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Speaker 1: Everybody. Welcome to Friar Territory. It's part of the Foul
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Speaker 1: Territory Network. I am Darren Smith alongside Marty Caswell, per
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Speaker 1: usual and the third member of our team. He's sort
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Speaker 1: of a jack of all trades. You never know. We
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Speaker 1: could start the show with him, or we can end
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Speaker 1: the show with him, or maybe he just comes on
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the show. You never know. But
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Speaker 1: Kyle Hart, who's a picture with the podres, spending some
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Speaker 1: time with us here on Friar Territory as we get rolling.
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Speaker 1: You can subscribe to the show on YouTube wherever it
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Speaker 1: is that you get your audio podcast. The podres have
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Speaker 1: won three straight games. They will face the Brewers as
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Speaker 1: we are recording for the second time coming up on
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Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Kyle Heart, welcome to Friar Territory. Thank you
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Speaker 1: very much for starting the show with us.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys. Yeah, that's a good intro. I would
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Speaker 2: say Mason Miller lives down the street, though, we might
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Speaker 2: want to end the show with that guy.
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Speaker 1: Okay, good, Yeah, Well I like that idea. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you never know. I didn't know it till a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes ago that we would start the show with you,
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Speaker 1: But like I said, you do a little bit of everything. Kyle,
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Speaker 1: how's life treating you? Tell us a little bit about
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Speaker 1: the experience of twenty twenty six from your standpoint being
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Speaker 1: a part of this team, the ups the downs for
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Speaker 1: you personally, for the squad itself, it's been an interesting
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Speaker 1: year to say the least.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean, I like where we're at right now,
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Speaker 2: especially as a team for me personally. You know, started
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Speaker 2: off all right, spend a little bit of time in Olpaso, obviously,
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Speaker 2: kind of come come back up just really to cover
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Speaker 2: Mason on his bereavement list, and then you know, was
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Speaker 2: lucky enough to pitch well, and a couple other injuries
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Speaker 2: and things popped up, so I've you know, just kind
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Speaker 2: of ridden that out. But I think last night was
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Speaker 2: one of the more fun games that we've had and
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Speaker 2: kind of encapsulates like where we're at as a team.
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Speaker 2: You know, it could be a rollercoaster of a game,
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Speaker 2: but we're gonna, we're gonna, you know, try to find
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Speaker 2: a way to win it.
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Speaker 1: I remember when you got option to triple A and
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Speaker 1: I remember specifically something that your manager, Craig Stammon said,
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Speaker 1: which was, you know, we told Kyle Hart he is
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Speaker 1: a big league player, but this is baseball and it
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Speaker 1: becomes a little bit of a numbers game, and you know,
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Speaker 1: he's got to explain that decision to you, and sometimes,
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Speaker 1: you know, you wonder if that's just a little bit
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Speaker 1: of lip service. But from Craig Stammon's experience, right having
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Speaker 1: performed in that role, it sounded really sincere. And I
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Speaker 1: know it's easy to say that sort of stuff. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that it makes Kyle Hard or anybody else
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Speaker 1: in that situation feel better when you're the one on
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Speaker 1: the airplane duel Paso, But I wonder if you could
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Speaker 1: talk to us a little bit just about you know,
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Speaker 1: what that might have meant from his standpoint when he says,
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Speaker 1: this guy's a big league pitcher, he should be pitching
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Speaker 1: in the big leagues. He will be back pitching in
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Speaker 1: the big leagues at some point, but yet you're the
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Speaker 1: guy that's ending up packing your backs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think it was pretty clear, you know, with our
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Speaker 2: roster construction, especially the bullpen side of it, like, so
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Speaker 2: you know, where's the flexibility at as a move needs
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Speaker 2: to be made, And AJ and Josh thinks they were
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Speaker 2: very clear when they re signed me. Part of my
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Speaker 2: resigning was the flexibility, and so I was appreciative of
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Speaker 2: just the upfront ness that I received when it happened.
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Speaker 2: And it really wasn't a big deal at all. I
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Speaker 2: wasn't pitching bad, but I wasn't exactly tearing it up either,
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Speaker 2: So there were some things I kind of went down.
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Speaker 2: The familiarity with the Triple A coaching staff helped a lot,
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Speaker 2: so we just kind of hit the ground and worked
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Speaker 2: on those things, and you know, like I said, opportunity
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Speaker 2: opened back up and was able to kind of come
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Speaker 2: come out, come back up, and just jump right in.
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Speaker 2: So I knew more likely coming into this year I
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Speaker 2: would spend a little bit of time down there. Hopefully
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Speaker 2: that that time has been filled, but you know, it
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Speaker 2: is what it is, and like you said, it's the
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Speaker 2: business of this game.
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Speaker 3: Kyle.
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Speaker 4: I remember a comment you made, I think at the
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Speaker 4: last home stand after one of your surprise starts, when
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Speaker 4: you mentioned that there was a time when you were
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Speaker 4: optioned to El Paso last season and you were in
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Speaker 4: a very dark place and Craig Stammond, who was a
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Speaker 4: special assistant to aj pub at the time, really got
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Speaker 4: you out of that dark place. Could you explain to
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Speaker 4: us what happened at that time and what you were
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Speaker 4: feeling and what Stamond's role in all this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like I don't want people to take
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Speaker 2: dark Place wrong. I was just I was just kind
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Speaker 2: of down on myself, and not so much even from
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Speaker 2: a baseball side. Just you get sent to al Paso.
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Speaker 2: My family stayed back in San Diego, so I think
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Speaker 2: it was more so being away from them for the
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Speaker 2: first time in a while. And you're not where you
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Speaker 2: want to be, your career is not going the way
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Speaker 2: you wanted to go. I think that's that's the tough
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Speaker 2: part of it. But I didn't know Craig really well.
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Speaker 2: And he came down watched me pitch. I struggled mightily
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Speaker 2: still starting at that point, and he could tell that
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Speaker 2: I was not competing the way I needed to be.
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Speaker 2: I was just out there throwing, hoping things would go
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Speaker 2: well and that I could find myself back on a
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Speaker 2: big league roster. And and he kind of lit that fire,
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Speaker 2: helped me regain that perspective. And then simultaneously we started
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Speaker 2: to make some some mechanical changes and stuff, and and
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Speaker 2: so just him coming down there and not going through
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Speaker 2: the motions as a special assistant, like Hey, Craig, we
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Speaker 2: need you to go down there and check on some guys.
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Speaker 2: Like he came down and was willing to to to
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Speaker 2: to work and to see like who needed help, who
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Speaker 2: needed who needed to look at some things differently. And
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Speaker 2: I was certainly one of those guys. So I was
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Speaker 2: really appreciative of it, and it quite frankly, helped me
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Speaker 2: kind of get back on track.
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Speaker 4: You've had, You've had quite the unusual journey in baseball. Really,
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Speaker 4: it's an incredible story. You make your debut with the
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Speaker 4: Boston Red Sox Red Socks, excuse me, and then you
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Speaker 4: don't see you don't see the bigs for for years,
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Speaker 4: and you get your chance with the Padres. What is
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Speaker 4: it like for you every single time you get an
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Speaker 4: opportunity to just to walk into a major league ballpark
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Speaker 4: and for them to call upon you. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think I use the word perspective again because I
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Speaker 2: really think I do a good job of not taking
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Speaker 2: it for granted with how close I was to probably
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Speaker 2: being out of this game. So every day that I
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Speaker 2: get to spend time with these guys in the clubhouse,
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Speaker 2: on the plane, if we go golf or if I'm
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Speaker 2: just sitting back, you know, watching more home through the
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Speaker 2: eighth inning. Like, I don't take any of that for granted.
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Speaker 2: It really is one of the best jobs you can have,
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Speaker 2: and a really special part for me is just bringing
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Speaker 2: my family along and getting to experience the things that
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Speaker 2: we've gotten to as a group. Has probably been one
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Speaker 2: of my favorite things, because, like I said, I was
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Speaker 2: really close to probably being done, and and so every
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Speaker 2: day is a blessing.
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Speaker 1: When you mentioned close to being done. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if that's because of you know, surgery, coming out of
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Speaker 1: college or something along the professional way, but I think
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Speaker 1: people know. Also a part of your journey has been
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Speaker 1: pitching in Korea. How did that happen? If you could
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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit the cliff Notes version of
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Speaker 1: how Kyle Hart ended up pitching and pitching successfully, I
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Speaker 1: guess winning the equivalent of the cy Young Award in Korea.
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Speaker 1: How did that all come about for you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a long story. That's a whole other show.
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Speaker 2: But the cliff Notes basically, I got on with Tacoma
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Speaker 2: in twenty three as a depth piece in Triple A,
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Speaker 2: and that's where this particular Korean team scouted me and
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Speaker 2: I was throwing eighty nine ninety two maybe and had
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Speaker 2: no offers in the twenty four offseason, not even a
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Speaker 2: minor league offer, and the NC Dinos reached out to
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Speaker 2: my agent. We kind of struck a deal. Obviously, I
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Speaker 2: didn't have a whole lot to negotiate and went over there.
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Speaker 2: Probably the biggest cliff note is they helped me with
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Speaker 2: the sweeper quite a bit, and that pitch propelled that
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Speaker 2: season for the most part, and then had helped me
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Speaker 2: get back over here in my opinion. Obviously did some
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Speaker 2: other things really well too, but was able to stay healthy,
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Speaker 2: throw one hundred and sixty innings and and learned a
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Speaker 2: new pitch, you know, so that was really really really crucial.
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Speaker 1: And the Korean cy Young Award, I hope I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go right here, the Choi dong Wan Award. Is
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Speaker 1: that right?
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Speaker 2: That's correct? Yeah? You should you should google that that
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Speaker 2: that man uh after this and and look at the
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Speaker 2: career that that guy had. I think he in one
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Speaker 2: of the Korean series. It's a seven game series. I
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Speaker 2: think he threw three of the five games or something,
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Speaker 2: and they were all complete games. I seriously, you should
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Speaker 2: look him up though, he's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Where is that award? Is that with an arms distance?
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Speaker 1: Do you have it with you or is it someone?
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Speaker 2: Well? I do not, I do not. It's in Cincinnati
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Speaker 2: at home. Yeah, I wish it's really cool.
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Speaker 4: Before we take this first break, Kyle can can you
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Speaker 4: give us what did you learn any Korean? Much? Do
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Speaker 4: you have a phrase?
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Speaker 2: My favorite phrase is susan daw, which is basically what
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Speaker 2: you say after a game, whether you win or you lose,
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Speaker 2: you say susan daw. And that's just a quick way
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Speaker 2: of saying like, hey, we worked hard today. You know,
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Speaker 2: way to play hard. So I say it to I
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Speaker 2: say it to Mooney every day. You say it whether
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Speaker 2: we win or lose.
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Speaker 4: Mooney's a character, he's he is sneaky, funny. I love
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Speaker 4: talking to that guy.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he does.
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Speaker 2: Last time.
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Speaker 1: I'll stick around here for a second. We do you know,
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Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about the Brewers, about
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Speaker 1: the season? Uh, and continue this conversation. We'll take a
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Speaker 1: quick time out here on Friar Territory. We will return
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Speaker 1: Kyle Hart picture with the San Diego Padres. We'll hang
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Speaker 1: with us here for a couple of more minutes when
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Speaker 1: we return after this.
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Speaker 1: is that you get your audio podcast. We appreciate some
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Speaker 1: more of his time. Kyle Hart hanging with us here today.
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Speaker 1: Thirty one games pitch for the Pods in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: four games started, five games finished. So it's just funny
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Speaker 1: to look at the stat sheets see guys like Kyle
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Speaker 1: and Wandi Peralta and some of the unique stats that
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Speaker 1: you know, the Padres have just had to build through
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Speaker 1: here this season. Before we just look ahea it. I
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Speaker 1: just have one quick question because I know you went
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Speaker 1: to Indiana University, which defending college football champs all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden college football power. I grew up thinking about
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Speaker 1: Indiana as a basketball school. I know there were a
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Speaker 1: really good soccer school. I worked for the Major League
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Speaker 1: Soccer team here. I think there's more Hoosiers in MLS
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Speaker 1: than any other university. You also, though, were teammates with
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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber when you went to Indiana. You guys were
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Speaker 1: on the team together for a couple of years. Had
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Speaker 1: you end up in Indiana, tell us a little bit
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Speaker 1: about that. Experience, and obviously everybody knows what Kyle Schwarber's
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Speaker 1: become in this league.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, the reason I got to Indiana was Schwarber.
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Speaker 2: We were playing summer ball together in Cincinnati for a
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Speaker 2: couple of years and he had a few school He
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Speaker 2: was almost going to be a Big ten football player.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he was an unbelievable linebacker, but he chose baseball.
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Speaker 2: Indiana was one of his kind of his top schools,
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Speaker 2: and he signed there really early, like early junior year
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Speaker 2: of high school, which is late now for the recruiting process,
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Speaker 2: but back in that year, it was pretty early, and
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Speaker 2: he told me, hey, you need to check this place out.
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Speaker 2: I was like a lanky left he throwing eighty five
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Speaker 2: to eighty six, which back then again was not terrible.
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Speaker 2: And I went over there. They offered me a small
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Speaker 2: scholarship and ended up committing. So he was the reason
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Speaker 2: I got there, and then we played three years together.
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Speaker 2: I stayed five due to injury, and he got drafted
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Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen and had a crazy quick path to
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Speaker 2: the big leagues and has never looked back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now here he is right like setting all
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Speaker 1: sorts of records. What he has become in this league
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Speaker 1: is absolutely incredible. Kyle, h to the here and now
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Speaker 1: with the.
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Speaker 2: Po He's the same player too, Sorry to cut you off.
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Speaker 2: He's the same player since we were sixteen years old. Like,
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Speaker 2: he didn't get drafted out of high school and there
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Speaker 2: was forty rounds. I remember being in some middle of
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Speaker 2: nowhere tournament in Ohio and he did not get drafted,
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Speaker 2: And I'm like, if this guy can't get drafted in
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Speaker 2: a forty round draft, I'm not going to ever play.
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Speaker 2: And he's been the same guy. You could ask him,
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Speaker 2: he's the same hit or just the same amount of power.
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Speaker 2: He had more speed back then, but.
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Speaker 1: Light tower power. Man, his chip is real places I've
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Speaker 1: never seen a Peco Park, like, I've just seen him.
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Speaker 1: You know. I'm sorry to you, Darvish, but like, I've
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Speaker 1: never seen a ball go as far as that at
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Speaker 1: Peco Park, and he's done it in other parks as well.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, he's he's definitely a character here. I'm really
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Speaker 1: a symbol of modern baseball as well. Kyle. You know
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Speaker 1: this team now passed the trade deadline. You started four
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Speaker 1: times this year. I think it's so interesting that you know,
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Speaker 1: you've really become a glue guy for the podres. You know,
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Speaker 1: in an era where we often think that players want
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Speaker 1: to have to find roles. I need to know what
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Speaker 1: my role is, right because that's how I'm going to
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Speaker 1: best form. Your role is like, hey, I don't I
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Speaker 1: don't need it to be defined, you know, tell me
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Speaker 1: if I'm going to start, tell me a couple hours
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Speaker 1: before the game, what do you need me to do
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Speaker 1: in the middle? What do you need me to do today, tomorrow, wherever?
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Speaker 1: Which is really it's a lot different and contrary to
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Speaker 1: everything we've learned about about baseball players. Now we're through
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Speaker 1: the trade deadline, tell us what it was like for
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Speaker 1: the team that run that you went on right before
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Speaker 1: the deadline, and then watching a couple of starting pictures
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Speaker 1: come walking through the door there obviously Casey Maiz, we
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Speaker 1: saw what he did last night. Or see Robbie Ray
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Speaker 1: for the second time on Wednesday? What does that mean
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Speaker 1: inside of a clubhouse when you guys fight your tails
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Speaker 1: off to put yourself in a position that your general
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Speaker 1: manager goes yes, like we're going to invest in this team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So let me start with I think the Praig
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Speaker 2: pulled me in spring training. My role was going to
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Speaker 2: be a Swiss Army knife. So none of what's happened
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Speaker 2: this year has been a surprise at all. Doesn't make
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Speaker 2: it easy, No, it doesn't make it easy. But I
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Speaker 2: knew that this was going to be the case. I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, the trade deadline, This is kind of my
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Speaker 2: first experience of really like seeing it up close. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: I think last year I was in l Passo during it.
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Speaker 2: I look back at that Marlin series, those swings that
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Speaker 2: Manny and Jackson took. I was sitting in the bullpen
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Speaker 2: down there watching those. I think it was back to
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Speaker 2: back home runs to win the game, basically, And that's
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Speaker 2: kind of when I knew, like, hey, we just battled
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Speaker 2: our butts off this ten game road trip. It didn't
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Speaker 2: start well, it ended well. This could this could kind
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Speaker 2: of be the switch that we needed. And I think
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Speaker 2: it was personally and then you know, Peler got aggressive
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Speaker 2: at the deadline and brought into really really good arms.
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Speaker 2: Obviously we saw it last night. I think the biggest
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Speaker 2: thing for me that I've known, professionalism that those guys
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Speaker 2: have brought is amazing, and you know you're not going
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Speaker 2: to get to know them in one day. And I
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Speaker 2: think it's a slow burn, but so far they've been
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Speaker 2: really great, and just watching them the way they do things,
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Speaker 2: the way that they go about their daily stuff, has
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Speaker 2: been something that I've learned from and something that's going
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Speaker 2: to be great for us moving forward.
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Speaker 4: Kyle, I know that we're we're scoreboard watching. I'd imagine
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Speaker 4: that you guys are as well. But how how big
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Speaker 4: was that win last night? And if you're looking up,
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Speaker 4: you see you know, the d Backs and they were
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Speaker 4: blowing away the Rockies.
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Speaker 5: You know, the Phillies had.
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Speaker 4: Already won that game, but to win the way you
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Speaker 4: guys did a good start from Ksemi's rebound start, a
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Speaker 4: huge home run from Jackson Merrill, who's just been on
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Speaker 4: a different level lately, and then Mason miller morehone during
17:39
Speaker 4: what they do. I feel like that was like a
17:41
Speaker 4: signature win for the Padres.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was definitely kind of classic Padres right there,
17:47
Speaker 2: especially against a team like that, you know, the way
17:50
Speaker 2: they throw the ball, I mean really the way they
17:52
Speaker 2: do everything. It could it could be a tight one,
17:55
Speaker 2: you know, and obviously their guy was really really good
17:59
Speaker 2: as he has been, so that's what it's going to take.
18:02
Speaker 2: As a swing like that, you know, you get it,
18:04
Speaker 2: you get a one out knock and a homer and
18:06
Speaker 2: and then you've got to take advantage from our end
18:08
Speaker 2: and the bullpen, and we did that. So uh, I
18:12
Speaker 2: think when you're you know, you're facing the Brewers, it's
18:14
Speaker 2: going to be tough again tonight. They've got one of
18:16
Speaker 2: their guys going and their bullpen's probably you know, back
18:18
Speaker 2: to strength. So I can't be more proud of Jackson
18:23
Speaker 2: and just how well he's he's stuck with it. You know.
18:27
Speaker 2: I know it didn't start well for him, but the
18:29
Speaker 2: process hasn't changed, and now he's starting to see some results.
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Speaker 2: And I think the whole team is just so so
18:34
Speaker 2: happy for him and and and ready to just roll
18:37
Speaker 2: when he rolls.
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Speaker 1: You know, last thing, Kyle you mentioned in Miami, you
18:42
Speaker 1: are sitting next to Mason Miller, and you know, we've
18:44
Speaker 1: loved watching Mason and the whole bullpen. I mean, it's
18:47
Speaker 1: truly one of the great strengths in the sport. He sometimes,
18:51
Speaker 1: you know, he's got to get ready quickly, right because
18:53
Speaker 1: you guys have had some of these laden and comebacks
18:55
Speaker 1: seventh inning on Monday night. We've seen it in the
18:58
Speaker 1: A thing right for all of you guys, you know,
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Speaker 1: what is that? What is that like when you're there
19:03
Speaker 1: right and you know, I'm sure you guys are chatty
19:05
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know, baseball is kind of a
19:06
Speaker 1: long game. What's it like though, when the switch gets
19:09
Speaker 1: flipped for you, for him, for guys in that bullpen,
19:12
Speaker 1: when it's like okay, red alert, time to go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, part part of my growing experience has
19:21
Speaker 2: been learning how to flip the switch. I always said
19:24
Speaker 2: when I was starting, I don't understand how the relievers
19:27
Speaker 2: do what they do. You know, I felt like I
19:30
Speaker 2: needed thirty forty minutes. You need all this prep time
19:33
Speaker 2: and everything. So learning how to flip that switch has
19:36
Speaker 2: been key for me, and I've learned it from guys
19:40
Speaker 2: like Wandy. I mean, watching Wandy is is really been
19:44
Speaker 2: a big, a big learning piece for me because he's
19:46
Speaker 2: he's been that Swiss army knife two for us this year.
19:49
Speaker 2: But but Mason and morohone are are so good at
19:54
Speaker 2: it two to where they can be present with you
19:58
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, you know, you get
20:00
Speaker 2: that two out home run or that that two run
20:02
Speaker 2: homer and more hones in the game like ten seconds later.
20:05
Speaker 2: You know, So they have that they have that ability
20:09
Speaker 2: to be so even keel, but they know in the
20:12
Speaker 2: back of their mind that one swing a couple at
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Speaker 2: bats and this game can get flipped on its head
20:18
Speaker 2: and then you know. But that's that level of professionalism
20:21
Speaker 2: that we kind of try to carry down there. Mason
20:24
Speaker 2: brought it over. It's not like he learned it here.
20:26
Speaker 2: He had it, you know. But they also have that
20:30
Speaker 2: sixth sense of they know that at any point things
20:34
Speaker 2: can change, especially with our offense, and so they they
20:37
Speaker 2: never really kind of count themselves out.
20:41
Speaker 4: Wait a second, really really quick to clarify there. So
20:43
Speaker 4: it's a difficulty in flipping the switch in that situation.
20:45
Speaker 4: But you can flip a switch the day of and
20:47
Speaker 4: get a text message and find out that you're starting.
20:50
Speaker 4: That to me is you.
20:51
Speaker 2: Have hours even when you get the TAXX.
20:54
Speaker 1: You know, right, all right, well why don't you want
20:57
Speaker 1: to know, by the way, the night before if you're starting?
20:59
Speaker 1: Is it just something?
21:01
Speaker 2: No? No, no. So so they give me, some of
21:05
Speaker 2: these guys give me a hard time about it, but
21:06
Speaker 2: really what it is is I'm in the bullpen. I'm
21:10
Speaker 2: in the bullpen and a couple of times like I've
21:13
Speaker 2: been getting ready to pitch in that night's game, you know,
21:16
Speaker 2: and then we win or we lose or whatever happens
21:20
Speaker 2: the game's over. The last thing I want to do
21:22
Speaker 2: is come in from the game we were just playing
21:25
Speaker 2: and be like, hey, get ready to pitch tomorrow. You're starting,
21:28
Speaker 2: Like I need to give me a few minutes, you know,
21:30
Speaker 2: So like I just like to kind of decompress, think
21:33
Speaker 2: about the game we just played, come down off of,
21:38
Speaker 2: you know, whatever you were feeling, and then wake up
21:40
Speaker 2: the next day, reset and go from there. So it's
21:43
Speaker 2: kind of just it's just like a clean slate thing
21:45
Speaker 2: for me. I got it. Yeah.
21:47
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want to feel like you're You're
21:48
Speaker 1: like you're pitching the same game two days in a row, right, Yeah, Like,
21:52
Speaker 1: give me a break here. I gotta feel like there's
21:54
Speaker 1: a little bit of separation. It's not just this one long,
21:57
Speaker 1: long ass a baseball game. So I think that makes
21:59
Speaker 1: it in a sense. This has been a pleasure. It's
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Speaker 1: been our pleasure, Kyle. Thank you very much for taking
22:03
Speaker 1: the time. You know, we've certainly enjoyed watching you pitch
22:06
Speaker 1: and all the different roles that you've been asked to
22:08
Speaker 1: perform in and we appreciate it. Thanks very much, good luck,
22:11
Speaker 1: and we're enjoying the run here. It's a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much, had a great time.