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Chase Meidroth on White Sox youth, Red Sox roommates, the Pope! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I take a lot of pride and defense and you know,
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  Speaker 1: helping out the pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: And trying to make as many cool plays as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Here's White Sox infielder Chase my draft joining us on
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  Speaker 3: foul territory right now.
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  Speaker 4: Chase, how you doing? Man, Great to have you on.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going, guys? Thanks for having me?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, excited to have you on. Hey, let's
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  Speaker 3: let's start this way. Do you have any questions for
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  Speaker 3: AJ about White Sox life?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 5: I don't, Okay, Well, the good.
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  Speaker 4: Thing do they talk about the five champis? Oh? This
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  Speaker 4: year they do they do?
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  Speaker 6: That's what year they have to because I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it's all they got. It's all they got at this point.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Chase. That's all they got, so
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  Speaker 6: the last for the last twenty years, that's all they've had.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Even look, I mean, I'm even wearing my
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  Speaker 5: shirt for you today.
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  Speaker 6: So I mean, I don't know. You're doing me proud, though,
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  Speaker 6: I give you this, you're doing me proud. I like
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  Speaker 6: the way you play the game. You hit the ball,
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  Speaker 6: you make contact, if I solid defense, you run, you
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  Speaker 6: don't give away at bat. So from what I've seen.
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  Speaker 6: I like what I've seen from you, and you can
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  Speaker 6: be a winning player. So they need about and it's
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  Speaker 6: some more of you guys. But you guys are getting
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  Speaker 6: there and I like what I'm seeing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: How's it going over there with, for example, Kyle Teel
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  Speaker 3: who moved across in that deal for Garrett Crochet, Do
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you're starting to build not just a
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  Speaker 3: corps that can win, but you know, a bond with
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  Speaker 3: some of the younger players that you know can look
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  Speaker 3: around and be like, cool, we're going to be here
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  Speaker 3: for a minute. Because the team, you know, did kind
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  Speaker 3: of get rid of most of their players from the
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  Speaker 3: last run. And who's left? Is it just Luis Robert
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  Speaker 3: from the last playoff team?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so how's this next core?
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  Speaker 3: Like, give us the lowdown on what the next Great
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  Speaker 3: White Sox team could look like and some of the
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  Speaker 3: personalities around it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a you know, a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of young guys in that clubhouse. But it's been
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  Speaker 1: good so far, you know, getting to play with guys
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  Speaker 1: like like Teal coming up with the Red Sox then
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  Speaker 1: over here.
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  Speaker 2: Now and just learning learning the game and learning.
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  Speaker 1: From the guys that have done it, like Ben Attendee
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  Speaker 1: and Talkman and and you know Luis Roberts.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's been a it's a good start so far.
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  Speaker 7: What what what role does will play in that you
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  Speaker 7: guys are all coming in, You're coming in from different organizations,
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  Speaker 7: some of you just barely came out of college. Well, Venable,
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  Speaker 7: what kind of role does he play in like a
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  Speaker 7: daily conversation or does he just let you guys roll
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  Speaker 7: the balls out and go for it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's got a lot of experience in this
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  Speaker 1: game as a player, and so he's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you know, good stuff to bring each and every
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  Speaker 1: day for the young guys and and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: talk through the game. But you know, most of it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of just kind of letting us play in and
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  Speaker 1: figured out.
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  Speaker 5: Chase.
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  Speaker 6: You got traded for Garret Crochet from the Red Sox, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: with Montgomery and Teal and you and I think there
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  Speaker 6: was one more for you heard the fourth one was
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  Speaker 6: off the top of my head. Who was the fourth one?
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  Speaker 5: I know? You know, so who is the fourth on
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  Speaker 5: there you go?
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  Speaker 6: Who's the best player? Who's the best player of those
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  Speaker 6: of you four? Who's the best one. Who's maybe not now,
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  Speaker 6: who's gonna be the best one?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think we all do different things very well.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think, oh.
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  Speaker 5: See, all right, I like you.
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  Speaker 6: You're supposed to me, I will be the best Me Me.
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  Speaker 7: I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna deviate off of that
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  Speaker 7: a little bit. What is one skill that the other
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  Speaker 7: guys have that you've seen the guys you've played with
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  Speaker 7: that you're like a man, I wish I had that
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  Speaker 7: superpower that Kyle Teal has or I wish I had
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  Speaker 7: I wish I had that to add to my add
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  Speaker 7: to my bag.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll start with Braden Brainden's got He's crazy athletic,
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  Speaker 1: really get armed from the outfield.
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  Speaker 2: He just he's a stud athlete.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of those, you know, special special talents that
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  Speaker 1: he has for he can really play this game for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Teal is, Yeah, he's very like whippy
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  Speaker 1: and flexible as a hitter where he can create a
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  Speaker 1: lot of power in his frame, which is you know,
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  Speaker 1: electric and that's why he does a lot of damage
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  Speaker 1: to the ball. And then Wickleman has just electric stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know, his basketball plays up to ninety eight where
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  Speaker 1: you know I faced him in several spring trainings over
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  Speaker 1: and with the Red Sox, where yeah, it's some of
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  Speaker 1: his stuff when he's on, it's untouchable. All right.
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  Speaker 7: Between you and Teal, you've been up in front of
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  Speaker 7: the bus, and I always ask rookies when they come
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  Speaker 7: on the show about the front of the bus, who
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  Speaker 7: had the better performance on the mic? Or maybe you
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  Speaker 7: guys don't do that, maybe you do something different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, Teal, I think I'll give it to Teal.
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  Speaker 1: Teal actually has got a really good voice. Surprisingly, he
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of compliments on it and he embraced it,
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  Speaker 1: So I'll give it to him.
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  Speaker 5: What did you perform like.
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  Speaker 2: I did? Billy Jean by Michael Jackson?
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  Speaker 7: Wow?
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  Speaker 6: All right, So so Teal can sing better than you,
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  Speaker 6: but who has the better run? Have you seen the
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  Speaker 6: memes of Teal scoring from first on these doubles where he's.
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  Speaker 5: Have you seen those memes?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, do you guys give him a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of crap for that, because I mean he's rolling, but.
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  Speaker 5: It's like he's got the he's like dumb and dumber.
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  Speaker 6: If you move your arms, you can really even feel
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  Speaker 6: like you're running an incredible pace.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I saw one where it was like
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  Speaker 1: if if caffeine was running, that was that was pretty funny.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know he drinks a lot of caffeine too,
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  Speaker 2: so it's kind of perfect for him.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, well that's that's that's that's pretty good. What do
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  Speaker 6: you guys do away from the field? Are you guys gamers?
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  Speaker 5: Do you guys?
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  Speaker 6: I mean obviously you seeing Michael Jackson, which is a
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  Speaker 6: surprise to me, but are you guys gamers?
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  Speaker 5: You golf? Do you guys go out in the lake?
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  Speaker 5: What do you guys do in Chicago when you have
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  Speaker 5: an off day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from the beach, so I love being on the water,
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  Speaker 1: like Lake Michigan. Here it's warming up. So it's on
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  Speaker 1: the last off day. I got out there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he said, we got on a boat. There's a few
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  Speaker 1: jet skis rolling around.
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  Speaker 7: So wait, wait, you said go to the beach. You
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  Speaker 7: got out on the water like you go to the
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  Speaker 7: beach in San Diego. Come on, like, you gotta call
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  Speaker 7: it something different when you're going to the water here
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  Speaker 7: in Chicago. I mean, AJ thinks Chicago is the greatest
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  Speaker 7: city on earth. But what what do you what do
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  Speaker 7: you think of going.
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  Speaker 2: To the beach.
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  Speaker 5: I know the water temperature is the same as is
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  Speaker 5: in San Diego, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was like sixty two the other day.
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  Speaker 2: It was nice.
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  Speaker 7: It was nice.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: You what you you ever look back at the at
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  Speaker 7: your old team, the teammates that you just that you
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  Speaker 7: were playing with in the minor leagues, coming up through
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  Speaker 7: the Red Sox, and now you're looking pretty much all
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  Speaker 7: those dudes are now in the big leagues with the
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  Speaker 7: Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I talked to uh, you know, Marcella and Roman
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  Speaker 1: almost every day still, so yeah, I'm really happy for
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  Speaker 1: them and they're doing their thing over there.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think about some of the criticism that
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  Speaker 7: has been divvied out by different different you know places, saying, oh,
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  Speaker 7: they don't teach, they don't teach enough fundamentals in the
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  Speaker 7: in the minor leagues in twenty one, before you were drafted,
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  Speaker 7: I worked a little bit in the minor Red Sox
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  Speaker 7: minor league system, and I felt like they taught a
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  Speaker 7: lot of fundamentals. Do you feel like you taught enough
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  Speaker 7: and you were prepared to be in the big leagues
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  Speaker 7: once you got over to the White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean between both organizations, I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was always put in the best spot possible, so
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  Speaker 1: you know I got nothing but good things to say.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know more about what Roman and Marcellar
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  Speaker 3: are saying right now, so you get to see both
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  Speaker 3: of them get the call to the show over the
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  Speaker 3: last month and change. What are they saying, Like, what's
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  Speaker 3: it like for them? Are you checking stats and watching
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  Speaker 3: their games when you can? What are the conversations like,
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  Speaker 3: can you know obviously people want access in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Can you take us inside anything that's going on when
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  Speaker 3: you're talking to your buddies?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, we all three of us talked about
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  Speaker 1: we love talking about the game. When we were like
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  Speaker 1: we were all in Double A together and then the
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  Speaker 1: Triple A together last year. You know, we would sit
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  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse for just hours talking about at bats
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So but I know now I
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  Speaker 1: try to watch as many games as I can still,
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  Speaker 1: and then I know they followed me all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and so we go back and forth still, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we're going through funks or going having success.
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  Speaker 1: It's those two guys are easy to talk to about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because they've played with me for three years,
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  Speaker 1: so they know what I do well how I get
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  Speaker 1: back to it, and I do the same kind of
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  Speaker 1: for them. So it's been it's been fun watching them play.
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  Speaker 1: And Roman hit his first home run the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I was fired up for that.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, Chase, were you guys all sitting around this offseason?
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  Speaker 6: Did you guys have a group text going saying all right,
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna get traded. No, Braidon's gonna get traded. No, Kyle,
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  Speaker 6: maybe Roman, maybe Marcelo? Right, who's gonna get maybe Christian Campbell?
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  Speaker 6: Did you guys have a group text saying like, all right,
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  Speaker 6: well we know some of us are going to get traded?
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  Speaker 6: Are we like taking DIBs on who's going where? And
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  Speaker 6: then when you got the call, where were you and
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  Speaker 6: who was the first person of that group that you
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  Speaker 6: text or call?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I know this story's been kind of going around,
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  Speaker 1: but I was on the phone with Marcello when the
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  Speaker 1: trade happened. So when when it all got kind of
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  Speaker 1: got released, I was on the phone with him and
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  Speaker 1: one of us was like, well, it's one of us
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  Speaker 1: SO and then I told him. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. I just I'm getting a call from Bras.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta go see us solo. So that was that was
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  Speaker 1: how it went down. But yeah, I was on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with Marcello.
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  Speaker 2: What did he say?
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  Speaker 3: What did Craig Breslow say when you called him? Were
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  Speaker 3: you like, yeah, I know what this is about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he just said you've just been traded to the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox And I was like, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 6: Presumed you were just like, thanks, Craig, I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: A journey going across the ticker now. Well, Marcea, we
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  Speaker 6: were like, hold on, I got I got Meyer. I
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  Speaker 6: got Meyer on the other line. Hold on, Craig.
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  Speaker 5: I'll let him know he's not being traded. Okay, thank you,
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  Speaker 5: hold on? Can I merge? And You're like, should I merge?
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  Speaker 5: The calls together? How do I do this? You can
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  Speaker 5: tell him he's not getting traded.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Marcella is just like yeah, see you buddy.
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  Speaker 5: He's like nice, told you appreciate it, all right, So no,
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  Speaker 5: let's get to.
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  Speaker 3: The wait, wait, I have one more, one more, and
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  Speaker 3: then we'll get to White Sox again. Sorry, we haven't
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  Speaker 3: talked about this on the show, but it was widely
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  Speaker 3: reported and I've been watching a lot of Red Sox
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  Speaker 3: games lately, go figure, they've been in the news a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So can you give us any more insight on the
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  Speaker 3: car key situation with Marcello and Roman driving him around.
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  Speaker 4: Because he lost his keys for a while. Did you
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  Speaker 4: hear about this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I didn't know much to it.
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  Speaker 1: I just heard he lost his car keys, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Roman is rimming around. But I mean, yeah, those two,
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  Speaker 1: like it's pretty normal just to like jump in each
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  Speaker 1: other's cars where you know, you don't really I guess
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  Speaker 1: you don't really need your key until you get called
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  Speaker 1: up obviously, But yeah.
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  Speaker 6: What that's why hold on, hold up, Maybe it's pretty
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  Speaker 6: normal just to jump in someone else's car.
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  Speaker 4: Because they live as right, didn't they live?
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  Speaker 1: We all all lived together across the street. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: really need our cars, so we'd all just walked to
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  Speaker 1: the field. Everything was like walking distance where I mean
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  Speaker 1: my car last year and that lot sat there for
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  Speaker 1: probably three weeks without it being touched, where it was
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  Speaker 1: just like you kind of just your car keys almost
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  Speaker 1: just kind of get forgot about.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, And Roman had the sickest ride.
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  Speaker 6: I think Roman had the Mercedes whatever that was, especially
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  Speaker 6: when he got called up and he's like, pulls up
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  Speaker 6: to the park and big.
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  Speaker 7: What it is?
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  Speaker 4: What was it? What? What car was it?
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  Speaker 2: Got?
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  Speaker 1: He's got a BMW, Like I forget, I don't. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the model, but it's a nice one.
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  Speaker 1: So it's easy to just yeah, Roman, you can take
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  Speaker 1: me around.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, I'll ride Nick, I'll ride Shotgun in the nice car.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know, Boston media was like this guy can't
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  Speaker 3: even find his keys weeks. He's like, we don't need
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  Speaker 3: our cars there. So I like that whole situation, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 6: I like, all right, let's get to the White Sox.
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  Speaker 6: Let's get to my favorite team. What's your favorite position
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  Speaker 6: that they have you? I know you've been playing a
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  Speaker 6: lot of short so if you played some second, you
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  Speaker 6: play some third. I mean, I'm sure they'd stick you
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  Speaker 6: in the outfield if you wanted to, if they needed
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  Speaker 6: you to, right, what's your favorite position to play on
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  Speaker 6: the White Sox?
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  Speaker 2: I like, I don't, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll always say second, just because I grew
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  Speaker 1: up loving Padroya, so I think second turning double plays
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  Speaker 1: is like my favorite thing to do from second base.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I short stops also. I take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pride in defense and you know, helping out
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  Speaker 1: the pitcher and trying to make.
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  Speaker 2: As many cool plays as possible.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up, you know, watching Jose Glacias too, and
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  Speaker 1: so I that.
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  Speaker 2: Guy was an unbelievable defender.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I love playing defense shortstop second I love
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  Speaker 1: him both.
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  Speaker 6: It's funny, right, he's naming like Pedroia. I played with
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  Speaker 6: Padroita when I was with the Red Sox, but then
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  Speaker 6: Oak Glaciers is still playing. So next time you have
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  Speaker 6: to sing on the bus, you should sing OMG and
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  Speaker 6: see how it goes over.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I think.
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  Speaker 6: When you get the mic to say, hey, I mean, gee,
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  Speaker 6: who's the veteran that would even call you up?
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  Speaker 5: I guess Talkman.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe or Ben attending AND's like, yeah, when they call
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  Speaker 6: you up, just be like and just pull out a
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  Speaker 6: black and white OMG sign and start singing the song
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  Speaker 6: and then people be like, what is happening? Just a
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: thought for you to make your life easier.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: Have you met have you met him?
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: You know, at the beginning of last year he was
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: in Syracuse and I met him briefly.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: I was I was on second base. That was cool.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Sometimes they say, don't meet your heroes. Jose Glacy's a
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: cool guy. Yes, he's fun, Like he's very everyday guy,
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: at least when I've been around him, around him and
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: he's just like, oh, it's so great to see you
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: and meet you. And you're like, Okay, this guy's fake,
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: but it's not. He's a nice He's a really nice guy.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Chase, what what's going on with the White Sox?
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: Other than that?
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, I was disappointed.
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 14:55
  Speaker 6: I thought our guy last night was gonna deal because
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: he's been pitching really good smith right with his change
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: up and all that. Cardinals got to him for the
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: first time. What are you seeing from him? And what
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: has he done so well? Because let's not forget he
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: was a rule five guy the Brewers just let walk.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's I mean electric stuff. You know, the fastball
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: gets up.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: To ninety eight and so you got to be ready
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: for that. And he's also got a really good change up, slider, everything, everything,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: it's it's in the zone.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: He throws every pitch in the zone.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: So it's been fun to play behind him, it's it's
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: been pretty easy. He's made life pretty easy for all
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: all the defense so far. When he goes out there
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: and plays and pitches, it's he's been He's been, Yeah, amazing.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: This year, Chase. I've got one for you.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: What's height and weight, whether it's whatever your current are listed,
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: what are you at, dish?
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I've been put anywhere between you know, five and nine
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and five ten and a half and right now I'm
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: probably a one eighty five.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: So for many ballplayers out there that will look at
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: a guy like Iron Judge or John Carlo Stanton, right,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: what is your message to them where you're like, hey,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: you don't have to be a mythical looking figure to
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: be in Major League Baseball?
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: So what's your message to them?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: And for people like that, how can they find ways
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: to generate power which is such a big part of
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: our game as well?
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: You know, I think there's a lot of different ways
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: to win baseball games.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: And it's not just hitting the long ball and doing
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: that obviously that those those are pluses, but if you
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: can really you know, dive into a skill set of
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: of just like learning yourself and what you do really well,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: and that that can go a long way and helping
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: your team win. Getting on base for the next guy,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: you know, getting on base for the guys like Judge
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: and Otani so they can hit you in.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Well on your team, is Vargas get on base for
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Vargas the way he's been swinging?
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Benetteendee.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Ever since Vargas changed his like he went from flat
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: to upright, he's been unbelievable.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, why did he do that years ago? It
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: takes time, I guess, So I don't know.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Did you go up to him? You like, dang, dude,
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: you should have done that last year. You have been
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: an All Star two years ago.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Where where are you living in Chicago?
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Not just the area, not that, not that you want
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: your draft phone number?
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: And yeah?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Uh River North?
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, all right, is that an easy hike?
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's bad. That's good area?
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, River North?
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah. And you grew up. You went to USD
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: right USD. Yeah?
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: Alright, So I go to San Diego this weekend. Where
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: should I go Friday night for dinner?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Ah? I mean, I wasn't going out to nice dinners
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: in San Diego. But so I don't know that.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I hit up the local spots, like right on Linda
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Vista Road. My breakfast place is always Mattador. They got
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the best breakfast Britos. Let's see, Rose Donuts always got
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: good donuts coffee.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Uh yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: We always ate a lot of dinner at the field,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: So I didn't.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't really, you know, venture out into the dinner
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: spots a lot of maybe fast food. That was kind
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of my go to. But yeah, I don't know if
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I was best recommended for dinner.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: All right, this is before nil, clearly, clearly before, because
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: now you've been making a couple hundred grand, you'd be
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: going out to eat nice every night.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: So I get it now.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I was my parents.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Oh I like that, understood. You never get off that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Just to understand, you never always You're always under your parents' thumb,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: no matter how old you are, how much money you make,
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: they're always there for you.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: So remember that.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Is USD a Catholic school? Is that a Catholic there?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: No?
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah yeah, So are you Catholic?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I'm Christian?
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Okay, So the pope is a white Sox fan. I mean,
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: big deal to you, is a big deal to me.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: I was raised Catholic. I did the Sign of the
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: cast forever we have.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: We got a bunch of Pope shirts in our locker room,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: in our in every locker we had a Pope, you know,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the Pope in a in our locker, a bunch of.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Shirts, a bunch of gear. So we're all fired up
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Okay, how do we get to meet the Pope? Since
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: you're you're in Chicago, I'm not in Chicago. How do
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: we get to go meet the Pope? You and I
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: we needed who do we call to go to the
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Vatican and sit down with the Pope and give him
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: to get get him to bless the White Sox for
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: the years coming up.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to learn that too.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I haven't met him yet myself, but you know, do
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: you figure it out before I do? Let me know,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I'd love to meet himself, all.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Right, Okay, Yeah, I feel like A. J's got some dirt,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: new spikes. You're probably better out being like AJ. Figure
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: that out.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's he's on the ground, his boots on the
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: ground in the White So I know that's what I'm
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: gonna have to I'm gonna have to leverage that thing
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: at some point. I'm gonna have to make some calls
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: and say, I mean I saw a bench Ben Shapiro
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: went there and gave him a sign two thousand and
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: five ball. I'm like, I can up that Annie right right,
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: like I can up that mister Pope got him the ring.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know Jerry would do that, but
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: I'll call him and be like, Cherry, if I offer
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: the Pope a World Series and will you let me take.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: It to him, I'll pay for it. Not the ring
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: but the flight. I don't know.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's where the shot if someone deserves it. Yeah,
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: if you're going to give out, you know, like they
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: do for graduations when someone speaks and they give out
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: like an honorary degree, honorary ring.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: I think, like, all right, so two weeks, three weeks,
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: like three weeks, we have our twenty year reunion, Chase,
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: I say, what we need to do? You probably have
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: more followers on social media and I do we need
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: to invite him to come to the twenty year reunion
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: because he was at the World Series in two thousand
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: and five, so I feel like that would be.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: A good way to get him out of the Vatican
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: back to Chicago. We could all meet him.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, get him on the south side.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I'm in all right, perfect, perfect, that's all I want
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: to know.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: There we go, all right, Chase, Well you'll see AJ
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: in a few weeks. Great to have you on here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Appreciate the time, man, and good luck the rest of
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: the way.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Don't big league me. Okay, don't big leg you just
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: come up and say he.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Never never
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Now, how old guys, Thanks Chase, Thanks Chase, great avenue Man. M.