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FT at Yankees camp: Aaron Boone, Luke Weaver, Erik Boland on Arenado · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Grish plays that I can move belly wherever, because belly
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Speaker 1: I don't care about today, you're over here, Tomorrow you're there,
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Speaker 1: Whereas I don't really want to do that with like
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Speaker 1: a Dominga's. I don't want to be moving them back
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Speaker 1: and forth if I can help it. Nice ears, my
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Speaker 1: old skipper, do you do immaculate grid?
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Speaker 2: Sometimes?
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Speaker 1: Dude, you are a high percentage for every obscure team, even.
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Speaker 3: You percentage because he was because he was a former face,
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Speaker 3: he was a red light guy. Yeah, but anytime the cameras,
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Speaker 3: the fans knew about.
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Speaker 1: Him, every time, I'm thinking, yeah, I'll get on like
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Speaker 1: a brave stand, like even like a.
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Speaker 2: Weird like it's a nine sor that's what happens, you
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Speaker 2: know how.
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Speaker 4: It was when you were on TV Sneaky Famous.
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Speaker 2: I got to ask you, what did you buy when
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Speaker 2: you got your big extension?
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Speaker 4: Nothing yet?
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Speaker 2: Well it's early, but what are you going to buy?
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Speaker 2: A new house?
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Speaker 4: Oh? I actually did see perfect that's actually true, So
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Speaker 4: I guess I did.
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Speaker 3: Somebody else is probably somebody else has probably a lot
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Speaker 3: of that money for something else.
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Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, alright, house camp are we on?
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Speaker 4: This has all been going.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you went from.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, good.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you're just trying to just obsess
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Speaker 1: on building guys up, you know, getting the pictures they're right,
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Speaker 1: throwing programs and built properly.
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Speaker 4: And same with position players.
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Speaker 1: You know, I stare at the board all day, like okay,
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Speaker 1: trying to play it out over the next four or
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Speaker 1: five weeks, making sure they get the right amount of
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Speaker 1: it bats. They're eventually playing back to backs and good
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Speaker 1: volume of innings.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, but so far, so good.
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Speaker 1: And I mean our upgrading facility has been awesome.
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Speaker 4: Did you guys walk through it at all?
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Speaker 2: That door? But it looks great?
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Speaker 1: No, it's it's it's pretty awesome, pretty show, Yeah and stuff.
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Speaker 4: That's awesome. It's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Do guys tell you how many at bats they need?
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Speaker 3: Because we were talking to Cut yesterday he said he
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Speaker 3: needed ten, He said.
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Speaker 2: He needed thirty five to forty.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, most guys don't know, they really, you know,
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Speaker 1: like the biggest thing, like with some of the veteran
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Speaker 1: guys I like to do is do do you like
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Speaker 1: playing more often initially and less? Which is something I
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Speaker 1: like to do, but as opposed to you know, they're
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Speaker 1: able to get so many facility wise, you're able to
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Speaker 1: just get so many good looks that we weren't able
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Speaker 1: to get. Well you were your your closer, like like
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Speaker 1: these guys are able to replicate things like when they're
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Speaker 1: not on a trip, they're getting a ton of at bats,
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Speaker 1: live at bats and things like that. So the biggest
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Speaker 1: thing is just building them to that point to where
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Speaker 1: when we head to head north, like I want our
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Speaker 1: regulars to have played two three in a row where
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Speaker 1: they're playing seven eight innings that way. All of a
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Speaker 1: sudden you get into the start of the season and
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Speaker 1: you know they're playing ten in a row.
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Speaker 4: Like it's not there. It doesn't wig out their body
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Speaker 4: too much.
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Speaker 2: The likes anybody come into camp, surprise you, anybody looking
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Speaker 2: better than you thought, worse than I mean, you're not
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Speaker 2: gonna say worse, but anybody anybody in camp that you said, Wow,
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Speaker 2: this guy has done.
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Speaker 4: Tyler Matzick, he's been.
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Speaker 1: He looks a lot like a few years ago Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Brave Tyler matt six.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, so that's been. That's been.
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Speaker 1: Really he made he made his game debut yesterday down
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Speaker 1: to Fort Myers and was just kind of whole home.
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Speaker 1: He looks really good, like easy power tell, really healthy,
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Speaker 1: in a good spot.
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Speaker 4: So he's one of those guys I'm really excited about. Early.
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Speaker 2: I got to ask you this, and I've never asked
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Speaker 2: a manager of this in my life, but people, you know,
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Speaker 2: they asked, crats cratch, you want to manage one to day? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they asked me if you want to not manage with them?
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Speaker 2: Like yes, But when you have to make a trip
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Speaker 2: to Fort Myers. Yeah, Let's say it's ten to two
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Speaker 2: in the seventh in Yeah, and you're sitting over there,
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Speaker 2: do you ever just go, Man, there's so many other
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Speaker 2: cool things that could be doing right now, especially you
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Speaker 2: you have a lot of options like this.
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Speaker 1: Well, usually when you're in Fort Myers and it's ten
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Speaker 1: to two, things aren't going that great and you're you're
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Speaker 1: you know, so you're like, what, Usually to get to
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Speaker 1: ten to two, you've seen something with maybe even some
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Speaker 1: of your minor league guys that are coming over that
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Speaker 1: are like, eh, let's we need to get better in
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Speaker 1: this certain area. So not really, there's always, honestly, there's
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Speaker 1: always things that you want to see, especially late in
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Speaker 1: the game with guys that maybe aren't going to initially
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Speaker 1: be with your club that it's important to see them
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Speaker 1: in those environments and how they respond.
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Speaker 3: What do you what do you need to tell us
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Speaker 3: to break on the show? Because you broke that Volpi
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Speaker 3: was going to be the starting stop. What do you
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Speaker 3: need to tell us to break on the show this year?
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Speaker 2: And then we'll let you go?
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Speaker 4: Well, we will again be the starting shorts.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well that's fair, we already do that.
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Speaker 3: He looks he looks bigger, he looks stronger, so that
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Speaker 3: means go to be slower. How about is Marshall gonna
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Speaker 3: be your center fielder?
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Speaker 4: I want him to be the left fielder?
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Speaker 2: Is he gonna be your left fielder?
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Speaker 1: He's getting that opportunity and he's certainly capable of grabbing it,
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Speaker 1: so hopefully that's the case.
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Speaker 4: It puts center right, it puts Belly in center.
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Speaker 1: And then like when Grish plays, uh Grish plays, then
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Speaker 1: I can move Belly wherever, because Belly, I don't care
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Speaker 1: about today, you're over here, Tomorrow you're there, Whereas I
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Speaker 1: don't really want to do that with like a Dominga's
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be moving him back and forth
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Speaker 1: if I can help it. So, and with Grish being
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Speaker 1: a premium defender center fielder on the days he's playing,
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Speaker 1: I want him to play center field and I can
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Speaker 1: move belly off of that. So you know, another guy
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Speaker 1: that looks really good early here is Ben I was
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Speaker 1: gonna ask you three grade at bats yesterday. He's catching, well,
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Speaker 1: he's added like he's probably added ten pounds to him
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Speaker 1: like he is and like like measurable stuff. It's all
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Speaker 1: like really really good weight. He's he's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: real hitter in this league.
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Speaker 2: Does that?
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Speaker 3: Does that do you look at start to look at
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Speaker 3: guys like that? When judges, I mean, uh, John Carlow's
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Speaker 3: elbows start hanging, You're like, well, I got Austin behind
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Speaker 3: a dish.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, kind of yeah, you know, depending on if
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Speaker 1: G's ready opening day or not. Like, yeah, that could
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Speaker 1: factor in how you do some things with that DH spot.
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Speaker 1: It allows me to use Judge occasionally in that DH
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Speaker 1: the way of getting him off his feet a little bit.
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Speaker 1: I would say another thing that I've been really impressed with,
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Speaker 1: and you guys will appreciate this as catchers, is I
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Speaker 1: think we've got six seven big league catchers in that room,
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Speaker 1: whether they're big leaguers already or going to be on
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Speaker 1: some level play in the big league. Catchers. Our catching
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Speaker 1: crop is really and and we've we've traded some some
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Speaker 1: catchers that you know, Narviiah is going to go be
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Speaker 1: a real factor for the Red Sox this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Our our catching Yeah, our catching core is I'm really
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Speaker 1: excited about a lot like right now, but a lot
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Speaker 1: even like a year two years from now as well.
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Speaker 3: You know, Aaronfeld is listening. He listens to all the shows.
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Speaker 3: He's blushing right now. Oh, he's so fired up about
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Speaker 3: you right now.
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Speaker 2: You're you're his favorite. Okay, before you go, I have
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Speaker 2: one more question. Lineup construction. That's fine, Judge well was again,
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Speaker 2: hold on, there's a legend. Welcome by Hi Lou.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, little Panela in the house.
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Speaker 2: Good to see you.
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Speaker 4: Get you. Yeah, he's got a smooth I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Melton Radley can't count to three?
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Speaker 6: What do you want me?
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Speaker 2: Our seeds in his pocket?
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Speaker 1: So I, uh, judge right now, I'm hitting judges second,
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Speaker 1: just because we're very left handed, especially with John Carlow out.
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Speaker 1: So I would say in that three hole, really it
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Speaker 1: depends who I lead off, you know, So I could
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Speaker 1: the three hole could be jazz. It could be Belly,
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Speaker 1: it could be different against a lefty. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know yet.
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Speaker 2: What if somebody comes.
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Speaker 3: Up to you and it says I got what it
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Speaker 3: takes to hit behind judges. Would that Would that change
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Speaker 3: your view or you like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh no, because I think they all have that,
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Speaker 1: the ones that are have it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Belly jazz.
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Speaker 3: You don't have nine guys that could hit behind judge. No,
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Speaker 3: there's probably four.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's some you're not even thinking yet that
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Speaker 1: might factor in, especially as the season unfolds. But I
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Speaker 1: think it'll be jazz.
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Speaker 4: Jazz.
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Speaker 2: Well who do I who?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm saying verse a righty say, I would say jazz,
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Speaker 1: left Belly could be leading off or do Mingez or
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Speaker 1: Austin Wells.
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Speaker 4: I mean because so we'll see.
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Speaker 2: Experience doing it. Yeah, Belly is the answer.
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Speaker 4: He's hitting big lineups behind him. That's where I'm right now.
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Speaker 4: But we'll see, we'll see that's that's the answer.
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Speaker 1: We'll see and then g coming back then changes because
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Speaker 1: now you've got the righty in the middle and I
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Speaker 1: got Goldie, so we'll figure it out.
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Speaker 2: Good problem. By the way, I have to say this,
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Speaker 2: I was not a fan when he had his hat on.
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Speaker 2: But when you came out with the pants, it looks
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Speaker 2: really good.
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Speaker 1: So when I first put it on, like first day
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Speaker 1: of camp, I was like looking a little rough, especially
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Speaker 1: my pin head. I gollow, great kazoo thing going on,
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Speaker 1: and then it's it's grown on me this since game.
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Speaker 2: Do you see what the pants? And I can only
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Speaker 2: imagine if you had the jersey on, it would look good,
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Speaker 2: not bad. You match, you're together? Thank you? Yep? You know. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's fine. You know what that means. You guys. Take
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Speaker 2: it away.
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Speaker 5: Here you got ten minutes later. I'm gonna go grab
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Speaker 5: a cocktail. It's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 2: We want to hear your voice.
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Speaker 6: Okay, you hear me, We could hear you.
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Speaker 2: We're good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Here myself, I'm gonna ask you the first question. You're
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Speaker 2: clean shaven? What happened?
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Speaker 6: Yeah? So I don't really grow much, so I'm just
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Speaker 6: it's more of a trim down.
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Speaker 7: It's like to me, it's like there was a step
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Speaker 7: that was skipped in my life from a you know,
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Speaker 7: adolescents transitional stage. So I don't really get any beard.
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Speaker 7: I don't really get anything outside of maybe a little goate.
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Speaker 7: So I just trim it down because it feels like
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Speaker 7: very high school stringy type.
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Speaker 6: Just a bad look.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, just I mean, I don't know, nasty,
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Speaker 7: that's that, that seems aggressive, maybe just from my own confidence.
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Speaker 6: I just look in the mirror and I say no thanks.
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Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of I saw an interview with
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Speaker 2: you at Florida State. You looked exactly the same.
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Speaker 6: Maybe a little longer hair. You did have longer hair, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean face wise, there's no wrinkles on your face.
12:11
Speaker 2: There are some women watching this and want to know
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Speaker 2: what your skincare routine.
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Speaker 8: You know.
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Speaker 7: I think you just got to trust the process. You
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Speaker 7: think you just I think I have more to give.
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Speaker 7: I think there's more to learn for sure. But it's
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Speaker 7: good enough for my wife, and we have two kids
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Speaker 7: out of it, so there's confirmation for there.
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Speaker 2: There's confirmation that you have the good looks.
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Speaker 7: Well, I will all confirmed it to not to deny it.
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Speaker 7: So it was agreed to disagree.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I like it. I like it. We just saw
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Speaker 2: Devin Williams walk by.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, great, guy, do we know the.
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Speaker 2: Rules if this is Boone had to talk with you
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Speaker 2: guys about like you closed a lot of games for
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Speaker 2: him last year, Williams substitute. But you did great substitute.
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Speaker 6: Just a really cool substitute teacher, right.
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Speaker 2: Pretty good. I mean Ira, you guys were in the
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Speaker 2: World Series and you were the closer. Wow.
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Speaker 6: Maybe maybe.
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Speaker 7: So you know, we go into spring training obviously we
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Speaker 7: know his pedigree, we know what he does. And so
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Speaker 7: for me, I knew the Yankees or the Yankees, right,
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Speaker 7: they're gonna go out, They're gonna try to make our
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Speaker 7: team better and I'm all for that.
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Speaker 6: So whatever we decide and do, it's all good.
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Speaker 7: I think, you know, we can read between the lines
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Speaker 7: and figure out where people are gonna get slot. But
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Speaker 7: I don't, you know, I don't live in assumptions. I
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Speaker 7: just live and man, give me the role and let's
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Speaker 7: let's get after it. So I think that helped me
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Speaker 7: a lot last year and really helped me find confidence
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Speaker 7: to succeed in whatever those mini roles were.
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Speaker 6: So that's where we're at.
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Speaker 3: What what is What are those conversations like not Harky's negativity,
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Speaker 3: because can be super negative down there toward us position players,
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Speaker 3: and then he can be positive towards you guys. But
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Speaker 3: what a those conversations like like let's say you view
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Speaker 3: yourself as the closer and two, three, four in the
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Speaker 3: lineup comes up for the best team besides you guys
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Speaker 3: in baseball, and you're like, it's the eighth inning, Like
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Speaker 3: I kind of want those guys, but they're saving me
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Speaker 3: for the night.
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Speaker 2: Is that putting your team in a bad situation?
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Speaker 7: I don't necessarily know, because there's just so many factors.
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Speaker 7: Like I truly try to look at it as like
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Speaker 7: I'm watching the game. I have a soft focused I'm
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Speaker 7: understanding who's coming up, and it's and in the playoffs,
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Speaker 7: it's kind of all over the place. Right when the
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Speaker 7: regular season comes, there's just there's a little bit more
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Speaker 7: structure that comes to it. I don't know how it's
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Speaker 7: gonna shake out, but I also know that we got
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Speaker 7: a lot of great options, and you know, the political,
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Speaker 7: politically right answer is gonna be anybody can get the
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Speaker 7: job done. So you know, I think there's versatility and
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Speaker 7: what I think I could bring to the table, and
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Speaker 7: I think that serves in different ways.
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Speaker 3: But one more on that, you guys have a lane.
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Speaker 3: What you're referring to is everybody has a lane and
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Speaker 3: they tell you your lane. Are you able to argue
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Speaker 3: against that lane. You follow what I'm saying, Like I've
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Speaker 3: seen the reports. Luke Weaver's got six seven eight in
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Speaker 3: this lineup because they're going right left right, or this
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Speaker 3: pitch is working really well. His change ups elite. He's
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Speaker 3: got left right left. Can you argue against that? Or
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Speaker 3: is it like I don't really care, I'm gonna get
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Speaker 3: everybody out, Like is that just an easy political an?
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Speaker 7: Well, that's truly the way I see it. I truly
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Speaker 7: it does not matter. I mean it used to matter
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Speaker 7: when I wasn't getting people out and I was like,
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Speaker 7: can I pick and choose who I want? I don't
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Speaker 7: want that guy, Yeah, exactly, like you know, maybe getting
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Speaker 7: autographed after the a bat's over, after they take me deep.
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Speaker 7: But you know, right now, like I'm prideful in the
15:46
Speaker 7: sense that I've worked a lot and my process to
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Speaker 7: get where I'm at, and that comes with just being
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Speaker 7: like let's go, like it doesn't you know, I know
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Speaker 7: how to get you out. It's just whether I can
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Speaker 7: get you out or not. It's whether you win the
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Speaker 7: bat or where I win the battle. And I think
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Speaker 7: we both know each other's strength and weaknesses. And so yeah,
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Speaker 7: there are moments where things match up better for a
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Speaker 7: certain guy.
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Speaker 6: It might not even be me.
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Speaker 7: There was I remember one specific at bat that we
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Speaker 7: all remember where mister Noel in the playoffs came up,
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Speaker 7: and that was a terrible matchup for me, Like I
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Speaker 7: don't have the pitch that he's more susceptible too, right,
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Speaker 7: But I also know that I had Laine Thomas so too,
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Speaker 7: and I completely lost the bat to three two and
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Speaker 7: he hit You know, I came into the zone. I
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Speaker 7: lost the game in that moment. To me, he came up,
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Speaker 7: he tied the game. The rest is history. But to me,
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Speaker 7: it's like you had to understand who you can get
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Speaker 7: out and who you have a little bit of trouble with,
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Speaker 7: and you got to kind of go around it and
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Speaker 7: he wins.
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Speaker 2: You changed your delivery last year or did you model
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Speaker 2: it after because people a lot of people don't know
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Speaker 2: the true Yamamoto.
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Speaker 6: I didn't model it after him.
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Speaker 7: I just used him as a template to understand more
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Speaker 7: about what that was going to give me.
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Speaker 6: I kind of did it by mistake, so to speak.
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Speaker 7: I kinda was like, eliminated your leg cack, yeah, yeah,
17:05
Speaker 7: well the limit the leg cake was garbage. I mean,
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Speaker 7: I mean, it's like it's like throwing out. It's like
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Speaker 7: you're fishing, right, you got like a big heavy line,
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Speaker 7: but you're trying to like go top water. It's like, well,
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Speaker 7: the things is going to sink to the bottom of
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Speaker 7: your time, You're not going to catch any unless you
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Speaker 7: got like a mudfish.
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Speaker 6: Or something flounder.
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Speaker 7: I don't know what lives down there at the deep
17:24
Speaker 7: bottom of the ocean, but yeah, there's some there's some
17:28
Speaker 7: nasty looking fish. But the point was to eliminate and
17:33
Speaker 7: keep it simple and find a way to like allow
17:35
Speaker 7: my upper body to move and create the speed and consistency,
17:38
Speaker 7: because that's how I move as a picture, right, So
17:40
Speaker 7: I think it was identifying the dead weight, you know,
17:44
Speaker 7: pun intended really and just pushing into the side and
17:47
Speaker 7: finding a way to be consistent.
17:48
Speaker 2: You know who the Yankees are playing today on the
17:50
Speaker 2: other side, you know the Cardinals. Yes, So do you
17:53
Speaker 2: ever are going to go over there and look at
17:54
Speaker 2: mose Lock and say, dude, if you just would have
17:56
Speaker 2: taken away my legg I might because listen, Arnado's here,
17:59
Speaker 2: ye here for showcase, because there's been.
18:03
Speaker 7: I'm not comment on that, but I was I was
18:05
Speaker 7: perked up to see that he was here.
18:07
Speaker 6: So you know, we'll see how the game unfold.
18:08
Speaker 2: Your phone on the backfield, you should go into Boom
18:11
Speaker 2: and say listen Boone, Matt Blake, Hey guys, he'll come over.
18:14
Speaker 6: And get a live revenue. Yeah, you can come over.
18:18
Speaker 2: You can't get left.
18:18
Speaker 7: I got twenty five pitches, So whatever happens in that,
18:21
Speaker 7: whatever happens, it doesn't matter.
18:23
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who there watching them.
18:25
Speaker 6: They put they put.
18:26
Speaker 7: Judge in my first down in the other day, and
18:28
Speaker 7: I was like, well, yeah, we're not throwing inside ticket.
18:33
Speaker 7: I got a couple of swings and then I tried
18:34
Speaker 7: to get greedy with three fast balls and he he
18:37
Speaker 7: mishit a ball to that was like warning.
18:39
Speaker 2: Track, Like those are smaller fields.
18:41
Speaker 6: I don't know, man.
18:42
Speaker 7: It was like my daughter was in the field watching
18:46
Speaker 7: in the stands at the time, and she's like, why
18:47
Speaker 7: did daddy jump?
18:48
Speaker 6: Apparently like his daddy was nervous, honey.
18:52
Speaker 7: So no, I mean, we got some great hitters obviously,
18:54
Speaker 7: so I think today he could be back there. I
18:56
Speaker 7: don't know, but I'm just like I went up to
18:59
Speaker 7: both of the went to like Bellinger and I went
19:01
Speaker 7: to Judge the at the other auting and I was like.
19:04
Speaker 6: What's up. What's up, guys? You know what are we
19:06
Speaker 6: looking for today? You know, what's what's our game play?
19:09
Speaker 2: Chilling?
19:09
Speaker 7: Like you know, we were tracking what and so they're
19:12
Speaker 7: like classic picture and I'm like, look, dude, you scratch
19:15
Speaker 7: my back each other?
19:18
Speaker 6: No, I want I want to. I did when I
19:22
Speaker 6: had judging the abat, I was too Oh.
19:24
Speaker 7: I got some good fastballs by him, and then all
19:26
Speaker 7: of a sudden, it was like I looked back at
19:28
Speaker 7: Harkey and I was like, I throw one more and he.
19:30
Speaker 6: Was like get him and then he almost took me.
19:32
Speaker 2: Deep and I was like he stupid, stupid Harkey sold you.
19:37
Speaker 6: I mean he was just gaming the confidence.
19:39
Speaker 7: I looked dead in his eye and he's just like
19:41
Speaker 7: doing I'm like, I'm going to do it, and then
19:44
Speaker 7: he almost did it almost.
19:46
Speaker 6: Hey, that man got one the m v P.
19:48
Speaker 7: I don't care what anybody says that I can't get
19:51
Speaker 7: three by him.
19:51
Speaker 2: Wow?
19:53
Speaker 3: Is there is there trash talking going on with that?
19:56
Speaker 3: Because some of the teams that we talked to, some
19:58
Speaker 3: of the dudes, I know, I loved it. Yeah, sucked
20:00
Speaker 3: at Live VP, but if I hit a dinger against you.
20:03
Speaker 3: They mattered in the bushes, they mattered in my Hey, is.
20:06
Speaker 2: There trash talking? Like did you get anybody out?
20:09
Speaker 7: And yeah, yeah, you know, it's all it's all fun
20:12
Speaker 7: and games, right, like I think if it's done the
20:14
Speaker 7: right way, right, if you're you're out there just like yeah, yeah.
20:19
Speaker 2: You know.
20:20
Speaker 4: You know.
20:20
Speaker 2: For me, it's a rock guy yesterday.
20:23
Speaker 6: I don't think anybody's paying attention to his athleticism.
20:27
Speaker 2: But okay, well you finished, and then we're gonna go
20:29
Speaker 2: to the smokes.
20:31
Speaker 7: But no, to that point, it's friendly, friendly competition. Obviously
20:34
Speaker 7: respectful that we're both getting our work in, but you know,
20:37
Speaker 7: and it's also nice to be like and I was
20:39
Speaker 7: talking to Judge. I was like, I thought, he gets
20:41
Speaker 7: you weren't getting three by me, you know what I mean.
20:43
Speaker 7: So it's like there's a little friendly like dang, And
20:46
Speaker 7: I was like, well I thought I couldn't. Now you've
20:48
Speaker 7: proved I couldn't, So congratulations to you.
20:51
Speaker 2: Now let's talk about the Rocky.
20:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, So in the two days, the Rockies have had
20:54
Speaker 2: the guy bat flip on into the picture's mouth.
20:56
Speaker 6: I didn't see that.
20:57
Speaker 2: So the guy hit a home run on a young
20:58
Speaker 2: kid landed at the Sure.
21:00
Speaker 6: It didn't slip.
21:02
Speaker 2: Oh no, it wasn't film we got we got a
21:05
Speaker 2: perfect yeah, okay, but but it was a full homer.
21:08
Speaker 2: Yeah we had. As soon as he hit it, he's like, oh,
21:11
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, to do that, yeah sure. And
21:14
Speaker 2: then the picture yesterday, yeah, he was like doing yeah
21:18
Speaker 2: Michael jack Yeah right here, we was like doing the
21:21
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson splits. And first of all, how do you
21:24
Speaker 2: have that much energy?
21:25
Speaker 6: Like look at that? Like his vert has got to
21:28
Speaker 6: be forty five.
21:32
Speaker 7: I'm telling you, I don't know what's going on, like
21:35
Speaker 7: where this game is headed. I mean, it's obviously exciting
21:38
Speaker 7: in different aspects. You know, we talk about the the
21:41
Speaker 7: pimping of the home run and allowing guys to be themselves.
21:44
Speaker 7: I think this is maybe the aversion of what a
21:47
Speaker 7: picture looks like.
21:48
Speaker 6: I think a lot of times.
21:49
Speaker 2: Were like would you been tired?
21:50
Speaker 8: Though?
21:50
Speaker 2: If you did that every time?
21:51
Speaker 6: I do not want to exert energy until I know
21:53
Speaker 6: the game's over.
21:54
Speaker 7: So what do you like, you know, roar or any
21:56
Speaker 7: type of cool thing I'm trying to do is when
21:59
Speaker 7: I have a out and I've exerted all my energy
22:01
Speaker 7: and I know, I have no more because I learned
22:03
Speaker 7: real quick as a starter, as soon as you burn it,
22:06
Speaker 7: you don't get it back, and the velo typically drops
22:09
Speaker 7: and the hitters start to find some contact.
22:12
Speaker 6: So it's cool to watch.
22:14
Speaker 7: I mean, his athleticism was unbelievable right there, and I
22:18
Speaker 7: had to check out his program. But you know, look,
22:20
Speaker 7: he's he's having fun. He's at the first big leage camp.
22:23
Speaker 7: Maybe like I don't know, but he looks electric. So
22:26
Speaker 7: we'll see where. We'll see where that goes, and we'll
22:28
Speaker 7: see how the vets uh in the league. You know,
22:30
Speaker 7: take take a nice take a I don't know, and
22:32
Speaker 7: let's see what it looks like.
22:34
Speaker 2: I think. I mean, I don't know. It's a weird
22:37
Speaker 2: one because it's spring training and it's like those I
22:40
Speaker 2: know he's probably trying to make the team, but like
22:42
Speaker 2: those outs. But my thing is when I was hitting
22:44
Speaker 2: off of him and he did that, I just look
22:46
Speaker 2: at him be like, yeah, yeah, I don't even care.
22:49
Speaker 6: Yeah what makes you feel pretty good?
22:51
Speaker 7: Right, Like, yeah, he's really excited, Like I could hit
22:54
Speaker 7: a little bit.
22:54
Speaker 3: I did know that, yeah, but to him that's just
22:57
Speaker 3: that's that's his moment and not necessari, it's like, oh,
23:00
Speaker 3: I got to show everybody in my moment, Like I
23:03
Speaker 3: get it. It's spring training, you have. We've had this
23:06
Speaker 3: discussion a lot like this dude's a fringe Hall of
23:09
Speaker 3: Fame catcher and I was barely in big league camp
23:12
Speaker 3: some years Like yeah, no, I think everybody's view of
23:15
Speaker 3: the moment is different.
23:18
Speaker 7: And I'm one to understand, like what's his background, what's
23:21
Speaker 7: his story? Like what what gives him that that electricity
23:27
Speaker 7: that's flowing through his veins is It's like, where's it
23:29
Speaker 7: deeply rooted? Like once you understand that, I think a
23:32
Speaker 7: lot of times you see a guy across the field
23:34
Speaker 7: and you go, I don't really like watching this guy,
23:37
Speaker 7: you know, and then your teammate's with him. You're like,
23:39
Speaker 7: this couldn't be more of a one eighty, right, because
23:41
Speaker 7: you're like that like one soda in the box. You
23:46
Speaker 7: don't like it when you're facing him, but when he's
23:49
Speaker 7: on your team, you're like, good graces, this is the
23:51
Speaker 7: greatest thing I've ever watched.
23:52
Speaker 6: Right.
23:52
Speaker 7: So it's just a tone that kind of switches based
23:55
Speaker 7: off of humanizing the person.
23:57
Speaker 6: So that's that's how I try to view it.
23:58
Speaker 2: I love it happens. Thank you very much. We really
24:01
Speaker 2: appreciate you coming out. Go get your ending in. Yeah
24:04
Speaker 2: twenty five, Yeah, you go, but you don't have a
24:05
Speaker 2: new updowns, right, so you just do a twenty.
24:07
Speaker 6: Five that's gonna get yeah, twenty five straight. So it's
24:09
Speaker 6: gonna be a long, grinding rush.
24:11
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I'm gonna have to be low change it
24:13
Speaker 7: and just try to save some for the back end.
24:16
Speaker 2: Do they wait to make you cover first on one
24:19
Speaker 2: or is that not in the.
24:20
Speaker 7: Live Usually it's like a pitch out maybe or something
24:23
Speaker 7: at the end. I think again, Yeah, I'm sure I'll
24:26
Speaker 7: get enough practice with them hitting them in play, so
24:29
Speaker 7: I'll just like run over and just do my thing.
24:31
Speaker 6: But we'll see what happens. It's all good part, hey,
24:34
Speaker 6: thank y'all.
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Speaker 6: All right, here we are. We're back.
25:38
Speaker 5: Eric Bowland, Yankees beat writer for News Day, joining us
25:41
Speaker 5: right now. Eric, Great to have your happy spring training
25:43
Speaker 5: to you. How are the Yanks looking at camp? And
25:46
Speaker 5: how would you drop the lineup?
25:48
Speaker 6: Oh you can't, hey, King.
25:50
Speaker 2: Here you scotch, so take my job, you know, continue
25:53
Speaker 2: to talk. Well, this is the best time when you're
25:55
Speaker 2: at your best.
25:55
Speaker 6: He doesn't need to hear me.
25:57
Speaker 5: I need you guys to run the interviews on.
26:00
Speaker 2: What's your favorite restaurant in Tampa? Where do you go at? So? Yes,
26:06
Speaker 2: how's camp going? How are the Yankees? What's the big
26:08
Speaker 2: story here in Camp?
26:10
Speaker 8: I mean, really, it's been kind of a quiet camp,
26:14
Speaker 8: I knock and all that stuff, I say, with the
26:17
Speaker 8: exception of although the Marcus Stroman situation and of course
26:21
Speaker 8: John Carlos Stanton now being out of camp indefinitely going back.
26:25
Speaker 2: To New York for personal reasons.
26:27
Speaker 8: But trust me, I've covered since my seventeenth year covering
26:31
Speaker 8: the Yankees. So on the scale of camp controversy or uh,
26:36
Speaker 8: you know, really distracting types of things, this would be
26:40
Speaker 8: at the bottom of the list. And the thing was Stroman,
26:41
Speaker 8: And maybe we'll get into it a little bit more.
26:43
Speaker 8: But I know what his reputation has been in other stops,
26:48
Speaker 8: but he is a beloved teammate in there. He has
26:51
Speaker 8: no issues whatsoever in the clubhouse, which is, as you
26:54
Speaker 8: guys know, is all that matters. It doesn't matter what
26:57
Speaker 8: media narratives are, et cetera. As long as you're good
27:00
Speaker 8: in the clubhouse. And Stroman is more than good in
27:04
Speaker 8: that clubhouse, and I can only speak to him in
27:06
Speaker 8: the Yankees clubhouse.
27:08
Speaker 2: There's really no issues there.
27:10
Speaker 8: And you know, the reality is when he said I'm
27:12
Speaker 8: a starter, and that created a whole bunch of you know, headlines.
27:15
Speaker 8: A couple of weeks ago, after he missed the first
27:18
Speaker 8: two days of pitchers and catchers, he actually did speak
27:22
Speaker 8: the truth. He is a starter and that's what he's
27:24
Speaker 8: been his entire ten years in the big league, and you.
27:27
Speaker 2: Could say pretty highly successful ten years.
27:30
Speaker 3: Do you feel like there's been any more backlash from
27:33
Speaker 3: that or was it like something that in the moment,
27:35
Speaker 3: it was like, oh, it's a big story, it's all
27:38
Speaker 3: this and then he came out and he said his piece,
27:41
Speaker 3: and nobody could really argue with anything that he said.
27:44
Speaker 3: It was more of just like, well, I think he
27:46
Speaker 3: should do this, or I think he.
27:47
Speaker 8: Should well I think I think people maybe were expecting
27:50
Speaker 8: him to say, hey, you know, whatever role they want
27:54
Speaker 8: me in, I'm good with.
27:56
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the cliche that you guys usually Red
27:58
Speaker 2: Sox are going through the same thing, right.
28:00
Speaker 8: Well, talk about right a dramatic difference in terms of
28:03
Speaker 8: how guys, you know, answer questions, but you know, Marcus
28:08
Speaker 8: spoke the truth of what he has been in his
28:10
Speaker 8: entire career as yous guys, you guys know, being through
28:13
Speaker 8: a ton of spring trainings yourself, what the roster looks
28:17
Speaker 8: like on February fourteenth or February fifteenth, and what it
28:20
Speaker 8: looks like when camp breaks in this case on you know,
28:22
Speaker 8: March twenty fifth or twenty sixth, something like that. You know,
28:25
Speaker 8: the Yankees have five starters ahead of Marcus Stroman right now.
28:28
Speaker 2: That is the absolute truth. Who are the five?
28:31
Speaker 8: You got three Cole, Free, Rodan, Clark, Schmidt, Louise Heal.
28:36
Speaker 8: So if all those guys have you know, decent healthy camps,
28:41
Speaker 8: most important healthy camps, then then the Yankees will have
28:46
Speaker 8: to make a decision with Stroman. But you know, I
28:49
Speaker 8: can tell you know, last year, nobody expected Garrett Cole
28:52
Speaker 8: to leave camp in mid March with with what turned
28:55
Speaker 8: out to be an inflamed elbow, and he didn't end
28:57
Speaker 8: up making his debut until mid to lay June. The
29:01
Speaker 8: year before that, both Carlos Rodan and Nestor Cortez started
29:05
Speaker 8: the season on the IL. A couple of years before that,
29:08
Speaker 8: Luis Savarino, you know, throw a bullpen and then before
29:11
Speaker 8: he was kinda throw in his first game, suddenly got
29:13
Speaker 8: sent to check something out in his arm and he
29:16
Speaker 8: had Tommy John surgery. So you know, and you guys,
29:18
Speaker 8: I'm sure have a myriad of stories from camps that
29:22
Speaker 8: you guys were in over the years where you know,
29:24
Speaker 8: one pitcher after another goes down. So if you know,
29:27
Speaker 8: not that anybody is rooting for that to happen, but
29:29
Speaker 8: you just don't know what's gonna happen from the start
29:32
Speaker 8: of the spring until the end. And so Marcus Stroman
29:35
Speaker 8: is getting built up as a starter, as are you know,
29:38
Speaker 8: a whole bunch of other guys, because you need what
29:41
Speaker 8: ten to twelve starters typically to get through a regular season.
29:45
Speaker 8: So when Stroman says I'm a starter, you know he is,
29:49
Speaker 8: and I expect him if he's not traded in the Yankees.
29:53
Speaker 2: Okay, my question is is let's sell five guys are healthy. Yes,
29:55
Speaker 2: then what because everyone that's like the stock answer right, like, oh,
30:00
Speaker 2: something will happen, It'll work itself out. Let's say it doesn't.
30:02
Speaker 2: Let's say Schmidt, Heel, Rodan, Freed, and Cole are all
30:06
Speaker 2: healthy and they all have a great spring. I'll give
30:08
Speaker 2: you an answer, then what I'll give you an answer?
30:10
Speaker 2: Aj that's going to be what's intriguing to me. It's
30:12
Speaker 2: like everyone can say, oh, it works itself out, and
30:15
Speaker 2: but if it doesn't, nothing but happens someone.
30:17
Speaker 8: But what you're giving me, and this is what what
30:20
Speaker 8: players over the years answer the questions this way, and
30:22
Speaker 8: management managers, owners say that's a hypothetical. It's it's a
30:29
Speaker 8: it's a fascinating question, and nobody really knows exactly how
30:33
Speaker 8: it's going to play out. If all of those guys
30:36
Speaker 8: come through the spring healthy, then it's going to be
30:38
Speaker 8: a very interesting discussion that they have with the with Stroman.
30:41
Speaker 8: But here's another element to the if this happens, and
30:45
Speaker 8: that happens, starters in other organizations are going to get
30:49
Speaker 8: hurt at some point. And then suddenly Marcus Stroman, even
30:52
Speaker 8: with the eighteen million that he's owed this year, suddenly,
30:55
Speaker 8: let's say three starters from a contending team name one
30:59
Speaker 8: go down, and all of a sudden, Brian Cashman's getting
31:02
Speaker 8: some calls saying this mark.
31:03
Speaker 2: Is still available.
31:05
Speaker 3: That's a hypotheticals. So Eric's writing the story and we're
31:11
Speaker 3: supposed to listen to it.
31:12
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. Who's going to be there?
31:15
Speaker 2: We talk about additions all the time.
31:18
Speaker 3: Who's going to be their biggest loss from last year's
31:21
Speaker 3: team because they lost some guys. And I'll give you
31:23
Speaker 3: some time to think about it, I mean, because yeah,
31:27
Speaker 3: go ahead.
31:27
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, look, here's the thing, and one of
31:30
Speaker 8: the narratives around the Yankees that I've certainly written this too,
31:33
Speaker 8: is that there is the potential that they are better
31:37
Speaker 8: top to bottom in their lineup this year than they
31:39
Speaker 8: were last season with Soto. However, talking to opposing pitchers
31:45
Speaker 8: to face that duo last year, opposing managers that faced
31:49
Speaker 8: that duo last year. I had a bench coach in
31:51
Speaker 8: the American League from another team talking to him right
31:54
Speaker 8: after Soto signed with the Mets, and he asked me,
31:56
Speaker 8: he said, he goes, how's the organization taking it? And
31:59
Speaker 8: I said, well, in all honesty, there's some degree of relief,
32:02
Speaker 8: just because now they can address a whole lot of
32:05
Speaker 8: other holes on their roster and they were not going
32:08
Speaker 8: to be able to do that financially had Soto taken
32:10
Speaker 8: the seven hundred and sixty million dollars that the Yankees
32:12
Speaker 8: had offered. And he said, I get it. I understand that,
32:17
Speaker 8: agree with some of it. He goes, Let me just
32:19
Speaker 8: give you the perspective from the opposing dugout. There was
32:22
Speaker 8: nothing in the game like those two back to back,
32:26
Speaker 8: and you were literally terrorized in the opposing dugout, wondering
32:30
Speaker 8: one of those two insert expletives there coming up again,
32:35
Speaker 8: because it seemed like they were up every friggin inning.
32:37
Speaker 8: He didn't say friggin' and he said, I guarantee you
32:40
Speaker 8: if that's what we were thinking in the dugout, that's
32:42
Speaker 8: in the pitcher's mind too. You know how much of
32:45
Speaker 8: this game is mental? You guys, you know talk about
32:47
Speaker 8: that all the time. You plant something in a picture's head,
32:51
Speaker 8: whether it's a reliever, the starter. How many times is
32:53
Speaker 8: the starter going to face those two guys back to
32:55
Speaker 8: back and so the Yankees lineup it may be, We
33:00
Speaker 8: don't know. There's a lot of questions involved with it.
33:03
Speaker 8: How much does Goldschmid have left? You know, Bellinger four
33:06
Speaker 8: of his last five years haven't been up to certainly
33:09
Speaker 8: his standards, but nothing's happened yet. And again, you can't
33:14
Speaker 8: duplicate the Sodo judge dynamic. We have no idea how
33:17
Speaker 8: that's going to play out. So I think pitchers are
33:20
Speaker 8: certain relieved opposing team pitchers, But you know, until the
33:26
Speaker 8: offense proves otherwise their biggest loss, you still have to
33:29
Speaker 8: say it's Wan Soda.
33:30
Speaker 3: Currently today, we know Stanton's in New York with elbows,
33:34
Speaker 3: personal issues, all that stuff. Also currently today, a former
33:41
Speaker 3: MVP candidate, Platinum Glover, made a three and a half
33:45
Speaker 3: hour drive from Jupiter to playing a game against a
33:48
Speaker 3: team that may or may not have openings. I know
33:52
Speaker 3: you're missing a bat. I know the Yankees are missing
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Speaker 3: a bat in g and you don't know how that's
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Speaker 3: gonna play out. It just seems like too much of
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Speaker 3: a coincidence that he made the trip here to not
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Speaker 3: showcase himself to a team that might need a third
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Speaker 3: basement and a bat short right now.
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Speaker 8: I mean, look, I mean, Nolan has been linked to
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Speaker 8: the Yankees since the Winter Meetings. As you guys know,
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Speaker 8: he's got a full no trade clause, but everything I've
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Speaker 8: heard from the Cardinals organization is that he would be
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Speaker 8: willing to waive.
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Speaker 2: That to, you know, to come to a contending team
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Speaker 2: like the Yankees.
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Speaker 8: You know, Nolan is a ten time Gold Glove winner,
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Speaker 8: eight time All Star. I think he would welcome the
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Speaker 8: spotlight that would come, particularly at the end of his career.
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Speaker 2: He's never won a championship.
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Speaker 8: People I've talked to what the Cardinals say, that's you know,
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Speaker 8: first and foremost on his list. He really would like
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Speaker 8: a title before before he retires. You know, it's really
34:43
Speaker 8: right now, it's finances. You know, the Yankees, if they're
34:46
Speaker 8: able to trade Marcus Stroman that would free up eighteen million.
34:51
Speaker 8: Then suddenly, you know Nolan's salary, what he's owed would
34:55
Speaker 8: maybe fit in, you know a little bit more so
34:59
Speaker 8: because the spending for now kind of hal Steinbrun and
35:02
Speaker 8: the owner has turned that that's bigot off. But but
35:05
Speaker 8: circumstances change. We're talking about with the with the Stroman's situation,
35:09
Speaker 8: I will say I talked to Nolan on the field
35:11
Speaker 8: after batting practice here today and I asked him, I said,
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Speaker 8: when's the last time you've made a three and a
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Speaker 8: half hour drive across state And he said, well, it's
35:19
Speaker 8: it's been a while. But he said, you know, I
35:21
Speaker 8: don't like to take consecutive days off in the spring.
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Speaker 8: He didn't play in Duneaton yesterday, and so.
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Speaker 2: That's just happened a team that he would get. I'm
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Speaker 2: just I'm just we're talking hypotheticals. But if he goes out,
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Speaker 2: he's out. What if he goes to Pepys, Yankee fans
35:38
Speaker 2: are going to be clamoring. Of course, that's all. He
35:40
Speaker 2: makes a couple of diving, they're gonna be article. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: well I was.
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Speaker 8: I was in the middle of writing it actually when
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Speaker 8: Mark texted me to come down here.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, you got Which one did you write though?
35:51
Speaker 2: Did you write two articles? Oh? No, just one. He
35:54
Speaker 2: has a great day and the Yankees need him, and if.
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Speaker 8: And if he doesn't have a good day, it's just
35:58
Speaker 8: spring training. Wow, that's how the sausage gets made sometimes, guys.
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Speaker 2: Is that we're looking in the background.
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Speaker 3: You're kind of a historian a little bit.
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Speaker 8: Yes, No, it depends on a lot of US history.
36:13
Speaker 8: But I don't think that's what you're gonna ask me.
36:16
Speaker 3: And the and the song two things that have come
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Speaker 3: up in camp here. Do you think it's gonna change
36:25
Speaker 3: the Yankee fan base in the sense of, like more
36:28
Speaker 3: younger fans now are going to watch. Do you think
36:31
Speaker 3: it's going to you know, do you think it was
36:34
Speaker 3: Do you think both moves were necessary. You know, the
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Speaker 3: the New York, New York one. I'm not sure the
36:41
Speaker 3: origin of that one. And I really didn't care that
36:43
Speaker 3: much when that that story broke. Honestly, that to me
36:46
Speaker 3: is the bigger deal that I didn't care that much.
36:49
Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying is is so when you won
36:53
Speaker 2: as a visitor, they would the lady would say I
36:56
Speaker 2: don't know, yeah, and Ellen she would sing, and when
36:58
Speaker 2: you lost, Sinatra would no, no, no. It was the
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Speaker 2: reverse when they won Sinatra when they lost. Liza Minelli's
37:04
Speaker 2: version of Yankees I'm talking about it's a visitor. Oh okay.
37:06
Speaker 2: So he always wanted one, Yeah, he always wanted the lady.
37:08
Speaker 2: You want to let's make the lady sing, because when
37:12
Speaker 2: you come into the Yankee state, when you come to
37:13
Speaker 2: Yanke Lady, I didn't know. It was always like, let's
37:17
Speaker 2: make the ladies sing, right, because we don't want to
37:18
Speaker 2: hear it because of snatchra sing and that means they
37:20
Speaker 2: want so to me, that's a big deal. The face
37:21
Speaker 2: you here. I never played for the so I don't
37:23
Speaker 2: really care about that. Now certain players do care about that,
37:26
Speaker 2: but I think it's great. They're finally Oh letting people
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Speaker 2: be themselves a little.
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Speaker 6: Bit a little.
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Speaker 8: Judge said something interesting the other day when he was
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Speaker 8: asked about the change and the beard policy, and he
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Speaker 8: was one of the current players that al Steinbernner consulted
37:40
Speaker 8: with before ultimately announcing this decision last weekend. And one
37:44
Speaker 8: of the things Aaron said when he was asked about
37:46
Speaker 8: because Hal and his reasoning said, you know, I would
37:50
Speaker 8: really be upset if I found out a free agent
37:52
Speaker 8: didn't come here because of the beard policy. And Judge said,
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Speaker 8: if that's the deciding factor for a player whether or
37:58
Speaker 8: not they come to the New York Yank or not,
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Speaker 8: he's probably a guy that we wouldn't want, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, in this clubhouse. I'm paraphrasing somewhat, but that was
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Speaker 2: the gist of what of what he.
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Speaker 8: Said, It really to the players is not as big
38:12
Speaker 8: a deal as you might think. And if you look
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Speaker 8: in that clubhouse, you don't see a bunch of beards.
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Speaker 8: You know, the guys who didn't have beards before don't
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Speaker 8: have him now.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you get a few.
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Speaker 8: Extra days of growth, so you don't have the guys
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Speaker 8: that shave every day. One of the guys that people
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Speaker 8: thought would grow a beard the quickest, you know, besides
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Speaker 8: Devin Williams, who you know, we know, that's just you know,
38:38
Speaker 8: he has always worn a beard since he's been an adult,
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Speaker 8: and that's just you know, what he does. But people
38:42
Speaker 8: thought Austin Wells for sure, because he's got the big
38:44
Speaker 8: bushy mustache. He walked in the other day clean shaven,
38:48
Speaker 8: excuse me, clean shaven, with still the bushy mustache, and so,
38:52
Speaker 8: you know, Garrett call it about three days of growth.
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Speaker 2: The other day.
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Speaker 8: Next day came in and he had a beard in Houston,
38:57
Speaker 8: and I think towards the end of his you know,
38:59
Speaker 8: career in Pittsburgh, before he was traded to Houston. Uh,
39:02
Speaker 8: he had just you know, shave and clean too. So
39:06
Speaker 8: you know, most guys kind of greeted the news with
39:08
Speaker 8: a shrug. They collectively overall field that, you know, it
39:11
Speaker 8: was a good decision because for for some people where
39:14
Speaker 8: it really is a part of their.
39:15
Speaker 2: Persona, why not allow them to do that.
39:19
Speaker 8: But you know, guys were certainly ready to move on
39:22
Speaker 8: after we were in there asking them about it to
39:24
Speaker 8: you know, forget the and the announcement was made the
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Speaker 8: day of their first spring training game, and after the game,
39:30
Speaker 8: nobody asked a word about the game. It was all
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Speaker 8: about the beard policy and guys were guys were done
39:34
Speaker 8: with that, and frankly so was I.
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Speaker 2: Plus it's you know what, as a as a male,
39:39
Speaker 2: you just don't have to wake up and be like, gosh,
39:41
Speaker 2: I have to shoot like I'm gonna give it one
39:43
Speaker 2: more day exactly. That's kind of I mean, it doesn't
39:45
Speaker 2: seem like a much, but you know, like if you
39:47
Speaker 2: have to shave every day, it's just like, oh man,
39:50
Speaker 2: it's just ten.
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Speaker 3: Just trees grow a lot of beard. But it was
39:55
Speaker 3: like three or four days, and I wouldn't Jane. Jane
39:59
Speaker 3: would send me an email or send an email to
40:03
Speaker 3: to Boonie to tell me.
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Speaker 2: So I never I never got in trouble. You never
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Speaker 2: ran a foul of the policy when you were when
40:09
Speaker 2: you were here.
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Speaker 8: Never, No, I mean, but but it was I when
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Speaker 8: I went into the Blue Jays clubhouse because they played
40:15
Speaker 8: the Blue Jays the next day.
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Speaker 2: He signed here because he can not grow a beard.
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Speaker 4: That's no.
40:21
Speaker 8: I didn't talk to Blat, but I was talking to
40:23
Speaker 8: some of their pictures about not having to face the
40:25
Speaker 8: one Soto judge combination back to back and then a
40:29
Speaker 8: couple of them I was just besing with after I
40:31
Speaker 8: was done, and I mentioned the beard thing and they're
40:34
Speaker 8: basically like, you know what, only in only in New
40:36
Speaker 8: York would that be a huge topic.
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Speaker 2: And I said, did that come up at all in
40:38
Speaker 2: the clubhouse here?
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Speaker 8: And they were sort of like, no, We were laughing
40:41
Speaker 8: at it, but it really was not something discussed anywhere
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Speaker 8: other than New York.
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Speaker 2: Perfect Eric, Thank you for spelling your name correctly and
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Speaker 2: right back at you. Appreciate it YouTube. Thanks for joining us,