
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  Speaker 1: agency thinking the very best and and it was just
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  Speaker 1: it was a stressful situation and and not exactly how
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  Speaker 1: we dreamed it up. But the ending was as good
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  Speaker 1: as we can imagine, and we're super excited about Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was a weird situation. You just couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get any calls, just no one's interest did We're just
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  Speaker 1: waiting and there were obviously people ahead of me in
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  Speaker 1: the pecking order, and they were taking their sweet time
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  Speaker 1: to try and figure out what they were going to do,
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  Speaker 1: and so a lot of us were just waiting on
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  Speaker 1: what was going to happen from them. So yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of waiting and a lot of nothing. And
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  Speaker 1: then Cleveland showed interest and we felt great about the
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  Speaker 1: spot and and the deal and said okay, let's get
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  Speaker 1: it done.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So you brought it up earlier. You mentioned your
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  Speaker 5: kids and your wife and everything. So you're in Vegas,
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  Speaker 5: have you seen. I got to ask you this because
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  Speaker 5: we just had the athletics be writer from the athletic
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  Speaker 5: on Man.
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  Speaker 4: That was a lot of athletics. Is have you seen a.
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  Speaker 5: Stadium being built yet? I gotta ask you. You live in
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  Speaker 5: Vegas on the strip. If they started putting like a
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  Speaker 5: wall up or a sign up or an a up
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  Speaker 5: or something.
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  Speaker 3: I got nothing. I got nothing.
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  Speaker 1: They took down the Tropicana Hotel where it's supposed to go,
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  Speaker 1: so it is just dirt. Like they can start working
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  Speaker 1: at any moment. Uh. Yeah, I mean I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna I personally, I'm not sure it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, things can happen really quick, and you go
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  Speaker 1: from thinking you know they're not coming at all to
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  Speaker 1: the building being done in a year. But yeah, it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything. I haven't seen anything. And the
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  Speaker 1: vague Vegas isn't like waiting for the a's. We're kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, are you coming or you're not coming? And
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  Speaker 1: you know their language. And Sacramento gives them the right
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  Speaker 1: to stay there for like an extra year, and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking four years.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot can happen in four years. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, you'd like to be.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've when the Raiders were coming, it felt like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: like the Raiders are coming, we're gonna be ready for
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  Speaker 1: that season, and the stadium is being built. This is, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is way different. This is we're just sitting in
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  Speaker 1: limbo and we'll see if the A's ever come.
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  Speaker 4: You have two girls, correct? Two girls?
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  Speaker 3: Two girls?
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  Speaker 4: And what are their ages?
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  Speaker 3: Chloe's three and a half and Hayden just turned one?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so you you mentioned this earlier. You mentioned school.
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  Speaker 5: They're three and a half in one. Okay, your wife
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  Speaker 5: just just she just needs to read to them, I
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  Speaker 5: mean school. Are you going to send her free school?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're talking.
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  Speaker 5: More more importantly. It's a pain in the butt for
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  Speaker 5: your wife, is what I'm kind of getting at. Right,
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  Speaker 5: Like you'll be playing, you'll be on road trips and
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  Speaker 5: I know they come on some, but they can't come
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  Speaker 5: on all. So you have to have something for them
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  Speaker 5: to do all day while you're at the field. And
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  Speaker 5: people don't realize that, like, oh, you can just hire
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  Speaker 5: a nanny and state it doesn't work like that, because
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  Speaker 5: they wanted to do things around Cleveland and this and that.
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  Speaker 5: So my question is is how do you find a
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  Speaker 5: place in Cleveland, Because honestly, I don't know of anybody
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  Speaker 5: that ever played in Cleveland. No one really lives I
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  Speaker 5: don't think downtown Cleveland. Do you hire a real estate
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  Speaker 5: agent to find somewhere like in the burbs. I just
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  Speaker 5: don't know, because I've never really asked anyone where do
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  Speaker 5: the players live in Cleveland?
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  Speaker 1: So people tend to live west of town, out of downtown,
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  Speaker 1: which is which is part of the just part of
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  Speaker 1: the logistical craziness that we're going through. I've never been
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  Speaker 1: anywhere other than the team hotel and down and the
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  Speaker 1: stadium downtown, so I haven't been really anywhere, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know a bunch of it. So, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: got a real tur to try and find a couple
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  Speaker 1: a couple options for that. We're gonna look at this
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  Speaker 1: week on FaceTime and kind of try and make a decision,
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  Speaker 1: and then try and find a school that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: in that area and try and work on finding a
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  Speaker 1: nanny babysitter situation. It's like, yeah, it's all it's all
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  Speaker 1: my wife's logistic craziness, and that's that's really the difficult part.
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  Speaker 1: When you know, you're going through this process as somebody
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  Speaker 1: with a family, it's like sure, like I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy for me, I go, you know, I can go,
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  Speaker 1: and I could play and that sort of thing. But
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  Speaker 1: when you're trying to bring your family, you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get everything dialed in. You sure would love decide before
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  Speaker 1: January twenty seconds so that you can kind of give
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  Speaker 1: yourself a chance to try and figure out how you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make this work. But everyone from Cleveland has been
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  Speaker 1: fantastic and trying to make this transition as easy as
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  Speaker 1: possible for us, and we are thankful for them. We're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna. We feel good that we're gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things dialed in before we head to good
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  Speaker 1: Year and then we can kind of go down there
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  Speaker 1: and and just take a deep breath and get ready
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 4: So are you a house guy? Are you an apartment guy?
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  Speaker 4: Are you you know what is? Because when I when
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  Speaker 4: I saw with the Guardians, it was the Indians at
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  Speaker 4: the time, and I was just in spring training. I
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  Speaker 4: can't give you my recommendation on the house that we
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  Speaker 4: lived at because it was awesome for us, but I
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  Speaker 4: didn't even make seven million in one in my entire career,
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  Speaker 4: so your price levels way different. My house was right
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  Speaker 4: next to the stadium and I rode a little scooter
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  Speaker 4: to the park every single day. So I can't even
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  Speaker 4: give you recommendations. But what are the parameters that your
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  Speaker 4: wife or you set up when you guys are looking
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  Speaker 4: for a place.
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  Speaker 1: To shout out to the Dolan family for pay me
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  Speaker 1: enough that I can figure out exactly what we need.
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  Speaker 1: So just any chance to thank ownership in the front office.
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  Speaker 1: It gives us a lot of luxuries and we're very
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  Speaker 1: appreciative of that. Yeah, we're just trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what's going to be the best option for us. Is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be a house, is it like a townhouse.
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  Speaker 1: We've kind of found a couple of the couple of
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  Speaker 1: both really and it felt like it's fifteen to twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes away from the stadium, but there's lots of green area.
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  Speaker 1: This is where most of the guys live, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: my wife can maybe do some playdas with other families
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  Speaker 1: and just try to figure out how.
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  Speaker 3: To make it work when we're on the road for
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  Speaker 3: eighty games.
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  Speaker 1: But like you said, Age, we're in the Ale Central,
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  Speaker 1: so my family might actually be able to come on
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  Speaker 1: a couple of trips in Seattle. It was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm not making a four or five hour flight
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  Speaker 1: just to go see you for three days, so this
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  Speaker 1: will be a lot easily. I am looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Seattle was enough for three years. I'm excited to get
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to get thirty minute and one hour flights regularly.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, huge advantage. Another potential advantage is the Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: pitching machine.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland has been almost like raise Ish of the Midwest
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the production that they're getting from Armed.
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  Speaker 2: They do it in a little bit of a different way.
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  Speaker 2: But as much as the guys are going to rely
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  Speaker 2: on you for the veteran presence, how much do you
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  Speaker 2: think you can take out of both the Cleveland org
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: and then just some of the guys that you spend
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: time with there that had ridiculous seasons last year like
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: Class A Goddess, Kate Smith, et cetera. And to add
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: to that here, did Cleveland talk to you about any
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: of this when you had the zoom call and the
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: conversations over that first week, like, hey, we saw you
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: do this really well in your first twenty appearances and
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: then we felt like you went too far this way
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: in terms of your pitch usage.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so first and foremost, that's you know, that's what
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: drove me to really giving an opening ear to Cleveland. Right,
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking where can I be the best version of myself?
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: And an organization that is clearly top five in pitching
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: development that makes you really open your eyes and say, okay,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: like let's hear what they have to say. And so
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: the zoom call was good. They asked a lot of
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: questions of you know, give us some perspective on you know,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: what you're feeling, what you thought of last year, what happened.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of there's a lot of
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: communication back and forth, and you know, then they got
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: a chance to say like, look, this is kind of
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: what we feel like you need to do to be
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: your very best self. And here's who you know, here's
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: our kind of you know, it happened very quickly, so
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: they said they didn't do a deep dive as they
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: like to as they like to call it, but they're
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: saying like, look, we have we feel like you're this
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: close to being your absolute best. We just need to
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: kind of dial a couple of things in and go
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: from there, and I felt good about the fact that
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I think this group can recognize when I maybe am
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: straying off the rails and making sure that they keep
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: me keep me right on the tracks instead of feeling
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: like last year obviously I went, I went on the
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: other side of the guardrails and kind of it was
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: hard to get back in. So I opened opened a
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: lot of eyes for me kind of what I need
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: to make sure that I had in Seattle that maybe
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I wasn't doing in Arizona.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: And Cleveland.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Feels like it's a great combination of Look, we we
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: can help you if you need help. We have a
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: lot of you know, we have a lot of resources,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: and we've continued to be very good at this. So
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited just to get down to good
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: year work with them. My conversations have been nothing but
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: positive and I'm excited that, you know, I'm going to
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: be better anyways, but if I need a little bit improvement,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: I know that these these coaches are going to be
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: dialed in for me.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: With Carl Willis on the call by him himself or
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: was he in the group and just there he was.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: In the group.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: So we had yeah, we had like ten people on.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: We had like ten people on. It was everyone in
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: the front office, all the pitching coaches.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: I was.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: I came on thinking I was meeting with like maybe
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: two or three and kind of was a little shocked
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: that we had a dozen people on there.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: But it was it was good.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: It just you know, it made a great impression and
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: it made me feel like I have all the resources
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: and all the people necessary to be my very best
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: and that's all I'm looking forward to.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: That's awesome. That's awesome.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: All right, before we let you go, what's the one
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: thing you're looking forward to doing in Cleveland Rock and
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: Roll Hall of Fame? Walking around the lake seeing a
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Browns game, probably not, or finding a golf finding a
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: golf course that you want to play, because we know
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: how much you're into golf. So is there a golf
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: course in the Cleveland area where here? I think that's pebble,
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: isn't that? Is that pebble?
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Where is that Monterey Monterey Peninsula?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: That place was? That place was dialed in, So we
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: got we got a couple of places that I need
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: to see. I think the country club at Pepper Pike
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be the best one in town. So
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: anybody listening that maybe knows how to get me over there.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I am willing to trade BP passes to UH to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: head over there. That's my that's all I have to offer.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: But I I could certainly do that, oh offer.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I know a guy on the show who can probably
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: make a deal like that with a phone caller.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: I don't need I don't need VP passes though, I mean,
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: don't you want to go to like fire? How far
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: is Acron from Cleveland? Like, isn't fire? No, that's in Columbus, Jacks.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: That's a little bit Firestones, Firestones, an achron. That's only
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: an hour. It's we'll see.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: We'll see about Columbus is like two hours. There's plenty
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: of places in Columbus. Maybe I could do like a
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: quick head over after a day game, stay the night
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: play and come back for an off day type thing.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll see what we can do. We're very close.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: We're it's an area I haven't been before.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll uh maybe we'll see if what if we
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: can make something happen?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, AJ can make a couple of yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: BP passes. Well, we can give those out maybe on
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the show, and AJ can can make the phone call
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: to make the little golf happened. So stay tuned.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: You have you ever been to batting practice for a
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: game before? It's great man.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was only out there for the first round.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Usually I don't know what happens after the first round
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: or the first group. I should say, after that, I mean,
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: all hell can break loose because I never saw.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: You first group catchers. You don't know. You don't know
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: anything about the third round that the pitchers are out
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: there just shagging for an hour an hour. Oh we
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: just I mean yeah, picking them.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Oh you're throwing them all you and seventy bat boys
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: that are out there. You guys catch like one ball.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: He goes like, oh I'm so tired. I had to
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: throw one ball in And now you guys you don't
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: throw them over hand?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but sometimes ball Half the guys are in
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the cage and they don't even come outside to see
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: the light. They like come out for the game and
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: they're like, oh, wow, this is what the field looks
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: like today.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Even better, even better.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I mean they're in there, they're in there hitting from
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: two o'clock until seven o'clock.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: I don't know why we need an hour of batting practice.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: When and then the guys that are the guys that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: aren't playing are gonna hit from the first inning until
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the eighth inning. I'm like, why do you need all
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: these swings like this is exhausting?
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Why do you throw bullpens? Why do you throw flat grounds?
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Why do you have the bullpen catcher out there? And
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: you're like, I'm gonna change my position to my supersider
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: by one million of an inch just like this to
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: make it break a little bit, Like why do you
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: need all that you get up.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: In your I don't know. I don't throw bullpens, so
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I know you're not talking to me.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Flat ground, you throw flat grounds.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: You play catch, You you make some other poor kicker
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: get out there and squat down out then they blow
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: their knee out.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: They can't move.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I play catch with my catch partner every day.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We throw thirty throws a couple of sixty feet for
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the field, and then we go to work.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I don't use it. I don't waste any bullets at
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: three o'clock. I need them all at time.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: That's smart. I like that.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I hope someone hears that, Paul, thank you for the time.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Congratulations man, and obviously we'll catch it a few weeks.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Some of us might be an out in Arizona too,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: so we'll let you know. But congratulations again. All right,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: good luck with the move. We'll catch you soon.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Awesome. I appreciate that. We'll see you guys.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Help us some.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Golf in Arizona.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: We help with some good golf in Arizona.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Now that's okay, all right, we'll talk offline about a
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: couple of people from the d Backs that should be
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: having nice uh nice memberships here pretty soon.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: So they were, they were working on it during the season.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Well they should have it by now we'll talk.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: We'll talk off I know some people that are older
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: that already have some nice ones that are you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: in the air.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Well some of them, you know, some of us are
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: busy for eight months of the year. It's hard to
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: it's hard to really maximize the culship. So it's uh,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: that's part of it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: You've got a deal. You've got a deal. Okay, Well,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: offline on this, thanks Paul. Good to see you, dude.