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Rays starting pitcher Ryan Pepiot · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: They don't necessarily want us to skip starts. There's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be times where it may be a five or a
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  Speaker 1: four inning start where you know they take you out early,
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  Speaker 1: even if.
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  Speaker 2: Your cruising.
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  Speaker 3: As promised. Ryan Peppio kind enough to take some time
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  Speaker 3: away from his day to join us here on foul Territory. Ryan,
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  Speaker 3: it's great to see you. I'm bummed that I never
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  Speaker 3: had the opportunity to cover you when you were in
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  Speaker 3: LA when I was there, but I'm enjoying watching you
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  Speaker 3: pitch now with the race. Tell me how that's been
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  Speaker 3: going for you and kind of the biggest differences between
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  Speaker 3: the LA Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Race, two very
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  Speaker 3: different organizations, both having success.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks guys for having me. Been following the show for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, so it's fun, fun to hop on.
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  Speaker 2: But going from.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa or from LA to Tampa, it was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. Obviously LA's major, major city and then Tampa
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  Speaker 1: a little bit smaller.
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  Speaker 2: But I love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's been one of the best things that's happened to me.
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  Speaker 1: The staff's been phenomenal with the guys over here in
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  Speaker 1: the clubhouse are awesome, and they really just let me
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  Speaker 1: be myself. And you know, pitch the way I want
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  Speaker 1: to pitch. And then this kind of some minor tweaks,
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  Speaker 1: nothing too crazy, but they just let you go out
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  Speaker 1: there and be yourself and play how you want to play.
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  Speaker 4: Ryan, first of all, thanks for joining us. But then
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  Speaker 4: I want to know when they traded you for glass Now,
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  Speaker 4: was it mandatory that one of you had to have
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  Speaker 4: great hair? And you were the chosen one since they
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  Speaker 4: got rid of great hair with glass Now, and then
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  Speaker 4: they had to bring you back and say you have
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  Speaker 4: to have the flow.
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  Speaker 1: No, that wasn't one of the mandatory requirements. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit longer hair than I do. I actually
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  Speaker 1: got to meet him this offseason, and awesome guy. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll give it to him. He's got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better hair than I do. But Cash and Neander and
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  Speaker 1: and Snyders.
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  Speaker 2: Are really good.
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  Speaker 1: When I got traded for when that trade went through,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, hey, we want you to be Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want you to be Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: He's phenomenal in his own right, but we're not asking
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  Speaker 1: you to go out there and be him.
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  Speaker 2: We just want you to be yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, none of those guys have hair, so you can't
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  Speaker 4: really go to them for hair advice cash No or
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  Speaker 4: none of them have hair at all. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: No, they have a little bit, but they don't have
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  Speaker 1: they don't have flowing locks outside the hat.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, what's it like on Tampa Bay though, because
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  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay for years was, hey, we'll get our pitchers
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  Speaker 4: through five innings, our starters, then we'll go to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: This year, the.
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  Speaker 4: Starters are going six, seven, eight innings. Are you like,
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  Speaker 4: thank God, I get to pitch all the time, and
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  Speaker 4: I get to pitch deep. Now, this is so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: It is fun.
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  Speaker 1: There's some times last year when when we go through
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  Speaker 1: some of the games you'd be at like five innings
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  Speaker 1: through like sixty pitches, super a fishing game, and then
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  Speaker 1: they kind of pull you in and you're like, well, why,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of other underlying factors. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: really take care of us and make sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: good and healthy throughout the entire season so that we're
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  Speaker 1: throwing our best in September and October when the games
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  Speaker 1: mean more. But you know, coming into this year, our
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff and especially the rotation, we're really close group.
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  Speaker 1: So we kind of wanted to go into the season
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  Speaker 1: to be able to prove that we can go deeper
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  Speaker 1: in the ballgames save the bullpen, because.
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  Speaker 2: We do have a really really good bullpen and those
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  Speaker 2: guys down there.
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  Speaker 1: We have full trust in all those guys, and we
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  Speaker 1: want to keep those guys fresh so that they're not
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  Speaker 1: at seventy eighty outings by the end of the regular
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  Speaker 1: season go into the playoffs kind of taxed. So trying
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  Speaker 1: to take some of the load off of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Lattel's got a CG this year and
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  Speaker 1: he's holding.
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  Speaker 2: It over all our heads. The rest of us have
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  Speaker 2: gone close to.
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  Speaker 1: Eight, so we know we're trying to knock down the
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  Speaker 1: door and join Lttel with a CG. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like play at old school wise, where you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's our day to take the take the ball, and
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  Speaker 1: it's our game until until we get taken out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, when you get your CG, I need you to
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  Speaker 5: turn around to the bullpen and just salute them because
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  Speaker 5: they didn't need to do anything the whole day. So
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  Speaker 5: that's how you can hold it over those.
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  Speaker 1: Guys exactly that, and you know, hopefully there's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: six pack of beers in my locker afterwards something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so you're at one hundred and one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: two innings already. You had one hundred and thirty last year.
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  Speaker 5: We talk about it all time with teams like the Rays,
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  Speaker 5: teams like the Dodgers. When there's pitching injuries. You say
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  Speaker 5: you're getting the most out of the pitchers, but you
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  Speaker 5: know they're worried about these injuries. Do they ever have
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  Speaker 5: conversations with you guys, especially just you starters, Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 5: this is the inning limit that we want to get
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  Speaker 5: to because you guys are a playoff looking team. You're
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  Speaker 5: gonna pitch upwards to two hundred innings if you guys
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  Speaker 5: make a deep run into the playoffs. Are they like, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: we're a little concerned about this. We'd like to skip
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  Speaker 5: a start, we'd like to put another guy in the rotation.
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  Speaker 5: Do they talk to you guys about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're pretty upfront with us about kind of the
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  Speaker 1: innings management. I know, only through one thirty last year.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of going into the season, you know, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of can shift the need a little bit, always add
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  Speaker 1: a few more or taking you off. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: just down the stretch. Seeing they're always asking how we're
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  Speaker 1: feeling between each start. They don't necessarily want us to
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  Speaker 1: skip starts. You know, there's gonna be times where it
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  Speaker 1: may be a five or a four inning start where
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  Speaker 1: you know they take you out early, even if your cruising,
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  Speaker 1: just to make sure that we're able to pitch all
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  Speaker 1: the way through October. But they're very good at being
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  Speaker 1: open and honest with us and having open conversations so
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  Speaker 1: that it's not like out of left field kind of
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  Speaker 1: get taken out of the game. We kind of have
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of idea if if there's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a time especially when you have some of these road
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  Speaker 1: trips that we have coming up, or when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty games in a row, they might call
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  Speaker 1: somebody up, you know, give everybody an extra day or
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  Speaker 1: something like that.
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  Speaker 3: The curveball is new, Ryan, the cutter is new, the
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  Speaker 3: fastball usage is a little bit down. But you're having
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  Speaker 3: success with all of the changes. Why switch it up.
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  Speaker 1: More and more times you pitched against the same teams,
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  Speaker 1: there's more information out on you kind of teams have
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  Speaker 1: a better game plan and you know, just add next
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  Speaker 1: to wrinkles, just to have more tools in the toolbox
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  Speaker 1: to keep hitters off balance, you know, slow them down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I've always tried with a curveball.
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of never really found a grip that
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  Speaker 1: really worked for me that I could consistently throw. So
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  Speaker 1: even if it's a five to ten percent usage pitch,
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  Speaker 1: it just slows hitters down and has something in the
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  Speaker 1: back of mind that they have to think about. Cutter
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more for try to keep the ball
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  Speaker 1: out of the left handed batters loop. And then I've
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  Speaker 1: been working on a sinker as well, so it's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily like a down sinker, more of a two seam,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of a runball to get on on the righties,
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  Speaker 1: just so that they can't just sit on the heater
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the zone.
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  Speaker 5: I like that because you can't ever throw hard enough
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  Speaker 5: right so you've got to be Now, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't throw a hundred you know, best bullets in ninety eight,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not you know Misrawski with the Brewers, who's
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  Speaker 1: out there ripping one hundred and two every pitch, So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just trying to add extra wrinkles to keep
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  Speaker 1: the hitters off balance.
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  Speaker 5: What a what a cage e vet. What a cage
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  Speaker 5: e vet you are? Now, I got to ask you,
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  Speaker 5: you hit on it a little bit. Your schedule obviously
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  Speaker 5: they shifted y'all schedule around to be more on the
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  Speaker 5: road later in the year. Have you guys, because when
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  Speaker 5: I played for the Rays, they had a sleep specialist,
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  Speaker 5: they had you know, they had whatever road trip planning
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  Speaker 5: for each road trip and then what's coming up? Have
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  Speaker 5: they changed anything because you guys are gonna be on
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  Speaker 5: the road a lot, and they talk about a lot
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  Speaker 5: of sleep choices, a lot of that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Do they change anything in that sense because you guys
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  Speaker 5: will be on the road a ton here because you
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  Speaker 5: were at home a ton early.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, July we have eight home games. In August, we
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  Speaker 2: have eight home games.
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  Speaker 1: We have a four city West Coast trip in August too,
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  Speaker 1: so that won't be a long one. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know how to pack for sixteen days, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we'll figure it out, find a laundromat
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  Speaker 1: somewhere or whatever. But they've been talking a lot, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it early on during spring training was about
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  Speaker 1: hydration and recovery, just about playing outside in the Florida
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  Speaker 1: heat and the humidity, and especially we're playing day games
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  Speaker 1: at noon at home now and those are they're warm.
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  Speaker 2: To say the least.
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  Speaker 1: But for sleep purposes, we have all the resources we
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  Speaker 1: could ask for, and it's just about us going if
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  Speaker 1: you need the help that you need, or if you
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  Speaker 1: don't need anything, they're not going to force anything you
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  Speaker 1: to do anything. But all the resources are there, and
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  Speaker 1: it's really just about making sure we're taking care of
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  Speaker 1: our bodies. You know, play a game, maybe have a
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  Speaker 1: night game, get away and you get into the two
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  Speaker 1: or three in the morning sometime and then you have
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  Speaker 1: to play the next day. Just trying to do whatever
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  Speaker 1: we can to just stay on top of the recovery
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  Speaker 1: modalities and make sure that we're ready to play the
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  Speaker 1: next day.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you guys are doing the best you can with
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  Speaker 3: the situation with the hurricane and Tropicana not being there.
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  Speaker 3: But how long did it take or is it still
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  Speaker 3: a process of getting used to the stats and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of how to maneuver a sign Brenner Field with
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  Speaker 3: that as your home ballpark, it.
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  Speaker 2: Took a little bit to get used to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you play in the trap and you have
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  Speaker 1: seventy degrees, no humidity, no wind, and no other external factors,
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  Speaker 1: and you know your game is getting played that day
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  Speaker 1: and never have to worry about rain delay. You could
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  Speaker 1: look up on the video board that shows all the
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  Speaker 1: pitch data. You know, a lot of guys look up
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  Speaker 1: in their radar gun checking. We're mostly pitch metrics checking.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you go into some of the games
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  Speaker 1: outside and maybe the win's blowing out, maybe it's blowing
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  Speaker 1: in your face or cross wind. It's gonna do something
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  Speaker 1: different to the ball every single time. And after a
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  Speaker 1: couple starts, we kind of figured it out. And then obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know some of the fly balls that get hit,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh cool, that's just canicorned to right.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, it's going over the fence.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it took a little bit to get to
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  Speaker 1: used to, but our hitters have also adapted to it
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  Speaker 1: as well. And I've been smoking the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: the ballpark and you know, giving us a lot of
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  Speaker 1: run supports. So it's it took a little bit to
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  Speaker 1: get used to, but we're making the most of the
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  Speaker 1: situation and you know, we're we're the team like in
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  Speaker 1: the city. But there's a lot bigger things that are
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  Speaker 1: more important than us, which the hurricane took a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff from a lot of people in the area,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we're just trying to be an exciting
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  Speaker 1: team that people can gather and rally around.
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  Speaker 4: Just have Westy do your laundry when you're on that
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  Speaker 4: sixteen day trip. Just tell blest you drop a bag
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  Speaker 4: off in Westy's office, and Westy's their travel guy. Just
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  Speaker 4: have them just drop a bag off and say, AJ
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  Speaker 4: told me to do that, you would do this for
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  Speaker 4: me and you He'll do it automatically. I promise you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go around and take one of the big host
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  Speaker 1: tell laundry carts and just go to everybody's room and
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  Speaker 1: just stack a giant pile and then leave it at
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  Speaker 1: his door. And then that's from you. So yes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he'll get it done. It'll be it may take
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  Speaker 1: a couple days farm but it'll get done.
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  Speaker 4: You'll also not be sleeping in the hotel, You'll be
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  Speaker 4: sleeping in a ten outside. But whatever, you probably should
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  Speaker 4: do that.
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  Speaker 5: Nah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my wife likes to go on all the
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  Speaker 1: road trips, so I'm gonna make sure I keep them
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  Speaker 1: in his good graces smart smart.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So you mentioned your schedule, and you mentioned
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  Speaker 4: how they prepare and all this, all these things, and
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  Speaker 4: you're at stein Binnerfield and you look ahead and see
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  Speaker 4: when you're pitching. Do you ever look at the schedule
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  Speaker 4: and say, all right, we're in Detroit. Who we missed
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  Speaker 4: schoogle because oh man, we get three days of h
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  Speaker 4: no schooble, so I don't have to fit. You get flairty,
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  Speaker 4: but you don't get Schooble. So you're like, oh, thank you,
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  Speaker 4: no schooble against me.
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  Speaker 1: I got this pitching against school last year and it
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  Speaker 1: was very entertained watch from the dugout. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: talked about yesterday when he was throwing that we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we get to miss him again. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: always fun to go up against some of the best
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he's phenomenal and it's fun to watch,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, as a pitcher, you go out and
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  Speaker 1: watch him just dominate with all the different pitches and
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  Speaker 1: throwing one hundred from the left side, and it's cool
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  Speaker 1: to watch. And what he did last year and then
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  Speaker 1: reciprocating it again this season. It's always enjoying enjoyable to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and pitch against the best and you know,
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  Speaker 1: toe the rubber and you know, compete against them.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not complaining. I don't have to pitch against.
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  Speaker 5: Them, all right, you're a three sport athlete in Indiana.
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  Speaker 5: AJ will say Indiana is not a real real state.
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  Speaker 5: But as a.
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  Speaker 4: State, I mean it's a real state. I mean they
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  Speaker 4: have they're in the state your fifty states.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a state. It's the country, it's the country.
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  Speaker 5: He will say, it's not an athletic state. And pitchers
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  Speaker 5: are not athletes. Where do you rank on the team?
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  Speaker 5: Where do you rank on the team as far as athletes? God,
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  Speaker 5: you kind of look at some of the guys like
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  Speaker 5: you watch you watch Simpson around, You're like, dude, you're fast,
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  Speaker 5: but I could probably do a lot of things better
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  Speaker 5: than you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not beating him in a forty yard dash. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not beating him in the first base or stealing a base.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to think I'm semi athletic. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: played football. I played basketball. I mean from Indiana. It
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  Speaker 1: might not be a state according to AJ, but from
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  Speaker 1: Indiana you have to play basketball. But you know, I
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  Speaker 1: like to go out there and shag and batting practice
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  Speaker 1: and you know, get a little power shag in. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, yesterday we ran out of people on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: so someone had to be cleaned up and ready to
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  Speaker 1: go if anything was.
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  Speaker 2: An emergency, and that was me yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, luckily I didn't have to go in
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  Speaker 1: there because I knew the ball was coming right to
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  Speaker 1: me no matter where I was out on the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the ball away is fines you.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to stand in there with cleats on,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, but I wasn't needed and.
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  Speaker 2: We ended up pulling out a win yesterday. So win
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  Speaker 2: win for the team.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know where I rank myself on the team,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd like to put myself pretty high up there.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, let's let's let's get one things rat.
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: Indian Indiana is a real state. I played in Fort Waite,
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: so I know it's a real state. Okay, let's not
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: let's not get Eric all trying to get me in trouble.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: But I will say it does say something about Indiana,
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: or more maybe more specifically Indianapolis, that Lance Lynn is
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: the best athlete to ever come out of Indianapolis, So
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: maybe that's more of the point.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: That's fine. Lance is a phenomenal athlete. The guy can
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: field the position and uh knows how to pinch uh
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: me spent.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: I got to spend a lot of time with Lance,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: you know, also growing up and that we played. His
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: high school was in the same high school conference that
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: mine was, so I got to watch him when he
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: was with Drew Storn on the same high school team,
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: and then Tucker Barnhart went through the same school district
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: as well afterwards, so their team was very very good
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: to Washington I was growing up, and then getting to
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: play with him a couple of years ago was it
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: was really cool and really special. You know, he taught
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: me a lot and we still talk to this day
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: and consider one of my good friends. So it kind
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: of took me under his wing and it was it
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun to be around him. But yeah,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I'd give it to him. Or Keer Myers also from
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: from Indiana, from Fort Wayne area, so uh, I think
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: he got a little confiden.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of athletes that you brought. A
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: good athletes that you just mentioned coming out of the
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: state of Indiana. Larry Bird didn't he go to Indiana State.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, now, state. Yeah, there's some there's
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: some good athletes coming out of that state. All right,
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: So you're an Indiana kid living in Florida. Are you
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: more of a let's go play hoops guy, or let
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: me go to the beach guy.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I'd probably say go to the beach, but I can
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: only go there for about like an hour before I
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: get to sunburnt.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: So you know, I'll go to the beach for a
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: little bit and then I and then I pack it
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: up and go back. I'd rather go on a golf
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: course than go shoot hoops.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, what's your what's your handicap?
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Like a five? Oh?
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: Oh okay, Like that's not there's no like a five.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: It's either five.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Or it's but it's it's I can play on any
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: given day. I can play like a fifteen and I
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: can just start spraying it or I could I can
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: play like a scratch sometimes if I keep the ball
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: in play. But I'm definitely not the best on our team.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Curtis me it is our best by far.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: He's like a plus two. In the offseason.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: He lives up in Adelaide, Australia where the live golf
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: tournament is. That's his home course and he's shown me
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: all his rounds that he's shot under part there and
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: it's it's impressive. When we're out there playing golf with him.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: You never won a gamble against him because he's going
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: to take your money every single time.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Do you take your clubs on the road.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they go.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't bring him on this road trip. We had
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: a bunch of day games in Minnesota and then we
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: go to Boston after this one. And I like going
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: around and hanging around in Boston, but on the road
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: most of the time, I take my golf clubs.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, you got to figure out how
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: to pack for sixteen days. You got to pack your
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: wife's clothes for sixteen days. But your clubs are making it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: There's no doubt your clubs are making it.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're making the trip. We have two off days.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: We got off day in Seattle and off day in
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: San Francisco. They're they're definitely going.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: Okay, So you so you you mentioned Tucker Barnhart and
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: all Indianapolis. Did you ever go to Indianapolis Indians camps?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, all the time.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: So Tucker Barnhart one time, just like randomly, I came
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: up to the bat and he was like, bro, I
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: used to watch you play at Indianapolis. So did you
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: ever see me play for the Indianapolis Indians when like
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Andrew McCutcheon was there, Garrett Jones was there, Pedro Alvarez,
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Brandon Moss, like that whole crew, Garrett Cole, all those guys.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was on.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: So you watched me play? It makes me feel good.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Yep, I've watched you play.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Actually, I've definitely watched you play because when Garrett Cole
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: is coming up, I would go sit down by the uh,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: by the bullpen, right because you know it's on the field.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: So right there, I'm talking. I was a little kid,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: little little kid just sitting there just watching Garrett Cole
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: warm up.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: So I was watching you warm up and catch him.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Oh that doesn't make you feel cold at all, right, Eric,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: he was a little kid watching warm up. It's fine,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: It's totally fine.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Heyre's there.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still like a nineteen ninety seven kid.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: There's kids now, like two thousand and four in the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: major leagues, and they really feel make me feel old.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Like me and I'm twenty seven, and I'm like, we
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: have junior.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Or Cameronaro just turned twenty two the other day and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: he's hit twenty two homers or whatever so far this year,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, you're twenty two, what like, what
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the heck?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Twenty two?
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I was still in college trying to figure it out
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: how to throw a strike.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt Holliday got or Jackson Holiday got called up
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: when he was twenty. I mean that you guys are
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: these are young young kids. Tell us about all the
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: charity work that you're doing. Ryan, I know it's important
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: to you and your wife. Tell us a little bit
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: more about reading with the rays and some of the
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: other things that you guys are doing in the community.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: We've done a lot, you know, helped out a lot
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: with the hurricane. We stay local.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: We moved to Saint Pete after the trade went through,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and so it really feels like home for us.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: So trying to get back as much as possible. We
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: did the Ron.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: McDonald house last week when we played the Rangers. Earlier
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: we were at Gg's Playhouse for the kids with down
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: syndrome with Jake Berger. I'm forgetting a lot of things
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that I've done. But it's just been a lot of fun.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: The people in Saint Pete and Tampa are phenomenal and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to give back as much as they
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: possibly can because the city's given us so much and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: really raised us. And it's it's been fun, you know,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: just trying to put a smile on people's face and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you end up walking out of the place with a
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: bigger smile because of what the hard work and the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: trials and tribulations that some of these kids go through
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that you see, and then they still show up with
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: a smile on the face after maybe going through some
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: some chemo or whatever they've had to go through during
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the day, and they still have the energy to go
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: out there and play and hang out and it's really inspiring.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Brian.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Before I let you go, I have to ask, since
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: you now live in Tampa and you're from Indianapolis, Okay,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: better steakhouse, Saint Elmo's or Burns.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: I haven't been to Burns yet, but it's on my list.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know, I haven't been to
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Burns yet.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Well, you're just qualified.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I know I can't, but I will say sant Almos
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: phenomenal and I do love Growing up in Indiana, they
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: sell the sant Almos cocktail sauce at the grocery.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Store, so you always take to the parties.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: And I don't know why any one would want to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: eat shrimp cocktail in Indiana because you know, landlocked state,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: where do they.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Get the shrimp?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: But every every party that you go to or a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: family get together, they'd always be shrimp cocktail. And then
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you'd throw out the sant Almo sauce and sometimes you'd
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: want to.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Everyone would put the label of which one. It was
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: just so that everyone was prepared.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: But you know, kid, you want to switch them and
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: you watch somebody just load up a shrimp with a
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: ton of sant Almo sauce and see their face afterwards.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: So that was always entertaining. But sant Almos is pretty
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: tough to beat. Whenever I go back and try to go.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: St Amos has two things going. For the reason you
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: don't care about the shrimp. They get them out of
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: that little river that runs through Indianapolis, whatever, that little creek,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: that's what they pull them out of. But they put
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: so much horseradish in the Saint Almos cocktail sauce that
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: it burns your nose even if there was anything on it,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: it kills it automatically. But yeah, they have the best drink.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: That doctor pepper Cola thing they have. It's adult beverage.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: They have at Saint Almos is delicious, and their New
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: York strip is unbelievable, but it's no Burns and Burns
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: has a dessert room. You probably don't eat dessert, you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: you're probably shredded. But if you go to Burns, you
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: got to get the Chateaubrians, the French onion soup, and
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: then you got to go upstairs to the dessert room
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: and get like a piece of cake or ice cream
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: that's like bigger than your head, and then you have
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: to eat it all. And then you waddle out and
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: you're like, all right, I can make it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I can do that. We got the also break coming up.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'll make myself a reservation that sounds like good night,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Teller to get here, you can probably just call and say, hey,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I'm Ryan Peppio, I want to get in. I'll get
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: you right in. I did that, and I went to
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Tampa to see Morgan Wallen last year. When he canceled,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: so we had a night off and Andrew Friedman got
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: us into Burns and we did the dessert room and
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the wine room. Ryan Peppio, you must check it out.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being with us. Best to
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: luck the rest of the season. It's been a pleasure,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: great to get to know you lot.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you guys, Thank you very much for having me