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Dustin Pedroia talks career & youth baseball on Dirt From The Dugout · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Dustin Pedroia and thank him for
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  Speaker 1: joining us here. Thanks very much, big man. That's always
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  Speaker 1: like that smile. I see you and I smile. Why
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  Speaker 1: the hell does that happen? Why do you make me smile?
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  Speaker 2: You might be around miserable people or something. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but it's good, good, good to be on with you guys. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's have some fun. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you coming on, Dustlin. Good to see you, man,
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  Speaker 3: So thank yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the thing that I really that resonated with
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  Speaker 1: me was your attitude, your joy, your passion. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about little league for a second here. When Schemes goes
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  Speaker 1: and stops at that field, obviously those kids are like
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  Speaker 1: blown away. You know, this would be like you in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine showing
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  Speaker 1: up in Reading, Massachusetts at a little league field and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, that's him. That's a contagious
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  Speaker 1: thing for those kids as an example that he set.
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  Speaker 1: What's your take on what Schemes did there and what
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  Speaker 1: the role of a major league player can be for
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  Speaker 1: little kids.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's awesome that Paul did that. I mean, like
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  Speaker 4: the game right now. You know, you want the youth
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  Speaker 4: to come up and enjoy it and and kind of
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  Speaker 4: have that passion throughout because it's a lot harder now
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  Speaker 4: with that because kids just play. You know, they play
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty games a year, So you know,
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  Speaker 4: I see it and I'm like, holy cow, how do
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  Speaker 4: you get up for every game if you.
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  Speaker 2: Play so many of them?
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's fifty six games in a college season,
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  Speaker 4: there's one hundred and forty four in a minor league season,
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  Speaker 4: there's one hundred and sixty two in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 4: And some kids are playing the schedule at you know, ten, twelve,
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  Speaker 4: thirteen years old. So for me, it's like I love
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  Speaker 4: the game so much and every time I played it
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  Speaker 4: it was I played it like it was my last game.
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  Speaker 4: So I view the kids, it's like I want them
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  Speaker 4: to have that spark and a lot of kids that
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  Speaker 4: I see some do and some don't because they play
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  Speaker 4: too much, you know what I mean. So I want
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  Speaker 4: them to keep that spark and that joy and that love.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously when Paul shows up, it picks them up
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  Speaker 4: and you know they feel like they played no games
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  Speaker 4: that year, But.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, not every day. The cy Young Award winner showing
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  Speaker 2: up to your yard and a giant dude.
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  Speaker 1: Six Yeah, right, like he's a giant young winner. You
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  Speaker 1: know Justin. You probably know this about Pedroia, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean Dustin would show up. You know, I've I've seen
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  Speaker 1: clips of other Red Sox teammates, rookies who knew, like
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  Speaker 1: I can't show up games at one are and I'll
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  Speaker 1: get there around nine and they walk in there and
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  Speaker 1: Dustin is in his uniforms, shirping at anybody he can see.
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  Speaker 1: So you played with this little league enthusiasm enjoy and
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  Speaker 1: I mean the times I was around you, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like you did that no matter what, no matter where
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  Speaker 1: you were, no matter how bad the season was going.
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  Speaker 1: Where did that come from?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I love the game, obviously, you know I
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  Speaker 4: loved playing it from from a young agent, So you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's kind of where.
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  Speaker 2: My mindset was.
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  Speaker 4: And also too, you know if during my time when
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  Speaker 4: I'm playing, you can only play for so long, so
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  Speaker 4: it's like you better put everything you have into it.
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  Speaker 4: You better prepare, you better do the right things to
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  Speaker 4: to be able to be successful. And that's where kind
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  Speaker 4: of you know, I'd get to the field early, I'd
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  Speaker 4: watch video, I'd you know, if I had to work
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  Speaker 4: out that day, I'd get there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, my mindset was I love being here,
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  Speaker 2: so I might as well be there, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: So but it's you know, like the guys I talked
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  Speaker 4: to and stuff, they're like, oh, well, you're gonna get tired,
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  Speaker 4: and it's like, yeah, yeah, you're gonna get tired. But
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  Speaker 4: guess what, if you do it the right way, you
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  Speaker 4: get to retire and you can you can rest as
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  Speaker 4: long as you want, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So that was kind of my mindset, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And and and when I played too, it was a
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  Speaker 4: little bit different mindset, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Like the you know, it was more in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: it was more work over numbers, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Like I was working on on myself and trying to
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  Speaker 4: prepare my swing and what I'm trying to do that
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  Speaker 4: day for the competition, rather than you know, always sixty
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  Speaker 4: percent this stitch in this count. Like I don't care
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  Speaker 4: if you throw any pitch in any count if mom.
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  Speaker 2: Locked in, guess what, I'm getting a hit. I'm hitting it.
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  Speaker 4: So like I was, I'm a big believer in putting
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  Speaker 4: in the work, old school, you know, put your hard
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  Speaker 4: hat on and get after it.
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  Speaker 3: I love that, man. I want to ask you this
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  Speaker 3: because I think it's just you know, we were chatting
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  Speaker 3: a little bit before we came on here, but one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that I was always really drawn to
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  Speaker 3: about you is just your ability to kind of rise
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  Speaker 3: up in the environments that you're in, which I think
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  Speaker 3: is a lost art of like handling the pressure and
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  Speaker 3: being able to come through. And one of the things
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  Speaker 3: that I think it's lost in your fourteen your amazing
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  Speaker 3: fourteen year career is and you took it on and
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  Speaker 3: you were a great sport about it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like you weren't just like this gritty little ballplayer.
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  Speaker 3: You were very You had a lot of tools right
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  Speaker 3: and like, but you kind of embraced that, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's what made you so likable.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't I feel like there wasn't a lot of
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  Speaker 3: pride coming out of you in a sense of like
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  Speaker 3: you were an ego guy and it was that kind
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  Speaker 3: of was the motivator for you. So can you just
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  Speaker 3: talk a little bit about that, man, because I feel
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  Speaker 3: like it gets lost in it and you were okay
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  Speaker 3: with it, but it also makes you super super likable
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  Speaker 3: and the fans really like you for it. But you
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  Speaker 3: were you had some really good tools, speaking from a
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  Speaker 3: scouting standpoint, man.
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  Speaker 4: So my mindset was funny. I appreciate that, but my
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  Speaker 4: mindset changed. I was in at Arizona State my right
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  Speaker 4: after my junior year, and we lost to cal State Fullertson.
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  Speaker 4: We got home and I had two meetings with a
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  Speaker 4: couple of scouts like I didn't talk to anybody.
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  Speaker 2: I just played baseball like I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I got an agent, but I didn't know where I
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  Speaker 4: was going to get drafted and whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And I met with a team I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: throw him.
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  Speaker 4: Under the bus or whatever. And the guy is the
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  Speaker 4: best meeting probably that guy's ever had and I've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And he looked at me and he said, you know, Dustin,
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  Speaker 4: we have the fourth pick of the draft, and if
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  Speaker 4: you were three inches taller, we'd take you with our
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  Speaker 4: first pick. And they were picking four or five or
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  Speaker 4: three or so, I don't even know what they were picking.
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  Speaker 4: And I looked at him and I go, you would
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  Speaker 4: take me with the third pick if I was that
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  Speaker 4: much taller, and he goes and kinda he kind of
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  Speaker 4: like stopped and he was like, oh my god, I
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  Speaker 4: just said the dumbest thing in the history of life,
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  Speaker 4: right like this much taller on a human being.
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  Speaker 5: And he goes yeah, and I go, can I ask
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  Speaker 5: you why? And he goes, well, I have bosses. And
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  Speaker 5: I go, sir, I have bosses too, you know. And
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  Speaker 5: I go, I'm just saying you should take me with
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  Speaker 5: that pick. And he goes, I want to so bad
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  Speaker 5: writing it in that we should take you.
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  Speaker 4: And I go, okay, fine, Well this this person that
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  Speaker 4: the people that didn't take me, they happen to be
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  Speaker 4: in our the American League East, and I killed them.
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  Speaker 2: I killed everybody in the American League, so you don't
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  Speaker 2: know who they are.
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  Speaker 4: But it was to the point I was trying to
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  Speaker 4: make a point like, hey, listen, in baseball, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: matter what you look like, it doesn't matter you know
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  Speaker 4: where you come from, it doesn't matter what language you speak.
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  Speaker 4: It matters what you do and how you do it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's that's reality. I tell my kids every day.
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  Speaker 4: I go, if you look the part and continue to
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  Speaker 4: practice being the part, you will end up being the part.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like, you will be the
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  Speaker 4: guy if you continue to work and strive for that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about playing games, about doing the right things
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  Speaker 2: day in and day out. And that's what I tried
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  Speaker 2: to do. I wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't show up to a baseball game trying to
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  Speaker 4: get three hits every game. I chewed up to a
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  Speaker 4: baseball game trying to beat the other team.
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  Speaker 2: That's my job.
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  Speaker 4: And if that required me to get four hits, I
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  Speaker 4: got four hits. If that were wired me to go
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  Speaker 4: for four and make five plays, I made five plays.
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  Speaker 4: Like the game is the game. There was a guy
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  Speaker 4: I talked to. This is two days ago. It's the
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  Speaker 4: funniest thing I ever seen or I ever heard. The
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  Speaker 4: game's been around one hundred and fifty years whatever. And
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  Speaker 4: the guy goes and so I, you know, the poor
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  Speaker 4: kid's playing. You know, he's eleven years old and he's
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  Speaker 4: playing one hundred and sixty games and his back hurts.
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  Speaker 2: So I go.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as a former professional, I know when you're sixteen, seventeen,
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  Speaker 4: and eighteen, it actually matters. When you're ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
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  Speaker 4: and even fifteen, nothing matters. Play the game the right way,
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  Speaker 4: get better progress. Until you get to a certain age.
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  Speaker 4: The guy goes, oh, well, it's different than when you played,
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  Speaker 4: and I go, the only thing that's different than when
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  Speaker 4: I played is the dumbasses that are raising these kids.
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  Speaker 4: And you're the guy. You're the reason why your kid
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  Speaker 4: will not make it. He won't make it because you're
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  Speaker 4: going to overplay your kid. He's gonna get hurt. He's
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  Speaker 4: practicing the wrong things. He cares about results, he's not
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  Speaker 4: doing the day to day grind. He's not the guy
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  Speaker 4: like it is what it is. Everybody that I have
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  Speaker 4: ever played with, there's one common denomenator. Mentally they're different
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  Speaker 4: and physically they do the right things to prepare to
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  Speaker 4: play a baseball game.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the guys that make it.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if you're a five tool player, you
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  Speaker 4: can have one tool.
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  Speaker 2: I play with Kevin Cash, and I love Kevin Cash
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  Speaker 2: to the day I die. He was the worst hitter
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen in my life.
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  Speaker 4: He could he could not play pepper and he would
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  Speaker 4: laugh if he saw this. And guess what Kevin Cash did.
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  Speaker 4: He played ten years in the big leagues. He could
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  Speaker 4: catch and throw. He was the best teammate maybe in
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  Speaker 4: the history of life. And he was a winning baseball
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  Speaker 4: player because he prepared the right way, and like this
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  Speaker 4: is it is what it is. And so I you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's funny. I try to I try to tell parents.
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  Speaker 4: I try to tell the kids, but they they fall
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  Speaker 4: in that hamster will man that you nderstand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: They get on.
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  Speaker 1: We deal with it all the time. That's why, that's
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  Speaker 1: why that answer was as good as any answer we've
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  Speaker 1: ever heard, we've ever had. And I'll tell you this, Pedroya,
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  Speaker 1: you just gave an answer longer than Roger Clemens's answers,
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  Speaker 1: which I didn't think was even possible, Like there was
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  Speaker 1: no way anybody could do that. And you just you
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  Speaker 2: I'm usingly not a talker, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I'm using a So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, we're giving you the plan for we have
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  Speaker 3: you on.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: No, well, I'm passionate because I have kids going through it,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I have I have a thirteen year old.
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  Speaker 4: He's good, he's he's a really good middle infielder and
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  Speaker 4: he's one hundred and ten pounds and he's got a
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  Speaker 4: great swing, Like he's going to be really good, right,
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  Speaker 4: But everybody wants results, and I'm like, cool, Go have
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  Speaker 4: a good a bat, Go swing at the right pitches,
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  Speaker 4: Go do the right things.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, when we base run, we base run with a passion.
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  Speaker 2: We we we.
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  Speaker 4: Are secondary is great. We're one step ahead of the game.
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  Speaker 4: I go, don't worry, physicality will come. I played in
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  Speaker 4: the big leagues at one hundred and sixty three pounds,
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  Speaker 4: and I was the year I won the MVP.
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  Speaker 2: I was one hundred and sixty eight pounds.
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  Speaker 4: I go, I don't want to hear anything about size
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  Speaker 4: from nobody, from nobody like I was probably the lightest
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  Speaker 4: MVP in the history of baseball, al two fifteen pounds
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  Speaker 4: heavier than me.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't the hey justin, That wasn't the That wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the the birth of the chip on the shoulders, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak, or the attitude went So when did that?
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  Speaker 2: When?
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  Speaker 1: When would that happen? Like when you were born? When
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  Speaker 1: did that come from?
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  Speaker 4: So? I was the little kid, obviously, and I was trying.
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  Speaker 4: I was always trying to get respect from everybody. Baseball
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  Speaker 4: didn't matter, right. You know, if I went to a
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  Speaker 4: basketball game and I showed up or you know, a
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  Speaker 4: pickup game.
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  Speaker 2: They'd look at me and be like, ah, we'll take
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  Speaker 2: the little guy. But like on accident, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, So kiss me off. I'm like taking me last.
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  Speaker 1: I can relate to that. Yeah, I get.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, hey, take me a win, like I I.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in this. I'm in the business of winning. Everybody's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 4: To a hitting coach and do this. No, I'm in
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  Speaker 4: the business of winning games. I don't give a rats
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  Speaker 4: you know what about mechanics.
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  Speaker 2: This, that, whatever, I'm in the business of.
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  Speaker 4: If we're playing a nine inning baseball game, one guys
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  Speaker 4: is going to help your team win, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 4: that guy and I and I showed up to do
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  Speaker 4: that every day.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what it takes to be a good player.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter your size, it doesn't matter what position
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  Speaker 4: you play, it doesn't matter how hard you throw, it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't nothing matters if your mindset is, hey, I got
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  Speaker 4: a nine inning baseball game to play, and I'm here
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  Speaker 4: to beat your you know what you're different.
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  Speaker 2: That's the major leagues. That's the difference.
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  Speaker 3: That's the difference when you when you were when you
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  Speaker 3: were in your big league career, was that something that
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  Speaker 3: motivated you though? Was that something that was like you
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  Speaker 3: kind of always thought about or did you just put
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  Speaker 3: that behind you and just go play?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: I just put them I mean play. I mean once
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  Speaker 4: you get drafted, you're in. Yeah, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Like you're in the fight. And and it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously the minor leagues are a grind.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you've got to perform, you have to have results.
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  Speaker 2: But the way to.
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  Speaker 4: Get results is they're doing the right things day in
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  Speaker 4: and day out. People don't realize that. Like everyone's like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go I'm going to hit three ten
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  Speaker 4: this year. It's like, okay, well how do you do that?
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  Speaker 4: What are the steps? Do you know what the steps are?
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  Speaker 4: If you don't know what the steps are, you better
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  Speaker 4: ask some questions to somebody and hopefully that person knows
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  Speaker 4: what the hell they're talking about, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's not even I'm going to hit three tendh
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  Speaker 1: and now it's uh, I just need I need exit velocity.
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  Speaker 1: I need. I need a good barrel percentage, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get don't I don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: your started on that. We'll we'll get to that. No,
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  Speaker 1: we do have questions here from from our you know,
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  Speaker 1: from our team, So let's get to those, because that's
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  Speaker 1: what this whole platform is all about. First question has
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  Speaker 1: to do with your kind of experiences as you were
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  Speaker 1: growing up, and it refers to people who play nor
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  Speaker 1: Cal baseball, this particular teammate of ours, what your travel
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: ball experience was like back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so let me read this. Boom boom, boom boom
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  Speaker 2: got you Okay, So this is my story, guys.
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  Speaker 4: I played twenty Little league baseball games from age eight
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  Speaker 4: to twelve, twenty baseball games from when little league started, Okay, and.
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  Speaker 2: When I got done in Woodland, California.
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  Speaker 4: I stopped baseball, and then I went straight into basketball.
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  Speaker 4: And then right after the twenty games of basketball, I
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  Speaker 4: went straight into flag football at that age, and then
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  Speaker 4: right after that it was a shortened season, I went
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  Speaker 4: straight into tennis. And then I wrapped it back around
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: and played baseball, basketball, football, tennis.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what I did from.
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  Speaker 4: Ages eight to twelve, So I played that's four years
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  Speaker 4: times twenty. I played, wow, eighty baseball games. Eighty baseball
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  Speaker 4: games until my thirteen year old baseball season.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I was an athlete. I was. I was.
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  Speaker 4: Like lean, I could, I could, good footwork. Whatever, I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't overplayed. I was really good at baseball. I was
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  Speaker 4: pretty good at basketball. I was a point guard, and
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  Speaker 4: I was okay at football. I was really good at tennis.
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  Speaker 4: Sool those other sports trained my mind on how to
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  Speaker 4: be a good teammate. Like I'm not getting twenty shots
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  Speaker 4: up in basketball, I'm moving the ball around. I'm setting
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  Speaker 4: guys up. My attitude was good in football. I played
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  Speaker 4: quarterback in safety. I had to do little things too.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I was a well rounded athlete, which in today's society
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  Speaker 4: is is hard to come across. And that's what scouts,
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  Speaker 4: that's what college coaches want. So the hard part about
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  Speaker 4: society is is everyone goes, oh, you got to play
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  Speaker 4: year round, you got to you got to be specialized
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  Speaker 4: at age ten. Yeah, no one wants that. And if
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  Speaker 4: you do want that, the coach is an idiot and
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  Speaker 4: their team stinks. These are facts, guys. I'm only gonna
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: say facts.
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  Speaker 1: You're a parent now, Dustin, So you encourage your kids
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  Speaker 1: to play and any kid that they're friends with, you
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  Speaker 1: play multiple sports. You still do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my oldest son now is a junior in high school.
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  Speaker 4: He plays basketball only he's six foot three, he's at
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: But now, at fifteen, we got to pick a sport, right,
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: you got to pick one. But from ages eight to fifteen,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: are you out of your mind? Like, no, go play sports,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Go be a kid, Go social skills, learn how to
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  Speaker 4: be a teammate, learn how to be an athlete, learn
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: how to fail. Parents are terrified of their son failing. No, guys, no,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: we need to fail. Failure is what makes you a
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  Speaker 4: good person. Listen, there's been twenty three thousand major leaguers
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  Speaker 4: in the world.
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  Speaker 2: If you're planning on your kid being a major leaguer.
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  Speaker 4: Let's not do that. Let's not do that. Let's plan
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  Speaker 4: on your son changing the world in some way. It
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: could be baseball, it could be football, it could be
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  Speaker 4: you're a CEO of whatever. You could be Carl Ravich,
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  Speaker 4: you could be something in media, you could be something great.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: But sports make you that way. And it's not one sport, guys,
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  Speaker 4: It's all sports. You got to meet everybody from every
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: different background. You got to meet them all. That's what
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  Speaker 4: changed me. That's what made me who I am. If
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  Speaker 4: I didn't play basketball, and if I didn't play football,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: there's no chance how to play baseball, zero chance.
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  Speaker 2: Guys like I had to go through. I had to
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: go through the grind.
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  Speaker 4: I had to guard a kid that was six foot
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  Speaker 4: and be like, this guy's bigger, faster, stronger, he's better,
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  Speaker 4: he's he's talking trash to me. He's beaten my you
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  Speaker 4: know what. And I had to find a way to
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  Speaker 4: guard him. If I didn't do that, you think I'm
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: going to play defense on a mo for four in
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  Speaker 4: a baseball game, right?
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  Speaker 2: No answer is no, no, But I'm like, you know what, I.
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  Speaker 3: Go Well, yeah, he love it.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to the next question from Mark here says
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  Speaker 3: this is awesome. Thank you. Your teammates described you as
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  Speaker 3: a non NonStop in the clubhouse, joking, keeping the energy high.
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  Speaker 3: Walk us through why it's so important to keep the team.
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  Speaker 4: Loose, because you play better, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Like you you when when you're not thinking about the
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  Speaker 4: things that don't matter, you play better, you know what
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I mean? And in every environment. It could be hell,
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  Speaker 4: it could be thirteen baseball. You know your your your
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  Speaker 4: dad or your mom are like, oh, why'd you go
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  Speaker 4: one for four today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because I didn't. I got a hit in one
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  Speaker 2: out of four at bats. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: You need that teammate that's going to go up to
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  Speaker 4: you and be like, you know, joke around, keep it
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  Speaker 4: light so he doesn't think about your dad saying you
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: went one for four. Same thing in the big leagues.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: You know, it could be media, it could be pressure,
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  Speaker 4: it could be you know, you're.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Dealing with money, this is your job.
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  Speaker 4: But if you're relaxed and you and you know your
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  Speaker 4: teammates have your back, you're different, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, and I and I hope all the guys
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  Speaker 4: that I played with felt that way.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I would make a joke.
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  Speaker 4: I went over nine in a big league game one time,
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  Speaker 4: over nine with no strikeouts in phil League in two
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  Speaker 4: thousand and I don't even know nine in an eighteen
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  Speaker 4: inning game. Went over nine, and guests who made a
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  Speaker 4: joke about myself me?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, Like, guys, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: You play enough games, you're gonna do it, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but it only meant you were.
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  Speaker 1: Doing the next four.
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  Speaker 2: It just meant you were doing before the next day,
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  Speaker 2: the next game. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I think part of the answer to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that question just being around you that I grew up
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: in New England, obviously being around two people that were
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the ultimate trash talkers who backed it up. One was
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Larry Bird who trash talk everybody, and you do the same.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: And there are some legendary justin Pedroia trash talks. Whether
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  Speaker 1: it was with Francona Farrell, uh, the the guy that
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  Speaker 1: let you into course field in Colorado after he took
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Jeff Francis jeep. You tell us just what maybe people
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  Speaker 1: refer to as the most famous Pedroia chirp.
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  Speaker 4: I think my best one of all time. And Joe
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  Speaker 4: Mauer would say this probably We're at the Metrodome, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the old place, and I fouled off facing Booth bondser
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  Speaker 4: but I faced him in the minor leagues, remember Booth. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I held off like I filed off like nine straight pitches,
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  Speaker 4: and Joe's back there, and like I would always take
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  Speaker 4: a deep breath, get in there, and Joe goes well,
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  Speaker 4: dust and Joe's the nicest guy ever, like in the
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  Speaker 4: history of life. He goes, well, Dustin, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what to throw you, I go, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: Joe neither does the rest of the f in league,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: And when I said it, I was like, but I
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: was so locked into the bat.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean that's what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 4: And when I said it, Joe just kind of like
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  Speaker 4: he started laughing, you know what I mean, like, what
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  Speaker 4: the hell's wrong with this little guy? And then sure enough,
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  Speaker 4: Booth threw me a curveball I like slapped a little
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  Speaker 4: single up the middle, and I remember rounding first. I
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  Speaker 4: was looking back at him too. He didn't even give
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  Speaker 4: me a response. But that's probably my best opponent player,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 1: There's a billion.
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  Speaker 2: Talk more trash with my guys. Yeah, like I would.
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  Speaker 2: I would.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I never wanted to give Pictures any credit because then
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  Speaker 4: your teammate, if I can't hit them, you think you
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  Speaker 4: think anybody else is. I'm pretty good, So I never
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  Speaker 4: gave Pictures credit.
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  Speaker 2: So I'd come in. I talked trash about every picture.
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  Speaker 4: I'm I apologize since I'm retired, but I buried you
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  Speaker 4: guys when.
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  Speaker 2: I played nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He's got nothing.
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  Speaker 2: He stinks. He stinks. This guy stinks.
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  Speaker 4: I said that probably a billion times in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, what's he got? This guy stinks. If we
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  Speaker 2: don't score ten, we stink. It's awesome. Yeah, so good,
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  Speaker 2: that's good man.
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  Speaker 3: So speaking of that, who would be the guy that,
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  Speaker 3: uh you didn't like facing man? Who is the guy
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  Speaker 3: that you were like?
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  Speaker 2: Then? This is god? So it's funny. Who's your guy?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I went it? So my guy?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: You ready for my guy? I went in to talk
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  Speaker 4: Tory Lavella wanted me to talk to the Diamondbacks. This
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  Speaker 4: is like three years ago. So I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, me and Tory are tied. He was our
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  Speaker 4: bench coach with the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: I love him. I was like, all right, I go
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  Speaker 2: in and talk.
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  Speaker 4: So before I go into their coaches room and Dan
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  Speaker 4: Herron's sitting there and I and I I was I
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  Speaker 4: was over twenty eight killed you. So I see him.
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  Speaker 4: I see him in there and like I'm shaking everybody's hand. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: good to see. And I see Dan and I'm like
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to you know me, I'm mad I didn't
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  Speaker 4: get a hit off him. So I look at him
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  Speaker 4: and he goes, Dustin, great to see you.
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  Speaker 2: I go, you know what f you dan like? It's
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: a famious show. I go. He goes, what do you
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  Speaker 2: mad at me for? I go, I'm over for twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight against you. I want a piece of you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I wanted to bring him out in the field right
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  Speaker 4: now and try to get it hit because he owned me.
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  Speaker 2: He was my guy.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't get it it. I had no chance. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: hit a ground ball to short every time, and he
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: was my guy.
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  Speaker 3: They said, Dustin, did you just not see him? Did
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: you just not see him well? Or what what makes
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  Speaker 3: sweird dings?
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  Speaker 4: My my bat my bat path and what he did?
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  Speaker 4: It didn't play like I would beat everything into the ground.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I never struck out. I just couldn't square him up.
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  Speaker 2: So it was frust Yeah, no, I saw it, saw
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  Speaker 2: grain and it was.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: It was the most frustrating, oh for four And it
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: was every time like I almost got to a point.
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  Speaker 4: And I never faced him after this. But after I
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: went over four, I hit. I hit three grounders to
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: short and one to third, and I came in and
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I looked at John Farrell as our manager. And I
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: almost looked at John and said, hey, next time this
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: dude pitches, I need a day like I got.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Like it doesn't play.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: We're trying to win that day, and I'm humble enough
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: to go, Hey, my job's to sit here.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I don't need to be in here, you know what
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Justin, he shows up at Arizona State and walks in
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and says, I'm the new shortstop here. Ian Kinsler's on
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the team. He transfers out, he's facing Jared Weaver in
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a game. Put up our next question. As I'm telling
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: this story, He's facing Jared Weaver in a game, and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Weaver is Weaver is one of the best players, a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Golden Spikes winner, and after falling balls off and hitting
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the ball up the middle, he screams at him and says,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: we'll be here all day. We are here all day.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: He is crazy. Here's a question, and sometimes chatter about
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: physical stature as it pertains to projecting and scouting players.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: This is right in Justin's wheelhouse too. So how do
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you how did you handle that? You kind of told
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: that story, uh, preconceived notions based on size. You told
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the story, Justin, Maybe you and Dustin have a little
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: conversation about this whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I think it goes back
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: to the conversation we're having Dawson, where it's where it
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: can I think there can be too much focus on
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: some things like that. Right, it's not just about it,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: It's not just about your size. It's about the tools.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: And that's why I brought it up earlier, because if
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: you're just grading out your tools, you were actually very toolsy.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: It wasn't like you just kind of gut it out,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you know, a fourteen year career. I mean so, yeah,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, why don't you touch on that again? Man,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I mean just kind of how that stature played in
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: some of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that part's hard for scouts because
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: if you watch me play you know, two, three, four games,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, he's a good player. But then you
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: watch me play twenty in a row, You're like, oh
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: my god, this guy's beating us in different ways. And
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: I think in the scouting department, I think a lot
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: of guys have changed it, not just me, you know,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Jose Altuve did, and there was a lot of undersized
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: guy I mean, hell, the first pick of the draft
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: couple of years ago, the kid for Cleveland.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I mean he's what five to nine?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think in scouting now, the difference is
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: the guys who grind in that department they find him,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like like the guy the scout,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Dan Mattson was the scout that watched me.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: He he even told me. He goes dust and I
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: watched you play one hundred times.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: He goes the first ten games, I'm like, oh, he's
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: a he's a nice guy, a nice player. He you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: he's an organizational guy. And he goes by game fifteen
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: he goes, what do we got here? And then by
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: game twenty he goes, oh my god, he's good. And
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: then by game thirty he goes, oh my god, this
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: guy might be an All star. And you have to
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: have some serious kind of stones to say that, you
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: really do, because you're.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Going outside the norm.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: You're not the six to you know, two hundred and
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: ten pound look in the part body, the whole, make
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: the BP swing the I mean, you watch my batting practice,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: you would think something's wrong with me, you know what
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I mean. Like I'm hitting ground balls in the three
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: four hole, I'm hitting line drives to right, the last
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: round on back, spinning some balls in the gap, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: then the game comes.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, how do you do today? Oh?
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: He went three for four with two runs scored and
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: a couple be honest, So you the guys that grind
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: find the right guys and guess what they will they're
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: not good?
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Revo, you can get to the question or
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: a second. I just want to follow up on this.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: One of my theories in scouting across baseball is people
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: won't lose their job with when they fail on the
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: guy that everybody's dreaming on. Right, they and so it's easy.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: I've been in conversations. I've had conversations without their scouts
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and uh even executives. Like I'm telling you there there
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: are confident people within those departments, and then there are
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: people that are really just not wanting to take a
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: risk because they don't want to lose their job over
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: someone like you as an example. They would rather take
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: the six to two guide non performer. But maybe the
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: tools uptick just to tick to them. It's like, well
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: we missed on them, but who would have thought that, right,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: It's just a I've seen that a lot too and
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess as we finished that point up,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: let's get to the next question. Revi, go ahead, buddy.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Next question has to do with injuries, which you see
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: all the time. In fact, heck you you suffered a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: terrible injury. But the emotional side of youth sports, you
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: have a piece of encouragement for somebody that might get
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: hurt when they are young, to help them get back
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: on the field and feel better.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it depends on what the injury is.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Obviously.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I mean I'm gonna be frankly honest, because you know me,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: if you have an arm injury, it's your parents fault.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: It ain't the coaches. You're playing too much, stop playing
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: too much? Like stop say Dustin Pedroia said, I'm playing
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: too much, and you saved your kid's arm. Like, I'm
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: to the point now, because here's the thing, guys, I
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: love baseball to the day I die, and and I'm
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: afraid if the way the game is now with youth
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: youth baseball, we will never see a kid play fifteen
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: years in the big leagues.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: We won't see it. We want like I'm want too though.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: It's it's a forty or what is it? A forty
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: billion dollar industry. I get it, guys, I love it.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Nobody cares how you did in your tournament. No one
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: cares your perfect game. Stats do not matter. No one cares.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Do what's right for your kid. If he gets hurt,
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: take time off. If your coach is forcing your kid
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: to throw one hundred and sixty pitches every weekend, you're
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: on the wrong team. Do you hear me when I
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: say that, find another team. Do the right things by
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: each kid. Now, each kid develops physically differently than other kids.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: So to where pitch counts is, if you have a
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: man at twelve years old, he can throw seventy five
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: eighty pitches because he's a man. If you have a
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: kid that weighs seventy nine pounds and he's a really
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: good pitcher and he knows how to pitch, he still
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: needs to throw fifty five pitches. Like and if you're
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: the parent of the seventy nine pound kid, go up
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: to the coach and say, Dustin Pedroia said, you're a moron.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Get him out of the game at fifty five pitches.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: This is crucial for your child's well being. Like that.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: That's where I'm at with this. I've been through guys,
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I've been through it. I coach you a baseball for
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: six years.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I did it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you got to do what's right for every
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: kid to set them up for success when they get
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: sixteen years old.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: You had a great coach. You had a great coach
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: in Murfitt, Arizona State. There's a lot of really good coaches.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: In fact, Jim Schlosnegel told us a couple of great
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: stories about you. He came after you to try to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: get you to go to Tulane. Apparently that didn't work out.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: But what traits make an elite coach in college is
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: specifically an infield coach.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: By the way, he was my favorite, home, visit everything,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: my favorite.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: He was.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to take a kid out at Woodland,
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: California and go to New Orleans and that was my thing.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: But he was my favorite. We're still we still communicate
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: to today like he was great.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: What makes an elite coach?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I think an elite coach does whatever is best to
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: make that kid better each day day. Every kid is different.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: If you're a coach, you've got to be a chameleon man.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Every personality is different. Every every body is different. Every
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: skill sets different. You have to try to find a
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: way to reach them and make them better every day.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: That's what makes a good coach.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Answer and and and and I don't And here's the thing.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: They everybody in youth sports and even you know whatever,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a money pit, right like, they want
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: to make money off whatever, you know, charging for lessons,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: doing this, doing that, make the kid better? What are
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: we going to do today to make this kid better?
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: And you got if you have eleven or.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Twelve kids on the team, guess what you got to
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: have eleven or twelve personalities as a coach?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, justin, you get to the next question. But Dustin,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: as we do that. We had Dusty Baker on. I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: thought one of the lines that he shared with us,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: which I thought was great, was he said, the best
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: thing the player can do for the coach is tell
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: me the truth every single day. Don't ever lie to me,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and that will keep you on the field and it
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: will help our reallyationship. So we get it from the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: coach's side, we get it from the players. Set go ahead, Justin, Yeah.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome stuff. So DQ twenty three Laser Show. My
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: question is, how do you handle How did you handle
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: your career the way it did mentally? So obviously that
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: was a tough time for you. A lot going on there.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: But what helped you transition to life after baseball when
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: you had the game taking away? A great question.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for that question. That's the hardest part
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: for me. You know, every day I wake up and
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I think about it, you know what I mean. I shoot,
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: when I got slid into I was leading the league
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: and hitting at thirty three years old. I was I
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: was figuring out how to play when I got older.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: And that's what I'm most upset about, is like everyone
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: didn't get to see you know how they.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Say, oh, age thirty four to thirty eight, you're going
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to fall off. Dude. I was just getting going because
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I'm smart. I love it.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: So when it got taken away, I relied on my family.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I relied on the people that loved me. Yeah, I
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: just you know, you trust me. Every day I wake
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: up and I think about it every day, and it's
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: never you change. So oh God, Yeah, Like put it
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: this way, I'd go manage to be the best manager
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: in baseball right now. But I got three boys, and
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: my job right now is to be their dad, right,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean that that's my mindset, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: so I want to be there for them.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing anything in baseball. I don't I don't care.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: I'll coach you baseball to help out kids, But right
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: now my focus is on being a dad and being
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: the best version of that that I can be.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And but yeah, I think about it every day.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: So it's it's it's a daily I need a psychiatrist.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: So if you know a good one, hit me up.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Let's get Let's get to the next question and recognize
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: how valuable your presence is for your boys. Best PD
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: postgame nesson interview ever about the utterly rule? What's that story?
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I think I I think I remember I'm saying I've
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: turned more double players. I don't need a rule. But
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you tell us that story if you remember it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Shoot, I don't even remember it.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I just blew my knee out and I was gonna
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: try to play with it. Yeah, like, listen, it is
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: what it is, like I don't know.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, all right, you play second base. You play
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: second base. Guess what they're going to try to slide
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: into you.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: It is what it is. You know what I mean
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I got caught in the wrong spot. I got hit.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: It happened. Yeah, like yeah, that's it. I mean, there's
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: no trust me.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: I came up and the guys were trying to kill
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: you, you know what I mean.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: So that slide it just it was meant to be,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have Fernando Vigna on the show.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sacramento.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: You guys brought up Fernando and Dusty Baker. These are
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: the best Sacramento guys ever.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I'm all in.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Your book. Born to play resonated with me as a kid,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: especially the chip on your shoulder for a kid trying
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to make it. How do you balance that prove them
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: wrong mentality? And I didn't see the end of it.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: To prove them, prove them wrong mentality with must be
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: being true to yourself.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: It's the same thing. Guys show up every day ready
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: to work. How are you going to get better that day?
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: The results don't matter. How are we going to impact
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: the game and try to win that game? If you
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: if you play the win and you play the game
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: the right way, you're gonna do something good in the
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: box score. That's what people don't realize that, you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: they all they do. Now they got a hitting coach,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: pitching coach, infield coach, outfield guy, whatever.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Who's the guy that helps you play to win? Who's
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: that guy?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And so who did you who did you look across
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the diamond ass another team and say that guy is
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: a winner? I like that guy even if he was
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: on the other team.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, Jeter was that guy. Yeah, he was.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Like when we played the Yankees, like, I knew I
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: had to, Like we had to beat him him physically,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: We had to. He was coming, you know what I mean.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: And I'm pretty sure he'd say the same thing about me, like.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: He's like relationship.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got to kill that guy
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: to beat him, and he'd probably do it, you know
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: what I mean.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: So, you know, you know what I mean, Like he
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: he he was. He was the guy.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: I'm like when we went to New York and he's playing,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, I got a I got an
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: extra this, you know.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: What I mean? Yeah, that's great.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: So Mark has a question here to David Artiez really
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: not know your name for the first ten years of
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: your career.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: He just he called me pee wee all the time,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: so kind of like pe Yeah, nobody knows. He didn't
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: know anybody's name, so but no, he just called me
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: pee wee all the time.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: And yeah, he was good.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, questions is great. We really appreciate that. This is
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the most questions that we've ever had on a show.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you being an open book. So let's
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: get to another question. And if justin you have a
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: thought that comes into your head, feel free to spit
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: it out here. But the next question, uh, pee wee,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: how was Big Poppy as a teammate? And uh when
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: he hit that Grand Slam in twenty thirteen where Tory
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Hunter went head over heels? What's your what's your memories?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: How electric the building was that night?
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: That was great.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: That that was great because I got on base before that.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: They they brought Al Albuquerque in to get me out
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: and I and I hit up base hits or right,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: and Al was tough man like, he had that slider.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, don't throw me slider, and sure enough
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: he threw me at fastball. I don't know, I blame
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: I blame whoever was calling pitches, but I got a hit,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: and I'm thinking in my head, if they bring in
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: ben Wah and he hangs that split like David's gonna
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: get a home run off him, you know what I mean,
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: you know? And then in my mind, I'm thinking that,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: but you know how hard it is to do that, right?
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: And then he and then sure enough he did. So
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: it was it was pretty surreal. It felt like obviously
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: that year we were playing for more than just baseball,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: with what happened to Boston and the bombing, the whole,
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: the whole thing. So when it went over the fence,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I was running as fast as I could, so I
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: just heard the crowds reaction.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: That place is going nuts. It was fun.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: It's great cool.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: It was fun, all right. So let's get to the
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: next question here. How is fatherhood? How has fatherhood and
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: coaching change of perspective on what really matters in baseball?
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: It has a lot, great question.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: It has a lot like as a as a dad,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: I want my kids to be successful people and good people.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: So when I coach them, that's what I'm preparing them for.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: I'm not preparing my two younger boys to be major
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: league baseball players.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: It's not family business.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: There's twenty three thousand people in the history of life
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: to play in the major leagues. So what I did,
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: if that's your goal, it's an unrealistic expert for you. Now,
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: are they good? Yeah, they're good players for their age
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: that they can play. We're light years away.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: From when it matters.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: So I'm their dad like that, and I'm their coach
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: like that, like we have to work and get better
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: every day. And even my oldest boys playing basketball, I
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: tell them every day the things you can control your attitude, effort,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: and preparation and your communication. There's four things you can control.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: I go, if you're doing all four of those things,
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: lay your head on the bed and go to sleep.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: You're doing the right things. You're doing well.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: You know. It's funny. I think a lot of people
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: with your attitude. It strikes me you were either loved
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: certainly in Boston, you were respected seemingly everywhere, and you
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: were probably disliked in certain cities because of that whole attitude.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Did any of the perceptions of people of you matter
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: to you at all? Because I think kids, especially in
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: society today, are always worried about what other people think,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: and social media, etc.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I and that, And that's that's a good question.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I did.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: I wasn't, you know, at the end of my career,
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: obviously the social media thing was whatever it is, But
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: I didn't. I was trying to earn everyone's respect so much.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: That's what I cared about, and I and I earned it.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Like I go into Cleveland and and they boo the
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: you know what out of everybody, and then my booze
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: were kind of light, you.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: Like I go in to New York and they go, Pedroia,
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: we hate you, but we kind of.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Wish you were on our team. So I'm doing my job,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: We go to Tampa and this and the seven fans
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: they got, six of them would yell at me and
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: be like, hey, you saga.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: We kind of like you though. So I'm doing the
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: right thing.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: So but but I never really cared what other people
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: thought about me.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: I really didn't.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: I I showed up ready to win, ready to play
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: the game the right way. And and if you like me,
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: you like me. If you don't, you don't. But I'm
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: not going to change who I am for for for whoever.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that a lot. I have a question
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: before I get to this next question here though, So
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: when you talk about, you know, winning was what you
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: cared about, Dustin, that's what drove you to go to
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: the park, get there early? Could when you when you
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: guys had players come in, whether it's you know they're
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: called up or free agent signings after you kind of
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: figured it out. And I'm like, how to win and
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: how to get there? How quickly could you figure that
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: out with with a newcomer that's brought into the clubhouse.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: It takes time.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Boston's a hard place, man, it is. And I came
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: up in it. I got drafted by the Red Sox,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: like all a lot of the guys that you know,
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: I want to know seven with and thirteen, A lot
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: of those guys came up, so we knew what it was,
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: you know, we knew their ups and downs. The you know,
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: it's like five seasons and one you know what I mean.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: You can have a good month and you're the best
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: player on the planet. You could have a bad month
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: and your family's lives are threatened.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: So I knew. And I try to tell free.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Agents or new guys coming in, I'm like, hey, listen, right,
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: here like stay the course, you know what I mean,
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Like show up, work, do the right things. We're here
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: to win. You're gonna have good months, you're gonna have
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: bad months. You're gonna have good games, you have bad games.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Be yourself.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: And and they look at me like like we don't
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: need a psychology evaluation. And I'm like, you're gonna because
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: this place is nuts and you've got to go through
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: the fight, and you're gonna go through it. And sure
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: enough when they have that tough month, they're looking at
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: me like, hey, what do I do?
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you're.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Fine, Yeah, relax, It's a part of the game.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: So was.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Colorado your favorite place to hit?
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Not?
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: I ah, ship Carl, I'm a three hundred hitter.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I like hitting everywhere nuts, Thank you very much.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Next question, I do know this. It was your favorite
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: place to get stopped at the gate on the way
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: in so justin.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: One of the great stories ever. He gets stopped at
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the gate because because he's not a player, who does
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: he think? Who's this little guy think he is? They
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: would just say to the security guy.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Go you watching the game.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: I'm the guy leading off the World series with a
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: home run.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: If your guy Jeff Francis, Yeah.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Go, I go ask Jeff Francis who I am. But
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: no disrespect for Jeff, poor guy.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: No, but you do you eventually got in the gate.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll do We'll do one or two more
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: questions and then we'll get to the kitchen sink. Here's
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the next question from one of our one of our teammates.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I graduated high school, I got no real college attention.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: What should be my next step to getting attention from
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: college coaches? And maybe Justin you can chime into.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, Dustin, you go, you go first, man.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: No, I mean keep working.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: I mean the you know, just because right right away
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: you're not getting the right look. You know, if you
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: go to junior college and play well, continue to get better,
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: continue to work on yourself physically, mentally, h you know,
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: you'll have an opportunity.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's always a place for someone to play.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: You just got to find it. And that's the way
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: I look at it. Yep.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: I like that a lot, man, And I would actually
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: add into this, like with where college baseball is at
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: right now, it's it's transactional, so you can even if
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: you can find your way onto a Division III roster
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: and and you know, maybe maybe you maybe you blossom
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: at twenty years old. I mean, you can always transfer
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: from there. So yeah, keep your options open. And depending
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: on what age you are and where you're at, I mean,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: there are some things that you can do that really
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: can put yourself in front of the right people. But yeah,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, just keep keep all the options open. And
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: sometimes you might need a stepping stone to get to
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: where you want to be too.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the kitchen stake here, Desha.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: And these are the questions that are a little bit
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: off off base. And I'll ask the first one. Was
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: there anyone you played against that you wish you had
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: one of their skills?
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, geez, I wish I could hit home runs
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  Speaker 2: like David Ortiz. Come on, man, go to the next one.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: So if I asked your wife, Kelly, what job around
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: the house you're terrible at? What would she say?
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: And why dude, I'm not terrible at anything. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: She wouldn't say anything. Are you kidding me? Are you
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  Speaker 2: kidding me?
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I could do her job.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's job. I don't want to hear it.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: So nobody cleans a toilet like dustin Pedroia. Is that
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the headline of this show?
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Robbie, I played a long time in the
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: big leagues. Do you think any of us are cleaning toilets?
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: You have a clubby at hometown too, Come on now, yeah, yeah.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Other than what was your favorite place to play?
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Old Yankee Stadium was my favorite other than Finway obviously
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: old old, not not the new one.
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  Speaker 2: No, hell no, the old one was. That was Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: That was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: You feel the ghost Why literally why.
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  Speaker 4: You just walked in there in the tunnels and the
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: crowd that was That was baseball, man, That that was
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: That was special.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was. I'm I'm fortunate, I can tell
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: it was. It was. Gimbi came up and i was
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: playing on the shift.
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  Speaker 4: And the ground was moving and I'm like, oh my god,
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: this is baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was awesome. Dude, Mariano come in and I'm like,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: oh ship, look at Mariana. Here we go, like, yeah,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: it's awesome.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: That was not. And one series against Arizona with those
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: two late inning heroics.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I lost my ear pod small as many the kitchen,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: I got my left one. I don't know where the
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: other one is.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Can you hear out of your Can you hear out
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: of your left ear?
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I can hear good. So I was just.
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  Speaker 2: There.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Forget it. You're on a roof, it's on the ground
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: somewhere you In two thousand and one, I thought Yankee
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Stadium with BK cam giving up Homers was literally going
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: to collapse. It was the loudest I bet I've ever seen.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: It was special, special place.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Last question, go ahead, just all right.
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  Speaker 3: If you had, if you had one do over one
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Mulligan in life to this point, what would that be
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  Speaker 3: for you?
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  Speaker 2: Mine would be to enjoy what I did more. I
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: didn't enjoy it.
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  Speaker 4: I was so focused on the day the entire time,
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: the entire time.
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  Speaker 2: Guys like I tell Kelly every day, I'm like, man,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: you remember that time we did this? She goes, yeah,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: do you?
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, kind of, because I was so
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: get into the field, trying to prepare, trying to find
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: a way to win, trying to I I wish I
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: had a step.
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  Speaker 2: Back every day and been like, man, I'm in the
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: big leagues.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: I'm getting a chance to to face Roy Holiday, I'm
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: facing King Felix in Seattle.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I'm you understand what I'm saying. I didn't. I didn't
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: enjoy it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Man, it's interesting. So it's interesting just when it's a
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: fine line. Like for me watching and observing you, it
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: felt like you got more joy out of the game
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: than anybody. But you're you're suggesting you were so focused
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: on it you didn't feel the joy that you exuded.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I was obsessed with winning and I was afraid.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: It's funny, like I was afraid it would go away.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: I was terrified it would go away. I never wanted
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: it to end. Like I could have played if I
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: didn't get hurt out of played seven more years and
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: I'd have been good, trust me.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Like I just couldn't run.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Like I take ground balls with the kids now and
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: they are like, hey, coach, you're good.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, no, no kidding, Like no, I know,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I know, yeh, Like I wish I could still do it. Yeah,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: So I hear ye, which it lasted longer, so were
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: I want.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: To I want to follow up on that. So, I mean,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: that's pretty profound, man, because I think many people would
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: be surprised by that. What would your advice be then,
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: based on that m.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Don't take yourself so serious, you know what I mean.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: I took the losses to heart.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: I did like it killed me, Like I'm gonna I'll
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: probably live till one hundred and ten. But if I
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: if I didn't take him that bad, I'd probably lived
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: on one thirty. Like I took you, asked Tito or anybody.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: I'd sit at my locker like I let everyone down,
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, It killed me to lose
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: so and then and then I'd think of I'd go
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: to try.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: To go to sleep, and I just think about the game.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: And then I'd sleep six hours and the only thing
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: I think about at breakfast was trying to find a
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: way to win.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: How am I going to beat this guy? How? You
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, He's better than me. I gotta
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: find a way.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: So I wish I sat back and was like, you
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: know what, everything's gonna be fine. I wish I could
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: do what the advice I'm giving, you know what I mean,
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: stay right there every day, the O for fours, the
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: O for fours, the ten for twenties, the O for twenties,
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: and just stay right there.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: And show up with a smile and work and not
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: be so obsessed with it. I wish you were.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: In a lot of ways. You are doing that because
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: you're doing it for your children, and you're doing it
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: for the kids you coach, which is wonderful. Two more,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: because I know your relationship Justin. I was at the
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Gold Gloves banquet a few years back and Dustin introduced
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Terry Francona, and you could really feel the love that
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Dustin had for Tito, who he just mentioned. You strike
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: me as like, arguably one of the great teammates you
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: could ever have. Your respect level for Francona that relationship.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: How important are relationships and teammates to the success of
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: a team and the success of an individual person.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: It's the game.
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: It's baseball at that level, you know. And I'd say
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: even in college too, I would say that people win games.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: People win games. Look at the Milwaukee Brewers, for God's sakes,
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: they stink. They stink, guys, I hate to break everyone
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: in the news. They stink. They got a couple good arms.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: You got Al Freelick out there, which I want South
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: Freelick hitting with the game on the line. You want
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: to know whycause he's the toughest dude out there. He's
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: gonna fit people win baseball games. You can come up
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: with all these analytics. I don't give a rats exit, VLO,
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: launch angle, fp q RC.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: You can put whatever you want on it.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: The human being will always win the baseball game.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: It is what it is, guys.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: The game's been around for one hundred and fifty years.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: We're trying to change it like hell right now. And
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: I guess what. The teams that win have the best players,
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: They have the right attitude, they do the right things.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: You're in and you're out.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Everybody's hating on the Dodgers, right let me tell you
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: something about the Dodgers.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: You know what, they have winning people. That's why they win.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: It is what it is, all right here, we do
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: this about everybody fired. But okay, we do.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: This every week. We do this every week, and you're
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: going to think about it for a second. Who is
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: your MVP. Who is the most valuable person in your development?
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, dude, I can't. I can't name one person.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're listen. I've never had a bad coach
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: in my life. And I say that genuinely, Like my
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: freshman varsity coach, my college coach, all my minor league managers,
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: my infield coaches, Terry Francona, John Ferrell, Bob Bobby v
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: obviously Alex Cora, Mikey Log one of my favorite teammates ever.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: Like guys, there's multiple people that that impacted me, and
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: they did it in a way. I was always always
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: a sponge and I wanted to learn from everybody, so
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: I took information in better than anybody. That's what made
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: me good. And I've never had a bad coach. And
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: I and I and and obviously my parents are great.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: I have great parents, and they pushed me. They told
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: me the truth. Parents don't tell your kids the truth.
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: Tell that is the most important thing. My parents told
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: me the truth.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: When I sucked, guess what, you got to get better?
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: You stink When I was good, Hey, you need to
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: get better. You stink like that. That is a reality.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: Every day is a grind, and and that's what makes
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: a successful person. If someone's on your you know what,
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: every day, guess what, You're going to have your backs
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: against the wall every day. You're a different person. If
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: you play every day like it's Game seven of the
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: World Series.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: You will be better. And that's how I approach life.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: I love that. All right. I got an idea, Go
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: clean the bathroom. See how we do with.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: That, dude, I mean, I'm in a rental house. I'm
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: in a rental house. I don't need to.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Justine, thank you so much. You're the best. I
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: love you.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: You're the Justin