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Dodgers 3B Max Muncy joins FT · Foul Territory

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: What's up, dude?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I guys do really good.
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  Speaker 3: How's life right now? So we've talked in the off
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  Speaker 3: season about the back to back titles and you get
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  Speaker 3: to celebrate some of that to start the year. But
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  Speaker 3: it just seems like there's a lot going on. It's
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  Speaker 3: like a movie out there every single night. And last
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  Speaker 3: night was our Tani's debut and the Yoshi babble, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, people are probably lined up in the morning
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  Speaker 3: before Whale, before the players are even getting to the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: So what's life like for you? Do you feel like
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  Speaker 3: it's a movie star kind of life. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: about movies star kind of life. It's you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just a it's a it's a lot going on. But
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  Speaker 3: we're getting close to being, you know, into the daily routine.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had the opening ceremonies and everything, the ring
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  Speaker 2: and the jersey. Uh, and then we have all the
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  Speaker 2: bubbleheads for the series, and then we have an opening
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  Speaker 2: day in DC and then Toronto be the World Series rematch.
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  Speaker 2: But once we get past to be you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: of groundhog Day for the next six months, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think all the guys are looking forward.
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  Speaker 1: To that a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You get so used to just having your routine that
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  Speaker 2: you know you're ready to show up every single day
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  Speaker 2: and just go back your business and not have to
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  Speaker 2: have any of the extra stuff along with it.
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  Speaker 4: You talk all the time about everybody on this team
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  Speaker 4: knows what they need to do, knows where they need
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  Speaker 4: to be, all that stuff. But now you're the longest
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  Speaker 4: tenured Dodger. Is there some kind of like metal or
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  Speaker 4: like the fact, like, hey, Max, what should we do?
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  Speaker 4: You've been here the longest. Is there something in that?
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  Speaker 4: Because you just said, you just listened off so many
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  Speaker 4: things the ring ceremony and then you have, you know,
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  Speaker 4: different distractions. Is there a situation where you kind of
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  Speaker 4: had to be the Hey guys, I'm the grand marshal
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  Speaker 4: of this parade.
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  Speaker 5: Now I'll make sure you guys know where to be.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think there's any situation like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just you just try to I might be
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  Speaker 2: the longest tenured guy, but i'm by no means the
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  Speaker 2: longest service time in that clubhouse. And you know that's
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  Speaker 2: the the funny thing about it. Uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: parking lot, the way the parking lot. So players, it's uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for as long as I've been here, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I've been in the same spot for all
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  Speaker 2: those years.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've moved up at all.
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  Speaker 2: We keep getting guys that have more service time than
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  Speaker 2: I do, so it's kind of a you know what
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  Speaker 2: that it's just, uh, the only thing you're really doing
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  Speaker 2: is people ask, you know, where do we go for
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  Speaker 2: certain things? And you just just point point the direction
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  Speaker 2: and guys find a way.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Max, you know what Scott forgot to talk to
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  Speaker 5: you about last night? Your first homer? Did we talked
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  Speaker 5: about your first homer last night?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: You're Scott didn't even mention it. I think Scott forgot
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  Speaker 5: that you hit your first homer last night. He's all
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  Speaker 5: worried about bibbleheads and show Hey bitching, let's talk about
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  Speaker 5: Max once he's first homer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice. I didn't have to wait till May
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  Speaker 1: this year to get that first one. So that's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel bad that, Hey, Lefty, Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was a good one.
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  Speaker 2: It was off of you know, it was off Lefty
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, I've been feeling pretty good off
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  Speaker 2: lefties a spring. I think I had more bats off
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  Speaker 2: lefties than I did right he's all spring training. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it felt like every single day we faced the we
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  Speaker 2: face the lefty, and you know, we kind of expect
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  Speaker 2: that's how the season is gonna go for us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think teams are gonna stack lefties against us, just
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot of lefties in the lineup, and
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, it's just it's gonna be their way
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  Speaker 2: to kind of combat that. And so getting all the
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  Speaker 2: all the practice off lefties and spring was good for me.
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  Speaker 2: I felt I feel really comfortable off to them, uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, staying in there, not not diving out.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So it's always it's always huge.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, hey Max, what about do you guys? Do you
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  Speaker 5: guys get the bibbleheads? You get tired of getting bibble heads?
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  Speaker 5: You have a house. I know you're sitting in your house.
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  Speaker 5: How do you have a room that's just wall to
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  Speaker 5: wall bibbleheads? Because I feel like the Dodgers give out
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  Speaker 5: a babblehead like a week. It's a show. Hey, it's
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  Speaker 5: a Freddy, it's a Mookie, it's a Yoshi, it's a Rokie.
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  Speaker 5: It's a month. See, it's a do you have a
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  Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker. I'm sure at some point.
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  Speaker 2: They you know, we've always done Yeah, we've always done
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  Speaker 2: a really good job on the promotions. So every single
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  Speaker 2: year you're looking at I don't know what the number is,
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  Speaker 2: probably twenty bubble heads. Maybe it's a it's it's a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, it's it's really cool, is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my my house in Texas, we've we've got
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  Speaker 2: a room, what we've got over one hundred bubble heads
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  Speaker 2: in it now, and it's a it's really cool to
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  Speaker 2: just see, you know, I know the guys always enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: It's always finn for for the guys. You can get
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  Speaker 2: your own bubble head. You know, you show up and
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  Speaker 2: they have a bubble head sitting in your chair when
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  Speaker 2: it's your when's your bibble head day? So it's always
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  Speaker 2: it's always a good time.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite one? Do you have a
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  Speaker 4: favorite one that you're like, Ah, that one we definitely
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  Speaker 4: can't get rid of.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're all they're all great. The the Yoshi
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  Speaker 2: the Yoshi one's pretty cool. My kids love that one
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  Speaker 2: so far. They've they've been getting big into Mario lately
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  Speaker 2: and so they they they really loved that one from
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  Speaker 2: last night. That might be their favorite one that I've seen,
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  Speaker 2: either that one or My kids also really loved the
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  Speaker 2: Hello Kitty bubblehead. My daughter loves Hello Kitty. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that that's a big hit for us. Also, that's huge.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you get a couple extra.
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  Speaker 4: How are the new guys acclimating Tucker and Edwin Diaz?
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  Speaker 4: How do new guys who are superstars acclimate to a
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  Speaker 4: team of superstars.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they've they've been fitting in seamlessly, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think the the good thing for them is there's just, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's obviously expectations, but like you know, there's just as
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  Speaker 2: much pressure on everyone else than there is on them.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, it's not like it's.
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  Speaker 2: A, hey, we need you to be the guy the
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  Speaker 2: whole season's writing on you. You know that that's not
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  Speaker 2: the expectation for them. It's more just that he, you know,
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  Speaker 2: find your footing. We know you're going to help us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, win a bunch of games this season, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, start start acommitting to life out here in
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  Speaker 2: LA get used to the routine, get used to you know,
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  Speaker 2: the drive into Dodger Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's just I think it's a it's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: easier for those guys and that one that is just
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  Speaker 2: you know, the world's not not weighing down on them,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that they can just fit in for us.
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  Speaker 4: Now, yeah, we'll definitely make sure he I think we
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  Speaker 4: Marquee and we'll go We'll continue on with Max. But
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  Speaker 4: a j you can you can go ahead with it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh No, all I was gonna ask is when they
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  Speaker 5: first played the trump it's Edwin, did you get a
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  Speaker 5: little chills? Did you get a little chills? Because I
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  Speaker 5: mean every time in New York when they played that,
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  Speaker 5: I feel like you die a little chills. So when
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  Speaker 5: they did that, didn't they have the didn't they have
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  Speaker 5: a trumpet guy there the first night he came in,
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  Speaker 5: or didn't they do something special for him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had it. They had an artist to play
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  Speaker 1: the trumpet live. Not gonna lie. It's it's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good skit. It's it's a good skit. You know that.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's certain guys where you just sit there and
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  Speaker 2: you go, man, that's a that's a good skit.
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  Speaker 1: When they come in the game and you know that
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  Speaker 1: one's one of the best.
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  Speaker 2: It's I gotta say, it sounds pretty good at Dodger
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  Speaker 2: Stadium with the sound system. You know, it's a they
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  Speaker 2: they may they may be crank it up a little
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  Speaker 2: bit extra loud. Uh, but that's all right. That's what
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  Speaker 2: you want. You know, it gets the stadium rockin. I
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  Speaker 2: think the fans are really starting to to love it.
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  Speaker 2: They you know, fans tend to lead the game maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little bit early to be traffic, and this has
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  Speaker 2: given them a reason mistake because they want to see
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  Speaker 2: the you know, they want to see the skid.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anybody's song that plays on the Dodgers sound system?
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  Speaker 4: For anybody who hasn't been to l A, it is
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  Speaker 4: the best sound system by far, Like it's another level
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  Speaker 4: sound system. But is anybody's song with anybody you play
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  Speaker 4: that's on that sound system that you're like, like that
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  Speaker 4: just didn't that just didn't hit. I feel like everybody's
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  Speaker 4: song hits any time that I've ever been there.
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  Speaker 2: No, there's there's plenty of songs that that that don't
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  Speaker 2: sound that great. And that's that's part of the U
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  Speaker 2: the train and finding a walk up song. Is you
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  Speaker 2: gotta you gotta really really try to guess if it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna sound good at Dotter Stadium or not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times guys will pick a song and they after
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  Speaker 2: one night they go, yeah, that didn't sound break, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta gotta move on. There's not any that pop right
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  Speaker 2: into my head. Most guys do a pretty good job
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  Speaker 2: of finding a song. This sounds great on there, but
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, the sound system is just different, easily the best.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh you know, I love having that.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Max, when you when we were talking about this
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  Speaker 5: earlier with the show Show, he said, Oh, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: gonna pitch every fifth day. I'm gonna pitch every sixth
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  Speaker 5: or seventh day, And I said he could absolutely win
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  Speaker 5: a so Young doing that. Do you think Show he
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  Speaker 5: could win a so Young if he pitches every sixth
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  Speaker 5: or seventh day like they're planning on using him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I mean, I don't see why not. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think the the only the only thing that would hold.
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  Speaker 2: Him back is if there's a guy that's got very
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  Speaker 2: similar numbers to what he's gonna just have that extra
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  Speaker 2: two three starts, And I really think that the voters
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  Speaker 2: will take that into account when it comes down to
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  Speaker 2: it at the end. But you know, I don't see
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  Speaker 2: any reason why Show couldn't want to side out. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's incredible on the mound, and I was talking about
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  Speaker 2: it last night that you know, I know everyone talks
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  Speaker 2: about his hitting and how impressive his hitting is, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: pitching is what he really really loves to do. Like
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  Speaker 2: he is so bought into pitching. He loves everything about it.
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  Speaker 2: He loves the preparation for it, the build up for it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the scouting, like he just he really really
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  Speaker 2: loves pitching. And you can tell that's just like pitching
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  Speaker 2: is who he is. That's that's what he loves to
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  Speaker 2: do in baseball. And he just happens to be really
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  Speaker 2: good at hitting, but pitching is where he's you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can tell he's fully bought into pitching.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, and by the way, if he wins to Cion,
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  Speaker 5: guess what, you guys would get another bubblehead so you
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  Speaker 5: could just add it to your collection. See, everyone just
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  Speaker 5: get more bubble heads and then your kids are going
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  Speaker 5: to just have to keep choosing which one so to
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  Speaker 5: win win for everybody.
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  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, absolutely, yes, I think I think the
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  Speaker 4: one bibblehead that we're not gonna get, at least I
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  Speaker 4: don't think we are yet is the shirtless Sunday bibblehead.
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  Speaker 4: When we had Robleski on the other day, I guess
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  Speaker 4: it was now a month ago, but he was talking
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  Speaker 4: about how, yeah, you know, we're continuing the shirtless Sundays.
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  Speaker 4: Will that continue during the season? You've only had one Sunday?
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  Speaker 4: And do we need to have a shirtless Kershaw bobblehead?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I wouldn't be surprised if they did
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  Speaker 2: something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know Kersh would love that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a big you know, he was a big,
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  Speaker 2: big proponent of the shirtless Sunday and he loved it.
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  Speaker 1: He got he got super excited for Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: He would just pop his head down in the weight room,
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  Speaker 2: yell at everybody, make sure the tarp's off, and you know, go.
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  Speaker 2: He he'd be. He'd be in those who were always
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  Speaker 2: his best workout days with shirtless Sunday. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: was fully bought into it.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, speaking of workouts, Max, have you seen Mookie doing?
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  Speaker 5: Was it Roi Rokie stuff? Is that what he's doing?
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  Speaker 5: Are you gonna get on that train soon? Are you
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  Speaker 5: gonna get on the Mooki and Rookie workout train?
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  Speaker 1: Dude? I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 2: He uh So, he started doing the javelins because he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to work on his throw, and within like two
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  Speaker 2: weeks he was throwing absolute missiles across the infield. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting there looking at him do this, and I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I should start doing the javelins also, because like
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  Speaker 2: he you like, Mook's always had an unbelievable arm, but
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  Speaker 2: like when you watch the way he's throwing now, like
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  Speaker 2: he's throwing absolute rockets to first base and he's so
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  Speaker 2: accurate with it every single throw, You're just kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I should start doing this. You know, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 2: put maybe I'll put you out a sense on my
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  Speaker 2: shoulders and start walking around and see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's the one I was gonna ask about. I
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  Speaker 4: don't care about the rocket because you know, we don't
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  Speaker 4: ever get to see how far the rocket goes. Every
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  Speaker 4: video we see it's just like them standing there and
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  Speaker 4: then they throw it. I want to see how far
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  Speaker 4: it goes. So until I see that the one where
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  Speaker 4: you had a sense was on his back. Do you
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  Speaker 4: feel like you're built for that? Do you feel like
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  Speaker 4: if Max Munsey has somebody on his back, like it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna go well or not?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the thing is, since they only weighs maybe
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  Speaker 2: one hundred pounds, you know, he's not a real big guy.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know, it's A. It's a From my understandings,
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  Speaker 2: it's all about engaging your core and using your core
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  Speaker 2: the correct way. That's you know, trying to find the
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  Speaker 2: balance in your body while engaging your core. That's why
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  Speaker 2: he puts you know, he puts himtuff on your shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Is he want you to understand that? I don't know
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  Speaker 2: much more than that, but that's my basic understanding of
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  Speaker 2: him being on your shoulders.
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  Speaker 5: All right, have you done abs yet? Have you challenged?
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  Speaker 5: Because you guys have like no challenges so far. Does
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  Speaker 5: Dave Roberts say you guys aren't allowed to challenge because
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  Speaker 5: Umpire's never miss calls on the dog because you guys
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  Speaker 5: get every call anyway, so you don't want to rooin
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  Speaker 5: that reputation.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's that's false. Uh, we do not. We do
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  Speaker 1: not get every call. That's uh. You know, I would
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  Speaker 1: like to think we do, but we definitely do not.
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  Speaker 2: No, you know, we've had a lot of meetings about, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when is the proper time to use to
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  Speaker 2: use a challenge. And obviously, if you're one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: certain that you know pitches the ball and it gets
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  Speaker 2: called a strike, you challenge that any point. But if
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  Speaker 2: it's one that your borderline on. We have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: certain situations where you have a green light to challenge,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's other situations where it's you know, you
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  Speaker 2: probably shouldn't challenge if you're borderling on it. That's something
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  Speaker 2: that we've been real big on so far this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's just understanding, you know, the situation, understanding you know,
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  Speaker 2: leverage counts and uh, you know is the runners on base?
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  Speaker 1: No runners on base? Are you leading off the union?
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  Speaker 1: Is the sixth inning on?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest thing for us is just saving the challenges
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  Speaker 2: for for Will and uh adult and behind the plate.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the the data is very, very point blank
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  Speaker 2: that catchers are much better at challenges than hitters are.
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  Speaker 2: So we want to make sure our catcher always has
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  Speaker 2: a challenge for later in the game and well really
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  Speaker 2: at any point in the game. And Will has already
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  Speaker 2: been proven that so far. Will has been amazing behind
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  Speaker 2: the plate. There was only a there's only one I
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: think that he's missed, and that was just a ninth
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  Speaker 2: inning challenge where it was like, hey, let's take a chance,
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  Speaker 2: why not and we still had another challenge behind that.
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  Speaker 2: So I have not done the challenge yet I've h
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I had one challenge on me last night and uh
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: it was not overturned, so I was you know, that
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  Speaker 2: was a good one for me. But yeah, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing we've been trying to harp on so far as
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  Speaker 2: just understanding when is it when's the right time to
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  Speaker 2: challenge challenge a pitch because you don't want to run
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  Speaker 2: into a situation like the uh, you know, like Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: ran into last night where they were out of challenges
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I did a game on Saturday. I did a
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: game on Saturday Max where the Braves in the first inning,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Drake Baldwin dropped the boo boom in the top of
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: the first missed it acunya. There was a ball like
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: in the middle of the plate that they call a strike,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: and he challenged leading off, and the four hitters into
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: the game Braves out of challenges. So the smartest thing
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: you can remember is that catchers always get it right.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: So just let the catchers challenge. Okay, nobody else, including.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: No Like I said, I say like I said that.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: The data is very clear on that when you look
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: at it from the last couple of years in the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: minor leagues. This year in spring training and so far,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: catchers are about was it like sixty five percent something
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And hitters are only forty so uh yeah, the data
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: is pretty clear that catchers are always going to be
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: a lot better, and you know they're seeing more pitches
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: beyond the plate, so it makes sense, all right.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: So you obviously you haven't challenged yet, like you said,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: but you've got to challenge on it. It's riveting for fans.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: They all look up at the board, they're watching it
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: when they challenged. I forget who was behind the disc
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: that challenged the call. Did you sit there and go,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: I know him right, or do you say that could
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: have touched that could have just gotten on the edge.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Well, the one on me last night, actually it was
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: a check swing for me. So you know, anytime you
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: get in the check swing, you don't really get like
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: a full good look at the ball. So I was
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: kind of like, I have no eye. I was just
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: as engaged as the fans where I was staring at
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the board. You know, I was like, is this a
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: striker is at ball? I don't know, just do the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Randy A.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Rose arena where you know it's a ball and he
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: just walks the first he's handing all his jump to
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: the bad boy, and they're like, you know, they're doing
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: the thing and it was like, you know, two tenths
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: of an inch off the play. He's like, I knew
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: it the whole time. He was already at first base. No,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I'll ever do that.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I'll make sure it's an actual ball before I start
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: walking down. Last thing you want to do is take
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: off all your guards and then have to put him
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: all back on, and you know, and then everyone's sitting
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: there waiting on you, and you know, I know some
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: people probably enjoy that, but no, not me.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Then you get the pitchclock violation. Then you could get
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: a pitchclock and it would make up for the other things.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: See Souse, it was a strike to a ball, and
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: then you get the pitchclock. See then it's all it's
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: all big cycle. It's a vicious cycle.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Max.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, new rules are fun. I will say this. Some
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: people were like, oh, when we do all this, there's
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: never gonna be ejections again. I've seen some fun ejections
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: already across the bigs from managers. They're figuring out ways
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: to still piss off mpires and get themselves booted from games.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Derek Shell no Weekend, Don Kelly last night, like, we're good,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: We're still gonna see some entertaining.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: There's sometimes where guys just don't want to sit there
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: and dug out and they want to they'd rather be
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: up in the clubhous.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Uh, there's always gonna There's always going to be those days,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and that's just how it is.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Hey, will Dave Roberts get ejected this year? Will he
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: get or does he just always sit back like every
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: time I show him, he's just saying that it doesn't
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: even have the time. Look like he's watching the game.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: He's just like, we're gonna win. So yeah, I've got
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: dinner reservations at ten thirty, guys, let's turny this up
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: a little bit, you know, because I got to get
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: out of here.
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  Speaker 2: No, as for whether he will get tossed this year,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Doc does a pretty good job of
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: towing the line. He always stays on the correct side
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: of the line. But there's a lot of times where
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: he'll tell the line with the umpires. And but as
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: far as getting tossed, I don't. I don't know. It
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: would have to be a pretty big moment for him
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to get tossed.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Max last one for it it's a fun one. So
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: the Athletic does a Hopometer survey every year for eleven
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: thousand fans on their optimism versus pessimism for their team.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: The Dodgers I think set the all time record. It
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: was ninety eight point two percent, and that only equals
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I think one fan that said they were pessimistic about
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers. So I wanted to get your take. It
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: doesn't have to be serious on what you would tell
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: that one fan who's not feeling good about and it's
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: not just the current Dodgers. They kind of look at
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: what they've done and then what is going to happen
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: going forward? So what would your advice be to that
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: one fan who does not feel satisfied right now?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Go touch some grass, man get.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's a it's I don't know what
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: else you'd want from us. You know, we've we've won
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: back to back World Series. We have a great team.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: We're off to a great start. If you if you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: can't finally hope in us, then like I said, go
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you got to go to touch the grass.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And find something else to do, or play the video game.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: But they lost this year, They've lost the game this year,
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: So of course there's gonna be somebody mad. You guys
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: are supposed to win every game.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happens. It's just not gonna happen.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: No, no team is ever gonna no team is ever
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: gonna go one sixty two, and it's just never gonna happen.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: No, some little kids will play like easy mode on
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: a video game so that they win every single game.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: That might be what that fan needs to do. We're
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: hoping the fan just made a mistake and it's like
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: they were at the and they pressed the wrong button.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: They were like, oh shoot, I didn't mean to press that,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: but just wanted to get a little fun message out
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: to that one person in case they're serious. Max Sure
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: the man, thank you so much for joining us. We're
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: enjoying the show. We'll catch you sooner, right
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: All right, sound good, guys, Thanks for having me on.