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FT at Rays Camp: Manager Kevin Cash, Brandon Lowe, Jonny DeLuca · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: If you're my teammate, I want you to do just
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  Speaker 1: as good as I'm doing. No egos, there's no I
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  Speaker 1: want to do better than you because I hope that
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  Speaker 1: my numbers look better than your numbers.
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  Speaker 2: We've got raised manager Kevin Cash. Kevin, great to see you.
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  Speaker 2: How's camp and do you feel like you have some
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  Speaker 2: of your best arms back after a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: kind of went down at the same time a year
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  Speaker 2: and change ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean camp's been well. Good to see you guys.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, camp has been really well, gone really
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  Speaker 4: well for us so far, and that's probably the biggest reason.
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  Speaker 4: What you said is that we've got Shane McClanahan back.
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  Speaker 4: We're seeing guys that had worked themselves back from injury
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  Speaker 4: maybe in the second half of last year looking like themselves,
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  Speaker 4: Shane Boz, Drew Rasmussen. So we were super pumped about
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  Speaker 4: the pitching staff as a whole, certainly the starters, but
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  Speaker 4: what our relievers did last year in that second or
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  Speaker 4: last forty five days to two months was pretty special
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 5: Are you most excited to have bet Shane?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're talking to frontline starter.
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  Speaker 4: He'd be able to pencil anything you give him the
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  Speaker 4: ball opening day, it's it's he looks just like himself.
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  Speaker 4: He was probably ninety four ninety six, and then when
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  Speaker 4: you needed to dial up, he got up to the
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  Speaker 4: ninety eights and ninety nine's.
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  Speaker 3: I think Shane, actually he might be a.
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  Speaker 4: Better There's a chance for him to be even better,
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  Speaker 4: just because he watched so much baseball last year, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he learned. He was still a very young pitcher,
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  Speaker 4: just having a ton of success. But he looks really,
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  Speaker 4: really good right now.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk a little bit about the other
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  Speaker 6: shame Shane boz I played with him in the USA team.
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  Speaker 6: Not many people really know him. They know about him
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  Speaker 6: a little bit, but talk a little about a little
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  Speaker 6: bit about how the craziness of him and the energy
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  Speaker 6: he brings, and what do you think he's gonna What
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  Speaker 6: do you expect from him this year, because I've seen
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  Speaker 6: some really good things out of him a couple of
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  Speaker 6: years back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, he's it's lights out stuff he
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  Speaker 4: pitches today for us. You know, I look at Shane
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  Speaker 4: as being extremely calm when he's out on the mound,
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  Speaker 4: and his arsenal doesn't warrant being calm because it's so
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  Speaker 4: powerful with all the off speed pitches and then the
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  Speaker 4: big fastballs he threw the other day and against Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna repeat that again today. But man, you know
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  Speaker 4: the work ethic that he puts in. Really, all of
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  Speaker 4: our starters, they all kind of feed off each other.
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  Speaker 4: They push and motivate each other, and they're each other's
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  Speaker 4: best teammates the way they pull for each other. I
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  Speaker 4: know there's been a little bit of a you know,
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  Speaker 4: we've got six starters, how are you going to make
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  Speaker 4: that work? But you wouldn't know that by watching all
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  Speaker 4: of men ter act and chains right in that mix.
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  Speaker 5: He can score runs.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna be me.
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  Speaker 7: He's not going to go fourteen for eighteen in the
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  Speaker 7: regular team. Might, I mean he might, but he's not
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  Speaker 7: going to do that though, right.
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  Speaker 5: Kevin Naro is.
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  Speaker 7: A piece obviously, Brandon law Yandhi yep, and then after that,
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  Speaker 7: you guys always seem to figure it out doing it
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  Speaker 7: how you know, whether it's bunting, stealing, coming up with something.
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  Speaker 5: But what do you guys need to do to score runs?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Collectively?
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  Speaker 4: As a team, we got to do better with the
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  Speaker 4: most of the opportunities when guys are on base.
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  Speaker 3: We have worked on that all spring training.
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  Speaker 4: We've actually put situations that were not given going on
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  Speaker 4: in the game, telling certain hitters like, hey, you're coming
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  Speaker 4: up for this at bat with a runner on third,
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  Speaker 4: less than two outs infield, infield, in field, back. They've
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  Speaker 4: really taken to that. But specifically speaking, Johnny Ronda can
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  Speaker 4: be a huge part of this, the way he performed
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  Speaker 4: the last two months of the year after he overcame
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  Speaker 4: some injuries. And then Josh Low. We're expecting a big
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  Speaker 4: year from Josh. He has a track record of having success.
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  Speaker 4: Two years ago he sat at an eight to forty
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  Speaker 4: oh ps whatever it was, played great defense. I'm personally
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  Speaker 4: expecting a big bounce back for him to add with
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  Speaker 4: we know what Yanni's capable of, we know what Bee
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  Speaker 4: Lal's gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: Very comfortable with him.
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  Speaker 4: And then Canny. You know, Sky's a limit. What he
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  Speaker 4: did this post or this offseason and winter ball was
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  Speaker 4: pretty spectacular and he's looked no different here in spring.
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  Speaker 6: Chandler Simpson has been known for his explosive speed. He's
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  Speaker 6: been saying that he'd beat Jack Choosing, Bobby Way and
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  Speaker 6: Elie daily Cruz in a race. Talk a little bit
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  Speaker 6: about him. One hundred and four bases last season the minors.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 4: It is incredible, and never seeing him play really other
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  Speaker 4: than one game that he got called up for the
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  Speaker 4: spring training last year. You heard about him all season long,
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  Speaker 4: and watching him hit a ground ball where an infielder
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  Speaker 4: has to move one step the other way and beat
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  Speaker 4: it out, it's impressive. You just don't see that in
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  Speaker 4: the big leagues. I think he's a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a throwback player where.
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  Speaker 3: It's high contact, it's high speed.
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  Speaker 4: He's worked incredibly hard on his defense, and as soon
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  Speaker 4: as the range matches, the route efficiency, and the jumps
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  Speaker 4: and reads, he'll be elite in center field. But the
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  Speaker 4: bath Toball skill is what excites me most and what
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  Speaker 4: probably what it could excite our offense at some point.
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  Speaker 4: You know we strike out the game is it's a
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  Speaker 4: strikeout game now, and for a guy that doesn't swing
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  Speaker 4: and miss and knowing that if he gets on first,
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  Speaker 4: you're talking a potential double or triple within a couple
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  Speaker 4: of pitches that he can really impact an offense.
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  Speaker 5: Let's talk about you have your lineup card. Here's lineup card. Here?
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  Speaker 5: How close were you to joining the Reds once Tito,
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  Speaker 5: I bet, did you call you and say, gosh, you
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  Speaker 5: we need you to we need you to come to
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  Speaker 5: good Year with us, or.
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  Speaker 3: No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Look I'm happy for Tito. Obviously, Cincinnati's going to be
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  Speaker 4: immediately better. They're a talented team and they're just gotten
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  Speaker 4: better by the way he goes about his business.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he would be back soon.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I thought it was going to
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  Speaker 4: be one year, but that just shows how he's got
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  Speaker 4: really nothing going on in his life that he's got
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  Speaker 4: to get back in the game.
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  Speaker 7: But what have you learned because you coached under him
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  Speaker 7: and you play. You've been manager here since twenty fifteen, right,
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  Speaker 7: this is your tenth.
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  Speaker 3: Year, tenth or eleventh year.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what did you.
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  Speaker 7: Know now that when you first took that job when
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  Speaker 7: you were young, you know, not Gray full raysh. What
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  Speaker 7: did you wish you knew then that you know now?
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  Speaker 7: Experience wise?
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  Speaker 4: I think how important consistence is, and I saw it
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  Speaker 4: firsthand from Tito.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, as a player and coaching.
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  Speaker 4: Underneath them, you come into some of these jobs not
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  Speaker 4: thinking you got it figured out, but not appreciating everything
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  Speaker 4: that can get thrown at you, and we as managers
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  Speaker 4: or you know, on staff, we owe it to the
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  Speaker 4: players to try to remain as consistent as possible. It's
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  Speaker 4: a Vodal game. There's a lot of pressures that our
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  Speaker 4: players today deal with it they didn't have to deal with,
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  Speaker 4: you know, umpteen years ago, and we got to respect that.
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  Speaker 4: And I think if you're able to stay consistent and
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  Speaker 4: keep the jokes going when times are tough and put
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  Speaker 4: your arm around them when times are tough, hopefully it's appreciated.
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  Speaker 7: I ain't getting rid of my Bob Gibson autographed card.
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  Speaker 5: It gets graded for you. There's no mess. The only
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  Speaker 6: Stein Brunner Field is your new home park, so you're
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  Speaker 6: gonna have to be ready for that. Talk a little
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  Speaker 6: bit about what they're talking about the analytics wise about
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  Speaker 6: this stadium. If you've heard anything, have you had conversations
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  Speaker 6: and what you expect going into it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean what we've what we think is.
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  Speaker 4: Look, it's very similar, if not exact dimensions to Yankee Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: Yankee Stadium has generally speaking been more of a hitter
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  Speaker 4: friendly ballpark. We're coming from a ballpark that's been more
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  Speaker 4: pitcher friendly. What we don't know is when you put
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  Speaker 4: big league hitters in that ballpark for a full season
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  Speaker 4: with the heat, the humidity, the weather, all of those elements.
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  Speaker 3: But I'd like to think we're going to see more
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  Speaker 3: of a hitters ballpark.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited about going in there and very appreciative of
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees, mister Steinbrenner, Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone, all those
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  Speaker 4: people that have worked so hard to be so accommodating.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to get in there and try to make
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  Speaker 4: the most of what I think is going to be
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  Speaker 4: a really great situation. We're gonna have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: fans in the stands. What they've done to the clubhouse,
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  Speaker 4: I got to walk through it two months ago, it'll
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  Speaker 4: be as good as a clubhouse as they're in in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: So we need to go get off to a good start,
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  Speaker 4: try to take advantage of getting creating some home field
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  Speaker 4: advantage because we're at home quite a bit to start
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  Speaker 4: the season, and then we go on the road. Kind
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  Speaker 4: of as we forecast, the reins aren't coming.
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  Speaker 7: When you go in Aaron Ben's office. You're gonna take
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  Speaker 7: a picture of you's sitting there and send it to him, Like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, then he's gonna have to go to the visiting soide, right.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, probably not.
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  Speaker 4: Boonie and I go back and forth. We talked a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times in the off season. I saw him
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  Speaker 4: the other day appreciative of him just as much. And
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  Speaker 4: it is awkward.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, but I'll be very respectful of the of the No,
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  Speaker 3: he would.
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  Speaker 7: Not have been exactly at least you learned that right
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  Speaker 7: exactly what to do, all right before we let you go.
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  Speaker 5: Todd, we need to bring in Todd here for this.
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  Speaker 5: So Todd always talks about how, you know, he won
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  Speaker 5: the Little League World Series. He's mister little League and
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  Speaker 5: Tom's river. Now Cashi also got to go to Williamsport.
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  Speaker 5: So who's a bigger Little League legend in their town?
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  Speaker 5: Cashi or Todd.
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  Speaker 6: We've talked about this during the playoffs a couple of
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  Speaker 6: years ago. Man, we were sitting down having great conversations.
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  Speaker 6: He's the he started it all, so I'm just following
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  Speaker 6: in his footsteps. That's all. He made the mark, so
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  Speaker 6: I give it to him.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, it's very easy. He was a really good major
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  Speaker 4: league player at eleven years old. My career well, I'm
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  Speaker 4: taking myself as an eleven year old okay, yeah, no.
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  Speaker 8: Doubt, all right, that was his career year.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, Kevin. Awesome to have you on. Really
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  Speaker 2: appreciate the time. Good luck the rest of spring and
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  Speaker 2: we'll see this season.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate that, guys.
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  Speaker 5: Good seeing you guys at Raise camp with Brandon lau
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, did you know this about yourself?
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  Speaker 5: You are the Let me get this straight, only eight
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  Speaker 5: players have accrued more service time with the Rays than
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  Speaker 5: you have. So you're like mister Ray like was longo
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  Speaker 5: for a long time and now it's starting to become
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  Speaker 5: Brandon Laue.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I could ever take that. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like when you think of Rays, you think of
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  Speaker 1: Eva Mongoria, like it's just one of the things I think.
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  Speaker 5: So hoping like he'd be around, you know, because he
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  Speaker 5: was like the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Forever Yeah, I mean it was him KK And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's very strange saying me at this point.
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  Speaker 5: Did you say you said the other day, right, you
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  Speaker 5: want to be a Ray for life?
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  Speaker 1: I just think it would be a cool opportunity when
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  Speaker 1: you look at everything that's going on, the length of
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  Speaker 1: the organization and stuff like that, there's never been a
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  Speaker 1: lifetime Ray So to still have the opportunity to do that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've spent my whole career here and it
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  Speaker 1: would be a cool thing to have happened.
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  Speaker 6: Let me let me ask you this real quick. We're
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  Speaker 6: in spring training, we're a couple of weeks. Then, what
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  Speaker 6: is the biggest takeaway right now with the team here?
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  Speaker 6: You know, you think about the al least, you think
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  Speaker 6: the Yankees, you think Baltimore or even the Red Sox
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  Speaker 6: now talk to us a little bit about tamp and
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  Speaker 6: how much they're going to make a push here for
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  Speaker 6: this al least.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the biggest thing that I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody's really talking about is our starting pitching. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's we get Shane back, You have Rass that that's
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  Speaker 1: making his way back into the starting rotation, and then
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  Speaker 1: and then guys they that were staples for us last
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  Speaker 1: year that were extremely good, and you know the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. You know, you have to go
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  Speaker 1: playing steinbron and with our pitching staff and in the
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  Speaker 1: friendly dimensions of that place, I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be really really good this year.
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  Speaker 5: Were you ever were in Clearwater?
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't go.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 7: We were in Clearwater yesterday and you guys played the Phillies.
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  Speaker 7: The race played the Phillies, and in the first inning
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  Speaker 7: and a half there was like four challenges.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that. I was. I was watching online.
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  Speaker 1: I had to keep an eye on our guys. And
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's an interesting I've yet to play
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  Speaker 1: with it, so I don't know, we don't have it here,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, seeing how it was used yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just some of the calls. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a game of inentures for a reason. Pitch misses by
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  Speaker 1: an inch, it feels like a smile. So uh, it's
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  Speaker 1: cool to see it get challenged and get used into
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  Speaker 1: in certain ways. And it's not even the fact to
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  Speaker 1: try to out an umpire or anything like that. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's there's competitive at bats where you know
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  Speaker 1: it's three to two and you get rung up and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now it's not you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a little little changes like that, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna I don't know when it might make its
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  Speaker 1: way in or whatnot. But you know, I think I
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  Speaker 1: still need to play on it to really get a
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  Speaker 1: true grasp of what it is. Yeah, that'll be.
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  Speaker 5: A strange and your home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to start tapping the top of my head to
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  Speaker 1: make a challenge. I think it was Cabby yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: wanted to challenge. It was the first ab b out
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  Speaker 1: of the game off of off Nola, and he was
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  Speaker 1: telling the Empire. I think he was like, I want
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  Speaker 1: to challenge, Like how do I challenge? And they had
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  Speaker 1: to like tell him because we haven't gone through it.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't had any anyone telling us, hey, you need
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  Speaker 1: to do this to challenge because we're not really playing
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  Speaker 1: on it a whole lot.
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  Speaker 6: Let me ask you this. You brought up a good point.
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  Speaker 6: You said I had to check in on my guys.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's pretty critical for you know, a guy
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  Speaker 6: that's been there a long time a leadership role in
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  Speaker 6: spring training, you can easily go through the motion sometimes
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  Speaker 6: like let's forget about it, we'll talk about what you
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  Speaker 6: did yesterday. My point being, is there a guy that
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  Speaker 6: you're kind of taking under your wing, or two guys,
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  Speaker 6: or you know somebody, a younger guy as a leader
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  Speaker 6: that you're kind of like, hey, this is the Tampa
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  Speaker 6: Tampa Ray here way. Are Is there anybody out there
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  Speaker 6: right now? Anybody has opened your eyes back? Man, this
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  Speaker 6: is gonna be a dude that's going to help us
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  Speaker 6: along the way as we go forward.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's honestly just everyone as a whole. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's more just trying to introduce that Tim bay Ray
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  Speaker 1: way to new guys that are coming in. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's and they're not new guys in baseball. It's it's Jano,
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  Speaker 1: It's Eloy talking with Kim a little bit, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get him adjusted to, you know, what things are, what
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  Speaker 1: things are like here. And then for young guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you look at the Carson Williams kid that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you heard nothing but great things about, and I'm excited
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: to see what he can do. I love seeing what
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Curtis is doing this spring, really getting back to what
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: he was known for and getting back to being comfortable
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: letting the back kind of go. And you're really I've
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: been really impressed with what I've seen for him this spring,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty excited to see what he can do.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Curtis is like what fourteen for eighteen.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Or Yeah, I think, uh, I think I got out
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: four times last game and that was his whole spring.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: So he's he's singing the bat well and I just
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: want him to bottle that up. You know, to get
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: out four times, you can just get get out four
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: times during the regular season. That pretty cool.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: What is the Raisway?
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: Because I've always told the story that when you used
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: to go to the batting cage in the trough before
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: they put the visitors on it, you had to walk
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: down and there was a big sign we're gonna do
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: with the Raisway, and it's kind of a.
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: Joe Madden thing. What is the Raised Way?
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: Even even today on my Instagram story, I'm like, we're here,
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: poor Charlotte, We're doing it the Raiseway. What is the
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: Rai's Way?
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's just, you know, being a good teammate
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: being there and being the next guy up mentality type
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: of thing. It's I'm here, if you're my teammate, I
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: want you to do just as good as I'm doing.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: There's no no egos, there's no I want to do
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: better than you because I hope that my numbers look
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: better than your numbers kind of thing. And you know,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: it's I feel like it's just kind of a league
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: wide thing, Like I don't think that that's very prominent
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: around the league, but it's just one of that, like
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: everybody is rooting for everybody in every situation. Like if
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I'm on the bench, I don't want the guy who's
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: playing second that data make an error or a strikeout
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: or anything like that, Like if I brought them up earlier,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: like say Curtis is playing second that day, I hope
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Curtis goes five to five with five homers because winning
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: is a whole heck of a lot more fun than
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: losing is.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this.
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: You guys know you're not playing at your stadium this year.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: You'll be playing over there at the Yankees Minor League Park.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: Very interesting. It's going to be difficult, it might be
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: a little different, might be great, you never know. I
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: want to ask you what what has everybody been talking about?
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Is everybody like whenever we go to that stadium, I
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: want to play to make sure I know what we're
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: supposed to do. Like is the lot of talks going
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: on about are you guys just going about you every day?
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Because there's got to be some kind of talks about
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: what you guys got this year for your home stadium.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I think the very first game of our spring
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: was actually at Steinbrenner, and we only sent like half
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: of our guys because it's you know, it's the first
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: game of spring. You're not going to send everybody up
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: there to go play your games. So you know, certain
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: guys got to go up there and see it. You know,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: we've seen all the media posts about their their brand
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: new locker room and stuff like that, So I think
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: everyone's over the moon excited for that. You know, it
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: looks incredible. I think they did a great job with it. June, July,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: August will be very interesting. We've already kind of talked about,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you know, what are we going to do to make
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: sure that our guys are comfortable. You know, it's going
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: to be hot, early work, VP, all that kind of stuff.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: It's going to be it's going to be warm, and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you know, make sure our guys are hydrated, whether we
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: have some way to get ivs to guys to make
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: sure they stay hydrated. But I made the joke that
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: you know, when I think it was January or something,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: when when the decision came out that we were gonna
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: play at Steinbrenner. I kind of just made the joke.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I was like, dang, our offense got a little bit
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: better today. At the wind blows down, it's warm. The
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: ball likes to fly better when it's warm out instead
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: of it. And this isn't a knock at the trap.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: It's seven two degrees every day. The ball didn't fly
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: as well in seventy two as it does in ninety five.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: And you know, maybe there'll be a little bit more
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: oomphu on our ball a little bit. You know, that
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: pop up to the track is now, you know, a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: road deep at Steinbrenner, and you know we're having fun
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: with it. You know, we understand that it's gonna be
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a different year. It's gonna be a tough one to
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: for guys to get adjusted to. And you know, anytime
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: someone hits a pop up to right field here and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: at Port Charlotte, everyone yells Steinbrenner. You know it's got it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: We got a shot in Steinbrenner. And uh, you know
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: it's just you know, taking taking the year for what
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: it is. I mean, it's it's gonna be tough, it's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: gonna be a different situation. You know, it's and a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: half of the season. We're on the road a lot
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and just kind of taking it as it goes. You know,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I think as as a whole and as a majority
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: of the of the players in the clubhouse, we're kind
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of excited to see what it's like to play our
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: home games outside, play it on natural grass, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: battle the elements a little bit, and you know, see
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: what this year brings.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Here's here's my thing. First of all, you're gonna have
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: a better clubhouse than you've probably ever played in, because
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: that's what I've heard. I mean, no offense to what
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: you have at the Trot, but this one is a
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: completely different. I mean they have a like a party deck,
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: and they have like this whole outside patio, and they
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: have pools, and they have all these things that you
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: guys are like, wait, this is this is now, We're
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Yankees now. But what I want to know is, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: I was talking to WeSC and the equipment guys in
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: there about how are they gonna what bother you. There's
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: a giant n y and it's gonna be your home
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: locker room. They're going to cover it up. They're gonna
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: try and cover all Yankee stuff. But everywhere you look
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: there there's n Y somewhere. Is it gonna bother you
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: when you look up on the outfield wall and you're
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: playing at home and there's a giant Yankee symbol, It
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: doesn't matter, doesn't.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see what they do
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: with it. We've been told that I think there's like
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a three day gap between our last day, our last
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: spring game to opening day, and they said they're gonna
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: get in there and they're gonna try to do whatever
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: they can to to cover up logos and branding and
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: stuff like that to a certain degree, which Eric and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the Rays have discussed with with the Yankees. And you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: we'll see what it looks like when we get there.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: But I mean, even in the hot tub, right, they
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: have like the little n y and in like the
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: seats and are they.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Are they gonna put little stickers in there?
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: It'll be interesting.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: But it's the other thing that we understand what this
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: is going to look like this year, and we have
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to play a game with a couple of Yankees logos
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: looking at us, I think we're gonna be all right.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Have Cash ever brought anything up yet talking about the
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: new stadium, about you know, what to expect anything like that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Have you guys had meetings about it or it's just
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: let's get better before that, you know, we start playing.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: With with stein Renner. Yeah, like meetings to that. No,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: it's uh, I feel like it's just so early in camp.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: You know, I think we got seventy five guys, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many like moves have been made
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to like send guys back to minor league camp or whatnot.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: So I mean I'm assuming, you know, as as we
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: get closer to you know, the full squad being in
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: camp and you know, there being a couple extra guys
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that we might have a couple of meetings with with stuff,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm hoping that in that three day
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: period we get to get out there a good bit
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you know, take ground balls, BP see how the ball
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: flight looks like, what what the lights are like at
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: night at night and stuff like that to you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: get a crash course of what this stadium really feels like.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: All right, So what was it like this offseason for you?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry?
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Uh you were you and Spring Springs Scot traded yeah
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: to Sacramento.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: That one hurt and then you're you were the highest
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: paid ray.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: So everyone was like, oh, Brandon Lowele Springs is gone,
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Brandon Leowe's got be gone. Now I have Kim, who's
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: the highest paid ray. You said you wanted to be
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: a ray for life? How does that work?
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Do you go? Because I saw Eric in there?
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: Should we should I go in there and say, hey, Eric,
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: we need to get this done for Brandon.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: No. I mean I feel like it's something that that'll
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: take care of itself. I have a great agency that
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I trust wholeheartedly that if they want to talk about
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: extensions and stuff like that, they'll go to Dustin. They'll
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: talk about it with him, and you know, we'll have
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: our conversations there. But as of right now, the only
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: thing that I'm truly focused on is playing baseball and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: seeing how many games I can get out of my
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: belt this year.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: See, this is what I think you should be a
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: Ray for life. Because we were talking before you walked
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: in here, and you have acclimated to the Port Charlotte
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: life perfectly. You said you're living in a retirement home
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: with pickleball. Call said, you and your wife are playing
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: shuffle board.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Right. All we need is you know a little little
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: walks around the neighborhood through the trailers. I don't know
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: if there's trailers.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: No, it's it's a very nice neighborhood. And uh, with
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: two little kids, it's it's a little bit nicer to
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: know that you can walk the neighborhood. You can go.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I can take my son to you know, the pool
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and I can't swim yet, but it loves the pool around.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He'll jump right on in. He does not care that
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to swim. Give him lessons, you'll try.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: He's two, dude, you gotta it's it's world.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Having grown up at Florida, you take your kids and
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: you take them to swim lessons.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: And you leave because the first thing they do. Listen,
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: you're not gonna want to watch, because the first thing
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: they do they throw your kid into the pool and
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: they just they make them figure it out, and you
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: do not want to sit there. The first one I watched,
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: my second one, I'm like, I don't want to ever
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: because the kids face down, they figure out how to
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: turn themselves over.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: But for that ten seconds, just.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: Dying right here now, you know, they grab and flip
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: them over and then they do it again, and then
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: they figured out, oh I can flip over breathe.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's horrifying.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, walk, go to the bathroom wall. Come back when
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: they're good.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for this one.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Mom.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Mom's taking them to that. I couldn't handle.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: That exactly is your is your wife because you had
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: the bakery. I mean, I think I'm taking from a
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: marketing standpoint. In a retirement community, if you put up
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: like a roadside stand with your kids, think how many
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: bakery goods she could sell in that community.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It would it would possibly work if our kids would
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: allow that. My my son is off every single wall
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in that house, and my daughter is four months old.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Just problem up there.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: There's every every old person that walks by, every retired
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: person is gonna.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Say, oh, it's my grandson. I can give them five
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: dollars I could give.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Them, right, Yeah, I'll use him as a marketing technique. Yeah,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: as a marketing ploy absolutely, if I could understand that
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't try to run away and would actually sit
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: there and be happy sitting there. Sure, but knowing this
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: kid for two years, that's not happening.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Perfect perfect, Well, Hey Brendon, thank you very much, appreciate
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: you coming on, have a great year, stay healthy, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: let's see how the Raise way works this year.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: All right, We've got Raise outfielder Johnny DeLuca with us
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: right now, finishing up at Raise Camp.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Johnny.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Great to have you on, Thanks and good to see you.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: And are you excited to be a Ray? You know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: not only because of obviously what you saw last year
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: and how fun it is to be a part of
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: this team, but you get the opportunity too. I mean,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you know, we were just talking about the Dodgers. You
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: come over from, you know, a team that keeps signing
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: free agents, where the Rays are like, hey, we're going
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: to promote within here.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: So how you doing good?
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: How are you guys? Thanks for having me. Yeah, to
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: answer your question, I'm super excited. Obviously having the opportunity
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: to be an everyday center fielder here is great. And uh,
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: obviously the expectation is high and I'm doing everything i can,
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: all the work putting in now, I'm in spring training
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: kind of getting all the kinks out and uh, hopefully
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: have a great season.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Take your hat off.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: Oh gosh, yeah, Well the drinks match the mustache.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: How it's almost the same color. I know, It's like Yeah,
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: that's what everyone was saying. Everyone was asking if I
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: died the mustache, and I was like.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: This is the natural mustache. Yeah. I don't think I
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: died a mustache.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I don't think that would be a good look someone
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: that once had that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: I just wanted to change it up. I was.
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: I went to Hawaii like two weeks before UH spring
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: training and I was like, hey, I'll die it blonde.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: See what it does. Maybe I'll cut it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: I had for two whole years, and I was I
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: probably I ran into is when I would die my
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: I started getting like blisters on my ex.
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the bleach hurts.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: You have to sit there for two hours. Want to
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: do the whole thing. So yeah, I don't know that.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: I'll go out a little bit.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: And that's the best when you have the tip, like
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: the tips.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, speak about playing here in Tampa and playing the
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: outfield in Tampa.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: You're going to be the centerfielder.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: Now you had great numbers defensively outs above average and
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: all that stuff.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: How much ground do you want to cover?
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that was a big thing I worked on coming
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: in here with the outfield guys, speed, wise knowing that
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: Tampa Is is very defensive, defensively good team, So just
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: really stressing that last offseason and last spring training, and
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: I think the numbers show and I felt comfortable out
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: there and made some strides just whether it was jumps,
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: arm stuff, routes, whatever, it was. Just worked a lot
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: on that and yeah, I felt really good.
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: Johnny. You like to pull the ball, right, I do
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: like to pull the ball.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: So when you came over here, yeah, go ahead, I do.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: It on accident.
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: And when I came over here last year, I feel
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: like I was I was trying to pull the ball
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: and it wasn't going in the air to left field.
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: So this year, trying to get back to you know,
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: all throughout the miners. If you look at my homers
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: and spray charts, it's a lot full side and a
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: lot of the work I was doing was you know,
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: ground balls the second base and then in the game
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: it happens to go in the air, and that's something
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: that you have to figure out with your body and
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: how you're you know, mechanically, how your body's moving and sequencing.
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: So obviously, yeah, I love pulling the ball, love.
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: Hitting homers and extra base hits, But I feel like
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: I was kind of stressing that last year, and then
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: you have a year like I did last year, and
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: you're like, well, it doesn't work when you try it,
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: so let's go back to the simple stuff.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna call it accidental pull pop is better
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: than on purpose pull pop, at least for you, right
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: for sure?
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: Yes? Yeah, I like that all right? Cool of the equations.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: Only hit homers, MVP, and esag is. I don't know
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: how he does it. The guys is unbelieved up pulling
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: the ball, but I was a little bit different in
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: the way I pulled the ball. But he, yeah, he's
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: he's incredible. He I don't know how he does it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: When when you first joined up with the Rays, did
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: you spend some time, you know, actually finding out out
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: what eastsip praatus was all about, and did they talk
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to you at all about how they turned him into
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: such a monster pull power gap?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: I had kind of watched his routine, some of his drills.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: We did some of the same drills he's I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: the difference is the way his body moves is a
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: lot different than mine, and he has incredible sequencing and
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: that sort of stuff, and I'm a little bit more mechanical,
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: a little tighter mobility. So I had to look at
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: some of the stuff and be like, I like that
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: that translates to my swing, and then look at the
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: other stuff and be like, all right, that definitely doesn't
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: work for me. So it's just I think that's what
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: it's about, just finding what works for you and finding
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: what feels.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: Good defensive wise. That's your specialty. Is one of your specialties,
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: I should say, do you tell him? Do you do
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: a lot of homework about that? Are you that goes
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: out in the fielder? Tell me your preparation, cause you're
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: you're gonna have to go to Steinbrotherfield. Now it's a
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: whole different ballgame where you've only played a couple of
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: games there and understand that outfield too as well, So
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: there's a lot of different scenarios you got to do.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: So as a third basement for me, i'd always checked
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: the dirt and everything else. Is there something specific you
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: do in the outfield to make sure you're timing and
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: everything else is right?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: Usually with you know, going to those new stadiums. That
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: was my first full year last year, and just that
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: was something I'd always do is you know, check the walls,
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: like you said, check the outfield grass, see where the
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: you know, whether as small as the wind is blowing
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: stuff like that, to where it's just small things. It
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: takes you know, ten fifteen minutes to go out there
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: and be like, you know, the ball set off the wall. Here,
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: it's gonna Rick Shay got to back up this, got
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: to back up that. So yeah, just just super small
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: stuff and then just taking pride and glove work and
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: just doing the small things every single day. I think
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: I got in a pretty good routine last year with
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: MJ MJ MJ or outfield Michael John.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Michael Jordan.
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: I was like, wait a second, I should know his name,
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: And I was like, dang, I just call them today.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Well, listen, people don't understand how they're in baseball.
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of times where they just don't know
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: their names because they have a nick name where they
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: have initials, like no one knew my I mean, they're
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: like Adrian, but no one knowing I had a real
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: name other than that. So now that you hear what
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: the race, what was it like going from from LA
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: with all the stars not do you guys want to have
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: stars in Tampa. I mean, but you had the stars
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: of Stars, and all of a sudden you're like, oh,
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: I'm in Tampa. This is a little bit different payroll, makeup.
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's just a different team, makeup, different vibe. Definitely
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: was grateful for my time with the Dodgers. Learned a
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: lot from those guys, you know, being in the same
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: clubhouses Mookie and Kersh and Freddie and obviously big leaguers
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: for a while and really good big leaguers and a
• 31:52
  Speaker 9: lot of Hall of famers probably, and learning from those
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: guys and then being able to come over here and
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: get the opportunity that you know, I've been longing for
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: and and yeah there, like you said, there's there's studs
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: on this team, and I think, you know, we have
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: a younger environment, but I think there's going to be
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: a lot of dudes that and there already is dudes
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: on this team. So it's fun to see the guys young.
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: You know, you've got a guy like Kim and Arra
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: who is just absolutely going off and seeing just yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 9: the young talent is super fun.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: By the way, you guys are all jacked. You mentioned
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: your hitting coach Chad Matola. He's also jacked and he's
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: so is it like a mandatory thing? Is I mean
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: you mentioned I mean he's got bigger biceps and all
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: this together.
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he does.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: I don't know, is it like mandatory because you guys
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: all look at Moto and.
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: I think we just look at Yandi and and try
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: to like.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: All the time exactly. Yeah.
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: I started doing bicep curls the last like two months
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: this season when I started hitting, because Yandi was doing
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: them and I was.
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: Like, oh I started hitting, so keep doing them every day.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Okay, So we want to show this picture just because
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: I want you to see what what what we go
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: through fashion wise? Oh?
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: There it is.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: That's sick right. Sone was a little more white. I
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: was a little more.
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: Money to bleach rebleach it again to get to that color.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, trust me, it was what we do there.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: You go look at that.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't have the mustache. I could never pull
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: off the mustache though.
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: That's a nice that's a that's a good look right there.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Like that.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: So my son a high school team a couple of
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: years ago, they bleached it like your Yeah, and I
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: was one of the coaches and one and So my
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: end of the year gift was a picture of my
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: son in that post with this bleach plung here next
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: to me.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: It's like one of the coolest pictures of it. Yeah,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: so it was. It was one of those cool things
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: that you know, we get to but I got to
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: ask you about this.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: So we're gonna go off the We're gonna go a
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: little bit off the topic here, and I hope they
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: have it ready.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Do we have the autograph ready?
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: Oh gosh.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: So I bought into the Paul Schemes Tops Chrome Update
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty four and I pulled the Johnny de Lutle
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: card and it has that signature on it.
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: It's a quick little jay.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Can we just get.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: Can we get a last name on there? Please?
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: I used to do the D.
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: I used to do the D and then I was like,
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: I did the TOPS deal and you know, you go
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: through those cards, and then I got rid of the
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: D because it was just making it quicker. So yeah,
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: the signature, I need some work there, and I'll admit it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: It's it's a rough one.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: They not teach signature is Oregon.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: No, they don't. It should be a class Yeah. Yeah,
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: it's kind of like a backwards Nike swoosh a little bit.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Haven't.
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: I literally have it sitting next to me at our studio,
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: at my house or we do the show every day,
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: and anytime someone mentions this signature, I'm just like, got
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: to work on it.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: So I'm glad that we got to talk about it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's compelling me to get better at it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: And so I told the story.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: So I played for Minnesota when I first came up,
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: and Harma kill Grew was kind of the guy in
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: Minnesota Hall of Famer, and he made us say make
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: sure you can read every letter.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: No, it would take him a little bit longer, but
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: he would sit there and talk to people and it
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: would be h.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: A r M.
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, maybe that's what I just need to start talking
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: to people while I do it. I'm bad at multitasking though,
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: so I'm just a little scribble and then go, wow,
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: that is insane.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: So there's mine on the left and then yours. I
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: got a lot more letters.
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: Than you do a little bit different. Yeah, that's a
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: that's a professional signature.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: I need to work on it because I guarant TV
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: as Kurseh and Freddy and those guys they're gonna say, hey,
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: because because he signed for a kid out there in
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: Tampa when you're stinning runner and you signed Johnny Lucan
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: and then he goes to his you don't you have
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: your all?
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: Don't make me feel too bad.
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: I'm serious, Like, you want people to know who you
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: are in one of the ways they can because I know.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Who that is. And you're like, well, look at his
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: signature and they're like, uh.
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: It's gonna be like, who's that And they're gonna be like, oh,
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: Johnny de Luca, the worst signature in the league.
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: And then that's.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: How that's a good way. That's a good way to
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: change it. I was smart.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I like, you just got to stand out.
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: You know I'm not going to change it. I'm going
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: to keep it like it. I think you should keep it.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: I think you should write it out, so you gotta.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: I don't even want to talk about anymore anyway. Is
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: there is there a guy that you emulate that you
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: look up to. It like, as you're coming up in
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: the league, somebody that I want to pick my game
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: after him? Like, who's that guy?
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: Compwise, I mean, I saw a lot of Andrew mccutchon
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: growing up, and I think the game is you know,
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: similar and just an elite center fielder and definitely could hit.
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: I looked hitting wise. I would always look at video
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: of like some of the older guys like Manny Ramirez,
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: Edgar Martinez, Mike Schmidt. So I like looking at the
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: older guys just because it was it was fun to
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: look at, you know, the highlight Homer videos. And I
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: was super like into the mechanics and all that. But
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: I think right now, the the comp for me that
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: I would like to emulate is like an Andrew McCutcheon
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: type guy.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Wow, he's MVP.
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, I got I got some work. I
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: got some work to Can you sing a little bit.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: Because he plays the piano and like sings.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: Oh he plays a piano like legitimately good. Anybody got
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: a guitar, I can play guitar.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: See, so there you go, that's cool.
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: That's your thing guitar And yeah you wait what.
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll rip it every now and again. I got
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: it back at the house right now, Pete, did you
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: have Pete in here? I'm rooming with him. You should
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: ask me serenade them every night?
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: Do you really this would have been valuable info before.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Did you get hit by any Peach pitches yesterday? Center field?
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we made fun of himself. Did you challenge yesterday?
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Challenge because I was, we were, we were in clear,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: he missed it. I was there the first like two innings.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: There was like seven challenges. Every hitter there was someone
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: like this. Yeah, and the umpire was wrong on everyone.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: But wait, that is what this is for. He needs
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: to adjust his zone. He is a professional. I'm not
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: going to go over the name specifically, but like, this
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: is going down game in all facets. Bad missed call. Okay,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: it happens someone consistently getting it wrong time and time again.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to adjust your game. This is
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the pros am I right for sure.
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: I agree.
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: You don't want to be empowersed.
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: We had it in a We had use it. I
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: use it every now and again. I I didn't like
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: using it just because I felt like it was always
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: going to be like like the quarter of the ball
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: was hitting the line, and if it was obvious, I'd
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: use it. But yeah, I didn't use it too much.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: That's what it's for, though, Hey, that was way off
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: the plate.
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: We fix it. We move on.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: That's at least how the fan perspective is. We just
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: don't want the glaring missus there. So anyway, Johnny, this
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: was awesome man, Really appreciate the time. Good to have
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: you on here for the first time. Hope you had
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: fun with it and tell AJ to back off all right,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: tell them you're not signing.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: For me.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: Thank you, guys, I appreciate you having