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Miles Mikolas blasts Jurickson Profar’s PED suspension + CJ Abrams & Nasim Nuñez join FT @Nats camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: National starting pitcher Miles Michaelis is here with us on
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  Speaker 1: FT Miles, I want to go right to the meeting
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  Speaker 1: you came from, if you don't mind, because we'd never
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  Speaker 1: get a peek inside the curtain of all of the
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  Speaker 1: meetings that occurred spring training. So whether you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about this one or any others, what are they like,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on during all of these meetings?
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  Speaker 2: This is just more of like kind of a fun meeting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with a lot of the new coaching staff
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  Speaker 2: and some new players. They're going around and they're they're
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  Speaker 2: doing it a really fun way. So I went yesterday
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  Speaker 2: with house. So they're going the youngest guy and the
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  Speaker 2: oldest guy every every day or every other day, and
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  Speaker 2: you're just like little like player in you like get
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  Speaker 2: to know everybody. So I went yesterday. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: get supposed to feel you know, why, four kids, two dogs,
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  Speaker 2: this and that. You know you're round and you're signing
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  Speaker 2: bonus and you're a little bit of your backstory. And
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  Speaker 2: then they have like an open form. Guys can ask
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  Speaker 2: you questions and just kind of like a little ten to.
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  Speaker 3: Fifteen minute what you got get to know you?
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  Speaker 4: Did you get any question was anyone brave enough to
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  Speaker 4: ask you a question?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I got a few questions.
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  Speaker 2: One of them was about I've got chickens at home,
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  Speaker 2: and one of them is like the chicken from you
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  Speaker 2: seen the movie Moana. No, but he's like a chicken,
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  Speaker 2: but he's not all there. He's a rooster, but he's
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  Speaker 2: not all there. He kind of walks around like sideways
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  Speaker 2: most of the day and he's just like a little
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  Speaker 2: special needs kind of chicken. But I had some guys
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  Speaker 2: over in my house playing cards the other day and
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about that. So one of the other guys
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  Speaker 2: wanted to know more about the chicken and you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of the Japanese stuff. Everybody wants to know about
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  Speaker 2: the eating the lizard and the fall League kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But it was fun, you know, it's a fun little
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  Speaker 2: you know, I get to have some some interaction with
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  Speaker 2: some of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's nice. I like it.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a good question for the guys, like
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  Speaker 5: have you been able to be like ooh, this is
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  Speaker 5: a question I've heard I want to ask them.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't have one. I didn't have one today.
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  Speaker 3: I have one ready.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pitching later today so I didn't have one like Super.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't Super.
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  Speaker 3: There. I'm getting locked in. I'm in the zone right now.
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  Speaker 4: If you ask your manager what it's like to be
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  Speaker 4: ten years younger than you are.
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  Speaker 3: No, but whenever he gets up there, maybe i'll maybe
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  Speaker 3: you and him.
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  Speaker 4: You could be the old one, he could be the
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  Speaker 4: young one. You guys could do it together.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'll you know, he's in charge.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to ask him, what's that dynamic?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you know, what's it been like for
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  Speaker 1: but Terra to not only enter a new job, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, baseball players like to have a
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  Speaker 1: good time. It sometimes becomes a little bit of like
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  Speaker 1: a frat scenario, and they're probably like, hey, you're quite young, dude.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's it's it's gotten there yet. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's spring training. Everyone's kind of still. I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everybody's feeling each other out a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's getting to know each other.
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  Speaker 2: But my stance on being a player has always been,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm a player.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here to play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'll take the ball when he gives it
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  Speaker 2: to me, and I'll I'll give it back when he
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  Speaker 2: asks for it back, no questions asked. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: the manager in charge. You know, same thing with the
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  Speaker 2: pitching coaches. I'm here to learn, you know. They they've
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  Speaker 2: got a young staff, but they're very knowledgeable. So it's
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  Speaker 2: been fun to kind of learn some things and you know,
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  Speaker 2: talk and and and get some new you know, some
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  Speaker 2: new philosophies and new theories.
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  Speaker 3: That's been been really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 4: Every reason. You have a haircut this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the barber, the barber that comes in was giving
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  Speaker 2: me a really hard time about how, you know, rough
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  Speaker 2: around the edges, my sideburns.
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  Speaker 3: And stuff we're looking. Uh So I came in the
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  Speaker 3: other day and I said, have at it, man, see
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  Speaker 3: what you got. I thought it was a good haircut.
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  Speaker 4: It is, but I'm used to you with the long
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  Speaker 4: flowing laws.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I'm still grown it out, but it was it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't really long, but it was just that very unkempt.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I like to keep it longer, but I still like
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  Speaker 2: to keep my appearances up.
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  Speaker 6: How is it to be in new camp?
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  Speaker 5: You were in you were in Saint Louis for a
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  Speaker 5: long time, and now you go to a new place,
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  Speaker 5: which is right down the road from your house, so
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  Speaker 5: you're commuting, do you make sandwiches for all your teammates
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  Speaker 5: before you leave the house and cut them into quarters?
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  Speaker 6: But how's the how is the new camp? Seriously?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, a new camp is good.
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  Speaker 2: I don't bring sandwiches, but sometimes I would bring eggs
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  Speaker 2: in from my chickens.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bring my own eggs in for breakfast.
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  Speaker 6: How do you know?
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  Speaker 4: For you, how do you know if an egg.
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  Speaker 7: Has a chicken in or is just an egg? The
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  Speaker 7: way you can tell you feel like a.
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  Speaker 2: Flash light up to it, you know, like you shine
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  Speaker 2: a light up to it and if you see like
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  Speaker 2: an embryo or chicken there. But we so we have
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  Speaker 2: the one rooster, but he's not all there, so he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't he doesn't lay with.
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  Speaker 3: The hens, which is kind of nice because every eggs
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  Speaker 3: people want to egg every egg we get, you.
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  Speaker 4: Bring like when your teammates when it has a little baby.
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  Speaker 2: Chickens, that would be yeah, that'd be weird.
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  Speaker 4: I just didn't know how you can tell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you wanted to use a flash light,
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  Speaker 2: you shine it through the egg and you can see
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  Speaker 2: a yolk or an embryo whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And then if you find one with the embryo, you
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  Speaker 4: don't you keep the.
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  Speaker 2: I would maybe give it back to the chicken and
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  Speaker 2: see if it would lay on it and hatch into
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  Speaker 2: another chicken.
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  Speaker 3: Then I'd have more chickens.
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  Speaker 2: How many chickens I think the coup we have can
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  Speaker 2: house like twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: We have eighteen.
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  Speaker 4: You only have one rooster.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't supposed to be a rooster.
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  Speaker 2: We ordered only chickens, and when they sent them to us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, nobody's perfect.
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  Speaker 3: You're you're you know, judging the chickens genders. They're like
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  Speaker 3: in your hand.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it, but they they
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  Speaker 2: missed one and we end up getting a rooster.
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  Speaker 6: You said it's good. I mean the rooster wants to
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  Speaker 6: be in with the hens.
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  Speaker 5: I mean you said it's good that they're apart, but
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  Speaker 5: you're kind of depriving him of that.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, they're not a part.
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  Speaker 2: They're together, but he's, like I said, he's not all
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  Speaker 2: there mentally, so he doesn't attempt to, you know, lay
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  Speaker 2: with the chickens in the in the biblical sense.
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  Speaker 4: How many chickens? How many eggs does your chickens make
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  Speaker 4: per day? We didn't like it, like fascinated by this.
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  Speaker 2: We get like a dozen eggs a day, a little legs.
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  Speaker 6: No, we eat them.
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  Speaker 3: I got four kids. We're like a dozen eggs every morning.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we got them.
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  Speaker 2: Because all the covid stuff and like all the eggs,
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  Speaker 2: and there was like the egg shortage.
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  Speaker 3: You go to the store, you couldn't find the good eggs.
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  Speaker 3: Then you find out that the good eggs are actually
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  Speaker 3: not good eggs.
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  Speaker 2: Like one of those egg companies was like, oh, organic
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  Speaker 2: this and that, and it turns out that they weren't
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  Speaker 2: as good as they were supposed to be. So my
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  Speaker 2: wife's like, we're getting chickens. We got we got plenty
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  Speaker 2: of land, plenty of space. You really only need like
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  Speaker 2: this much space that we're sitting in right here. You
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  Speaker 2: could have like twenty chickens under this little pop up
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  Speaker 2: tent we got, but we've got they're on like a
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  Speaker 2: probably like a quarter acre little fenced in coop area.
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  Speaker 3: They bit the bugs out of the grass and they.
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  Speaker 2: They if I go fishing and bring home like a
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  Speaker 2: fish carcass, they'll just destroy the fish carcass. They're like
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  Speaker 2: little vultures almost, and it's really good for them.
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  Speaker 3: The omegas. The omegas and the fish are really good
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  Speaker 3: for the for the chickens and the eggs.
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  Speaker 5: I have no transition. I have no transition back to baseball.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna go for it because.
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  Speaker 6: I love talking.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever gets players like whatever they're into, So that's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm watching behind you and dudes are throwing bullpens
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  Speaker 5: kind of. They're throwing like into a net with a
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  Speaker 5: pad hanging from it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're they're they're getting their arms loose.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, they've they've.
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  Speaker 2: Got like the you know, guys these days, one of
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  Speaker 2: the popular things to do. You've got like a weighted
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  Speaker 2: ball program to help improve like some of your shoulder
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  Speaker 2: strength and you know, like reinforce that delivery a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: work on throwing throwing strikes, build some velocity, build some strength.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's an important thing to do early in spring,
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  Speaker 3: getting ready for a long well.
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  Speaker 2: It's like lifting weights in the gym, right, Like, you're
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  Speaker 2: not just doing push ups and body weight squats.
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  Speaker 3: You're adding some weight to it. So you add light
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  Speaker 3: loads at uh lower intensity, you know, heavier weight.
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  Speaker 2: You can get some more lay back without really having
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  Speaker 2: to to crank it so much much, you know back.
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  Speaker 3: Here, So.
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  Speaker 2: It's uh, you know, the science, the scientists and the
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  Speaker 2: sports people have said that it's good.
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  Speaker 3: So people are doing it.
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  Speaker 6: Do you believe it? You make all your starts.
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  Speaker 5: You're that guy that I'm like, look to what he's
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  Speaker 5: doing while you throw one hundred miles an hour, Like,
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  Speaker 5: do you believe in that stuff?
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  Speaker 2: I believe that throwing a hundred might not be the
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  Speaker 2: best thing for your body. Uh, that's one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But I I do some weighted ball things.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, just do sids then you can throw hard.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's no, those are you know. I'm I got
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  Speaker 2: the organic chickens in the backyard. The last thing I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing is putting some you know, synthetic steroid stuff into
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  Speaker 2: my body. From just a health standpoint, never twice, you
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  Speaker 2: know fully, once you know you can't get fooled again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think Bush said that at in one
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  Speaker 2: of the things. I'm not a I'm not a huge
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  Speaker 2: fan of the steroids or or doing them once or
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  Speaker 2: twice or at all.
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  Speaker 7: So when you see a guy like Profar jerks and
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  Speaker 7: Profar get whacked the second time, and now the PA
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  Speaker 7: is saying, well it might not be a real test,
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  Speaker 7: like where are we at here? Well, you know, and
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  Speaker 7: then here's my other question. Where as your player, I've
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  Speaker 7: here for a long time. I played in the steroid air,
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  Speaker 7: so yeah, I know all about this. When fans say,
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  Speaker 7: oh he should you should automatically lose your guaranteed contract,
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  Speaker 7: and you should do this and you should have to
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  Speaker 7: bounce back the league minimum, then.
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  Speaker 2: That opens up so many other doors of things that yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well you know, because you know, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: if you have a team that really doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: play his contract, would they would they doctor a thing?
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  Speaker 2: Or if they know he was doing something, would they
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  Speaker 2: prescribe him something? You know, like the adderall and the tue.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's it's one day laps. Let's test him because
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  Speaker 2: he might fail test for adderall and then we can
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  Speaker 2: avoid the contract. It's a really slippery slope. But you'd
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  Speaker 2: never want to believe that anyone or any organization would
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  Speaker 2: do something, you know, so dastard as to you know,
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  Speaker 2: nail a guy on purpose. As far as the thing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you fail one test. I understand guys want
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  Speaker 2: to be healthy, guys want to perform, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's more honest ways to do it than doing
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  Speaker 2: something that's clearly outlined as.
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  Speaker 3: Not legal with doing steroids.
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  Speaker 2: And as far as the the PA doing anything to
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  Speaker 2: help them out, I would have to say I'm mostly
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  Speaker 2: against that. I mean, if it was an improper test
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, I mean, that's that's another story.
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  Speaker 2: But I talked to someone the other day who had
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  Speaker 2: failed a test for something like from GNC that's not legal.
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  Speaker 3: They told me they spent like one hundred thousand dollars of.
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  Speaker 2: Their own money, like hiring lawyers, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: get to the bottom of this test that was failed.
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  Speaker 3: But no longer is a thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I would just assume if if a guy like
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  Speaker 2: Profar is, you know, innocent, he he's got plenty of
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  Speaker 2: money and time now to defend himself without the need
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  Speaker 2: of the Players Association. I don't think the PA should
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  Speaker 2: be doing should be doing anything, you know, the unless
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  Speaker 2: it was some kind of illegal test, you know they
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  Speaker 2: were they snuck in and you know, pulled him out
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  Speaker 2: of his bed and drug tested him in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the night, in which case you shouldn't be on steroids.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway. I didn't read the report.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly the substance he failed for this
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  Speaker 2: time out if you guys have that.
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  Speaker 3: But I know the first time it was a legit steroid, right.
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  Speaker 2: Like something ending in like like a legit steroid, not
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  Speaker 2: like a de wormer or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So.
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  Speaker 2: I just I just don't see the I don't see
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  Speaker 2: the need to defend that. I you know, I'm all
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  Speaker 2: for defending players wrong for you know, but I just
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  Speaker 2: don't see that. Maybe it was a misprint in the
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  Speaker 2: article I read about it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Hold up, I can tell you I'm the stack guy here, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the researcher here. So, so last time, the positive
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  Speaker 1: test was for a substance called human charonic hCG. It's
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  Speaker 1: a fertility drug often taken after a steroid cycle. It
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  Speaker 1: was the same that's the same exact drug that Manny
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  Speaker 1: Ramirez was suspended for in two thousand and nine. So
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  Speaker 1: that was last time. This time it was exogenis testosterone
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  Speaker 1: and its metabolites. So last time seemed like more of
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  Speaker 1: a masking agent this time. And again I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to play doctor, but just from article.
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  Speaker 2: Is he is he not eating the gummy bears at
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: the right time? Of day like that he got pop.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those things like I don't I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand it. What what I don't understand honestly is
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  Speaker 2: you know again, I'll you know, I understand you want
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  Speaker 2: to live up to your to your contract, right like
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  Speaker 2: I signed a contract to pitch as good as I
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  Speaker 2: can to make it seem but you already signed it,
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  Speaker 2: like he's already in the middle of this contract. Just
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  Speaker 2: just do your best, man, you know, do your best.
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  Speaker 2: You know, get your rest, get under a red light.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many things that you can do now that
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  Speaker 2: aren't illegal, that are even like on the edge of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you got your red light, your oxygen tube, saunas,
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  Speaker 2: cold tubs, you know, needles, supplements, creating chick protein, creatine,
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  Speaker 2: gluten meine. You got all the EANs out there. You
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  Speaker 2: don't need any of the osterones, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I saw something about the guy. There was a guy
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  Speaker 2: from the Mets. It was eating like thirty eggs a day.
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  Speaker 2: I saw this story on Instagram. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you guys got on that.
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  Speaker 5: One Campbell he touched one hundred after you started eating
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  Speaker 5: thirty eggs a day.
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  Speaker 6: You need to he need he needs to.
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  Speaker 2: Any more chickens any more chickens, you know, and and
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  Speaker 2: I think you know, do you want to do the
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  Speaker 2: work and eat thirty the eggs a day are just
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  Speaker 2: like you know, one shot a day.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's laziness. Laziness, that's but yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That's that.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate your honesty because people don't understand necessarily like you,
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  Speaker 5: you put a lot of work in to be healthy, correct, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: a lot, And and so all the things that you
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  Speaker 5: just mentioned. Does it make you more mad when you
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  Speaker 5: hear something like that and you think out in the game,
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  Speaker 5: there's other guys that are also skirting tests, or do
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  Speaker 5: you think that we got it, like these are the
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  Speaker 5: only Johanna this year Johann Rojas and and Jerks and
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  Speaker 5: Profi are the only two guys that are doing steroids?
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  Speaker 5: Or do you think it's still out there and the
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  Speaker 5: testing is doing as best as best we can in baseball?
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  Speaker 2: You know if I mean it's like your law of averages, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if if you catch one guy, there's probably
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  Speaker 2: at least another handful of guys out there doing it.
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  Speaker 2: You just hope that they're not the guys that are
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  Speaker 2: getting you and you you know, you you hope to
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  Speaker 2: whoever you want to hope for that they're not the
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  Speaker 2: guys that are at the top of the league, because
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  Speaker 2: that kind of would would ruin the the the fantasy
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  Speaker 2: that you know, a guy can hit fifty sixty home runs,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: you know, without needing that stuff, right, I mean we
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: we had that back in the nineties.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Now the guys used to doing it are legitimate. You know,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Aaron Judge is a monster. You know, Show Hay's work
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: ethic is insane.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Like, I believe those guys are doing it the complete
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: right way. But you just hope that there's not that
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: there's not guys falling through the cracks.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: A great all, before we let you go, you're pitching today?
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: Yes, what's your what's your routine like on a start, dame,
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: because first of all, you're talking to us today, I'm
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: a starter. Yeah for some pictures, that is a complete
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: no no.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: No, I'm I'm probably So it's like a one o'clock game,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: so I you know, by eleven o'clock, I'm I'm starting
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: to lock it in. You know, I'm dressed, I'm i'm
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: pham rolling, I'm stretching by by twelve o'clock, I'm out
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: on this field, you know, running sprints, getting loose, maybe
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: some weighted ball stuff just to help get get myself
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: a little bit more loose. And then you know, twelve thirty,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: I'm out on the field playing catch, getting ready for
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: my bullpen before the game, you know, somewhere in between there.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Because it's a day game. I had a big breakfast,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: so I really won't eat anything untill after the game.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe some fruit here, like when I go back inside,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: you know, a little sugar, a little bit of carbs,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: maybe another sip of coffee, Start drinking some water.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: It's not going to be too hot. It's still spring
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: down here.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: It's not bad, you know, And go out there and
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: you know, work on some of the stuff I've been
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: working on in camp, my bullpens, and you know it,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: start getting ready for a season.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Miles last one fore, just so I wanted to get
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: one WBC question in there. So the games are going
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: on in Japan right now, And did you hear about Chechias.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: So last time around, they adopted the team as like
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: one of their own. The Japanese fans obviously they're gonna
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: root for Japan when they're playing but there are so
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: many games out there in that pool that don't involve Japan,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: so apparently they've adopted them. Can you just speak to
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: how cool the fan environment is there and how they're
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: just like, yeah, like let's go to the Chechia Australia
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: game and just give them the time of their life.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. The fans in Japan for baseball. I mean,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: if any of them are watching the show, I'm sure
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: you guys are international of course, you know, thank you
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: again all the fans in Tokyo. There's some of the best,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: absolute best fans I think of any sport in the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: whole wide world.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: You know, baseball is like they're one big sport in there.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: It's almost like if you rolled like college football and
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: NASCAR like into one thing. I mean, they're out there
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Tokyo Dome, forty thousand sold out with the flags and
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: the trumpets, and they're into it, and they're fans of
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the game and they love it. And for them to
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: you know, come out and support a country who's probably
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: not gonna have a ton of fans there, I think
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: just you know, speaks volumes to how much they love
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: baseball and you know how great a culture that it
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: that it is over.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: There, Miles Man.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well said, thank you for joining us, have fun,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: good luck later and we'll talk to you during the season.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Bud awesome, Thank you so much, Thanch for having me
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: on CJ.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: A bra I'm just ready to go with us, CJ.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: How you doing has camp?
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: Well, know what it's going. Well, we're all good, good, good.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: What are you working on.
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: A little bit of everything?
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: You know, on the offensive side, kind of stands selective
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: in the zone. That starts within the cages with the routine,
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: just kind of shrinking zone everything. Everything's got to be
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: something you can drive and then on defense, kind of
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: moving my feet getting in a good position to throw
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: every time.
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: Range is the other thing you were work can you
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: work on you do you work on your range?
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: But yeah, that starts with the prep step, I'd say,
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: kind of getting ready as the bold in the air
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: about to be hit.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: This prep step is probably the best thing you talk.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: You talk to James, what about shrinking the zone? You
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: talk to other guys in your team on how they
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: do it, because Dame's that pretty good eye usually stays
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: in the zone. Do you talk to other guys here.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, like you said, James, he does a
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: really good job of charlling his own. Just got to
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: be able to kind of take the ones that are
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: close and if if they call you or ring you
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: up on one, you can't be mad at yourself.
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: Kind of stay with the plan. And yeah, we got
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: the challenge system. That's kind of put that to use.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: You gonna you feel you feel like there's a lot
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: of this in your future this year. You want to
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: try it out more in spring training or less, or
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: you you feel like you got a good idea.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I haven't tried in spring training yet, but I
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: probably will, just to kind of see where the top
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: and bottom is. I think in and out I'm pretty good. Yeah,
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: just I'll use it whenever whenever I know it's a bum.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: How good can you be? I'm sick of here.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: So many people go, oh, you know, you know CJ
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: says he wants to do this, he wants to hit
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: for a higher Very few times do people talk about
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: it player like they talk about you where they got power.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Power came into your game here in the last few years.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: You got defense, you got it arm like you're a
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: five pool player. But how good do you think you
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: can be.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: Good as I want to be? You know, in this
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: guy's a limit.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: I got to be able to meet this playing and
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: kind of stay say where my feet are and just
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: stay positives as good.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: As How good can this Nats team be really good?
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: He was gonna have natitude? Do they still do the
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: natitude native? I'm not sure I think so, but but
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: we're gonna be good. I think we're gonna be good.
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: As long as we all, like I said, take care
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: of the task at hand and stay together.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: And play as a group, it would be really good.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Hey, CJ, how much did you pay attention to the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: off season with trade rumors? At one point your name
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: was linked to the Giants. We Paltimony has been on
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the show multiple times, and I know he's new to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the party, but it sounds like he's very communicative. So
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: what was that experience like for you?
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I talked to him on the phone a couple
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: of times. You know, we had good conversations. Kind of
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: just told me to just kind of ignore the rumors
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: and stuff. Whatever happens happens. You know, anything can happen,
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: but you know, just kind of stay away from the roomless.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: You hear them all the time, but you know.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: They don't really know how much you appreciate that.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: I appreciate a lot. Communication is big, and he does
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: a good job because he said Mackenzie you know, even
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: traded with him once. He was calling him say out,
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: I don't think anything's happening, and then he called him
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: back said it started to heat up. Just just be
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: aware there something might go down. And yeah, it's always good.
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: It's always good to have an idea said anything. What
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: is blakelo likes cool? Communication is good as well, kind
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: of gives us everything we need. Does he give yourself
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: far an advance? Does he give you your schedule.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: Day before so we'll know the night before.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Uh, okay, there's something that we're doing, like four four
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: days it up Just that'd be crazy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of time. That's a lot of the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: man to notice. I wanted to double click back on
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: what you were saying with footwork, So take us through next.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: We have a lot of youngsters that listen to the show,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: like how can you improve that part? You know, what
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: specifically do you do drill wise? Who do you speak
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to coach wise to help you with stuff like that
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: when spring training is the perfect time for.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: It, Vic smars.
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: You know, it starts with the early work, you know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: kind of starting with the routine, get the hands, hands working,
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: and then we moved to the feet work, and so
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: with the with the footwork, I always want to have
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: a move and I don't want to get stagnant kind
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: of uh, get my feet lazy. That's when the hands
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: have to work so much and bad things happen. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: just keep the feet moving, get myself in a good
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: position to fill.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: The ball and throw it and make the play.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Lot's been made about you guys buying. I don't know
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: how many Trajet machines you guys bought. Are you a
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: triject guy? Do you think something this is something that
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: you use in your routine and is valuable?
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: I think so.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: First time I tried it was here in spring Shin
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: and I haven't been off and I'm been there every day.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: On Trajet the Tragic.
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: So they'll be big, especially being able to get abs
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: on maybe guys in the bullpen and stuff, seeing them
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: before the game.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: So I think it'll be bi.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Who's your favorite? Got a face?
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: I mean, I'll face anybody well, and I'm talking about
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: off the traject than you're practicing off of every time,
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: someone different every day.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: I don't really double up much.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Do you pickle? Do you pick?
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: You?
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Do you pick?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: You definitely want to challenge yourself and the trajects a
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: little bit harder than the real game, I think.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: So you go guys, and you go guys in your division,
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: Zach Wheeler, Nola.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: I faced, I face everybody that's on there, close to it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: You do it before their start.
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so before you before you guys play forever ear
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: they be I want to have a couple of beats.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Off and it mixes it up. People don't don't know.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: It'll throw all their pitches and simulates and write it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: It mixes up the pitches too. It doesn't just go
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: fast yells.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Balls strike too, So you have to take decisions.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: So I think that's what happens when you punch out
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: that you get mad if you punch out off the traject.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: No, you can't get mad. Hanging back.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when did you get introduced to that? To that?
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: When did you guys get it at that? With the Nats?
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: I think it was close to spring training when they
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: had it here and I came out early. I wanted
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: to see it. I want to get on it. So
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: being good?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: That sounds very cool. That's awful late day. Yeah, again,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you can ruin.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Your confidence before you have to face the guy. You're like, Man,
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: I can't hit this guy for nothing, and I haven't
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: even faced him yet.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: Wait, Amy like that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: CJJ.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Have you thought about putting any of your teammates in
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: because I'll tell you a little bit about me. I
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: had to put my teammates in and I had have
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: videoed every one of them, and when I finally clipped one.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: I would just send it. I was sending video over
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: to him. Have you done that yet?
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Nah?
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: I gotta do that one. It's a good idea.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: The good That's a really good idea. Yeah, exactly.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: So.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: How you feeling out? I homeworked off you this morning?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Oh really? Yeah? Let me show you.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: That's good. I had bod.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: When you do. Let us know a show? Show is that?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I'm yourcial?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: That was it?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Uh, DJ, Great to talk to you, man, Really appreciate it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Good luck, have fun the rest of spring training.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, appreciate it. Appreciate it.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Chef did na see Nunya's second basement for the natch
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: joining us here on FT and I see him. Thanks
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: for joining us, man, How you doing as camp?
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: Thanks for having me? Camp is going? Camp is going good.
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: You know someone's over too. So there's see real leader,
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: like you've have already been deep into it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: I mean you got like dad, you guys open what
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: twenty seven?
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: I think we're that? Isn't the last game like eighteenth?
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I think so there's no one they
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: were lost home now get the great fans.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: A yeah, right, wait he's making me.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: No, Now I got a check because I'm like, wait.
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, go ahead and technic at a lot of night title.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we get. So what we'll do is we're
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: gonna go over the whole spring training Galder right now, No,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I see him. You got plenty of time. Would you
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: say the eighteen?
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: What is it? Old ricking?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: The twenty third?
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: I got an almosteing extra week.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Wait and Baltimore, Yeah that's Baltimore. That's your last game?
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's that's where we're in d C.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: That's in d C. You're right.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: So oh so I think the last speak training get
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: is like the eighteenth.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. Okay, so wait I take it back.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So here's what happens. Yeah, yeah, good, that was good.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: So so the nineteenth spring training breakout game, which you're
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: not playing, you're a big leaguer, and then and then
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the team, well the team has won more no actually
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: against Miami, against the Marlins and Jupiter on the twentieth,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: So that's the last one, but maybe you don't have
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to play in that one, and you go already to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the DC area, and then you guys have two out
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: of three days in d C for exhibition games and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: then one against Baltimore on the road in their house.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So so yeah, I guess you're not You're not too
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: far off.
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: You're well, I play we day, you know, you know
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: how it is turning?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Man down, Yeah, are just thinking about it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: Already.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: Ball.
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: We're excited, man, what's we're I won't say that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: You know, you're not borders spring training? You sounds like
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: you're border spring training.
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: Oh, it's so excited.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: It's is long, It is.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Long, is long.
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: You've been here for a while, so you come early?
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, what's early? Like a day or two early?
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: I mean I live out here, so I've been living
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: ju yeah, living, Yeah, I've been here.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: You got that big money living in Palm Beach, invest money.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. Yeah, so hey to tell
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: us about this team. Tell us who do you spend
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: time with? And you know who looks good right now
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in cam Who who's kind of like a pick to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: click for you that you think is going to have
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a big breakout year.
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: Okay, uh, team, Honestly, we're a young core and we
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: got a lot of learning to do.
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: But that's a good thing because we're gonna grow as teammates.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: So that's how the team and chemistry are building. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: spent a lot of my time with Woody. I've been
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: talking with Dayling a lot, Christian Franklin and Brady House
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: for our conversations are really baseball the things, you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: and we also events to each other about how things
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: are going through camp and just being able to like
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: bounce ideas and emotions off.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: Of each other.
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: That that helps.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Joe the Jim.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so you sup at him all the time. It
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: was a little chiuaha. Get that Nim said, they ain't
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: got to call me at Chihuahua now. But he didn't
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: call you. I think crowds called it said he was
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: the little because James sobody, he said he was you
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: know when the big dog, you know, the little Chuaha's
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: trying to bring down the big dog. He said, you
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: were the numb Now I'm gonna.
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: Because I'm gonna just we gotta keep it really with
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: each other.
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: That's the only way we can't communicate and actually build
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: trust no matter what it is.
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: And I will also be the biggest supporter.
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: So yeah, but we bounce ideas off of each other
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: back and forth. Even if one of us doesn't agree
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: with the other, We're gonna still talk.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: You gotta like little like brothers, Yeah, like others.
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: We're brothers, bro.
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: Now, I feel like that's what you have to be
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: to be able to trust your teammates and you're going
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: to war out there with them every day.
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: You want to know that they have your back no
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: matter what at the end of the day.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: So yeah, your double play partner c J Abrams, how
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: much does that related onship need to be honest because
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: it seems like you're you're you're talking about honesty not
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: just oh wow, yeah roses and rainbows, Like, how honest
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: do you guys have to be with each other? And
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: who is more like who gets on the other one
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: more or less.
• 29:41
  Speaker 11: I don't think, Yeah, CJY don't even really get on
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: each other like that. It's more like, we're just gonna
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: play ball, bro. Just let our abilities play on the
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: field and do what they do.
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: It's it's already good there, extright.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: If you guys get into a bench clearing brawl, you
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: and CJ, it was the first. Who's first in the fire?
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: What you mean like, if the other team charges the mound,
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: you and CJ are shortened second, which one of y'all
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: is gonna be first to the farm?
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: Whoever's closer.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Okay, So you're I'm not gonna You're not gonna be
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: like c J. No, No, I got I got him
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: on grapping by a shirt. Nah, he won't be in
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: there and I'm gonna get right in there with him.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: Or I'm gonna be in there and he gonna get
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: right in there with me.
• 30:21
  Speaker 10: That's fassin, that's fair. Yeah, he telling them about to.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: You both get after it. Hey, So you mentioned that
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: it's a young team. There's a lot of learning to do.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: What do you think was the biggest thing that you
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: saw from last year's team that that needs to be fixed,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and that can be fixed.
• 30:42
  Speaker 10: Honestly, I believe it's intention. Uh.
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: You know, as big leaguers, you you go through the
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: minor leagues and you you learn who you need to
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: become to be a big leaguer. So everything that led
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: up to this moment in time we've all been so
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: now it's just about intention and not overworking, I would say,
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: but doing the work with intent. Like I seen a
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: video of my dass, I mean of Deon Sanders saying
• 31:08
  Speaker 11: kids don't practice the right way anymore, Like you gotta
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: practice to be great, so you don't have to.
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: It's more like quality over quantity.
• 31:16
  Speaker 11: Like let's get this work in, let's do it right,
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: and then let's get ready to go win a ball game.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: You said you gotta be who you are, tell people
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: who you are, because I don't think a lot of
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: people know what kind of magic you got in that glove.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: I don't think a lot of people know a lot
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: about the seam unias.
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure, you know.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: I'm just.
• 31:36
  Speaker 11: I'm a ballplayer. I'm gonna do whatever I have to
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: do in the situation to win. And like I told Skip,
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: and I'll tell my teammates, I want to win every
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: battle that comes that comes in front of me.
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: It doesn't really, it doesn't matter what it is.
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: I want to win. Now in baseball, you know it's
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: three out of ten. You're not gonna win every single one.
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: But intention of wanting to win every single one that
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: that'll give you, that'll give you a lead.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: Is that what the new coaching staff and enter the
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: office paid to all the guys.
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: Something like that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: You know, they want us to be a little bit
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: more challenged in practice and work harder in practice and
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: be challenged so that in the games, you know, it
• 32:16
  Speaker 11: seems easier.
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: So that's the new coaches Stot.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Do you do that?
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: How do you do it?
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: Or board a spring training already? How do you not challenge?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Ue?
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: You just do it?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: Is there a drill you guys?
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: Do they?
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: That traject is challenging? So a lot of guys hit
• 32:32
  Speaker 11: the traject and stuff.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: So I won't call at the Bony to go because
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: he played in college. I told him he needs to
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: go in there at get some bats off skating.
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: Watch it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: He's in there all the time.
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he's a watching. I don't think he go get him?
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: Does he intimidate you all? When he walks.
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: And it's it's actually pretty crazy.
• 32:51
  Speaker 11: Always when I was in high school, he was at
• 32:53
  Speaker 11: a Red Sox workout and he was there with me
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: and I didn't even remember.
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: He told me, and I was like, that's crazy.
• 33:01
  Speaker 11: And my mama was always telling me make sure you're
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: good to people, no matter who they are.
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: I be respecting. I told him that. I was like,
• 33:06
  Speaker 10: I could have been.
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: A complete you know, yeah, yeah to you, but always
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: it still would like, be good to people though you
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: none intimidated.
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: It's another human being.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but gems can be intimidating. Gems can be intimidating
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: for for younger players, for younger team, the guys who
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: aren't like they could cut me, they could not. Is
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: he more or less intimidating than Rizzo was last year?
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Uh? Paul Tibani, Yeah, he said him.
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: Okay, I thought you said Jane, Oh no, no.
• 33:38
  Speaker 11: I I don't know how to answer that because I
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: try to not feel intimidated by anybody, you know, baseball
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: or just playing baseball. So if you do what you
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: have to do, it shouldn't be intimidated by anybody.
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: Are you where we have whenever we have players on,
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: I always pull through a wiki page. Wikipedia page says,
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: you're born in the Bronx, all right, but you don't
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: talk like you're from the Bronx.
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: Nah, so you grew up they born Georgia.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: When did you move today? Oh okay, yeah, so we
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: used New York. So I was born in New York
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: and moved to Orlando where I was cheap. Right, So
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: you use New York though when you need New York.
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't hate someone in n SL. I'm
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: from New York, like me too, And then the next guy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: Studland me too. I say my parents are from New York.
• 34:27
  Speaker 12: I I don't you know. I I go back home,
• 34:32
  Speaker 12: but I'm really a judge of boy. I grew up
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: in Gwenech County, but I grew up under the under
• 34:37
  Speaker 12: the roof of New York. So I have New York
• 34:40
  Speaker 12: in my blood. But all my friends and everybody is
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: from Georgia.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: As you get older, though, you'll see, are gonna meet
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: someone from the Bronx.
• 34:47
  Speaker 10: And they's an't they know how they are?
• 34:50
  Speaker 12: Because my parents are just like that. So I mean,
• 34:52
  Speaker 12: I'm not so scaria where they go there. Yeah, I
• 34:55
  Speaker 12: don't really try to do the link and stuff. Because
• 34:57
  Speaker 12: that's not me. But are you a bulldog fan?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I don't really do sports.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: What do you do?
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: Video games? It's done. I don't really like watching sports.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: I you don't see you don't watch any baseball, any football,
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: any basketball?
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: No, I watched highlights.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: I want you. I know me for being on Instagram,
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: for sure. I wasn't that all your What you do
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: is you're you're a dune scroller.
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: Low key, I do that, and I'm just some conspiracies
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: and stuff.
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: Did have playing on the lute?
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: I don't know. I wasn't there.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: You're just saying we're gonna have his conversations off the chart.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: That's good, all right, Well, then I'll try to steer
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you back with something I think you can speak to.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Tell me about your relationship with yourself as a switch hitter,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: like where do you feel better? How do you balance that?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: What's your tip for kids that are trying to be
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a switch hitter?
• 35:51
  Speaker 11: Okay, so this is a This was a touchy topic
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: because last year I was gonna quit hitting left handed
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: because it was just it was just killing me. And
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: I believe that that moment of about to quit and
• 36:08
  Speaker 11: not quitting was my breakthrough moment because I took everything
• 36:13
  Speaker 11: that everybody was saying about me, all the information.
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: It was just overloaded.
• 36:18
  Speaker 11: Everybody was trying to tell me a certain way to hit,
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: how to hit, and I kind of had to lose
• 36:23
  Speaker 11: my mind to gain a better perspective and actually figure
• 36:27
  Speaker 11: it out.
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: And it opened the door for me.
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: I was like, I'm a right handed hitter, and one
• 36:32
  Speaker 11: of my coaches said, your best coach is yourself.
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: So I was like, I'm a good right handed hitter.
• 36:37
  Speaker 11: Why don't I just teach myself how to hit left
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: handed since I know how to get right hand and
• 36:42
  Speaker 11: that just that. Oh so, and for the kids that
• 36:47
  Speaker 11: always switching it, if you want to learn how to
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: switch it, just whatever's natural to you do that, Do that,
• 36:55
  Speaker 11: and just keep doing it mastered because once you start
• 36:58
  Speaker 11: mastering it, like you just automatically get better.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: That's good. I like that. I mean, AJ like where
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can't came across teammates where you know
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the switch hitter wants to quit one side. The splits
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: are big teams start coming to you, right. I mean,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've come across guys like that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Absolutely, most of them, most some do quit. So I'm
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: proud of for him for not quitting, because most of
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: them do quit and say I'm gonna only hit on
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: one such.
• 37:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah, break it was bad, all right, I lost pumpine.
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: I just remembern't it like this.
• 37:36
  Speaker 11: I've been doing this for four or five years, and
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: it's like, ah, I can't touch a fastball.
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: Oh, so that's not a good thing.
• 37:44
  Speaker 11: And then I like, but I could touch a fastball
• 37:46
  Speaker 11: right handed, So why don't I just teach myself the
• 37:50
  Speaker 11: feels and the mechanics of my right hand to swing.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: To my left hand.
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: This it's just kind of stop trying to prove self
• 37:57
  Speaker 11: and start being.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Like that's cool. Well, great insight, and I seem hopefully
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: you had some fun with us here. Really enjoyed it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Good getting to know you. Thanks for buying, sir. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: this was fun. We'll catch you during the season for sir.
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: Well, and hopefully I can see all love the count.
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: We talked some.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: I'm down. All three of us are into that, so
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: we're all good for talk. So you can get I'm in.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I'm in for all that. Sign me up. Appreciate you.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Good talking to you, But sir,