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Jesús Luzardo on The Phillies Show · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Jesus is Ardo and welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Philly Show.
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Speaker 2: Rubin Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's the Lucky It's the
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Speaker 2: Philly Show. It's Friday, June sixth, twenty twenty five. Jim,
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Speaker 2: how are we doing today?
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Speaker 3: Doing great?
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Speaker 4: It's finally stopped raining here in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 3: The sun is out. It feels like baseball season now.
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Speaker 2: Baseball season for sure, Jim. One of my favorite parts
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Speaker 2: of the Philly Show, besides talking to you and Ruben
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Speaker 2: multiple times over the week, is when we get to
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Speaker 2: chat with some of these Phillies players. You know. We
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Speaker 2: had Bryce Harper on last year, Kyle Schwarber on last year,
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Speaker 2: Zach Wheeler, Aaron Nola this spring, and it's fun to
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Speaker 2: get these guys in a different setting and kind of
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Speaker 2: get them to know them a little bit more. As
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Speaker 2: people see there's some of their personalities come out a
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Speaker 2: little bit. And we had a real fun talk last
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Speaker 2: week with Hazeu Lozzardo.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.
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Speaker 4: It's always great to get to know the person behind
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Speaker 4: the app a little bit about his background, a little
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Speaker 4: bit about his family, a little.
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Speaker 3: Bit about what drives him.
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Speaker 4: And you know, it was a great conversation with Jesus Solizardo.
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Speaker 4: Learned a little bit about his family, about his background.
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Speaker 4: His parents of Venezuela, and he was born in Peru
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Speaker 4: when his dad was working.
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Speaker 3: There, emigrated to South Florida.
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Speaker 4: He went to Marjorie Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,
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Speaker 4: near Fort Lauderdale. That's where that very tragic shooting was
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Speaker 4: a number of years ago. And he's really done his
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Speaker 4: part to help that community. Heal, really bright guy, really
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Speaker 4: well spoken, good ahead on his shoulders.
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Speaker 3: Hey. I know he had a tough outing.
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Speaker 4: Last weekend and we taped the interview a couple of
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Speaker 4: days before that, but.
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Speaker 3: You know, he'll bounce back from that.
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Speaker 4: You know, I still think he's built a little bit
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Speaker 4: of a body of work here and I believe in
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Speaker 4: that talent. I still think he could end up in
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Speaker 4: the All Star Game. But you know, we'll we'll see
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Speaker 4: in the time being. It was just fun to check
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Speaker 4: with a guy who has really emerged as an important
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Speaker 4: member of this twenty twenty five Phillies staff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim. The Phillies are in Pittsburgh this weekend playing
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Speaker 2: the pirates at PNC Park. Great ballpark. But if you're
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Speaker 2: looking for something to do, you gotta swing by my
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Speaker 2: neck of the woods. Swing by Delco, Jim. People say
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Speaker 2: Delco's a lot, and they're right. We have a lot
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Speaker 2: of everything. Family fun, festivals, great restaurants and bars, gardens, history,
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Speaker 2: trails and oucdoor activities and much much more. Take it
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Speaker 2: from me. I am a Delco Dad. Check it out
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Speaker 2: for yourself. This weekend, Jim okay So Saturday is the
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Speaker 2: seventh annual Havertown Irish Festival, takes place at fifty East
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Speaker 2: Eagle Road and Havertown from noon until eight pm. Enjoy
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Speaker 2: live music, Irish dancing, crafts, and a kid's fund zone.
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Speaker 2: And then Sunday this Kuy would get your baseball fix
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Speaker 2: here go to the Sports Legends of Delaware County Museum
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Speaker 2: presents the Delco League Baseball open House and book signing
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Speaker 2: that at the Radnor Township Municipal Building in Wayne from
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Speaker 2: eleven am until three pm. Delco is the oldest incorporated
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Speaker 2: league in the US, founded in nineteen o eight. I
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Speaker 2: on your screen right now.
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Speaker 3: Irish dancing count me in.
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Speaker 2: All right, Jim, I look forward to seeing it. I
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Speaker 2: will see you there in the meantime, though, enjoy our
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Speaker 2: talk with Jesus Lozardojesus, thanks for joining the Philly Show.
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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. Hope you're doing well. I want to
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Speaker 2: ask you as we get into June. Have these first
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Speaker 2: few months in Philly exceeded your expectations? What did you expect? Is?
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Speaker 2: What has surprised you about pitch in Philly these first
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Speaker 2: couple of months and your own performance?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think I think it definitely is
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Speaker 1: a little surprising to me. You know, I feel like
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Speaker 1: every every baseball player has it in him and has
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Speaker 1: that confidence in themselves. But you know, I think I've
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Speaker 1: been pitching really well, thankfully, and also just like integrating
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Speaker 1: into the team, I didn't know what to expect coming
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Speaker 1: into a team with such high, you know, expectations, but
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Speaker 1: also you know a lot of superstars, a lot of talent,
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Speaker 1: a lot of experience, and it's just blown me away.
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Speaker 1: How welcoming everyone is, how you know, how how the
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Speaker 1: guys who are you know, quote unquote superstars are just
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Speaker 1: really down to earth guys, you know, one of the boys,
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Speaker 1: and it's been awesome to be a part of it.
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Speaker 3: It does.
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Speaker 4: Somebody asked me about you the other day. I said,
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Speaker 4: it just looks like he is loving life as a Philly.
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Speaker 4: I mean, pitching in front of forty three thousand people
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Speaker 4: every time you take them ount at home, You've got
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Speaker 4: a great lineup behind you, Like you said, big expectation.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I know Miami was kind of where you're from,
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Speaker 4: but they were in a rebuild.
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Speaker 3: A lot of Night's stadium is empty.
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Speaker 4: Just how much have you know, has this done for
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Speaker 4: your just for your enthusiasm enthusiasm level, And just like
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Speaker 4: I said, love and life is a Philly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, love and life definitely is the right
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Speaker 1: way to put it. You know, Like you said, playing Miami,
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Speaker 1: it was it was home for me, So that was great.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, when you're not pitching in
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Speaker 1: front of you know, forty thousand like you are here
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Speaker 1: every night. You know, my last start at home against
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals, I think it was raining and we still
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Speaker 1: had forty two thousand like a Wednesday at two pm.
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Speaker 1: So that's something that you don't really see all the time.
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Speaker 1: And some of the most fun I've had playing baseball
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Speaker 1: since I was in high school.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: I said that during the Classic, just because of the
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Speaker 1: atmosphere during the Classic, which was awesome, and this kind
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Speaker 1: of replicates it, you know, day in and day out,
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Speaker 1: especially when we have big games like we did yesterday,
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Speaker 1: you know with the Braves and you know, the big Series,
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Speaker 1: when when these teams come in and you really start
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Speaker 1: to feel that home field advantage.
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Speaker 5: So I want to go back to your childhood a
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Speaker 5: little bit.
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Speaker 2: You So you were born in Peru, correct, correct?
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Speaker 5: And then your parents I think, if I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 5: I talked to my brother Luis about this. Did they
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Speaker 5: meet at a game in mark Ibo, because he told
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Speaker 5: me that I don't think so.
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Speaker 6: Oh that was the rumor out there that they met
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Speaker 6: at a game that I played for the for the
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Speaker 6: I know you were at least I know.
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Speaker 3: I don't think you played for him, but I think that.
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Speaker 2: You were one of their properties for what have you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Correct? Mm hmm, yeah.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 1: For me, is a big thing My grandpa was, I
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Speaker 1: mean a diehard when when he lived there, he'd go
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Speaker 1: to the games all the time. You know, my parents
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Speaker 1: both grew up going to the games, uh separately. They
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Speaker 1: they are from Madaga with both of them, you know,
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Speaker 1: my whole family, I'm probably the only one with I
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Speaker 1: mean within a long, long line of generations, cousins, uncles, aunts,
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Speaker 1: everything that was born in Venezuela. So I just happened
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Speaker 1: to be born in Peru. But yeah, I do feel Venezuelan,
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Speaker 1: you know, growing up with all the traditions and stuff.
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Speaker 2: So you're you're the only person in Major League history
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Speaker 2: born in Peru. I believe that's still the case. And
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Speaker 2: I know you moved from Peru to Miami right when
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Speaker 2: you were like one or something.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was one and a half and we moved
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Speaker 1: to yeah, South Florida.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean this might be a dumb question,
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Speaker 2: but is there any sort of like baseball community in
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Speaker 2: Peru where they're like, hey, Hazelsizardo is our guy. Or
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Speaker 2: do you ever get like a random tweet from somebody
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Speaker 2: in Peru. I mean, I don't know. I was just wondering.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't have social media anymore,
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Speaker 1: but when I did, when I had Instagram, i'd get
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Speaker 1: very random messages early on in my career from you know,
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Speaker 1: people trying to start leagues up in Peru, which was interesting.
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Speaker 1: I think now they're getting more of an influx of
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Speaker 1: Venezuelan's moving into Peru, which now obviously causes you know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of interest in I think there's gonna be
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Speaker 1: plenty more prouv being born baseball players of with the
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Speaker 1: same story that I had, you know, families that maybe
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Speaker 1: moved into Peru and you know, kind of brought that
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Speaker 1: passion with baseball along. But yeah, I mean I can
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Speaker 1: tell it's growing. I don't really have family over there
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Speaker 1: or friends, but just from what I have understood, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I kind of keep up with it somewhat,
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Speaker 1: and I know that there's there's a good group of
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Speaker 1: baseball players coming out of there.
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Speaker 3: Now, were your parents working in Peru or the students or.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, my dad works for Motorola and so he left
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Speaker 1: Venezuela got a job in Peru and they lived there
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Speaker 1: for three years and that's when I was born.
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Speaker 5: Hey, so Obviously you were born and I guess raised
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Speaker 5: and went to high school in Parkland. I know you're
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Speaker 5: really involved in the community there, and I know that
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Speaker 5: you're involved in a bunch of things. Can you talk
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Speaker 5: about some of the things you've been doing in the community,
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Speaker 5: and you know what Parkland meant to you and what
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Speaker 5: that event, that terrible event meant to you as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Parkly means everything to me. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: still live there in the off seasons. Back home, I
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Speaker 1: still live very close to my family and live right
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Speaker 1: down down the block from Stoneman Douglas. Uh, you know
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Speaker 1: where the where the tragedy happened. And you know, it
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Speaker 1: was obviously a tough, tough time for for our community
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Speaker 1: as a whole. I think everyone felt it, even if
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Speaker 1: you didn't personally, if you weren't personally affected by it,
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Speaker 1: because it's a tight knit community, a smaller community, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I went to high school there, so it
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Speaker 1: really hit home for me. I knew people there at
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Speaker 1: the time, and you know, I see how it affected people.
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Speaker 1: So for me, it's important to get back into the
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Speaker 1: community and just give back as much as possible using
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Speaker 1: the platform that you know, we have as baseball players. Now,
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Speaker 1: I think it's it's cool to be able to express,
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Speaker 1: you know, ourselves in certain ways and give back in
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Speaker 1: certain ways that maybe other people can't. So we've been
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Speaker 1: able to do some kids camps at Stoneman Douglas every year,
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Speaker 1: which is it's awesome. You know. We hope to keep
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Speaker 1: growing and continuing to get better. And then last year
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Speaker 1: I did my first annual golf tournament, which was awesome.
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Speaker 1: You know, we did that for my foundation, and we
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Speaker 1: gave back to three foundations in South Florida, the Joe
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Speaker 1: Demagio Children's Hospital, the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County,
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Speaker 1: and ARC Broward, which is a facility for people with
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Speaker 1: special needs. And so, you know, we continue to try
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Speaker 1: to do more and keep growing and get better every time.
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Speaker 1: But getting back into the community is something big for
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Speaker 1: me and my family.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome. And you're doing stuff here too, right, I
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Speaker 2: mean you're like donating per strikeout for the Boys and
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Speaker 2: Girls Club of Philadelphia. Is that you mentioned is Boys
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Speaker 2: and Girls Club something near and deu to your hire?
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Speaker 2: Is that just something you kind of connected with.
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Speaker 1: I think it's something I just connected with, you know,
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Speaker 1: I went and I saw in South Florida. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of parts of South Florida that that
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Speaker 1: are pretty rough, and the stuff that they do in
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Speaker 1: those communities to get these kids off the street and
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Speaker 1: on the right path, and not only with the kids,
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Speaker 1: you know, how they affect the community as a whole
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Speaker 1: and what they do, I think it's awesome. So I love,
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Speaker 1: you know, giving back and being a part of it.
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, kids are the future of the country,
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Speaker 1: so you got to steer them the right way. But
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Speaker 1: at the same time, yeah, here I'm trying to We
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Speaker 1: were doing the strikeout initiative and continuing to try to
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Speaker 1: find ways to get back in the community. I've heard
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Speaker 1: a lot about CHOP the Children's Hospital Philadelphia. I would
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Speaker 1: love to go and get there and see what we
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Speaker 1: could do. My dad's a big he's a coach of
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Speaker 1: the Challenger League in Parkland. He works with Anthony Rizzo's father.
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Speaker 1: They're both coaches there, and you know, so I'm a big,
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Speaker 1: big part of the Challenger League back home, and I
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Speaker 1: would like to do that here as well. So just
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Speaker 1: trying to find the time. You know, the season's a
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Speaker 1: little tough, but whenever I get a chance, I want to.
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Speaker 4: We saw your parents on TV after your first start
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Speaker 4: in Philadelphia and they were I mean, you pitched great
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Speaker 4: that now you always pitch great here. I mean, what's
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Speaker 4: this whole experience coming to Philadelphia been like for them?
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Speaker 1: They love it, you know, I think that they really
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Speaker 1: enjoy the atmosphere and you know this is real, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, real baseball. Not a knock on anywhere else
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Speaker 1: that I've been. But you know, you could feel, like
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Speaker 1: I said, the atmosphere, the home the home field advantage. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, the buzz around the city going into a game.
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Speaker 1: You just see the streets, you know, flooded with Philly's gear,
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Speaker 1: and the stadium's you know, packed, everyone's walking in. So
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Speaker 1: it's a good time. They're having a great time, you know,
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Speaker 1: making it out to all my starts. They love coming
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Speaker 1: and staying with me and cooking me home cooked meals.
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Speaker 1: So and I don't complain about it.
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Speaker 3: That's that's the worse for you either.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm off for it.
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Speaker 2: So I I noticed that you're.
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Speaker 5: You seem like a pretty emotional guy, and and it
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Speaker 5: to me from the outside looking in, And you can
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Speaker 5: correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the
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Speaker 5: fan base sort of uplifts you up and you get
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Speaker 5: fired up to pitch. I mean, I know you you're
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Speaker 5: pretty emotional and I know you want to do well.
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Speaker 5: I mean that sort of seems to be your personality. Dude,
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Speaker 5: the fan Does the fan base take you to that
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Speaker 5: next level here?
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Speaker 1: I would say so yeah. I think that you know,
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Speaker 1: in places where where there's not that many fans, you
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Speaker 1: almost have to create your own adrenaline. And you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's not hard to create your own adrenaline when
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Speaker 1: you're facing you know, another big league hitter. So I
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Speaker 1: think we always have those jitters in that adrenaline. But
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Speaker 1: when you know, when you have forty thousand behind you
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Speaker 1: and they're cheering you on, and you can almost feel
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Speaker 1: like that confidence building. So yeah, I mean I feel
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Speaker 1: like when I'm off the mound, I'm completely different. I'm
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Speaker 1: not really that emotional. I'm pretty level headed and quiet,
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Speaker 1: But when I get on the mound, it's just a
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Speaker 1: different It's just a different human being on there.
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Speaker 4: Hey, sus I wanted to ask you one more. It's
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Speaker 4: Stoneman Douglas for folks out there who don't know, is
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Speaker 4: an incredible baseball program. Every every year They're in the
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Speaker 4: top ten of anybody who ranks high school baseball programs.
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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously Haysuszardo, that Kolbe Mayo, Roman Anthony. I
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Speaker 4: think it was a great prospect with the Red Sox,
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Speaker 4: just a great program. But I actually hear you speak.
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Speaker 4: You're incredibly well spoken, and I'm imagining you were a
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Speaker 4: good student, did you And you were a big prospect
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Speaker 4: coming out of high school and draft prospect, But did
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Speaker 4: you have a college commitment?
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Speaker 1: And I was planning on going to the University of Miami,
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Speaker 1: and I was pretty pretty dead set on it too.
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Speaker 1: I was a pretty good student in high school, and
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Speaker 1: I you know, college is a big thing for my parents.
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Speaker 1: My sister went to college. My parents both went to college,
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I was I was pretty dead set on
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Speaker 1: going to college. The NATS came and obviously offered me
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Speaker 1: life changing money, so it's hard for me to turn away.
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Speaker 1: But I still made a promise to my dad that,
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Speaker 1: you know, I need to get a college degree before
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Speaker 1: I die. So I'm gonna promise what are you going
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Speaker 1: to get your degree in? I tried finance when I
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Speaker 1: was in rookie ball, but micro macroeconomics wasn't my favorite,
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Speaker 1: So now I got to look for something else, maybe business, something,
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Speaker 1: But I told them I would do it, so I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna do it for you. That's terrific.
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Speaker 2: That is awesome. And you know, one of my favorite
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Speaker 2: stories I've written in a long time, Hazes. A couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, I was talking about just your preparation
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Speaker 2: before a start, and we were talking a lot about
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Speaker 2: your superstitions and for people that haven't did not read
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Speaker 2: that story, like you're very specific, and when you begin
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Speaker 2: your pre start routine, when you walk onto the field,
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Speaker 2: when you make your first throw onto the field, can
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Speaker 2: you kind of talk or you know, tell us a
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Speaker 2: little bit about that, why that started, how that started,
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Speaker 2: and how it might just help you mentally, like get
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Speaker 2: prepared for a start before big game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. For me, just like I have a lot of
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Speaker 1: I'm a big numbers guy. I think you know, numbers
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Speaker 1: have meetings behind them, and you know, I would say,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm pretty religious as well, so there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, I'll just say, you know,
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Speaker 1: show me forty four if I'm on the right path,
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Speaker 1: and I'll randomly be driving to the field and I'll
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Speaker 1: see a forty four license plate, or I'll be rolling
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Speaker 1: out and I'll look on the ceiling and the fan has,
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Speaker 1: you know, forty four on it. Just random thing like
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Speaker 1: that that, you know, give me a little confidence here
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Speaker 1: and there, a little piece of mind. It almost, you know,
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Speaker 1: it almost assures me that today's my day. And but
17:08
Speaker 1: if I don't see it, you know, it's not like
17:10
Speaker 1: I hit the panting button and I'm you know, it's
17:12
Speaker 1: the end of the world. But yeah, for me, fours
17:15
Speaker 1: and ates have always been big. So anytime I walk
17:18
Speaker 1: out to the field has to add up to a
17:20
Speaker 1: four and eight, and the same with the first throw
17:22
Speaker 1: of the day has to add up to a four
17:24
Speaker 1: or in eight. So me and AJ Puck. AJ Puck,
17:27
Speaker 1: the reliever with the Diamondbacks, a real good friend of mine,
17:31
Speaker 1: and he kind of feels the same way. So we
17:33
Speaker 1: kind of developed that together. He's a reliever. So it's
17:35
Speaker 1: a little bit tougher and I'm more superstitious in my routine.
17:39
Speaker 1: But fours and eights have always been been the thing.
17:42
Speaker 2: But I mean, obviously you wear the glasses. They're not prescription, right,
17:46
Speaker 2: you know, that's that's kind of a good luck thing
17:48
Speaker 2: as well. And your coffee order. I love that too.
17:51
Speaker 3: You get it?
17:51
Speaker 2: What is it? A cold brew with almond milk at Starbucks?
17:54
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I and now nowadays I can't stand the
17:57
Speaker 1: taste of it. It's just at this point I need
17:58
Speaker 1: a drink it because I'm Soper.
18:03
Speaker 3: Do they know you yet at the neighborhood Starbucks?
18:06
Speaker 1: Not yet, but I'm sure by the end of the
18:08
Speaker 1: season they will.
18:09
Speaker 9: And I've actually I was super superstitious as well. Do
18:14
Speaker 9: you ever try to test it in the minor leagues
18:16
Speaker 9: or anything like that, like try to do something different
18:18
Speaker 9: just so you know you're okay if things don't work out.
18:21
Speaker 1: Have you done that before?
18:23
Speaker 5: Uh?
18:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have. Well, this year I did it with
18:25
Speaker 1: the glove. I switched up my glove and normally, I
18:29
Speaker 1: you know, I wear the same gamer all year, whether
18:31
Speaker 1: it's good or bad. Uh, And this year I started
18:33
Speaker 1: to I tried like little switches here and there. I
18:36
Speaker 1: actually had a hot coffee one day. I forgot where
18:38
Speaker 1: we were, but it was freezing, and I was like,
18:40
Speaker 1: I can't have cold grew and you might have been
18:42
Speaker 1: Chicago and I had a hot coffee and it went well,
18:44
Speaker 1: and I was like, maybe, you know, but I don't
18:47
Speaker 1: like to mess with it too much, so I try
18:49
Speaker 1: to limit my superstition. Uh you know when I when
18:52
Speaker 1: I leave.
18:52
Speaker 2: It, that's right, I forgot.
18:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, you forgot.
18:55
Speaker 2: You switched the gloves up. You were all You used
18:57
Speaker 2: to only have an all black glove. Right now you've
18:59
Speaker 2: got like a cream colored one as well that you
19:01
Speaker 2: mix in. Yep, yeah, yeah, that's all.
19:03
Speaker 5: I wanted to talk a little bit about Caleb Kothain
19:05
Speaker 5: and how he's affected you so far.
19:07
Speaker 1: And what al important has been to you.
19:09
Speaker 5: Obviously, you came up with the new pitch during the
19:12
Speaker 5: course of the spring training, broke it out, broke out
19:14
Speaker 5: that sweeper. Can you talk a little bit about that
19:17
Speaker 5: overall development as that happened as you built your relationship
19:20
Speaker 5: with Caleb.
19:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, Caleb has been awesome for me. And you know,
19:25
Speaker 1: I think we bounced or we we balance each other
19:28
Speaker 1: out pretty well because he's a good mix of like
19:32
Speaker 1: old school.
19:33
Speaker 5: Uh.
19:33
Speaker 1: You know, you have old school pitching coaches who are
19:35
Speaker 1: all feel and you know how it looks visually and
19:38
Speaker 1: reading the swing, and then you have a little bit
19:40
Speaker 1: of new school pitching coaches as well, who are very
19:43
Speaker 1: analytic driven, you know, the metrics say this, uh, you know, analytically,
19:47
Speaker 1: this is what we should throw guys. So he's a
19:49
Speaker 1: perfect mix of both. I think he does a good
19:51
Speaker 1: job of analyzing the metrics and the numbers and all
19:55
Speaker 1: that and simplifying it and knowing how to tell a
19:59
Speaker 1: player or a pitcher, you know, what they what they
20:02
Speaker 1: need to hear, and how it's gonna help them. I
20:04
Speaker 1: think every guy's different. Some guys might be a little
20:06
Speaker 1: more analytic driven, some guys might be less. So I
20:09
Speaker 1: think he has the perfect mix. And as well, he
20:11
Speaker 1: mixes that with reading swings and visually how that looks.
20:16
Speaker 1: So I think that that's the perfect balance in a
20:18
Speaker 1: pitching coach. And he helped me a lot with the sweeper,
20:21
Speaker 1: like we've been saying, just he kind of put it
20:23
Speaker 1: in my head. I went ahead and I started tinkering
20:26
Speaker 1: with it. I work out down in West Palm Beach,
20:28
Speaker 1: and you know, so we have some pitching coaches out
20:30
Speaker 1: there that they did a great job with me. They
20:33
Speaker 1: kind of showed me a grip. We just went with it,
20:35
Speaker 1: and then you know, progressively building that into because the
20:38
Speaker 1: new pitch is a little different stress on the arm,
20:41
Speaker 1: So I was working it progressively in the offseason filled
20:45
Speaker 1: in Caleb Cotham, Mark Lowie, our pitching guys here, and
20:48
Speaker 1: then when we got to spring, you know, we kind
20:51
Speaker 1: of had to take our lumps and bumps with how
20:53
Speaker 1: we were gonna attack hitters, and we couldn't really We
20:57
Speaker 1: had to find the right the right mesh, the right time,
20:59
Speaker 1: the right places in the count to use it. And
21:02
Speaker 1: you know, by the end of spring, I think we
21:03
Speaker 1: did a really good job with nail that down.
21:05
Speaker 4: I was wondering for the for the listeners and the viewers,
21:09
Speaker 4: could you give us a simple breakdown of the difference
21:13
Speaker 4: between the slot a slider and a sweeper. I mean,
21:17
Speaker 4: you you threw a backfoot slider. I remember, uh, I
21:20
Speaker 4: think it was Castianos in spring training when somebody asked him, hey,
21:25
Speaker 4: what do you think again, jose A his swist Lozardo.
21:28
Speaker 4: He said, Uh, it's great. It's a great pitcher and
21:30
Speaker 4: that backfoot slider. I don't have to face it anymore.
21:32
Speaker 4: But now it's a uh, it's a sweeper. Just give
21:35
Speaker 4: us a little breakdown of the difference in those two pitches.
21:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, I mean, basically, I've never had a pitch
21:42
Speaker 1: that moved so much horizontally towards the right handed hitter.
21:46
Speaker 1: Everything was always either very up and down or would
21:49
Speaker 1: run away. So now it just helps me. My My
21:53
Speaker 1: slider is more of a gyro slider. They call it
21:56
Speaker 1: a bullet spin slider, so it spins like a bullet
21:58
Speaker 1: and it kind of just drops visually to me, the
22:01
Speaker 1: good ones have a little turn, but if you look
22:04
Speaker 1: at it analytically, it's it doesn't move at all. It doesn't.
22:08
Speaker 1: It just stays dead straight and just goes down. So
22:11
Speaker 1: that's I mean, those sliders are very effective, but for me,
22:13
Speaker 1: I needed something that went into the right handed hitter
22:16
Speaker 1: and kind of made them aware of stuff moving into them.
22:20
Speaker 1: And then that's where the sweeper comes in. Where you
22:21
Speaker 1: get that whether it's seven or to ten or to
22:25
Speaker 1: thirteen inches of horizontal movement inwards.
22:29
Speaker 2: Do you have a ball with you?
22:30
Speaker 3: Could you show us how you throw it? Yeah?
22:32
Speaker 1: For me, this is my sweeper grip guys. A lot
22:38
Speaker 1: of guys mess with the thumb. For me, that was
22:40
Speaker 1: like the biggest thing. Finding that the thumb on the
22:42
Speaker 1: side would really help me and just have more ball security.
22:45
Speaker 1: And then basically just think of throwing a football and
22:48
Speaker 1: having that ball spin out, and then you want that
22:51
Speaker 1: side spin on it and have it tumble away, and.
22:54
Speaker 2: Then what about can you show us how is this
22:56
Speaker 2: the slider different?
22:57
Speaker 1: Then I guess so the slider is right here and
22:59
Speaker 1: then base, so you just throw it, stay behind it,
23:02
Speaker 1: and then that ball you're gonna I'm gonna pronate it
23:05
Speaker 1: and then it just spins like that. So then that
23:07
Speaker 1: when it spins like a bullet, it'll just drop as
23:10
Speaker 1: opposed to the side spin.
23:11
Speaker 2: So I remember in that first Great for League start,
23:13
Speaker 2: you threw the sweeper, and I remember you're saying, like,
23:16
Speaker 2: it's let's I'm trying it. I don't even know if
23:19
Speaker 2: it's going to be a real pitch or not. Were
23:21
Speaker 2: you just kind of trying to lower expectations or were
23:24
Speaker 2: you to legitimate Like, I don't I don't know if
23:26
Speaker 2: this is going to be something I carry in the season,
23:28
Speaker 2: because now you look at it and it's like you
23:30
Speaker 2: throw it almost thirty percent of the time, so you
23:32
Speaker 2: know it's become like really obviously a big part of
23:35
Speaker 2: your success. This yere.
23:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, I think I was just trying to lower expectations.
23:40
Speaker 1: The second I threw it in the offseason, I knew
23:42
Speaker 1: that this was going to be a weapon for me.
23:43
Speaker 1: It just visually looked really well, metrically looked really well.
23:47
Speaker 1: It was something that I didn't have confidence in the
23:51
Speaker 1: early in spring, at least, I didn't have confidence in
23:53
Speaker 1: the command of it. You know, now I'm able to
23:55
Speaker 1: throw it both sides of the plate, you know, beneath
23:58
Speaker 1: the zone as well. And early on it was just
24:00
Speaker 1: kind of like grip it and rip it and just
24:02
Speaker 1: you know, hope it moves. But you know, in the
24:05
Speaker 1: in the years past, I've also tried to add a cutter,
24:07
Speaker 1: I've tried to add a curve ball, and I come
24:10
Speaker 1: into spring with high expectations and I ended up just
24:12
Speaker 1: banging the pitch completely and sticking with what I had.
24:15
Speaker 1: So this year is more of let's just take it slow,
24:18
Speaker 1: let's see what we have, and then you know, as
24:21
Speaker 1: it progressed, obviously became a weapon for me.
24:24
Speaker 4: So so the sweeper, I mean, this was not brought
24:28
Speaker 4: up to you in clear Water. This you would trade
24:30
Speaker 4: it to the Phillies and then you had conversations I
24:33
Speaker 4: guess by phone or maybe video with Caleb, and at
24:36
Speaker 4: that point he suggested to sweeper. I mean, it takes
24:39
Speaker 4: some faith in a guy to buy in before even
24:41
Speaker 4: really meeting him in person, doesn't it?
24:43
Speaker 3: Yeah?
24:44
Speaker 1: I mean, but also if you just look at the
24:46
Speaker 1: track record, you know Zach has added a sweeper. I
24:51
Speaker 1: think he's added a couple of pitches and you know, yeah, splitter,
24:54
Speaker 1: and it's been it's been incredible. So I mean, just
24:57
Speaker 1: the fact and also him just asking me. He asked me, hey,
25:00
Speaker 1: have you ever thrown a sweeper? I said no, and
25:03
Speaker 1: he just left it at that. And I think it
25:04
Speaker 1: was the day I got traded. I got home, I
25:06
Speaker 1: called him and he just left it at that, and
25:09
Speaker 1: that kind of sparked my brain into saying, you know,
25:11
Speaker 1: if he's asking me that question, maybe you know he
25:13
Speaker 1: sees something the potential and the sweeper. And then when
25:16
Speaker 1: I brought it back to him, like hey, you know
25:18
Speaker 1: I've been working on this sweeper, he was all for it,
25:20
Speaker 1: and you know, they loved how it looked. But I think,
25:24
Speaker 1: like like I said earlier, Caleb does a great job
25:26
Speaker 1: of he wants guys to mess around and tinker a
25:29
Speaker 1: little bit, but he also wants to simplify it as
25:32
Speaker 1: much as possible, and he kind of leaves it in
25:33
Speaker 1: your court.
25:34
Speaker 4: Where does JT fit into your success here in Philadelphia.
25:39
Speaker 1: I mean extremely high. You know, not many guys. I
25:42
Speaker 1: would say JT and march On both. March On takes
25:45
Speaker 1: heavily after JT in the sense of he it looks like,
25:49
Speaker 1: you know, he follows his every move in a good way,
25:52
Speaker 1: because JT is one of the hardest workers I've ever
25:54
Speaker 1: seen in the weight room. On the field, you see
25:57
Speaker 1: him every day you walk in early. He's studying the hitters,
25:59
Speaker 1: doing going over his counter reports. And you know, so
26:02
Speaker 1: it's not by chance that the pitching staff, you know,
26:05
Speaker 1: does what it does. When you have guys behind the
26:07
Speaker 1: plate that really know what they're doing, you know, you
26:10
Speaker 1: have confidence. Every time JT puts a pitch down for me,
26:12
Speaker 1: I have a confidence that he saw something in the video,
26:15
Speaker 1: saw something in the numbers, see something you know in
26:17
Speaker 1: the bat He's great at visually seeing what you know,
26:21
Speaker 1: a hitter swing, hitters take the way they set up.
26:24
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just the full package back there, real smart,
26:27
Speaker 1: real tough, and you know he keeps a cool and
26:31
Speaker 1: level head back there, especially a guy like me. You know,
26:34
Speaker 1: I get adrenaline flowing and I just want to blow
26:37
Speaker 1: people away sometimes and he's more of, you know, the
26:39
Speaker 1: level head of let's throw this, let's throw this, you know,
26:42
Speaker 1: let's get this guy out, let's be smart about things.
26:44
Speaker 1: So you know, I wouldn't be where I am today
26:46
Speaker 1: without him. For sure.
26:48
Speaker 5: You've been in the big leagues sometime now, and you
26:51
Speaker 5: sort of bounced a little bit to different organizations. Where
26:56
Speaker 5: was it for you when you finally felt like, my
27:00
Speaker 5: my feed are firmly planted into the ground, and I
27:03
Speaker 5: know that I'm going to be a quality major league
27:05
Speaker 5: baseball player. And what was that like to Because I
27:09
Speaker 5: went through that moment at some point, I wasn't ever
27:12
Speaker 5: a quality but I felt much more comfortable in my.
27:14
Speaker 2: Own skin as a major league player. And I was
27:16
Speaker 2: curious as to when it happened for you and.
27:18
Speaker 1: How yeah, for me, I would say twenty twenty three
27:22
Speaker 1: with the Marlins was the year that you know, I
27:25
Speaker 1: was I think my fifth year parts of five years
27:28
Speaker 1: in the big leagues. You know, I was a little older,
27:32
Speaker 1: got more mature, and just understanding. You know, that year
27:36
Speaker 1: I threw, I had a full season of health through
27:39
Speaker 1: thirty two starts, I want to say, or thirty one starts,
27:42
Speaker 1: understood what it took to be, you know, a full
27:44
Speaker 1: season starting pitcher and how long that season really is.
27:48
Speaker 1: But I felt like that was where I kind of
27:50
Speaker 1: turned the point, you know, early in the year that
27:53
Speaker 1: year that I felt like every time I went out there,
27:55
Speaker 1: you know, I could give us a chance to win,
27:56
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who's on the other side. And you know,
27:59
Speaker 1: last year was frustrated, but being an open day opening
28:02
Speaker 1: day starter for the Marlins, it was just it was
28:05
Speaker 1: just for me kind of gave me that confidence, even
28:07
Speaker 1: though I got hurt at the end of last year
28:09
Speaker 1: going into this year, just remembering, you know, you can
28:13
Speaker 1: do it. You know you've been there before, You've done it,
28:15
Speaker 1: you know, so it's nothing new. And so now just
28:18
Speaker 1: coming in here, I had, like you said, I already
28:20
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, I had established myself somewhat, and
28:23
Speaker 1: then coming to a team who had already faced me
28:26
Speaker 1: and knew what I could do, it didn't feel like
28:27
Speaker 1: I had to to go out and do more.
28:30
Speaker 2: Jesus, talking a lot of your teammates, they say, oh, man, Jesus, man,
28:34
Speaker 2: he he's a real competitor. Man, this this dude competes.
28:37
Speaker 2: This dude. I remember actually asked Kyle Schuber after game
28:40
Speaker 2: and go you guys always say that, but what does
28:42
Speaker 2: that actually mean? Like when you say a guy is
28:43
Speaker 2: a competitor and he says it's kind of like a
28:46
Speaker 2: vibe maybe or just so you can just tell that
28:47
Speaker 2: he's going to grind through it even things are going right,
28:49
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, like before a game, during a game, or
28:52
Speaker 2: you guy that you know, don't talk to me, like,
28:55
Speaker 2: guys wanna stay out of my way? Can you have
28:57
Speaker 2: a conversation with teammates Like is that part maybe what
29:00
Speaker 2: they're talking about or what do you think they mean
29:02
Speaker 2: when they say that.
29:05
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think one of the
29:06
Speaker 1: greatest compliments you can ever get is, you know, being
29:09
Speaker 1: a competitor. I always want to compete. Uh you know,
29:11
Speaker 1: watching that Michael Jordan documentary when he says I have
29:15
Speaker 1: a competition problem, Like I really have a competition problem.
29:18
Speaker 1: I just love to compete. And whether it doesn't matter
29:21
Speaker 1: what we're doing. We could be playing Domino's, playing Horrors basketball,
29:24
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter anything. I always want to win. But
29:28
Speaker 1: I think you know, before games, if you ask, if
29:31
Speaker 1: you ask a lot of the guys, some guys might
29:33
Speaker 1: give you mixed answers. A lot of the Latin guys
29:35
Speaker 1: say that they can't talk to me before I pitch
29:38
Speaker 1: because I'm pretty lugged in. But I feel like, you know,
29:41
Speaker 1: I'm pretty easy going. Guys can talk to me. I
29:43
Speaker 1: can have a conversation. But like when it's a couple
29:45
Speaker 1: hours before the game and I have my headphones on,
29:47
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm locked in one hundred percent and I'm
29:50
Speaker 1: ready to go, and I feel like I just turned it,
29:53
Speaker 1: Like I said, I turned into someone else when I
29:55
Speaker 1: when I go to pitch and it's just a very
29:58
Speaker 1: competitive he's on go and then the second that, you know,
30:02
Speaker 1: Skip tells me I'm done. Then then it's over. Then
30:05
Speaker 1: I am smiling again. I'm messing around. But uh, there's
30:08
Speaker 1: not much messing around going on on day games for me.
30:11
Speaker 2: What are you listening to pregame to get you in
30:13
Speaker 2: the zone.
30:14
Speaker 1: Uh, it's a good mix. I got some Latin music
30:16
Speaker 1: some uh someday, don't A lot of rap, A lot
30:19
Speaker 1: of old school raph New York like nineties mob deep
30:24
Speaker 1: like that type of stuff.
30:25
Speaker 3: Nice.
30:27
Speaker 6: Hey, So it's just kind of curious, just on the
30:29
Speaker 6: sort of lighter side, what other things do you like
30:31
Speaker 6: to do off the field. I mean, have many hobbies,
30:34
Speaker 6: your interests or you're a golfer, your fishermen.
30:37
Speaker 1: What do you What kind of stuff do you do
30:39
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. I like to I like
30:41
Speaker 1: to fish a lot back home. I don't have a boat,
30:43
Speaker 1: but anytime I get invited out on one, I'll be there.
30:45
Speaker 5: You'll be able to afford plenty of boats.
30:48
Speaker 1: Hopefully hopefully soon. Yeah, but a lot of lake fishing
30:53
Speaker 1: around my house, big, big golfer uh L. Going to
30:56
Speaker 1: the beach, anything really outdoors, you know, back home in
30:59
Speaker 1: the winters, Florida's beautiful, so we try to get out,
31:03
Speaker 1: whether it's the beach, paddleboarding, fishing, golf. I like to
31:07
Speaker 1: hunt every once in a while if I get invited
31:10
Speaker 1: for that. So I'm a little bit of everything.
31:12
Speaker 4: Hey, before we before we run out of time, I
31:15
Speaker 4: wanted to tell you you have a history with Andrew
31:18
Speaker 4: Painter from the same area, worked out the same facility.
31:21
Speaker 3: Uh you spent some time obviously in spring training.
31:24
Speaker 4: Tell the Phillies fans what they're gonna get from this kid,
31:26
Speaker 4: Probably not too near future.
31:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, Painter is is awesome, you know. I I love
31:32
Speaker 1: messing with him. He's an awesome kid, great kid, hard worker.
31:36
Speaker 1: That's what kind of blows me away. He's he's very
31:38
Speaker 1: mature for his age. He almost acts like you know,
31:41
Speaker 1: I view him as as a peer of my own age.
31:43
Speaker 1: I remember going and visiting, uh, his high school coach
31:47
Speaker 1: at the time, and he was in high school, and
31:49
Speaker 1: it just kind of blew me away. I'd always heard
31:51
Speaker 1: a lot about him, he was way younger than me,
31:54
Speaker 1: but yeah, the more I got to know him, you know,
31:56
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons ago, we played a lot of
31:58
Speaker 1: pickball together and so we got very competitive at that
32:01
Speaker 1: and we were It's just great, great to see, you know,
32:04
Speaker 1: that side of him outside of the baseball field, because
32:07
Speaker 1: you know how good of a kid he is, how
32:08
Speaker 1: hard he works. Uh, But when he when he does
32:10
Speaker 1: turn it on, when he starts to play and when
32:12
Speaker 1: he starts to pitch, you could see kind of that
32:15
Speaker 1: mode going for him. And that's when you know he
32:18
Speaker 1: wants to be the best. And I think that that's
32:19
Speaker 1: what makes him so good, is that you know, he's
32:21
Speaker 1: always striving to be great and uh, you know, I
32:23
Speaker 1: think that that it's something that he can definitely achieve.
32:25
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for him.
32:26
Speaker 4: Did he have kind of a legendary aura as a
32:29
Speaker 4: high school kid?
32:30
Speaker 3: Uh?
32:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you have a lot of good baseball
32:33
Speaker 1: players coming out of South Florida, so there's a you
32:37
Speaker 1: know that that joke of like a prospect or a suspect,
32:39
Speaker 1: you never know what they're gonna be. But I feel
32:43
Speaker 1: like at an early age, you could tell that Painter
32:45
Speaker 1: was just going to be, you know, a stud. You know,
32:48
Speaker 1: he had the build for it, but he wasn't you know,
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Speaker 1: extremely loud and cocky kid. He was just kind of
32:53
Speaker 1: quiet under the radar, and he would just he would
32:56
Speaker 1: just be really good. So yeah, it's it was, It's
32:59
Speaker 1: in incredible to see. But yeah, we have we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of soft Florida guys on this team. It's
33:03
Speaker 1: actually it's actually pretty fun to be around you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Me and Maxwell's are the day I actually blow out
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Speaker 1: my elbow in high school my senior year, he was
33:11
Speaker 1: the starting pitcher on the other side.
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Speaker 2: Really, wow, that's wild. Who's better at pick a ball?
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Speaker 2: Who wins me? You?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, eyeball, any stinks at it. But yeah, if you
33:23
Speaker 1: ever talked to him about pick a ball, you gotta
33:25
Speaker 1: ask him. You're left myself, Yes, what's your rating? You got?
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Speaker 3: You got? You rated?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't know. My dad plays every day all
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Speaker 1: day long. He's like a four four and I don't know,
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Speaker 1: so he's pretty good. I'm not. I just go and
33:38
Speaker 1: try to keep up with him. That's awesome.
33:40
Speaker 2: And then one one last one for me is are
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Speaker 2: you're a hockey fan as well?
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Speaker 5: Right?
33:43
Speaker 2: Are you a Panthers fan?
33:44
Speaker 1: Panthers fan?
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Speaker 2: Okay, so congrats to you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Did you?
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Speaker 2: Did you get on uh Jordan's and Thomas?
33:53
Speaker 1: I was. I was talking a lot of a lot
33:56
Speaker 1: of smack to Tom. I might have got on his
33:58
Speaker 1: nerve a little bit, which is pretty funny. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: me and Jordan, I mean we were going at it
34:04
Speaker 1: left and right. I knew he was a big Toronto
34:06
Speaker 1: Leafs fan, so every chance I got I could chirp him.
34:09
Speaker 4: So the deciding game between the Leafs and the Panthers
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Speaker 4: was on when you guys were on the plane and
34:16
Speaker 4: route to Denver, were you able to watch that game?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Me and me and Jordan were sitting next to each other.
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Speaker 1: I had the game on. I was cheering every time
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Speaker 1: with scoring. It was great.
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Speaker 3: And then they absolutely blitzed Caroline.
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Speaker 1: Yeah again, Yeah, thankfully.
34:30
Speaker 2: That's the fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully they do the same as last year and they'd
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Speaker 1: be Mike Jesus, but we'll see.
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Speaker 3: He's good. But some of the Panthers, man, they are yah.
34:42
Speaker 1: I one thing I will say. But I mean, I've
34:45
Speaker 1: been going to those games since I was thirteen. We
34:48
Speaker 1: used to park across the street and scout tickets for
34:51
Speaker 1: like seven bucks. In high school, they weren't great, so
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Speaker 1: now seeing where they are now, but I just love
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Speaker 1: seeing how gritty they are. It's something that honestly like
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Speaker 1: fires me up and and and uh, you know, I
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Speaker 1: love that side of hockey that we can I wish
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Speaker 1: we could bring into baseball, how gritty they are and
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Speaker 1: how in their and their face they are all the time.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're always, you know, just trying to get
35:13
Speaker 1: under the skin of the other team. And I love
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Speaker 1: that about them. I love Matthew Chuck. I'm a big
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Speaker 1: fan of his.
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Speaker 3: I like him too.
35:18
Speaker 4: He's he's a he's a good player all around, and
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Speaker 4: you'll get onto your skin.
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Speaker 3: He's tough with his brother.
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Speaker 4: I mean, look what they did in the in the
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Speaker 4: four Nations. So yeah, well it's gonna be a great
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Speaker 4: final I love the fun and Stanley Cupp as well.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be great. Yeah.
35:36
Speaker 2: Well, well, Hazus, thanks a lot, like good luck to
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Speaker 2: your panthers and good luck to you for the rest
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Speaker 2: of the season. We had a lot of fun talking
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Speaker 2: to you, so thanks so much for joining us.
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