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Mets Manager Carlos Mendoza talks WILD postseason race, Lineup tweaks · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: About territory is back Mets manager at Carlost Mendoza joining
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  Speaker 1: us right now, Mandy, we really appreciate the time. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's a busy week, so let's get right into biz.
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  Speaker 1: How are you feeling? First of all, are you excited? Nervous?
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  Speaker 1: This is like the playoffs happening over the final six
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  Speaker 1: games for your team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good to see you guys. Definitely, I'm excited. You know,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's been it hasn't been pretty, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have a big week ahead of us
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  Speaker 3: starting tonight, and here here we are and beautiful Chicago, getting.
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  Speaker 2: Ready for a super important game today.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, every game feels like a playoff game,
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  Speaker 3: and he's been like that for the past I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how.
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  Speaker 2: Many days, but you know, here we are and go
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  Speaker 2: sentrim one day at a time.
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  Speaker 4: There's a preparation any different for these games. Are you
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  Speaker 4: sitting there in your meetings and going, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 4: who's available, just like every other day, But then you're like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I might go to this guy sooner
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  Speaker 4: because we are, like you said, in a playoff type
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  Speaker 4: of situation.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the preparation, goes. It's pretty consistent.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just the way you manage games, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then and how much you use guys down the stretch,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So I think that's the way we see
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  Speaker 3: it is that's the only difference. You know, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be aggressive when you're taking out your starters or relievers
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  Speaker 3: or pinch hitting. It's like, you know, there's not tomorrow
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  Speaker 3: for us. You know, it's do what we need to
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  Speaker 3: do today to win the baseball game, and then we
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  Speaker 3: go about tomorrow tomorrow. And the mentality has been like
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  Speaker 3: that for I don't know more than a month. When
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  Speaker 3: you're in the big leagues, you know you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: win every night. But right now, I think it's just
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  Speaker 3: how aggressive and the way you use all of you
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  Speaker 3: guys that are available.
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  Speaker 4: Do those guys know that to the bullpen guy? Because
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're you're talking about the bullpen. You're not
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  Speaker 4: you're not making a wholesale platoon changes in the lineup
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  Speaker 4: like some teams. You're talking about the bullpen. Do you
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  Speaker 4: have that conversation today when they get there, you walk
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  Speaker 4: around the outfield, what is what does that look like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Of course you got to let them know.
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  Speaker 3: You got to give them a headsop, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: because they got different routines, you know, and a guy
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  Speaker 3: that is probably used to pitching the seventh or eighth,
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  Speaker 3: hey man, you could be as early as the fourth inning,
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  Speaker 3: so their routine's got to change a little bit. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'll try and do it myself, are pitching coaches,
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  Speaker 3: but we make sure we give those guys ahead stop
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  Speaker 3: what we're thinking going into a game, so that way
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  Speaker 3: can they can prepare and be ready on time.
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  Speaker 1: Mandy, you're playing the Cubs, this is a playoff team,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you're mostly thinking, hey, we just got
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  Speaker 1: to win the games were supposed to win, not only
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  Speaker 1: this week, but you know even last week. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an excuse, but just the natural human reaction over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend from you. I know you were checking out the
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  Speaker 1: score at least to see how Cubs Reds was going.
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  Speaker 1: Were you surprised, like the Cubs got swept by the
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  Speaker 1: Reds and now we're here.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, anything can happen, man, anybody can beat
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  Speaker 3: anybody at any particular day. I was just you know,
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  Speaker 3: concenter at it on our games, and uh, we didn't
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  Speaker 3: win a series It was tough. It was frustrating for us,
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we couldn't win the series against the Nationals.
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  Speaker 3: We were, you know, one swing away on Saturday, and
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  Speaker 3: then on Sunday we didn't do much as a team,
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  Speaker 3: and then here we are sitting in this position.
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  Speaker 2: But again, the.
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  Speaker 3: Past is in the past and all we could control
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  Speaker 3: now is taking care of business today.
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  Speaker 4: What is tougher playing a team that's already cleansed in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, but it's a good team playing a team
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  Speaker 4: that has nothing to lose because they're packing up at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the series because you don't know what
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  Speaker 4: you're getting. When you talk about preparation pregame for these teams,
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  Speaker 4: they're both.
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  Speaker 3: They're both tough, you know, and especially not only when
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  Speaker 3: when you're playing teams are out of it, but you're
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  Speaker 3: playing a team like the Cops that you know, they
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  Speaker 3: might not push their starters, you know, and they might
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  Speaker 3: go bumping and uh Like, it's a completely different game.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, you have to
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  Speaker 3: be ready for uh everything that they can throw at you.
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  Speaker 3: Uh in control the teams that you can't control. But
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  Speaker 3: we didn't play well against the Nationals. We didn't play
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  Speaker 3: well against Miami. Uh, you know, a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 3: and we got them next after this series.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. So, you know, for me and for all of
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  Speaker 2: those years, win.
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  Speaker 1: Today, Mendy, with the state of the starting staff, are
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  Speaker 1: you surprised it got to this point based on you know,
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like at the start of the season
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  Speaker 1: really for what the first month and a half or
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  Speaker 1: two and where you are now. Obviously the the youngsters
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  Speaker 1: have been a great addition here late. But when you
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  Speaker 1: looked at what the starting staff was like in spring
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  Speaker 1: training and then how good it was early on in
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  Speaker 1: the season, if I told you what it was going
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  Speaker 1: to look like by the end of the year, with
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  Speaker 1: you know, Sega still trying to figure things out in
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  Speaker 1: the minors, some guys going down, some guys not looking
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  Speaker 1: like themselves from last year, would you be shocked.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not gonna lie. You know, people are ask
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  Speaker 2: me that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if we would have asked you that three
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  Speaker 3: of these kids there are when I start in the
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  Speaker 3: minor leagues are going to be part of your rotation
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  Speaker 3: in September, it's like no chance. Maybe one of them,
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  Speaker 3: especially with how well we were throwing the ball for
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  Speaker 3: the first couple of months and the death, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I kept talking about our death.
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  Speaker 2: We lost Manaya in months.
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  Speaker 3: The first week of spring training, and we felt comfortable
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  Speaker 3: with what we had, uh, but then injuries happened, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, here we are, you know, throwing three kids that,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, you would have asked me in spring training,
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  Speaker 3: what were the chances and I was saying maybe one
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  Speaker 3: and maybe out of the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: And but you got to give those guys credit.
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  Speaker 3: You got to give people in player development a lot
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  Speaker 3: of credit because they put themselves, uh in this kid
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  Speaker 3: in a position where whatever there was a need here
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  Speaker 3: at the big league club. Uh, they were options, and
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  Speaker 3: here they are and we're counting on them.
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  Speaker 5: Mandy if if if you guys, I've been saying this
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  Speaker 5: for months. I'm sticking with you. You guys are getting in, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I mean I've been saying it for months. You guys
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  Speaker 5: are Yeah. Plus you're playing the Cubs, and you know
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  Speaker 5: I wrote against anybody playing the Cubs. So, uh, you
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  Speaker 5: have to win. You have to win these games. But
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  Speaker 5: if and when you guys get in, will you start
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  Speaker 5: the three? You know, Manaiyah Peterson obviously has been really
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  Speaker 5: good for y'all. But I know you you're gonna say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: one game at a time, but you've had to have
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  Speaker 5: taken a small look at trying to set some sort
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  Speaker 5: of a rotation. Uh would it be a sprote McLain
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  Speaker 5: Peterson kind of deal or would you fall back into
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  Speaker 5: the to the veterans in that first round series?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean we got to get in right.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: I trust that you're gonna get in. Okay, I've already
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  Speaker 5: said I've been banging the drum for a month now, Mandy,
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  Speaker 5: so you got to listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: I will continue to listen to you. No, I think
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we have the locks with me right now.
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  Speaker 3: To start thinking, okay, how are we going to line
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  Speaker 3: these guys up? I think, hey, you know, we got
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  Speaker 3: Peterson tonight, we got Jonah tom tomorrow, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll take it one day at a time, and uh
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  Speaker 3: maybe these goes.
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  Speaker 2: All the way down to the last day, who knows, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, and then we're not probably gonna be in a
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  Speaker 3: position where it like we start lining up people like
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  Speaker 3: right now, everything's on the table, all hands on deck,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know we'll make those decisions when we.
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  Speaker 4: All right, We've been talking about pitching the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: I want to go to the lineup. Can you believe
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  Speaker 4: that you're getting what you're getting out of the lineup.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about Wan Soto having career home runs
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  Speaker 4: and doing exactly what he was brought in to do.
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  Speaker 4: Lynn Door is right about where you thought he would be.
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  Speaker 4: Pete's up and down, but banging a bunch of homers,
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  Speaker 4: like all the way down through Baby and Francisco Alverarez
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  Speaker 4: in a bomb in the order. Do you need to
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  Speaker 4: expect more from your lineup because of what the struggles
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  Speaker 4: of the pitching staff has been.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's you know, it's hard to describe too crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Is like you said, I was talking to some of
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  Speaker 3: our guys here on Sunday, its like, man like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you look at the year that Francisco's having Lindore, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like what you expect out of him, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: year that Soto's having p and then some of our
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  Speaker 3: guys like name having a really good year, Jeff McNeil,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be And then sometimes you look up and it's
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  Speaker 3: only a couple of runs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's like, man like, what's going on? It's weird.
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  Speaker 3: It's a strange that the fact that you know we're
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  Speaker 3: so streaky, you know, and then you look up in
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  Speaker 3: some of the numbers and some of the seasons that
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  Speaker 3: these guys are having individually, they're like right there, you know,
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  Speaker 3: along with the expectations that we had going into this year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I just I feel like, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 2: talks about our pitch and all that, we've just been
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  Speaker 2: an inconsistent team for months. You know, whenever we hit,
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  Speaker 2: we don't page. Whenever we pitch, we don't hit.
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  Speaker 3: And we haven't been playing uh, you know, there's been
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  Speaker 3: stretches where we haven't been playing good defense in you know,
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  Speaker 3: here we are in this position. But hey, man, like
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  Speaker 3: there's not looking back now, like today's a pretty important
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  Speaker 3: game and we got to get ready for that one.
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  Speaker 1: Mandy with a lineup essentially stay the same, or have
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  Speaker 1: you had any thoughts of doing anything different and also
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  Speaker 1: just playing off what you're saying when you look at
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  Speaker 1: so many of the individual stats and how they look
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  Speaker 1: good for the Stars and even some of the supporting staff,
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  Speaker 1: do you think, hey, maybe I should try and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, shuffle things up. I know it's easier said
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  Speaker 1: than done. It's always the question we get from fans,
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  Speaker 1: like right now chats loaded up, Hey, ask if you
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  Speaker 1: should move up baby, or you know there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of questions like that that arise. How much does that
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  Speaker 1: factor in for you and the staff to think about?
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  Speaker 3: I mean we think about it, we talk about it,
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  Speaker 3: and would you continue to find for ways to put
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  Speaker 3: these guys in position where hey man, let's see if
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  Speaker 3: this can click here today we have an announced the
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  Speaker 3: line up, but I got name a plane center and
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  Speaker 3: I got marked planing left. Physically, he's through a point
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  Speaker 3: where like, hey man, we need to push you and
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  Speaker 3: he's good to go. So we haven't done that pretty
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  Speaker 3: much a whole year trying to take care of him.
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  Speaker 3: But here we are, and you know we're doing that today,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, and then yeah, I think that's one
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  Speaker 3: of the small adjustments. But the whole year, I mean
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  Speaker 3: thinking with whether it's peed the third neme or fourth.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday I flipped those two.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. You know you're always looking for ways to help
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  Speaker 3: these guys and you know that's what we'll continue to do.
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  Speaker 4: Here it's Sanger done for the year. Can you can
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  Speaker 4: you comment on that? Is that something that has been
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  Speaker 4: discussed with the team that maybe he's done and it's
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  Speaker 4: a reset.
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  Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't say he's done. He threw a li
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  Speaker 3: VP today. I just got that report before I got on.
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  Speaker 3: He's down in Florida. He threw a LIVP forty five pitches,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So now obviously he's gonna get his three
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  Speaker 3: or four days and then we'll see where we're at.
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  Speaker 3: But I wouldn't say he's done.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there was this time about this time last year,
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  Speaker 4: you gave this one to Yeah, you gave us AJ
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  Speaker 4: and he didn't quite know at the time, but it
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  Speaker 4: was it set you guys on a run. So maybe
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  Speaker 4: he's there for you. Yesterday off day, I had asked
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  Speaker 4: we had somebody with the Tigers on and I said
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  Speaker 4: they had an off day too. Is that a great
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  Speaker 4: off day based on the struggles that you've had a
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  Speaker 4: time to reset or was it a terrible off day
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  Speaker 4: for you because you're like, I just want to see
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  Speaker 4: another game. I need to see us back in playoff,
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  Speaker 4: you know, controlling our own destiny. How was your off
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  Speaker 4: day and what'd you do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I know, he was a nice off day here
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago.
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  Speaker 6: I had the family with me, so he's always good
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  Speaker 6: to kind of take that day and reset and get
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  Speaker 6: your mind off a little bit as much as you can.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the way we see it here, just.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of get you mine out of it, disconnect for
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, uh, and then back at it today,
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  Speaker 3: you know, especially after that tough weekend that's serious against
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  Speaker 3: the Nationals. Uh, that past the past two games Saturday
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  Speaker 3: and Sunday, we didn't get the job done. Having an
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  Speaker 3: off day here, just kind of, like I said, get
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  Speaker 3: your mind out of it and then just get ready
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  Speaker 3: for a pretty important week.
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  Speaker 5: Mandy. When you we were playing the Nationals, you just
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  Speaker 5: brought it up. When when when the guy but Jacob Young,
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  Speaker 5: Jacob Young, you know that's his name, made those two catches?
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  Speaker 5: Were you like especially the first one the second one
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  Speaker 5: and you see a little bit more often, but the
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  Speaker 5: first one. Do you just look up at the heavens
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  Speaker 5: and say, why, Like what the heck is going on?
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  Speaker 5: Because that's one of the best catches I've ever seen,
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  Speaker 5: and it happened against you in a playoff race. Like
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  Speaker 5: can't he just kick it a little to the left
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  Speaker 5: or a little to the right or the ball hit
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  Speaker 5: the ground and we get some runs and we're feeling
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  Speaker 5: good about ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Elite center fielder that looked like Lionel Messi do it?
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  Speaker 3: You know like, oh my, Like I've turned to my
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  Speaker 3: right and I was like, giddy, I've never seen anything
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  Speaker 3: like that, you know, like, what are the chances that
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  Speaker 3: the ball comes out and he kicks it and he's
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  Speaker 3: able to control the baseball? You know, like like you
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  Speaker 3: mentioned they wont in the ninth inning. Uh, you know
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  Speaker 3: that happens a lot, right, But that first one on
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  Speaker 3: Baby leading off an inning, he was like, this is
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  Speaker 3: hard to believe.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, man, like nobody's gonna feel sorry for us.
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  Speaker 2: We got to keep going, all right.
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  Speaker 4: We see your three rookie pitchers that have stepped up
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  Speaker 4: in a big way, each in different times. McClain, Tong
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  Speaker 4: and sprot What is the characteristic that you want to
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  Speaker 4: see most from those guys? We see the balls moving
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  Speaker 4: every which way. Tong's got the you know, late life
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  Speaker 4: from a small person, delivery, long extension. What's the one
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  Speaker 4: characteristic that you want to see that you'll be like,
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  Speaker 4: I know I can go to that guy even though
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  Speaker 4: he's a rookie when we make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean they all got at least off.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just they're ability to make adjustments, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, like having an understanding what a lineup, what hitters
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  Speaker 3: are trying to do to you.
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  Speaker 2: For me, that's the number one correcter, is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and especially for guys that are just getting
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  Speaker 3: to the league here, and they've shown that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we've seen how lineups are trying to make adjustments to Nolan,
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  Speaker 3: to Jonah thone and even to Sprotty, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, after the first time through the lineup, watching
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  Speaker 3: them go out there and make some adjustments, or even
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  Speaker 3: in between at bats, the way some of the hitters
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  Speaker 3: are taking pictures, or how aggressive they are against certain
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  Speaker 3: pictures and in certain situations, and you know, you watch
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  Speaker 3: them and just their ability to make adjustments and recognize that, hey,
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  Speaker 3: all right, they're doing this, like, but I can also
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  Speaker 3: make this adjustment and go with this. So for me,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: it's just the their ability to make some adjustments in
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: game is what's been pretty impressive from my end.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, Mandy, last one at the finish line here. We've
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: seen some of the numbers come out from the Mets
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Org about the attendance, and the numbers were fantastic, as expected,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: much higher than last year, obviously coming off a nice
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: playoff performance last year. Usually get that bump and it
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: looked like it lasted for a while, that the vibes
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: has been great. So what was that like to experience
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: for most of the year with like, did you feel
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: like there were more fans and more energy throughout this
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: season compared to last year? And what would your message
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: be to fans here in the final week?
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, unreal, incredible. I mean we definitely felt it.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: You know, the appreciation from myself, from our team. You know,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: it's just off the charge because they packed city field.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: They were right there. Even there was like week days
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: in playing some series the school started and it's almost
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: forty thousand people, like amazing, you know, you know, just appreciation,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: thank you, and our messages to just continue to believe.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Man, Like, I know it's been hard. I know they
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: are frustrated.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I mean we get frustrated too, but hey, we got
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: an opportunity to do something special and that's our goal.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Manday, thanks for the time. You know, we appreciate it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I know it's a busy week. Go do your thing.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: We'll be watching. Good luck.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Thanks guys,