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Lance Lynn's free agent journey, Reliever role talks, Uniforms fixed! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I'm in a spot where you know, I'm playing because
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  Speaker 1: I want to. I'm playing because I love to compete
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  Speaker 1: and I love getting people out. That's just the gist
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we've got lance Lynn back with us on FT.
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  Speaker 2: It almost looks like you're in a sauna. But I
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  Speaker 2: just like the vibes that you've got going there. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: We're in the golf simulator.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh, golf simulator. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So how's life right now? Where are we at?
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  Speaker 1: We're good. We got to just you know, playing car
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  Speaker 1: pick up with the kids at school and doing all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, and you know, seeing if anybody needs somebody
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  Speaker 1: that is going to make starts and has been in
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  Speaker 1: the big leagues for a little bit, or if they're
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  Speaker 1: just going to go young and hope for the best, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it makes starts.
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  Speaker 5: Because the last time we brought up lance Lynn, we
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  Speaker 5: had a little conversation to three of us and we
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  Speaker 5: had a vote lance Lynn closer or no closer, because
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  Speaker 5: there was some rumors put out there.
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  Speaker 1: There was and there were some calls about it too.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when you get going there and you know,
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants to talk about any money. They just want
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  Speaker 1: to bring up ideas. So you know, the idea was
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  Speaker 1: floated around to you know, what it would be like
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  Speaker 1: to relieve in the back end and what it would
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  Speaker 1: look like. And I was like, yeah, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity is there, it and it fits and could
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  Speaker 1: be something that could be fun. But you know, really
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of just one of those things where
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  Speaker 1: conversations happened, but nothing came of them.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, all right, I got I mean I want you
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  Speaker 6: as I want you as a closer. I need you
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  Speaker 6: as a closer because I can only imagine how many
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  Speaker 6: bad words you would say that we can't repeat on
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  Speaker 6: the show, how many fist pumps, and also other areas
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  Speaker 6: in the body that we would touch that we are
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  Speaker 6: not allowed to show. I mean, think about it. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: you could have music, you could have the light show.
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  Speaker 6: You could have the big beard Brian Wilson style coming
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  Speaker 6: out there, and then every punch out you can act
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  Speaker 6: the fool, do the whole skit. Crowd goes wild, you
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  Speaker 6: get them save you chuck the ball over the center
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  Speaker 6: field wall like Trevor Bauer. I mean, it's the whole
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  Speaker 6: thing we could do here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot there, and I think that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of why people kind of ran with it a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously, you don't know what's gonna happen. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's guys that spring training happens, starters, relievers, pictures get
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  Speaker 1: hurt rather quickly, so you don't know where the fit is. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you just got to see what the uh,
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  Speaker 1: what the money's going to be. And you know, for
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  Speaker 1: people to you know, make some moves here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's been on this a little freeze out ever since
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers started deferring. Everybody's contracting out everybody on the
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  Speaker 1: free agent market.
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  Speaker 7: So maybe they need like a fourth closer.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they need a fourth closer who could eat innings,
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  Speaker 5: like the biggest hybrid of them all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got they've got plenty of guys that they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to figure how to move all all around.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I heard you guys talking about Dave,
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  Speaker 1: and Dave's going to figure it out. Being able to
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  Speaker 1: play for him, seeing him maneuver the clubhouse, maneuver the media,
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  Speaker 1: maneuver everything evolving. You know, it was an honor to uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know play for him. He was a you know
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  Speaker 1: a very great communicator, and he was a great leader
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  Speaker 1: and as a guy that was fun to play for,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So what let's let's go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Does that know that sounds like a little bit of
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  Speaker 6: I want to play for the Dodgers right there, like
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  Speaker 6: I want to go back.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, I don't know if I've heard lance talk.
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  Speaker 6: About I mean, the only other, only other manager I've
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  Speaker 6: ever heard Lancelon talk that highly about is Mike MATHENI.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's not true, Tony Lewis said about it. That
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  Speaker 1: was a good try. But like I said, I've I've
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  Speaker 1: had the luxury of playing for some good managers. And
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  Speaker 1: when you were talking about managers and what they mean
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  Speaker 1: to ball clubs, it does get under undervalued. And that's
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  Speaker 1: coaching staffs in general, in the way that they are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, put in there they have to. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're there all dang day and all the stuff they
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  Speaker 1: go through and all that, and if you're able to
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  Speaker 1: keep a group together, and you know, I gotta see
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  Speaker 1: it with Dave firsthand, so you know I'm with you
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  Speaker 1: on that, they definitely get undervalued.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So back to the closing thing, Let's paint
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  Speaker 5: that picture because AJ said a big beard, you know,
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  Speaker 5: fist pumping, grabbing your nether regions.
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  Speaker 7: Well, all that stuff is we already have that.
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  Speaker 5: What music, What would the song and what would you
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  Speaker 5: come out to to get to get the boys hype,
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  Speaker 5: to get this crowd going.
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  Speaker 1: I think it depends. I think it also it would
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  Speaker 1: be a what city you're in, right, so you know
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  Speaker 1: each city's going to have a different vibe, A different
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  Speaker 1: would have a different type of thump to it. So
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  Speaker 1: I think once you figure out what city you're in,
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  Speaker 1: get the field of the fans and what kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know this, how the stadium will bump a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: then we can figure out what we want. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a wide variety of songs you can go with. It
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  Speaker 1: just depends on the city you're in and what the
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  Speaker 1: fans you feel like are gonna are gonna get get
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  Speaker 1: them going?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of case was made to you on those
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  Speaker 2: phantom phone calls that happened to not include offers like
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  Speaker 2: why did they have that conversation? Hey, we think maybe
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  Speaker 2: you could be a relief What what what else did they
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  Speaker 2: say to try and talk you into it?
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  Speaker 1: I think you're looking at a lot of different front
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  Speaker 1: offices are trying to find different ways to finish games.
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  Speaker 1: So you see a guy that, uh, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of animation there, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of uh, you know, they know I'm gonna get after
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  Speaker 1: it and they know I'm not afraid of a situation.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's just kind of one of those
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  Speaker 1: things where the questions were asked because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the teams that did bring up relieving were full starter
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  Speaker 1: wise with you know, more than more than five. So
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  Speaker 1: it was like, hey, we need a back end guy
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  Speaker 1: that you know, as a veteran that we can you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can feel like we can trust. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the markets kind of they didn't what they didn't like
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  Speaker 1: where the market was going on. Uh, you know, guys
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  Speaker 1: might have been more established in the closure role. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them were just feelers to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what would be available and then when they get to camp.
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  Speaker 1: I guess now everybody's just gonna wait to get to
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  Speaker 1: camp to see what everybody looks like and then go
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  Speaker 1: from their starters and relievers because talking to all the
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  Speaker 1: starters that are still out there is everybody's hearing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Just checking in seeing how you're doing. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, we don't have any money, but we need
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  Speaker 1: a starter. So it's like, well, you're probably gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to find some money if you actually want want some pictures.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean they were checking in on you,
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  Speaker 5: but you were celebrating your fifth anniversary. Congratulations Jackson hole
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  Speaker 5: did just excuse me or snowboard?
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  Speaker 1: No either, He's not allowed. I'm a free agent. I
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  Speaker 1: can do whatever I want.
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  Speaker 7: But that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's being said. But I have never been on either one,
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  Speaker 1: and at the age of thirty seven, it's not time
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  Speaker 1: to go there, especially while still playing. So we did
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  Speaker 1: some nomobilion, so that was fun. We enjoyed that. We
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  Speaker 1: got to see some of the country out there, which
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  Speaker 1: was beautiful, uh, you know, seeing l Kurds and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. So I quite enjoyed. It made me want
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  Speaker 1: to buy a bunch of land out there, but man,
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  Speaker 1: is it overpriced?
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  Speaker 5: Did you did you do the whole Yellowstone to Old
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  Speaker 5: Faithful Snowmbill trip, like forty two miles?
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  Speaker 7: Did you do that one?
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  Speaker 1: We didn't do that long one. We did want a
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  Speaker 1: touch shorter because it was negative it was it was
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  Speaker 1: negative five the day we went out on it, so
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  Speaker 1: we kept it. We weren't trying to freeze, so but
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  Speaker 1: we had a good time.
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  Speaker 5: That was one of the That was one of my
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  Speaker 5: favorite trips that I've ever taken in my life. We
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  Speaker 5: started at the beginning at the at the entrance to
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  Speaker 5: Yellowstone and went all the way to Old Faithful and
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  Speaker 5: all the way back, eighty four miles in a day,
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  Speaker 5: and it's same thing.
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  Speaker 7: It was negative five and you put them on it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: you're you're warm.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you have the heated steering or heated handlebars,
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  Speaker 5: so you did a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Snowbodeals are a little dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: They're cause they're little crazy in the heated handlebars, they
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  Speaker 1: get hot. I was like, dude, where's this thing burning
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  Speaker 1: my hand? I was like, what are we doing here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, your face is fogging up and you're trying not
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  Speaker 5: to freeze and your hands are burning.
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  Speaker 7: But that is an epic trip for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to going back. Those are
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  Speaker 1: our first time, so I think then we might make
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  Speaker 1: it a thing, especially when the kids get a little older,
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  Speaker 1: let them see that part of the country.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, you've changed. You've changed ice to ski,
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  Speaker 6: You've changed.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seed in my life. I grew up in Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: It's a flat.
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  Speaker 7: I grew up in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, we don't even have snow and ice.
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  Speaker 1: Goes people in Florida vacation you're more of You're one
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  Speaker 1: of those vacation time. I know you know you probably
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  Speaker 1: grew up in a gated community. I know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: you did.
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  Speaker 6: I did not grow up in a gated community. But thanks,
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  Speaker 6: thanks for thinking that. Thanks thanks for thinking that highly
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  Speaker 6: of me. Born in the Hamptons.
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  Speaker 7: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Scream it.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Okay, so we got it.
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  Speaker 6: I got to ask free agent questions just because I
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  Speaker 6: think it's awesome. You're a free agent and certain people
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  Speaker 6: won't talk about it. But you're not going to the
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  Speaker 6: Yankees because you're not shaving that beard of yours. So
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  Speaker 6: there's twenty nine other teams out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not.
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  Speaker 6: You're not going to the Cardinals because you burned that
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  Speaker 6: bridge last year, right, so we know that.
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  Speaker 7: You never know.
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  Speaker 6: They're not spending any money. So unless you're playing for free,
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  Speaker 6: you ain't going to the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 4: I think any but why not?
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  Speaker 1: Why it sounds like they're trying to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: some money. So with a not change, so we'll see
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  Speaker 1: never you never, You never know where anything goes, especially
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  Speaker 1: when camp starts next week and all the guys that
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  Speaker 1: are twenty to twenty five aren't ready for the big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: like most of us already know, they're not.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, little bread comes here, but little bread comes.
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  Speaker 6: But would you go to a Pittsburgh or a Marlins
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  Speaker 6: knowing that if you go there and have a good
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  Speaker 6: couple of months, they'll trade you in junior July?
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  Speaker 3: Would you be okay with that?
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  Speaker 1: Neither one of those teams have even called, so it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like that's even on the thing. But to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, would I be okay with that? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and this time of year, of the year and all that,
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  Speaker 1: there's a good chance half the teams are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: out of it at the deadline anyway, So you can say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you go to a team that you don't think is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be in it and you get traded. But nowadays
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  Speaker 1: you don't even know who's going to be in it,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of teams that are on that
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  Speaker 1: on that kind of that middle line where they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be five hundred ish teams that you know could
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  Speaker 1: be a possibility, but we just gotta wait and see
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  Speaker 1: White Sox.
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  Speaker 6: You're going back to the White Sox. I just heard
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  Speaker 6: him say, White Sox, you're gonna be other big free agents.
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  Speaker 6: You're gonna be a big free agent splash for Chris
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  Speaker 6: Katz's first one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, that would be nice for a gutsie. He
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  Speaker 1: would enjoy that. I think I would love that.
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  Speaker 2: That would be awesome. What what did the what do
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  Speaker 2: the girls say? What did the kiddos say?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you're my five year old? The other day? Goes Dad,
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  Speaker 1: are you gonna go play again? And I go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're waiting this see you know where where everything falls.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, all right, well let me know because
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoy you taking me to school every day
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  Speaker 1: so she can she get care less.
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  Speaker 4: So was that tug a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, But that's part that's part of the gig,
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  Speaker 1: right When the older they get you, people don't realize
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  Speaker 1: that when you leave for work and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: when they start telling you and start crying and making
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  Speaker 1: it hard to go, and that's part of the gig.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta deal with it. But yeah, my
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  Speaker 1: kids are enjoying we're enjoying our winner, We're enjoying our
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  Speaker 1: our off season. But I'm ready to pitch. I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: to get people out. So we'll see, uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: what the what the next week or two uh has
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  Speaker 1: to do with And like I said, everybody's getting to
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  Speaker 1: scring training and then I'm sure they'll they'll figure some
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  Speaker 1: things out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it's not gonna be this year, becase obviously
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna line up with the team. It's fine, But
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  Speaker 2: do you have a number in your head, you know,
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  Speaker 2: down the road, like let's say it's next year, right
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  Speaker 2: where you're like, if I don't sign for at least
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  Speaker 2: this rate, it's not worth the wear and tear on
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  Speaker 2: the arm. I only ask because we've heard other players
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  Speaker 2: that right have been in the League of Dirt and
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  Speaker 2: their spikes get just crap offers and be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if it's not at this standard, right, if I'm not
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  Speaker 2: getting a major league deal at this number, I don't
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  Speaker 2: need the number obviously, but I'll use an example that
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  Speaker 2: said these words on our show Zach Britton we spoke
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  Speaker 2: to still had a little left in the tank. He
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  Speaker 2: was like, I said a number in my head, didn't
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  Speaker 2: get to the number and said, thanks guys, I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think everybody has it right.
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  Speaker 7: What's in?
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  Speaker 1: What's what's it worth for you to go through?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: To go through it again? So every year, I think
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  Speaker 1: the further you get along in your career, there's like
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  Speaker 1: a here's a kind of an idea, what you know
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  Speaker 1: you're worth, what the market is, and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you get guys that aren't just going
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  Speaker 1: to play for the heck of it and let teams
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, lowball. So now you know I'm
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  Speaker 1: in a I'm in a spot where you know I'm
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  Speaker 1: playing because I want to. I'm playing because I love
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  Speaker 1: to compete and I love getting people out. That's just
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  Speaker 1: the gist of the money is what it is. But
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  Speaker 1: I also can't take a bad deal for the next
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  Speaker 1: guy either, So it's kind of one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where you know you know what you're worth, you know
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  Speaker 1: what the market is. The market's been good for starting
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  Speaker 1: pitchers and guys that made less starts to me last
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  Speaker 1: year and have made less starts in their career than me.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I know what you know it should be,
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  Speaker 1: and I got an idea of what it was going
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  Speaker 1: to take to to get me to come.
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  Speaker 5: Is there fear that they're not signing you. You lost
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  Speaker 5: all this weight and they're afraid your velocity.
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  Speaker 1: Is down now because to be honest with you, wait, wise,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to affect the velocity. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: I went down to two pounds.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I made it to where I can actually move a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better. I got a little bit more flexibility.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: So all in all, physically, I'm in a better spot
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: than I've been, uh, you know, for a couple of
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: years now. So I'm looking forward to that. And like
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I said, I've got a number in my head. I
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: know what I'm worth, I know what I'm capable of,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: and you know, worst case scenario, I got myself ready
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: for boat season this summer.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: There you go, exactly all right.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I got good news that we're going to get into
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: later in the show. There was an article that came
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: out just before the start of this show about the
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: uniforms and that they have returned to normal. I don't
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: know all of them obviously, spring training hasn't started with everyone,
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: but it seems like they had this brilliant idea to
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: actually go back to two years ago. It had been
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: talked about towards the end of last season. So with
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: this news coming out of Stephen Nesbit from The Athletic,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: who's been covering this story for a year plus, does
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: that make you excited that when you do eventually get
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: to spring training, uniforms are going to fit. Huge, huge news,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: and I heard this from almost every player. You will
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: have pants that are actually fit and not put in
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: like three or four sizes and just saying everybody's the
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: same size and these three sizes in Major League Baseball.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you've seen this, but basically
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: everything back to two years ago.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Now your thoughts, No, that'd be good.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I mean I think that they had a pretty good
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: thing going. I think obviously whenever something changes and they
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: when they try to tell you, hey, this is exactly
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: what you had and it's pretty damn obvious, it's not.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's what pissed everybody off. Just be transparent
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and be truthful. They think they had about four different
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: cups of jersey and four different cuts of pants and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: they said, hey, this is your custom, but we all
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: knew better. I think most guys got it all figured
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: out throughout the year with the little modifications, and the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: club's did an amazing job of making sure guys got comfortable.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: But I'm glad that they finally told the truth and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: we got back to what, you know, what, what they
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: said we were supposed to have in the first place.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Transparency's great, it helps, right, Tom, I.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Want to know what did you do to lose the weight?
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: What you do to lose the weight besides chase kids,
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: because you know Rowdy said he did pilates. You ain't
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: doing no pilates. I mean just we know you don't
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: eat salads. We went through that a couple of years ago.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: So what'd you do?
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: No?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I went a little bit on that carnivore diet for
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: one thing, and then, you know, to be honest with you,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I changed a lot of my workout stuff and did
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: more circuit training stuff, and I did it, did more
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: throughout the week, but like less uh, I would say,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: less bulk. So you used the back in the day
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: where you're like, hey, we're got our leg days these
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: days in our upper body these days. I went more
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: full bodies throughout the week and a more circuit training
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: which helped, you know, speed up the metabolism and get
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: things moving, and then added some cardio on top of it,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and then just kind of slowly monitored what I wanted
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to do, you know with the knee and so, and
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: then it just kind of happened pretty easily.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: That's cool. Carnival, I think is a little like Paleo, Right.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: It's very similar. Yeah, but I feel like, yeah, I
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: mean Paleo, you just gotta pay those a little different.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, all in all, it's it's got a similar
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: similar ring to it. But uh, you know, it's as
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: long as you're eating and getting the protein in, you're
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: not losing any of that muscle mass. That was the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: main thing I was. I was concentrated on yep.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: Lance game and Lance gave Kapler and Lance.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: It's SAME's you walk in with your what you walk
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: walk in with your what are you walking with? His
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: boots on? Drop a drop some pull ups, and eat
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: a rib. That was Dave's skip, right, our Gabe Skip.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: At one point would play for him. Oh my gosh.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: There was one point talking about he would have like
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: hound from Bacon for like half the day and I'm like,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: that's it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: He's like, yep, just Bacon.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Like what is going on? But the dude is shredded
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: beyond belief. Also on the at the finish line here,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: your daughters are gonna like.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: That.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you got to show your daughters
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: that we're closing games.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. That's next level. Well, Lance, good
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: to see you, dude. When we catch you next, we
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: will talk about spring training.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Sounds good, guys. You guys have go.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: For the people, and this is for the players too.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: A year after the uniform fiasco, players arrived at spring
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: training with issues mostly ironed out. Good job by Steven
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Nesbit and the Athletic to cover this story really for
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: a year now, and then I think it's reaching its conclusion.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: We'll see if there's any problems at the finish line.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: But it does sound like one year later the problem
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: was fixed and that was called just going back to
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: what was working. For a while. Players were furious. I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: don't think players are against evolving and making things better,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: but we pretty much all agreed everything was worse. Comfort customization,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the aesthetics were a disaster in some cases, the sweat stains,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the smaller lettering, which made it look like they got
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: a discount to do that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: So are we good? Can we put this story to bed?
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: We're done?
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: You guys, remember where I took you guys last year?
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Do you guys remember where I took y'all last year?
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: What did I tell you guys last year?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: What was what? Tell everyone? Where I take it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Into the Nikes Nike Activation Suite thing?
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Did you see the wall where they had it in
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: twenty twenty five. Here's the new changes they're going to
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: get into. So this is just Nike making adjustments. I mean,
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: they kind of got put in a bad spot when
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: they switched their factory. So here they are trying to
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: catch up. Nike has always been known for innovation, right,
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: so they're trying to catch up to what needed to
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: be done. And uh, this is a really cool thing.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: And this is one of the perks of being a
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: big lea wherre you got your damn pants or damn
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: jersey however you wanted, you wanted this much on your
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: sleeve a little bit longer like Scott needs, they would
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: do it. You wanted to go like Sammy Sosa and
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: have the freaking super tight elastic on it. They would
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: do it for you, I don't know. And by the way,
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: they are not giving out Jordans to the fans, so
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: just definitely that was trolling.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Damn it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: M that was a different topic.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: So for people watching on TV, that was the bob
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Ucker celebration for the Brewers this year, the Patch and
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Kratz thought maybe they were giving out his famous Jordan's
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you know, replicas to every season ticket holder.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: That's not happening.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: But anyway, the part that I didn't understand from last
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: year was the customization. I got that they were trying
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: to make it like more dry fit or whatever the
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: term is, right, and that just didn't work. Okay, I
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: guess there's two parts I didn't understand. One is how
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: do we go from customized pants to four options. That's
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: not evolving, that's just being cheap. Number two two, how
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: did we get smaller letters on the back of the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: jersey when we're trying to promote the talent and the individuals.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: On the field.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, are we really saving that much by having
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: smaller letters? I just I didn't understand that part like
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: who sat right? Like there are humans whose jobs are
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: to sit at a table right or at a desk
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and congregate and say, hey, what should we do? We
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: got to make things better, sexier, cooler. All right, I've
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: got it, guys. Let's make the pants fit worse and
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: let's make it harder to see the name on the back.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Jimmy from Finances came in and said, I can save
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: one point five million dollars by going to a smaller
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: letter for all of the jerseys, every one of them.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: My biggest thing is if you do it for fans,
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: it's one thing, like you're not making custom Like how
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: much more did it really cost to get away from
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: the customization of pants. They might have been able to
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: push through the sea through part or the fact that
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: the tops sweat stained more than the pants did. But
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: when you take the customization apart and you go medium, medium, large,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: extra large, double xcel and pants like you're a minor leaguer,
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: players are going to be like, Eh, that ain't happening.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was just a tough look.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: So I'm glad we fixed it, though, that's all that matters.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: We were very vocal about it. The power of fan voice, media,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: social media and all that, players themselves putting pressure on
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: and here we go. It's all fixed. Let me get
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to some questions please. So there was one to both
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: of you about spring training from Joe that I promised
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: i'd get an answer for. Said, Hey, guys, great show,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: enjoy it most every day. Can you answer a question
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I've wondered for about twenty five years. Although veteran players
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: are very bored with spring training, I've always thought spring
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: games are some of the cleanest baseball I've ever seen.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: They seem to have a few hours, a few base
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: running mistakes, and overall high quality fundamentals. Is it for
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: this reason? I enjoy spring games.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: As a fan.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Do you professionals agree with my observation? Are the preseason
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: games cleaner? If so, what do you think? Why do
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you think this is all right?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Are they cleaner?
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I never saw the end of them,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: so I don't know what happens though, for like.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Okay Kratz is there Krats? Are these cleaner games?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Not at all?
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: And I would say, thank goodness AJ did not see
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: the end of it, because you would see Aj on
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: the bench.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: Like this, Oh my gosh, are we serious.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: We had a six run lead and we just lost
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: by four, Like, how is this possible?
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: Like they're not cleaner. I think they're Baseball is just newer.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: You're just down there.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: And you're like, oh, I haven't seen baseball for so long,
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Like it's definitely, this is exciting. It's sunny out, it's
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: you know, Oh, I don't even know who that player is. Oh,
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: that's so cool. He just did something great. Eric Krantz,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: is that what his name is. He just seems like
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: a nice guy. Seems like a nice guy.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Good fella.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: No what I remember most because I have been through many,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: many spring training games and I am just like you Kratz,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: excited because baseball's back. Yes, late stages of games tryouts
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: for arms, bad control and command, often leading to the
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: reason why those arms aren't in the big league's full
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: time and consistently. Yet there's a lot of that. I
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: think that overshadows anything else. That is the one big
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: difference is you're like, damn, this has minor league vibes
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: right now. Because this dude can't find the zone. They're
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: gonna let him get through it at least until he
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: gets to like thirty pitches. Then he gets to thirty pitches,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: then they have to do a change and it becomes
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: a slog and it's just sloppy, and it makes you
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: appreciate big league ball. So I'm glad that not only
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the question was great from Joe, but that we were
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: able to finally teach aj about what happens in the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: last few.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Innings of the spring training game. Finally, after all these years.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: AJ was like, I want actually, I mean, I mean,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: you know, when I was young, I had to stay
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: because I would come in the eighth inning, you know
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: about you know, twenty ninety right in a while, right,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: But I mean, once you become like the starting catcher,
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: you ain't seeing the end of it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I would usually see the end of one spring training
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: game of the year.