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MLB Fact or Fiction + Astros starter Hunter Brown joins · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It was this kind of spring training where I know
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  Speaker 1: the feeling, I know what it feels like coming out,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just kind of waiting looking. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: exactly where I wanted it to be.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we've got astro starter Hunter Brown joining us right
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  Speaker 2: now on Foult Territory. Hunter, Great to have you on
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  Speaker 2: the show man. How you doing. How's the season going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, guys. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it and excited to be on here to that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, us too.
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  Speaker 2: I want to just you know, make sure our fans
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  Speaker 2: are enlightened on your story from a picture perspective over
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  Speaker 2: the past year or so. You know, we've had Bregmant
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  Speaker 2: on this show before and he's kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: laughed about it and says, hey, I'm not the one pitching,
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  Speaker 2: but can you just take us back to a combo
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  Speaker 2: that you've had a million times with the local media,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, combos like the one you had with
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  Speaker 2: Alex Bregman that actually really goes into you know, your
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  Speaker 2: evolution into who you are right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, I came up from Triple A and
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of was a was a ride for
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  Speaker 1: guy with the curveball, and then you know a few
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  Speaker 1: short months after that, everybody seemed to figure that out
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  Speaker 1: and I was quite frankly, just getting smacked around the
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  Speaker 1: yard a little bit. So you know, went around the
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  Speaker 1: clubhouse talk to some guys, see, you know, what they
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  Speaker 1: thought if they had to hit against me. Talk to
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  Speaker 1: Bregman and Risio, Debon Altuve, Panya Jordan, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of really really good players, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of said it would probably be easy to
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  Speaker 1: sit hard.
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  Speaker 4: Away off me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was a four team with a little cut, cutter,
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  Speaker 1: slider and curveball, so you know, they kind of thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be a good idea.
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  Speaker 4: To start throwing a two seam or sinker, and then you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I just kind of went back to the one
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  Speaker 1: that I threw in college and just kind of started
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  Speaker 1: rolling from there. I didn't really have you know, at
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  Speaker 1: the time, I didn't really have much of a choice,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, went with it, and they just kind
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  Speaker 1: of opened up some things, and you know, Breggy was
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  Speaker 1: was very instrumental in that, as well as all the
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  Speaker 1: other guys.
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  Speaker 5: Do I want to hit what you said when you
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  Speaker 5: first came on the show, After I asked this when
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  Speaker 5: they told you that, When those guys told you about
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  Speaker 5: the two seamer, were you like, yeah, right, no way.
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  Speaker 3: Did you believe him.
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  Speaker 5: Right at the beginning or were you that in a
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  Speaker 5: dark place where you were like, man, the ball, my
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  Speaker 5: neck is sore.
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  Speaker 4: They're hitting it so hard. Yeah, that's basically what it was.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I was kind of I really, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I was looking up at the board. I'd give up
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  Speaker 4: a run over an inning in my era would go down.
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  Speaker 4: So that's not really a good place to be.
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  Speaker 1: So, like I said, I was, I was open ears
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  Speaker 1: and willing to kind of kind of, you know, jump
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  Speaker 1: ship and give it a whirl.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Scott asked you right when we came on Scott
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  Speaker 5: Browns alone with the biceps, he asked you. He goes,
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  Speaker 5: how you doing? And you go and you go, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good. Bro, you're freaking dealing.
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  Speaker 3: Did you do that?
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  Speaker 5: Does it take a little bit as a young pitcher
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  Speaker 5: with confidence, because we see the confidence when you're on
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  Speaker 5: the mound too. Just have that stoic because I remember
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  Speaker 5: Cliff Lee when Cliff when I called Cliff Lee and
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  Speaker 5: he was dominating. When somebody would ask him how he's doing.
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  Speaker 5: He'd be like, well, I'm dominating the National League right now.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel that Do you feel like you have
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  Speaker 5: to like maybe hold it back a little bit because
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  Speaker 5: that's the that's the mantra of baseball players or is
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  Speaker 5: it because the game can humble you a little bit
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  Speaker 5: and you have to like stay even keel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say probably the latter. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I've been on.
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  Speaker 4: On the opposite end of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to go back there, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just honestly just working hard and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the results, the results are great, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm really happy with the with the process that I've
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  Speaker 1: that I've taken over the last you know, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of seasons.
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  Speaker 6: Really, I want to dive in a little bit about
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  Speaker 6: being flexible. I mean, you talk about living or staying
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  Speaker 6: in Detroit in the off season, working with your buddy here,
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  Speaker 6: Joe Neil, your trainer, talk about because I talk about
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  Speaker 6: this a lot with young kids too as well. You
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  Speaker 6: have to be flexible, Bember to be able to do
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  Speaker 6: a lot of things. And you talk about throwing harder
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  Speaker 6: now with more flexibility, can you dive into that in
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  Speaker 6: your program and how you how you get that flexibility gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we really this this pass off season more so
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  Speaker 1: than than prior. We kind of took full Wednesdays and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the weekend to really just focus on
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  Speaker 1: on flexibility, right. And you know, I think over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the season, you just you guys know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things tighten up, you get you know, the workload increases,
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So you know, being able to get
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  Speaker 1: into some maybe some funky positions and maintaining flexibility in that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just.
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  Speaker 4: Can only help you. So we we focused on that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Joe's been been great.
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  Speaker 1: I've been working with him since since I got drafted,
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  Speaker 1: so it's been a long time coming of you know,
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  Speaker 1: seven years with him. So but but this last off
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  Speaker 1: season we really took took a note of that and
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  Speaker 1: and and put it into effect.
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  Speaker 2: So we get a lot of notes from college kids,
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  Speaker 2: college coaches that especially dial in on our interviews. Right,
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  Speaker 2: we get you know, pen fifteen minutes with a guy.
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  Speaker 2: Your story's awesome. So I'll let you tell most of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just tee you up on one or two parts
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  Speaker 2: of it. What kind of offers did you get in
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  Speaker 2: high school? What were you throwing?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 2: For somebody to look at where you are now and
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  Speaker 2: where they are, this gives a lot of hope, but
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you take it away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was, you know, wopping eighty six, eighty seven,
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  Speaker 1: touching eighty eight as my junior year of high school
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  Speaker 1: summer going into my senior year, I loved catching. I
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  Speaker 1: could I could hit Michigan high school baseball pitching pretty well, which,
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  Speaker 1: as you guys know, is nothing like Texas or Florida.
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  Speaker 4: So I had an offer.
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  Speaker 1: To go to Eastern Michigan to basically be a bullpen catcher,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully work my way in throw some bullpens
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  Speaker 1: off the mound, and then you know, Wayne State was
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  Speaker 1: really the only true scholarship I got. They thought I
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  Speaker 1: was way better suited for for the mound than behind
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  Speaker 1: the plate, which they they were absolutely right. They gave
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  Speaker 1: me a chance right when I showed up to to hit,
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  Speaker 1: and it did not go well.
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  Speaker 4: So I jumped into that ship. But yeah, you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Just wasn't the I wasn't the highly scouted prospect guy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I had some good stuff, but really everything
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  Speaker 1: just kind of turned once once I got to college
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  Speaker 1: and started, you know, working out and just really just
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  Speaker 1: getting better.
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  Speaker 5: Do you miss hitting even though it didn't go well
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  Speaker 5: you said it didn't go well?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't at all. I mean these guys, you
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  Speaker 4: guys I watched into everything. I get to see front
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  Speaker 4: row seats all the time. I want no part of
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  Speaker 4: that at all.
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  Speaker 5: Why wait, wait wait wait wait?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Like this is like it's essentially like Michigan high school baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Like the strike zone is the strike zone is still
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  Speaker 5: the same.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I used to you know, I used
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  Speaker 1: to make my living as a hitter off seeing the
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  Speaker 1: guys pre grip a curveball. All are your fastball behind
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  Speaker 1: their back? Then the China ninety five come in and
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  Speaker 1: make an.
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  Speaker 4: Adjustment at all speed pitch. So it's a it's a
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  Speaker 4: little bit different.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So does that mean? Does that mean baseball
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  Speaker 5: is unique than other sports? Because you don't see dudes
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  Speaker 5: that can barely throw the football as a quarterback but
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  Speaker 5: they run the option really well in high school and
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  Speaker 5: go on to be an NFL quarterback. You don't see
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  Speaker 5: that in the NBA. You don't see that in other sports.
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  Speaker 5: Is that a unique and awesome part that that? In
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  Speaker 5: my opinion, common people that play the game or love
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  Speaker 5: the game can connect with big the Big League baseball
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  Speaker 5: more than they can other sports.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just a completely different game where you can really
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  Speaker 1: master your craft and change some things along the way.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think in baseball in particular, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the difference in skill level across the way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you took a pool of sixteen year old kids
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  Speaker 1: here and sixteen year old.
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  Speaker 4: Kids there, you know it's gonna be a lot different.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, I think just in my career, you know,
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  Speaker 1: playing college summer ball was awesome for me. I got
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  Speaker 1: around a bunch of D one guys and you know,
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  Speaker 1: people that quite frankly, just knew a lot more about
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  Speaker 1: the game than I did and was able to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe steal a few things from them and add it
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  Speaker 1: to my game. But you know, like like you said,
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  Speaker 1: it's just that's that's how baseball is. There's so many
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  Speaker 1: intricacies of the game that you know, it's it's not
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  Speaker 1: like you're the six foot five, two fifty guy that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, a five star recruit. You know you can
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  Speaker 1: you can definitely hone your craft and uh make an
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  Speaker 1: adjustment along the way.
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  Speaker 5: Can baseball coaches teach command of the strike zone, because
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  Speaker 5: the first thing you said was I threw eighty six,
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  Speaker 5: eighty eight, maybe eighty nine, So I wasn't recruited. But
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  Speaker 5: everybody goes and throws a heavy ball, throws away to McDonald's,
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  Speaker 5: bouncy house balls, you know, all the three five colors,
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  Speaker 5: they throw it against the wall. They can teach that.
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  Speaker 5: Can baseball coaches teach command.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think they can.
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  Speaker 1: They can point you in the right direction, right in
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  Speaker 1: your mechanics and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: But I think at the at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's all feel. You know.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't have the feel for
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  Speaker 1: your stuff, you're gonna you're probably gonna struggle.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can.
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  Speaker 1: I watch some videos sometimes on on Instagram or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you see these guys they throw a
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  Speaker 1: twenty inch sweeper, but it's off the side of the cage,
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  Speaker 1: and then they're like, oh, what a nasty pitch. It's like, well, wait, second,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's ever going to swing at that. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to You got to get your own feel
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  Speaker 1: in your own mechanics and delivery. And you know, they can,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, they can point you in the right direction,
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  Speaker 1: but at the end of the days it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to make it happen?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 5: This is a multifaceted question. When did you find out
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  Speaker 5: that the umpire zones that they are graded on have shrunk?
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  Speaker 5: And am I the first one to tell you about it?
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  Speaker 1: No, you're not the first one. You're not the first
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  Speaker 1: one at all. But I kind of noticed in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I feel like I'm pretty I'm pretty aware
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  Speaker 1: of the top rail of the strike zone, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially with fastballs, and it was it was this kind
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  Speaker 1: of spring training where man, I know the feeling, I
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  Speaker 1: know what it feels like coming out and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: kind of waiting looking and they just they don't say anything.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, that feels pretty good. Go back look
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  Speaker 1: at the zone. I'm like, that's kind of exactly where
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  Speaker 1: I wanted it to be. And you know, it just wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, it definitely feels a little tighter,
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  Speaker 4: but I guess that's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys get notified about it?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: I did not get like a what's it like a mirandam.
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  Speaker 2: You know yeah any of that. Yeah, yeah, memory guys
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  Speaker 2: just kind of figured it out right, Like did you
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  Speaker 2: talk to an ump and say, hey, are you guys
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  Speaker 2: getting great a different? Or the combos don't really happen
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean I hear more from the hitters.
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  Speaker 1: They you know, whether they get rung up on something
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  Speaker 1: the night before and they come back and they say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: so and so said that was that was a strike
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  Speaker 1: on their grading system or vice versa, Hey, that was
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't there?
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  Speaker 4: So I mean we kind of hear more through the
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  Speaker 4: grapevine than than directly.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, go ahead, Scott.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. The last one for me, what does Hunter Brown
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  Speaker 5: do when he's off the field.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 5: You throw ninety nine. Now you're throwing a sink er.
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  Speaker 5: You got like a nothing e er? What what what
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  Speaker 5: do you go to post game? What's what's the thing
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  Speaker 5: on an off day that Hunter browns like?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm all about that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to be honest, I like walking. I like
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  Speaker 1: going for walking the cities. You know, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was probably my rookie year where you know, you go
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  Speaker 1: from Triple A where you're flying you know once a week,
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  Speaker 1: you're there for six days. You can kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: settle into the city that you're in versus in the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues, you know, you're flying different place every three days.
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  Speaker 1: So it was something that helped U, you know, keep
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  Speaker 1: me grounded and see where I'm at. And then also,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just enjoyed it taking in, taking in
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  Speaker 1: the different cities, you know, throw my headphones in, maybe
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  Speaker 1: listen to a podcast or whatever, and just kind of
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  Speaker 1: walk around and enjoy the city.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, right, last one on my side, because
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  Speaker 2: this is a big story coming up this weekend. It's
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  Speaker 2: been a long time coming. We've known him for years.
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  Speaker 2: I've covered him since he entered the league. Lanceman Colors
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  Speaker 2: scheduled to pitch on Sunday. How excited are you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure you've, you know, spent a lot of time with
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  Speaker 2: him over the last few years. And any insight that
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  Speaker 2: you can give us on being around him or talking
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  Speaker 2: to him, or even seeing other teammates like say Jose
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  Speaker 2: Altuve react to the fact that this guy's been such
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  Speaker 2: a big part of the history for the past ten
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  Speaker 2: years and he could be back and slinging it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's Lance mccullor junior. He's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: He's done some really special things. He's a he's a
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  Speaker 1: great leader, great teammate, and you know, he's just been
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  Speaker 1: grinding the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: I know that just can't be easy.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really happy for him, Excited for him to
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  Speaker 1: get out here and you know, just gonna soak it in.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure I'm sure he's kind of feeling those
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  Speaker 1: nerves again. Maybe not quite like his debut, but it's
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  Speaker 1: been a little bit, so I'm sure.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure he's thinking about that and just.
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  Speaker 1: Excited to get out here and show everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that he's back and he's able to throw.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're pumped to see it.
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  Speaker 3: Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you on here, man, Thanks for the time.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate your sharing the story too, and good luck the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the way. Man, We'll catch up with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Marina, that's gonna help us out with a
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  Speaker 2: little factor fiction. We're gonna do five shout out to
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: some of the publications that are putting out storylines early
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: in the season, you know, including ESPN, the Athletic CBS.
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  Speaker 2: So we took a few from all these. We'll put
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  Speaker 2: some that are easy, some that maybe have a little
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: more explanation to them.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start simple here, Factor fiction. The National League West
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  Speaker 2: is the best division in baseball, Todd Father.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, right now, that's a fact, okay.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you think about it, Dodgers, you think about
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  Speaker 6: the Padres. I mean the Padres to me, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I think they're one of the top three in baseball
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  Speaker 6: right now. If you want the truth, this team is
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: absolutely beast mode right now. They're slugging, they're pitching well,
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: and I think it starts with all good old Manny Machado. Man,
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  Speaker 6: this guy is absolute be you got Fernando tattoos we
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: all know about. But who's leading that clubhouse? We talked
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: about this a couple of weeks ago. I forget who
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: we talked to on the show, but he was. We
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: were asking about who's the leader in the clubhouse or
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: Sandy He goes well, first starts off with many Machado,
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: Kevin a c Yes, excuse me. And there are absolute
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: SuDS of giants. I know they're on the little little
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: skid right now, and you know, forget about the Rockies,
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: but yeah they have I think this is the best,
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: best division in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Crats, yeah, fat.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, even the struggling team, the Diamondbacks, you know
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: they're going to be They're going to be back. Yep,
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: like it's I think it's I don't think it's close.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's do a couple of New York themed questions here.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: We'll go from West coast to East coast. Juan Soto,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Missus Aaron Judge in the lineup Factor fiction Krats Sodo
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: just put together his first multi homer game yesterday. It
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: was a loss for the Mets, but the Mets are
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: surging in first place in the National League East right now. Obviously,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: you know some of the shock jocks in New York
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: you don't watch much ball or just are desperate for attention,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: or like, oh, this guy stanks, but uh he's still
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: doing you know what he does from a process perspective. Also,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: not to mention City Field's no Yankee Stadium. Did you
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: see where both homers went same exact spot, left center field?
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Three seventy Oh. He's one of the only guys that
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: can play the power to the park. And I'm watching
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: him yesterday and I'm like, uh oh, uh oh, he's
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: starting to figure this place out.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: He hit one change up over there and hit one
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: or a backdoor cutter over there. It was like eighty nine.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: And he went one heater later in the game over there.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: It was a concerted effort to drive the ball to
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: left center. This guy makes adjustments and people are gonna say, oh,
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: he stinks. It's like, okay, well, what's gonna happen. His
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: batting average is going to go up, His on base
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: percentage is already like he's striking out almost as much
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: as he's walking like he's already up there. Now the
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: power is gonna come. He doesn't miss Aaron Judge. I'm sorry.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: Like he did say it is different. He didn't say
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: everybody else in my lineup around me stinks. He just
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: said it's different. Aaron Judge is on pace to break
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: the war, the most the highest war ever on in
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: a season that Bay Bruth put up. So yes, nobody
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: in the lineup is like Aaron Judge. But Juan Soto
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: will be fine. Wan SODA's gonna do Wan Soto things
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: at the end of the year. It's all gonna come
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: out in the wash.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: It was, it's just the fact of fiction, and he
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: went on a little tangent. I'm gonna say this is
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: a fact that he does miss Aaron Judge. And I'm
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: saying this for the sole reason I'd play with both guys.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: I played with Pete Alonzo, I've played with Aaron Judge.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: This is no knock the pee Alonzo. But nobody out
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: there is Aaron Judge right now. This guy is an
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: absolute monster. He plays the game well, he's gonna get
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: he's gonna take his walks, he's gonna get on base
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: Juan Soto had an opportunity to play with the most
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: feared guy in baseball. I mean, Joeyo Tani's probably up
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: there up there, excuse me, but this is the most
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: feared guy in baseball in my opinion, and Wan Soda
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: was right there with him.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: So no knock to Pete.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: I love Pete, but right now, anybody would say that
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: it's the fact that he misses.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Aaron Judge, I don't care who you are.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: You're saying anybody that basically you know, hits in front
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: of him is going to miss when they're gone.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I don't care how good they're doing. Okay, that's all.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Next up, I want to talk Zach Gallen for a
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: moment because he's having a sneaking nice season. He's got
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: a Jersey agency, and he just is insane. He becomes
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: a strikeout machine too when he's pitching in New York.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: So he owns the Mets and the Yankees. So his
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: two starts at Yankee Stadium in City Field this season
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: twelve and two thirds innings, five hits, one run, twenty
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: one strikeouts, and he's in New Jersey Natives and a
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: factor fiction. Zach Gallen needs to very seriously consider signing
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: with the Mets or.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: The Yankees in free agent. This is a fact.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I went to you first.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be real simple for me. It's a definite fact.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: He loves playing at home. Some guys don't like playing
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: at home. Some guys don't like doing it. They get nervous,
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: they got people around, They're like, I gotta show up
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: and do this.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: But this guy is freaking stud in New York.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: If I'm in the off season, or if I'm the
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: off season off season, if I'm New York Mets or
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Yankees in the off season, once that five days passed
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: after the World Series, gu's what I'm doing.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not even calling. I'm knocking on the door.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Hey dog, I'm only an hour and a half way
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: you in Jersey for the off season.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I got paper right here. Talk to me. Let's do this. Yes,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: this is a fact.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: That Gown's a guy that he came on here and
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: he's like, I have I know exactly what teams passed
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: me up. I'm keeping receipts, he knows what teams have money.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: So let's just wait. Let's wait until he faces. Let's
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: see faces the Red Sox he knows they got some cash.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Wait till he faces the Cubs nose they got cash.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: He's like, hey, this is a tryout, this is a
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: full season tryout. I get it. But New York, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Mets and the Yankees, they got some cash. So you
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: know what, I'm gonna show out a little bit more
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: so that they see it front and center who they
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: need next year.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: And I do want to make sure I correct myself
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: because I'm like, oh, he's having a good year. I
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: mean technically r race standards actually not four nine, three
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: and thirty eight and a third, but dominating in those
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: big ones in New York. And let's finish with this
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: factor fiction Kratz. Hunter Green is the best pitcher in
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: the National League.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna forget somebody. Hunter Green is the I'm going
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: to go fact. Yeah, because I'm forgetting somebody. What the
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: adjustments he's made. The adjustments he's made have been incredible.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: He was just a thrower. He threw the absolute snot
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: out of the he threw. He threw the snot out
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: his slider, he threw it out his fastball. He's always
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: sits ninety nine to one oh one. Now he's starting
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: to command that he's starting to work that ball down
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: in a way to righty's and he's and his strikeouts
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: are going up. He's not like, he's not decreasing his
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: strikeouts to be able to get deeper into the game.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: And I think the pickup of Brady Singer is only
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: going to help him. See, guys that you know what
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: this dude, This dude goes out and makes thirty two starts.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I did this last year, but he gets a lot
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: of innings. I want to do that, and I think
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: it's going to help push him in that aspect of
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: his pitching development, which he is still developing.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: This is a young dude.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say yes too. I would say yes too.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: But there's some guys right behind him. No, of course,
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: but he is. He came out of the gates hot
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: and he's and he's right here.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: There hasn't been that much of a letdown, if any.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: And he is, uh, he's been and he's a stud
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: right now. He's on pace. We talk about cy young,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: he's right there. I know it's early. I hate to
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: say it. People be like, well, you're doing that, but
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: this dude.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Is on pace.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: We talked about him last year almost you know, on
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: pace to get close to it. So I do I
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: like it?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Kratz.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Un exactly right. Zach Wheeler ends up eclipsing ends up
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: eclipsing Hunter Green and Yamamoto for the cy Young this year.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: And don't forget about you know, I think people would
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: take I think people would take Paul Skeins over him,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: even though Paul Skeens is three and four this year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: He was mortal last night. I think Zach Wheeler is
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: the top of the class. But you're still talking about
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a dude that's twenty five, twenty six and a dude
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: that's in his thirties. So I think I think Zach
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Wheeler's still the top of the class in the NL,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: and I just couldn't think of who else was out
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: there while when you drop the drop the.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Line on me, and just keep in mind if you're
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: watching the slater and you're just looking straight e Ras,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: we're talking a little bit on that. Plus Hundre Green
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: pitches in Cincinnati. That is not fun and Cincinnati should
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: not be treated the same as almost any other park
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: you know in the National Philly Colorado, Different World, Phil
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Philly ain't easy, but Cincinnati I think is tougher.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: No, No, I think they're both nice parks to hit it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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